The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

6: 125
Livestock 89
Hereafter may incline towards their deceit, be pleased with it, and so
perpetrate whatever they perpetrate.
114 [Say], ‘Shall I seek any judge other than God, when it is He
who has sent down for you [people] the Scripture, clearly
explained?’ Those to whom We gave the Scripture know that this
[Quran] is revealed by your Lord [Prophet] with the truth, so do not
be one of those who doubt. 115 The word of your Lord is complete in
its truth and justice. No one can change His words: He is the All
Hearing, the All Knowing. 116 If you obeyed most of those on earth,
they would lead you away from the path of God. They follow nothing
but speculation; they are merely guessing. 117 Your Lord knows
best who strays from His path and who is rightly guided.
118 So [believers] eat any [animal] over which God’s name has been
pronounced, if you believe in His revelations. 119 Why should you
not eat such animals when God has already fully explained what He
has forbidden you, except when forced by hunger? But many lead
others astray by their desires, without any true knowledge: your
Lord knows best who oversteps the limit. 120 Avoid committing sin,
whether openly or in secret, for those who commit sin will be repaid
for what they do, 121 and do not eat anything over which God’s name
has not been pronounced, for that is breaking the law.
The evil ones incite their followers to argue with you: a if you
listen to them, you too will become idolaters. 122 Is a dead person
brought back to life by Us, and given light with which to walk among
people, comparable to someone trapped in deep darkness who cannot
escape? In this way the evil deeds of the disbelievers are made
to seem alluring to them. 123 And so We have put chief evildoers in
every city to perpetrate their schemes there – but they scheme only
against themselves, without realizing it. 124 When a revelation is
brought before them they say, ‘We shall not believe unless we ourselves
are given a revelation as God’s messengers were.’ But God
knows best where to place His messages: humiliation before God and
severe torment will befall the evildoers for their scheming. 125 When
God wishes to guide someone, He opens their breast to islam; b when
He wishes to lead them astray, He closes and constricts their breast
as if they were climbing up to the skies. That is how God makes the
foulness of those who do not believe rebound against them.
a Saying that nothing is wrong with meat sacrificed to an idol.
b Devotion to God (see 2: 131–2).