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PART XV

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  TO GOD BE THE GLORY
WHO TOOK HIS SERVANT BY NIGHT FOR A JOURNEY

FROM THE SACRED MOSQUE 
TO THE FARTHEST MOSQUE 

WHOSE PRECINCTS WE DID BLESS 
TO GIVE HIM OUR MESSAGES

FOR HE IS THE ONE WHO IS ALL HEARING 
AND ALL SEEING OF ALL THINGS

2  WE GAVE MOSES THE BOOK TO GIVE DIRECTION 
TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND TO GIVE INSTRUCTION
TO THEM NOT TO TAKE OTHER THAN GOD FOR PROTECTION

3  OH YOU THAT ARE SPRUNG FROM THOSE WHOM WE CARRIED
IN THE ARK WITH NOAH, FOR HE WAS A DEVOTEE 

4  WE GAVE CLEAR WARNING TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
THAT TWICE ON THE EARTH THEY WOULD DO EVIL

AND TWICE THEY WOULD ACT ARROGANTLY
AND THAT THEY WOULD BEHAVE INSOLENTLY

5   WHEN IT CAME TO PASS THE FIRST OF OUR WARNINGS
WE SENT AGAINST YOU OUR SERVANTS GIVEN TO TERRIBLE FIGHTING
AND THEY ENTERED THE INTERMOST PARTS OF YOUR DWELLINGS
AND IT WAS A COMPLETELY FULFILLED WARNING 

6  THEN WE GRANTED THE RETURN AGAINST THEM TO YOU 
AND GAVE INCREASES IN RESOURCES AND SONS TO YOU
AND MADE YOU MORE NUMEROUS IN MANPOWER TOO

7  IF YOU DID WELL YOU DID WELL FOR YOURSELVES 
IF YOU DID EVIL YOU DID EVIL AGAINST YOURSELVES 

SO WHEN THE SECOND OF THE WARNINGS CAME TO PASS
WE PERMITTED YOUR ENEMIES TO DISFIGURE YOUR FACES

AND TO ENTER YOUR TEMPLE AS THEY HAD BEFORE ENTERED 
AND TO DESTROY ALL THAT FELL INTO THEIR POWER

8  AND IT MAY BE THAT YOUR LORD MAY YET STILL SHOW YOU MERCY 
IF YOU REVERT TO YOUR SINS WE WILL REVERT TO OUR PENALTY 
AND WE ASSUREDLY HAVE MADE HELL READY
AS A PRISON FOR THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH ARROGANTLY

9  THIS QURAN GUIDES TO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT
AND GIVES GLAD TIDINGS TO BELIEVERS WHO DO RIGHT  

THAT THEY WILL HAVE FOR THEIR GOOD DEEDS
A MAGNIFICENT REWARD INDEED

10  AND TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN THE HEREAFTER
IT ANNOUNCES THAT FOR THEM IS THE PENALTY OF THE FIRE

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11  THE PRAYER THAT MAN SHOULD MAKE FOR GOOD DEEDS
HE MAKES IT FOR EVIL, FOR MAN IS GIVEN TO HASTY DEEDS

12  WE HAVE MADE AS TWO OF OUR SIGNS NIGHT AND DAY 
WE HAVE MADE THE SIGN OF THE NIGHT TO PASS AWAY
AND WE HAVE MADE MANIFEST THE SIGN OF THE DAY
TO ENLIGHTEN YOU IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY 
SEEK BOUNTY FROM YOUR LORD AND THAT YOU MAY 
KNOW THE NUMBER AND COUNT OF THE DAYS
AND WE HAVE EXPLAINED ALL THINGS IN ALL WAYS

13  WE HAVE FASTENED ON EVERY MAN'S NECK HIS OWN ACTIONS 
AND ON THE DAY OF RESSURECTION

WE WILL BRING OUT FOR HIM A SCROLL
WHICH HE WILL SEE SPREAD OUT AND UNROLLED

14  READ YOUR BOOK, TO HIM WE WILL SAY
YOUR OWN SOUL WILL BEAR WITNESS AGAINST YOU TODAY

15  WHOEVER AMONG YOU GOES THE RIGHT WAY
FOR HIS OWN SOUL HE GOES THE RIGHT WAY 
AND WHOEVER GOES ASTRAY

DOES SO TO HIS OWN SELF AS THE LOSER
NO BURDEN BEARER CAN BEAR THE BURDEN OF ANOTHER 
NOR WOULD WE CHASTISE UNTIL AFTER WE SEND A MESSENGER

