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Indeed, those who have believed, those who have emigrated and have striven in the way of God — those are the ones who hope for the benevolence of God.

If you suffer, they indeed suffer as you suffer; but you hope from God what they do not hope.

They said: "Put him off, him and his brother, and send into the capitals gatherers, who will bring you every knowledgeable worker of illusion."

And others are left pending God's command: either He will punish them, or He will turn toward them with clemency.

Indeed, those who do not hope for Our meeting, who were content with the present life and were calmed by it, and those who are heedless of Our signs — those are the ones whose resort will be the Fire, for what they used to earn.

So We forsake those who do not hope for Our meeting in their immoderation, where they go about blindly.

And when Our signs are recited to them, wholly explicit, those who do not hope for Our meeting say: "Bring a Recitation other than this one, or change it."

They said: "O Salih, you were among us a hope before this; do you forbid us to obey what our ancestors obeyed? We are surely in a troubling doubt about what you call us to."

And if you must turn away from them, seeking a benevolence from your Guardian that you hope for, then speak to them an easy saying.

Those very ones they invoke seek, toward their Guardian, the means of nearness — whichever of them is nearest — and hope for His benevolence and fear His punishment,

So whoever hopes for the meeting with his Guardian, let him do a sound deed and associate no one in obedience to his Guardian."

And the elderly women, among women, who no longer hope for marriage, no blame upon them for laying aside their clothes, without ostentatiously displaying what, in them, arouses desire;

And those who do not hope for Our meeting say: "Why are the Agents not sent down to us, or why do we not see our Guardian!"

But they did not hope for any Deployment.

They said: "Put him off, him and his brother, and raise up gatherers into the capitals, who will bring you every great, knowing worker of illusion."

You were not hoping that the Scripture would be addressed to you; it is only by benevolence from your Guardian —

Whoever hopes for the meeting with God — the term set by God will surely come;

And to Madyan, their brother Shu'ayb; he said: "O my people! Obey God, hope for the Last Day, and do not spread disorder on the earth as corrupters."

You have certainly had, in the messenger of God, a fine paragon for whoever hopes for God and the Last Day, and remembers God much.

You may postpone whom you will of them, and take to yourself whom you will;

Those who recite the Scripture of God, maintain the Contact, and spend, secretly and openly, from what We have provided them, hope for a trade that will never be blighted, so that He may faithfully repay them their rewards and give them more of His favor.

He who is devoted through the hours of the night, prostrating and standing, wary of the last life and hoping for the benevolence of his Guardian —

Tell those who believe to forgive those who do not hope for the days of God, so that He may recompense a people for what they used to earn.

You have indeed had in them a fine paragon, for whoever hopes for God and the Last Day.

When the Horn is blown with a single blast, and the earth and the mountains are carried and flattened with a single blow, on that day the Event will occur, and the heaven will split apart and be, on that day, frail, with the Agent at its edges,

What is with you, that you do not hope from God for gravity, when He has created you in successive stages?

They did not hope for any reckoning, and they denied Our signs with emphatic denial.