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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  THE REVELATION OF THIS BOOK IS FROM GOD
HIGHLY EXALTED AND FULL OF KNOWLEDGE IS GOD

3  WHO ACCEPTS REPENTANCE AND FORGIVES INIQUITY
AND IS STRICT IN PENALTY, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
AND TO HIM IS THE FINAL DESTINY

4  NONE DENY GOD'S MESSAGES BUT THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE
LET NOT THEIR CONTROL IN THE LAND CAUSE YOU TO BE DECEIVED

5  BEFORE THEM SIGNS WERE DENIED BY PEOPLE
NOAH'S PEOPLE AND THE CONFEDERATES OF EVIL  
AND EVERY PEOPLE PLOTTED AGAINST THEIR APOSTLE

TO SEIZE HIM AND THEY DISPUTED ONLY BY MEANS OF VANITIES 
TO CONDEMN THE TRUTH BUT IT WAS THEM THAT I SEIZED 
AND HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY REQUITAL INDEED

6  GOD'S DECREE PROVED TRUE AGAINST THE DISBELIEVERS 
THAT THEY ARE TRULY COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE

7  THOSE WHO SUSTAIN THE THRONE OF GOD'S MAJESTY 
AND THOSE AROUND IT SING HIS PRAISES AND GLORY 
THEY ASK FORGIVENESS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE
OUR LORD, YOUR REACH IS OVER ALL THINGS IN MERCY
FORGIVE THOSE WHO REPENT FOR THEIR INIQUITY
AND KEEP THEM SAFE FROM THE PENALTY 

8  AND GRANT OUR LORD, THAT THEY ENTER THE GARDENS OF ETERNITY
THAT YOU HAVE PROMISED THEM AND THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
AMONG THEIR FATHERS, THEIR WIVES AND THEIR POSTERITY 
FOR YOU ARE  FULL OF WISDOM AND ALL MIGHTY

9  AND REMOVE ALL EVIL FROM THEM 
AND ANY WHOM YOU REMOVE EVIL FROM THEM
THAT DAY YOU WILL HAVE BESTOWED MERCY ON THEM
AND THAT WILL BE THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT FOR THEM

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10  IT WILL BE SAID TO THE DISBELIEVERS
GOD HATED YOU WHEN HE CALLED YOU TO BE BELIEVERS
BUT INSTEAD OF BEING BELIEVERS YOU WERE REJECTERS
NOW YOUR HATRED OF YOURSELVES IS EVEN GREATER

11  AND THEY WILL SAY, OUR LORD, TWICE HAVE YOU MADE US 
WITHOUT LIFE AND TWICE HAVE YOU GIVEN LIFE TO US 
NOW OUR SINS HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED BY US
IS THERE ANY WAY OUT OF THIS FOR US?

12  AND THE ANSWER WILL BE, THIS IS BECAUSE WHEN GOD,THE CREATOR
WAS INVOKED AS THE ONLY OBJECT OF WORSHIP YOU WERE REJECTERS 
BUT WHEN PARTNERS WERE JOINED TO HIM YOU WERE BELIEVERS
THE COMMAND IS WITH GOD AND MOST GREAT IS YOUR MAKER

13  HE IT IS WHO GIVES YOU INSTRUCTION
AND SENDS DOWN SUSTENANCE FOR YOU FOR PROVISIONS
BUT ONLY THOSE RECEIVE ADMONITION 
ARE THOSE WHO TURN TO GOD IN SUBMISSION

14  CALL THEN UPON GOD WITH SINCERE DEVOTION 
EVEN THOUGH THE DISBELIEVERS MAY HAVE AVERSION

15  HE IS RAISED HIGH ABOVE RANKS OR DEGREES 
HE IS THE LORD OF THE THRONE OF AUTHORITY 

BY HIS COMMAND HE SENDS THE SPIRIT OF INSPIRATION 
TO ANY THAT HE PLEASES OF HIS SERVANTS

THAT HE MAY GIVE TO MEN THE WARNING
OF THE DAY OF MUTUAL MEETING

16  THE DAY THEY COME FORTH NOT ONE THING WILL BE HIDDEN 
AND THAT DAY WILL BE GOD'S DOMINION 
GOD, THE IRRESISTIBLE ONE

17  THAT DAY EVERY SOUL WILL BE REQUITED FOR THEIR DEEDS
AND NO ONE WILL BE DEALT WITH THE LEAST UNJUSTLY
FOR GOD IS SWIFT IN TAKING ACCOUNT ACCURATELY

