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that is better for you with your Giver of existence."

He said: "Would you take what is immediate in exchange for what is better?

And had they believed and guarded themselves, a requital from God would indeed have been better, had they known.

Those who disown, among the people of the Scripture, and the associators would not like any good to be sent down upon you from your Guardian;

Whatever sign We copy, or leave to be forgotten, We bring one better than it, or similar to it.

And whatever good you advance for yourselves, you will find it with God.

And each has a direction toward which he sets his course; race, then, in good deeds.

And whoever does good willingly — God is indeed Grateful, All-Knowing.

It is prescribed for you, when death presents itself to one of you, if he leaves some good,

And whoever does good willingly, it is better for him;

and that you abstain is better for you, if you knew.

And whatever good you do, God knows it.

for the best of provisions is guardedness.

Say: "Whatever good you spend belongs to the two parents, relatives, orphans, the destitute, and the stranded traveler."

And whatever good you do, God is indeed All-Knowing of it.

It may be that you dislike a thing, while it is a good for you;

And they ask you about orphans. Say: "Making their situation sound is a good;

and a believing obedient woman is indeed better than a woman who associates, even if she dazzles you.

and a believing obedient man is indeed better than a man who associates, even if he dazzles you.

A recognized saying and forgiveness are better than charity followed by nuisance.

and whoever receives wisdom has received an abundant good.

and if you hide them and give them to the poor, that is better for you, and it covers a part of your evil deeds.

And whatever good you spend, it is for yourselves.

And whatever good you spend, it will be faithfully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.

And whatever good you spend, God is indeed All-Knowing of it.

and that you remit it as charity is better for you, if you knew.

Say: "Shall I inform you of something better than that?

Say: "O God, Sovereign of dominion! You give dominion to whom You will, and You strip dominion from whom You will; You make mighty whom You will, and You humiliate whom You will; good is in Your hand.

The day when every Self will find present what it has done of good,

and God is the best of those who plot.

And let there be from among you a community that calls to good, orders what is recognized, and forbids what is disavowed.

You are the best community brought forth for mankind: you order what is recognized, you forbid what is disavowed, and you believe in God.

And had the people of the Scripture believed, it would have been better for them.

They believe in God and the Last Day, order what is recognized, forbid what is disavowed, and speed toward good deeds.

And whatever good they do, they will never have it disowned.

and He is the best of helpers.

And if you are killed in the way of God, or if you die, a forgiveness from God and a benevolence are indeed better than what they amass.

And let those who disown by no means think that the delay We grant them is a good for themselves:

And let those who are stingy with what God has given them of His favor by no means think that it is a good for them;

And what is with God is better for the virtuous.

If you dislike them, it may be that you dislike a thing in which God places much good.

but to be patient is better for you.

And had they said: "We have heard and deferred", and: "Listen", and: "Look at us", it would have been better for them, and more upright;

That is better, and of finer interpretation.

And had they done what they were exhorted to do, it would have been better for them, and would have made them firmer;

and the last life is better for whoever guards himself,

There is no good in most of their secret talks, except for one who orders an act of charity, or what is recognized, or a reconciliation between men.

And whatever good you do, God is indeed All-Knowing of it."

and reconciliation is better.

Whether you make a good appear, or hide it, or overlook an evil, God is indeed Ever-Overlooking, Capable.

O mankind! The messenger has indeed come to you with the truth, from your Guardian; believe, then, it is better for you.

Cease: that is better for you.

Race, then, in good deeds.

You are the best of providers."

and if He touches you with good, He is capable of all things.

and the last abode is indeed better for those who guard themselves.

and He is the best of those who separate."

On the day certain signs of your Guardian come, the faith of a Self will not benefit it, if it did not believe before, or acquired, in its faith, no good.

He said: "I am better than him: You created me from fire, and You created him from clay."

that is better.

That is better for you, if you are believers.

He is the best of judges.

You are the best of those who open."

And Moussa opted, from among his people, for seventy men, with a view to Our appointed time.

You are our protector; forgive us, then, and have benevolence on us; You are the best of those who forgive.

But the last abode is better for those who guard themselves.

And if I knew what escapes the senses, I would indeed have amassed abundant good things,

and if you cease, it will be better for you;

Had God known any good in them, He would certainly have made them hear;

and God is the best of those who plot.

O Informant! Say to those of the captives in your hands: "If God knows any good in your cores, He will give you better than what was taken from you, and He will forgive you."

So if you turn back, that is better for you;

That is better for you, if you knew.

Say: "An ear of good for you: he believes in God, gives credit to the believers, and is a benevolence for those among you who have believed."

