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ʾa-ftarā ʿalā llāhi kadhiban ʾam bihī jinnatun bali lladhīna lā yuʾminūna bi-l-ʾākhirati fī l-ʿadhābi wa-ḍ-ḍalāli l-baʿīdi
Has he fabricated a lie against Allah, or is there a madness in him?’ Indeed, those who do not believe in the Hereafter languish in punishment and extreme error.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah As-Saba- Verse 8
8. “Has he forged a lie against Allah or there is madness in him? Nay! Those who do not believe in the Hereafter are in torment and are straying far (away from the truth).”
The pagans pave all the deviated ways but they do not believe. This holy verse implies that it is surprising that they took this statement as a reason for mendacity or insanity of its speaker. They used to say:
Else, how is it possible that a truthful person talks such statements? But the Qur’an answers them decisively that he is neither a madman nor a liar. It says as follows:
What an aberration is more manifest than this that one denies the Resurrection, a resurrection that he sees its example in front of his eyes everyday in the world of nature and in the dead lands to be quickened. It is a Resurrection that if it did not exist, the life of this world would be meaningless and empty. And, finally, it is a Resurrection the denial of which is equivalent to the denial of Power, Justice, and the Wisdom of the Lord. But the question is that why does it say that they are in punishment and straying now?
This is for the sake that there are some difficulties and events in the life that, without having faith in Hereafter, man cannot tolerate them. Verily if the life were limited to these very few days of the lifetime in this world, the consideration of the death would be as horrible nightmare for all persons. That is why the deniers of Resurrection are always in a kind of worrying anxiety and a painful punishment, while the believers in Resurrection count death as a door to the lasting world and a means for breaking the cage of this life and being delivered from this prison.
Yes, belief in Resurrection gives peace and tranquillity to man. It often makes difficulties tolerable, and causes donation, devotion, and self-sacrificing for man to be easy. In principle, those who counted Resurrection as evidence upon mendacity and insanity, as the result of their disbelief and ignorance, they encountered the punishment of moral darkness and far aberration. Some commentators have pointed out that this punishment is a hint to the punishment in Hereafter, but the apparent of the holy verse shows that just now they are in punishment and aberration in this world.