Rub El Hizb 176

God keeps the heavens and earth from vanishing; if they did vanish, no one else could stop them. God is most forbearing, most forgiving

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[The idolaters] swore their most solemn oath that, if someone came to warn them, they would be more rightly guided than any [other] community, but when someone did come they turned yet further away

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became more arrogant in the land, and intensified their plotting of evil- the plotting of evil only rebounds on those who plot. Do they expect anything but what happened to earlier people? You will never find any change in God’s practice; you will never find any deviation there

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Have they not travelled in the land and seen how those before them met their end, although they were superior to them in strength? God is not to be frustrated by anything in the heavens or on the earth: He is all knowing, all powerful

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If God were to punish people [at once] for the wrong they have done, there would not be a single creature left on the surface of the earth. He gives them respite for a stated time and, whenever their time comes, God has been watching His servants

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Ya Sin

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By the wise Quran

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you [Muhammad] are truly one of the mes-sengers sent

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on a straight path

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with a revelation from the Almighty, the Lord of Mercy

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to warn a people whose forefathers were not warned, and so they are unaware

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The verdict has been passed against most of them, for they refuse to believe

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[It is as if] We had placed [iron] collars around their necks, right up to their chins so that their heads are forced up

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and set barriers before and behind them, blocking their vision: they cannot see

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It is all the same to them whether you warn them or not: they will not believe

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You can warn only those who will follow the Quran and hold the Merciful One in awe, though they cannot see Him: give such people the glad news of forgiveness and a noble reward

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We shall certainly bring the dead back to life, and We record what they send ahead of them as well as what they leave behind: We keep an account of everything in a clear Record

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Give them the example of the people to whose town messengers came

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We sent two messengers but they rejected both. Then We reinforced them with a third

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They said, ‘Truly, we are messengers to you,’

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but they answered, ‘You are only men like ourselves. The Lord of Mercy has sent nothing; you are just lying.’ They said, ‘Our Lord knows that we have been sent to you

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Our duty is only to deliver the message to you,’

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but they answered, ‘We think you are an evil omen. If you do not stop, we shall stone you, and inflict a painful torment on you.’

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The messengers said, ‘The evil omen is within yourselves. Why do you take it as an evil omen when you are reminded of the Truth? You are going too far!’

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Then, from the furthest part of the city, a man came running. He said, ‘My people, follow the messengers

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Follow them: they are not asking you to reward them and they are rightly guided

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Why should I not worship the One who created me? It is to Him that you will be returned

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How could I take besides Him any other gods, whose intercession will not help me and who would not be able to save me if the Lord of Mercy wished to harm me

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Then I would clearly be in the wrong

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I believe in your Lord, so listen to me.’

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He was told, ‘Enter the Garden,’ so he said, ‘If only my people knew

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how my Lord has forgiven me and set me among the highly honoured.’

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