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This Scripture is from God, the Mighty, the Wise.
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We have sent down to you the Scripture in Truth, so worship God with sincere devotion.
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Is not sincere devotion due to God? But those who seek other protectors, say: “We worship them only to let them bring us closer to God!” Verily, God will judge their differences, God will not guide the liars and the renegades.
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Had God wished a son for Himself, He would have surely chosen the one He wanted from among those He had created. Glory to Him! He is God, the One, the Victorious.
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He has created the Heavens and the earth in Truth. He wraps the night around the day and the day around the night. He has subjected to Himself the sun and the moon, and they both complete their course in a definite time. Is He not the Mighty, the Forgiving?
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He has created you from one soul, and from her He drew out her mate. He has sent down to you eight heads of cattle in pairs. He has created you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation in three layers of darkness. Such is God, your Lord, the Sovereign of the Kingdom. There is no god but Him — then, why are you turning away?
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If you disbelieve, then, verily, God does not need you! He does not approve of disbelief among His servants, but He does accept your gratitude. No one carrying a burden should carry someone else’s burden. At the end you shall return to your Lord and He will tell you the truth about your deeds. Verily, He knows what is in the hearts!
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When harm touches a man, he calls to his Lord in repentance. But as soon as [God] grants him His favor, he forgets that he used to pray to Him and sets up rivals to God, leading [others] away from His path. Say: “Enjoy your disbelief a little longer: verily, you’ll be dwelling in the Fire!”
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But not the one who worships in the hours of the night, prostrating himself or standing up, who cares about the Hereafter and hopes for the mercy of his Lord. Say: “Do those who know resemble those who do not know?” This is a Reminder for those who understand!
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Say: “O believing servants, fear your Lord! Goodness is due to those who do goodness in this world. Wide is the land of God, but only those who persevere shall receive a reward without measure!”
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Say: “I’m ordered to worship God with sincere devotion.
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I’m ordered to be the first among Muslims!”
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Say: “If I disobeyed my Lord, I’d fear the punishment of the great Day!”
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Say: “I worship God with sincere devotion,
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but you may worship whatever you wish besides Him.” Say: “Verily, on Judgment Day the losers will be those who lose their souls and their kin — that will be a great loss!”
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There will be layers of Fire above and beneath them. This is how God warns His servants: — O My servants! Fear Me!
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There will be good news for those who spurn the idols, and turn to God instead of worshiping them. So announce the good news to My servants —
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to those who listen to the Word and follow the best of it, to those whom God has guided and who can understand.
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Can you save someone who has been sentenced to punishment and is already in the Fire?
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But for those who are fearful of their Lord, there are mansions built upon mansions with rivers flowing underneath. Such is God’s promise to them, and God does not break His promises!
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Do you not see how God sends water down from the sky and makes it reappear from under the soil in springs, how He produces with its help crops of different colors which wither and turn yellow before your eyes, and which He finally turns to dry stubble. Verily, there is a Reminder in this for those who understand!
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The one whose heart God has opened to Islam receives the Light of his Lord. But woe to those, whose hearts are hardened against the remembrance of God — they are in deep error!
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God has sent down this Scripture as the best narrative made of similar and repeated parts. It makes the skin of the God-fearing creep! But at the remembrance of God, their skins and their hearts relax. Such is God’s way and He leads on it anyone He wills. But the one God allows to go astray will be left without a guide.
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[Woe to] the one who on Resurrection Day will meet the evil punishment face to face! The wrong-doers will be told: — Have a taste of what you have deserved!
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Indeed, others before them had disbelieved, and punishment came upon them from whence they least expected.
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God lets them taste humiliation in this life, but harsher will be the punishment in the Hereafter, if they [only] knew!
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We bring up in this Koran all kinds of analogies for the people — perhaps they will remember.
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[This is] an Arabic Koran with no crookedness in it — perhaps they will fear God!
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God gives the example of two men: one has several masters who contend with each other, and the other has only one master. Are they equal in this example? Thank God, no! But most of them do not know [it].
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— [O Muhammad!] Truly, you will die, and truly, they will die.
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