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ing. And they will not be helped. (41:16) boasting among yourselves and trying to outdo
We are your protectors in the life of this world one another in wealth and children: like the
and the hereafter. You will have there all that plant-growth after rain which delights the culti-
your selves could wish for. You will have there vators, but then it withers and you see it turning
everything you demand. (41:31) yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble. In
If anyone desires to cultivate the hereafter, We the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also
will increase him in his cultivation. If anyone de- forgiveness from Allah and His good pleasure.
sires to cultivate this world, We will give him The life of this world is nothing but the enjoy-
some of it but he will have no share in the here- ment of delusion. (57:20)
after. (42:20) If Allah had not prescribed banishment for them,
Whatever you have been given is only the enjoy- He would have punished them in this world. But
ment of the life of this world. What is with Allah in the hereafter they will have the punishment of
is better and longer lasting for those who believe the Fire. (59:3)
and trust in their Lord. (42:36) So Allah made an example of him seizing him
Is it, then, they who allocate the mercy of your with punishment in this world and the hereafter.
Lord? We have allocated their livelihood among (79:25)
them in the life of this world and raised some of As for him who overstepped the bounds and pre-
them above others in rank so that some of them ferred the life of this world, the Blazing Fire will
are subservient to others. But the mercy of your be his refuge. (79:37-39)
Lord is better than anything they amass. (43:32) Yet still you prefer the life of this world when the
Were it not that mankind might all become one hereafter is better and longer lasting. (87:16-17)
community, We would have given those who re- The Last will be better for you than the First.
ject the All-Merciful silver roofs to their houses (93:4)
and silver stairways to ascend and silver doors to
their houses and silver couches on which to re- WORM
cline, and gold ornaments. All that is merely the Then when We decreed that he (Sulayman)
trappings of the life of this world. But the here- should die, nothing divulged his death to them
after with your Lord is for those who guard except the worm which ate his staff; so that when
against evil. (43:33-35) he fell down it was made clear to the jinn that if
They say, ‘There is nothing but our existence in they had truly had knowledge of the Unseen they
this world. We die and we live and nothing de- need not have stayed there suffering humiliating
stroys us except for time.’ They have no knowl- punishment. (34:14)
edge of that. They are only conjecturing. (45:24) They will say, ‘Are we to be restored to how we
(Disbelievers will be told,) ‘That is because you were? When we have become perished, worm-
made a mockery of Allah’s Signs and the life of eaten bones?’ (79:10-11)
this world deluded you.’ Therefore, today they
will not get out of it. They will not be able to ap- WORSHIP
pease Allah. (45:35) You alone we worship. You alone we ask for
The life of this world is merely a game and a di- help. (1:4)
version. If you believe and guard against evil, He Mankind! Worship your Lord, Who created you
will pay you your wages and not ask you for all and those before you, so that hopefully you will
your wealth. (47:36) guard against evil. (2:21)
So turn away from him who turns away from Our Remember when We made a covenant with the
remembrance and desires nothing but the life of tribe of Israel: ‘Worship none but Allah and be
this world. (53:29) good to your parents and to relatives and or-
Know that the life of this world is merely a game phans and the very poor. And speak good words
and a diversion and ostentation and a cause of to people. And perform prayer and give the
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