16  WHEN WE DECIDE TO DESTROY POPULATIONS
WE AT FIRST SEND TO THEM CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS
TO THOSE AMONG THEM WHO ARE GIVEN PROVISIONS
AND YET THEY STILL CONTINUALLY PERSIST IN REJECTION
THE WORD IS PROVED TRUE AND THEY ARE BROUGHT TO DESTRUCTION

17  AND HOW MANY GENERATIONS
AFTER NOAH MET WITH DESTRUCTIONS?
AND GOD IS SEER OF HIS SERVANTS TRANSGRESSIONS

18  IF ANY DO WISH FOR THIS LIFE'S TRANSITORY THINGS 
WE READILY GRANT THEM AS WE WILL SUCH THINGS 

TO SUCH PERSONS AS WE WILL, IN THE END WE HAVE PROVIDED 
HELL FOR THEM, THEY WILL BURN IN IT REJECTED

19  THOSE WHO DO WISH FOR THE THINGS OF THE HEREAFTER 
AND STRIVE FOR THEM AND ARE FAITHFUL BELIEVERS
THEIR STRIVING IS ACCEPTED BY THE CREATOR 

20  OF THE BOUNTIES OF GOD WE BESTOW 
FREELY ON ALL OF THESE AS WELL AS ALL OF THOSE
AND THE BOUNTIES OF YOUR LORD TO NO ONE ARE THEY CLOSED  

21  SEE HOW WE HAVE BESTOWED MORE ON SOME THAN ON OTHERS?
BUT SURELY MORE IN RANK IS THE HEREAFTER 
AND IN EXCELLENCE IT IS GREATER

22  TAKE NOT WITH GOD ANOTHER OBJECT OF WORSHIP
OR YOU WILL SIT DISGRACED AND REJECTED

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23  YOUR LORD HAS DECREED THAT YOU WORSHIP NONE BUT HIM
AND BE KIND TO PARENTS WHETHER ONE OR BOTH OF THEM 
ATTAIN OLD AGE IN YOUR LIFE, DO NOT SAY TO THEM 
A WORD OF CONTEMPT AND DO NOT REPEL THEM
BUT IN TERMS OF HONOR ADDRESS THEM 

24  OUT OF KINDNESS AND MERCY
LOWER TO THEM THE WING OF HUMILITY 
AND SAY, LORD BESTOW ON THEM YOUR MERCY 
FOR EVEN IN MY CHILDHOOD THEY CHERISHED ME

25  YOUR LORD KNOWS BEST WHAT IS IN THE HEARTS OF YOU
IF YOU DO GOOD DEEDS HE IS MOST FORGIVING TO YOU 
WHO TURN TO HIM IN PENITENCE AND ARE TRUE 

26  THEIR DUE RIGHTS TO THE NEAR OF KIN RENDER
AND TO THE NEEDY AND TO THE WAYFARER
BUT DO NOT SQUANDER 
YOUR WEALTH IN A SPENDTHRIFT MANNER 

27  SPENDTHRIFTS ARE BROTHERS OF THE DEVIL 
AND THE DEVIL IS TO HIS LORD UNGRATEFUL

28  EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO TURN AWAY FROM THEM TO PURSUE
THE MERCY FROM YOUR LORD WHICH IS EXPECTED BY YOU 
GIVE TO THEM A WORD OF EASY KINDNESS FROM YOU

29  TIE NOT YOUR HAND TO YOUR NECK NOR STRETCH IT                                  
OUTWARD AND INTO ITS UTMOST LIMITS
SO THAT YOU BECOME STRIPPED AS A RESULT OF IT

30  GOD IS THE PROVIDER 
OF SUSTENANCE IN JUST MEASURE
FOR HE KNOWS ALL HIS SERVANTS DESIRES

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31  KILL NOT YOUR CHILDREN FOR FEAR OF BEING DESTITUTE
WE PROVIDE SUSTENANCE FOR THEM AS WELL AS FOR YOU 
KILLING THEM IS SINFUL FOR YOU TO DO 

