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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THOSE WHO RANGE
THEMSELVES IN RANKS

2  AND THOSE WHO RESTRAIN
HOLDING IN RESTRAINT

3  AND THOSE WHO ARE RECITERS 
OF THE REMINDER

4  SURELY YOUR GOD
IS ONE GOD

5  LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND EVERYTHING 
BETWEEN THEM AND LORD OF EVERYTHING
THAT IS WITHIN THE SUN'S RISING

6  WITH THE STARS WE HAVE DECORATIVELY
DECKED THE LOWER HEAVEN WITH BEAUTY  

7  AND TO GUARD IT
AGAINST ALL EVIL SPIRITS

8   THE EXALTED ASSEMBLY, THEY CANNOT LISTEN TO IT
AND FROM EVERY SIDE THEY ARE CAST AWAY FROM IT

9  THEY ARE UNDER A PENALTY AND DRIVEN OFF FROM IT

10  EXCEPT THOSE WHO SNATCH AWAY SOMETHING BY STEALING 
AND THEY ARE PURSUED BY A FIRE  FLAMING

11  JUST ASK THEM, ARE THEY THE MORE DIFFICULT TO CREATE
OR THE OTHER BEINGS WE CREATE? 
OUT OF STICKY CLAY THEM DID WE CREATE

12  DO YOU MARVEL WHILE THEY MAKE MOCKERY?

13  AND WHEN THEY ARE ADMONISHED THEY PAY NO HEED

14  AND WHEN THEY SEE A SIGN TURN IT INTO MOCKERY

15  AND SAY, THIS IS NOTHING BUT SORCERY

16  WHEN WE DIE AND BECOME BONES DRY AND DUSTY 
WILL WE THEN BE RAISED UP AGAIN REALLY?

17  AND ALSO OUR FATHERS OF OLD INDEED?

18  SAY, YES, AND YOU WILL BE HUMILIATED COMPLETELY

19  THEN IT WILL BE A SINGLE CRY AND THEY WILL SEE

20  THEN THEY WILL SAY 
WOE TO US THIS IS THE JUDGMENT DAY

21  A VOICE WILL SAY, THIS IS THE DAY OF SORTING OUT 
WHOSE TRUTH YOU WERE ONCE IN DENIAL ABOUT

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22  IT WILL BE SAID, BRING UP THE WRONG DOERS 
AND THEIR WIVES AND THE THINGS THEY SERVED

23  BESIDES GOD AND LEAD THEM TO THE FIRE

24  BUT STOP THEM 
FOR IT MUST BE ASKED OF THEM

25  WHAT IS THE MATTER THAT YOU HELP NOT EACH OTHER?

26  NAY, BUT TO JUDGEMENT THAT DAY THEY WILL BE SUBMITTERS  

27  THEY WILL TURN TO ONE ANOTHER
AND THEY WILL QUESTION EACH OTHER

28  THEY WILL SAY, YOU USED TO PRIOR
COME TO US FROM THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER

29  THEY WILL REPLY, NO INDEED
YOU YOURSELVES DISBELIEVED

30  NOR HAD WE ANY AUTHORITY OVER YOU PEOPLE
IT WAS YOU WHO WERE REBELLIOUS AND EVIL 

31  NOW HAS BEEN PROVED TRUE AGAINST US THE WORD OF GOD 
THAT WE WILL HAVE TO TASTE THE PUNISHMENT OF GOD

32  WE LED YOU ASTRAY 
FOR WE WERE OURSELVES ASTRAY

33  THAT DAY THEY WILL EQUALLY 
ALL SHARE IN THE PENALTY

34  THAT IS HOW WE WILL JUSTLY
DEAL WITH THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY

35  FOR THEY BEHAVED ARROGANTLY
WHEN THEY WERE TOLD THERE WAS ONE GOD ONLY

36  AND SAID, WILL WE GIVE UP THE GOD'S WE WORSHIP 
FOR THE SAKE OF A MAD POET?

37  NO, HE HAS COME WITH A MESSAGE CLEAR 
CONFIRMING THE MESSAGE OF THE FORMER MESSENGERS 

38  YOU WILL SURELY
TASTE THE GRIEVOUS PENALTY

39  BUT IT WILL BE NO MORE THAN THE RETRIBUTION
FOR THE EVIL THAT YOU HAVE DONE

40  BUT THE SINCERE AND DEVOTED SERVANTS OF GOD 

41  FOR THEM IS A SUSTENANCE DETERMINED FROM GOD

42  FRUITS AND DELIGHTS THAT THEY WILL HAPPILY
ENJOY IN HONOR AND DIGNITY

43  IN GARDENS OF FELICITY

44  FACING EACH OTHER ON THRONES OF DIGNITY

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45  PASSED ROUND TO THEM WILL BE ADDITIONALLY 
A CUP FROM A FOUNTAIN FLOWING CLEARLY

