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30:6 They know the outward show of this nether life, but of the life to come they are heedless. Have they not pondered within their own minds that God created the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them only for a worthy end, and for an appointed term? Yet many deny they will ever meet their Lord.

10:5 It was He that gave the sun his brightness and the moon her light, ordaining her phases that you may learn to compute the seasons and the years.

God created them only to manifest the Truth. He makes plain His revelations to men of knowledge. In the alternation of night and day, and in all that God has created in the heavens and the earth, there are signs for righteous men.

3:184 You shall be sorely tried in the matter of your possessions and your persons, and will hear much that is hurtful from those who were given the Scriptures before you, and from the pagans.

21:35 No man before you have We made immortal. If you yourself are doomed to die, will they live on for ever? Every soul shall taste death. We will prove you all with evil and good. To Us shall you return.

31:15 'My son, God will bring all things to light, be they as small as a grain of mustard seed, be they hidden inside a rock or in the heavens or the earth. Gracious is God and all-knowing. 'My son, be steadfast in prayer, enjoin justice, and forbid evil. Endure with fortitude whatever befalls you. That is a duty incumbent on all.

30:49 Behold then the tokens of God's mercy; how He resurrects the earth after its death. It is He who will resurrect the dead. He has power over all things.

29:19 Do they not see how God conceives Creation, and then renews it? That is easy enough for God. Say: 'Roam the earth and see how God has brought the Creation into being. Then will God initiate the Latter Creation. God has power over all things; He punishes whom He will and shows mercy to whom He pleases. To Him shall you be recalled.'

4:75 Wherever you be, death will overtake you: though you put yourselves in lofty towers.'

75:30 On that day there shall be mournful faces, dreading some great affliction. But when a man's soul is about to leave him and those around him cry: 'Will no one save him?' When he knows it is the final parting and the pangs of death assail him, on that day to your Lord he shall be driven.

10:4 To Him shall you all return: God's promise shall be fulfilled. He brings the Creation into being and will then restore it, so that He may justly recompense those who have believed in Him and done good works.

3:139 No one dies unless God wills. The term of every life is fixed. He that desires the reward of this world shall have it; and he that desires the reward of the life to come shall have it also. We will surely recompense the thankful.

29:64 The life of this world is but a sport and a diversion. It is the life to come that is the true life: if they but knew it.

28:83 As for the abode of the hereafter, We shall assign it to those who seek neither grandeur on the earth nor evil-doing. The righteous shall have a blessed end. He that does good shall be rewarded with what is better. But he that does evil shall be requited according only to his deeds. He who has committed the Koran to your keeping will surely bring you home again.

57:21 The life of this world is but a vain provision. Therefore strive for the pardon of your Lord, and for a Paradise as vast as heaven and earth, prepared for those who believe in God and His Apostles. Such is the grace of God: He bestows it on whom He will. God's grace is infinite.

34;36 Neither your riches nor your children shall bring you one jot nearer to Us. Those that have faith and do what is right shall be doubly rewarded for their deeds: in the High Pavilions they shall dwell in peace:

4:35 If you avoid the enormities you are forbidden, We shall pardon your misdeeds and usher you in with all honour. Do not covet the favours by which God has exalted some among you above others. Men shall be rewarded according to their deeds, and women shall be rewarded according to their deeds. Rather implore God to bestow on you His gifts.

10:9 As for those that believe and do good works, God will guide them through their faith. Rivers will run at their feet in the Gardens of Delight. Their prayer will be: 'Glory be to You, Lord!' and their greeting: 'Peace!' 'Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds' will be the burthen of their plea.

17:72 The day will surely come when We shall summon each community with its leader. Those who are given their books in their right hands will read their recorded doings, and shall not in the least be wronged. But those who have been blind in this life shall be blind in the life to come and more misguided.

23;101 When death comes to a wrongdoer, he will say: 'Lord, let me go back, that I may do good works in the world I have left behind.' Never! These are the very words which he will speak. Behind them there shall stand a barrier till the Day of Resurrection.

32;12 Would that you could see the wrongdoers when they hang their heads before their Lord! They will say: 'Lord, we now see and hear. Send us back and we will do good works. Now we are firm believers.'

35:36 As for the unbelievers, the fire of Hell awaits them. Death shall not deliver them, nor shall its torment ever be eased for them. Thus shall We reward the thankless. There they will cry out: 'Lord, remove us hence! We will live a good life and will not do as we have done.' But He will answer: 'Did We not make your lives long enough for anyone who would be warned to take warning?'

40:84 And when they beheld Our might they said: 'We now believe in God alone. We deny the idols which We served besides Him.' But their new faith was of no avail to them, when they beheld Our might: such being the way of God with His creatures; and there and then the unbelievers lost out.

35:31 They will say: 'Praise be to God who has taken away all sorrow from us. Our Lord is forgiving and bountiful in His rewards. Through His grace He has admitted us to the Eternal Mansion, where we shall endure no toil, no weariness.'

57:13 On that day the hypocrites, both men and women, will say to the true believers: 'Wait for us, that we may borrow some of your light.' But they will be told: 'Go back, and seek some other light!'

A wall with a gate shall be set before them. Inside there shall be mercy, and without, to the fore, the scourge of Hell. They will call out to them, saying: 'Were we not on your side?' 'Yes,' they will reply, 'but you tempted yourselves, you wavered, you doubted, and were deceived by vain desires until God's will was done and the Dissembler misled you about God. Today no ransom shall be accepted from you, or from the unbelievers. The Fire shall be your home: you have justly earned it, an evil end!'

25:22 On the day when they behold the angels, the evil-doers will not rejoice that day. The angels will say to them: 'You shall never cross that barrier.' Then We shall turn to that which they have done and tender it as vain as scattered dust.

63:10 Give, then, of that which We have given you before death befalls you and you say: 'Reprieve me, Lord, awhile, that I may give in charity and be among the righteous.' But God reprieves no soul when its term expires. God has knowledge of all your actions.

60:4 On the Day of Resurrection neither your kinsfolk nor your children shall avail you. God will separate you. He is cognizant of all your actions.

31:34 You people! Fear your Lord, and fear the day when no parent shall avail his child nor any child his parent. God's promise is surely true. Let the life of this world never deceive you, nor let the Dissembler trick you about God.

19:87 None has power to intercede for them save him who has received the sanction of the Merciful.

22:55 Yet will the unbelievers never cease to doubt it, until the Hour of Doom overtakes them unawares, or the scourge of a baleful day descends upon them. On that day God will reign supreme. He will judge them all. Those that have embraced the true Faith and done good works shall enter the gardens of delight; but the unbelievers who have denied Our revelations shall receive an ignominious punishment.

66:8 'Believers, turn to God in true repentance.' Your Lord may forgive you your sins and admit you to gardens watered by running streams, on a day when the Prophet and those who believe with him will suffer no disgrace at the hands of God. Their light will shine in front of them and on their right, and they will say: 'Lord, perfect our light for us and forgive us. You have power over all things.'

