Repentance
[9:85]
And let not their worldly goods and [the happiness which they may derive from] their children excite thy admiration: God but wants to chastise them by these means in [the life of] this world, and [to cause] their souls to depart while they are [still] denying the truth.

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* v.85 : Cf. 3:178 and 8:28, as well as the corresponding notes. This (almost literal) repetition of verse 55 above is meant to stress the psychological importance of this problem (Zamakhsharī) – namely, the insignificance of worldly happiness as compared with spiritual righteousness or the absence of it.