SURAH
AL-A'RAF
Allah in the name of The Most Affectionate, the Merciful.
1. 'O beloved prophet! (Alif Lam, Mim, Saad.)
2. A Book has been sent to you, so let there be no impediment
in your heart because of it, so that you may warn therewith
and an admonition to the muslims.
3. 'O people! Follow what has been sent down to you from
your Lord, and do not go behind other masters leaving Him. Very
little you understand.
4. And many a town We have destroyed then Our torment came
upon them by night or while they slept in the noon.
5. Then nothing came out from their mouths when Our torment
came upon them but they said, 'we were unjust people.'
6. Then undoubtedly, We are necessarily to ask from those
to whom Messengers were sent and undoubtedly, We are necessarily
to ask from the Messengers.
7. Then surely We shall tell them with Our knowledge and
We were not absent.
8. And the weighing on that day is sure then those whoso
scales are heavy, they are to attain their objects.
9. And those whose scales are light, then they are the persons
who have put their souls in loss, the recompense of those excesses
which they used to do with Our signs.
10. And undoubtedly, We established you in the earth, and
have made therein the means of your livelihood. How little thanks
you give.
11. And undoubtedly, We created you, then made your shapes,
then We said to the angels, 'prostrate before Adam then all
those fell prostrate, but Iblis (devil); he was not of those
who prostrated.
12. He said, 'what prevented you that you did not fall prostrate
when I ordered you? Said he, I am better than him, You created
me of fire and made him of clay.'
13. He said 'get you down from here, it is not for you that
you may behave proudly living here, get out, you are amongst
the degraded ones.
14. Said, he' give me time till the day they are raised
up'.
15. He said, 'you are given time.'
16. Said he, I swear that because You have seduced me, I
shall necessarily sit on Your straight path in wait for them.
17. Then, surely I will come near them, from before them
and from behind them, and from their right and from their left.
And You will not find most of them thankful.
18. He said, 'get out from here rejected, banished. Surely
those of them who will follow you, I will fill Hell with you
all."
19. And O Adam! Dwell you and your mate in the Paradise
then eat there from where so ever you will, and approach not
this tree, otherwise you will be among transgressors.
20. Then the devil (Satan) put evil suggestion in their
hearts, so that he might open to them the things of their shame
which were hidden from them and said, 'your Lord has for bidden
you from this tree only because you may not become two angels
or become immortals.
21. And he swore to them both that, I am well wisher of
you both.
22. Then he caused them to fall with delusion, then when
they tasted that tree, the things of their shame became manifest
to them, and they began to stick the leaves of the Paradise
on their bodies. And their Lord said to them, 'Did I not forbid
you from that tree and tell you that the Devil (Satan) is your
manifest enemy'.
23. Both of them submitted, 'O Our Lord! We have wronged
ourselves, if You forgive us not and have not mercy on us, then
certainly we are among losers.'
24. He said, 'Get down, in you one is enemy of the another
and you are to stay in earth till a fixed time and there is
provision for a time.
25. He said, 'you will be alive in it, and will die in it,
and therefrom you will be raised.'
26. 'O children of Adam! Undoubtedly, We have sent down
towards you a dress that may cover your shameful parts and one
that be an adornment to you; and the dress of righteousness,
that is the best. This is one of Allah's signs, that I they
may be admonished.
27. 'O children of Adam! Beware! Let not the devil (Satan)
tempts you, as he brought your parents out from the paradise,
stripping them of their dress that they may see their shameful
parts. Undoubtedly, he and his tribe see you whence you see
them not. Undoubtedly, We have made the devils friends of those
who do not believe.
28. And when they commit any indecency, they say, 'we found
our forefathers on it and Allah commanded us so. Then say, 'undoubtedly
Allah commands not acts of indecency.' Do you allege against
Allah what you know not?
29. Say you, My Lord has commanded justice and set your
faces aright at the time of each prayer, and worship Him being
exclusively His bondmen. As He originated you so you will return.'
