Page 352 - An Index to the Qur'an

place? Is it them you fear? Allah has more right to On the day We gather them together–when it
your fear if you are believers. (9:13) will seem if they had tarried no more than an
Then on the Day of Rising He will disgrace them, hour of a single day–they will recognise one an-
and say, ‘Where are My partner gods for whose other. Those who denied the meeting with Allah
sake you became so hostile?’ Those given knowl- will have lost. They were not guided. (10:45)
edge will say, ‘Today there is disgrace and evil for Say: ‘I possess no power to harm or help myself
the disbelievers.’ (16:27) except as Allah wills. Every nation has an ap-
We have made it easy on your tongue so that you pointed time. When their appointed time comes,
can give good news to those who guard against they cannot delay it a single hour or bring it for-
evil and warn stubbornly hostile people by it. ward.’ (10:49)
(19:97) If Allah were to punish people for their wrong ac-
We did not send any Messenger or any Prophet tions, not a single creature would be left upon
before you without Satan insinuating something the earth, but He defers them till a predetermined
into his recitation while he was reciting. But Allah time. When their specified time arrives, they can-
revokes whatever Satan insinuates and then Allah not delay it for a single hour nor can they bring it
confirms His Signs–Allah is All-Knowing, All- forward. (16:61)
Wise–so that He can make what Satan insinuates a What of him who spends the night hours in
trial for those with sickness in their hearts and for prayer, prostrating and standing up, mindful of
those whose hearts are hard–the wrongdoers are the hereafter, hoping for the mercy of his Lord?
entrenched in hostility. (22:52-53) Say: ‘Are they the same–those who know and
But those who disbelieve are full of vainglory and those who do not know?’ It is only people of in-
entrenched in hostility. (38:2) telligence who pay heed. (39:9)
Say: ‘What do you think? If it is from Allah and you So be steadfast as the Messengers with firm re-
reject it, who could be more misguided than solve were also steadfast. And do not seek to has-
someone entrenched in hostility to it?’ (41:52) ten it for them. On the Day they see what they
Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of were promised, it will be as if they had only tar-
Allah and are entrenched in hostility towards the ried for just one hour of a single day. It has been
Messenger after the guidance has become clear to transmitted! Will any be destroyed except for de-
them, do not harm Allah in any way and He viant people? (46:35)
makes their actions come to nothing. (47:32)
That is because they (those who disbelieved HOUR, THE (SEE THE DAY OF RISING)
among the People of the Book) were entrenched
in hostility towards Allah and His Messenger. If HOUSE
anyone is hostile towards Allah, Allah is Severe in And when We made the House (Kaaba) a place
Retribution. (59:4) of return, a sanctuary for mankind: They took the
They (the hypocrites) will not fight against you all place where Ibrahim stood (to pray) as a place of
together as a group except in fortified towns or be- prayer. We contracted with Ibrahim and Isma‘il:
hind high walls.Their hostility towards each other ‘Purify My House for those who circle it, and
is intense. They are full of bravado in each other’s those who stay there, and those who bow and
company. You consider them united but their who prostrate.’ (2:125)
hearts are scattered wide. That is because they are And when Ibrahim built the foundations of the
people who do not use their intellect. (59:14) House with Isma‘il: ‘Our Lord, accept this from
us! You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.’
HOUR (2:127)
Every nation has an appointed time. When their Safa and Marwa are among the Landmarks of
time comes, they cannot delay it a single hour or Allah, so anyone who goes on pilgrimage to the
bring it forward. (7:34) House or does the pious visit incurs no wrong in
350