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afflict them with some of their wrong actions. greatest knowledge of the wrongdoers.’ (6:58)
Many of mankind are deviators. (5:49) When you see people engrossed in mockery of
You who believe! Do not take the Jews and Our Signs, turn from them until they start to talk
Christians as your friends; they are the friends of of other things. And if Satan should ever cause
one another. Any of you who takes them as you to forget, once you remember, do not stay
friends is one of them. Allah does not guide sitting with the wrongdoers. (6:68)
wrongdoing people. (5:51) Who could do greater wrong than someone who
You see many of them rushing to wrongdoing invents lies against Allah or denies His Signs, or
and enmity and acquiring ill-gotten gains. What who says, ‘It has been revealed to me,’ when
an evil thing they do! (5:62) nothing has been revealed to him, or someone
Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, who says, ‘I will send down the same as Allah
is Allah are disbelievers. The Messiah said, ‘Tribe has sent down’? If you could only see the wrong-
of Israel! Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. doers in the throes of death when the angels are
If anyone associates anything with Allah, Allah stretching out their hands, saying, ‘Disgorge your
has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will own selves! Today you will be repaid with the
be the Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no punishment of humiliation for saying something
helpers. (5:72) other than the truth about Allah, and being arro-
If it then comes to light that the two of them have gant about His Signs.’ (6:93)
merited the allegation of wrongdoing, two others Abandon wrong action, outward and inward.
who have the most right to do so should take Those who commit wrong action will be repaid
their place and swear by Allah: ‘Our testimony is for what they perpetrated. (6:120)
truer than their testimony. We have not commit- And likewise in every city We set up its greatest
ted perjury. If we had we would indeed be wrongdoers to plot in it. They plot against them-
wrongdoers.’ (5:107) selves alone, but they are not aware of it. (6:123)
Who could do greater wrong than someone who In that way We make the wrongdoers friends of
invents lies against Allah or denies His Signs? one another because of what they have done.
The wrongdoers are certainly not successful. (6:129)
(6:21) Say: ‘My people, do as you are doing, just as I am
We know that what they say distresses you. It is doing. You will certainly come to know who will
not that they are calling you a liar; the wrongdo- have the best home in the end. The wrongdoers
ers are just denying Allah’s Signs. (6:33) will certainly not be successful.’ (6:135)
So the last remnant of the people who did wrong And a pair of camels and a pair of cattle–Say: ‘Is
was cut off. Praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of it the two males He has made forbidden, or the
all the worlds! (6:45) two females, or what the wombs of the two fe-
Say: ‘What do you think? If Allah’s punishment males contain? Were you then witnesses when
were to come upon you suddenly by night or Allah gave you this instruction?’ Who could do
openly by day, would any but the wrongdoing greater wrong than someone who invents lies
people be destroyed?’ (6:47) against Allah thus leading people astray without
Do not chase away those who call on their Lord any knowledge? Allah does not guide the people
morning and evening, seeking His Face. Their of the wrongdoers. (6:144)
reckoning is in no way your responsibility and Nor can you say: ‘If the Book had been sent
your reckoning is in no way their responsibility. down to us, We would have been better guided
Indeed if you did chase them away, you would than they were.’ For a Clear Sign has come to you
be among the wrongdoers. (6:52) from your Lord, and guidance and mercy. Who
Say: ‘If I did have in my possession what you are could do greater wrong than someone who de-
in such haste to bring about, the affair between nies Allah’s Signs and turns away from them? We
me and you would have been decided. Allah has will repay those who turn away from Our Signs
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