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THE QUR'ÂN.
LVII, 14-21.
Wherefore to-day there shall not be taken from you a ransom, nor from those who misbelieved. Your resort is the fire; it is your sovereign, and an ill journey will it be!'
[15] Is the time come to those who believe, for their hearts to be humbled at the remembrance of God, and of what He has sent down in truth ? and for them not to be like those who were given the Scriptures before, and over whom time was prolonged, but their hearts grew hard, and many of them were workers of abomination ?
Know that God quickens the earth after its death !-we have manifested to you the signs; haply ye may have some sense!
Verily, those who give in charity, men and women, who have lent to God a goodly loan, - it shall be doubled for them, and for them is a generous hire.
And those who believe in God and His Apostle, they are the confessors and the martyrs with their Lord; for them is their hire and their light! But those who misbelieve and call our signs lies, they are the fellows of hell!
Know that the life of this world is but a sport, and a play, and an adornment, and something to boast of amongst yourselves; and the multiplying of children is like a rain-growth, its vegetation pleases the misbelievers; then they wither away, and thou mayest see them become yellow; then they become but grit.
But in the hereafter is a severe woe, [20] and forgiveness from God and His goodwill; but the life of this world is but a chattel of guile.
Race towards forgiveness from your Lord and
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