tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36346561158796398062024-03-05T22:45:23.045+08:00journeyofoneaishahIn the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-84014389224158487302016-04-19T06:16:00.000+08:002016-04-19T06:18:24.436+08:00two days agotwo days ago it was 50 days to Ramadhan -<br />
<br />Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-81562038482673402992016-04-18T23:00:00.001+08:002016-04-19T06:34:56.355+08:00I think this is where I want to beI think this is where I want to be, goodnight world, niat bangun tahajjud<br />
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Praise be to God, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds<br />
Most Gracious, Most Merciful<br />
Master of the Day of Judgement<br />
Thee do we worship, and Thine aid we seek<br />
Show us the straight way<br />
The way of those on whom Thou has bestowed Thy Grace<br />
Those whose (portion) is not wrath, and who go not astray.<br />
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I accidentally deleted a post. In Google Reader, I can't really believe it, but the title reads Dreams. The post was dated June 26, 2011. Why would I name it so. The picture is as per original, this was Dreams.<br />
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I had been busy. My mind had been busy. With stuff. One verse crept through my mind into my brain as a clear reminder to me. Al-Mu'minun, The Believers 23:115.<br />
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And did you think that We created you in jest (for a pastime) and that you would not be returned to Us (for account)?Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-75046015328749073022012-02-01T02:17:00.000+08:002012-02-03T07:11:05.458+08:00Assalamualaikum And Sincere Greetings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is past midnight but I am not able to sleep. I listen to the frogs, they are noisy and loud. My mind had been away, from this blog. What is that cricketty sound in the background that falls in rhythm with the singing of the frogs. Could it be it is the song of the crickets. I wonder. Or the sound of another tribe of frogs. But it is an orchestra outside my bedroom.<br />
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I click on the <a href="http://www.harunyahya.com/Quran_translation/Quran_translation_index.php">The Holy Qur'an - trasnlation by Yusuf Ali</a>. I click on Luqman. I scroll to the bottom of the page. And so this is Luqman verse 34.</div>
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This is a reflection for me to ponder and be reminded upon tonight.</div>Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-78320150754058314462011-09-29T14:06:00.000+08:002011-10-04T11:25:25.940+08:00My Continued Prayers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our Lord! Perfect our light for us and forgive us our sins, for verily You have power over all things. (At-Tahrim, The Prohibition 66:8)<br />
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Our Lord! In You we have placed our trust, and to You we returned in repentance, for unto You is the end of all journeys. (Al-Mumtahana, She That Is To Be Examined, 60:4)<br />
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Our Lord! Bestow on us mercy from Your presence, and dispose of our affairs for us in the right way. (Al-Kaft, The Cave, 18:10)<br />
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Our Lord! Pour out on us patience and constancy, and make us die as those who have surrendered themselves unto You. (Al-A'raf, The Heights, 7:126)<br />
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Our Lord! And grant us that which you have promised to us by Your messengers and save us from shame on the Day Of Judgement. Verily You never fail to fulfill your promise. (Al'Imran, The House Of Imran, 3:194)<br />
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Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate from the truth after You have guided us, and bestow on us mercy from your Grace. Verily You are the Giver of bounties without measure. (Al'Imran, The House Of Imran, 3:8)<br />
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Our Lord! Take us not to task if we forget or fall into error. (Al-Baqara, The Cow, 2:286)<br />
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Our Lord! Grant us good in this world and good in the life to come and keep us safe from the torment of Fire. (Al-Baqara, The Cow, 2:201)Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-47894981031915651422011-09-24T11:38:00.001+08:002012-02-03T07:33:56.935+08:00Yunus (Jonah), 61<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today, home alone, I am unable to move past the meaning of this verse. Yunus (Jonah), 61:<br />
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In whatever business you may be, and whatever portion you may be reciting from the Qur'an, - and whatever deed you may be doing, - We are witnesses thereof when you are deeply engrossed therein. Nor is hidden from thy Lord the weight of an atom on the earth or in heaven. And not the least and not the greatest of these things but are recorded in a clear record.</div>Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-31763040092982612092011-08-17T22:38:00.000+08:002011-08-18T07:42:19.962+08:00The House Of Imran<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH5Eabd1RhoRav_9mwGykYF_QdnIDp_MqBRB5jCDf7QsmXqoQ5WumNN7lW1eMql2A6dzx-XoKhz26LUsFnIKGd8WYCgTnDUVjCZN_FiAs-th5rnDi0x4kw2EO0fX4R5VVnfC3sE1aeNWo/s1600/IMG_0064.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH5Eabd1RhoRav_9mwGykYF_QdnIDp_MqBRB5jCDf7QsmXqoQ5WumNN7lW1eMql2A6dzx-XoKhz26LUsFnIKGd8WYCgTnDUVjCZN_FiAs-th5rnDi0x4kw2EO0fX4R5VVnfC3sE1aeNWo/s400/IMG_0064.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>The sky is dark, the wind is blowing hard, thunders have started, it will rain soon. It is 5.40 pm, it is time to cook for break of fast, but I want to write, at this blog. I feel I had abandoned it.<br />
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The bamboo leaves rustle noisily. It is raining, pouring water from the sky. A thunder just boomed, indicating a lightning struck close. My son just walked in and announced he had turned off the modem. I will turn to 3G on my iphone.<br />
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I know the Qur'an mentions when lightning displays, it gives rise to both fear and hope. Should I look up that verse? I have lost my 3G, maybe lightning has struck the tower.<br />
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I pick up Asad's Message of the Qur'an, a translation, and the third surah is Al'Imran, The House of Imran. Let me read Asad's introduction of the surah.<br />
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The title the House of Imran has been derived from references in verses 33 and 35, to this common origin of a long line of prophets. The House of Imran comprises of Moses and Aaron, whose father was Imran (the Amram of the Bible), and Aaron's descendants, the priestly caste among the Israelites, thus includes Zachariah, John the Baptist, Mary and Jesus.<br />
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(1) Alif. Lam. Mim. (the letters A, L, M)<br />
(2) God. There is no god but Him, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsistent Fount of All Being.<br />
(3) Step by step has He bestowed upon thee from on high this divine writ, setting forth the truth which confirms earlier revelations: for it is He who has bestowed from on high the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) aforetime, as a guidance unto mankind, and it is He who has bestowed (upon man) the criterion (of judgement between right and wrong).<br />
