3. Sura al-Imran

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

وَلاَ تَهِنُوا وَلاَ تَحْزَنُوا وَأَنتُمُ الأَعْلَوْنَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ ﴿١٣٩﴾

3: 139. So lose not heart, nor fall into despair:

for ye must gain mastery if ye are true in faith.

Asad’s Version:

(3:139) Be not, then, faint of heart, and grieve not:" for you are bound to rise high if you are [truly] believers.

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[[ Asad’s note:-

- the implication being that it is only through faith in God and righteous behaviour on earth that man can reach the heights envisaged for him by his Creator's grace.

[[Ali’s notes - 105. Before this We wrote in the Psalms,

C2759. Zabur: the Book of the Psalms of David.

The name of David is expressly mentioned in connection with the Zabur in 4:163 and 17:55, although there the indefinite article is applied to the word as meaning a Book of Scripture.

See Psalms 25:13, "his seed shall inherit the earth";

37:11, "the meek shall inherit the earth" (quoted by Jesus in Matt. 5:3); and

37:29, "the righteous shall inherit the land." (R).

... مِن بَعْدِ الذِّكْرِ...

after the Message (given to Moses):

C2760. The same promise occurs in the Pentateuch, Exod. 32:13. "they shall inherit it (the land) forever."

...أَنَّ الْأَرْضَ يَرِثُهَا عِبَادِيَ الصَّالِحُونَ ﴿١٠٥﴾

My servants, the righteous, shall inherit the earth."

إِنَّ فِي هَذَا لَبَلَاغًا لِّقَوْمٍ عَابِدِينَ ﴿١٠٦﴾ ]]