30. A party He has shown path and the error of a party has
been proved. They have taken the devils (Satan) as guardians
leaving Allah and they think that they are guided.
31. 'O children of Adam! Take your adornment whenever you
go to mosque and eat and drink and do not cross the limit. Undoubtedly,
the persons crossing the limit are not liked by Him.
32. Say you, 'who has forbidden the adornment of Allah,
which He brought forth for His bondmen and the pure foods? Say
you. 'That is for the believers in the world and is exclusively
for them on the Day of Resurrection. Thus We explain fully the
signs for the people who have knowledge.
33. Say you, 'My Lord has forbidden the indecencies, which
of them are open and which are hidden. And sin, and unjust excesses,
and that you associate with Allah that for which He has not
sent down any warrant and that you say of Allah what you know
not.
34. And for every people there is a promise (been), then
when their term will come, they cannot remain behind for an
hour nor they get ahead of it.
35. 'O children of Adam! If the Messengers come to you from
among you, reciting to you My signs! Then whoso refrains from
evil and amends, on them there is neither any fear nor any grief.
36. And those who have belied Our signs and waxed proud
against them, they are the people of Hell, in it they are to
abide.
37. Then who is more unjust than he who has forged lie against
Allah or has belied His signs? They will receive what is written
in their lot till when Our Messengers came to them for taking
away their souls, then they say to them, 'where are those whom
you used to worship beside Allah.' They say, 'they are lost
from us.' and they bear witness against their own souls that
they were infidels.
38. Allah says to them, enter the same Fire where other
communities of Jinn and mankind went before you when a community
enters it, it curses the other; until when all have arrived
therein, then the last will say to the first, 'O our Lord, these
led us astray, then award them double torment Of the Fire. He
will say, 'all have double, but you know not.'
39. And the first will say to the last, 'you have then not
been anyhow better than us, taste therefore the torment the
recompense of what you did'.
40. Those who belied Our signs and waxed proud against them,
the gates of heaven will not be opened for them, nor they will
enter the paradise until the camel enters-through the eye of
a needle. And thus We requite the guilty.
41. To them Fire will be the bed and Fire will be the covering.
And thus We requite the unjust.
42. And those who accepted faith and did good deeds to their
strength. We put not burden on anyone beyond his strength. They
are companions of Paradise; they are to abide therein.
43. And We have taken out the rancours from their breasts.
Beneath them will low rivers and they will say. 'all praise
belong to Allah Who has guided us to this, and we could not
have found the way, if Allah had not guided us, undoubtedly,
the Messengers of our Lord brought truth And it was proclaimed
that this is the paradise you have inherited the reward of your
doings.
44. And the companions of the Heaven called the companions
of the Hell, 'We have found what our Lord promised us to be
true, then have you too found what your Lord promised you to
be true? They said, 'yes,' and in between them a caller called
out: 'the curse of Allah be upon the unjust.'
45. Who bar from the path of Allah and desire to make it
Crooked and dis-believe in the Hereafter.
46. And between Heaven and Hell there is a veil and on the
Heights, there shall be some men who will recognise both groups
by their fore-heads' and call the people of Heaven, '(saying)
peace be upon you, 'these have not entered into the Heaven but
are greedy for it.
47. And when their eyes will turn towards the people of
the Hell, they will say 'O' Our Lord! Keep us not with the unjust
people.
48. And the people of the heights will call to certain men
whom they recognise by their foreheads, and will say, 'what
did your multitude avail you and that in which you took pride'?
49. Are these the people on whom you used to swear that
Allah would not amend His mercy a least to them? They were rather
told, enter Paradise, no fear upon you nor any grief.'
50. And the companions of the Fire will call the companions
of the Heaven that give us some benefit of your water or of
that Allah has provided for you as food. They will say 'undoubtedly,
Allah has for bidden these both to the infidels.'
51. Those who made their religion as a plaything and amusement
and the life of the world has deceived them. Therefore to day
We shall leave them as they had left the conception of meeting
of this Day and as they used to deny Our signs.
