CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                  SECTION 1.  PART XIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM THE SEER 
THIS BOOK WE HAVE REVEALED TO YOU IN ORDER
SO BY THE PERMISSION OF YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER
YOU MIGHT LEAD MANKIND OUT OF DARKNESS AND OVER
INTO THE LIGHT OF HIM, THE EXALTED IN POWER 
WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE FOREVER

2  GOD TO WHOM BELONG ALL THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH
BUT FOR THE DISBELIEVERS IS A PENALTY THAT IS SEVERE

3  THOSE WHO LOVE THIS WORLD MORE THAN THE HEREAFTER 
AND WHO FROM THE PATH OF GOD WOULD HINDER OTHERS 
AND THEY SEEK IN IT SOMETHING IN ERROR 
THEY ARE ASTRAY BY A LONG MEASURE

4  WE SENT NOT AN APOSTLE
EXCEPT TO TEACH IN THE LANGUAGE OF HIS OWN PEOPLE
IN ORDER TO MAKE THINGS CLEAR TO THE PEOPLE
HOW GOD LEAVES STRAYING WHOM HE WILLS  
AND HE GUIDES THOSE WHOM HE WILLS 
GOD IS WISE AND KNOWLEDGEABLE

5  WE SENT MOSES WITH THE COMMAND AND OUR MESSAGES
BRING YOUR PEOPLE INTO THE LIGHT OUT OF THE DARKNESS 
AND REMIND THEM OF GOD'S DAYS, THESE ARE MESSAGES
FOR THOSE WHO ARE PATIENT AND SHOW GRATEFULNESS 

6  MOSES SAID TO HIS PEOPLE
REMEMBER GOD'S FAVOR TO YOU PEOPLE
WHEN HE DELIVERED YOU FROM PHARAOH'S PEOPLE
FOR THEY SET ON YOU HARD TASKS AND TRIALS
AND THEY SLAUGHTERED YOUR MALES 
AND KEPT ALIVE YOUR FEMALES
THIS WAS FROM YOUR LORD A TREMENDOUS TRIAL 

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CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                  SECTION 2.  PART XIII

7  YOUR LORD DECLARED, IF YOU SHOW GRATITUDE 
THAT I WILL ADD MORE FAVORS TO YOU 
BUT IF YOU SHOW INGRATITUDE 
MY PUNISHMENT WILL BE TERRIBLE TO YOU

8  MOSES SAID, IF YOU ACT UNGRATEFULLY
YOU AND ALL ON EARTH TOGETHER ADDITIONALLY
SURELY GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND IS PRAISEWORTHY 

9  HAS NOT THE STORY REACHED YOU, OH MY PEOPLE 
OF THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE YOU OF THE PEOPLE 
OF NOAH AND AD AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE
AND OF THOSE WHO CAME AFTER THOSE PEOPLE?
NONE BUT GOD KNOWS THEM, BUT APOSTLES
CAME TO THEM WITH CLEAR EXAMPLES
BUT THEY PUT THEIR HANDS UP TO THEIR TEMPLES
AND SAID, WE DENY THE MISSION ON WHICH YOU TRAVEL
AND AS TO THAT TO WHICH YOU INVITE US TO WE ARE DOUBTFUL

10  THEIR APOSTLES SAID, IS THERE DOUBT ABOUT YOUR LORD TO YOU
THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH WHO INVITES YOU 
IN ORDER THAT HE MAY FORGIVE YOU 
AND GIVE FROM HIM AN APPOINTED TERM TO YOU?
THEY SAID, NO MORE THAN A HUMAN LIKE US ARE YOU  
YOU WISH TO TURN US FROM WHAT OUR FATHERS WERE USED TO 
THEN BRING US A CLEAR AUTHORITY WITH YOU

