CHAPTER 26.  THE POETS                                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XIX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENIGNANT, HEARING, KNOWING GOD

2  THESE ARE THE VERSES 
OF THE BOOK THAT MAKES MANIFEST

3  IT MAY BE THAT YOU FRET YOUR SOUL WITH GRIEF 
BECAUSE THEY INSIST ON DISBELIEF

4  IF IT WERE OUR WILL WE COULD SEND 
A SIGN TO THEM WHICH WOULD BEND 
THEIR NECKS IN HUMILITY THEREIN

5  THERE COMES NOT TO THEM FROM GOD A NEW MESSAGE 
BUT THEY TURN AWAY FROM THE MESSAGE

6  THEY HAVE REJECTED THE MESSAGE SO THEY WILL SURELY
SOON KNOW THE TRUTH OF THAT OF WHICH THEY MADE MOCKERY

7  AND THE EARTH, DO THEY NOT SEE WHILE LOOKING AT IT
HOW MANY NOBLE THINGS OF ALL KINDS WE HAVE PRODUCED IN IT?

8  IN THIS IS A SIGN, BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT BELIEVE IT

9  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY
THE MERCIFUL, THE MIGHTY

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10  GOD TOLD MOSES TO GO TO THE PEOPLE
WHO WERE WRONG DOING PEOPLE

11  TO PHARAOH'S PEOPLE
THAT THEY MIGHT FEAR GOD AND BECOME RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE

12  HE SAID, OH MY LORD, I DO FEAR WITH CERTAINTY
THAT THEY WILL CHARGE ME WITH FALSITY

13  MY BREAST WILL BE STRAITENED TIGHTLY
AND MY SPEECH MAY NOT GO SMOOTHLY
SO SEND MY BROTHER AARON WITH ME

14  AND FURTHER, THEY HAVE A CHARGE OF CRIME AGAINST ME 
AND I FEAR THAT THEY MAY KILL ME

15  GOD SAID, PROCEED WITH MY MESSAGES BOTH OF YOU 
WE ARE WITH YOU AND WILL LISTEN TO YOU

16  SO GO TO PHARAOH BOTH OF YOU
AND SAY, WE HAVE BEEN SENT TO YOU

AND WE ARE MESSENGERS
OF THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

17  SO SEND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WITH US

18  PHARAOH SAID, DID WE NOT RAISE YOU AS A CHILD AMONG US 
AND DID YOU NOT STAY MANY YEARS OF YOUR LIFE WITH US?

19  AND YOU DID A DEED OF WHICH YOU ARE KNOWLEDGEABLE 
WITHOUT DOUBT YOU ARE INDEED UNGRATEFUL

20  MOSES SAID, I DID IT THEN WHEN I WAS UNKNOWLEDGEABLE

21  SO I FLED FROM YOU OUT OF FEAR 
BUT MY LORD HAS SINCE GIVEN ME POWER
AND GIVEN ME RIGHT JUDGMENT OF AFFAIRS
AND APPOINTED ME AS ONE OF THE MESSENGERS

22  AND IS THIS THE FAVOR WITH WHICH FOR ME YOU HAVE SAVED 
THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL YOU HAVE ENSLAVED?

23  PHARAOH SAID, AND WHAT FOR SURE
IS THIS LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER?

24  MOSES SAID, HE IS THE LORD AND THE CHERISHER 
OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN TO BE SURE

25  PHARAOH SAID TO THOSE AROUND, ARE YOU LISTENING
TO WHAT IT IS THIS MAN IS SAYING?

26  MOSES SAID, HE IS THE LORD OF YOU 
AND YOUR FATHERS BEFORE YOU

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27  PHARAOH SAID, TRULY YOUR MESSENGER
WHO HAS BEEN SENT TO YOU IS MAD FOR SURE

