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THE QUR'ÂN.
LỢI, II-LXII, 2.
your persons; that is better for you if ye did but know !
He will pardon you your sins, and bring you into gardens beneath which rivers flow, and goodly dwellings in gardens of Eden ; — that is the mighty bliss!
And other things which ye love, - help from God and victory nigh! — so do thou give the glad tidings unto the believers !
O ye who believe ! be ye the helpers of God ! as Jesus son of Mary said to the apostles, 'Who are my helpers for God?' Said the apostles, 'We are God's helpers ?!'
And a party of the children of Israel believed, and a party misbelieved. And we aided those who believed against their enemies, and they were on the morrow superior!
THE CHAPTER OF THE CONGREGATION.
(LXII. Medinah.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
What is in the heavens and what is in the earth celebrates the praises of God the King, the holy, the mighty, the wise!
He it is who sent unto the Gentiles 3 a prophet amongst themselves to recite to them His signs and to purify them, and to teach them the Book and
1 Ansâr.
See Part I, p. 53 (Chapter III, verse 45). 3 See Introduction, p. xlvii, and Part I, p. 156, note.
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