CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                                        SECTION 1.  PART XXII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH MAN OF GOD

2  BY THE QURAN THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR

3  YOU ARE INDEED ONE OF THE MESSENGERS

4  ON A WAY THAT IS SURE

5  IT IS A REVELATION SENT DOWN CLEARLY
BY ONE WHO IS MERCIFUL AND MIGHTY

6  IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY ADMONISH 
PEOPLE WHOSE FATHERS HAD NOT BEEN ADMONISHED
AND WHO THEREFORE REMAIN HEEDLESS OF GOD'S MESSAGES

7  THE WORD IS PROVED TRUE AGAINST THE GREATER 
PART OF THEM, FOR THEY ARE NOT BELIEVERS

8  WE HAVE PUT CHAINS ROUND THEIR NECKS RIGHT UP 
TO THEIR CHINS SO THAT THEIR HEADS ARE FORCED UP 

9  WE HAVE PUT A BARRIER IN FRONT OF THEM 
AND WE HAVE PUT A BARRIER BEHIND THEM 
AND FURTHER WE HAVE COVERED THEM 
SO NO VISION IS POSSESSED BY THEM

10  THE SAME IS IT TO THEM 
WHETHER YOU ADMONISH THEM 
OR YOU DO NOT ADMONISH THEM 
THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE MOST OF THEM

11  YOU CAN ONLY ADMONISH HE WHO FOLLOWS THE MESSAGES
AND FEARS GOD UNSEEN, TO HIM GIVE NEWS OF FORGIVENESS
AND A REWARD FROM GOD MOST GENEROUS

12  AND WE WILL GIVE LIFE TO THE DEAD AND WE ARE RECORDING
WHAT THEY SEND BEFORE AND THAT WHICH THEY ARE LEAVING
 AND WE HAVE TAKEN ALL THINGS INTO ACCOUNTING

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CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                                        SECTION 2.  PART XXII

13  SET FORTH TO THEM THE STORY BY WAY OF A PARABLE 
OF THE COMPANIONS OF THE CITY, TO IT CAME APOSTLES 

14  WHEN WE FIRST SENT TO THEM TWO APOSTLES 
THEY REJECTED THEM SO WE SENT A THIRD APOSTLE
THEY SAID, WE HAVE BEEN SENT TO YOU AS APOSTLES

15  AND THE PEOPLE SAID, YOU ARE ONLY HUMAN BEINGS
AND OF REVELATION GOD HAS SENT BY YOU NOTHING
AND YOU ARE DOING NOTHING BUT LYING

16  THEY SAID, OUR LORD DOES KNOW THAT IT IS TRUE
WE HAVE BEEN SENT ON A MISSION TO YOU

17  AND OUR DUTY IS ONLY
TO DELIVER THE MESSAGE CLEARLY

18  THE PEOPLE SAID, FOR US WE AUGUR AN EVIL OMEN FROM YOU 
THEREFORE IF YOU DESIST NOT, WE WILL CERTAINLY STONE YOU
AND A GRIEVOUS PUNISHMENT WILL BE INFLICTED ON YOU 

19  THEY SAID, WITH YOURSELVES ARE YOUR EVIL OMENS 
AND WOULD YOU DEEM THIS AS AN EVIL OMEN 
THAT YOU WERE TO BE GIVEN ADMONITION? 
NO, YOU ARE PEOPLE IN TRANSGRESSION 

20  FROM THE FARTHEST PART OF THE CITY CAME  A MAN RUNNING
SAYING, OH MY PEOPLE, GIVE THE APOSTLES YOUR FOLLOWING

21  FOLLOW THOSE WHO ASK OF YOU NO REWARD  
AND WHO HAVE RECEIVED GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LORD 

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22  IT WOULD NOT BE REASONABLE FOR ME 
NOT TO SERVE AND WORSHIP HIM WHO CREATED ME 
AND TO WHOM YOU WILL RETURN TO EVENTUALLY

23  SHALL I TAKE OTHER GODS BESIDES GOD IN DIETY?
IF HE SHOULD INTEND FOR ME SOME ADVERSITY 
OF NO USE WILL THEIR INTERCESSION BE
NOR ARE THEY ABLE TO DELIVER ME

24  IF I WERE TO DO SO I WOULD BE 
IN CLEAR ERROR MANIFESTLY  
 
25  BELIEVE IN YOUR LORD, SO LISTEN TO ME

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CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                   SECTION 2  (CONT'D). PART  XXIII

