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a most pleasant life. But as for him whose bal- He has let loose the two seas, converging to-
ance is light, his motherland is Hawiya. (101:6-9) gether, with a barrier between them they do not
break through. (55:19-20)
BARRENNESS
He (Zakariyya) said, ‘My Lord, how can I possi- BATTLE
bly have a son when I have reached old age and It is not devoutness to turn your faces to the East
my wife is barren?’ He said, ‘It will be so. Allah or to the West. Rather, those with true devoutness
does whatever He wills.’ (3:40) are those who believe in Allah and the Last Day,
(Zakariyya said,) ‘I fear my relatives when I am the Angels, the Book and the Prophets, and who,
gone and my wife is barren, so give me an heir despite their love for it, give away their wealth to
from You.’ (19:5) their relatives and to orphans and the very poor,
He (Zakariyya) said, ‘My Lord! How can I have a and to travellers and beggars and to set slaves
boy when my wife is barren and I have reached free, and who perform prayer and give the alms;
advanced old age?’ (19:8) those who honour their contracts when they
Or He gives them both sons and daughters; and make them, and are steadfast in poverty and ill-
He makes whoever He wishes barren. Truly He is ness and in battle. Those are the people who are
All-Knowing, All-Powerful. (42:50) true. They are the people who guard against evil.
His (Ibrahim's) wife came up with a shriek and (2:177)
struck her face and said, ‘What, and me a barren Remember when you left your family early in the
old woman!’ (51:29) day to instal the believers in their battle stations.
Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (3:121)
BARRIER You who believe, be steadfast; be supreme in
They said, ‘Dhu’l-Qarnayn! Yajuj and Majuj are steadfastness; be firm on the battlefield; and have
causing corruption in the land. Can we, there- fear of Allah; so that hopefully you will be suc-
fore, pay tribute to you in return for your con- cessful. (3:200)
structing a barrier between us and them?’ (18:94) You who believe! When you encounter those
He (Dhu’l-Qarnayn) said, ‘The power my Lord who disbelieve advancing in massed ranks into
has granted me is better than that. Just give me a battle, do not turn your backs on them. (8:15)
strong helping hand and I will build a solid bar- So do not obey the disbelievers but use this (the
rier between you and them.’ (18:95) Qur’an) to battle against them with all your
It is He Who has unloosed both seas–the one might. (25:52)
sweet and refreshing, the other salty and
bitter–and put a dividing line between them, an BATTLE OF THE TRENCH
uncrossable barrier. (25:53) You who believe! Remember Allah’s blessing to
He Who made the earth a stable dwelling place you when forces came against you and We sent a
and appointed rivers flowing through its midst wind against them and other forces you could
and placed firmly embedded mountains on it not see. Allah sees what you do. (33:9)
and set a barrier between the two seas. Is there When they came at you from above you and
another god besides Allah? No indeed, but most below you, when your eyes rolled and your
of them do not know it! (27:61) hearts rose to your throats, and you thought un-
A barrier will be set up between them and the worthy thoughts about Allah, at that point the be-
thing that they desire, just as was done with their lievers were tested and severely shaken.
kind before. They too were in a state of crippling (33:10-11)
doubt. (34:54) When the hypocrites and people with sickness in
We have placed a barrier in front of them and a their hearts said, ‘What Allah and His Messenger
barrier behind them, blindfolding them so that promised us was mere delusion.’ (33:12)
they cannot see. (36:9) And a group of them said, ‘People of Yathrib,
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