CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                                   SECTION 1.  PART VII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE BENEFICENT AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
AND WHO MADE THE DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT TOGETHER
BUT THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH HOLD OTHERS 
AS EQUALS WITH THEIR CREATOR

2  HE IT IS WHO FROM CLAY CREATED YOU 
AND THEN DECREED A STATED TERM FOR YOU 
THERE IS IN HIS PRESENCE ANOTHER TERM FOR YOU
YET YOU HAVE DOUBTS WITHIN YOU

3  AND HE IS GOD ON THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS 
HE KNOWS WHAT YOU REVEAL AND WHAT YOU KEEP HIDDEN 
AND WHAT YOU EARN BY YOUR DEEDS HE KNOWS WHAT IS THEREIN

4  NEVER DID ANY OF THE SIGNS OF THEIR LORD REACH THEM 
BUT THEY ARROGANTLY TURNED AWAY FROM THEM

5  AND THEY REJECT TRUTH WHEN IT COMES CLEARLY
BUT SOON WILL THEY SURELY LEARN THE REALITY
OF WHAT THEY USED TO MAKE MOCKERY

6  SEE THEY NOT HOW MANY GENERATIONS BEFORE THEM
WE DID COMPLETELY DESTROY BEFORE THEM
THAT WE HAD ESTABLISHED ON EARTH BEFORE THEM
AND WITH STRENGTH THAT WE HAVE NOT GIVEN TO THEM?
FOR WHOM WE POURED RAIN FROM THE SKIES FOR THEM
AND GAVE FERTILE STREAMS FLOWING BENEATH THEM
BUT FOR THEIR SINS WE DESTROYED THEM
AND THEN WE RAISED UP AFTER THEM
FRESH GENERATIONS TO SUCCEED THEM

7  AND IF WE HAD SENT TO YOU A WRITTEN MESSAGE ON PAPER 
THEY COULD TOUCH WITH THEIR HANDS, THE DISBELIEVERS 
WOULD HAVE SAID, THIS IS THE WORK OF A SORCERER

8  THEY SAY, WHY IS NOT SENT DOWN TO HIM AN ANGEL?
AND IF WE DID SEND DOWN AN ANGEL 
THE MATTER WOULD BE IMMEDIATELY SETTLED 
AND NO RESPITE WOULD BE GRANTED THE PEOPLE

9  AND SURELY IF WE HAD APPOINTED AN ANGEL THEN FOR CERTAIN
WE WOULD HAVE SENT HIM AS A MAN AND CAUSED CONFUSION 
IN A MATTER IN WHICH THEY ARE ALREADY IN CONFUSION

10  MANY APOSTLES BEFORE YOU WERE MOCKED
BUT THEIR SCOFFERS WERE HEMMED IN BY WHAT THEY MOCKED

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11  SAY, TRAVEL THE EARTH THROUGH 
AND SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THE REJECTERS BEFORE YOU

12  SAY, TO WHOM BELONGS ALL THAT IS IN 
THE  EARTH AND THE HEAVENS?
SAY, TO GOD WHO HAS MADE FOR HIMSELF A DECLARATION 
THE RULE OF COMPASSION, AND ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
HE WILL GATHER YOU TOGETHER AS ONE
THE LOSERS WILL BE THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION  

13  TO HIM BELONGS ALL THINGS 
THAT LURK IN THE NIGHT AND ALL THINGS
THAT DWELL IN THE DAY, FOR OF ALL THINGS
GOD IS ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING 

14  SAY, SHOULD I TAKE OTHER THAN GOD FOR MY PROTECTOR  
AND IT IS HE THAT FEEDS BUT IS FED NOT BY OTHERS?  
SAY, NO, I AM COMMANDED TO BOW TO THE CREATOR 
AND TO BE NOT OF THOSE WHO JOIN WITH HIM PARTNERS

15  SAY, IF MY LORD I WERE TO DISOBEY
I WOULD FEAR THE PENALTY OF A MIGHTY DAY

16  THAT DAY IF THE PENALTY IS AVERTED FROM ANY 
IT WILL BE DUE TO GOD'S MERCY 
AND THAT WOULD BE SALVATION SURELY
THE  FULFILLMENT OF ALL DESIRES COMPLETELY

17  IF GOD TOUCHES YOU WITH AFFLICTION
IT CANNOT BE REMOVED BY ANYONE 
AND IF HE TOUCHES YOU WITH COMPASSION
HE HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

18  HE IS THE IRRESISTIBLE AND ALWAYS WATCHING 
OVER THOSE WHO OF HIM ARE WORSHIPPING
AND HE IS ALL WISE AND ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THINGS

19  SAY, WHAT THING IS THE WEIGHTIEST IN TESTIMONY?
SAY, GOD IS WITNESS BETWEEN YOU AND ME 
THIS QURAN WAS REVEALED BY INSPIRATION TO ME 
THAT I MAY WARN YOU AND ALL WHOM IT DOES REACH
AND CAN YOU BEAR WITNESS REALLY
THAT BESIDES GOD THERE IS ANOTHER DEITY? 
SAY, NO I CANNOT BEAR WITNESS TRUTHFULLY
HE IS THE ONE GOD AND I JOIN NO ONE WITH HIM EQUALLY

20  THOSE TO WHOM WE HAVE GIVEN THE BOOK ARE THE ONES 
THAT KNOW THIS AS THEY KNOW THEIR OWN SONS
BUT THEY ARE LOSERS WHO ARE IN REJECTION

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21  WHO IS MORE WRONG THAN HE WHO LIES ABOUT THE CREATOR 
OR HE WHO OF HIS MESSAGES ARE REJECTERS 
BUT THE WRONG-DOERS WILL NOT PROSPER

22  ONE DAY WILL WE GATHER THEM ALL TOGETHER 
AND WE WILL SAY TO THOSE WHO ASCRIBED TO US PARTNERS 
WHOM THEY TALKED AND LIED ABOUT, WHERE ARE THOSE PARTNERS?

23  THERE WILL BE LEFT NO CHOICE FOR THEM BUT TO UTTER
WE WERE NOT THOSE WHO JOINED WITH GOD PARTNERS

24  SEE HOW AGAINST THEIR OWN SOULS THEY LIE
BUT THEY WILL BE LEFT IN THE LURCH BY THEIR OWN LIES

25  SOME OF THEM PRETEND TO LISTEN  
WE PUT VEILS ON THEIR HEARTS SO THEY HAVE NO COMPREHENSION
AND WE PUT DEAFNESS IN THEIR EARS SO THAT EVEN THEN
IF THEY SAW  ALL THE SIGNS THEY  WOULD NOT BELIEVE THEN EVEN    
WHEN THEY COME TO YOU THEY COME WITH DISPUTATIONS
THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, THESE BUT ARE STORIES OF THE ANCIENTS

26  THEY KEEP OTHERS AWAY FROM IT 
AND THEY KEEP THEMSELVES AWAY FROM IT
THEY DESTROY THEIR OWN SOULS AND DO NOT PERCEIVE IT