28  MOSES SAID, LORD OF THE EAST AND WEST TOO
IF YOU ONLY HAD ANY SENSE IN YOU

29  PHARAOH SAID, IF YOU CHOOSE ANY GOD OTHER THAN ME  
I WILL PUT YOU IN PRISON INDEFINITELY

30  MOSES SAID, EVEN IF I SHOWED YOU SOMETHING 
THAT IS CLEAR AND CONVINCING?

31  PHARAOH SAID, SHOW YOUR PROOF 
IT YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH

32  SO MOSES THREW HIS ROD AND CLEARLY
IT WAS A SERPENT PLAIN FOR ALL TO SEE

33  HE DREW OUT HIS HAND AND IT WAS WHITE
TO ALL THAT WAS WITHIN SIGHT

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34  PHARAOH SAID TO THE CHIEFS
THIS IS ONE WELL VERSED IN SORCERY

35  HIS PLAN IS TO BY HIS SORCERY GET YOU OUT OF YOUR LAND 
WHAT IS YOUR COUNCIL AND WHAT DO YOU COMMAND?

36  THEY SAID, KEEP HIM IN SUSPENSE, HIM AND HIS BROTHER 
AND TO THE CITIES SEND OUT CALLERS

37  AND BRING IN ALL OUR SORCERERS
AND WELL VERSED ENCHANTERS

38  SO THE SORCERERS WERE ASSEMBLED

39  AND IT WAS SAID TO THE PEOPLE 
ARE YOU NOW ASSEMBLED?

40  THAT WE MAY FOLLOW THE SORCERERS 
IN RELIGION IF THEY ARE THE WINNERS?

41  SO WHEN THE SORCERERS ARRIVED TO PHARAOH THEY SAID
WILL WE HAVE A SUITABLE REWARD IF WE COME OUT AHEAD?

42  HE SAID, YES AND MORE FOR YOU WILL  BE 
RAISED TO POSITIONS NEAREST TO ME

43  MOSES SAID TO THEM, THROW 
THAT WHICH YOU ARE GOING TO THROW

44  SO THEY THREW THEIR ROPES AND THEIR RODS AND SAID 
BY THE MIGHT OF PHARAOH WE WILL COME OUT AHEAD

45  THEN MOSES THREW HIS ROD AND IT STRAIGHTWAY 
SWALLOWED UP ALL THE FALSEHOODS THEY FAKED

46  THEN THE SORCERERS IN ADORATION
FELL DOWN IN PROSTRATION

47  SAYING THESE WORDS
WE BELIEVE IN THE LORD OF THE WORLDS

48  MOSES'S LORD
AND AARON'S LORD

49  PHARAOH SAID, BELIEVE IN HIM BEFORE I GIVE YOU PERMISSION? 
SURELY HE IS YOUR LEADER WHO HAS GIVEN YOU INSTRUCTION 
BUT SOON WILL YOU KNOW THE REPERCUSSION

I WILL CUT OFF YOUR HANDS AND FEET ON OPPOSITE SIDES 
AND I WILL CAUSE YOU ALL TO BE CRUCIFIED

50  THEY SAID, TO US IT DOES NOT MATTER  
FOR WE WILL BUT RETURN TO OUR CREATOR

51  THAT GOD WILL FORGIVE US OUR FAULTS IS OUR ONLY DESIRE 
THAT WE MAY BECOME FOREMOST AMONG THE BELIEVERS

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52  WE TOLD MOSES BY INSPIRATION
TRAVEL BY NIGHT WITH MY SERVANTS 
FOR YOU WILL BE PURSUED FOR CERTAIN

53  THEN PHARAOH SENT HERALDS TO ALL THE CITIES

54  SAYING, A SMALL BAND ARE THESE

55  AND THEY HAVE DONE WHAT HAS ENRAGED US GREATLY

56  BUT WE ARE A MULTITUDE FOREWARNED AMPLY

57  SO WE EXPELLED THEM FROM GARDENS AND SPRINGS

58  AND TREASURES AND EVERY KIND OF HONORABLE THING

59  WE MADE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL INHERITORS OF SUCH THINGS

60  SO THEY PURSUED THEM AT THE SUN'S RISING

61  AND WHEN THE TWO PARTIES SAW EACH OTHER 
MOSES'S PEOPLE SAID, WE ARE SURE TO BE TAKEN OVER

62  MOSES SAID, BY NO MEANS, MY LORD IS WITH ME 
AND SOON WILL HE SURELY GUIDE ME

63  THEN WE TOLD MOSES BY INSPIRATION, STRIKE THE SEA 
WITH YOUR STAFF, SO IT DIVIDED AND EACH PARTY
BECAME AS MOUNTAINS MASSED GIGANTICALLY

