TRUST IN GOD
If God helps you, no one can
vanquish you. If He forsakes you, who can
help you after that? So the believers should
put their trust in God. (Qur'an, 3:160)
O you who believe! Remember God's blessing
to you when certain people were on the verge
of raising their hands against you and He
held their hands back from you. Heed God.
The believers should put their trust in
God. (Qur'an, 5:11)
Old Testament
He [Uzziah] sought God during the days
of Zechariah, who instructed him in the
fear of God. As long as he sought the Lord,
God gave him success. (2 Chronicles 26:5)
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and
lean not on your own understanding. (Proverbs
3:5)
O Lord Almighty, blessed is the man who
trusts in you. (Psalm 84:12)
GOD STRAIGHTENS OUT THE PATHS
It rests with God alone to
show you the right path:yet there is [many
a one] who swerves from it. If He had wished,
He could have guided every one of you. (Qur'an,
16:9)
Old Testament
[I]n all your ways acknowledge him, and
He will make your paths straight. (Proverbs
3:6)
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
[Man asks]: "So when is the
Day of Resurrection?" But when the eyesight
is dazzled, and the moon is eclipsed, and
the sun and moon are fused together, on
that Day man will ask: "Where can I run?"
No indeed! There will be no safe place.
(Qur'an, 75:6-11)
When the stars are extinguished, when Heaven
is split open, when the mountains are pulverised,
and when the Messengers' time is appointed.
(Qur'an, 77:8-11)
The Hour is coming, but I have concealed
it so that every self can be repaid for
its efforts. (Qur'an, 20:15)
They will ask you about the Hour: When is
it due? Say: "Knowledge of it rests with
my Lord alone. He alone will reveal it at
its proper time. It hangs heavy in the heavens
and Earth. It will not come upon you except
suddenly." They will ask you as if you had
full knowledge of it. Say: "Knowledge of
it rests with God alone. But most people
do not know that." (Qur'an, 7:187)
On the Day the sky is like molten brass
and the mountains like tufts of colored
wool. No good friend will ask about his
friend. (Qur'an, 70:8-10)
When Heaven is split apart and goes red
like dregs of oil. (Qur'an, 55:37)
New Testament
But in those days, following that distress,
the sun will be darkened and the moon will
not give its light; the stars will fall
from the sky... (Mark 13:24-25)
Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know
when that time will come. (Mark 13:33)
Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed
down with dissipation, drunkenness, and
the anxieties of life, and that Day will
close on you unexpectedly, like a trap.
For it will come upon all those who live
on the face of the whole Earth. (Luke 21:34-35)
... The heavens will disappear with a roar;
the elements will be destroyed by fire,
and Earth and everything in it will be laid
bare. Since everything will be destroyed
in this way, what kind of people ought you
to be? You ought to live holy and godly
lives as you look forward to the Day of
God and speed its coming. That Day will
bring about the destruction of the heavens
by fire, and the elements will melt in the
heat. (2 Peter 3:10-12)
Old Testament
... For the Day of the Lord is near in
the valley of decision. The sun and moon
will be darkened, and the stars no longer
shine. (Joel 3:14-15)
… The Day of the Lord is near; it will
come like destruction from the Almighty.
Because of this, all hands will go limp,
every man's heart will melt. Terror will
seize them, pain and anguish will grip them;
they will writhe like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at each other, their
faces aflame. See, the Day of the Lord is
coming-a cruel Day, with wrath and fierce
anger-to make the land desolate and destroy
the sinners within it. The stars of heaven
and their constellations will not show their
light. The rising sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light. (Isaiah
13:6-10)
Alas for that Day! For the day of the Lord
is near; it will come like destruction from
the Almighty. (Joel 1:15)
The great Day of the Lord is near-near
and coming quickly. Listen! The cry on the
Day of the Lord will be bitter, the shouting
of the warrior there. That Day will be a
day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish,
a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness
and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness.
(Zephaniah 1:14-15)
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