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Sura 70
Aya 38
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أَيَطمَعُ كُلُّ امرِئٍ مِنهُم أَن يُدخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعيمٍ

Ali Unal

Does every one of them covet admission into the Garden of bounty and blessing (regarding himself as supremely deserving Paradise, without the effort of faith)?1
  • While the Messenger, upon him be peace and blessings, was reciting the Qur’ān at the Ka’bah, some leading polytheists would come and sit around him in separate circles and stare at him with enmity. They would mock the believers, who were lowly (in worldly wealth and status), and say: “If there is Paradise and people will enter it, then it is more fitting that it should be we who will enter it, not you.”