11  THEIR MESSENGERS SAID TO THEM, TRUE
WE ARE ONLY HUMAN LIKE YOU
BUT GOD DOES GRANT HIS GRACES TO 
THOSE OF HIS SERVANTS AS HE PLEASES TO
AND IT IS NOT FOR US TO BRING AN AUTHORITY TO YOU  
EXCEPT AS OUR LORD AND CHERISHER PERMITS US TO  
AND LET ALL MEN PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM TOO

12  NO REASON HAVE WE WHY WE SHOULD NOT TRUST GOD COMPLETELY
WHEN HE HAS GUIDED US TO THE WAY WE FOLLOW CLEARLY 
AND WE WILL CERTAINLY BEAR PATIENTLY
ALL THE HURT YOU MAY CAUSE US DILIGENTLY
FOR ON GOD SHOULD THE RELIANT RELY TOTALLY

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CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                  SECTION 3.  PART XIII

13  AND THE DISBELIEVERS SAID TO THEIR MESSENGERS
WE WILL DRIVE YOU OUT OF OUR LAND FOR SURE
OR YOU WILL HAVE TO RETURN TO OUR CULTURE
BUT THIS MESSAGE TO THEM GOD INSPIRED 
WE WILL DESTROY THE WRONG DOERS 

14  YOU WILL SUCCEED THEM AND IN THE LAND THEY WILL DWELL
FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THE TIME WHEN THEY SHALL
STAND BEFORE MY TRIBUNAL 
THOSE WHO FEAR THE PUNISHMENT OF REQUITAL

15  BUT THEY SOUGHT VICTORY AND DECISION 
THERE AND THEN, AND THEREFORE FRUSTRATION 
WAS THE LOT OF THOSE GUILTY OF TRANSGRESSION

16  IN FRONT OF SUCH A ONE IS HELL SURELY
HE IS GIVEN FOR DRINK BOILING WATER WHEN THIRSTY

17  IN GULPS IT WILL BE SIPPED BY HIM
BUT NEVER WILL IT BE SWALLOWED BY HIM 
FROM EVERY QUARTER DEATH WILL COME TO HIM 
YET HE WILL NOT DIE AND IN FRONT OF HIM 
WILL BE A CHASTISEMENT UNRELENTING FOR HIM

18  THE PARABLE OF THOSE WHO REJECT GOD AND HIS MERCY 
IS THEIR WORKS ARE AS ASHES ON WHICH WIND BLOWS FURIOUSLY 
ON A DAY THAT IS STORMY AND WINDY
OVER NOTHING DO THEY HAVE ANY AUTHORITY
AND THEY HAVE STRAYED FAR AWAY FROM REALITY

19  GOD CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH IN TRUTH
AND IF GOD SO WILLED HE CAN REMOVE YOU 
AND PUT A NEW CREATION IN PLACE OF YOU

20  AND FOR GOD THAT IS EASY TO DO

21  THEY WILL ALL BE MARSHALLED BEFORE GOD TOGETHER
AND THE WEAK WILL SAY TO THOSE WHO BEHAVED IN ERROR
WE FOLLOWED YOU, CAN YOU AVAIL US AGAINST GOD'S ANGER? 
THEY WILL SAY, IF WE HAD RECEIVED THE GUIDANCE OF THE CREATOR 

WE WOULD HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU BUT IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE 
WHETHER WE BEAR THESE PAINS WITH RAGE OR PATIENCE 
THERE IS NO WAY OF ESCAPE FROM THE SENTENCE

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CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                 SECTION 4.  PART XIII

22  WHEN THE MATTER IS DECIDED SATAN WILL SAY THIS
IT WAS GOD WHO GAVE YOU A TRUTHFUL PROMISE 
AND I TOO GAVE TO YOU A PROMISE
BUT I FAILED YOU IN MY PROMISE  

AND OVER YOU I HAD NO AUTHORITY 
EXCEPT TO CALL YOU AND YOU LISTENED TO ME 
SO THE BLAME IS ON YOU, YOU CANNOT NOT BLAME ME
I CANNOT LISTEN TO YOUR CRIES NOR CAN YOU LISTEN TO ME 
AND I REJECT YOUR ACT IN ASSOCIATING GOD WITH ME 
FOR WRONG DOERS THERE IS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY 

