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67:6 - For those who reject their Lord (and Cherisher) is the Penalty of Hell: and evil is (such)<br />

destination. 5563<br />

5563 We have seen how the fire in the stars can suggest the beauty and order of the external world; and yet, when it meets<br />

with resistance and disharmony, it can burn and destroy. So in the moral and spiritual world. What can be a greater<br />

sign of evil, disharmony, and rebellion than to reject the Cherisher and Sustainer, on Whom our life depends, and from<br />

Whom we receive nothing but goodness? The Punishment, then, is Fire in its fiercest intensity, as typified in the next<br />

two verses. (67.6)<br />

68:44 - Then leave Me alone with such as reject this message: by degrees shall We punish them<br />

from directions they perceive not. 56255626<br />

5626 Cf. vii. 182. and n. 1154-A. We must not be impatient if we see the wicked flourish. It may be that the very appearance<br />

of flourishing here may be a part of the Punishment. There may be an eventual punishment by a sort of Cataclysm;<br />

but evolutionary punishment is gradual and sure. Allah may punish wicked people by granting them respite and<br />

providing them worldly benefits in abundance, which encourages them in sin and transgression. So when they are<br />

finally seized by the Wrath of Allah they are caught suddenly and utterly unprepared, as it were, red handed while<br />

engrossed in disbelief, a life of impiety and open revolt against their Lord! (68.44)<br />

69:49 - Woe to man! what hath made him reject Allah?<br />

76:4 - For the Rejecters We have prepared Chains Yokes and a Blazing Fire. 5834<br />

77:15 - Ah woe that Day to the Rejecters of Truth!<br />

77:19 - Ah woe that Day to the Rejecters of Truth!<br />

77:24 - Ah woe that Day to the Rejecters of Truth!<br />

77:28 - Ah woe that Day to the Rejecters of Truth!<br />

77:34 - Ah woe that Day to the Rejecters of Truth!<br />

77:37 - Ah woe that Day to the Rejecters of Truth!<br />

77:40 - Ah woe that Day to the Rejecters of Truth!<br />

77:45 - Ah woe that Day to the Rejecters of Truth!<br />

77:47 - Ah woe that Day to the Rejecters of Truth!<br />

77:49 - Ah woe that Day to the Rejecters of truth!<br />

80:17 - Woe to man! what hath made him reject Allah?<br />

82:9 - Nay! but ye do Reject Right and Judgment! 6006<br />

6006 The goodness and mercies of Allah, and His constant watchful care of all His creatures should<br />

make men grateful, instead of which they turn away from the Right and deny the Day of<br />

Sorting Out, the Day when every action performed here will find its fulfilment in just reward or<br />

punishment. (82.9)<br />

98:1 - Those who reject (Truth) among the People of the Book and among the Polytheists were not<br />

going to depart (from their ways) until there should come to them Clear Evidence 622162226223<br />

6221 The People of the Book immediately referred to are the Jews and the Christians, who had received scriptures in the<br />

same line of prophecy in which came our holy Prophet. Their scriptures should have prepared them for the advent of<br />

the greatest and last of the Prophets. For the Jewish scriptures promised to the Jews, cousins or brethren to the<br />

Arabs, a prophet like Moses: "The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy<br />

brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken" (Deut, xviii. 15). And Christ promised a Comforter (John. xiv. 16; xv.<br />

26; and xvi. 7; see my n. 5438 to lxi. 6) almost by name. The People of the Book fell from the true, straight, and<br />

standard religion, into devious ways, and would not come to the true Path until (they said) they were convinced by the<br />

arrival of the promised Prophet. But when the promised Prophet came in the person of Muhammad, they rejected him,<br />

because they really did not seek for Truth but only followed their own fancies and desires. (98.1)<br />

6222 The Polytheists, the Pagans, had not previously believed in any scriptures. But yet, when clear evidence came to<br />

them, they should have believed. Yet they rejected the holy Prophet because they were not really searching for Truth,<br />

but were only following their own fancies and desires. (98.1)<br />

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