52. And surely We have brought them a Book which We have
detailed with great knowledge, a guidance and mercy to the people
who believe.
53. What they are looking for, but only this that the result
of the sayings of the Book should come before. The day when
the foretold result will occur, those who had forgotten it before
will say. 'Undoubtedly the Messengers of our Lord had brought
the truth, then, is there any intercessor for us who could intercede
on our behalf? Or could We be sent back so that we might do
deeds other than that we did before. Surely they put their souls
at a loss, and I have been lost from those who used to calumniate.
54. Undoubtedly, your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens
and earth in six days, then established Himself on the Throne
befitting to His Dignity. He covers the night and day by each
other following it swiftly, and made the sun and moon and stars
all subservient to His command. Behold! His is the creation
and command. Blessed is Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.
55. Call on your Lord humbly and secretly. Undoubtedly,
He likes not those who cross the limit.
56. And spread not mischief in the earth after it has been
set right and call on Him fearing and longing. Surely the mercy
of Allah is nigh to the good doers.
57. It is He who sends forth winds bearing good tidings
before His mercy till they have carried heavy clouds, We drive
it towards any dead land, then send down water therewith. Then
caused to grow varied fruits there with. Thus shall We bring
forth the dead, haply you may accept admonition.
58. And the land, which is good, its vegetation comes forth
with the command of Allah and from that which is bad comes forth
nothing but very little. Thus we explain signs variedly for
those who are grateful.
59. Undoubtedly, We sent Nuh towards his people then he
said. 'O my people! Worship Allah, you have no God other than
He. Surely I fear for you the torment of the Mighty Day.'
60. The leaders of his people said, 'undoubtedly, we see
you in apparent error.
61. Said he, 'O my people no error is in me; but I am Messenger
of the Lord of the Worlds'.
62. I deliver to you the messages of my Lord and wish your
good and I know that from Allah, which you know not.
63. And have this surprised you that an admonition has come
to you from your Lord through a man from amongst you, so that
he may warn you and you be god-fearing and haply you may be
shown mercy?
64. Then they belied him, so We delivered him and those
with him in the Ark and drowned those who belied Our signs,
certainly that was a blind group.
65. And to Aad send Hud from their brethren. He said, `O
my people! worship Allah, you have no god other than He.' Then
do you not fear?
66. The leaders of his people said, 'surely, we find you
foolish and we surely think you to be one of the liars.
67. Said he, 'O my people there is no concern of foolishness
with me, I am indeed a Messenger from the Lord of the worlds.
68. I deliver to you the messages of my Lord and I am your
trustworthy well wisher.
69. And have this surprised you that an admonition has come
to you from your Lord through a man from amongst you, so that
he may warn you? And remember when He appointed you as successors
of the people of Huh and increased the stature of your body;
then remember the bounties of Allah that haply you may fare
well.
70. They said, 'Have you come to us that we should worship
Allah alone and leave what our fathers used to worship, then
bring you that you are promising for us if you are truthful.
71. He said, 'surely there have befallen you the torment
and wrath of Lord. Are you disputing with me only about those
names which you and your fathers have named for which Allah
has sent down no authority? Wait then; I also wait with you.
72. Then We delivered him and those with him by showing
a great mercy from Us and cut off the roots of those who used
to belie Our signs and they were not believers.
73. And to Thamud We sent, Saleh from their brethren. He
said. 'O my people! worship Allah, you have no God other than
He. Undoubtedly, there has come to you bright proof from your
Lord, this is a she-camel of Allah a sign for you. So leave
her that she may eat in Allah's earth and touch her not with
evil lest a painful torment will overtake you.
74. And remember when He made you successors of Aad, and
assigned you a place in the land that you build palaces in its
plains, and hew out houses in its mountains. Then remember the
bounties of Allah and wander not in the earth spreading mischief.
75. The proud leaders of his people said, 'to the weak Muslims,
'do you know that Saleh is a Messenger of his Lord'? They said,
'We believe in what has been sent with him.
