CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                                                  SECTION 1.  PART XXIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  GOD IS WHOM THE REVELATION OF THIS BOOK IS FROM 
GOD, THE EXALTED IN POWER, FULL OF WISDOM

2  IT IS WE WHO REVEALED THE BOOK TO YOU TRUTHFULLY  
SO SERVE GOD OFFERING HIM DEVOTION SINCERELY

3  IS NOT SINCERE DEVOTION DUE TO GOD?
BUT SAY, THOSE WHO TAKE PROTECTORS OTHER THAN GOD 
BUT WE ONLY SERVE THEM TO BRING US NEARER TO GOD
THEY WILL BE JUDGED IN THEIR DIFFERENCES BY GOD 
THOSE WHO ARE FALSE ARE NOT GUIDED BY GOD

4  HAD GOD WISHED TO TAKE TO HIMSELF A SON
THEN HE COULD HAVE CHOSEN ANYONE 

OUT OF THOSE WHOM HE CREATES THAT HE PLEASED
BUT TO HIM BE THE GLORY 
FAR ABOVE SUCH THINGS IS HE
THE ONE, THE IRRESISTIBLE GOD IS HE

5  HE CREATED THE HEAVENS 
AND THE EARTH IN TRUE PROPORTIONS 

HE MAKES THE NIGHT 
OVERLAP THE DAY AND THE DAY OVERLAP THE NIGHT 

THE SUN AND THE MOON TO HIS LAW HE HAS SUBJECTED
EACH ONE FOLLOWS A COURSE FOR A TIME APPOINTED 

HE IS THE EXALTED IN POWER
AND THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

6  HE CREATED YOU ALL FROM A SINGLE PERSON
THEN HE CREATED OF LIKE NATURE HIS COMPANION

HE SENT DOWN FOR YOU EIGHT HEAD OF CATTLE IN PAIRS
AND HE MAKES YOU IN THE WOMBS OF YOUR MOTHERS 
IN TRIPLE DARKNESS IN STAGES ONE AFTER ANOTHER 
THIS IS GOD, YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE, TO HIM BELONGS ALL POWER 
THEN HOW ARE YOU TURNED AWAY FROM YOUR TRUE CENTER?

7  AND IF YOU REJECT GOD, GOD HAS NO NEED OF YOU 
AND HE LIKES NOT FROM HIS SERVANTS INGRATITUDE 
AND IF YOU ARE GRATEFUL HE IS PLEASED WITH YOU 
AND NO ONE CAN BEAR YOUR BURDENS FOR YOU 
TO GOD IS YOUR RETURN AND HE WILL TELL YOU 
THE TRUTH OF ALL THAT WAS DONE BY YOU 
FOR HE KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE HEARTS OF YOU

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8  WHEN SOME TROUBLE TOUCHES MAN HE CRIES TO GOD
TURNING IN REPENTANCE, BUT WHEN HE RECEIVES FAVOR FROM GOD
HE FORGETS WHAT HE PRAYED FOR AND SETS UP RIVALS TO GOD 
SO MISLEADING OTHERS FROM THE PATH OF GOD

SAY, ENJOY YOUR BLASPHEMY FOR A LITTLE WHILE FURTHER
BUT YOU ARE ONE OF THE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE

9  IS ONE WHO WORSHIPS DURING THE NIGHT HOURS IN DEVOTION
PROSTRATING HIMSELF OR STANDING IN ADORATION
AND WHO TAKES HEED OF THE RESURRECTION
AND WHO PLACES HIS HOPE IN HIS LORD'S AFFECTION 

IS HE LIKE ONE WHO DOES NOT? 
SAY, ARE THOSE EQUAL, THOSE WHO KNOW AND WHO KNOW NOT? 