64  AND THERE WE BROUGHT FORTH THE OTHERS

65  AND MOSES AND ALL WHO WERE WITH HIM WE DELIVERED

66  BUT WE DROWNED ALL OF THE OTHERS

67  IN THIS IS A SIGN THAT IS CLEAR
BUT MOST OF THEM ARE NOT BELIEVERS

68  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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69  AND RECITE TO THEM 
THE STORY OF ABRAHAM

70  HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE AND HIS FATHER 
WHAT IS THAT OF WHICH YOU ARE WORSHIPPERS?

71  THEY SAID, WE WORSHIP IDOLS
AND TO THEM WE ARE FAITHFUL

72  HE SAID, WHEN YOU CALL ON THEM DO THEY LISTEN TO YOU?

73  OR DO THEY DO ANY GOOD OR HARM TO YOU?

74  THEY SAID, NO, BUT WE FOUND OUR FATHERS DOING WHAT WE DO 

75  HE SAID, DO YOU SEE WHAT IS BEING WORSHIPPED BY YOU?

76  YOU AND YOUR FATHERS BEFORE YOU?

77  FOR THEY ARE ENEMIES TO ME 
NOT SO THE LORD WHO CREATED ME

78  HE IT IS WHO CREATED ME 
AND IT IS HE WHO GUIDES ME

79  AND WHO GIVES FOOD AND DRINK TO ME

80  AND WHEN I AM SICK HE CURES ME

81  AND HE WILL CAUSE ME TO DIE AND THEN AGAIN RAISE ME 

82  AND WHO I HOPE WILL ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT FORGIVE ME 

83  OH MY LORD, BESTOW WISDOM ON ME 
AND JOIN ME WITH THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

84  AND MAKE AN HONORABLE MENTION OF ME
IN THE LATER GENERATIONS AFTER ME

85  AND MAKE ME ONE OF THE INHERITORS
OF THE GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS

86  AND FORGIVE MY FATHER 
SURELY HE IS IN ERROR

87  AND LET ME NOT BE IN DISGRACE
ON THE DAY WHEN MEN WILL BE RAISED

88  THE DAY WHEN NEITHER WEALTH OR SONS WILL FURTHER

89  BUT HE THAT BRINGS TO GOD A GOOD HEART WILL PROSPER 

90  AND TO THE RIGHTEOUS THE GARDEN WILL BE BROUGHT NEAR

91  AND THE EVIL ONES WILL BE PLACED IN VIEW OF THE FIRE

92  WE WILL ASK, WHERE ARE THE GODS YOU HAD FOR YOURSELVES

93  BESIDES GOD, CAN THEY HELP YOU OR HELP THEMSELVES?

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94  THEN THEY WILL BE THROWN HEADLONG INTO THE FIRE 
THEY AND THOSE WHO WERE REJECTERS

95  AND THE WHOLE ARMY OF SATAN ALL TOGETHER

96  THEY WILL SAY WHILE THEY MUTUALLY BICKER

97  BY GOD WE WERE TRULY IN MANIFEST ERROR

98  WHEN WE HELD YOU AS EQUAL WITH OUR LORD AND CHERISHER

99  AND THOSE WHO WERE GUILTY WERE OUR SEDUCERS 

100  NOW THEN WE HAVE NONE TO INTERCEDE FOR US

101  NOR A SINGLE FRIEND TO FEEL FOR US

102  NOW IF WE ONLY HAD A CHANCE OF REPRIEVE 
WE WOULD TRULY BE OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE

103  IN THIS THERE IS A SIGN INDEED
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT BELIEVE

104  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY 
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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105  THE PEOPLE OF NOAH WERE REJECTERS OF THE MESSENGERS

