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Contents of "GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FROM THE QUR'AN"

PUNISHMENT IN THE WORLD

They Suffer Misfortunes in the World

Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every year? But still they do not turn back. They do not pay heed. (Surat at-Tawba, 126)

So a visitation from your Lord came upon it while they slept. (Surat al-Qalam, 19)


They are in Anguish

You who believe! Do not be like those who disbelieve and say of their brothers, when they are going on journeys or military expeditions, 'If they had only been with us, they would not have died or been killed,' so that Allah can make that anguish for them in their hearts. It is Allah Who gives life and causes to die. Allah sees what you do. (Surah Al 'Imran, 156)

Those who followed will say, 'If only we could have another chance, we would disown them just as they have disowned us.' In that way Allah will show them their actions as a cause of anguish and remorse for them. They will never emerge from the Fire. (Surat al-Baqara, 167)

They are Wretched and Miserable

On the Day it comes, no self will speak except by His permission. Some of them will be wretched and others glad. (Surah Hud, 105)

The Companions of the Left: how wretched the Companions of the Left? (Surat al-Waqi'a, 9)

But the most miserable will shun it, those who will roast in the Greatest Fire. (Surat al-A'la, 11-12)

I have warned you of a Fire which rages, in which only the most wretched will roast. (Surat al-Layl, 14-15)

Their Breasts are Strait and Narrow, and They are Defiled

When Allah desires to guide someone, He expands his breast to Islam. When He desires to misguide someone, He makes his breast narrow and constricted as if he were climbing up into the sky. That is how Allah defiles those who do not believe. (Surat al-An'am, 125)

... Then He turned towards them – He is All-Gentle, Most Merciful to them – and also towards the three who were left behind, so that when the earth became narrow for them, for all its great breadth, and their own selves became constricted for them and they realised that there was no refuge from Allah except in Him, He turned to them so that they might turn to Him. Allah is the Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful. (Surat at-Tawba, 117-118)

They are Beguiled by False Hopes

It may be that those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims. Leave them to eat and enjoy themselves. Let false hope divert them. They will soon know. (Surat al-Hijr, 2-3)

He makes promises to them and fills them with false hopes. But what Satan promises them is nothing but delusion. (Surat an-Nisa', 120)

They will call out to them, 'Were we not with you?' They will reply, 'Indeed you were. But you made trouble for yourselves and hung back and doubted and false hopes deluded you until Allah's command arrived. The Deluder deluded you about Allah. (Surat al-Hadid, 14)

The Parting of the Sea and Drowning of Disbelievers

And when We parted the sea for you and rescued you, and drowned the people of Pharaoh while you watched. (Surat al-Baqara, 50)

Calamities from Heaven

But those who did wrong substituted words other than those they had been given. So We sent down a plague from heaven on those who did wrong because they were deviators. (Surat al-Baqara, 59)

We rained down a rain upon them. See the final fate of the evildoers! (Surat al-A'raf, 84)

It may well be that my Lord will give me something better than your garden and send down on it a fireball from the sky so that morning finds it a shifting heap of dust. (Surat al-Kahf, 40)

Drowning

He wanted to scare them from the land but We drowned him and every one of those with him. (Surat al-Isra', 103)

Then afterwards We drowned the rest. (Surat ash-Shu'ara', 120)

But they denied him so We rescued him and those with him in the Ark. And We drowned the people who denied Our Signs. They were a blind people. (Surat al-A'raf, 64)

But they denied him so We rescued him, and all those with him, in the Ark and We made them the successors and We drowned the people who denied Our Signs. See the final fate of those who were warned! (Surah Yunus, 73)

And when the people of Nuh denied the Messengers, We drowned them and made them a Sign for all mankind. We have prepared a painful punishment for the wrongdoers. (Surat al-Furqan, 37)


So We revealed to Musa, 'Strike the sea with your staff.' And it split in two, each part like a towering cliff. And We brought the others right up to it. We rescued Musa and all those who were with him. Then We drowned the rest. (Surat ash-Shu'ara', 63-66)

We helped him against the people who rejected Our Signs. They were an evil people and We drowned them, every one. (Surat al-Anbiya', 77)

So We seized him and his troops and flung them into the sea. See the final fate of the wrongdoers! (Surat al-Qasas, 40)

Then when they had provoked Our wrath, We took revenge on them and drowned every one of them. (Surat az-Zukhruf, 55)

Leave the sea divided as it is. They are an army who will be drowned.' (Surat ad-Dukhan, 24 )

So We seized him and his armies and hurled them into the sea, and he was to blame. (Surat adh-Dhariyat, 40)

Earthquakes

Overturning

And the Overturned City which He turned upside down. (Surat an-Najm, 53)