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2:223 - Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will. But do some<br />

good act for your souls beforehand; and fear Allah and know that ye are to meet Him (in the<br />

Hereafter) and give (these) good tidings to those who believe. 249250<br />

249 Sex is not a thing to be ashamed of, or to be treated lightly, or to be indulged to excess. It is as solemn a fact as any<br />

in life. It is compared to a husbandman's tilth; it is a serious affair to him; he sows the seed in order to reap the<br />

harvest. But he chooses his own time and mode of cultivation. He does not sow out of season nor cultivate in a<br />

manner which will injure or exhaust the soul. He is wise and considerate and does not run riot. Coming from the<br />

simile to human beings, every kind of mutual consideration is required, but above all, we must remember that even in<br />

these matters there is a spiritual aspect. We must never forget our souls, and that we are responsible to<br />

God. (2.223)<br />

250 Our highest spiritual ambition should be the hope of meeting God. To uphold such a hope is to give glad tidings to<br />

people of faith. It would only be unrepentant sinners who would fear the meeting. Note how the most sensuous<br />

matters are discussed frankly, and immediately taken up into the loftiest regions of spiritual upliftment. (2.223)<br />

4:43 - O ye who believe! approach not prayers with a mind befogged until ye can understand all<br />

that ye say nor in a state of ceremonial impurity (except when travelling on the road) until after<br />

washing your whole body if ye are ill or on a journey or one of you cometh from offices of<br />

nature or ye have been in contact with women and ye find no water then take for yourselves<br />

clean sand or earth and rub therewith your faces and hands. For Allah doth blot out sins and<br />

forgive again and again.<br />

6:152 - And approach not the wealth of the orphan save with that which is better; till he reach<br />

maturity. Give full measure and full weight, in justice. We task not any soul beyond its scope.<br />

And if ye give your word, do justice thereunto, even though it be (against) a kinsman; and fulfil<br />

the covenant of Allah. This He commandeth you that haply ye may remember.<br />

46:28 - Then why did those whom they had chosen for gods as a way of approach (unto Allah) not<br />

help them? Nay, but they did fail them utterly. And (all) that was their lie, and what they used<br />

to invent<br />

47:20 - Those who believe say "Why is not a Surah sent down (for us)?" But when a Surah of basic<br />

or categorical meaning is revealed and fighting is mentioned therein thou wilt see those in<br />

whose hearts is a disease looking at thee with a look of one in swoon at the approach of<br />

death: but more fitting for them 484348444845<br />

4843 The men of faith and loyalty are eager and anxious to get a command to serve the Cause even if it be at the sacrifice<br />

of their lives. Not so the Hypocrites, "those in whose hearts is a disease". They are mortally afraid as mentioned<br />

below. (47.20)<br />

4844 Cf. iii. 7, and n. 347. The defence of truth and righteousness at all sacrifice, when a definite and categorical command<br />

issues from the ruler of an Islamic state is a fundamental condition of enlistment in the cause of Allah. It is true that<br />

Punishment and Judgment belong to Allah alone; but our mettle and fidelity have to be tested, (see verse 4 above),<br />

and Allah uses human agency in human affairs. (47.20)<br />

ARABIC QURAN:<br />

20:113- Thus have we sent this down an Arabic Qur'an and explained therein in detail some of the<br />

warnings in order that they may fear Allah or that it may cause their remembrance (of Him).<br />

2638<br />

2638 The Qur-an is in clear Arabic, so that even an unlearned people like the Arabs might understand and profit by its<br />

warnings, and the rest of the world may learn through them, as they did in the first few centuries of Islam and may do<br />

again when we Muslims show ourselves worthy to explain and exemplify its meaning. The evil are warned that they<br />

may repent; the good are confirmed in their Faith and strengthened by their remembrance of Him. (20.113)<br />

12:2 -We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur'an in order that ye may learn wisdom. 1630<br />

1630 Qur-an means: something (1) to be read, or (2) recited, or (3) proclaimed. It may apply to a verse, or a Sura, or to the<br />

whole Book of Revelation. (12.2)<br />

41:3 - A Book whereof the verses are explained in detail a Qur'an in Arabic for people who<br />

understand<br />

43:3 - We have made it a Qur'an in Arabic that ye may be able to understand (and learn wisdom).<br />

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