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GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

would lose out in the hereafter, learned and adopted the practices of
magic. Thus, they strayed away from the Law that Allah had sent them
and, having sold their own souls, fell into paganism (magic doctrines).
"They have sold themselves" for an evil thing, in other words, they aban-
doned their faith.
The facts related in this verse demonstrate the main features of an im-
portant conflict in Jewish history. This struggle was, on the one hand, be-

tween the prophets that Allah sent to the Jews and those believing Jews
who obeyed them, and on the other hand, those perverse Jews who re-
belled against Allah's commandments, imitated the pagan culture of the
peoples around them, and followed their cultural practices rather than the
Law of Allah.

PAGAN DOCTRINES ADDED TO THE TORAH
The errors of those Jews departing from the true path are often re-

ported in the holy book of the Jews itself—the Old Testament. In the book
of Nehemiah, a kind of history book within the Old Testament, the Jews
confess their sins and repent:
Then those of Israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreigners;
and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fa-
thers. And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the
Law of the LORD their God [for one-fourth] of the day; and [for another]
fourth they confessed and worshiped the LORD their God. Then Jeshua,
Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani stood
on the stairs of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to the LORD
their God.
...[They said:] "...they [our fathers] were disobedient and rebelled
against You, cast Your law behind their backs and killed Your
prophets, who testified against them to turn them to Yourself; And
they worked great provocations. Therefore You delivered them into the
hand of their enemies, who oppressed them; And in the time of their

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