27  IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE WHEN THEY ARE CONFRONTED WITH THE FIRE 
THEY WILL SAY, IF WE COULD GO BACK WE WOULD NOT BE REJECTERS 
OF THE SIGNS OF OUR LORD BUT WE WOULD BE BELIEVERS 

28  IT WILL BE MANIFEST TO THEM WHAT BEFORE TO THEM WAS HIDDEN 
IF THEY WENT BACK THEY WOULD GO BACK TO WHAT THEY WERE FORBIDDEN
FOR THEY ARE SURELY LIARS AND ADDICTED TO SIN

29  AND THEY SAY, THERE IS NOTHING EXCEPT OUR EARTHLY LIFE
AND NEVER WILL WE BE RAISED UP AGAIN TO LIFE

30  IF YOU COULD BUT SEE WHEN THEY STAND BEFORE THEIR LORD
HE WILL SAY, IS THIS THE TRUTH?  AND THEY WILL SAY, YES OUR LORD 
AND HE WILL SAY, BECAUSE YOU DISBELIEVED THE FIRE IS YOUR REWARD

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                                  SECTION 4.  PART VII

31  LOST INDEED ARE THEY WHO FALSELY TREAT IT
THAT THEY MUST MEET GOD UNTIL THEY LOOK UP AND SEE IT 
AND THEY SAY, CURSED ARE WE THAT WE TOOK NO THOUGHT OF IT

FOR THEY BEAR ON THEIR BACKS THEIR BURDENS 
AND EVIL INDEED ARE THEIR BURDENS 

32  WHAT IS THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD BUT PLAY AND AMUSEMENT
BUT THE HOME IN THE HEREAFTER IS THE BEST ENJOYMENT

33  WE KNOW THEIR WORDS CAUSE YOU TO FRET
BUT IT IS NOT YOU THAT THE DISBELIEVERS REJECT 
IT IS THE MESSAGES OF GOD THAT THE WICKED REJECT

34   REJECTED WERE THE MESSENGERS PRIOR 
WITH PATIENCE AND CONSTANCY THEY PERSEVERED
AND BORE THEIR WRONGS FROM THEIR REJECTERS 
UNTIL OUR AID REACHED THEM AND NONE  CAN ALTER
THE WORDS AND DECREES OF THE CREATOR
YOU HAVE RECEIVED SOME ACCOUNT OF GOD'S MESSENGERS

35  THEIR TURNING AWAY IS HARD ON YOU FROM THEM
IF YOU COULD SEEK A TUNNEL INTO THE GROUND FOR THEM
OR A LADDER TO REACH THE SKIES AND BRING A SIGN TO THEM 
WHAT GOOD WOULD IT REALLY DO FOR THEM?
IF GOD WILLED HE COULD GATHER AND GUIDE THEM 
THEY ARE SWAYED BY IGNORANCE SO BE NOT AMONG THEM 

36  THOSE WHO LISTEN IN TRUTH, BE SURE THEY WILL 
ACCEPT IT, AND AS TO THE DEAD, GOD WILL 
RAISE THEM UP, AND THEN THEY WILL 
BE RETURNED TO HIM ACCORDING TO HIS WILL

37  THEY SAY, WHY IS NOT A SIGN SENT DOWN FOR THEM 
SAY, GOD HAS POWER TO SEND DOWN A SIGN TO THEM
BUT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND MOST OF THEM 

38  THERE IS NOT AN ANIMAL ON EARTH NOR A FLYING SPECIES
BUT FORMS SOCIETIES SIMILAR TO YOUR COMMUNITIES  

AND NOTHING HAVE WE OMITTED FROM THE SCRIPTURES
AND IN THE END TO THEIR LORD THEY ALL WILL BE GATHERED  

39  THOSE WHO REJECT OUR MESSAGES
ARE DEAF AND DUMB IN THE MIDST OF DARKNESS 

GOD LEAVES TO WANDER WHOM HE WILLS 
HE PLACES ON THE STRAIGHT WAY WHOM HE WILLS 

40  SAY, THINK TO YOURSELVES IF THERE COMES UPON YOU 
THE WRATH OF GOD OR THE HOUR THAT IS DREADED BY YOU
WOULD YOU CALL OTHER THAN GOD?  REPLY IF YOU ARE TRUE

41  NO, ON HIM YOU WOULD SURELY CALL 
AND IF IT BE HIS WILL HE WOULD REMOVE ALL
OF THE DISTRESS WHICH HAD CAUSED YOU TO CALL 
THE FALSE GODS YOU WORSHIPPED YOU WOULD FORGET THEM ALL

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                                  SECTION 5.  PART VII

42  BEFORE YOU WE SENT APOSTLES TO MANY NATIONS 
WITH ADVERSITY WE AFFLICTED THE NATIONS 
SO THEY MIGHT LEARN HUMILIATION

43  WHEN THEY SUFFERED ADVERSITY
WHY DID THEY NOT THEN LEARN HUMILITY?
THEIR HEARTS BECAME HARDENED CONTRARILY
AND SATAN MADE THEIR SINFUL ACTS SEEM GOODLY

44  BUT THEN WHEN THEY DID FORGET THE WARNINGS 
WE OPENED UP TO THEM THE GATES OF GOOD THINGS 
AND THEN WHILE OUR GIFTS THEY WERE ENJOYING 
SUDDENLY WE CALLED THEM INTO ACCOUNTING
THEN THEY WERE PLUNGED INTO DESPAIRING

45  THE LAST REMNANT WAS CUT OFF OF THE WRONG-DOERS 
PRAISE BE TO GOD, THE LORD AND CHERISHER 

46 SAY, IF GOD TOOK YOUR SIGHT AND HEARING FROM YOU
AND THEN HE SEALED UP YOUR HEART THAT IS WITHIN YOU
WHAT GOD BESIDES GOD COULD RESTORE THEM TO YOU?
SEE HOW WE EXPLAIN THE MESSAGES IN DETAIL TO YOU?  
YET YOU TURN AWAY AFTER THEY ARE CLEAR TO YOU

47  SAY, DO YOU THINK IF GOD'S PENALTY
DOES COME TO YOU SUDDENLY OR OPENLY
WILL ANY BE DESTROYED EXCEPT THE GUILTY?

48  WE SENT THE APOSTLES ONLY 
TO GIVE GOOD NEWS AND TO GIVE WARNING CLEARLY 
FOR THOSE WHO MEND THEIR LIVES AND BELIEVE
WILL BE NO FEAR NOR WILL THEY GRIEVE

49  BUT THOSE WHO REJECT OUR SIGNS WILL EARN THE PENALTY 
FOR THAT THEY CEASED NOT FROM ACTING SINFULLY 

50  SAY, I TELL YOU NOT THAT I HAVE GOD'S TREASURES WITH ME
NOR DO I KNOW WHAT IS HIDDEN SECRETLY
NOR AM I AN ANGEL IN DECREE
BUT I ONLY FOLLOW WHAT IS REVEALED TO ME 
SAY, CAN THE BLIND BE HELD EQUAL TO THOSE WHO CAN SEE?
WILL YOU NOT THEN CONSIDER CAREFULLY?

