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ⅬⅢ, 30-46. world’s life ! This is their sum of knowledge ; verily, thy Lord knows best who has erred from His way, and He knows best who is guided !

God’s is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, that He may reward those who do evil for what they have done ; and may reward those who do good with good ! those who shun great sins and iniquities, — all but venial faults, — verily, thy Lord is of ample forgiveness ; He knows best about you, when He produced you from the earth, and when ye were embryos in the wombs of your mothers.

Make not yourselves out, then, to be pure ; He knows best who it is that fears.

Hast thou considered him who turns his back ? who gives but little and then stops ? Has he then the knowledge of the unseen, so that he can see ?

Has he not been informed of what is in the pages of Moses and Abraham who fulfilled his word ? — that no burdened soul shall bear the burden of another ? and that man shall have only that for which he strives ; and that his striving shall at length be seen ? Then shall he be rewarded for it with the most full reward ; and that unto thy Lord is the limit ; and that it is He who makes men laugh and weep ; and that it is He who kills and makes alive ; and that He created pairs, male