CHAPTER 7.  THE ELEVATED PLACES                                         SECTION 1.  PART VIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD, 
THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL 
 
1  I, GOD, AM THE BEST KNOWER, THE TRUTHFUL

2  WE HAVE REVEALED TO YOU THIS SCRIPTURE
SO LET YOUR HEART NO LONGER
BE OPPRESSED BY ANY DIFFICULTY ON ANY MATTER
AND WITH IT YOU MAY WARN THOSE IN ERROR
AND TEACH THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS

3  FOLLOW WHAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO YOU BY THE GOD OF REVELATION
SEEK NOT OTHER THAN GOD FOR FRIENDS OR PROTECTION
LITTLE DO YOU MIND GOD'S ADMONITION 

4  HOW MANY TOWNS HAVE WE DESTROYED FOR THEIR SINS 
WHEN OUR PUNISHMENT TOOK THEM ALL OF A SUDDEN 
BY NIGHT OR AT MIDDAY WHILE THEY SLEPT IN?

5  WHEN OUR PUNISHMENT TOOK THEM NO CRY DID THEY UTTER
BUT THIS, INDEED WE WERE WRONG-DOERS

6  WE WILL QUESTION THOSE TO WHOM OUR MESSAGE WAS SENT 
AND WE WILL QUESTION THOSE BY WHOM IT WAS SENT

7  AND WITH KNOWLEDGE WE WILL SURELY 
RECOUNT THEIR WHOLE ENTIRE STORY 
FOR NEVER ABSENT WERE WE 

8  THE JUDGMENT THAT DAY WILL BE TRUE AND JUSTLY
THEY WILL PROSPER WHOSE GOOD DEEDS WILL BE HEAVY 

9  THOSE WHOSE GOOD DEEDS WILL BE LIGHT ONES
THEY WILL FIND THEIR SOULS IN PERDITION
BECAUSE THEY TREATED OUR MESSAGES WITH REJECTION

10  IT IS WE WHO HAVE PLACED YOU 
WITH AUTHORITY ON EARTH AND PROVIDED YOU 
WITH MEANS IN IT TO FULFILL YOUR LIFE FOR YOU 
AND SMALL ARE THE THANKS THAT ARE GIVEN BY YOU

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11  IT IS WE WHO CREATED AND SHAPED YOU BEAUTIFULLY
WE TOLD THE ANGELS TO BOW DOWN TO ADAM SUBMISSIVELY
THEY BOWED DOWN BUT NOT SATAN, HE REFUSED ARROGANTLY

12  GOD SAID, WHAT PREVENTED YOU FROM BOWING SUBMISSIVELY 
WHEN I COMMANDED YOU?  HE ANSWERED, I AM BETTER THAN HE 
YOU CREATED HIM FROM CLAY AND FROM FIRE YOU MADE ME

13  GOD SAID, GET OUT OF HERE
IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO BE ARROGANT HERE 
GET OUT FOR YOU ARE OF THE VILEST OF CREATURES

14  HE SAID, UNTIL THE DAY THEY ARE RAISED UP GRANT ME RESPITE

15  GOD SAID, YOU ARE AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE RESPITE

16  HE SAID, BECAUSE YOU HAVE THROWN ME OUT OF THE WAY 
I WILL LIE IN WAIT FOR THEM ON YOUR STRAIGHT WAY

17  AND I WILL ASSAULT THEM
FROM BEFORE THEM AND BEHIND THEM
FROM THE RIGHT AND FROM THE LEFT OF THEM
AND YOU WILL NOT FIND GRATITUDE IN MOST OF THEM

18  GOD SAID, GET OUT FROM HERE DISGRACED AND EXPELLED
IF ANY OF THEM FOLLOW YOU, I WILL THROW YOU ALL INTO HELL

19  OH ADAM, DWELL YOU AND YOUR WIFE IN THE GARDEN HAPPILY
AND ENJOY ITS GOOD THINGS BUT APPROACH NOT THIS TREE
OR YOU WILL TRANSGRESS ASSUREDLY

20  THEN SATAN MADE SUGGESTIONS TO THEM DECEITFULLY
BRINGING THEIR HIDDEN SHAME BEFORE THEM OPENLY
HE SAID, YOUR LORD ONLY FORBADE YOU THIS TREE 
LEST YOU WOULD BECOME ANGELS OR LIVE ETERNALLY

21  AND HE SWORE TO BOTH OF THEM 
THAT HE WAS A SINCERE ADVISOR TO THEM

22  HE BROUGHT ABOUT THEIR FALL DECEITFULLY
WHEN THEY TASTED OF THE TREE 
THEIR SHAME WAS SHOWN TO THEM MANIFESTLY 
AND THEY THEN BEGAN TO SEW THE LEAVES
OF THE GARDEN TOGETHER TO COVER THEIR BODIES
SO THEN THEIR LORD CALLED TO THEM REPROACHINGLY
AND SAID, DID I NOT FORBID YOU TO APPROACH THAT TREE 
AND I TOLD YOU THAT SATAN WAS TO YOU AN AVOWED ENEMY?

23  THEY SAID, OUR LORD WE HAVE WRONGED OUR OWN SOULS SURELY
IF YOU FORGIVE US NOT AND BESTOW NOT UPON US YOUR MERCY 
THEN WE WILL BE LOST MOST ASSUREDLY

24  GOD SAID, GET OUT WITH ENMITY BETWEEN YOURSELVES
AND ON THE EARTH WILL BE YOUR PLACE TO DWELL
AND YOUR MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD FOR A SPELL

25  HE SAID, YOU WILL LIVE IN IT AND DIE IN IT
AND THEN YOU WILL BE TAKEN OUT OF IT

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26  OH CHILDREN OF ADAM, WE HAVE BESTOWED ON YOU CLOTHING
TO COVER YOUR SHAME AND BEAUTIFUL CLOTHING

AND THE BEST CLOTHING THAT GUARDS AGAINST EVIL
THESE ARE GOD'S MESSAGES THAT YOU MAY BE MINDFUL 

27  OH CHILDREN OF ADAM, LET NOT SATAN 
SEDUCE YOU THE SAME WAY AS HE GOT YOUR PARENTS 
OUT OF FROM GARDEN STRIPPING THEM OF THEIR RAIMENT 

FOR SURELY HE AND HIS TRIBE THEY WATCH YOU FROM POSITIONS 
WHERE YOU CANNOT SEE THEM AND WE MADE THE EVIL ONES
FRIENDS TO THOSE WHO WERE IN REJECTION

28  WHEN THEY DO ANYTHING THAT IS SHAMEFUL 
THEY SAY, OUR FATHERS DID THESE THINGS AS WELL
SO THIS IS THEREFORE GOD'S COMMAND TO US AS WELL
SAY TO THEM, GOD NEVER COMMANDS WHAT IS SHAMEFUL
DO YOU SAY OF GOD THAT WHICH YOU ARE UNKNOWLEDGEABLE? 

