CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 1.  PART XXV

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  BY THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS MANIFESTLY

3  A QURAN IN ARABIC THAT YOU MAY UNDERSTAND CLEARLY

4   IT IS IN THE MOTHER OF THE BOOK IN OUR PRESENCE HIGH IN DIGNITY 

5  WE WILL THEN TAKE AWAY THE MESSAGE FROM YOU 
FOR A TRANSGRESSING PEOPLE ARE YOU

6  BUT HOW MANY WERE THE PROPHETS THAT WE 
SENT AMONG THE PEOPLE FORMERLY

7  NO PROPHET BEFORE CAME TO THEM
BUT HE WAS MOCKED BY THEM

8  THEN WE DESTROYED THOSE STRONGER THAN THESE IN ABILITY 
AND THE EXAMPLE OF THE ANCIENTS HAS PASSED ALREADY 

9  IF THEM YOU WERE TO QUESTION 
AS TO WHO CREATED THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
THEY WOULD REPLY, THEY WERE CREATED BY ONE 
WHO IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM

10  HE THAT MADE THE EARTH A RESTING PLACE FOR YOU
AND HAS MADE FOR YOU ROADS TO GUIDE YOU 

11  HE THAT SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKY OVERHEAD
AND RAISES TO LIFE THEREBY A LAND THAT IS DEAD 
EVEN SO WILL YOU BE RAISED FROM THE DEAD

12  ALL THINGS IN PAIRS DOES HE PROVIDE 
AND MADE FOR YOU SHIPS THAT GLIDE
AND CATTLE ON WHICH YOU RIDE

13  IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY SIT FIRM ON THEM 
AND THAT YOU MAY BE THANKFUL TO GOD FOR THEM
AND SAY, TO HE WHO HAS SUBJECTED THIS TO US, GLORY TO HIM
FOR NEVER COULD THIS HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED EXCEPT BY HIM 

14  AND OUR LORD WE MUST RETURN BACK TO HIM

15  YET THEY ATTRIBUTE TO SOME OF HIS DEVOTEES
A SHARE WITH HIM IN HIS AUTHORITY 
MAN DOES ACT UNGRATEFULLY

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16  HAS HE TAKEN DAUGHTERS OUT OF WHAT HE HAS CREATED
AND TO YOU SONS FOR CHOICE HAS HE GRANTED?

17  WHEN NEWS IS BROUGHT TO ONE OF THEM 
OF A LIKENESS TO GOD OF WHAT HE SETS UP WITH HIM
HE IS FILLED WITH GRIEF AND HIS FACE FILLS WITH GRIM

18  IS THEN TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH GOD A CREATURE
BROUGHT UP AMONG TRINKETS AND UNABLE TO DISPUTE CLEAR? 

19  AND THEY MAKE ANGELS AS GODS
WHO THEMSELVES SERVE GOD 

DID THEY WITNESS THEM BEING CREATED?  
SURELY THEIR EVIDENCE WILL BE RECORDED
AND THEY WILL BE CALLED TO BE RECOUNTED

20  THEY SAY, IF IT HAD BEEN THE WILL OF OUR CREATOR
THEN WE WOULD NOT HAVE WORSHIPPED OTHERS 
OF THAT THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE, THEY ARE LIARS

21  HAVE WE GIVEN THEM A BOOK BEFORE IT 
WHICH THEY ARE HOLDING FAST TO IT?

22  NAY, THEY SAY, THIS IS WHAT OUR FATHERS WERE FOLLOWING 
AND WE ARE FOLLOWING IN THEIR FOOTING

23  WHENEVER WE SENT A WARNER BEFORE YOU TO ANYONE 
ALSO AMONG THEM SAID THOSE WHO WERE WEALTHY ONES 
WE FOUND OUR FATHERS FOLLOWING A CERTAIN RELIGION
AND WE WILL FOLLOW IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS FOR CERTAIN

24  HE SAID, EVEN IF I BROUGHT YOU GUIDANCE BETTER 
THAN THAT WHICH YOU FOUND WITH YOUR FATHERS  
THEY SAID, WE DENY YOUR MISSION ALL TOGETHER

