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                                  23  but these thoughts which you will be their everlasting home, a
                                  entertained concerning your reward for their rejection of Our
                                  Lord, have brought you to revelations.
                                  destruction, and [now] you are  29 Those  who deny the truth
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                                  among the utterly lost!’  Even will say, ‘Our Lord, show us
                                  if they are patient, the Fire will those jinn and men who misled
                                  still be their homes. And if they us and we shall trample them
                                  pray to be allowed to make underfoot, so that they may be
                                  amends, they will not be allowed among the lowest of the low.’
                                  to do so.                  30  As for those who affirm, ‘Our
                                    25  We assigned to them Lord is God,’ and then remain
                                  companions who made their steadfast, the angels will descend
                                  doings appear fair to them. But on them, saying, ‘Have no fear
                                  the same decree [of punishment] and do not grieve. Rejoice in the
                                  proved true against them, which [good news of the] Garden that
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                                  had proved true against nations you have been promised.  ‘We
                                  of jinn and mankind who passed are your companions in this life
                                  away before them. Surely they and in the Hereafter. Therein you
                                  were the losers.           shall have all that your souls
                                    26 Those who deny the truth desire, and therein you shall have
                                  say, ‘Do not listen to this Quran. all that you ask for  32  as a rich
                                  Drown it out with noise, so that provision from One who is ever
                                  you may gain the upper hand.’ forgiving and most merciful.’
                                  27  Therefore, We will most  33 Who speaks better than one
                                  certainly make those who are who calls to God and does good
                                  bent on denying the truth taste a works and says, ‘I am surely of
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                                  severe punishment and We will those who submit’?  Good and
                                  most certainly requite them evil deeds are not equal. Repel
                                  according to the worst of their evil with what is better; then you
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                                  deeds— that is the reward of will see that one who was once
                                  the enemies of God—the Fire your enemy has become your
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