Glossary
The
association: it is to associate,
join or consider one or more beings or objects as equals or participants with
God, so as to worship such beings or objects together with or besides God; i.e.
to worship such beings or objects in addition to worshipping God Himself.
In
other words: it is to make the worship shared or divided between God and
others; so that the worship will not be purely exclusive to God alone.
It
is like a company in which many individuals are associates,
so that the profit will be divided among them. And such associates share with
each other in the ownership of the company, which will not be exclusively owned
by anyone of them.
And
it is like a monarchy in which the king has not the absolute authority, but the
authority is shared with one or more participants;
so that the king or the monarch cannot take any decision unless others agree.
The
associate is the one who is
considered to associate with God, so
that the worship will be associated or shared between God and others. Such
associate may be a man, a prophet, an angel, a religious leader, a
non-religious leader, a tomb of a dead man, an idol or statue, the sky stars,
the moon, the sun or others.
The
associater is
one, like the idolater, who associates one or more gods or patrons with God.
http://www.quran-ayat.com/man/3.htm#The_association_:_sharing_or_polytheism
The
wrong-doing: to wrong others; it is the
transgression on others and the plundering or violating of their rights, to
persecute or revile or rob the property … all these are sorts of wrong-doing.
So
to wrong others it is doing some wrong to
them. The backbiting of others is a kind of wrong-doing, and it is in fact every disobedience of God’s commands, and every sin is also
a kind of wronging others or wronging one’s self.
The
greatest wrong is the associating of others with God, for the associater will cast himself in the fire of Hell by
committing the association which is like the idolatry.
Next Life: it is the spiritual life which
begins after death, and extends forever; when man will live with his soul or
spirit, not with his body.
So
in death the soul will separate from the body and will not return to it once
again, and the body will decay and be dust, while the soul will live forever in
the Next Life.
The
Next Life will start by the Afterlife which is the world of souls following
death and extends till Doomsday, then the life in either Paradise (Heaven) or
in Hell fire.
The
Barzakh world: is
the same as the Afterlife. It extends from after death till Doomsday.
Paradise (Heaven) is spiritual, which the
souls of the righteous men and women and the angels inhabit.
It
is two paradises:
The
paradise of Abode or Refuge: it is the first and temporary paradise into which
the righteous will be admitted following death.
The
paradise of Prosperity (or of Everlasting or of Bliss): this is the paradise
which they will enter following the Judgment.
http://www.quran-ayat.com/man/2.htm#Paradise_(or_the_Garden)_
Fire: In which the disbelievers and the
guilty will be punished in the Next Life is of three kinds:
1-
The fire of the core of the earth, or the fire of volcanoes; the volcanoes are
its gates.
2-
The sun and its gaseous layers.
3-
Saqar.
Hell: it is the sun and its
gaseous layers, then after the explosion of the sun, Saqar
will be the Hell.
Saqar:
it is a big sun, greater than the present sun, which will be the Hell of the
associaters and disbelievers.
http://www.quran-ayat.com/man/2.htm#Hell_
Doomsday is the day on which the entire solar
system: the sun, the earth and the rest of the planets and moons will be
destroyed simultaneously.
http://www.quran-ayat.com/universe/new_page_4.htm#What_Is_Doomsday
The
Last Day is the same as Doomsday; because the earth will
be destroyed and there will not be another day to follow it,
and no succession of day and night.
The
Last Days are the days coming before Doomsday.
http://www.quran-ayat.com/conflicts/english2.htm#In_The_Last_Days_
Books of the interpreter in English online:
http://www.quran-ayat.com/index.htm#Quran_interpretation
http://www.quran-ayat.com/man/index.htm
http://www.quran-ayat.com/hour/an_hour_with_ghosts.htm
http://www.quran-ayat.com/universe/index.htm
The
Universe and the Quran(PDF)
The Conflict between
the Torah and the Quran
http://www.quran-ayat.com/universe/index.htm
The
Conflict between the Torah and the Quran(PDF)
Books of the interpreter in Arabic online:
http://www.quran-ayat.com/arab.htm
http://www.quran-ayat.com/alkhilaf/index.htm
http://www.quran-ayat.com/kown/index.htm
http://www.quran-ayat.com/shabaha/index.htm
http://www.quran-ayat.com/saa/index.htm
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2- The Meaning of the Glorious Quran – by Muhmmad Marmaduke Pickthall
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4- Quran: The Final Testament, translated by Rashad Khalifa
5- The Quran, Arabic and English – by M. H. Shakir
6- The Holy Quran with English translation – by Sher Ali
7- The Koran interpreted – by A. J. Arberry.
8- Al-Hilali & Khan -
Translation of the Meanings of The Noble Qur'an (2004)
9- Abdel Haleem - The
Qur'an; A New Translation (2005)
10- Unal - The Qur'an with
Annotated Interpretation in Modern English (2006)
11- The Koran - translated by J. M. Rodwell
12 – The Holy Bible – many versions.
13- Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
14- Merriam- Webster Collegiate English Dictionary.
15- A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic – Hans Wehr ..
Edited by J. Milton Cowan.
16- Al-Mawrid (English-Arabic
& Arabic-English Dictionary)- by Munir & Dr Rohi Baalabaky.
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The aya in the Quran
4: 174 means:
O mankind, there has [now come to you the Quran
as] a proof from your Lord ;
We have sent down to you [included in the Quran]
an elucidating light
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