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it by night or day and We reduce it to dried-out others back for a specified term. There are cer-
stubble, as though it had not been flourishing just tainly Signs in that for people who reflect. (39:42)
the day before! In this way We make Our Signs And He has made everything in the heavens and
clear for people who reflect. (10:24) everything on the earth subservient to you. It is
It is He Who stretched out the earth and placed all from Him. There are certainly Signs in that for
firmly embedded mountains and rivers in it and people who reflect. (45:13)
made two types of every kind of fruit. He covers If We Had sent down this Qur’an onto a moun-
over day with night. There are Signs in that for tain, you would have seen it humbled, crushed
people who reflect. (13:3) to pieces out of fear of Allah. We make such ex-
And by it He makes crops grow for you and amples for people so that hopefully they will re-
olives and dates and grapes and fruit of every flect. (59:21)
kind. There is certainly a Sign in that for people
who reflect. (16:11) REGION
We have only ever sent before you men who In the earth there are diverse regions side by side
were given Revelation–ask the People of the and gardens of grapes and cultivated fields, and
Reminder if you do not know–who brought Clear palm-trees sharing one root and others with indi-
Signs and Revealed Books. And We have sent vidual roots, all watered with the same water.
down the Reminder to you so that you can make And We make some things better to eat than oth-
clear to mankind what has been sent down to ers. There are Signs in that for people who use
them so that hopefully they will reflect. (16:43- their intellect. (13:4)
44)
(Your Lord revealed to the bees:) ‘Then eat from REGRET
every kind of fruit and travel the paths of your Yet you see those with sickness in their hearts
Lord, which have been made easy for you to fol- rushing to them, saying, ‘We fear the wheel of
low.’ From inside them comes a drink of varying fate may turn against us.’ But it may well be that
colours, containing healing for mankind. There is Allah will bring about victory or some other con-
certainly a Sign in that for people who reflect. tingency from Him. Then they will deeply regret
(16:69) their secret thoughts. (5:52)
Have they not reflected within themselves? Allah Those who disbelieve spend their wealth barring
did not create the heavens and the earth and access to the Way of Allah. They will spend it;
everything between them except with truth and then they will regret it; then they will be over-
for a fixed term. Yet many people reject the meet- thrown. Those who disbelieve will be gathered
ing with their Lord. (30:8) into Hell. (8:36)
Among His Signs is that He created spouses for He said, ‘In a short while they will be full of re-
you of your own kind so that you might find tran- gret.’ (23:40)
quillity in them. And He has placed affection and You who believe! If a deviator brings you a re-
compassion between you. There are certainly port, scrutinize it carefully in case you attack
Signs in that for people who reflect. (30:21) people in ignorance and so come to greatly re-
Say: ‘I exhort you to do one thing alone: to stand gret what you have done. (49:6)
before Allah in pairs and on your own and then
reflect. Your companion is not possessed. He is REJOICE
only a warner come to you ahead of a terrible Do not suppose that those killed in the Way of
punishment.’ (34:46) Allah are dead. No indeed! They are alive and
Allah takes back people’s selves when their well provided for in the very presence of their
death arrives and those who have not yet died, Lord, delighting in the favour Allah has bestowed
while they are asleep. He keeps hold of those on them, rejoicing over those they left behind
whose death has been decreed and sends the who have not yet joined them, feeling no fear
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