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PERSECUTIONS DONE TO MESSENGERS AND BELIEVERS
We sent Messengers before you among
the disparate groups of previous peoples. No Messenger
came to them without their mocking him. (Qur'an,
15:10-11)
And if you deny it, nations before you also denied
the truth. The Messenger is only responsible for
clear transmission. (Qur'an, 29:18)
When those who do not believe were plotting against
you to imprison you or to kill you or to expel
you: they planned and God planned, but God is
the Best of Planners. (Qur'an, 8:30)
When the believers saw the Confederates they said:
"This is what God and His Messenger promised us.
God and His Messenger told us the truth." It only
increased them in faith and in submission. (Qur'an,
33:22)
New Testament
Blessed are those who are persecuted because
of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of
Heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you,
persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil
against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad,
because great is your reward in Heaven, for in
the same way they persecuted the prophets who
were before you. (Matthew 5:10-12)
Be on your guard against men; they will hand
you over to the local councils and flog you in
their synagogues. On My account, you will be brought
before governors and kings as witnesses to them
and to the Gentiles. (Matthew 10:17-18)
... They called the Apostles in and had them
flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in
the name of Jesus, and let them go. The Apostles
left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had
been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for
the name [of Jesus]. Day after day, in the temple
courts and from house to house, they never stopped
teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus
is the Christ. (Acts 5:40-42)
Old Testament
"Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the
tents of the wicked will be no more." (Job 8:22)
THE REWARD OF THOSE WHO MIGRATE FOR GOD'S SAKE
As for those who migrate for God's
sake after being wronged, We shall give them good
lodging in this world, and the reward of the Hereafter
is greater still, if they only knew. (Qur'an,
16:41)
Those who believe and have migrated and striven
in the Way of God, and those who have given refuge
and help, they are the true believers. They will
have forgiveness and generous provision. (Qur'an,
8:74)
Their Lord responds to them: "I will not let the
deeds of any doer among you go to waste, male
or female-you are both the same in that respect.
Those who migrated and were driven from their
homes, and suffered harm in My Way and fought
and were killed, I will erase their bad actions
from them and admit them into Gardens with rivers
flowing under them, as a reward from God. The
best of all rewards is with God." (Qur'an, 3:195)
New Testament
"I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "no one
who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother
or father or children or fields for me and the
Gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as
much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters,
mothers, children and fields-and with them, persecutions)
and in the age to come, eternal life. (Mark 10:29-30)
All this is evidence that God's judgment is right,
and as a result you will be counted worthy of
the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.
God is just: He will pay back trouble to those
who trouble you and give relief to you who are
troubled, and to us as well... (2 Thessalonians
1:5-7)
BELIEVERS ARE FEW IN NUMBER
But most people, for all your eagerness,
are not believers. (Qur'an, 12:103)
Alif Lam Mim Ra. Those are the Signs of the Book.
And what has been sent down to you from your Lord
is the Truth. But most people do not believe.
(Qur'an, 13:1)
If you obeyed most of those on Earth, they would
misguide you from God's Way. They follow nothing
but conjecture. They are only guessing. (Qur'an,
6:116)
New Testament
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the
gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction,
and many enter through it. But small is the gate
and narrow the road that leads to life, and only
a few find it. (Matthew 7:13-14)
GOD CHOOSES BELIEVERS
Say: "Praise be to God and peace
be upon His servants, whom He has chosen." Is
God better, or what you associate with Him? (Qur'an,
27:59)
New Testament
But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers
loved by the Lord, because from the beginning
God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying
work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
(2 Thessalonians 2:13)
Old Testament
... Your God has chosen them to minister and
to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord…
(Deuteronomy 21:5)
GOD'S GIFT TO BELIEVERS
… Do not say: "You are not a believer"
to someone who greets you as a Muslim, simply
out of desire for the goods of this world. With
God there is booty in abundance. That is the way
you were before, but God has been kind to you...
(Qur'an, 4:94)
New Testament
For it is by grace you have been saved, through
faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the
gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast.
(Ephesians 2:8-9)
Old Testament
When you are in distress and all these things
have happened to you, then in Latter Days you
will return to the Lord your God and obey Him.
For the Lord your God is a merciful God; He will
not abandon or destroy you, or forget the covenant
with your forefathers, which He confirmed to them
by oath. (Deuteronomy 4:30-31)
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