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XLII, 15-22.
THE CHAPTER OF COUNSEL.
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before their Lord; and upon them shall be wrath, and for them shall be keen torment.
God it is who has sent down the Book with truth, and the balance?; and what shall make thee know whether haply the Hour be nigh? Those who believe not would hurry it on; and those who believe shrink with terror at it and know that it is true. Ay, verily, those who dispute concerning the Hour are in remote error!
God is kind to His servants; He provides whom He will, and He is the mighty, the glorious.
He who wishes for the tilth of the next world, we will increase for him the tilth ; and he who desires the tilth of this world, we will give him thereof: but in the next he shall have no portion.
[20] Have they associates who have enjoined any religion on them which God permits not ?-but were it not for the word of decision 2 it would have been decreed to them. Verily, the unjust,-for them is grievous woe. Thou shalt see the unjust shrink with terror from what they have gained as it falls upon them; and those who believe and do right, in meads of Paradise, they shall have what they please with their Lord ;—that is great grace!
That is what God gives glad tidings of to His servants who believe and do righteous acts.
Say, 'I do not ask for it a hire-only the love of my kinsfolk.' And he who gains a good action
faith, or after the Jews and Christians had assented to the teaching of Mohammed, for the commentaries are uncertain as to the exact meaning of the phrase. 1 1.e. the law contained in the Qur'ân.
I. e. were it not that God has promised that those things shall be decided at the day of judgment.
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