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just the enjoyment of delusion. (3:185) own selves! Today you will be repaid with the
If any of your women commit fornication, four of punishment of humiliation for saying something
you must be witnesses against them. If they bear other than the truth about Allah, and being arro-
witness, detain them in their homes until death gant about His Signs.’ (6:93)
releases them or Allah ordains another proce- Just as your Lord brought you out from your house
dure for their case. (4:15) with truth, even though a group of the believers
There is no repentance for people who persist in disliked it, arguing with you about the Truth after it
doing evil until death comes to them and who had been made clear as though they were being
then say, ‘Now I repent,’ nor for people who die driven to their death with open eyes. (8:5-6)
disbelievers. We have prepared for them a It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in
painful punishment. (4:18) six days when His Throne was on the water, in
Wherever you are, death will catch up with you, order to test which of you has the best actions. If
even if you are in impregnable fortresses. If a you say, ‘You will be raised up after death,’ those
good thing happens to them, they say, ‘This has who disbelieve will say, ‘This is nothing but down-
come from Allah.’ But if a bad thing happens to right magic.’ (11:7)
them, they say, ‘This has come from you.’ Say, He gulps at it but can hardly swallow it down.
‘Everything comes from Allah.’ What is the mat- Death comes at him from every side but he does
ter with these people that they scarcely under- not die. And beyond him is relentless punishment.
stand a single word? (4:78) (14:17)
Those who migrate in the Way of Allah will find Then We would have let you taste a double pun-
many places of refuge on the earth and ample ishment in life and a double punishment in death.
sustenance. If anyone leaves his home, migrating You would not have found any helper against Us.
to Allah and His Messenger, and death catches (17:75)
up with him, it is Allah Who will reward him. Every self will taste death. We test you with both
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:100) good and evil as a trial. And you will be returned to
You who believe! When one of you is near to Us. (21:35)
death and makes a will, two just men from When death comes to one of them, he says, ‘My
among you should act as witnesses; or, if you are Lord, send me back again.’ (23:99)
travelling when the misfortune of death occurs, But they have adopted gods apart from Him
two men who are strangers to you. You should which do not create anything but are themselves
detain them after prayer and, if you are doubtful, created. They have no power to harm or help
they should swear by Allah: ‘We will not sell it themselves. They have no power over death or
for any price, even to a near relative, and we will life or resurrection. (25:3)
not conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we (Ibrahim said, ‘It is) He Who will cause my death,
would indeed be wrongdoers.’ (5:106) then give me life.’ (26:81)
He is the Absolute Master over His servants. He Every self will taste death. Then you will be re-
sends angels to watch over you. Then when turned to Us. (29:57)
death comes to one of you, Our messengers take Say: ‘The Angel of Death, who has been given
him, and they do not fail in their task. (6:61) charge of you, will take you back and then you
Who could do greater wrong than someone who will be sent back to your Lord.’ (32:11)
invents lies against Allah or denies His Signs, or Say: ‘Flight will not benefit you if you try to run
who says, ‘It has been revealed to me,’ when away from death or being killed. Then you will
nothing has been revealed to him, or someone only enjoy a short respite.’ (33:16)
who says, ‘I will send down the same as Allah Allah knows the obstructers among you and
has sent down’? If you could only see the wrong- those who say to their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and
doers in the throes of death when the angels are who only come to fight a very little, and are be-
stretching out their hands, saying, ‘Disgorge your grudging towards you. Then when fear comes,
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