CHAPTER 13.  THUNDER                                                                    SECTION 1.  PART XIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM THE BEST KNOWER, THE SEER
THESE ARE THE VERSES OF THE BOOK THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR
IT IS TRUTH REVEALED TO YOU FROM THE CREATOR  
BUT MOST MEN WILL NOT BE BELIEVERS 

2  GOD RAISED THE HEAVENS WITHOUT ANY PILLARS
AND IS ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE OF POWER 
THE SUN AND MOON HE HAS SUBJECTED TO HIS ORDER
EACH ONE RUNS ITS COURSE FOR A TERM REQUIRED 
AND HE DOES REGULATE ALL AFFAIRS
EXPLAINING TO YOU THE MESSAGES CLEAR
THAT IN THE MEETING WITH YOUR CREATOR
YOU MAY BELIEVE WITHOUT BEING A DOUBTER

3  IT IS HE WHO HAS SPREAD OUT THE EARTH AND SET ON IT 
MOUNTAINS STANDING FIRM AND RIVERS FLOWING IN IT
FRUITS TWO OF EVERY KIND HE MADE IN PAIRS IN IT
AND THE DAY HE DRAWS THE NIGHT AS A VEIL OVER IT
IN THESE THINGS ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO TAKE HEED TO IT

4  AND IN THE EARTH ARE TRACTS DIVERSE THOUGH NEIGHBORING 
GARDENS OF VINES, FIELDS OF CORN AND PALM TREES GROWING 
OUT OF SINGLE ROOTS AND WATERED WITH THE SAME WATERING
YET SOME THINGS WE MAKE BETTER TO EAT THAN OTHER THINGS 
IN THESE THINGS ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WITH UNDERSTANDING

5  AND IT IS STRANGE THEIR SAYING, IF YOU DO MARVEL
WILL WE RISE AFTER WE ARE DUST, IS THIS FACTUAL
AND THEN BE MADE INTO ANOTHER RENEWAL? 
AND THEY ARE THOSE WHO DENY THEIR LORD, THE MOST MERCIFUL
AND THEY ARE THOSE ROUND WHOSE NECKS WILL BE SHACKLES
AND THEIR HOME WILL BE THE FIRE, IN IT THEY WILL DWELL

6  THEY ASK YOU TO HASTEN TO THEM THE PENALTY INSTEAD OF MERCY
EXEMPLARY PENALTIES HAVE GONE TO THEM ALREADY
BUT YOUR LORD TO MANKIND IS FULL OF MERCY
AND YOUR LORD IS ALSO STRICT IN PENALTIES

7  WHY IS NOT A SIGN SENT DOWN TO HIM?  SAY THE DISBELIEVERS 
BUT YOU ARE TO EVERY PEOPLE A GUIDE AND A WARNER 

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CHAPTER 13.  THUNDER                                                                    SECTION 2.  PART XIII

8  YOUR LORD DOES KNOW WHAT EVERY FEMALE WOMB DOES BEAR 
AND BY HOW MUCH THE WOMBS FALL SHORT OF THEIR NUMBER 
OR DO EXCEED AND EVERY SINGLE CREATURE 
IS BEFORE HIS SIGHT IN DUE MEASURE

9  HE KNOWS THE UNSEEN AND THAT WHICH IS OPEN
FOR HE IS THE LORD OF ALL CREATION

10  IT IS THE SAME TO HIM WHETHER OF YOU ANY 
EITHER CONCEALS HIS SPEECH OR DECLARES IT OPENLY 
WHETHER HE LIE HID BY NIGHT OR WALK FORTH BY DAY FREELY

11  THERE ARE ANGELS BEFORE EACH PERSON 
AND BEHIND HIM AND GUARD HIM BY GOD'S INSTRUCTION  
AND NEVER WILL GOD CHANGE PEOPLE'S CONDITION 
UNTIL THEY CHANGE THEIR OWN CONDITION
BUT WHEN ONCE HE WILLS A PEOPLE'S DESTRUCTION
THERE CAN BE NO ALLEVIATION
NOR WILL THEY FIND BESIDES HIM ANY PROTECTION