32  NOR COME NEAR TO ADULTERY FOR IT IS SHAMEFUL 
AND AN EVIL OPENING THE ROAD TO OTHER EVILS

33  NOR TAKE LIFE WHICH GOD HAS MADE HOLY
EXCEPT IN ACTING JUSTIFIABLY
AND IF ANYONE IS SLAIN WRONGFULLY 
WE HAVE GIVEN HIS HEIR CLEAR AUTHORITY 
FOR JUSTICE OR TO FORGIVE, BUT LET HIM NOT ACT EXCESSIVELY  
IN THE MATTER OF TAKING LIFE FOR HE IS HELPED LEGALLY

34  COME NOT NEAR TO THE ORPHAN'S PROPERTY 
EXCEPT TO IMPROVE IT UNTIL HE ATTAINS MATURITY

AND FULFILL EVERY COMMITMENT
FOR IT IS ASSURED THAT EVERY COMMITMENT
WILL BE INQUIRED INTO ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

35  GIVE FULL MEASURE WHEN MEASURING
AND WEIGH WITH STRAIGHT AND JUST BALANCING 
THAT IS MOST ADVANTAGEOUS AND THE MOST FITTING
IN THE FINAL DETERMINING

36  DO NOT PURSUE THAT OF WHICH YOU HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING
FOR EVERY ACT OF HEARING OR OF SEEING OR OF FEELING 
WILL BE INQUIRED INTO ON THE DAY OF RECKONING

37  NOR WALK ON THE EARTH INSOLENTLY FOR YOU CAN NEITHER
REACH THE MOUNTAINS IN HEIGHT NOR REND THE EARTH ASUNDER

38  THE EVIL OF SUCH THINGS IS HATEFUL 
IN THE SIGHT OF GOD MOST MERCIFUL

39  THIS IS WISDOM REVEALED TO YOU BY GOD 
THEREFORE DO NOT TAKE BESIDES HIM ANOTHER GOD 
OR YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO HELL AND REJECTED BY GOD

40  HAS THEN YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
PREFERRED SONS FOR YOU AND FOR HIMSELF DAUGHTERS?
DREADFUL IS THE SAYING THAT YOU UTTER

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41  WE EXPLAIN THINGS IN VARIOUS WAYS IN THIS QURAN 
IN AN EFFORT SO THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE ADMONITION
BUT IT ONLY AVERTS THEM FROM TRUTH AND REASON

42  SAY, IF THERE WERE OTHER GODS BESIDES GOD ALONE
THEY WOULD HAVE SOUGHT A WAY OF THEIR OWN TO THE THRONE

43  GLORY TO HIM AND HIGHLY EXALTED IS HE 
ABOVE ALL THAT THEY SAY, AND GREAT IS HE

44  THE SEVEN HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND SURELY
ALL BEINGS THEREIN DECLARE HIS GLORY
AND EVERYTHING DOES CELEBRATE HIS MAJESTY
YOU UNDERSTAND NOT HOW THEY DECLARE HIS GLORY
AND CERTAINLY MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL IS HE

45  WHEN YOU RECITE THE QURAN WE PUT A BARRIER
BETWEEN YOU AND THE DISBELIEVERS IN THE HEREAFTER

46  AND OVER THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS WE PUT COVERINGS 
SO OF THE QURAN THEY HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING 
AND ON THEIR HEARTS WE PUT COVERINGS
AND DEAFEN THEIR HEARING SO THEY HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING

WHEN YOU COMMEMORATE GOD AND HIM ALONE IN THE QURAN
THEY TURN THEIR BACKS ON THE TRUTH IN AVERSION

47  WE KNOW BEST WHY IT IS THAT THEY LISTEN  
WHEN THE WICKED MEET IN PRIVATE CONFERENCE 
THEY SAY, YOU FOLLOW A MAN DEPRIVED OF SENSE 

