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no authority over you, except that I called you in. If they call for help, they will be helped with
and you responded to me. Do not, therefore, water like seething molten brass, frying their
blame me but blame yourselves. I cannot come faces. What a noxious drink! What an evil re-
to your aid nor you to mine. I reject the way you pose! (18:29)
associated me with Allah before.’ The wrongdo- When We said to the angels, ‘Prostrate your-
ers will have a painful punishment. (14:22) selves to Adam,’ they prostrated with the excep-
Allah makes those who believe firm with the tion of Diabolis. He was one of the jinn and
Firm Word in the life of this world and the here- wantonly deviated from his Lord’s command. Do
after. But Allah misguides the wrongdoers. Allah you take him and his offspring as protectors apart
does whatever He wills. (14:27) from Me when they are your enemy? How evil is
He has given you everything you have asked the exchange the wrongdoers make! (18:50)
Him for. If you tried to number Allah’s blessings, Who could do greater wrong than someone who
you could never count them. Man is indeed is reminded of the Signs of his Lord and then
wrongdoing, ungrateful. (14:34) turns away from them, forgetting all that he has
Do not consider Allah to be unaware of what the done before? We have placed covers on their
wrongdoers perpetrate. He is merely deferring hearts, preventing them from understanding it,
them to a Day on which their sight will be trans- and heaviness in their ears. Though you call
fixed. (14:42) them to guidance, they will nonetheless never be
The people of the Thicket were also wrongdoers. guided. (18:57)
(15:78) Those cities: We destroyed them when they did
When those who did wrong see the punishment, wrong and fixed a promised time for their de-
it will not be lightened for them. They will be struction. (18:59)
granted no reprieve. (16:85) He (Dhu’l-Qarnayn) said, ‘As for those who do
How many generations We destroyed after Nuh! wrong, we will punish them and then they will
Your Lord is well able to be aware of and see the be returned to their Lord and He will punish
wrong actions of His servants! (17:17) them with a dreadful punishment.’ (18:87)
We know how they listen when they listen to How clear will be their hearing, how perfect
you, and when they confer together secretly, and their sight, on the Day they come to Us; whereas
when the wrongdoers say, ‘You are only follow- today the wrongdoers are clearly misguided.
ing a man who is bewitched!’ (17:47) (19:38)
We send down in the Qur’an that which is a Then We will rescue those who guarded against
healing and a mercy to the believers, but it only evil and We will leave the wrongdoers in it on
increases the wrongdoers in loss. (17:82) their knees. (19:72)
Do they not see that Allah, Who created the We seized each one of them for their wrong ac-
heavens and earth, has the power to create the tions. Against some We sent a sudden squall of
like of them, and has appointed fixed terms for stones; some of them were seized by the Great
them of which there is no doubt? But the wrong- Blast; some We caused the earth to swallow up;
doers still spurn anything but disbelief. (17:99) and some We drowned. Allah did not wrong
The Companions of the Cave said, ‘These people them; rather they wronged themselves. (20:40)
of ours have taken gods apart from Him. Why do Their hearts are distracted. Those who do wrong
they not produce a clear authority concerning confer together secretly, saying, ‘Is this man any-
them? Who could do greater wrong than some- thing but a human being like yourselves? Do you
one who invents a lie against Allah?’ (18:15) succumb to magic with your eyes wide open?’
Say: ‘It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever (21:3)
wishes believe and whoever wishes disbelieve.’ How many cities which did wrong have We ut-
We have prepared for the wrongdoers a Fire terly destroyed, raising up other people after
whose billowing walls of smoke will hem them them! (21:11)
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