CHAPTER 22.  THE PILGRIMAGE                                                  SECTION 1.  PART  XVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH MANKIND, FEAR YOUR LORD, FOR THE SHOCKING 
OF THE HOUR OF JUDGMENT WILL BE A TERRIBLE THING 

2  THE DAY YOU WILL SEE IT EVERY MOTHER NURSING 
WILL FORGET HER CHILD THAT SHE IS NURSING 

AND ALL PREGNANT WOMEN 
WILL DROP THEIR LOADS MISHAPPENED
AND YOU WILL SEE MEN 
AS IN A DRUNKEN RIOT YET NOT DRUNKEN
AND DREADFUL WILL BE GOD'S WRATH FOR MEN

3  YET THERE ARE MEN WHO DISPUTE ABOUT GOD 
WITHOUT ANY CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
AND FOLLOW EVERY REBEL AGAINST GOD

4  ABOUT THE DEVIL, WHOEVER TURNS TO HIM 
FAR ASTRAY HE WILL SURELY LEAD HIM 
AND TO THE FIRE HE WILL GUIDE HIM 

5  MANKIND, IF YOU HAVE A DOUBT ABOUT THE RESURRECTION
CONSIDER THAT OUT OF DUST WAS YOUR OWN CREATION
THEN OUT OF SPERM THEN OUT OF A CLOT FORMATION
THEN OUT OF FLESH OF PARTLY FORMED FORMATION
AND A PARTLY UNFORMED FORMATION
TO SHOW YOU OUR POWER IN MANIFESTATION 
AND WE CAUSE YOU TO REST IN THE WOMBS IN FIXATION

THEN WE BRING YOU OUT AS BABIES 
THEN FOSTER YOU THAT YOU MAY REACH MATURITY 
SOME OF YOU ARE CALLED TO DIE EARLY
AND SOME OF YOU REACH OLD AGE FEEBLY
SO YOU KNOW NOTHING AFTER HAVING KNOWN GREATLY 

FURTHER YOU SEE THE EARTH BARREN AND WITHOUT LIFE
WHEN WE POUR DOWN RAIN ON IT, IT IS STIRRED TO LIFE
IT SWELLS AND GROWS EVERY KIND OF BEAUTIFUL LIFE

6  AND THIS IS SO BECAUSE GOD IS THE REALITY 
AND HE GIVES LIFE TO THE DEAD AND IT IS HE 
WHO HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS INDEED

7  THE HOUR WILL COME, THERE CAN BE NO UNCERTAINTY 
GOD WILL RAISE UP ALL WHO ARE IN THE GRAVES SURELY

8  YET THERE IS AMONG MEN THOSE WHO WITH NO INFORMATION
DISPUTE ABOUT GOD AND WITHOUT DISCRETION
AND WITHOUT A BOOK OF EDIFICATION

9  TURNING AWAY TO LEAD MEN FROM GOD'S WAY
FOR HIM IN THIS LIFE THERE IS NOTHING BUT DISGRACE 
AND ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THE FIRE WILL BE HIS PLACE 

10  IT WILL BE SAID, THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE DEEDS 
OF WHICH YOUR HANDS HAVE SENT FORTH PREVIOUSLY 
FOR YOUR LORD DOES NOT TREAT HIS SERVANTS UNJUSTLY 

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CHAPTER 22.  THE PILGRIMAGE                                                   SECTION 2.  PART  XVII

11  THERE ARE AMONG MEN SOME OF THEM
WHO SERVE GOD ON THE VERGE AND IF GOOD BEFALLS THEM 
THEY ARE WELL CONTENT BUT IF THEN A TRIAL COMES TO THEM 

THEY TURN THEIR FACES AWAY SO THEY ARE LOSERS
BOTH IN THIS WORLD AND IN THE HEREAFTER 
AND THAT IS A LOSS FOR ALL TO CONSIDER

12  THEY CALL ON BESIDES GOD THAT WHICH DOES NOT PROFIT THEM 
AND NEITHER CAN THAT WHICH THEY CALL UPON HURT THEM
AND THAT IS STRAYING FAR FROM THE WAY FOR THEM

