sport ............. Joke & Jest with RELIGION O ye who believe! Choose not for friends such of those who received the Scripture before you, and of the disbelievers, as make a jest and sport of your religion. But keep your duty to Allah if ye are true believers 1 And when ye call to prayer they take it for a jest and sport. That is because they are a folk who understand not 1 Naught is the life of the world save a pastime and a sport. Better far is the abode of the Hereafter for those who keep their duty (to Allah). Have ye then no sense? 1 ye were taught that which ye knew not yourselves nor (did) your fathers (know it)? Say: Allah. Then leave them to their play of cavilling 1 Or are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them in the daytime while they play? 1 And if thou ask them (O Muhammad) they will say: We did but talk and jest. Say: was it at Allah and His revelations and His Messenger that ye did scoff? 1 Blame .....

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