IT IS THOSE WHO ARE BLESSED WITH COMPREHENSION
THAT WILL RECEIVE GOD'S ADMONITION

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CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                                         SECTION 2.  PART XXIII

10  SAY, OH MY SERVANTS WHO BELIEVE, TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY
FOR THOSE WHO DO GOOD ARE REWARDS THAT ARE GOODLY

SPACIOUS IS GOD'S EARTH, THOSE WHO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE 
WILL SURELY RECEIVE A REWARD WITHOUT MEASURE

11  SAY, I AM COMMANDED TO SERVE GOD ONLY
WITH DEVOTION AND SINCERITY 

12  AND I AM UNDER INSTRUCTION
TO BE THE FIRST OF THOSE WHO BOW TO GOD IN SUBMISSION

13  SAY, I FEAR THE PENALTY OF A GRIEVOUS DAY
IF MY LORD I SHOULD DISOBEY

14  SAY, SERVE WHAT YOU WILL BESIDES GOD IN DIETY 
THOSE IN LOSS ARE THOSE WHO MISLEADINGLY
LOSE THEIR OWN SOULS AND THEIR PEOPLE'S ADDITIONALLY
AND ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THAT IS THE REAL LOSS ASSUREDLY

16  THEY WILL HAVE LAYERS OF FIRE ABOVE THEM 
AND LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FIRE BELOW THEM 

WITH THIS DOES GOD WARN HIS SERVANTS 
THEN FEAR ME, OH MY SERVANTS

17  THOSE WHO SHUN EVIL 
AND FALL NOT INTO THE WORSHIP OF EVIL

AND TURN TO GOD IN REPENTANCE, FOR THEM IS GOOD NEWS 
SO ANNOUNCE TO MY SERVANTS THE GOOD NEWS 

18  THOSE WHO LISTEN TO THE WORD ARE THE ONES
WHO FOLLOW THE BEST MEANING IN IT AND THEY ARE THE ONES 
WHOM GOD HAS GUIDED AND THEY ARE THE ONES 
THAT ARE BLESSED WITH COMPREHENSION

19  IS THEN ONE AGAINST WHOM THE DECREE 
OF PUNISHMENT IS DUE JUSTLY 
EQUAL TO ONE WHO SHUNS INIQUITY  
WOULD YOU THEN DELIVER HIM FROM THE PENALTY?

20  BUT IT IS FOR THOSE WHO TRULY FEAR THEIR CREATOR
THAT MANSIONS HAVE BEEN BUILT ONE ABOVE ANOTHER 
AND BENEATH THEM WILL FLOW DELIGHTFUL RIVERS 
AND GOD DOES NOT FAIL IN HIS PROMISES EVER

21  SEE YOU NOT THAT YOUR LORD SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKIES 
AND LEADS IT THROUGH SPRINGS IN THE EARTH CAUSING TO RISE 
PRODUCE OF VARIOUS COLORS THEN IT WITHERS AND DIES 
YOU SEE IT GROW YELLOW THEN IT CRUMBLES AND DRIES
IN THIS THERE IS A MESSAGE FOR MEN WHO ARE WISE

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CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                                         SECTION 3.  PART XXIII

22  IS ONE WHOSE HEART IS OPENED TO SUBMISSION BY GOD
SO THAT HE HAS RECEIVED ENLIGHTENMENT FROM GOD 

NO BETTER THAN ONE WHO IS HARD HEARTED? 
WOE TO THOSE WHOSE HEARTS ARE HARDENED 

AGAINST CELEBRATING THE PRAISES OF THE CREATOR
THEY ARE SURELY IN MANIFEST ERROR 

23  GOD HAS SENT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ANNOUNCEMENT
WITH TEACHING REPEATING ITSELF IN A BOOK CONSISTENT 

THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD IT TREMBLES THEIR SKINS                           
THEN THEIR SKINS AND THEIR HEARTS DO SOFTEN 

TO THE CELEBRATION OF THE PRAISES OF GOD
SO IS THE BLESSINGS AND GUIDANCE OF GOD 

HE GUIDES WHOM HE PLEASES BUT THOSE WHO STRAY 
NO ONE CAN HIM GUIDE HIM TO THE RIGHT WAY

24  IS THEN HE WHO FEARS THE BRUNT 
OF THE PENALTY OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

AND ON HIS FACE HE RECEIVES IT 
LIKE ONE WHO IS GUARDED FROM IT?  

