Re: What if…
Peace Bigboi
No there are not four groups of people, look below it is how you use logic notation to breakdown the verse …
Level 1: (2 Groups)
A) The people of association (i.e. from all people after the verse was revealed) - Arabic {Fa Uolaaika Ma’aa}
B) The people who were favoured. - Arabic {Allazdeena An’ama}
**Level 2A): (Silent on Subgroup except they all should share one characteristic)
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All of them are *Obedient to Allah and the Messenger
**Level 2B): (4 Sub-Groups)
** >> 1)*Prophets
2)*Truth Affirmers
3)*The Martyrs
4)*The Righteous
So the only thing the verse is saying is that we can be grouped or associated with people from 2B, but only if we are obedient to Allah and His Messenger …
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Out of the people who are Obedient to Allah and the Messenger which can ALSO be from the subgroups above?
**Truth Affirmers? yes - Martyrs? yes - Righteous? yes
BUT Prophets? No … why? It is because a prophet is never required to be obedient to another prophet - A prophet is directly required to report to Allah (SWT) only …
Isa (AS) will be a follower of RasoolAllah (SAW) whilst maintaining his (AS) title of prophethood.
Since the ‘prophets’ subgroup is in the B category - it directly states these are people of the PAST … It confirms the belief of the mission of RasoolAllah (SAW) that he was sent to the whole of mankind, Jinn for all time …
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The fifth category ****- count the blue text items - ****is “Those obedient to Allah and His Messenger” …and that is the category applicable to us.
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