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                                   SECTION 6.  PART VII

51  WARN THOSE WHO IN THEIR HEARTS IS THE FEAR 
THAT THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE GOD TO APPEAR
AND EXCEPT FOR HIM THEY WILL HAVE NO PROTECTOR 
NOR INTERCESSOR SO THEY WILL NOT BE TRANSGRESSORS

52  SEND NOT AWAY THOSE WHO CALL ON GOD IN THE MORNING 
AND THEY CALL ON HIM SEEKING HIS WAY IN THE EVENING

YOU ARE NOT ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEM AND IN NOTHING ARE THEY 
ACCOUNTABLE TO YOU THAT YOU SHOULD TURN THEM AWAY 
AND THEN BE ONE WHO ACTS IN AN UNJUST WAY

53  SO DID WE TRY SOME OF THEM BY COMPARISON WITH OTHERS 
THAT THEY SHOULD SAY, IS IT THESE THAT GOD FAVORED?  
OF THOSE WHO ARE GRATEFUL, GOD IS THE KNOWER

54  WHEN BELIEVERS COME TO YOU ADDRESS THEM PEACEFULLY 
YOUR LORD HAS ASCRIBED FOR HIMSELF THE RULE OF MERCY 
IF ANY DID EVIL IGNORANTLY AND REPENTED SINCERELY
AND AMENDED HIS CONDUCT, GOD IS FULL OF MERCY

55  WE EXPLAIN THE MESSAGES IN DETAIL TO YOU
THAT THE WAY OF THE SINNERS MAY BE SHOWN TO YOU

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                                   SECTION 7.  PART VII

56  SAY, I AM FORBIDDEN TO WORSHIP BESIDES GOD 
THEY WHOM YOU CALL ON BESIDES GOD

AND SAY TO THEM , I WILL NOT FOLLOW YOUR WAYS
IF I DID I WOULD STRAY FROM THE RIGHT WAY
AND THEN BE OF THOSE WHO GO ASTRAY

57  SAY, FOR ME I DO WORK ON A CLEAR SIGN FROM THE CREATOR
BUT YOU DO INSIST UPON BEING DISBELIEVERS AND REJECTERS 
AND WHAT YOU WOULD SEE HASTENED IS NOT IN MY POWER 
THE COMMAND RESTS WITH NONE BUT GOD, THE CREATOR
HE DECLARES THE TRUTH AND IS THE BEST OF DECODERS

58  SAY, IF WHAT YOU WOULD SEE HASTENED WERE IN MY POWER
THEN YOU AND I WOULD IMMEDIATELY SETTLE THE MATTER   
BUT GOD KNOWS BEST THOSE WHO ARE WRONGDOERS

59  WITH HIM ARE THE KEYS OF THE UNSEEN
AND THE TREASURES THAT NONE KNOWS BUT HE
AND HE KNOWS WHATEVER IS ON THE EARTH AND IN THE SEA
AND NOT A LEAF FALLS BUT HE KNOWS IT ALL INDEED
AND THERE IS NOT A GRAIN IN THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH UNSEEN
NOR ANYTHING DRY, FRESH, WITHERED OR GREEN 
BUT IS INSCRIBED IN A RECORD CLEARLY 

60  IT IS HE WHO BY NIGHT TAKES YOUR SOULS AWAY
AND HE KNOWS ALL THAT YOU DO BY DAY

AND BY DAY DOES HE RAISE YOU BY HIS WILL
THAT A TERM APPOINTED MAY BE FULFILLED

AND TO HIM WILL BE YOUR RETURN FINALLY
AND HE WILL SHOW YOU ALL THAT YOU DID CLEARLY

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                                   SECTION 8.  PART VII

61  HE IS SUPREME OVER YOU AND HE WATCHES HIS DEVOTEES
AND HE SETS GUARDIANS TO WATCH OVER YOU SECURELY
AND WHEN DEATH APPROACHES ONE OF YOU FINALLY
OUR ANGELS TAKE HIS SOUL AND THEY NEVER FAIL IN THEIR DUTY

62  THEN ARE MEN RETURNED TO GOD THE ONLY REALITY 
AND IS NOT YOUR LORD THE COMPLETE AUTHORITY?  
HE IS SWIFT IN TAKING ACCOUNT ACCURATELY

63  SAY, WHO IS IT THAT DELIVERS YOU SAFELY
FROM THE DARK RECESSES OF LAND AND SEA 
WHEN YOU CALL UPON HIM IN HUMILITY
AND IN SILENT TERROR SAYING SINCERELY
IF HE ONLY DELIVERS US FROM THESE DANGERS SAFELY
WE VOW THAT WE WILL SHOW OUR GRATITUDE FAITHFULLY

64  SAY, IT IS GOD THAT DELIVERS YOU FROM THESE
AND ALL OF YOUR OTHER DIFFICULTIES
YET YOU WORSHIP FALSE DEITIES

65  SAY, HE HAS THE POWER TO SEND CALAMITIES ON YOU 
FROM ABOVE YOU AND BELOW YOU OR TO COVER YOU 
WITH CONFUSION AND STRIFE GIVING TO YOU 
A TASTE OF MUTUAL VENGEANCE EACH FROM THE OTHER OF YOU
SEE HOW WE EXPLAIN THE SIGNS BY VARYING SYMBOLS FOR YOU
THAT UNDERSTANDING MAY BE GAINED BY YOU?

66  BUT IF YOUR PEOPLE REJECT THIS ALTHOUGH IT IS TRUE
SAY, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE TO ARRANGE YOUR AFFAIRS FOR YOU

67  FOR EVERY MESSAGE IS A TIME LIMIT
AND SOON WILL YOU COME TO KNOW IT

68  WHEN YOU SEE MEN WHO JEST ABOUT OUR INSTRUCTIONS 
TURN AWAY FROM THEM UNLESS THEY CHANGE THEIR CONVERSATION
AND IF SATAN MAKES YOU FORGET THEN AFTER RECOLLECTION 
SIT NOT IN THE COMPANY OF THOSE IN REJECTION

69  ON THEIR ACCOUNT NO RESPONSIBILITY 
FALLS ON THE RIGHTEOUS BUT THEIR ONLY DUTY 
IS TO REMIND THEM THAT THEY MAY FEAR GOD TRULY

70  LEAVE ALONE THOSE WHO TAKE THEIR RELIGION 
TO BE MERE PLAY AND RECREATION
AND THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD HAS CAUSED THEIR DECEPTION
BUT PROCLAIM TO THEM THAT EVERY SOUL BY ITS OWN ACTIONS 
DELIVERS ITSELF TO RUIN AND DESTRUCTION
AND BESIDES GOD IT WILL FIND NO PROTECTION OR INVERSION 
AND IF IT OFFERED EVERY RANSOM FOR REPARATION
NONE WILL BE ACCEPTED AS COMPENSATION
THIS IS THE END OF THOSE WHO DELIVER THEMSELVES TO DESTRUCTION
BY THEIR OWN ACTS AND THEY WILL HAVE FOR CONSUMPTION
ONLY BOILING WATER FOR A MOST GRIEVOUS PENALIZATION 
FOR THEY WERE PERSISTENTLY IN REJECTION

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                                   SECTION 9.  PART VII

71  SAY, WILL WE CALL ON OTHERS BESIDES OUR CREATOR
THINGS THAT CAN DO US NO GOOD OR ANY HARM EITHER 
AND TURN BACK AFTER RECEIVING GUIDANCE CLEAR?

