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(The Qur'an is) inscribed on Honoured Pages, exalted, purified by the
hands of scribes, noble, virtuous. (80:13-16)
SEA
And when We parted the sea for you and rescued you, and drowned the people
of Pharaoh while you watched. (2:50)
In the creation of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of the
night and day, and the ships which sail the seas to people's benefit,
and the water which Allah sends down from the sky-by which He brings the
earth to life when it was dead and scatters about in it creatures of every
kind-and the varying direction of the winds, and the clouds subservient
between heaven and earth, there are Signs for people who use their intellect.
(2:164)
Anything you catch in the sea is lawful for you, and all food from it,
for your enjoyment and that of travellers, but land game is forbidden
for you while you are in the state of pilgrimage. So have fear of Allah,
Him to Whom you will be gathered. (5:96)
The keys of the Unseen are in His possession. No one knows them but Him.
He knows everything in the land and sea. No leaf falls without His knowing
it. There is no seed in the darkness of the earth, and nothing moist or
dry which is not in a Clear Book. (6:59)
Say: 'Who rescues you from the darkness of the land and sea? You call
on Him humbly and secretly: "If you rescue us from this, we will truly
be among the thankful."' (6:63)
It is He Who has appointed the stars for you so you might be guided by
them in the darkness of the land and sea. We have made the Signs clear
for people who have knowledge. (6:97)
Then We took revenge on them and drowned them in the sea because they
denied Our Signs and paid no attention to them. (7:136)
We conveyed the tribe of Israel across the sea and they came upon some
people who were devoting themselves to some idols which they had. They
said, 'Musa, give us a god just as these people have gods.' He said, 'You
are indeed an ignorant people.' (7:138)
Ask them about the town which was by the sea when they broke the Sabbath-when
their fish came to them near the surface on their Sabbath day but did
not come on the days which they did not keep the Sabbath. In this way
We put them to the test because they were deviators. (7:163)
It is He Who conveys you on both land and sea so that when some of you
are on a boat, running before a fair wind, rejoicing at it, and then a
violent squall comes upon them and the waves come at them from every side
and they realise there is no way of escape, they call on Allah, making
their religion sincerely His: 'If You rescue us from this, we will truly
be among the thankful.' (10:22)
We brought the tribe of Israel across the sea and Pharaoh and his troops
pursued them out of tyranny and enmity. Then, when he was on the point
of drowning, he said, 'I believe that there is no god but Him in whom
the tribe of Israel believe. I am one of the Muslims.' (10:90)
Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and sends down water
from the sky and by it brings forth fruits as provision for you. He has
made the ships subservient to you to run upon the sea by His command,
and He has made the rivers subservient to you. (14:32)
It is He Who made the sea subservient to you so that you can eat fresh
flesh from it and bring out from it ornaments to wear. And you see the
ships cleaving through it so that you can seek His bounty, and so that
hopefully you will show thanks. (16:14)
Your Lord is He Who propels the ships on the sea for you so that you
may seek His bounty. He is indeed Most Merciful to you. (17:66)
When harm occurs to you at sea, those you call on vanish-except for Him
alone! But when He delivers you to dry land, you turn away. Man truly
is ungrateful. (17:67)
We have honoured the sons of Adam and conveyed them on land and sea and
provided them with good things and favoured them greatly over many We
have created. (17:70)
Remember when Musa said to his servant, 'I will not give up until I reach
the meeting-place of the two seas, even if I must press on for many years.'
(18:60)
But when they reached their meeting-place, they forgot their fish which
quickly burrowed its way into the sea. (18:61)
He (Musa's servant) said, 'Do you see what has happened? When we went
to find shelter at the rock, I forgot the fish. No one made me forget
to remember it except Satan. It found its way into the sea in an amazing
way.' (18:63)
(He said to Musa,) 'As for the boat, it belonged to some poor people
who worked on the sea. I wanted to damage it because a king was coming
behind them, commandeering every boat.' (18:79)
Say: 'If all the sea was ink to write down the Words of my Lord, it would
run out long before the Words of my Lord ran out,' even if We were to
bring the same amount of ink again. (18:109)
He (Allah) said, 'Your request has been granted, Musa. We were gracious
to you another time when We revealed to your mother: "Place him into the
box and throw it into the sea and the sea will wash it up on the shore,
where an enemy of Mine and his will pick it up." I showered you with love
from Me so that you would be brought up under My supervision.' (20:36-39)
We revealed to Musa, 'Travel with My servants by night. Strike a dry
path for them through the sea. Have no fear of being overtaken and do
not be afraid.' (20:77)
Pharaoh pursued them with his troops and the sea overwhelmed them utterly.