23  BUT THOSE WHO DO GOOD AND ARE BELIEVERS 
WILL BE ADMITTED TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 
WITH THE LEAVE OF GOD TO DWELL IN THEM FOREVER 
AND PEACE WILL BE THEIR GREETING THERE 

24  SEE YOU NOT HOW GOD SETS FORTH A PARABLE?
A GOOD WORK IS LIKE A GOOD TREE WHOSE ROOT IS STABLE 

AND ITS BRANCHES REACH HIGH
UP TOWARDS THE SKY

25  IT BRINGS FORTH FRUIT AT ALL TIMES BY GOD'S PERMISSION
GOD SETS FORTH PARABLES SO MEN MAY RECEIVE ADMONITION

26  THE PARABLE OF A WORD THAT IS EVIL 
IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF A TREE THAT IS EVIL
IT IS TORN UP BY THE ROOT AND IS UNSTABLE

27  GOD WILL ESTABLISH IN STRENGTH THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
WITH THE WORD THAT IS FIRM IN THIS LIFE AND THE HEREAFTER 
THOSE WHO DO WRONG ARE LEFT TO STRAY BY GOD'S ORDER 
FOR THE CREATOR DOES WHATEVER HE DESIRES

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CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                   SECTION 5.  PART XIII

28  HAVE YOU NOT TURNED YOUR VISION 
TO THOSE WHO HAVE CHANGED THE GOOD CONDITION
GIVEN THEM BY GOD TO A BLASPHEMOUS CONDITION 
AND HAS CAUSED THEIR PEOPLE'S DESCENSION
DOWN INTO THE HOUSE OF PERDITION?

29  THEY WILL BURN IN HELL
AN EVIL PLACE TO DWELL

30  THEY SET UP IDOLS TO GOD AS EQUALS TO LEAD MEN ASTRAY
SAY TO THEM, GO AHEAD AND ENJOY YOUR BRIEF STAY
BUT YOU ARE GOING TO HELL STRAIGHT WAY

31  SPEAK TO MY SERVANTS WHO ARE BELIEVERS
THAT THEY MAY ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS 
AND SPEND IN CHARITY OUT OF THE FAVORS 
WE HAVE GIVEN TO THEM OPEN AND IN RESERVE
BEFORE THE COMING OF A DAY IN WHICH NEITHER 
WILL THERE BE BARGAINING NOR BEFRIENDING EITHER

32   GOD CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH AND SENDS DOWN TO YOU
RAIN FROM THE SKIES AND BRINGS OUT FRUITS TO FEED YOU 
AND IT IS HE WHO MADE THE SHIPS SUBJECT TO YOU 

THAT THEY MAY SAIL BY HIS COMMAND THROUGH THE SEA
AND THE RIVERS HAS HE MADE SUBJECT TO YOUR NEEDS

33  HE HAS MADE THE SUN AND THE MOON SUBJECT TO YOU 
AND THEIR COURSES THEY DO BOTH DILIGENTLY PURSUE
THE NIGHT AND THE DAY HE MADE SUBJECT TO YOU

34  AND ALL THAT YOU ASK FOR HE GIVES TO YOU
IF YOU TRIED TO COUNT GOD'S FAVORS TO YOU 
NEVER COULD THEY BE NUMBERED BY YOU
BUT UNJUST AND UNGRATEFUL ARE YOU

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CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                  SECTION 6.  PART XIII

35  ABRAHAM SAID, OH MY LORD, MAKE THIS CITY 
A CITY OF PEACE AND SECURITY
AND PRESERVE ME AND MY SONS FROM IDOLATRY

36  OH MY LORD, THEY HAVE LED ASTRAY MANY 
THEN HE WHO FOLLOWS MY WAY IS OF ME 
HE THAT DISOBEYS ME, STILL SURELY
YOU ARE FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

