Tuesday 25 August 2015

The Power to Benefit or Harm (Nafa aur Nuksan ka Ikhtiar)

1) If Allah touch thee with affliction, none can remove it but He: if He touch thee with happiness, He hath power over all things! (Surah 6, Al-An’am, Verse 17).
2) Say, ‘Think ye, if Allah took away your hearing and your sight, and sealed up your hearts, who – a God other than Allah - could restore them to you?’ (Surah 6, Al-An’am, Verse 46 Part).
3) Give this warning to those in whose (hearts) is the fear that they will be brought (to Judgement) before their Lord: except for Him, they will have no protector nor intercessor: that they may guard (against evil). (Surah 6, Al-An’am, Verse 51).
4) Say:’ I have no power over any good or harm to myself except as Allah Willeth. If I had knowledge of the unseen, I should have multiplied all good: and no evil should have touched me: I am but a warner, and a bringer of glad tidings to those who have faith’. (Surah 7, Al-Ar’af, Verse 188).
5) Say: ‘I have no power over any harm or profit to myself except as Allah Willeth. To every People is a term appointed! .... (Surah 10, Yunus, Verse 49 Part).
6) Say: "Call on those - besides Him - whom ye fancy: they have neither the power to remove your troubles from you nor to change them." Those whom they call upon do desire (for
themselves) means of access to their Lord, - even those who are nearest: they hope for His Mercy and fear His Wrath: for the Wrath of thy Lord is something to take heed of.   (Surah 17, Bani Isra-il Verses 56-57).
7) There, the (only) protection comes from Allah, the True One. He is the Best to reward, and the Best to give success. (Surah 18, Al-Kahf, verse 44).
8) Yet have they taken, besides him, gods that can create nothing but are themselves created; that have no control of hurt or good to themselves; nor can they control death nor life nor resurrection. (Surah 25, Al-Furqan, verse 3).
9) Yet do they worship, besides Allah, things that can neither profit them nor harm them: and the
Misbeliever is a helper (of Evil), against his own Lord! (Surah 25, Al-Furqan, verse 55).
10) Say: "Call upon other (gods) whom ye fancy, besides Allah. They have no power, - not the weight of an atom, - in the heavens or on earth: No (sort of) share have they therein, nor is any of them a helper to Allah. (Surah 34, Saba, verse 22).
11) What Allah out of his Mercy doth bestow on mankind there is none can withhold: what He doth withhold, there is none can grant, apart from Him: and He is the Exalted in Power, full of Wisdom. (Surah 35, Fatir, verse 2).
12) If ye invoke them, they will not listen to your call, and if they were to listen, they cannot answer your (prayer). On the Day of Judgment they will reject your "Partnership". And none, (O man!) can tell thee (the Truth) like the One Who is acquainted with all things. (Surah 35, Fatir, verse 14).
13) Allah will establish in strength those who believe, with the word that stands firm, in this world and in the Hereafter; but Allah will leave, to stray, those who do wrong: Allah doeth what He willeth. (Surah 14, Ibrahim, verse 27).
14) Or who is there that can provide you with Sustenance if He were to withhold His provision? Nay, they obstinately persist in insolent impiety and flight (from the Truth). (Surah 67, Al-Mulk, verse 15).
15) Say: "See ye? - If your stream be some morning lost (in the underground earth), who then can supply you with clear-flowing water?"(Surah 67, Al-Mulk, verse 30).
16) Allah sets forth, for an example to the Unbelievers, the wife of Noah and the wife of Lut: they were (respectively) under two of our righteous servants, but they were false to their (husbands), and they profited nothing before Allah on their account, but were told: "Enter ye the Fire along with (others) that enter!" (Surah 66, Al-Tahrim, verse 10).
17) And Allah sets forth, as an example to those who believe the wife of Pharaoh: Behold, she said: "O my Lord! Build for me, in nearness to Thee, a mansion in the Garden, and save me from Pharaoh and his doings, and save me from those that do wrong"; (Surah 66, Al-Tahrim, verse 11).
