And whoever disbelieves, I will give him a little enjoyment, and then I will force him to the punishment of the Fire.
The link between the eternal Quranic principle "And whoever disbelieves, then I give him a little pleasure and then I force him to the torment of the fire" (Al-Baqarah: 126) and the crises of contemporary material systems
The social miracle in “Whoever disbelieves, I will grant him brief enjoyment, then compel him to the punishment of the Fire”
This verse represents the eternal principle of the Qur’an in understanding the laws of human society, it sets a total rule in the distribution of worldly goods and eschatological punishment: worldly goods shared by the believer and the infidel, but limited by time, cut off from spiritual and moral extension, and then a final reward based on faith and action.
It is a foundational rule for what may be called the social miracle of the Qur’an, because it shapes the society of universal mercy and deferred justice, and at the same time reveals the cause of the collapse of material models separate from divine laws in history.
First: The Quranic Principle of Establishing a Balanced Society
The verse establishes two pillars for building a human society:
1. Comprehensive public benefit (security and livelihood): It includes all people, believers and unbelievers, because God has ordained mercy on Himself.
It is a matter of faith, not of faith, but of righteousness.
With this principle, the Qur’an builds a model of a stable, attractive society based on both compassion and justice, not conflict or exclusion.
The Collapse of the Three Great Modern Human Systems
1. Theocratic system (model of the Shiite political system and other systems of the Arab world)
The system of “wilayat-e faqih and its likes in the Arab world” represents a reversal of the Islamic principle that called for public security and shared livelihood, making security and privileges the monopoly of loyalists, and replacing comprehensive justice with the justice of sectarian loyalty. Thus, the slogan of “supporting the vulnerable” has become a new tool of vulnerability, and society has become closed, afraid, divided.
It is thus a moral and social collapse before it was political, because it contradicted the laws of Islam in mercy and justice, and manifested its “little baggage” in the form of a bloated authority without stability and blessing.
2. Communist system (model of the Soviet Union)
The communist system represents the other embodiment of the same principle, but from a different angle:
The attempt to abolish religion and private property under the pretense of absolute equality has resulted in the suppression of human nature, and the transformation of the state into a material deity that distributes the “comfort” with coercion and not with freedom.
In its beginnings, its followers enjoyed immense material and industrial power – the embodiment of the phrase “little pleasures” – but the system collapsed internally as it ran aground in the drying up of spiritual values.
* Alleged social justice collapsed due to the absence of mercy and faith, and slogans turned into tools of oppression.
The result: the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the dispersion of the ideological system that tried to build heaven on earth without God.
The Qur’anic principle has been scrupulously fulfilled: a brief commodity followed by the torment of collapse, economic, political and spiritual.
3. The capitalist system (Western model and similar Arab material systems)
On the opposite bank, capitalism has achieved enormous material abundance, but it has separated livelihood from security, making money a new idol.
The "little pleasure" manifests itself in the manifestations of well-being, but it is a disturbing, knifeless and meaningless baggage:
Fragile Economic Security: Debt Crises and Class Inequality
Collapsed social security: family disintegration and psychological isolation.
Lost Spiritual Security: An Existential Anxiety and a Void of Values.
The human being will be punished in the first place.
Third: Conclusion - Quranic balance in the face of collapse
The three systems, though different in logos, share a common contradiction with the divine laws:
Theocracy abolished public mercy in the name of religion.
Communism abolished the faith in the name of equality.
Capitalism abolished justice in the name of freedom.
The result is one: a total internal breakdown – moral, social, and spiritual.
The Quranic model is the only one that combines:
Mercy: a life and security for all in the world.
My reward is justice.
Conclusion:
In recent history, he has been portrayed as a recurring civilizational cycle, showing that societies that divide livelihood and security, or justice and faith, are given short-term possessions followed by inevitable collapse.
It is the verse that summarizes the laws of the rise and fall of civilizations in one sentence, and proves that the divine laws do not favor anyone, and that the Quranic miracle is still alive in the pulse of contemporary history.
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Source: Published on Dr. Mohammed Bourbab's Facebook page on 03-10-2025
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