104. Al-Humazah/The Slanderer
I/We begin by the Blessed Name of Allah
The Immensely Merciful to all, The Infinitely Compassionate to everyone.
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a. Woe to every slanderer and backbiter,
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a. as also the one who amasses wealth without spending a part of it on charity, and keeps
adding and counting it over and over again,
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a. thinking - in his ignorance - that his wealth will make him live forever.
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a. Never!
b. It is not like what he thinks.
c. On the contrary, he will certainly be flung into the Crushing Fire - that which breaks its inmates to pieces.
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a. And what may enable you to comprehend the Crushing Fire?
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a. The Crushing Fire is Allah’s Fire, fiercely set ablaze,
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a. which will leap up and penetrate deep into sinful peoples’ hearts and shall burn within as without.
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a. It will definitely be closing upon them from all directions,
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a. in towering and extending columns of flames.
The Oneness of Allah is the most important belief in the Islamic faith. Allah SWT is one in His Self, His attributes, and His acts. His self is neither composite nor divisible in any way. The effort to understand how the unity and uniqueness of God is compatible with the diversity of His attributes produced many explanations and doctrines throughout the Islamic History. The most famous doctrine is the Asha’riah position, that the attributes neither identical to the self of Allah nor different from it. The Mutazilah deny the divine qualities in order to maintain the unity of God. This article attempts to explain the position taken on this question by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi – one of the most famous Sufi scholars. He tried to resolve the problem in his own way, based on his conception of “nisab”.
The study investigates the relationship among perceived failure of the performance appraisal purposefulness, the injustice perceptions, in-role performance and retaliation in Public sector of Pakistan. The overall injustice perception serves as mediator among the performance appraisal purposefulness failure and in-role performance and retaliation. Whereas the study perceived organizational support tests as moderator between performance appraisal purposefulness failure and Overall injustice perception. The study gathered data using a self-administered questionnaire from 400 civil servants across 12 occupational groups appointed in major cities of Pakistan, from which 380 responses seems to be valid with a 95% response rate. The study uses a time-lag design to collect data at two different times (time 1 and time 2). The responses on in-role performance and retaliation was reported by peers. Amos 20 and Process 3.0 were used for data analysis. The results confirm a positive relationship between performance appraisal purposefulness failure with retaliation but for in-role performance, a negative relationship was not found. However overall injustice perception found to be positively related with in-role performance and retaliation level. The results also show that overall injustice perception partially mediates the relationship between the failure of performance appraisal purposefulness and the in-role performance, but no mediation was found among retaliation. The study also confirms the moderation of Perceived organizational support. The research results have practical and practical significance for civil servants and public organizations in the new geographical environment. This study is a rare attempt to test all aspects of performance appraisal purposefulness failure and overall injustice perception on the in-performance and retaliation.