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And who, then, does more wrong than one who prevents God's name from being mentioned in God's places of prostration, and endeavors to dismantle them?

And when he turns his back, he endeavours on the earth to sow corruption in it, and to annihilate tilth and offspring.

He said: "Take, then, four birds, tame them to yourself, then place, on each mountain, a part of them, then call them: they will come to you at a run.

The only recompense of those who wage war against God and His messenger, and endeavour to sow corruption on the earth, is that they be massacred, or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides, or be exiled from the earth.

and they endeavour to sow corruption on the earth.

And whoever wants the last life and endeavours for it with the effort it deserves, while being a believer — those are the ones whose effort will be acknowledged.

Say: "Shall I inform you of those who are the greatest losers in their works — those whose effort has gone astray in the present life, while they think they are doing well?"

The Hour is indeed coming — I keep it almost hidden — so that every Self may be recompensed for what it has endeavoured.

He threw it down, and behold, it became a snake, moving swiftly.

And behold, their ropes and their staffs, through their illusion, appeared to him to be moving swiftly.

So whoever does sound deeds, being a believer, his effort will never be disowned —

And those who endeavoured against Our signs, seeking to thwart Us, those are the companions of the Blaze.

And a man came hurrying from the far end of the Capital.

And those who endeavoured against Our signs, seeking to thwart Us, those will have a punishment of painful defilement.

And those who endeavoured against Our signs, seeking to thwart Us, those will be brought into the punishment.

And a man came hurrying from the far end of the Capital.

And when he reached the age of endeavouring with him, he said: "O my little one, I see in a dream that I am slaughtering you; consider, then, what you think."

and that the human being will have nothing but what he has endeavoured,

and that his effort will soon be shown,

The Day you will see the believing men and believing women, their light hurrying before them and on their right.

O you who have believed! When the call is made for the Contact, on this day of reunion, hurry to the remembrance of God and forsake selling.

O you who have believed! Turn back to God with a sincere turning back. It may be that your Guardian will cover your misdeeds and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow, on the day when God will not disgrace the Informant nor those who believed with him; their light will hurry before them and on their right.

This has been for you a recompense, and your effort has been met with gratitude.

So he showed him the greatest sign; but he denied and disobeyed. Then he turned his back, endeavouring, and gathered, and called out, and said, "I am your master, the Most High." So God seized him with the exemplary deterrent of the last life and the first.

Then, when the great Cataclysm comes — the Day the human being will remember what he endeavoured, and the Blaze will be shown to whoever sees,

But as for him who came to you hurrying, and he dreads, from him you are distracted. By no means!

Some faces, that Day, will be in bliss, pleased with their effort, in a lofty garden, where no idle talk will be heard.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the night when it covers all! By the day when it unveils itself! By what created the male and the female! Your efforts are surely dispersed.