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Then I will come to them from before them and from behind them and on their right and on their left, and You will not find most of them grateful [to You]."
Have they not considered what things Allāh has created? Their shadows incline to the right and to the left, prostrating to Allāh, while they [i.e., those creations] are humble.
And [had you been present], you would see the sun when it rose, inclining away from their cave on the right, and when it set, passing away from them on the left, while they were [lying] within an open space thereof. That was from the signs of Allāh. He whom Allāh guides is the [rightly] guided, but he whom He sends astray - never will you find for him a protecting guide.
And you would think them awake, while they were asleep. And We turned them to the right and to the left, while their dog stretched his forelegs at the entrance. If you had looked at them, you would have turned from them in flight and been filled by them with terror.
There was for [the tribe of] Saba’ in their dwelling place a sign: two [fields of] gardens on the right and on the left. [They were told], "Eat from the provisions of your Lord and be grateful to Him. A good land [have you], and a forgiving Lord."
When the two receivers [i.e., recording angels] receive,1 seated on the right and on the left.
But as for he who is given his record in his left hand, he will say, "Oh, I wish I had not been given my record
So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muḥammad],
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?1
But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.1