The Majestic Quran

others not at all like them – and We tested them through good and bad times hoping they may return to Us. 169 After them came a successor nation , who inherited the Book but practised only the easy parts of the Book’s teachings , saying, “We’ll be forgiven,” and if the like of it comes their way from a source other than the Book , they willingly take that too. Will they not be taken to task over the pledge in the Book to say nothing but the truth about God, given that they have studied whatever is in the Book ? The home of the Hereafter is better for the mindful . Do you not understand? 170 Those who hold fast to the Book and perform the prayer, We do not allow the reward to go to waste for people who strive for improvement in society. 171 Remember, We shook the mountain that loomed over them like a shadow, and they thought it would fall over them; and We said , “Hold firmly what We gave you and remember what’s in it so that you become mindful.” T ; 172 Remember when Your Lord took all the offspring from the loins of the children of Adam to be witnesses, saying , “Am I not Your Lord?” They replied, “Yes, we bear witness.” This was so that, on Judgement Day, you would not say, “We were unaware of this contract ” 106 173 or say, “It was our forefathers who first associated partners with God , and we are merely descendants who came afterwards. Will You kill us because of the actions of the falsifiers?” 174 This is how We explain Our signs, perhaps they will return to the right path . T G ’ 175 Tell them about the one who We gave knowledge of Scriptures, but he shed them as a snake sheds its skin ; then Satan made him follow him so that he became disobedient . 107 176 If We wanted, We could have raised his status because of those signs , but he chose to pursue Earthly matters and follow his whims. His type is like a dog: if you attack it pants, and if you leave it alone it pants, and the people who deny Our signs are like that. So, repeat these stories to them, perhaps they might reflect. 177 How wretched is that type of person who denies Our Scripture and, in the process, wrongs himself. 178 Anyone God guides is truly guided but anyone He allows to go astray; such people are the losers. 179 And so it is that many of the jinn and humans that We’ve created are intended for Hell. They have