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31. LUQMAN (LUQMAN)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
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Alif Lam Mim works shall enter gardens of bliss,
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wherein they will abide forever.
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These are the verses of the That is Gods true promise; He is
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Book of wisdom, a guide and a the Mighty, the Wise One.
mercy for those who do good, 10 He has created the skies
4 for those who attend to their without any support that you
prayers and pay the zakat and could see, and has placed firm
who have firm faith in the mountains upon the earth, lest it
Hereafter: 5 these are rightly sway with you, and has caused
guided by their Lord: and these all manner of living creatures to
are the ones who will prosper. multiply thereon. And We sent
6 But among men there are down water from the skies, and
some who spend their time in thus We made every kind of
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idle diversions only to lead excellent plant grow there: this
people astray from the path of is Gods creation. Show me then
God, and without knowledge, what those besides Him have
hold it up to ridicule: for created! The wrongdoers are in
such there is a humiliating manifest error.
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punishment in store. Whenever 12 We bestowed wisdom on
Our messages are conveyed to Luqman, saying, Be grateful to
such a person, he turns away in God: he who is grateful, is
his arrogance, as though he had grateful only for the good of his
not heard themas though his own soul. But if anyone is
ears were sealed: give him, then, ungrateful, then surely God is
the tidings of grievous suffering self-sufficient and praiseworthy.
[in the life to come]. 8 Surely, 13 Luqman said to his son,
those who believe and do good counselling him, My son, do
