CHAPTER 11.  HUD                                                                                   SECTION 1.  PART XI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD AM THE SEER 
THIS IS A BOOK WITH VERSES THAT ARE FUNDAMENTAL AND CLEAR
WITH ESTABLISHED MEANINGS AND EXPLAINED FURTHER
FROM ONE WHO IS WISE AND AWARE 

2  IT TEACHES THAT YOU SHOULD SERVE NONE BUT GOD.  
SAY, I AM SENT TO YOU AS A MESSENGER FROM GOD
TO WARN AND GIVE YOU GOOD NEWS FROM GOD

3  SEEK THE FORGIVENESS OF YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
AND TURN TO HIM AND HE WILL BE YOUR PROVIDER 
OF GOOD PROVISIONS AND BESTOW HIS FAVOR 
ON EVERY ONE ENDOWED WITH FAVOR 
IF YOU TURN AWAY, FOR YOU I FEAR 
THE SEVERE PENALTY OF THE HEREAFTER

4  TO GOD WILL BE YOUR RETURNING 
AND HE HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS

5  THEY FOLD UP THEIR HEARTS IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY LIE HIDDEN
BUT EVEN WHEN THEY COVER THEMSELVES WITH THEIR GARMENTS
HE KNOWS WHAT THEY KEEP HIDDEN AND WHAT THEY LAY OPEN
FOR HE KNOWS SECRETS WITHIN THE HEARTS OF MEN

PART  XII

6  THERE IS NO CREATURE ON EARTH BUT ITS SUSTAINING
DEPENDS ON GOD, WHO KNOWS THE PLACE OF ITS RESTING
AND KNOWS THE PLACE OF ITS TEMPORARY DEPOSITING
IT IS ALL RECORDED IN A CLEAR RECORDING

7  IN SIX DAYS HE CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH 
AND HIS THRONE WAS ESTABLISHED OVER THE WATERS
SO THAT HE  MAY TEST WHICH OF YOU IS BEST IN MANNER
IF YOU SAID TO THEM, FROM DEATH YOU WILL BE RAISED UP AFTER
THE DISBELIEVERS WOULD SAY THAT YOU ARE A SORCERER

8  IF THE PENALTY FOR THEM WE DID DELAY
FOR A DEFINITE TERM THEY WOULD SAY
WHAT KEEPS IT BACK, BUT ON THE DAY 
IT REACHES THEM NOTHING WILL TURN IT AWAY 

AND THEY WILL BE ENCIRCLED COMPLETELY 
BY THAT AT WHICH THEY USE TO MAKE MOCKERY

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9  IF WE GIVE TO MAN A TASTE OF MERCY 
THEN WITHDRAW IT FROM HIM SUBSEQUENTLY
THEN HE IS IN DESPAIR AND FALLS INTO BLASPHEMY

10  BUT IF WE GIVE HIM A TASTE OF OUR FAVORS AFTER ADVERSITY 
THEN HE IS SURE TO SAY, ALL EVIL HAS DEPARTED FROM ME 
AND HE FALLS INTO EXULTATION PROUDLY

11  NOT SO DO THOSE WHO SHOW FIRMNESS
AND CONSTANCY AND WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS 
FOR THEM IS A GREAT REWARD AND FORGIVENESS 

12  PERCHANCE YOU MAY FEEL THE INCLINATION 
TO GIVE UP PART OF WHAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED OF REVELATION 
AND YOUR HEART FEELS IN A STRAIGHTENED CONDITION

BECAUSE THEY SAY, WHY IS NOT A TREASURE SENT DOWN TO HIM?  
OR THEY SAY, WHY ARE THERE NOT ANGELS WITH HIM?  

BUT YOU ARE THERE ONLY AS A WARNER
IT IS GOD THAT ARRANGES ALL AFFAIRS

13  OR THEY MAY SAY, HE IS A FORGER 
SAY, THEN BRING LIKE IT TEN FORGED CHAPTERS 
AND CALL WHOEVER YOU CAN BESIDES THE CREATOR
TO YOUR AID IF WHAT YOU SAY IS PROPER

14  IF YOU GET NO ANSWER FROM YOUR FALSE GODS
KNOW THAT THIS REVELATION IS FROM GOD 
BESIDES HIM THERE IS NO OTHER GOD 
WILL YOU THEN SUBMIT TO GOD?

