CHAPTER 10.  JONAH                                                                            SECTION 1.  PART XI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD AM THE SEER
THESE ARE THE VERSES OF THE BOOK OF WISDOM THAT IS CLEAR

2  IS IT A MATTER OF WONDERMENT TO MEN THAT TO THEM
WE HAVE SENT INSPIRATION TO A MAN FROM AMONG THEM

THAT HE SHOULD BE A WARNER 
TO MANKIND OF THEIR DANGER 
AND GIVE GOOD NEWS TO THE BELIEVERS 

THAT THEY HAVE BEFORE THEIR LORD 
THE LOFTY RANK OF TRUTH AS THEIR REWARD?

BUT SAY THE DISBELIEVERS 
THIS IS AN EVIDENT SORCERER

3  YOUR LORD IS GOD WHO IN SIX DAYS CREATED EVERYTHING
AND IS ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE REGULATING 
AND CONSTANTLY GOVERNING ALL THINGS 
 
EXCEPT BY HIS LEAVE NO INTERCESSOR CAN PLEAD WITH HIM
SURELY THIS IS MY LORD AND YOUR LORD SO SERVE HIM 
WILL YOU NOT RECEIVE ADMONITION FROM HIM?

4  TO HIM WILL BE YOUR RETURN ALL OF YOU 
THE PROMISE OF GOD IS SURE AND TRUE 

IT IS HE WHO BEGINS THE CREATION PROCESS 
AND HE REPEATS IT SO THAT HE MAY GIVE JUSTICE 
TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS

BUT THOSE WHO REJECT HIM 
WILL HAVE DRAUGHTS OF BOILING FLUIDS FROM HIM
AND A GRIEVOUS PENALTY BECAUSE THEY REJECTED HIM

5  IT IS HE WHO MADE THE SUN TO BE A SHINING GLORY 
AND THE MOON TO BE A LIGHT OF BEAUTY 
AND MEASURED OUT STAGES FOR HER DISTINCTIVELY
THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW THE NUMBER OF YEARS ACCURATELY
AND THE COUNT OF TIME ADDITIONALLY
AND GOD CREATED ALL OF THIS TRUTHFULLY 
SO DOES HE GIVE MESSAGES CLEARLY
FOR ALL OF THOSE WITH COMPREHENSIBILITY

6  SURELY IN THE ALTERNATION 
OF NIGHT AND DAY AND IN THE CREATION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WITH COMPREHENSION

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7  THOSE WHO REST NOT THEIR HOPE ON THEIR MEETING THEIR LORD
BUT ARE SATISFIED WITH LIVING THIS LIFE THEY ADORE 
AND OUR MESSAGES THEY IGNORE

8  THEIR ABODE IS THE FIRE 
BECAUSE OF THEIR EVIL THEY EARNED A PLACE IN THE FIRE

9  THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS 
GOD WILL GUIDE THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITHFULNESS
AND BENEATH THEM WILL FLOW RIVERS IN GARDENS OF BLISS

10  THEIR CRY THEREIN WILL BE 
GLORY TO YOU OH LORD, AND PEACE WILL BE 
THEIR GREETING AND THE CLOSE OF THEIR CRY WILL BE 
ALL PRAISE IS DUE TO GOD, THE LORD OF THE WORLDS IS HE

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11  IF GOD HASTENED FOR MEN THE ILL OF THEIR EARNINGS
AS THEY WOULD HASTEN THE GOOD OF THEIR EARNINGS
THEIR RESPITE BE AN IMMEDIATE SETTLING
WE LEAVE THOSE WHO HOPE NOT MEETING 
WITH US, IN DISTRACTION WANDERING 

12  WHEN TROUBLE TOUCHES A MAN HE CRIES TO US LYING
DOWN ON HIS SIDE OR SITTING OR STANDING 
BUT WHEN WE HAVE SOLVED HIS DISCOMFORTING 
HE ACTS AS IF HE NEVER CRIED TO US FOR HIS TROUBLING
AND SO DO THE DEEDS OF THOSE TRANSGRESSING 
TO THEM IN THEIR EYES SEEM FAIR SEEMING

13  GENERATIONS BEFORE YOU WE DESTROYED PRIOR
FOR THEIR WRONGS WHEN CAME TO THEM THEIR MESSENGERS
WITH CLEAR SIGNS BUT THEY WOULD NOT BE BELIEVERS 
SO DO WE REQUITE THOSE WHO ARE TRANSGRESSORS

14  THEN AFTER THEM WE MADE YOU 
HEIRS IN THE LAND TO SEE WHAT YOU WOULD DO

15  BUT WHEN ARE RECITED TO THEM OUR CLEAR MESSAGES 
THOSE WHO REST NOT THEIR HOPE ON THEIR MEETING WITH US

THEY SAY, BRING US A READING OTHER THAN THIS ONE OR CHANGE IT 
SAY TO THEM, IT IS NOT FOR ME OF MY OWN ACCORD TO CHANGE IT

FOR I FOLLOW NOTHING BUT WHAT IS REVEALED TO ME
AND IF I WERE TO DISOBEY MY LORD THEN I INDEED
WOULD FEAR FOR MYSELF THE PENALTY 
OF A GREAT DAY TO COME SURELY

16  SAY, IF GOD HAD WILLED I WOULD NOT HAVE RECITED IT TO YOU
NOR WOULD HE HAVE MADE IT KNOWN TO YOU 
A WHOLE LIFE TIME BEFORE THIS HAVE I STAYED AMONG YOU 
IS THIS NOT THEN UNDERSTOOD BY YOU?

17  WHO DOES MORE WRONG THAN ONE WHO FORGES
A LIE AGAINST HIS LORD OR DENIES HIS LORD'S MESSAGES?  
BUT NEVER WILL SUCCESS COME TO HE WHO TRANSGRESSES

18  THEY SERVE BESIDES GOD THINGS THAT DO NOT HURT THEM 
NOR DO THE THINGS THAT THEY SERVE PROFIT THEM 

AND THEY SAY OF GOD, THESE ARE OUR INTERCESSORS WITH HIM
SAY, DO YOU INFORM GOD OF SOMETHING NOT KNOWN TO HIM  
AND FAR IS HE ABOVE THE PARTNERS THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM

19  MANKIND WAS BUT ONE NATION BUT DIFFERED LATER 
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A WORD THAT CAME FROM THE CREATOR
THEY WOULD HAVE SETTLED THE THINGS IN WHICH THEY DIFFERED

20  THEY ASK. WHY IS NOT A SIGN SENT DOWN FROM GOD TO YOU? 
SAY, THE UNSEEN IS KNOWN ONLY TO GOD NOT TO YOU
THEN WAIT, I TOO WILL WAIT ALONG WITH YOU

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21  WHEN WE MAKE MANKIND TASTE OF SOME MERCY 
AFTER HAS TOUCH THEM SOME ADVERSITY 

AGAINST OUR SIGNS THEY TAKE TO PLOTTING 
SAY TO THEM, GOD IS SWIFTER IN PLANNING
AND OUR MESSENGERS RECORD ALL YOUR DOINGS 

22  GOD ENABLES YOU TO TRAVERSE THROUGH LAND AND SEA 
SO THAT YOU MAY BOARD SHIPS AND YOU SAIL WITH THEM EASILY
WITH A FAVORABLE WIND AND THEN WHEN IT BECOMES COMES STORMY  

AND THE WAVES COME TO THEM FROM ALL SIDES
AND THEY THINK THEY ARE GOING TO SUBSIDE

THEY CRY TO GOD SINCERELY
OFFERING TO HIM THEIR SINCERE DUTY 
SAYING, DELIVER US FROM THIS AND WE WILL ACT GRATEFULLY 

23  BUT WHEN HE DELIVERS THEM SAFELY
THEN THEY TRANSGRESS INSOLENTLY 
THROUGH THE EARTH DEFIANTLY
SAY, OH MANKIND, YOUR INSOLENCE 
IS AGAINST YOURSELVES AND MAKES YOU HAPPY
BUT SURELY TO US WILL BE YOUR RETURN INEVITABLY
WE WILL THEN SHOW YOU ALL THAT YOU DID CLEARLY

24  THE LIKENESS OF THE PRESENT LIFE 
IS AS THE RAIN WHICH IS SENT DOWN FROM THE SKIES
AND THEN BY ITS MINGLING IT CAUSES PRODUCE TO RISE 

PROVIDING FOOD FOR ANIMALS AND MEN 
IT GROWS AND THE EARTH'S ORNAMENTS BECOME GOLDEN 

AND IS DECKED OUT IN BEAUTY AND THE PEOPLE 
THINK THEY HAVE OVER IT ALL POWERS OF DISPOSAL 

AND WHEN OUR COMMAND REACHES IT BY NIGHT OR BY DAY 
AND WE MAKE IT A HARVEST CLEAN AND MOWN AWAY
AS IF IT HAD NOT FLOURISHED THE PREVIOUS DAY

