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Al-Baqarah 2: 25–6

whose fuel is men and stones10 and which has been prepared for those who deny the Truth.

(25) (O Prophet), announce glad tidings to those who believe in this Book and do righteous deeds (in accordance with its teachings), that for them are gardens beneath which rivers flow. Their fruits will have such resemblance to those of the earth that when- ever they will be provided with those fruits they will say: “It was this which was granted to us on earth before.” For them there shall be pure spouses, and there they shall abide forever.

(26) Behold! Allah is not ashamed to propound the parable of a gnat, or even of something more lowly.11 On hearing these parables the believers know that it is the truth from their Lord, ▶

10 In the Next Life not only will the unbelievers become the fuel of Hell-fire, but that the same fate will befall the idol-stones they worshipped and before which they prostrated themselves.

11 Here an objection is indirectly refuted. At several places in the Qur’an, spiders, flies, gnats and so on are mentioned in order to elucidate certain points. Opponents objected to this on the grounds that such objects were too lowly to find a place in the Book of God. They insinuated that had the Qur’an indeed been a revelation from God it would not have mentioned such trivial objects.

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