The Repentance
9. At-Tawbah
التوبة
Page #204
9:109
أَفَمَنْ
أَسَّسَ
بُنْيَانَهُ
عَلَى
تَقْوَى
مِنَ
اللَّهِ
وَرِضْوَانٍ
خَيْرٌ
أَم
مَّنْ
أَسَّسَ
بُنْيَانَهُ
عَلَى
شَفَا
جُرُفٍ
هَارٍ
فَانْهَارَ
بِهِ
فِي
نَارِ
جَهَنَّمَ
وَاللَّهُ
لَا
يَهْدِي
الْقَوْمَ
الظَّالِمِينَ
ʾa-fa-man ʾassasa bunyānahū ʿalā taqwā mina llāhi wa-riḍwānin khayrun ʾam man ʾassasa bunyānahū ʿalā shafā jurufin hārin fa-nhāra bihī fī nāri jahanamma wa-llāhu lā yahdī l-qawma ẓ-ẓālimīna
Is he who founds his building on Godwariness and [the pursuit of Allah’s] pleasure better-off or he who founds his building on the brink of a collapsing bank which collapses with him into the fire of hell? Allah does not guide the wrongdoing lot.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Which then is best? - he that layeth his foundation on piety to Allah and His good pleasure? - or he that layeth his foundation on an undermined sand-cliff ready to crumble to pieces? and it doth crumble to pieces with him, into the fire of Hell. And Allah guideth not people that do wrong.
