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What Does the Quran Say About Escape?

Escape is mentioned in the Quran in these verses:

 

[8:59] Let not those who disbelieve think that they can get away with it; they can never escape.

[9:2] Therefore, roam the earth freely for four months, and know that you cannot escape from God, and that God humiliates the disbelievers.

[9:3] A proclamation is herein issued from God and His messenger to all the people on the great day of pilgrimage, that God has disowned the idol worshipers, and so did His messenger. Thus, if you repent, it would be better for you. But if you turn away, then know that you can never escape from God. Promise those who disbelieve a painful retribution.

[9:118] Also (redeemed were) the three who stayed behind. The spacious earth became so straitened for them, that they almost gave up all hope for themselves. Finally, they realized that there was no escape from God, except to Him. He then redeemed them that they may repent. God is the Redeemer, Most Merciful.

[10:53] They challenge you to prophesy: “Is this really what will happen?” Say, “Yes indeed, by my Lord, this is the truth, and you can never escape.”

[11:20] These will never escape, nor will they find any lords or masters to help them against God. Retribution will be doubled for them. They have failed to hear, and they have failed to see.

[11:33] He said, “God is the One who brings it to you, if He so wills, then you cannot escape.

[16:46] It may strike them while they are asleep; they can never escape.

[18:53] The guilty will see Hell, and will realize that they will fall into it. They will have no escape therefrom.

[18:58] Yet, your Lord is the Forgiver, full of mercy. If He called them to account for their deeds, He would annihilate them right there and then. Instead, He gives them a respite until a specific, predetermined time; then they can never escape.

[23:18] We send down from the sky water, in exact measure, then we store it in the ground. Certainly, we can let it escape.

[29:22] None of you can escape from these facts, on earth or in the heaven, and you have none beside God as a Lord and Master.

[34:51] If you could only see them when the great terror strikes them; they cannot escape then, and they will be taken away forcibly.

[37:140] He escaped to the loaded ship.

[39:51] They suffered the consequences of their evil works. Similarly, the transgressors among the present generation will suffer the consequences of their evil works; they cannot escape.

[41:48] The idols they had idolized will disown them, and they will realize that there will be no escape.

[42:31] You can never escape, and you have none beside God as a Lord and Master.

[46:32] Those who fail to respond to God’s call cannot escape, and will have no Lord other than Him; they have gone far astray.

[50:36] Many a generation before them, who were more powerful, we annihilated. They searched the land; did they find an escape?

[51:50] You shall escape to God. I am sent by Him to you as a manifest warner.

[72:12] ” `We knew full well that we can never run away from God on Earth; we can never run away and escape.

[75:10] The human being will say on that day, “Where is the escape?”

[75:11] Absolutely, there is no escape.

 

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