CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                                SECTION 1.  PART XX

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, THE CREATOR
AM THE BEST KNOWER

2  DO MEN THINK THAT THEY WILL BE 
LEFT ALONE JUST SAYING, WE BELIEVE
AND WILL NOT BE TRIED BY THEIR DEEDS?

3  WE TESTED THOSE BEFORE THEM TOO
AND GOD WILL KNOW THOSE AMONG YOU
WHO ARE FALSE FROM THOSE WHO ARE TRUE

4  DO THOSE WHO PRACTICE EVIL THINK THAT THEY WILL 
GET THE BETTER OF US?  THEIR JUDGMENT IS ILL

5  FOR THOSE WHOSE HOPES ARE IN THE MEETING 
WITH GOD IN THE HEREAFTER, LET THEM ENGAGE IN STRIVING 
FOR THE TERM WITH GOD IS MOST SURELY COMING 
AND GOD IS ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING

6  IF ANY STRIVE THEY DO SO FOR THEIR OWN SALVATION
FOR GOD IS FREE OF ALL NEEDS FROM ALL CREATION

7  THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
WE WILL BLOT OUT ALL EVIL IN THEM AND WILL INDEED
REWARD THEM ACCORDING TO THE BEST OF THEIR DEEDS

8  WE HAVE ENJOINED ON MAN KINDNESS TO HIS PARENTS
BUT IF THEY STRIVE TO FORCE YOU TO BE A SERVANT

OF OR WORSHIP ANYTHING BESIDES ME
OBEY THEM NOT FOR YOU WILL ALL RETURN TO ME
AND I WILL TELL YOU ALL THAT YOU DID TRUTHFULLY

9  AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO DEEDS THAT ARE RIGHTEOUS 
THEM WILL WE ADMIT TO THE COMPANY OF THE RIGHTEOUS

10  AND THEN THERE ARE MEN WHO SAY, WE BELIEVE IN GOD 
BUT WHEN THEY SUFFER AFFLICTION IN THE CAUSE OF GOD 
THEY TREAT MEN'S OPPRESSION LIKE THE WRATH OF GOD 
AND IF HELP COMES TO YOU FROM GOD
THEY SAY, WE WERE WITH YOU, BUT ALL  IS KNOWN BY GOD

11  AND GOD KNOWS THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
AND THOSE WHO ARE HYPOCRITES INDEED

12  THE DISBELIEVERS SAY TO THE BELIEVERS 
FOLLOW OUR PATH AND YOUR FAULTS WE WILL BEAR
NEVER WILL THEY BEAR THEIR FAULTS, IN FACT THEY ARE LIARS

13  THEY WILL BEAR THEIR OWN BURDENS 
AND OTHER BURDENS ALONG WITH THEIR BURDENS
AND ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
THEY WILL BE CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR THEIR FABRICATIONS

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CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                                SECTION 2.  PART XX

14  WE SENT NOAH TO HIS PEOPLE WHO BEHAVED INSOLENTLY
HE STAYED AMONG THEM A THOUSAND YEARS LESS FIFTY 
BUT THE FLOOD OVERWHELMED THEM COMPLETELY
WHILE THEY PERSISTED IN INIQUITY

15  BUT WE SAVED HIM IN THE ARK AND HIS PEOPLE 
AND WE MADE THE ARK A SIGN FOR ALL PEOPLE

16  WE ALSO SAVED ABRAHAM AND HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE
SERVE GOD, THAT WILL BE BEST FOR YOU PEOPLE

17  FOR YOU WORSHIP IDOLS BESIDES GOD 
AND THE THINGS THAT YOU WORSHIP BESIDES GOD 
HAVE NO POWER TO GIVE SUSTENANCE TO YOU BESIDES GOD
SO SERVE GOD THEN SEEK YOUR SUSTENANCE FROM GOD 
AND BE GRATEFUL TO HIM, YOU WILL RETURN TO GOD

18  IF YOU REJECT THE MESSAGE SO DID GENERATIONS PRIOR
AND THE ONLY DUTY OF THE MESSENGER
IS TO PREACH THE MESSAGE CLEAR

19  SEE HOW GOD ORIGINATES AND REPEATS CREATION  
AND FOR GOD THAT IS NO COMPLICATION? 

20  SAY, TRAVEL THE EARTH WITH OBSERVATION
AND SEE HOW GOD DID ORIGINATE CREATION
AND GOD WILL PRODUCE A LATER CREATION 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