48  SEE WHAT EXAMPLE OF YOU THEY MAKE?
BUT SURELY THEY HAVE GONE FAR ASTRAY
AND NEVER CAN THEY FIND THE WAY

49  THEY SAY, WHEN WE ARE BONES AND DECAYED FORMATION
WILL WE THEN BE RAISED UP AS A NEW CREATION?

50  SAY, WHETHER YOU ARE STONES OR IRON

51  OR CREATED MATTER WHICH IS HARDEST TO BE
RAISED UP IN THE MINDS OF YOU YET WILL IT BE 
THEY WILL SAY, WHO WILL CAUSE THIS TO BE ?
SAY, HE WHO CREATED YOU ORIGINALLY
THEY WILL SAY, WHEN WILL THAT BE? 
SAY, IT MAY BE SOON POSSIBLY

52  IT WILL BE ON A DAY WHEN HE WILL CALL YOU AND YOU WILL 
ANSWER HIS CALL WITH WORDS OF HIS PRAISE AND YOU WILL 
THINK THAT THE TIME YOU STAYED WAS BUT A LITTLE 

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53  TELL MY SERVANTS TO SAY WHAT IS BEST ONLY 
FOR AMONG THEM SATAN DOES SOW ENMITY
SATAN IS TO THEM AN AVOWED ENEMY 

54  YOUR LORD KNOWS YOU BEST INDEED
HE GIVES YOU PUNISHMENT OR MERCY 
AND WE HAVE NOT SENT YOU TO BE 
A DISPOSER OF THEIR EVIL DEEDS

55  AND IT IS YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
THAT KNOWS ALL BEINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH 
WE BESTOWED MORE GIFTS ON SOME PROPHETS THAN ON OTHERS 
AND WE GAVE THE PSALMS TO DAVID FROM OUR FAVOR

56  SAY, CALL ON THOSE BESIDES HIM WHO FANCY YOU 
THEY HAVE NOT THE POWER TO REMOVE FROM YOU
YOUR TROUBLES NOR TO CHANGE THEM FOR YOU

57  THOSE WHOM THEY CALL ON THEMSELVES DESIRE 
ACCESS TO THEIR LORD EVEN THOSE WHO ARE NEAR
HOPE FOR HIS MERCY AND HIS WRATH THEY FEAR  
FOR GOD'S WRATH IS SOMETHING TO FEAR

58  THERE IS NOT A POPULATION
BUT WE WILL BRING IT TO DESTRUCTION
OR PUNISH IT BEFORE THE DAY OF RESURRECTION 
WITH A DREADFUL PENALTY AND SEVERE RETRIBUTION
AND THAT IS ON RECORD IN THE ETERNAL TRANSCRIPTION

59  AND WE REFRAIN FROM SENDING THE SIGNS ONLY 
BECAUSE THE MEN OF GENERATIONS FORMERLY
TREATED THEM AS FALSE AND WE CERTAINLY
SENT THE SHE CAMEL TO THE THAMUD CLEARLY
TO OPEN THEIR EYES BUT THEY TREATED HER WRONGFULLY 
WE SEND SIGNS BY WAY OF HORROR TO WARN MEN FROM INIQUITY

60  WE TOLD YOU THAT GOD DOES ENCOMPASS MEN  
WE GRANTED THE VISION WE SHOWED YOU AS A TRIAL FOR MEN 
AS ALSO IN THE QURAN THE CURSED TREE THAT IS MENTIONED  
AND WE PUT INTO THEM HORROR AND WARNING BUT THEN 
IT ONLY INCREASED THEIR COMMISSION OF SIN

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61  WE SAID TO THE ANGELS, BOW DOWN TO ADAM
AND THEY BOWED DOWN ALL EXCEPT SATAN
HE SAID, SHOULD I BOW DOWN TO ONE 
WHOM YOU CREATED OUT OF A CLAY FORMATION?