57:12 The day will surely come when you shall see the true believers, men and women, with their light shining before them and on their right hands, and a voice saying to them: 'Rejoice this day. You shall enter gardens watered by running streams in which you shall abide for ever.' That is the supreme triumph.

Say: 'If God's Abode of the Hereafter is for yourselves alone, to the exclusion of all others, then wish for death if your claim be true!' But they will never wish for death, because of what they did; for God knows the evil-doers. Indeed, you will find they love this life more than other men:

39:42 God takes away men's souls upon their death, and the souls of the living during their sleep. Those that are doomed He keeps with Him, and restores the others for a time ordained. Surely there are signs in this for thinking men.

6:60 'It is He that claims your soul by night, knowing what you have done by day, and then awakens you to fulfil your allotted span of life. Then to Him shall you return, and He will then declare to you all that you have done. 'He reigns supreme over His servants. He sends forth guardians who watch over you and claim your souls without fail when death overtakes you. Then are all men restored to God, their true Lord. His is the Judgement, and most swift is His reckoning.'

17:85 They put questions to you about the Spirit. Say: 'The Spirit is at my Lord's command. Little indeed is the knowledge vouchsafed to you.'

From Imam Ali: "It is a divine energy, a substance, simple, and self-subsistent ... it is the Most Sublime Essence of God" (Ali was the appointed interpreter of Muhammad's words)

6:40 Say: 'Do but consider. When God's scourge smites you and the Hour of Doom suddenly overtakes you, will you call on any but God to help you? Answer true, if you are truthful! No, on Him alone you will call; and, if He please, He will relieve your affliction.'

39:9 No soul shall bear another's burden. To your Lord shall you return and He will declare to you what you have done. He knows your innermost thoughts.

27:66 Say: 'Show us your proof, if what you say be true!' Say: 'No one in the heavens or on earth has knowledge of what is hidden except God. Nor shall men ever know when they will be raised to life.' Have they attained a knowledge of the life to come? By no means! They are in doubt about it and their eyes are sealed.

32:9 They say: 'Once lost into the earth, shall we be created afresh?' Indeed, they deny they will ever meet their Lord. Say: 'The angel of death in charge of you will reclaim your souls. Then to your Lord shall you be recalled.' Would that you could see the wrongdoers when they hang their heads before their Lord!

4:109 Yes, you may plead for them in this life, but who will plead for them with God on the Day of Resurrection? Who will be their defender? He that does evil or wrongs his own soul and then seeks God's pardon, will find God forgiving and merciful. He that commits sin commits it against his own soul. God is all-knowing and wise.

3:139 No one dies unless God wills. The term of every life is fixed. He that desires the reward of this world shall have it; and he that desires the reward of the life to come shall have it also. We will surely recompense the thankful.

67:6 We have prepared the scourge of the Fire for these, and the scourge of Hell for those who deny their Lord: an evil fate!

When they are flung into its flames, they shall hear it roaring and seething, as though bursting with rage. And every time a multitude is thrown therein, its keepers will say to them: 'Did no one come to warn you?' 'Yes,' they will reply, 'he did come, but we rejected him and said: "God has revealed nothing: you are in grievous error."' And they will say: 'If only we listened and understood, we should not now be among the inmates of the Fire.' Thus shall they confess their sin. Far from God's mercy are the inmates of the Fire.

3:169 Never think that those who were slain in the cause of God are dead. They are alive, and well provided for by their Lord; pleased with His gifts and rejoicing that those they left behind, who have not yet joined them, have nothing to fear or to regret; rejoicing in God's grace and bounty.

16:90 Had God pleased, He could have made you one people: but He caused whom He will to err, and whom He will He guideth: and you shall assuredly be called to account for your doings.

35:19 He that keeps himself pure has much to gain. To God shall all return. The blind and the seeing are not equal, nor are the darkness and the light.

40:7 'Lord, You embrace all things with Your mercy and Your knowledge. 'Forgive those that repent and follow Your path. Shield them from the scourge of Hell. Admit them, Lord, to the gardens of Eden which You have promised them, together with all the righteous among their fathers, their spouses, and their descendants. 'You are the Almighty, the Wise One. Shield them from all evil. He whom You will shield from evil on that day will surely earn Your mercy. That is the supreme triumph.'

31:14 ... follow the path of those who turn to Me. To Me shall you return, and I will declare to you all that you have done.

10:4 To Him shall you all return: God's promise shall be fulfilled. He brings the Creation into being and will then restore it, so that He may justly recompense those who have believed in Him and done good works.

16:72 And God hath created you; by and bye will he take you to himself; and some among you will he carry on to abject old age, when all that once was known is known no longer. Aye, God is Knowing, Powerful.

29:56 You that are true believers among My servants, My earth is vast. Therefore serve Me. Every soul shall taste death, and then to Us shall you be recalled. Those that embrace the true Faith and do good works We shall lodge for ever in the mansions of Paradise, where rivers will roll at their feet. Blessed is the reward of those who labour patiently and put their trust in their Lord.

56:83 When under your very eyes a man's soul is about to leave him (We are nearer to him than you, although you cannot see Us),

19:40 We Ourself shall inherit the earth and all who dwell upon it. To Us they shall return.

19:93 There is none in the heavens or on earth but shall return to the Merciful in utter submission. He has kept strict count of all His creatures, and one by one they shall approach Him on the Day of Resurrection. The Merciful will cherish those who accepted the true faith and were charitable in their lifetime.

36:11 You(Muhammad) shall forewarn none but those who observe Our precepts and fear the Merciful, though they cannot see Him. To these give news of pardon and a rich reward. It is We who will resurrect the dead. We record the deeds of men and the marks they leave behind: We note all things in a glorious book.

18:46 Wealth and children are the ornament of this life. But deeds of lasting merit are better rewarded by your Lord and hold for you a greater hope of salvation. Tell of the day when We shall blot out the mountains and make the earth a barren waste; when We shall gather all mankind together, leaving not a soul behind.

They shall be ranged before your Lord, and He will say to them: 'You have returned to Us as We created you at first. Yet you supposed We had not set for you a predestined time. Their book will be laid down, and you shall see the sinners dismayed at the content. They will say: 'Woe betide us! What can this book mean? It omits nothing small or great: all is noted down!' and they shall find their deeds recorded there. Your Lord will wrong none.

17:15 The fate of each man We have bound about his neck. On the Day of Resurrection We shall confront him with a book spread wide open, saying: 'Here is your book: read it. Enough for you this day that your own soul should call you to account.' He that seeks guidance shall be guided to his advantage, but he that errs shall err at his peril. No soul shall bear another's burden. Nor do We punish until We have sent forth a messenger.