25  SO RETRIBUTION FROM THEM WE EXACTED
NOW SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO REJECTED 

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26  ABRAHAM SAID TO HIS FATHER AND HIS PEOPLE 
I CLEAR MYSELF OF WHAT IS SERVED BY YOU PEOPLE

27  I WORSHIP ONLY HIM WHO MADE ME 
AND HE WILL CERTAINLY GUIDE ME

28  AND HE LEFT IT AS A WORD TO ENDURE 
AMONG THOSE WHO CAME BEHIND HIM AFTER 
THAT THEY MAY RETURN TO THEIR CREATOR

29  I GAVE GOOD THINGS TO THESE MEN AND THEIR FATHERS 
UNTIL THE TRUTH HAS COME TO THEM AND A MESSENGER

30  WHEN THE TRUTH CAME TO THEM THEY DECREED 
THIS IS DEFINITELY SORCERY INDEED 
AND WE DO REJECT IT ASSUREDLY

31  ALSO THEY SAY, WHY IS NOT THIS QURAN SENT DOWN 
TO SOME LEADING MAN IN EITHER OF THE TWO TOWNS?

32  IS IT THEY WHO WOULD PORTION OUT THEIR LORD'S FAVORS?
BUT IT IS WE WHO PORTION OUT TO THEM THEIR TREASURES
AND WE RAISE SOME OF THEM IN RANKS ABOVE OTHERS 
SO THAT SOME MAY COMMAND WORK FROM OTHERS 
BUT THE MERCY OF YOUR LORD IS MUCH BETTER 
THAN THE WEALTH THEY AMASS TOGETHER

33  WERE IT NOT THAT ALL PEOPLE MIGHT BECOME DISBELIEVERS
WE COULD PROVIDE FOR ALL WHO ARE BLASPHEMERS
AGAINST GOD MOST GRACIOUS ROOFS OF SILVER
FOR THEIR HOUSES AND STAIRWAYS OF SILVER 

34  AND DOORS OF SILVER
TO THEIR HOUSES AND THRONES OF SILVER
ON WHICH THEY COULD RECLINE ON IN PLEASURE

35  AND ALSO GOLD ADORNMENTS
THIS WOULD BE CONVENIENCES OF THE PRESENT 
BUT THE HEREAFTER IS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS SERVANTS

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36  IF ANYONE WITHDRAWS FROM DEVOTION
TO HIS LORD, THE MOST GRACIOUS ONE
WE APPOINT A DEVIL FOR HIM AS A COMPANION 

37  SUCH DEVILS REALLY HINDER THEM FROM THE PATH OF RIGHT 
BUT THEY THINK THAT THEY ARE REALLY BEING GUIDED RIGHT

38  AT LENGTH WHEN COMES TO US SUCH A ONE  
THEN HE SAYS TO HIS EVIL COMPANION
WOULD THAT BETWEEN US WERE THE DIMENSION
OF THE EAST AND THE WEST, FOR EVIL IS THE COMPANION 

39  AND NOTHING WILL AVAIL YOU THAT DAY IN THE LEAST
IF YOU HAVE ACTED UNGRATEFUL AND WRONGFULLY
AND YOU WILL BE PARTNERS IN THE PENALTY

40  CAN YOU THEN MAKE THE DEAF TO HEAR 
OR DIRECT THE BLIND OR THOSE IN ERROR? 

41  EVEN IF WE TAKE YOU AWAY FROM THEM
THEN WE WILL EXACT RETRIBUTION FROM THEM 

42  OR WE WILL SHOW YOU WHAT WE HAVE PROMISED THEM 
FOR WE WILL SURELY PREVAIL OVER THEM 

43  SO HOLD FAST TO THE REVELATION SENT DOWN TO YOU 
FOR CLEARLY ON A STRAIGHT WAY ARE YOU

44  THE QURAN IS INDEED THE MESSAGE FOR YOU 
AND AN ACCOUNT WILL BE TAKEN FROM YOU

45  AND DO YOU QUESTION OUR FORMER MESSENGERS?
DID WE APPOINT OTHERS TO BE SERVED THAN THE CREATOR?

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 5.  PART XXV

46  WE SENT MOSES BEFORE WITH MESSAGES CLEAR
TO PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS AND HE SAID, I AM A MESSENGER 
OF THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

