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They have sold Allah’s Signs for a paltry price, terrible punishment. (16:94)
and they have barred access to His Way. What Do not let those who have no faith in it and fol-
they have done is truly evil. (9:9) low their whims and desires debar you from it or
You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks you will be destroyed. (20:16)
devour people’s property under false pretences Those who disbelieve and bar access to the Way
and bar people from access to the Way of Allah. of Allah and to the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-
As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do Haram) which We have appointed for all
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the mankind–equally for those who live near it and
news of a painful punishment. (9:34) those who come from far away–those who desire
... Allah’s curse is on the wrongdoers, those who to profane it with wrongdoing, We will let them
bar access to the way of Allah seeking in it some- taste a painful punishment. (22:25)
thing crooked and reject the hereafter. (11:18-19) They are debarred from hearing it. (26:212)
The woman whose house it was solicited him (The hoopoe said,) ‘I found both her and her peo-
(Yusuf). She barred the doors and said, ‘Come ple prostrating to the sun instead of Allah. Satan
over here!’ He said, ‘Allah is my refuge! He is My has made their actions seem good to them and
lord and has been good to me with where I live. debarred them from the Way so they are not
Those who do wrong will surely not succeed.’ guided.’ (27:24)
(12:23) Do not let them debar you from Allah’s Signs
What then of Him Who is standing over every after they have been sent down to you. Call peo-
self seeing everything it does? Yet still they asso- ple to your Lord and on no account be one of the
ciate others with Allah! Say: ‘Name them! Or idolaters. (28:87)
would you inform Him of something in the earth And ‘Ad and Thamud–it must be clear to you
He does not know, or are they words which are from their dwelling places! Satan made their ac-
simply guesswork on your part?’ However, the tions seem good to them and so debarred them
plotting of those who disbelieve seems good to from the Way, even though they were intelligent
them and they bar the way. Anyone misguided people. (29:38)
by Allah has no guide. (13:33) Allah knows the obstructers among you and
(Woe to) those who prefer the life of this world to those who say to their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and
the hereafter, and bar access to the way of Allah, who only come to fight a very little, (33:18)
seeking in it something crooked; they are greatly Those deemed great will say to those deemed
misguided. (14:3) weak, ‘Did we debar you from the guidance
Their Messengers said, ‘Is there any doubt about when it came to you? No, it is you who were
Allah, the Bringer into Being of the heavens and evildoers.’ (34:32)
the earth? He summons you to forgive you for When Our Clear Signs are recited to them, they
your wrong actions and to defer you until a spec- say, ‘This is nothing but a man who wants to
ified time.’ They said, ‘You are nothing but debar you from what your fathers used to wor-
human beings like ourselves who want to debar ship.’ They say, ‘This is nothing but an invented
us from what our fathers worshipped; so bring us lie.’ Those who disbelieve say to the truth when it
a clear authority.’ (14:10) comes to them, ‘This is nothing but downright
As for those who disbelieved and barred access magic.’ (34:43)
to the way of Allah, We will heap punishment on Pharaoh said, ‘Haman, build me a tower so that
top of their punishment because of the corrup- perhaps I may gain means of access, access to
tion they brought about. (16:88) the heavens, so that I can look on Musa’s God.
Do not make your oaths a means of deceiving Truly I think he is a liar.’ That is how Pharaoh’s
one another or your foot will slip after it was evil actions were made attractive to him and he
firmly placed and you will taste evil for barring debarred others from the Path. Pharaoh’s schem-
access to the Way of Allah and you will have a ing led to nothing but ruin. (40:36-37)
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