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221 The Cave 18:42
30 As for those who believe that the Hour will ever come.
and do good deeds—We do not Even if I am returned to my
let the reward of anyone who Lord, I shall surely find a better
does a good deed go to waste— place than this.’
31 they shall dwell in the Gardens 37 His companion replied, in
of eternity where rivers flow at the course of their discussion,
their feet. Reclining upon raised ‘Do you deny Him who created
couches, they will be adorned you from dust, from a small drop
with bracelets of gold, and will of fluid, then formed you into a
wear green robes of fine silk and man? 38 But as far as I am
heavy brocade. An excellent concerned, God alone is my Lord
reward and an excellent resting and I set up no partners with
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place! Him. When you entered your
32 Recite to them the parable garden, why did you not say,
of two men! One of them We “That which God wills [will
provided with two vineyards surely come to pass], there is no
which We surrounded with date- power save with God?” Although
palms, and placed a field of you see I have less wealth and
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grain in between; each garden offspring than you, 40 my Lord
produced its fruit and did not fail may well give me a garden better
to yield its best; We even caused than yours and send down
a river to gush forth in the midst thunderbolts from heaven upon
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of them, and so he had fruit in your vineyard, turning it into a
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abundance. While conversing barren waste; or its water may
with his companion, he said, ‘I sink into the earth, so that you
am wealthier than you are, and will never be able to find it
have a bigger following!’ again!’
35 Having thus harmed his own 42 So it was, and all his fruit
soul, he entered his garden was destroyed. The vines had all
saying, ‘I do not think this will fallen down on their trellises,
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ever perish, and I do not believe and their owner wrung his hands,