(20:78)
He (Musa) said, 'Go! In this world you will have to say, "Untouchable!"
And you have an appointment which you will not fail to keep. Look at your
god to which you devoted so much time. We will burn it up and then scatter
it as dust into the sea. (20:97)
Do you not see that Allah has made everything on the earth subservient
to you and the ships running upon the sea by His command? He holds back
the heaven, preventing it from falling to the earth-except by His permission.
Allah is All-Compassionate to mankind, Most Merciful. (22:65)
Or they (the actions of disbelievers) are like the darkness of a fathomless
sea which is covered by waves above which are waves above which are clouds,
layers of darkness, one upon the other. If he puts out his hand, he can
scarcely see it. Those Allah gives no light to, they have no light. (24:40)
It is He Who has unloosed both seas-the one sweet and refreshing, the
other salty and bitter-and put a dividing line between them, an uncrossable
barrier. (25:53)
So We revealed to Musa, 'Strike the sea with your staff.' And it split
in two, each part like a towering cliff. (26:63)
He Who made the earth a stable dwelling place and appointed rivers flowing
through its midst and placed firmly embedded mountains on it and set a
barrier between the two seas. Is there another god besides Allah? No indeed,
but most of them do not know it! (27:61)
He Who guides you in the darkness of land and sea and sends out the winds
bringing advance news of His mercy. Is there another god besides Allah?
May Allah be exalted above what they associate with Him! (27:63)
We revealed to Musa's mother, 'Suckle him and then when you fear for
him cast him into the sea. Do not fear or grieve; We will return him to
you and make him one of the Messengers.' (28:7)
So We seized him (Pharaoh) and his troops and flung them into the sea.
See the final fate of the wrongdoers! (28:40)
Corruption has appeared in both land and sea because of what people's
own hands have brought about so that they may taste something of what
they have done so that hopefully they will turn back. (30:41)
If all the trees on earth were pens and all the sea, with seven more
seas besides, was ink Allah's words still would not run dry. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. (31:27)
Do you not see that ships sail on the sea by Allah's blessing so that
He can show you something of His Signs? There are certainly Signs in that
for everyone who is steadfast and thankful. (31:31)
The two seas are not the same: the one is sweet, refreshing, delicious
to drink, the other salty, bitter to the taste. Yet from both of them
you eat fresh flesh and extract ornaments for yourselves to wear; and
you see ships on them, cleaving through the waves so that you can seek
His bounty and so that hopefully you will be thankful. (35:12)
Among His Signs are the tall ships sailing like mountains through the
sea. (42:32)
(It was revealed to Musa,) 'Leave the sea divided as it is. They are
an army who will be drowned.' (44:24)
It is Allah Who has made the sea subservient to you so that the ships
sail on it at His command, enabling you to seek His bounty, so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (45:12)
So We seized him (Pharaoh) and his armies and hurled them into the sea,
and he was to blame. (51:40)
He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier between
them; they do not break through. (55:19-20)
His, too, are the ships sailing like mountain peaks on the sea. (55:24)
When the seas flood and overflow, (82:3)
SECRET
Do they not know that Allah knows what they keep secret and what they
make public? (2:77)
There is no good in much of their secret talk, except in the case of
those who enjoin charity, or what is right, or putting things right between
people. If anyone does that, seeking the pleasure of Allah, We will give
him an immense reward. (4:114)
Yet you see those with sickness in their hearts rushing to them, saying,
'We fear the wheel of fate may turn against us.' But it may well be that
Allah will bring about victory or some other contingency from Him. Then
they will deeply regret their secret thoughts. (5:52)
He is Allah in the heavens and in the earth. He knows what you keep secret
and what you make public and He knows what you earn. (6:3)
Do they not know that Allah knows their secrets and their private talk,
and that Allah is the Knower of all unseen things? (9:78)
See how they wrap themselves round trying to conceal their feelings from
Him! No, indeed! When they wrap their garments round themselves, He knows
what they keep secret and what they make public. He knows what their hearts
contain. (11:5)
It makes no difference whether you keep secret what you say or voice
it out loud, whether you hide in the night or go out in the day. (13:10)
Allah knows what you keep secret and what you make public. (16:19)
There is no doubt that Allah knows what they keep secret and what they
make public. He does not love people puffed up with pride. (16:23)
Though you speak out loud, He knows your secrets and what is even more
concealed. (20:7)
Say: 'The One Who sent it down is He Who knows all hidden secrets in
the heavens and earth. He is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.' (25:6)
So do not let their words distress you. We know what they keep secret
and what they divulge. (36:76)
Or do they imagine that We do not hear their secrets and their private
talk? On the contrary Our messengers are right there with them writing
it down! (43:80)
That is because they said to those who hate what Allah has sent down,
'We will obey you in part of the affair.' But Allah knows their secrets.