SO DO WE EXPLAIN THE SIGNS CLEARLY 
FOR THOSE WHO REFLECT SINCERELY

25  BUT GOD DOES CALL TO THE HOME OF PEACE 
HE GUIDES TO THE STRAIGHT WAY THOSE WHOM HE DOES PLEASE

26  TO THOSE WHO DO RIGHT IS A GOOD REWARD 
MORE THAN IN MEASURE FROM THEIR LORD
 
THEIR FACES NO GLOOMINESS NOR SHAME WILL COVER 
THEIR HOME IS THE GARDEN, THEY WILL ABIDE IN IT FOREVER

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27  BUT THOSE WHO HAVE EARNED EVIL 
WILL HAVE A REWARD OF LIKE EVIL 

THEIR FACES, IGNOMONY WILL COVER 
AND THEY WILL HAVE NO DEFENDER 
FROM THE WRATH OF THE CREATOR

AND OVER THEIR FACES WILL BE COVERED WITH PIECES 
FROM THE DEPTH OF THE NIGHT'S DARKNESS 

AND THEY ARE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE 
THEY WILL ABIDE IN IT FOR EVER

28  ONE DAY WE WILL GATHER THEM ALL TOGETHER 
THEN WE WILL SAY TO THOSE WHO JOINED WITH US PARTNERS
TO YOUR PLACE, YOU AND THOSE YOU JOINED WITH US AS PARTNERS 
WE WILL SEPARATE THEM, AND WILL SAY THEIR PARTNERS 
IT WAS NOT US THAT YOU WERE WORSHIPPERS

29  ENOUGH IS GOD FOR A WITNESS BETWEEN YOU AND US 
WE CERTAINLY KNEW NOTHING OF YOUR WORSHIP OF US

30  THERE WILL EVERY SOUL PROVE THE FRUITS OF THEIR DEEDS 
AND THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO GOD INDEED
AND THAT WHICH THEY INVENTED FALSELY 
WILL HAVE LEFT THEM IN THE LURCH HELPLESSLY

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31  SAY, WHO IS IT THAT DOES SUSTAIN YOUR LIVING
AND WHO HAS POWER OVER SIGHT AND HEARING 
AND WHO IS IT THAT BRINGS OUT THE LIVING 
FROM THE DEAD AND BRINGS OUT THE DEAD FROM THE LIVING? 

AND WHO RULES ALL AFFAIRS?  THEY WILL SAY GOD 
SAY TO THEM, WILL YOU NOT THEN SHOW PIETY TO GOD?

32  THIS IS GOD YOUR REAL CHERISHER AND SUSTAINER 
SO APART FROM TRUTH WHAT REMAINS BUT ERROR? 
HOW THEN ARE YOU TURNED AWAY THEREAFTER?

33  SO IS PROVED TRUE THE WORD OF GOD
AGAINST THOSE WHO REBEL, THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE IN GOD

34  SAY, OF YOUR PARTNERS CAN ANY ORIGINATE AND REPEAT CREATION?
SAY, IT IS GOD WHO ORIGINATES AND REPEATS CREATION
SO HOW THEN ARE THEY IN DELUSION? 
 
35  SAY, OF YOUR PARTNERS IS THERE ANY THAT GUIDES TO TRUTH?
SAY TO THEM, IT IS GOD WHO GIVES GUIDANCE TO TRUTH
IS THEN HE WHO GIVES GUIDANCE TO TRUTH
MORE WORTHY TO FOLLOW OR HE WHO FINDS NOT TRUTH
UNLESS HE HIMSELF IS GUIDED TO TRUTH? 
WHAT THEN IS THE MATTER WITH YOU  
HOW ARE MATTERS JUDGED BY YOU?

36  BUT MOST OF THEM FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE
AND SURELY OF NO AVAIL AGAINST TRUTH IS CONJECTURE
AND OF ALL THAT THEY DO, GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

37,  THIS QURAN CANNOT BE PRODUCED BY OTHER THAN THE CREATOR
IT IS A CONFIRMATION OF REEVALUATIONS PRIOR
AND A FULLER EXPLANATION OF THE SCRIPTURES  
IT IS FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

38  OR DO THEY SAY, HE IS A FORGER
SAY TO THEM, THEN PRODUCE LIKE IT ONE CHAPTER 
AND CALL ANYONE YOU CAN BESIDES GOD AS A HELPER
IF WHAT YOU SPEAK ABOUT IT IS PROPER

39  AND THEY INDEED REJECT WHAT IS NOT UNDERSTOOD BY THEM
EVEN WHEN THE ELUCIDATION OF IT HAS NOT REACHED THEM  
EVEN SO WERE THE REJECTORS BEFORE THEM 
BUT SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THEM

40  OF THEM THERE ARE SOME OF THEM WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND THERE ARE SOME OF THEM WHO ARE NOT BELIEVERS
AND YOUR LORD KNOWS BEST THE MISCHIEF MAKERS

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41 IF WITH FALSEHOOD THEY CHARGE YOU 
SAY TO THEM, MY WORK IS FOR ME AND YOURS IS FOR YOU 
AND YOU ARE FREE FROM RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT I DO 
AND I AM FREE OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU DO

42  AMONG THEM ARE SOME WHO ACT AS IF THEY ARE LISTENING 
BUT CAN YOU GIVE TO THOSE WHO ARE DEAF HEARING
EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING?

43  AND AMONG THEM ARE SOME WHO LOOK AT YOU, BUT REALLY
CAN YOU GUIDE THE BLIND EVEN THOUGH THEY WILL NOT SEE?

44  SURELY GOD WILL NOT DEAL WITH MAN UNJUSTLY
IT IS MAN THAT WRONGS HIS OWN SOUL UNJUSTLY

45  ONE DAY HE WILL GATHER THEM TOGETHER 
IT WILL BE AS IF THEY HAD STAYED BUT AN HOUR 
AND THEN THEY WILL CLEARLY RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER 
THOSE WILL BE LOST WHO DENIED THE MEETING WITH THE CREATOR 
AND REFUSED TO RECEIVE TRUE GUIDANCE FROM THEIR MAKER

46  WHETHER WE SHOW YOU IN YOUR LIFE WHAT FOR THEM WE DECREE 
OR WE TAKE YOUR SOUL BEFORE THAT UNTO OUR MERCY 
IN ANY CASE TO US IS THEIR RETURN ULTIMATELY 
AND GOD WITNESSES ALL OF THEIR DEEDS

47  TO EVERY PEOPLE A MESSENGER WAS SENT TO THEM
AND THEN WHEN THEIR MESSENGER DOES COME TO THEM 
THE MATTER WILL BE JUDGED WITH JUSTICE BETWEEN THEM 
AND THEN NO WRONG WHATSOEVER WILL BE DONE TO THEM

48  THEY SAY, WHEN WILL THIS PROMISE COME TRUE
IF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE?

49  SAY, EXCEPT AS MY LORD WILLS I HAVE NO POWER 
OF ANY HARM OR PROFIT TO MYSELF WHATSOEVER
AND TO EVERY PEOPLE IS AN APPOINTED HOUR 
WHEN THEY REACH THEIR APPOINTED HOUR
THEY CANNOT DELAY IT A SINGLE HOUR 
NOR CAN THEY ADVANCE IT IN A SINGLE HOUR

50  SAY, DO YOU NOT SEE IF YOUR LORD'S DESTRUCTION
COMES TO YOU BY NIGHT OR DAY, WHAT PORTION 
OF IT WOULD THE SINNERS WISH TO HASTEN?

51  WOULD YOU THEN BELIEVE IN IT AT LAST WHEN 
IT DOES COMES TO PASS, IT WILL BE SAID THEN 
WHAT NOW AND YOU WANTED IT HASTENED? 

52  AT LENGTH IT WILL BE SAID TO THE WRONG DOERS 
NOW YOU TASTE THE PUNISHMENT THAT ENDURES
YOU ARE RECEIVING JUST WHAT YOU DESERVE
 
53  THEY ASK YOU, IS THAT TRUE? 
SAY, YES BY MY LORD IT IS VERY TRUE 
AND IT CANNOT BE FRUSTRATED BY YOU 

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54  AND EVERY SOUL THAT HAS INJUSTICES THAT THEY HAVE DONE
IF THEY POSSESSED ALL ON EARTH WOULD GIVE IT FOR RANSOM
AND THEY WOULD OPENLY DECLARE THEIR SUBMISSION
WHEN THEY FINALLY LOOK UP SEE THE DESTRUCTION
BUT THE JUDGMENT WILL BE JUST IN DECISION 
AND NO WRONG TO THEM WILL BE DONE 

55  GOD CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH IN TRUTH
IS IT NOT THE CASE THAT GOD'S PROMISE IS TRUE? 
YET MOST DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS TRUE

56  IT IS HE WHO GIVES LIFE AND WHO TAKES IT IN TURN                                  
AND TO HIM YOU WILL ALL BE RETURNED

57  OH MANKIND, THERE HAS COME TO YOU 
A DIRECTION FROM YOUR LORD AND A HEALING FOR YOU
FOR THE DISEASES IN THE HEARTS OF YOU
AND GUIDANCE AND MERCY FOR THE BELIEVERS AMONG YOU

58  SAY, IN THE BOUNTY AND IN THE MERCY OF THEIR LORD 
LET THEM REJOICE, THAT IS BETTER THAN THE WEALTH THEY HOARD

59  SAY, SEE WHAT GOD HAS SENT DOWN FOR SUSTENANCE TO YOU 
YET SOME THINGS ARE MADE FORBIDDEN BY YOU  
AND SOME OTHER THINGS ARE MADE LAWFUL BY YOU 
SAY, HAS THIS BEEN PERMITTED BY YOUR LORD TO YOU 
OR ARE INVENTED THINGS ATTRIBUTED TO GOD BY YOU?