(4) Behold as for those who are bent on denying God's messages - grievous suffering awaits them, for God is Almighty, Lord of Retribution.<br />
(5) Verily nothing on earth or in heavens is hidden from God.<br />
(6) He it is who shapes you in the wombs as He wills. There is no god but Him, the Exalted in Might, the Truly Wise.<br />
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And what is verse 33,<br />
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(33) Behold God raised Adam, and Noah, and the house of Abraham, and the house of Imran above all mankind, -Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-67186585075588768162011-05-05T03:59:00.000+08:002011-05-05T15:32:08.226+08:00Reflection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNA3p5q6yb5a6aM0ubJ5I0YfBpxKNFJ-1AQAelMa_bBWpzw2cPYSJu3E4WI4F2TbOB_O7Wt3jRpwoQAHYVn3OCOwKGxlAJD92axXxzqtZZbmc4xxBRNI7reasJomK1rwCTt2qM9nxsYtE/s1600/IMG_0277.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNA3p5q6yb5a6aM0ubJ5I0YfBpxKNFJ-1AQAelMa_bBWpzw2cPYSJu3E4WI4F2TbOB_O7Wt3jRpwoQAHYVn3OCOwKGxlAJD92axXxzqtZZbmc4xxBRNI7reasJomK1rwCTt2qM9nxsYtE/s320/IMG_0277.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Today I thought of my husband and the verse 30:21 came to mind. I looked it up and discovered more. The following is from Surah Ar-Rum (The Romans/The Byzantines), 30:21-27.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 24px;">And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquillity in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 24px;">And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 24px;">And of His signs is your sleep by night and day and your seeking of His bounty. Indeed in that are signs for a people who listen.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 24px;">And of His signs is [that] He shows you the lightning [causing] fear and aspiration, and He sends down rain from the sky by which He brings to life the earth after its lifelessness. Indeed in that are signs for a people who use reason.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 24px;">And of His signs is that the heaven and earth remain by His command. For in the end, when He calls you forth from the earth with a single call, immediately you emerge (for judgement).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 24px;">And to Him belongs whoever is in the heavens and earth. All are to Him devoutly obedient.</span><br />
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An Ustaz (teacher) once asked me, if I were to ask you if you are a Muslim (one who surrenders to God), what would your answer be?<br />
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Then he asked me, if I were to ask you if you are a Mukmin (a Believer), what would your answer be?</div>
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In my mind I thought of, of course yes, but I did not answer him, I looked at him expecting the proper answer.</div>
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He said, when asked if you are a Mukmin, say, yes insyaaAllah (yes God willing).</div>
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And so who are the Believers. I found an answer in Surah Al-Mukminun (The Believers), verses 23:1-11.</div>
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In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.</div>
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The Believers must eventually win through</div>
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Except from their wives or those their right hands posses, for indeed, they will not be blamed</div>
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But whoever seeks beyond that, they are transgressors</div>
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Who will inherit Paradise, they will dwell there in.</div>
Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-71972924990282696952011-04-02T06:52:00.000+08:002011-04-02T06:52:35.615+08:00Nations And Tribes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd2hbMcFo1wB-hdMjM5oGfHQY9Pz1Fe3Kk_QKoJkxhIgUwiaUHjIa4D3EoHP3wY-qHS6tubja4OKs2IPTYNaIVYsIz-HXC9ndbA0_4WfUxmHgfyvmmYKDOmYh9x85QD4mlNwYcSXEEPag/s1600/DSC_2684.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd2hbMcFo1wB-hdMjM5oGfHQY9Pz1Fe3Kk_QKoJkxhIgUwiaUHjIa4D3EoHP3wY-qHS6tubja4OKs2IPTYNaIVYsIz-HXC9ndbA0_4WfUxmHgfyvmmYKDOmYh9x85QD4mlNwYcSXEEPag/s320/DSC_2684.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>This verse was on my mind this week.<br />
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Al-Hujurat (The Private Apartments), 49:13.<br />
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O men! Behold, We have created you all out of a male and a female, and have made you into nations and tribes, so that you might come to know one another. Verily, the noblest of you in the sight of God, is the one who is most deeply conscious of Him. Behold, God is all-knowing, all-aware.Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-62124264475385954432011-03-19T17:57:00.000+08:002011-03-20T08:44:33.931+08:00At-Takwir, The Shrouding Into Darkness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhknznu5so9BtAVJgTNsfHhx-SL6dBCYkzOnLc43AvioQGCwvaaiLwJCeKMASz5648TA_geaiIKc-RvdDKP5ZAt_6rePEubz5cuXtdRX_QsAcOS11e2GOTjErHE9Vfl3aRQtSIMstIQeOo/s1600/P1070395.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhknznu5so9BtAVJgTNsfHhx-SL6dBCYkzOnLc43AvioQGCwvaaiLwJCeKMASz5648TA_geaiIKc-RvdDKP5ZAt_6rePEubz5cuXtdRX_QsAcOS11e2GOTjErHE9Vfl3aRQtSIMstIQeOo/s320/P1070395.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>I had come to the 81st surah, At-Takwir, The Shrouding Into Darkness. This very early surah (most probably the seventh in the order of revelation) introduces the images of the Last Hour, hence, of man's resurrection. Its audio Qur'an recitation overwhelms me.<br />
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<div id="bismillah" style="color: #666666; float: right; font-family: me_quran, 'traditional arabic'; font-size: 24px; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 1;">سم الله الرحمن الرحيم</div><div class="clear" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></div><div id="quranOutput" style="padding-bottom: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:1" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox1" id="verse_5801" style="background-color: #fffff2; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:1</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5801_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:1" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_1.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5801_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5801_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