29  SAY, MY LORD HAS COMMANDED JUSTICE FROM HIM
AND TO SET YOUR FACES AT EVERY TIME AND PLACE OF PRAYER TO HIM
AND CALL UPON HIM MAKING YOUR DEVOTION SINCERE TO HIM
AS HE CREATED YOU BEFORE YOU WILL RETURN TO HIM

30  SOME HE HAS GUIDED AND OTHERS 
WHO BY THEIR OWN CHOICE HAVE DESERVED 
THE LOSS OF THEIR WAY IN THAT THEY TOOK DEVILS RATHER 
THAN GOD FOR THEIR FRIENDS AND PROTECTORS 
AND THINK THAT THEY ARE GUIDED PROPER

31  OH CHILDREN OF ADAM DISPLAY YOUR BEAUTIFUL WEAR
AT EVERY TIME AND PLACE OF PRAYER 
EAT AND DRINK BUT WASTE NOT, FOR GOD LOVES NOT WASTERS

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32  SAY, WHO HAS FORBIDDEN GOD'S ADORNMENTS
WHICH HE HAS PRODUCED FOR PROVISIONS FOR HIS SERVANTS 
AND THE GOOD THINGS WHICH HE HAS PROVIDED FOR SUSTENANCE

SAY, THESE ARE IN THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD FOR THE FAITHFUL
AND FOR THEM ON THE JUDGMENT DAY AND THEY WILL BE SUCCESSFUL

33  WE EXPLAIN THE SIGNS FOR THOSE WITH COMPREHENSION
SAY, THE THINGS THAT MY LORD HAS INDEED FORBIDDEN 
ARE SHAMEFUL DEEDS WHETHER OPEN OR HIDDEN
AND SINS AND TRESPASSES AGAINST TRUTH AND REASON 
ASSIGNING OF PARTNERS TO GOD FOR WHICH HE HAS GIVEN 
NO AUTHORITY AND SAYING THINGS ABOUT GOD EVEN 
WHEN NO KNOWLEDGE TO YOU HAS BEEN GIVEN 

34  TO EVERY PEOPLE IS A TERM APPOINTED  
AND WHEN THEY REACH THEIR TERM APPOINTED
NOT FOR A SINGLE HOUR CAN THEY DELAY IT
NOR FOR AN HOUR CAN THEY ADVANCE IT 

35  OH CHILDREN OF ADAM, WHENEVER 
THERE COMES TO YOU FROM AMONG YOU MESSENGERS
RECITING MY MESSAGES, THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
AND MEND THEIR LIVES AND ARE BELIEVERS
ON THEM WILL BE NO FEAR NOR WILL THEY GRIEVE EITHER

36  THOSE WHO REJECT OUR SIGNS AND TURN AWAY ARROGANTLY 
THEY ARE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE TO DWELL IN IT ETERNALLY

37  WHO IS A MORE UNJUST WRONG DOER                                                                                  
THAN ONE WHO LIES AGAINST THE CREATOR
AND OF HIS LORD'S MESSAGES IS A REJECTER
THEIR PORTION APPOINTED FROM THE SCRIPTURES
MUST REACH THEM UNTIL WHEN THE DEATH MESSENGERS
TAKE THEIR SOULS AND SAY, WHERE ARE YOUR GOD PARTNERS 
THEY WILL SAY, THEY HAVE LEFT US IN THE LURCH
AND THEN THEY WILL BE WITNESS BEARERS
AGAINST THEMSELVES THAT THEY WERE DISBELIEVERS

38  AND HE WILL SAY, YOU PEOPLE WILL ENTER 
IN THE COMPANY OF THE PEOPLE PRIOR
OF MEN AND DEMONS INTO THE FIRE 
AND EVERY TIME A NEW PEOPLE DO ENTER
IT CURSES ITS SISTER PEOPLE THAT WENT PRIOR
UNTIL THEY FOLLOW EACH OTHER ALL INTO THE FIRE 
AND THE LAST WILL SAY ABOUT THE FIRST 
OUR LORD, THEY MISLEAD US SO GIVE THEM THE WORST
OUR LORD, GIVE THEM A DOUBLE PENALTY IN THE FIRE 
HE WILL SAY, YOU ALL HAVE A DOUBLE PENALTY TOGETHER

39  THE FIRST WILL SAY TO THE LAST, NOW WE SEE 
NO ADVANTAGE DO YOU HAVE OVER US INDEED
TASTE THE PENALTY FOR ALL OF YOUR DEEDS

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40  THOSE WHO OF OUR SIGNS ARE IN REJECTION
THERE WILL BE NO WAY OPEN
TO THEM OF THE GATES OF HEAVEN 
AND NOR WILL THEY ENTER THE GARDEN 

UNTIL THE CAMEL 
PASSES THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE 
THIS IS OUR REWARD FOR THE GUILTY PEOPLE

41  FOR THEM THERE IS HELL AS A COUCH BELOW THEM
AND FOLDINGS AND FOLDINGS OF COVERINGS ABOVE THEM
AND THIS IS OUR REQUITAL FOR THE WRONG DOERS AMONG THEM 

42  BUT THOSE WHO DO GOOD DEEDS AND ARE SINCERE BELIEVERS
NO BURDEN DO WE PLACE ON ANY SOUL BUT WHAT IT CAN BEAR 
AND THEY WILL DWELL IN THE GARDEN FOREVER

43  WE WILL REMOVE FROM THEIR HEARTS ANY INJURY 
AND THEY WILL HAVE RIVERS FLOWING BENEATH 
AND THEY WILL SAY, TO GOD ALL PRAISES BE 
WHO HAS GUIDED US TO THIS FELICITY 
WE COULD NOT HAVE FOUND MERCY
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR GOD'S MERCY

INDEED IT WAS THE TRUTH THAT THE MESSENGERS
OF GOD BROUGHT TO US AND THE CRY THEY WILL HEAR 
SEE THE GARDEN BEFORE YOU AND YOU ARE ITS INHERITORS
BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN CONSTANT RIGHTEOUS DOERS

44  THE GARDEN'S COMPANIONS WILL SAY TO THOSE IN THE FIRE 
WE HAVE FOUND TRUE THE PROMISE OF THE CREATOR  
HAVE YOU ALSO FOUND TRUE THE PROMISES OF YOUR MAKER? 
THEY WILL SAY, YES, BUT BETWEEN THEM A CRIER
WILL SAY, THE CURSE OF GOD IS ON THE WRONG-DOERS

45  THOSE WHO WOULD HINDER 
MEN FROM GOD'S WAY AND SEEK IN IT SOMETHING IN ERROR 
THEY WERE INDEED THOSE WHO WERE DENIERS OF THE HEREAFTER

46  BETWEEN THEM WILL BE A VEIL AND ON THE ELEVATED PLACES              
WILL BE MEN WHO WILL KNOW EVERY ONE BY THEIR FACES

AND THEY WILL CALL TO THE GARDEN'S OWNERS
AND SAY, MAY PEACE BE UPON YOU FOREVER
AND THEY WILL NOT YET HAVE ENTERED  
BUT OF IT THEY WILL BE ASSURED

47  THEIR EYES WILL BE TURNED TO THE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE
THEY WILL SAY, LORD, SEND US NOT AMONGST THE WRONG DOERS

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48  THE MEN IN THE ELEVATED PLACES                                                                  
WILL CALL TO MEN WHOM THEY WILL KNOW BY THEIR FACES                                
AND SAY, NO PROFIT WAS YOUR WEALTH AND YOUR ARROGANTNESS

49  ARE THESE NOT THE MEN WHOM YOU EXPRESSED
THAT GOD IN HIS MERCY WOULD NEVER BLESS? 

ENTER THE GARDEN, NO FEAR ON YOU WILL THERE BE 
NOR WILL YOU HAVE ANY REASON TO GRIEVE

50  THE FIRE'S COMPANIONS 
WILL CALL TO THE GARDEN'S COMPANIONS 

POUR DOWN TO US WATER OR ANYTHING 
THAT GOD DOES PROVIDE FOR YOUR SUSTAINING
AND THEY WILL SAY TO THEM, BOTH THESE THINGS 
GOD HAS FORBIDDEN TO THOSE GUILTY OF REJECTING

51  THOSE WHO TOOK THEIR RELIGION FOR AMUSEMENT AND PLAY
AND WERE DECEIVED BY THE LIFE OF THE WORLD THAT DAY 
SO WE WILL FORGET THEM AS THEY FORGOT THIS DAY 
AND BECAUSE THEY REJECTED THE WAY

