CHAPTER 23.  THE BELIEVERS                                                    SECTION 1.  PART  XVIII      

PART XVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THOSE WHO BELIEVE MUST WIN THROUGH EVENTUALLY

2  THOSE WHO HUMBLE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PRAYERS REGULARLY

3  WHO AVOID TALKING VAINLY

4  WHO ARE ACTIVE IN DEEDS OF CHARITY

5  WHO ABSTAIN FROM SEXUAL ACTIVITY

6  EXCEPT FOR WITH THOSE WHOM THEY MARRY

OR THE CAPTIVES WHOM THEIR RIGHT HANDS POSSESS 
FOR IN THEIR CASE THEY ARE  BLAMELESS

7  BUT THOSE WHOSE DESIRES 
EXCEED THOSE LIMITS ARE TRANSGRESSORS

8  THOSE FAITHFUL SERVANTS
WHO OBSERVE THEIR COVENANTS

9  AND WHO STRICTLY GUARD THEIR PRAYERS

10  THESE WILL BE THE HEIRS

11  WHO WILL INHERIT THE GARDEN
FOREVER THEY WILL DWELL THEREIN 

12  MAN WE DID CREATE 
FROM A QUINTESSENCE OF CLAY 

13  THEN HIM WE PLACED 
AS A DROP OF SPERM IN A RESTFUL PLACE
FIRMLY FIXED IN PLACE

14  THEN WE MADE THE SPERM INTO A BLOOD CLOT 
 THEN WE MADE A FETUS LUMP OUT OF THE CLOT 

THEN OUT OF THE LUMP WE MADE BONES 
AND WITH FLESH WE CLOTHED THE BONES 

THEN WE DEVELOPED OUT OF IT ANOTHER CREATURE 
SO BLESSED BE GOD, THE BEST CREATOR

15  AFTER THAT AT LENGTH YOU WILL DIE

16  THEN YOU WILL BE RAISED UP TO LIFE

17  AND WE HAVE MADE ABOVE YOU SEVEN HEAVENS
AND NEVER ARE WE UNMINDFUL OF OUR CREATION 

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CHAPTER 23.  THE BELIEVERS                                 SECTION 1 (CONT'D).  PART  XVIII  

18  FROM THE SKY WE SEND DOWN WATER 
ACCORDING TO DUE MEASURE 
WE CAUSE IT TO SOAK IN THE SOIL OF THE EARTH
AND WE ARE ABLE TO DRAIN IT OFF WITH EASE IN MANNER

19  WITH IT WE GROW DATE PALMS AND VINES IN GARDENS 
AND IN THEM YOU HAVE  FRUITS ABUNDANT 
AND OF THEM YOU EAT AND HAVE ENJOYMENT

20  ALSO A TREE SPRINGING OUT OF MOUNT SINAI WHICH PRODUCES 
FOR THOSE WHO USE IT FOR FOOD, OIL AND RELISHES 

21  AND IN CATTLE THERE IS AN INSTRUCTIVE EXAMPLE FOR YOU
FOR FROM WITHIN THEIR BODIES WE PRODUCE MILK FOR YOU 
THERE ARE IN THEM NUMEROUS OTHER BENEFITS FOR YOU 
AND OF THEIR MEAT IS FOOD FOR YOU

22  AND ON THEM 
AS ON SHIPS YOU RIDE THEM

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CHAPTER 23.  THE BELIEVERS                                                    SECTION 2.  PART  XVIII    

23  FURTHER WE SENT A LONG LINE OF MESSENGERS
TO GIVE YOU INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDANCE CLEAR

NOAH SAID TO HIS PEOPLE CLEARLY
SERVE GOD, BESIDES HIM THERE IS NO OTHER DIETY
WILL YOU NOT THEN TO YOUR LORD KEEP YOUR DUTY?

