Man does not weary of asking for good (things), but if ill touches him, he gives up all hope (and) is lost in despair.

Man does not weary of asking for good (things), but if ill touches him, he gives up all hope (and) is lost in despair.

Amid the darkness and despair of those war years, so many of our parents and grandparents were engulfed in the flames of hatred and were lost to us forever.

Man (the disbeliever) does not get tired of asking good (things from Allah), but if an evil touches him, then he gives up all hope and is lost in despair.

Man (the disbeliever) does not get tired of asking good (things from Allah), but if an evil touches him, then he gives up all hope and is lost in despair.

In fact, despair is in the air.

She was in despair when her husband died.

Poverty, despair, struggle.

Europe s Corner of Despair

We should never despair.

And when the Hour sets in, the guilty will despair.

And when the Hour sets in, the guilty will despair.

His class makes us despair.

at the rainfall, though before that they had been in despair.

at the rainfall, though before that they had been in despair.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this.

Despair breeds violence. We know this.

O sons, go in search of Joseph and his brother, and do not despair of the mercy of God. Only they despair of God's mercy who do not believe.

O sons, go in search of Joseph and his brother, and do not despair of the mercy of God. Only they despair of God's mercy who do not believe.

We came out of the end of the Cold War in despair.

And back here in the United States, we saw economic despair, deprivation.

And in the day when the Hour riseth the unrighteous will despair.

And in the day when the Hour riseth the unrighteous will despair.

And the Day the Hour appears the criminals will be in despair.

And the Day the Hour appears the criminals will be in despair.

They said We give thee glad tidings in truth be not then in despair!

They said We give thee glad tidings in truth be not then in despair!

Lost in Transition

O you who believe! do not make friends with a people with whom Allah is wroth indeed they despair of the hereafter as the unbelievers despair of those in tombs.

O you who believe! do not make friends with a people with whom Allah is wroth indeed they despair of the hereafter as the unbelievers despair of those in tombs.

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To hope is better than to despair.

Iraq had sunk into darkness and despair.

They said, We bring you good news in truth, so do not despair.

They said, We bring you good news in truth, so do not despair.

from which there is no relief they will remain there in utter despair.

from which there is no relief they will remain there in utter despair.

He lost everything. The most powerful Democrat in the country, he lost everything.

O ye who believe! Turn not (for friendship) to people on whom is the Wrath of Allah, of the Hereafter they are already in despair, just as the Unbelievers are in despair about those (buried) in graves.

O ye who believe! Turn not (for friendship) to people on whom is the Wrath of Allah, of the Hereafter they are already in despair, just as the Unbelievers are in despair about those (buried) in graves.

Lost in your frivolity?

Lost in your frivolity?

although before that they were given to despair.

although before that they were given to despair.

It will not decrease for them dumb with despair they will stay in it.