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| 11. Say, `Verily, I am commanded to worship ALLAH with sincere devotion, 12. `And I am commanded to be the foremost of those who submit to HIM.' 13. Say, `Indeed I fear, if I disobey my Lord, the punishment of a grievous day.' 14. Say, `It is ALLAH I worship in sincerest obedience to HIM. 15. `As to you, worship what you like beside HIM.' Say, `Surely, the real losers are they who ruin their souls and their families on the day of Resurrection.' Beware ! that is, surely, the manifest loss. 16. They will have over them coverings of fire, and beneath them similar coverings. It is this against which ALLAH warns HIS servants. `O MY servants, take ME, then, for your Protector.' 17. And those who eschew the worship of false gods and turn to ALLAH - for them is glad tidings. So give good tidings to MY servants. 18. Who listen to the Word and follow the best thereof. It is they whom ALLAH has guided, and it is they who are really endowed with understanding. 19. Can he, then, against whom the sentence of punishment has become due, be saved ? Canst thou rescue him who is in the Fire ? 20. But for them who fear their Lord, there are lofty mansions, built over lofty mansions, beneath which streams flow. ALLAH has made that promise; and ALLAH breaks not HIS promise. 21. Hast thou not seen that ALLAH sends down water from the sky, and causes it to flow in springs in the earth and then brings forth thereby herbage of diverse hues ? Then it dries up and thou seest it turn to yellow; then HE reduces it to broken straw. In that, verily, is a reminder for men of understanding. |
