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Sura 34
Aya 24
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۞ قُل مَن يَرزُقُكُم مِنَ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضِ ۖ قُلِ اللَّهُ ۖ وَإِنّا أَو إِيّاكُم لَعَلىٰ هُدًى أَو في ضَلالٍ مُبينٍ

Yusuf Ali

Say: “Who gives you1 sustenance, from the heavens and the earth?” Say: “It is God. and certain it is that either we or ye2 are on right guidance or in manifest error!”
  • There are six propositions introduced here with the word “Say”, at verses 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 30. They clearly explain the doctrine of Unity (verse 22), the Mercy of God (verse 23), man’s Personal Responsibility (verse 25), the Final Justice of God (verse 26), God’s Power and Wisdom (verse 27), and the Inevitability of the Judgment, by which the true values will be restored (verse 30).
  • Right and Wrong, Good and Evil, are incompatible, one with another. In this matter we can make no compromise. It is true that in men there may be various degrees of good or evil mixed together, and we have to tolerate men as our fellow-creatures, with all their faults and shortcomings. But this does not mean that we can worship God and Mammon together. Wrong is the negation of Right as light is of darkness. Though there may be apparently varying depths of darkness, this is only due to the imperfection of our vision: it is varying strengths of light as perceived by our relative powers of sight. So we may perceive the Light of God in varying degrees according to our spiritual vision. But in simple questions of Right and Wrong, we are faced by the Categorical Imperative.