The benefits of a good life - 7

لَا یُؤَاخِذُكُمُ اللَّهُ بِاللَّغْوِ فِی أَیْمَانِكُمْ وَلَٰكِن یُؤَاخِذُكُم بِمَا عَقَّدتُّمُ الْأَیْمَانَ ۖ فَكَفَّارَتُهُ إِطْعَامُ عَشَرَةِ مَسَاكِینَ مِنْ أَوْسَطِ مَا تُطْعِمُونَ أَهْلِیكُمْ أَوْ كِسْوَتُهُمْ أَوْ تَحْرِیرُ رَقَبَةٍ ۖ فَمَن لَّمْ یَجِدْ فَصِیَامُ ثَلَاثَةِ أَیَّامٍ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ كَفَّارَةُ أَیْمَانِكُمْ إِذَا حَلَفْتُمْ ۚ وَاحْفَظُوا أَیْمَانَكُمْ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ یُبَیِّنُ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ آیَاتِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ
Allah will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths, but He will call you to account for your deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed ten indigent persons, on a scale of the average for the food of your families; or clothe them; or give a slave his freedom. If that is beyond your means, fast for three days. That is the expiation for the oaths ye have sworn. But keep to your oaths. Thus doth Allah make clear to you His signs, that ye may be grateful.
یَا أَیُّهَا الَّذِینَ آمَنُوا لَا تَقْتُلُوا الصَّیْدَ وَأَنتُمْ حُرُمٌ ۚ وَمَن قَتَلَهُ مِنكُم مُّتَعَمِّدًا فَجَزَاءٌ مِّثْلُ مَا قَتَلَ مِنَ النَّعَمِ یَحْكُمُ بِهِ ذَوَا عَدْلٍ مِّنكُمْ هَدْیًا بَالِغَ الْكَعْبَةِ أَوْ كَفَّارَةٌ طَعَامُ مَسَاكِینَ أَوْ عَدْلُ ذَٰلِكَ صِیَامًا لِّیَذُوقَ وَبَالَ أَمْرِهِ ۗ عَفَا اللَّهُ عَمَّا سَلَفَ ۚ وَمَنْ عَادَ فَیَنتَقِمُ اللَّهُ مِنْهُ ۗ وَاللَّهُ عَزِیزٌ ذُو انتِقَامٍ
O ye who believe! Kill not game while in the sacred precincts or in pilgrim garb. If any of you doth so intentionally, the compensation is an offering, brought to the Ka´ba, of a domestic animal equivalent to the one he killed, as adjudged by two just men among you; or by way of atonement, the feeding of the indigent; or its equivalent in fasts: that he may taste of the penalty of his deed. Allah forgives what is past: for repetition Allah will exact from him the penalty. For Allah is Exalted, and Lord of Retribution.
یَا أَیُّهَا الَّذِینَ آمَنُوا شَهَادَةُ بَیْنِكُمْ إِذَا حَضَرَ أَحَدَكُمُ الْمَوْتُ حِینَ الْوَصِیَّةِ اثْنَانِ ذَوَا عَدْلٍ مِّنكُمْ أَوْ آخَرَانِ مِنْ غَیْرِكُمْ إِنْ أَنتُمْ ضَرَبْتُمْ فِی الْأَرْضِ فَأَصَابَتْكُم مُّصِیبَةُ الْمَوْتِ ۚ تَحْبِسُونَهُمَا مِن بَعْدِ الصَّلَاةِ فَیُقْسِمَانِ بِاللَّهِ إِنِ ارْتَبْتُمْ لَا نَشْتَرِی بِهِ ثَمَنًا وَلَوْ كَانَ ذَا قُرْبَىٰ ۙ وَلَا نَكْتُمُ شَهَادَةَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا إِذًا لَّمِنَ الْآثِمِینَ
O ye who believe! When death approaches any of you, (take) witnesses among yourselves when making bequests,- two just men of your own (brotherhood) or others from outside if ye are journeying through the earth, and the chance of death befalls you (thus). If ye doubt (their truth), detain them both after prayer, and let them both swear by Allah: "We wish not in this for any worldly gain, even though the (beneficiary) be our near relation: we shall hide not the evidence before Allah: if we do, then behold! the sin be upon us.
