CHAPTER 38.  SAD                                                                             SECTION 1.  PART XXIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  TRUTHFUL GOD

BY THE QURAN FULL OF ADMONITION

2  THE DISBELIEVERS ARE IN SELF GLORY AND OPPOSITION

3  WE DESTROYED COUNTLESS GENERATIONS
BEFORE THEM, IN THE END THEY CRIED FOR COMPASSION 
WHEN THERE WAS NO TIME FOR BEING SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION

4  THEY WONDER THAT HAS COME FROM AMONG THEM A WARNER 
BUT THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, THIS IS A LYING SORCERER 

5  HAS HE MADE THE GODS ALL INTO ONE DIETY 
THIS IS A STRANGE THING INDEED

6  AND THE LEADERS AMONG THEM GO AWAY IMPATIENTLY
SAYING, WALK AWAY AND REMAIN TRUE TO YOUR DIETIES  
FOR THIS IS A THING DESIGNED AGAINST YOU SURELY

7  WE NEVER HEARD THE LIKE OF THIS FORMERLY AMONG THE PEOPLE 
THIS IS NOTHING BUT A MADE UP FABLE

8  OF ALL PERSONS AMONG US THE MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT TO HIM? 
BUT MY OWN MESSAGE IS INDEED DOUBTED BY THEM
AND MY PENALTY HAS NOT BEEN TASTED BY THEM

9  OR HAVE THEY THE TREASURES
OF GOD'S MERCY, THE EXALTED IN POWER 
THE GRANTOR OF BOUNTIES WITHOUT MEASURE?

10  OR HAVE THEY THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 

AND ALL BETWEEN? 
IF SO LET THEM ASCEND UP TO IT WITH MEANS 

11  BUT THERE WILL BE PUT TO FLIGHT 
EVEN A HOST OF ALLIES

12  BEFORE THEM WERE MANY PEOPLE WHO REJECTED APOSTLES 
NOAH'S PEOPLE AND AD'S PEOPLE AND PHARAOH AND HIS PEOPLE

13  AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE AND THE COMPANIONS OF THE WOOD 
AND LOT'S PEOPLE, THEY WERE CONFEDERATES IN OPPOSITION TO GOOD

14  ALL OF THEM WERE REJECTERS OF THE MESSENGERS
SO MY PUNISHMENT CAME TO THEM IN A JUST MANNER

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15  THESE ONLY WAIT FOR A SINGLE BLAST DAY TO DAY
WHEN IT COMES THAT DAY THERE WILL BE NO DELAY

16  THEY SAY, OUR LORD HASTEN TO US OUR SENTENCING
EVEN BEFORE THE DAY OF RECKONING

17  HAVE PATIENCE AT WHAT THEY SAY AND REMEMBER 
OUR SERVANT DAVID THE MAN OF POWER 
HE TURNED TO GOD IN ALL MATTERS

18  IT WAS WE THAT MADE THE HILLS SUBJECT TO HIS ORDERING 
GLORIFYING GOD AT NIGHTFALL AND MORNING 

19  AND THE BIRDS GATHERED WITH HIM
AND TURNED TO GOD WITH HIM

20  WE STRENGTHENED HIS KINGDOM AND GAVE HIM WISDOM 
AND SOUND JUDGMENT IN SPEECH AND DECISION

21  HAS THE STORY REACHED YOU OF THE OPPOSERS?
THEY CLIMBED OVER THE WALL OF THE PRIVATE CHAMBER

22  AND INTO THE PRESENCE OF DAVID THEY ENTERED 
WHEN HE SAW THEM HE WAS FILLED WITH TERROR 
THEY SAID, FEAR NOT WE ARE TWO DISPUTERS
ONE OF WHOM HAS WRONGED THE OTHER 

DECIDE NOW BETWEEN US WITH TRUTH AND TREAT US 
NOT WITH INJUSTICE BUT TO THE RIGHT WAY GUIDE US 

23  THIS MAN IS MY BROTHER MY MOTHERS SON
HE HAS NINETY-NINE SHEEP AND I HAVE ONLY ONE
YET HE SPEAKS TO ME AND SAYS, GIVE ME YOUR ONE

24  DAVID SAID, HE HAS WRONGED YOU DEMANDING YOUR SINGLE SHEEP 
TO BE ADDED TO HIS FLOCK OF SHEEP 

MANY PARTNERS IN BUSINESS WRONG EACH OTHER 
NOT SO DO BELIEVERS AND RIGHTEOUS DOERS
AND THEYARE FEW AND DAVID GATHERED 

THAT WE HAD TRIED HIM AND HE ASKED FORGIVENESS OF GOD
AND FELL DOWN BOWING IN PROSTRATION AND TO GOD 

25  SO WE FORGAVE HIM THIS 
HE ENJOYED TO US A NEARNESS
AND A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OF FINAL BLISS

