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Gabriel or Michael, (will surely find that) Allah is the enemy of the
unbelievers.
We have sent down to you clear revelations: none will deny them
except the evil-doers. What! Whenever they make a covenant, must
some of themcast it aside?Most of themdo not believe.
And now that an apostle has come to them from Allah confirming
their own Scriptures, some of those to whom the Scriptures were given
cast off the Book of Allah behind their backs, as though they know
nothing and accept what the devils tell of Sulayman's kingdom. Not
that Sulayman disbelieved: it is the devils who disbelieved. They teach
men witchcraft and that which was revealed to the angels Harut and
Marut in Babylon. Yet they never instruct any man without saying to
him beforehand: 'We have been sent to tempt you; do not disbelieve.'
From these two, they learn that by which they can create discord
between husband and wife, although they can harm none with what
they learn except by Allah's leave. They learn, indeed, what harms
them and does not profit them; yet they know full well that anyone who
chose it would have no share in the life to come. Vile is that for which
they have sold their souls, if they but knew it! Had they embraced the
Faith and kept from evil far better for them would His reward have
been, if they but knew it.
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Believers, do not say (to Our Apostle)
Ra'ina,
but say
Undhurna .
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1. These words mean 'Listen to us' and 'Look upon us' respectively; but in Hebrew
the sound of the first conveys the sense, 'Our evil one'. The Jews used the
expression as a derisive pun.
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