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                                  Garden: he deprived them of but exceed not the bounds: God
                                  their garment in order to make does not love those who exceed
                                  them aware of their nakedness. the bounds.  32  Say, ‘Who has
                                  He and his forces watch you forbidden the adornment of God,
                                  from where you do not see them! which He has brought forth for
                                  We have made the devils friends His servants and good things,
                                  of those who do not believe.  clean and pure, which God has
                                    28 And when they commit an  provided for His servants?’ Say,
                                  indecency, they say, ‘This is what  ‘They are [lawful] for the
                                  our fathers used to do and God  believers in the present life but
                                                             they shall be exclusively for them
                                  has enjoined it on us.’ Say, ‘God
                                  does not enjoin what is indecent.  on the Day of Resurrection.’
                                  Would you attribute to God  Thus We explain Our signs for a
                                  something of which you have no  people  who  understand.
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                                  knowledge?’  29  Say, ‘My Lord  Say,‘My Lord has forbidden
                                  has commanded you to act justly.  indecency, both open and hidden,
                                                             sin and wrongful oppression and
                                  Turn your faces up toward Him
                                                             that, without His sanction, you
                                  at every time and place of
                                                             associate things with Him, and
                                  worship, and call upon Him,
                                                             that you say things about Him
                                  making yourselves sincere
                                                             without knowledge.’
                                  towards Him in religion. As He  34 For all people a term has
                                  brought you into being, so shall  been set: and when [the end of]
                                  you return.’  30  Some He has  their term approaches, they can
                                  guided and some have earned  neither delay it by a single
                                  misguidance: they have taken  moment, nor can they advance
                                  devils rather than God as their  it.  35  Children of Adam! If
                                  patrons, thinking that they are  messengers come to you from
                                  rightly guided.            among yourselves, reciting My
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                                      O Children of Adam, dress revelations to you, then those
                                  yourself properly whenever you that take warning and mend their
                                  are at worship: and eat and drink ways, on such shall come no fear
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