The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

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The Quran 16: 87
but the partners will retort, ‘You are liars,’ 87 and on that Day they
will offer total submission to God: their false deities will desert
them. 88 Because of the corruption they spread, We shall add torment
upon torment for those who disbelieved and barred others from the
path of God.
89 The day will come when We raise up in each community a
witness against them, and We shall bring you [Prophet] as a witness
against these people, for We have sent the Scripture down to you
explaining everything, and as guidance and mercy and good news to
those who devote themselves to God.
90 God commands justice, doing good, and generosity towards
relatives and He forbids what is shameful, blameworthy, and oppressive.
He teaches you, so that you may take heed. 91 Fulfil any pledge
you make in God’s name and do not break oaths after you have
sworn them, for you have made God your surety: God knows everything
you do. 92 Do not use your oaths to deceive each other – like a
woman who unravels the thread she has firmly spun – just because
one party may be more numerous than another. God tests you with
this, and on the Day of the Resurrection He will make clear to you
those things you differed about.
93 If God so willed, He would have made you all one people, but
He leaves to stray whoever He will and guides whoever He will. You
will be questioned about your deeds. 94 Do not use your oaths to
deceive each other lest any foot should slip after being firmly placed
and lest you should taste the penalty for having hindered others from
the path of God, and suffer terrible torment. 95 Do not sell for a small
price any pledge made in God’s name: what God has [to give] is
better for you, if you only knew. 96 What you have runs out but what
God has endures, and We shall certainly reward those who remain
steadfast according to the best of their actions. 97 To whoever, male or
female, does good deeds and has faith, We shall give a good life and
reward them according to the best of their actions.
98 [Prophet], when you recite the Quran, seek God’s protection
from the outcast, Satan. 99 He has no power over those who believe
and trust in their Lord; 100 his power is only over those who ally
themselves with him and those who, because of him, join partners
with God. 101 When We substitute one revelation for another –
and God knows best what He reveals – they say, ‘You are just making
it up,’ but most of them have no knowledge. 102 Say that the Holy