IT WILL BE SAID TO THE WRONG DOERS 
TASTE THE FRUITS OF THAT OF WHICH YOU ARE EARNERS

25  THOSE BEFORE THEM ALSO REJECTED REVELATION 
SO PUNISHMENT CAME TO THEM FROM DIRECTIONS 
THAT WERE FAR BEYOND THEIR PERCEPTIONS

26  GOD HUMILIATED THEM IN THE PRESENT LIFE BUT GREATER 
IF THEY ONLY KNEW IS THE PUNISHMENT OF THE HEREAFTER

27  WE HAVE PUT FORTH IN THIS QURAN FOR MANKIND
PARABLES THAT THEY MAY REMEMBER OF EVERY KIND

28  IT IS A QURAN IN ARABIC WITHOUT ANY CROOKEDNESS 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY GUARD AGAINST WICKEDNESS

29  GOD PUTS FORTH A PARABLE TO PONDER 
A MAN BELONGING TO PARTNERS AT VARIANCE WITH EACH OTHER 
AND A MAN BELONGING ENTIRELY TO ONE MASTER
ARE THOSE TWO EQUAL WHEN COMPARED? 
PRAISE BE TO GOD BUT MOST OF THEM ARE UNAWARE

30  SURELY YOU WILL DIE ONE DAY 
AND THEY TOO WILL DIE ONE DAY

31  IN THE END WILL YOU ALL ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT 
SETTLE YOUR DISPUTES IN GOD'S PRESENCE 

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PART XXIV

32  AND WHO THEN DOES MORE WRONG THAN ONE WHO UTTERS
A LIE ABOUT GOD AND WHEN TRUTH COMES IS A REJECTER? 
IS THERE NOT IN HELL A HOME FOR BLASPHEMERS?

33  BUT THEN HE WHO BRINGS THE TRUTH 
AND HE WHO CONFIRMS THE TRUTH
THESE ARE THE MEN OF TRUTH

34  THEY WILL HAVE ALL THAT THEY WISH FOR FROM THEIR LORD 
FOR THOSE WHO DO GOOD THIS IS THEIR REWARD

35  GOD WILL TURN OFF FROM THEM THE WORST IN THEIR DEEDS 
AND REWARD THEM ACCORDING TO THE BEST OF THEIR DEEDS

36  SUFFICIENT FOR HIS SERVANTS IS GOD 
BUT THEY TRY TO FRIGHTEN YOU WITH OTHERS BESIDES GOD
FOR THOSE WHO ARE LEFT TO STRAY BY GOD
NO ONE CAN GUIDE THEM TO THE WAY EXCEPT GOD

37  THOSE WHO GOD GUIDES NONE CAN LEAD ASTRAY
GOD IS EXALTED IN POWER AND LORD OF WAYS

38  IF YOU ASK THEM WHO CREATED THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS?  
THEY WOULD SAY, GOD IS THE AUTHOR OF ALL CREATION

SEE THE THINGS YOU INVOKE BESIDES GOD IN DIETY 
CAN THEY IF GOD WILLS FOR ME SOME PENALTY 
WHO CAN REMOVE FROM ME HIS PENALTY?
OR IF HE WILLS SOME GRACE FOR ME 
CAN THEY KEEP BACK HIS GRACE FROM ME?
SAY, SUFFICIENT IS GOD'S GRACE FOR ME 
AND IN HIM TRUST THOSE WHO BELIEVE

39  SAY, OH MY PEOPLE, DO WHATEVER YOU CAN
AND I TOO WILL DO WHATEVER IN CAN 

40  SOON WILL YOU KNOW SURELY 
TO WHOM COMES A PENALTY OF IGNOMINY 
AND ON WHOM DESCENDS AN ABIDING PENALTY

41  WE HAVE REVEALED THE BOOK FOR MAN'S INSTRUCTION
HE WHO RECEIVES GUIDANCE BENEFITS HIS OWN PERSON
BUT HE THAT STRAYS AWAY INJURES HIS OWN PERSON
NOR ARE YOU A DISPOSER OF AFFAIRS OF ANY ONE

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CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                                        SECTION 5.  PART XXIV

42  IT IS GOD THAT TAKES MEN'S SOULS AT THE DEATH DECREE
AND THERE ARE THOSE THAT HE TAKES DURING THEIR SLEEP
AND THOSE ON WHOM HE HAS PASSED THE DEATH DECREE 
HE KEEPS THEM BACK FROM RETURNING TO THEIR BODIES 
BUT THE REST HE SENDS BACK TO THEIR BODIES 
FOR A TERM APPOINTED DECISIVELY 
IN THIS ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO THINK DEEPLY

