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Allah’s Signs and so become one of the lost. creases their loss. (35:39)
(10:95) Say: ‘It is Allah I worship, making my religion
Those are the people who have lost their own sincerely His, so worship anything you will apart
selves. What they invented has abandoned them. from Him!’ Say: ‘The real losers are those who
(11:21) lose themselves and their families on the Day of
Without question they will be the greatest losers Rising.’ Is not that clear loss? (39:14-15)
in the hereafter. (11:22) The keys of the heavens and earth belong to
He (Nuh) said, ‘My Lord, I seek refuge with You Him. It is those who reject Allah’s Signs who are
from asking You for anything about which I have the losers. (39:63)
no knowledge. If You do not forgive me and have It has been revealed to you and those before you:
mercy on me, I will be among the lost.’ (11:47) ‘If you associate others with Allah, your actions
He (Salih) said, ‘My people! What do you think? will come to nothing and you will be among the
If I were to possess a Clear Sign from my Lord losers.’ (39:65)
and He had given me mercy from Him: who We sent Messengers before you. Some of them
would help me against Allah if I disobeyed Him? We have told you about and others We have not
You would not increase me in anything but loss.’ told you about. No Messenger can bring a Sign
(11:63) except with Allah’s permission. But when Allah’s
We send down in the Qur’an that which is a heal- command comes the matter will be decided with
ing and a mercy to the believers, but it only in- truth and then and there the liars will be lost.
creases the wrongdoers in loss. (17:82) (40:78)
Both gardens yielded their crops and did not suffer But when they saw Our violent force their faith
any loss, and We made a river flow right through was of no use to them. That is the pattern Allah
the middle of them. (18:33) has always followed with His servants. Then and
Say: ‘Shall I inform you of the greatest losers in there the disbelievers were lost. (40:85)
their actions?’ (18:103) (Skins of the enemies of Allah will say,) ‘It is that
They desired to trap him but We made them the thought you had about your Lord that has de-
losers. (21:70) stroyed you so now you find yourselves among
Among the people there is one who worships Allah the lost.’ (41:23)
right on the edge. If good befalls him, he is content We have assigned close comrades to them who
with it, but if a trial befalls him, he reverts to his for- have made what is before them and behind them
mer ways, losing both this world and the hereafter. seem good to them. And the statement about the
That is indeed sheer loss. (22:11) nations, both of jinn and men, who passed away
If you were to obey a human being like your- before them has proved true of them as well.
selves, you would, in that case, definitely be the Certainly they were lost. (41:25)
losers. (23:34) You will see them as they are exposed to it, ab-
Those whose scales are light, they are the losers ject in their abasement, glancing around them
of their selves, remaining in Hell timelessly, for furtively. Those who believe will say, ‘Truly the
ever. (23:103) losers are those who lose themselves and their
Say: ‘Allah is a sufficient witness between me families on the Day of Rising.’ The wrongdoers
and you.’ He knows everything in the heavens are in an everlasting punishment. (42:45)
and the earth. Those who believe in falsehood The kingdom of the heavens and earth belongs to
and reject Allah, they are the losers. (29:52) Allah and, on the Day that the Hour arrives, that
It is He Who made you representatives on the Day the liars will be lost. (45:27)
earth. So whoever disbelieves, his disbelief is Those are people of whom the statement about
against himself. In Allah’s sight, the disbelief of the nations, both of jinn and men, who passed
the disbelievers only increases their loathsome- away before them, has also proved true; truly
ness; the disbelief of the disbelievers only in- they were the lost. (46:18)
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