An-Nahl 16:36 ولقد بعثنا في كل امة رسولا ان اعبدوا الله واجتنبوا الطاغوت فمنهم من هدى الله ومنهم من حقت عليه الضلالة فسيروا في الارض فانظروا كيف كان عاقبة المكذبين ٣٦
وَلَقَدۡ
بَعَثۡنَا
فِي
كُلِّ
أُمَّةٖ
رَّسُولًا
أَنِ
ٱعۡبُدُواْ
ٱللَّهَ
وَٱجۡتَنِبُواْ
ٱلطَّٰغُوتَۖ
فَمِنۡهُم
مَّنۡ
هَدَى
ٱللَّهُ
وَمِنۡهُم
مَّنۡ
حَقَّتۡ
عَلَيۡهِ
ٱلضَّلَٰلَةُۚ
فَسِيرُواْ
فِي
ٱلۡأَرۡضِ
فَٱنظُرُواْ
كَيۡفَ
كَانَ
عَٰقِبَةُ
ٱلۡمُكَذِّبِينَ
٣٦
We raised a Messenger in every community (to tell them): "Serve Allah and shun the Evil One."1 Thereafter Allah guided some of them while others were overtaken by error.2 Go about the earth, then, and observe what was the end of those who rejected the Messengers,3 calling them liars.
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
The Idolators Argument that their Shirk was Divinely decreed, and the Refutation of this Claim
Allah tells us about the idolators delusion over their Shirk, and the excuse they claimed for it based on the idea that it is ordained by divine decree. He says:
لَوْ شَآءَ اللَّهُ مَا عَبَدْنَا مِن دُونِهِ
…The Idolators Argument that their Shirk was Divinely decreed, and the Refutation of this Claim
Allah tells us about the idolators delusion over their S
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