52  WE SENT TO THEM A BOOK BASED ON KNOWLEDGE CLEARLY
EXPLAINED IN DETAIL TO BELIEVERS, A GUIDE AND A MERCY 

53  DO THEY WAIT FOR THE FINAL FULFILLMENT OF THE EVENT?
ON THE DAY OF THE FINAL FULFILLMENT OF THE EVENT 

THOSE WHO DISREGARDED IT BEFORE 
WILL SAY, THE APOSTLES OF OUR LORD 

DID SURELY BRING TO US TRUE TIDINGS AND WE HAVE INDEED
NO INTERCESSORS NOW TO ON OUR BEHALF INTERCEDE 
OR IF WE COULD BE SENT BACK THEN WE INDEED
WOULD BEHAVE QUITE DIFFERENTLY 

THEY WILL HAVE LOST THEIR SALVATION
AND THE THINGS OF THEIR INVENTIONS 
WILL HAVE LEFT THEM IN DISPOSITION

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54  YOUR GUARDIAN-LORD IS GOD WHO ALONE
CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH IN SIX DAYS ON HIS OWN
AND IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED AS THE LORD OF THE THRONE  

AND HE DRAWS THE NIGHT AS A VEIL OVER THE DAY
EACH SEEKING THE OTHER IN SUCCESSIVE WAYS

OF THE SUN, MOON AND STARS, HE IS THEIR CREATOR
ALL GOVERNED BY LAWS UNDER HIS ORDER
ARE THEY NOT HIS TO BE THEIR CREATOR
AND TO BE THEIR GOVERNOR?
BLESSED BE GOD, THE CHERISHER
OF THE WORLDS AND THE SUSTAINER 

55  CALL ON YOUR LORD WITH HUMILITY AND IN PRIVATE 
FOR GOD LOVES NOT THOSE WHO TRESPASS BEYOND LIMITS

56  AND BE NOT A MISCHIEF MAKER
ON THE EARTH AFTER IT HAS BEEN SET IN ORDER 
BUT CALL ON HIM LONGING IN YOUR HEARTS AND IN FEAR
FOR THE MERCY OF YOUR LORD IS ALWAYS NEAR

57  IT IS HE WHO SENDS THE WINDS COOL AND BREEZY 
LIKE HERALDS OF GOOD NEWS GOING BEFORE HIS MERCY

AND WHEN THEY HAVE CARRIED THE CLOUDS THAT ARE HEAVY-LADEN 
WE DRIVE THEM TO A DEAD LAND AND MAKE RAIN TO DESCEND 

AND PRODUCE EVERY KIND OF HARVEST IN DUE MEASURE 
AND WE WILL RAISE UP THE DEAD SO THAT YOU MAY REMEMBER 

58  FROM THE LAND THAT IS GOOD BY THE WILL OF ITS CREATOR
SPRINGS UP PRODUCE RICH AFTER THAT OF WHICH IT IS SIMILAR

BUT FROM THE LAND THAT IS BAD
SPRINGS UP NOTHING BUT THAT WHICH IS BAD

SO DO WE EXPLAIN THE SIGNS BY VARIOUS SYMBOLS 
TO ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE GRATEFUL

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59  WE SENT NOAH TO HIS PEOPLE 
AND HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE 

WORSHIP GOD 
BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD 

I FEAR FOR YOU THE PENALTY
OF A DREADFUL DAY INDEED

60  THE LEADERS OF HIS PEOPLE UTTERED
WE SEE YOU TO BE CLEARLY IN ERROR 

61  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, I AM NOT IN ERROR
ON THE CONTRARY, I AM A MESSENGER
FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER 

62  I BUT FULFILL TOWARDS YOU 
THE DUTIES OF MY LORD'S MISSION TO YOU 
AND I KNOW FROM GOD WHAT IS NOT KNOWN TO YOU 

63  DO YOU WONDER THAT THERE HAS COME TO YOU 
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR LORD TO YOU THROUGH 
A MAN OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE TO WARN YOU  
SO YOU MAY FEAR HIM AND HE MAY HAVE MERCY ON YOU?

64  BUT THEY REJECTED HIM 
AND WE SAFELY DELIVERED HIM 
AND THOSE IN THE ARK WITH HIM 

BUT WE OVERWHELMED IN THE FLOOD THOSE PEOPLE 
WHO REJECTED OUR SIGNS, THEY WERE A BLIND PEOPLE

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65  TO THE AD PEOPLE, AS A MESSENGER
WE SENT HUD ONE OF THEIR BROTHERS

AND HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD
BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD 
WILL YOU NOT KEEP YOUR DUTY TO GOD?

66  AMONG HIS PEOPLE, SAID THE LEADERS OF THE DISBELIEVERS
WE SEE YOU ARE AN IMBECILE AND WE THINK YOU ARE A LIAR

67  HE SAID, I AM NO IMBECILE BUT I AM A MESSENGER 
FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

68  I BUT FULFILL TOWARDS YOU 
THE DUTIES OF GOD'S MISSION TO YOU 
AND I AM A TRUSTWORTHY ADVISER TO YOU

69  DO YOU WONDER THAT THERE HAS COME TO YOU 
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR LORD TO YOU THROUGH 
A MAN OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE TO WARN YOU? 
CALL IN REMEMBRANCE THAT HE MADE YOU 
INHERITORS AFTER NOAH'S PEOPLE AND GAVE YOU 

A STATURE AMONG THE NATIONS
AND CALL TO MIND HIS BENEFITS IN YOUR POSSESSION
THAT TO YOU PROSPERITY MAY BE GIVEN  

70  THEY SAID, HAVE YOU COME THAT WE MAY WORSHIP GOD AS ONE 
AND GIVE UP TOTALLY OUR FATHER'S RELIGION?  

THEN BRING US THAT WITH WHICH YOU THREATEN US 
IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH TO US

71  HE SAID, PUNISHMENT HAS ALREADY COME FROM GOD UPON YOU 
DO YOU DISPUTE WITH NAMES DEVISED BY YOUR FATHERS AND YOU 
AND WITHOUT AUTHORITY FROM GOD BEING GIVEN TO YOU?
THEN WAIT I TOO WILL WAIT ALONG WITH YOU

72  WE SAVED HIM AND THOSE WHO TO HIM ADHERED  
AND WE CUT OFF THE ROOTS OF THE REJECTERS
AND THOSE WHO WERE NOT BELIEVERS

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73  WE SENT SALIH TO THE THAMUD PEOPLE
ONE THEIR OWN BROTHERS AS AN APOSTLE 

HE SAID TO THEM, OH MY PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD 
BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD 
NOW HAS COME TO YOU A SIGN FROM GOD
THIS SHE-CAMEL IS A SIGN TO YOU FROM GOD

SO LEAVE HER HERE TO GRAZE UNHARMED BY YOU
OR A GRIEVOUS PUNISHMENT WILL SEIZE YOU

74  REMEMBER HOW HE MADE YOU INHERITORS IN THE LAND
AFTER THE AD PEOPLE AND GAVE YOU HABITATIONS IN THE LAND                                        

YOU BUILD PALACES AND CASTLES IN OPEN PLAINS 
AND CARVE OUT HOMES IN THE MOUNTAINS 

SO REMEMBER GOD'S BENEFITS OF WHICH YOU ARE THE RECEIVERS
AND REFRAIN FROM EVIL ON EARTH AND BE NOT MISCHIEF MAKERS 

75  THOSE WHO WERE OF THE ARROGANT LEADERS   
SAID TO THOSE WHO WERE RECKONED WITHOUT POWER
AMONG THOSE OF HIS FOLLOWERS WHO WERE BELIEVERS
DO YOU KNOW INDEED THAT SALIH IS GOD'S MESSENGER?
THEY ANSWERED SAYING, WE INDEED ARE SURELY BELIEVERS 
THE REVELATION HE HAS BROUGHT US HAS MADE US BELIEVERS

76  THE ARROGANT PARTY SAID, FOR OUR PART WE DISBELIEVE
IN WHAT IT IS THAT YOU PEOPLE BELIEVE 

77  THEN THE SHE-CAMEL THEY SLAUGHTERED 
IN DEFIANCE OF THEIR LORD'S ORDER
AND SAID, OH SALIH, BRING YOUR THREATS IF YOU ARE A MESSENGER

78  THE EARTHQUAKE OVERTOOK THEM WHEN THEY WERE NOT PERCEIVING 
AND THEY WERE MOTIONLESS BODIES IN THEIR HOMES IN THE MORNING
SALIH LEFT THEM SAYING, OH MY PEOPLE, I GAVE TO YOU THE WARNING
WHICH WAS SENT BY MY LORD AND I GAVE YOU GOOD COUNSELING
BUT YOU ARE NOT OF THOSE WHO LOVE GOOD COUNSELING

80  WE ALSO SENT LOT, HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE 
DO YOU COMMIT LEWDNESS SUCH AS NO PEOPLE 
IN CREATION EVER COMMITTED BEFORE YOU PEOPLE?

