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fulfilled for the children of Israel because they had patience and constancy and We levelled to
the ground the great works and fine buildings which Pharaoh and his people erected (with
such pride). 1096
1096 Israel, which was despised, became a great and glorious nation under Solomon. He had goodly territory, and was
doubly blest. His land and people were prosperous, and he was blessed with wisdom from Allah. His sway and his
fame spread east and west. And thus Allah's promise to Israel was fulfilled. Note that Syria and Palestine had once
been under the sway of Egypt. At the same time the proud and rebellious Pharaoh and his people were brought low.
The splendid monuments which they had erected with so much skill and pride were mingled with the dust. Their great
cities-Thebes (or No-Ammon), Memphis (or Noph, sacred to the Bull of Osiris), and the other splendid cities, became
as if they had not existed, and archaeologists have had to dig up their ruins from the sands. The splendid monumentstemples,
palaces, tombs, statues, columns, and stately structures of all kinds-were buried in the sands. Even
monuments like the Great Sphinx, which seem to defy the ages, were partly buried in the sands, and owe their rescue
to the comparatively recent researches of archaeologists. As late as 1743 Richard Pococke in his Travels inFgypt (p.
41), remarked: "Most of those pyramids are very much ruined." (7.137)
9:111 - Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their good; for theirs (in return) is the
garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him
in truth through the Law the Gospel and the Qur'an: and who is more faithful to his covenant
than Allah? Then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement
supreme. 13611362
1361 In a human bargain both sides give something and receive some advantage. In the divine bargain of Allah with man,
Allah takes man's will and soul and his wealth and goods, and gives him in return ever-lasting Felicity. Man fights in
Allah's Cause and carries out His will. All that he has to give up is the ephemeral things of this world, while he gains
eternal salvation, the fulfilment of his highest spiritual hopes,-a supreme achievement indeed. (9.111)
1362 We offer our whole selves and our possessions to Allah, and Allah gives us Salvation. This is the true doctrine of
redemption: and we are taught that this is the doctrine not only of the Qur-an but of the earlier Revelations,-the original
Law of Moses and the original Gospel of Jesus. Any other view of redemption is rejected by Islam, especially that of
corrupted Christianity, which thinks that some other person suffered for our sins and we are redeemed by his blood. It
is our self-surrender that counts, not other people's merits. Our complete self-surrender may include fighting for the
cause, both spiritual and physical. As regards actual fighting with the sword there has been some difference in
theological theories at different times, but very little in the practice of those who framed those theories. The Jewish
wars were ruthless wars of extermination. The Old Testament does not mince matters on this subject. In the New
Testament St. Paul, in commending the worthy fruits of Faith, mentions Gideon, Barak, and other warriors of the Old
Testament as his ideals, "Who through faith subdued kingdoms... waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of
the aliens..." (Hebrews, xi. 32-34). The monkish morality ofthe Gospels in their present form has never been followed
by any self-respecting Christian or other nation in history. Nor is it common-sense to ignore lust of blood in
unregenerate man as a form of evil which has to be combated "within the limits, set by Allah" (Q. ix. 112). (9.111)
10:4 - To Him will be your return of all of you. The promise of Allah is true and sure. It is He Who
beginneth the process of Creation and repeateth it that He may reward with justice those who
believe and work righteousness but those who reject Him will have nothing but draughts of
boiling fluids and a Penalty grievous: because they did reject Him. 138813891390
1390 Hamim: boiling fluid: it is associated as in xxxviii. 57, with gassaq, a dark, murky, or intensely cold fluid; both indicative
of the grievous penalty that results from rebellion against Allah. (10.4)
10:46 - Whether We show thee (realized in thy lifetime) some part of what We promise them or We
take thy soul (to Our Mercy) (before that) in any case to Us is their return: ultimately Allah is
witness to all that they do. 1438
1438 The Prophet is assured that the end of evil is evil, just as the end of good is good. Whether this result is made plain
before his very eyes in his own life-time or afterwards, makes no difference. The wicked should not rejoice if they are
given rope and seem to have the upper hand for a time, nor should the righteous lose heart: for Allah's promise is
sure and must come to pass. And in any case, the scales can only be partially, if at all, adjusted in this life. There is
the final and complete adjustment on the Day of Judgment. Allah is All-Knowing, and all truth will be before Him.
(10.46)
10:48 - They say: "When will this promise come to pass if ye speak the truth?
10:55 - Is it not (the case) that to Allah belongeth whatever is in the heavens and on earth? Is it not
(the case ) that Allah's promise is assuredly true? Yet most of them understand not.
14:22 - And Satan will say when the matter is decided: "It was Allah Who gave you a promise of
truth: I too promised but I failed in my promise to you. I had no authority over you except to
call you but ye listened to me: then reproach not me but reproach your own souls. I cannot
listen to your cries nor can ye listen to mine. I reject your former act in associating me with
Allah. For wrongdoers there must be a Grievous Penalty." 18971898
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