17:72 The day will surely come when We shall summon each community with its leader. Those who are given their books in their right hands will read their recorded doings, and shall not in the least be wronged. But those who have been blind in this life shall be blind in the life to come and more misguided.

58:6 Those that oppose God and His Apostle shall be brought low, as have been those before them. We have sent down clear revelations. Shameful punishment awaits the unbelievers. On the day when God restores them all to life He will inform them of their actions. God has counted these, although they have forgotten them; God is witness of all things.

24:64 Surely to God belongs what the heavens and the earth contain. He has knowledge of all your thoughts and actions. On the day when they return to Him, He will declare to them all that they have done. God has knowledge of all things.

21:94 Men have divided themselves into factions, but to Us shall they all return. He that does good works in the fullness of his faith, his endeavours shall not be lost: We record them all.

78:40 We have forewarned you of an imminent scourge: The day when man will look upon his works and the unbeliever cry: 'Would that I were dust!'

9:106 Say: 'Do as you will. God will behold your works, and so will His Apostle and the faithful; then shall you return to Him who knows alike the unknown and the manifest, and He will declare to you all that you have done.'

3:28 The day will surely come when each soul will be confronted with whatever good it did. As for its evil deeds, it will wish they were a long way off. God admonishes you to fear Him. God is compassionate towards His servants.

16:112 ... on the day when every soul will come pleading for itself, when every soul will be requited for its deeds. None shall be wronged.

2:281 Fear the day when you shall all return to God; when every soul shall be paid back for what it did. None shall be wronged.

14:42 'Lord, make me and my descendants steadfast in prayer.' Lord, accept my prayer. 'Forgive me, Lord, and forgive my parents and all the faithful on the Day of Reckoning.'

82:10 Surely there are guardians watching over you, noble recorders who know of all your actions. The righteous will surely dwell in bliss. But the wicked shall burn in Hell upon the Judgement-day: nor shall they ever escape from it.

21:18 Indeed, We will hurl Truth at Falsehood, until Truth shall triumph and Falsehood be no more. Woe betide you, for all the falsehoods you have uttered. His are all who dwell in the heavens and on earth. Those who stand in His presence do not disdain to worship Him, nor are they ever wearied. They praise Him night and day, tirelessly.

41:30 As for those who say: 'Our Lord is God,' and take the straight path to Him, the angels will descend to them, saying: 'Have no fear, and do not grieve. Rejoice in the Paradise you have been promised. We are your guardians in this world and in the world to come. There you shall find all that your souls desire and all that you can ask for: a rich provision from a forgiving and a merciful God.'

6:61 'He reigns supreme over His servants. He sends forth guardians who watch over you and claim your souls without fail when death overtakes you. Then are all men restored to God, their true Lord. His is the Judgement, and most swift is His reckoning.'

13:12 Each has guardian angels before him and behind him, who watch him by God's command. God does not change a people's lot unless they change what is in their hearts. If God seeks to afflict them with a misfortune, none can ward it off. Besides Him, they have no protector.

16:2 By His will He sends down the angels with the Spirit to those among His servants whom He chooses, bidding them proclaim: 'There is no god but Me: therefore fear Me.'

79:1 By those who snatch away men's souls, and those who gently release them; by those who float at will, and those who speed headlong; by those who govern the affairs of this world!

66:6 Believers, guard yourselves and guard your kindred against a Fire fuelled with men and stones, in the charge of stern and mighty angels who never disobey God's command and who promptly do His bidding. They will say to the unbelievers: 'Make no excuses for yourselves this day. You shall be rewarded according only to your deeds.'

86:1 By the heaven, and by the nightly visitant! Would that you knew what the nightly visitant is! It is the star of piercing brightness. For every soul there is a guardian watching it. Let man reflect from what he is created.

33:42 Believers, be ever mindful of God: praise Him morning and evening. He and His angels bless you, so that He may lead you from darkness to the light. He is ever merciful to true believers.

43:18 They regard as females the angels who are God's servants. Did they witness their creation?

35:1 Praise be to God, Creator of the heavens and the earth! He sends forth the angels as His messengers, with two, three or four pairs of wings. He multiplies His creatures according to His will. God has power over all things.

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19:62 But those that repent and embrace the Faith and do what is right shall enter Paradise and shall in no way be wronged: the gardens of Eden, which the Merciful has promised on trust to His servants. His promise shall be fulfilled. There they shall hear no idle talk, but only the voice of peace. And their sustenance shall be given them there morning and evening. Such is the Paradise which We shall give the righteous among our servants to inherit.

51:14 The righteous shall dwell amidst gardens and fountains, and shall receive what their Lord will give them. For they have done good works, sleeping but little in the night-time, praying at dawn for God's pardon, and sharing their goods with the beggars and the deprived. On earth, and in yourselves, there are signs for firm believers. Can you not see? Heaven holds your sustenance and all that you are promised.

13:35 Such is the Paradise which the righteous have been promised: it is watered by running streams: eternal is its fruit, and eternal is its shade. Such shall be the end of the righteous. But the Fire shall be the end of the unbelievers.

7:42 As for those that have faith and do good works We never charge a soul with more than it can bear they are the heirs of Paradise, and there they shall abide for ever.

We shall take away all hatred from their hearts. Rivers will roll at their feet and they shall say: 'Praise be to God who has guided us hither. Had He not given us guidance we would have strayed from the right path. Our Lord's apostles have surely preached the truth.' And a voice will cry out to them, saying: 'This is the Paradise which you have earned with your labours.'

7:44 Then the heirs of Paradise will cry out to the inmates of the Fire: 'What our Lord promised we have found to be true. Have you, too, found the promise of your Lord to be true?'

15:46 But the righteous shall dwell among gardens and fountains; in peace and safety they shall enter them. We shall remove all hatred from their hearts, and they shall take their ease on couches face to face, a band of brothers. Toil shall not weary them, nor shall they ever be driven out.

65:11 He that believes in God and does good works shall be admitted to gardens watered by running streams, where he shall dwell for ever. A rich provision God has made for him.

47:13 God will admit those who embrace the true Faith and do good works to gardens watered by running streams. ...

47:15 Such is the Paradise which the righteous have been promised: Therein shall flow rivers of water undefiled, and rivers of milk for ever fresh; rivers of wine delectable to those that drink it, and rivers of clarified honey. There shall they eat of every fruit, and receive forgiveness from their Lord.

42:21 But those that have faith and do good works shall dwell in the fair gardens of Paradise, and shall receive from their Lord all that they desire.

89:27 O serene soul! Return to your Lord, joyful, and pleasing in His sight. Join My servants and enter My Paradise.

42:19 Whoever seeks the harvest of the world to come, to him We will give in great abundance; and whoever desires the harvest of this world, a share of it shall be his: but in the world to come he shall have no share at all.

