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Al-Baqarah 2: 214

He sent down with them the Book embodying the Truth so that it might judge among people in their disputes. And those who innovated divergent ways rather than follow the Truth were none other than those who had received the knowledge of the Truth and clear guidance; and they did so to commit excesses against each other. So by His leave Allah directed the believers to the Right Way in matters on which they disagreed. Allah guides whomsoever He wills onto a Straight Way.

(214) Do you suppose that you will enter Paradise un- touched by the suffering endured by the people of faith who passed away before you?69 They were afflicted by misery and hardship and were so convulsed that the Messenger and the believers with him cried out: ▶

69 The point emphasized here is that whenever the Prophets came into the world they, and their followers, were confronted with severe resistance from those in rebellion against God. At grave risk to themselves they strove to establish the hegemony of the true faith over the false ways of life. The profession of faith has always demanded that one should strive to establish the true religion, which one had adopted as one’s faith, as a living reality and that one should spare no effort in undermining the power of the Devil who seeks to resist it.

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