81  FOR YOU PRACTICE YOUR LUSTS ON MEN 
IN PREFERENCE TO WOMEN 

YOU ARE PEOPLE INDEED EXCEEDING
BEYOND ALL BOUNDS IN TRANSGRESSING

82  AND NO ANSWER WAS GIVEN BY HIS PEOPLE 
BUT THAT THEY SAID, DRIVE THESE PEOPLE
OUT OF YOUR CITY, THESE ARE PEOPLE
WHO WANT TO BE CLEAN AND PURE PEOPLE

83  WE SAVED HIM AND HIS FAMILY 
EXCEPT HIS WIFE FOR IT WAS DECREED
THAT SHE WOULD LAG BEHIND BELATEDLY

84  WE RAINED BRIMSTONES UPON THEM FOR THEIR SINS
THIS WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO INDULGED IN CRIME AND SIN

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85  TO THE MADYAN PEOPLE WE SENT AS A MESSENGER
SHUAIB, ONE OF THEIR OWN BROTHERS

HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE ,WORSHIP GOD 
FOR BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD 
NOW HAS COME TO YOU A CLEAR MESSAGE FROM GOD 

GIVE JUST WEIGHT AND MEASURE
NOR WITHHOLD FROM PEOPLE WHAT IS PROPER
DO NO MISCHIEF ON THE EARTH AFTER IT HAS BEEN SET IN ORDER 
THAT WILL BE BEST FOR YOU IF YOU ARE BELIEVERS

86  AND LIE NOT IN WAIT ON EVERY HIGHWAY                                                           
BREATHING THREATS, HINDERING MEN FROM GOD'S WAY 

AND SEEKING IN IT SOMETHING UNTRUE
REMEMBER YOU WERE LITTLE AND HE GAVE INCREASE TO YOU 
AND REMEMBER THE END OF THOSE WHO DID MISCHIEF BEFORE YOU

87  IF THERE IS AMONG YOU A PARTY THAT BELIEVES
IN THE MESSAGES WHICH I HAVE RECEIVED                                                       
AND A PARTY WHICH DOES NOT BELIEVE  
BE PATIENT UNTIL GOD INTERCEDES 
FOR HE IS THE BEST TO INTERCEDE

PART IX

88  THE LEADERS, THE ARROGANT PARTY 
SAID, OH SHUAIB, WE WILL CERTAINLY 
DRIVE YOU OUT OF OUR CITY 

YOU AND THOSE WHO ARE WITH YOU OR ELSE YOU AND THEY
WILL HAVE TO RETURN TO OUR RELIGION AND OUR WAYS 
HE SAID, EVEN THOUGH WE DETEST YOUR WAYS?

89  WE WOULD INDEED BE LIARS IF WE RETURNED TO THEM 
NOW AFTER OUR LORD HAS RESCUED US FROM THEM 
NOR COULD WE BY ANY MEANS RETURN TO THEM 

UNLESS IT BE IN GOD'S WILL AND PLANNING
GOD IN HIS KNOWLEDGE COMPREHENDS ALL THINGS 

AND IN GOD IS OUR TRUST  
OUR LORD DECIDES BETWEEN OUR PEOPLE AND US
FOR SURELY YOU ARE THE BEST TO DECIDE BETWEEN US

90  THE LEADERS OF THE DISBELIEVERS AMONG HIS PEOPLE 
SAID, IF YOU FOLLOW SHUAIB YOU WILL BE A RUINED PEOPLE

91  THE EARTHQUAKE TOOK THEM WHEN THEY WERE NOT PERCEIVING 
AND THEY LAID MOTIONLESS IN THEIR HOMES BEFORE THE MORNING

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92  THE MEN WHO REJECTED SHUAIB 
BECAME AS IF THEY HAD NEVER STAYED 
IN THE HOMES IN WHICH THEY HAD LAID
AND THE MEN WHO HAD REJECTED SHUAIB
THE ONES WHO WERE RUINED WERE THEY

93  SHUAIB LEFT THEM SAYING, OH MY PEOPLE, I GAVE YOU
THE MESSAGE WHICH WAS SENT BY MY LORD FOR YOU

I GAVE YOU GOOD COUNSEL BUT HOW SHALL I GRIEVE 
OVER A PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO BELIEVE?

  SECTION  12

94  WHENEVER WE SENT A PROPHET TO A CITY
WE TOOK UP ITS PEOPLE IN ADVERSITY
SO THEY MAY LEARN HUMILITY

95  WE CHANGED THEIR SUFFERING INTO PROSPEROUS WAYS
UNTIL THEY GREW AND MULTIPLIED AND BEGAN TO SAY

OUR FATHERS WERE TOUCHED BY AFFLUENCE AND SUFFERING 
AND SO THEN AFTER WE CALLED THEM INTO ACCOUNTING
ALL OF A SUDDEN WHILE THEY WERE NOT PERCEIVING

96  IF THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK HAD BELIEVED
AND FEARED GOD AND KEPT THEIR DUTY

WE WOULD HAVE OPENED OUT TO THEM ALL KINDS OF BLESSINGS 
FROM HEAVEN AND EARTH BUT THEY CONTINUED REJECTING
SO WE BROUGHT THEM TO BOOK FOR THEIR DISBELIEVING

97  DID THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWNS FEEL SECURE FROM THE COMING
OF OUR WRATH BY NIGHT WHILE THEY WERE SLEEPING?

98  OR DID THEY FEEL SECURE AGAINST ITS COMING 
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT WHILE THEY WERE PLAYING?  

99  DID THEY THEN FEEL SECURE AGAINST THE PLAN OF GOD? 
BUT NO ONE CAN FEEL SECURE FROM THE PLAN OF GOD 
EXCEPT THOSE DOOMED TO RUIN BY GOD

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100  TO THOSE WHO INHERIT THE EARTH IN SUCCESSION 
TO ITS PREVIOUS POSSESSORS, IS IT NOT A GUIDING LESSON 
THAT IF WE SO WILLED WE COULD PUNISH THEM FOR THEIR SINS
AND ALSO SEAL UP THEIR HEARTS SO THAT THEY COULD NOT LISTEN?