15  THOSE WHO DESIRE 
THE LIFE OF THE PRESENT AND ITS GLITTER 
TO THEM WE WILL PAY THEM IN IT THEIR SHARE
BUT FOR THEM THERE IS NOTHING IN THE HEREAFTER 
BUT THE CHASTISEMENT OF THE FIRE 

16  VAIN ARE THE DESIGNS THEY CONSTRUE
AND OF NO EFFECT ARE THE DEEDS THAT THEY DO

17  CAN THEY BE LIKE THOSE WHO HEAR THE MESSAGE AND ACCEPT IT
AND WHO A WITNESS FROM HIMSELF DOES TEACH IT
AS DID THE BOOK OF MOSES BEFORE IT 
A GUIDE AND A MERCY AND THEY BELIEVE IN IT? 
BUT AS FOR THOSE WHO REJECT IT 
THE FIRE WILL BE THEIR PLACE, BE NOT IN DOUBT ABOUT IT 
FOR IT IS THE TRUTH FROM GOD BUT MOST MEN DISBELIEVE IT 

18  WHO DOES MORE WRONG THAN HE WHO LIES ABOUT GOD? 
THEY WILL BE TURNED BACK TO THE PRESENCE OF GOD 
THE WITNESSES SAY, THESE ARE THEY WHO LIED AGAINST GOD 
ON THOSE WHO DO WRONG IS THE CURSE OF GOD

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CHAPTER 11.  HUD                                                              SECTION 2 (CONT'D)). PART XII

19  THOSE WHO WOULD HINDER 
MEN FROM THE PATH OF GOD, THE CREATOR
AND WOULD SEEK IN IT SOMETHING IN ERROR
THESE WERE THE ONES WHO DENIED THE HEREAFTER

20  THEY WILL NOT FRUSTRATE GOD'S PLAN IN THE LEAST DEGREE
NOR AS PROTECTORS BESIDES GOD WILL THEY HAVE ANY
AND THEY WILL HAVE FROM GOD A DOUBLED PENALTY  
FOR THAT THEY LOST THE POWER TO HEAR AND SEE

21  THEY ARE THE ONES 
WHO HAVE LOST THEIR OWN SOULS AND THEIR INVENTIONS 
HAVE LEFT THEM IN DISPOSITION

22  THESE ARE THE VERY ONES WHO WILL BE LOSERS  
IN THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER

23  BUT THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUSLY
AND HUMBLE THEMSELVES BEFORE GOD THEY WILL SURELY
BE COMPANIONS OF THE GARDEN TO DWELL IN IT FOR ETERNITY  

24  THESE TWO KINDS OF MEN MAY BE COMPARED 
THE BLIND AND THE DEAF AND THOSE WHO SEE AND HEAR  
ARE THEY HELD EQUALLY WHEN THEY ARE COMPARED?
WILL YOU NOT THEN CAREFULLY CONSIDER?

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CHAPTER 11.  HUD                                                                                 SECTION 3.  PART XII

25  WE SENT NOAH TO HIS PEOPLE WITH A MISSION SAYING
I HAVE COME TO YOU WITH A CLEAR WARNING

26  THAT YOU SERVE GOD ONLY 
I FEAR FOR YOU A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

27  THE CHIEFS OF THE DISBELIEVERS SAID, FOR US
WE DO SEE YOU AS NOTHING BUT A MAN LIKE US 
NOR DO WE SEE IN YOU ANY MERIT ABOVE US
YOU ARE FOLLOWED BY THE WEAKEST OF US
WE THINK YOU ARE REALLY LYING TO US

28  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, SEE IF I HAVE WITH ME
A SIGN FROM GOD AND HE HAS GRANTED ME MERCY
AND OBSCURE FROM YOUR SIGHT HAS BEEN THAT MERCY
SHOULD WE COMPEL YOU TO ACCEPT IT WHEN YOU ACT REBELLOUSLY?

