The Ghayb
- philhoraia
- Jun 20, 2022
- 6 min read
S 2:3 Those who believe in the ghayb and establish salat and from what we have provided them they spend.
S 3:44 That is from the news of the ghayb. We inspire you with it. And you were not in their presence when they threw their pens as to which of them takes charge of Maryam. And you were not in their presence when they dispute.
S 3:179 Allah would not leave the believers on what you are on until he might distinguish the bad one from the good. And Allah would not apprise you of the ghayb but Allah chooses from his messengers whom he wills, so believe in Allah and his messengers, and if you believe and fear, you have a great wage.
Why are messengers and Allah put together as those to be believed in?
S 5:94 Those who have believed, Allah tests you in something of hunting that your hands and your spears get that Allah may know him who fears him in the ghayb. And he who has transgressed after that has painful torture.
Was the Ghayb Allah's abode?
S 6:50 Say: I do not tell you I have Allah’s treasures or know the ghayb or tell you I am an angel. I do not follow but what I am inspired with. Say: Is the blind man equal to the seeing man? So do you not ponder?
Is the blind man inferior to the sighted?
S 6:59 And he has the keys of the ghayb; none knows them but him. And he knows what is in the land and the sea. And no leaf falls but he knows it. And not a grain in the darknesses of the Earth nor wet nor dry but it is in a clear book.
What clear book? Is this one accessible only to Allah or to angels? If so, why tell us that it is clear?
S 6:73 And he is the one who created the skies and the Earth with truth. And the day he says: Be and it is. His speech is the truth. And his is the dominion on the day it is blown on the trumpet. The knower of the ghayb and the testimony. And he is the wise, the expert.
So saying 'Be' is restricted to the future? The word I have translated "testimony" is shahadah. Compare with S 3:18.
S 7:188 Say: I do not possess benefit or harm for myself except what Allah has willed. And had I been a knower of the ghayb I would have demanded much of the good and the evil would not have touched me. I am nothing but a nadhir and a bearer of good news for a people who believe.
S 9:94 They excuse themselves to you when you have returned to them. Say: Do not excuse yourselves. We shall not believe you. Allah has informed us of your news and Allah will see your deed, and his messenger. Then you are returned to the knower of the ghayb and the testimony then he informs you of what you used to do.
S 9:105 And say: Do, then Allah will see your deed, and his messenger and the believers. And you will be returned to the knower of the ghayb and the testimony then he will inform you of what you used to do.
S 10:20 And they say: Why has a sign from his lord not been sent down upon him? So say: The ghayb is only Lah’s, so wait. I am with you among those waiting.
S 11:31 And I do not say to you I have Allah’s treasuries and I do not know the ghayb and I do not say that I am an angel nor do I say for those whom your eyes look down on, Allah will not give them good. Allah knows what is in their souls. I then would be of the wrongdoers.
S 11:49 That is from the news of the ghayb; we inspire you with it. You were not knowing it, you nor your people before this. So be patient. The result is for the fearers.
S 12:52 That is that he may know that I did not betray him in the ghayb and that Allah does not guide the scheme of the betrayers.
S 12:102 That is from the news of the ghayb which we inspire you with. And you were not with them when they agreed upon their matter and they were plotting.
S 13:9 Knowing the ghayb and the testimony, the big, the haughty.
Which is haughty?
S 18:22 They will say: Three, the fourth of them their dog; and they say: Five, the sixth of them their dog. A conjecture about the ghayb. And they say: Seven, and the eighth of them their dog. Say: My lord knows their ‘iddah. None knows them but a few. So do not argue about them except with a clear argument. And do not enquire about them from anyone among them.
S 19:61 Jannat of ‘Adn which Al-Rahman has promised his slaves in the ghayb. It was his promise having come.
S 19:78 Has he come suddenly upon the ghayb or taken from Al-Rahman a covenant?
S 21:49 Those who fear their lord in the ghayb and they are anxious about the Hour.
S 23:92 Knower of the ghayb and the testimony, exalted be he above what they associate!
S 27:65 Say: No-one in the skies and the Earth knows the ghayb but Allah and they do not perceive when they are raised.
S 32:6 That is the knower of the ghayb and the testimony, the mighty, the merciful.
S 34:3 And those who have disbelieved said: The Hour does not come to us. Say: Yes, by my lord, it is coming to you, the knower of the ghayb. The weight of a red ant does not escape him in the skies or on the Earth or smaller than that or bigger but it is in a clear book
Who has access to this book?
S 34:14 Then when we had decided upon him death nothing indicated to them his death but the beast of the Earth eating his staff. But when he fell it became clear to the jinn that had they known the ghayb they would not have remained in the base torture.
S 34:53 And they disbelieved in it before and they ejaculate on the ghayb from a distant place.
S 35:18 And a bearer does not bear another’s burden. And if a laden one calls to its load, none of it is carried even if he was a relative. You only warn those who fear their lord in the ghayb and they have performed salat. And he who has purified himself, then he only purifies himself for himself. And to Allah is the destiny.
S 36:11 You only warn him who has followed the Dhikr and feared Al-Rahman in the ghayb. So give him good news of forgiveness and a generous wage.
S 39:46 Say: Allahumma! Splitter of the skies and the Earth, knower of the ghayb and the testimony! You judge among your slaves concerning what they used to differ in.
S 50:33 He who has feared Al-Rahman in the ghayb and has come with a remorseful heart.
S 52:41 Or do they have the ghayb so they write?
S 53:35 Is the knowledge of the ghayb with him so he sees?
S 57:25 We sent our messengers with the proofs and we sent down with them the book and the balance that people might stand with equity. And we sent down iron wherein is severe horribleness and benefits for people and that Allah might know him who helps him and his messengers in the ghayb. Allah is strong, mighty.
Do the messengers reside with Allah? If so, did the founder of Islam, supposedly a messenger as opposed to being just a warner? Quran Contradiction: Is Muhammad Only A Warner or a Prophet/Messenger? Are the messengers Allah's partners who might be helped along with it?
S 59:22 He is Allah, the one who--. There is no god but him. The knower of the ghayb and the testimony. He is Al-Rahman, the merciful.
S 62:8 Say: Death which you flee is meeting you. Then you are returned to the knower of the ghayb and the testimony and he informs you of what you used to do.
S 64:18 Knower of the ghayb and the testimony, the mighty, the wise.
S 67:12 Those who fear their lord in the ghayb, theirs is forgiveness and a big wage.
S 68:47 Or is the ghayb with them so they write?
S 72:26 The knower of the ghayb, so he does not show his ghayb to anyone
If a messenger were told of the ghayb, wouldn't he know that much of it and Allah not an exclusive knower of it?
S 81:24 And he is not avaricious with the ghayb.
The one seen on the horizon isn't avaricious with it? It was supposedly Jibril that appeared on the horizon.
The word ghayb is usually translated along the lines of 'the unseen' or 'the unknown', Everything seen and known today was once unseen and unknown. Supposedly none but Allah knows the ghayb.
Narrated Ibn `Umar:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The keys of Unseen are five which none knows but Allah: None knows what will happen tomorrow but Allah; none knows what is in the wombs (a male child or a female) but Allah; none knows when it will rain but Allah; none knows at what place one will die; none knows when the Hour will be established but Allah." (See The Qur'an 31:34.")
A doctor can tell the sex of an unborn baby by means of ultrasound and many a person has known in what place he would die.
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