18  AND WARN THEM OF THE DAY THAT IS DRAWING CLOSE 
WHEN THEIR HEARTS WILL COME UP TO THEIR  THROATS 

TO CHOKE THEM AND NO INTERCESSOR 
WILL THERE BE FOR THE WRONG DOERS 
TO WHOM SHOULD BE LENDED AN EAR

19  GOD KNOWS OF THE TRICKS THAT DECEIVE WITH THE EYES 
AND ALL THAT THE HEARTS OF MEN CONCEAL AND CONTRIVE

20  AND GOD WILL JUDGE WITH JUSTICE AND TRUTHFULLY 
BUT THOSE WHO MEN CALL UPON BESIDES HIM IN DEITY
WILL NOT BE IN A POSITION TO JUDGE AGAINST ANY
THE ONE WHO HEARS AND SEES ALL THINGS IS HE

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21  IS THE EARTH NOT TRAVELED THROUGH BY THEM
TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE BEFORE THEM?
FOR THEY WERE EVEN SUPERIOR IN STRENGTH TO THEM 
GOD CALLED THEM TO ACCOUNT AND NONE COULD DEFEND THEM

22  THERE CAME TO THEM MESSENGERS WITH CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS 
BUT THEY WERE OBSTINATE IN REBELLION 
SO GOD CALLED THEM TO ACCOUNT FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS
FOR HE IS STRONG AND SEVERE IN RETRIBUTION

23  OF OLD WE SENT MOSES WITH OUR MESSAGES CLEARLY
AND WITH CLEAR AND MANIFEST AUTHORITY

24  TO PHARAOH, HAMAN AND KORAH, BUT A SORCERER
THEY CALLED HIM AND A LIAR

25  WHEN HE CAME TO THEM WITH MESSAGES CLEAR
THEY SAID, KILL THE SONS OF THE BELIEVERS 
AND KEEP ALIVE THEIR FEMALE FOLLOWERS
BUT THE PLOTS OF THE DISBELIEVERS 
END IN NOTHING BUT DELUSIONS AND ERRORS 

26  PHARAOH SAID, LEAVE ME TO KILL MOSES
AND LET HIM CALL ON THIS LORD OF HIS

I FEAR THAT HE WOULD CHANGE YOUR RELIGION
OR THAT HE WOULD CAUSE MISCHIEF IN THE REGION

27  MOSES SAID, I HAVE CALLED UPON 
MY LORD AND YOUR LORD FOR PROTECTION 
FROM EVERY ONE WHO IS IN REJECTION 
AND BELIEVES NOT IN THE RESURRECTION

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28  SAID A BELIEVER FROM AMONG PHARAOH'S PEOPLE  
ONE WHO HAD KEPT HIS FAITH CONCEALED 

WILL YOU KILL A MAN BECAUSE HE SAYS, MY LORD IS GOD  
WHEN HE HAS COME TO YOU WITH CLEAR SIGNS FROM GOD?

IF HE IS A LIAR ON HIM IS THE SIN BUT IF HE IS TELLING THE TRUTH 
THE CALAMITY OF WHICH HE WARNS YOU WILL FALL ON YOU 
FOR GOD GUIDES NOT ONE WHO IS SINFUL AND UNTRUE

29  OH MY PEOPLE, TODAY YOURS IS THE DOMINION 
AND YOU DO HAVE THE UPPER HAND OF THE SITUATION
BUT WHO WILL HELP US FROM OUR LORD'S RETRIBUTION  
PHARAOH SAID, I SHOW YOU WHAT IS IN MY PERCEPTION 
NOR DO I GUIDE YOU BUT TO THE  RIGHT DIRECTION

30  THEN SAID THE MAN WHO BELIEVED
OH MY PEOPLE, I FEAR FOR YOU INDEED

SOMETHING LIKE THE DAY OF DISASTER 
LIKE THE CONFEDERATES OF SIN PRIOR 

31  SOMETHING LIKE THE FATE OF NOAH'S PEOPLE 
AND THE AD AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE
AND THOSE WHO CAME AFTER THOSE PEOPLE
BUT GOD NEVER WISHES INJUSTICE TO HIS PEOPLE

