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Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 1–3The Quran is a divine statement of facts.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 4–5It is a natural instinct in man to rush towards God and worship Him.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verse 6God made man and created woman as his mate.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verse 7To accept God and be grateful to Him is sought by the soul of man.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 8–9Every man passes through times when he finds himself utterly helpless.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verse 10When a man attains deep realisation of God, the essential result of this is that he becomes God-fearing.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 11–16The real call of the prophet yearns to make man discover and worship the one and only God, leaving aside the worship of everything else.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 17–18The present world is one of trial.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 19–20Every man has to live with the consequences of his deeds, for better or for worse.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 21–22The wonderful system of rains on the earth, the resulting growth of greenery and the subsequent preparations for harvesting, have countless meaningful lessons in them.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verse 23God has blessed man with a guidebook in the form of the Quran.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 24–26Man always tries to save his face from injuries, but the punishment of Doomsday will so encompass man that it will not be possible for him to save any part of his body.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 27–31The Quran’s statements are in a language intelligible to man and within the sphere of his knowledge, so that nobody should have any difficulty in understanding them.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 32–35Every ideology which is against the reality amounts to levelling a false allegation against God.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 36–37The Prophet Muhammad preached the Unity of God.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 38–41In every age, man has worshipped beings other than God, but nobody has had the courage to say that their deities created the heavens and the earth, or that the real causes of comfort or distress were in their power.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verse 42While sleeping a man loses consciousness.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 43–48Those believed by polytheists to be potential intermediaries between them and God were not simply stone statues.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 49–52In the world, when man achieves anything, he is very happy to think that it is the result of his own talents.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 53–54When those who possess sensitive hearts are blessed with a deep realisation of God (ma‘rifah), they start becoming worried as to what would happen about their past sins.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 55–61The discourse of God maintains in all its parts a consistent level of perfection, so that in the Quran, one cannot say that some verses are better than others.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 62–66The existence of the Universe is proof of the existence of its Creator.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 67–70The root of many deviations is, in fact, the underestimation of God.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 71–72There are varying degrees in rejecting and ignoring the Truth.Chapter 39, The Crowds (Al-Zumar) · verses 73–75Those who enter Paradise will be such as are God-fearing.