Ibrahim

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The Satan will say when the matter will have been decided, “Allah promised you a truthful promise while I gave you a promise and did not fulfill it. I had no authority over you, except that I invited you and you accepted my call. So, do not blame me, but blame yourselves. Neither I can come to your help, nor can you come to my help. I disown your associating me with Allah in the past. Surely, there is a painful punishment for the unjust.”
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And those who believed and did good deeds shall be admitted to Gardens beneath which rivers flow, living there forever by the will of Allah. There they shall greet each other with “Salām.”
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Have you not seen how Allah has set forth a parable: A good word is like a good tree, having its root firm and its branches in the sky.
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It brings its fruits at all times with the will of its Lord. Allah sets forth the parables for the people, so that they may take lesson.
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And the parable of a bad word is like a bad tree, removed from the top of the soil, having no firm root.
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Allah keeps the believers firm with the stable word in the worldly life and in the Hereafter; and Allah lets the unjust go astray; and Allah does what He wills.
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Have you not seen those who adopted disbelief in exchange of Allah’s favor and caused their people to disembark at a land of total destruction,
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