إِن كَادَ لَيُضِلُّنَا عَنْ ءَالِهَتِنَا لَوْلَآ أَن صَبَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا ۚ وَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ حِينَ يَرَوْنَ ٱلْعَذَابَ مَنْ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا
In kaada la yudillunaa 'an aalihatinaa law laaa an sabarnaa 'alaihaa; wa sawfa ya'lamoona heena yarawnal 'azaaba man adallu sabeela
He almost would have misled us from our gods had we not been steadfast in [worship of] them." But they are going to know, when they see the punishment, who is farthest astray in [his] way.
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25:42Ayah 177
3 ayahs in Al-Furqaan are strongly about patience. This is one of them.
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Indeed in softened in place of the hardened form with its subject omitted namely innahu he was about to lead us astray turn us away from our gods had we not stood by them’ he would have turned us away from them. God exalted be He says And soon they will know when they behold the chastisement with their own eyes in the Hereafter who is further astray from the way who is further upon the path of error they or the believers?
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