26  IT WAS SAID, ENTER THE GARDEN OF ETERNITY
HE SAID, IF MY PEOPLE KNEW WHAT IS KNOWN TO ME

27  FOR MY LORD HAS GRANTED FORGIVENESS TO ME
AND HAS PLACED ME AMONG THOSE HELD HONORABLY

28  AND WE SENT NOT DOWN UPON HIS PEOPLE AFTER
ANY HOST FROM HEAVEN NOR DO WE EVER

29  IT WAS NOTHING BUT A SINGLE BLAST SENT
AND THEY WERE QUENCHED AND SILENT

30  AS FOR MY SERVANTS THERE COMES NOT TO THEM 
A MESSENGER BUT HE IS MOCKED BY THEM

31  SEE HOW MANY GENERATIONS WE DESTROYED BEFORE THEM
THAT WILL NEVER RETURN TO THEM?

32  AND THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE US ALL OF THEM

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CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                                       SECTION 3.  PART XXIII

33  A SIGN FOR THEM IS THE DEAD EARTH THAT WE GIVE LIFE TO
AND PRODUCE GRAIN THEREFROM OF WHICH IS EATEN BY YOU

34  AND WE PRODUCE ORCHARDS WITH DATE-PALMS THEREIN
AND VINES AND WE CAUSE SPRINGS TO GUSH FORTH THEREIN

35  THAT THEY MAY ENJOY THE FRUITS OF THIS 
IT WAS NOT THEIR HANDS THAT MADE ANY OF THIS 
WILL THEY NOT THEN GIVE THANKS FOR ALL OF THIS?

36  GLORY TO GOD WHO CREATED IN PAIRS ALL THINGS 
THAT THE EARTH PRODUCES AS WELL AS THEIR OWN BEINGS
AND AS WELL AS OTHER THINGS OF WHICH THEY KNOW NOTHING

37  THERE IS A SIGN IN THE NIGHT, WE WITHDRAW FROM IT THE DAY
AND PLUNGED DEEPLY INTO DARKNESS ARE THEY

38  AND THE SUN HE RUNS HIS COURSE OBEDIENTLY
FOR A PERIOD DETERMINED FOR HIM PREVIOUSLY
THAT IS THE DECREE OF THE ALL MIGHTY

39  THE MOON WE HAVE MEASURED FOR HER MANSIONS TO TRAVERSE 
UNTIL SHE RETURNS LIKE A DATE STALK OLD AND WITHERED 

40  THE SUN CANNOT CATCH UP TO THE MOON NOR CAN THE DAY 
OUTSTRIP THE NIGHT, EACH ONE OF THEM STAYS
EACH IN ITS OWN INDIVIDUAL WAYS 

41  AND A SIGN FOR THEM IS THAT THEIR RACE WE BORE 
THROUGH THE FLOOD IN THE LOADED ARK BEFORE

42  AND WE HAVE CREATED FOR THEM 
SIMILAR VESSELS AND THEY RIDE ON THEM

43  IF IT WERE OUR WILL WE COULD DROWN THEM
THEN THERE WOULD BE NO ONE TO HEAR THEM
NOR TO HELP THEM OR TO DELIVER THEM

44  EXCEPT BY WAY OF OUR MERCY AND BY WORLDLY
CONVENIENCE TO SERVE THEM TEMPORARILY

45  WHEN THEY ARE TOLD, FEAR THAT WHICH IS BEFORE YOU 
AND ALSO THAT WHICH WILL BE COMING AFTER YOU 
IN ORDER THAT MERCY MAY BE SHOWN TO YOU

46  NOT A SIGN FROM GOD COMES TO THEM 
BUT THEY TURN AWAY FROM THEM

47  AND WHEN THEY ARE TOLD, SPEND OF THE BOUNTY 
WITH WHICH YOUR LORD HAS PROVIDED YOU FREELY
THE DISBELIEVERS SAY TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE
WILL WE THEN BE THE ONES TO FEED 
THOSE WHOM IF GOD WILLED HE WOULD FEED
YOU ARE IN MANIFEST ERROR INDEED

48  AND THEY SAY, WHEN WILL THIS PROMISE COME TRUE
IF THAT WHICH YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE

49  THEY WILL NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANYTHING 
IT WILL SEIZE THEM WHILE THEY ARE DISPUTING 

50  NO CHANCE WILL THERE BE TO DISPOSE OF THEIR AFFAIRS
NOR WILL THEY RETURN TO THEIR FAMILIES THEREAFTER

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CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                                       SECTION 4.  PART XXIII

51  THE TRUMPET WILL BE SOUNDED WHEN MEN
FROM THEIR GRAVES TO THEIR LORD THEY WILL HASTEN

52  THEN THEY WILL SAY, WOE UNTO US 
UP FROM OUR BEDS OF REST WHO HAS RAISED US?  
SURELY THIS IS WHAT OUR LORD HAS PROMISED TO US
AND THE MESSENGERS DID INDEED TELL THE TRUTH TO US

53  IT WILL BE A SINGLE CRY BUT NO MORE 
AND TO US THEY WILL BE BROUGHT UP BEFORE 

54  AND NO SOUL WILL BE WRONGED THAT DAY IN THE LEAST
AND YOU THEN WILL ALL BE REPAID ALL OF THE MEADS 
OF ALL OF YOUR EARNINGS OF ALL OF YOUR DEEDS

55  THAT DAY THE GARDEN'S COMPANIONS 
WILL HAVE A HAPPY OCCUPATION

56  THEY AND THEIR ASSOCIATES WILL BE 
IN SHADES RECLINING ON THRONES OF DIGNITY

57  EVERY FRUIT OF ENJOYMENT WILL BE THERE FOR THEM 
THEY WILL HAVE WHATEVER IS DESIRED BY THEM

58  PEACE, A WORD FROM A LORD MOST MERCIFUL TO THEM

59  AND THE SINNERS, GET AWAY, IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM 

60  DID I NOT ENJOIN YOU, OH CHILDREN OF ADAM
THAT YOU SHOULD NOT BE WORSHIPERS OF SATAN?
FOR HE IS AN ENEMY TO YOU FOR CERTAIN 

61  AND THAT YOU SHOULD WORSHIP ONLY ME 
FOR THIS IS THE STRAIGHT WAY INDEED?

62  BUT HE MISLEAD A GREAT MULTITUDE OF YOU 
WAS THIS NOT THEN UNDERSTOOD BY YOU?

63  THIS IS THE HELL OF WHICH WE WARNED YOU 

64  EMBRACE THE FIRE THIS DAY FOR THAT YOU 
PERSISTENTLY REJECTED THE TRUTH

65  THAT DAY THEIR MOUTHS WILL BE SEALED BY US
BUT THEIR HANDS AND FEET WILL SPEAK TO US 

66  WE COULD HAVE PUT OUT THEIR EYES IF WE PLEASED 
AND THEN THEY WOULD HAVE RUN ABOUT GROPINGLY
HOW THEN WOULD THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SEE?

67  IF WE WISH WE COULD TRANSFORM THEM IN THEIR PLACES
THEN THEY COULD NOT MOVE FORWARD OR BACKWARDS 

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CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                                        SECTION 5.  PART XXIII

68  IF WE GRANT LONG LIFE TO ANYONE
WE CAUSE HIM TO BE REVERSED IN CREATION
WHY WILL THEY NOT THEN GAIN COMPREHENSION?

69  WE HAVE NOT TAUGHT POETRY TO THE MESSENGER
THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A REMINDER
AND A QURAN MAKING THINGS CLEAR

70  THAT IT MAY GIVE ADMONITION TO ANY WHO ARE ALIVE
AND THAT THE CHARGE MAY BE PROVED AGAINST THOSE WHO LIED 

71  DO THEY NOT SEE THAT IT IS WE WHO HAVE CREATED FOR THEM 
AMONG THE THINGS WHICH OUR HANDS FASHIONED FOR THEM 
CATTLE WHICH ARE UNDER THE DOMINION OF THEM?

72  AND TO THEIR USE WE HAVE SUBJECTED THEM 
SOME THEY EAT AND SOME OF THEM CARRY THEM 

73  THEY HAVE OTHER PROFITS BESIDES FROM THEM 
FOR THEY GET PURE MILK TO DRINK FROM THEM
WILL GRATITUDE NOT BE SHOWN BY THEM?

74  YET THEY TAKE FOR WORSHIP GODS OTHER THAN GOD 
HOPING THAT THEY MIGHT BE HELPED BY THOSE SO CALLED GODS

75  THEY HAVE NOT THE POWER TO HELP THEM IN THE LEAST
BUT THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE OUR JUDGMENT SEAT 
AS A TROOP TO BE CONDEMNED BY US COMPLETELY

76  LET NOT THEIR SPEECH GRIEVE YOU
WE KNOW WHAT THEY SECRETLY DO
AS WELL AS WHAT THEY OPENLY DO

77  WE CREATED MAN FROM A SPERM DROP HUMBLY  
YET HE STANDS FORTH AS AN OPEN ADVERSARY

78  AND HE MAKES FOR US COMPARISONS 
AND FORGETS HIS OWN ORIGINATION  
HE SAYS, WHO CAN GIVE TO DRY BONES RESURRECTION 
AND EVEN BONES IN DECOMPOSITION?

79  SAY, HE WHO GAVE THEM LIFE IN THEIR FIRST CREATION 
FOR HE IS THE KNOWER OF ALL CREATION

80  THE SAME WHO PRODUCES FOR YOU FIRE 
OUT OF THE GREEN TREE WHICH YOU KINDLE FOR FIRES

81  IS NOT HE WHO CREATED THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
THEREFORE ABLE TO ALSO RECREATE THE LIKE OF MEN?  
YES, FOR HE IS THE KNOWER OF ALL THAT IS THEREIN

82  HIS COMMAND WHEN HE INTENDS A THING IS
ONLY THAT HE SAYS TO IT, BE, AND IT IS

83  SO GLORY TO HIM IN WHOSE HANDS IS ALL THINGS
AND TO HIM YOU WILL ALL BE RETURNING

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