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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

When they forgot what they had been reminded of, We opened up
for them the doors to everything, until, when they were exulting in
what they had been given, We suddenly seized them and at once
they were in despair. (Surat al-An’am, 44)

Do not be like those who left their homes in arrogance, showing
off to people and barring them from the way of God–God encom-
passes what they do. (Surat al-Anfal, 47)
But if We let him taste blessings after hardship has afflicted him, he
says, ‘My troubles have gone away,’ and he is overjoyed, boastful.
(Surah Hud, 10)

´Do not run away! Return to the life of luxury you enjoyed and to
the places where you lived, so that you can be interrogated!´ (Surat
al-Anbiya’, 13)
How many cities We have destroyed which lived in insolent ingrat-
itude! There are their houses, never again inhabited after them,
except a little. It was We who were their Heir. (Surat al-Qasas, 58)
Qarun was one of the people of Musa but he lorded it over them.

We gave him treasures, the keys alone to which were a heavy weight
for a party of strong men. When his people said to him, ‘Do not
gloat. God does not love people who gloat.’ (Surat al-Qasas, 76)
We never sent a warner into any city without the affluent people in
it saying, ‘We reject what you have been sent with.’ (Surah Saba’, 34)
(Disbelievers will be told,) ‘That is because you exulted on the

earth, without any right to do so; and strutted about.’ (Surah
Ghafir, 75)
Similarly We never sent any warner before you to any city without
the affluent among them saying, ‘We found our fathers following a
religion and we are simply following in their footsteps.’ (Surat az-
Zukhruf, 23)
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