76. The proud ones said, 'in that which you belied we disbelieve.'
77. Then they hamstrung the she-camel and rebelled against
the command of their Lord and said, 'O Saleh, 'bring upon '
us that which you are promising for, if you are a Messenger.
78. Then the earthquake took them so in the morning they
lay prostrate in their homes.
79. Then Saleh turned back his face from them and said,
'O my people! Undoubtedly, I did deliver to you the messages
of my Lord, and wished your good, but you do not approve the
well wishers.
80. And sent Lut, when he said to his people, do you commit
that indecency which was ' not committed by any one in, the
world before you?
81. You rather approach men lustily instead of women on
the contrary you people have crossed the limit.
82. And there was no answer of his people but this: They
said, 'turn them out of your town, these people aspire to be
pure.'
83. Then We delivered him and his family saves his wife,
she was of those who remained behind.
84. And We rained down upon them a rain, then behold how
was the end of the sinners?
85. And to Madyan We sent Shuaib from there brethren. He
said, 'O my people worship Allah, there is no God for you other
than He Undoubtedly, there has come to you bright proof from
your Lord, then fill up the measure and weight, and give not
the people goods after diminishing and spread not mischief in
the earth after fair ordering This is good for you, if you believe.
86. And sit not on every path threatening and barring from
Allah's way to the wayfarers who have believed in Him, and desiring
crookedness in it: and remember, when you were few. He multiplied
you, and beholds how was the end of the mischief-makers.
87. And if there is a party of you who believe in that with
which I have been sent and a party who believe not, then wait
till Allah decides between us; and Allah's decision is the
88. The proud Chiefs of his people said, 'O Shoaib, we swear
that we will drive you out and the Muslims who are with you
from our town or you come back to our faith'. He said. What,
even though we hate it?
89. Certainly we shall forge a lie against Allah, if we
returned to your faith after Allah has delivered us from it.
And it is not for we Muslims that we should come back in your
faith but that Allah Who is our Lord so willed. The knowledge
of our Lord comprehends everything. We have relied on Allah.
O our Lord! Decide between us and our people with truth and
Your decision is the best.
90. And the infidel chiefs of his people said, 'if you follow
Shoaib, you shall certainly be the losers.'
91. Then an earthquake over took them; so in the morning
they fell prostrate in their homes,
92. Those who belied Shoaib as if they had never been dwelling
in those homes. Those who belied Shoaib were the people who
were ruined.
93. Then Shoaib turned his face from them and said,' O my
people, I have already delivered to you the messages of my Lord
and admonished for your good, how then should I lament over
infidels.
94. And We have not sent any prophet in any town but We
seized the people thereof with adversity and suffering that
anyhow they might lament.
95. Then We changed the place of evil with good until they
became numerous and said, "no doubt, sufferings and comforts
visited our fathers," then We seized them suddenly while
they were unmindful.
96. And if the people of the towns had believed and feared,
then We would surely have opened upon them blessings from heavens
and earth but they belied, then We arrested them on account
of their doings.
97. Do the people of the towns not fear that Our torment
might come upon them at night while they are sleeping?
98. Or do the people of the towns not fear that Our torment
might come upon them in daylight while they are playing?
99. Are they unaware of the secret devise of Allah? And
none becomes fearless against the secret devise of Allah but
the losers.
100. And do those who inherited the land after the owners
of it not get so much guidance that if We please, We would have
afflicted them for their sins? And We put a seal upon their
hearts so that they hear nothing.
101. These are the towns the stories of which We relate
to you, and undoubtedly, there came to them their Messengers
with bright proofs, but they were not able to believe what they
had first rejected. Thus Allah put a seal upon the, hearts of
the infidels.
102. And We found not most ' of them true to their words,
and necessarily, We found most of them disobedient.
103. Then, after them, We sent Moses towards Firawn (Pharaoh)
and his Chiefs with Our Signs, but they did injustice to those
signs, see then how was the end of the mischief
104. And Moses said, 'O, Firawn! I am a Messenger from the
Lord of the Worlds.
