God – An Idea Of Burning People With Fire
“We punish attempted murder and actual murder differently as far as I am aware.” Irrelevant point because I can just argue that Allah is only punishing attempted rebellion because that is only variant of rebellion He can face. The alternative would be that He got overthrown which is never gonna happen. “We punsh those who harm others because of the pain it causes, not because of some abstract violation of rights.” This is the secular view yes but Allah’s view is that violation of rights is injustice itself. Man’s own self becomes impure as the example of Ghamidi Sahab that a mother might not need her son but if the son is cursing her everyday then the result of immorality does affect him. Immoral people will not enter Paradise. Only place where people who have ruined their souls will go, is place of punishment. Furthermore the above example of difference between atttempt murder and actual murder also causes an issue. Suppose if we stop someone from bombing a place, the potential victims never notice but you have caught the bomber beforehand and the evidence of plan and equipment with him. Now are you really just gonna let the terrorist go, just because no pain was caused? No! Intention to do harm is enough to be guilty. We aren’t good at catching intentions but Allah is but the concept that attempt and intentions are enough to brand someone guilty and worthy of some punishment is there. Let me ask you what I think is the crux of this issue: what does it mean to ‘rebel’ against Allah? Why is it bad? Quite frankly I would say Allah knows better. But some points you can make are: 1. Act of rebellion is bad in itself. Sensibly this is where the argument should end but I know you want more so. 2. It is injustice that Allah who gave us everything and you choose to just rebel against Him instead. 3. If there is injustice and Allah has made it upon Himself to be Just then He will answer this injustice no matter what. 4. As I explained above rebellion is less about consequences and more about intention. If someone wants to challenge Allah, the Merciful Lord of the Universe then that is not tiny thing. The idea was to go overthrow an authority. So just like attempted rebellion against a king deserve some punishment, punishment for rebelling against King of Kings must exist. Whether the rebellion was successful is not important, just that the attempt deserve appropiate retribution. 5. Rebellion is to break your bond with Allah, your Sustainer. If you made this decision then Allah will consider your wish and withdraw His Rahmat from you. Withdrawing His Rahmat means…….Well you know what it means. No forgiveness, no Paradise, no place to live, nothing. Only place for such people is destruction or Hell. 6. Because Allah said so. I mean if this life is a test, and there is really two paths, either to be Obedient or Rebellious then Allah simply declared that choosing path of Rebellion will result in failing of test and consequences will follow.