74:38 Every soul is pledged for its own deeds except those that stand on Allah’s right hand.
In their gardens they will ask the wicked: “What has brought you to Hell?”
74:43 They will say, “We did not pray, we did not feed the hungry, we argued with the
small-minded, and we denied the Judgment Day until our dying day.”
74:48 No mediation or intercession will help them. What is wrong with them that they reject
Our warning like a frightened donkey fleeing a lion? Each of them wants to have everything
spelled out, but that cannot be. They do not fear the hereafter.
74:54 No! The Koran is warning enough. Anyone who chooses shall be warned. Only if
Allah pleases will the people be warned. He is to be feared and often forgiving.
90:1 No, I swear by this city [Mecca], this city in which you [Mohammed] dwell, and by the
father and the child!
90:4 Certainly, We have created man to be tried by afflictions. Does he think that no one has
power over him? He says, “I have wasted great wealth.” Does he think that no one sees him?
Have
we not given him eyes,
and tongue,
and lips, and guided him to the two highways?
90:11 But he did not attempt the steep road. Who will teach you what the steep road is? It is
to free a slave, or to give food during famine to the orphan of a relative, or to the pauper
who lies in the dust. It is also, to be a believer and to urge perseverance and compassion
upon one another. These are the people of the right hand.
90:18 But those who reject Our signs, they are the people of the left-hand. Hellfire will close
around them.
53:33 Have you considered him who turns his back on the faith? Who is stingy and
covets? Does he have secret knowledge, or vision? Has he not been told what is in the
book of Moses, and about Abraham and his faithful pledge? Namely, that no bearer of
burdens can bear the burden of another.
53:39 Man can have nothing except what he works for. Nothing will be credited to a man
which he did not earn. His effort will be noted. Then he will be rewarded, totally, justly, and
completely. That is the goal of your Lord. He causes laughter and crying, and He causes
death and life, and He created the male and female sexes from the fertilized sperm. He has
promised a resurrection, and He gives wealth and satisfaction. He is the lord of Sirius [the
Dog star]. He destroyed the tribe of Ad, and the people of Thamud, and before them, the
wicked and perverse people of Noah, and left no survivors. He destroyed the two
overthrown cities of Sodom and Gomorrah so that they were ruins.
53:55 Which of your Lord’s blessings would you doubt?
53:57 The one who warns you, also warned the people of old. The inevitable day is drawing
near and only Allah can reveal the time. Do you marvel at these announcements? And that
you laugh and do not cry while you amuse yourself with vanities?
53:62 Bow down before Allah and worship.
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105:1 Did you not see how your Lord dealt with the army of the elephant?
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Did He not
cause their plans to fail? He sent flocks of birds against them, which pelted them with stones
of
baked clay, and He made them like the stubble in a field that had been devoured.
109:1 Say: Oh you unbelievers!
109:2 I do not worship what you worship, and you do not worship what I worship. I will
never worship what you worship, and you will never worship what I worship. You to your
religion, me to my religion.
104:1 Woe to every slanderer and backbiter who gathers wealth and hordes it for the
future. He certainly thinks he will keep his wealth forever. No! He certainly will be flung
into Hell, and who will teach you what Hell is?
104:6 It is the Fire kindled by Allah that will rise above the hearts of the damned and close
over them in towering columns.
70:1 A skeptic asked about the punishment soon to befall the unbelievers. No one can
prevent Allah from inflicting it. Allah is the Lord of the ladders that the angels and the
spirit ascend in a day that lasts fifty thousand years.
70:5 So be patient with admirable patience. They think that day is far away, but We see that
it is near. The day when the heavens will become like molten brass, and the mountains will
become like tufts of wool, and friends do not care about friends, though they are in plain
sight of one another. To save himself from the punishment of that day, the wicked would
give his children and his wife and his brother and all of his relatives who loved him and
everyone on earth, if that could save him.
70:15 But no. Because the Fire, dragging him by the scalp, will claim him who turned his
back and fled from the truth and amassed and hoarded wealth. Man is truly an impatient
creation. He is impatient when evil touches him and miserly when good reaches him.
111:1 Let the hands of Abu Lahab [Mohammed’s uncle and an opponent] die and let him
die! His wealth and attainments will not help him. He will be burned in Hell, and his wife
will carry the firewood, with a palm fiber rope around her neck.
108:1 Certainly We have given an abundance to you [Mohammed]. Therefore pray to the
Lord, and slay the sacrificial victims [ritual killing of animals].
108:3 Surely those who hate you will be childless.
36:77 Does man not see that We created him from a drop of sperm? But still, he is a sworn
enemy. And he makes substitutes for Us and forgets the facts of his creation saying, “Who
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. In 570 AD an army with an elephant attacked Mecca. The army caught smallpox and retreated.
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