CHAPTER 41.  HA-MIM                                                                    SECTION 1.  PART XXIV

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  THIS IS A REVELATION FROM GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

3  A BOOK IN WHICH THE VERSES ARE COMPLETELY EXPLAINED 
A QURAN IN ARABIC FOR PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND

4  GIVING GOOD NEWS AND ADMONITION 
YET MOST OF THEM TURN AWAY AND DO NOT LISTEN

5  THEY SAY, OUR HEARTS ARE INDEED VEILED FROM YOU 
AND ARE VEILED TO THAT TO WHICH YOU INVITE US TO
AND IN OUR EARS IS DEAFNESS FROM HEARING YOU
AND THERE IS A SCREEN BETWEEN US AND YOU 
SO GO AHEAD AND DO WHAT PLEASES YOU 
AND WE WILL DO WHAT PLEASES US TOO

6  SAY, I AM BUT A MAN LIKE YOU INDEED
BUT A REVELATION HAS COME TO ME   
THAT YOUR GOD IS ONE GOD ONLY
SO STAND TRUE TO GOD AND ASK FOR HIS MERCY
AND WOE TO THOSE WHO JOIN GODS WITH GOD IN DEITY

7  THOSE WHO PRACTICE NOT REGULAR CHARITY
AND WHO EVEN DENY THE HEREAFTER INSOLENTLY

8  FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO RIGHTEOUS DEEDS
IS A REWARD THAT WILL NEVER FAIL INDEED

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CHAPTER 41.  HA-MIM                                                                    SECTION 2.  PART XXIV

9  SAY, IS IT THAT YOU DENY HIM WHO CREATED THE EARTH IN TWO DAYS  
AND DO YOU JOIN EQUALS WITH HIM AND HE IS THE LORD OF THE WAYS?

10  HE SET ON THE EARTH MOUNTAINS STANDING FIRM ABOVE IT 
AND HE BESTOWED BLESSINGS ON THE EARTH AND MEASURED IN IT
IN FOUR DAYS ALL THINGS TO GIVE THEM NOURISHMENT IN DUE LIMITS 
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THOSE WHO NEED IT

11  MOREOVER HE IN HIS DESIGN COMPREHEND THE SKY 
AND IT HAD BEEN AS SMOKE AND HE TOLD THE EARTH AND THE SKY 

TO COME TOGETHER WILLINGLY OR UNWILLINGLY 
THEY SAID, WE COME TOGETHER WILLINGLY 

12  SO HE COMPLETED THEM IN TWO DAYS AS SEVEN HEAVENS
AND HE ASSIGNED ITS DUTY TO EACH HEAVEN
AND WITH LIGHTS WE ADORNED THE LOWER HEAVEN 

AND PROVIDED IT WITH SECURITY 
THIS IS THE DECREE OF THE ALMIGHTY

13  IF THEY TURN AWAY SAY, I HAVE GIVEN YOU WARNING 
OF A STUNNING PUNISHMENT OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING

LIKE THAT WHICH OVERTOOK FOR THEIR EVIL
THE AD AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE

14  THE MESSENGERS CAME PREVIOUSLY AND SUBSEQUENTLY 
PREACHING, SERVE NONE BUT GOD AND WORSHIP HIM ONLY
THEY SAID, IF GOD HAD SO PLEASED HE WOULD CERTAINLY 
HAVE SENT DOWN ANGELS TO YOU TO PREACH CLEARLY
SO WE ARE REJECTERS OF YOUR MISSION COMPLETELY

15  NOW THE AD BEHAVED IN ERROR 
THEY SAID, WHO IN STRENGTH IS TO US SUPERIOR? 
DID THEY NOT SEE THAT GOD WHO CREATED THEM WAS SUPERIOR 
AND THAT HE WAS FAR ABOVE THEM IN STRENGTH AND POWER?  
BUT THEY CONTINUED TO BE DISBELIEVERS

