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3:150 - Nay Allah is your Protector and He is the best of helpers.<br />

64:4 - If ye twain turn unto Allah repentant, (ye have cause to do so) for your hearts desired (the<br />

ban); and if ye aid one another against him (Muhammad) then lo! Allah, even He, is his<br />

protecting Friend, and Gabriel and the righteous among the believers; and furthermore the<br />

angels are his helpers.<br />

18:51 - I made them not to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor their own<br />

creation; nor choose I misleaders for (My) helpers.<br />

17:88 - Say: Verily, though mankind and the Jinn should assemble to produce the like of this<br />

Qur'an, they could not produce the like thereof though they were helpers one of another.<br />

16:37 - Even if thou (O Muhammad) desirest their right guidance, still Allah assuredly will not guide<br />

him who misleadeth. Such have no helpers.<br />

3:192 - Our Lord! Whom Thou causest to enter the Fire: him indeed Thou hast confounded. For evildoers<br />

there will be no helpers.<br />

2:270 - Whatever alms ye spend or vow ye vow, Lo! Allah knoweth it. Wrongdoers have no helpers.<br />

71:25 - Because of their sins they were drowned, then made to enter a Fire. And they found they<br />

had no helpers in place of Allah.<br />

30:23- And among His Signs is the sleep that ye take by night and by day and the quest that ye<br />

(make for livelihood) out of His Bounty: verily in that are Signs for those who hearken. 35283529<br />

3528 If we consider deeply, sleep and dreams, the refreshment we get from sleep to wakefulness as well as from<br />

wakefulness to sleep, as also the state of our thoughts and feelings and sub-conscious self in these conditions, are<br />

both wonderful and mysterious. Normally we sleep by night and do our ordinary work "in quest of the Bounty of Allah"<br />

by day. But sleep and rest may come and be necessary by day, and we may have to work by night. And our work for<br />

our livelihood may pass by insensible transitions to our work or thought or service of a higher and spiritual kind. These<br />

processes suggest a background of things which we know but vaguely, but which are as much miracles as other<br />

Signs of Allah. (30.23)<br />

3529 From verse 20 to verse 25 are mentioned a series of Signs or Miracles, which should awaken our souls and lead us to<br />

true Reality if we try to understand Allah. (1) There is our own origin and destiny, which must necessarily be our<br />

subjective startingpoint: "I think; therefore I am": no particular exertion of our being is here necessary (xxx. 20). (2)<br />

The first beginnings of social life arise through sex and love: see iv. 1, and n. 506; to understand this in all its bearing,<br />

we must "reflect" (xxx. 21). (3) The next point is to understand our diversities in speech, color, etc., arising from<br />

differences of climate and external conditions; yet there is unity beneath that diversity, which we shall realize by<br />

extended knowledge (xxx. 22). (4) Next we turn to our psychological conditions, sleep, rest, visions, insight, etc.; here<br />

we want teaching and guidance, to which we must hearken (xxx. 23). (5) Next, we must approach the higher reaches<br />

of spiritual hopes and fears, as symbolized by such subtle forces of nature as lightning and electricity, which may kill<br />

the foolish or bring prosperity in its train by rain and abundant harvest; to understand the highest spiritual hopes and<br />

fears so symbolized, we want the highest wisdom (xxx. 24). (6) And lastly, we may become so transformed that we<br />

rise above all petty, worldly, ephemeral things: Allah calls to us and we rise, as from our dead selves to a Height<br />

which we can only describe as the Heaven of stability: here no human processes serve, for the Call of Allah Himself<br />

has come (xxx. 25-27). (30.23)<br />

30:29 - Nay, but those who do wrong follow their own lusts without knowledge. Who is able to guide<br />

him whom Allah hath bent astray? For such there are no helpers.<br />

29:25 - He said: Ye have chosen idols instead of Allah. The love between you is only in the life of<br />

the world. Then on the Day of Resurrection ye will deny each other and curse each other, and<br />

your abode will be the Fire, and ye will have no helpers.<br />

5:72 - They surely disbelieve who say : Lo! Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary. The Messiah<br />

(himself) said : O Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. Lo! whoso<br />

ascribeth partners unto Allah, for him Allah hath forbidden Paradise. His abode is the Fire. For<br />

evildoers there will be no helpers.<br />

3:22 - Those are they whose works have failed in the world and the Hereafter; and they have no<br />

helpers.<br />

4:89 - They but wish that ye should reject faith as they do and thus be on the same footing (as<br />

they): but take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (from what is<br />

forbidden). But if they turn renegades seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and<br />

(in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks. 607<br />

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