1. Ali, A. Y. (1946a) The Holy Qur’an Text, Translation and Commentary (New York: McGregor and Werner), ch. III, verse 117: ‘What they spend in the life of this material world may be likened to a wind which brings a nipping frost’.
2. Ali, A. Y. (1946b) ibid., ch. V, verse 79: ‘Say: “Will ye worship besides God something which hath no power either to harm or benefit you?”’; ch. III, verse 109: ‘To God belongs all that is in the heavens and on earth: to Him do all questions go back’.
3. Ali, A. Y. (1946c) ibid., ch. XIV, verse 24: ‘Seest thou not how God sets forth a parable? — a Goodly Word like a Goodly Tree, whose root is firmly fixed, and its branches reach to the heavens’. ch. XIV, verse 26: ‘And the parable of an Evil Word is that of an Evil Tree: It is torn up by its root from the surface of the earth: It has no stability’.
4. Ali, A. Y. (1946d) ibid., ch. III, verse 169: ‘Think not of those who are slain in God’s way as dead. Nay, they are living, finding their sustenance in the Presence of their Lord’.
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