إِذْ قَالَ اللَّهُ یَا عِیسَى ابْنَ مَرْیَمَ اذْكُرْ نِعْمَتِی عَلَیْكَ وَعَلَىٰ وَالِدَتِكَ إِذْ أَیَّدتُّكَ بِرُوحِ الْقُدُسِ تُكَلِّمُ النَّاسَ فِی الْمَهْدِ وَكَهْلًا ۖ وَإِذْ عَلَّمْتُكَ الْكِتَابَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَالتَّوْرَاةَ وَالْإِنجِیلَ ۖ وَإِذْ تَخْلُقُ مِنَ الطِّینِ كَهَیْئَةِ الطَّیْرِ بِإِذْنِی فَتَنفُخُ فِیهَا فَتَكُونُ طَیْرًا بِإِذْنِی ۖ وَتُبْرِئُ الْأَكْمَهَ وَالْأَبْرَصَ بِإِذْنِی ۖ وَإِذْ تُخْرِجُ الْمَوْتَىٰ بِإِذْنِی ۖ وَإِذْ كَفَفْتُ بَنِی إِسْرَائِیلَ عَنكَ إِذْ جِئْتَهُم بِالْبَیِّنَاتِ فَقَالَ الَّذِینَ كَفَرُوا مِنْهُمْ إِنْ هَٰذَا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ مُّبِینٌ
Then will Allah say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Recount My favour to thee and to thy mother. Behold! I strengthened thee with the holy spirit, so that thou didst speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. Behold! I taught thee the Book and Wisdom, the Law and the Gospel and behold! thou makest out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, by My leave, and thou breathest into it and it becometh a bird by My leave, and thou healest those born blind, and the lepers, by My leave. And behold! thou bringest forth the dead by My leave. And behold! I did restrain the Children of Israel from (violence to) thee when thou didst show them the clear Signs, and the unbelievers among them said: ´This is nothing but evident magic.
وَإِذْ قَالَ اللَّهُ یَا عِیسَى ابْنَ مَرْیَمَ أَأَنتَ قُلْتَ لِلنَّاسِ اتَّخِذُونِی وَأُمِّیَ إِلَٰهَیْنِ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ ۖ قَالَ سُبْحَانَكَ مَا یَكُونُ لِی أَنْ أَقُولَ مَا لَیْسَ لِی بِحَقٍّ ۚ إِن كُنتُ قُلْتُهُ فَقَدْ عَلِمْتَهُ ۚ تَعْلَمُ مَا فِی نَفْسِی وَلَا أَعْلَمُ مَا فِی نَفْسِكَ ۚ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ عَلَّامُ الْغُیُوبِ
And behold! Allah will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah´?" He will say: "Glory to Thee! never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, thou wouldst indeed have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart, Thou I know not what is in Thine. For Thou knowest in full all that is hidden.
Whatever thoughts and schools a person has is not important, but what is important is that there are three principles to achieve a good life: belief in God, belief in the doomsday and good actions. At the present time, Quran is the norm of the recognition of good actions. An action that is according to the Islam is a right action. In any lands and eras, a person can achieve a good life with these three principles: belief in God, belief in the resurrection and belief in right actions.
Quran considers an action that is according to the order of the prophet (peace of Allah be upon him and his descendants) as a right action. Quran has expressed a sequence of new orders and has confirmed a sequence of the orders of the previous prophets.
Henec, whoever has three principles includes the following verse:
إِنَّ الَّذِینَ قَالُوا رَبُّنَا اللَّهُ ثُمَّ اسْتَقَامُوا فَلَا خَوْفٌ عَلَیْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ یَحْزَنُونَ
Verily those who say, "Our Lord is Allah," and remain firm (on that Path),- on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve''.