When the sun is shrouded into darkness,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:2" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox2" id="verse_5802" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:2</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5802_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:2" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_2.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5802_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5802_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And when the stars are dispersed,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:3" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox1" id="verse_5803" style="background-color: #fffff2; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:3</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5803_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:3" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_3.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5803_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5803_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And when the mountains are removed,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:4" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox2" id="verse_5804" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/4" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:4</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5804_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:4" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_4.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5804_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5804_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And when full-term she-camels are neglected,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:5" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox1" id="verse_5805" style="background-color: #fffff2; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:5</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5805_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:5" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_5.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5805_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5805_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And when wild beasts are herded together,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:6" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox2" id="verse_5806" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/6" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:6</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5806_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:6" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_6.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5806_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5806_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And when the seas boil over,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:7" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox1" id="verse_5807" style="background-color: #fffff2; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:7</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5807_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:7" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_7.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5807_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5807_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And when the souls are sorted out (with their likes),</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:8" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox2" id="verse_5808" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:8</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5808_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:8" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_8.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5808_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5808_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And when the girl-child (who was) buried alive is questioned</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:9" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox1" id="verse_5809" style="background-color: #fffff2; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:9</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5809_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:9" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_9.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5809_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5809_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
For what crime she was killed,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:10" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox2" id="verse_5810" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/10" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:10</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5810_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:10" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_10.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5810_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5810_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And when the pages are made public,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:11" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox1" id="verse_5811" style="background-color: #fffff2; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/11" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:11</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5811_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:11" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_11.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5811_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5811_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And when the sky is stripped away,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:12" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox2" id="verse_5812" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:12</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5812_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5812_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_12.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="81:12" border="0" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_12.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></a></div><span id="verse_5812_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And when the Blazing Fire is kindled bright,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:13" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox1" id="verse_5813" style="background-color: #fffff2; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:13</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5813_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:13" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_13.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5813_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5813_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And when the Garden is brought near,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:14" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox2" id="verse_5814" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:14</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5814_language_1" style="direction: rtl; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:14" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_14.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5814_language_6" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5814_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Every soul will come to know what it has put forward.</span></span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:15" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox1" id="verse_5815" style="background-color: #fffff2; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:15</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5815_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:15" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_15.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5815_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5815_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
So verily, I call to witness the revolving stars -</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:16" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox2" id="verse_5816" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/16" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:16</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5816_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:16" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_16.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5816_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5816_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
