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XXXIX, 9-17.
THE CHAPTER OF THE TROOPS.
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If ye be thankless, yet is God independent of you. He is not pleased with ingratitude in His servants ; but if ye give thanks, He is pleased with that in you. But no burdened soul shall bear the burden of another; then unto your Lord is your return, and He will inform you of that which ye have done. [10] Verily, He knows the natures of men's breasts!
And when distress touches a man he calls his Lord, turning repentant to Him; then when He confers on him a favour from Himself he forgets what he had called upon Him for before, and makes peers for God to lead astray from His way! Say,
Enjoy thyself in thy misbelief a little, verily, thou art of the fellows of the Fire.'
Shall he who is devout throughout the night, adoring and standing, cautious concerning the hereafter, and hoping for the mercy of his Lord ...? Say, 'Shall those who know be deemed equal with those who know not? only those will remember, who are endowed with minds !"
Say, O my servants who believe! fear your Lord ! for those who do well in this world is good, and God's earth is spacious; verily, the patient shall be paid their hire without count !
Say, Verily, I am bidden to serve God, being sincere in religion to Him; and I am bidden that I be the first of those resigned."
(15) Say, "Verily, I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the torment of a mighty day. Say, 'God do I serve, being sincere in my religion to Him ; serve then what ye will beside Him!' Say, 'Verily, the losers are those who lose themselves and their families on the resurrection day. Aye, that is the obvious loss.'
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