26  OH DAVID, WE DID MAKE YOU A RULER
SO JUDGE IN TRUTH AND FOLLOW NOT YOUR DESIRES
FOR THEY WILL MISLEAD YOU FROM THE WAY OF YOUR CREATOR
FOR THOSE WHO FROM GOD'S WAY WANDER 
ON JUDGMENT DAY THEIRS IS A PENALTY THAT IS SEVERE

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27  AND NOT WITHOUT PURPOSE DID WE CREATE HEAVEN AND EARTH
AND ALL BETWEEN BUT THAT IS THE THOUGHT OF DISBELIEVERS 
BUT WOE TO THE DISBELIEVERS BECAUSE OF THE FIRE 

28  WILL WE TREAT THOSE WHO BELIEVE
THE SAME AS WE TREAT THOSE WHO DO EVIL DEEDS?
WILL WE TREAT THOSE WHO GUARD AGAINST EVIL DEEDS
IN THE SAME MANNER AS WE TREAT THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE?

29  HERE IS A BOOK WE HAVE SENT FULL OF BLESSINGS  
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY MEDITATE ON ITS MEANINGS 
AND THAT MEN OF UNDERSTANDING MAY RECEIVE WARNING
 
30  WE GAVE SOLOMON TO DAVID AS HIS PROGENY 
HOW EXCELLENT IN OUR SERVICE WAS HE
AND HE TURNED TO US REPEATEDLY

31  THERE WAS BROUGHT BEFORE HIM AT EVENING 
SWIFT HORSES OF THE HIGHEST BREEDING 

32  HE SAID, I LOVE THE LOVE OF THINGS GODLY 
AND WITH A VIEW TO GOD'S GLORY 

UNTIL THE SUN WAS HIDDEN OVER 
IN THE VEIL OF NIGHT'S COVER

33  HE SAID, BRING THEM BACK TO ME 
THEN HE PASSED HIS HAND OVER THEIR LEGS AND NECKS GENTLY

34  AND WE TRIED SOLOMON PLACING ON HIS THRONE A BODY 
WITHOUT LIFE BUT HE DID TURN TO US SINCERELY

35  HE SAID, OH MY LORD, PLEASE DO FORGIVE ME
AND GRANT ME A KINGDOM WHICH IT MAY BE
SUITS NOT ANOTHER AFTER ME 

FOR YOU ARE THE GRANTOR 
OF BOUNTIES WITHOUT MEASURE

36  AND WE SUBJECTED THE WIND TO HIS POWER 
TO FLOW GENTLY WHERE EVER HE PLEASED TO HIS ORDER

37  AS ALSO THE DEVILS INCLUDING EVERY KIND OF BUILDER 
AND IN ADDITION TO EVERY KIND OF DIVER

38  AS ALSO OTHERS BOUND IN FETTERS

39  THESE ARE OUR BOUNTIES AND WHETHER YOU 
BESTOW THEM FREELY ON OTHERS OR WHETHER YOU
WITHHOLD THEM NO ACCOUNT WILL BE ASKED OF YOU

40  AND HE ENJOYED TO US A NEARNESS 
AND A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OF FINAL BLISS

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41  REMEMBER OUR SERVANT JOB WHEN HE DESPERATELY 
CRIED TO HIS LORD, THE DEVIL HAS AFFLICTED ME 
WITH SEVERE DISTRESS AND ADVERSITY

42  THE COMMAND WAS GIVEN, STRIKE THE ROCK HERE IS WATER 
TO WASH AND COOL AND REFRESHING DRINKING WATER 

43  WE GAVE HIM BACK HIS PEOPLE DOUBLING THEIR NUMBER
AS A GRACE FROM OURSELVES AND A THING TO REMEMBER 
FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE UNDERSTANDING CLEAR

44  AND TAKE IN YOUR HAND A FEW WORLDLY GOODS
AND EARN GOODNESS AND INCLINE NOT TO FALSEHOOD

A MOST EXCELLENT SERVANT AND PATIENT WAS HE
AND HE TURNED TO US REPEATEDLY

45  OUR SERVANTS ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB, REMEMBER  
THEY WERE ALL POSSESSORS OF VISION AND POWER 

