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steadfast and repel evil with reciting to them Our revelations.
good, and give alms out of what Nor did We destroy a town unless
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We have given them, and when their people became wrongdoers.
they hear vain talk, they turn 60 Whatever you are given in
away from it and say, ‘We have this life is nothing but a
our actions and you have yours. temporary provision of this life
We wish you peace. We will and its glitter; what God has is
have nothing to do with the better and more lasting. Will you
ignorant.’ 56 You cannot guide not then understand? 61 Can
whoever you please: it is God someone to whom We have made
who guides whom He will. He a gracious promise and who will
best knows those who would see it fulfilled, be compared to
accept guidance. someone We have allowed to
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They say, ‘If we were to enjoy a worldly life, awhile, and
follow your guidance, we should who will be brought up [before
be uprooted from our land.’ But God] for his accounting on the
have We not established for them Day of Resurrection?
a safe haven to which fruits of 62 On that Day He will call to
every kind are brought as a them, and say, ‘Where are those
provision from Ourself? But whom you claimed to be My
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most of them have no knowledge. partners?’ And those on whom
58 How many townships have sentence has been passed, will
We destroyed where the people say, ‘Our Lord, these are the
had become arrogant on account ones who led us astray. We led
of their affluence? Since then them astray as we ourselves were
their dwelling-places have led astray. We now dissociate
scarcely been inhabited—We ourselves from them before You;
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became their inheritors. Your it was not us that they
Lord would never destroy worshipped.’
a people until He had sent 64 Then they will be told, ‘Call
messengers to their capital cities, upon your partners.’ And they