Allah The Exalted — Page 53
All a h the Exalted 5 created for your benefit 59. God is One, Who has no associate. He is God in heaven and God on earth 60. He is the First and the Last and He is the Manifest and the Hidden 61. Eyes are not able to probe into His reality and He knows the reality of the eyes 62. He is the Creator of everything and nothing is like unto Him. It is a clear argument in support of His being the Creator, that He has created everything according to a measure and has fixed its parameter limits 63 , which proves the existence of the Measurer and Limiter. He is proved worthy of all praise and is the only true Benefac- tor in this world and the next. All command belongs to Him and everything returns to Him. God will forgive every sin for whomsoever He wills, but He will not forgive Shirk— associating anything with Him. 64 Let him who hopes to meet his Lord work righteousness and let him associate no one in the worship of his Lord 65. Associate not anything with God. It is a great sin 66. Do not ask any favours from anyone except God. Every- thing will perish except Him. His is the command and to 59 al-Baqarah, 2:22-23 [Publisher] 60 al-Zukhruf, 43:85 [Publisher] 61 al- H ad i d, 57:4 [Publisher] 62 al-An‘ a m, 6:104 [Publisher] 63 al-Furq a n, 25:3 [Publisher] 64 al-Nis a ’, 4:49 [Publisher] 65 al-Ka h f, 18:111 [Publisher] 66 Luqm a n, 31:14 [Publisher]