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Pleasant Words from the Gospel

Not attaching importance to line
of descent:

GOSPEL: As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay
there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to
teach false doctrines any longer nor to devote themselves to
myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies

rather than God's work—which is by faith. (1 Timothy, 1:3-4)

QURAN: Those who disbelieve filled their hearts with fanat-
ical rage–the fanatical rage of the Time of Ignorance–and
Allah sent down serenity to His Messenger and to the believ-
ers, and bound them to the expression of heedfulness which
they had most right to and were most entitled to. Allah has
knowledge of all things. (Surat al-Fath, 26)

Hypocrites' external appearance

being deceptive:

GOSPEL: Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you
hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look
beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead
men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the
outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you
are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. (Matthew, 23:27-28)

QURAN: When you see them, their outward form appeals to
you, and if they speak you listen to what they say. But they are
like propped-up planks of wood. They imagine every cry to be
against them. They are the enemy, so beware of them. May Allah
destroy them! How they are perverted! (Surat al-Munafiqun, 4)

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