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The Gentle, The Subtle
Allah is very gentle with His servants. He provides for any-
one He wills. He is the Most Strong, the Almighty. (Surat ash-
Shura, 42:19)

As mentioned earlier, there are two kinds of people: those who
submit to Allah and those who rebel against Him. Among humanity,
He made a very few of them truly submissive to Him. In many
verses, Allah relates that the majority of people will not have faith
and will not attain the straight path. These people deserve Hell, for
they adhered to Satan’s path, failed to remember Allah, and denied
His existence despite their own certainty. People who submit them-
selves to Allah and live for His good pleasure, on the other hand,
lead a beautiful life both in this life and beyond. No doubt, Allah’s
sending His Messengers and Books in order to guide humanity is
one of His favors. In the Qur’an, Allah’s kindness to believers is
stated, as follows:
Allah showed great kindness to the believers when He sent
a Messenger to them from among themselves to recite His
Signs to them, purify them, and teach them the Book and
Wisdom, even though before that they were clearly mis-
guided. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 3:164)
Allah, Who is Gentle, also shows His kindness to His faithful
servants by helping them. In the Qur’an, He gives many examples of
His help and support to His sincere servants. One of these concerns
Prophet Musa’s (as) people, who were saved from Pharaoh’s vio-
lence and made inheritors of the land. This fact is related in the fol-

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