46  CRYSTAL WHITE AND IT TASTES DELICIOUS 
TO THOSE WHO DRINK IT FOR SUSTENANCE

47  IT DEPRIVES NOT OF REASON
NOR WILL THEY SUFFER INTOXICATION 

48  AND BESIDES THEM WILL BE CHASTE LADIES
MODEST IN GAZE WITH EYES OF BEAUTY

49  AS IF THEY WERE DELICATE EGGS GUARDED CLOSELY

50  THEN THEY WILL TURN TO EACH OTHER 
AND THEY WILL QUESTION ONE ANOTHER

51  THEY WILL START TO TALK AND IT WILL BE SAID BY ONE
I HAD ON THE EARTH AN INTIMATE COMPANION 

52  WHO USED TO SAY TO ME, ARE YOU 
AMONG THOSE WHO BEAR WITNESS TO THE TRUTH? 

53  WHEN WE DIE AND BECOME BONES DRY AND DUSTY
WILL WE THEN RECEIVE REWARDS AND PENALTIES?

54  A VOICE SAID, WOULD YOU LIKE TO LOOK DOWN? 

55  HE SAW HIMSELF IN THE FIRE WHEN HE LOOKED DOWN

56  BY GOD, SAID HE
YOU NEARLY RUINED ME

57  HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR MY LORD'S GRACE 
I WOULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO THAT PLACE

58  IS IT THE CASE THAT WE WILL NOT PERISH?

59  EXCEPT FOR OUR FIRST DEATH AND WE WILL NOT BE PUNISHED?

60  SURELY THIS IS THE SUPREME SUCCESS

61  FOR THE LIKE OF THIS LET ALL STRIVE
ALL OF THOSE WHO WISH TO STRIVE

62  IS THAT THE BETTER ENTERTAINMENT OR THE CURSED TREE?

63  FOR WE HAVE MADE IT A TRIAL FOR THOSE WHO ACT WRONGFULLY

64  IT IS A TREE THAT SPRINGS OUT OF THE BOTTOM OF HELL 

65  THE SHOOTS OF ITS FRUIT STALKS ARE EVIL
AND ARE LIKE THE HEADS OF DEVILS

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66  THEY WILL EAT FROM IT
AND FILL THEIR BELLIES FROM IT

67  THEN THEY WILL BE GIVEN A MIXTURE
MADE OF BOILING WATER

68  THEN WILL THEIR RETURN BE TO THE BLAZING FIRE

69  THEY FOUND THEIR FATHERS ON THE WRONG WAY

70  SO THEY TOO WERE RUSHED DOWN ON THEIR PATHWAYS

71  AND BEFORE THEM MANY OF THE ANCIENTS WENT ASTRAY

72  BUT WE SENT BEFORE AMONG THEM 
APOSTLES TO ADMONISH THEM

73  THEN SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO INDEED
WERE ADMONISHED BUT DID NOT HEED

74  EXCEPT GOD'S SERVANTS 
SINCERE AND OBEDIENT

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75  NOAH CRIED TO US AND OF PRAYERS
WE ARE THE BEST OF HEARERS

76  AND WE DELIVERED HIM AND HIS FAMILY
FROM THE GREAT CALAMITY

77  AND MADE SURVIVORS OF HIS PROGENY

78  AND WE LEFT THIS BLESSING FOR HIM
AMONG GENERATIONS COMING AFTER HIM

79  PEACE AND SALUTATIONS 
TO NOAH AMONG THE NATIONS

80  SO DO WE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

81  FOR HE WAS ONE OF THE BELIEVING ONES

82  THEN WE DROWNED THE OTHER ONES

83  AND OF THOSE WHO FOLLOWED HIS WAYS ABRAHAM WAS ONE

84  HE CAME TO HIS LORD AS A PURIFIED ONE

85  HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE AND TO HIS FATHER 
WHAT IS THIS OF WHICH YOU ARE WORSHIPPERS?

