What is the fate of the people who stand on the boundary line between belief and disbelief?
Verses 11-13 of Chapter 22:
And there is a type of man who serves Allah standing on the borders (of the Faith); is if some good comes to him, he is satisfied (with his Faith), but if he encounters a trial, he turns his back (upon it). Thus he loses both this world and the Hereafter: this is the manifest loss. Then, instead of Allah, he invokes those who can do him neither harm nor good:this is the last extremity of deviation. He invokes those who are more likely to do him harm than good. What an evil guardian he chooses and what an evil companion!
And there is a type of man who serves Allah standing on the borders (of the Faith); is if some good comes to him, he is satisfied (with his Faith), but if he encounters a trial, he turns his back (upon it). Thus he loses both this world and the Hereafter: this is the manifest loss. Then, instead of Allah, he invokes those who can do him neither harm nor good:this is the last extremity of deviation. He invokes those who are more likely to do him harm than good. What an evil guardian he chooses and what an evil companion!
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