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extravagantly; spendthrifts are property, except with the best of
the brothers of Satan, and Satan intentions, until they reach
is ever ungrateful to his Lord— maturity. Keep your promises;
28 but if, while waiting for your you will be called to account for
Lord’s bounty which you are every promise which you have
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expecting, you turn them down, made! Give full measure, when
then at least speak to them kindly. you measure, and weigh with
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Be neither miserly, nor so accurate scales. That is fair, and
open-handed that you suffer better in the end.
reproach and become destitute. 36 Do not follow what you do
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Your Lord gives abundantly to not know; for the ear and the eye
whom He will and sparingly to and the heart shall all be called
whom He pleases. He is informed to account. 37 Do not walk
and observant about His servants. proudly on the earth. You cannot
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You shall not kill your cleave the earth, nor can you
offspring for fear of want. It is rival the mountains in height.
We who provide for them, and 38 All that is evil in the sight of
for you. Indeed, killing them is a your Lord, and is detestable.
great sin. 32 Do not commit 39 This is part of the wisdom
adultery, a for it is an indecent that your Lord has revealed to you.
thing and an evil course. Do not set up any other deity
33 Do not take life which God with God, lest you be cast into
has made inviolate—except by Hell, condemned and rejected.
right. If anyone is killed
wrongfully, We have given a One of the evils, which God wants
authority to his heirs to demand to root out completely, is adultery, or
retribution, but let them not zina. That is, adultery is such a great
evil and is proof of such shameless-
transgress the prescribed limits
ness, that man should abstain even
in exacting retribution; for then from its initial stages. Here, only a
he will be assisted [by the law]. basic command has been given on this
34 Do not go near the orphans’ subject.