Sunday 14 September 2008

Allaah Does Not Wrong Anyone, But They Wrong Their Own Souls

as salamu alaykum

Chances
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chance /tʃæns, tʃɑns/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[chans, chahns] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, chanced, chanc·ing, adjective
–noun
1. the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency: Chance governs all.
2. luck or fortune: a game of chance.
3. a possibility or probability of anything happening: a fifty-percent chance of success.
4. an opportune or favorable time; opportunity: Now is your chance.
5. Baseball. an opportunity to field the ball and make a put-out or assist.
6. a risk or hazard: Take a chance.
7. a share or ticket in a lottery or prize drawing: The charity is selling chances for a dollar each.
8. chances, probability: The chances are that the train hasn't left yet.
9. Midland and Southern U.S. a quantity or number (usually fol. by of).
10. Archaic. an unfortunate event; mishap.
–verb (used without object)
11. to happen or occur by chance: It chanced that our arrivals coincided.
–verb (used with object)
12. to take the chances or risks of; risk (often fol. by impersonal it): I'll have to chance it, whatever the outcome.
–adjective
13. not planned or expected; accidental: a chance occurrence.
—Verb phrase
14. chance on or upon, to come upon by chance; meet unexpectedly: She chanced on a rare kind of mushroom during her walk through the woods.
—Idioms
15. by chance, without plan or intent; accidentally: I met her again by chance in a department store in Paris.
16. on the chance, in the mild hope or against the possibility: I'll wait on the chance that she'll come.
17. on the off chance, in the very slight hope or against the very slight possibility.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME < OF chance, cheance < VL *cadentia a befalling, happening; see cadenza]

—Related forms
chanceless, adjective

—Synonyms 2. accident, fortuity. 3. contingency. 4. opening. 11. befall. See happen. 13. casual, fortuitous.
—Antonyms 1. necessity.


choices

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choice (chois) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. The act of choosing; selection.
2. The power, right, or liberty to choose; option.
3. One that is chosen.
4. A number or variety from which to choose: a wide choice of styles and colors.
5. The best or most preferable part.
6. Care in choosing.
7. An alternative.


adj. choic·er, choic·est

1.
1. Of very fine quality.
2. Appealing to refined taste.
2. Selected with care.
3. Of the U.S. Government grade of meat higher than good and lower than prime.



[Middle English chois, from Old French, from choisir, to choose, from Vulgar Latin *causīre, of Germanic origin; see geus- in Indo-European roots.]

choice'ly adv., choice'ness n.

Synonyms: These nouns denote the act, power, or right of choosing. Choice implies broadly the freedom to choose from a set: The store offers a wide choice of vegetables. I had no choice in the matter.
Alternative emphasizes choice between only two possibilities or courses of action: "An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth.... Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do" (Jane Austen).
Option often stresses a power or liberty to choose that has been granted: The legislature outlined several tax options.
Preference indicates choice based on one's values, bias, or predilections: We were offered our preference of wines.
Selection suggests a variety of things or persons to choose from: The video store had a wide selection of foreign films.
Election especially emphasizes the use of judgment: The university recommends the election of courses in literature. See Also Synonyms at delicate.

consequences

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con·se·quence (kŏn'sĭ-kwěns', -kwəns) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition. See Synonyms at effect.
2. The relation of a result to its cause.
3. A logical conclusion or inference.
4. Importance in rank or position: scientists of consequence.
5. Significance; importance: an issue of consequence. See Synonyms at importance.


chances r given, choices r made,consequences follow
U have the chance, u make the choice, the consequences are from ur own hands


Aali Imran (3):182
This is because of that (evil) which your hands have sent before you. And certainly, Allâh is never unjust to (His) slaves.

Al-Anfal (8):51
"This is because of that which your hands had forwarded. And verily, Allâh is not unjust to His slaves.

Al-Hajj (22):10
That is because of what your hands have sent forth, and verily, Allâh is not unjust to (His) slaves.

Fussilat (41):46
Whosoever does righteous good deed it is for (the benefit of) his ownself, and whosoever does evil, it is against his ownself, and your Lord is not at all unjust to (His) slaves.

Qaf (50):29
The Sentence that comes from Me cannot be changed, and I am not unjust (to the least) to the slaves."

Yunus (10):44
Truly! Allâh wrongs not mankind in aught; but mankind wrong themselves.

An-Nahl (16):33
Do they (the disbelievers and polytheists) await but that the angels should come to them [to take away their souls (at death)], or there should come the command (i.e. the torment or the Day of Resurrection) of your Lord? Thus did those before them. And Allâh wronged them not, but they used to wrong themselves.

An-Nahl (16):118
And unto those who are Jews, We have forbidden such things as We have mentioned to you (O Muhammad SAW) before [in Sûrat-Al-An'am, (The Cattle), see Verse 6:146]. And We wronged them not, but they used to wrong themselves.

Ar-Rum (30):9
Do they not travel in the land, and see what was the end of those before them? They were superior to them in strength, and they tilled the earth and populated it in greater numbers than these (pagans) have done, and there came to them their Messengers with clear proofs. Surely, Allâh wronged them not, but they used to wrong themselves.

Hud (11):101
We wronged them not, but they wronged themselves. So their âliha (gods), other than Allâh, whom they invoked, profited them naught when there came the Command of your Lord, nor did they add aught (to their lot) but destruction.

may our Raab guide us to the best choices ameen

wasalamu alaykum

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