32  AND OH MY PEOPLE, FOR YOU I AM FEARING 
FOR A DAY WHEN THERE WILL BE CALLING AND WAILING

33  A DAY WHEN YOU WILL TURN YOUR BACKS IN FEAR 
AND YOU WILL HAVE FROM GOD NO DEFENDER
FOR HE WHOM GOD LEAVES IN ERROR 
THERE IS NONE TO GUIDE HIM THEREAFTER

34  AND JOSEPH IN TIMES GONE BY WITH CLEAR SIGNS HAD COME
BUT YOU DOUBTED THE MISSION FOR WHICH HE HAD COME
AND YOU SAID, NO APOSTLE AFTER HIM WILL COME  
SO GOD REJECTS THOSE WHO REJECT SIGNS WHEN THEY COME

35  THOSE WHO DISPUTE ABOUT THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
WITHOUT ANY AUTHORITY THAT HAS REACHED THEM FROM GOD
GRIEVOUS IS SUCH CONDUCT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD 
AND GOD SEALS UP THE HEART OF EVERY REBEL AGAINST GOD

36  PHARAOH SAID, OH HAMAN, BUILD ME A LOFTY PALACE 
THAT I MAY ATTAIN THE WAYS AND MEANS OF ACCESS

37  THE WAYS AND MEANS OF REACHING THE HEAVENS
AND THAT I MAY FIND A WAY OF ASCENSION

UP TO THE GOD OF MOSES
BUT I THINK THERE IS NO TRUTH IN MOSES 

IN PHARAOH'S EYES THE EVIL OF HIS DEEDS WAS MADE ALLURING
AND HE WAS HINDERED FROM THE PATH AND THE PLOTTING
OF PHARAOH LED HIM TO NOTHING 

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38  THE MAN WHO BELIEVED SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, FOLLOW ME  
I WILL LEAD YOU TO THE PATH OF RIGHT INDEED

39  OH MY PEOPLE, THIS LIFE OF THE PRESENT WILL COME TO PASS
IT IS THE HEREAFTER THAT IS THE HOME THAT WILL LAST

40  HE THAT WORKS EVIL WILL BE REQUITED SIMILAR  
AND HE THAT IS A RIGHTEOUS DOER 
WHETHER MAN OR WOMAN AND IS A BELIEVER
WILL ENTER PARADISE AND HAVE ABUNDANCE WITHOUT MEASURE

41  AND OH MY PEOPLE, I CALL YOU TO SALVATION
WHILE YOU CALL ME TO DESTRUCTION 

42  YOU CALL UPON ME TO BE A DISBELIEVER
AND TO JOIN WITH GOD PARTNERS 
OF WHOM I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE WHATSOEVER
AND I CALL YOU TO THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

43  WITHOUT DOUBT YOU CALL ME TO BE A BELIEVER 
IN ONE WHO IS NOT FIT TO EVEN CONSIDER 
NOT IN THIS WORLD OR THE HEREAFTER 
OUR RETURN WILL BE TO GOD, THE CREATOR
THE TRANSGRESSORS WILL BE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE

44  WHAT I SAY YOU WILL SOON REMEMBER
NOW MY OWN AFFAIR I COMMIT TO MY MAKER
FOR OVER ALL OF HIS SERVANTS GOD IS THE SEER

45  THEN GOD SAVED HIM FROM EVERY EVIL
THAT THEY PLOTTED AGAINST HIM AND HIS PEOPLE
BUT THE BRUNT OF THE PENALTY OF EVIL
ENCOMPASSED ON ALL SIDES OF PHARAOH'S PEOPLE 

46  BROUGHT IN FRONT OF THE FIRE THEY WILL BE 
MORNING AND EVENING AND THE SENTENCE WILL BE 
ON THE DAY THAT THE DAY OF RESURRECTION WILL BE 
PHARAOH'S PEOPLE WILL RECEIVE THE WORST PENALTY 

47  THEY WILL DISPUTE WITH EACH OTHER IN THE FIRE 
THE WEAK ONES AMONG THEM WHO WERE FOLLOWERS 
WILL SAY TO THE ARROGANT, WE WERE YOUR FOLLOWERS  
CAN YOU THEN TAKE A SHARE FROM US OF THE FIRE?

