Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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THE QUR'ÂN.
X, 25-33.
were mown down-as though it had not yesterday been rich !—Thus do we detail the signs unto a people who reflect.
God calls unto the abode of peace, and guides whom He will into the right path.
To those who do what is good, goodness and increase! nor shall blackness or abasement cover their faces! these are the fellows of Paradise, they shall dwell therein for aye.
But, as for those who have earned ill, the reward of evil is the like thereof; abasement shall cover them! they shall have none to defend them against God ;-as though their faces were veiled with the deep darkness of the night; these are the fellows of the Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye.
And on the day we gather them all together then we will say to those who associated other gods (with us), 'To your places, ye and your associates !' and we will part them; and their associates will say, 'It was not us ye worshipped.— [30] But God is witness enough between us and you, that we were heedless of your worshipping us. There shall every soul prove what it has sent on before; and they shall be returned unto God, their God, their true sovereign, and that which they devised shall stray away from them.
Say, 'Who provides you from the heaven and the earth? who has dominion over hearing and sight? and who brings forth the living from the dead, and brings forth the dead from the living ? and who governs the affair ?' And they will say, 'God. Say, • Do ye not then fear ?'.
That is God, your true Lord! and what is there
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