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PT. 13 IBRAHİM CH. 14 on a stormy day. "They shall have no power over what they earned. That, indeed, is extreme ruin. 1673 عَاصِفٍ لَا يَقْدِرُونَ مِمَّا كَسَبُوا which the wind blows violently عَلَى شَيْءٍ ذَلِكَ هُوَ الضَّلَلُ الْبَعِيْدُ الَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ اللهَ خَلَقَ السَّمَوتِ وَالْأَرْضَ that بِالْحَقِّ إِنْ يَّشَأْ يُذْهِبُكُمُ وَ يَأْتِ the earth in accordance with the بِخَلْقٍ جَدِيدِة 20. Dost thou not see b Allah created the heavens and requirements of wisdom? "If He pleases, He can do away with you, and bring a new creation. 1674 "2:265. 6:74; 16:4; 29:45; 39:6. 4:134; 6:134; 35:17. 1673. Commentary: disbelieve in) كفروا بربهم ,The words their Lord) do not mean that they deny the existence of God, for even the idolaters of Mecca believed in the existence of God. They only mean the denial of the favours or powers of God. There are people even among the so-called educated classes who believe in God but do not believe that He ever interferes in the affairs of the world. The actions of such people are wholly devoted to the furtherance of their material ends. They have no thought for God and do nothing to please Him. It is of the actions of such people that the verse says that they are null and void so far as the reward of the next world is concerned. They are like ashes upon which a furious gale blows, widely scattering them. The words "their works" may also mean the efforts which disbelievers made in opposition to the Prophets of God, for such works invariably produce no result and come nothing. Instead of attaining the object for which they are performed, they bring ruin and destruction in their wake, as punishment from God. The verse should not, however, be understood to mean that no works of disbelievers will produce any result for, in conformity with the physical laws of nature, every deed done in a right way must produce its natural to 1539 result. What, therefore, the verse means to say is that the works of disbelievers would fail to achieve the real object of life, which is God's pleasure, because all their efforts are devoted to the achievement of the good of this world. On the other hand the Faithful, while reaping the fruits of their actions as a natural and inevitable result, will also win God's pleasure, because all their works are for the sake of God. 1674. Commentary: The verse embodies a severe warning for disbelievers to the effect that by opposing the Prophets they are seeking to frustrate God's great