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arabs around them, to remain behind the trate, the others should guard your backs. Then
Messenger of Allah nor to prefer themselves to the other group who have not yet prayed should
him. That is because no thirst or weariness or come and pray with you. They too should be
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor careful and keep hold of their weapons. Those
will they take a single step to infuriate the disbe- who disbelieve would like you to be negligent of
lievers, nor secure any gain from the enemy, your arms and equipment so that they can swoop
without a right action being written down for down on you once and for all. There is nothing
them because of it. Allah does not let the wage of wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are ill,
the good-doers go to waste. (9:120) in laying your weapons down; but take every
When one of them is given the good news of a precaution. Allah has prepared a humiliating
baby girl, his face darkens and he is furious. punishment for the disbelievers. (4:102)
(16:58) Have they not seen how many generations We
Those who disbelieve filled their hearts with fa- destroyed before them which We had estab-
natical rage–the fanatical rage of the Time of lished on the earth far more firmly than We have
Ignorance–and Allah sent down serenity to His established you? We sent down heaven upon
Messenger and to the believers, and bound them them in abundant rain and made rivers flow
to the expression of heedfulness which they had under them. But We destroyed them for their
most right to and were most entitled to. Allah has wrong actions and raised up further generations
knowledge of all things. (48:26) after them. (6:6)
It all but bursts with rage. Each time a group is (Yusuf said,) ‘Then after that another year will
flung into it its custodians will question them: come in which the people will be helped by rain
‘Did no warner come to you?’ (67:8) in plenty and when they once more will press.’
(12:49)
RAIN Do you not see that Allah propels the clouds then
It is He Who made the earth a couch for you, and makes them coalesce then heaps them up, and
the sky a dome. He sends down water from the then you see the rain come pouring out of the
sky and by it brings forth fruits for your provision. middle of them? And He sends down mountains
Do not, then, knowingly make others equal to from the sky with hail inside them, striking with it
Allah. (2:22) anyone He wills and averting it from anyone He
You who believe! Do not nullify your charity by wills. The brightness of His lightning almost
demands for gratitude or insulting words, like blinds the sight. (24:43)
him who spends his wealth, showing off to peo- They themselves have come across the city
ple and not believing in Allah and the Last Day. which was rained on by an evil rain. Did they not
His likeness is that of a smooth rock coated with then see it? But they do not expect to rise again.
soil, which, when heavy rain falls on it, is left (25:40)
stripped bare. They have no power over anything Then We utterly destroyed the rest and made a
they have earned. Allah does not guide disbe- Rain come pouring down upon them. How evil
lieving people. (2:264) is the rain of those who are warned! (26:172-
The metaphor of those who spend their wealth, 173)
desiring the pleasure of Allah and firmness for We rained down a rain upon them. How evil is
themselves, is that of a garden on a hillside. the rain of those who are warned! (27:58)
When heavy rain falls on it, it doubles its pro- It is Allah Who sends the winds which stir up
duce; and if heavy rain does not fall, there is clouds which He spreads about the sky however
dew. Allah sees what you do. (2:265) He wills. He forms them into dark clumps and
When you are with them and leading them in you see the rain come pouring out from the mid-
prayer, a group of them should stand with you, dle of them. When He makes it fall on those of
keeping hold of their weapons. When they pros- His servants He wills, they rejoice. (30:48)
613