[9:69]
Even as those before you who were mightier than
you in strength, and more affluent than you in wealth and children. They
enjoyed their lot awhile, so ye enjoy your lot awhile even as those before you
did enjoy their lot awhile. And ye prate even as they prated. Such are they
whose works have perished in the world and the Hereafter. Such are they who are
the losers.
[9:70]
Hath not the fame of those before them reached
them - the folk of Noah, A’ad, Thamud, the folk of Abraham, the dwellers of
Midian and the disasters (which befell them) ? Their messengers (from Allah)
came unto them with proofs (of Allah’s Sovereignty). So Allah surely wronged
them not, but they did wrong themselves.
[9:71]
And the believers, men and women, are protecting
friends one of another; they enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and they
establish worship and they pay the poor-due, and they obey Allah and His
messenger. As for these, Allah will have mercy on them. Lo! Allah is Mighty,
Wise.
[9:72]
Allah promiseth to the believers, men and women,
Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide - blessed
dwellings in Gardens of