21  HE PUNISHES WHOM HE PLEASES 
AND HE GRANTS MERCY TO WHOM HE PLEASES 
AND TO HIM YOU WILL BE RETURNED AS HE PLEASES

22  NOT ON EARTH NOR IN HEAVEN WILL YOU 
BE ABLE TO FRUSTRATE HIS PLAN NOR HAVE YOU 
BESIDES YOUR LORD ANYONE AS A PATRON FOR YOU

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CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                                SECTION 3.  PART XX

23  THOSE WHO REJECT THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
AND THE MEETING IN THE HEREAFTER WITH GOD
 
IT IS THEY WHO WILL DESPAIR OF MY MERCY
AND IT IS THEY WHO WILL SUFFER A GRIEVOUS PENALTY 

24  OF ABRAHAM'S PEOPLE THEIR ANSWER WAS, KILL HIM                                           
OR BURN HIM, BUT FROM THE FIRE GOD SAVED HIM 
FOR ANY BELIEVER THIS IS A SIGN FOR HIM 

25  HE SAID, YOU HAVE BESIDES GOD TAKEN FOR WORSHIP 
IDOLS OUT OF MUTUAL LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP

BUT IN THE HEREAFTER YOU WILL DISOWN EACH OTHER  
AND CURSE EACH OTHER AND YOU WILL ABIDE IN THE FIRE
AND YOU WILL HAVE NO FRIEND OR HELPER

26  SO LOT BELIEVED IN HIS LORD
AND SAID, I AM FLEEING TO MY LORD 
FOR SURELY WISE AND MIGHTY IS MY LORD

27  AND WE GAVE TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB AS SONS
AND WE GAVE HIS DESCENDANTS PROPHETHOOD AND REVELATION

AND WE GRANTED HIM HIS REWARD IN THIS LIFE GREATLY
AND HE WAS IN THE HEREAFTER OF THE COMPANY 
OF THOSE WHO ACTED RIGHTEOUSLY

28  LOT SAID TO HIS PEOPLE, YOU COMMIT ABOMINATION 
SUCH AS NO PEOPLE EVER DID BEFORE YOU IN CREATION 

29  DO YOU APPROACH MEN LUSTFULLY
AND CUT OFF THE HIGHWAYS RUTHLESSLY
AND IN YOUR COUNCILS YOU ACT WICKEDLY?  
BUT HIS PEOPLE GAVE NO ANSWERS PROPERLY
BUT THAT THEY SAID, BRING US GOD'S PENALTY
IF YOU ARE INDEED ACTING TRUTHFULLY 

30  HE SAID, MY LORD, BE MY HELPER
AGAINST THE MISCHIEF MAKERS

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CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                                  SECTION 4.  PART XX

31  WHEN OUR MESSENGERS CAME TO ABRAHAM OUR APOSTLE
THEY SAID, WE ARE GOING TO DESTROY THIS TOWN'S PEOPLE 
FOR THEY ARE SURELY ADDICTED CRIMINALS 

32  HE SAID, BUT LOT IS THERE 
THEY SAID, WELL DO WE KNOW WHO IS THERE 

WE WILL CERTAINLY SAVE HIM AND HIS FAMILY
EXCEPT HIS WIFE, SHE WILL LAG BELATEDLY

33  WHEN OUR MESSENGERS CAME TO LOT HE WAS GRIEVED 
AND HE FELT POWERLESS TO PROTECT THEM SAFELY
BUT THEY SAID, FEAR NOT AND DO NOT GRIEVE 
FOR WE ARE HERE TO SAVE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
EXCEPT FOR YOUR WIFE FOR SHE WILL LAG BELATEDLY

