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wa-mā wajadnā li-ʾaktharihim min ʿahdin wa-ʾin wajadnā ʾaktharahum la-fāsiqīna
We did not find in most of them any [loyalty to] covenants. Indeed, We found most of them to be transgressors.
— Ali Quli Qarai
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Surah al-‘Araf – Verse 102
102 . “And, We did not find in most of them any (firm) covenant, and verily We found most of them to be wrong-doers.”
The objective meaning of the word ‘‘ahd’, (covenant), mentioned in the verse, is either the relation between Allah and the sound innate disposition of people, or the invitation and laws of prophets, or the special covenants which sometimes people made with prophets saying that, for example, if the prophet performed so and so as a miracle or solved a particular difficulty of theirs, they would believe. One of the evidences of this kind in the Qur’ān is Surah’A‘rāf, No. 7, verses 134 and 135 which say:
Allah has made manifest some facts for human beings through both innate disposition and prophets in order that they may have confederation and submission unto them. But most people neglect the cry of innate dispostion and prophets, and going out of the path of the truth, they become wrong-doers. The verse says:
Thus, the secret of the destruction of the former nations was breach of promise and disobedience.
Allah has praised the faithful and blamed the breachers of promise.