The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

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The Quran
3: 100
100 You who believe, some of those who were given the Scripture
would turn you into disbelievers if you were to yield to them.
101 How can you disbelieve when God’s revelations are being recited
to you and His Messenger is living among you? Whoever holds fast
to God will be guided to the straight path. 102 You who believe, be
mindful of God, as is His due, and make sure you devote yourselves
to Him, to your dying moment. 103 Hold fast to God’s rope all
together; do not split into factions. Remember God’s favour to you:
you were enemies and then He brought your hearts together and
you became brothers by His grace; you were about to fall into a pit
of Fire and He saved you from it – in this way God makes His
revelations clear to you so that you may be rightly guided. 104 Be a a
community that calls for what is good, urges what is right, and
forbids what is wrong: those who do this are the successful ones.
105 Do not be like those who, after they have been given clear revelation,
split into factions and fall into disputes: a terrible punishment
awaits such people. 106 On the Day when some faces brighten and
others darken, it will be said to those with darkened faces, ‘How
could you reject your faith after believing? Taste the torment for
doing so,’ 107 but those with brightened faces will be in God’s grace,
there to remain. 108 These are God’s revelations: We recite them to
you [Prophet] with the Truth. God does not will injustice for His
creatures. 109 Everything in the heavens and earth belongs to God; it
is to Him that all things return.
110 [Believers], you are the best community singled out for people:
you order what is right, forbid what is wrong, and believe in God. If
the People of the Book had also believed, it would have been better
for them. For although some of them do believe, most of them are
lawbreakers – 111 they will not do you much harm: even if they come
out to fight you, they will soon turn tail; they will get no help –
112 and, unless they hold fast to a lifeline from God and from mankind,
they are overshadowed by vulnerability wherever they are
found. They have drawn God’s wrath upon themselves. They are
overshadowed by weakness, too, because they have persistently disbelieved
in God’s revelation and killed prophets without any right,
all because of their disobedience and boundless transgression. 113 But
they are not all alike. There are some among the People of the Book
a Razi explains that the preposition min in the Arabic, usually translated as ‘let there
be among you’, here applies to the whole community, not just part of it.