Sam Harris

The following are some verses from the Qur’an for your information.

God does not change the conditions of a people unless they first change that which is in their hearts. [Qur’an 13:12]

Man shall have nothing but what he strives for. [Qur’an 50:40]

And whatever suffering ye suffer, it is what your hands have wrought. [Qur’an 42:29]

And those who strive in Our (cause), We will certainly guide them to our Paths. [Qur’an 29:69]

By the declining day, Lo! man is a state of loss, save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance. [Qur’an 103: 1-3]

By the soul and Him who balanced it an infused into the same the sense of discrimination and the power of choosing between the wrong and the right, happy is he who keepeth it pure and unhappy is he who corrupteth it. [Qur’an 91: 7-10]

And, O believers, thus have We made of you a nation justly balanced, that you might be a model for all people, even as the Messenger is a model for you.  [Qur’an 2:143]

“What! Deemed ye then that We created you for naught and that ye would not be brought back to Us.” [Qur’an 23:117]

And every man’s deeds have We fastened about his neck. And on the Day of Resurrection will We bring forth to him a book which shall be preferred to him wide open; ‘Read thy book; there needeth none but thyself to make an account against thee this day. [Qur’an 17:13-14]

Those who believe and do right, joy is for them and bliss their journey’s end. What will convey to them what the consuming Fire (Hell), is; it is the fire kindled by God which leapeth over the hearts. [Qur’an 104:5-7]

Lo ! religion with God is Islam. [Qur’an 3:19]

And who seeketh a religion other than Islam, it will not be acceptable from him. [Qur’an 3:85]

Those who wish to separate God from his messengers, those who believe in some and do not believe in others, they are the real infidels and We have prepared for the infidels a terrible doom. [Qur’an 4:150-151]

O Muhammad: When my servants ask thee about Me, say: I am indeed near at hand. I respond to the prayer of every supplicant when he invokes My help. Let them also reciprocate to My call, and believe in Me, that they may become righteous. [Qur’an 2:186]

And say: The Truth is from your Lord, let him then who care to, believe; and let him who will not care to believe not. And if ye do well to your own good will e do so, and if ye do evil, against your own harm will ye do so. No soul earns but for itself and no bearer of burden has to bear the burden of another. [Qur’an 6:164]