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will believe in you when some of days!’ Say [to them], ‘Have you
them have already heard the word received a promise from God—
of God and then, after having for God never breaks His
understood it, they knowingly promise—or do you attribute
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perverted it? When they meet something to God which you do
the faithful, they say, ‘We are not know?’ 81 Truly, those who
believers.’ But when alone, they do evil and are encompassed by
say to each other, ‘Must you tell their misdeeds, shall be the
them what God has revealed to inmates of the Fire. Therein they
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us? They will only use it to argue shall abide forever, but those
against you before your Lord! who believe and do good works
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Have you no sense?’ Do they are the heirs of Paradise; there
not know that God knows all they shall abide forever.
that they conceal and all that 83 Remember when We made a
they disclose? covenant with the Children of
78 There are among them Israel, ‘Worship none but God
unlettered people who have no and be good to your parents and
real knowledge of the Scriptures, to relatives and orphans and the
knowing only their own wishful needy. And speak kindly to
thinking and following only people. Attend to your prayers
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conjecture. Woe to those who and pay the zakat [prescribed
write the scripture with their alms].’ But with the exception of
own hands, and then declare, a few, you turned away [in
‘This is from God,’ in order to aversion] and paid no heed.
sell it for a paltry price. Woe to 84 When We made a covenant
them because of what their own with you, We said, ‘You shall not
hands have written, and woe to shed each other’s blood, nor turn
them for what they have earned. your people out of their homes.’
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They say, ‘The Fire is not You consented to this and bore
going to touch us, and [even if it witness. 85 Yet, here you are,
does], it will only be for a few slaying one another and driving