A050
Surah: 005 - Ayah: 050
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5:50
How can the disbelievers, whether they belong to the time of Prophethood or to the present day, be considered intellectually sick and man-like animals, while with respect to knowledge and wisdom or intellectually they are not backward? Although apparently wisdom is of two kinds: one real and religious and the other, metaphorical and worldly, yet according to the Qur’an, anyone who does not accept Islam (5:50) is foolish and ignorant. Take the example of the time of Ignorance (jahiliyyah, 3:154, 48:26). Were many of the people before Islam considered ignorant (jahil) because they did not have worldly knowledge? It is not so. In no way were they left behind their contemporaries in the knowledge of worldly matters. But it is true, that they were deprived of the everlasting wealth of the intellect, through which the supreme rank of the recognition of religion (din-shinasi) and the recognition of God (khuda-shinasi) is attained.
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