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And whoever substitutes disowning for faith has indeed strayed from the straight way.

If they believe in what you have believed in, they then let themselves be guided;

And whoever does that has wronged himself.

Whoever disowns the Overreacher and believes in God has held firmly to the surest handhold, which never breaks.

and whoever receives wisdom has received an abundant good.

If they become so, they then let themselves be guided;

And whoever holds firmly to God is already guided to a straight path.

If a wound touches you, a similar wound has already touched that people.

You indeed wished for death before meeting it; you have now seen it, and you were looking on.

If they deny you, messengers have already been denied before you, who had come with clear proofs, the Formularies, and the illuminating Scripture.

Whoever is pulled away from the Fire and admitted into the Garden has thus triumphed.

Our Guardian, whoever You admit into the Fire, You have indeed covered him with disgrace,

And whoever associates with God invents an immense transgression.

We have indeed given the clan of Ibrahim the Scripture and the wisdom, and We gave them an immense dominion.

Whoever defers to the messenger indeed defers to God,

And whoever leaves his house, emigrating toward God and His messenger, and is then overtaken by death, his reward is henceforth incumbent upon God.

And whoever acquires a fault or a transgression, then accuses one who is quit of it, makes himself the bearer of a slander and a manifest transgression.

And whoever associates with God strays far astray.

And whoever takes the Diverter as an ally, besides God, has indeed suffered a manifest loss.

And whoever disowns God, His Agents, His scriptures, His messengers, and the Last Day strays far astray.

They indeed asked Moussa something greater than that, saying: "Show us God openly"; the thunderbolt then seized them for their wrongdoing.

And whoever disowns the faith, his deed collapses, and he will be, in the last life, among the losers.

But whoever among you disowns after that has strayed from the straight way."

O people of the Scripture! Our messenger has indeed come to you, making clear to you after a break in messengers, lest you say: "No bearer of good tidings nor warner has come to us" — a bearer of good tidings and a warner has thus indeed come to you.

Whoever associates with God, God indeed prohibits the Garden to him, and his resort will be the Fire."

If I had said it, You would have known it.

So they have denied the truth, when it came to them;

Whoever is turned away from it, on that day, He will have shown him benevolence,

So if these disown it, We have already entrusted it to a people who are not disowners of it.

A clear proof has thus come to you from your Guardian, as well as a guidance and a benevolence.

And whoever, on that day, turns his back to them — except as a maneuver for battle, or a regrouping with a battalion — incurs God's anger, and his resort will be Jahannam.

If you sought the opening, the opening has already come to you;

but if they repeat it, the norm of the ancients has already come to pass.

And if they want to betray you, they have already betrayed God before, and He has given you power over them.

If you do not help him, God has already helped him, when those who disowned expelled him, the second of two, when they were both in the cave, when he said to his companion: "Do not grieve, God is indeed with us."

I remained among you a whole lifetime before it, after all.

If you turn your backs, I have already conveyed to you that with which I was sent to you;

They said, turning toward them: "What are you missing?"

They said: "We are missing the king's measuring vessel;

They said: "If he has stolen, a brother of his had already stolen before."

And whoever is killed wrongfully, We have appointed for his legal guardian an authority; but let him not be excessive in taking life,

and whoever is struck by My anger has indeed sunk.

And if they deny you, before them the people of Nuh, the Aad, the Thamud, the people of Ibrahim, the people of Lut, and the companions of Madyan denied —

and who created everything and measured it with precision.

They have thus come with wrongdoing and falsification, saying: "These are legends of the ancients that he has transcribed himself, dictated to him morning and evening."

They have thus denied you in what you say; they can neither avert nor help.

You have thus denied, and it will become inevitable."

Yet they have denied; the information of what they used to mock will soon reach them.

And he reviewed the birds, and said: "Why do I not see the hoopoe? Or is she among the absent?

And if you deny, communities before you have already denied;

And whoever renders his direction true to God alone, while doing good, has held firmly to the surest handhold;

And whoever disobeys God and His messenger has strayed into manifest error.

And those who trouble believing men and believing women without their having committed anything make themselves the bearers of a slander and a manifest transgression.

And whoever defers to God and His messenger has attained an immense triumph.

And if they deny you, messengers before you were already denied.

And if they deny you, those before them already denied: their messengers came to them with clear proofs, the Formularies, and the illuminating Scripture; then I seized those who disowned.

and whoever You protect from evil deeds that day, You have shown him benevolence,

Do they await only the Hour, that it come upon them unexpectedly? Yet its precursory signs have already come.

O you who have believed! When you hold secret talk with the messenger, advance charity before your secret talk.

And whoever among you does this has strayed from the straight way.

And whoever crosses the limits of God has wronged his own Self.

If you two turn back to God — for your cores have indeed bent —

Did We not create you from a despised water? Then We placed it in a secure and stable place, until a known measure; We determined —

From a drop He created him and measured him, then He made the way easy for him, then He caused him to die and buried him.

But when He tests him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Guardian has degraded me." By no means!