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﴿12﴾ وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لِلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا اتَّبِعُوا سَبِيلَنَا
وَلْنَحْمِلْ خَطَايَاكُمْ وَمَا هُم بِحَامِلِينَ مِنْ خَطَايَاهُم مِن شَيْءٍ إِنَّهُمْ لَكَاذِبُونَ
12.“ And those who disbelieve say unto those who believe: ‘Follow our path
and we will certainly bear (the burden of) your sins.’ And they shall not be
bearers of any thing of their sins. Verily they are liars.”
Commentary:
In order to invite and encourage others to do mischief and wrong, the
deviated persons often say: if it has any sin we carry the burden of that sin,
while no one can undertake the sin of another one.
This verse points to one example of the weak and haughty logics of the
polytheists which exists among a vast group, too, even just now. It says:
“And those who disbelieve say unto those who believe:
‘Follow our path and we will certainly bear (the burden of)
your sins.’ …”
Today, we see many seductive persons that at the time of invitation to a
wrong action say if it has any sin they bear its sin, but we know that none can
bear the burden of any one’s sin. In principle, this thing is not rational,
because Allah is just and He does not punish anyone for the crime of another
one. Besides, with these baseless words, the responsibility of a person for his
deeds does not go away, and against that which some short-minded persons imagine
these meanings do not decrease aught from the man’s punishment. That is why no
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