(47:26)
He knows everything in the heavens and earth. He knows what you keep
secret and what you divulge. Allah knows what the heart contains. (64:4)
Whether you keep your words secret or say them out loud He knows what
the heart contains. (67:13)
On the Day when the secrets are sought out. (86:9)
SECURITY
Then He sent down to you, after the distress, security, restful sleep
overtaking a group of you, whereas another group became prey to anxious
thoughts, thinking other than the truth about Allah-thoughts belonging
to the Time of Ignorance-saying, 'Do we have any say in the affair at
all?' Say, 'The affair belongs entirely to Allah.' They are concealing
things inside themselves which they do not disclose to you, saying, 'If
we had only had a say in the affair, none of us would have been killed
here in this place.' Say, 'Even if you had been inside your homes, those
people for whom killing was decreed would have gone out to their place
of death.' So that Allah might test what is in your breasts and purge
what is in your hearts. Allah knows the contents of your hearts. (3:154)
Do the people of the cities feel secure against Our violent force coming
down on them in the night while they are asleep? (7:97)
Or do the people of the cities feel secure against Our violent force
coming down on them in the day while they are playing games? (7:98)
Do they feel secure against Allah's devising? No one feels secure against
Allah's devising except for those who are lost. (7:99)
And when He overcame you with sleep, making you feel secure, and sent
you down water from heaven to purify you and remove the taint of Satan
from you, and to fortify your hearts and make your feet firm. (8:11)
Do they feel secure that the all-enveloping punishment of Allah will
not come upon them, or that the Last Hour will not come upon them all
of a sudden when they least expect it? (12:107)
Those who guard against evil will be amid Gardens and Springs: 'Enter
them in peace, in complete security!' (15:45-46)
Do those who plot evil actions feel secure that Allah will not cause
the earth to swallow them up or that a punishment will not come upon them
from where they least expect? (16:45)
Do you feel secure against Him causing the shore to swallow you up or
sending against you a sudden squall of stones? Then you will find no one
to be your guardian. (17:68)
Or do you feel secure against Him taking you back into it another time
and sending a violent storm against you and drowning you for your ingratitude?
Then you will find no one to defend you against Us. (17:69)
Allah has promised those of you who believe and do right actions that
He will make them successors in the land as He made those before them
successors, and will firmly establish for them their religion with which
He is pleased and give them, in place of their fear, security. 'They worship
Me, not associating anything with Me.' Any who disbelieve after that,
such people are deviators. (24:55)
(Salih said to his people,) 'Are you going to be left secure amid what
is here?' (26:146)
(Allah said,) 'Throw down your staff!' Then when he saw it slithering
like a snake he turned and fled and did not turn back again. 'Musa, approach
and have no fear! You are one of those who are secure.' (28:31)
They will call there for fruit of every kind, in complete security. (44:55)
Do you feel secure against Him Who is in heaven causing the earth to
swallow you up when suddenly it rocks from side to side? (67:16)
Or do you feel secure against Him Who is in heaven releasing against
you a sudden squall of stones, so that you will know how true My warning
was? (67:17)
SEED
The keys of the Unseen are in His possession. No one knows them but Him.
He knows everything in the land and sea. No leaf falls without His knowing
it. There is no seed in the darkness of the earth, and nothing moist or
dry which is not in a Clear Book. (6:59)
Allah is He Who splits the seed and kernel. He brings forth the living
from the dead, and produces the dead out of the living. That is Allah,
so how are you perverted? (6:95)
It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We bring forth
growth of every kind, and from that We bring forth the green shoots and
from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, and from the spathes of the
date palm date clusters hanging down, and gardens of grapes and olives
and pomegranates, both similar and dissimilar. Look at their fruits as
they bear fruit and ripen. There are Signs in that for people who believe.
(6:99)
We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of Rising and no self will
be wronged in any way. Even if it is no more than the weight of a grain
of mustard-seed, We will produce it. We are sufficient as a Reckoner.
