Everything in the heavens and the earth glorifies God, the King, the Holy, the Exalted, the Wise.He is the King, the Owner, the Owner of the Kingdom, and the King of Kings. The king in reality is He, for His kingship has no removal, His seriousness no levity, His exaltedness no abasement, His decree no […]
O you who have faith, why do you say what you do not do?Concerning the hypocrites to whom these words refer, the Lord of the Worlds says,
Greatly hateful to God is it that you say what you do not do.Very ugly, inappropriate, and hated by God are words that do not bring deeds in conformity, or preaching in which the preacher has no portion of the practice.Do not prohibit the people and then do the like of that!Your disgrace is tremendous […]
O you who have faith, be wary of God and let every soul consider what it has sent on ahead for tomorrow, and be wary of God.In this one verse He mentions godwariness twice. First is the godwariness of the common people, namely the avoidance of forbidden things. Second is the godwariness of the elect, […]
O you who have faith, take not My enemy and your enemy as friends.�O you who have faith, who have seen the Messenger as truthful, and who have accepted My message with spirit and soul, do not take My enemy and your enemy as your friend. No enemy of yours is greater than the commanding […]
Everything in the heavens and the earth glorifies God, and He is the Exalted, the Wise.He who desires to make his glorification of Him limpid should make his heart limpid without the traces of his soul, and he who desires his life in the Garden to be limpid should make his religion limpid without the […]
And He is with you wherever you are.�My servants! My creatures! Wherever you are, I am with you through solicitude, mercy, and kind favor. Wherever in the world there is someone poor, wounded by offenses, helpless in the hand of an adversary, I am his patron. Wherever there is someone with a ruined life, made […]
Surely God is to you clement, ever-merciful.Part of His clemency and mercy was that the servant was in the concealment of nonexistence and He was taking care of his work with perfect bounty and generosity. The servant was in the conceal- ment of nonexistence and He chose him over the whole world.Part of His mercy […]
Their light running before them, and on their right hands. On another group He placed the brand of deprivation:
And a wall will be set up between them, inside of which is mercy and outside of which is chastisement.Pharaoh’s sorcerers dwelt in nothing but unbelief and sin, but it is said that sorcery has no effect unless a man is polluted. When the wind of good fortune blew from the direction of gentleness and […]