47  BUT WHEN OUR SIGNS CAME THEY WERE RIDICULERS 

48  WE SHOWED THEM SIGN AFTER SIGN EACH ONE GREATER 
AND WE SEIZED THEM WITH A PUNISHMENT OF TERROR
IN ORDER THAT THEY MIGHT TURN TO US AFTER

49  THEY SAID TO HIM, OH YOU SORCERER 
INVOKE YOUR LORD IN OUR FAVOR
AND WE WILL BE BELIEVERS

50  BUT WHEN WE REMOVED FROM THEM THE PUNISHMENT
THEY UNFAITHFULLY BROKE THEIR COVENANT

51  AND PHARAOH PROCLAIMED AMONG HIS DEVOTEES
SAYING, DOES NOT THE DOMINION OF EGYPT BELONG TO ME? 
WITNESS THESE STREAMS THAT ARE FLOWING UNDERNEATH ME 

52  AM I NOT BETTER THAN THIS MOSES WHO IS REALLY
A CONTEMPTIBLE WRETCH AND CAN NOT EXPRESS HIMSELF CLEARLY?

53  THEN WHY ARE NOT GOLD BRACELETS BESTOWED ON HIM 
OR WHY ARE ANGELS NOT SENT DOWN WITH HIM? 

54  SO DID HE MAKE FOOLS OF HIS PEOPLE 
AND THEY OBEYED HIM AND WERE MISLEAD PEOPLE

55  SO WHEN WE BECAME ANGERED BY THEM
WE PUNISHED THEM AND DROWNED THEM

56  AND WE MADE THEM A PEOPLE OF A PAST GENERATION
AND A LESSON TO LATER GENERATIONS

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 6.  PART XXV

57  WHEN JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, IS HELD UP AS AN EXAMPLE 
YOUR PEOPLE RAISE A CLAMOR AT THE EXAMPLE

58  AND THEY SAY, ARE OUR GODS BEST OR HE? 
THIS THEY SET FORTH TO YOU ONLY
JUST TO DISPUTE WITH YOU ARBITRARILY 
FOR THEY ARE PEOPLE IN OPPOSITION CLEARLY

59  HE WAS NO MORE THAN A SERVANT
TO WHOM WE GRANTED OUR COVENANT

AND WE MADE HIM AN EXAMPLE 
TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL

60  IF WE WILLED WE COULD MAKE ANGELS FROM AMONG YOU 
SUCCEEDING EACH OTHER ON THE EARTH REPLACING YOU

61  AND JESUS WILL BE A SIGN FOR THE COMING OF THE HOUR 
SO HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT THE COMING OF THE HOUR 
BUT FOLLOW ME THIS IS A STRAIGHT WAY FOR SURE

62  LET NOT THE DEVIL HINDER YOU 
FOR HE IS AN OPEN ENEMY TO YOU

63  WHEN JESUS CAME WITH SIGNS THAT WERE CLEAR
HE SAID, I COME TO YOU WITH WISDOM IN ORDER 
TO MAKE CLEAR SOME POINTS ON WHICH YOU DIFFER
SO OBEY ME AND KEEP YOUR DUTY TO THE CREATOR

