Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Surah Al-Mu'minun
Surah 23 · Al-Mu'minun · verse 89 of 118

Quran 23:89 · Al-Mu'minun

سَيَقُولُونَ لِلَّهِۚ قُلۡ فَأَنَّىٰ تُسۡحَرُونَ

They will say, "[All belongs] to Allah." Say, "Then how are you deluded

Translation: Sahih International
Maulana’s commentary · Tazkirul Quran

In these verses, a certain contradiction in thinking has been referred to by which the majority of people in every age have been afflicted. Most people admit that the Creator of the earth and the heavens is the one and only God; that He is their Lord and He controls them; that He enjoys all the superior powers. Yet their lives do not in any way reflect this acknowledgement. Such sublime truth demands that it permeates their thinking. The realisation of God should make them truly God-conscious. It should so become a part of their nature that, when they come face to face with the Truth, they admit it immediately. Their whole life should be moulded upon it. But, in actual fact, none of this happens. They accept God as a formal belief, but their real lives are not affected by it. The conception of God does not cast any spell over such individuals. On the contrary, they remain enamoured of trivial things. How strange is man’s behaviour!

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, Tazkirul Quran

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