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Al-Ma'idah 5:57

O Ye who believe! Choose not for guardians such of those who received the Scripture before you, and of the disbelievers, as make a jest and sport of your religion. But keep your duty to Allah if ye are true believers

Al-An'am 6:32

Naught is the life of the world save a pastime and a sport. Better far is the abode of the Hereafter for those who keep their duty (to Allah). Have ye then no sense

Al-An'am 6:91

And they measure not the power of Allah its true measure when they say: Allah hath naught revealed unto a human being. Say (unto the Jews who speak thus): Who revealed the Book which Moses brought, a light and guidance for mankind, which ye have put on parchments which ye show, but ye hide much (thereof), and (by which) ye were taught that which ye knew not yourselves nor (did) your fathers (know it)? Say: Allah. Then leave them to their play of cavilling

Al-A'raf 7:98

Or are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them in the daytime while they play

Yusuf 12:12

Send him with us to-morrow that he may enjoy himself and play. And lo! we shall take good care of him

Al-Anbiya 21:16

We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between them in play

Al-Ankabut 29:64

This life of the world is but a pastime and a game. Lo! the home of the Hereafter - that is Life, if they but knew

Ad-Dukhan 44:9

Nay, but they play in doubt

Muhammad 47:36

The life of the world is but a sport and a pastime. And if ye believe and ward off (evil). He will give you your wages, and will not ask of you your wordly wealth

Al-Hadid 57:20

Know that the life of the world is only play, and idle talk, and pageantry, and boasting among you, and rivalry in respect of wealth and children; as the likeness of vegetation after rain, whereof the growth is pleasing to the husbandman, but afterward it drieth up and thou seest it turning yellow, then it becometh straw. And in the Hereafter there is grievous punishment, and (also) forgiveness from Allah and His good pleasure, whereas the life of the world is but matter of illusion

And when you call for Prayer, they take it for a mockery and sport. That is because they are a people who do not understand

Leave alone those who have made a sport and a pastime of their religion and whom the life of the world has beguiled. But continue to admonish them (with the Qur'an) lest a man should be caught for what he has himself earned for there shall neither be any protector nor intercessor apart from Allah; and though he may offer any conceivable ransom it shall not be accepted from him, for such people have been caught for the deeds that they have themselves earned. Boiling water to drink and a painful chastisement to suffer for their unbelief is what awaits them

who have made their religion a sport and play. and whom the life of the world has beguiled. So on that Day We shall forget them in the manner they forget their meeting of this Day with Us and persist in denying Our revelations

Should you question them what they were talking about, they would certainly say: "We were merely jesting and being playful." Tell them: "Was it Allah and His revelation and His Messenger that you were mocking

Whenever any fresh admonition comes to them from their Lord they barely heed it and remain immersed in play

They said: "Are you expressing your true ideas before us or are you jesting

So leave them alone to indulge in their vanities and to frolic about until they encounter that Day of theirs against which they have been warned

It was not in idle sport that We created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them

and amuse themselves with vain argumentation

So leave them to engage in vain talk and to amuse themselves until they come face to face with the Day which they are promised