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pleasure, or he who builds on the 113 It is not proper for the
brink of a crumbling precipice, Prophet and those who believe
so that his house is ready to fall to seek forgiveness for
with him into the Fire of Hell? polytheists, even though they
God does not guide the are close relatives, after it has
wrongdoers: 110 the building become clear to them that they
which they have built will never have earned the punishment of
cease to be a source of deep Hell. 114 Abraham’s asking
disquiet in their hearts, until forgiveness for his father was
their hearts are cut to pieces. only because of a promise he had
God is all knowing and wise. made to him, but when it became
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God has bought from the clear to him, that he was God’s
believers their lives and their enemy, he disassociated himself
wealth in return for the Garden. from him. Surely, Abraham was
They fight for the cause of God most tender-hearted and
a 115
and they kill and are killed. It is forbearing. God would never
a promise binding on Him in the lead a people astray after He has
Torah, the Gospel and the Quran, guided them and until He has
and who is truer to his promise made clear to them what they
than God? Rejoice then in the should guard against. God has
bargain you have made. That is knowledge of all things;
the supreme achievement. 116 surely to God belongs the
112 [The believers are] those who kingdom of the heavens and of
turn to God in repentance; who the earth. He gives life and death.
worship and praise Him; who go You have none besides God to
about in the land serving His protect or help you.
cause, who bow down, who 117 God turned in mercy to the
prostrate themselves, who enjoin Prophet, and the emigrants and
good and forbid evil, and who
observe the limits set by God. a See pages xiv to xvii of the
Give good news to the believers! Introduction.