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Hereafter in their probationary lives, and the word of Allah's messengers, which then seemed so strange and remote,<br />

was true and was now being fulfilled! (36.52)<br />

37:20 - They will say "Ah! woe to us! This is the Day of Judgement!"<br />

39:22 - Is one whose heart Allah has opened to Islam so that he has received enlightenment from<br />

Allah (no better than one hard-hearted)? Woe to those whose hearts are hardened against<br />

celebrating the praises of Allah! They are manifestly wandering (in error)! 42744275<br />

4274 Those who listen to Allah's Message find at each stage Allah's Grace helping them more and more to expand their<br />

spiritual understanding and to receive Allah's light, so that they travel farther and farther to their Goal in the Path of<br />

Truth and Righteousness. They are not to be compared to those who shut out Allah's Light from their hearts. See next<br />

note. (39.22)<br />

4275 Just as there is spiritual progress for those who seek Allah, so there is more and more spiritual retrogression for those<br />

who close their hearts to Allah. Their hearts get hardened, and they allow less and less Allah's Grace to penetrate<br />

within. But it is obvious that they flounder on the Way, and cannot walk with the firm steps of those of assured Faith.<br />

(39.22)<br />

38:27 - Not without purpose did We create heaven and earth and all between! That were the<br />

thought of Unbelievers! But woe to the Unbelievers because of the Fire (of Hell)! 4179<br />

4179 Cf. iii. 191. Unbelief is the subjective negation of a belief in Order, Beauty, Purpose, and Eternal Life. Unbelief is to<br />

Faith as Chaos is to Cosmos, as the Fire of Misery is to the Garden of Bliss. (38.27)<br />

39:22 - Is one whose heart Allah has opened to Islam so that he has received enlightenment from<br />

Allah (no better than one hard-hearted)? Woe to those whose hearts are hardened against<br />

celebrating the praises of Allah! They are manifestly wandering (in error)! 42744275<br />

4274 Those who listen to Allah's Message find at each stage Allah's Grace helping them more and more to expand their<br />

spiritual understanding and to receive Allah's light, so that they travel farther and farther to their Goal in the Path of<br />

Truth and Righteousness. They are not to be compared to those who shut out Allah's Light from their hearts. See next<br />

note. (39.22)<br />

4275 Just as there is spiritual progress for those who seek Allah, so there is more and more spiritual retrogression for those<br />

who close their hearts to Allah. Their hearts get hardened, and they allow less and less Allah's Grace to penetrate<br />

within. But it is obvious that they flounder on the Way, and cannot walk with the firm steps of those of assured Faith.<br />

(39.22)<br />

39:56 - "Lest the soul should (then) say: Ah! woe is me! In that I neglected (my duty) towards Allah<br />

and was but among those who mocked!' 4327<br />

4327 Many kinds of sighs and regrets will then assail us. In the first place, we shall see our shortcomings: we were<br />

negligent when we should have been serious: we mocked when we should have tried to learn and understand. But it<br />

will be too late then to retrieve our position. (39.56)<br />

41:6 - Say thou: "I am but a man like you: it is revealed to me by inspiration that your Allah is One<br />

Allah: so stand true to Him and ask for His forgiveness." And woe to those who join gods with<br />

Allah 44674468<br />

4467 The reply is in effect: that the bringer of the Message is not an angel nor a god, and so there can and ought to be no<br />

barrier between him and his hearers; but he has been chosen to bring a Message of Truth and Hope to them; they<br />

should accept the Gospel of Unity, and by Repentance, obtain Allah's Grace and Forgiveness. (41.6)<br />

4468 There is nothing but pity for those who reject Truth, run after false worship, have no sympathy or charity for their<br />

fellow-men, and even deny that there is any future Life. (41.6)<br />

43:65 - But sects from among themselves fell into disagreement: then woe to the wrongdoers from<br />

the Penalty of a Grievous Day!<br />

51:10 - Woe to the falsehood-mongers<br />

51:60 - Woe then to the Unbelievers on account of that day of theirs which they have been<br />

promised! 5036<br />

5036 That is, their eternal Punishment in the Hereafter, as well as any punishment that may come to them in this life.<br />

(51.60)<br />

52:11 - Then woe that Day to those that treat (truth) as Falsehood 5045<br />

5045 That Day will be a Day of Woe to the wrong doers described in two aspects, the rebels against Allah and Allah's Truth,<br />

just as it will be a Day of Joy and Thanksgiving to the Righteous, who are described in three aspects in verses 17 to<br />

28. The rebels are here described as being those who openly defied Truth and plunged into wrong-doing, or who<br />

trifled with truth, who jested with serious matters, who had not the courage to plunge openly into wrong-doing but who<br />

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