(21:47)
(Luqman said,) 'My son, even if something weighs as little as a mustard-seed
and is inside a rock or anywhere else in the heavens or earth, Allah will
bring it out. Allah is All-Pervading, All-Aware.' (31:16)
He Who has created all things in the best possible way. He commenced
the creation of man from clay; then produced his seed from an extract
of base fluid. (32:7-8)
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are fierce
to the disbelievers, merciful to one another. You see them bowing and
prostrating, seeking Allah's good favour and His pleasure. Their mark
is on their faces, the traces of prostration. That is their likeness in
the Torah. And their likeness in the Gospel is that of a seed which puts
up a shoot and makes it strong so that it thickens and grows up straight
upon its stalk, filling the sowers with delight-so that by them He may
infuriate the disbelievers. Allah has promised those of them who believe
and do right actions forgiveness and an immense reward. (48:29)
(I swear) by Heaven with its cyclical systems and the earth with its
splitting seeds, it is truly a Decisive Word. (86:11-13)
SELF (NAFS)
And when Musa said to his people, 'My people, You wronged yourselves
by adopting the Calf so turn towards your Maker and kill yourselves. That
is the best thing for you in your Maker's sight.' And He turned towards
you. He is the Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful. (2:54)
And We shaded you with clouds and sent down manna and quails to you:
'Eat of the good things We have provided for you.' They did not wrong
Us; rather it was themselves they were wronging. (2:57)
What an evil thing they have sold themselves for in rejecting what Allah
has sent down, outraged that Allah should send down His favour on whichever
of His servants He wills. They have brought down anger upon anger on themselves.
The disbelievers will have a humiliating punishment. (2:90)
They follow what the Satans recited in the reign of Sulayman. Sulayman
did not disbelieve, but the Satans did, teaching people sorcery and what
had been sent down to Harut and Marut, the two angels in Babylon, who
taught no one without first saying to him, 'We are merely a trial and
temptation, so do not disbelieve.' People learned from them how to separate
a man and his wife but they cannot harm anyone by it, except with Allah's
permission. They have learned what will harm them and will not benefit
them. They know that any who deal in it will have no share in the hereafter.
What an evil thing they have sold themselves for if they only knew! (2:102)
Many of the People of the Book would love it if they could turn you back
to disbelief after you have become believers, showing their innate envy
now that the truth is clear to them. But you should pardon and overlook
until Allah gives His command. Truly Allah has power over all things.
(2:109)
On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah knows
that you have been betraying yourselves and He has turned towards you
and excused you. Now you may have sexual intercourse with them and seek
what Allah has written for you. Eat and drink until you can clearly discern
the white thread from the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast
until the night appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them
while you are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah's limits, so
do not go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to people
so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
A group of the People of the Book would love to misguide you. They only
misguide themselves but they are not aware of it. (3:69)
The metaphor of what they spend in their life in this world is that of
a wind with an icy bite to it which strikes the crops of a people who
have wronged themselves and destroys them. Allah did not wrong them; rather
it was themselves they were wronging. (3:117)
(Believers are) those who, when they act indecently or wrong themselves,
remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their bad actions (and who can
forgive bad actions except Allah?) and do not knowingly persist in what
they were doing. (3:135)
No self can die except with Allah's permission, at a predetermined time.
If anyone desires the reward of this world, We will give him some of it.
If anyone desires the reward of the hereafter, We will give him some of
it. We will recompense the thankful. (3:145)
It is not for any prophet to be false to his trust. Those who are false
will arrive on the Day of Rising with what they have misappropriated.
Then every self will be paid in full for what it earned. They will not
be wronged. (3:161)
Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on the
Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and admitted to the
Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is just the enjoyment of
delusion. (3:185)
O mankind! Have fear of your Lord Who created you from a single self
and created its mate from it and then disseminated many men and women
from the two of them. Have fear of Allah in Whose name you make demands
on one another and also in respect of your families. Allah watches over
you continually. (4:1)
You who believe! Do not consume one another's property by false means,
but only by means of mutually agreed trade. And do not kill yourselves.
Allah is Most Merciful to you. (4:29)
We sent no Messenger except to be obeyed by Allah's permission. If only
when they wronged themselves they had come to you and asked Allah's forgiveness
and the Messenger had asked forgiveness for them they would have found
Allah Ever-Returning, Most Merciful. (4:64)
The angels ask those they take while they are wronging themselves, 'What
were your circumstances?' They reply, 'We were oppressed on earth.' They
say, 'Was Allah's earth not wide enough for you to have migrated elsewhere
in it?' The shelter of such people will be Hell. What an evil destination!