43  DO THEY TAKE OTHERS BESIDES GOD FOR INTERCESSORS
EVEN IF THEY HAVE NO INTELLIGENCE AND NO POWER? 

44  SAY, TO GOD BELONGS THE RIGHT TO GRANT INTERCESSION 
TO HIM BELONGS THE DOMINION OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO HIM IN THE END

45  AND WHEN THE NAME OF GOD, THE ONE AND ONLY IS UTTERED
THE DISBELIEVERS IN THE HEREAFTER ARE FILLED WITH HORROR
WHEN OTHER GODS OTHER THAN HIM ARE UTTERED 
THEN THEY ARE FILLED WITH LAUGHTER

46  SAY, OH GOD, CREATOR OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND THE KNOWER OF ALL THAT IS HIDDEN AND OPEN 

IT IS YOU THAT WILL JUDGE BETWEEN YOUR SERVANTS IN MATTERS 
ABOUT THOSE THINGS IN WHICH THEY DIFFER

47  IF THE WRONG DOERS HAD ALL ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN 
IN VAIN WOULD THEY OFFER IT FOR RANSOM

FROM THE PAIN OF THE PUNISHMENT 
ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT 

BUT THEY WILL BE CONFRONTED FROM GOD WITH SOMETHING  
OF WHICH THEY HAD NOT BEEN RECKONING

48  THEY WILL BE CONFRONTED FOR THE EVILS OF THEIR DEEDS 
AND THEY WILL BE COMPLETELY ENCIRCLED INDEED
BY THAT OF WHICH THEY USED TO MAKE MOCKERY

49  NOW WHEN TROUBLE TOUCHES MAN HE CRIES TO US 
BUT WHEN WE BESTOW A FAVOR UPON HIM FROM US
 
THEN HE SAYS, I HAVE BEEN GIVEN THIS
BECAUSE OF A CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE I POSSESS
NAY, BUT THIS IS BUT ONLY A TEST
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS

50  SO SAID THE GENERATIONS BEFORE THEM 
BUT ALL THAT THEY DID WAS OF NO PROFIT TO THEM

51  THE EVIL RESULTS OF THEIR DEEDS OVERTOOK THEM 
AND THE WRONG DOERS OF THIS GENERATION FOR THEM
THE EVIL RESULTS OF THEIR DEEDS WILL OVERTAKE THEM 
AND OUR PLANS THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FRUSTRATE THEM

52  KNOW THEY NOT THAT GOD ENLARGES 
THE PROVISION OR RESTRICTS IT FOR ANY HE PLEASES? 
IN THIS ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN OUR MESSAGES

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CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                                        SECTION 6.  PART XXIV

53  SAY, OH MY SERVANTS WHO HAVE COMMITTED INIQUITIES
DO NOT DESPAIR OF GOD'S MERCIES 
FOR GOD FORGIVES ALL SINS MERCIFULLY
AND GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

54  TURN TO YOUR LORD IN REPENTANCE QUICKLY 
AND BOW TO HIS WILL BEFORE BEFALLS YOU THE PENALTY 
AFTER THAT THERE WILL BE NO AMNESTY

55  AND FOLLOW THE BEST COURSE REVEALED TO YOU 
BEFORE THE PENALTY SUDDENLY COMES UPON YOU 
WHILE NOT BEING PERCEIVED BY YOU 

56  OR ELSE THE SOUL WOULD SAY REGRETFULLY 
WOE IS ME IN THAT I NEGLECTED MY DUTY 
AND WAS AMONG THOSE WHO MADE MOCKERY

57  OR ELSE IT WOULD SAY, IF ONLY GOD HAD GUIDED ME 
I WOULD HAVE BEEN AMONG THOSE WHO LIVED RIGHTEOUSLY

58  OR ELSE IT WOULD SAY WHEN IT ACTUALLY SEES THE PENALTY 
IF ONLY I HAD ANOTHER CHANCE THEN I WOULD SURELY
BE AMONG THOSE WHO DO GOOD CONSTANTLY

59  THE REPLY WILL BE, NO, BUT MY INSTRUCTIONS
CAME TO YOU AND YOU WERE IN REJECTION
AND YOU BECAME DISBELIEVING ONES

60  AND ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION YOU WILL SEE
THOSE WHO LIED AGAINST GOD THEIR FACES WILL BE GLOOMY
IS THERE NOT IN HELL A HOME FOR THOSE WHO ACT ARROGANTLY?