LIKE ONE WHOM THE EVIL ONES 
HAVE MADE INTO A FOOLISH ONE

WANDERING THROUGH THE EARTH IN DISGUST
AND HIS FRIENDS CALLING, COME TO US 

VAINLY GUIDING HIM TO THE WAY?  
BUT SAY, GOD'S GUIDANCE IS THE ONLY WAY 

AND WE HAVE BEEN DIRECTED TO SUBMIT 
TO THE LORD OF ALL THAT EXISTS

72  AND TO ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS 
AND TO FEAR GOD TO WHOM WE WILL BE GATHERED 

73  GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH IN TRUTH 
WHEN HE SAYS, BE, IT IS AND HIS WORD IS THE TRUTH
 
ON THE DAY THE TRUMPET IS BLOWN HIS WILL BE THE DOMINION 
AND HE KNOWS THE UNSEEN AS WELL AS THAT WHICH IS OPEN 

FOR HE IS ALL WISE AND SURELY
WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THINGS IS HE

74  REMEMBER ABRAHAM WHEN HE SAID TO HIS FATHER
DO YOU TAKE IDOLS FOR GODS AND PROTECTORS? 
FOR I SEE YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE, MY FATHER
SURELY IN MANIFEST ERROR

75  ALSO DID WE SHOW ABRAHAM THE POWER
AND THE LAWS OF THE HEAVENS AND EARTH
SO HE MIGHT HAVE UNDERSTANDING CLEAR

76  WHEN THE NIGHT CAME HE SAW A STAR AND YET
HE SAID, THIS IS MY LORD, BUT WHEN IT SET 
HE SAID, I LOVE NOT THOSE THAT SET

77  WHEN HE SAW THE MOON RISING IN SPLENDOR
HE SAID, THIS IS MY LORD AND CHERISHER

BUT WHEN IT SET HE SAID, UNLESS I AM GUIDED BY MY LORD  
I WILL BE AMONG THOSE WHO GO ASTRAY FOR SURE

78  WHEN HE SAW THE SUN RISING IN SPLENDOR                                                 
HE SAID, THIS IS THE GREATEST, THIS IS THE CREATOR

BUT WHEN IT SET HE DECREED  
SAYING, OH MY PEOPLE, I AM FREE
FROM GUILT OF WORSHIPPING OTHER DEITIES 

79  FOR ME I HAVE SET MY FACE TOWARDS THE CREATOR
OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND NEVER 
WILL I GIVE TO GOD ANY PARTNERS 

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                 SECTION 9 (CONT'D). PART VII

80  HIS PEOPLE DISPUTED WITH HIM
AND HE SAID TO THEM
  
DO YOU COME  TO DISPUTE ABOUT GOD WITH ME
WHEN HE HIMSELF HAS GUIDED ME? 

I FEAR NOT THE BEINGS YOU ASSOCIATE WITH GOD 
NOTHING CAN HAPPEN TO ME UNLESS IT PLEASES GOD

IN HIS KNOWLEDGE ALL THINGS GOD COMPREHENDED 
WILL YOU NOT THEN BE ADMONISHED?

81  HOW SHOULD I FEAR THE BEINGS YOU ASSOCIATE WITH GOD 
WHEN YOU FEAR NOT TO GIVE PARTNERS TO GOD 

WITHOUT HAVING BEEN GIVEN ANY WARRANTY 
WHICH OF US HAVE MORE RIGHT TO SECURITY?  
TELL ME IF IT YOU KNOW TRUTHFULLY 

82  IT IS THOSE WHO SINCERELY AND TRUTHFULLY BELIEVE 
AND CONFUSE NO WRONG WITH WHAT THEY BELIEVE
THAT ARE TRULY IN SECURITY AND GUIDED RIGHTLY

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                                SECTION 10.  PART VII

83  AND THAT WAS THE REASONING ABOUT US WHICH WE 
GAVE TO ABRAHAM TO USE FOR HIS PEOPLE IN DECREE
WE RAISE WHOM WE WILL DEGREE AFTER DEGREE 
FOR GOD, FULL OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE IS HE

84  WE GAVE HIM ISAAC AND JACOB AND WE GUIDED ALL THREE 
AND WE GUIDED NOAH AND AMONG HIS PROGENY 

JOB, DAVID AND SOLOMON 
JOSEPH AND MOSES AND AARON
SO DO WE  REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

85  AND ZAKARIYA AND JOHN AND JESUS AND ELIAS 
THEY WERE ALL IN THE RANKS OF THE RIGHTEOUS

86  AND ISHMAEL, ELISHA, JONAH AND LOT, ALL OF THEM  
WE GAVE FAVOR ABOVE THE NATIONS TO THEM 

87  THEIR FATHERS AND PROGENY AND BRETHREN, WE CHOSE THEM 
AND TO A STRAIGHT WAY WE GUIDED THEM

88  THIS IS GOD'S GUIDANCE
AND HE GIVES THAT GUIDANCE 

TO WHOM HE PLEASES OF HIS WORSHIPPERS 
AND IF THEY WERE TO JOIN WITH HIM OTHERS 
ALL THAT WAS DONE BY THEM WOULD BE IN ERROR

89  THESE WERE THE MEN TO WHOM WE 
GAVE THE BOOK AND AUTHORITY AND PROPHECY

AND IF THESE THEIR DESCENDANTS REJECT THEM
THEN WE SHALL ENTRUST THE CHARGE OF THEM
TO A NEW PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT REJECT THEM 

90  THOSE WERE THE PROPHETS WHO RECEIVED 
GOD'S GUIDANCE SO COPY THE GUIDANCE THEY RECEIVED 

SAY, NO REWARD DO I ASK OF YOU FOR THIS LESSON
THIS IS NO LESS THAN A MESSAGE FOR ALL THE NATIONS

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                               SECTION 11.  PART VII

91  NO JUST ESTIMATE DO THEY MAKE OF GOD 
WHEN THEY SAY, NO REVELATION IS SENT TO MAN BY GOD 

THEN SAY TO THEM, WHO THEN SENT DOWN THE BOOK TO MAN
WHICH MOSES BROUGHT AS A LIGHT AND GUIDANCE TO MAN? 