(4:97)
Do not argue on behalf of those who betray themselves. Allah does not
love any evildoing traitors. (4:107)
Were it not for Allah's favour to you and His mercy, a group of them
would almost have managed to mislead you. But they mislead no one but
themselves and do not harm you in any way. Allah has sent down the Book
and Wisdom to you and taught you what you did not know before. Allah's
favour to you is indeed immense. (4:113)
We made a covenant with the tribe of Israel and We sent Messengers to
them. Each time a Messenger came to them with something their lower selves
did not desire, they denied some and they murdered others. (5:70)
You see many of them taking those who disbelieve as their friends. What
their lower selves have advanced for them is evil indeed, bringing Allah's
anger down upon them. They will suffer punishment timelessly, for ever.
(5:80)
You who believe! You are only responsible for yourselves. The misguided
cannot harm you as long as you are guided. All of you will return to Allah
and He will inform you about what you were doing. (5:105)
Say: 'To whom does everything in the heavens and earth belong?' Say:
'To Allah.' He has made mercy incumbent on Himself. He will gather you
to the Day of Rising about which there is no doubt. As for those who have
lost their own selves, they have no faith. (6:12)
They keep others from it and avoid it themselves. They are only destroying
themselves but they are not aware of it. (6:26)
It is He Who first produced you from a single self, then from a resting-place
and a repository. We have made the Signs clear for people who understand.
(6:98)
Company of jinn and men! Did not Messengers come to you from among yourselves
relating My Signs to you and warning you of the encounter of this Day
of yours? They will say, 'We testify against ourselves.' The life of this
world deluded them and they will testify against themselves that they
were disbelievers. (6:130)
Say: 'Am I to desire other than Allah as Lord when He is the Lord of
all things?' What each self earns is for itself alone. No burden-bearer
can bear another's burden. Then you will return to your Lord, and He will
inform you regarding the things about which you differed. (6:164)
As for those whose scales are light, they are the ones who have lost
their own selves because they wrongfully rejected Our Signs. (7:9)
They said, 'Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves. If you do not forgive
us and have mercy on us, we will be among the lost.' (7:23)
We divided them up into twelve tribes-communities. We revealed to Musa,
when his people asked him for water: 'Strike the rock with your staff.'
Twelve fountains flowed out from it and all the people knew their drinking
place. And We shaded them with clouds and sent down manna and quails to
them: 'Eat of the good things We have provided you with.' They did not
wrong Us; rather it was themselves they wronged. (7:160)
When your Lord took out all their descendants from the loins of the children
of Adam and made them testify against themselves 'Am I not your Lord?'
they said, 'We testify that indeed You are!' Lest you say on the Day of
Rising, 'We knew nothing of this.' (7:172)
How evil is the metaphor of those who deny Our Signs. It is themselves
that they have badly wronged. (7:177)
It is He Who created you from a single self and made from him his spouse
so that he might find repose in her. Then when he covered her she bore
a light load and carried it around. Then when it became heavy they called
on Allah, their Lord, 'If You grant us a healthy child, we will be among
the thankful!' (7:189)
Do they make things into partner-gods which cannot create anything and
are themselves created; which are not capable of helping them and cannot
even help themselves? (7:191-192)
If it had been a case of easy gains and a short journey, they would have
followed you, but the distance was too great for them. They will swear
by Allah: 'Had we been able to, we would have gone out with you.' They
are destroying their own selves. Allah knows that they are lying. (9:42)
Has the news of those who came before them not reached them, the people
of Nuh and 'Ad and Thamud, and the people of Ibrahim and the inhabitants
of Madyan and the overturned cities? Their Messengers brought them the
Clear Signs. Allah did not wrong them; rather they wronged themselves.
(9:70)
And (He turned) also towards the three who were left behind, so that
when the earth became narrow for them, for all its great breadth, and
their own selves became constricted for them and they realised that there
was no refuge from Allah except in Him, He turned to them so that they
might turn to Him. Allah is the Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful. (9:118)
It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around them, to
remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer themselves to him.
That is because no thirst or weariness or hunger will afflict them in
the Way of Allah, nor will they take a single step to infuriate the disbelievers,
nor secure any gain from the enemy, without a right action being written
down for them because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers
go to waste. (9:120)
Then and there every self will be tried for what it did before. They
will be returned to Allah, their Master, the Real, and what they invented
will abandon them. (10:30)
Allah does not wrong people in any way; rather it is people who wrong
themselves. (10:44)
If every self that did wrong possessed everything on earth, it would
offer it as a ransom. They will show remorse when they see the punishment.
Everything will be decided between them justly. They will not be wronged.
