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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · temples, shrines, and sacred places · vision fulfilled with security · the city and urban life · self-restraint · sacred month fighting · prophecy and revelation · pilgrims · pilgrimage and holy travel · persecution worse than killing · offering withheld from reaching its place · night journey
Usually: argument (3) · exhortation (2) · indignation (2) · reverence (2) · narrative (1) · reflection (1) · injustice endured (1) · detachment (1) · praise (1) · wonder (1)
“So when the second promise came (We raised another people) that they may bring you to grief and that they may enter the mosque as they entered it the first time, and that they might destroy whatever they gained ascendancy over with utter destruction.” Ali, Abdullah Yusuf; Pickthall, Marmaduke William; Shakir, M. H., Three translations of the Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by · observation
It warns that fighting in the sacred month is a grave offense, but that stopping people from Allah’s path, denying Him, and expelling people from the Sacred Mosque are worse, and insists foes will keep trying to turn believers back.
their profit. And they ask you as to what they should spend. Say: What you can spare. Thus does Allah make clear to you the communications, that you may ponder, 002.220 Y: (Their bearings) on this life and the Hereafter. They ask thee concerning orphans. Say: "The best thing to do is what is for their good; if ye mix their affairs with yours, they are your brethren; but Allah knows the man who means mischief from th…
It contrasts maintaining the Sacred Mosque and serving pilgrims with striving in God’s cause, promises high rank and everlasting gardens to believers who emigrate and struggle, and warns against taking disbelieving relatives as guardians.
and keeps up prayer and pays the poor-rate and fears none but Allah; so (as for) these, it may be that they are of the followers of the right course. 009.019 Y: Do ye make the giving of drink to pilgrims, or the maintenance of the Sacred Mosque, equal to (the pious service of) those who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and strive with might and main in the cause of Allah? They are not comparable in the sight of Al…
In the story of Al-Isra, Allah is praised for taking His servant at night from the Sacred Mosque to the farthest blessed mosque, and it recounts guidance and warnings given to the Children of Israel through Moses and prior scripture.
(We permitted your enemies) to disfigure your faces, and to enter your Temple as they had entered it before, and to visit with destruction all that fell into their power. P: (Saying): If ye do good, ye do good for your own souls, and if ye do evil, it is for them (in like manner). So, when the time for the second (of the judgments) came (We roused against you others of Our slaves) to ravage you, and to enter the Tem…
The text promises that believers and righteous doers enter Gardens under rivers, be honored, and that those who deny and obstruct the Sacred Mosque will taste a grievous punishment.
022.029 Y: "Then let them complete the rites prescribed for them, perform their vows, and (again) circumambulate the Ancient House." P: Then let them make an end of their unkemptness and pay their vows and go around the ancient House. S: Then let them accomplish their needful acts of shaving and cleansing, and let them fulfil their vows and let them go round the Ancient House. 022.030 Y: Such (is the Pilgrimage): …
The verses explain why believers were kept from forcing entry into the Sacred Mosque, describe Allah’s settling of believers against the zeal of unbelievers, and promise a secure entry with shaved heads and trimmed hair.
048.028 Y: It is He Who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth, to proclaim it over all religion: and enough is Allah for a Witness. P: He it is Who hath sent His messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may cause it to prevail over all religion. And Allah sufficeth as a Witness. S: He it is Who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the true religion that He may make…