The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an: Complete Translation with Selected Notes

Allah loves not the wasters.

To such (deceit) let the hearts of those incline, who have no faith in the Hereafter: let them delight in it, and let them earn from it what they may.

you could see, when the angels take the souls of the Unbelievers (at death), (how) they smite their faces and their backs, (saying): “Taste the Penalty of the blazing Fire—51 Because of (the deeds) which your (own) hands sent forth; for Allah is never unjust to His servants:

162 But those among them who are well-grounded in knowledge, and the Believers, believe in what has been revealed to you and what was revealed before you: and (especially) those who establish regular prayer and practise regular charity and believe in Allah and in the Last Day: To them shall We soon give a great reward.

If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah),54 never will it be accepted of him; and in the Hereafter he will be in the ranks of those who have lost (all spiritual good).

you are there only to warn! It is Allah that arranges all affairs!

Such as took their religion to be mere amusement and play, and were deceived by the life of the world.”

If one amongst the Pagans ask you for asylum, grant it to him, so that he may hear the Word of Allah; and then escort him to where he can be secure. That is because they are men without knowledge.

The Muslim position is clear. The Muslim does not claim to have a religion peculiar to himself. Islam is not a sect or an ethnic religion. In its view all Religion is one, for the Truth is one. It was the religion preached by all the earlier prophets. It was the truth taught by all the inspired Books. In essence it amounts to a consciousness of the