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and the witnesses in the sight of the earth or your own selves
their Lord. They shall have their without its first having been
reward and their light. But those recorded in a book, before We
who are bent on denying the bring it into being. That is easy
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truth and reject Our signs shall for God to do; so that you may
be destined for Hell. not grieve for what has escaped
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Never forget that the life of you, nor be exultant over what
this world is only a game and a you have gained. God loves
passing delight, a show, and neither the conceited nor the
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mutual boasting and trying to boastful, nor those who, being
outrival each other in riches and miserly themselves, urge others
children. It is like the growth of to be miserly. He who turns his
vegetation after the rain, which back should remember that God
delights the planter, but which alone is self-sufficient and
then withers away, turns yellow worthy of all praise.
and becomes worthless stubble. 25 We sent Our messengers
In the life to come there will be with evidence and, with them,
a terrible punishment, or God’s We sent down the Book and the
forgiveness and approval: the Scales of Justice, so that men
life of this world is nothing but might act in all fairness. We sent
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means of deception. Vie with down iron with its great inherent
one another for your Lord’s strength and its many benefits
forgiveness and for a Paradise as for mankind, so that God might
vast as heaven and earth, which know who would stand up for
has been made ready for those God, though unseen, and His
who believe in God and His messengers. God is powerful,
messengers. Such is God’s grace. and almighty.
He bestows it upon whoever He 26 We sent forth Noah and
pleases. There is no limit to Abraham and bestowed upon
God’s bounty. their offspring prophethood and
22 No misfortune can affect the Book. Some of them were