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servants of Ours, of great might, eagerly as he should ask for
who ravaged your homes. So the good. Truly, man is indeed hasty. a
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warning was fulfilled, and after 12 We have made the night and
a time We allowed you to prevail the day as two signs. We blotted
over them once again and aided out the sign of night and made
you with wealth and offspring the sign of the day illuminating,
and made you greater in number. so that you may seek the bounty
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[We said], ‘If you persevere of your Lord and learn to compute
in doing good, you will be doing the seasons and the years. We
good to yourselves; but if you do have set everything forth in
evil, it will go against you.’ detail.
When the time of the second 13 We have tied the fate of
warning came, [We roused every man about his neck; and
against you others] to disgrace We shall produce a book for him
you utterly and to enter the place on Resurrection Day that he will
of worship as they had entered it find spread open. 14 It will say,
before, utterly destroying all that ‘Read your record, today there
they laid their hands on. 8 We will be none but yourself to call
said, ‘Your Lord may yet have you to account!’ 15 Whoever
mercy on you, but if you do the
same again, so shall We: We a God wants man to be patient about
have made Hell a prison for acquiring the immediate luxuries of
those who deny the truth.’ the world, so that he should keep to
9 Surely, this Quran guides to the right path on his journey towards
the most upright way and gives the Hereafter. But man, due to his
good news to the believers who hasty nature, rushes to acquire ephem-
do good deeds, so that they will eral worldly luxuries, which prove to
be impediments to his continuing his
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have a great reward and warns
onward journey. Man’s desire for in-
those who deny the life to come stant gratification is the greatest rea-
with grievous punishment. son for his being deprived of the
11 Yet man asks for evil as bounties of the Hereafter.