(10:54)
We did not wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. The gods they
called upon besides Allah did not help them at all when Allah's command
came upon them. They did nothing but increase their ruin. (11:101)
(Yusuf said,) 'I do not say my self was free from blame. The self indeed
commands to evil acts-except for those my Lord has mercy on. My Lord,
He is Forgiving, Merciful.' (12:53)
Everyone has a succession of angels in front of him and behind him, guarding
him by Allah's command. Allah never changes a people's state until they
change what is in themselves. When Allah desires evil for a people, there
is no averting it. They have no protector apart from Him. (13:11)
Warn mankind of the Day when the punishment will reach them. Those who
did wrong will say, 'Our Lord, reprieve us for a short time. We will respond
to Your call and follow the Messengers.' 'But did you not swear to Me
before that you would never meet your downfall, even though you inhabited
the houses of those who had wronged themselves and it was made clear to
you how We had dealt with them and We gave you many examples?' (14:44-45)
As for those the angels take in death while they are wronging themselves,
they will offer their submission: 'We did not do any evil.' Oh yes you
did! Allah knows what you were doing. (16:28)
What are they waiting for but the angels to come to them or your Lord's
command to come? That is like what those before them did. Allah did not
wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (16:33)
Allah has given you wives from among yourselves, and given you children
and grandchildren from your wives, and provided good things for you. So
why do they believe in falsehood and reject the blessings of Allah? (16:72)
On that Day We will raise up among every community a witness against
them from amongst themselves, and bring you as a witness against them.
We have sent down the Book to you making all things clear and as guidance
and mercy and good news for the Muslims. (16:89)
We forbade the Jews those things We told you about before. We did not
wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (16:118)
Every self will taste death. We test you with both good and evil as a
trial. And you will be returned to Us. (21:35)
Or do they have gods besides Us who will protect them? They cannot even
help themselves! They will not be safe from Us. (21:43)
We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of Rising and no self will
be wronged in any way. Even if it is no more than the weight of a grain
of mustard-seed, We will produce it. We are sufficient as a Reckoner.
(21:47)
They will not hear the slightest hint of it and they will remain there
timelessly, for ever, among everything their selves desire. (21:102)
Those whose scales are light, they are the losers of their selves, remaining
in Hell timelessly, for ever. (23:103)
But they have adopted gods apart from Him which do not create anything
but are themselves created. They have no power to harm or help themselves.
They have no power over death or life or resurrection. (25:3)
Those who do not expect to meet Us say, 'Why have angels not been sent
down to us? Why do we not see our Lord?' They have become arrogant about
themselves and are excessively insolent. (25:21)
We seized each one of them for their wrong actions. Against some We sent
a sudden squall of stones; some of them were seized by the Great Blast;
some We caused the earth to swallow up; and some We drowned. Allah did
not wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (29:40)
Every self will taste death. Then you will be returned to Us. (29:57)
Have they not reflected within themselves? Allah did not create the heavens
and the earth and everything between them except with truth and for a
fixed term. Yet many people reject the meeting with their Lord. (30:8)
Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of those
before them? They had greater strength than them and cultivated the land
and inhabited it in far greater numbers than they do. Their Messengers
also came to them with the Clear Signs. Allah would never have wronged
them; but they wronged themselves. (30:9)
He has made an example for you from among yourselves. Are any of the
slaves you own partners with you in what We have provided for you so that
you are equal in respect of it, you fearing them the same as one another?
In that way We make Our Signs clear for people who use their intellect.
(30:28)
No self knows the delight that is hidden away for it in recompense for
what it used to do. (32:17)
The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves, and his
wives are their mothers. But blood-relations have closer ties to one another
in the Book of Allah than other believers and the emigrants, except that
you should act in a proper manner towards your close associates. That
is inscribed in the Book. (33:6)
They said, 'Our Lord, put more distance between our staging posts.' They
wronged themselves so We made legends of them and scattered them without
a trace. There are certainly Signs in that for everyone who is steadfast
and thankful. (34:19)
Glory be to Him Who created all the pairs: from what the earth produces
and from themselves and from things unknown to them. (36:36)
He created you from a single self, then produced its mate from it, and
sent down livestock to you-eight kinds in pairs. He creates you stage
by stage in your mothers' wombs in a threefold darkness. That is Allah,
your Lord. Sovereignty is His. There is no god but Him. So what has made
you deviate? (39:6)
Those who disbelieved will be addressed: 'Allah's hatred of you, when
you were called to faith but then chose disbelief, is even greater than
your hatred of yourselves.' (40:10)
Every self will be repaid today for what it earned. Today there will
be no injustice. Allah is swift at reckoning. (40:17)
We are your protectors in the life of this world and the hereafter. You
will have there all that your selves could wish for. You will have there
everything you demand. (41:31)
We will show them Our Signs on the horizon and within themselves until
it is clear to them that it is the truth. Is it not enough for your Lord
that He is a witness of everything? (41:53)
(He is) the Bringer into Being of the heavens and the earth: He has given
you mates from among yourselves, and given mates to the livestock, in
that way multiplying you. Nothing is like Him. He is the All-Hearing,
the All-Seeing. (42:11)
You will see them as they are exposed to it, abject in their abasement,
glancing around them furtively. Those who believe will say, 'Truly the
losers are those who lose themselves and their families on the Day of
Rising.' The wrongdoers are in an everlasting punishment. (42:45)
Allah created the heavens and earth with truth so that every self might
be repaid for what it earned and they will not be wronged. (45:22)
You who believe! People should not ridicule others who may be better
than themselves; nor should any women ridicule other women who may be
better than themselves. And do not find fault with one another or insult
each other with derogatory nicknames. How evil it is to have a name for
evil conduct after coming to faith! Those people who do not turn from
it are wrongdoers. (49:11)
(On that Day) every self will come together with a driver and a witness.
