CHAPTER 59.  THE GATHERING                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHATEVER IS IN HEAVEN EARTH GLORIFIES  
GOD, FOR HE IS MIGHTY AND WISE

2  IT IS HE WHO GOT OUT THE DISBELIEVERS 
FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
FROM THEIR HOMES IN THE BANISHMENT PRIOR
THAT THEY WOULD GET OUT YOU DID NOT CONSIDER 
THEY THOUGHT THAT THEIR BARRIERS
WOULD DEFEND THEM FROM THE CREATOR
BUT GOD'S WRATH CAME TO THEM FROM QUARTERS 
FROM WHICH THEY DID NOT CONSIDER
AND INTO THEIR HEARTS CAST TERROR 
AND THEIR DWELLINGS THEY SHATTERED 
BY THEIR OWN HANDS AND THE BELIEVERS  
SO WITH YOUR EYES OBSERVE AND CONSIDER

3  AND HAD IT NOT BEEN THAT GOD HAD ORDERED 
BANISHMENT FOR THEM HE WOULD HAVE FOR SURE 
PUNISHED THEM IN THIS WORLD AND IN THE HEREAFTER 
THEY WILL CERTAINLY HAVE THE PUNISHMENT OF THE FIRE

4  THAT IS BECAUSE THEY RESISTED GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND IF ANY ONE RESISTS THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER 
GOD'S PUNISHMENT IS STRICT AND SEVERE

5  WHETHER YOU CUT THE TENDER PALM TREES ASUNDER
OR LEFT THEM STANDING ON THEIR ROOTS IT WAS BY GOD'S ORDER
THAT WITH SHAME HE MIGHT COVER THE REBELLIOUS TRANSGRESSORS

6  WHAT GOD HAS FROM THEM BESTOWED ON HIS MESSENGER
FOR THIS YOU MADE NO EXPEDITION WITH EITHER 
CAVALRY OR INFANTRY BUT GOD GIVES POWER 
TO HIS MESSENGERS OVER ANY HE DESIRES
AND OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER

7  AND WHAT GOD HAS BESTOWED ON HIS MESSENGER
AND TAKEN AWAY FROM THE TOWN'S DWELLERS 
BELONGS TO GOD AND TO HIS MESSENGER
AND KINDRED AND ORPHANS, THE NEEDY AND WAYFARERS
IN ORDER THAT IT MAY NOT MERELY MAKE A CIRCULAR
BETWEEN THOSE AMONG YOU WHO ARE RICHER 
SO TAKE WHAT IS ASSIGNED TO YOU BY THE MESSENGER 
AND DENY YOURSELVES THAT OF WHICH HE DETERS
AND FEAR GOD FOR HIS PUNISHMENT IS SEVERE

      

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 CHAPTER 59.  THE GATHERING                               SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXVIII

8  SOME PART IS DUE TO THE INDIGENT MIGRATORS
WHO WERE EXPELLED FROM WHERE THEY WERE DWELLERS
WHILE SEEKING GOD'S GRACE  AND HIS GOOD PLEASURE 
AND AIDING THE CREATOR AND HIS MESSENGER
THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE SINCERE 

9  THOSE WHO HAD HOMES IN THE CITY
AND WHO ADOPTED THE FAITH FORMERLY
LOVE THOSE WHO CAME TO THEM FOR SECURITY 
AND IN THEIR HEARTS FOR THEIR THINGS HAVE NO NEED  
BUT PREFER THEM OVER THEMSELVES THOUGH IN POVERTY
AND WHOEVER IS SAVED FROM BEING MISERLY
THEY WILL SURELY ACHIEVE PROSPERITY

10  AND THOSE WHO CAME AFTER 
SAY, OUR LORD, FORGIVE US AND OUR BROTHERS 
WHO CAME BEFORE US AS BELIEVERS
AND LEAVE NOT IN OUR HEARTS ANY RANCOR
OR SENSE OF INJURY AGAINST THE BELIEVERS 
YOU ARE INDEED THE MERCIFUL FORGIVER

 

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CHAPTER 59.  THE GATHERING                                                 SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

