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CH. 3 PT. 4 ĀL-E-‘IMRĀN 194. Our Lord, we have heard a Crier calling unto faith, رَبَّنَا إِنَّنَا سَمِعْنَا مُنَادِيَا يُنَادِي لِلْإِيْمَانِ ان مِنُوا بِرَبِّكُمْ فَأَمَنَا رَبَّنَا فَاغْفِرْ لَنَا Believe ye in your Lord, and ذُنُوبَنَا وَكَفِّرْ عَنَّا سَيَّاتِنَا وَتَوَفَّنَا مَعَ ,we have believed. Our Lord الْأَبْرَارِة forgive us, therefore, our errors and remove from us our evils, and in death number us with the righteous. 476 رَبَّنَا وَاتِنَا مَا وَعَدْتَنَا عَلَى رُسُلِكَ وَلَا Our Lord, give us what. 195 تُخْزِنَا يَوْمَ الْقِمَةِ إِنَّكَ لَا تُخْلِفُ through Thy Messengers and الْمُعَادَة Resurrection. Surely, Thou Thou hast promised to us disgrace us not on the Day of breakest not Thy promise. " their prayers, saying, "I will E فَاسْتَجَابَ لَهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ لَا يُضِيعُ So their Lord answered. 196 عَمَلَ عَامِلٍ مِّنْكُمْ مِنْ ذَكَرٍ أَوْ أُنثَى allow not the work of any worker from among you, whether a14:48; 40:52. 4:125; 16:98; 20:113. 16:42. much as the displeasure of God, which is like fire that burns up all traces of goodness, and this fire is the heritage of the wrongdoers only, whom nothing can save from punishment. 476. Important Words: (errors) which is of lighter significance and which generally refers to natural weaknesses and ordinary mistakes and omissions, may represent those dark recesses in us where the light of the sun does not properly reach; while (evils) which is a comparatively stronger word, may mean the clouds of dust which hide the light of the sun from our view. See also 2:81 & 3:17. Commentary: In 3:191 above, the word "day" in the expression, the alternation of the night and the day, is placed after the word "night," which points to the fact that the spiritual wayfarer, after trials and sins, finally basks in the having passed through the night of light of the spiritual Sun by accepting and following the Divine Crier. But, as the present verse points out, he is afraid lest his weaknesses should retard his progress or lest the dust of his sins and the clouds of his misdeeds should intervene and hide from him the light and warmth of the spiritual Sun, so he humbly prays to God to disperse the dust of his sins 603