101  SUCH WERE THE TOWNS WE RELATE TO YOU THEIR STORY
TO THEM CAME APOSTLES WITH SIGNS CLEARLY
BUT THEY DISBELIEVED
IN WHAT THEY HAD BEFORE DISBELIEVED
GOD SEALS UP THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

102  MOST OF THEM WE FOUND NOT MEN TRUE TO THEIR COVENANT 
BUT MOST OF THEM WE FOUND REBELLIOUS AND DISOBEDIENT

103  AFTER THEM WE SENT MOSES 
WITH OUR MESSAGES

104  TO PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS
BUT THEY REJECTED THEM WRONGFULLY
SO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO ACT MISCHIEVOUSLY

MOSES SAID, OH PHARAOH, I AM A MESSENGER
FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

105  ONE FOR WHOM IT IS RIGHT TO SAY ABOUT GOD TRUTH ONLY 
NOW HAVE I COME TO YOU FROM GOD WITH SIGNS CLEARLY
SO LET THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DEPART WITH ME

106  PHARAOH SAID, IF YOU HAVE COME WITH A SIGN, SHOW PROOF
IF YOU ARE INDEED TELLING THE TRUTH

107  THEN MOSES THREW HIS ROD AND SUDDENLY
IT WAS A SERPENT PLAIN FOR ALL TO SEE 

108  AND HE DREW OUT HIS HAND AND CLEARLY
IT WAS WHITE FOR ALL TO SEE

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109  SAID THE CHIEFS OF PHARAOH'S PEOPLE
THIS IS A SORCERER THAT IS VERY SKILLFUL

110  HIS PLAN IS TO GET YOU OUT OF YOUR LAND
WHAT DO YOU COUNSEL AGAINST HIS PLAN?

111  THEY SAID, KEEP IN SUSPENSE HIM AND HIS BROTHER 
AND TO THE CITIES SEND OUT SUMMONERS

112  AND BRING UP ALL OUR WELL-VERSED 
AND TALENTED AND SKILLFUL SORCERERS

113  SO WHEN THE SORCERERS CAME TO PHARAOH THEY SAID
OF COURSE WE WILL HAVE A REWARD IF WE COME OUT AHEAD

114  HE SAID, YES AND MORE FOR YOU WILL BE
RAISED TO POSITIONS NEAR TO ME

115  THEY SAID, OH MOSES, WILL YOU THROW FIRST
OR WILL WE BE THE ONES TO THROW FIRST?

116  MOSES SAID, YOU MAY THROW FIRST 
SO WHEN THEY DID THROW FIRST

THEY BEWITCHED THE PEOPLE'S EYES AND STRUCK FEAR INTO THEM 
FOR THEY SHOWED A GREAT FEAT OF MAGIC TO THEM

117  WE PUT INTO MOSES'S MIND BY INSPIRATION
THROW YOUR ROD AND IT SWALLOWED UP THEIR FABRICATIONS 

118  SO TRUTH WAS CONFIRMED AND HENCE
ALL THAT THEY DID WAS MADE OF NO CONSEQUENCE

119  SO THE GREAT ONES WERE VANQUISHED
AND WERE MADE TO LOOK DIMINISHED

120  AND THE SORCERERS IN ADORATION
FELL DOWN IN PROSTRATION

121  THEY SAID, WE BELIEVE TRULY
IN THE LORD OF THE WORLDS COMPLETELY

122  THE LORD OF MOSES AND THE LORD OF AARON

123  PHAROAH SAID, YOU BELIEVE HIM BEFORE I GIVE YOU PERMISSION?
SURELY YOU PLANNED IN THE CITY THIS DECEPTION
TO TURN OUT ITS PEOPLE BUT YOU WILL KNOW THE REPERCUSSIONS

124  I WILL CUT OFF YOUR HANDS AND FEET ON OPPOSITE SIDES
AND I WILL CAUSE YOU ALL TO BE CRUCIFIED

125  THEY SAID, AS FOR US WE ARE ONLY
SENT BACK TO OUR LORD SECURELY

126  BUT YOU WREAK YOUR VENGEANCE ON US 
BECAUSE WE BELIEVED GOD'S SIGNS WHEN THEY REACHED US 
OUR LORD AND CHERISHER POUR PATIENCE AND CONSTANCY ON US 

AND TAKE OUR SOULS UNTO YOU 
AS SUBMITTERS WHO BOW TO YOU

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127  SAID THE CHIEFS OF PHARAOH'S PEOPLE 
WILL YOU LEAVE MOSES AND HIS PEOPLE 

TO SPREAD MISCHIEF IN THE LAND FREELY
AND TO ABANDON YOU AND YOUR DEITIES?  

SO HE SAID, THEIR MALE CHILDREN WE WILL KILL THEM
AND ALL OF THEIR FEMALES WE WILL SAVE THEM 
FOR WE HAVE IRRESISTIBLE POWER OVER THEM 

128  MOSES SAID TO HIS PEOPLE, PRAY FOR HELP FROM GOD 
AND WAIT PATIENTLY, FOR THE EARTH BELONGS TO GOD
TO GIVE AS A HERITAGE TO THE SERVANTS OF GOD
THE END IS BEST FOR THE SERVANTS OF GOD

129  THEY SAID, THERE HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT TROUBLE FOR US
BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER YOU CAME TO US

MOSES SAID,  OH MY PEOPLE, YOUR LORD MAY DESTROY YOUR ENEMY 
AND MAKE YOU INHERITORS IN THE EARTH SUBSEQUENTLY 
SO THAT HE MAY TRY YOU BY YOUR DEEDS

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130  WE PUNISHED PHARAOH'S PEOPLE WITH YEARS OF DESTRUCTION  
OF CROPS AND DROUGHT THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVE ADMONITION

131  WHEN GOOD TIMES CAME THEY DECREED  
THIS IS DUE TO US, BUT WHEN GRIPPED BY CALAMITY 
THEY ASCRIBED IT TO EVIL OMENS FROM MOSES UNJUSTLY 
BUT THE OMENS ARE THEIRS IN REALITY
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT UNDERSTAND CLEARLY

132  THEY SAID TO MOSES, WHATEVER BE THE MESSAGES
THAT YOU BRING WITH YOUR SORCERY TO US
YOU WILL NEVER BE BELIEVED BY US

133  SO WE THEREFORE SENT PLAGUES ON THEM 
WHOLESALE DEATH AND LOCUSTS ON THEM
LICE AND FROGS AND BLOOD ON THEM

SIGNS SELF-EXPLAINED PLAINLY
BUT THEY WERE STEEPED IN ACTING ARROGANTLY
FOR THEY WERE PEOPLE SURELY GIVEN TO INIQUITY

134  EVERY TIME THE PENALTY FELL ON THEM THEY SAID, IF YOU                                                                                        
OH MOSES, CALL ON GOD IN VIRTUE OF HIS PROMISE TO YOU 
AND REMOVE THE PENALTY, WE WILL BELIEVE IN YOU
AND WE WILL SEND AWAY THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WITH YOU

135  BUT EVERY TIME WE REMOVED THE PENALTY FROM THEM 
ACCORDING TO A FIXED TERM WHICH WE SET FOR THEM 
THEY BROKE THE PROMISE WE TOOK FROM THEM

136  SO WE EXACTED RETRIBUTION FROM THEM 
AND IN THE SEA WE DROWNED THEM 
BECAUSE OUR SIGNS WERE REJECTED BY THEM
AND THEY FAILED TO TAKE WARNING FROM THEM

137  AND WE MADE A PEOPLE WHO WERE ASSESSED 
AS WEAK AND OF NO ACCOUNT AND OPPRESSED
INHERITORS OF THE LANDS, EAST AND WEST
LANDS ON WHICH WE BLESSED

THE PROMISE OF YOUR LORD WAS FULFILLED 
IN COMPLETION FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
BECAUSE THEY HAD PATIENCE AND WERE GRATEFUL

AND WE LEVELED TO THE GROUND THE FINE BUILDINGS 
WHICH PHARAOH AND HIS PEOPLE ERECTED SELF ESTEEMING

138  WE TOOK THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAFELY ACROSS THE SEA 
AND THEY CAME UPON A PEOPLE DEVOTED TO IDOLS ENTIRELY 
THEY SAID, OH MOSES, MAKE US A GOD LIKE THEIR DEITIES 
HE SAID, YOU ARE PEOPLE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE INDEED

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139  THESE FOLK THE CULT THEY ARE IN 
IS ONLY MERELY A FRAGMENT OF A RUIN 
AND VAIN IS THE WORSHIP THEY PRACTICE IN

140  HE SAID, SHOULD I SEEK FOR YOU A GOD 
ONE OTHER THAN THE ONE TRUE AND LIVING GOD 
WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN ENDOWED WITH GIFTS BY GOD
AND YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED ABOVE THE NATIONS BY GOD?