24  SAID THE CHIEFS OF THOSE WHO WERE DISBELIEVERS  
HE IS NO MORE THAN A MAN LIKE YOU WITH DESIRES
TO EXULT OVER YOU AND TO BE SUPERIOR 
IF GOD WISHED HE COULD HAVE SENT ANGELS AS MESSENGERS 
AND NEVER DID WE HEAR SUCH A THING FROM OUR ANCESTORS 

25  SOME SAID, HE IS A MAN POSSESSED WITH MADNESS IN HIM
SO WAIT AND HAVE PATIENCE WITH HIM 

26  NOAH SAID, OH MY LORD, HELP ME 
FOR THAT THEY ACCUSE ME OF FALSITY

27  WE INSPIRED HIM WITH THIS INSPIRATION
CONSTRUCT THE ARK UNDER OUR INSTRUCTION
THEN WHEN COMES OUR COMMAND AND THE FOUNTAINS 

GUSH FORTH FROM THE EARTH TAKE ON BOARD PAIRS OF ALL SPECIES 
MALE AND FEMALE AND YOUR FAMILY
EXCEPT THOSE AGAINST WHOM THE WORD HAS GONE FORTH ALREADY 

AND ADDRESS ME NOT IN FAVOR OF THE WRONG DOERS 
FOR THEY WILL BE DROWNED IN THE FLOOD ALL TOGETHER

28  AND WHEN YOU HAVE EMBARKED ON THE ARK SAFELY
YOU AND THOSE WHO ARE WITH YOU SAY, TO GOD PRAISES BE
WHO HAS SAVED US FROM THE PEOPLE WHO ACT UNRIGHTEOUSLY

29  SAY, MY LORD, WITH YOUR BLESSING ENABLE ME TO DISEMBARK 
FOR YOU ARE THE BEST TO ENABLE US TO DISEMBARK

30  SURELY IN THIS THERE ARE SIGNS FOR MEN 
AND SURELY WE ARE EVER TRYING MEN

31  THEN WE RAISED ANOTHER GENERATION AFTER THEM

32  AND WE SENT TO THEM A MESSENGER FROM AMONG THEM 
SAYING, WORSHIP GOD YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD BUT HIM 
WILL YOU NOT THEN KEEP YOUR DUTY TO HIM?

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CHAPTER 23.  THE BELIEVERS                                                    SECTION 3.  PART  XVIII    

33  AND THE CHIEFS WHO WERE DISBELIEVERS 
AND DENIED THE MEETING IN THE HEREAFTER 
AND ON WHOM WE HAD BESTOWED FAVORS
TO ENJOY IN THIS WORLD'S LIFE UTTERED

THIS IS ONLY A MAN LIKE YOU
AND HE EATS LIKE YOU AND DRINKS LIKE YOU 

34  AND IF YOU OBEY A MAN LIKE YOU 
YOU WILL BE OF THOSE WHO LOSE

35  DOES HE PROMISE THAT WHEN YOU DIE
AND BECOME DUST AND BONES THAT AGAIN YOU WILL RISE?

36  THAT WHICH YOU ARE PROMISED ARE LIES

37  THERE IS NOTHING BUT OUR LIFE IN THIS WORLD OF THE PRESENT 
WE LIVE AND DIE AND WE WILL NOT BE RAISED UP AGAIN 

38  HE IS ONLY A MAN WHO LIES ABOUT THE CREATOR  
AND WE ARE NOT THE ONES TO IN HIM BE BELIEVERS

39  THE MESSENGER SAID, OH MY LORD, HELP ME 
FOR THAT THEY ACCUSE ME OF FALSITY

40  IN A LITTLE WHILE THEY ARE SURE TO BE SORRY

41  THEN THE BLAST OVERTOOK THEM IN A JUST WAY
AND WE MADE THEM AS RUBBISH FLOATING AWAY
ON THE STREAM OF TIME, SO SWEPT AWAY
WERE THE PEOPLE WHO WENT ASTRAY

42  THEN WE RAISED AFTER THEM 
OTHER GENERATIONS IN PLACE OF THEM

43  WHEN THEIR TERM BECOMES DUE NO PEOPLE CAN HASTEN IT 
NOR CAN THEY FOR ONE HOUR DELAY IT

44  THEN WE SENT OUR MESSENGERS ONE AFTER ANOTHER
WHENEVER THERE CAME TO PEOPLE A MESSENGER
THEY REJECTED HIM AND CALLED HIM A LIAR
SO WE MADE THEM FOLLOW ONE ANOTHER
AND WE MADE THEM AS STORIES TOLD TO ONE ANOTHER
SO AWAY WITH THE DISBELIEVERS

45  WE SENT MOSES AND HIS BROTHER AARON CLEARLY
WITH OUR MESSAGES AND MANIFEST AUTHORITY 

46  TO PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS BUT THEY BEHAVED INSOLENTLY 
AND THEY WERE PEOPLE WHO ACTED ARROGANTLY

