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XLIX, 14-L, 4.
THE CHAPTER OF Q.
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The desert Arabs say, “We believe.' Say, 'Ye do not believe; but say, “We have become Muslims;" for the faith has not entered into your hearts : but if ye obey God and His Apostle He will not defraud you of your works at all: verily, God is forgiving, compassionate!'
[15] The believers are only those who believe in God and His Apostle, and then doubt not, but fight strenuously with their wealth and persons in God's cause—these are the truth-tellers!
Say, “Will ye teach God your religion ?' when God knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and God all things doth know!
They deem that they oblige thee by becoming Muslims. Say, 'Nay! deem not that ye oblige me by your becoming Muslims! God obliges you, by directing you to the faith, if ye do speak the truth!'
Verily, God knows the unseen things of the heavens and the earth, and God on what ye do doth look.
THE CHAPTER OF Q.
(L. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Q. By the glorious Qur'ân! nay, they wonder that there has come to them a warner from amongst themselves; and the misbelievers say, 'This is a wondrous thing! What, when we are dead and have become dust?—that is a remote return!'
We well know what the earth consumes of them, for with us is a book that keeps (account).
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