If they turn back, it will be better for them;

and those are the ones to whom belongs the good,

Is, then, one whose structure has been founded upon guardedness toward God and His good pleasure better, or one whose structure has been founded on the edge of a ravine about to cave in, which then caves in with him into the fire of Jahannam?

If God hastened ill for men as they seek to hasten good, their term would already have been decided for them.

That is better than what they amass."

and if He wants good for you, none can turn back His favor.

He is the best of judges.

and I do not say, of those your eyes hold in contempt, that God will grant them no good:

I indeed see you in prosperity, and I fear for you the punishment of an encompassing day.

What remains with God is better for you, if you are believers;

O my two prison companions, are divided masters better, or God, the One, the Subjugator?

And the reward of the last life is indeed better for those who believe and guard themselves.

Do you not see that I give the measure faithfully and am the best of hosts?

God is the best preserver,

He is the best of judges.

And the abode of the last life is indeed better for those who guarded themselves:

And it is said to those who guarded themselves: "What has your Guardian sent down?" They say: "Something good."

but the abode of the last life is better,

And God multiplies an example: two men, one of whom is mute, possessing no power at all, an entire burden upon his nearest guarantor; wherever he sends him, he brings back no good — is that one the equal of one who commands justice and stands upon a straight path?

what is with God is better for you, if you knew.

but if you are patient, that is indeed better for those who are patient.

The human being calls for ill as he calls for good,

that is better, and of finer interpretation.

and said: "I do not presume this will ever perish, and I do not presume the Hour will rise; and even if I am brought back to my Guardian, I shall surely find something better than this garden as a return."

If you see me as having fewer goods and children than you, it may be that my Guardian will grant me better than your garden, and send upon it, from the sky, a reckoned plague, so that it becomes a slippery outcrop, or its water sinks away, so that you will never be able to seek it out."

He is best in requital and best in outcome.

and the enduring, sound deeds are, with your Guardian, better in requital and better in hope.

and we wanted their Guardian to give them in exchange one better than him in purity and closer in benevolence.

He said: "That in which my Guardian has established me is better;

And when Our clear signs are recited to them, those who disown say to those who believe: "Which of the two fractions has the better standing and the finer circle?"

And the enduring, sound deeds are, with your Guardian, better in requital and better in what they yield.

And I have opted for you: so listen to what is revealed. Indeed it is I, God — there is no deity but Me. Obey Me, then, and maintain the Contact for My remembrance.

And God is better and more lasting."

and the provision of your Guardian is better and more lasting.

and We test you with ill and with good, as a trial;

and We revealed to them to do good deeds, to maintain the Contact, and to give pure liberality;

And Zakariya, when he called out to his Guardian: "My Guardian, do not forsake me, alone, though You are the best of inheritors!"

they used to speed toward good deeds, and call upon Us in yearning and in reverence, and were humble before Us.

And among mankind is he who obeys God in a skewed manner: if good betides him, he is calmed by it, but if a trial strikes him, he turns back on his face — losing both the present life and the last life.

And whoever magnifies the inviolable things of God, it is better for him with his Guardian.

And the offering animals — We have made them for you among the perceptible markers of God; in them is good for you.

And God is surely the best of providers.

O you who have believed! Kneel, prostrate, obey your Guardian, and do good, perhaps you will succeed.

And say: My Guardian, cause me to land at a blessed place of welcome, for You are the best of hosts."

Do they think that, in granting them goods and sons, We speed toward them with the good?

Those who, dreading their Guardian, are apprehensive, and those who believe in the signs of their Guardian, and those who associate nothing with their Guardian, and those who give what they give, their core trembling because they are returning to their Guardian — those speed toward the good,

The tribute of your Guardian is better,

and He is the best of providers.

There was a fraction among My obedient ones who said: "Our Guardian, we believe; forgive us and have benevolence on us, for You are the best of those who show benevolence" — but you made them the object of your scoffing, until they made you forget My Reminder, and you used to laugh at them.

And say: "My Guardian, forgive and have benevolence, for You are the best of those who show benevolence."

no, it is a good for you.

If only, upon hearing it, the believing men and women had presumed good of themselves, and had said: "This is a manifest distortion!"

that is better for you, perhaps you will remember.

And those, among those bound by oath, who seek the written deed of marriage, draw up that deed with them if you know good in them,

but that they refrain is better for them.

Blessed is He who, if He willed, would make for you better than that: gardens beneath which rivers flow, and He would make for you palaces.

Say: "Is that better, or the garden of eternity promised to those who guard themselves?

The companions of the Garden, that day, will have a better haven and a more beautiful place of midday rest.

When he came to Sulayman, he said: "Do you wish to provide me with goods? What God has given me is better than what He has given you; it is you rather who rejoice in your gift.