42:42 When they face the scourge, you shall see the wrong-doers exclaim: 'Is there no way back?' You shall see them ranged before the Fire. Awed and humiliated, they shall look upon it with furtive glances. The true believers will say: 'The losers are those who forfeited their souls and all their kindred on the Day of Resurrection.' The wrongdoers shall surely suffer everlasting torment. They shall have no friends besides God to help them. He whom God confounds shall be lost indeed.

39:47 If the wrongdoers possessed all the treasures of the earth and as much besides, they would gladly offer it to redeem themselves from the harrowing scourge on the Day of Resurrection. For God will show them what they have never reckoned with. The evil of their deeds will manifest itself to them, and that which they derided will encompass them.

32:16 No mortal knows what bliss will be in store ... Can he, then, who is a true believer, be compared to him who is an evil-doer? Surely they are not equal. Those that have faith and do good works shall be lodged in the gardens of Paradise in recompense for their labours.

14:28 As for those that have faith and do good works, they shall be admitted to gardens watered by running streams, in which, by their Lord's leave, they shall abide for ever. Their greeting shall be: 'Peace!' Do you not see how God compares a good word to a good tree? Its root is firm and its branches are in the sky; It yields its fruit in every season by God's leave. God speaks in parables to men so that they may take heed.

4:71 He that obeys God and the Apostle shall dwell with the prophets and the saints; the martyrs and the righteous men whom God has favoured. Gracious companions will be those. Such is the bounty of God. Sufficient is God's infinite knowledge.

21:48 We shall set up just scales on the Day of Resurrection, so that no man shall in the least be wronged. Actions as small as a grain of mustard seed shall be weighed out. Our reckoning shall suffice.

11:110 As for the blessed, they shall abide in Paradise as long as the heavens and the earth endure, unless your Lord ordain otherwise. Theirs shall be an endless recompense.

42:21 But those that have faith and do good works shall dwell in the fair gardens of Paradise, and shall receive from their Lord all that they desire. Surely that will be the supreme boon. Such is God's promise to His servants who believe and do good works.

3:15 Say: 'Shall I tell you of better things than these, with which the righteous shall be rewarded by their Lord? Gardens watered by running streams, where they shall dwell for ever: spouses of perfect chastity: and grace from God.'

3:138 These shall be rewarded with forgiveness from their Lord and with gardens watered by running streams, where they shall dwell for ever. Blessed is the reward of those who do good works.

3:195 Those that fled their homes or were expelled from them, and those that suffered persecution for My sake and fought and were slain: I shall forgive them their sins and admit them to gardens watered by running streams, as a recompense from God; God dispenses the richest recompense. Do not be deceived by the fortunes of the unbelievers in the land.

5:65 If the People of the Book accept the true faith and keep from evil, We will pardon them their sins and admit them to the gardens of delight. If they observe the Torah and the Gospel and what has been revealed to them from their Lord, they shall enjoy abundance from above and from beneath. There are some among them who are righteous men; but there are many among them who do nothing but evil.

10:10 Rivers will run at their feet in the Gardens of Delight. Their prayer will be: 'Glory be to You, Lord!' and their greeting: 'Peace!' 'Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds' will be the burthen of their plea.

13:20 Truly, none will take heed but the wise: those who keep faith with God and do not break their pledge; who join together what God has bidden to be united; who fear their Lord and dread the terrors of an evil reckoning; who for the sake of God endure with fortitude, attend to their prayers, and give alms in private and in public; and who ward off evil with good. These shall have the recompense of Paradise. They shall enter the gardens of Eden, together with the righteous among their fathers, their spouses, and their descendants. From every gate the angels will come in to them, saying: 'Peace be to you for all that you have steadfastly endured. Blessed is the recompense of Paradise.'

16:31 They shall enter the gardens of Eden, where rivers will roll at their feet; and there shall they have all that they desire. Thus shall God recompense the righteous, whom the angels will reclaim, in all their virtue, saying: 'Peace be on you. Come in -- to Paradise, the reward of your labours.'

9:38 Are you content with this life in preference to the life to come? Few indeed are the blessings of this life, compared with those of the life to come.

29:64 The life of this world is but a sport and a diversion. It is the life to come that is the true life: if they but knew it.

10:24 Take your enjoyment in this life: to Us shall you then return, and We will declare to you all that you have done. This present life is like the rich garment with which the earth adorns itself when watered by the rain We send down from the sky. Crops, sustaining man and beast, grow luxuriantly: but, as the earth's tenants begin to think themselves its masters, down comes Our scourge upon it, by night or by day, laying it waste, as though it did not blossom but yesterday. Thus do We make plain Our revelations to thoughtful men. God invites you to the Home of Peace. He guides whom He will to a straight path.

16:95 You shall not barter God's covenant for a trifling price. God's reward is better for you, if you but knew it. Your worldly riches are transitory, but God's reward is everlasting.

16:96 We shall recompense the steadfast according to their noblest deeds. Be they men or women, to those that embrace the Faith and do what is right. We will surely grant a happy life; We shall reward them according to their noblest deeds.

9:110 Who is a better man, he who founds his house on the fear of God and His good pleasure, or he who builds on the brink of a crumbling precipice, so that his house will fall with him into the fire of Hell? God does not guide the wrongdoers.

Happy shall be the man who keeps himself pure, who remembers the name of his Lord and prays. Yet you prefer this life, although the life to come is better and more lasting.

28:60 What you have been given is but the pleasure and the gaudy show of this present life. Better is God's recompense and more lasting. Have you no sense to reason with? Can he who has received Our gracious promise, and will see it fulfilled, be compared with him to whom We have given the enjoyment of this life and who will be summoned on the Day of Resurrection?

57:20 Know that the life of this world is but a sport and a diversion, a show and an empty boast among you, a quest for greater riches and more children. It is like the plants that flourish after rain: the husbandman rejoices to see them grow; but then they wither and turn yellow, soon becoming worthless stubble.

46:18 There are rewards for all, according to their deeds, so that He may duly requite them for their works. They shall not be wronged. The day the unbelievers are exposed before the Fire, We shall say to them: 'You squandered away your precious gifts in your earthly life, and took your fill of pleasure. ...'

18:46 Coin for them a simile about the life of this world. It is like the vegetation of the earth that thrives when watered by the rain We send down from the sky, soon turning into stubble which the wind scatters abroad. God has power over all things. Wealth and children are the ornament of this life. But deeds of lasting merit are better rewarded by your Lord and hold for you a greater hope of salvation.

17:20 On all -- on these and those -- We bestow the bounty of your Lord: none shall be denied the bounty of your Lord. See how We have exalted some above others. Yet the life to come has greater honours and is more exalted. Serve no other deity besides God, lest you incur disgrace and ruin.

28:60 What you have been given is but the pleasure and the gaudy show of this present life. Better is God's recompense and more lasting. Have you no sense to reason with? Can he who has received Our gracious promise, and will see it fulfilled, be compared with him to whom We have given the enjoyment of this life and who will be summoned on the Day of Resurrection?

