Why Did Truth Increase Their Disbelief?

Is a question that many of us have Did the prophet physically see Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on the night of the Ascension We have some narrations of companions saying that no, they were asked the same question. I was asked this question. Ibn was asked this question and they were very very strongly of the opinion that he did not see Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala physically. And Ibn Abes was narrated to mentioned in another elsewhere In another time, we don't know really the context of that question. Is did the prophet see Allah and he mentioned that yes, he saw him. But in another wording, he said, he saw him with his heart. So, this is not a physical observation. This is something that is a spiritual observation. He mentions a few of these issues but really if we look at what each of the companions is saying, they're not really disagreeing, right? In order for them to disagree. One of them would have to be asked the same exact question as the other, correct? So, if we had a narration that I as she was asked, did the prophet see Allah on the night of and she said, no. And then that same question and that same way was asked to even Abbas and he said, yes, then we'd say yes, there's a conflict here. But that's not clear. It's not clear that there was a difference in opinion or a conflict in their responses. Because even at best was asked a general question. Did he see Allah? And even Abbas responded, he saw Allah with his heart. Was asked the more specific question. And that is did he see him on the night of and she vehement oppose that idea and that is because there's a general rule and that rule is something that the prophet told us about when warning us of a dajel. That a dajjal will come and claim to be Allah. In some narrations, the prophet said, you will not see Allah until you die. And we see that Musa Alaihi Salam asked Allah to see him as well. And that was something that Allah negated would happen. It cannot happen. So, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will be seen on the day of resurrection by the believers. This is mentioned throughout the Quran. In numerous places. As for seeing Allah in this life, before we die, There's no evidence that any of the prophets or messengers have seen Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala physically with their eyes, right? there's actually a very serious difference of opinion amongst the scholarship of Islam. If any of the angels have seen Allah. And the stronger opinion is that there's no clear evidence that any angel has seen Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That this is something that is after the life of this world. Even the angels, even Jibreel, and Mikael, and even the angels that carry the throne of Allah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us that they believe in Allah. He describes the angels in the Quran. As believers in Allah. And if they would have seen Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then using the word belief in that context seems a little strange. Of course they would believe in Allah because they've seen him. The point of this is that many of the scholars view that. This kind of wording is evidence that not even the angels of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have seen him. Allah. Continues now to mention the aftermath of Al Isra the.

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His in the story of his incident and part of that was if you really went to then describe it to us because they knew that he had never in his history, in his life, had traveled to and if he had, it was 40 years ago and things change in 40 years. And so, they asked him, if you really did go there, then describe it to us. This was a problem for the prophet because he went there at night. It's night time, right? He didn't see a lot of details. He was there at night and saw a very small spaces as a person would. He goes to a building at night. And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raised for him an image of Beetel Makdis. Where he was able to see it and describe it in real time. And as he described it to them, he not only describes but he also describes some things that were in progress between Mecca and Maktis. Meaning, there's a a caravan coming or a caravan going and the name of it is this and he even told them of the name, the names of some of the animals in the caravan, right? And and small incidents that were occurring like there's a caravan coming and it's a caravan for this tribe or this place and it has this many people and also one of their camels. It's name is this. It ran away and they're actually trying to find this when I passed by them, right? This is not something you can make up and so, the more he would answer their questions accurately, the more intense their disbelief became. A person might wonder, why is that? Right? Well, the answer is a person accepts a question based on his intention for asking it. What's your intention when you ask a question, right If your intention of asking the question is to know, to understand, it's genuine intention what you received will increase your knowledge but if a person's intention is to be argumentative, to challenge, to discredit, right? This will only increase that person's ignorance, ignorant behavior. The people of Quraish were not asking because they were interested in what happened and they believed him. They were asking him because they were trying to get him to trip up in his words to make mistakes so that they could prove that he is a charlatan. As according to what they claimed. But the that he informed them of these kinds of details, the more frustrated they became, and the more rebellious they became. And so, there's a difference, even though the question is the same. The same question might be asked by two different people and receive two different answers or not receive an answer at all. Make those two people head in two opposite directions. What do I mean by that? So, we have in the Quran that some of the prophets, antagonists asked him when is the hour? When is the day of judgement, right? How is resurrection going to be? What are the descriptions of resurrection, alright? And then we have elsewhere where believers ask that same question and there's even narrations of that. Same question would be asked. So, one person would ask this question. And or two different people would ask the same question and get two different responses. One time the prophet was asked, when is the hour? And he responded saying, when entrustment is lost, is forfeited. Another asked him, when is the hour? He said, what have you prepared for it? Another asked, when is the hour, he said? I have no, I, I don't know. I have no idea when it is. Only Allah knows. What does this tell us about when we have the same question with different answers? This tells us that a lot about the context of the question. You know, the person who asked this question, this is what the prophet observed when he answered it, right? That's why you see a lot of times, that, you know, there's, we could probably even write a small treaties or a small book on all the different times, the prophet was asked, Elsini, give me some advice. How many times? He was asked that same question. Give me some advice. This one he would say, you know, don't become angry and this one he would tell You know, don't be a leader and this one he would tell. What does that tell us? That's a reflection of the questioner. Person asking the question, we can assume, do not become angry at an anger issue, right? Do not be a leader. Is somebody looking for leadership? What isn't really fit for it? These are, these are deductions that we take from and to learn about the context in which the question was asked. So, the point here is that Ibnal tells us that the prophet was able to then in detail describe described who was coming and going between Mecca and Al Aqsa and even some minutia the name of some random animal and some random caravan, right? That's something you could only know if you were there. And so he answered them entirely. Yet his answers only increased their disbelief. Allah tells us in the Quran that the more Quran comes to the prophet that certain people who have disbelieved the more they hear the Quran, the more they will disbelieve. And he tells us elsewhere that the more those who believe the more Quran that is sent down, the more that they will believe, right? And this again goes to the intention of the person. But either way, when the human being comes in contact with Revelation and is faced with revelation, they're not going to be the same. That they were before. So, one who reads the Quran They'll never be the same after reading the Quran. It will either be more misguided or they will be more guided based on their intention and the purity of it. And that reading. Even though Who are Muhammad who knows Haq? Rahima Allah. Ha Udalis.