Gems from the Holy Qur’an
From the translation by Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss)
About the translator:
Muhammad Asad, Leopold Weiss, was born of Jewish parents in Livow, Austria (later Poland) in 1900, and at the age of 22 made his first visit to the Middle East. He later became an outstanding foreign correspondent for the Franfurter Zeitung, and after years of devoted study became one of the leading Muslim scholars of our age. His translation of the Holy Qur'an is one of the most lucid and well-referenced works in this category, dedicated to “li-qawmin yatafakkaroon” (people who think). Forwarded by Dr Ismat Kamal.
Chapter 21, Verse 35
Every human being is bound to taste death; and We test you [all] through the bad and the good [things of life] by way of trial: and unto Us you all must return.
Chapter 21, Verses 47 –50
But We shall set up just balance-scales on Resurrection Day, and no human being shall be wronged in the least: for though there be [in him but] the weight of a mustard-seed [of good or evil], We shall bring it forth; and none can take count as We do!
And, indeed, We vouchsafed unto Moses and Aaron [Our revelation as] the standard by which to discern the true from the false, and as a [guiding] light and a reminder for the God-conscious who stand in awe of their Sustainer although He is beyond the reach of human perception, and who tremble at the thought of the Last Hour.
And [like those earlier revelations], this one, too, is a blessed reminder which We have bestowed from on high: will you, then, disavow it?
Chapter 21, Verses 74-75
And unto Lot, too, We vouchsafed sound judgment and knowledge [of right and wrong], and saved him from that community which was given to deeds of abomination. [We destroyed these people – for,] verily, they were people lost in evil, depraved – whereas him we admitted unto Our grace: for behold, he was among the righteous.
Chapter 21, Verse 85
And [remember] Ishmael and Idris, and everyone who [like them] has pledged himself [unto God]: they all were among those who are patient in adversity, and so We admitted them unto Our grace: behold, they were among the righteous!
Chapter 21, Verses 105-108
And, indeed, after having exhorted [man], We laid it down in all the books of divine wisdom that My righteous servants shall inherit the earth: herein, behold there is a message for people who [truly] worship God.
And [thus, O Prophet], We have sent thee as [an evidence of Our] grace towards all the worlds.
Say: “It has been but revealed unto me that your God is the One and Only God: will you, then, surrender yourselves unto Him?”
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