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30:6 They know the outward show of this nether life, but of the life to come they are heedless. Have they not pondered within their own minds that God created the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them only for a worthy end, and for an appointed term? Yet many deny they will ever meet their Lord.

10:5 It was He that gave the sun his brightness and the moon her light, ordaining her phases that you may learn to compute the seasons and the years.

God created them only to manifest the Truth. He makes plain His revelations to men of knowledge. In the alternation of night and day, and in all that God has created in the heavens and the earth, there are signs for righteous men.

3:184 You shall be sorely tried in the matter of your possessions and your persons, and will hear much that is hurtful from those who were given the Scriptures before you, and from the pagans.

21:35 No man before you have We made immortal. If you yourself are doomed to die, will they live on for ever? Every soul shall taste death. We will prove you all with evil and good. To Us shall you return.

31:15 'My son, God will bring all things to light, be they as small as a grain of mustard seed, be they hidden inside a rock or in the heavens or the earth. Gracious is God and all-knowing. 'My son, be steadfast in prayer, enjoin justice, and forbid evil. Endure with fortitude whatever befalls you. That is a duty incumbent on all.

30:49 Behold then the tokens of God's mercy; how He resurrects the earth after its death. It is He who will resurrect the dead. He has power over all things.

29:19 Do they not see how God conceives Creation, and then renews it? That is easy enough for God. Say: 'Roam the earth and see how God has brought the Creation into being. Then will God initiate the Latter Creation. God has power over all things; He punishes whom He will and shows mercy to whom He pleases. To Him shall you be recalled.'

4:75 Wherever you be, death will overtake you: though you put yourselves in lofty towers.'

75:30 On that day there shall be mournful faces, dreading some great affliction. But when a man's soul is about to leave him and those around him cry: 'Will no one save him?' When he knows it is the final parting and the pangs of death assail him, on that day to your Lord he shall be driven.

10:4 To Him shall you all return: God's promise shall be fulfilled. He brings the Creation into being and will then restore it, so that He may justly recompense those who have believed in Him and done good works.

3:139 No one dies unless God wills. The term of every life is fixed. He that desires the reward of this world shall have it; and he that desires the reward of the life to come shall have it also. We will surely recompense the thankful.

29:64 The life of this world is but a sport and a diversion. It is the life to come that is the true life: if they but knew it.

28:83 As for the abode of the hereafter, We shall assign it to those who seek neither grandeur on the earth nor evil-doing. The righteous shall have a blessed end. He that does good shall be rewarded with what is better. But he that does evil shall be requited according only to his deeds. He who has committed the Koran to your keeping will surely bring you home again.

57:21 The life of this world is but a vain provision. Therefore strive for the pardon of your Lord, and for a Paradise as vast as heaven and earth, prepared for those who believe in God and His Apostles. Such is the grace of God: He bestows it on whom He will. God's grace is infinite.

34;36 Neither your riches nor your children shall bring you one jot nearer to Us. Those that have faith and do what is right shall be doubly rewarded for their deeds: in the High Pavilions they shall dwell in peace:

4:35 If you avoid the enormities you are forbidden, We shall pardon your misdeeds and usher you in with all honour. Do not covet the favours by which God has exalted some among you above others. Men shall be rewarded according to their deeds, and women shall be rewarded according to their deeds. Rather implore God to bestow on you His gifts.

10:9 As for those that believe and do good works, God will guide them through their faith. Rivers will run at their feet in the Gardens of Delight. Their prayer will be: 'Glory be to You, Lord!' and their greeting: 'Peace!' 'Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds' will be the burthen of their plea.

17:72 The day will surely come when We shall summon each community with its leader. Those who are given their books in their right hands will read their recorded doings, and shall not in the least be wronged. But those who have been blind in this life shall be blind in the life to come and more misguided.

23;101 When death comes to a wrongdoer, he will say: 'Lord, let me go back, that I may do good works in the world I have left behind.' Never! These are the very words which he will speak. Behind them there shall stand a barrier till the Day of Resurrection.

32;12 Would that you could see the wrongdoers when they hang their heads before their Lord! They will say: 'Lord, we now see and hear. Send us back and we will do good works. Now we are firm believers.'

35:36 As for the unbelievers, the fire of Hell awaits them. Death shall not deliver them, nor shall its torment ever be eased for them. Thus shall We reward the thankless. There they will cry out: 'Lord, remove us hence! We will live a good life and will not do as we have done.' But He will answer: 'Did We not make your lives long enough for anyone who would be warned to take warning?'

40:84 And when they beheld Our might they said: 'We now believe in God alone. We deny the idols which We served besides Him.' But their new faith was of no avail to them, when they beheld Our might: such being the way of God with His creatures; and there and then the unbelievers lost out.

35:31 They will say: 'Praise be to God who has taken away all sorrow from us. Our Lord is forgiving and bountiful in His rewards. Through His grace He has admitted us to the Eternal Mansion, where we shall endure no toil, no weariness.'

57:13 On that day the hypocrites, both men and women, will say to the true believers: 'Wait for us, that we may borrow some of your light.' But they will be told: 'Go back, and seek some other light!'

A wall with a gate shall be set before them. Inside there shall be mercy, and without, to the fore, the scourge of Hell. They will call out to them, saying: 'Were we not on your side?' 'Yes,' they will reply, 'but you tempted yourselves, you wavered, you doubted, and were deceived by vain desires until God's will was done and the Dissembler misled you about God. Today no ransom shall be accepted from you, or from the unbelievers. The Fire shall be your home: you have justly earned it, an evil end!'

25:22 On the day when they behold the angels, the evil-doers will not rejoice that day. The angels will say to them: 'You shall never cross that barrier.' Then We shall turn to that which they have done and tender it as vain as scattered dust.

63:10 Give, then, of that which We have given you before death befalls you and you say: 'Reprieve me, Lord, awhile, that I may give in charity and be among the righteous.' But God reprieves no soul when its term expires. God has knowledge of all your actions.

60:4 On the Day of Resurrection neither your kinsfolk nor your children shall avail you. God will separate you. He is cognizant of all your actions.

31:34 You people! Fear your Lord, and fear the day when no parent shall avail his child nor any child his parent. God's promise is surely true. Let the life of this world never deceive you, nor let the Dissembler trick you about God.

19:87 None has power to intercede for them save him who has received the sanction of the Merciful.

22:55 Yet will the unbelievers never cease to doubt it, until the Hour of Doom overtakes them unawares, or the scourge of a baleful day descends upon them. On that day God will reign supreme. He will judge them all. Those that have embraced the true Faith and done good works shall enter the gardens of delight; but the unbelievers who have denied Our revelations shall receive an ignominious punishment.

66:8 'Believers, turn to God in true repentance.' Your Lord may forgive you your sins and admit you to gardens watered by running streams, on a day when the Prophet and those who believe with him will suffer no disgrace at the hands of God. Their light will shine in front of them and on their right, and they will say: 'Lord, perfect our light for us and forgive us. You have power over all things.'

