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Allah is He to Whom the kingdom of the heavens you will find no protector for them to guide them
and earth belongs. He gives life and causes to rightly. (18:17)
die. You have no protector or helper besides Say: ‘Allah knows best how long they stayed. The
Allah. (9:116) Unseen of the heavens and the earth belongs to
They were not able to thwart Allah on earth, and Him. How perfectly He sees, how well He hears!
had no protectors besides Allah. The punishment They have no protector apart from Him. Nor
will be doubled for them. They were unable to does He share His rule with anyone.’ (18:26)
hear and could not see. (11:20) When We said to the angels, ‘Prostrate your-
Do not rely on those who do wrong thus causing selves to Adam,’ they prostrated with the excep-
the Fire to afflict you, for you have no protector tion of Diabolis. He was one of the jinn and
besides Allah; then you will not be helped. wantonly deviated from his Lord’s command. Do
(11:113) you take him and his offspring as protectors apart
Everyone has a succession of angels in front of from Me when they are your enemy? How evil is
him and behind him, guarding him by Allah’s the exchange the wrongdoers make! (18:50)
command. Allah never changes a people’s state Do those who disbelieve imagine that they can
until they change what is in themselves. When take My servants as protectors instead of Me? We
Allah desires evil for a people, there is no avert- have prepared Hell as hospitality for the disbe-
ing it. They have no protector apart from Him. lievers! (18:102)
(13:11) They will say, ‘Glory be to You! It would not have
Say: ‘Who is the Lord of the heavens and the been fitting for us to have taken any protectors
earth?’ Say: ‘Allah.’ Say: ‘So why have you taken apart from You. But You let them and their fathers
protectors apart from Him who possess no power enjoy themselves so that they forgot the Reminder.
to help or harm themselves?’ Say: ‘Are the blind They were people devoid of good.’ (25:18)
and seeing equal? Or are darkness and light the They said, ‘Let us make an oath to one another by
same? Or have they assigned partners to Allah Allah that we will fall on him and his family in the
Who create as He creates, so that all creating night and then say to his protector, "We did not wit-
seems the same to them?’ Say: ‘Allah is the ness the destruction of his family and we are telling
Creator of everything. He is the One, the All- the truth."’ (27:49)
Conquering.’ (13:16) (Say:) ‘There is no way out for you in earth or
By Allah, We sent Messengers to communities heaven. You have no protector or helper besides
before your time, but Satan made their actions Allah.’ (29:22)
seem good to them. Therefore today he is their The metaphor of those who take protectors besides
protector. They will have a painful punishment. Allah is that of a spider which builds itself a house;
(16:63) but no house is flimsier than a spider’s house, if
Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. But as for they only knew. (29:41)
those He leads astray, you will not find any pro- Say: ‘Who is going to shield you from Allah if He
tectors for them apart from Him. We will gather desires evil for you or desires mercy for you?’ They
them on the Day of Rising, flat on their faces, will find no one to protect or help them besides
blind, dumb and deaf. Their shelter will be Hell. Allah. (33:17)
Whenever the Blaze dies down, We will increase Allah has cursed the disbelievers and prepared a
it for them. (17:97) Searing Blaze for them where they will remain
You would have seen the sun, when it rose, in- timelessly, for ever and ever, not finding any pro-
clining away from their cave towards the right, tector or any helper. (33:64-65)
and, when it set, leaving them behind on the left, They (angels) will say, ‘Glory be to You! You are
while they were lying in an open part of it. That our Protector, not them. No, they were worship-
was one of Allah’s Signs. Whoever Allah guides ping the jinn. They mostly had faith in them.’
is truly guided. But if He misguides someone, (34:41)
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