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with bracelets made of gold and wear green gar- community, We would have given those who re-
ments made of the finest silk and rich brocade, ject the All-Merciful silver roofs to their houses
reclining there on couches under canopies. and silver stairways to ascend and silver doors to
What an excellent reward! What a wonderful re- their houses and silver couches on which to re-
pose! (18:31) cline. (43:33-34)
But Allah will admit those who believe and do (In the Garden of Paradise) vessels of silver and
right actions into Gardens with rivers flowing goblets of pure crystal will be passed round
under them where they will be adorned with among them, crystalline silver–they have meas-
gold bracelets and pearls, and where their cloth- ured them very exactly. (76:15-16)
ing will be of silk. (22:23) They will wear green garments of fine silk and
They will enter Gardens of Eden where they will rich brocade. They will be adorned with silver
be adorned with gold bracelets and pearls, and bracelets. And their Lord will give them a pure
where their clothing will be of silk. (35:33) draught to drink. (76:21)
(Believers will be) wearing fine silk and rich bro-
cade, face to face with one another. (44:53) SIN
And (Allah) will reward them for their steadfast- He (Qarun) said, ‘I have only been given it be-
ness with a Garden and with silk. (76:12) cause of knowledge I have.’ Did he not know
They will wear green garments of fine silk and that before him Allah had destroyed generations
rich brocade. They will be adorned with silver with far greater strength than his and far more
bracelets. And their Lord will give them a pure possessions? The evildoers will not be ques-
draught to drink. (76:21) tioned about their sins. (28:78)
That Day no man or jinn will be asked about his
SILVER sin. (55:39)
To mankind the love of worldly appetites is But they denied him and they hamstrung her (the
painted in glowing colours: women and chil- she-camel), so their Lord crushed them for their
dren, and heaped-up mounds of gold and silver, sin and flattened them. (91:14)
and horses with fine markings, and livestock and
fertile farmland. All that is merely the enjoyment SINAI (SEE MOUNT SINAI)
of the life of this world. The best homecoming is
in the presence of Allah. (3:14) SINCERITY (IKHLAS)
You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks Allah will say, ‘This is the Day when the sincerity
devour people’s property under false pretences of the sincere will benefit them. They will have
and bar people from access to the Way of Allah. Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remain-
As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do ing in them timelessly, for ever and ever. Allah is
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the pleased with them and they are pleased with
news of a painful punishment. (9:34) Him. That is the Great Victory.’ (5:119)
That was the situation when we woke them up so You who believe! Have fear of Allah and be with
they could question one another. One of them the truly sincere. (9:119)
asked, ‘How long have you been here?’ They He (Satan) said, ‘My Lord, because You misled
replied, ‘We have been here for a day or part of a me, I will make things on the earth seem good to
day.’ They said, ‘Your Lord knows best how long them and I will mislead them all, every one of
you have been here. Send one of your number them, except Your servants among them who are
into the city with this silver you have, so he can sincere.’ (15:39-40)
see which food is purest and bring you some of it Say: ‘My Lord, make my entry sincere and make
to eat. But he should go about with caution so my leaving sincere and grant me supporting au-
that no one is aware of you.’ (18:19) thority direct from Your Presence.’ (17:80)
Were it not that mankind might all become one Mention Musa in the Book. He was truly sincere
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