86  IS IT FALSE GODS YOU DESIRE OTHER THAN GOD?

87  THEN WHAT IS YOUR IDEA ABOUT GOD?

88  THEN HE CAST A GLANCE AT THE STARS

89  AND HE SAID, I AM SICK AT HEART

90  SO THEY TURNED AWAY FROM HIM AND DID DEPART

91  THEN HE TURNED TO THEIR GODS AND SAID, WILL YOU 
NOT EAT OF THE OFFERINGS BEFORE YOU?

92  AND YOU SPEAK NOT, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? 

93  THEN DID HE TURN UPON THEM 
AND WITH HIS RIGHT HAND HE STRUCK THEM

94  THEN CAME THE WORSHIPPERS TOWARDS HIM
WITH HURRIED STEPS AND FACED HIM

95  HE SAID, ARE THINGS WORSHIPPED BY YOU 
THAT HAVE BEEN CARVED OUT BY YOU?

96  BUT GOD HAS CREATED YOUR HANDIWORK AND YOU

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97  THEY SAID, BUILD A FURNACE FOR HIM
AND INTO THE BLAZING FIRE THROW HIM

98  THIS FAILING THEY SOUGHT AGAINST HIM A STRATAGEM 
BUT WE MADE THE ONES MOST HUMILIATED TO BE THEM

99  HE SAID, I WILL GO TO MY LORD 
AND I WILL BE GUIDED BY MY LORD

100  OH MY LORD, GRANT TO ME A RIGHTEOUS SON 

101  WE GAVE HIM GOOD NEWS OF A RIGHTEOUS SON 

102  WHEN HE REACHED THE AGE TO WORK WITH HIS SON
HE SAID, OH MY SON, I SEE IN A VISION 
THAT IN SACRIFICE I OFFER YOU, WHAT IS YOUR OPINION? 
HE SAID, OH MY FATHER, ACT ON YOUR INSTRUCTION
IF GOD PLEASES HE WILL FIND ME A PATIENT ONE 

103  WHEN THEY HAD SUBMITTED TO GOD AND HE HAD LAID HIM 
PROSTRATE ON HIS FOREHEAD TO SACRIFICE HIM

104  OH ABRAHAM, WE CALLED OUT TO HIM

105  YOU HAVE FULFILLED THE VISION ALREADY
SO DO WE REWARD THOSE WHO DO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

106  FOR THIS WAS A TRIAL OBVIOUSLY FOR HIM

107  AND WITH A SACRIFICE WE RANSOMED HIM

108  WE GRANTED HIM THE SALUTATION
AMONG THE LATER GENERATIONS

109  TO ABRAHAM PEACE AND SALUTATIONS

110  SO DO WE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

111  SURELY OF OUR SERVANTS HE WAS ONE

112  WE GAVE HIM NEWS OF ISAAC A PROPHET, A TRUE ONE

113  WE BLESSED HIM AND ISAAC AND OF THEIR PROGENY
SOME ARE DOERS OF GOOD BUT SOME ACTED UNJUSTLY 

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114  TO MOSES AND AARON WE TURNED FAVORABLY

115  AND DELIVERED THEM AND THEIR PEOPLE FROM THE CALAMITY 

116  WE HELPED THEM SO THEY OVERCAME THEIR DIFFICULTIES

117  WE GAVE THEM THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THINGS CLEARLY

118  AND WE GUIDED THEM ON THE RIGHT WAY INDEED

119  AND GRANTED THEM THE SALUTATION
AMONG LATER GENERATIONS

120  PEACE AND SALUTATIONS 
TO MOSES AND AARON

121  SO DO WE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

122  FOR OF OUR SERVANTS THEY WERE BELIEVING ONES

123  ALSO WAS ELIAS AMONG THOSE SENT BY THE CREATOR 

124  HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE, WILL YOU NOT FEAR YOUR MAKER?

125  WILL YOU CALL UPON BAAL AND FORSAKE THE BEST CREATOR? 

126  GOD YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
AND THE LORD AND CHERISHER
OF YOUR FORE FATHERS

127  BUT THEY REJECTED HIM AND THEY WILL CERTAINLY 
BE CALLED UP FOR THE PENALTY

128  EXCEPT THOSE WHO SERVE GOD SINCERELY 

129  AND WE LEFT THIS SALUTATION
AMONG LATER GENERATIONS

130  TO ELIAS PEACE AND SALUTATIONS

131  SO DO WE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

132  FOR OF OUR BELIEVING SERVANTS HE WAS ONE

133  ALSO WAS LOT AMONG THOSE SENT BY THE CREATOR

134  HIM AND ALL HIS FOLLOWERS WERE DELIVERED 

135  EXCEPT AN OLD WOMAN WHO IT WAS ORDERED
TO BE AMONG THOSE WHO REMAINED AFTER

136  THEN DID WE DESTROY THE OTHERS

137  YOU PASS BY THEIR SITES IN THE MORNINGS

138  AND YOU PASS BY THEM IN THE EVENINGS
WILL YOU NOT THEN HAVE UNDERSTANDING?

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139  SO WAS JONAH AMONG THOSE SENT 

