“Their reckoning is only on my Lord...

“Their reckoning is only on my Lord, if you could (but) perceive;” In Islam, belevers are to judge according to the apparent situation and if a person embraces Islam we would not have the right to say he has not faith in his heart.

The Qur’an says: “...and do not say to the one who offers you peace: ‘You are not a believer’...” [^3] In another verse, the Holy Qur’an, addressing the Prophet (S), says: “And do not repel those who call upon their Lord in the morning and the evening seeking His countenance.

Nothing of their account falls upon you nor anything of your account falls upon them, that you should repel them and thus become of the unjust.” [^4] This verse indicates that Noah disarmed them by implying that his duty was to call people to the truth and to improve the society, and he did not know what they did in the past.

The verse says: “He said: ‘No knowledge have I of what they were doing;” What they had done was done, the important thing was their condition at that time whether they answered the prophet’s call positively and tried to improve themselves by delivering their heart and their…