47  THEY SAID, SHALL WE BELIEVE IN TWO MEN LIKE US
AND THEIR PEOPLE ARE SUBJECT TO US?

48  SO THEY ACCUSED THEM OF FALSITY 
AND BECAME OF THOSE WHO WERE DESTROYED UTTERLY

49  WE GAVE MOSES THE BOOK IN ORDER THAT THEY MIGHT 
BELIEVE IN IT AND BE GUIDED ARIGHT

50  AND WE MADE THE SON OF MARY AND HIS MOTHER 
AS A SIGN AND WE GAVE TO THEM BOTH SHELTER 
ON HIGH GROUND FURNISHED WITH WATERS

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CHAPTER 23.  THE BELIEVERS                                                    SECTION 4.  PART  XVIII    

51  OH YOU MESSENGERS
ENJOY ALL THINGS GOOD AND PURE 
AND CONDUCT YOURSELVES IN A RIGHTEOUS MANNER
FOR I AM WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ALL YOUR ENDEAVORS

52  THIS BROTHERHOOD OF YOURS 
IS A SINGLE BROTHERHOOD FOR SURE
AND I AM YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER 
THEREFORE FEAR ME AND FEAR NO OTHER

53  BUT PEOPLE HAVE CUT OFF THEIR UNITY BETWEEN THEMSELVES  
AND DIVIDED THEMSELVES INTO SECTIONS AMONG THEMSELVES
EACH SECTION REJOICING IN THAT WHICH IS WITH THEMSELVES

54  BUT LEAVE THEM FOR A TIME
IN THEIR CONFUSED STATE OF MIND

55  DO THEY THINK THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE GIVEN
TO THEM AN ABUNDANCE OF WEALTH AND CHILDREN

56  THAT WE WOULD HASTEN THEM ON IN EVERY GOOD? 
NO, THIS TO THEM IS NOT UNDERSTOOD 

57  THOSE WHO LIVE IN AWE FOR FEAR OF THEIR LORD 

58  AND WHO BELIEVE IN THE MESSAGES OF THEIR LORD

59  THOSE WHO JOIN NOT IN WORSHIP PARTNERS WITH THEIR LORD

60  THOSE WHO DISPENSE THEIR CHARITY 
WITH THEIR HEARTS HAPPILY AND CHEERFULLY 
BECAUSE THEY WILL RETURN TO GOD WITH CERTAINTY

61  IT IS THESE WHO HASTEN IN EVERY GOOD WORK
AND THESE WHO ARE FOREMOST IN THEIR GOOD WORK

62  ON NO SOUL DO WE PLACE A BURDEN GREATER THAN IT CAN BEAR 
BEFORE US IS A RECORD WHICH SHOWS THE TRUTH CLEAR
AND NEVER WILL THEY BE WRONGED EVER

63  BUT THEIR HEARTS ARE IN IGNORANCE AND CONFUSED  
AND THERE ARE  DEEDS WHICH THEY CONTINUE 

64  UNTIL WHEN WE SEIZE IN PUNISHMENT 
THOSE WHO RECEIVED THE GOOD THINGS FOR ENJOYMENT
AND THEN THEY WILL SOON GROAN IN SUPPLICATION AND TORMENT

65  IT WILL BE SAID, GROAN NOT IN SUPPLICATION THIS DAY TO US
FOR YOU WILL CERTAINLY NOT BE HELPED BY US

66  MY MESSAGES TO YOU USE TO BE REVEALED
BUT YOU TURNED BACK IN ARROGANCE ON YOUR HEELS

67  TALKING NONSENSE ABOUT IT LIKE 
ONE TELLING FABLES BY NIGHT

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CHAPTER 23.  THE BELIEVERS                                   SECTION 4 (CONT'D). PART  XVIII    

68  OVER THE WORD OF GOD DO THEY NOT PONDER
OR HAS ANYTHING COME TO THEM OTHER
THAN WHAT CAME TO THEIR FATHERS?  

69  OR THEIR MESSENGER DO THEY NOT RECOGNIZE HIM
AND SO FOR THIS REASON THEY DENY HIM?

70  DO THEY SAY HE IS POSSESSED?  NO, HE BRINGS THE TRUTH
BUT MOST OF THEM ARE HATERS OF TRUTH

71  IF THE TRUTH HAD BEEN IN ACCORD WITH THEIR DESIRES
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND ALL OF ITS CREATURES 

WOULD HAVE BEEN IN CONFUSION AND CORRUPTION
BUT WE HAVE SENT TO THEM THEIR ADMONITION 
AND THEY TURN AWAY FROM IT IN REJECTION