Those that run their courses and set -</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:17" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox1" id="verse_5817" style="background-color: #fffff2; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:17</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5817_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:17" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_17.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5817_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5817_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And by the night as it closes in,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:18" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox2" id="verse_5818" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/18" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:18</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5818_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:18" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_18.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5818_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5818_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And by the dawn as it softly breathes,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:19" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox1" id="verse_5819" style="background-color: #fffff2; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/19" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:19</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5819_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:19" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_19.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5819_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5819_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
This is indeed, the word of a noble messenger (Gabriel),</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:20" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox2" id="verse_5820" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:20</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5820_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:20" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_20.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5820_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5820_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
Mighty in power, secure with the Owner of the Throne,</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:21" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox1" id="verse_5821" style="background-color: #fffff2; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:21</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5821_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:21" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_21.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5821_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5821_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
Obeyed there (in the heavens), and worthy of trust.</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:22" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox2" id="verse_5822" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/22" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:22</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5822_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:22" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_22.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5822_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5822_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And (O people) this fellow man of yours is not mad.</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:23" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox1" id="verse_5823" style="background-color: #fffff2; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/23" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:23</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5823_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:23" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_23.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5823_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5823_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And indeed he saw him (Gabriel) in the clear horizon;</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:24" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox2" id="verse_5824" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/24" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:24</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5824_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:24" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_24.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5824_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5824_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
He is not one who follows false supposition or grudgingly withholding the unseen.</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:25" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox1" id="verse_5825" style="background-color: #fffff2; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/25" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:25</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5825_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:25" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_25.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5825_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5825_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
And it is not the word of the accursed Satan.</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:26" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
<div class="verse ayahBox2" id="verse_5826" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="ayahBoxHeader" style="line-height: 16px; position: absolute; z-index: 0;"><a class="ayahBoxNum" href="http://quran.com/81/26" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fef2da; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; color: #d6b169; display: block; font-size: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;">81:26</a><br />
<div class="ayahBoxHeaderLinks" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 5px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="action_toTop" href="http://quran.com/81#0" style="color: #999999; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; z-index: 0;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://quran.com/images/ayah_actions.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: block; float: left; height: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 11px; z-index: 0;"></span>to top</a></div></div><div class="ayah language_1 images" dir="rtl" id="verse_5826_language_1" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: right; z-index: 0;"><img alt="81:26" src="http://c0022506.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/81_26.png" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;" /></div><div class="ayah language_6 text" id="verse_5826_language_6" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 80px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 0;"><span id="verse_5826_language_6_content" style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><br />
Then where are you going?</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:27" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
