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[quote]Minara,

Thank you for the detailed reply. It is quite interesting what you have stated, and quite knowledgeable.

I would like to clarify that I did not say God does evil or God inspires evil. I only said what is in the Quran, that God can lead some people away from the true path if He wants to. After that if these people, who had chosen to be misled by their own free will, they do evil, it is only their souls that they wrong and God does not do it to them.

The intersting thing about your answer is that you claim God only answers prayers of believers. If a non-believer is in some trouble and near death, he becomes a believer and prays to Allah to save him, so Allah may save him while he is a believer. But usually this person will turn back and become unbeliever again.

So like prophet's grandfather, or those people on the boat in the storm, they became beleivers in Allah for a moment while they prayed to Him - then they went back to shirk after Allah saved them.

Would you consider such a person to be a believer or unbeliever? A Hindu who does shirk all his life, but at the moment of death, he prays to Allah to save him, afterwards he goes back to shirk. Allah answered his prayer while the man became a believer momentarily.

I think such a person is an unbeliever, and that is what I meant when I said God answers the prayers of unbelievers also.

In the Quran, God calls Iblees a kafir (disbeliever) in 2.34. Even though Iblees believed in Allah, he is still called disbeliever, and Allah did answer his request to give him time to misguide humanity as a trial for us. It was the plan of Allah, but the thing is, Allah did answer his request.[/quote]

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