The QUR'AN for All Humanity by Maulana Waiduddin Khan - page 67

The Qur’an For All Humanity
The Day of Defeat and Victory
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all that you have done. That is easy enough for
God.’
Believe then in God and His Apostle and in the
light which We have revealed. God has knowledge
of all your actions.
The day on which He will assemble you, the day on
which you shall all be gathered—that shall be a
day of mutual loss and gain. Those who believe in
God and do what is right shall be forgiven their
sins and admitted to gardens watered by running
streams I where they shall dwell forever. That is
the supreme triumph.
(The Qur’an 64:2-9)
Those who achieve success in this world are happy,
while those who suffer failure become small and
insignificant in the eyes of others. But the truth is
that although both defeat and victory in this world
have their value, the actual place of defeat and
victory is the Hereafter. The loser is one who loses
in the Hereafter and the victor is one who is
victorious there. The standard of both loss and gain
there is totally different from what it is in the
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