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You cannot guide whom you please. it is Allah who guides whom
He will. He best knows those who yield to guidance.
They say: 'If we accept the guidance with you, we shall be driven
from our land.' But have We not given them a sanctuary of safety to
which fruits of every kind are brought as a provision from Ourself?
Indeed, most of themdo not know.
How many a nation have We destroyed that once flourished in
wanton ease! Its dwellings are but rarely inhabited; We were its only
heirs.
Nor did your Lord destroy the nations until He had sent apostles to
their capital cities proclaiming to them Our revelations. We do not
destroy towns except when their populations sin.
The things you have been given are but the conveniences and the
gaudy show of this present life. Better is Allah's reward and more
lasting. Have you no sense?
Can he who has received Our gracious promise, and will see It
fulfilled, be compared with him to whomWe have given the comforts
of this life andwhowill be summoned on the Day of Resurrection? '
On that day (Allah) will call to them, saying:' Where are those
whomyou alleged to beMy partners? '
Those who have justly earned Our doom will say: 'Lord, these are
the men whom we misled. We led them astray as we ourselves went
astray. We plead innocent before You; it was not us that they
worshipped.'
It will be said to them:' Call on your partners!' And they will call on
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