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51:51 - And make not another an object of worship with Allah: I am from Him a Warner to you clear
and open! 5028
5028 Verses 50 and 51, ending with the same clause to emphasize the connection between the two, should be read
together. The Prophet's mission was (and is): (1) to show us the urgent need for repentance; and (2) to wean us from
the precipice of false worship. The one convinces us of sin and opens the door to the Mercy of Allah; the other cures
us of the madness of paying court to idle or worthless objects of desire; for in the worship of Allah, the One True God
is included the best service to ourselves and our fellow-creatures. If fully understood, this sums up the whole duty of
man: for it leads us by the right Path to the love of Allah and the love of man and of all creatures. (51.51)
54:3 - They reject (the warning) and follow their (own) lusts but every matter has its appointed time.
5130
5130 The prevalence of sin and the persecution of truth may have its day, but it must end at last. (54.3)
54:23 - (The tribe of) Thamud rejected warnings
54:30 - Then see how (dreadful) was My punishment after My warnings!
59:2 - It is He who got out the Unbelievers among the People of the Book from their homes at the
first gathering (of the forces). Little did ye think that they would get out: and they thought that
their fortresses would defend them from Allah! but the (wrath of) Allah came to them from
quarters from which they little expected (it) and cast terror into their hearts so that they
destroyed their dwellings by their own hands and the hands of the Believers. Take warning
then O ye with eyes (to see)! 5369537053715372
67:17 - Or do ye feel secure that He Who is in Heaven will not send against you a violent tornado
(with showers of stones) so that ye shall know how (terrible) was My warning? 5574
5574 Cf. xvii. 68; and xxix. 40, n. 3462. Such a violent wind destroyed the wicked Cities which defied Lut's warning. (67.17)
67:18 - But indeed men before them rejected (My warning): then how (terrible) was My rejection (of
them)? 5575
5575 Cf. xxii. 42-44, and n. 2822. (67.18)
71:1 - We sent Noah to his People (with the Command): "Do thou warn thy people before there
comes to them a grievous Penalty." 5705
5705 Noah's mission is referred to in many places. See specially xi. 25-49 and notes. His contemporaries had completely
abandoned the moral law. A purge had to be made, and the great Flood made it. This gives a new starting point in
history for Noah's People,-i.e., for the remnant saved in the Ark. (71.1)
77:5 - Then spread abroad a Message 5866
5866 If we understand the reference to Prophets or Messengers of Allah, or the verses of Revelation which would be
particularly appropriate for verses 5-6, we also get a satisfactory solution of the Allegory. (1) The Prophets have
followed one another in a series: the verses of the Qur-an came, one after another as needed; in both cases it was for
man's spiritual profit; (2) they caused great disturbance in a spiritual decadent world; they pulled down evil institutions
root and branch, and substituted new ones; (3) they proclaimed their truths far and wide, without fear and without
favour; (4) through them were sorted out men of Faith and rebels against Allah's Law; and (5) they gave a Message,
through which just men were justified through repentance, and evil men were warned of their sins. Some
Commentators take one or other of these allegories, and some apply one allegory to a few of these verses, and
another to another few. In my opinion the Allegory is wide enough to comprehend all the meanings which I have
sketched. I wish a translation could do justice to those marvellously terse sentences in the original. (77.5)
77:6 - Whether of Justification or of Warning
78:40 - Verily We have warned you of a Penalty near the Day when man will see (the Deeds) which
his hands have sent forth and the Unbeliever will say "Woe unto me! Would that I were (mere)
dust!" 59145915
5914 Is Judgment very near? Yes. There are three stages of Judgment. (1) Many of our sins and wrong-doings find their
penalty in this very life. It may not be an open or striking event, but it corrodes the soul and conscience all the time.
Let us therefore tum back to Allah in repentance and ask for forgiveness. (2) Where the Penalty is not actually
perceived or is not visible in this life, Death is considered the Lesser Judgment for each individual soul: see n. 5822 to
lxxv. 22. Death may come to anyone at any time, and we must all be ready for it. (3) Then there is the final Judgment,
when the whole of the present order passes away, and there is a New World. Time as we know it will not exist. Fifty
thousand years as we reckon now will be but as a Day: lxx. 4. According to those standards even this Final Judgment
is quite near, and we must prepare for it. For it will be too late then for repentance. (78.40)
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