29  AND OH MY PEOPLE, I ASK YOU FOR NO REWARD 
FOR MY REWARD IS ONLY FROM MY LORD

I WILL NOT DRIVE AWAY IN CONTEMPT THOSE WHO BELIEVE
FOR THEY ARE TO MEET WITH THEIR LORD SURELY
AND YOU ARE THE ONES ACTING IGNORANTLY

30  AND OH MY PEOPLE, AGAINST GOD WHO WOULD HELP ME 
IF I DROVE THEM AWAY,  WILL YOU NOT THEN TAKE HEED?

3I  I DO NOT SAY TO YOU THAT WITH ME ARE THE TREASURES OF GOD 
NOR DO I KNOW WHAT IS HIDDEN NOR AM I AN ANGEL OF GOD
NOR YET DO I SAY OF THOSE WHOM YOU DESPISE THAT GOD
WILL NOT GRANT THEM ALL THAT IS GOOD FOR GOD 
KNOWS THEIR SOULS, IF I DID I WOULD DEFY GOD

32  THEY SAID, OH NOAH, YOU HAVE DISPUTED WITH US 
AND MUCH HAVE YOU PROLONGED THE DISPUTE WITH US 
NOW BRING UPON US THAT WITH WHICH YOU THREATEN US 
IF YOU ARE SPEAKING THE TRUTH TO US

33  HE SAID, IF GOD WILLS UPON YOU HE WILL BRING IT 
AND YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FRUSTRATE IT

34  OF NO PROFIT WILL BE MY COUNSEL TO YOU 
AS MUCH AS I DESIRE TO GIVE GOOD COUNCIL TO YOU 
IF IT BE THAT ASTRAY YOUR LORD WILLS TO LEAVE YOU 
HE IS YOUR LORD AND TO HIM YOU WILL RETURN TO

35  OR DO THEY SAY, HE HAS FORGED IT? 
SAY, IF I HAVE FORGED IT 

ON ME IS MY SIN AND I AM FREE 
OF THE SINS OF WHICH YOU ARE GUILTY

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36  IT WAS REVEALED TO NOAH, YOUR PEOPLE WILL NOT BELIEVE 
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THOSE WHO ALREADY BELIEVE 
SO GRIEVE NO LONGER OVER THEIR EVIL DEEDS

37  BUT CONSTRUCT AN ARK UNDER OUR EYES AND OUR AUTHORITY
AND ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO ARE IN SIN DO NOT ADDRESS ME 
FOR THEY WILL BE OVERWHELMED IN THE FLOOD COMPLETELY

38  SO HE STARTS CONSTRUCTING THE ARK WITH HIS PEOPLE
AND EVERY TIME THAT THE CHIEFS OF HIS PEOPLE 
PASSED BY HIM THEY THREW ON HIM RIDICULE.  
HE SAID, YOU NOW THROW ON US RIDICULE 
WE IN OUR TURN CAN LOOK DOWN ON YOU WITH RIDICULE 

39  SOON WILL YOU KNOW ON WHOM WILL DESCEND A PENALTY 
THAT WILL COVER THEM WITH SHAME AND ON WHOM WILL BE 
UNLOOSED A SEVERE AND LASTING PENALTY 

40  AT LENGTH THERE CAME OUR COMMAND AND THEN ABRUPTLY
THE WATERS OF THE EARTH GUSHED FORTH FROM THE VALLEY
AND WE SAID, EMBARK ON THE ARK, YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
AND WITH ALL THINGS IN PAIRS IN IT YOU WILL CARRY
EXCEPT THOSE WHOM THE WORD HAS GONE FORTH ALREADY 
BUT ONLY A FEW WITH HIM BELIEVED TRULY

41  SO HE SAID, EMBARK
ON THE ARK 

IN THE NAME OF GOD, WHETHER IT MOVE OR BE AT REST
FOR MY LORD IS FULL OF MERCY AND FORGIVENESS 

42  SO THE ARK BEGAN FLOATING ON WAVES LIKE MOUNTAINS  
AND NOAH CALLED OUT TO GIVE THE WARNING TO HIS SON 
WHO HAD SEPARATED HIMSELF FROM THE OTHER ONES
NOAH SAID TO HIM, EMBARK WITH US MY SON
AND BE NOT WITH THE UNBELIEVING ONES

43  THE SON REPLIED, I WILL CLIMB UP TO A MOUNTAIN 
AND IT WILL SAVE ME FROM THE WATER FOR CERTAIN
NOAH SAID, THIS DAY NOTHING CAN SAVE ANYONE 
BUT THOSE ON WHOM GOD HAS COMPASSION
AND THE WAVES CAME BETWEEN THEM AND THE SON 
WAS AMONG THOSE IN THE FLOOD OF THE DROWNED ONES

44  THE WORD WENT FORTH, OH EARTH, SWALLOW UP YOUR WATER 
AND OH SKY, WITHHOLD YOUR WATER
AND THEN ABATED WAS THE WATER
AND ENDED WAS THE MATTER  
AND ON THE MOUNTAIN THE ARK RESTED AFTER
THE WORD WENT FORTH, AWAY WITH THE WRONG DOERS

