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SOME SECRETS OF THE QUR'AN

superiority other than praying to God are in fact associating
partners with Him. This is because neither wealth, nor
prestige, nor status has any individual will to provide a
person with power. Besides, it is a matter of a single moment
for God to take back this power from a person. For example,
a top-executive may lose all his wealth, prestige and status in
a moment, because the only and real possessor of everything
is God.
God bestows power and honour on His servants who are
friends to Him, who are wholeheartedly devoted to Him and
who follow the Qur'an. A person who lives by the Qur'an
never does anything likely to bring disgrace, feel regret or
shame in the presence of the Lord. The true believers fear no
one and no power, and never curry favour with anyone. They
only want to attain the pleasure of God and fear only God.
That is why they have no weakness or any sense of
inadequacy. Although they do now own any possessions,
wealth, rank or prestige, God grants power and honour to
them. Such a person, meanwhile, holds the superiority and
honour of being faithful and living by the morals of the
Qur'an. Of this God states the following:

... But all might belongs to God and to His
Messenger and the believers... (Surat al-Munafiqun:
8)