62  HE SAID, THIS IS THE ONE WHOM YOU HAVE HONORED ABOVE ME 
IF YOU WILL TO THE DAY OF RESURRECTION GIVE RESPITE TO ME
I WILL BRING HIS DESCENDANTS AWAY FROM YOU SURELY

63  GOD SAID, GO YOUR WAY AND IF ANY OF THEM FOLLOW YOU 
I WILL SURELY FILL HELL WITH ALL OF YOU 

64  LEAD TO DESTRUCTION THOSE WHOM YOU CAN AMONG THEM 
WITH THE SEDUCTIVENESS OF YOUR VOICE AND ASSAULT THEM 
WITH YOUR CAVALRY AND INFANTRY AND SHARE WITH THEM 
WEALTH AND CHILDREN AND MAKE PROMISES TO THEM 
BUT SATAN PROMISES NOTHING BUT DECEIT TO THEM

65  AS FOR MY SERVANTS YOU HAVE NO AUTHORITY OVER THEM 
ENOUGH IS GOD FOR A DISPOSER OF AFFAIRS OF THEM

66  GOD MAKES THE SHIPS GO SMOOTHLY 
FOR YOU THROUGH THE SEA  
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY SEEK OF HIS BOUNTY 
FOR HE IS TO YOU FULL OF MERCY

67  WHEN DISTRESS SEIZES YOU AT SEA 
AWAY GO THOSE THAT YOU CALL ON EXCEPT HE 
BUT WHEN HE BRINGS YOU BACK TO LAND SAFELY
THEN YOU TURN AWAY FROM HIM MOST UNGRATEFULLY 

68  DO YOU THEN FEEL SECURE THAT HE WILL NOT CAUSE YOU 
TO BE SWALLOWED UP IN THE EARTH UNDERNEATH YOU 
OR HE WILL NOT SEND A TORNADO AGAINST YOU?
THEN YOU WILL FIND NO ONE TO PROTECT YOU

69  OR DO YOU FEEL SECURE THAT HE WILL NOT SEND YOU 
BACK A SECOND TIME TO SEA AND SEND AGAINST YOU 
A TORNADO OR A VIOLENT WIND TO DROWN YOU 
BECAUSE OF YOUR INSOLATE INGRATITUDE
SO THAT YOU FIND NO HELPER AGAINST US TO HELP YOU?

70  WE HAVE HONORED THE SONS OF ADAM AND  PROVIDED THEM 
WITH TRANSPORT ON LAND AND SEA AND WE HAVE GIVEN THEM 
FOR SUSTENANCE GOOD THINGS AND WE CONFERRED ON THEM 
SPECIAL FAVORS ABOVE PART OF OUR CREATION FOR THEM

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71  ONE DAY WE WILL CALL TOGETHER 
ALL PEOPLE WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE LEADERS 
THOSE TO WHOM WILL BE ARE GIVEN THEIR RECORD 
IN THEIR RIGHT HAND THEY WILL READ IT WITH PLEASURE 
AND THE DEALING WITH THEM WILL NOT BE AT ALL UNFAIR

72  BUT THOSE WHO WERE BLIND IN THIS WORLD PRIOR
WILL SURELY ALSO BE BLIND IN THE HEREAFTER  
AND WILL BE MOST FURTHEST IN ERROR

73  AND THEIR PURPOSE WAS FOR THEM TO TEMPT YOU 
AWAY FROM THAT WHICH WE REVEALED TO YOU 
AND TO IN OUR NAME FALSELY SUBSTITUTE
SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND IN TRUTH
THEY WOULD HAVE MADE A FRIEND OF YOU 

74  HAD WE NOT GIVEN YOU STRENGTH YOU WOULD NEARLY 
HAVE INCLINED TO THEM A LITTLE ASSUREDLY

75  AND WE WOULD HAVE MADE YOU TO TASTE A PORTION 
OF PUNISHMENT IN THIS LIFE AND IN DEATH AN EQUAL PORTION
AND AS HELPERS AGAINST US YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND NO ONE 
 
76  THEIR PURPOSE WAS TO SCARE YOU 
OFF OF THE LAND IN ORDER TO EXPEL YOU 
AND THEY WOULD NOT HAVE STAYED LONG AFTER YOU 

77  WITH THE MESSENGERS WE SENT BEFORE YOU THIS WAS OUR WAY
 AND YOU WILL FIND NO CHANGE IN OUR WAY

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78  ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS AT THE SUN'S DECLINING
UNTIL NIGHT AND READ AND KEEP UP PRAYER IN THE MORNING 
PRAYER AND READING CARRY THEIR OWN TESTIMONY IN THE MORNING