46  WE CHOSE THEM AS PROCLAIMERS 
OF THE MESSAGE OF THE HEREAFTER

47  THEY WERE IN OUR SIGHT TRULY 
OF THE ELECT AND THE GOOD COMPANY

48  AND REMEMBER ISHMAEL AND ELISHA AND ZUL-KIFL 
EACH OF THEM WAS OF THOSE WHO WERE GRATEFUL

49  THIS IS A MESSAGE OF ADMONITION AND WARNING
FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OF FINAL DWELLING

50  IN GARDENS OF ETERNITY 
WHOSE DOORS WILL BE OPEN TO THEM ETERNALLY 

51  THERE WILL THEY RECLINE AT EASE 
AND CALL FOR FRUIT AND DRINK AS THEY PLEASE

52  AND BESIDE THEM WILL BE CHASTE WOMEN 
RESTRAINING THEIR GLANCES EQUAL AGED COMPANIONS 

53  THIS IS THE PROMISE 
MADE TO YOU FOR THE DAY OF JUSTICE

54  THIS WILL BE OUR BOUNTY TO YOU
AND IT WILL NEVER FAIL YOU

55  BUT FOR THE WRONG DOERS WILL BE 
A FINAL EVIL PLACE TO BE

56  HELL - THEY WILL BURN THEREIN 
AN EVIL BED FOR THEM TO LIE IN

57  AND THEN THEY WILL TASTE A BOILING FLUID
AND A DARK MURKY INTENSELY COLD FLUID

58  AND OTHER PENALTIES FOR THEM
OF SIMILAR KIND TO MATCH THEM

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59  HERE IS A TROOP RUSHING 
HEADLONG WITH YOU AND FOR THEM NO WELCOMING
AND THEY WILL BE IN THE FIRE BURNING 

60  THE FOLLOWERS WILL CRY TO THE MISLEADERS
THERE IS NO WELCOME FOR YOU EITHER? 

IT IS YOU WHO HAVE BROUGHT THIS UPON US 
NOW EVIL IS THIS PLACE TO STAY IN FOR US

61  THEY WILL SAY, OUR LORD AND CHERISHER
WHOEVER FOR THIS WAS OUR PREPARER 
GIVE HIM A DOUBLE PUNISHMENT IN THE FIRE

62  AND THEY WILL SAY, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US THAT WE SEE 
NOT MEN WHOM WE USED TO NUMBER AMONG THE BAD COMPANY?

63  IN RIDICULE DID WE TREAT THEM
OR HAVE OUR EYES FAILED TO PERCEIVE THEM?

64  TRULY THAT IS JUST AND FITTING FOR SURE
THE MUTUAL RECRIMINATIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE FIRE

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65  SAY, TRULY AM I A WARNER THERE IS NO GOD  
BUT THE ONE, THE SUPREME AND IRRESISTIBLE GOD

66  THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN IS HE
AND HE IS MOST FORGIVING AND ALL MIGHTY

67  SAY, THAT IS A MESSAGE SUPREME TRULY

68  FROM WHICH YOU TURN AWAY ARROGANTLY

69  NO KNOWLEDGE HAVE I 
OF THE CHIEFS ON HIGH 

WHEN THEY DISCUSS MATTERS 
AMONG THEMSELVES IN CHAMBERS

70  ONLY THIS HAS BEEN REVEALED TO ME 
THAT I AM TO GIVE WARNING PLAINLY AND PUBLICLY

71  TO THE ANGELS YOUR LORD DID SAY
I AM ABOUT TO CREATE MAN FROM CLAY

72  WHEN I HAVE FASHIONED HIM IN DUE PROPORTION
AND BREATHED INTO HIM MY INSPIRATION  
BOW DOWN TO HIM IN SUBMISSION

73  SO THE ANGELS GATHERED 
AND PROSTRATED THEMSELVES TOGETHER

74  NOT SO SATAN HE WAS HAUGHTY
AND BECAME ONE OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED

75  GOD SAID, OH SATAN, WHAT PREVENTS YOU FROM SUBMISSIVELY 
PROSTRATING YOURSELF TO ONE WHO WAS CREATED BY ME
ARE YOU HAUGHTY OR ARE YOU TOO HIGH AND MIGHTY?

76  SATAN SAID, I AM BETTER THAN HE 
YOU CREATED HIM FROM CLAY AND FROM FIRE YOU MADE ME 

77  GOD SAID, THEN FROM HERE GET OUT
FOR YOU ARE REJECTED AND CURSED AND CAST OUT

78  AND MY CURSE AND PUNISHMENT
WILL BE ON YOU UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

79  OH MY LORD, SATAN DID SAY
RESPITE ME UNTIL THE DAY THE DEAD ARE RAISED

80  GOD SAID, RESPITE TO YOU IS GRANTED

81  UNTIL THE DAY OF THE TIME APPOINTED 

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82  SATAN SAID, THEN BY YOUR POWER 
I WILL MAKE THEM ALL WRONG DOERS

83  EXCEPT YOUR SERVANTS WHO ARE SINCERE 
AND PURIFIED ONES WHO ARE TRUE BELIEVERS

84  GOD SAID, THEN IT IS JUST AND FITTING 
AND I SAY ONLY WHAT IS JUST AND FITTING

85  THAT I WILL CERTAINLY FILL HELL WITH YOU 
AND ALL OF THOSE THAT FOLLOW YOU 

86  SAY, NO REWARD AM I ASKING OF YOU 
FOR THIS QURAN NOR AM I UNTRUE

87  THIS IS NO LESS THAN A MESSAGE TO ALL OF YOU

88  AND AFTER A WHILE YOU WILL KNOW THAT IT IS TRUE

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