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45  NOAH CALLED UPON HIS LORD SAYING THIS
MY SON IS OF MY FAMILY AND YOUR PROMISE 
IS TRUE AND YOU ARE THE JUSTEST OF JUDGES

46  GOD SAID, OH NOAH, HE IS NOT OF YOUR FAMILY 
FOR HIS CONDUCT IS UNRIGHTEOUS SO ASK NOT OF ME 
THAT OF WHICH YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF CERTAINTY
FOR I GIVE YOU GOOD COUNSEL LEST YOU ACT  IGNORANTLY

47  NOAH SAID, MY LORD, I SEEK REFUGE WITH YOU SINCERELY
LEST I ASK FOR THAT OF WHICH I HAVE NO CERTAINTY
UNLESS YOU FORGIVE AND HAVE MERCY ON ME
I WILL BE LOST ASSUREDLY 

48  AND THE WORD CAME, OH NOAH, DESCEND WITH PEACE 
FROM US ON YOU AND ON SOME OF THE PROGENY
FROM THOSE WITH YOU, BUT THERE WILL BE 
OTHER PEOPLE TO WHOM WILL WE 
GRANT THEIR PLEASURES FOR A TIME TEMPORARILY
IN THE END WE WILL REACH THEM WITH A GRIEVOUS PENALTY 

46  THESE ARE SOME OF THE UNSEEN STORIES
WHICH WE HAVE REVEALED TO YOU WHICH YOU PREVIOUSLY
NOR YOUR PEOPLE KNEW THEM, SO PERSEVERE PATIENTLY 
THE GOOD END IS FOR THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

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CHAPTER 11.  HUD                                                                                SECTION 5.  PART XII

50  TO THE AD PEOPLE WE SENT HUD, ONE OF THEIR OWN BROTHERS 
HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD, THE CREATOR
YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD BUT HIM, YOU ARE ONLY FABRICATORS

51  OH MY PEOPLE, I ASK NO REWARD FOR THIS MESSAGE FOR ME
MY REWARD IS FROM HIM WHO CREATED ME 
WILL YOU NOT THEN UNDERSTAND ME?

52  AND OH MY PEOPLE, ASK GOD'S MERCY
TURNING TO HIM REPENTFULLY
HE WILL SEND YOU THE SKIES TO POUR RAIN ABUNDANTLY
AND STRENGTHENING YOUR STRENGTH SO COMMIT NO INIQUITY

53  THEY SAID, OH HUD, NO CLEAR SIGN HAVE YOU BROUGHT TO US
AND WE ARE NOT THE ONES TO DESERT OUR GODS FROM US
ON YOUR WORD NOR WILL YOU BE BELIEVED BY US

54  WE SAY NOTHING BUT THAT POSSIBLY
SOME OF OUR GODS MAY HAVE SEIZED YOU WITH IMBECILITY 
HE SAID, AND I CALL MY LORD TO WITNESS THAT I AM FREE 
FROM THE SIN OF ASCRIBING TO HIM PARTNERS IN DIETY

55  SO SCHEME YOUR WORST SCHEME AGAINST ME 
ALL OF YOU AND GIVE NO RESPITE TO ME

56  I PUT MY TRUST IN MY LORD COMPLETELY
THERE IS NOT A MOVING CREATURE, BUT HE SURELY
HAS GRASP OF IT AND MY LORD IS ON A STRAIGHT PATH INDEED

57  IF YOU TURN AWAY I AT LEAST HAVE CONVEYED TO YOU
THE MESSAGE WITH WHICH I WAS SENT TO YOU 

AND YOU WILL NOT HARM HIM IN THE LEAST THING
FOR MY LORD HAS CARE AND WATCH OVER ALL THINGS

58  SO WHEN WAS ISSUED OUR DECREE 
WE SAVED HUD AND THOSE WITH HIM WHO BELIEVED 
BY SPECIAL GRACE FROM OURSELVES, AND WE DID SURELY 
SAVE THEM FROM A SEVERE PENALTY

59  SUCH WERE THE AD PEOPLE, THEY WERE REJECTERS 
OF THE SIGNS OF THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER 
AND THEY DISOBEYED HIS MESSENGER 
AND FOLLOWED THE COMMAND OF EVERY TRANSGRESSOR

