seekeroftruth
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Quran 40:In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
1. Ha, Meem.
2. The sending down of the Scripture is from God the Almighty, the Omniscient.
3. Forgiver of sins, Accepter of repentance, Severe in punishment, Bountiful in bounty. There is no god but He. To Him is the ultimate return.
4. None argues against God’s revelations except those who disbelieve. So do not be impressed by their activities in the land.
5. Before them the people of Noah rejected the truth, as did the confederates after them. Every community plotted against their messenger, to capture him. And they argued with falsehood, to defeat with it the truth. But I seized them. What a punishment it was!
6. Thus the sentence of your Lord became realized against those who disbelieve, that they are to be inmates of the Fire.
7. Those who carry the Throne, and those around it, glorify their Lord with praise, and believe in Him, and ask for forgiveness for those who believe: “Our Lord, You have encompassed everything in mercy and knowledge; so forgive those who repent and follow Your path, and protect them from the agony of the Blaze.
8. And admit them, Our Lord, into the Gardens of Eternity, which You have promised them, and the righteous among their parents, and their spouses, and their offspring. You are indeed the Almighty, the Most Wise.
9. And shield them from the evil deeds. Whomever You shield from the evil deeds, on that Day, You have had mercy on him. That is the supreme achievement.”
10. Those who disbelieved will be addressed, “The loathing of God is greater than your loathing of yourselves—for you were invited to the faith, but you refused.”
Here's the commentary.
In a saying of the Holy Prophet occur the words: “If you are attacked by night, say Ïå Mßm, they shall not be made victorious”, where √å mßm is explained as meaning, Allåhumma, or O Allåh!. I‘Ab gives the following three interpretations: It is the great name of Allåh; it is an oath; the two letters are an abbreviation for al-Ra√mån, i.e., the Beneficent. They may be abbreviations as well for Ïamßd (Praised) and Majßd (Glorious), or for Ïayy (the Living) and Qayy∂m (the Self-Subsisting), or for Ra√mån (Beneficent) and Ra√ßm (Merciful).
Of the four attributes, the first two and the last refer to Divine forgiveness, mercy and bounty, while only one refers to punishment of evil, and thus the attribute of mercy preponderates even when punishment is spoken of.
Those who bear the ‘arsh or the Throne of Power are not the bearers of any material thing. Generally the words are explained as meaning angels, but see 7:54b, where I have explained these words as meaning bearers of Divine messages, i.e., the prophets, while those around it are the faithful who, walking in the footsteps of the prophets, carry the Divine message to the world.
Here we are told that Divine mercy is as comprehensive as Divine knowledge, and they both extend over all things. No other religion takes such a broad view of the mercy of the Divine Being.
The wives and offspring of the faithful, those of them who do good, are here mentioned as entering paradise along with them.
The violent hatred referred to is the hatred of the evildoers for themselves, when the evil consequences of their evil deeds become manifest to them. How much greater must have been the hatred of Allåh, the Fountain-head of purity, for them when they committed those deeds! How Forbearing and Merciful was He not to visit them with immediate punishment!
Good morning! New chapter... this one is titled "The Believer" in my English Translation.... In the translation where I get the verses [think KJV and NIV] it's called "Forgiver". The Preamble to the chapter says this is about people like the Egyptian who argued for the life of Moses after Moses let loose on the Egyptian overseer and beat him to death. It's in the Bible Exodus 2:11-22.So according to the Bible rendition.... Moses was raised an Egyptian even though he was a Hebrew by birth. When the stranger came up to Moses... the stranger talked to Moses as if he was Egyptian.... asking why he was beating one of his own to death.... and Moses... after being interrupted from his fury... realized what he had done.... was horrified!
It's that horrified condition these verses discuss.
Everybody made fun of Noah, building a boat in the middle of the dessert. They were all horrified when the flood waters took them out.
Moses had time to change his path.... and he did great work.... he rescued over 2 million refugees. He passed through to them the law to keep them civilized.
He was horrified when he saw what he had done to that man.
I hope I'm not horrified when I get to Judgement.
That's what these verses say to me....
Don't be horrified at yourself at Judgement.