BUT YOU MAKE IT INTO SEPARATE SHEETS FOR SHOW
WHILE YOU CONCEAL MUCH OF ITS CONTENTS AND IN IT YOU KNOW 
YOU WERE TAUGHT THAT WHICH YOU AND YOU FATHERS DID NOT KNOW 

SAY, GOD SENT IT DOWN TO YOU, THEN LEAVE THEM PLUNGING 
INTO VAIN DISCOURSE AND TRIFLING

92  AND THIS IS A BOOK OF BLESSINGS WHICH WE HAVE SENT DOWN
CONFIRMING THE REVELATIONS FROM BEFORE IT CAME DOWN
SO YOU MAY WARN THE MOTHER OF CITIES AND ALL AROUND  

AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE HEREAFTER 
BELIEVE IN THIS BOOK AND GUARD THEIR PRAYERS

93  WHO IS MORE WICKED THAN HE 
WHO LIES ABOUT GOD OR SAYS, I HAVE RECEIVED 
INSPIRATION FROM GOD, WHEN NOTHING HAS HE RECEIVED 
OR AGAIN HE WHO SAYS, I CAN REVEAL SIMILARLY
OF WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED, BUT IF YOU COULD BUT SEE 
WHEN THE WRONGDOERS AT DEATH ARE IN AGONIES
WHEN THE ANGELS STRETCH FORTH THEIR HANDS AND DECREE
YIELD UP YOUR SOULS, THIS DAY WILL YOU WILL RECEIVE
AS YOUR REWARD A SHAMEFUL PENALTY 
BECAUSE YOU USED TO LIE ABOUT GOD SCORNFULLY 
AND REJECTED HIS MESSAGES ARROGANTLY

94  NOW YOU COME TO US BARE AND ALONE AS WE CREATED YOU 
AND NOW YOU HAVE LEFT BEHIND YOU 
ALL OF THE FAVORS WE BESTOWED ON YOU 
AND WE SEE NOT YOUR INTERCESSORS WITH YOU 
WHOM YOU HAD THOUGHT TO BE PARTNERS WITH YOU
ALL YOUR RELATIONS HAVE BEEN CUT OFF BETWEEN YOU 
AND ALL OF YOUR PET FANCIES THEY ALL HAVE LEFT YOU 

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                                SECTION 12.  PART VII

95  IT IS GOD WHO CAUSES THE GRAIN-SEED'S SPROUTING
AND HE CAUSES THE DATE-STONE'S SPLITTING
AND IT IS HE WHO BRINGS THE LIVING 
OUT OF THE DEAD AND BRINGS THE DEAD OUT OF THE LIVING
THEN WHAT IS IT THAT KEEPS YOU FROM DOING THE RIGHT THING?

96  AND HE IT IS THAT CLEAVES THE DAY'S BREAKING
AND HE MAKES THE NIGHT FOR YOU FOR RESTING 
AND THE SUN AND MOON FOR TIME CALCULATING
AND THIS IS HIS JUDGMENT AND HIS ORDERING 
FOR HE IS ALL MIGHTY AND ALL KNOWING

97  IT IS HE WHO MAKES THE STARS AS BEACONS FOR YOU TO SEE 
THAT YOU MAY GUIDE YOURSELVES THROUGH LAND AND SEA 
WE DETAIL OUR MESSAGES FOR PEOPLE WITH CERTAINTY

98  IT IS HE WHO HAS PRODUCED YOU FROM A SINGLE BEING
THEN  PLACED YOU INTO A PLACE OF RESTING 
THEN PLACES YOU INTO A PLACE OF DEPARTING
WE DETAIL OUR SIGNS FOR PEOPLE OF UNDERSTANDING

99  IT IS HE WHO SENDS DOWN RAIN AND WITH IT WE PRODUCE 
VEGETATION OF ALL KINDS AND FROM SOME WE PRODUCE
GREEN CROPS OUT OF WHICH WE PRODUCE 

GRAIN HEAPED UP AT HARVEST AND FROM THE DATE TREE
COME CLUSTERS OF DATES HANGING NEAR AND LOWLY 

AND GARDENS OF OLIVES AND POMEGRANATES AND GRAPES
SIMILAR IN KIND YET DIFFERENT IN SHAPE 

WHEN THEY EACH BEGIN TO BEAR FRUIT 
SO FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE RIPENESS OF THE FRUIT 

FOR IN THESE THINGS THERE ARE SIGNS
FOR PEOPLE WITH WISE MINDS

100  YET THEY MAKE EQUAL WITH GOD THE DEMONS
ALTHOUGH GOD DID CREATE THE DEMONS 

AND THEY HAVING NO KNOWLEDGE FALSELY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM 
SONS AND DAUGHTERS BUT PRAISE AND GLORY BE TO HIM
HE IS FAR ABOVE WHAT THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM 

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                               SECTION 13.  PART VII

101  TO HIM IS DUE THE PRIMAL ORIGIN 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
HOW CAN HE HAVE A SON
WHEN HE HAS NO COMPANION?  
AND HE CREATED ALL CREATION
AND HE IS THE ALL KNOWING ONE

102  THAT IS GOD, YOUR LORD AND THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
HE IS THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS SO WORSHIP HIM ONLY
HE HAS POWER TO DISPOSE OF ALL AFFAIRS COMPLETELY

103  VISION CAN NOT COMPREHEND HIM BUT HE COMPREHENDS ALL VISION 
AND HE IS ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THINGS IN CREATION

104  PROOF HAS COME TO YOU FROM YOUR LORD SO WHOEVER
WILL SEE IT WILL BE TO HIS OWN GOOD AND WHOEVER
IS BLIND IT WILL BE TO HIS OWN HARM, HOWEVER
I AM NOT HERE FOR YOUR AFFAIRS TO WATCH OVER 

105  SO DO WE REPEAT THE MESSAGES THAT THEY MAY
SAY, YOU HAVE TAUGHT US DILIGENTL AND THAT WE MAY
MAKE THE MATTER CLEAR TO THOSE WHO KNOW THE RIGHT WAY

106  FOLLOW WHAT YOU ARE TAUGHT BY INSPIRATION FROM GOD
BESIDES HIM THERE IS NO OTHER GOD 
AND TURN AWAY FROM THOSE WHO JOIN GODS WITH GOD 

107  IF IT HAD BEEN THE PLAN OF GOD 
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN FALSE GODS 

BUT WE MADE YOU NOT ONE TO WATCH OVER THEIR DOINGS
NOR ARE YOU SET OVER THEIR AFFAIRS FOR DISPOSING

108  REVILE NOT THOSE WHOM THEY CALL UPON BESIDES GOD 
OR THEY OUT OF SPITE IN THEIR IGNORANCE MAY REVILE GOD 

AND SO HAVE WE MADE ALLURING 
TO EACH PEOPLE ITS OWN DOINGS 

IN THE END WILL THEY RETURN TO THEIR LORD INEVITABLY
AND WE WILL TELL THEM THE TRUTH OF ALL THEY DID CLEARLY 

109  AND THEY SWEAR THEIR STRONGEST OATHS BY THE CREATOR 
THAT IF A SPECIAL SIGN CAME TO THEM FROM THEIR MAKER
THEN THAT BY IT THEY WOULD BE BELIEVERS 
SAY, ALL SIGNS ARE IN GOD'S POWER  
IF SIGNS CAME TO THEM THAT WERE CLEARER 
THEY WILL STILL NOT EVEN THEN BE BELIEVERS? 

