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Remember when We rescued you from devour people’s property under false pretences
Pharaoh’s people who were inflicting an evil and bar people from access to the Way of Allah.
punishment on you, killing your sons and letting As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do
your women live. In that there was a terrible trial not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the
from your Lord. (7:141) news of a painful punishment. (9:34)
(Musa said,) ‘Prescribe good for us in this world If you do not go out to fight, He will punish you
and the hereafter. We have truly turned to You.’ with a painful punishment and substitute another
He said, ‘As for My punishment, I strike with it people in your place. You will not harm Him in
anyone I will. My mercy extends to all things but any way. Allah has power over all things. (9:39)
I will prescribe it for those who guard against evil Say: ‘What do you await for us except for one of
and give the alms, and those who believe in Our the two best things? But what we await for you is
Signs.’ (7:156) for Allah to inflict a punishment on you either di-
Then when they forgot what they had been re- rectly from Himself or at our hands. So wait, we
minded of, We rescued those who had forbidden are waiting with you!’ (9:52)
the evil and seized those who did wrong with a Among them are some who insult the Prophet,
harsh punishment because they were deviators. saying he is only an ear. Say, ‘An ear of good for
(7:165) you, believing in Allah and believing in the be-
Then your Lord announced that He would send lievers, and a mercy for those among you who
against them until the Day of Rising people who believe.’As for those who insult the Messenger of
would inflict an evil punishment on them. Your Allah, they will have a painful punishment.
Lord is Swift in Retribution. And He is Ever- (9:61)
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (7:167) Allah has promised the men and women of the
That is your reward, so taste it. The disbelievers hypocrites and disbelievers the Fire of Hell, re-
will also have the punishment of the Fire. (8:14) maining in it timelessly, for ever. It will suffice
And they (disbelievers) say, ‘Allah, if this is really them. Allah has cursed them. They will have
the truth from You, rain down stones on us out of everlasting punishment. (9:68)
heaven or send a painful punishment down on They swear by Allah that they said nothing, but
us.’ (8:32) they definitely spoke the word of disbelief and
Their prayer at the House is nothing but whistling returned to disbelief after their Islam. They
and clapping. So taste the punishment because planned something which they did not achieve
you disbelieved! (8:35) and they were vindictive for no other cause than
If only you could see when the angels take back that Allah and His Messenger had enriched them
those who disbelieved at their death, beating from His bounty. If they were to repent, it would
their faces and their backs: ‘Taste the punishment be better for them. But if they turn away, Allah
of the Burning!’ (8:50) will punish them with a painful punishment in
Were it not for a prior decree which had already this world and the hereafter, and they will not
proceeded from Allah, a terrible punishment find any protector or helper on the earth. (9:74)
would have afflicted you on account of what you As for the people who find fault with those be-
took. (8:68) lievers who give charity spontaneously, and with
A proclamation from Allah and His Messenger to those who can find nothing to give but their own
mankind on the day of the greater pilgrimage: effort, and deride them, Allah derides them. They
‘Allah is free of the idolaters, as is His Messenger. will have a painful punishment. (9:79)
If you repent, it will be better for you. But if you The desert arabs came with their excuses asking
turn your backs, know that you cannot thwart for permission to stay, and those who lied to
Allah.’ Give those who disbelieve the news of a Allah and His Messenger stayed behind. A
painful punishment. (9:3) painful punishment will afflict those among them
You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks who disbelieve. (9:90)
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