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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  KNOWING, HEARING, POWERFUL GOD

3  SO DOES YOUR LORD SEND TO YOU INSPIRATION 
AS HE SENT TO THOSE BEFORE YOU INSPIRATION
AND HE HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

4  TO HIM BELONG ALL THINGS IN EARTH AND HEAVEN
AND HE IS MOST HIGH IN EXALTATION

5  THE HEAVENS MAY ALMOST BE RENT ASUNDER BY HIS GRACES
AND THE ANGELS GLORIFY THEIR LORD'S PRAISES 
FOR ALL BEINGS ON EARTH THEY PRAY FOR THEIR FORGIVENESS 
AND HE IS FULL OF MERCY AND FORGIVENESS

6  AND THOSE WHO TAKE AS PROTECTORS 
OTHERS BESIDES HIM, THEM GOD WATCHES OVER 
AND OF THEIR AFFAIRS YOU ARE NOT THE DISPOSER

7  WE HAVE REVEALED AN ARABIC QURAN TO YOU CLEARLY
THAT YOU MAY WARN THE MOTHER OF CITIES 
AND ALL AROUND HER ADDITIONALLY 
AND WARN THEM OF THE DAY OF ASSEMBLY 
WHEN SOME WILL BE IN THE GARDEN SECURELY
AND SOME IN THE FIRE BLAZING FIERCELY

8  IF GOD HAD SO WILLED 
HE COULD HAVE MADE THEM ONE PEOPLE
BUT HE ADMITS TO HIS MERCY WHOM HE WILLS  
NO HELPER WILL THERE BE FOR WRONG DOING PEOPLE

9  HAVE THEY TAKEN FOR OTHERS BESIDES GOD AS PROTECTORS?  
BUT GOD GIVES LIFE TO THE DEAD AND HAS ALL POWER

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10  AND WHATEVER IT BE IN WHICH YOU DIFFER
THE DECISION OF IT IS WITH THE CREATOR
THIS IS GOD, MY LORD AND CHERISHER 
MY TRUST IN HIM IS COMPLETE AND SINCERE 

11  AND OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH HE IS THE CREATOR
HE HAS MADE FOR YOU FROM AMONG YOURSELVES PAIRS 
AND HE HAS MADE AMONG CATTLE PAIRS 
BY THIS MEANS DOES HE MULTIPLY YOU FURTHER
AS TO ANYONE LIKE HIM THERE IS NO OTHER
AND ALL THINGS DOES HE SEE AND HEAR

12  TO HIM BELONG THE KEYS OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
TO WHOM HE WILLS HE ENLARGES AND RESTRICTS SUSTENANCE
FOR HE IS ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS IN CREATION

13  HE HAS ESTABLISHED FOR YOU THE SAME RELIGION 
THAT HE ENJOINED ON NOAH BY INSPIRATION
WHICH WE HAVE SENT TO YOU AND THAT SAME INSPIRATION 
WE GAVE TO JESUS, ABRAHAM, MOSES AND ARRON
NAMELY THAT YOU SHOULD REMAIN STEADFAST IN RELIGION 
AND DO NOT MAKE THEREIN ANY DIVISIONS 
AND TO THOSE WHO JOIN WITH THEIR LORD OTHER ASSOCIATIONS
THE WAY TO WHICH YOU CALL THEM TO IS A HARD DIRECTION
AND GOD TURNS TO HIMSELF THOSE WHOM HE HAS CHOSEN
AND GUIDES THOSE WHO TURN TO HIM IN SUBMISSION

14  THEY BECAME DIVIDED AFTER KNOWLEDGE REACHED THEM
THROUGH SELFISH ENVY FROM AMONG THEM
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A WORD THAT WENT BEFORE THEM 
TENDING TO A TERM APPOINTED FOR THEM
THE MATTER WOULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED BETWEEN THEM
BUT THE INHERITORS OF THE BOOK ARE DOUBTERS AFTER THEM 

15  FOR THAT REASON CALL THEM TO BE BELIEVERS
AND STAND STEADFAST AS YOU ARE ORDERED
NOR FOLLOW THEIR VAIN DESIRES
BUT SAY, IN THE BOOK GOD HAS SENT I AM A BELIEVER

AND I AM COMMANDED TO JUDGE BETWEEN YOU JUSTLY
GOD IS OUR LORD AND YOUR LORD ASSUREDLY
AND OURS IS THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR DEEDS
AND FOR YOU IS THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR DEEDS
THERE IS NO CONTENTION BETWEEN US INDEED
GOD WILL BRING US TOGETHER AND TO HIM IS OUR DESTINY

16  THOSE WHO DISPUTE ABOUT GOD AFTER BEING A BELIEVER 
FUTILE IS THEIR DISPUTE IN THE SIGHT OF THEIR CREATOR
AND UPON THEM IS THEIR LORD'S ANGER
FOR THEM WILL BE THE PENALTY OF THE FIRE

17  IT IS GOD WHO HAS SENT DOWN THE BOOK IN TRUTH 
 AND THE BALANCE BY WHICH TO WEIGH CONDUCT TO
AND WHAT WILL MAKE IT QUITE CLEAR TO YOU 
THAT PERHAPS THE HOUR IS CLOSE UPON YOU?