110  WE WILL TURN THEIR HEARTS AND THEIR EYES TO PERPLEXITY 
AND EVEN AS THEY REFUSED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO BELIEVE
WE LEAVE THEM IN THEIR TRESPASSES TO WANDER BLINDLY 

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PART VIII

111  IF WE SENT ANGELS TO THEM 
AND EVEN IF THE DEAD DID SPEAK TO THEM 
AND IF WE GATHERED ALL THINGS TOGETHER BEFORE THEM
THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE UNLESS IT IS IN GOD'S PLAN FOR THEM
BUT THEY IGNORE THE TRUTH MOST OF THEM  

112  WE MADE FOR EVERY MESSENGER EVIL ONES
AS ENEMIES AMONG MEN AND DEMONS 
INSPIRING EACH OTHER WITH FLOWERY DISCOURSE BY DECEPTION 
IF YOUR LORD SO PLANNED IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE 
SO LEAVE THEM ALONE, THEM AND THEIR INVENTIONS 

113  AND TO SUCH DECEIT LET THE HEARTS OF THOSE INCLINE TO IT
WHO HAVE NO FAITH IN THE HEREAFTER LET THEM DELIGHT IN IT 
AND LET THEM EARN WHAT THEY MAY FROM IT 

114  SAY, SHALL I SEEK BESIDES GOD FOR ANOTHER DEITY
AND IT IS HE THAT HAS SENT TO YOU THE BOOK EXPLAINED FULLY?  
THEY KNOW TO WHOM WE HAVE GIVEN THE BOOK CLEARLY
THAT IT HAS BEEN SENT DOWN FROM YOUR LORD TRUTHFULLY
SO NEVER BE OF THOSE WHO ACT DOUBTFULLY

115  THE WORD OF YOUR LORD HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED JUSTLY 
AND THERE IS NONE CAN CHANGE HIS WORDS IN ANY DEGREE
FOR HE IS THE ONE WHO HEARS AND KNOWS ALL INDEED

116  IF YOU WERE TO OBEY THOSE WHO ARE ON EARTH 
THEY WILL LEAD YOU AWAY FROM THE CREATOR 
AND THEY FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE 
AND THEY DO NOTHING BUT LIE FOR SURE

117  YOUR LORD KNOWS BEST WHO STRAYS FROM HIS WAY 
AND HE KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE GUIDED TO THE RIGHT WAY

118  SO EAT OF THE MEATS ON WHICH THE NAME OF GOD
HAS BEEN PRONOUNCED, IF YOU HAVE FAITH IN GOD

119  WHY WOULD YOU NOT EAT OF MEATS 
ON WHICH GOD'S NAME HAS BEEN DECREED
WHEN GOD HAS EXPLAINED TO YOU CLEARLY
WHAT IS FORBIDDEN YOU EXCEPT COMPULSITORY 
MANY MISLEAD MEN BY THEIR APPETITES IGNORANTLY 
AND GOD KNOWS THOSE WHO TRANSGRESS ARROGANTLY

120  SHUN ALL SIN, OPEN OR HIDDEN
SURELY THOSE AMONG YOU WHO EARN SIN
WILL GET DUE RECOMPENSE FOR THEIR SINS

121  DO NOT EAT OF THOSE MEATS 
ON WHICH GOD'S NAME HAS NOT BEEN DECREED 
INDEED THAT WOULD MOST ASSUREDLY BE INIQUITY
BUT THE DEVILS DO INSPIRE THEIR FRIENDS TO DISAGREE
IF YOU WERE TO OBEY THEM YOU WOULD BE PAGANS INDEED

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122  CAN HE WHO WAS DEAD TO WHOM WE GAVE LIFE 
WHEREBY HE CAN WALK AMONG MEN AND GAVE HIM LIGHT

BE LIKE HIM WHO IS IN THE DEPTHS OF A DARK PIT
FROM WHERE HE CANNOT COME OUT FROM IT? 

SO TO THOSE WHO ARE WITHOUT BELIEF
PLEASING TO THEM ARE THEIR OWN DEEDS 

123  IN EVERY TOWN WE PLACED LEADERS IN IT
AND THOSE WHO ARE WICKED, PLOT AND BURROW IN IT
THEY PLOT AGAINST THEIR OWN SOULS AND DO NOT PERCEIVE IT 

124  WHEN A SIGN COMES TO THEM CLEARLY
THEY SAY, WE WILL NOT BELIEVE UNTIL WE RECEIVE 
ONE EXACTLY LIKE THOSE THAT GOD'S APOSTLES RECEIVED

AND GOD KNOWS BEST HOW TO CARRY OUT HIS MISSION 
AND THE WICKED WILL BE OVERTAKEN BY HUMILIATION 
AND A SEVERE PENALTY FOR ALL THEIR MACHINATIONS

125  THOSE WHO GOD WILLS TO GUIDE TO INSTRUCTION
HE OPENS THEIR BREASTS TO SUBMISSION 
AND WHOM HE LEAVES IN REJECTION
HE MAKES THEIR BREASTS CLOSE IN CONSTRICTION
AS IF THEY HAD TO CLIMB UP TO THE HEAVENS 
AND SO DOES HE HEAP THE DESTRUCTION 
ON THOSE WHO INSIST ON REJECTION 

126  THIS IS THE WAY OF YOUR LORD LEADING STRAIGHT INDEED 
WE HAVE DETAILED THE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO TAKE HEED

127  FOR THEM WILL BE A HOME OF PEACE AND TRANQUILLITY
IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR LORD ETERNALLY
AND THEIR FRIEND HE WILL BE
BECAUSE THEY PRACTICED ACTING RIGHTEOUSLY

128  ONE DAY WILL HE GATHER THE DEMONS AND SAY
INDEED MUCH TOIL OF MEN DID YOU TAKE 
THEIR FRIENDS AMONG MEN WILL SAY

OUR LORD, WE MADE PROFIT FROM EACH OTHER 
BUT WE REACHED OUR TERM OF WHICH YOU WERE THE APPOINTER 
AND HE WILL SAY, YOUR DWELLING PLACE WILL BE THE FIRE  
YOU WILL DWELL IN IT FOREVER
EXCEPT AS I CHOOSE, FOR I AM THE BEST KNOWER

129  SO DO WE MAKE THE WRONG-DOERS TURN 
TO EACH OTHER BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY EARN

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130  OH ASSEMBLY OF DEMONS AND MEN, DID THERE NOT COME TO YOU 
APOSTLES FROM AMONG YOU SETTING FORTH MY MESSAGES TO YOU 
AND WARNING YOU OF THE MEETING OF THIS DAY TO YOU?

