n forgiveness. He
well knew you when He produced you out of the earth, and when ye
were embryos in your mothers' womb. Assert not then your own
purity. He best knoweth who feareth him."--Sura LIII.

13. "O men! verily We have created you of a male and a female: and
We have divided you into peoples and tribes that ye might take
knowledge one of another. Truly the most worthy of honour in the
sight of God is he who feareth Him most. Verily God is Knowing,
Cognizant."--Sura XLIX.

143. "And every _nation_ has a quarter _of the Heavens_. It is God
who turneth them _towards it_: hasten then emulously after good:
wheresover ye be, God will one day bring you all together: verily
God is all powerful."--Sura II.

52. "And to thee We have sent down the Book _of the Koran_ with
truth, confirmatory of previous scripture and its safeguard. Judge
therefore between them by what God hath sent down, and follow not
their desires, after the truth which hath come unto thee. To
everyone of you have We given a rule and an open way."

53. "And if God had pleased He had surely made you all one people;
but He would test you by what He hath given to each. Be emulous
then in good deeds. To God do ye _all_ return, and He will tell you
concerning the subjects of your disputes."--Sura V.

127 "And vie in haste for pardon from your Lord, and a Paradise,
vast as the Heavens and the Earth, prepared for the God-fearing."

128. "Who gives alms, _alike_ in prosperity and _in_ distress, and
who master their anger, and forgive others! And God loveth the doer
of good."

129. "And who, after they have done a base deed or committed a
wrong against their own souls, remember God and implore forgiveness
of their sins--and who can forgive sins but God only?--and
persevere not in what they have willingly done amiss."--Sura III.

21. "Vie in hasting after pardon from your Lord, and
Paradise--whose outspread is as the outspread of the Heaven and of
the Earth. Prepared is it for those who believed in God and his
apostles. Such is the bounty of God: to whom He will He giveth it:
and of immense bounty is God!"--Sura LII.

183. "Ye shall assuredly be tried in your possessions and in
yourselves. And many hurtful things shall ye assuredly hear from
those to whom the scriptures