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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Islamic Morals Man's Covenant With Allah Here are some verses about man's trust with God: And those who break the covenant of Allah after its confirmation and cut as under that which Allah has ordered to be joined and make mischief in the land; as for those, upon them shall be curse and they shall have the evil issue of the abode.
And fulfil the covenant Allah when you have made a covenant, and do not break the oaths after making them fast, and you have indeed made Allah a surety for you; surely Allah knows what you do. Commentators have given several meanings of the covenant of Allah but what is obvious is that it means those promises which men give to god and obviously the words given to the Holy messengers and the Imams are also the words given to God, and it includes the promises related with Faith, jihad etc.
And it should be stated that the religious commands issued through the Holy Prophet of Islam do contain a kind of the Divine orders and similarly rational obligations which are the outcome of the God-given faculty of thinking, intelligence, wisdom and too are linked with bye-covenant. This is to say religious obligations and rational demands are covered by Ahdullah or the promise given to God.
He it is Who makes you travel by land and sea; until when you are in the ships, and they sail on with them in a pleasant breeze, and they rejoice, a violent wind overtakes them and the billows surge in on them from all sides, and they become certain that they are encompassed about, they pray to Allah, being sincere to Him in obedience: If Thou dost deliver us from this, we will most certainly be of the grateful ones. But when He delivers them, lo! they are unjustly rebellious in the earth.
Yes, many people make covenant with Allah during their bad days but when they are released from that trouble, they forget Allah. So we should pray to Allah so that He may not leave us to ourselves even for a moment. Promise Keeping between Man and Man The Holy Quran says in this connection: O you who believe! Fulfil the obligations.
Raagib says: Obligation is of three sorts: sometimes it is between man and God, sometimes man's promise with himself and sometimes between man and the entire humanity.