THEY WILL SAY, AGAINST OURSELVES WE BEAR WITNESS
INDEED THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD SURELY DECEIVED US
SO AGAINST THEMSELVES THEY WILL BEAR WITNESS
THEY REJECTED FAITH AND DID TRANSGRESS

131  THE APOSTLES WERE SENT 
FOR YOUR LORD WOULD NOT DESTROY THE OCCUPANTS 

OF MEN'S HABITANTS FOR WRONG-DOING  
WHILE THEY WERE NOT GIVEN WARNING

132  TO ALL ARE DEGREES OR RANKS ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY DO
FOR YOUR LORD IS NOT UNMINDFUL OF ANYTHING THAT THEY DO

133  YOUR LORD IS SELF-SUFFICIENT AND FULL OF MERCY 
IF IT WERE HIS WILL HE COULD DESTROY YOU EASILY

AND IN YOUR PLACE APPOINT WHOM HE PLEASES AS YOUR SUCCESSORS 
AS HE RAISED YOU UP AS OTHER PEOPLE'S SUCCESSORS 

134  ALL THAT HAS BEEN PROMISED TO YOU 
WILL COME TO PASS AND CANNOT BE FRUSTRATED BY YOU

135  SAY, OH MY PEOPLE, DO WHATEVER YOU CAN DO
AND I WILL DO MY PART AND SOON WILL YOU 

KNOW WHO IT IS WHOSE END WILL BE BEST IN THE HEREAFTER 
CERTAIN IT IS THAT THE WRONG-DOERS WILL NOT PROSPER

136  OUT OF WHAT IS PRODUCED IN THE EARTH BY GOD
AND IN CATTLE THEY ASSIGN A DETERMINED SHARE FOR GOD
AND THEY SAY ACCORDING TO THEIR FANCIES, THIS IS FOR GOD 

AND THIS SHARE IS ASSIGNED FOR OUR PARTNERS 
THE SHARE DOES NOT REACH GOD OF THEIR PARTNERS  
WHILE THE SHARE OF GOD DOES REACH THEIR PARTNERS 

AND EVIL AND ILL INTENT
IS THEIR ASSIGNMENT

137  EVEN SO IN THE EYES OF MOST OF THE PARTNERS OF THE PAGANS  
MADE ALLURING TO THEM THE SLAUGHTER OF THEIR CHILDREN
IN ORDER TO LEAD THEM TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION 
AND TO CAUSE CONFUSION IN THEIR RELIGION 
IF GOD HAD WILLED THIS THEY WOULD NOT HAVE DONE 
THEREFORE LEAVE THEM ALONE, THEM AND THEIR INVENTIONS

138  SUCH AND SUCH CATTLE AND CROPS ARE TABOO, THEY SAY
AND NONE SHOULD EAT OF THEM EXCEPT THOSE WHO THEY SAY

AND FURTHER THERE ARE CATTLE FORBIDDEN TO YOKE OR BURDEN 
AND CATTLE ON WHICH GOD'S NAME HAS NOT BEEN MENTIONED
AND THESE ARE AGAINST GOD'S INTENTIONS 
AND HE WILL HE REQUITE THEM FOR THEIR INVENTIONS 

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139  THEY SAY, WHAT IS IN THE WOMBS OF CERTAIN 
OF THE CATTLE IS RESERVED FOR OUR MEN 
AND IS FORBIDDEN TO OUR WOMEN
BUT IF IT IS STILL BORN ALL HAVE SHARES THEREIN

FOR THEIR FALSE ATTRIBUTION 
TO THEIR LORD OF SUPERSTITIONS 
HE WILL ISSUE OUT TO THEM RETRIBUTION 
FOR HE IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND INSTRUCTION

140  LOST ARE THOSE WHO SLAY THEIR CHILDREN FROM FOLLY 
AND FORBID FOOD WHICH GOD HAS PROVIDED FOR THEM AMPLY 

INVENTING LIES AGAINST GOD AND NO GUIDANCE DO THEY HEED 
AND THEY HAVE GONE FAR ASTRAY INDEED 

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141  IT IS HE WHO PRODUCES 
GARDENS WITH AND WITHOUT TRELLISES 
 
AND DATES AND HARVESTS WITH PRODUCE OF ALL KINDS 
AND OLIVES AND POMEGRANATES SIMILAR IN KIND 

AND DIFFERENT IN SHAPE AND VARIETY 
SO EAT OF THEIR FRUIT IN THEIR SEASON BUT PROPERLY

RENDER THE DUES ON THE DAY THAT THE HARVEST IS GATHERED
BUT WASTE NOT BY EXCESS, FOR GOD LOVES NOT WASTERS

142  OF THE CATTLE SOME ARE FOR BURDEN AND SOME FOR MEAT
WHAT GOD HAS PROVIDED ENJOY IT AND EAT
  
AND FOLLOW NOT THE FOOTSTEPS OF SATAN
FOR HE IS AN AVOWED ENEMY TO MAN

143  TAKE EIGHT HEAD OF CATTLE IN FOUR PAIRS 
OF SHEEP A PAIR AND OF GOATS A PAIR 

SAY, HAS HE FORBIDDEN THE TWO MALES OR THE TWO FEMALES 
OR THE YOUNG ENCLOSED IN THE WOMBS OF THE TWO FEMALES?

THEN TELL ME 
IF YOU KNOW TRUTHFULLY

144  OF CAMELS A PAIR 
AND OF OXEN A PAIR 

SAY, HAS HE FORBIDDEN THE TWO MALES OR THE TWO FEMALES 
OR THE YOUNG ENCLOSED IN THE WOMBS OF THE TWO FEMALES?

WERE YOU PRESENT WHEN GOD ORDERED SUCH A THING TO YOU?
BUT WHO DOES MORE WRONG THAN ONE WHO AMONG YOU

INVENTS A LIE AGAINST GOD TO MISLEAD PEOPLE?
FOR GOD GUIDES NOT WRONG-DOING PEOPLE

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145  SAY, I FIND NOT IN THE REVELATION                                                          
RECEIVED BY ME ANY MEAT FORBIDDEN 

BY ONE WHO WISHES TO EAT IT UNLESS IT BE DEAD MEAT                               
OR BLOOD POURED FORTH OR SWINE'S MEAT                                                      
FOR IT IS SURELY UNCLEAN TO EAT 

AND WHAT IS IMPIOUS MEAT ON WHICH A NAME 
HAS BEEN INVOKED OTHER THAN GOD'S NAME

BUT EVEN SO IF A PERSON IS FORCED BY NECESSITY 
WITHOUT BEING DISOBEDIENT WILLFULLY

NOR EXCEEDING DUE LIMITS IN TRANSGRESSING 
GOD IS MOST MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING 

146  FOR THOSE WHO FOLLOWED THE JEWISH LAW, WE FORBADE 
EVERY ANIMAL WITH UNDIVIDED HOOF AND WE FORBADE 

THE FAT OF THE OX AND THE SHEEP EXCEPT WHAT 
ADHERES TO THEIR BACKS OR THEIR ENTRAILS OR WHAT

IS MIXED UP WITH A BONE, THIS IN RECOMPENSE 
FOR THEIR WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE 
FOR WE ARE TRUE IN OUR ORDINANCE

147  IF THEY ACCUSE YOU OF SPEAKING FALSELY
SAY, YOUR LORD IS THE LORD OF ALL EMBRACING MERCY
BUT NEVER WILL HIS WRATH BE TURNED BACK FROM THE GUILTY

148  THOSE WILL SAY, WHO GIVE TO GOD PARTNERS 
IF GOD WILLED WE WOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN HIM PARTNERS 
NOR WOULD OUR FATHERS HAVE ASCRIBED TO GOD PARTNERS

