Apparent Contradiction In Quran Regarding Intercession Or Shafat
Thanks @UmerQureshi bro, Please consider two statements ,e.g I tell one of my friend Ali , that Statement 1: I will not rent out my house. And then other day I tell him: Statement 2: I will rent out my house on certain conditions. Will not he say that there is contradiction in your statements? Bro , this is how quran statements about intercession looks like, Statement 1:there will be no intercession. Statement 2:There will be intercession but on certain creteria or conditions. It will be great if you answer this in this perspective. JazakAllah
This is a kind of sollogism. Language is not sollogism. An expression comes with its context which may or may not explicity enunciated depending on the understanding of the reader who is alreay get himself familiar with the author. Secondly, if i say, i will never forgive, you, and at some later stage, i forgive you, it is not contradiction. Thirdly, as I told earlier, these two statements of Quran belong to different stages. Take another example, Quran says that on that day of resurrection there will be no blood relation between the peopole فلا انساب بینھم and then tell us that the parents and children will be together in the paradise. Forthly, as Umar saheb indicated, the negation of intercession in absolute terms means no intercession against God’s will and approval. For example, if i make a statement to my student, “Tomorrow there will be a test and everyone must be present, i won’t accept any excuse.” But what if the excuse is genuine and reasonable, like some student met an accident. Therefore we say that there is noting absolute in meaning. As soon as a kalam is initiated, it contains its limitations and exceptions in it. So if you take Quranic statements like the statements in the law books, you may not be able to appreciate a literary Kalam which does not accept such restrictions.
Although this analogy is not very apt as Dr. Irfan Sahab pointed out that literary language does not work on the principle of Logic, rather it works on how it is spoken and perceived by people speaking it. When I told my friend that I will not rent out my house: it had a context to it that I wanted to take open market bids on merit before renting it to my friend so that I can come up with an appropriate offer for my friend, if it comes to that . Then when I told my friend that now I will rent out my house on certain conditions: This is after I got an idea about the market and now I am in a position to set out my conditions so that I do not offer at a loss . When seen in this context, there is no contradiction between these two statements. __ When Quran rejects intercession, it is to reject the notion that Prophets, saints, idols or anyone for that matter will have any say in the matters of the day of judgement other than God and this is unconditional ( here the innate condition already exists that except whom the God wills ). And when Quran talks about conditions, those conditons are built on the above mentioned principle that no one will have any authority except God, and if God wills for anyone to speak then Quran elaborates the limitations for anyone whom God will allow to speak on the day of judgement.