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Every time a messenger came to you with what your own Selves did not lean toward, did you not grow proud?

And were you to follow their emotions, after what has come to you of knowledge, you would have, against God, neither protector nor help.

And were you to follow their emotions, after what has come to you of knowledge, you would then surely be among the wrongdoers.

Whether he be rich or poor, God is closer to them both; so do not follow emotion, to the point of no longer being just.

and do not follow their emotions, away from what has come to you of the truth.

and do not follow their emotions,

Every time a messenger brought them what their Self did not lean toward, they denied a fraction, and another fraction, they killed.

and do not follow the emotions of a people who have already gone astray, led many astray, and strayed from the straight way."

Say: "I do not follow your emotions;

Say: "Should we invoke, besides God, what neither benefits nor harms us, and be turned back on our heels after God has guided us, like one whom the Diverters have lured on earth, bewildered,

And many surely lead astray by their emotions, without knowledge.

and do not follow the emotions of those who have denied Our signs, and of those who do not believe in the last life, and who set up equals to their Guardian.

And had We willed, We would have elevated him by these; but he clung to the earth and followed his emotion.

and if you followed their emotions after knowledge has come to you, you would have, against God, neither protector nor anyone to guard you.

Our Guardian, so that they may maintain the Contact; so make Consciences, among men, incline toward them, and provide them with fruits, perhaps they will be grateful.

He only adjourns them until a day when the sights will be fixed; they will rush forward, heads lifted, their gaze never given back to them, and their Consciences will be gaping.

and do not defer to one whose core We have made heedless of Our remembrance, who has followed his emotion, and whose affair is excess.

Let not him who does not believe in it and follows his emotion bar you from it, or it would be your fall.

and whoever is struck by My anger has indeed sunk.

And whoever associates with God, it is as though he had fallen from the sky, and the birds snatch him away, or the wind sweeps him down into a far-off place.

And had the truth followed their emotions, the heavens, the earth, and those therein would have been corrupted.

Have you seen him who has taken his emotion as his deity? Would you then be his trustee?

If they do not respond to you, know that they only follow their emotions —

and who is more astray than one who follows his emotion, without guidance from God?

Those who did wrong rather followed their emotions, without knowledge.

"O Dawud, We have made you a successor on earth; so judge among mankind with truth, and do not follow emotion, lest it lead you astray from the way of God.

For this, then, call and stand straight as you have been commanded, and do not follow their emotions.

and do not follow the emotions of those who do not know.

Have you seen the one who has taken his emotion as his deity? God knowingly led him astray, and sealed his hearing and his core, and placed a cover over his sight. Who then will guide him after God?

Is he who stands upon clear evidence from his Guardian like one to whom the evil of his deed has been made appealing, and who follow their emotions?

Those are the ones whose cores God has stamped, and who follow their emotions.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the star when it sets: your companion has not strayed, nor has he erred. He utters nothing from emotion — it is nothing but a revelation revealed.

They follow nothing but presumption, and what the Selves lean toward.

And the overturned one, He cast it down.

And they denied, and followed their emotions.

but as for him who feared standing before his Guardian, and forbade the Self emotion, then the Garden will indeed be his refuge.

And as for the one whose balances are light, the Abyss will be his abode.