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Doom will ever come. Even if I returned to my Lord, I should surely
find a better place than this.'
His companion said, while he was conversing with him: 'Have you
no faith in Himwho created you from dust, then from a little germ, and
then fashioned you into a man?As for myself, Allah is my Lord. I will
associate none with Him. When you entered your garden, why did you
not say: “That which Allah has ordained must surely come to pass:
there is no strength save in Allah”? Though you see me poorer than
yourself and blessed with fewer children, yet my Lord may give me a
garden better than yours, and send down thunderbolts from heaven
upon your vineyard, turning it into a barren waste, or drain its water
deep into the earth so that you can find it nomore.'
And his fruits were destroyed, and he began to wring his hands with
grief at all that he had spent on them: for the vines had tumbled down
upon their trellises. 'Would that I have served no other gods besides my
Lord! ' he cried. He had none to help himbesidesAllah, nor was he able
to defend himself.
There protection comes only fromAllah, the true God. He is the best
to reward and the best in requiting.
Coin for them a simile about this life. It is like vegetation of the earth
that flourishes when watered by the rain, soon turning into stubble
which the wind scatters abroad.Allah has power over all things.
Wealth and children are the ornament of this life. But deeds of lasting
merit are better with your Lord in reward and hope.
And (remember) the day when We shall blot out the mountains and
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