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and not be grieved. You killed a man and We res- you and do not let the Deluder delude you con-
cued you from trouble and tested you with many cerning Allah. (31:33)
trials. You stayed some years among the people Mankind! Allah’s promise is true. Do not let the
of Madyan. Then you arrived at the pre-ordained life of this world delude you and do not let the
time, Musa!’ (20:40) Deluder delude you about Allah. (35:5)
Sovereignty on that Day will be Allah’s. He will They (hypocrites) will call out to them (the be-
judge between them. Those who believe and do lievers), ‘Were we not with you?’ They will reply,
right actions will be in Gardens of Delight. ‘Indeed you were. But you made trouble for
(22:56) yourselves and hung back and doubted and false
(Ibrahim said,) ‘And make me one of the inheri- hopes deluded you until Allah’s command ar-
tors of the Garden of Delight;’ (26:85) rived. The Deluder deluded you about Allah.’
For those who believe and do right actions there (57:14)
are Gardens of Delight. (31:8)
No self knows the delight that is hidden away for DELUSION
it in recompense for what it used to do. (32:17) That is because they say, ‘The Fire will only
They will have preordained provision: sweet touch us for a number of days.’ Their inventions
fruits and high honour in Gardens of Delight. have deluded them in their religion. (3:24)
(37:41-43) Every self will taste death. You will be paid your
(Believers will be told,) ‘Enter the Garden, you wages in full on the Day of Rising. Anyone who
and your wives, delighting in your joy.’ (43:70) is distanced from the Fire and admitted to the
Platters and cups of gold will be passed around Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is
among them and they will have there all that just the enjoyment of delusion. (3:185)
their hearts desire and their eyes find delight in. He (Satan) makes promises to them and fills them
You will remain in it timelessly, for ever. (43:71) with false hopes. But what Satan promises them
What comfort and ease they had delighted in! is nothing but delusion. (4:120)
(44:27) Abandon those who have turned their religion
The people who guard against evil will be in into a game and a diversion and who have been
Gardens of Delight. (52:17) deluded by the life of this world. Remind by it
Those are the Ones Brought Near in Gardens of lest a person is delivered up to destruction for
Delight. (56:11-12) what he has earned with no protector or interces-
But the truth is that if he is one of Those Brought sor besides Allah. Were he to offer every kind of
Near, there is solace and sweetness and a compensation, it would not be accepted from
Garden of Delight. (56:88-89) him. Such people are delivered up to destruction
The people who guard against evil will have for what they have earned. They will have scald-
Gardens of Delight with their Lord. (68:34) ing water to drink and a painful punishment be-
Does each one of them aspire to be admitted into cause they disbelieved. (6:70)
a Garden of Delight? (70:38) In this way We have appointed as enemies to
Seeing them, you see delight and a great king- every Prophet Satans from both mankind and
dom. (76:20) from the jinn, who inspire each other with delu-
You will recognise in their faces the radiance of sions by means of specious words–if your Lord
delight. (83:24) had willed, they would not have done it, so
abandon them and all they fabricate. (6:112)
DELUDER Company of jinn and men! Did not Messengers
Mankind! Have fear of your Lord and fear a day come to you from among yourselves relating My
when no father will be able to atone for his son, Signs to you and warning you of the encounter of
or son for his father, in any way. Allah’s promise this Day of yours? They will say, ‘We testify
is true. So do not let the life of this world delude against ourselves.’ The life of this world deluded
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