Page 213 - Learning from the Qur'an

Those of the People of the Book who do not believe and the
idolaters do not like anything good to be sent down to you from
your Lord. But Allah selects for His mercy whomever He wills.
Allah's favour is truly vast. (Qur'an, 2:105)
You who believe! Do not take any outside yourselves as intimates.
They will do anything to harm you. They love what causes you
distress. Hatred has appeared out of their mouths, but what their
breasts hide is far worse. We have made the Signs clear to you if
you use your intellect. (Qur'an, 3:118)
If something good happens to you, it galls them. If something bad
strikes you, they rejoice at it. But if you are steadfast and guard
against evil, their scheming will not harm you in any way. Allah
encompasses what they do. (Qur'an, 3:120)

THEY ARE INSISTENT IN THEIR DENIAL
Who is there who could provide for you if He withholds His
provision?Yet still they obstinately persist in insolence and
evasion. (Qur'an, 67:21)
Even if We opened up to them a door into heaven, and they spent
the day ascending through it, they would only say, 'Our eyesight
is befuddled! Or rather we have been put under a spell!' (Qur'an,
15:14-15)
Persisting in immense wrongdoing (Qur'an, 56:46)
They have sworn by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a
Sign comes to them they will believe in it. Say: 'The Signs are in
Allah's control alone.' What will make you realise that even if a
Sign did come, they would still not believe? (Qur'an, 6:109)
They said, 'It makes no difference to us whether you preach or do
not preach. This is only what the previous peoples did. We are not
going to be punished.' (Qur'an, 26:136-138)
Who hears the Signs of Allah recited to him and then persists in
his arrogance just as if he had never heard them.Give him the
news of a painful punishment. (Qur'an, 45:8)

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