(50:21)
There are certainly Signs in the earth for people with certainty; and
in yourselves as well. Do you not then see? (51:20-21)
They are nothing but names which you yourselves have given, you and your
forefathers. Allah has sent down no authority for them. They are following
nothing but conjecture and what their own selves desire. And that when
guidance has reached them from their Lord! (53:23)
Nothing occurs, either in the earth or in yourselves, without its being
in a Book before We make it happen. That is something easy for Allah.
(57:22)
Those who were already settled in the abode, and in faith, before they
came, love those who have migrated to them and do not find in their hearts
any need for what they have been given and prefer them to themselves even
if they themselves are needy. It is the people who are safe-guarded from
the avarice of their own selves who are successful. (59:9)
Do not be like those who forgot Allah so He made them forget themselves.
Such people are the deviators. (59:19)
Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night-or half
of it, or a third of it-and a group of those with you. Allah determines
the night and day. He knows you will not keep count of it, so He has turned
towards you. Recite as much of the Qur'an as is easy for you. He knows
that some of you are ill and that others are travelling in the land seeking
Allah's bounty, and that others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite
as much of it as is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms
and lend a generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for yourselves
you will find it with Allah as something better and as a greater reward.
And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(73:20)
Every self is held in pledge against what it earned. (74:38)
When the selves are arranged into classes... (81:7)
Then each self will know what it has done. (81:14)
Each self will know what it has sent ahead and left behind. (82:5)
There is no self which has no guardian over it. (86:4)
'O self at rest and at peace,' (89:27)
We gave Musa the Book and sent a succession of Messengers after him.
We gave 'Isa, son of Maryam, the Clear Signs and reinforced him with the
Purest Spirit. Why then, whenever a Messenger came to you with something
your lower selves did not desire, did you grow arrogant, and deny some
of them and murder others? (2:87)
Who would deliberately renounce the religion of Ibrahim except someone
who reveals himself to be a fool? We chose him in this world and in the
hereafter he will be one of the righteous. (2:130)
When you divorce women and they are near the end of their waiting period,
then either retain them with correctness and courtesy or release them
with correctness and courtesy. Do not retain them by force, thus overstepping
the limits. Anyone who does that has wronged himself. Do not make a mockery
of Allah's Signs. Remember Allah's blessing to you and the Book and Wisdom
He has sent down to you to admonish you. Have fear of Allah and know that
Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:231)
Allah does not impose on any self any more than it can stand. For it
is what it has earned; against it, what it has brought upon itself. 'Our
Lord, do not take us to task if we forget or make a mistake! Our Lord,
do not place on us a load like the one You placed on those before us!
Our Lord, do not place on us a load we have not the strength to bear!
And pardon us; and forgive us; and have mercy on us. You are our Master,
so help us against the people of the disbelievers.' (2:286)
But how will it be when We gather them all together for a Day about which
there is no doubt? Every self will be paid in full for what it earned.
They will not be wronged. (3:25)
On the Day that each self finds the good it did, and the evil it did,
present there in front of it, it will wish there were an age between it
and then. Allah advises you to beware of Him. Allah is Ever-Gentle with
His servants. (3:30)
Anyone who does evil or wrongs himself and then asks Allah's forgiveness
will find Allah Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:110)
So his lower self persuaded him to kill his brother, and he killed him
and became one of the lost. (5:30)
And that you do not go near the property of orphans before they reach
maturity-except in a good way; that you give full measure and full weight
with justice-We impose on no self any more than it can bear; that you
are equitable when you speak-even if a near relative is concerned; and
that you fulfil Allah's contract. That is what He instructs you to do,
so that hopefully you will pay heed. (6:152)
They then produced his shirt with false blood on it. He (Ya'qub) said,
'It is merely that your lower selves have suggested something to you which
you did; but beauty lies in showing steadfastness. It is Allah alone Who
is my Help in face of the event that you describe.' (12:18)
He said, 'It's merely that your lower selves suggested something to you
which you did. But beauty lies in having steadfastness. Perhaps Allah
will bring them all together. He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise.'
