Waman athlamu mimman thukkira bi-ayati rabbihi thumma aAArada AAanha inna mina almujrimeena (surah Sajdah: 22)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(32:22) And who is more unjust than he who is given good counsel through the Signs of his Lord and yet he turns away from them? *34 Surely We will exact full retribution from such criminals.

Wa man azlamu mimman zukkira bi aayaati rabbihee summa a`rada `anhaa; innaa minal mujrimeena muntaqimmon

*34) "The Signs of his Lord" include alI kinds of the Signs. A perusal of aII the Qur'anic verses in this regard shows that these Signs are of the following six kinds: (1) The Signs which are found in everything from the earth to the heavens and in the system of the universe as a whole. (2) The Signs which are found in man's own creation and in his constitution and body. (3) The Signs which are found in man's intuition, his unconscious and subconscious mind and in his moral concepts. (4) The Signs which are found in the continuous experience of human history. (5) The Signs which are found in the , coming down of the earthly and heavenly calamities on man. (6) And, over and above aII these, the Revelations which Allah sent through His Prophets so that man may be made conscious in a rational way of those realities, which are pointed out by all the above-mentioned Signs. All these Signs proclaim consistently and clearly: `O man, you are neither without God, nor the servant of many gods, but your God is only One God: no other way of life is correct for you except the way of His service and obedience. You have not been left to live a free and independent and irresponsible lift in this world, but you have to appear before yow God and render an account of your deeds after your life-activity here has come to an end, and be rewarded or punished accordingly. Therefore, it is in yow own interest that you should follow the guidance which yow God' has sent through His Prophets and His Books for your instruction and desist from an independent way of lift." Now, obviously, the man who has been warned in so many different ways, for whose admonition countless different Signs have been provided, and who has been blessed with the eyes to see and the cars to hear and the mind to think, and yet he closes his eyes to all these Signs, and closes his cars to the admonitions of his well-wishers, and uses his mind also for inventing stupid and blind philosophies only can be a wretched and wicked person. He only deserves to be given full punishment for rebellion when he appears before his God after the expiry of the period of test in the world.