105. It is my duty not to say anything about Allah but the
truth. I have come to you all with sign from your Lord, then
let the children of Israel go with me.
106. He said, 'If you have come with any Sign, then bring
forth if you are truthful.
107. Then Moses cast his staff, it atonce became a serpent
manifest.
108. And he drew forth his hand after putting it into his
collar, then it began to shine before the beholders.
109. The Chiefs of the people of Pharaoh said, 'this is
indeed a magician knowing.'
110. He desires to turn you out from your land, what is
your advice then?
111. They said, 'put him off and his brother, and send into
the city men to collect.
112. That they may bring to you every magician having knowledge.
113. And the magicians came to Pharaoh (Firawn) and said,
we shall get some reward if we win.'
114. Firawn said, 'yes', and then you shall be near ones.
115. They said, 'O Musa, either you throw first or we be
the throwers'.
116. Musa said, 'you throw,' when they threw, they enchanted
the eyes of the people and frightened them and brought forth
a great magic.
117. And We revealed to Musa, throw your staff, then suddenly
it began to swallow their lying shows.
118. Then the truth was established and their works proved
vain.
119. Then they were laid vanquished here and returned humiliated.
120. And the magicians were made to prostrate.
121. They said, 'We believe in the Lord of the World.'
122. Who is the Lord of Musa and Haroon?
123. Firawn said, 'you have believed in Him before I gave
you leave. This is indeed a big plot which you all have plotted
in the city that you may drive forth its people therefrom; so
now you shall know.'
124. I shall assuredly cut off your hands and your feet
on alternate sides, and then I shall hang you all.
125. They said, 'We are to return towards our Lord.
126. And what looked you bad of us, save this that we have
believed in the signs of our Lord, when they came to us, O our
Lord pour upon us patience and cause us die as Muslims.
127. And the Chiefs of the people of Firawn said, 'Do you
leave Musa and his people for this that they may spread mischief
in the land and leave you and your gods? He said, 'now we shall
kill their sons and let live their daughters and surely we are
dominant over them.
128. Musa said to his people, 'seek the help of Allah and
have patience, no doubt, Allah is the owner of the earth. Makes
successor whomsoever He pleases of His bondmen. And the end
is in the hand of the God-fearing
129. They said, 'We were oppressed before your coming to
us and since you have come to us', He said, 'it is near that
your Lord may destroy your foe and make you successor in the
land to see then how you act.
130. And no doubt, We seized the people of Firawn with years
of dearth and scarcity of fruits, haply they may accept admonition.
131. Then whenever, they pot good, they used to say, 'this
is for us', and whenever evil smote them they took it as bad
omen with Musa and those with him. Behold!, their ill fortune
is with Allah, but most of them do not know.
132. And they said, 'whatever the nature of a Sign you may
bring to us to enchant us therewith, we are in no way to believe
you.
133. Then We sent upon them the flood, and the locusts and
the lice, and the frogs and the blood - distinct signs, then
they waxed proud and they were a sinful people.
134. And whenever the torment fell upon them, they used
to say, 'O Musa, pray for us to your Lord because of that covenant
of His which is with you. No doubt, if you would remove from
us the torment, we would certainly believe in you and will send
with you the children of Israel.
135. But whenever We removed the torment from them for a
term to which they were to reach, they retracted.
136. We then took vengeance on them, therefore We drowned
them in the river, because they belied Our Signs and were unaware
of them.
137. And We made a people who were already suppressed, inheritors
of the eastern and western parts of that land in which We put
Our blessings And the gracious promise of your Lord was fulfilled
for the children of Israel, the recompense of their patience.
And We destroyed whatever Firawn and his people made and what
they used to erect.
138. And We brought the children of Israel across the river,
and then they came upon a people sitting devotedly before their
idols. They said, 'O Musa, make for us a God just as they have
so many gods. He said, 'Surely you are an ignorant people'.
