Page 45 - Some Secrets of the Qur'an

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Another secret that God reveals in the Qur'an is that those
who do good will be rewarded with good both in the world
and in the hereafter. Of this God says the following:
Say: 'My servants who believe! Have fear of your
Lord. For those who do good in the life of this world
there is good and God's earth is spacious. The
steadfast will be paid their wages in full without
any reckoning.' (Surat az-Zumar: 10)
However, one needs to know what the actual "goodness"
is. Each society has developed its own understanding of
goodness; being pleasant, giving money to the poor,
behaving with tolerance towards every sort of treatment are
often perceived as signs of "goodness" in society. However,
God informs us what the actual "goodness" is in the Qur'an:
It is not righteousness to turn your faces to the East
or to the West. Rather, truly righteous are those who
believe in God and the Last Day, the Angels, the