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                                  ceased to doubt the message he abode.  Whoever does evil will
                                  brought you. When he died, you be requited with evil; but
                                  said, “God will not send another whoever does good, whether
                                  messenger.’’’  In this way God male or female, and is a believer,
                                  leaves the transgressors and will enter the Garden; where
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                                  doubters to go astray— those they will be provided for without
                                  who dispute God’s revelations measure.  41  My people! How is it
                                  without any authority are doing that I call you to salvation, while
                                  something that is greatly you call me to the Fire?  42  You
                                  abhorrent to God and to the call upon me to deny God and to
                                  believers. That is how God seals serve other deities about which I
                                  up the heart of every arrogant have no knowledge, while I call
                                  oppressor.                 you to the Almighty, the Forgiver.
                                    36  Pharaoh said, ‘O Haman,  43  Surely that to which you call
                                  build for me a lofty building so me has no say in this world or in
                                  that I may gain access   37 to the the life to come, that our return

                                  heavens, so that I may look upon is to God alone, and that the
                                  the God of Moses: I am transgressors shall be the inmates
                                  convinced that he is a liar!’ That of the Fire.  44  Soon you will
                                  is how Pharaoh’s evil actions remember what I say to you! I
                                  were made to look fair in the shall entrust my affair to God,
                                  eyes of Pharoah, and he was for God is observant of all [His]
                                  turned away from the path [of servants.’
                                  truth]. Pharaoh’s scheming led  45 Thus, God delivered him
                                  to nothing but ruin.       from the evils which they plotted,
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                                      The believer said, ‘My and the companions of Pharaoh
                                  people, follow me! I will guide themselves were encompassed
                                  you to the right path.  39  O my by a dreadful scourge;  46  they
                                  people, the life of this world is will be brought before the Fire
                                  only a temporary provision; and morning and evening. On the
                                  the Hereafter is the permanent Day the Hour comes, [a voice
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