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THE QUR'ÂN.
XLVII, 11-18.
seen how was the end of those before them? God destroyed them; and for the misbelievers is the like thereof.
That is because God is the patron of those who believe, and because the misbelievers have no patron.
Verily, God causes those who believe and do right to enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow; but those who misbelieve enjoy themselves and eat as the cattle eat; but the fire is the resort for them!
How many a city, stronger than thy city which has driven thee out, have we destroyed, and there was none to help them!
[15] Is he who rests upon a manifest sign from his Lord like him, the evil of whose works is made seemly to him, and who follow their lusts ?
The similitude of Paradise which is promised to the pious,-in it are rivers of water without corruption, and rivers of milk, the taste whereof changes not, and rivers of wine delicious to those who drink; and rivers of honey clarified; and there shall they have all kinds of fruit and forgiveness from their Lord! (Is that) like him who dwells in the fire for aye? and who are given to drink boiling water that shall rend their bowels asunder ?
Some of them there are who listen to thee, until when they go forth from thee they say to those who have been given the knowledge”, “What is this which he says now?' These are those on whose hearts God has set a stamp and who follow their lusts.
* To the more learned amongst the prophet's companions, such as Ibn 'Abbâs.
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