True Believers

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WHO ARE TRUE BELIEVERS OF GOD

God defines His believers in these verses of Surah Al Anfaal and Surah al Muminun:

“They only are the Believers whose hearts feel fear when God is mentioned, and when His verses are recited unto them they increase their faith, and who trust in their Lord; Who establish worship and spend of that We have bestowed on them. Those are they who are Real Believers. For them are grades (of honour) with their Lord, and Pardon, and a Bountiful Provision.” [Holy Quran, 8:2-4]

“Those who believed and left their homes and strove for the cause of God, and those who took them in and helped them - these are the Real Believers. For them is Pardon, and Bountiful Provision. And those who afterwards believed and left their homes and strove along with you, they are of you; and those who are akin are nearer one to another in the ordinance of God. Lo! God is Knower of all things.” [Holy Quran, 8:74-75]

“Successful indeed are the believers; Who are humble in their prayers, And who shun vain conversation, And who are payers of the poor-due; And who guard their modesty; Except from their wives or what their right hands possess, for then they are not blameworthy, But whoso craves beyond that, such are transgressors; And who are shepherds of their pledge and their covenant, And who pay heed to their prayers. These are the heirs; Who will inherit Paradise. There they will abide.” [Holy Quran, 23:1-11]

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WHO ARE REAL KAFIRS

In these verses of Surah Al Nisa, God tells us who are His deniers:

“Whoever disbelieves in God and His Angels and His scriptures and His messengers and the Last Day, he verily has wandered far astray. Lo! those who believe, then disbelieve and then (again) believe, then disbelieve, and then increase in disbelief, God will never forgive them, nor will He guide them to a way. Give to the hypocrites the news that for them there is a painful doom. Those who chose disbelievers for their friends instead of believers! Do they look for honour at their hands? Lo! all honour belongs to God. He has already revealed to you in the Book that, when you hear the verses of God rejected and mocked, (you) sit not with them until they engage in some other conversation. Lo! in that case you would be like them. Lo! God will gather hypocrites and disbelievers, all together, into hell; Those who wait upon occasion in regard to you and, if a victory comes to you from God, say: Are we not with you? and if the disbelievers meet with a success say: Had we not the mastery of you, and did we not protect you from the believers? - God will judge between you at the Day of Resurrection. God will not give the disbelievers a way against the believers. Lo! the hypocrites seek to fool God, but it is He Who fools them. When they stand up to worship they perform it reluctantly, and to be seen of men, and little remember God. (They are) swaying between this (and that), (belonging) neither to these nor to those. He whom God causes to go astray, you (O Prophet) will not find a way for him. O you who believe! Choose not disbelievers for (your) friends in place of believers. Would you give God a clear case against you? Lo! the hypocrites (will be) in the lowest deep of the Fire, and you will find no helper for them. Other than that, those who repent and amend and hold fast to God and make their religion pure for God. Those are with the believers. And God will bestow on the believers an immense reward. What concern has God for your punishment if you are grateful (to Him) and believe? God was ever Responsive, Aware. God loves not the shouting of harsh speech except by one who has been wronged. God is ever Hearer, Knower. If ye do good openly or keep it secret, or forgive evil, lo! God is ever Forgiving, Powerful. Lo! those who disbelieve in God and His messengers, and seek to make distinction between God and His messengers, and say: We believe in some and disbelieve in others, and seek to choose a way in between; such are real disbelievers; and for disbelievers We prepare a shameful doom. But those who believe in God and His messengers and make no distinction between any of them, to them God will give their rewards; and God was ever Forgiving, Merciful.” [Holy Quran, 4:136-152].

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