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The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

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66: 12<br />

Prohibition 381<br />

cancel your bad deeds for you and admit you into Gardens graced<br />

with flowing streams, on a Day when God will not disgrace the<br />

Prophet or those who have believed with him. With their lights<br />

streaming out ahead of them and to their right, they will say, ‘Lord,<br />

perfect our lights for us and forgive us: You have power over<br />

everything.’<br />

9 Prophet, strive hard against the disbelievers and the hypocrites.<br />

Deal with them sternly. Hell will be their home, an evil destination!<br />

10 God has given examples of disbelievers: the wives of Noah and Lot<br />

who married two of Our righteous servants but betrayed them.<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir husbands could not help them against God: it was said, ‘Both<br />

of you enter the Fire with the others.’ 11 God has also given examples<br />

of believers: Pharaoh’s wife, who said, ‘Lord, build me a house near<br />

You in the Garden. Save me from Pharaoh and his actions; save me<br />

from the evildoers,’ 12 and Mary, daughter of Imran. She guarded<br />

her chastity, so We breathed into her from Our spirit. She accepted<br />

the truth of her Lord’s words and Scriptures: she was truly devout.

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