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sions by means of specious words–if your Lord You who believe! What is the matter with you
had willed, they would not have done it, so that when you are told, ‘Go out and fight in the
abandon them and all they fabricate–so that the way of Allah,’ you sink down heavily to the
hearts of those who do not believe in the here- earth? Are you happier with this world than the
after incline towards them and are pleased with hereafter? Yet the enjoyment of this world is very
them and perpetrate whatever they perpetrate. small compared to that of the hereafter. (9:38)
(6:112-113) Like those before you who had greater strength
Say: ‘Produce your witnesses to testify that Allah than you and more wealth and children. They
made this forbidden.’ If they do testify, do not tes- enjoyed their portion; so enjoy your portion as
tify with them and do not follow the whims and those before you enjoyed theirs. You have
desires of people who deny Our Signs, and who plunged into defamation as they plunged into it.
do not believe in the hereafter and make others The actions of such people come to nothing in
equal to their Lord. (6:150) this world or the hereafter. They are the lost.
The Companions of the Garden will call out to (9:69)
the Companions of the Fire, ‘We have found that They swear by Allah that they said nothing, but
what our Lord promised us is true. Have you they definitely spoke the word of disbelief and
found that what your Lord promised you is true?’ returned to disbelief after their Islam.They
They will say, ‘Yes, we have!’ Between them a planned something which they did not achieve
herald will proclaim: ‘May the curse of Allah be and they were vindictive for no other cause than
on the wrongdoers those who bar access to the that Allah and His Messenger had enriched them
Way of Allah, seeking in it something crooked, from His bounty. If they were to repent, it would
and reject the hereafter.’ (7:44-45) be better for them. But if they turn away, Allah
As for those who denied Our Signs and the en- will punish them with a painful punishment in
counter of the hereafter, their actions will come this world and the hereafter, and they will not
to nothing. Will they be repaid except for what find any protector or helper on the earth. (9:74)
they did? (7:147) There is good news for them (the believers) in the
(Musa said,) ‘Prescribe good for us in this world life of this world and in the hereafter. There is no
and the hereafter. We have truly turned to You.’ changing the words of Allah. That is the great
He said, ‘As for My punishment, I strike with it victory! (10:64)
anyone I will. My mercy extends to all things but But such people will have nothing in the here-
I will prescribe it for those who guard against evil after but the Fire. What they achieved here will
and give the alms, and those who believe in Our come to nothing. What they did will prove to be
Signs.’ (7:156) null and void. (11:16)
An evil generation has succeeded them, inherit- (Allah's curse is on) those who bar access to the
ing the Book, taking the goods of this lower way of Allah and seek in it something crooked
world, and saying, ‘We will be forgiven.’ But if and reject the hereafter. (11:19)
similar goods come to them again they still take Without question they will be the greatest losers
them. Has not a covenant been made with them in the hereafter. (11:22)
in the Book, that they should only say the truth There is certainly a Sign in that for anyone who
about Allah and have they not studied what is in fears the punishment of the hereafter. That is a
it? The Abode of the Hereafter is better for those Day to which mankind will all be gathered. That
who guard against evil. Will you not use your in- is a Day which will be witnessed by everyone.
tellect? (7:169) (11:103)
It is not fitting for a Prophet to take captives until He (Yusuf) said, ‘No meal to feed you will arrive
he has thoroughly subdued the land. You desire before I have informed you what they mean. That
the goods of this world, whereas Allah desires is part of what my Lord taught me. For I have left
the hereafter. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (8:67) the religion of a people who clearly have no faith
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