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Allah forgiveth not That partners should be set up With Him; but He forgiveth Anything else, to whom He pleaseth; to set up Partners with Allah Is to devise a sinS69 Most heinous indeed. 49. Hast thou not turned Thy thought to those Who claim purity For themselves?5111 Nay-but Allah Doth purify Whom He pleaseth. And they will not be Wronged a whit 571
50. Behold! how they invent A lie against Allah! But that by itself Is a manifest sin! SECfION 8 Hast thou not turned Thy thought to those Who were given 1I portion 572 Of the Book? They believe
569. Just as in an earthly kingdom the worst crime is that of trcason, as it cuts at the very e"islence of the State, so in the Divine Kingdom, the unforgivable sin is that of contumacious treason against Allah by putting up Allah's creatures in rivalry against Him. This is rebellion against the Creator. It is what plato would call the "lie in the soul." But even here, if the rebellion is through ignorance, and is followed by sincere repentance and amendment, Allah's Mcrcy is always open (iv. 17). 570. The sanctimonious or self-sanctified people are the farthest from sanctity or purity, which can only proceed from Allah. They cannot play with Allah's Truth and yet go on claiming to be guided and purified or justified by Allah. Their falsehood in itself condemns them: no further proof is needed of their selfishness and evil. 571. Literally, the small skin in the groove of a date stone, a thing of no value: fatil.
572. Cf. iii. 23 and n. 366. The phrase also occurs in iv. 44.
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