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PART XXVI

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  WE CREATED NOT THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND ALL BETWEEN THEM BUT FOR JUST ENDS 
BUT THOSE BENT ON REJECTION
TURN AWAY FROM THE ADMONITION

4  SAY, DO YOU SEE WHAT IT IS BESIDES GOD YOU SERVE?  
SHOW ME WHAT THEY HAVE CREATED ON EARTH

OR HAVE THEY ANY SHARE IN THE HEAVENS?  
THEN BRING ME A BOOK BEFORE THIS REVELATION
OR ANY REMNANT OF KNOWLEDGE IN YOUR POSSESSION
IF YOU ARE AT ALL TRUTHFUL IN ANY OF YOUR ASSERTIONS

5  AND WHO IS MORE ASTRAY THAN ONE WHO WORSHIPS THINGS
WHO TO JUDGMENT DAY WILL GIVE THEM NO ANSWERING 
AND IN FACT HAVE NO HEARING OF THEIR CALLING 

6  AND WHEN MANKIND ARE GATHERED TOGETHER 
THEY WILL BE HOSTILE TO THEM AND WILL BE REJECTERS
OF THEIR WORSHIP OF THEM ALTOGETHER

7  WHEN OUR CLEAR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO THE DISBELIEVERS 
THEY SAY OF THE TRUTH, THIS IS THE WORK OF A SORCERER

8  OR THEY SAY, HE HAS FORGED IT. SAY, HAD I FORGED IT REALLY
THEN CAN YOU OBTAIN A SINGLE BLESSING FROM GOD FOR ME? 
AND HE KNOWS BEST OF THAT OF WHICH YOU TALK SO GLIBLY 
AND ENOUGH IS HE FOR A WITNESS BETWEEN YOU AND ME 
AND MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL IS HE

9  SAY, I AM NO BRINGER OF NEW INFORMATION
NOR DO I KNOW WHAT WITH YOU OR ME WILL BE DONE  
I ONLY FOLLOW THAT WHICH IS REVEALED TO ME BY INSPIRATION  
AND I AM ONLY A WARNER TO YOU CLEAR AND OPEN

10  SAY, SEE IF THIS TEACHING BE FROM GOD AND YOU REJECT IT
AND A WITNESS FROM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TESTIFIES TO IT 

AS TO ITS SIMILARITY WITH EARLIER TESTAMENT
AND HAS BELIEVED WHILE YOU ARE ARROGANT
AND GOD GUIDES NOT THE IGNORANT

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11  DISBELIEVERS SAY OF THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
IF THIS MESSAGE WERE REALLY A GOOD THING TO OCCUR
SUCH MEN WOULD NOT HAVE RECEIVED IT BEFORE US FOR SURE

SEEING THAT THEY GUIDE NOT THEMSELVES THEREBY
AND THEY WILL SAY, THIS IS JUST AN OLD LIE

12  BEFORE THIS THE BOOK OF MOSES WAS A GUIDE AND A MERCY 
AND THIS BOOK CONFIRMS IN THE ARABIC CLEARLY
TO ADMONISH THOSE WHO ACT UNJUSTLY  
AND AS GLAD TIDINGS TO THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

13  THOSE WHO SAY, OUR LORD IS GOD TRULY
AND REMAIN FIRM ON THAT PATH STEADFASTLY
THEY WILL NOT GRIEVE NOR WILL THEY BE FEARFULLY

14  THEY WILL BE COMPANIONS OF THE GARDEN 
A REWARD FOR THE RIGHTEOUS AMONG MEN

15  ON MAN WE HAVE ORDAINED KINDNESS TO HIS PARENTS ON HIM
FOR SURELY IN PAIN DID HIS MOTHER BEAR HIM
AND IN PAIN DID SHE GIVE BIRTH TO HIM
AND THE CARRYING OF THE CHILD TO THE WEANING OF HIM

