The surah stumbles into a logical contradiction regarding human moral choice, describing mankind as being forced into a predetermined spiritual track while simultaneously operating on independent human emotions.
Surah 84:6:
O mankind, indeed you are laboring toward your Lord with exertion and will meet it."
The Contradiction: Verse 6 frames human life as an intense, labor-intensive journey where humans must exert their independent effort to meet God's judgment.
However, this framework of individual moral accountability completely falls apart when cross-referenced with orthodox Islamic predestination (Qadar) and passages like Surah 76:30, which state that humans have no sovereign will independent of God's forced decree. The text commands humans to strain and work hard to achieve salvation, yet simultaneously locks them into a deterministic theological loop where their choices were written down before creation, rendering human "exertion" an illusion.