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80. "He Frowned"
  
     
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 The Lord frowned but did not turn away
 
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 Because you believed false scripture of malice and evil.
 
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 What do you think you could learn from those that call you to fear the Lord as a hateful god who demands blood atonement?
  
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 Or that they could teach you so the lessons might avail you to the Lord?
  
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 As for those who claim themselves as true servants of the Lord yet preached death and evil
 
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 It was to them that you showed regard.
 
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 Yet it did not concern you that you did not grow in spiritual understanding.
  
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 But as for those who came to you with earnest purpose in a love of all living things
 
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 And had deep respect not fear of the Lord,
 
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 To him you showed little interest.
 
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 No, but verily this is a warning,
 
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 So let whosoever will pay heed to it,
 
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 On honoured leaves  
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 Exalted, purified,  
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 Set down by scribes  
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 Noble and righteous.  
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 Mankind not Allah seeks to destroy itself: how ungrateful!
 
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 What madness then from false teachers that claim He wishes ill upon humanity!
  
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 The Lord did create us. From a single cell from this world and other worlds. He guided the hands of our architects in creating us and proportioned us,
 
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 Then made the way easy for us in understanding of universal wisdsom,
 
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 Then celebrated as each generation came to be born and grieved as each of our ancestors did die;
 
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 Then, through self knowledge the Lord gives us everlasting life of mind.
 
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 Yet, humanity has not done what the Lord commanded.
 
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 Let humanity consider for example its food:
 
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 How we have water in abundance
  
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 Then prepare the fields in clefts
 
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 And cause the grain to grow therein
 
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 And grapes and green fodder  
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 And olive-trees and palm-trees
 
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 And garden-closes of thick foliage
 
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 And fruits and grasses:
 
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 Provision for you and your cattle.
 
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 But when the Call from the Lord comes
 
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 On the day when a man fled from his brother
 
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 And his mother and his father  
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 And his wife and his children,
 
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 Every man that day will have concern enough to make him thoughtless of others.
 
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 On that day some faces will be bright as dawn,
 
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 Laughing, rejoicing at the new beginning and end of evil;
 
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 And yet other faces, on that day, with dust upon them,
 
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 Veiled in regret,  
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 Those are the disbelievers, the wicked whose reign is ended.
 
   
 
 

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