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will admit them into His mercy. Allah is Ever- Most Merciful of the merciful,’ (21:83)
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:99) Do you not see that Allah has made everything
He (Nuh) said, ‘My Lord, I seek refuge with You on the earth subservient to you and the ships run-
from asking You for anything about which I have ning upon the sea by His command? He holds
no knowledge. If You do not forgive me and have back the heaven, preventing it from falling to the
mercy on me, I will be among the lost.’ (11:47) earth–except by His permission. Allah is All-
(Yusuf said,) ‘I do not say my self was free from Compassionate to mankind, Most Merciful.
blame. The self indeed commands to evil (22:65)
acts–except for those my Lord has mercy on. My If We did have mercy on them and removed the
Lord, He is Forgiving, Merciful.’ (12:53) harm afflicting them, they would still obstinately
He (Yusuf) said, ‘No blame at all will fall on you. persist in wandering blindly in their excessive in-
Today you have forgiveness from Allah. He is the solence. (23:75)
Most Merciful of the merciful.’ (12:92) There was a group of My servants who said, "Our
They carry your loads to lands you would never Lord, we believe, so forgive us and have mercy
reach except with great difficulty. Your Lord is on us. You are the Best of the Merciful." (23:109)
All-Gentle, Most Merciful. (16:7) Say: ‘My Lord, forgive and be merciful! You are
Or (do they feel secure) that He will not seize the Best of the Merciful.’ (23:118)
them little by little? For your Lord is All- Truly your Lord is the Almighty, the Most
Compassionate, Most Merciful. (16:47) Merciful. (26:9)
But to those who migrated after they were perse- He punishes anyone He wills and has mercy on
cuted and then strived and remained steadfast, to anyone He wills. You will be returned to Him.
them your Lord is All-Compassionate, Most (29:21)
Merciful. (16:110) Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those
(We decreed in the Book for the tribe of Israel:) ‘It who are with him are fierce to the disbelievers,
may well be that your Lord will have mercy on merciful to one another. You see them bowing
you. But if you revert to what you did, We also and prostrating, seeking Allah’s good favour and
will revert. We have made Hell a prison for the His pleasure. Their mark is on their faces, the
disbelievers.’ (17:8) traces of prostration. That is their likeness in the
Your Lord knows you best. If He wills, He will Torah. And their likeness in the Gospel is that of a
have mercy on you, and, if He wills, He will pun- seed which puts up a shoot and makes it strong
ish you. We did not send you to be their so that it thickens and grows up straight upon its
guardian. (17:54) stalk, filling the sowers with delight–so that by
Your Lord is He Who propels the ships on the sea them He may infuriate the disbelievers. Allah has
for you so that you may seek His bounty. He is promised those of them who believe and do right
indeed Most Merciful to you. (17:66) actions forgiveness and an immense reward.
Your Lord is the Ever-Forgiving, the Possessor of (48:29)
Mercy. If He had taken them to task for what they Then We sent Our Messengers following in their
have earned, He would have hastened their pun- footsteps and sent ‘Isa son of Maryam after them,
ishment. Instead, they have a promised appoint- giving him the Gospel. We put compassion and
ment and they will not find any refuge from it. mercy in the hearts of those who followed him.
(18:58) They invented monasticism–We did not pre-
We endowed them with Our mercy and made scribe it for them–purely out of desire to gain the
them highly honoured. (19:50) pleasure of Allah, but even so they did not ob-
We endowed him (Musa) with Our mercy, mak- serve it as it should have been observed. To those
ing his brother Harun a Prophet. (19:53) of them who believed We gave their reward but
And Ayyub when he called out to his Lord, many of them are deviators. (57:27)
‘Great harm has afflicted me and You are the
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