79  PRAY IN THE SMALL WATCHES OF THE MORNING ADDITIONALLY 
YOUR LORD WILL RAISE YOU TO A STATION OF PRAISE AND GLORY

80  SAY, MY LORD, LET ME ENTER BY THE GATE OF TRUTH AND HONOR 
AND LIKEWISE LET MY EXIT BE BY THE GATE OF TRUTH AND HONOR 
GRANT ME FROM YOUR PRESENCE AN AUTHORITY AS A HELPER

81  AND SAY, TRUTH HAS NOW ARRIVED AND FALSEHOOD PERISHED 
FOR FALSEHOOD IS BY ITS NATURE BOUND TO PERISH

82  WE SEND DOWN STAGE BY STAGE IN THE QURAN, SURELY
TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IT IS A HEALING AND A MERCY  
BUT IT CAUSES LOSS TO THOSE WHO ACT UNJUSTLY

83  AND WHEN WE BESTOW OUR FAVORS ON MAN HE INDEED 
TURNS AWAY ON HIS SIDE AND WHEN BY EVIL HE IS SEIZED
THEN HE GIVES HIMSELF UP DESPAIRINGLY

84  SAY, EVERYONE ACTS ACCORDING TO HIS OWN WAY
BUT GOD KNOWS BEST WHO IS GUIDED ON THE RIGHT WAY 

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85  THEY ASK YOU CONCERNING THE SPIRIT OF INSPIRATION
SAY, THE SPIRIT COMES BY MY LORD'S INSTRUCTION 
AND ONLY A LITTLE TO YOU IS MENTIONED 

86  IF WE WISHED WE COULD TAKE AWAY WHAT WE HAVE SENT TO YOU 
THEN YOU WOULD FIND NONE TO PLEAD AGAINST US FOR YOU

87  BUT IT IS FROM YOUR LORD A MERCY                                                                  
FOR HIS BOUNTY IS GREAT TO YOU SURELY

88  SAY, IF ALL MEN AND DEMONS GATHERED TOGETHER 
TO PRODUCE THE LIKE OF THIS QURAN, THEY COULD NEVER 
PRODUCE THE LIKE OF IT EVEN IF THEY BACKED UP EACH OTHER 
AS HELPERS AND SUPPORTERS OF EACH OTHER

89  WE HAVE EXPLAINED IN THIS QURAN EVERY KIND OF SIMILITUDE 
YET MEN REFUSE TO RECEIVE IT EXCEPT WITH INGRATITUDE

90  THEY SAY, YOU WILL NOT BE BELIEVED BY US 
UNTIL YOU CAUSE A SPRING TO GUSH FORTH FROM THE EARTH FOR US 

91  OR UNTIL YOU HAVE A GARDEN OF TREES, VINES AND RIVERS
GUSH FORTH IN THE MIDST CARRYING ABUNDANT WATER 

92  OR YOU CAUSE THE SKY TO FALL IN PIECES ON US 
THE WAY YOU KEEP TELLING US THAT IT WILL HAPPEN TO US 
OR YOU BRING GOD AND THE ANGELS FACE TO FACE BEFORE US

93   OR YOU HAVE A HOUSE OF GOLD OR YOU ASCEND INTO HEAVEN
AND WE WILL NOT EVEN THEN BELIEVE IN YOUR ASCENSION 

UNTIL YOU SEND DOWN TO US A BOOK WE CAN READ OVER
SAY TO THEM, GLORY TO GOD AM I ANYTHING OTHER
THAN A MORTAL MAN, A MESSENGER?

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94  WHAT KEPT MEN BACK FROM BELIEVING WHEN GUIDANCE CLEAR
CAME TO THEM WAS NOTHING BUT THIS SAYING THEY UTTERED
HAS GOD SENT A MAN LIKE US AS A MESSENGER?