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Verily, this is no less than a reminder to all the worlds.</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:28" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
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To whomsoever among you who wills to take a right course.</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><a class="key" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3634656115879639806&postID=6212426447538595443" name="81:29" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></a></span></span><br />
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And you cannot will unless that God wills, Sustainer of all the worlds.</span></div></div></div><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="180" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FPdlVWClTaE" title="YouTube video player" width="200"></iframe>Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-506381085668368422011-03-12T16:00:00.001+08:002011-10-11T07:05:11.291+08:00Of The Mind And Duty To Parents<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7wKoQoMzaFSR8GkUEUbWvj9gUsaL38FCBBqccJNWCeqTgNYsR7eujAUxa6c4P_q7xAS3CBuh7-kUq0pOoU_IW5SlCjpR-vA9Gei0GF9m9795626rrld-Z7TAzToUkTyfkhuxyBLkCLoQ/s1600/IMG_2547.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7wKoQoMzaFSR8GkUEUbWvj9gUsaL38FCBBqccJNWCeqTgNYsR7eujAUxa6c4P_q7xAS3CBuh7-kUq0pOoU_IW5SlCjpR-vA9Gei0GF9m9795626rrld-Z7TAzToUkTyfkhuxyBLkCLoQ/s320/IMG_2547.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I wonder if my mind would ever rest. It travels everywhere, to every corner of memories, to every nook of the cortex, to every neuron of my sensory.<br />
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It takes me to the past, to the present, to the future, to the present, to the past.<br />
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It goes over the good, and the bad. It takes me to the time when I was eight, and my sister was four and I would not take her on the bike. Why not? Why didn't I. It takes me to the time when my son was three, and he was devouring juicy watermelon at a Japanese restaurant, and I noticed the disappointment on his face when it was gone too quick. Why didn't I order more. Why didn't I?<br />
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I feel a need to make it up to the past.<br />
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I googled for a meaning of the verses of the Qur'an, to study and to share and the following verses touched me. May I always be reminded to be kind to my parents.<br />
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The verses are 17:23-25 of Al-Isra', The Night Journey, the 17th surah that has 111 verses. According to A'ishah, the Prophet's wife, the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, used to recite this surah every night in his prayer (Tirmidzi, Nasa'i, Hambali).<br />
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17:23<br />
And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And that you be dutiful to your parents. If one of them or both of them attain old age in your life, never say "ugh" to them or scold them, but address them in terms of honour.<br />
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17:24<br />
And lower for them the wing of humility, out of tenderness, and say: "My Lord! Bestow on them Your grace and mercy as they cherished and reared me when I was young".<br />
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17:25<br />
Your Lord is fully aware of what is in your hearts. If you are righteous, for, behold, He is much forgiving to those who turn unto Him again and again.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="180" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/j4Z5cImJB8E" title="YouTube video player" width="200"></iframe>Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-18145867083497239452011-03-01T20:30:00.000+08:002011-03-12T12:08:34.151+08:00My Message To My Sons<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMjKLvqxA1BLIhux5e7SgddyOWwkTwZG7u5XoAfvEZWdJzS4ddb53kQ_NTJk7sRpvu48D2aHMcWtPcC-HPQLxEcA58fwI0I9jzFowvbB1vtglogA7ZNId1QltIw-4ZI7rsmXdKUmbORc0/s1600/P1100070.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMjKLvqxA1BLIhux5e7SgddyOWwkTwZG7u5XoAfvEZWdJzS4ddb53kQ_NTJk7sRpvu48D2aHMcWtPcC-HPQLxEcA58fwI0I9jzFowvbB1vtglogA7ZNId1QltIw-4ZI7rsmXdKUmbORc0/s320/P1100070.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>Oh my sons, do not associate partners with God.<br />
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Oh my sons, perform Prayers, at dawn, at noon, at late afternoon, at dusk, at night, observing them on time with all of their requirements humbly and conscientiously.<br />
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Give thanks to God and to your parents and to your grandparents.<br />
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And enjoin the good and forbid evil, gently and without harshness.<br />
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Bear with patience whatever befalls you.<br />
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And do not turn away from people through pride. Smile, for a smile is a charity in your favour. Nor walk haughtily on earth. And walk at a moderate pace, neither quick nor slow. And lower your voice when there is no need for raising the voice.<br />
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My sons, when you ask, ask God, and when you seek help, seek the help of God. And know that victory comes with endurance and the relief comes through distress. And along with difficulty comes ease.<br />
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<div style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></div>Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-59292575625465998492011-02-27T14:17:00.001+08:002011-10-23T09:45:26.096+08:00By The Fig And The Olive<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW55SfjU3l0gBSoev1nK8PpIxptoA9eJYi9tW9Q0CsScij-4S1rXvaqqeIm805jptbzt1GEdIO7TcBg4PK-ptYuiJCu4VfdkW-wzYLSfI3ADm0zP9PtOYnNeq9g7ylyemkGzCVs7AeYTg/s1600/P1070243.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW55SfjU3l0gBSoev1nK8PpIxptoA9eJYi9tW9Q0CsScij-4S1rXvaqqeIm805jptbzt1GEdIO7TcBg4PK-ptYuiJCu4VfdkW-wzYLSfI3ADm0zP9PtOYnNeq9g7ylyemkGzCVs7AeYTg/s320/P1070243.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>I have come to surahs (chapters) that begin with the word consider or by, an exclamation to witness. In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.<br />
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By the bright morning hours,<br />
and the night when it grows still and dark<br />
(Ad-Duha, The Bright Morning Hours, 93:1-2)<br />
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By the night as it veils (the earth) in darkness,<br />
and the day as it rises bright<br />
By the creation of the male and the female<br />
(Al-Layl, The Night, 92:1-3)<br />
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By the sun and its glorious splendour<br />
and the moon as it follows it<br />
By the day as it reveals glory<br />
and the night as it conceals it<br />
By the sky and its wondrous make<br />
and the earth and all its expanse<br />
By the human self, and the proportion and order given to it,<br />
and how it is imbued with its wickedness and its righteousness<br />
(Ash-Shams, The Sun, 91:1-8)<br />
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By the heavens and the nightcomer<br />
(At-Tariq, The Nightcomer, 86:1)<br />
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By the sky full of great constellations,<br />
(Al-Buruj, The Great Constellations, 85:1)<br />
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By the fig and the olive,<br />
