Allah has made the Kaʿbah, the Sacred House, a source of stability for people, along with the sacred month, the sacrificial animals, and the marked animals for sacrifice. This is so that you may know that Allah knows whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth, and that Allah has full knowledge of everything.
Say, “The bad and the good are not equal, even if the abundance of what is bad impresses you.” So be mindful of Allah, people of understanding, so that you may succeed.
Believers, do not ask about things which, if made clear to you, would trouble you. Yet if you ask about them while the Qur’an is being revealed, they will be made clear to you. Allah has pardoned what has passed. Allah is Most Forgiving, Most Forbearing.
Allah has not instituted the practices of bahirah, sa'ibah, wasilah, or ham. Rather, those who reject faith invent lies about Allah, and most of them do not understand.
When they are told, “Come to what Allah has sent down and to the Messenger,” they say, “What we found our forefathers following is enough for us.” Even if their forefathers knew nothing and were not guided?
Believers, you are responsible for yourselves. Those who go astray cannot harm you when you are rightly guided. To Allah you will all return, and He will inform you of what you used to do.
Believers, when death approaches one of you and you are making a bequest, let two just people from among you serve as witnesses, or two others from outside your community if you are traveling and the crisis of death comes upon you. If you have doubts, detain the two witnesses after prayer and let them swear by Allah, “We will not sell our testimony for any price, even for a close relative, nor will we hide Allah’s testimony. If we did, we would certainly be among the sinners.”
But if it is discovered that the two witnesses were guilty of wrongdoing, then two others from among those with the strongest claim against them should take their place and swear by Allah, “Our testimony is truer than theirs, and we have not overstepped. If we did, we would certainly be among the wrongdoers.”
That is more likely to make them give testimony properly, or fear that other oaths may be taken after theirs. Be mindful of Allah and listen. Allah does not guide defiantly disobedient people.
On the Day Allah gathers the messengers and asks, “What response did you receive?” they will say, “We have no knowledge. You alone are the Knower of all that is unseen.”
Then Allah will say, “Jesus son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and your mother: I strengthened you with the Holy Spirit, so you spoke to people in the cradle and in adulthood. I taught you the Scripture, wisdom, the Torah, and the Gospel. You shaped from clay something like the form of a bird by My permission, then breathed into it and it became a bird by My permission. You healed the blind and the leper by My permission, and you brought the dead out by My permission. I restrained the Children of Israel from harming you when you came to them with clear proofs, and those among them who rejected faith said, ‘This is nothing but obvious magic.’”
When the disciples said, “Jesus son of Mary, can your Lord send down to us a table spread with food from heaven?” He said, “Be mindful of Allah if you are truly believers.”
Jesus son of Mary said, “Allah, our Lord, send down to us a table spread with food from heaven to be a celebration for us, for the first of us and the last of us, and a sign from You. Provide for us, for You are the best of providers.”
Allah said, “I will send it down to you. But whoever among you rejects faith afterward, I will punish with a punishment unlike any I have given anyone else in the worlds.”
And when Allah says, “Jesus son of Mary, did you tell people, ‘Take me and my mother as two gods besides Allah’?” he will say, “Glory be to You! It was not for me to say what I had no right to say. Had I said it, You would certainly have known it. You know what is within me, while I do not know what is within You. You alone are the Knower of all that is unseen.
I told them only what You commanded me: ‘Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord.’ I was a witness over them while I remained among them. But when You took me, You were the Watcher over them. You are witness over everything.
Allah will say, “This is the Day when the truthful will benefit from their truthfulness. They will have gardens with rivers flowing beneath them, where they will remain forever. Allah is pleased with them, and they are pleased with Him. That is the great triumph.”
Ziqra