Pearl of Wisdom
All that you see with your own eye and that your heart finds pleasing, make it for Allah, for this is the trade of the Hereafter. Allah says, What is with you depletes, while what is with Allah is eternal.'
Prophet Muhammad al-Mustafa [sawa] Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p. 106, no. 1
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AL-ASR (THE DECLINING DAY, EVENTIDE, THE EPOCH) |
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Total Verses: 3
Revealed At: MAKKA 103.001
YUSUFALI: By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),
PICKTHAL: By the declining day,
SHAKIR: I swear by the time, 103.002
YUSUFALI: Verily Man is in loss,
PICKTHAL: Lo! man is a state of loss,
SHAKIR: Most surely man is in loss, 103.003
YUSUFALI: Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds, and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth, and of Patience and Constancy.
PICKTHAL: Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.
SHAKIR: Except those who believe and do good, and enjoin on each other truth, and enjoin on each other patience.
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