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 Post subject: Verses 22:11-13
PostPosted: 05 Jun 2009, 10:29 
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 Post subject: Re: Verses 22:11-13
PostPosted: 19 Jan 2014, 18:21 
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{22:11} And of the people is he who worships God on an edge. If he is touched by good, he is reassured by it; but if he is struck by trial, he turns on his face [to the other direction]. He has lost [this] world and the Hereafter. That is what is the manifest loss.

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{22:11} And of the people is he who worships God on an edge: If good hits him, he tranquilizes by it; but if a trial hits him, he flips on his face. He has lost [this] the nearest [life] and the Hereafter. That really is the manifest losing.

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{22:12} He invokes instead of God that which neither harms him nor benefits him. That is what is the extreme error.

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{22:12} He invokes, instead of God, what does not harm him and what does not benefit him. That really is the faraway straying.

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{22:13} He invokes one whose harm is closer than his benefit - how wretched the protector and how wretched the associate.

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{22:13} He invokes one whose harm is closer than his benefit. How surely vile is the protector and how surely vile is the colleague!

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