57:12 The day will surely come when you shall see the true believers, men and women, with their light shining before them and on their right hands, and a voice saying to them: 'Rejoice this day. You shall enter gardens watered by running streams in which you shall abide for ever.' That is the supreme triumph.

Say: 'If God's Abode of the Hereafter is for yourselves alone, to the exclusion of all others, then wish for death if your claim be true!' But they will never wish for death, because of what they did; for God knows the evil-doers. Indeed, you will find they love this life more than other men:

39:42 God takes away men's souls upon their death, and the souls of the living during their sleep. Those that are doomed He keeps with Him, and restores the others for a time ordained. Surely there are signs in this for thinking men.

6:60 'It is He that claims your soul by night, knowing what you have done by day, and then awakens you to fulfil your allotted span of life. Then to Him shall you return, and He will then declare to you all that you have done. 'He reigns supreme over His servants. He sends forth guardians who watch over you and claim your souls without fail when death overtakes you. Then are all men restored to God, their true Lord. His is the Judgement, and most swift is His reckoning.'

17:85 They put questions to you about the Spirit. Say: 'The Spirit is at my Lord's command. Little indeed is the knowledge vouchsafed to you.'

From Imam Ali: "It is a divine energy, a substance, simple, and self-subsistent ... it is the Most Sublime Essence of God" (Ali was the appointed interpreter of Muhammad's words)

6:40 Say: 'Do but consider. When God's scourge smites you and the Hour of Doom suddenly overtakes you, will you call on any but God to help you? Answer true, if you are truthful! No, on Him alone you will call; and, if He please, He will relieve your affliction.'

39:9 No soul shall bear another's burden. To your Lord shall you return and He will declare to you what you have done. He knows your innermost thoughts.

27:66 Say: 'Show us your proof, if what you say be true!' Say: 'No one in the heavens or on earth has knowledge of what is hidden except God. Nor shall men ever know when they will be raised to life.' Have they attained a knowledge of the life to come? By no means! They are in doubt about it and their eyes are sealed.

32:9 They say: 'Once lost into the earth, shall we be created afresh?' Indeed, they deny they will ever meet their Lord. Say: 'The angel of death in charge of you will reclaim your souls. Then to your Lord shall you be recalled.' Would that you could see the wrongdoers when they hang their heads before their Lord!

4:109 Yes, you may plead for them in this life, but who will plead for them with God on the Day of Resurrection? Who will be their defender? He that does evil or wrongs his own soul and then seeks God's pardon, will find God forgiving and merciful. He that commits sin commits it against his own soul. God is all-knowing and wise.

3:139 No one dies unless God wills. The term of every life is fixed. He that desires the reward of this world shall have it; and he that desires the reward of the life to come shall have it also. We will surely recompense the thankful.

67:6 We have prepared the scourge of the Fire for these, and the scourge of Hell for those who deny their Lord: an evil fate!

When they are flung into its flames, they shall hear it roaring and seething, as though bursting with rage. And every time a multitude is thrown therein, its keepers will say to them: 'Did no one come to warn you?' 'Yes,' they will reply, 'he did come, but we rejected him and said: "God has revealed nothing: you are in grievous error."' And they will say: 'If only we listened and understood, we should not now be among the inmates of the Fire.' Thus shall they confess their sin. Far from God's mercy are the inmates of the Fire.

3:169 Never think that those who were slain in the cause of God are dead. They are alive, and well provided for by their Lord; pleased with His gifts and rejoicing that those they left behind, who have not yet joined them, have nothing to fear or to regret; rejoicing in God's grace and bounty.

16:90 Had God pleased, He could have made you one people: but He caused whom He will to err, and whom He will He guideth: and you shall assuredly be called to account for your doings.

35:19 He that keeps himself pure has much to gain. To God shall all return. The blind and the seeing are not equal, nor are the darkness and the light.

40:7 'Lord, You embrace all things with Your mercy and Your knowledge. 'Forgive those that repent and follow Your path. Shield them from the scourge of Hell. Admit them, Lord, to the gardens of Eden which You have promised them, together with all the righteous among their fathers, their spouses, and their descendants. 'You are the Almighty, the Wise One. Shield them from all evil. He whom You will shield from evil on that day will surely earn Your mercy. That is the supreme triumph.'

31:14 ... follow the path of those who turn to Me. To Me shall you return, and I will declare to you all that you have done.

10:4 To Him shall you all return: God's promise shall be fulfilled. He brings the Creation into being and will then restore it, so that He may justly recompense those who have believed in Him and done good works.

16:72 And God hath created you; by and bye will he take you to himself; and some among you will he carry on to abject old age, when all that once was known is known no longer. Aye, God is Knowing, Powerful.

29:56 You that are true believers among My servants, My earth is vast. Therefore serve Me. Every soul shall taste death, and then to Us shall you be recalled. Those that embrace the true Faith and do good works We shall lodge for ever in the mansions of Paradise, where rivers will roll at their feet. Blessed is the reward of those who labour patiently and put their trust in their Lord.

56:83 When under your very eyes a man's soul is about to leave him (We are nearer to him than you, although you cannot see Us),

19:40 We Ourself shall inherit the earth and all who dwell upon it. To Us they shall return.

19:93 There is none in the heavens or on earth but shall return to the Merciful in utter submission. He has kept strict count of all His creatures, and one by one they shall approach Him on the Day of Resurrection. The Merciful will cherish those who accepted the true faith and were charitable in their lifetime.

36:11 You(Muhammad) shall forewarn none but those who observe Our precepts and fear the Merciful, though they cannot see Him. To these give news of pardon and a rich reward. It is We who will resurrect the dead. We record the deeds of men and the marks they leave behind: We note all things in a glorious book.

18:46 Wealth and children are the ornament of this life. But deeds of lasting merit are better rewarded by your Lord and hold for you a greater hope of salvation. Tell of the day when We shall blot out the mountains and make the earth a barren waste; when We shall gather all mankind together, leaving not a soul behind.

They shall be ranged before your Lord, and He will say to them: 'You have returned to Us as We created you at first. Yet you supposed We had not set for you a predestined time. Their book will be laid down, and you shall see the sinners dismayed at the content. They will say: 'Woe betide us! What can this book mean? It omits nothing small or great: all is noted down!' and they shall find their deeds recorded there. Your Lord will wrong none.

17:15 The fate of each man We have bound about his neck. On the Day of Resurrection We shall confront him with a book spread wide open, saying: 'Here is your book: read it. Enough for you this day that your own soul should call you to account.' He that seeks guidance shall be guided to his advantage, but he that errs shall err at his peril. No soul shall bear another's burden. Nor do We punish until We have sent forth a messenger.

