Transliteration:( Wa izaa qeela inna wa'dallaahi haqqunw was Saa'atu laa raiba feehaa qultum maa nadree mas Saa'atu in nazunnu illaa zannanw wa maa nahnu bimustaiqineen )
"And when it was said: 'Surely, the promise of Allah is true, and there is no doubt on the Hour,' you used to say: 'We do not know what the Hour [69] is. We think it only as a conjecture and we do not have faith [70] in it.'"
In the promises of Allah, there is no possibility of contradiction.
Just as death is certain, so is the fulfillment of Allah's promise. Denying it goes against Divine truth.
They neither accept the Prophet’s words, nor rely on sound reasoning. Their statements were not innocent doubts, but deliberate attempts to reject the truth.
This shows that partial belief or assumption about the Hereafter is not enough.
True faith means believing in Allah, the Hereafter, and all articles of faith solely because the Prophet ﷺ has informed us.
Never let intellect override Prophetic guidance, as intellect can err, but the words of the Prophet ﷺ are always correct.
The tafsir of Surah Jathiya verse 32 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Jathiya ayat 30 which provides the complete commentary from verse 30 through 37.
(45:32) And when it was said to them: “Surely Allah’s promise is true, and there is no doubt regarding the Hour of Resurrection,” you were wont to say: “We do not know what the Hour (of Resurrection) is. We are simply making conjectures and are not at all certain.”[44]
44. The people mentioned in (Surah Al-Jathiyah, ayat 24) above were those who denied the Hereafter openly and absolutely, here those who are not sure of it although they do not deny its possibility because of conjecture. Apparently there is a vast difference between the two groups in that one of them denies the Hereafter absolutely and the other regards it as possible on the basis of conjecture. But as for the result and final end, there is no difference between them, for the moral consequences of the denial of the Hereafter and of lack of the faith in it are the same. A person, whether he disbelieves in the Hereafter or lacks faith in it, will in either case be inevitably devoid of the feeling of accountability before God, and this lack of feeling will necessarily involve him in the error and deviation of thought and action. Only faith and belief in the Hereafter can keep a man on the right track in the world. In the absence of it, both doubt and denial give him a similar attitude of irresponsibility, and since this same attitude of irresponsibility is the real cause of man’s being doomed in the Hereafter, therefore neither the denier of it can escape Hell nor the one who lacks faith in it.
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