To Sohail: Tying yourself up in knots

"O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and

You quote the above verse without comment. I assume it is to prove that the Koran is preaching equality between people. Please do not forget that those words in brackets are those of the translator. But what do you have to say about 3:33?

'Surely Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the descendants of Ibrahim and the descendants of Imran above the nations.'

Why does Allah choose descendants of some prophets above others? Is it not racism?

You also write:

"What I am trying to say is that nobody can be forced to believe:

"If it had been thy Lord's will, they would all have believed,- all who are on earth! wilt thou then compel mankind, against their will, to believe! Quran 10:99

No soul can believe, except by the will of Allah, and He will place doubt (or obscurity) on those who will not understand. Quran 10:100 "

That maybe what you are trying to say. But that is not what those two verses of the Almighty Allah are saying. 'If it had been thy Lord's will, they would all have believed,...' From this it naturally follows that it was not Allah's will that the unbelievers begin to believe. And Allah asks Mohammed why he wants to compel them to believe when it is His own will that they not believe. Can you see the logic of Allah here Sohail? I am not a fan of Allah's powers of logic generally, but here his logic is impeccable 'It is my will that some people do not believe so you have no authority to compel mankind against their will to believe.'

Verse 10:100 merely emphasises what Allah says in 10:99. Allah says 'No soul can believe, except by the will of Allah,....' So if I do not believe it is by the will of Allah. What can be clearer and simpler than that?

He also says '...and He will place doubt on those who will not understand.' This is an equally clear and simple statement of Allah placing doubt in the minds of people who do not believe. If Allah himself had not placed doubts in the minds of unbelievers would they have not begun to understand and believe. Why is Allah himself bent on stopping people from believing in Him? This is the silly logic of the All-knowing Allah I was talking about.