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should be feared and do not die except as carded and forgotten!’ (19:23)
Muslims. (3:102) Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the
There you are, loving them when they do not Rising, know that We created you from dust then
love you, even though you believe in all the from a drop of sperm then from a clot of blood
Books. When they meet you, they say, ‘We be- then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed,
lieve.’ But when they leave they bite their fingers so We may make things clear to you. We make
out of rage against you. Say, ‘Die in your rage.’ whatever We want stay in the womb until a spec-
Allah knows what your hearts contain. (3:119) ified time and then We bring you out as children
Muhammad is only a Messenger and he has been so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of
preceded by other Messengers. If he were to die you die and some of you revert to the lowest
or be killed, would you turn on your heels? form of life so that, after having knowledge, they
Those who turn on their heels do not harm Allah then know nothing at all. And you see the earth
in any way. Allah will recompense the thankful. dead and barren; then when We send down
(3:144) water onto it it quivers and swells and sprouts
No self can die except with Allah’s permission, at with luxuriant plants of every kind. (22:5)
a predetermined time. If anyone desires the re- (The ruling circle said,) ‘What is there but our life
ward of this world, We will give him some of it. If in this world? We die and we live and we will not
anyone desires the reward of the hereafter, We be raised again.’ (23:37)
will give him some of it. We will recompense the Put your trust in the Living Who does not die and
thankful. (3:145) glorify Him with praise. He is well aware of the
You who believe! Do not be like those who dis- wrong actions of His servants: (25:58)
believe and say of their brothers, when they are Then when We decreed that he (Sulayman)
going on journeys or military expeditions, ‘If they should die, nothing divulged his death to them
had only been with us, they would not have died except the worm which ate his staff; so that when
or been killed,’ so that Allah can make that an- he fell down it was made clear to the jinn that if
guish for them in their hearts. It is Allah Who they had truly had knowledge of the Unseen they
gives life and causes to die. Allah sees what you need not have stayed there suffering humiliating
do. (3:156) punishment. (34:14)
If you are killed in the Way of Allah or if you die, Whereas for those who disbelieve there will be
forgiveness and mercy from Allah are better than the Fire of Hell. They will not be killed off so that
anything you can acquire. (3:157) they die and its punishment will not be lightened
If you die or you are killed, it is to Allah that you for them. That is how We repay every thankless
will be gathered. (3:158) man. (35:36)
There is not one of the People of the Book who You will die and they too will die. (39:30)
will not believe in him before he dies; and on the Allah takes back people’s selves when their
Day of Rising he will be a witness against them. death arrives and those who have not yet died,
(4:159) while they are asleep. He keeps hold of those
Say: ‘My prayer and my rites, my living and my whose death has been decreed and sends the
dying, are for Allah alone, the Lord of all the others back for a specified term. There are cer-
worlds.’ (6:162) tainly Signs in that for people who reflect.
He gulps at it but can hardly swallow it down. (39:42)
Death comes at him from every side but he does (The man who believed said,) ‘Yusuf brought you
not die. And beyond him is relentless punish- the Clear Signs before, but you never stopped
ment. (14:17) doubting what he brought to you to the extent
The pains of labour drove her to the trunk of a that when he died, you said, "Allah will never
date-palm. She (Maryam) said, ‘Oh if only I had send another Messenger after him." That is how
died before this time and was something dis- Allah misguides those who are unbridled and full
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