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the penalty of your misdeeds.'
The gates of heaven shall not be opened for those that have denied
and scorned Our revelations; nor shall they enter Paradise until a camel
shall pass through the eye of a needle. Thus shall the guilty be
rewarded.
Hell shall be their couch, and sheets of fire shall cover them. Thus
shall the wicked be rewarded.
As for those that have faith and do good works-We never charge a
soul with more than it can bear-they are the people of Paradise, and
there they shall abide for ever.
We shall take away all hatred from their hearts. Rivers shall roll at
their feet, and they shall say: 'Praise be to Allah who has guided us
hither. Had Allah not given us guidance we should have strayed from
the right path. The messengers of our Lord have surely preached the
truth.' And a voice will cry out to them, saying: 'This is the Paradise
which you have inheritedwith your labours.'
Then the people of Paradise will cry out to the people of the Fire:
'What our Lord promised we have found to be true. Have you, too,
found the promise of your Lord to be true?'
'Yes,' they shall answer, and a herald will cry out among them: 'Cursed
are the evil-doers who have debarred others from the path of Allah and
sought tomake it crooked, andwho had no faith in the life to come.'
And between them is a veil, and on the Heights there shall stand men
who will know every one of them by his marks. To the people of
Paradise they shall say: 'Peace be upon you!' But they shall not yet join
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