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30:40 - It is Allah Who has created you: further He has provided for your sustenance; then He will
cause you to die; and again He will give you life. Are there any of your (false) "Partners" who
can do any single one of these things? Glory to Him! and High is He above the partners they
attribute (to Him)! 35543555
3554 The persons or things or ideas to which we give part-worship, while our whole and exclusive worship is due to Allah,
are the "Partners" we set up. Do we owe our existence to them? Do they sustain our being? Can they take our life or
give it back to us? Certainly not. Then how foolish of us to give them part-worship! (30.40)
3555 Cf. x. 18 and similar passages. (30.40)
32:16 - Their limbs do forsake their beds of sleep the while they call on their Lord in Fear and
Hope: and they spend (in charity) out of the sustenance which We have bestowed on them.
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3648 Men and women "breathless with adoration" shun soft, comfortable beds, and luxurious sleep. Their limbs are better
exercised in offices of devotion and prayer, especially by night. Commentators specially refer this to Prayers called
Tahajjud, which are offered after midnight in the small hours of the morning. (32.16)
3649 In Fear and Hope: in spiritual fear lest their dedication to Allah should not be sufficiently worthy to be accepted, and a
spiritual longing or hope that their shortcomings will be overlooked by the Mercy of Allah. And their adoration is not
shown only in Prayer, but also in practical Service and Charity, out of whatever gifts they may have received
from Allah. (32.16)
34:15 - There was for Saba' aforetime a Sign in their homeland two Gardens to the right and to the
left. Eat of the Sustenance (provided) by your Lord and be grateful to Him: a territory fair and
happy and a Lord Oft-Forgiving! 38103811
3810 This is the same city and territory in Yemen as is mentioned in xxvii. 22: see note there as to its location. There the
period was the time of Solomon and Queen Bilqis. Here it is some centuries later. It was still a happy and prosperous
country, amply irrigated from the Maarib dam. Its roads or perhaps its canals, were skirted by gardens on both sides,
right and left: at any given point, you always saw two gardens. It produced fruit, spices, and frankincense, and got the
name of Araby the Blest for that part of the country. (34.15)
3811 The land was fair to look upon; the people happy and prosperous; and they enjoyed the blessings of Allah, Who is
Gracious and does not punish small human faults or weaknesses. (34.15)
34:24 - Say: "Who gives you sustenance from the heavens and the earth?" Say: "It is Allah and
certain it is that either we or ye are on right guidance or in manifest error!" 38273828
3827 There are six propositions introduced here with the word "Say", at verses 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 30. They clearly
explain the doctrine of Unity (verse 22), the Mercy of Allah (verse 24), man's Personal Responsibility (verse 25), the
Final Justice of Allah (verse 26), Allah's Power and Wisdom (verse 27), and the Inevitability of the Judgment, by which
true values will be restored (verse 30). (34.24)
3828 Right and Wrong, Good and Evil, are incompatible, one with another. In this matter we can make no compromise. It is
true that in men there may be various degrees of good or evil mixed together, and we have to tolerate men as our
fellow-creatures, with all their faults and shortcomings. But this does not mean that we can worship Allah and
Mammon together. Wrong is the negation of Right as light is of darkness. Though there may be apparently varying
depths of darkness, this is only due to the imperfection of our vision: it is varying strengths of light as perceived by our
relative powers of sight. So we may perceive the Light of Allah in varying degrees according to our spiritual vision. But
in simple questions of Right or Wrong, we are faced by the Categorical Imperative. (34.24)
34:39 - Say: "Verily my Lord enlarges and restricts the Sustenance to such of His servants as He
pleases: and nothing do ye spend in the least (in his cause) but He replaces it: for He is the
Best of those Who grant Sustenance. 38483849
3848 Cf. xxxiv. 36 above, and n. 3843. (34.39)
3849 Even in the seeming inequality of distribution of the good things of life, Allah has a wise and merciful purpose; for
nothing arises by chance. He is the best to give us, now and evermore, just those things which subserve our real
needs and advance our inner development. (34.39)
37:40 - But the sincere (and devoted) servants of Allah
37:41 - For them is a Sustenance Determined 40604061
4060 "Sustenance": correlated with the Fruits mentioned below: see next verse. (37.41)
4061 "Determined": Ma'lum: the reward of the Blessed will not be a chance or a fleeting thing. It will follow a firm Decree of
Allah, on principles that can be known and understood. (37.41)
37:42 - Fruits (Delights) and they (shall enjoy) honor and dignity. 4062
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