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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)
17:65 - "As for My servants no authority shalt thou have over them." Enough is thy Lord for a
Disposer of affairs. 22592260
18:65 - So they found one of Our servants on whom We had bestowed Mercy from Ourselves and
whom We had taught knowledge from Our own presence. 24112412
2411 One of Our servants: his name is not mentioned in the Qur-an, but Tradition gives it as Khidhr. Round him have
gathered a number of picturesque folk tales, with which we are not here concerned. "Khidhr" means "Green": his
knowledge is fresh and green, and drawn out of the living sources of life for it is drawn from Allah's own Knowledge.
He is a mysterious being, who has to be sought out. He has the secrets of some of the paradoxes of Life, which
ordinary people do not understand, or understand in a wrong sense, as we shall see further on. The nearest
equivalent figure in the literature of the People of the Book is Melchizedek or Melchisedek (the Greek form in the New
Testament). In Gen. xiv. 18-20, he appears as king of Salem, priest of the Most High God: he blesses Abraham, and
Abraham gives him tithes. (18.65)
2412 Khidhr had two special gifts from Allah: (1) Mercy from Him, and (2) Knowledge from Him too. The first freed him from
the ordinary incidents of daily human life; and the second entitied him to interpret the inner meaning and mystery of
events, as we shall see further on. (18.65)
20:77 - We sent an inspiration to Moses: "Travel by night with my servants and strike a dry path for
them through the sea without fear of being overtaken (by Pharaoh) and without (any other)
fear." 2599
22:10 -(It will be said): "This is because of the deeds which thy hands sent forth for verily Allah is
not unjust to His servants. 2781
2781 'What you suffer is the consequence of your own sinful deeds; Allah is just; He is not unjust in the least to any of His
creatures'. (22.10)
25:63 - And the servants of (Allah) Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility and
when the ignorant address them they say "Peace!" 3123
3123 Ignorant: in a moral sense. Address: in the aggressive sense. Their humility is shown in two ways: (1) to those in real
search of knowledge, they give such knowledge as they have and as the recipients can assimilate; (2) to those who
merely dispute, they do not speak harshly, but say "Peace!", as much as to say, "May it be well with you, may you
repent and be better"; or "May Allah give me peace from such wrangling"; or "Peace, and Good-bye; let me leave
you!" (25.63)
30:48 - It is Allah Who sends the Winds and they raise the Clouds: then does He spread them in
the sky as He wills and break them into fragments until thou seest rain-drops issue from the
midst thereof: then when He has made them reach such of his servants as He wills behold
they do rejoice! 35663567
36:30 - Ah! alas for (My) servants! There comes not an apostle to them but they mock Him! 3975
3975 Cf. vi. 10 and many other passages of similar import. Ignorant men mock at Allah's prophets, or any one who takes
Religion seriously. But they do not reflect that such levity reacts on themselves. Their own lives are ruined and they
cease to count. If they study history, they will see that countless generations were destroyed before them because
they did not take Truth seriously and undermined the very basis of their individual and collective existence. The
servants is here equivalent to "men". Allah regrets the folly of men, especially as He cherishes them as His own
servants. (36.30)
37:73 - Then see what was the end of those who were admonished (but heeded not) 4078
4078 It is on the reception or rejection of Allah's teachings and guidance that judgment will come. In this world itself, see
what is the teaching of history. Unrighteousness and wrong-doing never prosper in the long run. (37.73)
37:74 - Except the sincere (and devoted) servants of Allah. 4079
4079 But there is always a band of sincere and devoted men who serve Allah, and the highest form of life is open to them.
Note that this verse occurs at xxxvii. 40 above, where the argument of the difference between the fates of the
righteous and the unrighteous was begun. Here it is rounded off with the same phrase, and now we proceed to take
illustrations from the early Prophets. (37.74)
39:10 - Say: "O ye my servants who believe! Fear your Lord: good is (the reward) for those who do
good in this world. Spacious is Allah's earth! Those who patiently persevere will truly receive
a reward without measure!" 42604261
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