Second Coming Of Jesus
Thanks Umer, You mentioned that “that these verses are addressed to people of the book of Prophet Muhammad’s time and that they will believe in this Quran as a book of GOD before their death”. Now the question is did they believed in Quran as book of GOD before their death? What I know is that they didn’t. Can you please clarify.
Adding onto what faisal sb. said, It doesn’t mean that they will profess their belief in Quran explicitly, rather, It is an information from God regarding what lies in their hearts. They know that this is God’s word, and those who don’t, they won’t die until they confess this fact in their hearts. This is the same principle that Quran uses before declaring anyone Kafir (intentional denier of truth) as a terminology. Word kufar has been used in both literal sense (denier) and as a standalone terminology (intentional denier of truth) in Quran. We have no way of knowing who has denied truth intentionally after knowing it for a fact that it is the only truth. It is only divine information that can tell us about an actual condition of someone’s heart. It is the same divine information that is telling us in this verse about the condition of hearts of the people of the book.