Is God better, or what you associate?"

Whoever comes with good will have better than it, and those will be, that day, safe from fright.

He watered for them, then moved off to the shade and said: "My Guardian, I am indeed in great need of whatever good You would send down to me."

the best one you could hire is one who is strong and trustworthy."

what is with God is better and more lasting.

Your Guardian creates what He wills and opts;

the option does not belong to them.

But those to whom knowledge had been given said: "Woe to you! God's requital is better for one who believes and does a sound deed;

Whoever comes with good will have better than it;

that is better for you, if you knew.

that is better for those who want the direction of God,

Then, when the fear departs, they assail you with sharp tongues, greedy for any good.

And God turned back those who disowned, in their rage, without any good accruing to them;

And it is not for any believing man or believing woman, when God and His messenger have decided a matter, to have the option in their own affair.

and He is the best of providers."

and one who races ahead in good deeds, by God's permission.

Is that a better welcome, or the tree of Zaqqoum?

When there were displayed to him, in the evening, the standing, well-bred horses, he said: "I have indeed loved the love of the good more than the remembrance of my Guardian," until they were concealed behind the veil.

And they are surely, with Us, among the chosen, the best.

and each among the best.

He said: "I am better than him: You created me from fire, and You created him from clay."

Is one who is thrown into the Fire better, or one who comes secure on the Day of Appearance?

The human being does not tire of calling for good;

but what is with God is better and more lasting, for those who believe and entrust themselves to their Guardian;

and the benevolence of your Guardian is better than what they amass.

Or am I better than this one, who is contemptible and can hardly express himself clearly?

and they said: "Are our deities better, or is he?"

We opted for them, knowingly, above all beings, and We gave them, among the signs, that which held a manifest testing.

Are they better, or the people of Tubba'?

And those who disown say to those who believe: "If it were good, they would not have preceded us to it."

Then, when the decision is made, if only they had been veracious to God, it would have been better for them.

Had they been patient until you came out to them, it would have been better for them.

O you who have believed! Let not a people scoff at a people: it may be that they are better than them; nor let women scoff at women: it may be that they are better than them.

Cast into Jahannam, both of you, everyone who persistently disowns, obstructive of good, a crosser of limits, a sower of doubt, who set up, alongside God, another deity — cast him then into the severe punishment.

Are those of you who disown better than those, or do you have a quittance in the Formularies?

Therein are beings good and beautiful.

Around them will circulate children made eternal, with goblets, ewers, and a cup of spring water — from which they will neither ache nor be intoxicated — and savoury fruit they opt for, and the flesh of birds that they desire.

That is better for you, and cleaner.

O you who have believed! Shall I point you to a trade that will save you from a painful punishment? You believe in God and His messenger, and strive in the way of God with your goods and your Selves — that is better for you, if you knew. He will forgive you your offenses and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow, and wholesome dwellings in gardens of permanence.

That is better for you, if you knew.

Say: "What is with God is better than distraction and than trade."

And God is the best of providers.

So guard yourselves toward God as much as you are able, and listen, and defer, and spend — it will be good for yourselves.

It may be that his Guardian, if he repudiates you, will give him in exchange wives better than you: true to God alone, believing, devoted, repentant, obedient, free in their movement, previously married or virgins.

And do not defer to every contemptible oath-monger, stinging slanderer, spreader of slander, hinderer of good, crosser of limits, transgressor, coarse and, moreover, a social parasite — because he has goods and sons. When Our signs are recited to him, he says: "Legends of the ancients!"

They said: "Woe to us! We have indeed exceeded all measure. It may be that our Guardian will give us a better one in exchange; it is to our Guardian that we turn in yearning."

Or do you have a scripture in which you study, wherein you would surely find whatever you opt for?

The human being was indeed created anxious: when ill touches him, he panics; and when good touches him, he withholds it — except those who make contact, constant in their Contact,

No! I swear by the Guardian of the risings and the settings that surely We are able to replace them with better than them, and nothing can outrun Us.

And whatever good you advance for yourselves, you will find it with God, better and more immense in reward.

But you prefer the present life, while the last life is better and more lasting.

And the last will surely be better for you than the first.

The Night of Measure is better than a thousand months.

Those who have believed and done sound deeds, those are the best of those brought into existence.

So whoever does the weight of a grain of good will see it,

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By those that cross the limits, panting, that strike the spark through their clashes, that launch the assault at dawn, stirring up the dust, and plunging thereby into the heart of a host! The human being is surely, toward his Guardian, rebelliously ungrateful, and he is surely himself a witness to that, and for the love of the good he is surely vehement.