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CH. 23 PT. 18 AL-MU'MINŪN 118. And he who calls on another God along with Allah, وَمَنْ يَدْعُ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلَهَا أَخَرَ لَا بُرْهَانَ لَهُ بِهِ فَإِنَّمَا حِسَابُهُ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِ إِنَّهُ for which he has no proof, shall لَا يُفْلِحُ الْكَفِرُونَ have to render an account to his Lord. Certainly the disbelievers will not prosper. 2589 وَقُل رَّبِّ اغْفِرْ وَارْحَمْ وَاَنْتَ خَيْرُ And say, “My Lord, forgive. 119 الرَّحِمِينَ and have mercy, and Thou art the Best of those who show mercy. ' the King (A), the True Lord (), the One God, beside Whom there is no other God (); the Lord of the 'the Merciful' (J) and the attribute the King (AU) corresponds to the attribute 'Master of the Day of Thus there. (مالك يوم الدين) 'These | Judgement رب العرش الكريم Glorious Throne four attributes demanded for their manifestation the creation of man and the universe. They correspond to, and, in fact, are the four attributes mentioned in an inverse order in the exists a very striking resemblance and a deep connection between these two sets of Divine attributes. 2589. Commentary: The verse means to say that after opening chapter of the Quran, viz. the fact has been established that man (the Lord of all the worlds), has been created to fulfil a great the | object and that object is to develop) الرحيم (the Gracious) الرحمان ب العرش) 'Lord of the Glorious Throne' ☑✓ Merciful) and (Master of and manifest in him Divine attributes, the Day of Judgement); the attribute if he were so foolish as to worship gods of his own conception or creation he will have to render an account of his actions to God in the life to come and in the present life also such people will meet with frustration and discomfiture. ✓ ) corresponding to the attribute 'Lord of the Worlds' (v) and the attribute 'There is no God but He' (a) _)) to the attribute 'the Gracious' (). Similarly, the attribute 'the True' () corresponds to the attribute 2243