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LVII, 7-13.
THE CHAPTER OF IRON.
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What ails you that ye do not believe in God and His Apostle ? He calls on you to believe in your Lord; and He has taken a compact from you, if ye be believers.
He it is who sends down upon His servants manifest signs, to bring you forth from the darkness into the light; for, verily, God to you is kind, compassionate!
[10] What ails you that ye give not alms in God's cause ? for God's is the inheritance of the heavens and the earth. Not alike amongst you is he who gives alms before the victory and fights,—they are grander in rank than those who give alms afterwards and fight. But to all does God promise good; and God of what ye do is well aware!
Who is there who will lend a good loan to God ? for He will double it for him, and for him is a generous reward.
On the day when thou shall see believers, men and women, with their light running on before them and on their right hand?,- Glad tidings for you today.-Gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; that is the grand bliss !
On the day when the hypocrites, men and women, shall say to those who believe,' Wait for us that we may kindle at your light.' It will be said, 'Get ye back, and beg a light.' And there shall be struck out between them a wall with a door ; within it shall be mercy, and outside before it torment. They shall cry out to them, 'We were not with you!' they shall say, 'Yea, but ye did tempt yourselves, and did wait, and did doubt; and your vain hopes beguiled you ; and the beguiler beguiled you about God.
I. e. guiding them to Paradise.
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