Page 210 - General Knowledge from the Qur'an

208 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FROM THE QUR'AN

own selves became constricted for them and they realised that there
was no refuge from Allah except in Him, He turned to them so that
they might turn to Him. Allah is the Ever-Returning, the Most Merci-
ful. (Surat at-Tawba, 117-118)
They are Beguiled by False Hopes
It may be that those who disbelieve will wish that they had been
Muslims. Leave them to eat and enjoy themselves. Let false hope di-
vert them. They will soon know. (Surat al-Hijr, 2-3)
He makes promises to them and fills them with false hopes. But what
Satan promises them is nothing but delusion. (Surat an-Nisa', 120)
They will call out to them, 'Were we not with you?' They will reply,
'Indeed you were. But you made trouble for yourselves and hung back
and doubted and false hopes deluded you until Allah's command ar-
rived. The Deluder deluded you about Allah. (Surat al-Hadid, 14)

The Parting of the Sea and Drowning of Disbelievers
And when We parted the sea for you and rescued you, and drowned
the people of Pharaoh while you watched. (Surat al-Baqara, 50)
Calamities from Heaven
But those who did wrong substituted words other than those they
had been given. So We sent down a plague from heaven on those who
did wrong because they were deviators. (Surat al-Baqara, 59)
We rained down a rain upon them. See the final fate of the evildoers!
(Surat al-A'raf, 84)
It may well be that my Lord will give me something better than your
garden and send down on it a fireball from the sky so that morning
finds it a shifting heap of dust. (Surat al-Kahf, 40)
Drowning
He wanted to scare them from the land but We drowned him and
every one of those with him. (Surat al-Isra', 103)
Then afterwards We drowned the rest. (Surat ash-Shu'ara', 120)
But they denied him so We rescued him and those with him in the
Ark. And We drowned the people who denied Our Signs. They were a
blind people. (Surat al-A'raf, 64)