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THE QUR'ÂN.
XLV, 14-22.
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Whosoever acts aright it is for his own soul, and whosoever does evil it is against it; then unto your Lord shall ye be returned.
[15] And we did bring the children of Israel the Book and judgment and prophecy, and we provided them with good things, and preferred them above the worlds. And we brought them manifest proofs of the affair, and they disputed not until after knowledge had come to them, through mutual envy. Verily, thy Lord will decide between them on the resurrection day concerning that whereon they did dispute.
Then we did set theel over a law concerning the affair : follow it then, and follow not the lusts of those who do not know. Verily, they shall not avail thee against God at all; and, verily, the wrongdoers are patrons of each other, but God is the patron of those who fear.
This is an insight for men and a guidance and a mercy to a people who are sure.
[20] Do those who commit evil deeds count that we will make them like those who believe and work righteous deeds, equal in their life and their death ? -ill it is they judge.
And God created the heavens and the earth in truth; and every soul shall be recompensed for that which it has earned, and they shall not be wronged.
Hast thou considered him who takes his lusts for his god, and God leads him astray wittingly, and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart, and has placed upon his eyesight dimness ? who then shall guide him after God? Will they not then mind ?
1 Mohammed.
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