13. "O men! verily We have created you of a male and a female: and We have divided you into peoples and tribes that ye might take knowledge one of another. Truly the most worthy of honour in the sight of God is he who feareth Him most. Verily God is Knowing, Cognizant."--Sura XLIX. 143. "And every _nation_ has a quarter _of the Heavens_. It is God who turneth them _towards it_: hasten then emulously after good: wheresover ye be, God will one day bring you all together: verily God is all powerful."--Sura II. 52. "And to thee We have sent down the Book _of the Koran_ with truth, confirmatory of previous scripture and its safeguard. Judge therefore between them by what God hath sent down, and follow not their desires, after the truth which hath come unto thee. To everyone of you have We given a rule and an open way." 53. "And if God had pleased He had surely made you all one people; but He would test you by what He hath given to each. Be emulous then in good deeds. To God do ye _all_ return, and He will tell you concerning the subjects of your disputes."--Sura V. 127 "And vie in haste for pardon from your Lord, and a Paradise, vast as the Heavens and the Earth, prepared for the God-fearing." 128. "Who gives alms, _alike_ in prosperity and _in_ distress, and who master their anger, and forgive others! And God loveth the doer of good." 129. "And who, after they have done a base deed or committed a wrong against their own souls, remember God and implore forgiveness of their sins--and who can forgive sins but God only?--and persevere not in what they have willingly done amiss."--Sura III. 21. "Vie in hasting after pardon from your Lord, and Paradise--whose outspread is as the outspread of the Heaven and of the Earth. Prepared is it for those who believed in God and his apostles. Such is the bounty of God: to whom He will He giveth it: and of immense bounty is God!"--Sura LII. 183. "Ye shall assuredly be tried in your possessions and in yourselves. And many hurtful things shall ye assuredly hear from those to whom the scriptures were given before you, and from those who join other gods with God. But if ye be steadfast and fear God, then this verily is _God's_ decree for the affairs of _life_."--Sura III. 16. "O my son! observe prayer and enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and be patient under whatever shall betide thee: verily this is a bounden duty."--Sura XXXI. 38. "Yet let the recompense of evil be only a like evil; but he who forgiveth and maketh peace, shall find his reward for it from God; verily He loveth not those who act unjustly." 39. "And there shall be no way _open_ against those who, after being wronged, avenge themselves."