106  WILL YOU NOT FEAR GOD?  SAID NOAH THEIR BROTHER

107  I AM TO YOU A TRUSTWORTHY MESSENGER

108  SO OBEY ME AND OF YOUR LORD HAVE FEAR

109  NO REWARD 
DO I ASK OF YOU FOR IT, MY REWARD 
IS ONLY FROM MY LORD

110  SO OBEY ME AND FEAR YOUR LORD

111  THEY SAID, WILL WE BELIEVE IN YOU 
WHEN IT IS THE MEANEST THAT FOLLOW YOU?

112  HE SAID, AND WHAT DO I KNOW AS TO WHAT THEY DO?

113  THEIR ACCOUNT IS WITH GOD IF YOU COULD BUT PERCEIVE

114  AND WILL NOT DRIVE AWAY THOSE WHO BELIEVE

115  I AM SENT ONLY TO WARN PUBLICLY AND PLAINLY

116  THEY SAID, OH NOAH, IF YOU DO NOT CEASE
YOU WILL BE STONED TO DEATH SURELY

117  HE SAID, OH MY LORD, TRULY 
MY PEOPLE HAVE REJECTED ME

118  JUDGE THEN BETWEEN ME AND THEM OPENLY
AND DELIVER ME AND THE BELIEVERS WHO ARE WITH ME

119  SO WE DELIVERED HIM AND THOSE IN THE ARK WITH HIM

120  AND WE DROWNED THOSE WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND HIM

121  AND IN THIS IS A SIGN INDEED 
BUT MOST PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE

122  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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123  THE AD PEOPLE WERE REJECTERS OF THE MESSENGERS

124  WILL YOU NOT FEAR GOD?  SAID HUD, THEIR BROTHER

125  I AM TO YOU A TRUSTWORTHY MESSENGER

126  SO OBEY ME AND OF YOUR LORD HAVE FEAR

127  NO REWARD 
DO I ASK YOU FOR IT, MY REWARD 
IS ONLY FROM MY LORD

128  DO YOU BUILD HIGH BUILDINGS 
JUST FOR YOURSELVES TO BE AMUSING?

129  AND DO YOU GET FOR YOURSELVES FINE BUILDINGS 
IN THE HOPE OF HAVING THEM FOR ETERNAL LIVING?

130  AND WHEN YOU SEIZE 
DO YOU SEIZE AS TYRANTS SEIZE?

131  BUT FEAR GOD AND OBEY ME

132  FEAR HIM WHO HAS BOUNTIFULLY
BESTOWED ON YOU ALL THAT YOU HAVE FREELY

133  HE HAS BESTOWED ON YOU CATTLE AND CHILDREN

134  AND GIVEN YOU SPRINGS AND GARDENS

135  I FEAR FOR YOU TRULY 
A GREAT PENALTY

136  THEY SAID, IT IS THE SAME TO US 
WHETHER YOU ADMONISH US 
OR DO NOT ADMONISH US

137  THIS IS NOTHING MORE 
THAN A CUSTOMARY DEVICE OF THE ANCIENTS BEFORE

138  AND WE ARE NOT THE ONES TO RECEIVE 
ANY PAINS OR PENALTIES

139  SO THEY REJECTED HIM AND WE DESTROYED THEM 
AND IN THIS IS A SIGN BUT THEY DO NOT BELIEVE MOST OF THEM

140  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY 
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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141  THE THAMUD PEOPLE WERE REJECTERS OF THE MESSENGERS

142  WILL YOU NOT FEAR GOD?  SAID SALIH, THEIR BROTHER

143  I AM TO YOU A TRUSTWORTHY MESSENGER

144  SO OBEY ME AND OF YOUR LORD HAVE FEAR

145  NO REWARD 
DO I ASK YOU FOR IT, MY REWARD 
IS ONLY FROM MY LORD

146  WILL YOU BE LEFT SECURE 
IN THE ENJOYMENT OF ALL THAT YOU HAVE HERE?

147  GARDENS AND SPRINGS?

148  CORN FIELDS AND DATE PALMS WITH SPATHES NEAR BREAKING?

149  AND YOU CARVE HOUSES OUT OF ROCKY MOUNTAINS SKILLFULLY 

150  BUT FEAR YOUR LORD AND OBEY ME

151  FOLLOW NOT THE BIDDING OF THOSE WHO ACT EXTRAVAGANTLY

152  WHO MAKE MISCHIEF IN THE LAND AND ACT UNRIGHTEOUSLY

153  THEY SAID, YOU ARE ONLY 
ONE OF THOSE BEWITCHED INDEED

154  YOU ARE NO MORE THAN A MORTAL LIKE US
THEN BRING TO US A CLEAR SIGN FOR US
IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH TO US

