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Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 1–11In this world of God, success is for one who is a true believer, one who devotes himself fully to God and not to anybody other than God, and who leads a God-oriented life.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 12–16The young one of a human being grows in the womb of his mother.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 17–22Man is a small creature.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 23–25The community into which Noah was born was not one made up of unbelievers in the common sense of the term.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 26–27The Prophet Noah admonished his community for a long time.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 28–30In an environment fraught with idolatory, the few who had faith in Noah had that very day, in both the literal and the figurative sense, entered the Divine ark.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 31–34After being delivered in the Ark from the Great Flood, the generation of believers in Noah flourished, but again, with the passage of the centuries, they plunged into the same evils in which their predecessors had indulged.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 35–38This verse refers to people’s utterances regarding the Hereafter—some implicit and others explicit.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 39–41The declaration of truth for which a prophet of God makes his appearance is the most serious reality of this world.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 42–44After the advent of each prophet, the succeeding generations of his community were always led astray.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 45–49Moses and Aaron belonged to the Children of Israel.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verse 50The Messiah’s birth without a father was an extremely strange occurrence.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 51–52Religion is originally one, and the same religion was taught to all the prophets.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 53–56When the religion of God is revived in its true spirit, it instills the fear of God in people’s minds but when religion loses its true spirit, it becomes a mere source of boasting and pride for its adherents.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 57–62One whose discovery of God is such that he is awe-struck by Him becomes different from other men, in that his God-fearing mentality makes him extremely serious.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 63–67Those completely devoted to the life of this world are not interested in any discourses about God or the Hereafter.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 68–71Truth is that which is in consonance with reality.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 72–74A prophet does not anticipate any monetary gains from his addressee- community.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 75–77In the Makkan period of Islam when the Quraysh rejected the Prophet Muhammad, God imposed famine conditions on the people of Makkah for several years.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 78–80In this universe the human being is a special creation who has been endowed with the exceptional powers of sight, hearing and thought.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 81–83Man has been endowed with wisdom, which gives him the capacity to go deep into matters and discover the underlying reality.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 84–89In these verses, a certain contradiction in thinking has been referred to by which the majority of people in every age have been afflicted.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 90–92The nature of power is such that it does not tolerate division.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 93–95This prayer illustrates that a believer is always a God-fearing man.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 96–98When God’s preacher calls for the Truth, it often happens that those whom he addresses, instead of acknowledging it, become his enemies.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 99–104As soon as man dies, he is separated from the present world and reaches a point of no-return.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 105–108After death, no one will be given the chance to come back and live rightfully in the present world.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 109–111During the life of this world, when the realities of the Hereafter were still hidden, there were still some servants of God who had recognised God in all His Majesty and perfection.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 112–114That joy which is everlasting is the real joy.Chapter 23, The Believers (Al-Mu’minun) · verses 115–118There are two types of human beings: one leads a principled life, while another leads an unprincipled one.