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before you, who have made of your religion a jest and a pastime, nor
the infidels. Have fear ofAllah, if you are true believers.When you call
to prayer, they treat it as a jest and a pastime. They do this because they
are devoid of understanding.
Say: 'People of the Book, do you hate us for any reason other than
that we believe in Allah and in what has been revealed to us and to
others before us, and that most of you are evil-doers?'
Say: 'Shall I tell you who will receive a worse reward from Allah?
Those on whomAllah has laid His curse and with whom He has been
angry, transforming them into apes and swine, and those who worship
the devil. Worse is the plight of these, and they have strayed farther
from the right path.'
When they came to you they said: 'We are believers.' Indeed, infidels
they came and infidels they departed. Allah knows best what they
conceal.
You see many of them vie with one another in sin and wickedness
and devour the unlawful. Evil is what they do.
Why do their rabbis and divines not forbid them to blaspheme or to
devour what is unlawful? Evil indeed are their doings.
The Jews say: 'Allah's hand is chained.' May their own hands be
chained! May they be cursed for what they say! By no means. His
hands are both outstretched: He bestows as He will.
That which Allah has revealed to you will surely increase the
wickedness and unbelief of many of them. We have stirred among
them enmity and hatred, which will endure till the Day of
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