Ali Ibn Abi Talib - Volume 1 of 2

'Ali ibn Abi Tilib 403
$Those [i.e. believers] unto whom the people [hypocrites] said,
'Verily, the people [pagans] have gathered against you [a great
army], therefore, fear them.' But it [only] increased them in Faith,
and they said: 'Allah [Alone] is Sufficient for us, and He is the Best
Disposer of affairs [for ns].'B (Qur'an 3: 173)
So they say: Allah (&) is sufficient for us, meaning that He is
sufficient to ward off calamity. They are commanded to say: Allah
(&) is sufficient to bring us blessings, and He is sufficient for His
slave, to protect against evil and help him to attain good. 41s Allah not
sufficient for His slave?# (Qur'an 39: 36) Whoever put his wst and
hope in anyone other than Allah (&$) will be let down and deprived
of help.
$The likeness of those who (ake [false deities as] Awliyu' [protectors,
helpers] other than Allah is the likeness of a spider who builds [for
itselfl a house; but verily, the frailest [weakest] of houses is the
spider's house.# (Qur'an 29: 41)
$And they have a en [for worship] &huh [gods] besides Allah, that
they might give them honour, power and glory [and also protect them
from Allah's punishment]. Nay, but they [the so-called gods] will
deny their worship of them, and become opponents to them [on the
Day of Resurrection].# (Qnr'an 19: 81-82)
B~nd whoever assigns partners to Allah, it is as if he had fallen from
the sky, and the birds had snatched him, or the wind had thrown him
to a far off place.# (Qur'an 22: 31)
dSet not up with Allah any other il2h [god], [0 man]! Fis verse is
addressed to Prophet Muhammad, but its implication is general to all
mankind], or you will sit down reproved, forsaken [in the hellfire].#
(Qur'an 17: 22)
(You worship besides Allah only idols, and you only invent
falsehood. Verily, those whom you worship besides Allah have no