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38 So give the near relative, the the right religion, before that
needy, and the wayfarer their Day comes from God which
due—that is best for those who cannot be averted. On that Day,
seek God’s pleasure: such men mankind will be parted in two.
are the ones who will surely 44 Those who rejected the truth
prosper. 39 Whatever you lend will bear the burden of that
out in usury to gain in value rejection, and those who did
through other people’s wealth good deeds will have made good
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will not increase in God’s eyes, provision for themselves. For
but whatever you give in alms in then He will reward out of His
your desire for God’s pleasure bounty those who believe and do
will be multiplied. good deeds; He does not love
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God is He who created you, those who reject the truth.
then provides for you, then will 46 Among His signs is this: He
cause you to die and then bring sends out the winds bearing good
you back to life. Can any of your news so that He may make you
‘partners’ do any one of these taste His mercy, and ships sail at
things? Glory be to Him and His command, so that you may
exalted be He above anything seek His bounty, and be grateful.
they associate with Him! 47 Surely, We sent messengers
41 Corruption has appeared on before you to their own people,
land and sea because of the evil and they brought them clear
which men’s hands have done: signs. Then We took vengeance
and so He will make them taste on the guilty. It was certainly
the fruit of some of their doings, Our duty to help the believers.
so that they may turn back from 48 It is God who sends out the
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evil. Say, ‘Journey through the winds so that they raise the
land, and see how those before clouds. Then He spreads them in
you met their end—most of them, the sky as He wills and places
ascribed partners with God.’ them layer upon layer and you
43 [Prophet], set your face to see the rain issuing forth from