CHAPTER 72.  THE DEMONS                                                          SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  SAY, I HAVE RECEIVED REVELATION
THAT A COMPANY OF THE  DEMONS
LISTENED TO THE QURAN
AND SAID, WE HAVE HEARD WONDERFUL INSTRUCTION

2  IT GIVES GUIDANCE TO RIGHT AND WE HAVE BELIEVED 
AND WE WILL NOT JOIN GODS WITH GOD IN DEITY

3  AND EXALTED IS OUR LORD, THE MAJESTIC ONE
HE HAS TAKEN NEITHER A WIFE NOR A SON

4  THERE WERE SOME AMONG US WHO FOOLISHLY
USED TO UTTER LIES AGAINST GOD EXTRAVAGANTLY

5  BUT NOW WE DO THINK THAT NOTHING WRONG 
SHOULD BE SAID AGAINST GOD BY ANYONE 
BY NEITHER MAN OR DEMON

6  TRUE THERE WERE PERSONS 
AMONG MANKIND WHO TOOK SHELTER WITH PERSONS 
AMONG THE DEMONS BUT THEY INCREASED THEM IN TRANSGRESSION

7  AND THEY AND YOU MADE THE SAME ASSUMPTION
THAT GOD WOULD NOT RAISE UP ANY ONE

8  AND WE PRIED INTO THE SECRETS OF HEAVEN BUT OUR FINDINGS
WAS IT WAS FILLED WITH STERN GUARDS AND FIRES FLAMING 

9  WE USED TO SIT THERE IN HIDDEN STATIONS TO STEAL A HEARING 
BUT ANY WHO LISTENS NOW WILL FIND A FIRE FLAMING 
LYING IN WAIT FOR HIM AND WATCHING 

10  AND WE UNDERSTAND NOT WHETHER 
ILL IS INTENDED TO THOSE ON EARTH OR WHETHER 
THEIR LORD REALLY INTENDS TO GUIDE THEM TO ACT PROPER

11  THERE ARE SOME OF US THAT ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
AND SOME THE CONTRARY, WE FOLLOW PATHS THAT VARY

12  WE THINK THAT WE CAN BY NO MEANS ESCAPE GOD'S PENALTY 
THROUGH THE EARTH NOR CAN WE BY FLIGHT ESCAPE THE PENALTY 

13  AND AS FOR US SINCE WE HAVE HEARD 
THE GUIDANCE OF OUR LORD WE ARE BELIEVERS
AND ANY WHO BELIEVES IN HIS LORD HAS NO FEAR
OF A SHORT ACCOUNT OR OF INJUSTICE EITHER

14  AMONG US ARE SOME THAT ARE SUBMITTERS
OF THEIR WILLS TO GOD AND SOME ARE DEVIATORS
BUT THOSE WHO SUBMIT ARE RIGHT DOERS

15  BUT THOSE WHO ARE DEVIATORS
THEY ARE BUT FUEL FOR THE HELL FIRE 

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16  AND GOD'S MESSAGE IS, IF THEY HAD ONLY
REMAINED ON THE RIGHT WAY, WE WOULD CERTAINLY 
HAVE BESTOWED ON THEM RAIN ABUNDANTLY

17  THAT WE MIGHT TRY THEM BY THAT MANNER 
BUT IF ANY TURNS AWAY FROM THE CREATOR
HIS PUNISHMENT TO HIM WILL BE SEVERE

18  AND THE PLACES OF WORSHIP ARE ONLY FOR GOD 
SO CALL ON NOT ANY ONE ALONG WITH GOD 

19  WHEN THE DEVOTEE OF GOD STANDS FORTH TO CALL ON HIM 
THEY JUST MAKE A DENSE CROWD AROUND HIM

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20  SAY, I DO NO MORE THAN CALL ON MY GOD
AND I JOIN NOT WITH HIM ANY FALSE GOD

21  SAY, TO CAUSE YOU HARM IS NOT IN MY POWER 
OR TO BRING YOU TO RIGHT CONDUCT EITHER

22  SAY, NO ONE CAN DELIVER ME FROM GOD 
NOR SHOULD I FIND REFUGE EXCEPT IN GOD

23  I MUST ONLY PROCLAIM WHAT I RECEIVE FROM THE CREATOR 
FOR ANY THAT DISOBEYS GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
FOR THEM IS HELL AND THEY WILL DWELL IN IT FOREVER

24  AT LENGTH WHEN THEY SEE THAT WHICH THEY ARE ASSURED
THEN WILL THEY KNOW WHO IS WEAKEST AS HIS HELPER 
AND LEAST IMPORTANT IN POINT OF NUMBERS

25  SAY, I KNOW NOT WHETHER 
THE PUNISHMENT WHICH YOU ARE PROMISED IS NEAR
OR WHETHER MY LORD WILL APPOINT FOR IT A TERM FURTHER

26  HE ALONE KNOWS THE UNSEEN NOR DOES HE 
MAKE ANY ONE AQUATINTED WITH HIS MYSTERIES

27  EXCEPT WHOM HE HAS CHOSEN AS A MESSENGER
AND THEN HE MAKES A BAND OF WATCHERS 
MARCH BEFORE HIM AND AFTER

28  AND THAT HE MAY KNOW THAT THEY HAVE TRULY 
BROUGHT AND DELIVERED THE MESSAGES CLEARLY
AND HE SURROUNDS ALL OF THE MYSTERIES 
AND TAKES ACCOUNT OF EVERYTHING WITH CERTAINTY

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