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Or do you feel secure against Him taking you olives and pomegranates, both similar and dis-
back into it another time and sending a violent similar. Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and
storm against you and drowning you for your in- ripen. There are Signs in that for people who be-
gratitude? Then you will find no one to defend lieve. (6:99)
you against Us. (17:69) We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of
Allah has promised those of you who believe and Rising and no self will be wronged in any way.
do right actions that He will make them succes- Even if it is no more than the weight of a grain of
sors in the land as He made those before them mustard-seed, We will produce it. We are suffi-
successors, and will firmly establish for them their cient as a Reckoner. (21:47)
religion with which He is pleased and give them, (Luqman said,) ‘My son, even if something weighs
in place of their fear, security. ‘They worship Me, as little as a mustard-seed and is inside a rock or
not associating anything with Me.’Any who disbe- anywhere else in the heavens or earth, Allah will
lieve after that, such people are deviators. (24:55) bring it out. Allah is All-Pervading, All-Aware.’
(Salih said to his people,) ‘Are you going to be left (31:16)
secure amid what is here?’ (26:146) He Who has created all things in the best possible
(Allah said,) ‘Throw down your staff!’ Then when way. He commenced the creation of man from
he saw it slithering like a snake he turned and fled clay; then produced his seed from an extract of
and did not turn back again. ‘Musa, approach and base fluid. (32:7-8)
have no fear! You are one of those who are se- Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those
cure.’ (28:31) who are with him are fierce to the disbelievers,
They will call there for fruit of every kind, in com- merciful to one another. You see them bowing and
plete security. (44:55) prostrating, seeking Allah’s good favour and His
Do you feel secure against Him Who is in heaven pleasure. Their mark is on their faces, the traces of
causing the earth to swallow you up when sud- prostration. That is their likeness in the Torah. And
denly it rocks from side to side? (67:16) their likeness in the Gospel is that of a seed which
Or do you feel secure against Him Who is in puts up a shoot and makes it strong so that it thick-
heaven releasing against you a sudden squall of ens and grows up straight upon its stalk, filling the
stones, so that you will know how true My warn- sowers with delight–so that by them He may infu-
ing was? (67:17) riate the disbelievers. Allah has promised those of
them who believe and do right actions forgiveness
SEED and an immense reward. (48:29)
The keys of the Unseen are in His possession. No (I swear) by Heaven with its cyclical systems and
one knows them but Him. He knows everything the earth with its splitting seeds, it is truly a
in the land and sea. No leaf falls without His Decisive Word. (86:11-13)
knowing it. There is no seed in the darkness of
the earth, and nothing moist or dry which is not SELF (NAFS)
in a Clear Book. (6:59) And when Musa said to his people, ‘My people,
Allah is He Who splits the seed and kernel. He You wronged yourselves by adopting the Calf so
brings forth the living from the dead, and pro- turn towards your Maker and kill yourselves. That
duces the dead out of the living. That is Allah, so is the best thing for you in your Maker’s sight.’And
how are you perverted? (6:95) He turned towards you. He is the Ever-Returning,
It is He Who sends down water from the sky from the Most Merciful. (2:54)
which We bring forth growth of every kind, and And We shaded you with clouds and sent down
from that We bring forth the green shoots and manna and quails to you: ‘Eat of the good things
from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, We have provided for you.’ They did not wrong
and from the spathes of the date palm date clus- Us; rather it was themselves they were wronging.
ters hanging down, and gardens of grapes and (2:57)
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