IS A PERIOD OF TWO AND ONE HALF YEARS 
WHEN HE REACHES FULL STRENGTH AND ATTAINS FORTY YEARS
THEN HE SAYS, GRANT ME OH CREATOR
THAT I MAY BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR FAVOR

WHICH YOU HAVE BESTOWED UPON ME 
AND UPON BOTH MY PARENTS BEFORE ME
THAT I MAY DO THAT WHICH YOU ARE PLEASED
OH MY LORD, BE GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL TO ME 
I DO TURN TO YOU AND BOW TO YOU SUBMISSIVELY 

16  THOSE ARE THE ONES FROM WHOM WE INDEED
ACCEPT FROM THEM THE BEST OF THEIR DEEDS 
AND WE PASS BY THEIR EVIL DEEDS 

THEY WILL BE AMONG THE COMPANIONS OF THE GARDEN
AND THIS WAS A PROMISE TO THEM NOT TO BE BROKEN

17  BUT THERE IS ONE WHO SAYS TO HIS PARENTS, SHAME ON YOU 
DO YOU HOLD OUT THE PROMISE TO ME TO BE TRUE

THAT I WILL BE RAISED UP EVEN THOUGH GENERATIONS 
HAVE PASSED BEFORE ME WITHOUT RISING AGAIN? 

AND THEY SEEK GOD'S AID AND WOE TO YOU
HAVE FAITH FOR SURELY THE PROMISE OF GOD IS TRUE 
BUT HE SAYS, THIS IS BUT STORIES OF THE ANCIENTS TOLD BY YOU

18  AND THEY ARE WHOM THE WORD IS PROVED TRUE AMONG NATIONS
OF MEN AND DEMONS THAT HAVE PASSED OF FORMER GENERATIONS
FOR THEY WILL BE IN AN UTTERLY LOST SITUATION

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19  TO ALL ARE ASSIGNED DEGREES ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS 
THAT GOD MAY RECOMPENSE THEM FOR THEIR DEEDS 
AND THEY WILL NOT BE DEALT WITH UNJUSTLY

20  AND ON THE DAY THAT THE DISBELIEVERS 
WILL BE PLACED BEFORE THE FIRE 
IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM, YOU RECEIVED GOOD FAVORS
IN THE WORLD'S LIFE AND YOU TOOK YOUR PLEASURE
OUT OF THEM BUT TODAY YOU WILL FOR SURE

BE RECOMPENSED WITH A SEVERE PENALTY OF HUMILIATION 
FOR THAT YOU WERE ARROGANT WITHOUT JUSTIFICATION 
AND THAT YOU CONTINUED IN TRANSGRESSION

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21  MENTION HUD, ONE OF AD'S OWN BROTHERS 
HE WAS TO HIS PEOPLE A WARNER 
ABOUT THE SANDHILLS BUT THERE HAVE BEEN WARNERS 
BEFORE HIM AND AFTER HIM SAYING, WORSHIP NONE OTHER
THAN GOD, THE CREATOR, YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
FOR I FEAR FOR YOU THE PENALTY OF A MIGHTY DISASTER

22  THEY SAID, HAVE YOU COME IN ORDER TO TURN US 
ASIDE FROM OUR GODS?  THEN BRING DOWN UPON US 
THE CALAMITY WITH WHICH YOU DO THREATEN US 
IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH TO US

23  SO HE SAID, THE KNOWLEDGE OF IT WITH GOD ONLY
I PROCLAIM TO YOU THE MESSAGE WHICH IS WITH ME   
BUT YOU ARE A PEOPLE WHO BEHAVE IGNORANTLY

24  WHEN THEY SAW A CLOUD ADVANCING TOWARDS THEIR VALLEYS 
THEY SAID, THIS CLOUD WILL GIVE US RAIN.  NO, IT IS THE CALAMITY 
YOU WANTED HASTENED, A WIND WHEREIN IS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

