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Unseen
\r\n Luqman (Luqman) - Chapter 31: Verse 34

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"Indeed, Allah alone has knowledge of the Hour and sends down the rain and knows what is in the wombs. And no soul perceives what it will earn tomorrow, and no soul perceives in what land it will die. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted."

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Allah alone knows the matters of the Ghaib (unseen). No one other than Him has the knowledge of the unseen. Nobody knows as to when shall the Doomsday occur, a news so much wide-spread and well-known among the people that they are almost certain about its occurrence. What about the matters like victory and defeat, health and sickness and similar to it? No one knows about them either. Similarly, nobody knows when it shall start raining even though it has a definite season and it often rains during that season. Most of people do wish to know about it and had it been possible to know beforehand, they would indeed have known about it. Then how could the people possibly know about the things which neither belong to a particular season nor are they of any public interest like someone's death and his life-span, being blessed with a child or not, being wealthy or impoverished, emerging victorious or facing an ignominy of defeat etc.

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If that is the case, then how could one possibly read the internal matters of a person like thoughts, intentions and the condition of one's faith and hypocrisy? As long as one does not know as to what he himself shall be doing tomorrow, how could he know about the circumstances of others?

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No person or entity has the capability to learn about the future by exercising his own free will and choice except for Allah. Hence it is known to us that the people who claim to have the knowledge of the unseen are none but liars. And if someone neither claims to possess the knowledge of the unseen nor claims to have the capability of knowing it by exercising his own free will but only claims that a certain matter which Allah has informed him about, was beyond his control and capacity; and his own choice and will, had nothing to do with it; in this case there are both the possibilities, the man making such a statement, could either be a truthful or a liar.

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Compiled From:
\r\n \"Taqwiyat-ul-Iman\" - Shah Ismail Shaheed, pp. 72, 73

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