Quran The Final Testament

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The Key1 The Heifer2 The Amramites3 The Women4 The Feast5 The Livestock6 The Purgatory7 The Spoils of War8 Ultimatum9 Jonah10 Hood11 Joseph12 The Thunder13 Abraham14 The Hijr Valley15 The Bee16 The Children of Israel17 The Cave18 Mary19 T-H20 The Prophets21 The Pilgrimage22 The Believers23 The Light24 The Statute Book25 The Poets26 The Ant27 The History28 The Spider29 The Romans30 Luqmaan31 Prostration32 The Parties33 Sheba34 Initiator35 Y-S36 The Arrangers37 S38 The Throngs39 Forgiver40 Detailed41 Consultation42 The Ornaments43 The Smoke44 The Kneeling45 The Dunes46 Muhammed47 Victory48 The Walls49 Q50 Driver of the Winds51 Mount Sinai52 The Stars53 The Moon54 The Gracious55 The Inevitable56 Iron57 The Debate58 The Exodus59 The Test60 The Column61 Friday62 The Hypocrites63 Mutual Blaming64 Divorce65 Prohibition66 Kingship67 The Pen68 Incontestable69 The Heights70 Noah71 Jinns72 Cloaked73 The Hidden Secret74 Resurrection75 The Human76 Dispatched77 The Event78 The Snatchers79 He Frowned80 The Rolling81 The Shattering82 The Cheaters83 The Rupture84 The Galaxies85 The Bright Star86 The Most High87 Overwhelming88 Dawn89 The Town90 The Sun91 The Night92 The Forenoon93 Cooling the Temper94 The Fig95 The Embryo96 The Destiny97 The Proof98 The Quake99 The Gallopers100 The Shocker101 Hoarding102 The Afternoon103 The Backbiter104 The Elephant105 Quraish Tribe106 Charity107 Bounty108 The Disbelievers109 Triumph110 Thorns111 Absoluteness112 Daybreak113 People114

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The Quran presents mercy as the attribute God chose for Himself before anything else. "To whom belongs everything in the heavens and the earth?" Say, "To GOD." He has decreed that mercy is His attribute" (6:12). The same declaration is the greeting the messenger was told to give believers (6:54). The Quran opens with "Most Gracious, Most Merciful" (1:3), and that phrase heads the suras in the Basmalah (55:0). The Quran Talk blog points out that Rahman and Raheem come from the same Arabic root as the word for womb, arḥām. A mother nourishes and protects the child inside her whether or not it knows she is there, and God provides for every creature in the same way. The words are also part of the Quran's mathematical structure: Al-Rahman occurs 57 times (19 x 3) and Al-Raheem 114 times (19 x 6).

The Quran shows God's mercy in many forms. The wind carries "good omens of His mercy" (25:48). The rain that comes "after they had despaired" spreads His mercy (42:28). His blessings are too many to count (16:18). Scripture itself is "A beacon and a mercy for the righteous" (31:3). Nothing can block mercy once He sends it, and nothing but He can send it if He withholds it (35:2). No group owns it: "all grace is in GOD's hand" (57:29, 3:74).

Two kinds of verses work together on this subject. God says "My mercy encompasses all things," and in the same breath, "I will specify it for those who (1) lead a righteous life, (2) give the obligatory charity (Zakat), (3) believe in our revelations" (7:156), and who follow the messenger (7:157). Verse 6:12 likewise places His mercy right beside the Day of Resurrection and "the ones who lose their souls." My reading is that mercy reaches everyone in this life as provision and blessing, while its lasting form is promised to those who turn toward God. The way back is always open: anyone who does wrong "out of ignorance, and repents thereafter and reforms" finds Him "Forgiving, Most Merciful" (6:54). Even those "who exceeded the limits" are told, "never despair of GOD's mercy. For GOD forgives all sins" (39:53). The very next verses tell them to submit "before the retribution overtakes you" (39:54-55). Mercy is unlimited, but a person has to accept it while there is still time.

That is why the Quran treats despair as a failure of faith: "None despairs of his Lord's mercy, except the strayers" (15:56). It also warns against the opposite mistake, taking mercy for granted. Some people call on God sincerely in hardship, then "as soon as He showers them with mercy, some of them revert to idol worship" (30:33). Others celebrate mercy and become despondent at the first trouble (30:36). The right response is to keep hoping, keep thanking Him, and keep imploring Him: "If only you implore GOD for forgiveness, you may attain mercy" (27:46).

The Quran also asks people to pass mercy on. Believers exhort "one another to be kind" (90:17). The Arabic word there, marḥama, comes from the same root as raḥma. The messenger's gentleness was itself "mercy from GOD," and it is what kept people from abandoning him (3:159). Children are to pray for their parents, "My Lord, have mercy on them, for they have raised me from infancy" (17:24). Those who "pardon, forget, and forgive" are reminded that God is "Forgiver, Most Merciful" (64:14). The Quran Talk blog connects this to 28:77, "Be charitable, as GOD has been charitable towards you". It calls it a kind of moral shortchanging to want mercy for our own mistakes while being harsh about other people's. The point that follows is that a person who has been given mercy is expected to give it.

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