LVIII.
Wheresoever ye be, death will overtake you, although you be in lofty towers. If good fortune betide them,[156] they say, ‘This is from God!’ But if evil betide them, they say, ‘This is from thee, O Moḥammad!’ Say, All is from God. And what aileth this people that they are not near to understanding what is said unto them?
Whatsoever good betideth thee, O man, it is from God; and whatsoever evil betideth thee, from thyself is it.
(iv. 80, 81.)
LIX.
†No soul can believe but by the permission of God.
(x. 100.)
LX.
†And whoso willeth taketh the way to his Lord: But ye shall not will it, unless God will it.
(lxxvi. 29, 30.)