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ple from it are far more serious in the sight of but the Fire. What they achieved here will come
Allah. Discord is worse than killing.’ They will to nothing. What they did will prove to be null and
not stop fighting you until they make you revert void. (11:16)
from your religion, if they are able. As for any of Those are the people who reject their Lord’s Signs
you who revert from their religion and die disbe- and the meeting with Him. Their actions will
lievers, their actions will come to nothing in this come to nothing and, on the Day of Rising, We
world and the hereafter. They are the will not assign them any weight. (18:105)
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it time- Allah knows the obstructers among you and those
lessly, for ever. (2:217) who say to their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and who
They are the ones whose actions come to noth- only come to fight a very little, and are begrudging
ing in this world or the hereafter. They will have towards you. Then when fear comes, you see
no helpers. (3:22) them looking at you, their eyes rolling like people
Today all good things have been made lawful for scared to death. But when fear departs they flay
you. And the food of those given the Book is also you with sharp tongues, grasping for wealth. Such
lawful for you and your food is lawful for them. people have no faith and Allah will make their ac-
So are chaste women from among the believers tions come to nothing. That is easy for Allah.
and chaste women of those given the Book be- (33:18-19)
fore you, once you have given them their If anyone wants power, all power belongs to
dowries in marriage, not in fornication or taking Allah. All good words rise to Him and He raises up
them as lovers. But as for anyone who rejects all virtuous deeds. But people who plot evil deeds
faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the will suffer a harsh punishment. The plotting of
hereafter he will be among the losers. (5:5) such people is profitless. (35:10)
Those who believe say, ‘Are these the people who It has been revealed to you and those before you:
swore by Allah, with their most earnest oaths, that ‘If you associate others with Allah, your actions
they were with you?’ Their actions have come to will come to nothing and you will be among the
nothing and they now are losers. (5:53) losers.’ (39:65)
That is Allah’s guidance. He guides by it those of That is because they hate what Allah has sent
His servants He wills. If they had associated others down, so He has made their actions come to noth-
with Him, nothing they did would have been of ing. (47:9)
any use. (6:88) That is because they followed what angers Allah
As for those who denied Our Signs and the en- and hated what is pleasing to Him. So He made
counter of the hereafter, their actions will come to their actions come to nothing. (47:28)
nothing. Will they be repaid except for what they Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of
did? (7:147) Allah and are entrenched in hostility towards the
It is not for the idolaters to maintain the mosques Messenger after the guidance has become clear to
of Allah, bearing witness against themselves of them, do not harm Allah in any way and He
their disbelief. They are the ones whose actions makes their actions come to nothing. (47:32)
will come to nothing. They will be in the Fire time- You who believe! Do not raise your voices above
lessly, for ever. (9:17) the voice of the Prophet and do not be as loud
Like those before you who had greater strength when speaking to him as you are when speaking
than you and more wealth and children. They en- to one another, lest your actions should come to
joyed their portion; so enjoy your portion as those nothing without your realising it. (49:2)
before you enjoyed theirs. You have plunged into Did He not bring all their schemes to nothing?
defamation as they plunged into it. The actions of (105:2)
such people come to nothing in this world or the
hereafter. They are the lost. (9:69) PROFLIGATE
But such people will have nothing in the hereafter It is He Who produces gardens, both cultivated
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