CHAPTER 45.  THE KNEELING                                                        SECTION 1.  PART XXV

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  THE REVELATION OF THIS BOOK IS FROM GOD
THE ALL MIGHTY, THE ALL WISE GOD

3  IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH ARE SURELY
SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE SINCERELY

4  AND IN THE CREATION OF YOU
AND THE ANIMALS SCATTERED THE EARTH THROUGH 
ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE OF ASSURED FAITH AMONG YOU

5  AND IN THE ALTERNATION OF DAY AND NIGHT
AND THE PROVISION GOD SENDS DOWN FROM THE SKIES
AND REVIVES THE EARTH AFTER IT DIES
AND IN THE CHANGE OF THE WINDS ARE SIGNS FOR THE WISE

6  THESE ARE GOD'S SIGNS 
WE REHEARSE TO YOU, THEN IN WHAT SIGNS 
WILL THEY BELIEVE AFTER REJECTING GOD'S SIGNS?

7  TO EVERY SINFUL LIAR, WOE TO HIM

8  WHEN HE HEARS THE MESSAGES OF GOD RECITED TO HIM
HE IS OBSTINATE AS IF IT WAS NOT HEARD BY HIM 
ANNOUNCE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY TO HIM

9  AND WHEN HE LEARNS SOMETHING 
OF OUR SIGNS HE TAKES THEM IN JESTING
FOR HIM THE PENALTY WILL BE HUMILIATING 

10  HELL IS IN FRONT OF THEM 
AND OF NO PROFIT ARE THEIR EARNINGS TO THEM 
NOR ARE THERE ANY PROTECTORS BESIDES GOD FOR THEM
AND THERE IS A TREMENDOUS PUNISHMENT IN STORE FOR THEM

11  THIS IS TRUE GUIDANCE  
FOR THOSE WHO REJECT GOD'S GUIDANCE 
THERE IS FOR THEM A SEVERE CONSEQUENCE

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CHAPTER 45.  THE KNEELING                                                        SECTION 2.  PART XXV

12  AND IT IS GOD WHO HAS SUBJECTED THE SEA TO YOU 
THAT SHIPS BY HIS COMMAND MAY SAIL THROUGH 
THAT HIS BOUNTY MAY BE SOUGHT BY YOU
AND THAT YOU MAY SHOW TO GOD YOUR GRATITUDE

13  HE HAS SUBJECTED TO YOU EVERYTHING IN EARTH AND HEAVEN
IN THESE THINGS ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WITH COMPREHENSION

14  SO TELL THOSE WHO BELIEVE TO FORGIVE THOSE PEOPLE
WHO DO NOT LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY OF REQUITAL
IT IS FOR HIM TO RECOMPENSE FOR GOOD OR EVIL 
ACCORDING TO THE EARNINGS OF THE PEOPLE

15  IF ANY ONE DOES A RIGHTEOUS DEED 
IT IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS OWN SOUL INDEED
IT IS AGAINST HIS OWN SOUL IF HE DOES AN EVIL DEED
AND YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO YOUR LORD INDEED

16  WE DID BEFORE GRANT TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
THE BOOK AND THE POWER OF COMMAND AND APOSTLES 

AND WE GAVE THEM GOOD AND PURE THINGS FOR PROVISIONS
AND WE FAVORED THEM ABOVE ALL OF THE NATIONS

17  AND WE GRANTED CLEAR SIGNS IN ALL AFFAIRS TO THEM
AND IT WAS ONLY AFTER KNOWLEDGE HAD BEEN GRANTED TO THEM 
THAT THEY FELL INTO DIVISIONS THROUGH ENVY AMONG THEM  
ON JUDGMENT DAY YOUR LORD WILL JUDGE BETWEEN THEM 
IN THAT IN WHICH THEY DIFFERED AMONG THEM

18  THEN WE PUT YOU ON THE RIGHT WAY SO FOLLOW THAT WAY 
AND FOLLOW NOT THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW THE RIGHT WAY

19  THEY WILL BE OF NO USE TO YOU IN THE SIGHT OF THE CREATOR
THE WRONG DOERS STAND AS PROTECTORS OF ONE ANOTHER
BUT OF THE RIGHTEOUS, GOD IS THEIR PROTECTOR

20  THIS IS CLEAR EVIDENCE TO MEN AND GUIDANCE AND MERCY 
TO THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH WITH CERTAINTY