13  PERHAPS THEY CALL ON ONE WHOSE HURT IS NEARER 
THAN HIS PROFIT, EVIL INDEED IS THE PROTECTOR
AND EVIL IS THE COMPANION FOR A HELPER

14  SURELY GOD WILL ADMIT THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND DO RIGHT TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 
FOR GOD CARRIES OUT ALL THAT HE ENDEAVORS

15  IF ANY THINK THAT GOD WILL NOT HELP HIM 
IN THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER, THEN LET HIM 
STRETCH OUT A ROPE TO THE CEILING AND LET HIM
CUT HIMSELF OFF, THEN LET HIM 
SEE IF HIS PLAN REMOVES THAT WHICH ENRAGES HIM

16  SO HAVE WE SENT DOWN CLEAR MESSAGES
AND GOD DOES GUIDE WHOM HE PLEASES

17   THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE QURAN 
THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES AND THE CHRISTIANS 
AND THE POLYTHEISTS AND THE MAGICIANS AND THE SABIANS
GOD WILL JUDGE THEM ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION 
FOR GOD IS THE WITNESS OVER ALL CREATION

18  SEE YOU NOT THAT TO GOD BOW DOWN IN SUBMISSION
ALL THINGS THAT ARE ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN? 
THE ANIMALS, THE TREES AND THE MOUNTAINS
THE  MOON, THE STARS AND THE SUN 

AND AMONG MEN A GREAT NUMBER 
BUT FIT FOR PUNISHMENT ARE A GREATER NUMBER
AND WHO GOD DISGRACES NONE CAN RAISE TO HONOR 
FOR OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER

19  THESE TWO ANTAGONISTS DISPUTE ABOUT GOD WITH EACH OTHER 
FOR THOSE WHO ARE DENIERS WILL BE CUT OUT A GARMENT OF FIRE 
AND OVER THEIR HEADS WILL BE POURED BOILING WATER

20  WITH IT WILL BE SCALDED WHAT IS WITHIN 
THEIR BODIES AS WELL AS THEIR SKINS 

21  IN ADDITION THERE WILL BE FOR THEM
MACES OF IRON TO PUNISH THEM
  
22  EVERY TIME THEY WISH TO GET AWAY FROM AGONY 
THEY WILL BE FORCED BACK INTO IT VIOLENTLY
IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM, TASTE THE BURNING PENALTY 

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CHAPTER 22.  THE PILGRIMAGE                                                   SECTION 3.  PART  XVII

23  GOD WILL MAKE THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND THOSE WHO DO GOOD DEEDS TO ENTER
GARDENS BENEATH WHICH FLOW RIVERS 

AND THEY WILL HAVE AS THEIR ADORNMENTS 
BRACELETS OF GOLD AND PEARLS AND SILK GARMENTS 

24  FOR THEY HAVE BEEN GUIDED TO WORDS OF PURITY
AND TO THE PATH OF HIM WHO IS PRAISEWORTHY

25  AS TO THOSE WHO HAVE REJECTED GOD ARROGANTLY
AND WOULD KEEP BACK MEN FROM GOD'S DECREE
AND FROM THE SACRED MOSQUE WHICH WE 
HAVE MADE OPEN TO ALL MEN EQUALLY 
TO THE DWELLER THERE AND THE VISITOR FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY 
AND FOR ANY WHOSE PURPOSE THEREIN IS PROFANITY
OR WRONG DOING IS A MOST GRIEVOUS PENALTY

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CHAPTER 22.  THE PILGRIMAGE                                                  SECTION 4.  PART  XVII