139. This condition in which they are, is of destruction
and whatever they are doing is fully void.
140. He said, "Shall I seek for you a God other than
Allah whereas He has exalted you above all peoples.
141. And remember, when We delivered you from the people
of Firawn who afflicted you with evil punishment, slaughtering
your sons and letting your daughters live. And therein was the
great bounty of your Lord.
142. And We made Musa a promise of thirty nights and completed
adding ten more in them, so the promise of his Lord was completed
by forty nights. And Musa said to his brother, Haroon, 'be my
vicegerent among my people and do right and follow not the way
of mischief makers.'
143. And when Musa came to Our appointed time and his Lord
spoke to him, he submitted, 'O my Lord! Show me Your sight that
I may behold You, Said He, you shall never see me; but look
towards this mountain, if it remains standing at its place,
then soon you will see Me. Then when his Lord made His light
shine on the mountain, He broke it into pieces; and Musa fell
down unconscious. Then when he came to senses, he said, hollowed
be you turn towards you and I am the first of the Muslims.
144. Said Allah, 'O Musa, I have chosen you from amongst
the people by My Messages and by My word. Take then what I have
given you and be of the grateful.
145. And We wrote for him on the Tablets of everything an
admonition, and details of everything, and said, 'O Musa, take
it with firmness and bid your people to follow the best of it.
Soon I shall show you the abode of the dis-obedients.
146. And I shall turn from My Signs those who wish greatness
in the earth unjustly, And even if they see all the signs, they
will not believe therein, and if they see the path of guidance,
they will not like to walk in it; and if they see the path of
error, they will be ready to adopt it. This is so because they
belied Our Signs and posed themselves unaware.
147. And those who have belied Our Signs and the meeting
of the Hereafter their all deeds are wasted. What they will
get in recompense but, the same which, they used to do.
148. And after Musa, his people made a calf out of their
ornaments, a lifeless body, producing a lowing sound. Did they
not see that neither it talked to them and nor guided them to
any way? They took it, and they were unjust.
149. And when they regretted and understood that they had
strayed, they said, 'If our Lord have not mercy upon us and
forgives us not, then we are ruined'.
150. And Musa returned to his people full of anger, peeved,
he said, that 'how badly you acted in my place after me'? 'Did
you hasten from the Commends of your Lord'? And he threw down
the tablets and began to pull his brother (Haroon) towards him
catching hold of the hair of his brother head. He said, 'O son
of my mother, the people deemed me week and were about to kill
me, so do not make the enemies laugh over me and place me not
with the unjust people'.
151. He submitted, 'O my Lord, forgive my brother, and me
and cause us to enter Your mercy and You are the most Merciful
of the merciful.
152. Undoubtedly, those who had already taken the calf for
themselves, soon the wrath and disgrace of their Lord are to
reach them in the life of the world. And thus we recompense
those who cast aspersions,
153. And those who committed evils and thereafter repented
and accepted faith, then after that your Lord is Forgiving,
Merciful.
154. And when the anger of Musa was appeased, he took up
the tablets, and in their writing there is guidance and mercy
for those who fear their Lord.
155. And Musa chose seventy men of his people for Our promised
appointment, then when earthquake overtook them, Musa submitted,
'O my Lord, had You wished, then You would have destroyed them
and me before. Will you kill us for what our foolish ones have
done'? That is not but your test, whereby you, cause astray
whom you will, and guide whom you will. You are our Protector,
You forgive us and have mercy upon us, and you are the best
of the forgivers.
156. And prescribe for us in this world good and in the
Hereafter, no doubt, we have returned to You. He said, 'My punishment,
I inflict whom I will, and My mercy encompasses all things.
Then soon I shall prescribe it for those who fear God and pay
the poor due and believe in Our Signs.
