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Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the family of Helpers! (8:40)
Ibrahim and the family of ‘Imran over all other Say: ‘Nothing can happen to us except what
beings–descendants one of the other. Allah is All- Allah has ordained for us. He is Our Master. It is
Hearing, All-Knowing. (3:33-34) in Allah that the believers should put their trust.’
Remember when the wife of ‘Imran said, ‘My (9:51)
Lord, I have pledged to You what is in my womb, Then and there every self will be tried for what it
devoting it to Your service. Please accept my did before. They will be returned to Allah, their
prayer. You are the All-Hearing, the All- Master, the Real, and what they invented will
Knowing.’ ( 3:35) abandon them. (10:30)
When she gave birth, she said, ‘My Lord! I have Allah has made the expiation of your oaths oblig-
given birth to a girl’–and Allah knew very well atory for you. Allah is your Master–He is the All-
what she had given birth to, male and female are Knowing, the All-Wise. (66:2)
not the same–‘and I have named her Maryam
and placed her and her children in Your safe- MATE
keeping from the accursed Satan.’ ( 3:36) O mankind! Have fear of your Lord Who created
Her Lord accepted her with approval and made you from a single self and created its mate from it
her grow in health and beauty. And Zakariyya and then disseminated many men and women
became her guardian. Every time Zakariyya vis- from the two of them. Have fear of Allah in
ited her in the Upper Room, he found food with Whose name you make demands on one another
her. He said, ‘Maryam, how did you come by and also in respect of your families. Allah
this?’ She said, ‘It is from Allah. Allah provides for watches over you continually. (4:1)
whoever He wills without any reckoning.’ (3: 37) He created you from a single self, then produced
its mate from it, and sent down livestock to
MASHA'LLAH you–eight kinds in pairs. He creates you stage by
(SEE "IT IS AS ALLAH WILLS") stage in your mothers’ wombs in a threefold
darkness. That is Allah, your Lord. Sovereignty is
MASJID (SEE MOSQUE) His. There is no god but Him. So what has made
you deviate? (39:6)
MASJID AL-AQSA The Bringer into Being of the heavens and the
(SEE THE FURTHER MOSQUE) earth: He has given you mates from among your-
selves, and given mates to the livestock, in that
MASTER way multiplying you. Nothing is like Him. He is
Allah does not impose on any self any more than the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing. (42:11)
it can stand. For it is what it has earned; against
it, what it has brought upon itself. ‘Our Lord, do MATURITY
not take us to task if we forget or make a mistake! And that you do not go near the property of or-
Our Lord, do not place on us a load like the one phans before they reach maturity–except in a
You placed on those before us! Our Lord, do not good way; that you give full measure and full
place on us a load we have not the strength to weight with justice–We impose on no self any
bear! And pardon us; and forgive us; and have more than it can bear; that you are equitable when
mercy on us. You are our Master, so help us you speak–even if a near relative is concerned; and
against the people of the disbelievers.’ (2:286) that you fulfil Allah’s contract. That is what He in-
Then they are returned to Allah, their Master, the structs you to do, so that hopefully you will pay
Real. Jurisdiction belongs to Him alone and He is heed. (6:152)
the Swiftest of Reckoners. (6:62) Do not go near the property of orphans before they
But if they turn away, know that Allah is your reach maturity, except in a good way. Fulfil your
Master, the Best of Masters, and the Best of contracts. Contracts will be asked about. (17:34)
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