وَوَصَّیْنَا الْإِنسَانَ بِوَالِدَیْهِ إِحْسَانًا ۖ حَمَلَتْهُ أُمُّهُ كُرْهًا وَوَضَعَتْهُ كُرْهًا ۖ وَحَمْلُهُ وَفِصَالُهُ ثَلَاثُونَ شَهْرًا ۚ حَتَّىٰ إِذَا بَلَغَ أَشُدَّهُ وَبَلَغَ أَرْبَعِینَ سَنَةً قَالَ رَبِّ أَوْزِعْنِی أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ الَّتِی أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَیَّ وَعَلَىٰ وَالِدَیَّ وَأَنْ أَعْمَلَ صَالِحًا تَرْضَاهُ وَأَصْلِحْ لِی فِی ذُرِّیَّتِی ۖ إِنِّی تُبْتُ إِلَیْكَ وَإِنِّی مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِینَ
We have enjoined on man kindness to his parents: In pain did his mother bear him, and in pain did she give him birth. The carrying of the (child) to his weaning is (a period of) thirty months. At length, when he reaches the age of full strength and attains forty years, he says, "O my Lord! Grant me that I may be grateful for Thy favour which Thou has bestowed upon me, and upon both my parents, and that I may work righteousness such as Thou mayest approve; and be gracious to me in my issue. Truly have I turned to Thee and truly do I bow (to Thee) in Islam.
وَالَّذِی قَالَ لِوَالِدَیْهِ أُفٍّ لَّكُمَا أَتَعِدَانِنِی أَنْ أُخْرَجَ وَقَدْ خَلَتِ الْقُرُونُ مِن قَبْلِی وَهُمَا یَسْتَغِیثَانِ اللَّهَ وَیْلَكَ آمِنْ إِنَّ وَعْدَ اللَّهِ حَقٌّ فَیَقُولُ مَا هَٰذَا إِلَّا أَسَاطِیرُ الْأَوَّلِینَ
But (there is one) who says to his parents, "Fie on you! Do ye hold out the promise to me that I shall be raised up, even though generations have passed before me (without rising again)?" And they two seek Allah´s aid, (and rebuke the son): "Woe to thee! Have faith! for the promise of Allah is true." But he says, "This is nothing but tales of the ancients''.
وَیَوْمَ یُعْرَضُ الَّذِینَ كَفَرُوا عَلَى النَّارِ أَذْهَبْتُمْ طَیِّبَاتِكُمْ فِی حَیَاتِكُمُ الدُّنْیَا وَاسْتَمْتَعْتُم بِهَا فَالْیَوْمَ تُجْزَوْنَ عَذَابَ الْهُونِ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَسْتَكْبِرُونَ فِی الْأَرْضِ بِغَیْرِ الْحَقِّ وَبِمَا كُنتُمْ تَفْسُقُونَ
And on the Day that the Unbelievers will be placed before the Fire, (It will be said to them): "Ye received your good things in the life of the world, and ye took your pleasure out of them: but today shall ye be recompensed with a Penalty of humiliation: for that ye were arrogant on earth without just cause, and that ye (ever) transgressed.
وَلَقَدْ مَكَّنَّاهُمْ فِیمَا إِن مَّكَّنَّاكُمْ فِیهِ وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُمْ سَمْعًا وَأَبْصَارًا وَأَفْئِدَةً فَمَا أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُمْ سَمْعُهُمْ وَلَا أَبْصَارُهُمْ وَلَا أَفْئِدَتُهُم مِّن شَیْءٍ إِذْ كَانُوا یَجْحَدُونَ بِآیَاتِ اللَّهِ وَحَاقَ بِهِم مَّا كَانُوا بِهِ یَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
And We had firmly established them in a (prosperity and) power which We have not given to you (ye Quraish!) and We had endowed them with (faculties of) hearing, seeing, heart and intellect: but of no profit to them were their (faculties of) hearing, sight, and heart and intellect, when they went on rejecting the Signs of Allah; and they were (completely) encircled by that which they used to mock at.
فَاصْبِرْ كَمَا صَبَرَ أُولُو الْعَزْمِ مِنَ الرُّسُلِ وَلَا تَسْتَعْجِل لَّهُمْ ۚ كَأَنَّهُمْ یَوْمَ یَرَوْنَ مَا یُوعَدُونَ لَمْ یَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا سَاعَةً مِّن نَّهَارٍ ۚ بَلَاغٌ ۚ فَهَلْ یُهْلَكُ إِلَّا الْقَوْمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ
Therefore patiently persevere, as did (all) messengers of inflexible purpose; and be in no haste about the (Unbelievers). On the Day that they see the (Punishment) promised them, (it will be) as if they had not tarried more than an hour in a single day. (Thine but) to proclaim the Message: but shall any be destroyed except those who transgress?