141  AND REMEMBER WE RESCUED YOU 
FROM PHARAOH'S PEOPLE WHO AFFLICTED YOU 
WITH THE WORST OF PENALTIES AND WHO ALSO SLEW 

YOUR MALE CHILDREN 
AND SAVED ALIVE YOUR FEMALE CHILDREN
AND THAT WAS A TRIAL FROM THE LORD OF CREATION

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142  WE APPOINTED FOR MOSES THIRTY NIGHTS 
AND COMPLETED THE PERIOD WITH TEN MORE NIGHTS

SO WAS COMPLETED WITH GOD THE TERM OF COMMUNION 
FORTY NIGHTS, AND MOSES HAD CHARGED HIS BROTHER AARON 

BEFORE HE WENT UP SAYING, ACT AMONG MY PEOPLE FOR ME 
DO RIGHT AND FOLLOW NOT THOSE WHO ACT MISCHIEVOUSLY

143  WHEN MOSES CAME TO THE PLACE APPOINTED 
HIS LORD ADDRESSED HIM AND MOSES SAID 

THAT I MAY LOOK UPON YOU SHOW YOURSELF TO ME 
HIS LORD SAID, BY NO MEANS CAN YOU SEE ME DIRECTLY
LOOK UPON THE MOUNTAIN, IF IT ABIDES IN ITS PLACE FIRMLY 
YOU WILL SEE ME AND WHEN HIS LORD MANIFESTED HIS GLORY 
ON THE MOUNTAIN HE MADE IT CRUMBLE AND IMMEDIATELY
MOSES FELL DOWN AND FAINTED AND WHEN HE CLEARLY
RECOVERED HIS SENSES HE SAID, TO YOU BE THE GLORY  
I TURN IN REPENTANCE AND AM THE FIRST TO BELIEVE 

144  GOD SAID, OH MOSES, I HAVE CHOSEN YOU 
ABOVE OTHER MEN BY THE MISSION I HAVE GIVEN YOU 
AND BY THE WORDS WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU 
TAKE THE REVELATION WHICH I GIVE TO YOU 
AND BE OF THOSE WHO GIVE THANKS AMONG YOU

145  WE ORDAINED LAWS FOR HIM AND ADMONITION
AND OF ALL THINGS A CLEAR EXPLANATION
AND SAID, TAKE AND HOLD TO THESE WITH CONVICTION 
AND ENJOIN ON YOUR PEOPLE TO HOLD TO THIS RELIGION 
I WILL SHOW YOU THE HOME OF THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION   

146  THOSE WHO BEHAVE ON THE EARTH ARROGANTLY
AND THEY DO IT IN DEFIANCE OF ACTING RIGHTLY

I WILL TURN AWAY MY SIGNS FROM THEM
IF THEY SEE ALL THE SIGNS THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE IN THEM
AND IF THE WAY OF RIGHT CONDUCT IS SEEN BY THEM
IT WILL NOT BE ADOPTED AS THE WAY BY THEM
BUT IF THE WRONG WAY IS SEEN BY THEM 
THAT IS THE WAY THAT WILL BE ADOPTED BY THEM
FOR THEY HAVE TAKEN OUR SIGNS AND REJECTED THEM
AND ALSO THEY HAVE FAILED TO TAKE WARNING FROM THEM

147  THOSE WHO OF OUR MESSAGES ARE REJECTERS 
AND IN THE MEETING OF THE HEREAFTER 
VAIN WILL BE THEIR ENDEAVORS 
THEY WILL RECEIVE WHAT THEY EARNED IN DUE MEASURE

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148  THE PEOPLE OF MOSES MADE IN HIS ABSENCE
THE IMAGE OF A CALF FOR WORSHIP OUT OF THEIR ORNAMENTS

AND IT SEEMED THAT IT HAD A HOLLOW SOUND TO THEM 
DID THEY NOT SEE THAT IT COULD NOT SPEAK TO THEM 
AND NOR COULD IT SHOW THE WAY TO THEM ? 
THEY TOOK IT FOR WORSHIP WHICH WAS WRONG OF THEM

149  THEY REPENTED AND SAW THAT THEY ACTED WRONGFULLY  
THEY SAID, IF OUR LORD DOES NOT UPON US HAVE MERCY
WE WILL BE OF THOSE WHO PERISH CERTAINLY

150  AND WHEN MOSES CAME BACK TO HIS PEOPLE 
ANGRY AND GRIEVED HE SAID, WHAT YOU HAVE DONE IS EVIL 

IN MY ABSENCE DID YOU HURRY 
TO BRING UPON YOU GOD'S FURY?

HE PUT DOWN THE TABLETS AND SEIZED HIS BROTHER BY THE HEAD
AND DRAGGED HIM TOWARDS HIM AND AARON SAID

SON OF MY MOTHER, THE PEOPLE RECKONED ME AS NOTHING
AND EVEN CONSIDERED ME FOR SLAYING  

MAKE NOT MY ENEMIES REJOICE OVER MY TRAGEDY
NOR COUNT ME AMONG THE PEOPLE OF INIQUITY

151  MOSES PRAYED, OH MY LORD, FORGIVE ME 
AND MY BROTHER AND ADMIT US TO YOUR MERCY 
FOR YOU ARE THE MOST MERCIFUL OF THOSE WHO SHOW MERCY

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152  THOSE WHO TOOK AND WORSHIPPED THE CALF 
THEY WILL SURLEY BE OVERWHELMED WITH WRATH
AND SO DO WE PUNISH THOSE WHO FORSAKE THE PATH

153  BUT THOSE WHO DO WRONG BUT REPENT AFTER AND BELIEVE 
YOUR LORD THEREAFTER IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

154  WHEN THE ANGER OF MOSES WAS APPEASED
HE TOOK UP THE TABLETS AND IN ITS WRITING WAS MERCY 
AND GUIDANCE FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD AND BELIEVE

155  MOSES CHOSE SEVENTY PEOPLE FOR OUR PLACE OF MEETING 
AND WHEN THEY WERE SEIZED WITH VIOLENT QUAKING 

HE PRAYED, OH MY LORD, IF IT HAD BEEN YOUR WILL YOU EASILY
COULD HAVE DESTROYED LONG BEFORE BOTH THEM AND ME 

WOULD YOU DESTROY US
FOR THE DEEDS OF THE FOOLISH ONES AMONG US? 
FOR SURELY THIS IS NO MORE THAN YOUR TRIAL UPON US

AND BY IT YOU CAUSE WHOM YOU WILL TO GO ASTRAY 
AND YOU LEAD WHOM YOU WILL TO THE RIGHT WAY 

AND YOU ARE OUR PROTECTOR SO FORGIVE US
AND GIVE YOUR KINDNESS AND MERCY TO US
FOR YOU ARE THE BEST FORGIVER OF US
 
156  AND ORDAIN FOR US
THAT WHICH IS GOOD FOR US
IN THIS LIFE AND IN THE HEREAFTER FOR US 

FOR WE HAVE TURNED TO YOU SUBMISSIVELY
AND HE SAID, WITH MY PENALTY
I VISIT WHOM I WILL BUT MY MERCY
EXTENDS TO ALL THINGS AND THAT MERCY 
I WILL ORDAIN FOR THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
AND FOR THOSE WHO DO PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN OUR MESSAGES SINCERELY 