60  AND WHAT DO THOSE THINK WHO INVENT 
LIES ABOUT GOD OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT? 
SURELY TO MANKIND GOD IS BENEFICENT 
BUT MOST OF THEM ACT IGNORANT

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61  IN WHATEVER BUSINESS YOU MAY BE CONDUCTING
AND WHATEVER PORTION OF THE QURAN YOU MAY BE RECITING 
AND WHATEVER DEED YOU MAY BE DOING 
WHEN YOU ARE ENGROSSED IN IT WE ARE WITNESSING

NOR IS HIDDEN FROM YOUR LORD ANYTHING
NOT AN ATOM AND NOT THE LEAST OF THESE THINGS
IN HEAVEN AND  EARTH AND NOT THE GREATEST OF THESE THINGS 
BUT ARE ALL ARE RECORDED IN A CLEAR RECORDING

62  THE FRIENDS OF GOD WILL NOT FEAR NOR WILL THEY GRIEVE 

63  WHO GUARD AGAINST EVIL CONSTANTLY AND BELIEVE

64  THERE IS NEWS IN THE LIFE OF THE PRESENT FOR THE BELIEVERS
AND BETTER NEWS FOR THEM IN THE LIFE OF THE HEREAFTER
THERE CAN BE NO CHANGE IN THE WORDS OF THE CREATOR
THIS IS INDEED THE SUPREME PLEASURE

65  LET NOT THEIR SPEECH GRIEVE YOU, OH MESSENGER 
FOR ALL POWER BELONGS TO GOD AND ALL HONOR 
GOD IS ALL HEARING AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

66  SURELY TO GOD BELONG IN THE HEAVENS ALL CREATURES
AND ALSO TO HIM BELONG ON THE EARTH ALL CREATURES
BUT WHAT DO THEY FOLLOW WHO WORSHIP OTHERS?  
THEY FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE
AND THEY ARE NOTHING BUT LIARS

67  HE MADE THE NIGHT FOR REST FOR YOU 
AND MADE THE DAY TO MAKE THINGS VISIBLE TO YOU 
AND IN THIS ARE SIGNS FOR THE LISTENERS AMONG YOU

68  THEY SAY, GOD HAS BEGOTTEN A SON.  NO, TO HIM BE THE GLORY 
HIS ARE ALL THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH, SELF SUFFICIENT IS HE
AND YOU HAVE FOR THIS NO AUTHORITY 
DO YOU SAY ABOUT GOD WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW CLEARLY?  

69  SAY, THOSE WHO LIE ABOUT THE CREATOR
NEVER INDEED WILL THEY PROSPER
 
70  A LITTLE ENJOYMENT IN THIS WORLD TEMPORARILY
AND THEN TO US THEY WILL RETURN, THEN WILL WE SURELY 
MAKE THEM TASTE THE SEVEREST PENALTY FOR THEIR BLASPHEMY

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73  RELATE TO THEM NOAH'S STORY
HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE, IF MY BEING IN YOUR COMPANY  
REMINDING YOU OF GOD'S MESSAGES CAUSES YOU DIFFICULTY
I PUT MY TRUST IN GOD SO DECIDE YOUR STRATEGY 
YOU AND YOUR PARTNERS, SO YOUR STRATEGY 
BE NOT TO YOU DARK AND WITHOUT CLARITY
THEN PASS YOUR SENTENCE ON ME
AND GIVE NO SLACK TO ME

72  BUT IF YOU TURN BACK, CONSIDER NO REWARD 
HAVE I ASKED OF YOU, MY REWARD 
IS ONLY DUE FROM MY LORD
AND I HAVE BEEN COMMANDED TO SUBMIT TO MY LORD

73  BUT THEY REJECTED HIM AND HIM WE DELIVERED 
AND THOSE IN THE ARK WITH HIM WHO WERE BELIEVERS
AND WE MADE THEM IN THE EARTH INHERITORS
WHILE WE DROWNED IN THE FLOOD THE REJECTERS  
THEN SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THE DISBELIEVERS

74  AND AFTER HIM WE SENT TO PEOPLE MANY MESSENGERS 
THEY BROUGHT THEM MESSAGES THAT WERE CLEAR 
BUT THEY WOULD NOT BE BELIEVERS
IN WHAT THEY HAD BEFORE BEEN REJECTERS
SO DO WE SEAL THE HEARTS OF THE TRANSGRESSORS

75  THEN AFTER THEM WE SENT AARON AND MOSES 
TO PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS WITH OUR MESSAGES 

BUT THEY WERE ARROGANT 
THEY WERE PEOPLE SINFUL AND IGNORANT

76  WHEN THE TRUTH CAME TO THEM THEY SAID, SURELY
THIS IS INDEED EVIDENT SORCERY

77  MOSES SAID, SAY YOU THAT THIS TRUTH IS SORCERY? 
BUT SURELY SORCERERS NEVER SUCCEED

78  THEY SAID, HAVE YOU COME, YOU AND YOUR BROTHER
TO TURN US AWAY FROM THE WAYS OF OUR FATHERS
IN ORDER THAT YOU AND YOUR BROTHER 
MAY HAVE GREATNESS FOR THE TWO OF YOU TOGETHER? 
BUT IN THE TWO OF YOU WE WILL NEVER BE BELIEVERS

79  PHARAOH SAID, BRING TO ME
ALL THOSE WELL VERSED IN SORCERY

80  WHEN THE SORCERERS CAME, MOSES SAID TO THEM, THROW 
ALL OF THAT WHICH YOU WISH TO THROW

81  WHEN THEY HAD THEIR THROW, MOSES SAID, SURELY
WHAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT IS SORCERY

AND GOD WILL MAKE IT OF NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER
FOR GOD PROSPERS NOT THE WORK MISCHIEF MAKERS

82  GOD BY HIS WORDS ESTABLISHES TRUTH AND PROVES IT 
HOWEVER MUCH THE SINNERS MAY HATE IT

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83  BUT IN MOSES NONE OF HIS PEOPLE HAD ANY BELIEF
EXCEPT SOME CHILDREN FOR FEAR OF PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS 
OR ELSE THEY WOULD PERSECUTE THEM AND PHARAOH WAS MIGHTY 
AND WAS ONE WHO TRANSGRESSED ALL BOUNDARIES

84  MOSES SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, IF YOU BELIEVE IN GOD 
THEN IN HIM PUT YOUR TRUST AND SUBMIT TO GOD

85  THEY SAID, IN GOD DO WE PUT OUR TRUST 
OUR LORD, MAKE US NOT A TRIAL FOR THE UNJUST

86  AND DELIVER US BY YOUR MERCY
FROM THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

87  WE INSPIRED MOSES 
AND HIS BROTHER WITH THESE MESSAGES 

 PROVIDE DWELLINGS FOR YOUR PEOPLE IN EGYPT
AND MAKE YOUR DWELLINGS INTO PLACES OF WORSHIP

AND ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS 
AND GIVE GLAD TIDINGS TO THE BELIEVERS

88  MOSES PRAYED, OUR LORD, YOU HAVE FAVORED 
PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS WITH WEALTH AND SPLENDOR 
IN THE LIFE OF THE PRESENT, AND SO OUR CREATOR 
THEY MISLEAD MEN FROM YOUR PLEASURE
SO DEFACE OUR LORD THE FEATURES 
OF THEIR WEALTH AND SEND TO THEIR HEARTS TERROR
AND HARDNESS SO THEY WILL NOT BE BELIEVERS 
TILL THEY SEE THE PENALTY OF THE HEREAFTER

89  GOD SAID, OH MOSES AND AARON, ACCEPTED ARE YOUR PRAYERS
CONTINUE ON THE RIGHT PATH AND FOLLOW NOT DISBELIEVERS

90  AND WE TOOK THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ACROSS THE SEA 
THEN PHARAOH AND HIS ARMY FOLLOWED THEM INSOLENTLY
WHEN OVERWHELMED WITH THE FLOOD HE SAID, I NOW BELIEVE 
THE ONLY GOD IS HE IN WHOM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BELIEVE 
I AM OF THOSE WHO SUBMIT TO GOD, YES NOW I BELIEVE