48  THEN WILL SAY THOSE WHO HAD BEEN ARROGANT 
WE ARE ALL IN THIS FIRE, GOD HAS JUDGED HIS SERVANTS

49  THOSE IN THE FIRE WILL ASK THE KEEPERS OF HELL TO PRAY 
TO GOD TO LIGHTEN THE PENALTY FOR JUST A DAY   
   
50  THEY WILL SAY, DID THERE NOT COME TO YOU MESSENGERS
AND THEY WILL SAY, YES, THEN THE KEEPERS WILL ANSWER
PRAY AS YOU LIKE BUT THE PRAYER OF DISBELIEVERS
IS NOTHING BUT FUTILE WANDERING IN ERROR

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51  WE WITHOUT DOUBT HELP OUR MESSENGERS AND THE BELIEVERS 
BOTH IN THIS WORLD'S LIFE  AND IN THE HEREAFTER

52  THE DAY WHEN NO PROFIT WILL IT BE 
TO THE WRONG DOERS TO THEN MAKE A PLEA
BUT THEY WILL HAVE THE CURSE AND THE HOME OF MISERY

53  WE BEFORE GAVE MOSES THE BOOK OF GUIDANCE 
AND GAVE THE BOOK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN INHERITANCE

54  A GUIDE AND A MESSAGE TO MEN OF INTELLIGENCE

55  THE PROMISE OF GOD IS TRUE SO REMAIN PERSEVERING
AND FOR YOUR SIN ASK GOD TO BE FORGIVING
AND PRAISE GOD MORNING AND EVENING

56  THOSE WHO DISPUTE ABOUT THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
WITHOUT ANY AUTHORITY BESTOWED ON THEM FROM GOD

THERE IS NOTHING IN THEIR BREASTS 
BUT THE QUEST OF GREATNESS 

WHICH IS BEYOND THEIR ABILITY OF ATTAINING 
SO SEEK REFUGE IN GOD WHO IS ALL HEARING AND ALL SEEING

57  ASSUREDLY THE CREATION OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
IS A GREATER MATTER THAN THE CREATION OF MEN 
YET MOST MEN DO NOT COMPREHEND

58  NOT EQUAL ARE THE BLIND AND THOSE WHO SEE AND TAKE HEED 
NOR THOSE WHO DO EVIL AND THOSE WHO DO GOOD DEEDS   
BUT YOU LEARN BY ADMONITION VERY LITTLE INDEED

59  THE HOUR WILL COME YET MOST MEN DO NOT BELIEVE 

60  YOUR LORD SAYS, I WILL ANSWER YOUR PRAYER CALL ON ME 
BUT THOSE WHO ARE TOO ARROGANT TO SERVE ME 
WILL FIND THEMSELVES IN HELL IN HUMILITY

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61  GOD MADE THE NIGHT FOR YOU THAT YOU MAY SLEEP
AND HE MADE THE DAY WHICH HELPS YOU TO SEE 
TO MEN GOD IS FULL OF GRACE AND BOUNTY 
YET MOST MEN ACT UNGRATEFULLY

62  THIS IS GOD WHO CREATED ALL GOOD THINGS FOR YOU
BESIDES WHOM THERE IS NO GOD THEN HOW ARE YOU 
DELUDED AWAY FROM WHAT IS TRUE?

63  THOSE WHO REJECT THE SIGNS OF GOD
ARE DELUDED FROM THE TRUTH OF GOD

64  AND GOD MADE FOR YOU THE EARTH AS A PLACE OF RESTING 
AND THE SKY AS A CANOPY AND HE HAS SHAPED YOUR BEINGS
AND MADE YOUR SHAPES BEAUTIFUL AND PROVIDED THINGS 
PURE AND GOOD FOR YOU FOR YOUR SUSTAINING 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS 

65  HE IS THE LIVING THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
SO CALL ON HIM WITH SINCERITY 
TO GOD ALL PRAISES BE
THE LORD OF ALL THE WORLDS IS HE

66  I AM FORBIDDEN TO SERVE THOSE WHOM YOU SERVE BESIDES GOD 
WHEN CLEAR ARGUMENTS HAVE COME TO ME FROM GOD
AND I AM COMMANDED TO SUBMIT TO GOD

67  HE CREATED YOU FROM DUST THEN FROM A SPERM DROP
AND THEN FROM A LEECH LIKE CLOT 

AND THEN GETS YOU OUT AS A CHILD INTO THE LIGHT  
THEN LETS YOU REACH YOUR AGE OF FULL STRENGTH AND MIGHT 

AND THEN LETS YOU BECOME OLD THOUGH OF YOU 
THERE ARE SOME WHO DIE BEFORE AND HE LETS YOU 
REACH A TERM IN ORDER THAT WISDOM MAY BE LEARNED BY YOU

68  LIFE AND DEATH IT IS HE WHO GIVES
AND WHEN HE DECIDES AN AFFAIR ALL THAT HAPPENS IS
HE ONLY SAYS TO IT, BE, AND IT IS

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69  THOSE THAT DISPUTE ABOUT GOD'S MESSAGES IGNORANTLY 
DO YOU NOT SEE HOW ARE THEY TURNED AWAY FROM REALITY?

