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tested by calamities, and some by the good things of this life. If we prove our true mettle, we pass our probation with
success. In any case all must return to Allah, and then will our life be appraised at its true value. (21.35)
21:47 - We shall set up scales of justice for the Day of Judgment so that not a soul will be dealt
with unjustly in the least. And if there be (no more than) the weight of a mustard seed We will
bring it (to account): and enough are We to take account. 27072708
2707 Not the smallest action, word, thought, motive, or predilection but must come into the account of Allah. Cf. Browning
(in Rabbi Ben Ezra): "But all, the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main
account; All instincts immature. All purposes unsure. That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's account;
Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act. Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never
be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, Whose wheel the pitcher shaped." (21.47)
23:62 - On no soul do We place a burden greater than it can bear: before Us is a record which
clearly shows the truth: they will never be wronged. 29132914
2913 Cf. ii. 286 and n. 339. (23.62)
2914 The record speaks clearly, and shows exactly what each soul has done and thought, and what is due to it in justice.
The worst will receive full justice. The best will receive far more than their due: xxviii. 84. (23.62)
26:3 - It may be thou frettest thy soul with grief that they do not become Believers. 3139
3139 "They" are the Pagans of Makkah. From a human point of view it was a great disappointment to Allah's Messenger in
the middle period of his Makkan ministry that the Makkan could not be brought to believe in the Truth. (26.3)
27:62 - Or who listens to the (soul) distressed when it calls on Him and who relieves its suffering
and makes you (mankind) inheritors of the earth? (Can there be another) god besides Allah?
Little it is that ye heed! 32973298
3297 Besides the evidence of external nature, there is the still more intimate evidence in man's inner conscience and heart.
Allah listens to man's cry of agony and relieves his suffering, and He has given him superiority over other creation on
this earth, through his mind and soul. Is man then going to run after inferior beings and forget Allah? (27.62)
28:16 - He prayed: "O my Lord! I have indeed wronged my soul! Do Thou then forgive me!" So
(Allah) forgave him: for He is the Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful.
31:12 - We bestowed (in the past) wisdom on Luqman: "Show (thy) gratitude to Allah." Any who is
(so) grateful does so to the profit of his own soul: but if any is ungrateful verily Allah is free of
all wants worthy of all praise. 35933594
32:13 - If We had so willed We could certainly have brought every soul its true guidance: but the
Word from Me will come true. "I will fill Hell with Jinns and men all together." 36443645
3644 Could evil have been avoided? Certainly everything is in Allah's power. If it had been His Will and Plan, He could have
created a world in which there would have been no choice or will in any of His creatures. But that was not His Will and
Plan. In the world as we see it, man has a certain amount of choice and free-will. That being so, He has provided
Signs and means of instruction for man, in order that man's will may be straight and pure. A necessary corollary will
be Punishment for the infraction of His Law. That Punishment must come to pass, for Allah's Word is true and must be
fulfilled. (32.13)
3645 Cf. xi. 119. n. 1623, and vii. 18, and see last note. Jinns are the evil spirits that tempt men, and the men who will suffer
punishment will be those who have succumbed to their temptations. (32.13)
34:50 - Say: "If I am astray I only stray to the loss of my own soul: but if I receive guidance it is
because of the inspiration of my Lord to me: it is He Who hears all things and is (ever) near."
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3862 If it could possibly be supposed that the Prophet was a self-deceived visionary, it would affect him only, and could not
fail to appear in his personality. But in fact he was steady in his constancy and Faith, and he not only went from
strength to strength, but won the enduring and whole-hearted love and devotion of his nearest and dearest and of
those who most came into contact with him. How was this possible, unless he had the Truth and the inspiration of
Allah behind him? This is the fifth and last argument in this passage. (34.50)
35:8 - Is he then to whom the evil of his conduct is made alluring so that he looks upon it as good
(equal to one who is rightly guided)? For Allah leaves to stray whom He wills and guides
whom He wills. So let not thy soul go out in (vainly) sighing after them: for Allah knows well
all that they do! 3880
3880 Cf. n. 3877 above. When a stage is reached at which a man accepts Evil as his Good, his case is hopeless. Can such
a man profit by preaching or guidance? He has himself deliberately rejected all guidance. Such a man is best left to
stray. Perhaps, even in the paths in which he is straying, some sudden flash of light may come to him! That may be as
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