18) Say: "It is not in my power to cause you harm, or to bring you to right conduct." (Surah 72, Al-Jinn, verse 21).
19) Leave alone those who take their religion to be mere play and amusement, and are deceived by the life of this world. But proclaim (to them) this (truth): that every soul delivers itself to ruin by its own acts: it will find for itself no protector or intercessor except Allah. If it offered every ransom, (or reparation), none will be accepted: such is (the end of) those who deliver themselves to ruin by their own acts: they will have for drink (only) boiling water, and for punishment, one most grievous: for they persisted in rejecting Allah. Say: "Shall we indeed call on others besides Allah, - things that can do us neither good nor harm, - and turn on our heels after receiving guidance from Allah. - like one whom the evil ones have made into a fool, wandering bewildered through the earth, his friends calling, come to us´, (vainly) guiding him to the path." Say: "(Allah) ´s guidance is the (only) guidance, and we have been directed to submit ourselves to the Lord of the worlds; - (Surah 6, Al-An’am, verses 70-71).
 20) If Allah helps you, none can overcome you: If He forsakes you, who is there, after that that can help you? In Allah, then, let believers put their trust. (Surah 3, Al-Imran, verse 160).
21) Unto Allah belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth. He giveth life and He taketh it. Except for Him ye have no protector nor helper. (Surah 9, Al-Tauba, verse 116).
22) Narrated Abu Huraira: When Allah revealed the Verse: "Warn your nearest kinsmen," Allah's Apostle (Peace be upon him) got up and said, "O people of Quraish (or said similar words)! Buy (i.e. save) yourselves (from the Hellfire) as I cannot save you from Allah's Punishment; O Bani Abd Manaf! I cannot save you from Allah's Punishment, O Safiya, the Aunt of Allah's Apostle! I cannot save you from Allah's Punishment; O Fatima bint Muhammad! Ask me anything from my wealth, but I cannot save you from Allah's Punishment." (Sahih Bukhari: Volume 4, Book 51, Number 16: Book of Wills [Wasiyya]) (Islambase Publications).
23) Narrated Al-Musaiyab: When Abu Talib was in his death bed, the Prophet (Peace be upon him)   went to him while Abu Jahl was sitting beside him. The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said, "O my uncle! Say: None has the right to be worshipped except Allah, an expression I will defend your case with, before Allah." Abu Jahl and 'Abdullah bin Umaya said, "O Abu Talib! Will you leave the religion of 'Abdul Muttalib?” So they kept on saying this to him so that the last statement he said to them (before he died) was: "I am on the religion of 'Abdul Muttalib." Then the Prophet (Peace be upon him) said, “I will keep on asking for Allah's Forgiveness for you unless I am forbidden to do so." Then the following Verse was revealed: -- "It is not fitting for the Prophet and the believers to ask Allah's Forgiveness for the pagans, even if they were their near relatives, after it has become clear to them that they are the dwellers of the (Hell) Fire." (9.113) The other Verse was also revealed: -- "(O Prophet!) Verily, you guide not whom you like, but Allah guides whom He will ......." (28.56) (Sahih Bukhari: Volume 5, Book 58, Number 223: Book of Merits of Al-Ansar) (Islambase Publications).
24) Narrated Abu Huraira: I heard Allah's Apostle (Peace be upon him) saying, "The good deeds of any person will not make him enter Paradise." (i.e., none can enter Paradise through his good deeds.) They (the Prophet's companions) said, 'Not even you, O Allah's Apostle (Peace be upon him)?' He said, "Not even myself, unless Allah bestows His favor and mercy on me." So be moderate in your religious deeds and do the deeds that are within your ability: and none of you should wish for death, for if he is a good doer, he may increase his good deeds, and if he is an evil doer, he may repent to Allah." (Sahih Bukhari: Volume 7, Book 70, Number 577: Book of Patients) (Islambase Publications).











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