Soceities have decided the world into the three parts: world, heaven and hell. In the world, pain is combined with cheerfulness, its pain is combined with happiness and life is along with death.
There are no pain and toture in the heaven;
لَا یَمَسُّهُمْ فِیهَا نَصَبٌ وَمَا هُم مِّنْهَا بِمُخْرَجِینَ
There no sense of fatigue shall touch them, nor shall they (ever) be asked to leave.
Moreover, there are no pain and tiredness in the heaven;
یَتَنَازَعُونَ فِیهَا كَأْسًا لَّا لَغْوٌ فِیهَا وَلَا تَأْثِیمٌ
They shall there exchange, one with another, a (loving) cup free of frivolity, free of all taint of ill.
Quran also admires couples in the heaven;
وَعِندَهُمْ قَاصِرَاتُ الطَّرْفِ عِینٌ
And besides them will be chaste women, restraining their glances, with big eyes (of wonder and beauty).
In the heaven, persons are across from each other and no one backbites the other one;
مُّتَّكِئِینَ عَلَیْهَا مُتَقَابِلِینَ
Reclining on them, facing each other.
In contrast, there are no comfort and mercy in the hell. They are not kind toward each other and do not forgive each other. Whenever its flames become depressed, they become more;
وَمَن یَهْدِ اللَّهُ فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِ ۖ وَمَن یُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُمْ أَوْلِیَاءَ مِن دُونِهِ ۖ وَنَحْشُرُهُمْ یَوْمَ الْقِیَامَةِ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمْ عُمْیًا وَبُكْمًا وَصُمًّا ۖ مَّأْوَاهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ ۖ كُلَّمَا خَبَتْ زِدْنَاهُمْ سَعِیرًا
It is he whom Allah guides, that is on true Guidance; but he whom He leaves astray - for such wilt thou find no protector besides Him. On the Day of Judgment We shall gather, them together, prone on their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf: their abode will be Hell: every time it shows abatement, We shall increase from them the fierceness of the Fire.
إِنْ أَحْسَنتُمْ أَحْسَنتُمْ لِأَنفُسِكُمْ ۖ وَإِنْ أَسَأْتُمْ فَلَهَا ۚ فَإِذَا جَاءَ وَعْدُ الْآخِرَةِ لِیَسُوءُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَلِیَدْخُلُوا الْمَسْجِدَ كَمَا دَخَلُوهُ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَلِیُتَبِّرُوا مَا عَلَوْا تَتْبِیرًا
If ye did well, ye did well for yourselves; if ye did evil, (ye did it) against yourselves. So when the second of the warnings came to pass, (We permitted your enemies) to disfigure your faces, and to enter your Temple as they had entered it before, and to visit with destruction all that fell into their power.
وَمَن یَهْدِ اللَّهُ فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِ ۖ وَمَن یُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُمْ أَوْلِیَاءَ مِن دُونِهِ ۖ وَنَحْشُرُهُمْ یَوْمَ الْقِیَامَةِ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمْ عُمْیًا وَبُكْمًا وَصُمًّا ۖ مَّأْوَاهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ ۖ كُلَّمَا خَبَتْ زِدْنَاهُمْ سَعِیرًا
It is he whom Allah guides, that is on true Guidance; but he whom He leaves astray - for such wilt thou find no protector besides Him. On the Day of Judgment We shall gather, them together, prone on their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf: their abode will be Hell: every time it shows abatement, We shall increase from them the fierceness of the Fire.
قُلِ ادْعُوا اللَّهَ أَوِ ادْعُوا الرَّحْمَٰنَ ۖ أَیًّا مَّا تَدْعُوا فَلَهُ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَىٰ ۚ وَلَا تَجْهَرْ بِصَلَاتِكَ وَلَا تُخَافِتْ بِهَا وَابْتَغِ بَیْنَ ذَٰلِكَ سَبِیلًا
Say: "Call upon Allah, or call upon Rahman: by whatever name ye call upon Him, (it is well): for to Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. Neither speak thy Prayer aloud, nor speak it in a low tone, but seek a middle course between.
