VARIOUS VERSES OF THE QUR'AN
THAT HINT THE END TIMES AND THE MAHDI
We desired to show kindness to those who were
oppressed in the land and to make them leaders and make them
inheritors. (Surat al-Qasas: 5)
We have never sent a Prophet to any city without
seizing its people with hardship and distress so that hopefully
they would be humble. (Surat al-A'raf: 94)
We sent Messengers to nations before you, and
afflicted those nations with hardship and distress so that
hopefully they would humble themselves. (Surat al-An'am:
42)
What reason could you have for not fighting in
the Way of Allah—or those men, women and children who
are oppressed and say, “Our Lord, take us out of this
city whose inhabitants are wrongdoers! Give us a protector
from You! Give us a helper from You!?” (Surat
an-Nisa': 75)
Corruption has appeared in both land and sea
because of what people's own hands have brought about so that
they may taste something of what they have done so that hopefully
they will turn back. (Surat ar-Rum: 41)
Allah makes an example of a city which was safe
and at peace, its provision coming to it plentifully from
every side. Then it showed ingratitude for Allah's blessings
so Allah made it wear the robes of hunger and fear for what
it did. (Surat an-Nahl: 112)
Or did you suppose that you would enter the Garden
without facing the same as those who came before you? Poverty
and illness afflicted them and they were shaken to the point
that the Messenger and those who believed with him said, “When
is Allah's help coming?” Be assured that Allah's help
is very near. (Surat al-Baqara: 214)
An evil generation succeeded them who neglected
the prayer and followed their appetites. They will plunge
into the Valley of Evil. (Surah Maryam: 59)
But if anyone turns away from My reminder, his
life will be a dark and narrow one and on the Day of Rising
We will gather him blind. (Surah Ta Ha: 124)
If only the people of the cities had believed
and guarded against evil, We would have opened up to them
blessings from heaven and earth. But they denied the truth
so We seized them for what they earned. (Surat al-A'raf:
96)
Would that there had been more people with a
vestige of good among the generations of those who came before
you, who forbade corruption in the earth, other than the few
among them whom We saved. Those who did wrong gladly pursued
the life of luxury that they were given and were evildoers.
(Surah Hud: 116)
When he leaves you, he goes about the earth corrupting
it, destroying crops and animals. Allah does not love corruption.
(Surat al-Baqara: 205)
***
Truly you are one of the Messengers on a Straight
Path. (Surah Ya Sin: 3-4)
The People of the Book who disbelieve and the
associators would not be cut off until the Clear Sign came
to them: a Messenger from Allah reciting purified texts containing
upright precepts. (Surat al-Bayyina: 1-3)
Do people find it so surprising that We should
reveal to a man among them: “Warn mankind and give good
news to those who believe that they are on a sure footing
with their Lord?” The disbelievers say, “This
is downright magic!” (Surah Yunus: 2)
Every nation has a Messenger and when their Messenger
comes everything is decided between them justly. They are
not wronged. (Surah Yunus: 47)
It is He Who sent His Messenger with guidance
and the true religion to exalt it over every other religion,
even though the associators detest it. (Surat at-Tawba:
33)
It is He Who sent His Messenger with the guidance
and the true religion to exalt it over every other religion
and Allah suffices as a witness. (Surat al-Fath: 28)
You who believe! If any of you renounce your
religion, Allah will bring forward a people whom He loves
and who love Him, humble to the believers, fierce to the disbelievers,
who strive in the Way of Allah and do not fear the blame of
any censurer. That is the unbounded favour of Allah which
He gives to whoever He wills. Allah is Boundless, All-Knowing.
