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Allah does not impose on any self any more than ciate others with Allah! Say: ‘Name them! Or
it can stand. For it is what it has earned; against would you inform Him of something in the earth
it, what it has brought upon itself. ‘Our Lord, do He does not know, or are they words which are
not take us to task if we forget or make a mistake! simply guesswork on your part?’ However, the
Our Lord, do not place on us a load like the one plotting of those who disbelieve seems good to
You placed on those before us! Our Lord, do not them and they bar the way. Anyone misguided
place on us a load we have not the strength to by Allah has no guide. (13:33)
bear! And pardon us; and forgive us; and have Those before them plotted but all plotting be-
mercy on us. You are our Master, so help us longs to Allah. He knows what each self earns,
against the people of the disbelievers.’ (2:286) and the disbelievers will soon know who has the
But how will it be when We gather them all to- Ultimate Abode. (13:42)
gether for a Day about which there is no doubt? So that Allah may repay every self for what it
Every self will be paid in full for what it earned. earned. Allah is swift at reckoning. (14:51)
They will not be wronged. (3:25) On that Day every self will come to argue for it-
On the Day that each self finds the good it did, self and every self will be paid in full for what it
and the evil it did, present there in front of it, it did. They will not be wronged. (16:111)
will wish there were an age between it and then. ‘Read your Book! Today your own self is reck-
Allah advises you to beware of Him. Allah is oner enough against you!’ (17:14)
Ever-Gentle with His servants. (3:30) He entered his garden and wronged himself by
Anyone who does evil or wrongs himself and saying, ‘I do not think that this will ever end.’
then asks Allah’s forgiveness will find Allah Ever- (18:35)
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:110) He (Samaritan) said, ‘I saw what they did not see.
So his lower self persuaded him to kill his So I gathered up a handful from the Messenger’s
brother, and he killed him and became one of the footprints and threw it in. That is what my inner
lost. (5:30) self urged me to do.’ (20:96)
And that you do not go near the property of or- He (Musa) said, ‘My Lord, I have wronged my-
phans before they reach maturity–except in a self. Forgive me.’ So He forgave him. He is the
good way; that you give full measure and full Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful. (28:16)
weight with justice–We impose on no self any Whoever strives does it entirely for himself. Allah
more than it can bear; that you are equitable is Rich Beyond Need of any being. (29:6)
when you speak–even if a near relative is con- When you said to him whom Allah has blessed
cerned; and that you fulfil Allah’s contract. That and you yourself have greatly favoured, ‘Keep
is what He instructs you to do, so that hopefully your wife to yourself and have fear of Allah,’
you will pay heed. (6:152) while concealing something in yourself which
They then produced his shirt with false blood on Allah wished to bring to light, you were fearing
it. He (Ya‘qub) said, ‘It is merely that your lower people when Allah has more right to your fear.
selves have suggested something to you which Then when Zayd divorced her We married her to
you did; but beauty lies in showing steadfastness. you so that there should be no restriction for the
It is Allah alone Who is my Help in face of the believers regarding the wives of their adopted
event that you describe.’ (12:18) sons when they have divorced them. Allah’s
He said, ‘It’s merely that your lower selves sug- command is always carried out. (33:37)
gested something to you which you did. But And what of him the evil of whose actions ap-
beauty lies in having steadfastness. Perhaps Allah pears fine to him so that he sees them as good?
will bring them all together. He is indeed All- Allah misguides whoever He wills and guides
Knowing and All-Wise.’ (12:83) whoever He wills. So do not let yourself waste
What then of Him Who is standing over every away out of regret for them. Allah knows what
self seeing everything it does? Yet still they asso- they do. (35:8)
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