155  HE SAID, HERE IS A SHE CAMEL, SHE HAS A RIGHT OF WATERING 
AND ON A DAY APPOINTED YOU HAVE A RIGHT OF WATERING  

156  TOUCH HER NOT WITH HARM OR YOU WILL SURELY
BE SEIZED WITH A GREAT PENALTY

157  BUT THEY SLAUGHTERED HER 
THEN THEY BECAME FULL OF REGRETS AFTER

158  BUT BY THE PENALTY THEY WERE SEIZED  
IN THIS IS A SIGN, BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT BELIEVE 

159	AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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160  THE PEOPLE OF LOT WERE REJECTERS OF THE MESSENGERS

161  WILL YOU NOT FEAR GOD?  SAID LOT, THEIR BROTHER

162  I AM TO YOU A TRUSTWORTHY MESSENGER 

163  SO OBEY ME AND OF YOUR LORD HAVE FEAR

164  NO REWARD 
DO I ASK OF YOU FOR IT, MY REWARD 
IS ONLY FROM MY LORD

165  OF ALL THE CREATURES IN THE WORLD, WILL YOU 
APPROACH MALES IN LUST AMONG YOU?

166  AND LEAVE THOSE WHOM GOD CREATES  
TO BE YOUR RIGHTFUL MATES? 

YOU ARE A PEOPLE IN TRANSGRESSION 
EXCEEDING BEYOND ALL LIMITATIONS

167  THEY SAID, IF YOU DESIST NOT
YOU WILL BE CAST OUT, OH LOT

168  HE SAID, I DO DETEST WHAT YOU DO SURELY

169  MY LORD, FROM THESE PEOPLE DELIVER ME AND MY FAMILY

170  SO WE DELIVERED HIM AND HIS FAMILY

171  EXCEPT AN OLD WOMAN WHO LINGERED BELATEDLY

172  BUT THE REST WE DESTROYED UTTERLY

173  WE RAINED DOWN ON THEM A SHOWER 
OF BRIMSTONE, AND EVIL WAS THE SHOWER 

ON THOSE WHO WERE INDEED
ADMONISHED BUT DID NOT HEED

174  IN THIS IS A SIGN CLEARLY
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT BELIEVE

175  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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176  THE WOOD'S COMPANIONS REJECTED THE MESSENGERS

177  WILL YOU NOT FEAR GOD?  SAID SHUAIB, THEIR BROTHER

178  I AM TO YOU A TRUSTWORTHY MESSENGER

179  SO OBEY ME AND OF YOUR LORD HAVE FEAR

180  NO REWARD 
DO I ASK OF YOU FOR IT, MY REWARD 
IS ONLY FROM MY LORD

181  GIVE JUST MEASURE AND CAUSE NO LOSS TO OTHERS 

182  AND WEIGH WITH SCALES TRUE IN MEASURE

183  AND WITHHOLD NOT THINGS DUE TO MEN JUSTLY 
NOR DO EVIL IN THE LAND WORKING MISCHIEVOUSLY

184  AND FEAR HIM WHO CREATED YOU 
AND WHO CREATED THE GENERATIONS BEFORE YOU

185  THEY SAID, YOU ARE ONLY 
ONE OF THOSE BEWITCHED INDEED

186  YOU ARE NO MORE THAN A MORTAL LIKE US 
AND WE THINK THAT YOU ARE LYING TO US

187  NOW CAUSE A PIECE OF THE SKY TO FALL ON US 
IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH TO US

188  MY LORD KNOWS BEST WHAT YOU DO, HE SAID TO THEM

189	BUT THEY ARROGANTLY REJECTED HIM
THEN THE PENALTY OF A GLOOMY DAY SEIZED THEM
AND GREAT WAS PUNISHMENT OF THAT DAY TO THEM