11  HAVE YOU NOT BEEN AN OBSERVER 
OF THE HYPOCRITES SAYING TO THEIR DISBELIEVING BROTHERS 
AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES  
IF YOU ARE EXPELLED WE WILL GO OUT WITH YOU TOGETHER 
WE WILL NEVER LISTEN TO ANYONE IN YOUR AFFAIR
AND IF YOU ARE ATTACKED WE WILL BE YOUR HELPERS 
BUT GOD IS THE WITNESS THAT THEY ARE LIARS

12  IF THEY ARE EXPELLED NEVER WILL THEY GO OUT WITH THEM 
AND IF THEY ARE ATTACKED THEY WILL NEVER HELP THEM 
BUT THEY WILL SURELY TURN THEIR BACKS TO THEM
SO THEY WILL RECEIVE NO HELP FROM THEM 

13  SURELY YOU ARE STRONGER 
THAN THEY BECAUSE OF THE TERROR 
IN THEIR HEARTS SENT BY THE CREATOR
FOR THEY ARE MEN COMPLETELY IN ERROR

14  THEY WILL NOT FIGHT YOU EVEN AS A BODY TOGETHER 
EXCEPT IN FORTIFIED CITIES OR FROM BEHIND BARRIERS
THEIR FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES IS SEVERE  
YOU WOULD THINK THEY WERE TOGETHER 
BUT THEIR HEARTS ARE DIVIDED AGAINST EACH OTHER
AND THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLETELY IN ERROR

15  LIKE THOSE WHO PRECEEDED THEM LATELY 
HAVE TASTED THE EVIL RESULT OF THEIR ACTIVITY
AND IN THE HEREAFTER THERE IS FOR THEM A PENALTY

16  LIKE THE DEVIL WHEN HE SAYS TO MEN, DENY GOD 
BUT WHEN MAN OBEYS THE DEVIL AND DENIES GOD 
THE DEVIL SAYS, I AM FREE OF YOU, I FEAR GOD 

17  THE END OF THEM WILL BE THAT THEY WILL GO INTO THE FIRE 
DWELLING IN IT AS A REWARD FOR THE WRONG-DOERS

 

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CHAPTER 59.  THE GATHERING                                                 SECTION 3.  PART XXVIII

18  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
FEAR GOD AND LET EVERY PERSON CONSIDER
WHAT PROVISIONS HE HAS SENT FORTH FOR THE FUTURE 
YES, FEAR GOD FOR GOD KNOWS ALL OF YOUR ENDEAVORS

19  AND BE NOT LIKE THOSE WHO FORGOT THEIR CREATOR
AND HE MADE THEM FORGET THEIR OWN SOULS ALL TOGETHER
AND FURTHER THEY ARE REBELLIOUS TRANSGRESSORS

20  NOT EQUAL ARE THE FIRE'S COMPANIONS 
AND THE COMPANIONS OF THE GARDEN 
IT IS THE GARDEN'S COMPANIONS THAT ACHIEVE SALVATION

21  HAD WE SENT DOWN THIS QURAN ON A MOUNTAIN
YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN IT CRUMBLE FOR CERTAIN 
THESE ARE THE PARABLES WE MAKE TO MEN
THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE ADMONITION

22  GOD IS HE BESIDES WHOM THERE IS NO OTHER DIETY
AND HE KNOWS ALL THINGS DONE OPENLY AND SECRETLY 
AND HE IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

23  AND GOD IS HE BESIDES WHOM THERE IS NO OTHER DEITY
THE SOVEREIGN, THE SOURCE OF PERFECTION AND PEACE
THE GUARDIAN OF FAITH, THE PRESERVER OF SAFETY 
THE IRRESISTIBLE, THE SUPREME, THE ALMIGHTY
GLORY TO GOD, HIGHLY EXALTED IS HE 
ABOVE THE PARTNERS THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM INDEED

24  HE IS GOD, THE CREATOR, THE EVOLVER 
HE IS THE BESTOWER OF FORMS OR COLORS 
TO HIM BELONG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAMES OF HONOR
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH DECLARE HIS POWER 
AND HE IS ALL WISE AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

             

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