and Mount Sinai,<br />
and this secure city<br />
(At-Tin, The Fig, 95:1-3)<br />
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By the daybreak<br />
and the ten nights<br />
By the even (numbers) and the odd<br />
By the night as it advances<br />
Is there (not) in these a solemn evidence of the truth for those who understand?<br />
(Al-Fajr, The Daybreak, 89:1-5)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The recitation is of Ad-Duha (The Bright Morning Hours)</span><br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="180" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/x4rkQkCzyzI" title="YouTube video player" width="200"></iframe>Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-28193644077753892472011-02-18T23:35:00.000+08:002011-02-20T23:42:33.653+08:00The Succour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr81INAasskn7P7qrOQiOfnYLOiHeKfbKv1dujZijFJ0oSzLjUHdHV0ePZRPLj4jCH9Zd6PoQTuPkeBLw3_UULVfbrwbzW2cCdnRedaTtWE30bxrl17lTKhgEdk97QaQnkYMvDWMQx74I/s1600/P1080100.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr81INAasskn7P7qrOQiOfnYLOiHeKfbKv1dujZijFJ0oSzLjUHdHV0ePZRPLj4jCH9Zd6PoQTuPkeBLw3_UULVfbrwbzW2cCdnRedaTtWE30bxrl17lTKhgEdk97QaQnkYMvDWMQx74I/s320/P1080100.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>This surah was revealed in Mina during the Prophet's Farewell Pilgrimage. It was preceded one day earlier on Friday 9th of Zulhijjah, by revelation of the words "...Today I have perfected your religion for you, and bestowed upon you the full measure of My blessings, and willed that self-surrender unto Me (al-islam) shall be your religion..."5:3.<br />
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Some of the Prophet's Companions concluded that his mission was fulfilled, and that he was about to die (Bukhari). As a matter of fact, the Prophet passed away a little over two months later, and the only revelation which the Prophet received after this surah was verse "And be conscious of the Day on which you shall be brought back unto God, whereupon every human being shall be repaid in full for what he has earned, and none shall be wronged"(2:281).<br />
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There were about two and a half millions pilgrims during my Haj, I wonder how many there were during the Prophet's Haj when this last complete surah was conveyed by him to the world.<br />
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When God's succour comes, and victory,<br />
and thou seest people enter God's religion in hosts,<br />
extol thy Sustainer's limitless glory, and praise Him, and seek His forgiveness: for behold, He is ever an acceptor of repentance.<br />
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An-Nasr(The Succour): 1-3. It is the 110th surah of the 114 surahs of the Qur'an.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="180" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/q_aekfVnBzQ" title="YouTube video player" width="200"></iframe>Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-46271957047358925242011-02-15T10:20:00.000+08:002011-02-16T18:36:19.459+08:00The Sincerity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip3X0FM1WLxwTFGIZvv5sFLiDBfrEDgD0jeLUCQtjt5NScPOqCAVyyO6sihdR9kd5zcEPGJ4y9TeN1jtnkbOFcy-J1ZQlaxMsu_qAOZxpiQVc9RPdb9FXADEitot9M-MsgYFm2W6ifICU/s1600/P1070747.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip3X0FM1WLxwTFGIZvv5sFLiDBfrEDgD0jeLUCQtjt5NScPOqCAVyyO6sihdR9kd5zcEPGJ4y9TeN1jtnkbOFcy-J1ZQlaxMsu_qAOZxpiQVc9RPdb9FXADEitot9M-MsgYFm2W6ifICU/s320/P1070747.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>I think it is time I organise my learning and be a bit more systematic. Today I am learning Surah Al-Ikhlas (The Sincerity). It is the 112th Surah (chapter) of the 114 Surahs of the Qur'an. It has four verses.<br />
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Say, "He is God, One".<br />
"God, the Eternal, Absolute".<br />
"He begets not, nor is He begotten".<br />
"And there is none like Him".<br />
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I learned that the term "as-samad" (the eternal, absolute) occurs only once in the Qur'an and is applied to God alone.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="180" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Vp-6ofzUuVI" title="YouTube video player" width="200"></iframe>Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-58357395694659770382011-02-08T15:21:00.000+08:002011-02-10T15:06:11.904+08:00The Winnowing Winds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-1j-Xaf4x3tSLFZBaOTjDa0zlb5sRI3jTIv6vo6dcobz3dy7LgTumd13BddG_CddRy8p2vwgoE_-tJrkZ3klHdStSlokUro65lXSzXR_h398gwIDFb9rCuNzZQNSC4v43IQ33f58rHl4/s1600/P1080782.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-1j-Xaf4x3tSLFZBaOTjDa0zlb5sRI3jTIv6vo6dcobz3dy7LgTumd13BddG_CddRy8p2vwgoE_-tJrkZ3klHdStSlokUro65lXSzXR_h398gwIDFb9rCuNzZQNSC4v43IQ33f58rHl4/s320/P1080782.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>My first son has an English project that calls for him to study and present a post-colonial era literature. And like his calculus and inorganic chemistry problems, he would come to me for assistance and advise. He is doing his pre-university studies and that is like many, many moons ago, too far in the past for my recollection.<br />
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And so my first response was, google it. He said, I've done it but I could't find anything. Plus I am not sure what the lecturer means with post-colonial literature. And so we started discussing back and forth and topics of World War 1, World War II, it was not a world war, no to the first, yes to the second, Rumi, Hemingway, Mark Twain, all came about, and finally fell on Edward Said's Orientalism. We've got the book on our shelves, I told my son.<br />
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In searching, for the book, we came across many books that had passed my mind and memory. We saw Chomsky's, Robert Fisk's, Karen Armstrong's, Thomas L. Friedman's, Gore Vidal's, David McCullough's, Jared Diamond's. We saw the novels, Sheldon's, Grisham's, Cornwell's, Ludlum's, Archer's etc., and I noticed the Jean M. Auel's series. The titles went from The Girl In The Picture to Islam For Dummies, to Soros On Soros, 7 Habits Of Bla Bla to Gone With The Wind. We did not find Orientalism until the next day of searching. We finally found it sandwiched between Sex In History and my second son's school workbook The Truth About Life, Love+Sex (I didn't dare look inside scared to find out what the government was teaching my children).<br />
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My son picked up Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace, , described as Dr Zhivago For The Far East. He said I might read this one.<br />
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Some of the books belonged to my husband, some were mine. We had share-read most of them, shared thoughts on them and many too I found that not only I had not read them, I did not even know I owned them. One of them was Harun Yahya's Learning From The Qur'an.<br />
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Books feed the mind, fuel dreams, influence body postures. The book I found seemed perfect for my learning of the meaning of the Qur'an. In the foreword Yahya highlighted Qur'an 51:56: "I only created jinn and man to worship Me", and Qur'an 38:29: "It (the Qur'an) is a book We have sent down to you, full of blessing, so let people of intelligence ponder its Signs and take heed."<br />