34  FOR WE ARE GOING TO BRING DOWN 
ON THE PEOPLE OF THIS TOWN

A PUNISHMENT FROM HEAVEN 
BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN IN TRANSGRESSION

35  WE HAVE LEFT THERE AN EVIDENT WARNING
FOR ANY PEOPLE WITH UNDERSTANDING

36  TO THE MADYAN PEOPLE 
WE SENT SHUAIB WHO SAID TO HIS PEOPLE 
SERVE GOD AND FEAR GOD AND COMMIT NO EVIL

37  BUT HE WAS REJECTED BY THEM
AND THE EARTHQUAKE SEIZED THEM

AND THEY LAID IN THEIR DWELLINGS
MOTIONLESS BY THE MORNING

38  REMEMBER ALSO THE AD AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE 
CLEARLY WILL THE FATE OF THEIR PEOPLE

APPEAR TO YOU FROM THE TRACES OF THEIR BUILDINGS 
TO THEM THE DEVIL MADE THEIR DEEDS SEEM ALLURING 

AND KEPT THEM BACK FROM THE RIGHT WAY
THOUGH GIFTED WITH INTELLIGENCE AND SKILL WERE THEY

39  REMEMBER ALSO 
KORAH, HAMAN AND PHARAOH

MOSES CAME WITH CLEAR SIGNS BUT THEY WERE INSOLENT
YET THEY COULD NOT ESCAPE OUR PUNISHMENT

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40  WE SEIZED FOR THEIR CRIMES EACH OF THEM 
AND WE SENT TORNADOES AGAINST SOME OF THEM
WITH VIOLENT SHOWERS OF STONES AND SOME OF THEM
WERE CAUGHT UP BY A MIGHTY BLAST AND SOME OF THEM
WE CAUSED THE EARTH TO SWALLOW THEM
AND WE DROWNED IN THE WATERS SOME OF THEM
IT WAS NOT GOD WHO INJURED OR OPPRESSED THEM
IT WAS THEIR OWN SELVES THAT INJURED AND OPPRESSED THEM

41  THE PARABLE OF THOSE WHO TAKE PROTECTORS 
OTHER THAN GOD IS THAT OF THE SPIDER 

WHO BUILDS FOR ITSELF A HOUSE 
AND THE FLIMSIEST HOUSE IS THE SPIDER'S HOUSE 

42  GOD KNOWS WHAT THEY CALL ON OTHER THAN HE
FOR HE IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

43  AND THESE ARE THE PARABLES 
WE SET FORTH FOR PEOPLE 

BUT ONLY THOSE WILL GRASP THEIR MEANING
WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

44  GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS 
AND THE EARTH IN TRUE PROPORTIONS
AND IN THAT IS A SIGN FOR BELIEVING ONES

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CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                               SECTION 5.  PART XX1

PART XXI

45  RECITE WHAT IS SENT OF THE BOOK BY INSPIRATION TO YOU 
ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER, FOR PRAYER RESTRAINS YOU 
FROM DOING THE SHAMEFUL DEEDS THAT YOU DO
AND REMEMBRANCE OF GOD IS THE GREATEST THING FOR YOU
AND GOD KNOWS WELL THE DEEDS THAT YOU DO 

46  AND DISPUTE NOT WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE REVELATIONS 
EXCEPT WITH MEANS BETTER THAN MERE DISPUTATION
UNLESS IT BE WITH THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION
BUT SAY, WE BELIEVE IN THE REVELATION 
WHICH HAS COME TO US AND IN THE REVELATION
WHICH HAS COME TO YOU AND OUR GOD IS ONE
AND TO HIM DO WE BOW TO IN SUBMISSION

47  AND SO IT IS THAT WE HAVE SENT DOWN TO YOU REVELATION
AND THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK BELIEVE IN THE REVELATIONS
AS DO ALSO SOME OF THE PAGANS 
AND NONE BUT DISBELIEVERS REJECT OUR REVELATIONS

48  AND YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO RECITE A BOOK BEFORE IT
NOR ARE YOU ABLE TO WITH YOUR RIGHT HAND TRANSCRIBE IT
IN THAT CASE WOULD THE TALKERS OF VANITIES HAVE DOUBTED IT

49  HERE ARE SELF EVIDENT LESSONS
IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WITH COMPRESSION 
AND NONE DENY OUR MESSAGES BUT THOSE IN REJECTION

50  YET THEY SAY, WHY ARE NOT SIGNS SENT TO HIM FROM GOD? 
SAY TO THEM, THE SIGNS ARE INDEED WITH GOD 
AND I AM A CLEAR WARNER FROM GOD

51  AND IS IT NOT ENOUGH FOR THEM 
THAT WE GAVE YOU THE BOOK WHICH IS RECITED TO THEM
AS A MERCY AND A REMINDER TO THE BELIEVERS AMONG THEM?

