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CH. 57 AL-HADID PT. 27 may not think that they (the لِئَلَّا يَعْلَمَ أَهْلُ الْكِتُبِ أَلَّا يَقْدِرُونَ That the People of the Book. 30 عَلَى شَيْ مِنْ فَضْلِ اللهِ وَاَنَّ الْفَضْلَ Muslims) have no power to بِيَدِ اللهِ يُؤْتِيهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَاللهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيمِ b attain aught of the grace of Allah; "whereas grace is entirely in the hands of Allah. " He gives it to whomsoever He pleases. And Allah is the Master of immense grace. 4 4170 "2:106. 2:106; 3:74. the regarding a life of renunciation and flight from the world as an ideal, the Muslims in the present verse are told to devote as much care and attention to their mundane as to their spiritual affairs and to discharge obligations they owe to their Creator and Lord with as much devotion as their obligations to their fellow beings, and that if they did so they would be granted the benefits and blessings of this life as well as those of the Hereafter. Elsewhere in the Quran, Muslims have been enjoined constantly to pray: "Our Lord, grant us good in this world as well as good in the world to come" (2:202). 4170. Commentary: In the preceding verse the Muslims were promised both spiritual and material benefits and blessings in order to let People of the Book disabuse their minds of the false notion that Divine grace was their monopoly and also to remind them that now God had transferred it to another people the followers of Islam. 3106