60  AND OVERTAKEN WERE THEY 
BY A CURSE IN THIS LIFE AND ON JUDGMENT DAY
FOR THE AD PEOPLE REJECTED GOD AND WENT ASTRAY
SO THE AD PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE OF HUD WERE SWEPT AWAY

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CHAPTER 11.  HUD                                                                                 SECTION 6.  PART XII

61  TO THE THAMUD PEOPLE WE SENT SALIH THEIR OWN BROTHER
HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD, THE CREATOR
BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER  
IT IS HE WHO HAS PRODUCED YOU FROM THE EARTH
AND IN IT SETTLED YOU SO ASK FORGIVENESS OF YOUR MAKER 
AND TURN IN REPENTANCE TO HIM FOR YOUR LORD IS ALWAYS NEAR 
AND HE IS ALWAYS READY TO ANSWER AND FORBEAR

62  THEY SAID, OH SALIH, OF OUR HOPES YOU HAVE BEEN A CENTER 
DO YOU NOW THEN FORBID US THE WORSHIP OF OUR FATHERS?
WE ARE SUSPICIOUS AS TO THAT TO WHICH YOU ASPIRE

63  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, DO YOU SEE 
IF I HAVE A CLEAR SIGN FROM GOD WITH ME
AND THAT HE HAS BESTOWED ON ME HIS MERCY 
AND WHO THEN AGAINST THE CREATOR CAN HELP ME 
IF I WERE TO REBELLIOUSLY DISOBEY HIM INSOLENTLY  
WHAT THEN WOULD YOU ADD BUT TO ME BUT INIQUITY?

64  OH MY PEOPLE, THIS SHE CAMEL OF GOD IS A SYMBOL TO YOU 
LEAVE HER TO FEED ON THE EARTH AND NO HARM TO HER DO
OR A SWIFT PENALTY FROM GOD WILL SEIZE YOU

65  BUT THEY DID SLAUGHTER HER
SO HE SAID, FOR THREE DAYS ENJOY YOUR LAUGHTER

THEN WILL BE YOUR RUIN INDEED
THIS A PROMISE NOT TO BE DISBELIEVED 

66  WHEN OUR DECREE WAS ISSUED WE SAVED SALIH
AND THOSE WITH HIM WHO BELIEVED 
BY SPECIAL GRACE AND FROM INFAMY 
FOR YOUR LORD IS STRONG AND ALL MIGHTY

67  THE MIGHTY BLAST OVERTOOK THOSE GUILTY OF WRONG DOING 
AND THEY LAID MOTIONLESS IN THEIR HOMES BEFORE THE MORNING

68  AS IF THEY HAD NEVER DWELT THERE, FOR THE THAMUD 
REJECTED THEIR LORD AND SO REMOVED WERE THE THAMUD

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CHAPTER 11.  HUD                                                                                SECTION 7.  PART XII

69  OUR MESSENGERS CAME TO ABRAHAM WITH GLAD TIDINGS 
THEY SAID, PEACE, AND HE SAID, PEACE, IN ANSWERING 
AND HE HASTENED TO ENTERTAIN THEM BRINGING 
A ROASTED CALF TO THEM AS AN OFFERING

70  WHEN HE SAW THEIR HANDS WENT NOT 
TOWARDS THE MEAL HE TRUSTED THEM NOT 
AND HE FEARED THEM AND THEY SAID, FEAR NOT 
FOR WE HAVE BEEN SENT AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF LOT

71  AND HIS WIFE WAS STANDING THERE 
AND SHE LAUGHED WHEN WE GAVE TO HER 
GOOD NEWS OF ISAAC AND OF JACOB AFTER

72  SHE SAID, HOW CAN I BEAR CHILDREN 
SEEING THAT I AM AN OLD WOMAN 
AND MY HUSBAND HERE IS AN OLD MAN?  
THAT WOULD INDEED BE A WONDERFUL PLAN 

73  THEY SAID, DO YOU WONDER AT GOD'S DECREE
AND HIS GRACE UPON YOU AND HIS MERCY? 
OH PEOPLE OF THE HOUSE, HE IS SURELY 
WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE AND FULL OF GLORY

