[29/09, 10:40 am] Badamasi Adamu: ﷽
*Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 81:*
بَلَىٰ مَن كَسَبَ سَيِّئَةً وَأَحَاطَتْ بِهِ خَطِيئَتُهُ فَأُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ
Yes! Whosoever earns evil and his sin has surrounded him, they are dwellers of the Fire (i.e. Hell); they will dwell therein forever.
*COMMENTARY*
This is many degrees worse than merely falling into evil: it is going out to "earn evil", as the Arabic text has it, i.e to seek gain in evil. Such a perverse attitude means that the moral and spiritual fortress erected around us by the Grace of Allah is voluntarily surrendered by us and demolished by Evil, which erects its own fortress, so that access to Good may be more and more difficult.
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*Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 82:*
وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْجَنَّةِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ
And those who believe (in the Oneness of Allāh - Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, they are dwellers of Paradise, they will dwell therein forever.
*Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 81:*
بَلَىٰ مَن كَسَبَ سَيِّئَةً وَأَحَاطَتْ بِهِ خَطِيئَتُهُ فَأُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ
Yes! Whosoever earns evil and his sin has surrounded him, they are dwellers of the Fire (i.e. Hell); they will dwell therein forever.
*COMMENTARY*
This is many degrees worse than merely falling into evil: it is going out to "earn evil", as the Arabic text has it, i.e to seek gain in evil. Such a perverse attitude means that the moral and spiritual fortress erected around us by the Grace of Allah is voluntarily surrendered by us and demolished by Evil, which erects its own fortress, so that access to Good may be more and more difficult.
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*Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 82:*
وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْجَنَّةِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ
And those who believe (in the Oneness of Allāh - Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, they are dwellers of Paradise, they will dwell therein forever.
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