(The Issue of ‘A Lastu Bi Rabbikum)

 

The Glorified Allah commands so about the infidels : “Those, who break Allah’s Covenant after its confirmation and asunder what Allah has ordered to be joined, and do mischief on earth; they are true losers.” (Al-Baqara/ The Cow 2/27)

 

Every human comprehends existence and oneness of Allah as if he had seen Him with his eyes and had touched Him with his fingers; so makes an absolute promise to Allah. The Glorified Allah commands: “And when your Lord brought forth from the children of Adam, from their loins, their descendants, and made them testify against their own souls: Am I not your Lord? They said: Yes! We testify. Lest they should say on the day of resurrection: Surely we were heedless of this.

And thus do We make clear the communications, and that haply they might return.” (Al-A’raf/ Purgatory 7/172-174)

This issue widely known as ‘the promise of ‘A Leste time’ or as the ‘elestu birabbikum’ is the issue of the clear and evident recognition of Allah’s existence and Oneness from the human race. The verse says that this issue is clarified while the Adam sons’ ‘generation are taken from their waist. The expression ‘generations are taken from their waist’ means the removing of the seed of reproduction from the human body. An individual first enter his adolescence later he reaches the age of having children. The human starts to seek Allah while still a child. He asks many questions to the people around him. At the end he comprehends the existence and Oneness of Allah. The evidences that he encounters are so convincing that it seems like Allah is asking: “Am I not your Lord?”. And he replies firmly: “Yes you are my Lord and I testify this.” Similar situations recur as the individual comes across different events and notices the truthfulness of the verses of Allah. This is the reason that every individual acknowledges the existence and Oneness of Allah.

‘Mushrik’ (idolater) means the one that admits the existence of an alike. So, two subjects are involved in this duplication. The first one between them is always Allah. As the humans are conscientious for the existence and oneness of Allah, and as they won’t be able to find any alikeness to Allah in the features of that one he considered similar to Allah, he won’t have the opportunity to defend himself with these words in the afterworld: “Or you should say: Only our fathers associated others (with Allah) before, and we were an offspring after them: Wilt Thou then destroy us for what the vain doers did?” (A’raf /Purgatory 7/173)

The adolescence stage is important. Responsibility is developed during this time. Even if the fathers or the people around him might infer the opposite, the teen will absolutely be given evidence for the existence and oneness of Allah together with the fact that He is the Lord and Master of every living thing. Some will demonstrate it openly. Some will show it in front of significant events and situations in their life. Most of people think that this small quantity of belief in their hearts is sufficient. This is one of Satan’s deceptions. The Glorified Allah commands: “O people! guard not to let the arch deceiver (Shaitan) deceive you in respect of Allah” (Luqman 31/33)    

The atheists, who deny God’s existence, are those ones who don’t want the presence of Allah in their life. They divinize themselves and try to be masters of themselves. In contrast, the other idolaters find other masters to associate with Allah. They place these gods at the same level with Allah and this is how they disclaim the promise they made to Allah. Nevertheless they all know that there is no one alike to Allah.

The ones that fall in the sin of shirk are those: “…Who break the covenant of Allah after its confirmation and cut asunder what Allah has ordered to be joined.” (Al-Baqara/ The Cow 2/27). Because, placing mediators with Allah means to bring to an end the relationship with Him.

 

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