Page 415 - Learning from the Qur'an

NOT TO TAKE ONE'S LOWER SELF AS GOD
Have you seen him who takes his whims and desires to be his
god—whom Allah has misguided knowingly, sealing up his
hearing and his heart and placing a blindfold over his eyes? Who
then will guide him after Allah? So will you not pay heed? (Qur'an,
45:23)

TO PURIFY THE LOWER SELF
So have fear of Allah, as much as you are able to, and listen and
obey and spend for your own benefit. It is the people who are
safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves who are
successful. (Qur'an, 64:16)
And the self and what proportioned it and inspired it with
depravity or heedfulness, he who purifies it has succeeded, he
who covers it up has failed. (Qur'an, 91:7-10)
And among the people there are some who sell their own souls,
desiring the good pleasure of Allah. Allah is Ever-Gentle with His
servants. (Qur'an, 2:207)

NOT TO WRONG ONE'S OWN SELF
Allah does not wrong people in any way; rather it is people who
wrong themselves. (Qur'an, 10:44)
What are they waiting for but the angels to come to them or your
Lord's command to come? That is like what those before them
did. Allah did not wrong them; rather they wronged themselves.
(Qur'an, 16:33)
The Book will be set in place and you will see the evildoers fearful
of what is in it. They will say, 'Alas for us! What is this Book which
does not pass over any action, small or great, without recording
it?' They will find there everything they did and your Lord will not
wrong anyone at all (Qur'an, 18:49)

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