أَوْ یَكُونَ لَكَ بَیْتٌ مِّن زُخْرُفٍ أَوْ تَرْقَىٰ فِی السَّمَاءِ وَلَن نُّؤْمِنَ لِرُقِیِّكَ حَتَّىٰ تُنَزِّلَ عَلَیْنَا كِتَابًا نَّقْرَؤُهُ ۗ قُلْ سُبْحَانَ رَبِّی هَلْ كُنتُ إِلَّا بَشَرًا رَّسُولًا
Or thou have a house adorned with gold, or thou mount a ladder right into the skies. No, we shall not even believe in thy mounting until thou send down to us a book that we could read." Say: "Glory to my Lord! Am I aught but a man,- a messenger?
أَمْ أَمِنتُمْ أَن یُعِیدَكُمْ فِیهِ تَارَةً أُخْرَىٰ فَیُرْسِلَ عَلَیْكُمْ قَاصِفًا مِّنَ الرِّیحِ فَیُغْرِقَكُم بِمَا كَفَرْتُمْ ۙ ثُمَّ لَا تَجِدُوا لَكُمْ عَلَیْنَا بِهِ تَبِیعًا
Or do ye feel secure that He will not send you back a second time to sea and send against you a heavy gale to drown you because of your ingratitude, so that ye find no helper. Therein against Us?
وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِی آدَمَ وَحَمَلْنَاهُمْ فِی الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ وَرَزَقْنَاهُم مِّنَ الطَّیِّبَاتِ وَفَضَّلْنَاهُمْ عَلَىٰ كَثِیرٍ مِّمَّنْ خَلَقْنَا تَفْضِیلًا
We have honoured the sons of Adam; provided them with transport on land and sea; given them for sustenance things good and pure; and conferred on them special favours, above a great part of our creation.
وَاسْتَفْزِزْ مَنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ مِنْهُم بِصَوْتِكَ وَأَجْلِبْ عَلَیْهِم بِخَیْلِكَ وَرَجِلِكَ وَشَارِكْهُمْ فِی الْأَمْوَالِ وَالْأَوْلَادِ وَعِدْهُمْ ۚ وَمَا یَعِدُهُمُ الشَّیْطَانُ إِلَّا غُرُورًا
Lead to destruction those whom thou canst among them, with thy (seductive) voice; make assaults on them with thy cavalry and thy infantry; mutually share with them wealth and children; and make promises to them." But Satan promises them nothing but deceit.
إِنَّ الَّذِینَ كَفَرُوا بِآیَاتِنَا سَوْفَ نُصْلِیهِمْ نَارًا كُلَّمَا نَضِجَتْ جُلُودُهُم بَدَّلْنَاهُمْ جُلُودًا غَیْرَهَا لِیَذُوقُوا الْعَذَابَ ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ عَزِیزًا حَكِیمًا
Those who reject our Signs, We shall soon cast into the Fire: as often as their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the penalty: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise.
God mentions its blessings and describes the heaven. Quran also states that both heaven and hell are considered as the blessings of God;
یُرْسَلُ عَلَیْكُمَا شُوَاظٌ مِّن نَّارٍ وَنُحَاسٌ فَلَا تَنتَصِرَانِ
On you will be sent (O ye evil ones twain!) a flame of fire (to burn) and a smoke (to choke): no defence will ye have.
فَبِأَیِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ
. Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny
فَإِذَا انشَقَّتِ السَّمَاءُ فَكَانَتْ وَرْدَةً كَالدِّهَانِ
. When the sky is rent asunder, and it becomes red like ointment
فَبِأَیِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ
? Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny
فَیَوْمَئِذٍ لَّا یُسْأَلُ عَن ذَنبِهِ إِنسٌ وَلَا جَانٌّ
On that Day no question will be asked of man or Jinn as to his sin.
فَبِأَیِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ
? Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny
یُعْرَفُ الْمُجْرِمُونَ بِسِیمَاهُمْ فَیُؤْخَذُ بِالنَّوَاصِی وَالْأَقْدَامِ
(For) the sinners will be known by their marks: and they will be seized by their forelocks and their feet.
فَبِأَیِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ
Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny?
هَٰذِهِ جَهَنَّمُ الَّتِی یُكَذِّبُ بِهَا الْمُجْرِمُونَ
This is the Hell which the Sinners deny.
یَطُوفُونَ بَیْنَهَا وَبَیْنَ حَمِیمٍ آنٍ
. In its midst and in the midst of boiling hot water will they wander round
فَبِأَیِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ
Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny?