CHAPTER 35.  THE ORIGINATOR                                                  SECTION 1.  PART  XXII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO IS HEAVEN AND EARTH'S CREATOR 
AND MADE THE ANGELS MESSENGERS 
WITH WINGS, TWO OR THREE OR FOUR PAIRS 
HE ADDS TO CREATION ACCORDING TO HIS PLEASURE
FOR SURELY OVER ALL THING GOD HAS COMPLETE POWER

2  WHATEVER GOD GRANTS TO MEN THERE IS NONE TO WITHHOLD               
AND NONE CAN GRANT THAT WHICH HE WITHHOLDS 

AND HE IS SURELY
ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

3  OH MEN, CALL  TO MIND THE GRACE OF GOD 
IS THERE A GOD BESIDES GOD WHO GIVES SUSTENANCE TO YOU?
NO GOD IS THERE BUT HE, HOW THEN ARE YOU 
DELUDED AWAY FROM WHAT IS TRUE?

4  AND IF OF YOU THEY ARE REJECTERS 
THOSE BEFORE YOU REJECTED THEIR MESSENGERS
AND TO YOUR LORD GO BACK FOR DECISION ALL AFFAIRS

5  OH MEN, THE PROMISE OF GOD IS TRUE 
LET NOT THEN THIS PRESENT LIFE DECEIVE YOU 
NOR ABOUT GOD LET THE CHIEF DECEIVER DECEIVE YOU 

6   SATAN IS TO YOU AN ENEMY 
SO TREAT HIM AS AN ENEMY 

HE ONLY INVITES HIS FOLLOWERS
THAT THEY MAY BECOME COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE

7  FOR THOSE WHO REJECT GOD IS A TERRIBLE PENALTY 
BUT FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
GOD WILL FORGIVE THEM AND REWARD THEM MAGNIFICENTLY

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CHAPTER 35.  THE ORIGINATOR                                                  SECTION 2.  PART  XXII

8  IS HE TO WHOM HIS CONDUCT OF EVIL IS MADE ALLURING 
SO THAT HE LOOKS UPON IT AS FAIR SEEMING
EQUAL TO ONE WHO HAS RIGHT GUIDING?
FOR GOD LEAVES WHOM HE WILLS STRAYING
AND WHOM HE WILLS HE GIVES RIGHT GUIDING
SO LET NOT YOUR SOUL GO AFTER THEM SIGHING 
FOR YOUR LORD HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS

9  GOD SENDS THE WINDS FROM THE SKIES
SO THAT THEY RAISE UP THE CLOUDS THEREBY
AND WE DRIVE THEM TO A DEAD LAND AND REVIVE 
THE EARTH WITH IT AFTER IT DIES
SO WILL BE YOUR RISE AFTER YOU DIE

10  ANY WHO SEEK POWER AND GLORY 
TO GOD BELONGS ALL POWER AND GLORY
TO HIM MOUNT UP ALL WORDS OF PURITY
IT IS HE WHO EXALTS EACH RIGHTEOUS DEED 
AND THOSE THAT LAY PLOTS OF INIQUITY
FOR THEM IS A TERRIBLE PENALTY 
AND SUCH PLOTTING WILL BE VOID OF EFFICIENCY

11  YOU WERE MADE FROM DUST BY YOUR CREATOR    
THEN FROM A SPERM DROP THEN HE MADE YOU INTO PAIRS
NO FEMALE CONCEIVES OR DELIVERS BUT HE IS AWARE
NOR IS A MAN GRANTED LIFE LONGER OR SHORTER
BUT IT IS ALL ORDAINED FOR HIM PRIOR
AND THIS IS EASY FOR THE CREATOR

12  AND NOT ALIKE ARE THE TWO BODIES OF FLOWING WATER 
ONE PALATABLE, SWEET AND PLEASANT TO THE DRINKERS 
AND THE OTHER ONE IS SALTY AND BITTER
YET FROM EACH KIND OF WATER 
YOU EAT FLESH FRESH AND TENDER 
AND YOU EXTRACT ORNAMENTS TO WEAR 
AND YOU SEE THE SHIPS THAT SAIL THE WATERS 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY SEEK OF GOD'S TREASURES
AND IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY THANK GOD FOR HIS FAVORS

13  AND HE IT IS WHO MERGES NIGHT 
INTO DAY AND MERGES DAY INTO NIGHT 

TO HIS LAW, THE SUN AND THE MOON HE HAS SUBJECTED 
EACH ONE RUNS ITS COURSE FOR A TERM APPOINTED 

THIS IS GOD, YOUR LORD, TO HIM BELONGS ALL POWER
AND THOSE WHOM YOU CALL ON BESIDES HIM HAVE NO POWER

14  IF YOU CALL ON THEM THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO YOUR PRAYER
AND IF THEY WERE TO LISTEN THEY CANNOT ANSWER YOUR PRAYER
AND ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THEY WILL REJECT YOU AS A PARTNER 
AND NONE CAN TELL YOU THE TRUTH LIKE ONE WHO IS WISE AND AWARE

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CHAPTER 35.  THE ORIGINATOR                                                  SECTION 3.  PART  XXII

15  OH YOU MEN, IT IS YOU THAT HAVE NEED OF GOD 
BUT FREE OF ALL WANTS AND PRAISEWORTHY IS GOD

16  IF HE SO PLEASED HE COULD REMOVE YOU 
AND BRING IN A NEW CREATION TO REPLACE YOU

17  NOR IS THAT DIFFICULT FOR GOD TO DO

18  NOR CAN A BEARER OF BURDENS 
BEAR ANOTHER’S BURDEN 
IF ONE HEAVILY LADEN 
SHOULD CALL ANOTHER TO BEAR HIS BURDEN 
NOT THE LEAST PORTION OF HIS BURDEN
CAN BE CARRIED BY ANOTHER PERSON 
EVEN IF HE BE OF NEAR RELATION 
AND YOU CAN ONLY GIVE ADMONITION
TO THOSE THAT FEAR GOD'S DESTRUCTION
SO ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION
WHOEVER PURIFIES HIMSELF BENEFITS HIS OWN PERSON
AND TO YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER IS THE FINAL DESTINATION

19  THE BLIND AND THE SEEING ARE NOT ALIKE 

20  NOR ARE THE DEPTHS OF DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT

21  NOR IS THE CHILLY SHADE AND THE SUN'S HEAT ALIKE

22  NOR ARE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD ALIKE

AND GOD CAN MAKE ANY THAT HE WILLS TO HEAR 
BUT YOU CANNOT MAKE THOSE WHO ARE IN GRAVES TO HEAR

23  YOU ARE NOTHING OTHER 
THAN A PLAIN WARNER

24  SURELY WE HAVE SENT YOU IN TRUTH AS A BEARER 
OF GLAD TIDINGS AND AS A WARNER
AND THERE WAS NEVER A PEOPLE WITHOUT A WARNER
HAVING LIVED AMONG THEM EVER

25  IF THEY REJECT YOU, SO DID THEIR PREDECESSORS 
TO WHOM CAME TO THEM THEIR MESSENGERS 
WITH BOOKS OF DARK PROPHECIES AND SIGNS THAT WERE CLEAR
AND WITH THE BOOK OF ENLIGHTENMENT THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR

26  I PUNISHED THOSE WHO REJECTED FAITH WHEN IT CAME TO THEM 
AND HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY REJECTION OF THEM

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CHAPTER 35.  THE ORIGINATOR                                                  SECTION 4.  PART  XXII

27  GOD SENDS DOWN FROM THE SKY THE RAIN WATERS
WITH WHICH WE BRING OUT PRODUCE OF VARIOUS COLORS             
THE MOUNTAINS HAVE TRACTS WHITE AND RED OF VARIOUS COLORS 
AND INTENSELY BLACK IN HUE ARE OTHERS

28  ALSO AMONG MEN AND CRAWLING CREATURES 
AND CATTLE THEY ARE OF VARIOUS COLORS 
THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE FEAR THE CREATOR
FOR HE IS EXALTED IN MIGHT AND THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER 

 29  AND THOSE WHO RECITE THE BOOK OF GOD CONSISTENTLY
AND WHO ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER AND SPEND IN CHARITY 
OUT OF WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN THEM SECRETLY AND OPENLY 
THEY HOPE FOR A COMMERCE THAT LASTS ETERNALLY

30  FOR HE WILL REWARD THEM FOR THEIR GOOD DEEDS
AND GIVE THEM EVEN MORE OUT OF HIS BOUNTY 
FOR HE IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

31  THIS IS THE TRUTH THAT TO YOU WE HAVE REVEALED 
CONFIRMING WHAT CAME BEFORE IT WAS REVEALED 

FOR GOD IS WITH RESPECT TO HIS SERVANTS 
WELL ACQUAINTED AND FULLY OBSERVANT

32  THE BOOK WE HAVE GIVEN 
TO OUR SERVANTS WHOM WE HAVE CHOSEN 
BUT THERE ARE SOME WHO WRONG THEIR OWN PERSONS 
AND THERE ARE SOME WHO FOLLOW A MIDDLE DIRECTION
AND SOME WHO ARE FOREMOST IN RIGHT ACTIONS
AND THAT IS THE HIGHEST GRATIFICATION

33  THEY WILL ENTER THE PARADISE PROMISED TO THE RIGHTEOUS  
THEY WILL BE ADORNED WITH GOLD AND PEARL BRACELETS
AND SILK GARMENTS AS THEIR MODE OF DRESS

34  AND THEY WILL SAY, PRAISE BE TO OUR CREATOR
WHO INDEED HAS REMOVED FROM US ALL TERROR
FOR GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

35  AND WHO HAS OUT OF HIS BOUNTY SETTLED US 
IN A HOME THAT WILL LAST AND NO WEARINESS WILL TOUCH US 

36  BUT THOSE WHO REJECT GOD, FOR THEM WILL BE 
THE FIRE OF HELL AND NO TERM WILL BE 
DETERMINED FOR THEM TO DIE AND ITS PENALTY 
WILL NOT BE LIGHTENED FOR THEM IN ANY DEGREE
SO DO WE REWARD THOSE WHO ACT UNGRATEFULLY

37  THEREIN WILL THEY CRY OUT, OUR LORD, GIVE US MERCY. FROM YOU 
WE WILL WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS NOT THE DEEDS WE USED TO DO 
DID WE NOT GIVE LONG ENOUGH LIFE TO YOU
SO THAT YOU COULD RECEIVE THE ADMONITION SENT TO YOU?
AND MOREOVER THE WARNER CAME TO YOU 
SO TASTE THE FRUIT OF YOUR BEHAVIOR, THERE IS NO HELP FOR YOU

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CHAPTER 35.  THE ORIGINATOR                                                  SECTION 5.  PART  XXII

38  GOD KNOWS ALL THE THINGS HIDDEN
IN THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS
HE HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THAT IS IN 
THE INNERMOST HEARTS OF MEN

39  AND HE HAS MADE YOU INHERITORS OF HIS CREATION
IF THEN ANY DO REJECT GOD THEN THEIR REJECTION 
WORKS AGAINST THEM AND THEIR REJECTION 
BUT ADDS TO THEIR UNBELIEF AND THEIR REJECTION
IN THE SIGHT OF GOD IS ONLY AN ADDITION
TO THEIR OWN SELF DESTRUCTION

40  SAY, HAVE YOU SEEN THESE PARTNERS 
WHOM YOU CALL UPON BESIDES YOUR CREATOR?  
SHOW ME WHAT IN THE EARTH ARE THEY ORIGINATORS
OR IN THE HEAVENS HAVE THEY A SHARE? 
OR IS THERE GIVEN TO THEM A BOOK FROM WHERE 
THEY CAN DERIVE EVIDENCE CLEAR?  
NO, NOTHING BUT DELUSIONS PROMISE THE WRONG DOERS

41  IT IS GOD WHO SUSTAINS THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
OR ELSE THEY WOULD BOTH CEASE TO FUNCTION 
AND IF THEY WOULD FAIL THERE IS NONE
CAN SUSTAIN THEM THEREAFTER, AND GOD IS THE ONE
THE MOST MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING ONE

42  THEY SWORE BY GOD THAT IF CAME TO THEM A WARNER 
THAT THEY WOULD FOLLOW HIS GUIDANCE BETTER 
THAN ANY OF THE OTHER PEOPLE PRIOR
BUT WHEN CAME TO THEM A WARNER 
IT HAS ONLY INCREASED THEM IN ERROR

43  PLOTTING EVIL AND BEHAVING ARROGANTLY
BUT THEIR PLOTTING OF EVIL WILL HEM IN THEM ONLY 
NOW THEY ARE LOOKING FOR THE WAY OF THOSE PREVIOUSLY  
BUT NO CHANGE WILL THEY FIND IN GOD'S DECREE 
AND NO TURNING OFF WILL YOU FIND IN GOD'S DECREE 

44  DO THEY NOT TRAVEL THE EARTH OVER
TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE PRIOR 
FOR TO THEM THEY WERE IN STRENGTH SUPERIOR  
NOR IS GOD TO BE FRUSTRATED BY ANYTHING EVER
IN HEAVEN OR EARTH, FOR HE HAS ALL POWER

45  IF GOD PUNISHED MEN ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY DESERVE 
HE WOULD NOT LEAVE A SINGLE CREATURE ON THE EARTH 
BUT HE GIVES THEM RESPITE FOR A STATED TERM 
THEN WHEN COMES THE END OF THEIR TERM 

GOD IS OBSERVANT 
OF ALL HIS SERVANTS 

 

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