Yourselves: for verily Allah hath been to you Most Merciful! 30. If any do that In rancour and injustice,Soon shall We cast him Into the Fire: and easy It is for Allah. 31. If ye (but) eschew The most heinous Of the things Which ye are forbidden to do, We shall remit Your evil deeds, and admit you to a Gate Of great honour. 32. And in no wise covet~2 Those things in which Allah Hath bestowed His gifts More freely on some of you Than on others: to men Is allotted what they earn. And to women what they earn: But ask Allah of His bounty. For Allah hath full knowledge Of all things. 33. To (benefit) every one. We have appointed
542. Men and women have gifts from Allah-some greater than others. They seem unequal. but we are assured Ihal Allah has allotted Ihem by a scheme by which people receive whal they earn. If this does not appear clear in our sight. leI us remember Ihat we have no full knOWledge bUI Allah has. We must not be jealous if other people have more Ihan we have-in wealth or position or slrenglh or honour or talent or happiness. Probably Ihings are equalized in the aggregate or in Ihe long run, or equated to needs and merits on a scale which we cannot appraise. If we wanl more. inslead of being jealous or covetous. we should pray 10 Allah and place before Him our needs. Though He knows all, and has no need of our prayer. our prayer may reveal to ourselves our shortcomings and enable us to deserve more of Allah's bounty or make ourselves fil for il. y
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