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They will ask you what they should give away. you faltered, disputing the command, and dis-
Say, ‘Whatever is surplus to your needs.’ In this obeyed after He showed you what you love.
way Allah makes the Signs clear to you, so that Among you are those who want this world and
hopefully you will reflect on this world and the among you are those who want the hereafter.
hereafter. They will ask you about the property of Then He turned you from them in order to test
orphans. Say, ‘Managing it in their best interests you–but He has pardoned you. Allah shows
is best.’ If you mix your property with theirs, they favour to the believers. (3:152)
are your brothers. Allah knows a squanderer Every self will taste death. You will be paid your
from a good manager. If Allah had wanted, He wages in full on the Day of Rising. Anyone who
could have been hard on you. Allah is Almighty, is distanced from the Fire and admitted to the
All-Wise. (2:219-220) Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is
To mankind the love of worldly appetites is just the enjoyment of delusion. (3:185)
painted in glowing colours: women and chil- So let those who sell the life of this world for the
dren, and heaped-up mounds of gold and silver, hereafter fight in the Way of Allah. If someone
and horses with fine markings, and livestock and fights in the Way of Allah, whether he is killed or
fertile farmland. All that is merely the enjoyment is victorious, We will pay him an immense re-
of the life of this world. The best homecoming is ward. (4:74)
in the presence of Allah. (3:14) Do you not see those who were told: ‘Hold back
They are the ones whose actions come to noth- from fighting but perform prayer and give the
ing in this world or the hereafter. They will have alms’? Then when fighting is prescribed for them,
no helpers. (3:22) a group of them fear people as Allah should be
When the angels said, ‘Maryam, your Lord gives feared, or even more than that. They say, ‘Our
you good news of a Word from Him. His name is Lord, why have you prescribed fighting for us? If
the Messiah, ‘Isa, son of Maryam, of high esteem only You would give us just a little more time!’
in this world and the hereafter, and one of those Say, ‘The enjoyment of this world is very brief.
brought near.’ (3:45) The hereafter is better for those who guard
(Allah said,) ‘As for those who disbelieve, I will against evil. You will not be wronged by so much
punish them with a harsh punishment in this as the smallest speck.’ (4:77)
world and the hereafter. They will have no You who believe! When you go out to fight in the
helpers.’ (3:56) Way of Allah verify things carefully. Do not say,
The metaphor of what they spend in their life in ‘You are not a believer’, to someone who greets
this world is that of a wind with an icy bite to it you as a Muslim, simply out of desire for the
which strikes the crops of a people who have goods of this world. With Allah there is booty in
wronged themselves and destroys them. Allah abundance. That is the way you were before but
did not wrong them; rather it was themselves Allah has been kind to you. So verify things care-
they were wronging. (3:117) fully. Allah is aware of what you do. (4:94)
No self can die except with Allah’s permission, at Here you are arguing on their behalf in this
a predetermined time. If anyone desires the re- world, but who will argue with Allah on their be-
ward of this world, We will give him some of it. If half on the Day of Rising? Who will act as
anyone desires the reward of the hereafter, We guardian for them then? (4:109)
will give him some of it. We will recompense the If anyone desires the reward of this world, the re-
thankful. (3:145) ward of both this world and hereafter is with
So Allah gave them the reward of this world and Allah. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. (4:134)
the best reward of the hereafter. Allah loves The reprisal against those who wage war on
good-doers. (3:148) Allah and His Messenger, and go about the earth
Allah fulfilled His promise to you when you were corrupting it, is that they should be killed or cru-
slaughtering them by His permission. But then cified, or have their alternate hands and feet cut
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