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with their mothers, and then wish knows all that is in the heavens
to go back on what they have and on the earth? There is not a
said, must set free a slave before secret consultation between
the couple may touch one another three, but He makes the fourth
again. This is what you are among them—nor between five
exhorted to do. God is fully but He makes the sixth—nor
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aware of what you do, and anyone between fewer nor more, but He
who does not have the means is in their midst, wherever they
must fast for two consecutive may be: in the end He will tell
months before they touch each them the truth about their
other, and who is not able to do conduct, on the Day of
that must feed sixty needy people. Judgement. For God has full
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That is to affirm your faith in God knowledge of all things. Have
and His messenger. These are the you not seen how those who
limits set by God. Those who deny were forbidden to hold secret
the truth shall have a painful counsels yet revert to that which
punishment. they were forbidden to do? And
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Those who oppose God they conspire to indulge in
and His Messenger will be wrongdoing, aggressive behaviour
humiliated, as were their and disobedience to the Messenger.
predecessors. We have sent down When they come to you, they
clear revelations. A humiliating greet you, but not in the words
punishment awaits those who God would use, and inwardly
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deny the truth. On the day God they wonder, ‘Why does God
raises them all up from the dead, not punish us for what we say?’
He will make them understand Hell will be a fitting punishment
what they have done. God has for them: they will burn in its
taken everything into account, flames—a wretched fate!
even though they have forgotten, 9 Believers, when you confer
for God is a witness to all things. together in private, do not confer
7 Do you not see that God in support of sin and