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sheep. You see our father is a very old man.’ Messenger will be unjust to them? No, it is simply
(28:23) that they are wrongdoers. (24:50)
Yet We produced further generations and ages There is no objection to the blind, no objection to
passed. Nor did you live among the people of the lame, no objection to the sick; nor to your-
Madyan and recite Our Signs to them, yet We selves if you eat in your own houses or your fa-
have sent you news of them. (28:45) thers’ houses or your mothers’ houses or your
And to Madyan We sent their brother Shu‘ayb, brothers’ houses or your sisters’ houses or the
he said, ‘My people, worship Allah and look to houses of your paternal uncles or paternal aunts or
the Last Day and do not act unjustly on earth, the houses of your maternal uncles or maternal
corrupting it.’ (29:36) aunts or places to which you own the keys or those
of your friends. There is nothing wrong in your eat-
SHUKR (SEE THANKSGIVING) ing together or eating separately. And when you
enter houses greet one another with a greeting
SICKNESS from Allah, blessed and good. In this way Allah
There is a sickness in their hearts and Allah has makes the Signs clear to you so that hopefully you
increased their sickness. They will have a painful will use your intellect. (24:61)
punishment on account of their denial. (2:10) When the hypocrites and people with sickness in
Yet you see those with sickness in their hearts their hearts said, ‘What Allah and His Messenger
rushing to them, saying, ‘We fear the wheel of fate promised us was mere delusion.’ (33:12)
may turn against us.’ But it may well be that Allah Wives of the Prophet! You are not like other
will bring about victory or some other contin- women provided you guard against evil. Do not be
gency from Him. Then they will deeply regret their too soft-spoken in your speech lest someone with
secret thoughts. (5:52) sickness in his heart becomes desirous. Speak cor-
And when the hypocrites and those with sickness rect and courteous words. (33:32)
in their hearts said, ‘These people have been de- If the hypocrites and those with sickness in their
luded by their religion.’ But those who put their hearts and the rumour-mongers in Madina do not
trust in Allah will find Allah to be Almighty, All- desist, We will set you onto them. Then they will
Wise. (8:49) only be your neighbours there a very short time.
Nothing is held against the weak and sick nor (33:60)
against those who find nothing to spend, provided And (Ibrahim) said, ‘I am sick.’ (37:89)
they are true to Allah and His Messenger–there is So We cast him (Yunus) up onto the beach and he
no way open against good-doers, Allah is Ever- was sick. (37:145)
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:91) Those who believe say, ‘If only a sura could be sent
But as for those with sickness in their hearts, it down.’ But when a straightforward sura is sent
adds defilement to their defilement, and they die down and fighting is mentioned in it, you see those
while they are disbelievers. (9:125) with sickness in their hearts looking at you with the
We did not send any Messenger or any Prophet look of someone about to faint from fear of death.
before you without Satan insinuating something More fitting for them would be obedience and ho-
into his recitation while he was reciting. But Allah nourable words. Once the matter is resolved upon,
revokes whatever Satan insinuates and then Allah being true to Allah would be better for them.
confirms His Signs–Allah is All-Knowing, All- (47:20-21)
Wise–so that He can make what Satan insinuates a Or did those with sickness in their hearts imagine
trial for those with sickness in their hearts and for that Allah would not expose their malevolence?
those whose hearts are hard–the wrongdoers are (47:29)
entrenched in hostility. (22:52-53) There is no constraint on the blind, nor on the
Is there a sickness in their hearts or do they have lame, nor on the sick. We will admit all who
misgivings or do they fear that Allah and His obey Allah and His Messenger into Gardens with
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