NOR OF TABOOS WOULD WE HAVE HAD ANY
SO DID THEIR ANCESTORS ARGUE FALSELY 
UNTIL THEY TASTED OF OUR PENALTY 

SAY, HAVE YOU ANY CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE WITH YOU?
THEN DO PRODUCE IT BEFORE US IF YOU REALLY DO
NOTHING BUT LIE AND CONJECTURE DO YOU DO

149  WITH GOD IS THE ARGUMENT THAT REACHES HOME INDEED
IF IT HAD BEEN HIS WILL HE COULD HAVE GUIDED YOU EASILY

150  SAY TO THEM, BRING FORWARD YOUR WITNESSES 
PROVING YOUR LORD FORBADE  ANY OF THIS
AND IF THEY BRING SUCH WITNESSES 

BE NOT AMONG THEM NOR FOLLOW THE VAIN DESIRES 
OF THOSE WHO TREAT OUR MESSENGERS AS LIARS
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN THE HEREAFTER
FOR THEY HOLD GOD AS EQUAL WITH OTHERS

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                               SECTION 19.  PART VIII

151  SAY TO THEM, COME I WILL RECITE WHAT GOD HAS REALLY 
PROHIBITED YOU FROM, JOIN NOT ANYTHING WITH HIM EQUALLY
BE GOOD TO YOUR PARENTS, KILL NOT YOUR CHILDREN UNJUSTLY
FOR WE PROVIDE SUSTENANCE FOR YOU AND THEM AMPLY
AND COME NOT NEAR TO SHAMEFUL DEEDS
WHETHER OPENLY OR SECRETLY 
TAKE NOT LIFE WHICH GOD CREATED SACREDLY 
EXCEPT BY MANNER OF BEING LAWFUL AND JUSTLY
SO DOES HE SUMMON YOU THAT YOU MAKE ACT RIGHTLY

152  AND DO NOT COME NEAR TO THE ORPHAN'S PROPERTY 
BUT TO IMPROVE IT UNTIL HE ATTAINS FULL MATURITY
AND GIVE DUE MEASURE AND WEIGHT JUSTLY
NO BURDEN DO WE PLACE ON ANY SOUL BUT WHAT IT CAN CARRY 
AND WHENEVER YOU SPEAK, SPEAK FAIR AND SPEAK JUSTLY
EVEN AGAINST A RELATIVE, AND FULFILL YOUR DUTY 
YOU ARE COMMANDED THIS THAT YOU MAY ACT GRATEFULLY

153  AND SURELY THIS IS MY STRAIGHT LEADING WAY 
THEREFORE FOLLOW IT, FOLLOW NOT OTHER WAYS
OR THEY WILL DIVERT YOU FROM HIS GREAT WAY
SO DOES HE COMMAND YOU SO THAT YOU MAY 
CONDUCT YOURSELVES IN A RIGHTEOUS WAY 

154  MOREOVER WE GAVE MOSES THE SCRIPTURES
COMPLETING TO THOSE WHO WOULD BE RIGHT DOERS
OUR FAVORS AND EXPLAINING IN DETAIL ALL THINGS CLEAR
AND A GUIDE AND A MERCY SO THAT THEY MIGHT BE BELIEVERS
IN THE MEETING IN THE HEREAFTER WITH THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER  

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                                SECTION 20.  PART VIII

155  AND THIS IS A BOOK WHICH WE HAVE REVEALED CLEARLY
AS A BLESSING, SO FOLLOW IT AND ACT RIGHTEOUSLY 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE MERCY

156  OR ELSE YOU WOULD SAY, THE BOOK WAS SENT DOWN ONLY
TO TWO PARTIES BEFORE US AND FOR OUR PART WE REALLY
WERE UNAWARE OF WHAT THEY LEARNED BY THEIR STUDY

157  OR ELSE YOU WOULD SAY, IF THE BOOK HAD ONLY 
BEEN SENT DOWN TO US THEN WE WOULD HAVE SURELY
FOLLOWED ITS GUIDANCE BETTER AND MORE TRUTHFULLY
BUT NOW HAS COME TO YOU CLEARLY AND MANIFESTLY 
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR LORD AND A GUIDE AND A MERCY 

WHO COULD DO MORE WRONG THAN THEY 
WHO REJECT GOD'S MESSAGES AND TURN AWAY 
IN TIME WILL WE REQUITE THOSE WHO TURN AWAY 
WITH A DREADFUL PENALTY FOR THEIR TURNING AWAY

158  ARE THEY WAITING TO SEE IF THE ANGELS COME TO THEM
OR GOD HIMSELF OR GOD'S SIGNS COME TO THEM?
THE DAY WHEN GOD'S SIGNS DO COME TO THEM
NO GOOD WILL IT DO FOR A SOUL TO THEN BELIEVE IN THEM 
IF BEFORE IT DID NOT BELIEVE IN THEM 
NOR EARNED RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH BELIEVING IN THEM
SAY, WAIT, WE ALSO ARE WAITING WITH THEM

159  THOSE WHO DIVIDE THEIR RELIGION 
AND WHO BREAK IT UP INTO SECTIONS

YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY PART IN THEM 
THEIR AFFAIR IS WITH GOD AND HE WILL TELL THEM 
THE TRUTH OF ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WERE DONE BY THEM

160  HE WHO DOES A GOOD DEED HE WILL HAVE TEN TO HIS CREDIT
HE WHO DOES EVIL WILL BE RECOMPENSED WITH THE LIKE OF IT
AND NO ONE WILL BE WRONGED THE LEAST LITTLE BIT

161  SAY, SURELY MY LORD HAS GUIDED ME 
TO A PATH THAT IS STRAIGHT, THE RIGHT RELIGION INDEED
THE PATH OF ABRAHAM, THE TRUE IN FAITH TRULY
AND HE JOINED NOT GODS WITH GOD IN DEITY

162  SAY, MY PRAYER AND MY SACRIFICES
MY LIFE AND MY DEATH AND ALL MY SERVICES
ARE ALL FOR GOD, THE LORD OF ALL EXISTENCES

163  NO PARTNER HAS HE AND OF THIS I AM COMMANDED 
AND I AM THE FIRST OF THOSE WHO HAVE SUBMITTED

164  SAY, SHALL I SEEK OTHER THAN GOD FOR MY PROTECTOR 
WHEN OF ALL THINGS THAT EXISTS HE IS THE SUSTAINER? 
EVERY SOUL DRAWS THE RESULTS OF ITS ACTS ON NONE OTHER
BUT ITS OWN SELF AND NO BURDEN BEARER 
CAN BEAR THE BURDEN OF ANOTHER 
YOUR GOAL IS TO ---GOD, THEN HE WILL BE THE RECOUNTER  
OF THE TRUTH OF THE THINGS OF WHICH YOU WERE DISPUTERS

165  AND IT IS HE WHO HAS MADE YOU HIS AGENTS AND INHERITORS 
AND HE HAS RAISED YOU IN RANKS, SOME OF YOU ABOVE OTHERS 
THAT HE MAY TRY YOU IN THE GIFTS OF WHICH HE IS THE GIVER
AND YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER IS THE PUNISHER
YET HE IS ALSO THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

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