16  SO WE SENT AGAINST THEM A WIND FURIOUSLY
THROUGH DAYS OF DISASTER IN ORDER THAT WE 
MIGHT GIVE THEM A TASTE OF A PENALTY 
OF HUMILIATION IN THIS LIFE TEMPORARILY

BUT THE PENALTY OF THE HEREAFTER 
WILL BE EVEN MORE OF A DISASTER
AND THEY WILL FIND NO HELPER 

17  AS TO THE THAMUD WE GAVE THEM GUIDANCE 
BUT THEY PREFERRED BLINDNESS OF HEART TO GUIDANCE 

SO THE PUNISHMENT OF HUMILIATION SEIZED THEM 
BECAUSE OF WHAT WAS EARNED BY THEM

18  BUT THEN WE DELIVERED THE BELIEVERS
THOSE WHO WERE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

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CHAPTER 41.  HA-MIM                                                                    SECTION 3.  PART XXIV

19  THE DAY THE ENEMIES OF GOD WILL BE GATHERED TOGETHER 
THEY WILL BE MARCHED IN RANKS TO THE FIRE

20  AT LENGTH WHEN THEY REACH THE FIRE, THEIR HEARING 
THEIR SIGHT AND THEIR SKINS WILL BEAR WITNESSING
AGAINST THEM AS TO ALL OF THEIR DOINGS

21  THEY WILL ASK THEIR SKINS, WHY DO YOU BEAR WITNESS AGAINST US 
THEY WILL SAY, GOD WHO GIVES SPEECH HAS GIVEN SPEECH TO US
IT WAS HE WHO IN THE FIRST PLACE CREATED US 
AND TO HIM WILL BE THE RETURN OF US 

22  AND YOU DID NOT SEEK TO HIDE YOURSELVES OR ELSE YOUR HEARING 
YOUR SIGHT AND YOUR SKINS WOULD AGAINST YOU BEAR WITNESSING 
BUT YOU THOUGHT THAT GOD KNEW NOT WHAT YOU WERE DOING

23  BUT THIS THOUGHT OF YOURS WHICH YOU DID ENVISION
CONCERNING YOUR LORD HAS BROUGHT YOU TO DESTRUCTION 
AND SO NOW HAVE YOU BECOME OF THOSE IN A LOST SITUATION

24  IF THEY HAVE PATIENCE THEIR HOME WILL BE THE FIRE  
AND IF THEY BEG TO BE RECEIVED INTO FAVOR 
THEY WILL NOT BE RECEIVED INTO FAVOR 

25  AND WE HAVE NOW DESTINED FOR THEM INTIMATE COMPANIONS
WHO MADE THEIR PAST AND FUTURE APPEAR WITH FASCINATION 
AND THE SENTENCE AMONG THE PREVIOUS GENERATIONS 
WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY OF MEN AND DEMONS
IS PROVED AGAINST THEM FOR THEY ARE IN A LOST SITUATION

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CHAPTER 41.  HA-MIM                                                                    SECTION 4.  PART XXIV

26  THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, LISTEN NOT TO THIS QURAN
BUT TALK AT RANDOM IN THE MIDST OF ITS RECITATION
THAT YOU MAY GAIN THE UPPER HAND OF THE SITUATION

27  BUT WE WILL CERTAINLY 
GIVE THE DISBELIEVERS A TASTE OF A SEVERE PENALTY 
AND WE WILL REQUITE THEM FOR THE WORST OF THEIR DEEDS

28  THIS IS THE REQUITAL OF THE ENEMIES OF THE CREATOR
AND THE FIRE WILL BE THEIR HOME IN THE HEREAFTER
A FIT REQUITAL FOR THEY WERE DISBELIEVERS

