6xafridi said:It is a Meccan Surah and scholars have not agreed on Dhul-Qarnayn's identity yet. Some say he was Alexander the Great, Cyrus the Great etc.
Men in this world go crazy for wealth and children. These two things is what drives men, so Allah is reminding us that the reward in paradise will be much greater!
Ok, thanks about Dhul-Qarnayn.
Sorry, but I can't agree with the second point.
How can the Qur'an possibly compare children and wealth? This is a very
old, middle ages-type thinking. Is losing some of your wealth the same as
losing some of your children? These ideas come from those bad old days,
when children, women and livestock were all grouped together as "maal".
Human ethics and average morality improves all the time. Would most
people really find inspiration in the story of Abraham being willing to
sacrifice his son today? We should see religion as belonging to the past.
And the past is not pretty.
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