91  IT WAS SAID TO HIM, BUT A LITTLE WHILE BEFORE YOU SURELY 
WERE REBELLIOUS AND DID MISCHIEF VIOLENTLY

92  THIS DAY WE WILL SAVE YOU IN YOUR BODY
THAT THOSE WHO COME AFTER YOU CAN SEE
BUT MOST MEN DO NOT TAKE HEED

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93  IT WAS AFTER KNOWLEDGE HAD BEEN GRANTED THEM
THAT THEY FELL INTO DIFFERENCES AMONG THEM
ON JUDGMENT DAY GOD WILL JUDGE BETWEEN THEM
AS TO THAT IN WHICH THEY DIFFERED BETWEEN THEM

94  IF YOU ARE IN DOUBT AS TO WHAT WE HAVE REVEALED TO YOU 
ASK THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN READING THE BOOK BEFORE YOU 
THE TRUTH FROM YOUR LORD HAS INDEED COME TO YOU 
SO IN NO WAY HAVE ANY DOUBTS WITHIN YOU

95  NOR BE OF THOSE WHO REJECT GOD'S MESSAGES
OR YOU WILL BE ONE OF THOSE WHO TRANSGRESSES 

96  THOSE AGAINST WHOM THE WORD OF GOD
HAS BEEN VERIFIED WOULD NOT BELIEVE IN GOD

97  EVEN IF EVERY SIGN WAS BROUGHT TO THEM
UNTIL THEY SEE THE PENALTY BEFORE THEM

98  WHY DID NOT A TOWN WHICH WHEN WARNED BELIEVE
SO THAT THEY WOULD HAVE PROFITED BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED?
BUT THE PEOPLE OF JONAH WHEN THEY BELIEVED
GOD REMOVED FROM THEM THE PENALTY 
AND PERMITTED THEM TO ENJOY THEIR DESTINY

99  IF IT HAD BEEN YOUR LORD'S DESIRE 
ALL WHO ARE ON EARTH WOULD HAVE BEEN BELIEVERS
WILL YOU COMPEL MEN TO AGAINST THEIR WILL BE BELIEVERS ?

100  EXCEPT BY THE WILL OF GOD, NO SOUL CAN BELIEVE
AND HE WILL PLACE OBSCURITY ON THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

101  SAY, SEE WHAT IS IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
AND SIGNS AND WARNERS AVAIL NOT DISBELIEVERS

102  DO THEY THEN EXPECT ANY THING BUT WHAT HAPPENED PRIOR
IN THE DAYS OF THE MEN WHO PASSED AWAY FORMER
SAY, WAIT FOR I WILL WAIT WITH YOU TOGETHER

103  IN THE END WE DELIVER OUR MESSENGERS
AND THOSE WITH THEM WHO ARE BELIEVERS
IT IS BINDING ON US TO DELIVER BELIEVERS

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104  SAY, IF YOU ARE IN DOUBT AS TO MY WORSHIP OF THE CREATOR
I WORSHIP NOT WHAT YOU WORSHIP OTHER THAN THE CREATOR
I WORSHIP GOD WHO TAKES YOUR SOULS WHEN YOU EXPIRE
AND I AM COMMANDED TO BE IN THE RANKS OF THE BELIEVERS

105  AND SET YOUR FACE TOWARDS RELIGION WITH TRUE PIETY 
AND NEVER IN ANY WAY BE OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

106  AND DO NOT CALL ON ANY OTHER THAN THE CREATOR
FOR THEY WILL NOT HELP YOU NOR HURT YOU EITHER
AND IF YOU DO YOU WILL BE A WRONGDOER

107  IF GOD TOUCHES YOU WITH HURT NONE CAN REMOVE IT 
BUT HE, IF HE DOES DESIGN FOR YOU ANY BENEFIT 
THERE IS NONE THAT CAN KEEP YOU BACK FROM IT
AND WHOEVER HE PLEASES TO HE CAUSES TO REACH IT 
AND AS FOR FORGIVENESS AND MERCY HE IS FULL OF IT

108  SAY, OH MEN, NOW TRUTH HAS REACHED YOU 
RECEIVING GUIDANCE IS GOOD FOR YOU
YOU WHO STRAY DO SO TO THE LOSS OF YOU
AND I AM NOT HERE TO ARRANGE YOUR AFFAIRS FOR YOU

109  AND FOLLOW THE INSPIRATION THAT TO YOU HAS BEEN SENT 
AND BE CONSTANT AND BE PATIENT UNTIL GOD'S JUDGEMENT
FOR HE IS THE BEST TO EXECUTE JUDGEMENT

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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD AM THE SEER 
THIS IS A BOOK WITH VERSES THAT ARE FUNDAMENTAL AND CLEAR
WITH ESTABLISHED MEANINGS AND EXPLAINED FURTHER
FROM ONE WHO IS WISE AND AWARE 

2  IT TEACHES THAT YOU SHOULD SERVE NONE BUT GOD.  
SAY, I AM SENT TO YOU AS A MESSENGER FROM GOD
TO WARN AND GIVE YOU GOOD NEWS FROM GOD

3  SEEK THE FORGIVENESS OF YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
AND TURN TO HIM AND HE WILL BE YOUR PROVIDER 
OF GOOD PROVISIONS AND BESTOW HIS FAVOR 
ON EVERY ONE ENDOWED WITH FAVOR 
IF YOU TURN AWAY, FOR YOU I FEAR 
THE SEVERE PENALTY OF THE HEREAFTER

4  TO GOD WILL BE YOUR RETURNING 
AND HE HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS

5  THEY FOLD UP THEIR HEARTS IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY LIE HIDDEN
BUT EVEN WHEN THEY COVER THEMSELVES WITH THEIR GARMENTS
HE KNOWS WHAT THEY KEEP HIDDEN AND WHAT THEY LAY OPEN
FOR HE KNOWS SECRETS WITHIN THE HEARTS OF MEN

PART  XII

6  THERE IS NO CREATURE ON EARTH BUT ITS SUSTAINING
DEPENDS ON GOD, WHO KNOWS THE PLACE OF ITS RESTING
AND KNOWS THE PLACE OF ITS TEMPORARY DEPOSITING
IT IS ALL RECORDED IN A CLEAR RECORDING

7  IN SIX DAYS HE CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH 
AND HIS THRONE WAS ESTABLISHED OVER THE WATERS
SO THAT HE  MAY TEST WHICH OF YOU IS BEST IN MANNER
IF YOU SAID TO THEM, FROM DEATH YOU WILL BE RAISED UP AFTER
THE DISBELIEVERS WOULD SAY THAT YOU ARE A SORCERER

8  IF THE PENALTY FOR THEM WE DID DELAY
FOR A DEFINITE TERM THEY WOULD SAY
WHAT KEEPS IT BACK, BUT ON THE DAY 
IT REACHES THEM NOTHING WILL TURN IT AWAY 

AND THEY WILL BE ENCIRCLED COMPLETELY 
BY THAT AT WHICH THEY USE TO MAKE MOCKERY

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9  IF WE GIVE TO MAN A TASTE OF MERCY 
THEN WITHDRAW IT FROM HIM SUBSEQUENTLY
THEN HE IS IN DESPAIR AND FALLS INTO BLASPHEMY

10  BUT IF WE GIVE HIM A TASTE OF OUR FAVORS AFTER ADVERSITY 
THEN HE IS SURE TO SAY, ALL EVIL HAS DEPARTED FROM ME 
AND HE FALLS INTO EXULTATION PROUDLY

11  NOT SO DO THOSE WHO SHOW FIRMNESS
AND CONSTANCY AND WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS 
FOR THEM IS A GREAT REWARD AND FORGIVENESS 

12  PERCHANCE YOU MAY FEEL THE INCLINATION 
TO GIVE UP PART OF WHAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED OF REVELATION 
AND YOUR HEART FEELS IN A STRAIGHTENED CONDITION

BECAUSE THEY SAY, WHY IS NOT A TREASURE SENT DOWN TO HIM?  
OR THEY SAY, WHY ARE THERE NOT ANGELS WITH HIM?  

BUT YOU ARE THERE ONLY AS A WARNER
IT IS GOD THAT ARRANGES ALL AFFAIRS

13  OR THEY MAY SAY, HE IS A FORGER 
SAY, THEN BRING LIKE IT TEN FORGED CHAPTERS 
AND CALL WHOEVER YOU CAN BESIDES THE CREATOR
TO YOUR AID IF WHAT YOU SAY IS PROPER

14  IF YOU GET NO ANSWER FROM YOUR FALSE GODS
KNOW THAT THIS REVELATION IS FROM GOD 
BESIDES HIM THERE IS NO OTHER GOD 
WILL YOU THEN SUBMIT TO GOD?

