March 13th, 2008 by mike
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To Him is your return, of all of you. God’s promise is the unwavering truth. He created the first creation, and He will create it again so that every action may have its Just Recompense. Those who attain belief and work to help the society will have their just reward. And those who reject the truth, for them will be a burning draught of despair and a painful doom because of their persistent refusal to acknowledge the truth. [A consequence of their own doings. 33:24, 34:3-4, 45:22, 53:31]
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March 13th, 2008 by mike
[arabic]
He is the One Who appointed the sun as a splendid glow, and the moon as a cool light. He appointed stages for the moon, in due measure. You make your calculations and calendars accordingly. God has created the Universe as the absolute reality and for a purpose. God explains His verses for those who wish to learn. [The Universe is neither a dream as the ancient Hindu philosopher Manu preached, nor a reflection of the world of ideas as Plato thought. 6:97, 17:12]
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March 13th, 2008 by mike
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In the alternation of the day and the night, and in all that God has created in the heavens and earth, there are signs for people who are mindful of Divine laws. [Taqwa = Seeking to journey through life in security = To live upright = To be mindful of Divine laws = Being observant = Shielding oneself against moral disintegration. 2:41]
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March 13th, 2008 by mike
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Those who do not look forward to meeting with Us, but please and satisfy themselves with petty delights of the worldly life, it is they who neglect Our messages.[Meeting with Us = Liqa-anaa. At other places ‘Meeting with the Lord’ is generally understood as meeting the Divine Law of Requital or Recompense. Some exponents apply ‘Meeting with the Lord’ to Resurrection alone. In my humble opinion, since God is a Personal, Compassionate God, and a vast majority of His humble servants harbor an intense desire to see Him, He may not deny this Kindness to His servants. We know that God is far too Glorious to have a physical image (anthropomorphic form), but He is Able to do all things. In the World of command (AMR), He designs laws as He wills. It is only in the World of Creation (KHALQ) that He implements those laws, and then, never changes them. So, He is absolutely Capable of devising any law in His World of command. I find myself in agreement with numerous Ahadith narrating that humans should be able to meet their Creator in the Next Life, not as a wishful thinking, but because they are in agreement with the Quran. I do not certainly mean God assuming a physical form for ‘meeting’ with His servants, but in some way that is beyond our understanding at this time. Let us ponder some verses as well that allude to a new creation of humans in forms unknown to us at this time, and entirely new laws becoming operative in the New Universe: … 56:59 Is it you who create it or are We the Creator? … 56:60 We have decreed death (designed the laws of death) among you. And there is nothing to prevent Us 56:61 From changing your forms and making you in a manner, and in an environment, that is (as yet) unknown to you. … 11:106 Those who, by their deeds, brought misery on themselves will be in the fire, sighing and wailing will be their portion. … 11:107 Therein to abide, as long as the (New) Universe endures; that is time beyond count, unless your Lord decrees otherwise. Your Lord is Doer of what He wills in the World of command. … The current Universe will be dismantled for a new Universe. 5:44, 14:19, 14:48, 21:104, 25:22, 35:16, 36:81, 69:16, 70:9) … ‘Meeting with the Lord’ is mentioned in the Quran about a hundred times. Even the great Allama Mashriqi ventures into the area, although I humbly disagree with him. He thinks that with evolution, humans will lose their body and only the ’spirit’ will remain. And this spirit will merge with the ‘Spirit’ of God. And that is the ‘Meeting with the Lord’! (Ref: Hadith-il-Quran?) Now this concept exactly matches the Sufi parlance, and, therefore, it is totally unacceptable to a student of the Quran. Finally, 2:55 points out that only the disbelievers demand to see God in physical form, but that verse relates only to the life of this world]
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March 13th, 2008 by mike
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Their home will be the fire that they have earned (ignited) with their own actions.I0:9 Those who choose to believe and work to increase the human potential, their Lord guides them by virtue of their conviction (that no good deed goes to waste). Rivers will flow beneath them in the Gardens of Delight.[A’maal Saaleh = Deeds that increase the individual and collective potential of a society = Helping people = Improving the environment = Fulfilling others’ needs = Contributing to the society = Correcting a deficiency]
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March 13th, 2008 by mike
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Their prayer therein will be, “Glory be to You, O God!” Their greeting to one another will be, “Peace!” The conclusion of their prayer will be, “praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds!” [And so shall be the peaceful Ideal Society on earth. They will realize that the good of one is the good of another, and understand how Praiseworthy the Giver of such blissful guidance is]
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March 13th, 2008 by mike
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If God hastened retribution for people as they demand goodly things be hastened for them, their respite would have already expired. (It is God’s mercy that His Law of Requital does not grasp them instantly. He gives them time to mend their ways). Those who do not look forward to meeting with Us, We leave them in their arrogance, blindly stumbling to and fro. [10:7]
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March 13th, 2008 by mike
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When affliction befalls man, he cries to Us, whether he be lying, or sitting or standing. But when We have relieved him of the affliction, he goes on his way as if he had never cried to Us for what afflicted him. Those who trespass the Divine laws, lose discernment and even their ill deeds will then seem fair to them.
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March 13th, 2008 by mike
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We annihilated many communities before you for their violation of human rights. Their Messengers had come to them with clear evidence of the truth, but they refused to believe them. Thus We reward those who steal the fruit of others’ labor.
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March 13th, 2008 by mike
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Now We have made you their successors in the land, to see how you behave.
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