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63:9 - O ye who believe! let not your riches or your children divert you from the remembrance of<br />

Allah. If any act thus the loss is their own. 5476<br />

71:21 - Noah said: "O my Lord! they have disobeyed me but they follow (men) whose wealth and<br />

children give them no Increase but only Loss.<br />

103:2 - Verily Man is in loss 6263<br />

6263 If life be considered under the metaphor of a business bargain, man, by merely attending to his material gains, will<br />

lose. When he makes up his day's account in the afternoon, it will show a loss. It will only show profit if he has Faith,<br />

leads a good life, and contributes to social welfare by directing and encouraging other people on the Path of Truth and<br />

Constancy. (103.2)<br />

27:5 - Such are they for whom a grievous Penalty is (waiting): and in the Hereafter theirs will be the<br />

greatest loss. 3243<br />

3243 The account will then be made up, and they will be found to be terribly in loss. They will be the worst in loss, for all<br />

their self-complacency. (27.5)<br />

Be sure We shall test you with something of fear and hunger some loss in goods or lives or the fruits<br />

(of your toil) but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere. 159<br />

26:181 - "Give just measure and cause no loss (to others by fraud).<br />

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3216 They were a commercial people, but they were given to fraud, injustice, and wrongful mischief (by intermeddling with<br />

others). They are asked to fear Allah and follow His ways: it is He Who also created their predecessors among<br />

mankind, who never prospered by fraud and violent wrong-doing, but only justice and fair dealing. (26.181)<br />

2:155 - Be sure We shall test you with something of fear and hunger some loss in goods or lives or the fruits<br />

(of your toil) but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere. 159<br />

159 The glad tidings are the blessings of God in ii. 157 or (which is the same thing) the promise in ii. 153 that God will be<br />

with them. (2.155)<br />

48:11 - The desert Arabs who lagged behind will say to thee: "We were engaged in (looking after)<br />

our flocks and herds and our families; do thou then ask forgiveness for us." They say with their<br />

tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: "Who then has any power at all (to intervene) on your<br />

behalf with Allah if His will is to give you some loss or to give you some profit? but Allah is well<br />

acquainted with all that ye do. 487848794880<br />

4878 When the Prophet started from Madinah on the Makkah journey which ended in Hudaibiya, he asked all Muslims to<br />

join him in the pious undertaking, and he had a splendid response. But some of the desert tribes hung back and made<br />

excuses. Their faith was but lukewarm, and they did not want to share in any trouble which the Makkah might give to<br />

the unarmed Muslims on pilgrimage. Their excuse that they were engaged in looking after their flocks and herds and<br />

their families was an after-thought, and in any case made after the return of the Prophet and his party with enhanced<br />

prestige to Madinah. (48.11)<br />

4879 They said this with their tongues, but no thought of piety was in their hearts. (48.11)<br />

4880 Their false excuse was based on a calculation of worldly profit and loss. But what about the spiritual loss in detaching<br />

themselves from the holy Prophet or spiritual profit in joining in the splendidly loyal feelings of service and obedience<br />

which were demonstrated at Hudaibiya? And in any case they need not think that all their real and secret motives<br />

were not known to Allah. (48.11)<br />

17:82 - We send down (stage by stage) in the Qur'an that which is a healing and a mercy to those<br />

who believe: to the unjust it causes nothing but loss after loss. 2282<br />

2282 In Allah's revelation there is healing for our broken spirits, hope for our spiritual future, and joy in the forgiveness of<br />

our sins. All who work in faith will share in these privileges. It is only the rebels against Allah's Law who will suffer loss.<br />

The more they will oppose Truth, the deeper down will they go into the mire-the state of sin and Wrath, which is worse<br />

than destruction. (17.82)<br />

10:108 - Say: "O ye men! now Truth hath reached you from your Lord! Those who receive guidance<br />

do so for the good of their own souls; those who stray do so to their own loss: and I am not<br />

(set) over you to arrange your affairs." 1490<br />

1490 The Furqan, the Criterion between right and wrong, has been sent to us from Allah. If we accept guidance, it is not as<br />

if we confer favours on those who bring us guidance. They suffer unselfishly for us, in order that we may be guided for our<br />

own good. On the other hand, if we reject it, it is our own loss. We have a certain amount of free-will, and the responsibility is<br />

ours and cannot be shifted to the Prophets sent by Allah. (10.108<br />

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