37  OH OUR LORD, I HAVE MADE SOME OF MY OFFSPRING INHABITORS
IN A VALLEY WITH NO CULTIVATING BY YOUR SACRED MANOR
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER
WITH LOVE TOWARDS THE PEOPLE WITH FRUITS TO FEED THEM PROPER 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR FAVORS

38  OH OUR LORD, YOU DO KNOW WHAT WE KEEP HIDDEN 
AND OUR LORD, YOU DO KNOW WHAT WE LAY OPEN 
FOR FROM GOD NOTHING WHATEVER IS HIDDEN
WHETHER ON EARTH OR IN HEAVEN

39  PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO HAS GRANTED TO ME 
IN OLD AGE ISHMAEL AND ISAAC, FOR SURELY
MY LORD IS THE HEARER OF PRAYERS INDEED

40  OH MY LORD, MAKE ME ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER 
AND MAKE MY OFFSPRING TO KEEP UP PRAYER
OH OUR LORD, AND ACCEPT MY PRAYER 

41  AND WITH YOUR FORGIVENESS COVER
ME AND MY PARENTS AND ALL OF THE BELIEVERS 
ON THE DAY THAT THE RECKONING COMES TO ORDER

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CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                  SECTION 7.  PART XIII

42  THINK NOT THAT GOD DOES NOT HEED 
THOSE AMONG YOU WHO DO WRONGFUL DEEDS
HE GIVES THEM RESPITE TO A DAY WHEN SURELY
THEIR EYES WILL STARE IN HORROR FIXEDLY

43  RUNNING FORWARD WITH NECKS STRETCHED AND HEADS RAISED 
AND NOT RETURNING TO THEM THEIR GAZE 
AND THEIR HEARTS IN A DAZE

44  THEREFORE WARN MANKIND OF THE DAY WHEN THE ANGER
WILL REACH THEM AND THEN WILL SAY THE WRONG DOERS 
OUR LORD, RESPITE US JUST FOR AN HOUR
WE WILL ANSWER YOUR CALL AND FOLLOW THE MESSENGERS
DID YOU NOT SWEAR BEFORE THAT NO DECLINE WOULD YOU SUFFER?

45  YOU DWELL IN THE DWELLINGS OF MEN                                                                                         
WHO WRONGED THEIR OWN SOULS AND THEN                                                          
YOU WERE SHOWN HOW WE DEALT WITH THEM THEN
AND WE PUT FORTH PARABLES FOR YOUR INSTRUCTION

46  AND THE PLOTS THEY MADE WERE MIGHTY
BUT THEIR PLOTS WERE WITHIN GOD'S SIGHT CLEARLY
THOUGH THEY WERE SUCH AS TO SHAKE THE HILLS VIOLENTLY

47  NEVER WOULD GOD FAIL IN HIS PROMISE TO HIS MESSENGERS 
FOR GOD IS LORD OF RETRIBUTION AND EXALTED IN POWER

48  ONE DAY THE EARTH 
WILL BE CHANGED INTO A DIFFERENT EARTH 

AND SO WILL BE THE HEAVENS AND MEN WILL BE MARSHALED 
INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD, THE ONE, THE IRRESISTIBLE

49  AND THAT DAY YOU WILL SEE THE SINNERS 
BOUND ALL TOGETHER IN FETTERS

50  LIQUID PITCH WILL BE THEIR ATTIRE
THEIR FACES WILL BE COVERED WITH FIRE

51  THAT GOD MAY REPAY EACH SOUL ACCORDING TO ITS EARNINGS 
AND SURELY GOD IS SWIFT IN RECKONING

52  HERE IS A MESSAGE FOR MANKIND, LET THEM HEED
LET THEM KNOW THAT HE IS ONLY ONE GOD INDEED
LET MEN OF UNDERSTANDING TAKE HEED

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