Surah Yaseen (36) — Ayah 7

(Ayah 7) {لَقَدْ حَقَّ الْقَوْلُ عَلٰۤى اَكْثَرِهِمْ …:’’ حَقَّ الْقَوْلُ ‘‘} By “the word has been proved” is meant the decree of punishment upon them, as Allah Almighty has said: « وَ لَوْ شِئْنَا لَاٰتَيْنَا كُلَّ نَفْسٍ هُدٰىهَا وَ لٰكِنْ حَقَّ الْقَوْلُ مِنِّيْ لَاَمْلَـَٔنَّ جَهَنَّمَ مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَ النَّاسِ اَجْمَعِيْنَ » [السجدۃ : ۱۳ ] “And if We had willed, We could have given every soul its guidance, but the word from Me has been established that I will surely fill Hell with jinn and mankind all together.” This refers to those people who, even after the coming of the Prophet and the truth becoming clear, persist in their disbelief. Allah Almighty had known about them from eternity that, due to their stubbornness and arrogance, they would not believe, and based on this knowledge, He had written that they would become fuel for Hell. This is not because Allah deprived them of faith by compulsion, because in the case of compulsion, they would not be deserving of punishment. The fact that the cause of their misguidance is their own stubbornness and hostility has been mentioned in several verses. See Surah Al-Baqarah (26, 27), Az-Zukhruf (36, 37), As-Saff (5), Al-An’am (110), Fussilat (25), and Al-Ahqaf (17, 18). A verse with the same meaning is: « اِنَّ الَّذِيْنَ حَقَّتْ عَلَيْهِمْ كَلِمَتُ رَبِّكَ لَا يُؤْمِنُوْنَ (96) وَ لَوْ جَآءَتْهُمْ كُلُّ اٰيَةٍ حَتّٰى يَرَوُا الْعَذَابَ الْاَلِيْمَ » [ یونس : ۹۶، ۹۷ ] “Indeed, those upon whom the word of your Lord has come into effect will not believe, even if every sign should come to them, until they see the painful punishment.”