And recite what was revealed to you from the Book of your Lord. There is no changing His words, and you will find no refuge except in Him.
And content yourself with those who pray to their Lord morning and evening, desiring His Presence. And do not turn your eyes away from them, desiring the glitter of this world. And do not obey him whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance—so he follows his own desires—and his priorities are confused.
Say, “Then bring a scripture from God, more conductive to guidance than both, and I will follow it, if you are truthful.”
But if they fail to respond to you, know that they follow their fancies. And who is more lost than him who follows his fancy without guidance from God? God does not guide the unjust people.
Yet the wrongdoers follow their desires without knowledge. But who can guide whom God leaves astray? They will have no helpers.
So devote yourself to the religion of monotheism—the natural instinct God has instilled in mankind. There is no altering God’s creation. This is the true religion, but most people do not know.
قُلِ اللَّهُ يُحْيِيكُمْ ثُمَّ يُمِيتُكُمْ ثُمَّ يَجْمَعُكُمْ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ لا رَيْبَ فِيهِ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لا يَعْلَمُونَ 26
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Have you considered him who has taken his desire for his god? God has knowingly led him astray, and has sealed his hearing and his heart, and has placed a veil over his vision. Who will guide him after God? Will you not reflect?
And they say, “There is nothing but this our present life; we die and we live, and nothing destroys us except time.” But they have no knowledge of that; they are only guessing.
When Our clarifying Verses are recited to them, their only argument is to say, “Bring back our ancestors, if you are truthful.”
Say, “God gives you life, then He makes you die; then He gathers you for the Day of Resurrection, about which there is no doubt. But most people do not know.”
God will admit those who believe and do good deeds into gardens beneath which rivers flow. As for those who disbelieve, they enjoy themselves, and eat as cattle eat, and the Fire will be their dwelling.
How many a town was more powerful than your town which evicted you? We destroyed them, and there was no helper for them.
Is he who stands upon evidence from his Lord, like someone whose evil deed is made to appear good to him? And they follow their own desires?