25  IT WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING
BY THE COMMAND OF ITS LORD THEN BY THE MORNING 
NOTHING WAS TO BE SEEN BUT THE RUINS OF THEIR DWELLINGS 
SO DO WE RECOMPENSE THOSE GIVEN TO TRANSGRESSING

26  AND WE HAD FIRMLY ESTABLISHED THEM IN ABILITY
WE HAVE NOT GIVEN YOU AND GAVE THEM FACULTIES  
OF HEARING, SEEING, HEART AND INTELLIGENCY
BUT OF NO PROFIT TO THEM WERE THEIR FACULTIES 
OF HEARING, SIGHT AND HEART AND INTELLEGENCY
WHEN THEY REJECTED THE SIGNS OF GOD HABITUALLY
AND THEY WERE ENCIRCLED COMPLETELY
BY THAT OF WHICH THEY USED TO MAKE MOCKERY

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27  AND WE DESTROYED BEFORE YOU MANY POPULATIONS 
AND IN VARIOUS WAYS WE HAVE SHOWN THE LESSONS
SO THAT THEY MAY TURN TO US IN SUBMISSION

28  WHY THEN WAS NO HELP IN PROGRESSION 
TO THEM FROM THOSE WHOM THEY GAVE DEVOTION
BESIDES GOD WITH TO WHOM THEY GAVE ASSOCIATION?  
NO, THEY LEFT THEM IN THE LURCH BUT THEIR INVENTION 
AND FALSEHOOD LED TO THEIR DESTRUCTION

29  WE TURNED TOWARDS YOU A COMPANY OF DEMONS 
QUIETLY LISTENING TO THE QURAN 

WHEN THEY STOOD IN THE PRESENCE 
THEY SAID, LISTEN IN SILENCE 

WHEN THE READING WAS FINISHED THEY RETURNED AGAIN
TO THEIR PEOPLE TO WARN THEM OF THEIR SINS

30  THEY SAID, OH OUR PEOPLE, WE HAVE HEARD A SCRIPTURE
REVEALED AFTER MOSES CONFIRMING WHAT CAME PRIOR 
AND IT GUIDES MEN TO TRUTH AND A WAY THAT IS SURE

31  OH OUR PEOPLE, LISTEN TO THE ONE WHO TO GOD HE INVITES YOU 
AND BELIEVE IN HIM, HE WILL FORGIVE YOUR FAULTS FOR YOU 
AND FROM A GRIEVOUS PENALTY HE WILL DELIVER YOU

32  IF ANY LISTEN NOT TO HE WHO INVITES US TO GOD 
HE CANNOT FRUSTRATE THE PLAN OF GOD 
AND NO PROTECTORS CAN HE HAVE BESIDES GOD 
SUCH MEN WANDER IN ERROR FROM GOD

33  SEE THEY NOT THAT GOD WHO CREATED EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND NEVER WEARIED WITH THEIR CREATION 
IS ABLE TO GIVE LIFE TO THE DEAD IN RESSURECTION? 
FOR HE HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

34  AND ON THE DAY THAT THE DISBELIEVERS 
WILL BE PLACED BEFORE THE FIRE 
THEY WILL THEN BE ASKED THEREAFTER
IS THIS NOT THE TRUTH FROM YOUR MAKER
AND THEY WILL SAY,  YES,  BY OUR LORD AND SUSTAINER
ONE WILL SAY, TASTE THE PENALTY OF WHAT YOU WERE A DENIER

35  SO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE AS DID ALL THE MESSENGERS
AND BE IN NO HASTE ABOUT THE DISBELIEVERS
WHEN THEY SEE THE PENALTY THAT THEY WERE ASSURED
IT WILL BE AS IF THEY HAD NOT STAYED BUT AN HOUR  
YOURS IS BUT TO PROCLAIM THE MESSAGE CLEAR
BUT WILL ANY BE DESTROYED EXCEPT THE WRONG DOERS?

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