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anyone associates anything with Allah, Allah has All-Gentle, Most Merciful to mankind. (2:143)
forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be So he will look down and see him in the midst of
the Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no helpers. the Blazing Fire. (37:55)
(5:72) By the charging horses panting hard, striking
The Messiah, the son of Maryam, was only a sparks from their flashing hooves, raiding at full
Messenger, before whom other Messengers came gallop in the early dawn, leaving a trailing dust-
and went. His mother was a woman of truth. Both cloud in their wake, cleaving through the middle
of them ate food. See how We make the Signs of the foe, truly man is ungrateful to his Lord.
clear to them! Then see how they are perverted! (100:1-6)
(5:75) (Believers are) those who, when they spend, are
The Jews say, ‘‘Uzayr is the son of Allah,’ and the neither extravagant nor mean, but take a stance
Christians say, ‘The Messiah is the son of Allah.’ mid way between the two. (25:67)
That is what they say with their mouths, copying
the words of those who disbelieved before. Allah MIGHT
fight them! How perverted they are! (9:30) Do not be grieved by what they say. All might be-
They have taken their rabbis and monks as lords longs to Allah. He is the All-Hearing, the All-
besides Allah, and also the Messiah, son of Knowing. (10:65)
Maryam. Yet they were commanded to worship They (the magicians) threw down their ropes and
only one God. There is no god but Him! Glory be staffs and said, ‘By the might of Pharaoh we are
to Him above anything they associate with Him! the winners.’ (26:44)
(9:31) He (Satan) said, ‘By Your might, I will mislead all
of them.’ (38:82)
METEOR They say, ‘If we return to Madina, the mightier
(Say: ‘It has been revealed to me that a band of will drive out the inferior.’ But all might belongs
the jinn listened and said,) "We tried, as usual, to to Allah and to His Messenger and the believers.
travel to heaven in search of news but found it But the hypocrites do not know this. (63:8)
filled with fierce guards and meteors. We used to
sit there on special seats to listen in. But anyone MIGRANTS (MUHAJIRUN)
listening now finds a fiery meteor in wait for The forerunners–the first of the Migrants
him." (72:8-9) (Muhajirun) and the Supporters (Ansar)–and
those who have followed them in doing good:
MICHAEL (MIKA’IL) Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased
(Say,) ‘Anyone who is the enemy of Allah and of with Him. He has prepared Gardens for them
His angels, and of His Messengers and of Gabriel with rivers flowing under them, remaining in
and Michael, should know that Allah is the them timelessly, for ever and ever. That is the
enemy of the disbelievers.’ (2:98) great victory. (9:100)
Allah has turned towards the Prophet, and the
MIDDLE Migrants (Muhajirun) and the Supporters (Ansar),
In this way We have made you a middlemost those who followed him at the ‘time of difficulty’,
community, so that you may act as witnesses after the hearts of a group of them had almost de-
against mankind and the Messenger as a witness viated. Then He turned towards them–He is All-
against you. We only appointed the direction Gentle, Most Merciful to them. (9:117)
you used to face in order to know those who fol- The Prophet is closer to the believers than their
low the Messenger from those who turn round on own selves, and his wives are their mothers. But
their heels. Though in truth it is a very hard blood-relations have closer ties to one another in
thing–except for those Allah has guided. Allah the Book of Allah than other believers and the
would never let your faith go to waste. Allah is emigrants, except that you should act in a proper
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