15  THOSE WHO DESIRE 
THE LIFE OF THE PRESENT AND ITS GLITTER 
TO THEM WE WILL PAY THEM IN IT THEIR SHARE
BUT FOR THEM THERE IS NOTHING IN THE HEREAFTER 
BUT THE CHASTISEMENT OF THE FIRE 

16  VAIN ARE THE DESIGNS THEY CONSTRUE
AND OF NO EFFECT ARE THE DEEDS THAT THEY DO

17  CAN THEY BE LIKE THOSE WHO HEAR THE MESSAGE AND ACCEPT IT
AND WHO A WITNESS FROM HIMSELF DOES TEACH IT
AS DID THE BOOK OF MOSES BEFORE IT 
A GUIDE AND A MERCY AND THEY BELIEVE IN IT? 
BUT AS FOR THOSE WHO REJECT IT 
THE FIRE WILL BE THEIR PLACE, BE NOT IN DOUBT ABOUT IT 
FOR IT IS THE TRUTH FROM GOD BUT MOST MEN DISBELIEVE IT 

18  WHO DOES MORE WRONG THAN HE WHO LIES ABOUT GOD? 
THEY WILL BE TURNED BACK TO THE PRESENCE OF GOD 
THE WITNESSES SAY, THESE ARE THEY WHO LIED AGAINST GOD 
ON THOSE WHO DO WRONG IS THE CURSE OF GOD

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19  THOSE WHO WOULD HINDER 
MEN FROM THE PATH OF GOD, THE CREATOR
AND WOULD SEEK IN IT SOMETHING IN ERROR
THESE WERE THE ONES WHO DENIED THE HEREAFTER

20  THEY WILL NOT FRUSTRATE GOD'S PLAN IN THE LEAST DEGREE
NOR AS PROTECTORS BESIDES GOD WILL THEY HAVE ANY
AND THEY WILL HAVE FROM GOD A DOUBLED PENALTY  
FOR THAT THEY LOST THE POWER TO HEAR AND SEE

21  THEY ARE THE ONES 
WHO HAVE LOST THEIR OWN SOULS AND THEIR INVENTIONS 
HAVE LEFT THEM IN DISPOSITION

22  THESE ARE THE VERY ONES WHO WILL BE LOSERS  
IN THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER

23  BUT THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUSLY
AND HUMBLE THEMSELVES BEFORE GOD THEY WILL SURELY
BE COMPANIONS OF THE GARDEN TO DWELL IN IT FOR ETERNITY  

24  THESE TWO KINDS OF MEN MAY BE COMPARED 
THE BLIND AND THE DEAF AND THOSE WHO SEE AND HEAR  
ARE THEY HELD EQUALLY WHEN THEY ARE COMPARED?
WILL YOU NOT THEN CAREFULLY CONSIDER?

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25  WE SENT NOAH TO HIS PEOPLE WITH A MISSION SAYING
I HAVE COME TO YOU WITH A CLEAR WARNING

26  THAT YOU SERVE GOD ONLY 
I FEAR FOR YOU A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

27  THE CHIEFS OF THE DISBELIEVERS SAID, FOR US
WE DO SEE YOU AS NOTHING BUT A MAN LIKE US 
NOR DO WE SEE IN YOU ANY MERIT ABOVE US
YOU ARE FOLLOWED BY THE WEAKEST OF US
WE THINK YOU ARE REALLY LYING TO US

28  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, SEE IF I HAVE WITH ME
A SIGN FROM GOD AND HE HAS GRANTED ME MERCY
AND OBSCURE FROM YOUR SIGHT HAS BEEN THAT MERCY
SHOULD WE COMPEL YOU TO ACCEPT IT WHEN YOU ACT REBELLOUSLY?

29  AND OH MY PEOPLE, I ASK YOU FOR NO REWARD 
FOR MY REWARD IS ONLY FROM MY LORD

I WILL NOT DRIVE AWAY IN CONTEMPT THOSE WHO BELIEVE
FOR THEY ARE TO MEET WITH THEIR LORD SURELY
AND YOU ARE THE ONES ACTING IGNORANTLY

30  AND OH MY PEOPLE, AGAINST GOD WHO WOULD HELP ME 
IF I DROVE THEM AWAY,  WILL YOU NOT THEN TAKE HEED?

3I  I DO NOT SAY TO YOU THAT WITH ME ARE THE TREASURES OF GOD 
NOR DO I KNOW WHAT IS HIDDEN NOR AM I AN ANGEL OF GOD
NOR YET DO I SAY OF THOSE WHOM YOU DESPISE THAT GOD
WILL NOT GRANT THEM ALL THAT IS GOOD FOR GOD 
KNOWS THEIR SOULS, IF I DID I WOULD DEFY GOD

32  THEY SAID, OH NOAH, YOU HAVE DISPUTED WITH US 
AND MUCH HAVE YOU PROLONGED THE DISPUTE WITH US 
NOW BRING UPON US THAT WITH WHICH YOU THREATEN US 
IF YOU ARE SPEAKING THE TRUTH TO US

33  HE SAID, IF GOD WILLS UPON YOU HE WILL BRING IT 
AND YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FRUSTRATE IT

34  OF NO PROFIT WILL BE MY COUNSEL TO YOU 
AS MUCH AS I DESIRE TO GIVE GOOD COUNCIL TO YOU 
IF IT BE THAT ASTRAY YOUR LORD WILLS TO LEAVE YOU 
HE IS YOUR LORD AND TO HIM YOU WILL RETURN TO

35  OR DO THEY SAY, HE HAS FORGED IT? 
SAY, IF I HAVE FORGED IT 

ON ME IS MY SIN AND I AM FREE 
OF THE SINS OF WHICH YOU ARE GUILTY

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36  IT WAS REVEALED TO NOAH, YOUR PEOPLE WILL NOT BELIEVE 
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THOSE WHO ALREADY BELIEVE 
SO GRIEVE NO LONGER OVER THEIR EVIL DEEDS

37  BUT CONSTRUCT AN ARK UNDER OUR EYES AND OUR AUTHORITY
AND ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO ARE IN SIN DO NOT ADDRESS ME 
FOR THEY WILL BE OVERWHELMED IN THE FLOOD COMPLETELY

38  SO HE STARTS CONSTRUCTING THE ARK WITH HIS PEOPLE
AND EVERY TIME THAT THE CHIEFS OF HIS PEOPLE 
PASSED BY HIM THEY THREW ON HIM RIDICULE.  
HE SAID, YOU NOW THROW ON US RIDICULE 
WE IN OUR TURN CAN LOOK DOWN ON YOU WITH RIDICULE 

39  SOON WILL YOU KNOW ON WHOM WILL DESCEND A PENALTY 
THAT WILL COVER THEM WITH SHAME AND ON WHOM WILL BE 
UNLOOSED A SEVERE AND LASTING PENALTY 

40  AT LENGTH THERE CAME OUR COMMAND AND THEN ABRUPTLY
THE WATERS OF THE EARTH GUSHED FORTH FROM THE VALLEY
AND WE SAID, EMBARK ON THE ARK, YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
AND WITH ALL THINGS IN PAIRS IN IT YOU WILL CARRY
EXCEPT THOSE WHOM THE WORD HAS GONE FORTH ALREADY 
BUT ONLY A FEW WITH HIM BELIEVED TRULY

41  SO HE SAID, EMBARK
ON THE ARK 

IN THE NAME OF GOD, WHETHER IT MOVE OR BE AT REST
FOR MY LORD IS FULL OF MERCY AND FORGIVENESS 

42  SO THE ARK BEGAN FLOATING ON WAVES LIKE MOUNTAINS  
AND NOAH CALLED OUT TO GIVE THE WARNING TO HIS SON 
WHO HAD SEPARATED HIMSELF FROM THE OTHER ONES
NOAH SAID TO HIM, EMBARK WITH US MY SON
AND BE NOT WITH THE UNBELIEVING ONES

43  THE SON REPLIED, I WILL CLIMB UP TO A MOUNTAIN 
AND IT WILL SAVE ME FROM THE WATER FOR CERTAIN
NOAH SAID, THIS DAY NOTHING CAN SAVE ANYONE 
BUT THOSE ON WHOM GOD HAS COMPASSION
AND THE WAVES CAME BETWEEN THEM AND THE SON 
WAS AMONG THOSE IN THE FLOOD OF THE DROWNED ONES

44  THE WORD WENT FORTH, OH EARTH, SWALLOW UP YOUR WATER 
AND OH SKY, WITHHOLD YOUR WATER
AND THEN ABATED WAS THE WATER
AND ENDED WAS THE MATTER  
AND ON THE MOUNTAIN THE ARK RESTED AFTER
THE WORD WENT FORTH, AWAY WITH THE WRONG DOERS

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45  NOAH CALLED UPON HIS LORD SAYING THIS
MY SON IS OF MY FAMILY AND YOUR PROMISE 
IS TRUE AND YOU ARE THE JUSTEST OF JUDGES

