CHAPTER 67.  THE DOMINION                                                     SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

PART  XXIX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  IN WHOSE HANDS IS THE DOMINION, BLESSED IS HE
AND ALL POWER OVER ALL THINGS HAS HE

2  HE WHO CREATED LIFE AND DEATH 
SO HE MAY TRY WHICH OF YOU IS BEST
AND HE IS THE FORGIVING, THE GREATEST

3  HE WHO IS THE CREATOR OF THE SEVEN HEAVENS
ONE ABOVE THE OTHER AND NO WANT OF PROPORTION 
WILL YOU SEE IN YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER'S CREATION 
SO THEN TURN YOUR VISION, DO YOU SEE ANY IMPERFECTION?

4  AGAIN TURN YOUR VISION 
A SECOND TIME AND YOUR VISION 
WILL COME BACK TO YOU IN EXHAUSTION
AND IN A STATE OF HUMILIATION

5  AND WE HAVE WITH LAMPS ADORNED THE LOWEST HEAVEN 
WE HAVE MADE SUCH LAMPS AS MISSILES TO DRIVE AWAY DEMONS 
AND WE HAVE PREPARED FOR THEM THE FIRE FOR THEIR PENALIZATION

6  FOR THOSE WHO REJECT THEIR LORD IS THE PENALTY OF HELL 
AND IT IS AN EVIL PLACE TO DWELL

7  WHEN THEY ARE CAST INTO IT ON THEIR FACES
THEY WILL HEAR THE MOANING OF IT AS IT BLAZES 

8  ALMOST BURSTING WITH FURY AND EVERY TIME A NEW CREW
IS CAST INTO IT ITS KEEPERS ASK, DID NO WARNER COME TO YOU?

9  THEY WILL SAY, YES INDEED 
A WARNER DID COME TO US BUT WE DID NOT TAKE HEED
AND SAID TO HIM, GOD NEVER SENT DOWN A MESSAGE TO ANY 
YOU ARE IN  NOTHING BUT A FANTASY

10  THEY WILL FURTHER SAY, HAD WE BUT LISTENED
OR IF WE HAD ONLY USED OUR DISCRETION
WE WOULD NOT BE AMONG THE FIRE'S COMPANIONS 

11  THEY WILL CONFESS THEIR SINS BUT FORGIVENESS FOR SURE
WILL BE FAR FROM THE COMPANIONS OF THE BLAZING FIRE 

12  AS FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD 
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A GREAT REWARD

13  AND WHETHER YOU HIDE YOUR WORD OR PUBLISH IT 
WHAT IS IN THE HEARTS HE HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF IT

14  SHOULD HE NOT KNOW, HE THAT CREATED ALL THAT YOU SEE  
AND HE IS THE ONE THAT UNDERSTANDS THE FINEST MYSTERIES 
AND WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THEM IS HE?

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CHAPTER 67.  THE DOMINION                                                     SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

15  IT IS HE WHO HAS MADE THE EARTH YOUR HABITATION 
SO TRAVERSE THROUGH ITS DOMINION 
AND ENJOY WHAT HE FURNISHES OF PROVISIONS
BUT TO HIM IS THE RESURRECTION

16  DO YOU FEEL SECURE THAT HE WHO IS IN HEAVEN 
THAT HE WILL NOT CAUSE YOU TO EXPEND 
WHEN THE EARTH AS IN AN EARTHQUAKE IS SHAKEN?

17  OR DO YOU FEEL SECURE THAT HE WHO IS IN HEAVEN 
WILL NOT SEND AGAINST YOU A VIOLENT WIND
SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW HOW SERIOUS WAS MY ADMONITION?

18  BUT MEN REJECTED MY WARNINGS BEFORE THEM
THEN HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY REJECTION OF THEM

19  DO THEY NOT OBSERVE THE BIRDS ABOVE THEM 
SPREADING THEIR WINGS AND FOLDING THEM? 
NONE EXCEPT GOD CAN UPHOLD THEM 
AND OF ALL THINGS HE IS THE WATCHER OVER THEM

20  WHO CAN HELP YOU EVEN AS AN ARMY 
BESIDES YOUR LORD WHO IS FULL OF MERCY? 
THE DISBELIEVERS ARE IN NOTHING BUT FANTASY

21  OR WHO CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH PROVISION
IF HE WERE TO WITHHOLD FROM YOU HIS PROVISION? 
NO, THEY PERSIST IN FLIGHT FROM TRUTH AND REASON
OBSTINATELY WITH INSOLENT REJECTION  

22  IS THEN ONE WHO WALKS WITH OUT SEEING GUIDED MORE RIGHT
THAN ONE WHO WALKS ON A STRAIGHT WAY WITH CLEAR SIGHT?

23  SAY, IT IS HE WHO CREATED YOU AND CAUSED YOUR MATURING 
AND HAS MADE FOR YOU THE FACULTIES OF HEARING
AND SEEING AND FEELING AND UNDERSTANDING 
LITTLE THANKS IT IS THAT YOU ARE GIVING

24  SAY, IT IS HE WHO HAS MULTIPLIED YOU 
THROUGH THE EARTH AND HE WILL GATHER YOU

25  THEY ASK, WHEN WILL THIS PROMISE COME TRUE
IF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE

26  SAY, AS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TIME IT IS WITH GOD ONLY 
AND I AM SENT ONLY TO WARN PLAINLY AND PUBLICLY

27   AT LENGTH WHEN THEY SEE IT COME NEAR
GRIEVED WILL BE THE FACES OF THE DISBELIEVERS
AND IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM, YOUR TERM IS OVER
AND THIS IS WHAT YOU WERE CALLING FOR SO EAGER

28  SAY, SEE IF GOD WERE TO DESTROY ME 
AND THOSE WITH ME OR IF HE BESTOWS ON US HIS MERCY 
THEN WHO CAN DELIVER THE DISBELIEVERS FROM THE PENALTY?

29  SAY, HE IS GOD MOST GRACIOUS AND WE ARE BELIEVERS 
WE TRUST IN HIM AND SOON WILL YOU KNOW CLEARER
WHICH OF US IT IS THAT IS IN MANIFEST ERROR 

30  SAY, SEE IF YOUR STREAM BE LOST SOME MORNING 
WHO THEN CAN SUPPLY YOU WITH CLEAR WATER FLOWING? 

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