The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 3)

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CH. 10 R. 2. YŪNUS PT. 11 وَلَوْ يُعَجِلُ اللهُ لِلنَّاسِ الشَّرَّ اسْتِعْجَالَهُمُ And if Allah were to hasten. 12 for men the ill they have earned بِالْخَيْرِ لَقُضِيَ إِلَيْهِمْ أَجَلُهُمْ فَنَذَرُ as they would hasten on the الَّذِينَ لَا يَرْجُونَ لِقَاءَنَا فِي طُغْيَانِهِمْ acquisition of wealth, the end of their term of life would have been already brought upon them. But 'We leave those who look not for the meeting with Us to wander distractedly in their transgression. 1287 a17:12. "See 10:8. يَعْمَهُونَ suffering. Hence, after glorifying God on learning the realities of things and experiencing the complete bliss of Heaven, believers will go about exclaiming, "There is peace here, nothing but peace", for, after attaining perfect knowledge of things, they will no longer suffer by making wrong use of them. Even in this life a true believer complete freedom from pain and praises and glorifies God whenever he sees a praiseworthy thing, the inward reality of which he does not know. He does so because he knows that no work of God is devoid of wisdom. But in Heaven, the reality of all things will become apparent to man. He will come to realize on the basis of his personal observation and experience that every work of God is founded in deep wisdom. The realization of this eternal truth will make him exclaim instinctively and involuntarily, Glory be to Thee, o Allah. The verse proceeds to say that believers in Heaven will salute each other with the greeting of peace. In fact, all our sufferings (i. e. lack of peace) in this world are due to our ignorance of the true reality and properties of things and, as these will be disclosed to us in Heaven, we shall attain there complete and real peace, for we shall then become secure against all harm by knowing the true properties of all things and will get Finally, when believers will see perfect peace reigning in Heaven and will have vented their happy feelings to one another, they will turn again to God and the conclusion of their prayer will be, "All praise be to Allah, Who has placed us in such a place of perfect bliss. " 1226 1287. Important Words: ✓ (wealth) is a common Arabic word giving among others the following meanings: (1) good, moral or physical, actual or potential; (2) a thing that all desire, being profitable or useful; (3) wealth or property; (4) good fortune, happiness or prosperity (Lane).