72  OR IS IT THAT YOU ASK THEM FOR SOME RECOMPENSE? 
BUT BEST FOR YOU IS YOUR LORD'S RECOMPENSE 
AND HE IS THE BEST TO GIVE SUSTENANCE 

73  AND YOU CALL THEM TO THE RIGHT WAY 

74  AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN THE LAST DAY
THEY ARE DEVIATORS FROM THE RIGHT WAY

75  IF WE HAD MERCY ON THEM AND REMOVED THEIR DEPRESSION  
THEY WOULD  PERSIST IN THEIR TRANSGRESSION 
WANDERING TO AND FRO IN DISTRACTION

76  WE INFLICTED PUNISHMENT ON THEM
BUT EVEN THAT DID NOT HUMBLE THEM 
NOR IS THEIR LORD HONORED BY THEM

77  WHEN WE OPEN ON THEM A GATE TO A SEVERE PENALTY 
THEN THEY WILL BE PLUNGED INTO DISPARITY

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CHAPTER 23.  THE BELIEVERS                                                    SECTION 5.  PART  XVIII    

78  HE HAS CREATED FOR YOU THE FACULTIES OF HEARING 
AND OF SIGHT AND FEELING AND UNDERSTANDING 
LITTLE ARE THE THANKS THAT YOU ARE GIVING

79  HE HAS MULTIPLIED YOU THROUGH THE EARTH 
AND TO HIM ALL OF YOU WILL BE GATHERED

80  HE GIVES LIFE AND DEATH AND CAUSES THE ALTERNATION 
OF NIGHT AND DAY, WILL YOU NOT GAIN COMPREHENSION?

81  ON THE CONTRARY THEY SAY THINGS SIMILAR 
TO WHAT THE ANCIENTS SAID PRIOR

82  THEY SAY, WHEN WE DIE 
AND BECOME DUST AND BONES ALL DRIED 
COULD WE THEN REALLY BE RAISED UP AGAIN TO LIFE?

83  SUCH THINGS HAVE BEEN PROMISED TO US 
AND WERE PROMISED TO OUR FATHERS BEFORE US 
THEY ARE NOTHING BUT TALES OF THE ANCIENTS TO US

84  SAY, TO WHOM BELONGS THE EARTH AND ALL BEINGS IN IT? 
SAY IF YOU TRUTHFULLY KNOW IT

85   THEY WILL SAY, THEY BELONG TO GOD 
SAY, WILL YOU NOT RECEIVE ADMONITION FROM GOD?

86  SAY, WHO IS THE LORD OF THE SEVEN HEAVENS EXCLUSIVELY
AND THE LORD OF THE THRONE OF SUPREME GLORY? 
 
87  THEY WILL SAY, THEY BELONG TO THE CREATOR
SAY, WILL YOU NOT THEN BE FILLED WITH FEAR?

88  SAY, TO WHOM BELONGS THE GOVERNING OF ALL THINGS
AND WHO IS NOT PROTECTED BUT PROTECTS ALL THINGS? 
SAY, IF YOU KNOW OF ANYONE OR ANYTHING

89  IT BELONGS TO GOD, THEY WILL SAY 
HOW THEN ARE YOU DELUDED AWAY?

90  WE HAVE SENT THEM THE TRUTH BUT THEY 
INDEED PRACTICE FALSEHOOD ANYWAY

91 NO SON DID GOD BEGET NOR IS THERE ANOTHER
GOD BESIDES HIM IF THERE WERE ANY OTHERS   
EACH WOULD HAVE REMOVED THAT OF WHICH HE WAS THE CREATOR
AND SOME OF THEM WOULD HAVE RULED OVER OTHERS 
BUT PRAISE BE TO GOD THE LORD AND SUSTAINER
HE IS FREE FROM THE THINGS THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM AS PARTNERS

92  HE KNOWS WHAT IS HIDDEN 
AND HE KNOWS WHAT IS OPEN 

TOO HIGH IS HE AND NOT FIT FOR HIM
ARE THE PARTNERS THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM 

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CHAPTER 23.  THE BELIEVERS                                                        SECTION 6.  PART  XVIII    

