and that we used to sit in some of the sittingplaces thereof to steal a hearing but he who would listen now would find a flame lying in wait for him and that we know not whether evil is meant for those who are on earth or whether their lord means to bring them good and that some of us are good and others of us are below that we are sects following different ways and that we know that we cannot escape allah in the earth nor can we escape him by flight and that when we heard the guidance we believed in it so whoever believes in his lord he should neither fear loss nor being overtaken and that some of us are those who submit and some of us are the deviators so whoever submits these aim at the right way and as to the deviators they are fuel of hell and that if they should keep to the way we would certainly give them to drink of abundant water so that we might try them with respect to it and whoever turns aside from the reminder of his lord he will make him enter into an afflicting chastisement and that the mosques are allahs therefore call not upon any one with allah and that when the servant of allah stood up calling upon him they wellnigh crowded him .
وأنا كنا نقعد منها مقاعد للسمع فمن يستمع الآن يجد له شهابا رصدا وأنا لا ندري أشر أريد بمن في الأرض أم أراد بهم ربهم رشدا وأنا منا الصالحون ومنا دون ذلك كنا طرائق قددا وأنا ظننا أن لن نعجز الله في الأرض ولن نعجزه هربا وأنا لما سمعنا الهدى آمنا به فمن يؤمن بربه فلا يخاف بخسا ولا رهقا وأنا منا المسلمون ومنا القاسطون فمن أسلم فأولئك تحروا رشدا وأما القاسطون فكانوا لجهنم حطبا وأن لو استقاموا على الطريقة لأسقيناهم ماء غدقا لنفتنهم فيه ومن يعرض عن ذكر ربه يسلكه عذابا صعدا وأن المساجد لله فلا تدعوا مع الله أحدا وأنه لما قام عبد الله يدعوه كادوا يكونون عليه لبدا