18  ONLY THOSE WISH TO HASTEN IT 
ARE THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN IT
THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN AWE THEY HOLD IT 
AND KNOW OF THE HOUR THAT IT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT IT 
BUT THOSE THAT DISPUTE ARE FAR AWAY FROM THE TRUTH OF IT

19  AND GRACIOUS IS YOUR LORD TO HIS SERVANTS
TO WHOM HE PLEASES HE GIVES SUSTENANCE 
FOR SURELY HE HAS ALL COMPETENCE

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20  TO ANY THAT DESIRE THE REWARD OF THE HEREAFTER 
WE GIVE INCREASE IN HIS REWARD AND TO ANY THAT DESIRES 
REWARDS OF THIS WORLD, WE GRANT SOME OF IT FROM OUR FAVOR
BUT HE HAS NO SHARE IN THE HEREAFTER 

21  HAVE THEY PARTNERS WHO HAVE ESTABLISHED A RELIGION
AND HAVE DONE IT FOR THEM WITHOUT GOD'S PERMISSION? 
BUT HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE DETERMINATION
THE MATTER WOULD HAVE HAD AN IMMEDIATE DECISION
BUT THE WRONG DOERS WILL HAVE A GRIEVOUS PENALIZATION

22  YOU WILL SEE THE WRONG DOERS FEARFULLY
CONCERNED FOR WHAT THEY HAVE EARNED BY THEIR DEEDS 
AND THE BURDEN OF THAT MUST FALL ON THEM INDEED
THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
WILL BE IN GARDENS OF LUXURIANT MEADS 
AND THEY WILL HAVE IN THEIR LORD'S DECREE
ALL THAT THEY COULD EVER WISH FOR PLENTIFULLY
AND THAT WILL BE THEIR LORD'S MAGNIFICENT BOUNTY 

23	THAT IS THE BOUNTY GOD GIVES TO HIS DEVOTEES 
THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 

SAY, FOR THIS NO REWARD DO I ASK OF YOU 
EXCEPT THE LOVE OF THOSE NEAR OF KIN TO YOU

AND IF ANY ONE EARNS ANY GOOD 
WE WILL GIVE HIM AN INCREASE OF GOOD 

FOR GOD IS MOST READY TO FORGIVE
AND HE IS MOST APPRECIATIVE 

24  AND DO THEY THEN SAY HE HAS FORGED AGAINST GOD A LIE? 
BUT IF GOD WILLED HE COULD SEAL UP YOUR HEART INSIDE
AND GOD BLOTS OUT VANITY AND HE DOES PROVIDE
THE TRUTH BY HIS WORDS FOR HE KNOWS WHAT YOU HIDE 

25  HE IS THE ONE THAT ACCEPTS REPENTANCE 
AND FORGIVES THE SINS OF HIS SERVANTS 
AND KNOWS ALL YOU KEEP HIDDEN

26  HE LISTENS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
THOSE WHO CONSTANTLY DO GOOD DEEDS 
AND GIVES THEM INCREASE OF HIS BOUNTY 
BUT FOR DISBELIEVERS THERE IS A TERRIBLE PENALTY

27  IF GOD WERE TO ENLARGE HIS SERVANT'S PROVISIONS
THEY WOULD TRANSGRESS BEYOND LIMITATIONS 
BUT HE SENDS IT DOWN IN DUE PROPORTIONS
FOR HIS SERVANTS ARE UNDER HIS OBSERVATIONS

28  HE IS THE ONE THAT SENDS DOWN RAIN AMPLY
EVEN AFTER MEN HAVE GIVEN UP ALL HOPE OF HIS MERCY
AND HE IS THE PROTECTOR AND IS PRAISEWORTHY 

29  AND AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THE CREATION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND THE LIVING CREATURES HE HAS SCATTERED WITHIN
AND HE HAS THE POWER TO GATHER THEM THEREIN

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30  WHATEVER MISFORTUNE HAPPENS TO YOU 
IS BECAUSE OF THE THINGS THAT ARE DONE BY YOU
AND FOR MANY OF THEM HE GRANTS FORGIVENESS TO YOU

31  NOR CAN YOU ESCAPE ANYTHING BY FLEEING  
NOR HAVE YOU BESIDES GOD ANY ONE FOR PROTECTING

32  AMONG HIS SIGNS ARE THE SHIP'S MOTIONS
TALL AS MOUNTAINS RUNNING THROUGH THE OCEANS 

33  AND IF IT WERE HIS WILL HE COULD STILL THE WIND'S MOTION
THEN WOULD THEY BECOME WITHOUT MOTION ON THE OCEAN 
AND IN THIS ARE CLEAR SIGNS FOR EVERYONE
WHO IS A PATIENT AND GRATEFUL ONE

