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Have you not seen those who praise themselves for purity? namely, the Jews, when they say, 'We are Allah’s children and His beloved', in other words, it is not a matter of their purifying themselves. Nay, Allahu ta’ālā purifies whom He will, through faith, and they shall not be wronged, they shall not be diminished of their deeds, a single date-thread, as much as the peel on a date-stone.