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(We said), ‘Dawud! We have made you a succes- vants, they would act as tyrants on the earth. But
sor on the earth, so judge between people with He sends down whatever He wills in a measured
truth and do not follow your own desires, letting way. He is aware of and He sees His servants.
them misguide you from the Way of Allah. Those (42:27)
who are misguided from the Way of Allah will re- You will not be able to thwart Him on the earth
ceive a harsh punishment because they forgot and you have no protector or helper besides
the Day of Reckoning.’ (38:26) Allah. (42:31)
We did not create heaven and earth and every- There are only grounds against those who wrong
thing between them to no purpose. That is the people and act as tyrants in the earth without any
opinion of those who disbelieve. Woe to those right to do so. Such people will have a painful
who disbelieve, because of the Fire! (38:27) punishment. (42:42)
Would We make those who believe and do right If We wished We could appoint angels in ex-
actions the same as those who cause corruption change for you to succeed you on the earth.
on the earth? Would We make those who guard (43:60)
against evil the same as the dissolute? (38:28) And in the alternation of night and day and the
If those who did wrong owned everything on provision Allah sends down from the sky, bring-
earth, and the same again with it, they would ing the earth to life by it after it has died, and the
offer it as a ransom to save themselves from the varying direction of the winds, there are Signs for
evil of the punishment on the Day of Rising. people who use their intellect. (45:5)
What confronts them from Allah will be some- On the Day when those who disbelieved are ex-
thing they did not reckon with. (39:47) posed to the Fire: ‘You dissipated the good things
Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the you had in your worldly life and enjoyed yourself
final fate of those before them? They were greater in it. So today you are being repaid with the pun-
than them in strength and left far deeper traces ishment of humiliation for being arrogant in the
on the earth, yet Allah seized them for their earth without any right and for being deviators.’
wrong actions and they had no one to protect (46:20)
them from Allah. (40:21) (A group of jinn said to their people,) ‘Those who
It is Allah Who made the earth a stable home for do not respond to Allah’s caller cannot thwart
you and the sky a dome, and formed you, giving Allah on earth and have no protectors apart from
you the best of forms, and provided you with Him. Such people are clearly misguided.’ (46:32)
good and wholesome things. That is Allah, your Have they not travelled about the earth and seen
Lord. Blessed be Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. the final fate of those before them? Allah de-
(40:64) stroyed them utterly. And those who disbelieve
(Disbelievers will be told,) ‘That is because you will suffer the same fate. (47:10)
exulted on the earth, without any right to do so; Is it not likely that, if you did turn away, you
and strutted about.’ (40:75) would cause corruption in the earth and sever
Have they not travelled in the land and seen the your ties of kinship? (47:22)
final fate of those before them? They were more There are certainly Signs in the earth for people
numerous than them and greater in strength and with certainty. (51:20)
left more and deeper traces on earth, but what Know that Allah brings the earth to life after it
they earned was of no use to them. (40:82) was dead. We have made the Signs clear to you
Among His Signs is that you see the earth laid so that hopefully you will use your intellect.
bare and then when We send down water on it, it (57:17)
quivers and swells. He Who gives it life is He Nothing occurs, either in the earth or in your-
Who gives life to the dead. Certainly He has selves, without its being in a Book before We
power over all things. (41:39) make it happen. That is something easy for Allah.
Were Allah to expand the provision of His ser- (57:22)
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