29  AND THE DISBELIEVERS WILL SAY, OUR LORD, SHOW US 
THOSE AMONG DEMONS AND MEN WHO MISLED US 

WE WILL BENEATH OUR FEET CRUSH THEM ALL
SO THAT THEY BECOME THE VILEST BEFORE ALL

30  THOSE WHO SAY, OUR LORD AND CHERISHER IS GOD, THE CREATOR
AND STAND STRAIGHT, THE ANGELS SAY TO THEM, DO NOT FEAR
BUT RECEIVE GLAD TIDINGS OF THE REWARD
OF THE GARDEN OF BLISS WHICH YOU WERE ASSURED

31  WE ARE YOUR PROTECTORS IN THIS LIFE AND IN THE HEREAFTER 
IN IT YOU WILL HAVE ALL THAT YOUR SOULS WILL DESIRE 
AND IN IT YOU WILL HAVE ALL THAT YOU ASK FOR

32  A HOSPITABLE GIFT FROM THE ONE 
THE FORGIVING THE MERCIFUL ONE

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CHAPTER 41.  HA-MIM                                                                    SECTION 5.  PART XXIV

33  WHO IS BETTER IN SPEECH THAN ONE WHO CALLS MEN TO GOD 
AND SAYS, I AM OF THOSE WHO BOW IN SUBMISSION TO GOD?

34  NOR CAN GOODNESS AND EVIL BE EQUAL
THEREFORE WITH GOODNESS REPEL EVIL 

THEN HE BETWEEN WHOM AND YOU WAS HATRED 
WILL BECOME AS YOUR FRIEND AND INTIMATE

35  NO ONE WILL BE GRANTED SUCH GOODNESS EXCEPT THE ONES
WHO EXERCISE PATIENCE AND SELF RESTRAINT AND NONE
BUT PERSONS OF THE GREATEST GOOD FORTUNE

36  IF AT ANY TIME AN INCITEMENT TO EVIL
IS MADE TO YOU BY THE DEVIL

SEEK REFUGE IN GOD FOR HE IS ALL HEARING 
AND ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS

37  THE NIGHT AND DAY, THE MOON AND THE SUN ARE SIGNS OF GOD
BUT DO NOT ADORE THE MOON AND THE SUN BUT ADORE GOD 
WHO CREATED THEM IF YOU WISH TO SERVE GOD

38  BUT IF THE DISBELIEVERS ARE ARROGANT IT IS NO MATTER 
FOR IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER
ARE THOSE WHO CELEBRATE THEIR CREATOR 
BY NIGHT AND BY DAY AND THEY NEVER  
FEEL THEMSELVES ABOVE IT EVER

39  AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THAT YOU SEE THE EARTH DESOLATE
BUT THEN WHEN HE SENDS DOWN RAIN UPON IT
IT IS STIRRED TO LIFE AND INCREASED IS IT

SO HE WHO GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH THAT IS DEAD  
CAN SURELY GIVE LIFE TO MEN WHO ARE DEAD

40  THOSE WHO PERVERT THE TRUTH IN OUR MESSAGES
THEY ARE SURELY NOT HIDDEN FROM US

WHICH IS BETTER, HE THAT IS CAST INTO THE FIRE 
OR HE THAT COMES THROUGH SAFELY IN THE HEREAFTER?
SO DO WHAT YOU WILL FOR IT IS FOR SURE 
ALL THAT YOU DO GOD SEES AND HEARS

41  AND THOSE WHO HEAR THE MESSAGE AND REJECT IT 
SURELY ARE NOT HIDDEN FROM US AND INDEED IT 
IS A BOOK EXALTED IN POWER AND RESPECTED

42  NO FALSEHOOD CAN APPROACH IT FROM BEFORE IT OR BEHIND IT 
FOR ONE WHO IS FULL OF WISDOM HAS SENT IT

43  NOTHING IS SAID TO YOU 
THAT WAS NOT SAID TO THE APOSTLES BEFORE YOU 

THAT YOUR LORD HAS AT HIS COMMAND ALL FORGIVENESS  
AS WELL AS A PUNISHMENT MOST GRIEVOUS 

44  HAD WE SENT THIS QURAN OTHER THAN IN ARABIC 
THEY WOULD SAY WHY IS IT NOT CLEAR, A BOOK NOT IN ARABIC 
AND MESSENGER WHOSE ANCESTRY IS ARABIC?