64  FOR GOD, HE IS MY LORD AND YOUR LORD 
SO WORSHIP HIM, THIS IS A STRAIGHT WAY WITH YOUR LORD

65  BUT SECTIONS FROM AMONG THEM FELL INTO DISAGREEMENT 
SO WOE TO THE WRONG DOERS FOR THEM IS A SEVERE PUNISHMENT

66  DO THEY ONLY WAIT FOR THE HOUR TO COME ON THEM 
ALL OF A SUDDEN WHILE  NOT PERCEIVED BY THEM?

67  FRIENDS ON THAT DAY WILL BE FOES TO ONE ANOTHER 
EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 7.  PART XXV

68  THAT DAY NO FEAR WILL BE ON MY DEVOTEES 
NOR WILL YOU HAVE ANY CAUSE TO GRIEVE

69  BEING THOSE WHO IN OUR SIGNS HAVE BELIEVED 
AND BOWED THEIR WILLS IN SUBMISSION COMPLETELY

70  ENTER THE GARDEN WITH YOUR WIVES HAPPILY 

71  TO THEM WILL BE PASSED ROUND DISHES AND GOBLETS OF GOLD 
AND THERE WILL BE  ALL THE DELIGHT THE EYES COULD BEHOLD

AND ALL THE SOULS COULD DESIRE 
AND YOU WILL ABIDE THERE FOREVER

72  THIS WILL BE THE GARDEN OF WHICH YOU ARE INDEED
MADE INHERITORS FOR YOUR GOOD DEEDS 

73  YOU WILL HAVE IN IT ABUNDANCE OF FRUIT
FROM WHICH YOU WILL HAVE TO SATISFY YOU

74  THE SINNERS WILL BE IN THE PUNISHMENT OF HELL
AND THEY WILL BE THERE FOREVER TO DWELL

75  IN NO WAY WILL BE LIGHTENED FOR THEM THE PENALTY
AND THEY WILL BE OVERWHELMED IN DISPARITY

76  IN NO WAY TO THEM WILL WE BE UNJUST
BUT IT IS THEY WHO TO THEMSELVES HAVE BEEN UNJUST

77  THEY WILL CRY, OH KEEPER OF HELL PUT IN CHARGE OF US
IF ONLY GOD HAD PUT AN END TO US 
AND HE WILL SAY, NAY, BUT HERE YOU WILL STAY WITH US

78  SURELY WE HAVE BROUGHT THE TRUTH TO YOU
BUT THE TRUTH IS HATED BY MOST OF YOU

79  HAVE THEY THEMSELVES SETTLED SOME PLAN?
BUT IT IS GOD WHO SETTLES ALL PLANS

80  DO THEY THINK THAT WE HEAR NOT THE PRIVATE PLOTS OF THEM?
WE DO AND OUR MESSENGERS ARE BY THEM TO RECORD THEM

81  SAY, IF GOD MOST GRACIOUS HAD A SON 
OF THOSE TO WORSHIP HIM, I WOULD BE THE FIRST ONE

82  TO THE LORD OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH BE THE GLORY
HE ALONE IS THE LORD OF THE THRONE OF AUTHORITY 
FREE FROM THE THINGS THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM IS HE

83  SO LEAVE THEM WITH VANITIES TO BABBLE AND PLAY 
UNTIL THEY MEET THEIR PROMISED DAY

84  HE IS GOD IN HEAVEN AND GOD ON EARTH IS HE
AND FULL OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE IS HE

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85  BLESSED IS HE TO WHOM BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF ALL THE EARTH AND ALL OF THE HEAVENS

THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOUR IS WITH HIM
AND YOU WILL ALL RETURN TO HIM

86  THOSE WHOM THEY PRAISE BESIDES GOD IN ASSOCIATION
WILL HAVE NO POWER OF INTERCESSION

ONLY HE WHO BEARS WITNESS TO THE TRUTH OF GOD
AND THEY KNOW THE FACTS ABOUT GOD

87  IF YOU ASK THEM WHO CREATED THEM
GOD, IS THE ANSWER THAT WILL BE GIVEN BY THEM
HOW THEN IS THE TRUTH REJECTED BY THEM? 

88  GOD HAS KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROPHET',S CRY OF GRIEF
OH MY LORD THESE ARE A PEOPLE WHO REFUSE BELIEF

89  BUT TURN AWAY FROM THEM AND SAY PEACE TO THEM
BUT SOON WILL KNOWLEDGE SURELY COME TO THEM

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