12  IT IS HE WHO SHOWS YOU THE LIGHTNING 
BY WAY OF FEAR AND HOPE AND HE CAUSES THE RAISING 
OF THE CLOUDS THAT ARE HEAVY WITH  RAIN THAT IS FERTILIZING

13  HIS PRAISES ARE REPEATED BY THE THUNDER
AND HE FLINGS THE LOUD VOICED BOLTS OF THUNDER 
AND LIGHTNING AND WITH IT HE STRIKES WHOM HE DESIRES
AND YET THERE ARE MEN WHO DARE TO BE DISPUTERS
ABOUT GOD WITH THE STRENGTH OF HIS POWER  

14  PRAYER IS ONLY FOR THE CREATOR
WHO THEY CALL UPON BESIDES HIM HEAR THEM NO BETTER 
THAN IF THEY WERE TO STRETCH FORTH THEIR HANDS FOR WATER 
BUT IT REACHES THEM NOT FOR THE PRAYERS OF DISBELIEVERS
IS NOTHING BUT THAT OF A MENTAL WANDERER 

15  IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH ALL BEINGS
PROSTRATE THEMSELVES TO GOD WILLINGLY OR UNWILLING
AND SO DO THEIR SHADOWS IN THE MORNINGS AND EVENINGS

16  SAY, WHO IS HEAVEN AND EARTH'S LORD AND SUSTAINER? 
SAY, GOD, THEN DO YOU TAKE OTHERS FOR PROTECTORS 
OTHER THAN HIM THAT HAVE NO POWER 
FOR GOOD OR HARM TO THEMSELVES OR OTHERS? 

SAY, ARE THE BLIND EQUAL WITH THOSE WHO HAVE SIGHT 
OR ARE THE DEPTHS OF DARKNESS EQUAL TO LIGHT?  

OR DO THEY ASSIGN TO GOD PARTNERS 
WHO CREATED ANYTHING LIKE OF WHICH HE IS THE CREATOR 
SO THAT THE CREATION SEEMED TO THEM SIMILAR? 
SAY, OF ALL THINGS GOD IS THE CREATOR 
HE IS THE ONE, THE SUPREME AND THE BEST KNOWER

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CHAPTER 13.  THUNDER                                                   SECTION 2 (CONT'D). PART XIII

17  HE SENDS DOWN FROM THE SKIES WATER, AND THE CHANNELS 
FLOW EACH ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH IS MEASURABLE
BUT THE TORRENT BEARS AWAY THE FOAM THAT TO THE SURFACE FILLS 
FORMING ORE WHICH THEY HEAT TO MAKE ORNAMENTS OR UTENSILS 
WITH IT THERE IS A SCUM, LIKEWISE SO DOES GOD BY PARABLES 
SHOW TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD, FOR LIKE FROTH SCUM DISASSEMBLES
WHILE THAT WHICH IS GOOD REMAINS AS GOD WILLS
SO DOES GOD SET FORTH PARABLES

18  FOR THOSE WHO RESPOND TO THEIR LORD ARE ALL GOOD THINGS 
BUT THOSE WHO RESPOND NOT IF THEY HAD ALL THINGS
THAT ARE IN THE HEAVENS AND ALL THINGS
THAT ARE ON EARTH THEY WOULD OFFER IT FOR RANSOMING
AND TERRIBLE INDEED FOR THEM WILL BE THEIR RECKONING
AND HELL WILL BE THEIR HOME, WHAT A MISERABLE THING

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CHAPTER 13.  THUNDER                                                                    SECTION 3.  PART XIII

19  ARE THOSE WHO KNOW GOD'S REVELATIONS 
LIKE THOSE WHO ARE BLIND TO THEIR REALIZATION? 
IT IS THOSE WHO ARE ENDUED WITH COMPREHENSION
THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION

