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Araf 44-45

44- AND THOSE IN PARADISE CALLED THOSE IN THE FIRE SAYING:  "WE FOUND WHAT OUR LORD HAS PROMISED US TO BE TRUE; DID YOU FIND WHAT YOUR LORD HAS PROMISED YOU TO BE TRUE?"  THEY SAID: “YES INDEED”, A CALLER BETWEEN THEM CALLED OUT: “ALLAH’S CURSE IS ON THE EVIL DOERS”.

45- THOSE WHO PUSH PEOPLE AWAY FROM ALLAH’S PATH, AND DESIRE CORRUPTION IN THIS LIFE, AND DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE HEREAFTER.

In the Hereafter, those in Paradise will be glad to find that what Allah the Highest has promised them of the pleasures and delights to be true; however those in the Hell-Fire be very distressed to find that Allah the Highest promised them to be true.

After the battle of Badr, Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him ordered the Muslims to dig a big grave where the disbelievers were buried.  When there were all in the grave, Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him went to the grave and said: “Did you find what you Lord has promised you to be true?  For I found what my lord promised me to be true”.  Omar Ibn El-Khatab said: “Allah’s messenger, are you speaking to dead bodies?”  He said: “By Him who has my soul in His hand, you do not hear what I say better than them, but they cannot answer”.  (Muslim: Jannah)

Allah the Highest then will announce that He is cursing the evil doers.  Allah’s curse means that the person cursed is deprived of Allah’s Mercy, which we can never be saved without. Then Allah the Highest tells us about some of the reasons for this cursing:

1-    “PUSH PEOPLE AWAY FROM ALLAH’S PATH”.  Pushing people away from the Path of Allah is done via various means, some are obvious and others are subtle.  Whoever prevents people from believing, worshipping Allah the Almighty, and whoever directs and encourages people to do evil, he is pushing people away from Allah’s Path.

In this life, some of us can do more than others, and some of us have more influence on people’s life than others, such as those in positions of influence or working in the Media.  The more a person can influence people to do good deeds or to do bad deeds, the more he is rewarded or punished for what they did.

2-     “DESIRE CORRUPTION IN THIS LIFE”.  Some people work hard to fill our life with corruption, because they tend to benefit more from a corrupt society gaining more money or power.  If they manage to evade punishment in this lower life for doing that, they are not escaping punishment in the Hereafter, and they cannot evade Allah’s curse.

3-    “AND DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE HEREAFTER”.  They do not believe that they will be resurrected and will have to account for their deeds.  Even if they say that they believe and if they worship Allah the Highest, yet their deeds reflects the fallacy of their claim, and the weakness of their belief.