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THE QUR'ÂN.
LXIV, 1-9.
THE CHAPTER OF CHEATING.
(LXIV. Place of origin doubtful.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
What is in the heavens and what is in the earth celebrates God's praises; His is the kingdom, and His is the praise, and He is mighty over all !
He it is who created you, and of you is (one) a misbeliever and (one) a believer; and God on what ye do does look.
He created the heavens and the earth in truth; and has formed you and made excellent your forms; and unto Him the journey is !
He knows what is in the heavens and the earth, and knows what ye conceal and what ye display; for God knows the nature of men's breasts!
[5] Has there not come to you the story of those who misbelieved before, and tasted the evil result of their affair, and for them was grievous woe ?
That is because their apostles came to them with manifest signs, and they said, 'Shall mortals guide us ?' and they misbelieved and turned their backs. But God was independent of them; for God is rich and to be praised !
Those who misbelieve pretend that they shall surely not be raised : say, ' Yea! by my Lord ! ye shall surely be raised: then ye shall be informed of that which ye have done;' for that is easy unto God.
So believe in God and His Apostle and the light which we have sent down; for God of what ye do is well aware!
On the day when he shall gather you to the day
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