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Secret Knowledge of the Qur‘an
By S.M. Zakir Hussain (Bangladesh)
Chapter IX
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Secret Knowledge
of the Qur‘an
9. Mysterious Shift of Tenses:
God is present in all segments of time. As a result, although He uses tenses of different types while communicating with us, the way He uses the tenses shows that He approaches us by referring to any segment of time as the present. That is because He is the Ever-Present. Let us see some examples. Also see the density of tenses.
9.1.
10: 4. To Him is the return of all of you; it is a promise of Allah in truth. Look! He produces creation, then reproduces it, that He may reward those who believe and do good works with equity; while, as for those who disbelieve, theirs will be a boiling drink and painful doom because they disbelieved .
9.2.
10:45. And on the day when He shall gather them together, (when it will seem) as though they had stayed only an hour of the day, recognising one another, those will Certainly have perished who denied the meeting with Allah and were not guided.
9.3.
11:18. Who does greater wrong than he who invents a lie about Allah? Such will be brought before their Lord, and the witnesses will say: These are they who lied about their Lord. Now the curse of Allah is upon wrong-doers,
11:19. Who debar (men) from the way of Allah and would have it crooked, and who are disbelievers in the Hereafter.
11:20. Such people will not escape (punishment) in the earth, nor do they have any protecting friends except Allah. For them the torment will be double. They could not bear to hear, and they used not to see .
11:21. Such are they who have lost their souls, and that which they used to invent has failed them.
11:22. Assuredly in the Hereafter they will be the greatest losers.
9.4.
43:66. Do they wait for anything except the Hour, that it shall come upon them suddenly, when they do not know?
43:67. Friends on that day will be foes to one another, except those who kept their duty (to Allah).
43:68. O My slaves! For you there is no fear this day, nor is it you who grieve;
43:69. (you all) who believed Our revelations and were self-surrendered,
43:70. Enter the Garden, you and your wives, to be made glad.
43:71. Therein are brought round for them trays of gold and goblets, and therein is all that souls desire and eyes find sweet. And you are immortal therein.
43:72. This is the Garden which you are made to inherit because of what you used to do.
43:73. Therein for you is fruit in plenty from which you will eat.
43:74. Lo! the guilty are immortal in hell's torment.
43:75. It is not relaxed for them, and they despair therein.
43:76. We did not wrong them, but it was they who did the wrong.
43:77. And they cry: O master! Let your Lord make an end of us. He saith: Lo! here you must remain.
43:78. We verily brought the Truth to you, but you were, most of you, averse to the Truth.
43:79. Or do they determine any thing (against the Prophet)? Lo! We (also) are determining.
43:80. Or deem they that We cannot hear their secret thoughts and private confidences? Nay, but Our envoys, present with them, do record.
9.5.
55:37. And when the heaven splits asunder and becomes rosy like red hide 55:38. Which is it, of the favors of your Lord, that you deny?
55:39. On that day neither man nor jinni will be questioned of his sin.
55:40. Which is it, of the favors of your Lord, that you deny?
55:41. The guilty will be known by their marks, and will be taken by the forelocks and the feet.
55:42. Which is it, of the favors of your Lord, that you deny?
55:43. This is hell which the guilty deny.
9.6.
58: 6. On the day when Allah will raise them all together and inform them of what they did . Allah has kept account of it while they forgot it. And Allah is Witness over all things.
9.10.
83:22. Lo! the righteous certainly are in delight,
83:23. On couches, gazing,
83:24. you will know in their faces the radiance of delight.
83:25. They are given to drink of a pure wine, sealed,
83:26. Whose seal is musk - for this let (all) those strive who strive for bliss -
83:27. And mixed with water of Tasnim,
83:28. A spring whence those brought near (to Allah) drink.
83:29. Lo! the guilty used to laugh at those who believed,
83:30. And wink one to another when they passed them;
83:31. And when they returned to their own folk, they returned jesting;
83:32. And when they saw them they said: Lo! these have gone astray.
9.11.
43:68. O My slaves! For you there is no fear this day, nor is it you who grieve;
43:69. (You) who believed Our revelations and were self-surrendered,
43:70. Enter the Garden, you and your wives, to be made glad.
43:71. Therein are brought round for them trays of gold and goblets, and therein is all that souls desire and eyes find sweet. And you are immortal therein.
43:72. This is the Garden which you are made to inherit because of what you used to do.
43:73. Therein for you is fruit in plenty whence to eat.
43:74. Lo! the guilty are immortal in hell's torment.
43:75. It is not relaxed for them, and they despair therein.
43:76. We wronged them not, but they it was who did the wrong.
43:77. And they cry: O master! Let your Lord make an end of us. He says: Lo! here you must remain.
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