157. Those who will serve the Messenger, unlettered the,
Communicator of hidden news when they will find with them have
written in the Taurat and Injeel. He will bid them to do good
and will forbid them from doing evil, and will make lawful for
them clean things and will forbid for them unclean things, and
will take off from them that burden and shackles which were
upon them. Then those who believe in him and honour him and
help him and follow that light which has been sent down with
him, they are the persons who attained their objects.
158. Say you, 'O mankind'; I am Messenger to you all from
Allah to Whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and of the
earth. None is to be worshiped except He, He gives life and
causes death, believe then in Allah and His Messenger the unlettered,
the Communicator of hidden news that he believes in Allah and
His words; and serve him so that you may be guided.'
159. And of the people of Musa, there is a community that
tells the path of truth and does justice therewith.
160. And We divided them in twelve tribes, various communities.
And We revealed to Musa, when his people asked him for water
that strike with your staff this rock, then there gushed forth
from it twelve Springs. Every community recognised its drinking
place. And We made clouds as shades over them, and sent down
Manna and Salwa upon them. Eat of the clean things We provided
for you, and they harmed Us not, but they harmed their own souls.
161. And remember when it was said to them, "Dwell
in this town and eat from it whatever you like, and say, 'our
sins may be removed and enter the gate, prostrating, We shall
forgive you yours sins. Soon We shall give more to righteous
ones.
162. Then the unjust of them changed the word contrary to
that what was ordered to them, then We sent down upon them torment
from the heaven, the recompense of their injustice.
163. And ask them the condition of the town that was on
the seashore; when they crossed the limit in the matter of sab-bath,
when on the day of Sab-bath their fish came swimming before
them, and the day that was not of Sabbath, they did not come.
Thus, We used to try them on account of their dis-obedience.
164. When a group among them said, 'Why do you admonish
those whom Allah is to kill or to chastise with a severe torment'.
They said, 'as an excuse before your Lord, and that haply they
may fear'.
165. Then when they forgot what they had been admonished,
We rescued those who forbade from evil, and caught the unjust
in a vile torment the recompense of their disobedience.
166. Then again when they rebelled against the Command of
prohibition, We said to them, 'be you apes, driven away.'
167. And when your Lord proclaimed that necessarily till
the Day of Resurrection, He would continue to send such against
them who would make them taste evil punishment. Undoubtedly,
your Lord necessarily, is swift in retribution, and undoubtedly.
He is Forgiving, Merciful.
168. And We scattered them into communities in the earth,
some of them are righteous and some of them otherwise and We
tried them with good things and evil that haply they nay return.
169. Then after them came such degenerate successors who
inherited the Book. They take the goods of this world and say,
'now we shall be for given'. And if more goods the like of them
came to them, they would take them. Was not the covenant of
the Book taken from them, that they should say nothing concerning
Allah but the truth, and they have read that? And undoubtedly,
the last abode is better for the God-fearing. Have you then
no wisdom?
170. And those who hold fast to the Book and establish prayer.
We waste not the reward of the righteous.
171. And when We raised mountain over them as that is a
canopy and they thought that it will fall upon them, hold fast
what We have given to you and remember what is therein, that
haply you may be God-fearing.
172. And O beloved Prophet remember, when your Lord brought
forth from the loin of Adam's children their seed and made themselves
witnesses against own selves,' 'Am not your Lord? All said,
'Why not we all bear witness', lest you should say on the Day
of Resurrection, that we were not aware of it.
173. Or lest you should say, Polytheism was committed by
our forefathers before, and we were their offspring! Will you
then destroy us for what was done by wrongdoers?
174. And thus We explain Our; signs variedly and in order
that, they may return.
175. And O beloved Prophet! Relate to them the story of
him to whom We gave Our signs then he stepped away clearly from
them, then Satan followed him and he became of the misguided.
176. And if We had willed, We would have lifted him on account
of Our Signs, but he, clung to the earth and followed his desires,
then his condition is like a dog, if you attack him, he brings
his tongue out and if you leave him, he brings his tongue out.
This is the condition of those who belied Our Signs. So you
recount them the admonition haply they may ponder.
