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Are we to turn on our heels after Allah has guided us, like him who,
being bewitched by devils, blunder aimlessly in the earth, although his
friends call him to the right path, shouting: “Come this way! ”? '
Say: 'The guidance of Allah is the only guidance. We are
commanded to surrender ourselves to the Lord of the Creation and to
pray, and fear Him. Before Himyou shall all be assembled.'
It was He who created the heavens and the earth in all truth. On the
day when He says: 'Be,' it shall be. His word is the truth. His shall be the
sovereignty on the day when the trumpet is sounded. He has
knowledge of the visible and the unseen. He alone is the Wise, the
Knowing.
And remember when Ibrahim said to his father Azar: 'Will you take
idols as your gods? Surely you and all your people are in palpable
error.'
Thus We showed Ibrahim the kingdom of the heavens and the earth,
so that hemight become a firmbeliever.
When night drew its shadow over him, he saw a star. 'That,' he said, 'is
surelymyGod.'
But when it set he said: 'I do not like toworship the setting ones.'
When he beheld the rising moon, he said: 'That is my God.' But when
it set, he said: 'IfAllah does not guideme, I shall surely go astray.'
Then, when he beheld the sun shining, he said: 'That must be my God:
it is larger (than the other two).'
But when it set, he said to his people: 'I am done with what you
associate with God. I will turn my face to Him who has created the
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