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Surah 51 is Az-Dzariyat, The Winnowing Winds. I don't know what my son will present to his teacher, but I am excited and grateful I found my book.Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-75733187153817553482011-01-28T11:07:00.000+08:002011-01-30T00:28:00.404+08:00The Clot - Revisited<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZpVWP4nfz7qR2rVDMw7geMHOb-wRc-qQ_PjvYNDOUTEHdbf-mA5JLK7a9sS09JIBF7dQxuUIjx1hhwBu8INNSEH1FnpteyQy6Jn_bQ1lcQC4NjOYjDpSWpjsJ_Yoowq5tF5LVkcUOjqw/s1600/P1070355.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZpVWP4nfz7qR2rVDMw7geMHOb-wRc-qQ_PjvYNDOUTEHdbf-mA5JLK7a9sS09JIBF7dQxuUIjx1hhwBu8INNSEH1FnpteyQy6Jn_bQ1lcQC4NjOYjDpSWpjsJ_Yoowq5tF5LVkcUOjqw/s320/P1070355.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>I had posted 10 posts, which means I had learned or relearned the meaning of about 10 short Surahs of the Qur'an or part of 10 of my 'picking and choosing'. Little verses that make up not even a tip of the Qur'an, yet the understanding overwhelms me I couldn't get away from it. And one part of the understanding takes over my life and I couldn't move pass it unless I proclaim it.<br />
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What have I learned, that as I cook I will think about it, that as I drive I will think about it, that as I talk to my children, text my friend, think of my late husband, do groceries, read blog posts, visit my parents, plan a trip, play with my baby nephew, the understanding and the verses will come to me.<br />
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I learned that I was just a <a href="http://journeyofoneaishah.blogspot.com/2010/09/read.html">clot</a>, 45 years, one month, maybe 15 days, ago. I was a clinging clot of congealed blood, clinging for life, deep in the dark of my mother's womb.<br />
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I didn't know how to write, I didn't know how to read. I didn't know anything.<br />
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Today, today I am beyond all bounds. Today I imagine I am self-sufficient. Today I have articulated thoughts and speech. Today the sun and the moon run their appointed courses, my life has <a href="http://journeyofoneaishah.blogspot.com/2010/11/balance.html">balance</a>. The stars and the trees give me added joy.<br />
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</div>Today, by His will, I am grateful that I am able to express my gratefulness to Him, my Creator. The Shaper Of Beauty. Today I am grateful I am able to be grateful to Him for my past. Today I am grateful I am able to pray to Him for my future.<br />
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Today, by His will, I proclaim, in the name of my Lord and Cherisher, Who created, created me, out of a clot of congealed blood, proclaim, my Lord is Most Bountiful, He Who taught me the use of the Pen, taught me which I knew not. Today, by His will I bow down in adoration, and bring myself closer to Him. InsyaaAllah, MasyaaAllah.Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-27557356586797809802011-01-14T19:51:00.000+08:002011-07-20T15:34:05.278+08:00The Bright Morning Hours<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX2Iou9lriGXWj-OaIVow8In5dOC4dux1rz-eRG89aV9Ko8EL4hAF3-RuOPL8wVNti7Odr8sgx2SnOT87lF2oc-Zot0I8nvh2bh5lYzASyqMJU5be34tMeCslOEqvw-zwBjOx6jLlxhv8/s1600/P1060987.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX2Iou9lriGXWj-OaIVow8In5dOC4dux1rz-eRG89aV9Ko8EL4hAF3-RuOPL8wVNti7Odr8sgx2SnOT87lF2oc-Zot0I8nvh2bh5lYzASyqMJU5be34tMeCslOEqvw-zwBjOx6jLlxhv8/s320/P1060987.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>I sit in my living room, computer in my lap, watching the view outside. The sun has just come up, the sky is clear and cool. It rained last night. The trees are green, their leaves bright and moist. Their reflections bright in the pond. The orchids of purple and white and dark brown scattered on the lawn add colors. I have a beautiful garden.<br />
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I can see my turkey pet fluffing his feathers. He perches right on the doorstep. I can see a squirrel playing in the tree. An early squirrel. Yesterday a family of monkeys came to visit. The morning chirping birds had quietened down and I can hear the distant sound of a rooster crowing. A late rooster.<br />
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My helper just arrived and she is doing the dishes. I sit here in this big sofa chair waiting for my children to get ready. I hear water running in the shower, I hear low humming of the dishwasher. There is no more food in the house and we are going out to get breakfast then groceries.<br />
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My heart fills with gratitude for everything that I have, Alhamdulillahirabbila'lamin, all praise is due to God and God alone, the Sustainer of all the worlds, the Most Gracious, the Dispenser of Grace. And I pray for His continued blessing. Yet there is an innate melancholic feeling hanging in the calmness of the morning.<br />
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I google for the meaning of a verse and the page rests on Ad-Dhuha, The Bright Morning Hours. The surah seems to have been revealed to the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, during a desolate time of his outer life.<br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Consider the bright morning hours,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the night when it grows still and dark.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thy Sustainer has not forsaken thee, nor is He displeased;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for, indeed, the life to come will be better for thee than the former</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And, indeed, in time will thy Sustainer grant thee, and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">thou shalt be well-pleased.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Has He not found thee an orphan, and given thee shelter?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And found thee lost on thy way, and guided thee?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And found thee in want, and given thee sufficiency?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Therefore, the orphan shalt thou never wrong,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and him that seeks help shalt thou never chide,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and of thy Sustainer's blessings shalt thou ever speak.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="180" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/x4rkQkCzyzI" title="YouTube video player" width="200"></iframe></span>Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-25635282953925686312010-12-09T21:34:00.000+08:002010-12-10T07:10:01.342+08:00Mak<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEtCSp1VbP_9dv8xack7-CRdgw581DR4UtgaRBZuum5B8EzAtF90FN0XaRvBR7Amw8eckWQwoY0MJ5vy0o99FtxQEjP2_1_VOcDI3EnfVM3EwlCmakTLEPeT0S1KsP3kthh_JSvGC5lqA/s1600/IMG_0580.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEtCSp1VbP_9dv8xack7-CRdgw581DR4UtgaRBZuum5B8EzAtF90FN0XaRvBR7Amw8eckWQwoY0MJ5vy0o99FtxQEjP2_1_VOcDI3EnfVM3EwlCmakTLEPeT0S1KsP3kthh_JSvGC5lqA/s320/IMG_0580.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>A month had passed, again. And as I was thinking of a post, I received a text message from my Mom. Aishah, where are you, how are you, have you had dinner? Mak and Bapak are at the mosque reading the Qur'an after Maghrib prayer while waiting for the Isyak prayer.<br />
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My mother texts me often (almost all the time). How are you, where are you. LuvU3. Sometimes I feel my Mom would be a great iphone ambassador.<br />
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Thinking of my mother, I would like to share, just one verse tonight. Luqman 31:14.<br />