177. What a bad example is of those who belied Our Signs,
and they did wrong their own souls.
178. Whom so Allah guides, he is on the right path, and
whom so Allah leads astray, those, they remained in loss.
179. Undoubtedly, We have created for Hell many jinn and
men, they have hearts, but understand not therewith and the
eyes, they see not there with and the ears, they hear not therewith.
They are like cattle, nay, more misguided. They are indeed lying
heedless.
180. And to Allah belongs all the best names, so call Him
by them, and leave those who go out from truth with regard to
His names, they will soon get for what they have done.
181. And out of Our making are a community who tell the
truth and do justice therewith.
182. And those who belied Our Signs, soon We shall carry
them gradually towards torment whence they will know not.
183. And I will let loose them. Undoubtedly, My secret plan
is the firmest.
184. Do they not ponder that there is no relation of insanity
to their companion? He is only a warner manifests.
185. Do they not look into the kingdom of the heavens and
the earth, and what things that Allah has made, and that perhaps
their term may have come night? Then in what discourse they
will believe thereafter
186. Whomsoever Allah leads astray none is to guide him.
And He leaves them to wander in their Contumacy.
187. They ask you concerning the Hour that when it is to
come, Say you 'the knowledge of it is only with my Lord, He
alone will disclose it at its proper time'. It is lying heavy
on the heavens and earth; it shall not come upon you but of
a sudden. They ask you, as you have already investigated it
well say you, 'the knowledge of it is only with Allah', but
most people do not know.
188. Say you, 'I am not independent for doing good and bad
to my own self, but as Allah please. And if I would have known
Unseen, then I would have gathered ample good, and no evil would
have touched me, I am only a warner and giver of glad tidings
to a people who believe.
189. It is He Who created you from a single soul, and made
therefrom his mate that he may find rest in her, then when the
male covered her, she bore a light burden, then carried it about,
then when she grew heavy, both prayed to their Lord, "necessarily
if You would give us a child befitting, then undoubtedly, we
shall be grateful."
190. Then when He gave them a befitting child, they ascribed
His associates, in respect of His bestowal but Allah is exalted
above from their polytheism.
191. Do they associate those who make nothing and they are
themselves created?
192. And neither they can give any help to them, nor can
they help themselves.
193. And if you call them towards guidance, they will not
follow you. It is same to you whether you call them or you remain
silent.
194. Undoubtedly, those! Whom you worship besides Allah,
are bondsmen like you, then call upon them and they respond
to you, if you are truthful.
195. Have they feet to walk with? Or have they hands to
hold with? Or have they eyes to see with? Or have they ears
to hear with? Say you, 'Call upon your associates and then try
your guile on me and give me no respite'.
196. Undoubtedly, my protector is Allah Who sent down the
Book and He befriends the righteous.
197. And those, whom you worship besides Him, can not help
you, nor they help them selves.
198. And if you call them towards guidance, they hear not.
And you see them looking at you, and they see nothing.
199. (O beloved Prophet)! Adopt forgiveness and bid to good
and turn away from the Ignorant.
200. And (O listener!) if the evil-one (Satan) give you
any pricking, then seek refuge of Allah. Undoubtedly, it is
He Who is Hearing, Knowing.
201. Undoubtedly, those who fear Allah, when a thought of
Satan touches them, become careful, at the same time their eyes
are opened.
202. And those who are brothers of Satan, they drag them
on towards error, then they relax not.
203. And (O beloved Prophet)! When you bring not to them
any Sign, they say, 'Why have you not made it yourself? Say
you, 'I follow only what is revealed to me from my Lord; This
is an eye opener from your Lord and guidance and mercy for the
Muslims.
204. And when the Quran is recited, hear it patiently and
be silent so that you may have mercy.
205. And remember, your Lord within yourself, humbly and
fearfully, and without uttering a voice from the tongue, morning
and evening and be not you amongst heedless.
206. Undoubtedly, those who are with your Lord wax not proud
from His worship, and chant His hollowness and to Him they prostrate.
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