Re:To Shakeel: Koran is especially for Arabs and also for others?

Submitted by Shakeel (Pakistan), Feb 25, 2007 at 01:36

And why was he sent only towards the Arabs? …

Muhammad (sws) was sent to all mankind that's why Quran addresses all mankind number of times.

In front of God, no one is superior/inferior in any way except by the way of Taqwa (having consciousness/love/fear of God).

This is what Quran says

O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female, and made you races and tribes, that you may know one another; the noblest among you, in the sight of God, is the one most godfearing of you; God is Knowing, Aware.(Al-Quran 49:13)

Those Arabs who were addressed/preached by Muhammad (sws) in his lifetime were special (not superior) in a sense that they were to get reward/punishment right here on earth as well as in Hereafter depending on what path they chose.

And we and also all other Arabs are different from them because we will get reward/punishment based on our deeds in Hereafter only.

So I hope you are saying that the judgement of Allah does not apply to people who had not heard of the last prophet of Allah

Such people, who had not received the Prophet's message, will also be judged by God at the Day of Judgment. God will judge them according to the moral values which He had inspired inside every human being.

Quran 91:7-10

By the soul and Him who created it.

Then showed it, what is evil and what is good

Successful is the one who purifies it.

Failing is one who corrupts it.

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