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before you; but though I granted 36 Those to whom We sent the
respite to those who denied the Scriptures rejoice in what has
truth, at last I seized them, and been revealed to you, while some
how awful was My punishment. factions deny parts of it. Say to
33 Is then He who watches them, I have been commanded
over every soul and its actions only to worship God and not to
[like any other]? Yet they ascribe associate partners with Him: to
partners to God. Say, Name Him I pray and to Him I shall
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them! Or do you presume to return. Thus We have revealed
inform Him of something on the it as a [clear] commandment in
earth of which He does not Arabic. If you followed their
know? Or, is all this only your desires after all the knowledge
verbal assertion? Indeed, their which has come to you, you
devices seem fair to those who would have no protector or shield
deny the truth, and they are kept against God. 38 We sent down
back from the right path. There messengers before you and gave
can be no guide for those whom them wives and children. Yet it
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God lets go astray. Punishment was not possible for a messenger
awaits them in the present life: to bring a sign, save by the
but harsher is the punishment of command of God. Every age has
the Hereafterno one will had its revelation. 39 God
defend them against God. abrogates or confirms what He
35 Such is the Paradise which pleases; with Him is the source
the righteous have been of all commandments.
promised: it is watered by 40 Whether We show you part
running streams: eternal is its of what We have promised them
fruit, and eternal is its shade. or cause you to pass away [before
That is the recompense of those that], your mission is only to
who are righteous, but the give warning; it is for Us to do
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recompense of those who deny the reckoning. Do they not see
the truth is the Fire. how We come to [their] land and