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Characteristics of a good and a wicked servant

In explaining verses 2:26-27 of the Holy Qur'an, Allamah Tabatabai has produced a list of characteristics of good and wicked servants of Allah without actually quoting verses from the Qur'an. I have added the appropriate verses in the parenthesis:

Guidance and misguidance are two comprehensive words; they encompass every felicity and infelicity that comes from Allah to His good and wicked servants respectively. As Allah describes in the Qur’an: He makes His good servants live a happy life (Q16:97), strengthens them with the spirit of faith (Q58:22), bring them out of the darkness into the light (Q2:257), and gives them a light by which they walk among the people (Q6:122); He has taken them under His protection and guardianship (Q13:37), and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve (Q2:38); He is with them, answers them when they call on Him (Q2:186), and remembers them when they remember Him (Q2:152); and the angels come down to them with good news of eternal peace (Q41:30).

Diametrically opposed to it is the condition of evil-doers. Allah causes them to err (Q2:26), takes them out of the light into the darkness (Q2:257), sets a seal upon their hearts and hearings, and a cover­ing over their eyes (Q2:7); He alters their faces turning them on their backs (Q4:47); places chains on their necks and these reach up to their chins, so they have their heads raised aloft (Q36:8), and makes a barrier before them and a barrier behind them, then He covers them over so that they cannot see (Q36:9); He appoints for them the Satans to become their associates (Q43:36), and they turn them away from the right path while they think that they are guided aright (Q43:37); those Satans make their misdeeds to seem good to them and they are their guardians (Q8:49); Allah leads them on by steps from whence they perceive not; and yet He respites them, but His plan is firm (Q68:44-45); He makes a plan for them and leaves them alone in their rebellion, blindly wandering on (Q2:16).

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