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(You are) like those before you. They were mightier than you, and
had greater riches and more children. Like them, you have enjoyed
your earthly lot and, like them, you have engaged in idle talk. But vain
were their works in this life, and vain they shall be in the life to come.
They shall assuredly be lost.
Have they not heard the story of those who have gone before them?
The fate of Nuh's people and of Thamoud andAad; of Ibrahim's people
and the people of Madian and the Ruined Cities? Their messengers
showed them clear signs. Allah did not wrong them, but they wronged
themselves.
The true believers, both men and women, are friends to each other.
They enjoin what is just and forbid what is evil; they attend to their
prayers and pay the alms-tax and obeyAllah and HisApostle. On these
Allahwill havemercy. He isMighty,Wise.
Allah has promised the men and women who believe in Him gardens
watered by running streams, in which they shall abide for ever. He has
promised them goodly mansions in the gardens of Eden. And what is
more, they shall have a greater favour fromAllah. That is the supreme
triumph.
O Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal
rigorouslywith them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate.
They swear by Allah that they said nothing. Yet they did utter the
word of unbelief and renounced Islam after embracing it. They sought
to do what they could not attain. Yet they had no reason to be spiteful;
except perhaps because Allah and His Apostle had enriched them
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THE QURAN