93  SAY, OH MY LORD, IF YOU WILL SHOW ME IN MY LIFETIME FROM YOU
THAT WHICH THEY ARE WARNED AGAINST FROM YOU

94  THEN OH MY LORD, PUT ME NOT 
AMONG THE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE NOT

95  WE ARE ABLE TO SHOW YOU IN FULFILLMENT 
THAT WHICH THEY ARE WARNED AGAINST

96  REPEL EVIL WITH THAT WHICH IS BETTER 
WE ARE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE THINGS THEY UTTER

97  AND SAY, OH LORD OF ALL CREATION
I SEEK REFUGE WITH YOU FROM THE SUGGESTIONS 
OF THE REJECTED EVIL ONES

98  AND I SEEK REFUGE WITH YOU SINCERELY
UNLESS THEY SHOULD COME NEAR ME

99  IN FALSEHOOD WILL THEY BE UNTIL WHEN
DEATH COMES TO ONE OF THEM AND THEN
HE WILL SAY, MY LORD SEND ME BACK TO LIFE AGAIN

100  IN ORDER THAT I MAY WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS 
IN THE THINGS THAT BEFORE I WAS HEEDLESS

BY NO MEANS IT IS BUT A WORD HE WILL SAY
BEFORE THEM IS A PARTITION UNTIL THE DAY THEY ARE RAISED 

101  THEN WHEN THE TRUMPET IS BLOWN THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER 
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THEM NOR WILL ONE OR THE OTHER
ASK AFTER ONE OR THE OTHER

102  THEN THOSE WHOSE BALANCE OF GOOD DEEDS ARE HEAVY ONES
THEY WILL ATTAIN THE SUPREME SALVATION

103  BUT THOSE WHOSE BALANCE IS LIGHT IN GOOD DEEDS
WILL BE THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR SOULS INDEED
AND IN HELL THEY WILL DWELL ETERNALLY

104  EACH ONE THE FIRE WILL BURN HIS FACE 
AND THEY WILL GRIN WITH THEIR LIPS DISPLACED

105  WERE NOT MY MESSAGES RECITED TO YOU 
AND YOU TREATED THEM AS FALSEHOODS DID NOT YOU?

106  THEY WILL SAY, WE WERE OVERWHELMED WITH ADVERSITY
AND WE WENT ASTRAY MANIFESTLY 

107  OUR LORD BRING US OUT OF THIS AND IF WE EVER 
RETURN TO EVIL WE WILL INDEED BE WRONG DOERS 

108  HE WILL SAY, BE YOU DRIVEN INTO IT WITH IGNOMINY 
AND DO NOT SPEAK A WORD TO ME

109  SOME OF MY SERVANTS PRAYED, OUR LORD WE BELIEVE
SO THEREFORE FORGIVE US AND UPON US HAVE MERCY 
FOR YOU ARE THE BEST OF THOSE WHO SHOW MERCY

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CHAPTER 23.  THE BELIEVERS                                   SECTION 6 (CONT'D). PART  XVIII    

110  BUT YOU TREATED THEM
WITH RIDICULE SO MUCH THAT YOUR RIDICULE OF THEM 
MADE YOU FORGET MY MESSAGE WHILE LAUGHING AT THEM

111  I HAVE REWARDED THEM FOR THEIR CONSTANCY 
AND THEY ARE THE ONES THAT SUCCEED

112  HE WILL SAY, WHAT NUMBER OF YEARS ON EARTH DID YOU STAY?

113  THEY WILL SAY, WE STAYED A DAY OR PART OF A DAY 
BUT ASK THOSE WHO KEEP ACCOUNT OF THE DAYS

114  HE WILL SAY, ONLY A LITTLE WHILE DID YOU STAY
 BUT IT WAS NOT KNOWN TO YOU UNTIL TODAY

115  DID YOU THEN THINK THAT WE HAD CREATED YOU IN JEST                      
AND THAT YOU WOULD NOT BE BROUGHT BACK TO US TO ATTEST?

116  EXALTED BE GOD, THE KING, THE REALITY 
AND THERE IS NO OTHER GOD BUT HE
HE IS THE LORD OF THE THRONE OF GLORY

117  IF ANYONE INVOKES BESIDES GOD ANY OTHER DIETY 
HE HAS FOR IT NO AUTHORITY 
AND HIS RECKONING WILL BE WITH GOD ONLY
AND THE DISBELIEVERS WILL SURELY FAIL UTTERLY 

118  AND SAY, OH MY LORD, GRANT ME FORGIVENESS AND MERCY 
FOR YOU ARE THE BEST OF THOSE WHO SHOW MERCY

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