26  WE GAVE THE SITE TO ABRAHAM OF THE SACRED HOUSE
SAYING, SERVE ONLY ME AND SANCTIFY MY HOUSE 

FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO COMPASS AROUND IT  
OR STAND UP OR BOW OR PROSTRATE IN IT 

27  AND PROCLAIM THE PILGRIMAGE AMONG MEN AND THEY WILL 
COME TO YOU ON FOOT AND MOUNTED ON EVERY KIND OF CAMEL 

LEAN ON ACCOUNT OF JOURNEYS 
THROUGH DEEP AND DISTANT MOUNTAIN HIGHWAYS

28  THEY WILL WITNESS THE BENEFITS THAT FOR THEM ARE PROVIDED   
AND CELEBRATE GOD'S NAME THROUGH THE DAYS APPOINTED 
OVER THE CATTLE WHICH FOR THEM HE HAS PROVIDED 
THEN EAT AND FEED THOSE WHO ARE DISTRESSED  

29  THEN LET THEM COMPLETE THE RITES PRESCRIBED FOR THEM
AND LET THEIR VOWS THEY MAKE BE FULFILLED BY THEM
AND LET THE ANCIENT HOUSE BE CIRCLED BY THEM

30  WHOEVER HONORS THE SACRED RITES OF GOD 
FOR HIM IT IS GOOD IN THE SIGHT OF GOD

LAWFUL TO YOU FOR FOOD IN PILGRIMAGE ARE CATTLE 
EXCEPT THE EXCEPTIONS BUT SHUN THE ABOMINATION OF IDOLS 
AND SHUN THE WORD THAT IS FALSE AS WELL

31  BEING TRUE IN FAITH AND NEVER ASSIGNING TO GOD PARTNERS 
FOR ANY ONE WHO ASSIGNS TO GOD PARTNERS 
IT IS AS IF HE FELL FROM HEAVEN AND BEEN SNATCHED UP BY BIRDS

OR THE WIND HAD SWOOPED LIKE A BIRD ON ITS PREY 
AND THROWN HIM INTO A PLACE FAR AWAY

32  IN THE SACRIFICE OF ANIMALS, THOSE WHO TRULY
HOLD THE SYMBOLS OF GOD SACREDLY
SUCH HONOR SHOULD COME FROM A HEART OF PIETY 

33  FOR A TERM APPOINTED YOU HAVE BENEFITS IN THEM
THEN THE ANCIENT HOUSE IS THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE FOR THEM

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CHAPTER 22.  THE PILGRIMAGE                                                  SECTION 5.  PART  XVII

34  AND TO EVERY NATION WE APPOINTED ACTS OF DEVOTION
THAT THEY MIGHT MENTION GOD'S NAME IN CELEBRATION 
OVER THE FOOD HE HAS GIVEN THEM FOR CONSUMPTION
BUT YOUR GOD IS ONE GOD AND ONLY ONE
THEN BOW YOUR WILL TO GOD IN SUBMISSION
AND GIVE GOOD NEWS TO THE SUBMITTING ONES

35  TO THOSE WHOSE HEARTS ARE FILLED WITH FEAR
WHEN GOD IS MENTIONED AND PATIENTLY PERSEVERE
WHEN THEY ARE AFFLICTED AND KEEP UP REGULAR PRAYER 

36  SPEND IN CHARITY OUT OF WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN YOU 
THE SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS WE HAVE MADE FOR YOU 
IN THEM IS SURELY MUCH GOOD FOR YOU

SAY GOD'S NAME OVER THEM AS THEY LINE UP FOR SACRIFICE 
AFTER SLAUGHTER WHEN THEY ARE DOWN ON THEIR SIDES  
THEN EAT OF THEM AND FEED THE BEGGAR BESIDES

AND THOSE WHO BEG NOT BUT LIVE CONTENTEDLY 
AND THOSE WHO BEG WITH HUMILITY 
WE HAVE MADE ANIMALS FOR YOUR NEEDS SUBJECTIVELY
THAT YOU MAY BE GRATEFUL AND ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

37  IT IS NOT THEIR MEAT NOR THEIR BLOOD THAT REACHES GOD
IT IS YOUR PIETY THAT REACHES GOD 
HE HAS SUBJECTED THEM TO YOU THAT YOU MAY GLORIFY GOD 

