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in it timelessly, for ever. (10:27) If anyone commits an evil action the responsibil-
Whoever does an atom’s weight of evil will see ity for it is his alone. Allah is All-Knowing, All-
it. (99:8) Wise. (4:111)
Those who produce a good action will receive Why do their scholars and rabbis not prohibit
ten like it. But those who produce a bad action them from evil speech and acquiring ill-gotten
will only be repaid with its equivalent and they gains? What an evil thing they invent! (5:63)
will not be wronged. (6:160) In that way We make the Signs plain so that you
Or do those who do bad actions imagine they may clearly see the path of the evildoers. (6:55)
can outstrip Us? How bad their judgement is! If they call you a liar, say: ‘Your Lord possesses
(29:4) boundless mercy, but His violent force cannot be
averted from the people of the evildoers.’ (6:147)
EVIL CONSEQUENCE As for those who deny Our Signs and are arro-
You who believe! Do not kill game while you are gant regarding them, the Gates of Heaven will
in the state of pilgrimage. If one of you kills any not be opened for them, and they will not enter
deliberately, the reprisal for it is a livestock ani- the Garden until a camel goes through a needle’s
mal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by eye. That is how We repay the evildoers. (7:40)
two just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the We rained down a rain upon them. See the final
Kaaba, or expiation by feeding the poor, or fast- fate of the evildoers! (7:84)
ing commensurate with that, so that he may taste So We sent down on them floods, locusts, lice,
the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has frogs and blood, Signs, clear and distinct, but
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if they proved arrogant and were an evildoing peo-
anyone does it again Allah will take revenge on ple. (7:133)
him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of Revenge. This was so that He might verify the Truth and
(5:95) nullify the false, even though the evildoers hate
Has the news not reached you of those who dis- that. (8:8)
believed before and tasted the evil consequences (Say,) ‘Do not try to excuse yourselves. You have
of what they did? They will have a painful pun- disbelieved after believing. If one group of you is
ishment. (64:5) pardoned, another group will be punished for
being evildoers.’ (9:66)
EVIL OMEN We destroyed generations before you when they
They (his people) said (to Salih), ‘We see you, did wrong. Their Messengers brought them the
and those with you, as an evil omen.’ He said, Clear Signs, but they were never going to be-
‘No, your evil omen is with Allah; you are merely lieve. That is how We repay evildoers. (10:13)
a people undergoing a trial.’ (27:47) Who could do greater wrong than someone who
They (the inhabitants of the city) said, ‘We see an invents lies against Allah or denies His Signs?
evil omen in you. If you do not stop we will stone Evildoers are certainly not successful. (10:17)
you and you will suffer a painful punishment at Say: ‘What do you think? If His punishment came
our hands.’ (36:18) upon you by night or day, what part of it would
They (messengers) said, ‘Your evil omen is in the evildoers then try to hasten?' (10:50)
yourselves. Is it not just that you have been re- Then after them We sent Musa and Harun with
minded? No, you are an unbridled people!’ Our Signs to Pharaoh and his ruling circle, but
(36:19) they were arrogant and were a people of evildo-
ers. (10:75)
EVILDOING - EVILDOERS Allah confirms the Truth by His words, even
Do not argue on behalf of those who betray though the evildoers hate it. (10:82)
themselves. Allah does not love any evildoing (Hud said,) ‘My people! Ask forgiveness of your
traitors. (4:107) Lord and then repent to Him. He will send
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