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Al-Ma’idah 5: 42

who pervert the words of Allah, taking them out of their proper context in order to distort their meaning. They say to people: “If such and such teaching is given to you, accept it; if you are not given that, then avoid it.”32 You can be of no avail to him whom Allah wills to fall into error.33 Those are the ones whose hearts Allah does not want to purify. For them there is degradation in this world and a mighty chastisement in the Next.

(42) They are listeners of falsehood and greedy devour- ers of unlawful earnings. If they come to you (for your judgement), you may either judge between them or turn away from them. And were you to turn away from them they shall not be able to harm you; ▶

32 This refers to the Jews who went about telling the ignorant masses that they should follow the teachings of the Prophet (peace be on him) only if they conformed to Jewish teachings.

33 God’s will to put someone to the test means that God confronts him in whom He sees the growth of evil with opportunities to commit evils so that he might go through the struggle between good and evil within himself. If the person is not yet fully inclined towards evil, his latent potentialities to resist evil are revived. But if he has become excessively inclined towards evil, and goodness has been totally crushed from within his being, then every such test is bound to entangle him still more tightly in evil. His well-wisher will now be powerless to rescue him.

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