*31:1 See Appendix 1 for the important role of these initials.

*31:13 How will you feel if you take care of a child, give him the best education, and prepare him for life, only to see him thank someone else? Thus is idolatry; injustice.

*31:34 God reveals His knowledge whenever He wills. We learn from this verse that we may be able to predict the rain, and the gender of the fetus. But we can never know the time or place of death. In accordance with 72:27 , God has revealed the end of the world through His Messenger of the Covenant. See 15:87 , 20:15 , and Appendix 25 for the details.