Reflections on the Quran & Sunnah

Our Lord, Give Us in This World [That Which Is] Good and in the Hereafter [That Which Is] Good

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And among the people is he who says, “Our Lord, give us in this world,” and he will have in the Hereafter no share: this is a warning to the believer not to be like the disbeliever, who seeks only this world and does not believe in the Hereafter.

Rather, call upon Allah for the good of this world and the Hereafter (But among them is he who says, “Our Lord, give us in this world [that which is] good and in the Hereafter [that which is] good and protect us from the punishment of the Fire.”)

Those will have a share of what they have earned, and Allah is swift in account: meaning that the believers who supplicate for the good of this world and the Hereafter, He answers their supplication by giving them (a share: a portion), whether little or much, of what they earned: of what they supplicated for. And Allah is swift in account: He hastens to answer your supplication, as a reward for whoever believed in the Hereafter and did not limit himself to this world.

"For if you ask Him, He will give you a share of what you asked for in this world and in the Hereafter, and Allah hastens to answer your supplication." Ibn Ashur

— Shoroog Almehmadi

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