17:72 The day will surely come when We shall summon each community with its leader. Those who are given their books in their right hands will read their recorded doings, and shall not in the least be wronged. But those who have been blind in this life shall be blind in the life to come and more misguided.

58:6 Those that oppose God and His Apostle shall be brought low, as have been those before them. We have sent down clear revelations. Shameful punishment awaits the unbelievers. On the day when God restores them all to life He will inform them of their actions. God has counted these, although they have forgotten them; God is witness of all things.

24:64 Surely to God belongs what the heavens and the earth contain. He has knowledge of all your thoughts and actions. On the day when they return to Him, He will declare to them all that they have done. God has knowledge of all things.

21:94 Men have divided themselves into factions, but to Us shall they all return. He that does good works in the fullness of his faith, his endeavours shall not be lost: We record them all.

78:40 We have forewarned you of an imminent scourge: The day when man will look upon his works and the unbeliever cry: 'Would that I were dust!'

9:106 Say: 'Do as you will. God will behold your works, and so will His Apostle and the faithful; then shall you return to Him who knows alike the unknown and the manifest, and He will declare to you all that you have done.'

3:28 The day will surely come when each soul will be confronted with whatever good it did. As for its evil deeds, it will wish they were a long way off. God admonishes you to fear Him. God is compassionate towards His servants.

16:112 ... on the day when every soul will come pleading for itself, when every soul will be requited for its deeds. None shall be wronged.

2:281 Fear the day when you shall all return to God; when every soul shall be paid back for what it did. None shall be wronged.

14:42 'Lord, make me and my descendants steadfast in prayer.' Lord, accept my prayer. 'Forgive me, Lord, and forgive my parents and all the faithful on the Day of Reckoning.'

82:10 Surely there are guardians watching over you, noble recorders who know of all your actions. The righteous will surely dwell in bliss. But the wicked shall burn in Hell upon the Judgement-day: nor shall they ever escape from it.

21:18 Indeed, We will hurl Truth at Falsehood, until Truth shall triumph and Falsehood be no more. Woe betide you, for all the falsehoods you have uttered. His are all who dwell in the heavens and on earth. Those who stand in His presence do not disdain to worship Him, nor are they ever wearied. They praise Him night and day, tirelessly.

41:30 As for those who say: 'Our Lord is God,' and take the straight path to Him, the angels will descend to them, saying: 'Have no fear, and do not grieve. Rejoice in the Paradise you have been promised. We are your guardians in this world and in the world to come. There you shall find all that your souls desire and all that you can ask for: a rich provision from a forgiving and a merciful God.'

6:61 'He reigns supreme over His servants. He sends forth guardians who watch over you and claim your souls without fail when death overtakes you. Then are all men restored to God, their true Lord. His is the Judgement, and most swift is His reckoning.'

13:12 Each has guardian angels before him and behind him, who watch him by God's command. God does not change a people's lot unless they change what is in their hearts. If God seeks to afflict them with a misfortune, none can ward it off. Besides Him, they have no protector.

16:2 By His will He sends down the angels with the Spirit to those among His servants whom He chooses, bidding them proclaim: 'There is no god but Me: therefore fear Me.'

79:1 By those who snatch away men's souls, and those who gently release them; by those who float at will, and those who speed headlong; by those who govern the affairs of this world!

66:6 Believers, guard yourselves and guard your kindred against a Fire fuelled with men and stones, in the charge of stern and mighty angels who never disobey God's command and who promptly do His bidding. They will say to the unbelievers: 'Make no excuses for yourselves this day. You shall be rewarded according only to your deeds.'

86:1 By the heaven, and by the nightly visitant! Would that you knew what the nightly visitant is! It is the star of piercing brightness. For every soul there is a guardian watching it. Let man reflect from what he is created.

33:42 Believers, be ever mindful of God: praise Him morning and evening. He and His angels bless you, so that He may lead you from darkness to the light. He is ever merciful to true believers.

43:18 They regard as females the angels who are God's servants. Did they witness their creation?

35:1 Praise be to God, Creator of the heavens and the earth! He sends forth the angels as His messengers, with two, three or four pairs of wings. He multiplies His creatures according to His will. God has power over all things.

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19:62 But those that repent and embrace the Faith and do what is right shall enter Paradise and shall in no way be wronged: the gardens of Eden, which the Merciful has promised on trust to His servants. His promise shall be fulfilled. There they shall hear no idle talk, but only the voice of peace. And their sustenance shall be given them there morning and evening. Such is the Paradise which We shall give the righteous among our servants to inherit.

51:14 The righteous shall dwell amidst gardens and fountains, and shall receive what their Lord will give them. For they have done good works, sleeping but little in the night-time, praying at dawn for God's pardon, and sharing their goods with the beggars and the deprived. On earth, and in yourselves, there are signs for firm believers. Can you not see? Heaven holds your sustenance and all that you are promised.

13:35 Such is the Paradise which the righteous have been promised: it is watered by running streams: eternal is its fruit, and eternal is its shade. Such shall be the end of the righteous. But the Fire shall be the end of the unbelievers.

7:42 As for those that have faith and do good works We never charge a soul with more than it can bear they are the heirs of Paradise, and there they shall abide for ever.

We shall take away all hatred from their hearts. Rivers will roll at their feet and they shall say: 'Praise be to God who has guided us hither. Had He not given us guidance we would have strayed from the right path. Our Lord's apostles have surely preached the truth.' And a voice will cry out to them, saying: 'This is the Paradise which you have earned with your labours.'

7:44 Then the heirs of Paradise will cry out to the inmates of the Fire: 'What our Lord promised we have found to be true. Have you, too, found the promise of your Lord to be true?'

15:46 But the righteous shall dwell among gardens and fountains; in peace and safety they shall enter them. We shall remove all hatred from their hearts, and they shall take their ease on couches face to face, a band of brothers. Toil shall not weary them, nor shall they ever be driven out.

65:11 He that believes in God and does good works shall be admitted to gardens watered by running streams, where he shall dwell for ever. A rich provision God has made for him.

47:13 God will admit those who embrace the true Faith and do good works to gardens watered by running streams. ...

47:15 Such is the Paradise which the righteous have been promised: Therein shall flow rivers of water undefiled, and rivers of milk for ever fresh; rivers of wine delectable to those that drink it, and rivers of clarified honey. There shall they eat of every fruit, and receive forgiveness from their Lord.

42:21 But those that have faith and do good works shall dwell in the fair gardens of Paradise, and shall receive from their Lord all that they desire.

89:27 O serene soul! Return to your Lord, joyful, and pleasing in His sight. Join My servants and enter My Paradise.

42:19 Whoever seeks the harvest of the world to come, to him We will give in great abundance; and whoever desires the harvest of this world, a share of it shall be his: but in the world to come he shall have no share at all.