FOR HIS GUIDANCE TO YOU 
AND PROCLAIM THE GOOD NEWS 
TO ALL WHO DO GOOD AND ARE TRUE

38  GOD WILL DEFEND FROM ILL THE BELIEVERS 
BUT GOD SURELY DOES NOT LOVE A TRAITOR 
NOR HE WHO ACTS UNGRATEFULLY EITHER 

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CHAPTER 22.  THE PILGRIMAGE                                                   SECTION 6.  PART  XVII

39  FIGHTING IS ALLOWED FOR THOSE WHO AGAINST WAR IS MADE  
BECAUSE THEY ARE WRONGED AND GOD IS POWERFUL FOR THEIR AID

40  THEY ARE THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN EXPELLED FROM THEIR HOMES 
IN DEFIANCE OF RIGHT FOR NO CAUSE OF THEIR OWN
EXCEPT THAT THEY SAY, WE WORSHIP GOD ALONE

AND IF SOME PEOPLE WERE NOT CHECKED BY OTHER PEOPLE BY GOD
THERE SURELY WOULD HAVE BEEN PULLED DOWN SYNAGOGUES 
AND MONASTERIES AND CHURCHES AND MOSQUES 

IN WHICH THE NAME OF GOD IS COMMEMORATED ABUNDANTLY
BUT GOD WILL AID THOSE WHO AID HIS CAUSE SINCERELY 
FOR GOD IS FULL OF STRENGTH AND IS ALL MIGHTY 

41  THERE ARE THOSE IF ESTABLISHED IN THE LAND WILL SURELY 
ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER AND GIVE REGULAR CHARITY 
AND ENJOIN RIGHT AND FORBID ACTING WRONGFULLY
AND WITH GOD RESTS ALL DECISIONS ULTIMATELY

42  IF THEY TREAT YOUR MISSION AS FALSE, SO DID THE PEOPLE 
BEFORE WITH NOAH AND AD AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE

43  AND THOSE OF ABRAHAM AND LOT'S PEOPLE

44  AND THE COMPANIONS OF THE MIDIAN PEOPLE 
AND MOSES WAS REJECTED BY HIS PEOPLE

THE REJECTERS I GRANTED RESPITE TO THEM
SO THEN AFTER THAT I DID INDEED PUNISH THEM 
THEN HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY REJECTION OF THEM

45  HOW MANY POPULATIONS HAVE WE DESTROYED UTTERLY
OF WHICH THEY WERE GIVEN TO ACTING WRONGFULLY
THEIR ROOFS TUMBLED AND THEIR WELLS LAID IDLY
AND HOW MANY CASTLES WELL BUILT AND LOFTY?

46  DO THEY NOT TRAVEL THROUGH THE YEARS
SO THEIR EARS MAY LEARN TO HEAR

THAT THEY MAY LEARN WISDOM IN THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS   
IT IS NOT THEIR EYES THAT ARE IN THEIR HEADS THAT ARE BLIND 
BUT THEIR HEARTS WHICH ARE IN THEIR BREASTS THAT ARE BLIND

47  YET THEY ASK YOU TO HASTEN ON THE PUNISHMENT
BUT GOD WILL NOT FAIL IN HIS JUDGEMENT

FOR A DAY IN THE SIGHT OF GOD'S MEASURE 
IS LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS AS YOU WOULD MEASURE

48  AND TO HOW MANY POPULATIONS 
DID I GIVE RESPITE WHICH WERE GIVEN TO TRANSGRESSIONS
IN THE END I PUNISHED THEM AND TO ME IS THE FINAL DESTINATION 

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CHAPTER 22.  THE PILGRIMAGE                                                  SECTION 7.  PART  XVII

