The Children of Israel
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[17:15]
Whoever chooses to follow the right path, follows it but for his own good; and whoever goes astray, goes but astray to his own hurt; and no bearer of burdens shall be made to bear another’s burden.
Moreover, We would never chastise [any community for the wrong they may do] ere We have sent an apostle [to them].

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* v.15 : See 6:164, 35:18 and 39:7, as well as the corresponding notes, also 53:38, which represents the earliest Qur’anic statement of this fundamental principle of ethics.
* Sc., “so that they might fully understand the meaning of right and wrong”: cf. 6:131-132 and the corresponding note 117, as well as 28:59 (which, in the chronology of revelation, immediately precedes the present sūrah).