(Surat al-Ma'ida: 54)
Let there be a community among you who call to
the good, and enjoin the right, and forbid the wrong. They
are the ones who have success. (Surah Al 'Imran: 104)
We appointed leaders from among them, guiding
by Our command when they were steadfast and when they had
certainty about Our Signs. (Surat as-Sajda: 24)
He said, “Go down from it, all of you,
as enemies to one another! But when guidance comes to you
from Me, all those who follow My guidance will not go astray
and will not be miserable.” (Surah Ta Ha: 123)
Allah has sent down the Supreme Discourse, a
Book consistent in its frequent repetitions. The skins of
those who fear their Lord tremble at it and then their skins
and hearts yield softly to the remembrance of Allah. That
is Allah's guidance by which He uides whoever He wills. And
no one can guide those whom Allah misguides. (Surat
az-Zumar: 33)
***
Fight them until there is no more persecution
and the religion is Allah's alone. If they stop, Allah sees
what they do. (Surat al-Anfal: 39)
As for those who strive in Our Way, We will guide
them to Our Paths. Truly Allah is with the good-doers. (Surat
al-'Ankabut: 69)
Musa said to his people, “Seek help in
Allah and be steadfast. The earth belongs to Allah. He bequeathes
it to any of His servants He wills. The successful outcome
is for those who guard against evil. (Surat al-A’raf:
128)
They said, “We suffered harm before you
came to us and after you came to us.” He said, “It
may well be that your Lord is going to destroy your enemy
and make you the successors in the land so that He can see
how you behave.” (Surat al-A'raf: 128-129)
This was so that He might verify the truth and
nullify the false, even though the evildoers hate that. (Surat
al-Anfal: 8)
Rather We hurl the truth against falsehood and
it cuts right through it and it vanishes clean away! Woe without
end for you for what you portray! (Surat al-Anbiya':
18)
Say: “My Lord hurls forth the Truth—the
Knower of all unseen things.” Say: “The Truth
has come. Falsehood cannot originate or regenerate.”
(Surah Saba': 48-49)
Say: “Truth has come and falsehood has
vanished. Falsehood is always bound to vanish.”
(Surat al-Isra': 81)
They desire to extinguish Allah's Light with
their mouths. But Allah refuses to do other than perfect His
Light, even though the disbelievers detest it. (Surat
at-Tawba: 32)
Those who follow the Messenger, the Unlettered
Prophet, whom they find written down with them in the Torah
and the Gospel, commanding them to do right and forbidding
them to do wrong, making good things lawful for them and bad
things forbidden for them, relieving them of their heavy loads
and the chains which were around them. Those who believe in
him and honour him and help him, and follow the Light that
has been sent down with him, they are the ones who are successful.
(Surat al-A'raf: 157)
They desire to extinguish Allah's Light with
their mouths but Allah will perfect His Light, though the
disbelievers hate it. (Surat as-Saff: 8)
Then We will rescue Our Messengers and those
who believe as well. It is incumbent upon Us to rescue the
believers. (Surah Yunus: 103)
Allah is the Protector of those who believe.
He brings them out of the darkness into the light. But those
who disbelieve have false gods as protectors. They take them
from the light into the darkness. Those are the Companions
of the Fire remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (Surat
al-Baqara: 257)
They say, “If we follow the guidance with
you, we shall be forcibly uprooted from our land.” Have
We not established a safe haven for them to which produce
of every kind is brought, provision direct from Us? But most
of them do not know it. (Surat al-Qasas: 57)
Similarly We never sent any warner before you
to any city without the affluent among them saying, “We
found our fathers following a religion and we are simply following
in their footsteps.” Say: “What if I have come
with better guidance than what you found your fathers following?”
They say, “We reject what you have been sent with.”
(Surat az-Zukhruf: 23-24)
***
And peace be upon the Messengers. (Surat
as-Saffat: 181)
Those are Allah's Signs which We recite to you
with truth. You are indeed one of the Messengers. (Surat
al-Baqara: 252)
...Wherever you are, Allah will bring you all
together. Truly Allah has power over all things. (Surat
al-Baqara: 148)
They said, “Are we to forsake our gods
for a mad poet?” Rather he has brought the truth and
confirmed the Messengers. (Surat as-Saffat: 36-37)
Our Word was given before to Our servants, the
Messengers, that they would certainly be helped. It is Our
army which will be victorious. (Surat as-Saffat: 171-173)
Messengers before you were also denied but they
were steadfast in the face of the denial and injury they suffered
until Our help arrived. There is no changing the Words of
Allah. And news of other Messengers has come to you. (Surat
al-An'am: 34)
By those sent forth in succession. (Surat
al-Mursalat: 1)
It is He Who sent His Messenger with guidance
and the true religion to exalt it over every other religion,
though the associators hate it. (Surat as-Saff: 9)
***
Allah has promised those of you who believe and
do right actions that He will make them successors in the
land as He made those before them successors, and will firmly
establish for them their religion with which He is pleased
and give them, in place of their fear, security. “They
worship Me, not associating anything with Me.” Any who
disbelieve after that, such people are deviators. (Surat
an-Nur: 55)
When Allah's help and victory have arrived and
you have seen people entering Allah's religion in droves,
then glorify your Lord's praise and ask His forgiveness. He
is the Ever-Returning. (Surat an-Nasr: 1-3)
We wrote down in the Zabur, after the Reminder
came: “It is My servants who are righteous who will
inherit the earth.' (Surat al-Anbiya': 105)
He bequeathed their land, their houses and their
wealth to you, and another land you had not yet trodden on.