46  GOD SAID, OH NOAH, HE IS NOT OF YOUR FAMILY 
FOR HIS CONDUCT IS UNRIGHTEOUS SO ASK NOT OF ME 
THAT OF WHICH YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF CERTAINTY
FOR I GIVE YOU GOOD COUNSEL LEST YOU ACT  IGNORANTLY

47  NOAH SAID, MY LORD, I SEEK REFUGE WITH YOU SINCERELY
LEST I ASK FOR THAT OF WHICH I HAVE NO CERTAINTY
UNLESS YOU FORGIVE AND HAVE MERCY ON ME
I WILL BE LOST ASSUREDLY 

48  AND THE WORD CAME, OH NOAH, DESCEND WITH PEACE 
FROM US ON YOU AND ON SOME OF THE PROGENY
FROM THOSE WITH YOU, BUT THERE WILL BE 
OTHER PEOPLE TO WHOM WILL WE 
GRANT THEIR PLEASURES FOR A TIME TEMPORARILY
IN THE END WE WILL REACH THEM WITH A GRIEVOUS PENALTY 

46  THESE ARE SOME OF THE UNSEEN STORIES
WHICH WE HAVE REVEALED TO YOU WHICH YOU PREVIOUSLY
NOR YOUR PEOPLE KNEW THEM, SO PERSEVERE PATIENTLY 
THE GOOD END IS FOR THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

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50  TO THE AD PEOPLE WE SENT HUD, ONE OF THEIR OWN BROTHERS 
HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD, THE CREATOR
YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD BUT HIM, YOU ARE ONLY FABRICATORS

51  OH MY PEOPLE, I ASK NO REWARD FOR THIS MESSAGE FOR ME
MY REWARD IS FROM HIM WHO CREATED ME 
WILL YOU NOT THEN UNDERSTAND ME?

52  AND OH MY PEOPLE, ASK GOD'S MERCY
TURNING TO HIM REPENTFULLY
HE WILL SEND YOU THE SKIES TO POUR RAIN ABUNDANTLY
AND STRENGTHENING YOUR STRENGTH SO COMMIT NO INIQUITY

53  THEY SAID, OH HUD, NO CLEAR SIGN HAVE YOU BROUGHT TO US
AND WE ARE NOT THE ONES TO DESERT OUR GODS FROM US
ON YOUR WORD NOR WILL YOU BE BELIEVED BY US

54  WE SAY NOTHING BUT THAT POSSIBLY
SOME OF OUR GODS MAY HAVE SEIZED YOU WITH IMBECILITY 
HE SAID, AND I CALL MY LORD TO WITNESS THAT I AM FREE 
FROM THE SIN OF ASCRIBING TO HIM PARTNERS IN DIETY

55  SO SCHEME YOUR WORST SCHEME AGAINST ME 
ALL OF YOU AND GIVE NO RESPITE TO ME

56  I PUT MY TRUST IN MY LORD COMPLETELY
THERE IS NOT A MOVING CREATURE, BUT HE SURELY
HAS GRASP OF IT AND MY LORD IS ON A STRAIGHT PATH INDEED

57  IF YOU TURN AWAY I AT LEAST HAVE CONVEYED TO YOU
THE MESSAGE WITH WHICH I WAS SENT TO YOU 

AND YOU WILL NOT HARM HIM IN THE LEAST THING
FOR MY LORD HAS CARE AND WATCH OVER ALL THINGS

58  SO WHEN WAS ISSUED OUR DECREE 
WE SAVED HUD AND THOSE WITH HIM WHO BELIEVED 
BY SPECIAL GRACE FROM OURSELVES, AND WE DID SURELY 
SAVE THEM FROM A SEVERE PENALTY

59  SUCH WERE THE AD PEOPLE, THEY WERE REJECTERS 
OF THE SIGNS OF THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER 
AND THEY DISOBEYED HIS MESSENGER 
AND FOLLOWED THE COMMAND OF EVERY TRANSGRESSOR

60  AND OVERTAKEN WERE THEY 
BY A CURSE IN THIS LIFE AND ON JUDGMENT DAY
FOR THE AD PEOPLE REJECTED GOD AND WENT ASTRAY
SO THE AD PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE OF HUD WERE SWEPT AWAY

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61  TO THE THAMUD PEOPLE WE SENT SALIH THEIR OWN BROTHER
HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD, THE CREATOR
BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER  
IT IS HE WHO HAS PRODUCED YOU FROM THE EARTH
AND IN IT SETTLED YOU SO ASK FORGIVENESS OF YOUR MAKER 
AND TURN IN REPENTANCE TO HIM FOR YOUR LORD IS ALWAYS NEAR 
AND HE IS ALWAYS READY TO ANSWER AND FORBEAR

62  THEY SAID, OH SALIH, OF OUR HOPES YOU HAVE BEEN A CENTER 
DO YOU NOW THEN FORBID US THE WORSHIP OF OUR FATHERS?
WE ARE SUSPICIOUS AS TO THAT TO WHICH YOU ASPIRE

63  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, DO YOU SEE 
IF I HAVE A CLEAR SIGN FROM GOD WITH ME
AND THAT HE HAS BESTOWED ON ME HIS MERCY 
AND WHO THEN AGAINST THE CREATOR CAN HELP ME 
IF I WERE TO REBELLIOUSLY DISOBEY HIM INSOLENTLY  
WHAT THEN WOULD YOU ADD BUT TO ME BUT INIQUITY?

64  OH MY PEOPLE, THIS SHE CAMEL OF GOD IS A SYMBOL TO YOU 
LEAVE HER TO FEED ON THE EARTH AND NO HARM TO HER DO
OR A SWIFT PENALTY FROM GOD WILL SEIZE YOU

65  BUT THEY DID SLAUGHTER HER
SO HE SAID, FOR THREE DAYS ENJOY YOUR LAUGHTER

THEN WILL BE YOUR RUIN INDEED
THIS A PROMISE NOT TO BE DISBELIEVED 

66  WHEN OUR DECREE WAS ISSUED WE SAVED SALIH
AND THOSE WITH HIM WHO BELIEVED 
BY SPECIAL GRACE AND FROM INFAMY 
FOR YOUR LORD IS STRONG AND ALL MIGHTY

67  THE MIGHTY BLAST OVERTOOK THOSE GUILTY OF WRONG DOING 
AND THEY LAID MOTIONLESS IN THEIR HOMES BEFORE THE MORNING

68  AS IF THEY HAD NEVER DWELT THERE, FOR THE THAMUD 
REJECTED THEIR LORD AND SO REMOVED WERE THE THAMUD

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69  OUR MESSENGERS CAME TO ABRAHAM WITH GLAD TIDINGS 
THEY SAID, PEACE, AND HE SAID, PEACE, IN ANSWERING 
AND HE HASTENED TO ENTERTAIN THEM BRINGING 
A ROASTED CALF TO THEM AS AN OFFERING

70  WHEN HE SAW THEIR HANDS WENT NOT 
TOWARDS THE MEAL HE TRUSTED THEM NOT 
AND HE FEARED THEM AND THEY SAID, FEAR NOT 
FOR WE HAVE BEEN SENT AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF LOT

71  AND HIS WIFE WAS STANDING THERE 
AND SHE LAUGHED WHEN WE GAVE TO HER 
GOOD NEWS OF ISAAC AND OF JACOB AFTER

72  SHE SAID, HOW CAN I BEAR CHILDREN 
SEEING THAT I AM AN OLD WOMAN 
AND MY HUSBAND HERE IS AN OLD MAN?  
THAT WOULD INDEED BE A WONDERFUL PLAN 

73  THEY SAID, DO YOU WONDER AT GOD'S DECREE
AND HIS GRACE UPON YOU AND HIS MERCY? 
OH PEOPLE OF THE HOUSE, HE IS SURELY 
WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE AND FULL OF GLORY

74  THE FEAR PASSED FROM ABRAHAM AND THE GLAD TIDINGS 
HAD REACHED HIM, THEN FOR LOT'S PEOPLE HE BEGAN PLEADING 

75  FOR ABRAHAM WAS WITHOUT DOUBT FORBEARING 
AND COMPASSIONATE AND TO GOD HE WAS OFTEN RETURNING 

76  OH ABRAHAM, CEASE FROM THIS FOR THE DECREE 
OF YOUR LORD HAS GONE FORTH FOR THEM JUSTLY
AND THERE MUST COME TO THEM A PENALTY 
AND TURNED BACK IT CANNOT BE 

77  WHEN OUR MESSENGERS CAME TO LOT HE WAS GRIEVED
HE FELT POWERLESS TO PROTECT THEM SAFELY 
HE SAID, THIS A DAY OF ADVERSITY

78  AND HIS PEOPLE CAME TOWARDS HIM RUSHING 
AND THEY HAD BEEN LONG IN PRACTICING 
ABOMINATIONS AND WRONG DOING

HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, HERE ARE MY DAUGHTERS 
IF YOU MARRY THEM THEY ARE PURER
NOW FEAR GOD AND DO NOT COVER ME WITH DISHONOR
ARE THERE NO RIGHT MINDED MEN AMONG YOU WHATSOEVER?