49  SAY, OH MEN, I AM SENT TO YOU 
TO GIVE CLEAR ADMONITION TO YOU

50  THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A SUSTENANCE MOST GENEROUS

51  BUT THOSE WHO STRIVE AGAINST OUR SIGNS TO FRUSTRATE THEM
THE FIRE WILL SURELY BE THE HOME FOR THEM

52  NEVER DID WE SEND BEFORE YOU A MESSENGER OR A PROPHET 
BUT WHEN HE FRAMED A DESIRE SATAN THREW VANITY INTO IT 

BUT ANYTHING THAT SATAN THROWS IN WILL BE CANCELLED BY GOD 
AND GOD'S SIGNS WILL BE CONFIRMED AND ESTABLISHED BY GOD
FOR FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS GOD

53  THAT HE MAY MAKE THE SUGGESTIONS THROWN IN BY SATAN 
BUT A TRIAL FOR THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS CORRUPTION
AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE HARD HEARTED ONES
FOR THE WRONG DOERS ARE IN SEVERE OPPOSITION

54  AND ALSO THAT THOSE ON WHOM KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN GRANTED
MAY KNOW THE QURAN IS THE TRUTH SO THEY MAY BELIEVE IN IT
AND THEIR HEARTS MAY BE MADE HUMBLY OPEN TO IT
FOR TO ALL OF THOSE WHO DO BELIEVE IN IT
GOD GUIDES TO THE STRAIGHT WAY THROUGH IT

55  THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION
WILL NOT CEASE TO BE IN DOUBT CONCERNING REVELATION  

UNTIL THE HOUR OF JUDGMENT COMES SUDDENLY UPON THEM 
AND THE PENALTY OF A DAY OF DISASTER COMES TO THEM

56  ON THAT DAY THE DOMINION WILL BE THAT OF THE CREATOR
HE WILL JUDGE BETWEEN THEM AND THE BELIEVERS 
WILL BE IN GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS

57  THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH AND DENY OUR ANNOUNCEMENTS 
THERE WILL BE FOR THEM A HUMILIATING PUNISHMENT

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CHAPTER 22.  THE PILGRIMAGE                                                  SECTION 8.  PART  XVII

58  THOSE WHO LEAVE THEIR HOMES IN THE CAUSE OF GOD 
AND ARE THEN KILLED OR DIE IN THE CAUSE OF GOD

ON THEM WILL GOD BESTOW A GOOD PROVISION 
FOR GOD BESTOWS THE BEST PROVISION

59  HE WILL ADMIT THEM TO A PLACE INDEED
WITHIN WHICH THEY SHALL BE WELL PLEASED 
FOR GOD IS ALL KNOWING AND MERCIFUL IS HE

60  THAT IS SO AND IF ONE RETALIATES WITH AN INJURY
TO NO GREATER EXTENT THAN THE ONE HE RECEIVED
AND IS AGAIN SET UPON INORDINATELY 
GOD WILL HELP HIM FOR GOD BLOTS OUT INIQUITIES
AND THE FORGIVER OF SINS IS HE 

61  THAT IS BECAUSE GOD MERGES NIGHT 
INTO DAY AND HE MERGES DAY INTO NIGHT 

AND GOD IS ALL HEARING
AND ALL SEEING OF ALL THINGS

62  THAT IS BECAUSE GOD IS THE REALITY 
AND THEY WHOM THEY WORSHIP BESIDES HIM IN DEITY
ARE BUT VAIN FALSEHOOD, FOR HE IS MOST HIGH AND ALMIGHTY

63  SEE YOU NOT HOW RAIN IS SENT DOWN FROM THE SKY 
AND THE EARTH BECOMES CLOTHED WITH GREEN THEREBY? 

AND GOD UNDERSTANDS THE FINEST MYSTERIES 
AND WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THEM IS HE

64  TO HIM BELONGS EVERYTHING EARTHLY AND HEAVENLY 
AND GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND IS PRAISEWORTHY

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CHAPTER 22.  THE PILGRIMAGE                                                  SECTION 9.  PART  XVII

