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4542 Faith, Duty or Religion, is not a matter to dispute about. The formation of sects is against the very principle of Religion
and Unity. What we should strive for is steadfastness in duty and faith, and unity among mankind. (42.13)
4543 Unity, unselfishness, love for Allah and man,-these things are inconsistent with selfish aggrandizement, unjust
suppression of our fellow-creatures, false worship, and false conduct to our brethren. Hence the Gospel of Unity,
though it is in complete accord with the pure pattern after which Allah made us, is yet hard to those who love self and
falsehood. But Grace is free to all, and in Ms wise Plan, He will specially select Teachers to show the Way to
humanity, and no one who tums to Him will lack guidance. (42.13)
42:14 - And they became divided only after knowledge reached them through selfish envy as
between themselves. Had it not been for a Word that went forth before from thy Lord (tending)
to a Term appointed the matter would have been settled between them: but truly those who
have inherited the Book after them are in suspicious (disquieting) doubt concerning it.
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4544 Cf. ii. 213. If you reject Truth after it has reached you, it can only be through selfish contumacy or envy. (42.14)
4545 Cf. x. 19, and n. 1407. Allah's decree has allowed a certain Term during which a sinner has the chance of repentance
and forgiveness. Were it not so, sin would be punished at once, and the matter would be decided straightway. So
also, when people reject Truth from selfish or contumacious motives, they get rope: perchance they may repent.
(42.14)
4546 Cf. xiv. 9 and n. 1884. "Those who have inherited the Book" are the People of the Book, of the ages since the Book or
Revelation came to them. Referring to the Jews and Christians, contemporary with our Prophet, how true it is that they
were broken up into hostile sects which hated and persecuted each other! Islam came to unite them, and it did. For
the present phases of Christianity and Judaism are of later growth. (42.14)
43:57 - When (Jesus) the son of Mary is held up as an example behold thy people raise a clamor
thereat (in ridicule)! 4659
4659 Jesus was a man, and a prophet to the Children of Israel, "though his own received him not." Some of the churches
that were founded after him worshipped him as "God" and as "the son of God", as do the Trinitarian churches to the
present day. The orthodox churches did so in the time of the holy Prophet. When the doctrine of Unity was renewed,
and the false worship of others besides Allah was strictly prohibited, all false gods were condemned, e.g., at xxi. 98.
The pagan Arabs looked upon Jesus as being in the same category as their false gods, and could not see why a
foreign cult, or a foreign god, as they viewed him, should be considered better than their own gods or idols. There was
no substance in this, but mere mockery, and verbal quibbling. Jesus was one of the greater prophets: he was not a
god, nor was he responsible for the quibbling subtleties of the Athanasian Creed. (43.57)
49:9 - If two parties among the Believers fall into a quarrel make ye peace between them: but if one
of them transgresses beyond bounds against the other then fight ye (all) against the one that
transgresses until it complies with the command of Allah; but if it complies then make peace
between them with justice and be fair: for Allah loves those who are fair (and just). 4927
4927 Individual quarrels are easier to compose than group quarrels, or, in the modern world, national quarrels. But the
collective community of Islam should be supreme over groups or nations. It would be expected to act justly and try to
compose the quarrel, for peace is better than fighting. But if one party is determined to be the aggressor, the whole
force of the community is brought to bear on it. The essential condition of course is that there should be perfect
fairness and justice and respect for the highest principles; for Islam takes account of every just and legitimate interest
without separating spiritual from temporal matters. The League of Nations failed because these essentials were
absent and today the United Nations fails for the same reason. (49.9)
49:10 - The believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between
your two (contending) brothers: And fear Allah that ye may receive Mercy. 4928
4928 The enforcement of the Muslim Brotherhood is the greatest social ideal of Islam. On it was based the Prophet's
Sermon at his last pilgrimage, and Islam cannot be completely realised until this ideal is achieved. (49.10)
51:1 - By the (Winds) that scatter broadcast; 49864987
4986 Four things are mentioned in verses 1 to 4 as evidences or types of the certainty and unity of a Truth described in
verses 5-6. What these things are is described by certain adjectival participles, the noun understood being usually
taken to be "Winds": the word for Wind (Rih) being feminine in Arabic. Some Commentators however understand
other nouns as being implied. e.g., angels in all four verses, or different things in each of the four verses. Whatever
these things are, their different modes of working are evidence of the power and goodness of Allah, the Unity of His
Plan, and the certainty of Good and Evil reaching their own destined ends, when Judgment and Justice will have
given each one his due. (51.1)
4987 Winds may blow strong, and scatter particles of dust far and wide; but they do not diminish by one jot the substance of
Allah's material creation; on the contrary they help to readjust things. They reshape the configuration of the earth; in
the vegetable kingdom they carry seeds about and plant new seeds in old soils; in the region of air they produce
mighty changes in temperature and pressure that affect animal and vegetable life; they carry the moisture of
equatorial Africa to the parched plains of India; and so on. Yet they are just one little agency showing Allah's working
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