79  THEY SAID, YOU KNOW OF YOUR DAUGHTERS WE HAVE NO NEED 
YOU KNOW WELL WHAT WE WANT INDEED

80  HE SAID, IF ONLY I HAD STRENGTH TO OVERPOWER YOU
OR IF I HAD SOME POWERFUL SUPPORT TO RESIST YOU

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81  THE MESSENGERS SAID, OH LOT, WE ARE GOD'S MESSENGERS 
AND BY NO MEANS WILL THEY DO YOU ANY HARM WHATSOEVER 
NOW TRAVEL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY BEFORE THE NIGHT PASSES OVER  
LET NOT ANY OF YOU LOOK BACK, BUT YOUR WIFE SHE WILL REMAIN HERE 
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE WILL ALSO HAPPEN TO HER
AND THEIR APPOINTED TIME IS THE MORNING HOUR
IS NOT THE MORNING ALMOST HERE?

82  WE TURNED THEIR CITIES OVER 
AND UPON THEM RAINED BRIMSTONES SPREAD LAYER ON LAYER
HARD AS BAKED CLAY ONE AFTER ANOTHER

83  MARKED FROM GOD, NOR ARE THEY 
FROM THOSE WHO DO WRONG EVER FAR AWAY

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84  TO THE MADYAN PEOPLE WE SENT SHUAIB, THEIR OWN BROTHER  
HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD, THE CREATOR
YOU HAVE BESIDES HIM NO OTHER 
GIVE NOT SHORT WEIGHT OR MEASURE
FOR I SEE THAT YOU DO INDEED PROSPER
BUT I FEAR FOR YOU A PENALTY THAT ENDURES

85  AND OH MY PEOPLE 
GIVE JUST MEASURE AND WEIGHT NOR WITHHOLD FROM PEOPLE 
THE THINGS THAT ARE THEIR DUE AND COMMIT NOT EVIL 
WITH INTENT TO DO MISCHIEF TO PEOPLE

86  THAT WHICH IS LEFT YOU BY GOD IS BEST FOR YOU 
IF YOU BUT BELIEVE, BUT I AM NOT SENT TO KEEP WATCH OVER YOU

87  AND THEY SAID, OH SHUAIB, DOES YOUR RELIGION OF PRAYERS 
COMMAND YOU THAT WE LEAVE THE WORSHIP OF OUR FATHERS 
OR WE STOP DOING WHAT WE LIKE WITH OUR TREASURES? 
TRULY YOU ARE THE RIGHT MINDED ONE WHO FORBEARS

88  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, CAN YOU NOT SEE  
THAT I HAVE A CLEAR SIGN FROM MY LORD WITH ME
AND HE HAS GIVEN PURE AND GOOD SUSTENANCE TO ME?

AND I WISH NOT IN OPPOSITION TO YOU
TO DO THAT WHICH I FORBID YOU TO DO

YOUR BETTERMENT IS MY ONLY DESIRE TO THE BEST OF MY POWER
MY SUCCESS IN MY TASK CAN ONLY COME FROM THE CREATOR 
AND I TRUST IN AND I LOOK TO MY LORD AND CHERISHER

89  AND OH MY PEOPLE, LET NOT MY DISSENT FROM YOU 
CAUSE YOU TO SIN OR YOU SUFFER A FATE SIMILAR TO 
THE PEOPLE OF NOAH OR OF HUD OR OF SALIH TOO 
NOR ARE THE PEOPLE OF LOT FAR OFF FROM YOU  

90  BUT ASK GOD'S FORGIVENESS 
AND TURN TO HIM IN REPENTANCE 
FOR GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND KINDNESS

91  THEY SAID, OH SHUAIB, MUCH OF WHAT YOU DECREE
WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND WE DO NOT SEE 
THAT YOU HAVE ANY STRENGTH REALLY
AND WERE IT NOT FOR YOUR FAMILY 
WE WOULD HAVE STONED YOU TO DEATH ALREADY
FOR YOU DO NOT HAVE AMONG US ANY GREAT AUTHORITY

92  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, IS THEN MY FAMILY 
OF MORE CONSIDERATION WITH YOU THAN GOD'S MERCY?
YOU CAST HIM AWAY BEHIND YOUR BACKS CONTEMPTUOUSLY
BUT MY LORD ENCOMPASSES ALL THAT YOU DO SURELY

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93  AND OH MY PEOPLE, DO WHATEVER YOU CAN DO
AND I WILL DO WHATEVER I CAN DO
AND SOON WILL IT BE KNOWN BY YOU
ON WHO IT IS ON WHOM THE PENALTY COMES TO
AND WHICH ONE IS A LIAR SO WATCH FOR I TOO
AM OF THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING WITH YOU

94  WHEN WE ISSUED OUR DECREE 
WE SAVED SHUAIB AND THOSE WHO BELIEVED 
BUT THE MIGHTY BLAST SEIZED THOSE WHO WERE GUILTY 
AND THEY LAID MOTIONLESS IN THEIR HOMES SUBSEQUENTLY

95  AS IF THEY HAD NEVER DWELT AND FLOURISHED THERE
HOW THE MADYAN WERE REMOVED AS THE THAMUD WERE

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96  WE SENT MOSES WITH OUR MESSAGES CLEARLY
AND WE SENT WITH HIM A CLEAR AUTHORITY  

97  TO PHARAOH, BUT THEY FOLLOWED PHAROAH'S COMMAND 
AND PHAROAH'S COMMAND WAS NO RIGHT COMMAND

98  ON JUDGMENT DAY HIS PEOPLE WILL BE LEAD INTO THE FIRE
LIKE THIRSTY CATTLE THAT ARE LEAD TO WATER 
CURSED WILL BE THE PLACE THEY ENTER

99  IN THIS LIFE A CURSE WILL FOLLOW THEM
AND ON JUDGEMENT DAY, AND MISERABLE TO THEM
WILL BE THE GIFT WHICH WILL THEN BE GIVEN TO THEM

100  THESE ARE SOME OF THE STORIES OF COMMUNITIES 
WHICH WE RELATE TO YOU, AND OF THESE

THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE STANDING AT THIS TIME
AND SOME HAVE BEEN MOWN DOWN BY THE SICKLE OF TIME

101  AND THEY WRONGED THEMSELVES, WE DID NOT WRONG THEM
THEIR GODS WHO THEY SERVED BESIDES GOD DID NOT HELP THEM
WHEN THE DECREE OF GOD WAS ISSUED AGAINST THEM
THEY ADDED NOTHING BUT DESTRUCTION TO THEM

102  THIS IS THE CHASTISEMENT OF GOD'S DECREE
WHEN HE CHASTISES COMMUNITIES
IN THE MIDST OF THEIR ACTING WRONGFULLY 
AND HE IS SEVERE IN HIS PENALTIES

103  IN THAT IS A SIGN FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THE PENALTY 
AND GATHERED TOGETHER THAT DAY MEN WILL BE 
AND THAT WILL BE A DAY OF TESTIMONY

104  NOR WILL WE DELAY IT
BUT FOR A TERM APPOINTED

105  THE DAY IT ARRIVES NO PERSON
WILL SPEAK EXCEPT BY HIS PERMISSION
OF THOSE GATHERED SOME WILL BE WRETCHED ONES
AND SOME OF THEM WILL BE BLESSED WITH COMPASSION

106  THOSE WHO ARE WRETCHED WILL BE IN THE FIRE
AND FOR THEM THERE WILL BE NOTHING BUT TEARS

107  THEY WILL DWELL IN IT FOREVER 
FOR ALL THE TIME THAT HEAVEN AND EARTH ENDURES 
EXCEPT AS YOUR LORD WILLS FOR YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
OF WHAT HE PLANS, HE IS THE ACCOMPLISHER

108  THOSE WHO ARE BLESSED WILL BE IN THE GARDEN FOREVER
FOR ALL THE TIME THAT HEAVEN AND EARTH ENDURES
AN ENDLESS GIFT AS YOUR LORD'S PLEASURE 

109  BE NOT THEN IN DOUBT AS TO WHAT THESE MEN SERVE 
THEY SERVE NOTHING BUT WHAT THEIR FATHERS SERVED 
BUT WE WILL PAY THEM BACK WHAT THEY DESERVE  
WITHOUT ANYTHING BEING HELD IN RESERVE

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110  WE GAVE THE BOOK TO MOSES
BUT THERE AROSE IN IT DIFFERENCES 

HAD IT NOT BEEN THAT A WORD HAD COME FROM GOD TO THEM
THE MATTER WOULD HAVE BEEN DECIDED BETWEEN THEM
BUT THEY ARE IN DOUBT ABOUT IT AMONG THEM