(12:83)
What then of Him Who is standing over every self seeing everything it
does? Yet still they associate others with Allah! Say: 'Name them! Or
would you inform Him of something in the earth He does not know, or are
they words which are simply guesswork on your part?' However, the plotting
of those who disbelieve seems good to them and they bar the way. Anyone
misguided by Allah has no guide. (13:33)
Those before them plotted but all plotting belongs to Allah. He knows
what each self earns, and the disbelievers will soon know who has the
Ultimate Abode. (13:42)
So that Allah may repay every self for what it earned. Allah is swift
at reckoning. (14:51)
On that Day every self will come to argue for itself and every self will
be paid in full for what it did. They will not be wronged. (16:111)
'Read your Book! Today your own self is reckoner enough against you!'
(17:14)
He entered his garden and wronged himself by saying, 'I do not think
that this will ever end.' (18:35)
He (Samaritan) said, 'I saw what they did not see. So I gathered up a
handful from the Messenger's footprints and threw it in. That is what
my inner self urged me to do.' (20:96)
He (Musa) said, 'My Lord, I have wronged myself. Forgive me.' So He forgave
him. He is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful. (28:16)
Whoever strives does it entirely for himself. Allah is Rich Beyond Need
of any being. (29:6)
When you said to him whom Allah has blessed and you yourself have greatly
favoured, 'Keep your wife to yourself and have fear of Allah,' while concealing
something in yourself which Allah wished to bring to light, you were fearing
people when Allah has more right to your fear. Then when Zayd divorced
her We married her to you so that there should be no restriction for the
believers regarding the wives of their adopted sons when they have divorced
them. Allah's command is always carried out. (33:37)
And what of him the evil of whose actions appears fine to him so that
he sees them as good? Allah misguides whoever He wills and guides whoever
He wills. So do not let yourself waste away out of regret for them. Allah
knows what they do. (35:8)
No burden-bearer can bear another's burden. If someone weighed down calls
for help to bear his load, none of it will be borne for him, even by his
next of kin. You can only warn those who fear their Lord in the Unseen
and perform prayer. Whoever is purified, is purified for himself alone.
Allah is your final destination. (35:18)
Then We made Our chosen servants inherit the Book. But some of them wrong
themselves; some are ambivalent; and some outdo each other in good by
Allah's permission. That is the great favour. (35:32)
We showered blessings upon him and upon Ishaq. Among their descendants
are good-doers and also people who clearly wrong themselves. (37:113)
Every self will be repaid in full for what it did. He knows best what
they are doing. (39:70)
Here you are then: people who are called upon to spend in the Way of
Allah and then some of you are tight-fisted! But whoever is tight-fisted
is only tight-fisted to himself. Allah is Rich and you are poor. If you
turn away, He will replace you with a people other than yourselves and
they will not be like you. (47:38)
We created man and We know what his own self whispers to him. We are
nearer to him than his jugular vein. (50:16)
So have fear of Allah, as much as you are able to, and listen and obey
and spend for your own benefit. It is the people who are safe-guarded
from the avarice of their own selves who are successful. (64:16)
O Prophet! When any of you divorce women, divorce them during their period
of purity and calculate their waiting period carefully. And have fear
of Allah, your Lord. Do not evict them from their homes, nor should they
leave, unless they commit an outright indecency. Those are Allah's limits,
and anyone who oversteps Allah's limits has wronged himself. You never
know, it may well be that after that Allah will cause a new situation
to develop. (65:1)
He who has plenty should spend out from his plenty, but he whose provision
is restricted should spend from what Allah has given him. Allah does not
demand from any self more than He has given it. Allah will appoint after
difficulty, ease. (65:7)
No! I swear by the self-reproaching self. (75:2)
In fact, man will be clear proof against himself. (75:14)
But as for him who feared the Station of his Lord and forbade the lower
self its appetites, the Garden will be his refuge. (79:40-41)
It is the Day when a self will have no power to help any other self in
any way. The command that Day will be Allah's alone. (82:19)
And (I swear by) the self and what proportioned it, (91:7)
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