21  DO THOSE WHO SEEK AFTER EVIL 
THINK THAT WE WILL HOLD THEM EQUAL 
WITH THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND ARE FAITHFUL
AND THAT THEIR LIFE AND DEATH WILL BE EQUAL?  
NO, THEIR JUDGMENT IS DEFINITELY EVIL

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CHAPTER 45.  THE KNEELING                                                        SECTION 3.  PART XXV

22  GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH FOR JUST ENDS 
IN ORDER THAT EACH SOUL MAY FIND THE RECOMPENSE 

OF WHAT IT HAS EARNED JUSTLY
AND NONE OF THEM WILL BE DEALT WITH UNJUSTLY

23  THEN SEE HIM WHO TAKES AS HIS GOD VAIN THINGS 
KNOWING HIM AS SUCH GOD LEFT HIM STRAYING
AND SEALED HIS HEARING AND HEART AND UNDERSTANDING 
AND PUT ON HIS SIGHT A COVERING 
WHO THEN WILL GUIDE HIM AFTER GOD'S WITHDRAWING
WILL YOU NOT THEN HEED THE WARNING?

24  THEY SAY, WHAT IS THERE BUT OUR LIFE IN THIS WORLD FOR US?
WE LIVE AND WE DIE AND NOTHING BUT TIME CAN DESTROY US 

BUT OF THAT THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE FOR SURE
AND ABOUT IT THEY MERELY CONJECTURE

25  WHEN OUR CLEAR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO THEM 
THEIR ARGUMENT IS THIS WHICH IS SAID BY THEM 

BRING BACK OUR FOREFATHERS 
IF WHAT YOU SAY IS PROPER

26  SAY, GOD GIVES YOU LIFE AND DEATH AND FOR CERTAIN 
HE WILL GATHER YOU FOR THE DAY OF RESSURECTION 
ABOUT THAT OF WHICH THERE IS NO QUESTION
BUT MOST MEN HAVE NO COMPREHENSION 

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CHAPTER 45.  THE KNEELING                                                        SECTION 4.  PART XXV

27  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
BUT ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION 
THE FALSE ONES WILL SUFFER DESTRUCTION

28  AND YOU WILL SEE EVERY SECT BOWING THE KNEE 
AND EVERY SECT WILL BE CALLED TO ITS RECORD OF DEEDS
THIS DAY WILL YOU BE RECOMPENSED FOR ALL OF YOUR DEEDS

29  THIS OUR RECORD SPEAKS WITH TRUTH ABOUT YOU
FOR WE PUT ON RECORD ALL THAT YOU DID DO 

30  THOSE WHO BELIEVED AND DID RIGHTEOUS DEEDS
THEIR LORD WILL ADMIT THEM TO HIS MERCY 
THAT WILL BE THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT INDEED

31  BUT TO THOSE WHO REJECTED GOD, TO THEM WILL BE SAID 
WERE NOT OUR MESSAGES RECITED TO YOU?  BUT INSTEAD
YOU WERE ARROGANT AND SINFUL AND MISLEAD

32  AND WHEN IT WAS SAID THAT GOD'S PROMISE WAS SURE 
AND THAT THERE WAS NO DOUBT ABOUT THE COMING OF THE HOUR 
YOU USED TO SAY, WE KNOW NOT WHAT IS THE HOUR 
WE THINK ITS AN IDEA AND WE KNOW NOTHING FOR SURE

33  THEN THE EVIL THEY DID WILL BECOME MANIFEST TO THEM 
AND THAT WHICH THEY MOCKED WILL ENCOMPASS THEM 

34  IT WILL ALSO BE SAID, THIS DAY WE WILL FORGET YOU 
AS THE MEETING OF THIS DAY WAS FORGOTTEN BY YOU
YOUR ABODE IS THE FIRE AND NO ONE CAN HELP YOU  

35  THIS BECAUSE YOU USED TO TAKE GOD'S SIGNS IN MOCKERY 
AND BY THE LIFE OF THE WORLD YOU WERE DECEIVED 
FROM THAT DAY TAKEN OUT THEY WILL NOT BE 
NOR WILL THEY INTO GRACE BE RECEIVED 

36  THEN PRAISE BE TO GOD, THE LORD OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND HE IS THE LORD AND SUSTAINER OF ALL CREATION

37  THROUGHOUT HEAVEN AND EARTH TO HIM BE THE GLORY 
EXALTED IN POWER AND FULL OF WISDOM IS HE

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