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Israel testifies to its similarity to thirty months. At length, when
earlier scripture and believes in he reaches the age of full maturity
it, and yet you are too arrogant to and attains forty years, he says,
do the same? God certainly does ‘O my Lord! Help me to be
not guide evil-doers.’ grateful for Your favours which
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Those who deny the truth You have bestowed upon me,
say of the believers, ‘If there and upon both my parents, and
were any good in this Quran, to do good deeds that will please
they would not have believed in You. Grant me righteousness in
it before we did.’ And since they my offspring. Truly, I have turned
refuse to be guided by it, they say, to You and, truly, I submit to
‘This is an ancient fabrication.’ You.’ 16 We accept from such
12 Yet the scripture of Moses people the best of what they do
was revealed before it as a guide and We overlook their bad deeds.
and a blessing; and this is a Book They will be among the people
in the Arabic language, fulfilling of Paradise—this is a true
[previous prophecies], to promise that has been given to
forewarn those who do evil and them.
to bring good news to those who 17 But he who says to his
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do good. Surely those who say, parents, ‘Shame upon you! Do
‘Our Lord is God,’ and remain you threaten me with being taken
firm [on that path] shall feel no out of the grave after death while
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fear, nor shall they grieve: it is many a generation has passed
they who are the people of Paradise, away before me and none has
they shall abide therein as a reward risen from among them?’ The
for all that they have done. parents both cry for God’s help
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We have enjoined on man and say to him, ‘Believe! Alas
kindness to his parents: his for you! God’s promise is true.’
mother bore him, in pain and in But he says, ‘These are nothing
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pain she gave birth to him, and but ancient fables.’ It is against
his bearing and weaning takes such as these that the word of