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You who believe! If you obey those who disbe- As for those whose scales are light, they are the
lieve, they will turn you round on your heels and ones who have lost their own selves because
you will be transformed into losers. (3:149) they wrongfully rejected Our Signs. (7:9)
(Satan said,) ‘I will lead them astray and fill them They said, ‘Our Lord, we have wronged our-
with false hopes. I will command them and they selves. If you do not forgive us and have mercy
will cut off cattle’s ears. I will command them on us, we will be among the lost.’ (7:23)
and they will change Allah’s creation.’ Anyone What are they waiting for but its fulfilment? The
who takes Satan as his protector in place of Allah Day its fulfilment occurs, those who forgot it be-
has clearly lost everything. (4:119) fore will say, ‘The Messengers of our Lord came
Today all good things have been made lawful for with the Truth. Are there any intercessors to inter-
you. And the food of those given the Book is also cede for us, or can we be sent back so that we
lawful for you and your food is lawful for them. can do something other than what we did?’ They
So are chaste women from among the believers have lost their own selves and what they in-
and chaste women of those given the Book be- vented has forsaken them. (7:53)
fore you, once you have given them their The ruling circle of those of his people who dis-
dowries in marriage, not in fornication or taking believed said, ‘If you follow Shu‘ayb, you will
them as lovers. But as for anyone who rejects definitely be lost.’ (7:90)
faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the As for those who denied Shu‘ayb, it was as if they
hereafter he will be among the losers. (5:5) had never lived there. It was the people who de-
So his lower self persuaded him to kill his nied Shu‘ayb who were the lost. (7:92)
brother, and he killed him and became one of the Do they feel secure against Allah’s devising? No
lost. (5:30) one feels secure against Allah’s devising except
Those who believe say, ‘Are these the people for those who are lost. (7:99)
who swore by Allah, with their most earnest When they took full stock of what they had done
oaths, that they were with you?’ Their actions and saw they had been misled, they said, ‘If our
have come to nothing and they now are losers. Lord does not have mercy on us and forgive us,
(5:53) we will certainly be among the lost.’ (7:149)
Say: ‘To whom does everything in the heavens Whoever Allah guides is truly guided; but those
and earth belong?’ Say: ‘To Allah.’ He has made He misguides are the lost. (7:178)
mercy incumbent on Himself. He will gather you (It is) so that Allah can sift the bad out from the
to the Day of Rising about which there is no good, and pile the bad on top of one another,
doubt. As for those who have lost their own heaping them all together, and tip them into Hell.
selves, they have no faith. (6:12) They are the lost. (8:37)
Those We have given the Book recognise it as Like those before you who had greater strength
they recognise their own children. As for those than you and more wealth and children. They
who have lost their own selves, they have no enjoyed their portion; so enjoy your portion as
faith. (6:20) those before you enjoyed theirs. You have
Those who deny the meeting with Allah have plunged into defamation as they plunged into it.
lost, so that, when the Hour comes upon them The actions of such people come to nothing in
suddenly, they will say, ‘Alas for what we neg- this world or the hereafter. They are the lost.
lected there!’ They will bear their burdens on (9:69)
their backs. How evil is what they bear! (6:31) On the day We gather them together–when it
Those who kill their children foolishly without will seem if they had tarried no more than an
any knowledge and make what Allah has pro- hour of a single day–they will recognise one an-
vided for them forbidden, inventing lies against other. Those who denied the meeting with Allah
Allah, such people are lost. They are misguided. will have lost. They were not guided. (10:45)
They are not guided. (6:140) And on no account be among those who deny
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