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on the earth? Would We make those who guard compensation, it would not be accepted from
against evil the same as the dissolute? (38:28) him. Such people are delivered up to destruction
Nuh said, ‘My Lord! Do not leave a single one of for what they have earned. They will have scald-
the disbelievers on earth! If You leave any they ing water to drink and a painful punishment be-
will misguide Your servants and spawn nothing cause they disbelieved. (6:70)
but more dissolute disbelievers.’ (71:26-27) The Companions of the Fire will call out to the
Those are the dissolute disbelievers. (80:42) Companions of the Garden, ‘Throw down some
The dissolute will be in a Blazing Fire. (82:14) water to us or some of what Allah has given you
No indeed! The book of the dissolute is in Sijjin. as provision.’ They will say, ‘Allah has forbidden
(83:7) them to the disbelievers: those who took their re-
ligion as a diversion and a game, and were de-
DISTANT PLACE luded by the life of this world.’ Today We will
So she (Maryam) conceived him and withdrew forget them just as they forgot the encounter of
with him to a distant place. (19:22) this Day and denied Our Signs. (7:50-51)
Be people of pure natural belief in Allah, not as- The life of this world is nothing but a game and a
sociating anything else with Him. As for anyone diversion. The abode of the hereafter–that is truly
who associates others with Allah, it is as though Life if they only knew. (29:64)
he had fallen from the sky and the birds had The life of this world is merely a game and a di-
seized him and carried him away or the wind version. If you believe and guard against evil, He
had dropped him in a distant place. (22:31) will pay you your wages and not ask you for all
They will say, ‘We believe in it,’ but how can your wealth. (47:36)
they reach out for it from a distant place when Know that the life of this world is merely a game
beforehand they had rejected it, shooting forth and a diversion and ostentation and a cause of
about the Unseen from a distant place? (34:52- boasting among yourselves and trying to outdo
53) one another in wealth and children: like the
plant-growth after rain which delights the culti-
DIVER vators, but then it withers and you see it turning
And some of the Satans dived for him (Sulayman) yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble. In
and did other things apart from that. And We the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also
were watching over them. (21:82) forgiveness from Allah and His good pleasure.
So We subjected the wind to him (Sulayman) to The life of this world is nothing but the enjoy-
blow at his command, softly, wherever he di- ment of delusion. (57:20)
rected. And the Satans, every builder and diver,
and others of them, yoked together in chains. DIVINING ARROWS
(38:36-38) Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork,
and what has been consecrated to other than
DIVERSION Allah, and animals which have been strangled,
The life of this world is nothing but a game and a and animals which have been killed by a blow,
diversion. The hereafter is better for those who and animals which have fallen to their death,
guard against evil. So will you not use your intel- and animals which have been gored, and ani-
lect? (6:32) mals which wild beasts have eaten–except those
Abandon those who have turned their religion you are able to slaughter properly–and animals
into a game and a diversion and who have been which have been sacrificed on altars, and decid-
deluded by the life of this world. Remind by it ing things by means of divining arrows–that is
lest a person is delivered up to destruction for deviance. Today those who disbelieve have de-
what he has earned with no protector or interces- spaired of overcoming your religion. So do not
sor besides Allah. Were he to offer every kind of be afraid of them but be afraid of Me. Today I
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