Believing Nations Prosper ( 10:98 – 10:102)

Believing Nations Prosper

10:98 Any community that believes will surely be rewarded for believing. For example, the people of Jonah: when they believed, we relieved the humiliating retribution they had been suffering in this world, and we made them prosperous.

10:99 Had your Lord willed, all the people on earth would have believed.* Do you want to force the people to become believers?

10:100 No soul can believe except in accordance with GOD’s will. For He places a curse upon those who refuse to understand.

*10:99-101 The test demands that we denounce idolatry on our own, without divine intervention in our initial decision. God blocks out those who choose to disbelieve.