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CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                                SECTION 6.  PART XX1

52  SAY, ENOUGH IS GOD FOR A WITNESS BETWEEN ME AND YOU 
HE KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH TOO
AND THE REJECTERS ARE THE ONES WHO WILL LOSE

53  THEY ASK YOU TO HASTEN THE PUNISHMENT FOR THEM  
AND HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A TERM APPOINTED FOR THEM
THE PUNISHMENT WOULD SURELY HAVE COME TO THEM
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT WILL REACH THEM
WHILE NOT BEING PERCEIVED BY THEM 

54  THEY ASK YOU TO HASTEN ON THE PENALTY
BUT HELL WILL ENCOMPASS THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

55  ON THE DAY THAT THE PUNISHMENT WILL COVER THEM 
FROM ABOVE THEM AND FROM BELOW THEM  
TASTE THE FRUITS OF YOUR DEEDS, A VOICE WILL SAY TO THEM 

56  OH MY SERVANTS WHO BELIEVE TRULY 
SPACIOUS IS MY EARTH SO SERVE ME ONLY

57  EVERY SOUL WILL HAVE A TASTE OF DEATH AND IN THE END 
TO US YOU WILL ALL BE BROUGHT BACK AGAIN

58  BUT THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO GOOD DEEDS 
TO THEM WILL WE GIVE A HOME IN HEAVEN ETERNALLY

LOFTY MANSIONS BENEATH WHICH FLOW RIVERS 
AND THEY WILL DWELL IN THEM IN PEACE FOREVER 
AN EXCELLENT REWARD FOR THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

59  THOSE WHO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE 
AND PUT THEIR TRUST IN THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER

60  HOW MANY CREATURES CARRY NOT THEIR OWN FOOD 
IT IS YOUR LORD WHO FEEDS BOTH THEM AND YOU
FOR HE HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THAT YOU DO

61  IF YOU ASK THEM, WHO CREATED THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND THE SUN AND THE MOON BOWING TO HIM IN SUBMISSION?  
THEY WILL SAY, GOD, HOW THEN ARE THEY IN REJECTION? 

62  GOD ENLARGES THE SUSTENANCE 
OF WHICH EVER HE PLEASES OF HIS SERVANTS 

AND HE GRANTS BY STRICT MEASURE SIMILARLY 
FOR FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS HAS HE

63  IF YOU ASK THEM, WHO SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKIES
AND WITH IT GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER IT DIES
THEY WILL CERTAINLY SAY, GOD, AS THEIR REPLY
SAY, PRAISE BE TO GOD, BUT MOST OF THEM HAVE NO SIGHT

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CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                               SECTION 7.  PART XX1

64  THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD IS AMUSING TO YOU  
BUT THE HEREAFTER IS BETTER IF YOU ONLY KNEW 

65  IF THEY EMBARK ON A BOAT THEY CALL ON GOD
MAKING THEIR DEVOTION SINCERELY TO GOD
BUT WHEN THEY ARE DELIVERED TO DRY LAND BY GOD
THEY WORSHIP OTHER GODS BESIDES GOD

66  BEING UNGRATEFUL FOR OUR PRESENTS
AND GIVING THEMSELVES TO WORLDLY ENJOYMENT 
BUT SOON WILL THEY SURELY KNOW THE PUNISHMENT

67  SEE HOW WE HAVE MADE A SECURE SANCTUARY FOR THEM 
WHILE MEN ARE BEING SNATCHED AWAY FROM ALL AROUND THEM
EVEN THEN THAT WHICH IS BESIDES GOD IS BELIEVED IN BY THEM
AND THE GRACE OF GOD IS REJECTED BY THEM

68  AND WHO DOES MORE WRONG THAN HE WHO LIES AGAINST GOD
OR WHO REJECTS THE TRUTH WHEN IT REACHES HIM FROM GOD
IS THERE NOT A HOME IN HELL FOR DISBELIEVERS IN GOD?

AND THOSE WHO STRIVE HARD IN OUR WAY
WE WILL GRACEFULLY GUIDE THEM IN OUR WAYS 
AND GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO ACT IN THE RIGHT WAY

     

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