We sent Messengers before you among the disparate groups of previous
peoples. No Messenger came to themwithout 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 HisMessenger 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 evilagainst 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 againstmen; 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 themflogged. 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 thename [of Jesus]. Day afterday, 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 goodlodging 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 areward 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 toreceive 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 thekingdom 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 aswell... (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
theroad 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 youto 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 inLatter 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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