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10 May the conjecturers perish, ‘Peace!’ [saying to himself].
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11 who flounder in the depths of ‘They are strangers.’ Then he
ignorance. 12 They ask, ‘When turned quickly to his household,
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will the Day of Judgement and brought a fatted calf, and
come?’ 13 It will be the Day placed it before them. ‘Will you
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when they are tormented at the not eat?’ he said, beginning to
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Fire. ‘Taste your trial. This is be afraid of them. But they said,
what you sought to hasten.’ ‘Don’t be afraid’; and they gave
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Surely the God-fearing will him the good news of a son who
find themselves in the midst of would be endowed with
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gardens and springs. They shall knowledge. Then his wife came
receive what their Lord will forward, crying and beating her
bestow on them. They have done brow. She said, ‘I am surely a
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good works in the past, sleeping barren, old woman.’ 30 ‘Such is
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little in the night-time, praying the will of your Lord,’ they replied.
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at dawn for God’s pardon, and ‘He is the Wise, the All Knowing.’
sharing their possessions with the 31 Abraham asked, ‘What is
beggars and the deprived. your errand, O messengers?’
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On the earth, and in They replied, ‘We have been
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yourselves, there are signs for sent to a sinful people, so that
firm believers. Do you not see we may bring down upon them a
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then? 22 In heaven is your shower of stones of clay, which
sustenance, and also that which are marked by your Lord for the
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you are promised. By the Lord punishment of those guilty of
of the heaven and the earth, it is excesses.’ 35 We saved all the
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certainly the truth. It is as true as faithful in the town. We found
your ability to speak. in it only one household of true
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24 Have you heard the story of believers— and We left therein
Abraham’s honoured guests? a sign for those who fear a
25 When they came to him they painful punishment.
said, ‘Peace!’ He answered, 38 There is another sign in