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«Say: Surely my Lord amplifies the means of subsistence for whom He pleases and straitens (for whom He pleases), but most men do not know.»

«And on the day when He will gather them all together, then will He say to the angels: Did these worship you? / They shall say: Glory be to Thee! Thou art our Guardian, not they; nay! they worshipped the jinn; most of them were believers in them.»

«And We make therein gardens of palms and grapevines and We make springs to flow forth in it, / That they may eat of the fruit thereof, and their hands did not make it; will they not then be grateful? / Glory be to Him Who created pairs of all things, of what the earth grows, and of their kind and of what they do not know.»

«And nothing devolves on us but a clear deliverance (of the message).»

«And We helped them, so they were the vanquishers.»

«And they assert a relationship between Him and the jinn; and certainly the jinn do know that they shall surely be brought up; / Glory be to Allah (for freedom) from what they describe; / But not so the servants of Allah, the purified ones.»

«We never heard of this in the former faith; this is nothing but a forgery: / Has the reminder been revealed to him from among us? Nay! they are in doubt as to My reminder. Nay! they have not yet tasted My chastisement! / Or is it that they have the treasures of the mercy of your Lord, the Mighty, the great Giver? / Or is it that theirs is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what is between them? Then let them ascend by any / A host of deserters of the allies shall be here put to flight.»

«They shall say: Nay! you-- no welcome to you: you did proffer it to us, so evil is the resting-place.»

«He has created the heavens and the earth with the truth; He makes the night cover the day and makes the day overtake the night, and He has made the sun and the moon subservient; each one runs on to an assigned term; now surely He is the Mighty, the great Forgiver.»

«And when distress afflicts a man he calls upon his Lord turning to Him frequently; then when He makes him possess a favor from Him, he forgets that for which he called upon Him before, and sets up rivals to Allah that he may cause (men) to stray off from His path. Say: Enjoy yourself in your ungratefulness a little, surely you are of the inmates of the fire.»