157  THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE UNLETTERED MESSENGER 
WHOM THEY FIND MENTIONED IN THEIR OWN SCRIPTURES 

AND IN THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL, FOR HE COMMANDS THEM
JUSTICE AND FORBIDS THEM EVIL AND ALLOWS THEM 
AS LAWFUL WHAT IS GOOD AND HE PROHIBITS THEM 
FROM WHAT IS BAD AND IS IMPURE AND HE RELEASES THEM 
FROM THEIR BURDENS AND THE SHACKLES THAT ARE ON THEM 

IT IS THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM AND HONOR HIM AND HELP HIM 
AND FOLLOW THE LIGHT WHICH IS SENT DOWN WITH HIM 
IT IS THEY WHO WILL PROSPER THROUGH HIM

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158  SAY, OH MEN, I AM SENT TO YOU ALL AS THE MESSENGER
OF THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

TO WHOM BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS

BESIDES HIM THERE IS NO OTHER GOD 
IT IS HE THAT GIVES LIFE AND DEATH SO BELIEVE IN GOD 
AND THE UNLETTERED PROPHET WHO BELIEVES IN GOD 
AND FOLLOW HIM SO YOU MAY BE GUIDED BY GOD

159  OF THE PEOPLE OF MOSES 
ARE SOME WHO GUIDE WITH TRUTH AND JUSTICE 

160  WE DIVIDED THEM INTO TWELVE TRIBES OR NATIONS
AND WE DIRECTED MOSES BY INSPIRATION 

WHEN HIS PEOPLE ASKED HIM FOR WATER WHEN THIRSTY
WE SAID, STRIKE THE ROCK WITH YOUR STAFF AND IMMEDIATELY

FROM IT GUSHED THROUGH TWELVE SPRINGS OF RUNNING WATER
AND EACH GROUP KNEW ITS OWN PLACE FOR WATER

WE GAVE THE SHADE OF CLOUDS TO THEM 
AND SENT DOWN MANNA AND QUAILS TO THEM 

SAYING, EAT OF THE GOOD THINGS 
WE HAVE PROVIDED FOR YOUR SUSTAINING

BUT THEY REBELLED AND TO US THEY DID NO HARM
BUT TO THEIR OWN SELVES THEY DID DO HARM

161  AND REMEMBER IT WAS SAID TO THEM, DWELL IN THIS CITY                    
EAT AS YOU WISH THEREIN BUT SAY THE WORD OF HUMILITY 
AND ENTER THE GATE IN A POSTURE OF HUMILITY 
AND WE WILL FORGIVE YOU YOUR INIQUITIES
AND INCREASE THE PORTION OF THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

162  THE TRANSGRESSORS AMONG THEM 
CHANGED THE WORD WE HAD GIVEN TO THEM 
SO WE SENT A PLAGUE FROM HEAVEN UPON THEM 
BECAUSE OF THE REPEATED TRANSGRESSIONS OF THEM

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163  ASK THEM ABOUT THE STORY
OF THE TOWN BY THE SEA

WHEN THEY TRANSGRESSED IN THE MATTER OF THE SABBATH
THEIR FISH CAME TO THEM ON THE DAY OF THEIR SABBATH
BUT DID NOT COME WHEN THEY HAD NO SABBATH
THIS WAS A TRIAL BECAUSE THEY TRANSGRESSED IN THE SABBATH

164  WHEN SOME OF THEM SAID, WHY DO YOU PREACH TO PEOPLE 
WHOM GOD WILL DESTROY WITH A PENALTY THAT IS TERRIBLE? 

SAID THE PREACHERS, TO DISCHARGE OUR DUTY TO GOD 
AND PERCHANCE THAT THEY MAY FEAR GOD

165  WHEN THEY DISREGARDED THE WARNINGS GIVEN TO THEM
THOSE WHO HAD FORBADE EVIL WE RESCUED THEM

BUT WE PUNISHED THE WRONG-DOERS WITH A SEVERE PENALTY 
BECAUSE THEY WERE GIVEN TO INIQUITY

166  AND IN THEIR INSOLENCE THEY TRANSGRESSED ALL PROHIBITIONS 
WE SAID TO THEM, BE YOU AS APES DESPISED AND WITH REJECTION

167  YOUR LORD DECLARED THAT HE WOULD SEND AGAINST THEM 
TO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THOSE WHO WOULD AFFLICT THEM 
 
FOR YOUR LORD IS SEVERE IN AFFLICTING PENALTY
HE IS ALSO FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

168  INTO SECTIONS ON THIS EARTH WE DIVIDED THEM 
THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE RIGHTEOUS AMONG THEM 
AND OTHERS THAT ARE THE OPPOSITE AMONG THEM

WE HAVE TRIED THEM WITH BOTH PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MIGHT TURN TO US HUMBLY

169  AFTER THEM SUCCEEDED AN EVIL GENERATION
THAT INHERITED THE BOOK OF REVELATION

THEY CHOSE FOR THEMSELVES VAIN THINGS
AND SAYING FOR AN EXCUSE THAT EVERYTHING 
WILL BE FORGIVEN US, SO IF SIMILAR VAIN THINGS

CAME THEIR WAY THEY WOULD AGAIN SEIZE THEM 
WAS NOT THE COVENANT OF THE BOOK TAKEN FROM THEM

THAT THEY WOULD NOT ASCRIBE TO GOD 
ANYTHING BUT THE TRUTH OF GOD?

AND THEY STUDY WHAT IS IN THE SCRIPTURES 
BUT BETTER FOR THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
IS THE HOME IN THE HEREAFTER 
WILL YOU NOT THEN BE OF THOSE WHO CONSIDER?

170  FOR THOSE WHO HOLD FAST BY THE SCRIPTURES
AND KEEP UP PRAYER, NEVER WILL WE SUFFER 
TO PERISH THE REWARD OF THE REFORMERS

171  WHEN WE SHOOK THE MOUNTAIN OVER THEM 
AS IF IT HAD BEEN A CANOPY AND IT WAS THOUGHT BY THEM
THAT IT WAS GOING TO FALL ON THEM 
WE TOLD THEM TO HOLD FIRMLY TO WHAT WE HAD GIVEN THEM

AND BRING EVER WHAT IS THEREIN TO REMEMBRANCE 
THAT YOU MAY FEAR GOD PERCHANCE

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172  WHEN YOUR LORD DREW FROM ADAM'S CHILDREN 
FROM THE LOINS OF THEM THEIR DESCENDANTS 
AND MADE THEM MAKE THIS TESTAMENT 

SAYING, AM I NOT YOUR LORD WHO SUSTAINS YOU?
THEY SAID, YES WE DO TESTIFY TO THIS UNLESS YOU 

SHOULD SAY ON THE DAY OF REQUITAL
THAT OF THIS WE WERE NEVER MINDFUL

173  OR ELSE YOU SHOULD SAY, OUR FATHERS BEFORE US 
MAY HAVE TAKEN FALSE GODS, BUT AS FOR US 

WE ARE THEIR DESCENDANTS AFTER THEM 
WILL YOU DESTROY US BECAUSE OF THEM?

