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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Al Mizan an Exegesis of the Quran (volume Seven) Volume 7: Surah Ale-imran, Verses 190-199 Most surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day there are signs for men of understanding (190). Those who remember Allah standing and sitting and lying on their sides and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth: "Our Lord! Thou hast not created this in vain!

Glory be to Thee; save us then from the chastisement of the Fire (191). Our Lord! surely whomsoever Thou makest enter the Fire, him Thou hast indeed brought to disgrace, and there shall be no helpers for the unjust (192). Our Lord! surely we heard a crier calling to the faith, saying: 'Believe in your Lord '; so we did believe; Our Lord! forgive us therefore our faults, and cover our evil deeds and make us die with the righteous (193). Our Lord!

and grant us what Thou hast promised us by Thy messengers and disgrace us not on the Day of Resurrection; surely Thou cost not break the promise" (194).

So their Lord accepted their prayer: "That I will not waste the work of a worker among you, whether male or female, the one of you being from the other; they, therefore, who emigrated, and were turned out of their homes, and were persecuted in My way, and fought, and were slain, I will most certainly cover their evil deeds, and I will most certainly make them enter gardens beneath which rivers flow"; a reward from Allah, and with Allah is yet better reward (195).

Let it not deceive you that those who disbelieve go to and from in the cities (fearlessly) (196). A brief enjoyment! then their abode is hell, and evil is the resting-place (197). But as to those who fear (the wrath of) their Lord, they shall have gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding in them; and entertainment from their Lord, and that which is with Allah is best for the righteous (198).

And most surely of the followers of the Book there are those who believe in Allah and (in) that which has been revealed to you and (in) that which has been revealed to them, humbling themselves before Allah; they do not sell the signs of Allah for a small price; these it is that have their reward with their Lord; surely Allah is quick in reckoning (199).

COMMENTARY The verses give the resume of the conditions of the believers; the polytheists and the People of the Book as represented in this chapter.