LessonsOccasions of Revelation: Reports, Qur’anic Narratives and Interpretive ResolutionQuiz

Some reports describe people being gathered on their faces, prompting the question of how such movement is possible. The response is that the One who enables humans to walk on their feet in worldly life can enable another mode of movement in the Hereafter.

The problem is not chiefly lexical. It arises from making present-world habit the limit of all possible states. Divine power cannot be confined to the forms normally observed now.

Tawjīh works here by exposing the unspoken assumption behind the objection and correcting it rather than dismissing the text.

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Being gathered on the face: the question of possibility

Occasions of Revelation: Reports, Qur’anic Narratives and Interpretive Resolution

Some reports describe people being gathered on their faces, prompting the question of how such movement is possible. The response is that the One who enables humans to walk on their feet in worldly life can enable another mode of movement in the Hereafter.

The problem is not chiefly lexical. It arises from making present-world habit the limit of all possible states. Divine power cannot be confined to the forms normally observed now.

Tawjīh works here by exposing the unspoken assumption behind the objection and correcting it rather than dismissing the text.