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unkind word may destroy all your efforts at building up unity, because the forces of disruption are more numerous than
the forces of unity. (17.53)
18:23 - Nor say of anything "I shall be sure to do so and so tomorrow"
18:24 - Without adding "So please Allah!" And call thy Lord to mind when thou forgettest and say "I
hope that my Lord will guide me ever closer (even) than this to the right road." 23632364
2363 Verses 23 and 24 are parenthetical. We must never rely upon our own resources so much as to forget Allah. If by any
chance we do forget, we must come back to Him and keep Him in remembrance, as did the Companions of the Cave.
(18.24)
2364 In geometry the perfect circle is an ideal. Any given circle that we draw is not so perfect that we cannot draw one
closer to the ideal. So in our life, there is always the hope of drawing closer and closer to Allah. (18.24)
61:3 - Grievously odious is it in the sight of Allah that ye say that which ye do not.
SCANDAL:
4:148 – Allah loveth not that evil should be noised abroad in public speech except where injustice
hath been done; for Allah is He who heareth and knoweth all things. 654
654 We can make a public scandal of evil in many ways. (1) It may be idle sensation-mongering: it often leads to more evil
by imitation, as where criminal deeds are glorified in a cinema, or talked about shamelessly in a novel or drama. (2) It
may be malicious gossip of a foolish, personal kind: it does no good, but it hurts people's feelings. (3) It may be
malevolent slander or libel: it is intended deliberately to cause harm to people's reputation or injure them in other
ways, and is rightly punishable under all laws. (4) It may be a public rebuke or correction or remonstrance, without
malice. (1), (2) and (3) are absolutely forbidden. (4) may be by a person in authority; in which case the exception
applies, for all wrong or injustice must be corrected openly, to prevent its recurrence. Or (4) may be a person not
vested with authority, but acting either from motives of public spirit, or in order to help some one who has been
wronged; here again the exception will apply. But if the motive is different, the exception does not apply. (4) would
also include a public complaint by a person who has suffered a wrong; he has every right to seek public redress.
(4.148)
4:156 – That they rejected faith: that they uttered against Mary a grave false charge. 662
662 The false charge against Mary was that she was unchaste. Cf. xix. 27-28. Such a charge is bad enough to make
against any woman, but to make it against Mary, the mother of Jesus, was to bring into ridicule Allah's power itself.
Islam is specially strong in guarding the reputation of women. Slanderers of women are bound to bring four witnesses
in support of their accusations, and if they fail to produce four witnesses, they are to be flogged with eighty stripes and
debarred from being competent witnesses: xxiv. 4. (4.156)
9:34 – O ye who believe! there are indeed many among the priests and anchorites who in falsehood
devour the substance of men and hinder (them) from the way of Allah. And there are those
who bury gold and silver and spend it not in the way of Allah: announce unto them a most
grievous penalty. 12911292
1291 Bil-batili = in falsehood, i.e., by false means, pretences, or in false or vain things. This was strikingly exemplified in the
history of Mediaeval Europe. Though the disease is apt to attack all peoples and organisations at all times. Priests got
rich by issuing indulgences and dispensations; they made their office a stepping stone to worldly power and
possessions. Even the Monastic Orders, which took vows of poverty for individuals grew rich with corporate property,
until their wealth became a scandal, even among their own nations. (9.34)
12:31 – When (Zulaikha) heard of their malicious talk she sent for them and prepared a banquet for
them: she gave each of them a knife; and she said (to Joseph) "Come out before them. When
they saw him they did extol him and (in their amazement) cut their hands: they said "Allah
preserve us! no mortal is this! This is none other than a noble angel!" 1679
1679 When her reputation began to be pulled to pieces, the wife of 'Aziz invited all ladies in society to a grand banquet. We
can imagine them reclining at ease after the manner of fashionable banquets. When dessert was reached and the talk
flowed freely about the gossip and scandal which made their hostess interesting, they were just about to cut the fruit
with their knives, when, behold! Joseph was brought into their midst. Imagine the consternation which his beauty
caused, and the havoc it played with their hearts! "Ah!" thought the wife of 'Aziz, "now is your hypocrisy self-exposed!
What about your reproaches to me? You have yourselves so lost your self-control that you have cut your fingers!"
(12.31)
24:10 - If it were not for Allah's grace and mercy on you and that Allah is Oft-Returning Full of
Wisdom (ye would be ruined indeed). 2961
2961 Cf. xxiv. 11-14, and n. 2962, which illustrates the matter by a concrete instance. (24.10)
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