SAY, IT IS A GUIDE AND A HEALING TO THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
AND AS FOR THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
THEIR EYES ARE BLIND AND DEAFNESS IS IN THEIR EARS
AS IF THEY WERE BEING CALLED FROM A PLACE NOT NEAR 

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CHAPTER 41.  HA-MIM                                                                    SECTION 6.  PART XXIV

45  WE GAVE MOSES THE BOOK BEFORE BUT THEN DISPUTES AROSE IN IT 
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A WORD THAT CAME FROM GOD BEFORE IT 

THEIR DIFFERENCES WOULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED BETWEEN THEM 
BUT THEY KEPT THEIR DOUBTS WITHIN THEM

46  WHOEVER WORKS RIGHTEOUSNESS BENEFITS HIS OWN SOUL 
WHOEVER WORKS EVIL IT IS AGAINST HIS OWN SOUL 
NOR IS YOUR LORD EVER UNJUST TO ANY SOUL

PART  XXV

47  HIS IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE JUDGEMENT HOUR  
AND NO DATE FRUIT COMES OUT OF ITS COVER 
OR DOES A FEMALE CONCEIVE WITHIN HER
NOR BRING FORTH YOUNG BUT BY HIS ORDER
THE DAY THAT GOD WILL ASK THEM TO ANSWER 
WHERE ARE THOSE YOU ATTRIBUTED TO ME AS PARTNERS?
THEY WILL SAY, NONE OF US CAN POSITIVELY ANSWER

48  THE DEITIES THAT WERE WORSHIPPED BY THEM
IN THE LURCH THEY WILL HAVE LEFT THEM 
NO ESCAPE WILL THERE BE FOR THEM

49  MAN DOES NOT WEARY OF ASKING FOR GOOD THINGS 
BUT IF ILL TOUCHES HIM HE GIVES UP HOPING
AND HE IS LOST IN DESPAIRING

50  WHEN WE GIVE MAN A TASTE OF SOME MERCY 
AFTER HAS TOUCHED HIM SOME ADVERSITY 
THEN HE WILL SAY, THIS IS DUE TO ME 
AND I BELIEVE THAT THE HOUR OF JUDGMENT WILL NEVER BE  
BUT IF I AM BROUGHT BACK TO MY LORD INEVITABLY 
I HAVE MUCH GOOD STORED IN HIS SIGHT INDEED
BUT WE WILL SHOW THE DISBELIEVERS THEIR DEEDS
AND WE WILL MAKE THEM TASTE A SEVERE PENALTY

51  WHEN WE BESTOW FAVORS ON MAN HE TURNS ASIDE
AND GETS HIMSELF REMOTELY ON HIS SIDE

INSTEAD OF COMING TO US AND AFTER EVIL SEIZES HIM
HE COMES FULL OF PROLONGED PRAYER TO US FROM HIM

52  SAY, SEE IF THIS IS REALLY GOD'S REVELATION 
AND YET OF IT YOU ARE IN REJECTION
WHO IS MORE ASTRAY THAN ONE WHO DENIES TRUTH AND REASON?

53  WE WILL SHOW THEM OUR SIGNS IN THE FURTHEST REGIONS 
OF THE EARTH AND IN THEIR OWN PERSONS
UNTIL THE TRUTH COMES TO THEM IN MANIFESTATION
IS IT NOT ENOUGH THAT GOD IS WITNESS OVER ALL CREATION?

54  THEY ARE IN DOUBT CONCERNING THE MEETING 
WITH GOD AND HE ENCOMPASSES ALL THINGS

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