Say: Who is it that delivers you from the dangers of the land and the sea (when) you call upon Him (openly) humiliating yourselves, and in secret: If He delivers us from this, we should certainly be of the grateful ones. |
Say: Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?-- Say: Allah. Say: Do you take then besides Him guardians who do not control any profit or harm for themselves? Say: Are the blind and the seeing alike? Or can the darkness and the light be equal? Or have they set up with Allah associates who have created creation like His, so that what is created became confused to them? Say: Allah is the Creator of all things, and He is the One, the Supreme. |
Say: Whose is the earth, and whoever is therein, if you know? / They will say: Allah's. Say: Will you not then mind? / Say: Who is the Lord of the seven heavens and the Lord of the mighty dominion? / They will say: (This is) Allah's. Say: Will you not then guard (against evil)? / Say: Who is it in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things and Who gives succor, but against Him Succor is not given, if you do but know? / They will say: (This is) Allah's. Say: From whence are you then deceived? / Nay! We have brought to them the truth, and most surely they are liars. |
Say:Shall I tell you what is better than these? For those who guard (against evil) are gardens with their Lord, beneath which rivers flow, to abide in them, and pure mates and Allah's pleasure; and Allah sees the servants. |
See how they forge the lie against Allah, and this is sufficient as a manifest sin. |
See how they lie against their own souls, and that which they forged has passed away from them. |
See how We have made some of them to excel others, and certainly the hereafter is much superior in respect of excellence. |
See what they liken you to! So they have gone astray and cannot find the way. |
See, then, how was the end of their plan that We destroyed them and their people, all (of them). |
Seek assistance through patience and prayer, and most surely it is a hard thing except for the humble ones. (The Cow 2.45) |
Shall We treat those who believe and do good like the mischief-makers in the earth? Or shall We make those who guard (against evil) like the wicked? / (It is) a Book We have revealed to you abounding in good that they may ponder over its verses, and that those endowed with understanding may be mindful. |
She said: O chiefs! give me advice respecting my affair: I never decide an affair until you are in my presence. |
She said: O wonder! shall I bear a son when I am an extremely old woman and this my husband an extremely old man? Most surely this is a wonderful thing. |
She said: Surely I fly for refuge from you to the Beneficent God, if you are one guarding (against evil). |
She said: Surely the kings, when they enter a town, ruin it and make the noblest of its people to be low, and thus they (always) do; / And surely I am going to send a present to them, and shall wait to see what (answer) do the messengers bring back. |