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And let not the animosity of a people, for having barred you from the inviolable place of prostration, drive you to aggression.

and let not the animosity of a people drive you to not be just.

Thus do We detail the signs, so that the way of the severed may become clear.

And thus have We placed, in every city, the greatest of its severed, so that they might plot there;

A diminishment before God, and a severe punishment, will strike those who cut themselves off, for having plotted.

and His rigor will not be turned away from the severed people."

Thus do We recompense the severed.

So look at what was the end of the severed.

We then sent upon them the flood, the locusts, the lice, the frogs, and the blood, detailed signs; but they grew proud and were a severed people.

But God wanted, by His words, to make the truth prevail and to cut off, to the last remnant, those who disown, so as to make the truth prevail and to render falsehood vain, however much the severed detest it.

If it is overlooked for one group among you, another group will be punished, for having been severed.

Thus do We recompense the severed people.

The severed indeed do not succeed.

Say: "Do you see? If His punishment came upon you by night or by day, what is it the severed would want to hasten?

Then, after them, We raised up Moussa and Harun to Fir'awn and his court, with Our signs; but they grew proud and were a severed people.

And God makes the truth prevail by His words, however much the severed detest it.

Inevitably, in the last life, they are the greatest losers.

Say: "If I have invented it, then my own severance is upon me, and I am quit of your severance."

O my people, ask forgiveness of your Guardian, then turn back to Him: He will send upon you the sky in copious streams, and add strength to your strength; and do not turn your backs as severed."

O my people, let not your rupture with me cause what struck the people of Nuh, or the people of Hud, or the people of Salih, to strike you;

And those who did wrong followed the affluence they were given, and became severed.

and Our rigor is not turned away from the severed people.

And you will see the severed, that Day, bound together in fetters, their tunics of tar, and the Fire covering their faces, so that God may recompense every Self according to what it earned:

Thus We insert it into the cores of the severed: they do not believe in it, though the norm of the ancients has already passed.

They said: "We are sent to a severed people, except the clan of Lut.

Inevitably, God knows what they keep secret and what they disclose:

inevitably, to them belongs the Fire, and they will be sent forth into it first.

Inevitably, in the last life, they are the losers.

And the register will be set down, and you will see the severed apprehensive of what is in it,

And the severed will see the Fire and presume that they are about to plunge into it, finding no way to turn away from it.

The Day We gather those who guarded themselves to the All-Benevolent, as a delegation, and drive the severed to Jahannam, to arrive there.

Indeed, whoever comes to his Guardian severed, for him is Jahannam, wherein he neither dies nor lives.

The day the Horn is blown, We shall gather the severed, that day, livid, talking among themselves in undertones: "You remained no more than ten."

The day they see the Agents, there will be, on that day, no good tidings for the severed,

Thus have We assigned to every informant an enemy from among the severed.

And it was only the severed who led us astray.

Thus We have inserted it into the cores of the severed; they will not believe in it until they see the painful punishment, which will come to them unexpectedly, without their sensing it, and they will say then: "Will we be granted a delay?"

Say: "Travel the earth, and see what was the end of the severed."

He said: "My Guardian, by the blessing You have granted me, I will never again be a support for the severed."

And the severed will not be questioned about their offenses.

And on the day the Hour rises, the severed will be plunged into despair, and they will have, among their associates, no intercessors; and even their own associates, they will disown.

And We certainly sent, before you, messengers to their people; they came to them with clear proofs, and We took vengeance upon those who cut themselves off;

And on the day the Hour rises, the severed will swear they remained but an hour;

And if you could see when the severed have their heads bowed before their Guardian: "Our Guardian, we have seen clearly and heard, so return us; we will do sound deeds — we are now indeed certain."

We will indeed take vengeance upon the severed.

Say: "You will not be questioned about our severance, nor will we be questioned about what you do."

Those who grew proud will say to those who were deemed weak, "Was it we who barred you from guidance after it had come to you? No — you were rather severed."

"And stand apart today, O severed!

Thus do We deal with the severed.

inevitably, what you call me to has no call in the present life or in the last life; it is to God that we will be brought back, and the excessive ones are the companions of the Fire.

The severed will indeed abide eternally in the punishment of Jahannam,

So he called upon his Guardian: "These are a severed people."

They were indeed severed.

And as for those who disowned: "Were not My signs recited to you? But you grew proud and were a severed people."

Thus do We recompense the severed people.

They said: "We have been sent to a severed people, to send upon them stones of clay, marked with your Guardian for the excessive."

The severed are indeed in error and madness, the Day they are dragged into the Fire upon their faces: "Taste the touch of Saqar."

The severed will be recognized by their marks, and they will be seized by their forelocks and their feet.

This is Jahannam, which the severed used to deny; they will circulate between it and boiling water at its peak.

Shall We then treat those true to God alone like the severed?

The severed one would like to ransom himself from the punishment of that Day with his sons, his consort, his brother, the line that took him in, and everyone on earth, if that would then save him. By no means!

in gardens, they will ask one another about the severed: "What has led you into Saqar?"

Thus do We deal with the severed.

"Eat and enjoy yourselves a little; indeed, you are severed."

Those who cut themselves off used to laugh at those who believed, and when they passed by them, they winked at one another, and when they returned to their people, they returned delighting, and when they saw them, they said, "These are surely astray" — while they had not been sent as preservers over them.