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level above them. They will not ‘We hear and we obey,’ and
be able to hide anything ‘Listen to us and look at us with
from God. 43 Believers, do not favour,’ that would have been
approach your prayers when you better and more proper for them.
are drunk, until you understand God has rejected them for their
what you say, nor when you are defiance so that they shall not

in a state of impurity, —except believe, except a few of them.
when you are on a journey—till 47 O People of the Book,
you have bathed. And if you are believe in what We have sent
ill, or on a journey or have down, fulfilling [the predictions]
relieved yourselves or when you that is with you, before We
have consorted with women and destroy [your sense of] direction,
you cannot find any water, then so as to confound or reject you,
find some clean sand and wipe as We rejected those who broke
your face and your hands with it. the Sabbath: God’s command is
God is gracious and forgiving. always carried out. 48 God will
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Do you not know of those not forgive anyone for
who were in possession of a associating something with Him,
portion of the Book? They buy while He will forgive whoever
up error and want you to lose He wishes for anything besides
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your way. God is quite aware that. Whoever ascribes partners
as to who your enemies are; God to God is guilty of a monstrous
suffices as a patron, and God sin. 49 Have you not seen those
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suffices as a supporter. Some who consider themselves pure?
Jews take words out of their It is indeed God who purifies
context and say, ‘We have heard, whoever He pleases and none
but we disobey,’ or ‘Hear without shall be wronged by as much as
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listening.’ And they say ‘Look at a hair’s breadth. See how they
us,’ twisting the phrase with their attribute their own lying
tongues so as to disparage inventions to God. This is in
religion. But if they had said, itself a flagrant sin!