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Fire and the fellows of Paradise : the fellows of Paradise they are the blissful !
Had we sent down this Qur'ân upon a mountain, thou wouldst have seen it humbling itself, splitting asunder from the fear of God! These parables do ve strike out for men ;' haply they may reflect!
He is God than whom there is no god; who knows the unseen and the visible ; He is the merciful, the compassionate! He is God than whom there is no god ; the King, the Holy, the Peace-Giver, the Faithful, the Protector, the Mighty, the Repairer, the Great !-celebrated be the praises of God above what they join with Him.
He is God, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner ; His are the excellent names?! His praises, whatever are in the heavens and the earth do celebrate; for God is the mighty, the wise !
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(LX. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
O ye who believe ! take not my enemy and your enemy for patrons, encountering them with love; for they misbelieve in the truth that is to come to you ; they drive out the Apostle and you for that ye believe in God your Lord?!
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