The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

6: 79
Livestock 85
revelations, turn away from them until they move on to another
topic. If Satan should make you forget, then, when you have remembered,
do not sit with those who are doing wrong. 69 The righteous
are not in any way held accountable for the wrongdoers; their only
duty is to remind them, so that they may be mindful of God. 70 Leave
to themselves those who take their religion for a mere game and
distraction and are deceived by the life of this world, but continue to
remind them with the [Quran], lest any soul be damned by what it
has done – it will have no one to protect it from God and no one to
intercede; whatever ransom it may offer will not be accepted. Such
are those who are damned by their own actions: they will have boiling
water to drink and a painful punishment, because they used to
defy [God].
71 Say, ‘Instead of God, are we to call on what neither profits nor
harms us? [Are we to] turn on our heels after God has guided us, like
someone bewildered, having been tempted by devils into a desert
ravine, a though his companions call him to guidance [saying], “Come
to us”?’ Say, ‘God’s guidance is the true guidance. We are commanded
to devote ourselves to the Lord of the Worlds, 72 to establish regular
prayers and be mindful of Him.’ It is to Him that you will all be
gathered. 73 It is He who created the heavens and the earth for a true
purpose. On the Day when He says, ‘Be,’ it will be: His word is the
truth. All control on the Day the Trumpet is blown belongs to Him.
He knows the seen and the unseen: He is the All Wise, the All Aware.
74 Remember when Abraham said to his father, Azar, ‘How can you
take idols as gods? I see that you and your people have clearly gone
astray.’ 75 In this way We showed Abraham [God’s] mighty dominion
over the heavens and the earth, so that he might be a firm believer.
76 When the night grew dark over him he saw a star and said, ‘This is
my Lord,’ but when it set, he said, ‘I do not like things that set.’
77 And when he saw the moon rising he said, ‘This is my Lord,’ but
when it too set, he said, ‘If my Lord does not guide me, I shall be
one of those who go astray.’ 78 Then he saw the sun rising and cried,
‘This is my Lord! This is greater.’ But when the sun set, he said,
‘My people, I disown all that you worship beside God. 79 I have
turned my face as a true believer towards Him who created the
heavens and the earth. I am not one of the polytheists.’
a This interpretation of the literal ‘in the land’ is preferred by Razi.