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tall mansions, built up storey upon whoever He will; but no
upon storey, beneath which there one can guide those whom God
will be rivers flowing. This is leaves to stray.
God’s promise: God never fails 24 What about the one who
in His promise. will have only his bare face to
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Have you not seen that God protect him from his terrible
sends down water from the sky, punishment on the Day of
guides it to form springs in the Resurrection? The evil-doers will
earth, and then, with it, brings be told, ‘Taste what you have
forth vegetation of various earned.’ 25 Those before them
colours, which later withers, also denied the truth, and the
turns yellow before your eyes, punishment fell on them from
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and then He makes it crumble where they did not expect. God
away? There is truly a reminder gave them a taste of humiliation
in this for those who possess in the life of this world, but the
understanding. a 22 Anyone punishment of the Hereafter is
whose heart God has opened up greater, if they only knew it.
to Islam possesses a light from 27 We have set forth to men all
his Lord. But woe betide those
whose hearts have been hardened
a The wonderful system of rains on
against the rememberance of
the earth, the resulting growth of
God! Such people are in obvious
greenery and the preparations for
error. harvesting, all these events have
23 God has sent down the best countless meaningful lessons in them.
Message: a Scripture that is But, these lessons are available only to
consimilar and oft-repeated: that those who by nature go deep into
causes the skins of those in awe things. Those who keep their natural
capabilities alive and by utilising them
of their Lord to creep. Then their
give deep consideration to the things
skins and their hearts soften at of the world, will have their minds
the mention of God: such is filled with the deep realisation
God’s guidance. He bestows it (ma‘rifah) of God.