يُعَذِّبُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَرْحَمُ مَن يَشَآءُ ۖ وَإِلَيْهِ تُقْلَبُونَ
Yu'azzibu many yashaaa'u wa yarhamu many yashaaa'; wa ilaihi tuqlaboon
He punishes whom He wills and has mercy upon whom He wills, and to Him you will be returned.
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Mercy & forgiveness
29:21Ayah 169
4 ayahs in Al-Ankaboot are strongly about mercy and forgiveness. This is one of them.
← Previous on Mercy & forgiveness29:7And those who believe and do righteous deeds - We will surely remove from them their misdeeds and will surely reward them according to the best of what they…Next on Mercy & forgiveness →29:23And the ones who disbelieve in the signs of Allah and the meeting with Him - those have despaired of My mercy, and they will have a painful punishment.
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He chastises whomever He will to chastise and has mercy on whomever He will to have mercy and to Him you shall be returned.
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“Whoever among you undergoes a Hadd, his punishment has been brought forward, and it is an expiation for him otherwise his case rests with Allah.”
When Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, intends to show mercy to an Umma from amongst His servants He calls back His Apostle to his eternal home and makes him a harbinger and recompense in the world to come; and when He intends to cause destruction to an Umma, He punishes it while its Apostle is alive and He destroys it as he (the Apostle) witnesses it and he cools his eyes by destruction as they had belied him and disobeyed his command.
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