34  OR HE CAN CAUSE THEM TO PERISH FOR THEIR EVIL DOINGS
BUT HE IS MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING

35  LET THOSE KNOW WHO ABOUT OUR SIGNS ARE DISPUTING
THAT THERE IS FOR THEM NO WAY OF ESCAPING

36  WHAT YOU ARE GIVEN OF THIS LIFE IS ONLY A CONVENIENCE HERE  
BUT THAT WHICH IS WITH YOUR LORD IN THE HEREAFTER IS BETTER 
AND MORE LASTING IT IS FOR THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
AND WHO PUT THEIR TRUST IN THEIR CREATOR

37  THOSE WHO AVOID GREATER CRIMES AND SHAMEFUL DOINGS
AND WHEN THEY ARE ANGRY ARE EVEN THEN FORGIVING

38  THOSE WHO LISTEN TO GOD AND ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS 
AND BY MUTUAL CONSULTATION CONDUCT THEIR AFFAIRS 
WHO SPEND OUT OF WHAT WE GIVE THEM AS HEIRS

39  AND THOSE WHO WHEN OPPRESSED BY WRONG DOERS 
DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSORS

40  THE RECOMPENSE FOR ONE WHO IS INJURED 
IS AN INJURY EQUAL TO IT IN MEASURE
BUT IF ANY PERSON RECONSIDERS 
HIS REWARD IS DUE FROM HIS CREATOR 
FOR GOD DOES NOT LOVE WRONGDOERS

41  IF ANY DEFEND THEMSELVES AFTER WRONG DONE TO THEM 
THERE IS NO CAUSE OF BLAME AGAINST THEM

42  THE BLAME IS AGAINST ONLY
THOSE WHO OPPRESS MEN INSOLENTLY 
AND TRANSGRESS BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES 
FOR THEM IS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY 

43  BUT IF ANY SHOW PATIENCE AND FORGIVENESS 
THAT WOULD BE AN EXERCISE OF COURAGEOUSNESS
IN RESOLUTION OF CONDUCT IN AFFAIRS OF PUPOSE

 

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44  THERE IS NO HELPER FOR HIM WHOM GOD LEAVES TO STRAY 
THE WRONG DOERS WHEN THEY SEE THE PENALTY WILL SAY 
TO EFFECT A RETURN IS THERE ANY WAY?

45  AND YOU WILL SEE THEM BROUGHT FORWARD TO THE PENALTY 
IN A HUMBLE FRAME OF MIND BECAUSE OF THEIR IGNOMINY
AND LOOKING WITH A GLANCE THAT IS STEALTHY 

AND THE BELIEVERS WILL SAY 
THE LOSERS ARE THOSE WHO LOSE THEIR WAY 
AND THE WAY OF THEIR FOLLOWERS ON JUDGMENT DAY
THE WRONG DOERS IN A LASTING PENALTY ARE THEY

46  NO PROTECTORS OTHER THAN GOD HAVE THEY 
AND FOR ANY WHOM GOD LEAVES TO STRAY 
FOR THEM YOU WILL NOT FIND A WAY 

47  LISTEN TO YOUR LORD BEFORE THERE COMES A DAY 
WHEN THERE WILL BE NO PUTTING BACK AND THAT DAY 
THERE WILL BE NO PLACE OF REFUGE FOR YOU THAT DAY
NOR WILL YOU BE ABLE TO DENY IN ANY WAY

48  IF THEN THEY TURN AWAY FROM YOU, YOUR DUTY 
IS TO CONVEY TO THEM THE MESSAGE CLEARLY
BUT WHEN WE GIVE MAN A TASTE OF MERCY 
THEN HE BOASTS EXULTANTLY
BUT WHEN AFFLICTED BY ADVERSITY 
THEN HE ACTS UNGRATEFULLY  

49  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF EVERYTHING ON EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS 
HE CREATES WHAT HE WILLS AND BESTOWS CHILDREN 
MALE OR FEMALE IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS DECISIONS

50  OR HE BESTOWS BOTH MALES AND FEMALES AS HE PLEASES
AND HE LEAVES BARREN WHOM HE PLEASES 
FOR SURELY ALL POWER HE POSSESSES

51  IT IS NOT FITTING FOR ANY HUMAN 
THAT GOD SHOULD SPEAK TO HIM EXCEPT BY INSPIRATION 
OR FROM BEHIND A VEIL OR BY THE SENDING OF REVELATION
BY A MESSENGER WITH YOUR LORD'S PERMISSION 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

52  SO WE HAVE SENT TO YOU INSPIRATION 
YOU KNEW NOT BEFORE WHAT WAS REVELATION 
NOR WHAT FAITH WAS BUT WE HAVE MADE THE QURAN
A LIGHT WITH WHICH WE GUIDE OUR CHOSEN ONES
AND YOU GUIDE MEN TO THE RIGHT DIRECTION

53  THE WAY OF GOD TO WHOM BELONGS EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND TO GOD IS THE FINAL GOAL IN THE END

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