190  IN THAT IS A SIGN INDEED
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT BELIEVE

191  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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192  SURELY THIS IS A REVELATION 
FROM THE LORD OF ALL CREATION

193  THE FAITHFUL SPIRIT 
HAS SURELY BROUGHT IT

194  TO YOUR HEART AND MIND IN ORDER
THAT YOU MAY BE A CLEAR WARNER

195  IN THE ARABIC LANGUAGE PLAINLY

196  IT IS IN THE MYSTIC BOOKS OF PEOPLE FORMERLY

197  IS IT NOT A SIGN TO THEM THAT 
THE LEARNED OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL KNEW IT AS FACT ?

198  TO ANY OF THE NON ARABS HAD WE REVEALED IT

199  AND TO THEM HAD HE RECITED IT 
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BELIEVED IN IT

200  SO HAVE WE CAUSED IT TO ENTER 
INTO THE HEARTS OF THE SINNERS

201  BUT THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE
UNTIL THEY SEE THE GRIEVOUS PENALTY

202  BUT THE PENALTY WILL COME TO THEM INDEED 
SUDDENLY WHILE THEY DO NOT PERCEIVE

203  THEN THEY WILL SAY, CAN WE BE RESPITED PLEASE?

204  DO THEY ASK THEN
FOR OUR PENALTY TO BE HASTENED?

205  IF WE DO LET THEM ENJOY THEMSELVES FOR A FEW YEARS

206  THEN THE PROMISED PUNISHMENT COMES TO THEM AFTER

207  ALL THAT WAS ENJOYED BY THEM
WILL NOT AT ALL AVAIL THEM

208  AND WE DESTROYED A POPULATION NEVER
WITHOUT SENDING THEM WARNERS

209  BY WAY OF REMINDERS 
AND WE ARE UNJUST NEVER

210  NO EVIL ONES HAVE BROUGHT IT

211  NOR WOULD THEY HAVE THE POWER TO DO IT

212  THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FAR FROM HEARING IT

213  SO CALL NOT ON BESIDES GOD ANOTHER DIETY
OR YOU WILL BE AMONG THOSE UNDER THE PENALTY

214  AND GIVE TO YOUR NEAREST KIN THE WARNING

215  AND LOWER YOUR WING 
TO THE BELIEVERS AMONG YOUR FOLLOWING

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216  THEN IF THEY DISOBEY YOU 
SAY, I AM FREE OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU DO

217  AND TRUST IN THE ONE WHO IS MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING

218  WHO SEES YOU STANDING FORTH WHILE PRAYING

219  AND YOUR MOVEMENTS AMONG THOSE WHO 
PROSTRATE THEMSELVES ALONG WITH YOU

220  FOR IT IS HE WHO IS ALL HEARING
AND ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS

221  SHALL I INFORM YOU OH PEOPLE, ON WHO 
IT IS THAT THE EVIL ONES DESCEND TO?

222  THEY DESCEND ON EVERY LYING 
SINFUL WICKED BEING
 
223  INTO WHOSE EARS THEY POUR HEARSAY VANITIES 
ALL OF THEM ARE LIARS INDEED

224  AND THE POETS, AS FOR THEM
THOSE WHO STRAY IN EVIL FOLLOW THEM

225  DO YOU NOT SEE
THAT THEY WANDER DISTRACTED IN EVERY VALLEY?

226  AND THAT WHAT THEY SAY TO YOU
IS NOT WHAT IT IS THAT THEY DO?

227  EXCEPT THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO GOOD DEEDS
AND ENGAGE IN THE REMEMBRANCE OF GOD CONSISTENTLY
AND DEFEND THEMSELVES AFTER THEY ARE ATTACKED UNJUSTLY 

AND SOON WILL THE UNJUST ASSAILANTS KNOW 
IN WHAT DIRECTION THEIR AFFAIRS WILL GO

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