Arba'in — Page 55
Number Two 55 [All kinds of Holiness belong to Allah, who possesses all blessings, and is the Highest Being. He has raised your status. The name and remembrance of your forefathers will be cut off and God will initiate respect and honour with you. Bounty without end. Peace is the word from the Merciful Lord. It will be said: Ruin overtake the people who do wrong. You will witness distant progeny and We shall bestow upon you a pleasant life. Eighty years or thereabout or We shall add some years to it. The promise of Allah is bound to be fulfilled. This status has been granted as a mercy from your Lord. He will complete His favour unto you so that it should be a Sign for the believ- ers. Allah will help you in many fields. Allah will perfect His light though the disbelievers might resent it. And these people will devise their plans and Allah will devise His plan and Allah is the Best of planners. Hearken, indeed the mercy of Allah is near. Hearken! The help of Allah is near. His help will come to you by every distant track. Your helpers will come from every distant track. Such people will help you whom We shall inspire from Ourself. No one can change the words of God. He is the High, the Great. Allah is the God who has sent His Messenger [and His Appointed One] with guidance and the True Faith, and for the reform of morals. They say, ‘Soon will this affair be frustrated’, while they have no knowledge of that which is hidden. We have bestowed upon you the world, and the treasures of the mercy of your Lord shall be granted to you and you have been helped. And I shall grant predominance to your followers