61  BUT THE RIGHTEOUS GOD WILL DELIVER THEM
TO SALVATION, NO EVIL WILL TOUCH THEM 
NOR WILL THERE BE ANY GRIEF FOR THEM

62  OF ALL THINGS GOD IS THE CREATOR 
AND HE IS THE GUARDIAN OF ALL AFFAIRS  

63  OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH TO HIM BELONG THE KEYS
AND THOSE WHO REJECT GOD'S MESSAGES IT IS THESE
WHO WILL SURELY BE IN LOSS INDEED

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CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                                        SECTION 7.  PART XXIV

64  SAY, IS IT SOME ONE OTHER THAN MY LORD AND CHERISHER
THAT YOU ORDER ME TO WORSHIP YOU IGNORANT REJECTERS?

65  BUT IT HAS ALREADY BEEN REVEALED TO YOU 
AS IT WAS REVEALED TO THOSE BEFORE YOU 
IF OTHER GODS BESIDES GOD ARE WORSHIPPED BY YOU
YOUR WORKS IN THIS LIFE WILL BEAR NO FRUIT
AND YOU WOULD BE ONES WHO LOSE 

66  NO, BUT WORSHIP GOD AND BE TRULY
ONE OF THOSE WHO ACT GRATEFULLY

67  THEY UNDERESTIMATE GOD INDEED 
AND ON JUDGMENT DAY THE EARTH WILL BE 
BUT HIS HANDFUL AND THE HEAVENS WILL BE 
ROLLED UP IN HIS RIGHT HAND, TO HIM BE THE GLORY 
EXALTED ABOVE THE PARTNERS THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM IS HE

68  THE TRUMPET WILL JUST BE SOUNDED 
WHEN ALL ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN WILL BE ROUNDED
EXCEPT THOSE WHO GOD WILLS TO BE EXEMPTED
THEN WILL A SECOND ONE BE SOUNDED
WHEN THEY WILL BE LOOKING ON DUMBFOUNDED

69  THE EARTH WILL SHINE WITH ITS LORD'S GLORY 
PLACED OPEN WILL BE THE RECORD OF DEEDS 
BROUGHT FORWARD THE PROPHETS WILL BE
AND THE WITNESSES AND A DECISION WILL BE JUSTLY

70  EVERY SOUL WILL BE PAID IN FULL THE FRUITS OF ITS DEEDS 
AND GOD KNOWS BEST ALL THAT THEY DO INDEED

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71  AND LED TO HELL IN CROWDS WILL BE THE DISBELIEVERS
UNTIL THEY ARRIVE AND ITS GATES OPEN AND ITS KEEPERS 
WILL SAY, DID NOT COME FROM AMONG YOU MESSENGERS
RECITING TO YOU CLEAR MESSAGES FROM YOUR CREATOR
WARNING YOU OF THE MEETING OF THIS DAY OF YOURS?  
THEY WILL SAY, TRUE AND FOR THE DISBELIEVERS 
THE DECREE HAS BEEN PROVED TRUE FOR SURE

72  TO THEM WILL BE SAID, ENTER THE GATES OF HELL 
AND EVIL IS THIS HOME FOR THE ARROGANT TO DWELL

73  AND LED TO THE GARDEN IN CROWDS WILL BE THE BELIEVERS
UNTIL THEY ARRIVE AND ITS GATES OPEN AND ITS KEEPERS 
WILL SAY, PEACE BE UPON YOU, YOU ARE IN GOOD FAVOR
SO ENTER HERE TO DWELL IN PARADISE FOREVER

74  THEY WILL SAY, PRAISE GOD WHO HAS FULFILLED HIS COVENANT   
AND HAS GIVEN TO US THIS LAND IN INHERITANCE 
THAT WE CAN DWELL IN THE GARDEN IN EXCELLENCE
A MAGNIFICENT REWARD FOR THOSE WHO ARE HIS SERVANTS

75  YOU WILL SEE THE ANGELS SURROUNDING THE PLACE OF HONOR 
DIVINE ON ALL SIDES SINGING GLORY TO THE CREATOR
THE DECIDING BETWEEN THEM AT JUDGMENT WILL BE FAIR
AND THE CRY ON ALL SIDES WILL BE, PRAISE BE TO OUR MAKER

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