QUESTION NO. 5
“MAHJOOR” QURAN
The “Mahjoor” verse (25:30) is an extremely intriguing one. The relevant section in Surah Furqaan describes the ruefulness of transgressors on the Last Day, while the Prophet is subsequently shown as declaring: “O My Lord! These are my people, the ones who made this Qur’an Mahjoor." (Mahjoor = Disabled; Abandoned; Neglected; Forsaken; Shunned; Of no account)
- The reader needs to acknowledge that this declaration of the Prophet is a definite prophecy, i.e., it’s certain that he will make this announcement to God.
The prophecy however begs the following questions:
That the Prophet will have to make this declaration is evidence that the Qur’an’s mission will not be successful, as on the Last Day, the Prophet will declare that his Ummah did not take heed of the Qur’an and treated it as Mahjoor. Can we thus deduce that the Prophet’s mission – and the Qur’an’s message – is automatically a defeated and lost cause?
If it’s not a lost cause, the Prophet will not have to make this declaration to God. But as we have seen, it is certain that he will make this pronouncement.
What is the motivation, then, for us to fight for this lost cause even as we are certain that our efforts will come to naught, because the Qur’an, as a foregone conclusion, will be Mahjoor?
ANSWER NO. 5 BY AURANGZAIB:
Motivation to fight for the Cause is the innate desire for Salvation or Deliverance on the part of every individual. Man is undoubtedly a creation and a creation is naturally and consciously attracted towards its Creator and seeks or strives hard to know and get nearer to Him. Those whose inner conscious self is alive would continue seeking Him by following his guidance.
Prophet’s figurative lamentation (in metaphoric sense) would refer to the majority of humans who would succumb to material temptations and live out their lives in material greed and transgression. It is a fact confirmed by Quran that very few of humans would achieve the purpose of their creation. Most of them are doomed to the life of hell or stagnation, say, without any further evolution of their conscious values in the Hereafter. And that’s all due to their freedom, authority on their own behavior and conduct, and their own choices and selection. Please go through the essence of this Verse (al-A’raaf: 179) “Wa laqad Zaraana li jahannama katheeran min al-Jinni wa al-Insi
وَلَقَدْ ذَرَأْنَا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنسِ ۖ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لَّا يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لَّا يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ آذَانٌ لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا ۚ أُولَـٰئِكَ كَالْأَنْعَامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ ۚ أُولَـٰئِكَ هُمُ الْغَافِلُونَ ﴿١٧٩﴾
It will tell you with proper justification WHY would the multitudes of Civilized and uncivilized men would opt for HELL in return for their own doings. Simply, they would neglect the manifestation of their inherent conscious values,,,,or qualities and attributes.
It doesn’t matter if Quran will be left “Mahjoor” by the majority, as will be complained by the Messenger in Quran’s metaphoric style. The essential purpose of delivering the Quranic Guidance, i.e., to test and examine the individual performance on the basis of the Divine Attributes endowed into his Conscious Self,,, would have been achieved by the time the hour is reached to launch/establish (Qiyamah) the final stage of life called Hereafter (Hayat ul Aakhira,,,, or Aakhirat) by our Creator, Who is the Absolute & Ultimate Consciousness.