CHAPTER 47.  MUHAMMAD                                                          SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THOSE WHO REJECT GOD AND HINDER MEN FROM GOD'S WAY
GOD WILL RENDER THEIR DEEDS ASTRAY 

2  BUT THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO GOOD AMONG THEM
AND BELIEVE IN THE BOOK SENT TO MUHAMMAD FOR THEM
FOR IT IS THE TRUTH, HE WILL REMOVE THEIR ILLS FROM THEM
AND IMPROVE GREATLY THE CONDITION OF THEM

3  THIS IS BECAUSE THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE IN GOD
FOLLOW VANITIES WHILE THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD
THEY ARE THE ONES WHO FOLLOW THE TRUTH FROM GOD
AND LESSONS ARE GIVEN TO MEN BY PARABLES FROM GOD

4  WHEN YOU MEET THE DISBELIEVERS 
SMITE AT THEIR NECKS AND WHEN YOU HAVE THEM IN YOUR POWER
BIND A BOND FIRMLY ON THEM THEREAFTER 
THEN IS THE TIME FOR GENEROSITY OR RANSOM EITHER
UNTIL THE WAR LAYS DOWN ITS BURDENS SO ARE YOU ORDERED 
BUT IF IT HAD BEEN YOUR LORD'S DESIRE
HE COULD HAVE EXACTED RETRIBUTION FROM THEM PRIOR
BUT HE LETS YOU FIGHT TO TEST SOME OF YOU WITH OTHERS 
THOSE WHO ARE SLAIN IN GOD'S WAY HE WILL NEVER 
ALLOW THEIR DEEDS TO BE LOST EVER

5  SOON WILL HE GUIDE THEM 
AND IMPROVE THE CONDITION OF THEM

6  AND HE WILL ADMIT THEM 
TO THE GARDEN WHICH HE HAS ANNOUNCED FOR THEM 

7  THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS AMONG YOU
IF YOU WILL AID GOD'S CAUSE HE WILL AID YOU
AND WILL PLANT YOUR FEET FIRMLY BENEATH YOU

8  BUT THOSE WHO REJECT GOD ARE HOPELESS 
AND GOD WILL RENDER THEIR DEEDS AS FRUITLESS

9  THAT IS BECAUSE THEY HATE GOD'S REVELATIONS 
SO HE HAS MADE THEIR DEEDS COME TO NO FRUITION

10  DO THEY NOT TRAVEL THROUGH THE EARTH
SO TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE FORMER?  
GOD BROUGHT DESTRUCTION ON THEM AND DISASTER
AND SIMILAR FATES AWAIT THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS

11  THAT IS BECAUSE GOD IS THE PROTECTOR 
OF ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
BUT THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
HAVE NO ONE AS A PROTECTOR

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CHAPTER 47.  MUHAMMAD                                                           SECTION 2.  PART XXVI

12  GOD WILL ADMIT THOSE WHO DO GOOD AND ARE BELIEVERS 
TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW PLEASANT RIVERS
WHILE THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
WILL ENJOY THIS WORLD AND EAT AS CATTLE AND THE FIRE
WILL BE THEIR ABODE IN THE HEREAFTER 

13  AND HOW MANY CITIES WITH MORE POWER THAN YOUR CITY 
WHICH HAS DRIVEN YOU OUT HAVE WE DESTROYED FOR THEIR INIQUITY
AND THERE WAS NONE TO AID THEM FROM THE PENALTY?

14  IS THEN ONE WHO IS ON A CLEAR PATH FROM HIS CREATOR
NO BETTER THAN ONE TO WHOM THE EVIL OF HIS BEHAVIOR
SEEMS PLEASING AND FOLLOW THEIR OWN DESIRES?

15  HERE IS A PARABLE OF THE GARDEN PROMISED THE BELIEVERS 
IN IT ARE RIVERS OF PURE WATER AND INCORRUPTIBLE RIVERS 
OF MILK OF WHICH THE TASTE NEVER CHANGES AND RIVERS 
OF WINE, A JOY TO THOSE WHO DRINK IT AND RIVERS 
OF HONEY RUNNING THROUGH PURE AND CLEAR 
FRUITS OF ALL KINDS AND MERCY FROM THEIR CREATOR
NOW ARE THESE LIKE THOSE THAT WILL DWELL IN THE FIRE
AND BE GIVEN TO DRINK NOTHING BUT HOT BOILING WATER
SO THAT IT CUTS UP THEIR BOWELS IN TORMENT AND TERROR?

16  AND AMONG THEM ARE MEN WHO LISTEN TO YOU
BUT IN THE END WHEN THEY GO OUT FROM YOU 

THEY SAY TO THOSE TO WHOM KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN GIVEN
WHAT IS IT THAT HE SAID JUST THEN? 

THESE ARE MEN WHOSE HEARTS GOD HAS SEALED UP
AND ARE UNJUST AND FOLLOW THEIR OWN LUSTS

17  BUT TO THOSE WHO RECEIVE GUIDANCE 
HE INCREASES THEIR LIGHT OF GUIDANCE 

AND BESTOWS ON THEM PIETY  
AND RESTRAINS THEM FROM INIQUITY

18  DO THEY WAIT FOR THE HOUR ONLY
FOR IT TO COME UPON THEM SUDDENLY?
SOME TOKENS OF IT HAVE COME ALREADY
AND WHEN IT INDEED DOES COME IN REALITY 
OF WHAT BENEFIT THEN WILL THEIR WARNING BE? 

