Pearl of Wisdom
'lblis [Satan] asked Jesus son of Mary (AS), 'Is your Lord capable of fitting the earth inside an egg, without shrinking the earth or enlarging the egg?' So Jesus (AS) replied, 'Woe betide you! Verily Allah can never be ascribed with incapacity, and who is there more powerful than the One who can shrink the earth and enlarge the egg [if He so will s]?!
Imam Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq [as] Ibid. p. 127, no. 5
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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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