74  THE FEAR PASSED FROM ABRAHAM AND THE GLAD TIDINGS 
HAD REACHED HIM, THEN FOR LOT'S PEOPLE HE BEGAN PLEADING 

75  FOR ABRAHAM WAS WITHOUT DOUBT FORBEARING 
AND COMPASSIONATE AND TO GOD HE WAS OFTEN RETURNING 

76  OH ABRAHAM, CEASE FROM THIS FOR THE DECREE 
OF YOUR LORD HAS GONE FORTH FOR THEM JUSTLY
AND THERE MUST COME TO THEM A PENALTY 
AND TURNED BACK IT CANNOT BE 

77  WHEN OUR MESSENGERS CAME TO LOT HE WAS GRIEVED
HE FELT POWERLESS TO PROTECT THEM SAFELY 
HE SAID, THIS A DAY OF ADVERSITY

78  AND HIS PEOPLE CAME TOWARDS HIM RUSHING 
AND THEY HAD BEEN LONG IN PRACTICING 
ABOMINATIONS AND WRONG DOING

HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, HERE ARE MY DAUGHTERS 
IF YOU MARRY THEM THEY ARE PURER
NOW FEAR GOD AND DO NOT COVER ME WITH DISHONOR
ARE THERE NO RIGHT MINDED MEN AMONG YOU WHATSOEVER?

79  THEY SAID, YOU KNOW OF YOUR DAUGHTERS WE HAVE NO NEED 
YOU KNOW WELL WHAT WE WANT INDEED

80  HE SAID, IF ONLY I HAD STRENGTH TO OVERPOWER YOU
OR IF I HAD SOME POWERFUL SUPPORT TO RESIST YOU

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81  THE MESSENGERS SAID, OH LOT, WE ARE GOD'S MESSENGERS 
AND BY NO MEANS WILL THEY DO YOU ANY HARM WHATSOEVER 
NOW TRAVEL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY BEFORE THE NIGHT PASSES OVER  
LET NOT ANY OF YOU LOOK BACK, BUT YOUR WIFE SHE WILL REMAIN HERE 
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE WILL ALSO HAPPEN TO HER
AND THEIR APPOINTED TIME IS THE MORNING HOUR
IS NOT THE MORNING ALMOST HERE?

82  WE TURNED THEIR CITIES OVER 
AND UPON THEM RAINED BRIMSTONES SPREAD LAYER ON LAYER
HARD AS BAKED CLAY ONE AFTER ANOTHER

83  MARKED FROM GOD, NOR ARE THEY 
FROM THOSE WHO DO WRONG EVER FAR AWAY

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CHAPTER 11.  HUD                                                                                SECTION 8.  PART XII

84  TO THE MADYAN PEOPLE WE SENT SHUAIB, THEIR OWN BROTHER  
HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD, THE CREATOR
YOU HAVE BESIDES HIM NO OTHER 
GIVE NOT SHORT WEIGHT OR MEASURE
FOR I SEE THAT YOU DO INDEED PROSPER
BUT I FEAR FOR YOU A PENALTY THAT ENDURES

85  AND OH MY PEOPLE 
GIVE JUST MEASURE AND WEIGHT NOR WITHHOLD FROM PEOPLE 
THE THINGS THAT ARE THEIR DUE AND COMMIT NOT EVIL 
WITH INTENT TO DO MISCHIEF TO PEOPLE

86  THAT WHICH IS LEFT YOU BY GOD IS BEST FOR YOU 
IF YOU BUT BELIEVE, BUT I AM NOT SENT TO KEEP WATCH OVER YOU

87  AND THEY SAID, OH SHUAIB, DOES YOUR RELIGION OF PRAYERS 
COMMAND YOU THAT WE LEAVE THE WORSHIP OF OUR FATHERS 
OR WE STOP DOING WHAT WE LIKE WITH OUR TREASURES? 
TRULY YOU ARE THE RIGHT MINDED ONE WHO FORBEARS

88  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, CAN YOU NOT SEE  
THAT I HAVE A CLEAR SIGN FROM MY LORD WITH ME
AND HE HAS GIVEN PURE AND GOOD SUSTENANCE TO ME?

