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14. Kindness to
2.83, 4.36, 17.23, 29.8, 31.14, 31.15
15. Kindness in speech to aged
17.23
16. Praying for
17.24
17. Repelling old
17.23
18. Share of in the heritage
4.11
19. Spending for
2.215
PATH OF ALLAH
14:3 - Those who love the life of this world more than the Hereafter who hinder (men) from the Path
of Allah and seek therein something crooked: they are astray by a long distance. 1873
1873 The Unbelievers are here characterised in three ways: (1) they love this ephemeral life and its vanities more than the
true Life which goes into the Hereafter; (2) they not only harm themselves but mislead others, (3) their own crooked
minds search for something crooked in Allah's straight Path (Cf. vii. 45). But in doing so, they go farther and farther
from the Truth. (14.3)
PARTNERSHIP WITH ALLAH:
PROTECTORS / PARTNERS / INTERCESSORS
40:60 - And your Lord says: "Call on Me; I will answer your (Prayer): But those who are too
arrogant to serve Me will surely find themselves in Hell in humiliation!" 4434
4434 As this life is not the end of all things, and we are to have its fulfilment in the Hereafter: we have only to pray to the
Lord of the Present and the Hereafter, and He will hear us, forgive us, guide us, and make our Path smooth. But Pride
will have its fall,-and its humiliating Punishment: Cf. xxxvii. 18. (40.60)
17:22 - Take not with Allah another object of worship; or thou (O man!) wilt sit in disgrace and
destitution. 22022203
2202 The seeming inequality of gifts to men might make short-sighted men impugn the impartiality of Allah. But the fault lies
with such men's own want of knowledge and want of Faith. There is no excuse for them to seek other objects of
worship than Allah. For there is none worthy of worship except Allah. (17.22)
2203 If foolish men turn to false objects of worship, they will not only be disappointed, but they will lose the respect of their
own fellow-men, and spiritually they will be reduced to destitution. All their talents and their works will be of no avail.
(17.22)
36:74 - Yet they take (for worship) gods other than Allah (hoping) that they might be helped!
4021 There is some difference of opinion among Commentators as to the exact meaning to be attached to this clause. As I
understand it, the meaning seems to be this. Man is apt to forget or turn away from the true God, the source of all the
good which he enjoys, and to go after imaginary powers in the shape of gods, heroes, men, or abstract things like
Science or Nature or Philosophy, or superstitious things like Magic, or Good-Fortune or Ill-Fortune, or embodiments of
his own selfish desires. He thinks that they might help him in this Life or in the Hereafter (if he believes in a Hereafter).
But they cannot help him: on the contrary all things that are false will be brought up and condemned before Allah's
Judgment-seat, and the worshippers of the Falsehoods will also be treated as a troop favouring the Falsehoods and
therefore worthy of condemnation. The Falsehoods, therefore, instead of helping them, will contribute to their
condemnation. (36.75)
4022 If men are so foolish as to reject Allah, let not the men of Allah grieve over it. They should do their duty, and leave the
rest to Allah. Allah knows all the open and secret motives that sway the wicked, and His Plan must ultimately prevail,
however much appearances may be against it at any given time. (36.76)
16:51 - Allah has said: "Take not (for worship) two gods: for He is just One Allah: then fear Me (and
Me alone)." 2077
2077 The ancient Persians believed in two powers in the Universe, one good and the other evil. The Pagan Arabs also had
pairs of deities: e.g., Jibr (Sorcery) and Tagut (Evil), referred to in iv. 51, n. 573, or the idols on Safa and Marwa
referred to in n. 160 to ii. 158: their names were Isaf and Naila. (16.51)
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