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"And We have enjoined on man kindness to his parents: his mother bore him in weakness and hardship upon weakness and hardship, and his weaning is within two years; be grateful to Me, and to your parents, (and remember that) with Me is all journeys' end."Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-35507122255308125462010-11-09T08:57:00.000+08:002010-11-16T11:57:38.958+08:00Mizan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuVYwk3Tcg4B0SrESfKjn-3lGwKGBRa8w5bqV93yFB9wstGyXelFPDoLQOWQtzTyBCxUy_G3R8r8H_P11VR8RGixo5ATJNwBt0E01gWHdM0BGhyzjA297rQnrLaD9B89BoXEriZwlYhbw/s1600/P1020031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuVYwk3Tcg4B0SrESfKjn-3lGwKGBRa8w5bqV93yFB9wstGyXelFPDoLQOWQtzTyBCxUy_G3R8r8H_P11VR8RGixo5ATJNwBt0E01gWHdM0BGhyzjA297rQnrLaD9B89BoXEriZwlYhbw/s320/P1020031.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Slightly less than a year ago, after performing my Haj in Makkah, in the hotel room in Madinah, I resumed my home habit of turning on the TV. And on it was the recitation of the Qur'an and I heard the surah where the word "mizan" "mizan" being recited again and again.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Malaysia's current king was King Mizan. And I wondered what was the meaning of the word "mizan". I asked my mother who was with me, and she said "timbang", as in the weighing balance. And I thought what a good name his parents had bestowed on him. A just king.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">I had not wrote for a while and decided to find out and share the meaning of the verses I listened to and enjoyed so on TV in Madinah. I asked my officemate, Razid. "Razid, which surah has the word "mizan" "mizan" in it?" And without hesitation he said "Surah Ar-Rahman". Ar-Rahman, The Most Gracious. And here was the meaning of the first nine verses of the 55th Surah of the Al-Quran.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">1) The Most Gracious</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">2) Has imparted this Qur'an</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">3) He has created man; 4) He has imparted unto him articulate thought and speech</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">5) (At His behest) the sun and the moon run their appointed courses; 6) (before Him) the stars and the trees prostrate</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">7) And the skies has He raised high, and has devised (for all things) a balance, 8) so that you (too, O men) might never transgress the measure; 9) weigh, therefore (your deeds) with equity, and cut not the measure short.</span></span>Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-83987290664241186392010-09-22T15:30:00.000+08:002011-03-20T08:12:51.361+08:00Read<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRmOwTApeThW0hE2_THpwKFaOXFvj38O2O5-2hCEzSZoQLOXkXcSFZAtDepvoqPj0imaVZLqQcOupWCGy-D6Kp0PxLSwCSFUWyRJXLSxLKM9owVo0y5n2qU4eYgTXHyrbyl-81iHApNzQ/s1600/DSC_2525.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRmOwTApeThW0hE2_THpwKFaOXFvj38O2O5-2hCEzSZoQLOXkXcSFZAtDepvoqPj0imaVZLqQcOupWCGy-D6Kp0PxLSwCSFUWyRJXLSxLKM9owVo0y5n2qU4eYgTXHyrbyl-81iHApNzQ/s320/DSC_2525.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>We celebrated Raya in my hometown up north. My grandfather's house is no longer there, and in its place is my Maksu's beautiful home. I miss my grandfather. He instilled in me the understanding of the oneness of God, of heaven and hell. He told me stories of the prophets, of angels and Iblis. He taught me how to pray, how to fast and how to recite the Qur'an. He had imparted to me "ilmu yang menfaat" (knowledge that is beneficial).<br />
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Upon return, I continued my reading of the meaning of the Qur'an. Remembering my grandfather's voice and remembering listening to him as a little girl, I think of the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah's peace and blessing be upon him, when the Qur'an was revealed to him that very first time. The very first Revelation were the five verses from Surah Al Alaq (the Clot) or also called Surah Al-iqra' (Read), recited by the Angel of Revelation to the Prophet.<br />
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</tbody></table>Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634656115879639806.post-87304344125304894662010-08-31T07:53:00.000+08:002011-03-20T08:17:18.886+08:00The Most High<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG2ryRIpWZAZDMFmxs8Tez44cNoLW27orNn-9UkcBpxW1AxYC39xgWt1kHK1mxj4nAkDAqmdQFbKviqvzTB6S2n3DN772gpc2uDcqmk1s0-ockE5DqsezM8GdUl4ulkpX5khJbh8rKxkg/s1600/P4040173.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG2ryRIpWZAZDMFmxs8Tez44cNoLW27orNn-9UkcBpxW1AxYC39xgWt1kHK1mxj4nAkDAqmdQFbKviqvzTB6S2n3DN772gpc2uDcqmk1s0-ockE5DqsezM8GdUl4ulkpX5khJbh8rKxkg/s320/P4040173.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I lifted my eyes from the pages of the Tafsir. I felt tired from reading.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I realised that I can read the Qur'an, in Arabic, out loud, not understanding the meaning and go pages. However reading the meaning of the Qur'an in English does not offer me the same experience as reciting the Qur'an in its pure Arabic.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I remember the time I fell in love with "Sabbihis". My younger brother read it when he led us in Maghrib prayer, at a family tree reunion, at a beautiful resort, some years ago. "Sabbihis marabbikal aqla; Allazi kholaqo fasauwaa; Wallazi qaddaro fahadaa;" it went on so beautifully I didn't want it to stop. It ended so soothingly with "Innahaa zaalafissuhufil oolaa; Suhufi Ibrahiima wa Moosaa". The comfort and pleasure of two names I recognised.</span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">I had fallen to the busy-ness of this world and slacked. I flipped through the pages and my eyes rested on the following verse, Al-Baqarah 183:</span></span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: green; font-family: me_quran, 'Traditional Arabic', 'Times New Roman', Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ</span><br />
"O you who believe! the Fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed to those before you, - that you may practice reverence".<br />
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I was attracted to the verse, not just because it is Ramadhan, but also because of - laa'llakum tattaqun - a continuation lesson for me in understanding my strive to be a al-muttaqun, the God-conscious, the one who does not associate partners to God, the one who fears God's punishment, the one who believes in the Unseen and is steadfast in Prayer, and spends on others out of what Allah has provided for him. The one who believes in the Revelation sent to the Prophet, and sent before the Prophet's time, and in his heart has the assurance of the Hereinafter.<br />
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The other day, my younger son said I was forcing him when I told him to do something and I reacted angrily. Later, it made me review my responsibility as a mother. I am a mother of teenage sons. A mother of young men. I searched for answers in my head. And Surah Al-Asr came to mind. "By the time! Verily man is in loss; Save those who believe and do righteous deeds, and exhort one another to abide by the truth and admonish each other to be patient".<br />
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I talked to my son, I told him that I am here to guide him and remind him; and that he should remind me too if he saw me slacking or lose my patience.Aishahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064149242908143273noreply@blogger.com15