THEN WHEN A LOSS TOUCHES YOU...

THEN WHEN A LOSS TOUCHES YOU, TO HIM YOU GROAN (FOR HELP) ثُمَّ إِذَا كَشَفَ الضُّرَّ عَنْكُمْ إِذَا فَرِيقٌ مِّنْكُمْ بِرَبِّهِمْ يُشْرِكُونَ(( 54 )) 54- THEN WHEN HE REMOVED THE LOSS FROM YOU, A GROUP OF YOU JOIN PARTNERS TO THEIR LORD! لِيَكْفُرُوا بِمَا آتَيْنَاهُمْ فَتَمَتَّعُوا فَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ(( 55 )) 55- SO LET THEM SHOW INGRATITUDE FOR WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN THEM, AND ENJOY THEMSELVES (FOR A WHILE), AND SOON SHALL THEY COME TO KNOW.

[ 463 ] THE COMMENTARY GOD IS ONE, AND HIS RELIGION IS ALSO ONE (VERSE NO. 52 - 55) Here again polytheism, and in particular DUALISM, has been rejected:ِ ``Allah has said:ِ Do not take two Gods. Verily He is only one God.'' The pagan Arabs had various idols, and yet they believed in Allah as the supreme being and Creator of all.

They even worshipped pairs of idols, and took them for male and female, like the two idols that they had settled on top of the two famous hills in Mecca which were named after the two idols as, SAFA" and MARVEH. Some of the…

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