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haps they may be helped. (36:74) have invented it, then you possess no power to
They cannot help them even though they are an help me against Allah in any way. He knows best
army mobilised in their support. (36:75) what you hold forth about. He is witness enough
Our Word was given before to Our servants, the between me and you. He is the Ever-Forgiving,
Messengers, that they would certainly be helped. the Most Merciful.’ (46:8)
(37:171-172) But what of him who says to his parents, ‘Fie on
Turn to your Lord and submit to Him before pun- you! Do you promise me that I will be resur-
ishment comes upon you, for then you cannot be rected when generations before me have passed
helped. (39:54) away?’ They both call on Allah for help: ‘Woe to
(A man among Pharaoh’s people who believed, you! Believe! Allah’s promise is true.’ But he
but kept his faith concealed, said,) ‘My people! says, ‘This is nothing but the myths of previous
The kingdom is yours today, as masters in the peoples.’ (46:17)
land, but who will help us against Allah’s violent You who believe! If you help Allah, He will help
force, if it comes upon us?’ Pharaoh said, ‘I only you and make your feet firm. (47:7)
show you what I see myself and I only guide you How many cities We have destroyed, greater in
to the path of rectitude.’ (40:29) strength than your city which has driven you out,
We will certainly help Our Messengers and those and there was no one to help them. (47:13)
who believe both in the life of this world and on Truly We have granted you a clear victory, so that
the Day the witnesses appear, the Day when the Allah may forgive you your earlier errors and any
excuses of the wrongdoers will not help them. later ones and complete His blessing upon you,
The curse will be on them and they will have the and guide you on a Straight Path and so that
most evil Home. (40:51-52) Allah may help you with a mighty help. (48:1-3)
So We sent a howling wind against them on dis- If those who disbelieve should fight you, they
astrous ill-fated days to make them taste the pun- would turn their backs and then find no one to
ishment of degradation in this world. And the protect or help them. (48:22)
punishment of the hereafter is even more degrad- They (Thamud) could not stand upright and they
ing. And they will not be helped. (41:16) were not helped. (51:45)
If Allah had willed, He would have made them a The Day their ploys will not profit them at all and
single nation. But He admits whoever He wills they will not be helped. (52:46)
into His mercy and the wrongdoers have no pro- He (Nuh) called upon his Lord: ‘I am over-
tector and no helper. (42:8) whelmed, so help me!’ (54:10)
You will not be able to thwart Him on the earth He will pursue you with a piercing flame and
and you have no protector or helper besides fiery smoke, and you will not be helped. (55:35)
Allah. (42:31) We sent Our Messengers with the Clear Signs
They have no one to protect or help them apart and sent down the Book and the Balance with
from Allah. There is no way out for anyone Allah them so that mankind might establish justice.
misguides. (42:46) And We sent down iron in which there lies great
The Day when friends will be of no use at all to force and which has many uses for mankind, so
one another, and they will not be helped. (44:41) that Allah might know those who help Him and
They will not help you in any way against Allah. His Messengers in the Unseen. Allah is All-
The wrongdoers are protectors of one another but Strong, Almighty. (57:25)
Allah is the Protector of those who guard against Neither their wealth nor their children will help
evil. (45:19) them at all against Allah. Such people are the
They will be told, ‘Today We have forgotten you as Companions of the Fire, remaining in it time-
you forgot the meeting of this your Day. Your lessly, for ever. (58:17)
refuge is the Fire and you have no helpers.’(45:34) Did you not see the hypocrites saying to their
Or do they say, ‘He has invented it’? Say: ‘If I brothers, those among the People of the Book
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