20  THOSE WHO FULFILL GOD'S PROMISE
AND FAIL NOT IN THEIR PROMISE

21  THOSE WHO JOIN THOSE THINGS TOGETHER 
WHICH GOD HAS COMMANDED TO BE JOINED TOGETHER
AND THEY HOLD THEIR LORD IN AWE AND TERROR
AND FEAR THE TERRIBLE RECKONING HOUR

22  THOSE WHO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE
SEEKING GOD'S GOOD PLEASURE  
AND WHO ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS
AND SPEND OF THE GIFTS THAT THE CREATOR 
HAS BESTOWED FOR THEIR SUSTENANCE IN MEASURE 
AND TURN AWAY ALL EVIL WITH THAT WHICH IS BETTER
FOR THEM IS THE ATTAINMENT OF THE GOOD HOME FOREVER 

23  GARDENS OF PERPETUAL BLISS THEY WILL ENTER 
AS WELL AS THE RIGHTEOUS AMONG THEIR FATHERS 

AND THEIR SPOUSES AND THE ANGELS AND THEIR OFFSPRING 
WILL ENTER TO THEM FROM EVERY PLACE OF ENTERING

24  PEACE UNTO YOU FOR THAT YOU PERSEVERED IN PATIENCE 
NOW HOW EXCELLENT IS THE FINAL RESIDENCE

25  BUT THOSE WHO BREAK THE COVENANT OF THE CREATOR 
AFTER THEY HAVE PLIGHTED THEIR WORD TO THEIR MAKER
AND CUT ASUNDER THAT WHICH GOD HAS ORDERED
FOR THEM TO BE JOINED TOGETHER 
AND WORK THROUGH THE LAND AS MISCHIEF MAKERS
ON THEM IS THE CURSE AND THE TERRIBLE HOME IN THE HEREAFTER

26  YOUR LORD GRANTS OR INCREASES BY STRICT MEASURE
THE SUSTENANCE WHICH HE GIVES OF HIS PLEASURE 
THE WORLDLY REJOICE IN THIS LIFE OF THEIRS
WHICH WHEN COMPARED TO THE HEREAFTER
 IN COMFORT IT IS MUCH SMALLER

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CHAPTER 13.  THUNDER                                                                    SECTION 4.  PART XIII

27  THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, WHY IS NOT A SIGN SENT DOWN TO HIM? 
SAY, GOD LEAVES TO STRAY WHOM HE WILLS BUT TURNS TO HIM 
THOSE WHO TURN IN REPENTANCE TO HIM 

28  THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WHOSE HEARTS FIND SATISFACTION 
IN THE REMEMBRANCE OF GOD AND DO IT WITHOUT HESITATION 
IN THE REMEMBRANCE OF GOD DO HEARTS FIND SATISFACTION

29  FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS
IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OF FINAL RETURN AND EVERY BLESSEDNESS

30  WE HAVE SENT YOU AMONG A PEOPLE WHOM OTHERS
HAVE GONE BEFORE AND PASSED AWAY PRIOR
IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT RECITE TO THEM THESE ORDERS
WE SEND DOWN WITH YOU YET THEY ARE REJECTORS
OF GOD, THE CREATOR, THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER
SAY, HE IS GOD BESIDES HIM THERE IS NO OTHER 
TO HIM I TURN AND I AM A SUBMITTER

31  IF THERE WERE A QURAN THAT WOULD MOVE MOUNTAINS 
OR THE EARTH WERE SPLIT OPEN INTO PIECES AND BROKEN 
OR THE DEAD MADE TO SPEAK THIS WOULD BE THE ONE
IN ALL THINGS WITH GOD IS THE DOMINION
DO NOT THE BELIEVERS KNOW THAT WERE IT GOD'S INTENTION
HE COULD HAVE GUIDED ALL MEN IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION?
BUT THE DISBELIEVERS NEVER WILL DESTRUCTION
CEASE TO SEIZE THEM FOR THE ILL DEEDS THEY HAVE DONE
OR TO SETTLE CLOSE TO THEM UNTIL COMES GOD'S DECISION 
FOR GOD WILL NOT FAIL IN HIS CONCLUSION

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CHAPTER 13.  THUNDER                                                                    SECTION 5.  PART XIII

