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Messengers, We drowned them and made them They will call on them but they will not respond
a Sign for all mankind. We have prepared a to them. They will see the punishment. Oh if
painful punishment for the wrongdoers. (25:37) only they had been guided! (28:64)
When they see you they only make a mockery of There are some people who say, ‘We believe in
you: ‘Is this the one Allah has sent as a Allah,’ and then, when they suffer harm in Allah’s
Messenger? He might almost have misled us cause, they take people’s persecution for Allah’s
from our gods had we not stuck to them stead- punishment; but if help comes from your Lord
fastly!’ They will soon know, when they see the they say, ‘We were with you.’ Does Allah not
punishment, whose way is the most misguided. know best what is in every person’s heart?
(25:41-42) (29:10)
(The servants of the All-Merciful are) those who Those who reject Allah’s Signs and the meeting
say, ‘Our Lord, avert from us the punishment of with Him, such people can despair of My mercy,
Hell, its punishment is inescapable pain.’ (25:65) such people will have a painful punishment.
Those who do not call on any other god together (29:23)
with Allah and do not kill anyone Allah has When Lut said to his people, ‘You are commit-
made inviolate, except with the right to do so, ting an obscenity not perpetrated before you by
and do not fornicate; anyone who does that will anyone in all the worlds. Do you lie with men
receive an evil punishment and on the Day of and waylay them on the road and commit de-
Rising his punishment will be doubled and he pravities within your gatherings?’ the only an-
will be humiliated in it timelessly, for ever. swer of his people was to say, ‘Bring us Allah’s
(25:68-69) punishment if you are telling the truth.’ (29:28-
Say: ‘What has My Lord to do with you if you do 29)
not call on Him? But you have denied the truth, (Our Messengers said to Lut,) ‘We will bring
so punishment is bound to come.’ (25:77) down on the inhabitants of this city a devastating
(Hud said to his people,) ‘I fear for you the pun- punishment from heaven because of their de-
ishment of a terrible Day.’ (26:135) viance.’ (29:34)
(Salih said,) ‘Do not do anything to harm her (the They ask you to hasten the punishment. If it were
she-camel) or the punishment of a terrible day not for a stipulated term, the punishment would
will come down on you.’ (26:156) have come to them already. It will come upon
But they hamstrung her and woke up full of re- them suddenly when they are not expecting it.
morse, for the punishment did come down them. (29:53)
There is certainly a Sign in that, yet most of them They ask you to hasten the punishment but Hell
are not believers. (26:157-158) already encircles the disbelievers. (29:54)
They denied him and the punishment of the Day On the Day the punishment envelops them from
of Shadow came down on them. It was indeed the above them and from underneath their feet, He
punishment of a terrible Day. (26:189) will say, ‘Taste what you were doing!’ (29:55)
They will not believe in it until they see the painful But as for those who disbelieved and denied Our
punishment. (26:201) Signs and the meeting of the hereafter, they will
Do they want to hasten Our punishment? (26:204) be summoned to the punishment. (30:16)
Such people will receive an evil punishment and But there are some people who trade in distract-
will be the greatest losers in the hereafter. (27:5) ing tales to misguide people from Allah’s Way
Is someone whom We have promised good and knowing nothing about it and to make a mockery
who then obtains it, the same as someone whom of it. Such people will have a humiliating punish-
We have given enjoyment in the life of this world ment. (31:6)
and who then, on the Day of Rising, is one of When Our Signs are recited to such a person, he
those brought to punishment? (28:61) turns away arrogantly as if he had not heard, as if
They will be told, ‘Call on your partner-gods!’ there was a great weight in his ears. So give him
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