65  SEE YOU NOT THAT GOD HAS MADE FOR YOUR FACILITY
ALL THAT IS ON THE EARTH AND THE SHIPS THAT SAIL THE SEA 
 
HE WITHHOLDS THE SKY RAIN FROM FALLING BY HIS COMMAND 
FOR GOD IS MOST KIND AND MOST MERCIFUL TO MAN

66  IT IS HE WHO GAVE YOU LIFE 
AND WILL CAUSE YOU TO DIE AND WILL AGAIN GIVE YOU LIFE 

AND MAN IS FOR SURE
AN UNGRATEFUL CREATURE 

67  WE APPOINTED ACTS OF DEVOTION FOR EVERY NATION
IN WHICH FOR THEM TO GLORIFY GOD IN CELEBRATION
LET THEM NOT WITH YOU FALL INTO DISPUTATION 
BUT INVITE THEM TO THE LORD OF CREATION
FOR YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

68  AND IF THEY DO WRANGLE WITH YOU 
SAY, GOD KNOWS BEST WHAT YOU DO

69  GOD WILL JUDGE BETWEEN YOU CONCERNING THE MATTERS
ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT IN WHICH YOU DIFFER

70  ALL IN HEAVEN AND EARTH IS KNOWN TO GOD
IT IS ALL IN A RECORD AND THAT IS EASY FOR GOD

71  YET THEY SERVE GODS FOR WHICH THEY HAVE NO AUTHORITY 
AND OF WHICH THEY HAVE NO REAL KNOWLEDGE IN REALITY 
THERE IS NO HELPER FOR THOSE WHO ACT WRONGFULLY

72  WHEN ARE RECITED TO THEM OUR MESSAGES   
THE DISBELIEVERS WILL HAVE DENIAL ON THEIR FACES
THEY NEARLY ATTACK THOSE WHO RECITE OUR MESSAGES
SAY, SHALL I TELL YOU WHAT IS WORSE THAN THESE MESSAGES? 
IT IS THE FIRE OF HELL THAT TO THE DISBELIEVERS GOD PROMISES 

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CHAPTER 22.  THE PILGRIMAGE                                                SECTION 10.  PART  XVII

73  HERE IS A PARABLE, SO LISTEN ALL
THOSE ON WHOM BESIDES GOD YOU CALL 
CANNOT CREATE A FLY EVEN IF THEY ALL 
MET TOGETHER FOR THE PURPOSE OF IT ALL

AND IF THE FLY SNATCHED AWAY ANYTHING FROM THEM
THEY WOULD HAVE NO POWER TO RELEASE IT FROM HIM

AND FEEBLE ARE THOSE WHO PETITION 
AND FEEBLE ARE THOSE WHOM THEY PETITION

74  NO JUST ESTIMATE HAVE THEY MADE OF GOD 
FOR STRONG AND ABLE TO CARRY OUT HIS WILL IS GOD

75  FROM ANGELS AND MEN GOD CHOOSES MESSENGERS
FOR GOD IS THE HEARER AND THE SEER

76  HE KNOWS WHAT IS BEFORE THEM 
AND WHAT IS BEHIND THEM

AND TO GOD DO ALL QUESTIONS
GO BACK FOR DECISION

77  BOW DOWN, PROSTRATE YOURSELVES, YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
AND ADORE YOUR LORD AND DO GOOD THAT YOU MAY PROSPER

78  AND STRIVE IN HIS CAUSE AND BE SINCERE
AND WITH DISCIPLINE FOR HE HAS MADE YOU HEIRS 
AND IN RELIGION HAS IMPOSED ON YOU NO FEARS
IT IS THE CULTURE OF ABRAHAM YOUR FATHER 
IT IS HE WHO HAS NAMED YOU SUBMITTERS 
BOTH BEFORE AND IN THIS SCRIPTURE
THAT THE MESSENGER MAY FOR YOU BE A WITNESS BEARER
AND YOU FOR MANKIND TO BE A WITNESSES BEARER
SO GIVE REGULAR CHARITY AND ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER
AND HOLD FAST TO GOD FOR HE IS YOUR PROTECTOR 
THE BEST PROTECTOR AND THE BEST HELPER

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