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12:101 - "O my Lord! Thou hast indeed bestowed on me some power and taught me something of
the interpretation of dreams and events O Thou Creator of the heavens and the earth! Thou
art my Protector in this world and in the Hereafter take thou my soul (at death) as one
submitting to Thy Will (as a Muslim) and unite me with the righteous." 178117821783
1783 Joseph's prayer may be analysed thus: (1) I am nothing; all power and knowledge are Thine; (2) such things can only
come from Thee, for Thou art the Creator of all; (3) none can protect me from danger and wrong, but only Thou; (4)
Thy protection I need both in this world and the next; (5) may I till death remain constant to Thee-, (6) may I yield up
my soul to Thee in cheerful submission to Thy will; (7) in this moment of union with my family after many partings let
me think of the final union with the great family of the righteous. How marvellously apt to the occasion! (12.101)
13:40 -Whether We shall show thee (within thy lifetime) part of what We promised them or take to
Ourselves thy soul (before it is all accomplished) thy duty is to (make the Message) reach
them: it is Our part to call them to account.
14:51 - That Allah may requite each soul according to its deserts; and verily Allah is Swift in calling
account. 19291930
1929 Its deserts: i.e., according to what it earned by its own acts, good or evil, in its life of probation. (14.51)
1930 Swift in calling to account: We can understand this in two significations. (1) Let not the wicked think that because
Allah, out of His infinite grace and mercy, grants respite, therefore the retribution will be slow in coming. When the
time comes in accordance with Allah's Plan and Wisdom, the retribution will come so swiftly that the ungodly will be
surprised and they will wish they could get more respite (xiv. 44). (2) On the great Day of Reckoning, let it not be
supposed that, because there will be millions of souls to be judged, there will be any delay in judgment as in a human
tribunal. It will be a new world and beyond the flight of Time. Or if a metaphor from time as we conceive it in this world
can be taken, it will all be as it were in the twinkling of an eye (xvi. 77). (14.51)
16:111 - One day every soul will come up struggling for itself and every soul will be recompensed
(fully) for all its actions and none will be unjustly dealt with. 2148
2148 When the Reckoning comes, each soul will stand on its own personal responsibility. No one else can help it. Full
justice will be done, and all the seeming inequalities of this world will be redressed. (16.111)
17:14 - (It will be said to him:) "Read thine (own) record: sufficient is thy soul this day to make out
an account against thee." 2189
2189 Our true accusers are our own deeds. Why not look to them instead of vainly prying into something superstitious
which we call a book of fortune or a book of omens? (17.14)
18:28 - And keep thy soul content with those who call on their Lord morning and evening seeking
his Face; and let not thine eyes pass beyond them seeking the pomp and glitter of this Life;
nor obey any whose heart We have permitted to neglect the remembrance of Us one who
follows his own desires whose case has gone beyond all bounds. 23692370
2369 Cf. vi. 52 and n. 870. The true servants of Allah are those whose hearts are turned to Him morning, noon, and night,
and who seek not worldly gain, but Allah's Grace, Allah's own Self, His Presence and nearness. Even if they are poor
in this world's goods, their society gives far more inward and spiritual satisfaction than worldly grandeur or worldly
attractions. (18.28)
2370 For those who stray from Allah's path, Allah's Grace is ever anxious: it seeks to reclaim them and bring them back to
the path. If such a one resists, and follows his own lusts, a point is reached when his case becomes hopeless. Allah's
Grace does not then reach him, and he is abandoned to his pride and insolence. Beware of following the example or
advice of such a one or seeking his society, or hankering after his wretched idols. (18.28)
20:15 - "Verily the Hour is coming My design is to keep it hidden for every soul to receive its
reward by the measure of its endeavor. 25452546
2545 The first need is to mend our lives and worship and serve Allah, as in the last verse. The next is to realise the
meaning of the Hereafter, when every soul will get the meed of its conduct in this life. (20.15)
2546 Ukhfi may mean either "keep it hidden", or "make it manifest", and the Commentators have taken, some one meaning
and some the other. If the first is taken, it means that the exact hour or day when the Judgment comes is hidden from
man; if the second, it means that the fact of the Judgment to come is made known, that man may remember and take
warning. I think that both meanings are implied. (20.15)
21:35 - Every soul shall have a taste of death: and We test you by evil and by good by way of trial:
to Us must ye return. 2697
2697 Cf. iii. 185. and n. 491. The soul does not die, but when it separates from the body at the death of the body, the soul
gets a taste of death. In our life of probation on this earth, our virtue and faith are tested by many things: some are
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