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Whatever God grants to people of mercy - none can withhold it; and whatever He withholds - none can release it thereafter. And He is the Almighty, the Wise.
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O mankind, remember the favor of God upon you. Is there any creator other than God who provides for you from the heaven and earth? There is no god except Him, *Deuteronomy 4:35, *Deuteronomy 4:39, *1 Samuel 2:2, *2 Samuel 7:22, *1 Kings 8:60, *Isaiah 44:6, *Isaiah 44:8, *Isaiah 45:5 - 6, *Isaiah 45:21, *Mark 12:32 so how are you deluded?
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And if they deny you - messengers were already denied before you. And [all] matters are returned to God.
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O mankind, indeed the promise of God is truth, so do not let the worldly life delude you and do not be deceived by the Deceiver about God.
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Indeed, Satan is an enemy to you; so take him as an enemy. He only invites his party to be [with him] among the companions of the Blaze.
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Those who disbelieve will have a severe punishment, and those who believe and do righteous deeds will have forgiveness and great reward.
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Then is one to whom the evil of his deed has been made attractive so he considers it good [like one rightly guided]? For indeed, God sends astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. So do not let yourself perish over them in regret. Indeed, God is Knowing of what they do.
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And it is God who sends the winds, and they stir the clouds, and We drive them to a dead land and give life to the earth thereby after its lifelessness. Thus is the Resurrection.
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Whoever desires honor [through power] - then all honor [belongs] to God. Good speech ascends to Him, and righteous work raises it. But those who plot evil deeds will have a severe punishment, and the plotting of those will perish.
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And God created you from dust, *Genesis 2:7 then from a drop [of seed]; then He made you mates. And no female conceives nor does she give birth except with His knowledge. And no aged person is granted [additional] life nor is his lifespan lessened except that it is in a Book. Indeed, that is easy for God.
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And the two bodies of water are not alike. One is fresh and sweet, palatable for drinking, and one is salty and bitter. And you eat tender meat from each and extract ornaments which you wear, and you see the ships plowing through [them] so that you might seek of His bounty; and perhaps you will be grateful.
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He causes the night to enter the day, and He causes the day to enter the night and has subjected the sun and the moon - each flowing [its course] for a specified term. *Book of Enoch 82:8 That is God, your Lord; the kingdom [belongs] to Him. And those whom you invoke other than Him do not possess [as much as] the membrane of a date seed.
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If you invoke them, they do not hear your supplication; and if they heard, they would not respond to you. And on the Day of Resurrection, they will deny your association. And none can inform you like [One] Aware [of all matters].
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O mankind, you are those in need of God, while God is the Free of need, the Praiseworthy.
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If He wills, He can do away with you and bring forth a new creation.
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And that is not difficult for God.
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And no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another. And if a heavily laden soul calls [another] to [carry some of] its load, nothing of it will be carried, even if he should be a close relative. You can only warn those who fear their Lord unseen and have established prayer. And whoever purifies himself only purifies himself for [the benefit of] his soul. And the [final] destination is to God.
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The blind and the seeing are not equal,
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Nor are the darknesses and the light,
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Nor are the shade and the heat,
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And the living and the dead are not equal. Indeed, God causes whom He wills to hear, but you cannot make those in the graves hear.
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You are nothing but a warner.
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Indeed, We have sent you with the truth as a bringer of good news and a warner. And there was no nation except that a warner had passed within it.
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And if they deny you - then those before them have already denied. Their messengers came to them with clear proofs and Scriptures and with the enlightening Book.
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Then I seized the ones who disbelieved, and how [terrible] was My reproach.
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Do you not see that God sends down water from the heaven, and We produce fruits of varying colors thereby? And in the mountains are tracts, white and red of varying shades and [some] extremely black.
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And there are various colors similarly among people and moving creatures and grazing livestock. Only those who have knowledge from among His servants fear God. *Proverbs 1:7 Indeed, God is Almighty and Forgiving.
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Indeed, those who recite the Book of God and establish prayer and spend [in His cause] out of what We have provided them, secretly and publicly, [can] expect a profit that will never perish -
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So that He may give them their rewards in full and increase His bounty for them. Indeed, He is Forgiving and Appreciative.
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And that which We have revealed to you of the Book is the truth, confirming what was before it. Indeed, God is Aware and Seeing of His servants.
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Then We caused those We have chosen of Our servants to inherit the Book; and among them is he who wrongs himself, and among them is he who is moderate, and among them is he who is foremost in good deeds by permission of God. That is the great bounty.
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[There will be] Gardens of Eden [for them] which they will enter. They will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls, and their garments will be silk therein.
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And they will say, "Praise to God, who has removed [all] sorrow from us. *Revelation 21:4 Indeed, our Lord is Forgiving and Appreciative -
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He who has made the Home of Eternity lawful for us out of His bounty. No fatigue touches us in it, and no weariness touches us in it."
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And the Fire of Gehenna will be for those who disbelieve. [Death] is not decreed for them so they may die, nor will its torment be lightened for them. Thus do We recompense every ungrateful one.
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And they will cry out therein, "Our Lord, remove us; we will do righteousness - other than what we were doing!" *Book of Enoch 63:1, *Book of Enoch 63:5, *Shepherd of Hermas 17:5 But did We not grant you enough life to remember for whoever would remember therein, and the warner had come to you? So taste [the punishment], for there is no helper for the wrongdoers.
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Indeed, God is Knower of the unseen [aspects] of the heavens and earth. Indeed, He is Knowing of that within the hearts.
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It is He who has made you successors upon the earth. And whoever disbelieves - his disbelief will be upon himself. And the disbelief of the disbelievers does not increase them in [anything] except hatred with their Lord; and the disbelief of the disbelievers does not increase them in [anything] except loss.
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Say, "Have you seen your 'partners' whom you invoke besides God? Show Me what they have created from the earth, or do they have a partnership [with Him] in the heavens? Or have We given them a book so they are [standing] on evidence therefrom? [No], rather, the wrongdoers do not promise each other [anything] except delusion."
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Indeed, God holds the heavens and the earth, unless they should move. *1 Chronicles 16:30, *Psalms 93:1, *Psalms 96:10 And if they should move, no one could hold them [in place] after Him. Indeed, He is Forbearing and Forgiving.
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And they swore their strongest oaths by God that if a warner came to them, they would be more guided than [any] one of the [previous] nations. *Matthew 23:30 But when a warner came to them, it did not increase them in [anything] except aversion.
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[Due to] arrogance in the land and plotting of evil; but the evil plot does not encompass [anyone] except its own people. Then do they await [nothing] except the way of the former [peoples]? But you will never find any change in the way of God, and you will never find any alteration in the way of God.
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Have they not traveled through the land and observed how the end was for those before them? And they were greater than them in power. But God is not to be caused failure by anything in the heavens or on the earth. Indeed, He is Knowing and Powerful.