AND I WISH NOT IN OPPOSITION TO YOU
TO DO THAT WHICH I FORBID YOU TO DO

YOUR BETTERMENT IS MY ONLY DESIRE TO THE BEST OF MY POWER
MY SUCCESS IN MY TASK CAN ONLY COME FROM THE CREATOR 
AND I TRUST IN AND I LOOK TO MY LORD AND CHERISHER

89  AND OH MY PEOPLE, LET NOT MY DISSENT FROM YOU 
CAUSE YOU TO SIN OR YOU SUFFER A FATE SIMILAR TO 
THE PEOPLE OF NOAH OR OF HUD OR OF SALIH TOO 
NOR ARE THE PEOPLE OF LOT FAR OFF FROM YOU  

90  BUT ASK GOD'S FORGIVENESS 
AND TURN TO HIM IN REPENTANCE 
FOR GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND KINDNESS

91  THEY SAID, OH SHUAIB, MUCH OF WHAT YOU DECREE
WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND WE DO NOT SEE 
THAT YOU HAVE ANY STRENGTH REALLY
AND WERE IT NOT FOR YOUR FAMILY 
WE WOULD HAVE STONED YOU TO DEATH ALREADY
FOR YOU DO NOT HAVE AMONG US ANY GREAT AUTHORITY

92  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, IS THEN MY FAMILY 
OF MORE CONSIDERATION WITH YOU THAN GOD'S MERCY?
YOU CAST HIM AWAY BEHIND YOUR BACKS CONTEMPTUOUSLY
BUT MY LORD ENCOMPASSES ALL THAT YOU DO SURELY

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93  AND OH MY PEOPLE, DO WHATEVER YOU CAN DO
AND I WILL DO WHATEVER I CAN DO
AND SOON WILL IT BE KNOWN BY YOU
ON WHO IT IS ON WHOM THE PENALTY COMES TO
AND WHICH ONE IS A LIAR SO WATCH FOR I TOO
AM OF THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING WITH YOU

94  WHEN WE ISSUED OUR DECREE 
WE SAVED SHUAIB AND THOSE WHO BELIEVED 
BUT THE MIGHTY BLAST SEIZED THOSE WHO WERE GUILTY 
AND THEY LAID MOTIONLESS IN THEIR HOMES SUBSEQUENTLY

95  AS IF THEY HAD NEVER DWELT AND FLOURISHED THERE
HOW THE MADYAN WERE REMOVED AS THE THAMUD WERE

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CHAPTER 11.  HUD                                                                                SECTION 9.  PART XII

96  WE SENT MOSES WITH OUR MESSAGES CLEARLY
AND WE SENT WITH HIM A CLEAR AUTHORITY  

97  TO PHARAOH, BUT THEY FOLLOWED PHAROAH'S COMMAND 
AND PHAROAH'S COMMAND WAS NO RIGHT COMMAND

98  ON JUDGMENT DAY HIS PEOPLE WILL BE LEAD INTO THE FIRE
LIKE THIRSTY CATTLE THAT ARE LEAD TO WATER 
CURSED WILL BE THE PLACE THEY ENTER

99  IN THIS LIFE A CURSE WILL FOLLOW THEM
AND ON JUDGEMENT DAY, AND MISERABLE TO THEM
WILL BE THE GIFT WHICH WILL THEN BE GIVEN TO THEM

100  THESE ARE SOME OF THE STORIES OF COMMUNITIES 
WHICH WE RELATE TO YOU, AND OF THESE

THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE STANDING AT THIS TIME
AND SOME HAVE BEEN MOWN DOWN BY THE SICKLE OF TIME

101  AND THEY WRONGED THEMSELVES, WE DID NOT WRONG THEM
THEIR GODS WHO THEY SERVED BESIDES GOD DID NOT HELP THEM
WHEN THE DECREE OF GOD WAS ISSUED AGAINST THEM
THEY ADDED NOTHING BUT DESTRUCTION TO THEM

102  THIS IS THE CHASTISEMENT OF GOD'S DECREE
WHEN HE CHASTISES COMMUNITIES
IN THE MIDST OF THEIR ACTING WRONGFULLY 
AND HE IS SEVERE IN HIS PENALTIES

103  IN THAT IS A SIGN FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THE PENALTY 
AND GATHERED TOGETHER THAT DAY MEN WILL BE 
AND THAT WILL BE A DAY OF TESTIMONY

104  NOR WILL WE DELAY IT
BUT FOR A TERM APPOINTED

105  THE DAY IT ARRIVES NO PERSON
WILL SPEAK EXCEPT BY HIS PERMISSION
OF THOSE GATHERED SOME WILL BE WRETCHED ONES
AND SOME OF THEM WILL BE BLESSED WITH COMPASSION

106  THOSE WHO ARE WRETCHED WILL BE IN THE FIRE
AND FOR THEM THERE WILL BE NOTHING BUT TEARS

107  THEY WILL DWELL IN IT FOREVER 
FOR ALL THE TIME THAT HEAVEN AND EARTH ENDURES 
EXCEPT AS YOUR LORD WILLS FOR YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
OF WHAT HE PLANS, HE IS THE ACCOMPLISHER