19  BUT KNOW THEREFORE THAT THERE IS ONE GOD ONLY
AND THEN ASK FOR FORGIVENESS FOR YOUR DEEDS
AND FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO BELIEVE

FOR GOD KNOWS HOW YOU MOVE ABOUT 
AND HOW YOU DWELL IN YOUR HOMES IN AND OUT

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CHAPTER 47.  MUHAMMAD                                                           SECTION 3.  PART XXVI

20  THOSE WHO BELIEVE SAY, WHY IS NOT REVEALED A CHAPTER?  
BUT WHEN IS REVEALED A DECISIVE CHAPTER 
AND WHEN IN IT FIGHTING IS ORDERED
YOU WILL SEE THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS TERROR
LOOKING AT YOU LIKE ONE WHOM DEATH HOVERS OVER
      
21  BUT MORE FITTING FOR THEM
WERE IT TO OBEY AND SAY WHAT IS JUST OF THEM
AND THEN WHEN A MATTER IS RESOLVED ON FOR THEM
IF THEY WERE TRUE TO GOD IT WOULD BE BEST FOR THEM 

22  BUT IF YOU TURN AWAY YOU ARE SURE TO MAKE MISCHIEF
AND CUT OFF THE TIES OF KINSHIP AND FRIENDSHIP

23  THESE ARE THE MEN WHOM GOD HAS CURSED INDEED 
AND HAS MADE THEM DEAF AND BLIND SO THEY CANNOT SEE

24  AND THE QURAN, DO THEY NOT THEN SEEK TO UNDERSTAND IT
OR ARE THEIR HEARTS LOCKED UP SO THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND IT?

25  THOSE WHO TURN BACK AS APOSTATES AMONG THEM
AFTER GUIDANCE WAS CLEARLY SHOWN TO THEM 
IT IS THE DEVIL THAT HAS INSTIGATED THEM 
AND BEAUTIFIED FALSE HOPES FOR THEM

26  THIS IS BECAUSE THEY SAID TO THOSE WHO 
HATE WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED TO YOU

WE WILL OBEY YOU IN THIS MATTER IN PART
BUT GOD KNOWS THEIR INNER HEARTS

27  HOW WILL IT BE WHEN THE ANGELS TAKE THE SOULS OF THEM
AT DEATH AND SMITE THE FACES AND THE BACKS OF THEM

28  THIS BECAUSE THEY FOLLOWED THAT WHICH ANGERED GOD
AND THEY HATED GOD AND THE GOOD PLEASURES OF GOD
SO THEIR DEEDS WERE MADE OF NO EFFECT BY GOD 

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CHAPTER 47.  MUHAMMAD                                                           SECTION 4.  PART XXVI

29  OR DO THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE 
THINK THAT GOD WILL NOT EVENTUALLY
BRING TO LIGHT ALL THEIR ANTIPATHY?  

30  AND HAD WE SO WILLED WE COULD HAVE SHOWN THEM UP TO YOU
AND YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN THEM BY THEIR MARKS BUT YOU 
WILL KNOW THEM BY THE TONE OF THEIR SPEECH AND TOO
GOD KNOWS WELL ALL THAT YOU DO

31  AND WE WILL TRY YOU AND TEST THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
WHO STRIVE THEIR UTMOST AND PERSEVERE PATIENTLY
AND WE WILL TRY YOUR REPORTED FACTS JUSTLY

32  THOSE WHO REJECT GOD AND HINDER MEN FROM BELIEF 
AND RESIST THE APOSTLE AFTER BEING GUIDED CLEARLY 
WILL NOT INJURE THEIR LORD IN THE LEAST DEGREE
BUT HE WILL MAKE OF NO EFFECT THEIR DEEDS 

33  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE
OBEY GOD AND THE APOSTLE AND TAKE HEED
AND DO NOT MAKE OF NO ACCOUNT YOUR DEEDS

34  SURELY THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE 
AND HINDER MEN FROM BELIEF 
AND DIE IN DISBELIEF
GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE OR GIVE THEM ANY RELIEF

35  AND BE NOT SLACK SO AS TO CRY FOR PEACE
WHILE YOU ARE BEING UPPERMOST AND INDEED
GOD WILL NOT MAKE FRUITLESS YOUR DEEDS   

36  THIS WORLD'S LIFE IS BUT PLAY AND VANITY
AND IF YOU BELIEVE AND GUARD AGAINST INIQUITY
YOUR LORD WILL SURELY RECOMPENSE YOUR DEEDS
AND WILL NOT ASK YOU TO GIVE UP YOUR BOUNTIES 

37  IF HE WERE TO ASK YOU FOR THEM YOU SURELY
WOULD WITHOUT DOUBT WITHHOLD THEM COVETOUSLY
AND BRING OUT ALL OF YOUR ILL FEELING WITH CERTAINTY

38  YOU ARE INVITED TO SPEND YOUR SUBSTANCE FREELY
BUT AMONG YOU ARE SOME OF YOU THAT ARE MISERLY 
BUT ANY OF YOU WHO ARE MISERLY
ARE SO AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR OWN SOULS GREED
BUT GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND IT IS YOU THAT ARE IN NEED 
IF YOU TURN BACK FROM THE PATH THEN HE WILL INDEED
REPLACE YOU WITH PEOPLE WHO WILL TAKE HEED

   

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