32  BEFORE YOU WERE MOCKED MANY MESSENGERS 
BUT I GRANTED RESPITE TO THE DISBELIEVERS 
AND FINALLY I PUNISHED THE REJECTORS
MY REQUITAL TO THEM WAS STERN AND SEVERE

33  IS THEN HE WHO STANDS OVER EVERY CREATURE 
AND KNOWS ALL THAT IT DOES LIKE ANY OTHERS? 
AND YET THEY ASCRIBE TO GOD PARTNERS 
SAY, IS IT THAT YOU WILL INFORM THE CREATOR 
OF SOMETHING ON EARTH OF WHICH HE IS UNAWARE
OR IS IT A VERBAL DISPLAY FOR DISBELIEVERS?
THEY ARE KEPT FROM THE RIGHT MANNER
THOSE WHOM GOD LEAVES IN ERROR 
NO ONE CAN GUIDE TO RIGHT THEREAFTER

34  FOR THEM IS A PENALTY IN THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD
THE PENALTY OF THE HEREAFTER IS EVEN HARDER
AND THEY HAVE AGAINST GOD NO DEFENDER

35  THE PROMISE TO THOSE WHO KEEP THEIR DUTY
ARE GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS AND ITS FRUITS ARE PLENTY
THIS IS THE END FOR THOSE WHO KEEP THEIR DUTY 
THE END OF THE DISBELIEVERS THE FIRE IS THEIR PENALTY

36  THOSE TO WHOM THE BOOK HAS BEEN GIVEN
REJOICE AT THE REVELATION THAT TO YOU HAS BEEN GIVEN
BUT THERE ARE THOSE WHO REJECT GOD'S REVELATION  
SAY, I WORSHIP THE LORD OF ALL CREATION
AND I WILL NOT JOIN PARTNERS WITH GOD IN ASSOCIATION
TO HIM I CALL AND TO HIM IS MY DESTINATION

37  WE REVEALED IT IN ARABIC TO BE A JUDGMENT OF ORDER 
AND WERE YOU TO FOLLOW THEIR VAIN DESIRES
AFTER KNOWLEDGE HAS REACHED YOU, YOU WOULD FIND NEITHER 
A PROTECTOR AGAINST GOD NOR A DEFENDER

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CHAPTER 13.  THUNDER                                                                    SECTION 6.  PART XIII

38  BEFORE YOU WE DID SEND MESSENGERS
AND APPOINTED FOR THEM CHILDREN AND MARITAL PARTNERS 
AND IT WAS NEVER IN THE POWER OF ANY MESSENGER
TO BRING A SIGN TO MEN EXCEPT AS GOD ORDERED
AND FOR EACH PERIOD IS A TERM REQUIRED

39  GOD DOES BLOT OUT OR CONFIRMS WHAT PLEASES HIM
AND THE MOTHER OF THE BOOK IS WITH HIM

40  WHETHER WE SHOW YOU PART OF WHAT IS PROMISED TO THEM 
OR TAKE YOUR SOUL BEFORE, YOUR DUTY TO THEM 
IS TO MAKE THE MESSAGE TO REACH THEM 
TO CALL THEM TO ACCOUNT IS OUR DUTY TO THEM

41  SEE HOW WE REDUCE THE LAND FROM ITS OUTLYING BORDERS?  
AND WHERE GOD COMMANDS NONE CAN PUT BACK HIS ORDERS 
HE SWIFTLY CALLS TO ACCOUNT, AND HE IS THE RECOUNTER

42  THOSE BEFORE THEM DID ALSO DEVISE PLOTTINGS
BUT GOD IS THE MASTER PLANNER OF ALL THINGS
AND OF EVERY SOUL HE KNOWS THEIR DOINGS
AND SOON THOSE WHO ARE UNBELIEVING
WILL KNOW FOR WHOM IS THE GOOD ENDING

43  THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, NO MESSENGER ARE YOU 
SAY, GOD IS ENOUGH FOR A WITNESS BETWEEN ME AND YOU 
AND ALSO THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE BOOK TOO

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