'Fear Allah and believe in His Apostle...
'Fear Allah and believe in His Apostle: He will give you two portions of
His mercy, and make for you a light with which you will walk, and
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c. Good deed: Allah has promised those who believe and do good
deeds (that there is) for them pardon and great recompense' (5: 9); `O
you who believe! fear Allah and seek an approach (medium) to Him...'
(5: 35). There are many verses with this theme. d. The Quran: `Indeed has come to you from Allah a light and a
manifest Book whereby Allah guides him who follows His pleasure,
into the ways of peace, and takes them out from darkness towards the
light by His will and guides them to the straight path' (5: 16). e. Anything related to a good deed, like the mosques, holy places and
f. The prophets and the apostles, as they seek forgiveness for their
people. Allah says: `And had they, when they were unjust to
themselves, come to you and asked forgiveness of Allah, and the
Apostle had (also) asked forgiveness for them, they would have found
Allah oft-returning (to mercy), Merciful' (4: 64). g. The angels, as they too ask forgiveness for the believers. Allah
says: `Those who bear the throne and those around it, celebrate the
praise of their Lord and believe in Him and ask forgiveness for
those who believe' (40: 7); and the angels celebrate the praise of their
Lord and ask forgiveness for those on earth...' (4: 5). h. The believers themselves, as they seek pardon for their believer
brothers and for themselves. Allah quotes them as saying. - `and
pardon us, and forgive us, and have mercy on us. Thou art our
Intercessors in the hereafter: We use the term intercessor, in the
meaning explained in the beginning. The following come into this
a. The prophets and the apostles: Allah says: And they say: "The
Beneficent God has taken to Himself a son. Glory be to Him. Nay! They are honored servants; they do not precede Him in speech and
(only) according to His commandment do they act. He knows what is
before them and what is behind them, and they do not intercede
except for him whom He approves...' (21: 26-28). Those who were
called `son' of God, are in fact His honored servants and they do
intercede for him whom He approves. Among them is Isa (Jesus), son
of Maryam, and he was a prophet. It means that the Prophets do
intercede for approved persons.
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