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public], so as to be recognized and path. Our Lord, give them double
not harmed. God is most forgiving punishment and curse them with a
and most merciful. 60 If the mighty curse.’
hypocrites and those who have 69 Believers, do not behave like
tainted hearts and the scandal those who slandered Moses. God
mongers of Madinah do not desist, cleared him of their allegations.
We shall surely give you authority He was honourable in the sight
over them and their days in that city of God. 70 Believers, fear God,
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will be numbered. 61 Accursed, and say the right word. He will
wherever they are found, they will bless your works for you and
a 62
be seized and killed. Such has forgive you your sins. Whoever
been God’s way with those who obeys God and His Messenger
have gone before them. You shall has indeed achieved a great
find no change in the ways of God. success.
63 People will ask you about 72 We offered the Trust to the
the Hour. Say, ‘God alone has heavens and the earth and the
knowledge of it. Who knows? mountains, but they refused to
The Hour may well be near at bear it, because they were afraid
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hand.’ God has rejected those of it. But man bore it: he surely
who deny the truth and prepared proved unjust and ignorant.
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for them a blazing Fire. There 73 God will punish the hypocrites,
they will live forever, and they both men and women, and
will find therein neither friend polytheists, both men and
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nor helper. On the Day when women, but God will turn in His
their faces are turned over in the mercy to believing men and
Fire, they shall say: ‘Oh, would believing women; God is most
that we had obeyed God, and forgiving and most merciful.
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obeyed the Messenger!’ They
shall say, ‘Our Lord, we paid
heed to our leaders and our elders, a See pages xiv to xvii of the
but they led us away from the right Introduction.