140  WHEN HE RAN AWAY TO THE SHIP FULLY LADEN

141  HE CAST LOTS AND WAS CONDEMNED

142  THE BIG FISH SWALLOWED HIM AND HE COMMITTED SIN 

143  HAD HE NOT GLORIFIED GOD AND DID REPENT

144  HE WOULD HAVE STAYED IN THE FISH UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

145  BUT WE CAST HIM ON THE SHORE'S NAKEDNESS 
IN A HUMILIATING STATE OF SICKNESS

146  WE CAUSED TO GROW OVER HIM A SPREADING PLANT OF GOURD 

147  AND WE SENT HIM TO A HUNDRED THOUSAND OR MORE

148  AND THEY BELIEVED TRULY
SO WE PERMITTED THEM TO ENJOY THEIR DESTINY

149  NOW ASK THEM THEIR OPINION 
DOES GOD HAVE DAUGHTERS AND THEY HAVE SONS?

150  OR THAT WE CREATED THE ANGELS AS FEMALE BEINGS
AND OF THIS DO THEY BEAR WITNESSING?

151  IS IT NOT THAT THEY FROM THEIR OWN INVENTION SAY THIS?

152  GOD HAS BEGOTTEN CHILDREN THEY BUT LIE ABOUT THIS

153  THEN DID HE CHOOSE DAUGHTERS RATHER THAN SONS?

154  WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU THAT YOU MADE THIS DECISION

155  WILL YOU NOT THEN RECEIVE ADMONITION?

156  OR HAVE YOU A MANIFEST DOCUMENTATION?

157  IF YOU ARE TRUTHFUL THEN BRING YOUR DOCUMENTATION

158  THEY ASSERT A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIM AND THE DEMONS 
BUT THE DEMONS KNOW THEY WILL RETURN TO HIM FOR DECISION

159  GLORY TO GOD HE IS FREE FROM THEIR ASSERTIONS 

160  NOT SO GOD'S SERVANTS THE PURIFIED ONES

161  FOR NEITHER YOU NOR THOSE YOU SERVE IN DEVOTION

162  CAN LEAD ANY CONCERNING GOD INTO TEMPTATION

163  EXCEPT THOSE WHO THE FIRE IS THEIR DESTINATION

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164  THOSE RANGED IN RANKS SAY, WE ALL HAVE A POSITION

165  AND WE ARE RANGED IN RANKS FOR SERVICE TRULY

166  AND WE ARE THOSE WHO DECLARE GOD'S GLORY

167  AND THERE WERE THOSE WHO SAID, SURELY

168  IF WE HAD BEFORE FROM THOSE OF OLD A REMINDER CLEARLY

169  WE WOULD HAVE BEEN SERVANTS OF GOD DEVOTED SINCERELY

170  BUT NOW THE QURAN HAS COME AND THEY DISBELIEVE
SOON WILL THEY COME TO KNOW TRUTHFULLY

171  OUR WORD CAME BEFORE TO OUR MESSENGERS ALREADY 

172  THAT THEY WOULD BE ASSISTED WITH CERTAINTY

173  AND THAT OUR FORCES MUST CONQUER INEVITABLY

174  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM TEMPORARILY

175  AND WATCH THEM HOW THEY FARE 
AND THEY SOON WILL SEE HOW YOU FARE

176  DO THEY WISH TRULY
TO HURRY ON OUR PENALTY?

177  BUT WHEN IT DESCENDS TO THEM THE MORNING WILL INDEED
BE EVIL FOR THOSE WHO WERE WARNED AND DID NOT HEED

178  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM TEMPORARILY

179  AND WATCH THEM AND SOON THEY WILL SEE

180  GLORY TO GOD, THE LORD OF HONOR AND POWER  
HE IS FREE FROM WHAT THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM AS PARTNERS

181  AND PEACE BE UPON THE MESSENGERS

182  PRAISE BE TO GOD, THE CHERISHER

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