42:42 When they face the scourge, you shall see the wrong-doers exclaim: 'Is there no way back?' You shall see them ranged before the Fire. Awed and humiliated, they shall look upon it with furtive glances. The true believers will say: 'The losers are those who forfeited their souls and all their kindred on the Day of Resurrection.' The wrongdoers shall surely suffer everlasting torment. They shall have no friends besides God to help them. He whom God confounds shall be lost indeed.

39:47 If the wrongdoers possessed all the treasures of the earth and as much besides, they would gladly offer it to redeem themselves from the harrowing scourge on the Day of Resurrection. For God will show them what they have never reckoned with. The evil of their deeds will manifest itself to them, and that which they derided will encompass them.

32:16 No mortal knows what bliss will be in store ... Can he, then, who is a true believer, be compared to him who is an evil-doer? Surely they are not equal. Those that have faith and do good works shall be lodged in the gardens of Paradise in recompense for their labours.

14:28 As for those that have faith and do good works, they shall be admitted to gardens watered by running streams, in which, by their Lord's leave, they shall abide for ever. Their greeting shall be: 'Peace!' Do you not see how God compares a good word to a good tree? Its root is firm and its branches are in the sky; It yields its fruit in every season by God's leave. God speaks in parables to men so that they may take heed.

4:71 He that obeys God and the Apostle shall dwell with the prophets and the saints; the martyrs and the righteous men whom God has favoured. Gracious companions will be those. Such is the bounty of God. Sufficient is God's infinite knowledge.

21:48 We shall set up just scales on the Day of Resurrection, so that no man shall in the least be wronged. Actions as small as a grain of mustard seed shall be weighed out. Our reckoning shall suffice.

11:110 As for the blessed, they shall abide in Paradise as long as the heavens and the earth endure, unless your Lord ordain otherwise. Theirs shall be an endless recompense.

42:21 But those that have faith and do good works shall dwell in the fair gardens of Paradise, and shall receive from their Lord all that they desire. Surely that will be the supreme boon. Such is God's promise to His servants who believe and do good works.

3:15 Say: 'Shall I tell you of better things than these, with which the righteous shall be rewarded by their Lord? Gardens watered by running streams, where they shall dwell for ever: spouses of perfect chastity: and grace from God.'

3:138 These shall be rewarded with forgiveness from their Lord and with gardens watered by running streams, where they shall dwell for ever. Blessed is the reward of those who do good works.

3:195 Those that fled their homes or were expelled from them, and those that suffered persecution for My sake and fought and were slain: I shall forgive them their sins and admit them to gardens watered by running streams, as a recompense from God; God dispenses the richest recompense. Do not be deceived by the fortunes of the unbelievers in the land.

5:65 If the People of the Book accept the true faith and keep from evil, We will pardon them their sins and admit them to the gardens of delight. If they observe the Torah and the Gospel and what has been revealed to them from their Lord, they shall enjoy abundance from above and from beneath. There are some among them who are righteous men; but there are many among them who do nothing but evil.

10:10 Rivers will run at their feet in the Gardens of Delight. Their prayer will be: 'Glory be to You, Lord!' and their greeting: 'Peace!' 'Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds' will be the burthen of their plea.

13:20 Truly, none will take heed but the wise: those who keep faith with God and do not break their pledge; who join together what God has bidden to be united; who fear their Lord and dread the terrors of an evil reckoning; who for the sake of God endure with fortitude, attend to their prayers, and give alms in private and in public; and who ward off evil with good. These shall have the recompense of Paradise. They shall enter the gardens of Eden, together with the righteous among their fathers, their spouses, and their descendants. From every gate the angels will come in to them, saying: 'Peace be to you for all that you have steadfastly endured. Blessed is the recompense of Paradise.'

16:31 They shall enter the gardens of Eden, where rivers will roll at their feet; and there shall they have all that they desire. Thus shall God recompense the righteous, whom the angels will reclaim, in all their virtue, saying: 'Peace be on you. Come in -- to Paradise, the reward of your labours.'

9:38 Are you content with this life in preference to the life to come? Few indeed are the blessings of this life, compared with those of the life to come.

29:64 The life of this world is but a sport and a diversion. It is the life to come that is the true life: if they but knew it.

10:24 Take your enjoyment in this life: to Us shall you then return, and We will declare to you all that you have done. This present life is like the rich garment with which the earth adorns itself when watered by the rain We send down from the sky. Crops, sustaining man and beast, grow luxuriantly: but, as the earth's tenants begin to think themselves its masters, down comes Our scourge upon it, by night or by day, laying it waste, as though it did not blossom but yesterday. Thus do We make plain Our revelations to thoughtful men. God invites you to the Home of Peace. He guides whom He will to a straight path.

16:95 You shall not barter God's covenant for a trifling price. God's reward is better for you, if you but knew it. Your worldly riches are transitory, but God's reward is everlasting.

16:96 We shall recompense the steadfast according to their noblest deeds. Be they men or women, to those that embrace the Faith and do what is right. We will surely grant a happy life; We shall reward them according to their noblest deeds.

9:110 Who is a better man, he who founds his house on the fear of God and His good pleasure, or he who builds on the brink of a crumbling precipice, so that his house will fall with him into the fire of Hell? God does not guide the wrongdoers.

Happy shall be the man who keeps himself pure, who remembers the name of his Lord and prays. Yet you prefer this life, although the life to come is better and more lasting.

28:60 What you have been given is but the pleasure and the gaudy show of this present life. Better is God's recompense and more lasting. Have you no sense to reason with? Can he who has received Our gracious promise, and will see it fulfilled, be compared with him to whom We have given the enjoyment of this life and who will be summoned on the Day of Resurrection?

57:20 Know that the life of this world is but a sport and a diversion, a show and an empty boast among you, a quest for greater riches and more children. It is like the plants that flourish after rain: the husbandman rejoices to see them grow; but then they wither and turn yellow, soon becoming worthless stubble.

46:18 There are rewards for all, according to their deeds, so that He may duly requite them for their works. They shall not be wronged. The day the unbelievers are exposed before the Fire, We shall say to them: 'You squandered away your precious gifts in your earthly life, and took your fill of pleasure. ...'

18:46 Coin for them a simile about the life of this world. It is like the vegetation of the earth that thrives when watered by the rain We send down from the sky, soon turning into stubble which the wind scatters abroad. God has power over all things. Wealth and children are the ornament of this life. But deeds of lasting merit are better rewarded by your Lord and hold for you a greater hope of salvation.

17:20 On all -- on these and those -- We bestow the bounty of your Lord: none shall be denied the bounty of your Lord. See how We have exalted some above others. Yet the life to come has greater honours and is more exalted. Serve no other deity besides God, lest you incur disgrace and ruin.

28:60 What you have been given is but the pleasure and the gaudy show of this present life. Better is God's recompense and more lasting. Have you no sense to reason with? Can he who has received Our gracious promise, and will see it fulfilled, be compared with him to whom We have given the enjoyment of this life and who will be summoned on the Day of Resurrection?

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