70  THOSE WHO ARE REJECTERS OF THE SCRIPTURES 
WHICH HAS BEEN SENT WITH OUR MESSENGERS 
SOON WILL THEY KNOW THEIR ERRORS

71  WHEN THE CHAINS WILL BE AROUND THEIR COLLARS 
AND THEY WILL BE DRAGGED IN CHAINS AND FETTERS         

72  INTO THE BOILING FETID WATER
AND BURNED IN THE BLAZING FIRE

73  THEN THEY WILL BE ASKED, WHERE ARE THE PARTNERS
THOSE OF WHICH YOU WERE WORSHIPPERS

74  IN DEROGATION OF YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER? 
THEY WILL SAY, THEY HAVE LEFT US IN THE LURCH 
WE INVOKE NOT OF OLD ANYTHING PRIOR
SO DOES GOD LEAVE TO STRAY THE DISBELIEVERS 

75  THAT WAS BECAUSE YOU EXULTED IN THE LAND UNJUSTLY 
AND BECAUSE YOU BEHAVED INSOLENTLY

76  NOW ENTER THE GATES OF HELL 
EVIL IS THIS ABODE FOR THE ARROGANT TO DWELL

77  SO PERSEVERE PATIENTLY
FOR THE PROMISE OF GOD IS TRUE INDEED
WHETHER WE SHOW YOU IN THIS LIFETIME TO SEE 
SOME PART OF WHAT WE PROMISE THEM TO RECEIVE
OR WE TAKE YOUR SOUL BEFORE THAT TO OUR MERCY 
TO US THEY WILL ALL RETURN EVENTUALLY

78  WE SENT BEFORE APOSTLES BEFORE YOU 
THERE ARE SOME WHOSE STORIES WE HAVE TOLD TO YOU 
AND THERE ARE SOME WHOSE STORIES WE HAVE NOT TOLD TO YOU 

IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE FOR ANY APOSTLE TO BRING MESSAGES
EXCEPT BY THE LEAVE OF GOD AS HE PLEASES
BUT GOD DECIDES IN TRUTH AND JUSTICE
AND HE WHO STANDS ON FALSEHOOD PERISHES

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79  IT IS GOD WHO MADE CATTLE FOR YOU 
THAT YOU MAY USE SOME FOR RIDING AND SOME FOR FOOD

80  THERE ARE OTHER ADVANTAGES FOR YOU IN THEM 
YOU MAY ATTAIN OTHER NEEDS THROUGH THEM 
AND ON THEM AS ON SHIPS YOU RIDE THEM

81  AND HE SHOWS YOU ALWAYS HIS SIGNS 
THEN WHICH WILL YOU DENY OF GOD'S SIGNS?

82  IS THE EARTH NOT TRAVELED THROUGH BY THEM
TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE BEFORE THEM? 
THEY WERE MORE NUMEROUS AND STRONGER THAN THEM 
AND IN THE TRACES WHICH WERE LEFT IN THE LAND BY THEM
YET ALL THAT THEY ACCOMPLISHED DID NOT PROFIT THEM 

83  WHEN THEIR MESSENGERS CAME WITH CLEAR MESSAGES TO THEM 
THEY EXULTED IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO THEM 
THE WRATH AT WHICH THEY SCOFFED AT ENCOMPASSED THEM 

84  BUT WHEN THEY SAW OUR PENALTY  
THEY SAID WE BELIEVE IN THE ONE DEITY
AND WE REJECT ALL OTHERS COMPLETELY
THEIR PROFESSING THE FAITH WHEN THEY SAW OUR PENALTY
WAS NOT GOING TO PROFIT THEM AND THIS HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY
GOD'S WAY OF DEALING WITH HIS SERVANTS FORMERLY
AND SO THE REJECTERS OF GOD PERISH UTTERLY

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