95  SAY, IF THERE WERE ON THE EARTH ANGELS 
WALKING SECURELY, QUIET AND PEACEFUL
WE WOULD HAVE SENT THEM AN ANGEL
FROM THE HEAVENS FOR AN APOSTLE

96  SAY, ENOUGH IS GOD FOR A WITNESS BETWEEN YOU AND ME 
FOR WELL ACQUAINTED WITH HIS SERVANTS IS HE
AND ALL THINGS DOES HE HEAR AND SEE

97  IT IS HE TO WHOM GOD GIVES GUIDANCE THAT HAS GUIDANCE SURE
FOR HE WHOM HE LEAVES ASTRAY YOU WILL FIND NO PROTECTOR 
AND ON JUDGMENT DAY WE WILL GATHER
THEM PRONE ON THEIR FACES ALL TOGETHER
BLIND, DUMB AND DEAF AND THEIR ABODE WILL BE THE FIRE 
AND EVERY TIME IT SHOWS ABATEMEN THEN WE WILL FURTHER
GIVE TO THEM GREATER INCREASES OF THE FIERCENESS OF THE FIRE

98  THAT IS THEIR RECOMPENSE DESERVEDLY
BECAUSE THEY REJECTED OUR SIGNS UNGRATEFULLY

AND SAID, WHEN WE ARE REDUCED TO BONES AND DECAYED FORMATION 
WILL WE REALLY BE RAISED UP TO INTO A NEW CREATION?

99  THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH GOD CREATED THEM
HAS HE NOT THE POWER TO CREATE THE LIKE OF THEM?

AN APPOINTED TERM HE HAS DECREED 
AND ALL OF THOSE WHO DO ACT UNJUSTLY
REFUSE TO RECEIVE IT EXCEPT UNGRATEFULLY

100  SAY, IF YOU HAD CONTROL OF THE TREASURES OF GOD'S MERCY 
YOU WOULD WITHOUT DOUBT HOLD THEM BACK SELFISHLY
FOR FEAR OF SPENDING THEM FOR MAN IS MISERLY

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101  AND TO MOSES WE GAVE NINE SIGNS TO HIM
ASK THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WHEN HE CAME TO THEM 

PHARAOH SAID TO HIM, OH MOSES, I CONSIDER YOU TO BE 
ONE WHO HAS BEEN WORKED UPON BY SORCERY

102  MOSES SAID, YOU KNOW THAT THESE THINGS HAVE BEEN 
SENT DOWN BY THE LORD OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AS EVIDENCE TO AWAKEN YOUR EYES OPEN

AND I CONSIDER YOU OH PHARAOH, TO BE ONE
THAT IS DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION 

103  SO PHAROAH INSOLENTLY RESOLVED TO REMOVE THEM 
FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH BUT WE DROWNED HIM
IN THE SEA AND ALL WHO WERE WITH HIM 

104  WE SAID TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
IN THE LAND OF PROMISE YOU WILL DWELL 
WHEN THE SECOND WARNING WAS FULFILLED
WE GATHERED YOU TOGETHER IN A CROWD MINGLED 

105  WE SENT DOWN THE QURAN IN TRUTH
AND NOW IT HAS CLEARLY DESCENDED IN TRUTH 
AND WE SENT YOU BUT AS A MESSENGER OF TRUTH
AND TO WARN AGAINST THOSE WHO REJECT THE TRUTH

106  IT IS A QURAN WHICH WE HAVE DIVIDED INTO PARTS
IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT RECITE IT FROM THE HEART

ACCURATELY TO MEN IN TIME AND SPACES 
AND WE HAVE REVEALED IT BY STAGES

107  SAY, IT IS TRUE WHETHER OR NOT YOU DO BELIEVE IT  
THOSE WHO WERE GIVEN THE KNOWLEDGE BEFORE IT
FALL DOWN IN PROSTRATION WHEN THEY HEAR IT

108  AND THEY SAY, TO GOD BE THE GLORY 
THE PROMISE OF GOD HAS BEEN FULFILLED COMPLETELY

109  THEY FALL DOWN ON THEIR FACES TEARFULLY
AND IT INCREASES THEIR EARNEST HUMILITY

110  SAY, CALL UPON GOD OR CALL ON THE MERCIFUL 
BY WHATEVER NAME YOU CALL HIM, HIS NAMES ARE BEAUTIFUL 
AND NEITHER SPEAK YOUR PRAYER WITH MUCH VOLUME OR TOO LITTLE
BUT SEEK A COURSE BETWEEN THESE IN THE MIDDLE 

111  SAY, PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO BEGETS NO SON 
AND HE HAS NO PARTNERS WITH HIM IN HIS DOMINION 
NOR NEED HE ANY TO PROTECT HIM FROM HUMILIATION
SO GLORIFY HIM FOR HIS GREAT EXALTATION

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