108  THOSE WHO ARE BLESSED WILL BE IN THE GARDEN FOREVER
FOR ALL THE TIME THAT HEAVEN AND EARTH ENDURES
AN ENDLESS GIFT AS YOUR LORD'S PLEASURE 

109  BE NOT THEN IN DOUBT AS TO WHAT THESE MEN SERVE 
THEY SERVE NOTHING BUT WHAT THEIR FATHERS SERVED 
BUT WE WILL PAY THEM BACK WHAT THEY DESERVE  
WITHOUT ANYTHING BEING HELD IN RESERVE

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CHAPTER 11.  HUD                                                                               SECTION 10.  PART XII

110  WE GAVE THE BOOK TO MOSES
BUT THERE AROSE IN IT DIFFERENCES 

HAD IT NOT BEEN THAT A WORD HAD COME FROM GOD TO THEM
THE MATTER WOULD HAVE BEEN DECIDED BETWEEN THEM
BUT THEY ARE IN DOUBT ABOUT IT AMONG THEM

111  AND OF A SURETY 
TO ALL WILL YOUR LORD PAY BACK FULLY 
THE RECOMPENSE OF ALL OF THEIR DEEDS 
FOR HE KNOWS ALL THEY DO INDEED

112  THEREFORE STAND FIRM IN THE PATH OF TRUTH
AS YOU ARE COMMANDED, YOU AND THOSE WITH YOU 
TURN TO GOD AND DO NOT TRANSGRESS FROM THE TRUTH
FOR YOUR LORD SEES WELL ALL THAT YOU DO

113  INCLINE NOT TO THOSE WHO ARE WRONG DOERS
FOR THEN YOU WILL SURELY BE SEIZED BY THE FIRE 
AND YOU WILL HAVE NO PROTECTORS OR HELPERS 

114  AT THE TWO ENDS OF THE DAY ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS
AND AT THE APPROACHES OF NIGHT FOR THOSE THINGS THAT ARE PURE
REMOVE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE IN ERROR
AND THIS REMEMBRANCE IS TO THOSE WHO REMEMBER

115  AND BE STEADFAST IN PATIENCE AND BEAR PATIENTLY 
FOR GOD WASTES NOT THE REWARD OF THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY  

116  WHY WERE THERE NOT BEFORE YOU PERSONS POSSESSING
GOOD SENSE AND REASONING KEEPING MEN FROM WRONG DOING
EXCEPT A FEW FROM AMONG THEM WHOM WE SAVED FROM HARMING? 
BUT THOSE GUILTY OF WRONG DOING
PURSUED THE ENJOYMENT OF THE GOOD THINGS 
WHICH THEY WERE GIVEN AND PERSISTED IN SINNING

117  NOR WOULD GOD DESTROY COMMUNITIES FOR WRONG DOING 
IF ITS MEMBERS WERE LIKELY TO MENDING

118  IF YOUR LORD HAD SO WILLED
HE COULD HAVE MADE MANKIND ONE PEOPLE
BUT THEY WILL NOT CEASE TO BE DISAGREEABLE

119  EXCEPT THOSE ON WHOM THEIR LORD HAS BESTOWED FAVOR
AND FOR THIS PURPOSE WERE THEY MADE BY THE CREATOR
AND THE WORD WILL BE FULFILLED OF YOUR MAKER
I WILL FILL HELL WITH MEN AND DEMONS ALL TOGETHER

120  WE RELATE TO YOU THE STORIES OF THE MESSENGERS
IN ORDER THAT YOUR HEART MAY GROW STRONGER
AND IN THIS HAS COME TO YOU THE TRUTH AND A REMINDER
AND AN ADMONITION TO THE BELIEVERS

121  SAY TO THOSE OF THEM WHO DO NOT BELIEVE 
DO WHAT YOU WILL AND WE WHO BELIEVE
WILL DO OUR PART EARNESTLY

122  AND WAIT, WE TOO WILL WAIT PATIENTLY

123  TO GOD BELONGS THE SECRETS OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND TO HIM EVERY AFFAIR GOES BACK FOR DECISION 
THEREFORE WORSHIP HIM WITH SINCERE DEVOTION 
AND GOD IS NOT UNMINDFUL OF HIS CREATION

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