Allah has power over all things. (Surat al-Ahzab:
27)
Then We appointed you after them to be successors
on the earth so We might observe how you would act. (Surah
Yunus: 14)
He Who responds to the oppressed when they call
on Him and removes their distress, and has appointed you as
successors on the earth. Is there another god besides Allah?
How little you pay heed! (Surat an-Naml: 62)
Those who, if We establish them firmly on the
earth, will establish prayer and give alms, and command what
is right and forbid what is wrong. The end result of all affairs
is with Allah. (Surat al-Hajj: 41)
Do not give up and do not be downhearted. You
shall be uppermost if you believe. (Surah Al 'Imran:
139)
...except those who believe and do right actions
and remember Allah repeatedly and defend themselves after
they have been wronged? Those who do wrong will soon know
the kind of reversal they will receive! (Surat ash-Shu'ara':
227)
And We bequeathed to the people who had been
oppressed the easternmost part of the land We had blessed,
and its westernmost part as well... (Surat al-A'raf:
137)
Allah has written, “I will be victorious,
I and My Messengers.” Allah is Most Strong, Almighty.
(Surat al-Mujadala: 21)
Do not imagine that Allah will break His promise
to His Messengers. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of Revenge.
(Surah Ibrahim: 47)
We will leave you the land to live in after them.
That is the reward of those who fear My station and fear My
threat. They asked for Allah's victory, and every obdurate
tyrant failed. (Surah Ibrahim: 14-15)
And other things you love: support from Allah
and imminent victory. Give good news to the believers! (Surat
as-Saff: 13)
Truly We have granted you a clear victory, so
that Allah may forgive you, your earlier errors and any later
ones and complete His blessing upon you, and guide you on
a Straight Path. (Surat al-Fath: 1-3)
...He knew what you did not know and ordained,
in place of this, an imminent victory. (Surat al-Fath:
27)
There is good news for them in the life of this
world and in the Hereafter. There is no changing the words
of Allah. That is the great victory! (Surah Yunus:
64)
“Everyone is waiting expectantly so wait
expectantly. You will soon know who are the Companions of
the Right Path and who is is guided.” (Surah
Ta Ha: 135)
... Allah will certainly help those who help
Him—Allah is All-Strong, Almighty. (Surat al-Hajj:
40)
You who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger
and those in command among you... (Surat an-Nisa':
59)
We said, “Have no fear. You will have the
upper hand.” (Surah Ta Ha: 68)
***
Those who recite the Book of Allah and establish
prayer and give of what We have provided for them, secretly
and openly, hope for a transaction which will not prove profitless.
(Surah Fatir: 29)
The metaphor of those who spend their wealth
in the Way of Allah is that of a grain which produces seven
ears; in every ear there are a hundred grains. Allah gives
such multiplied increase to whoever He wills. Allah is All-Encompassing,
All-Knowing. (Surat al-Baqara: 261)
... “Eat of your Lord's provision and give
thanks to Him: a bountiful land and a forgiving Lord.”
(Surah Saba': 15)
What is with you runs out but what is with Allah
goes on for ever. Those who were steadfast will be recompensed
according to the best of what they did. Anyone who acts rightly,
male or female, being a believer, We will give them a good
life and We will recompense them according to the best of
what they did. (Surat an-Nahl: 96-97)
Allah calls to the Abode of Peace and He guides
whom He wills to a straight path. Those who do good will have
the best and more! Neither dust nor debasement will darken
their faces. They are the Companions of the Garden, remaining
in it timelessly, for ever. (Surah Yunus: 25-26)
...Say, “All favour is in Allah's Hand
and He gives it to whoever He wills. Allah is All-Encompassing,
All-Knowing. He picks out for His mercy whoever He wills.
Allah's favour is indeed immense.” (Surah Al
'Imran: 73-74)
He gives wisdom to whoever He wills and he who
has been given wisdom has been given great good. But no one
pays heed but people of intelligence. (Surat al-Baqara:
269)
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