174  SO DO WE EXPLAIN THE MESSAGES IN DETAIL FROM US
THAT PERCHANCE THEY MAY TURN TO US

175  RELATE TO THEM THE STORY 
OF THE MAN TO WHOM WE SENT MESSAGES CLEARLY

BUT HE PASSED THEM BY AND TURNED AWAY
SO SATAN FOLLOWED HIM UP AND HE WENT ASTRAY

176  IF IT HAD BEEN OUR WILL WE WOULD HAVE SURELY
ELEVATED HIM WITH OUR MESSAGES BUT HE INSISTENTLY 
INCLINED TO THE EARTH AND FOLLOWED HIS OWN VANITIES

HIS PARABLE IS THAT OF A DOG, IF YOU ATTACK HIM 
HE LOLLS OUT HIS TONGUE OR IF ALONE YOU LEAVE HIM 

HE STILL LOLLS OUT HIS TONGUE, THAT IS THE PARABLE
OF THOSE WHO REJECT OUR MESSAGES AND ARE UNGRATEFUL
SO RELATE THE PARABLE THAT PERCHANCE THEY MAY BE MINDFUL

177  EVIL AS AN EXAMPLE ARE PEOPLE 
WHO REJECT OUR SIGNS AND COMMIT THEIR SOULS TO EVIL

178  WHOM GOD DOES GUIDE IS ON THE RIGHT WAY
 WHOM HE REJECTS FROM HIS GUIDANCE GO ASTRAY

179  WE HAVE MADE HELL FOR MANY DEMONS AND MEN
THEY HAVE HEARTS WITH WHICH THEY DO NOT COMPREHEND

EYES WITH WHICH THEY SEE NOT
AND EARS WITH WHICH THEY HEAR NOT 

THEY ARE LIKE CATTLE BUT MORE MINDLESS
FOR OF WARNINGS THEY ARE HEEDLESS

180 TO GOD BELONG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAMES 
SO CALL ON HIM BY HIS NAMES
BUT SHUN MEN WHO USE PROFANITY IN HIS NAMES 
FOR WHAT THEY DO THEY WILL BE BROUGHT TO SHAME

181  OF THOSE WE HAVE CREATED ARE PEOPLE WHO WITH TRUTH
DIRECT OTHERS AND DISPENSE JUSTICE WITH TRUTH

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182  THOSE WHO REJECT OUR MESSAGES WE WILL GRADUALLY 
VISIT WITH PUNISHMENT IN WAYS THEY DO NOT PERCEIVE

183  RESPITE TO THEM I WILL BE GRANTING 
FOR MY SCHEME IS STRONG AND UNFAILING

184  DO THEY NOT REFLECT THAT THEIR MESSENGER
IS NOT SEIZED WITH MADNESS, HE IS BUT A PLAIN WARNER?

185   DO THEY SEE NOTHING IN THE GOVERNMENTS
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND ALL THAT GOD HAS IN HIS CREATION?

DO THEY NOT SEE THAT IT MAY BE CERTAIN
THAT THEIR TERM IS NEAR DRAWING TO AN END 
IN WHAT MESSAGE AFTER THIS WILL THEY BELIEVE IN THEN?

186  THOSE WHO GOD REJECTS FROM HIS INSTRUCTION 
FOR THEM THERE CAN NEVER BE ANY DIRECTION 
HE LEAVES THEM IN THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS
WANDERING TO AND FRO IN DISTRACTION

187  THEY ASK YOU ABOUT THE FINAL HOUR, WHEN WILL IT BE ?                         
SAY, THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOUR IS WITH MY LORD ONLY                               

AND SURELY NONE BUT HE CAN REVEAL AS TO WHEN IT WILL HAPPEN
HEAVY IS ITS BURDEN THROUGH THE  EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND IT WILL COME TO YOU ALL OF A SUDDEN 
 
THEY ASK YOU AS IF YOU WERE EAGER IN SEARCH OF IT 
SAY TO THEM, WITH GOD IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF IT 
BUT MOST AMONG MEN DO NOT KNOW IT

188  SAY, NO POWER OVER ANY GOOD OR HARM HAVE I
TO MYSELF EXCEPT AS GOD WILLS AND IF I 
HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN THEN I 

WOULD HAVE MULTIPLIED ALL GOOD FOR ME
AND NO EVIL WOULD HAVE TOUCHED ME 

BUT I AM ONLY A PLAIN WARNER 
AND A BRINGER OF GOOD NEWS TO BELIEVERS

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189  GOD CREATED YOU FROM A SINGLE  CREATURE
AND MADE FOR YOU A MATE OF LIKE NATURE
IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT DWELL IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER
AND WHEN THEY ARE UNITED A LIGHT BURDEN SHE BEARS
AND CARRIES IT ABOUT UNNOTICED WITH HER
AND THEN WHEN SHE GROWS HEAVIER 
THEY BOTH PRAY TO GOD SAYING, OH CREATOR 
IF YOU GIVE US A GOOD CHILD WE SWEAR
THAT WE WILL BE GRATEFUL FOREVER

190  BUT WHEN HE GIVES THEM A GOOD CHILD THEY ASCRIBE TO OTHERS 
A SHARE IN THE GIFT THAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED FROM THEIR MAKER
BUT HE IS ABOVE WHAT THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM AS PARTNERS

191  DO THEY INDEED ASCRIBE TO HIM THINGS 
THAT HAVE THEMSELVES CREATED NOTHING
BUT ARE THEMSELVES CREATED THINGS?

192  AND THEY CAN GIVE TO THEM NO AID
NOR CAN THEY GIVE TO THEMSELVES AID

193  IF TO GUIDANCE YOU CALL THEM 
THEY WILL NOT OBEY YOU, IT IS THE SAME TO THEM 
WHETHER YOU CALL THEM OR WHETHER YOU DO NOT CALL THEM

194  SURELY THOSE WHOM YOU 
CALL ON BESIDES GOD ARE SERVANTS LIKE YOU 
SO CALL UPON THEM PRAYING AND LET THEM LISTEN TO YOU
IF YOU THINK THAT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE

195  HAVE THEY FEET TO WALK WITH OR HANDS TO MOVE FREELY
OR EARS TO HEAR WITH OR EYES TO SEE? 
SAY, CALL YOUR GOD-PARTNERS AND SCHEME AGAINST ME 
YOUR WORST SCHEME AND GIVE NO RESPITE TO ME 

196  GOD WHO REVEALED THE BOOK IS MY FRIEND
HE CHOOSES THE RIGHTEOUS AND THEM HE BEFRIENDS

197  AND BESIDES HIM THOSE WHO ARE CALLED ON BY YOU
ARE UNABLE TO HELP THEMSELVES OR YOU

198  IF YOU CALL THEM TO GUIDANCE THEY HEAR NOT 
YOU WILL SEE THEM LOOKING AT YOU BUT THEY SEE NOT

199  COMMAND WHAT IS RIGHT BUT TURN AWAY 
FROM THE IGNORANT AND EVIL WAYS

200  IF A SUGGESTION FROM SATAN IS MENTALLY AFFLICTING
SEEK REFUGE IN GOD, FOR HE IS ALL KNOWING

201  WHEN AN EVIL THOUGHT AFFLICTS THOSE WHO FEAR GOD
WHEN THEIR SIGHT RETURNS TO THEM THEY REMEMBER GOD

202  BUT THEIR BROTHERS THE EVIL ONES, PLUNGE THEM DEEPER
INTO ERROR AND RELAX THEIR EFFORTS NEVE

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203  IF YOU BRING THEM NOT A REVELATION THEY UTTER 
WHY HAVE YOU NOT GOT IT TOGETHER? 
SAY, I BUT FOLLOW WHAT IS REVEALED TO ME FROM THE CREATOR 
THIS IS GUIDANCE AND LIGHT FROM YOUR MAKER 
AND MERCY FOR THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 

204  WHEN THE QURAN IS RECITED, LISTEN TO IT ATTENTIVELY
AND HOLD YOUR PEACE THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE MERCY

205  AND REMEMBER YOUR LORD WITH HUMILITY
AND IN TRUE REVERENCE AND NOT NOISILY 
MORNING AND EVENING AND TAKE HEED

206  THOSE WHO ARE NEAR TO GOD, DO NOT REFUSE TO PRAISE HIM
THEY CELEBRATE HIS PRAISES AND BOW DOWN BEFORE HIM

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