The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4)

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CH. 41 ḤĀ MĪM AS-SAJDAH PT. 24 نَحْنُ اَوْلِيَؤُكُمْ فِي الْحَيَوةِ الدُّنْيَا وَفِي We are your friends in this. 32 الْآخِرَةِ ۚ وَلَكُمْ فِيهَا مَا تَشْتَهِىَ life and in the Hereafter. فِيْهَا مَا تَشْتَهِي Therein you will have all that أَنْفُسُكُمْ وَلَكُمْ فِيهَا مَا تَدَّعُوْنَ ) نُزُلًا مِنْ غَفُورٍ رَّحِيمة your souls will desire, and therein you will have all that you will ask for 33. 'An entertainment from the Most God. '3582 Forgiving, & Merciful R. 5. says, 'I am surely of those who submit?'3583 وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ قَوْلًا مِّمَّنْ دَعَا إِلَى اللهِ And who is better in speech. 34 than he who invites men to وَعَمِلَ صَالِحًا وَقَالَ إِنَّنِي مِنَ Allah and does good works and الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَلَا تَسْتَوِي الْحَسَنَةُ وَلَا السَّيِّئَةُ ادْفَعْ بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ فَإِذَا الَّذِي بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُ which is best. And he عَدَاوَةٌ كَأَنَّهُ وَلِيٌّ حَمِيمٌ 35. And good and evil are not alike. "Repel evil with that between whom and thyself was enmity will become as though he were a warm friend. 3584 25:17. 13:23; 16:126; 17:54; 28:55; 29:47. 3582. Commentary: The verse means to say that it is when the Faithful show firmness under severe hardships and priv- ations, and hold on through fiery ordeals, quite willing to suffer every disgrace in the way of God, fully submitting themselves to His will, that they attain to that stage of nearness to Him in which they become, as it were, the guests of God, for whose smallest need He has the greatest regard. 3583. Commentary: for a person than to call men to God and to conform his own conduct to the teachings he preaches to others and to submit entirely to God's will. This is the quintessence of the teaching of Islam. 3584. Commentary: As the preaching of truth inevitably brings in its wake hardships for the preacher, the verse enjoins upon him to bear them patiently and with fortitude, and even to return good for the evil he receives at the hands of his There could be no better avocation persecutors. 2812