The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

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been better guided than them.’ Now clear evidence, guidance, and
mercy have come to you from your Lord. Who could be more wrong
than someone who rejects God’s revelations and turns away from
them? We shall repay those who turn away with a painful punishment.
158 Are they waiting for the very angels to come to them, or
your Lord Himself, or maybe some of His signs? But on the Day
some of your Lord’s signs a come, no soul will profit from faith if it
had none before, or has not already earned some good through its
faith. Say, ‘Wait if you wish: we too are waiting.’
159 As for those who have divided their religion and broken up into
factions, have nothing to do with them [Prophet]. Their case rests
with God: in time He will tell them about their deeds. 160 Whoever
has done b a good deed will have it ten times to his credit, but whoever
has done a bad deed will be repaid only with its equivalent –
they will not be wronged. 161 Say, ‘My Lord has guided me to a
straight path, an upright religion, the faith of Abraham, a man of
pure faith. He was not a polytheist.’ 162 Say, ‘My prayers and sacrifice,
my life and death, are all for God, Lord of all the Worlds; 163 He
has no partner. This is what I am commanded, and I am the first c to
devote myself to Him.’ 164 Say, ‘Should I seek a Lord other than God,
when He is the Lord of all things?’ Each soul is responsible for its
own actions; no soul will bear the burden of another. You will all
return to your Lord in the end, and He will tell you the truth about
your differences. 165 It is He who made you successors d on the earth
and raises some of you above others in rank, to test you through what
He gives you. [Prophet], your Lord is swift in punishment, yet He is
most forgiving and merciful.
a Signs of the Day of Judgement.
b Lit. Whoever brings, i.e. to the Judgement.
c The first ‘of you’: cf. verse 14 and many others.
d See note a to 2: 30.