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In a sense the whole of the Islamic intellectual tradition is a commentary upon the Quran.
He has forbidden you only carrion, blood, the flesh of swine, and what has been offered to other than God.
When My servants ask thee about Me, truly I am near. I answer the call of the caller when he calls Me. So let them respond to Me and believe in Me, that they may be led aright.
Satan threatens you with poverty and commands you to indecency. And God promises you forgiveness from Him, and bounty. And God is All-Encompassing, Knowing. 269 He grants wisdom to whomsoever He will.
“We make no distinction between any of His messengers.”
But family relations have the strongest claim on one another in the Book of God (8:75); Family relations are closer to one another, according to the Book of God (33:6); Were you to turn away, would you perchance work corruption upon the earth and break your family relations? (47:22).
And when thy Lord said to the angels, “I am placing a vicegerent upon the earth,” they said, “Wilt Thou place therein one who will work corruption therein, and shed blood, while we hymn Thy praise and call Thee Holy?” He said, “Truly I know what you know not.”
For some, to be taught the names of things means to be given knowledge of all things.
Possessors of intellect are thus those who employ reason as it should be employed, knowing that the “kernel” or “pith” is their true sustenance, not reason in and of itself independent of revelation (Futūḥāt III 120.32–35). * * *
Had He willed, He would have guided you all together (cf. 13:31).
10:107: And if God should touch thee with affliction, none can remove it save He; and if He desires some good for thee, none can hold back His Bounty.
“In Thy Name, my Lord, I lay down my body, and in Thee do I raise it. If Thou dost take my soul, have mercy upon it. And if Thou dost send it back, protect it with that with which Thou protectest Thy righteous servants”
46 Say, “O God! Originator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the Unseen and the seen, Thou judgest between Thy servants regarding that wherein they differ.”
“Call upon Me, and I shall respond to you.
God will judge between you on the Day of Resurrection concerning that wherein you used to differ (22:68–69).