111  AND OF A SURETY 
TO ALL WILL YOUR LORD PAY BACK FULLY 
THE RECOMPENSE OF ALL OF THEIR DEEDS 
FOR HE KNOWS ALL THEY DO INDEED

112  THEREFORE STAND FIRM IN THE PATH OF TRUTH
AS YOU ARE COMMANDED, YOU AND THOSE WITH YOU 
TURN TO GOD AND DO NOT TRANSGRESS FROM THE TRUTH
FOR YOUR LORD SEES WELL ALL THAT YOU DO

113  INCLINE NOT TO THOSE WHO ARE WRONG DOERS
FOR THEN YOU WILL SURELY BE SEIZED BY THE FIRE 
AND YOU WILL HAVE NO PROTECTORS OR HELPERS 

114  AT THE TWO ENDS OF THE DAY ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS
AND AT THE APPROACHES OF NIGHT FOR THOSE THINGS THAT ARE PURE
REMOVE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE IN ERROR
AND THIS REMEMBRANCE IS TO THOSE WHO REMEMBER

115  AND BE STEADFAST IN PATIENCE AND BEAR PATIENTLY 
FOR GOD WASTES NOT THE REWARD OF THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY  

116  WHY WERE THERE NOT BEFORE YOU PERSONS POSSESSING
GOOD SENSE AND REASONING KEEPING MEN FROM WRONG DOING
EXCEPT A FEW FROM AMONG THEM WHOM WE SAVED FROM HARMING? 
BUT THOSE GUILTY OF WRONG DOING
PURSUED THE ENJOYMENT OF THE GOOD THINGS 
WHICH THEY WERE GIVEN AND PERSISTED IN SINNING

117  NOR WOULD GOD DESTROY COMMUNITIES FOR WRONG DOING 
IF ITS MEMBERS WERE LIKELY TO MENDING

118  IF YOUR LORD HAD SO WILLED
HE COULD HAVE MADE MANKIND ONE PEOPLE
BUT THEY WILL NOT CEASE TO BE DISAGREEABLE

119  EXCEPT THOSE ON WHOM THEIR LORD HAS BESTOWED FAVOR
AND FOR THIS PURPOSE WERE THEY MADE BY THE CREATOR
AND THE WORD WILL BE FULFILLED OF YOUR MAKER
I WILL FILL HELL WITH MEN AND DEMONS ALL TOGETHER

120  WE RELATE TO YOU THE STORIES OF THE MESSENGERS
IN ORDER THAT YOUR HEART MAY GROW STRONGER
AND IN THIS HAS COME TO YOU THE TRUTH AND A REMINDER
AND AN ADMONITION TO THE BELIEVERS

121  SAY TO THOSE OF THEM WHO DO NOT BELIEVE 
DO WHAT YOU WILL AND WE WHO BELIEVE
WILL DO OUR PART EARNESTLY

122  AND WAIT, WE TOO WILL WAIT PATIENTLY

123  TO GOD BELONGS THE SECRETS OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND TO HIM EVERY AFFAIR GOES BACK FOR DECISION 
THEREFORE WORSHIP HIM WITH SINCERE DEVOTION 
AND GOD IS NOT UNMINDFUL OF HIS CREATION

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CHAPTER 12.  JOSEPH                                                                         SECTION 1.  PART XII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM THE SEER 
THESE ARE VERSES OF THE BOOK THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR

2  WE HAVE REVEALED AN ARABIC QURAN TO YOU
IN ORDER THAT WISDOM MAY BE LEARNED BY YOU

3  WE RELATE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF STORIES TO YOU
IN THAT WE NARRATE TO YOU
THIS PORTION OF THE QURAN TO YOU
WHICH BEFORE WAS NOT KNOWN TO YOU

4  JOSEPH SAID TO HIS FATHER, I SAW IN A VISION 
ELEVEN STARS AND THE MOON AND THE SUN 
ALL BOW DOWN TO ME IN SUBMISSION   

5  THE FATHER SAID, MY DEAR LITTLE SON
DO NOT TELL YOUR BROTHERS YOUR VISION

OR THEY WILL DEVISE AGAINST YOU A PLAN
FOR THE DEVIL IS AN OPEN ENEMY TO MAN

6  FOR BY YOUR LORD YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN
HE WILL TEACH YOU THE INTERPRETATIONS 
OF STORIES, DREAMS AND VISIONS 

AND PERFECT HIS FAVOR TO YOU
AND TO MY DESCENDANTS THROUGH YOU 
AS HE PERFECTED IT TO YOUR FORE-FATHERS BEFORE YOU

ABRAHAM AND ISAAC PREVIOUSLY
FOR ALL KNOWING AND ALL WISE IS HE

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CHAPTER 12.  JOSEPH                                                                         SECTION 2.  PART XII

7  IN THE STORY OF JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS
ARE LESSONS FOR TRUTH SEEKERS

8  A PRIVATE MEETING WAS HELD BY JOSEPH'S BROTHERS
THEY SAID, SURELY JOSEPH AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHER
ARE REALLY LOVED MORE THAN WE BY OUR FATHER
BUT WE ARE A GROUP BOUND STRONGLY TOGETHER
OUR FATHER IS OBVIOUSLY IN MANIFEST ERROR

9  LET US KILL JOSEPH OR BANISH HIM TO SOME UNKNOWN TERRITORY
SO THAT OUR FATHER'S FAVORS MAY BE GIVEN TO US EXCLUSIVELY
AFTER THAT WE CAN BEHAVE RIGHTEOUSLY

10  ONE OF THEM SAID, IT IS NOT RIGHT THAT WE SHOULD KILL HIM 
INSTEAD LET US TAKE HIM TO A WELL AND INTO IT THROW HIM 
A CARAVAN OF TRAVELERS MAY COME BY AND FIND HIM

11  SO THEY SAID TO THEIR FATHER 
WHY DO YOU NOT TRUST US WITH JOSEPH OUR BROTHER
DO YOU NOT SEE THAT WE ARE HIS SINCERE WELL WISHERS?

12  SEND HIM WITH US TOMORROW TO ENJOY HIMSELF AND PLAY
AND WE WILL SURELY GUARD HIM WELL ALL DAY

13  JACOB SAID, IT GRIEVES ME THAT YOU SHOULD TAKE HIM
I AM AFRAID THAT THE WOLF WILL EAT HIM
WHILE YOU ARE NOT ATTENDING TO HIM

14  THEY SAID, IF THE WOLF WERE TO EAT HIM UP WHILE WE
ARE INDEED SUCH A LARGE AND A STRONG COMPANY
THEN WE WOULD FIRST HAVE PERISHED SURELY

15  SO THEY DID TAKE HIM 
AND THEY ALL AGREED TO THROW HIM
INTO THE WELL AND WE REVEALED THIS MESSAGE TO HIM

ONE DAY YOU WILL TELL THEM 
ABOUT THIS WHILE YOU WILL RECOGNIZE THEM
BUT YOU WILL NOT THEN BE RECOGNIZED BY THEM 

16  AND THEY CAME TO THEIR FATHER CRYING
IN THE EARLY PART OF THE NIGHT SAYING

17  OH OUR FATHER, WE WENT RACING
WITH ONE ANOTHER AND LEFT JOSEPH WITH OUR THINGS
AND THE WOLF ATE HIM UP WHILE WE WERE NOT WATCHING
BUT YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE US THOUGH ITS TRUE WHAT WE ARE SAYING

18  AND WITH FALSE BLOOD STAINED ON HIS COAT THEY CAME LYING
JACOB SAID, YOU HAVE MADE UP A LIE TO COVER YOUR DOINGS
BUT FOR ME PATIENCE IS BEST AND MOST FITTING
IT IS GOD WHOSE HELP THAT I AM SEEKING
INSTEAD OF BELIEVING WHAT YOU ARE SAYING

19  THEN THERE CAME A CARAVAN OF TRAVELERS
AND THEY DID SEND THEIR WATER CARRIER FOR WATER
HE LET HIS BUCKET DOWN INTO THE WELL THEN UTTERED
THERE IS A MAN DOWN HERE INSTEAD OF WATER
THEY THEN CONCEALED HIM AS A TREASURE
AND OF WHAT THEY DID GOD WAS AWARE

20  THE BROTHERS SOLD HIM FOR A FEW PIECES OF SILVER
IN SUCH LOW ESTIMATION DID THEY HOLD THEIR BROTHER

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CHAPTER 12.  JOSEPH                                                                         SECTION 3.  PART XII

21  THE MAN IN EGYPT WHO BOUGHT THE RIGHTEOUS ONE 
SAID TO HIS WIFE, LET US TREAT HIM WITH COMPASSION
AND MAKE HIS STAY AMONG US AN HONORABLE ONE
HE MAY BE USEFUL, WE MAY ADOPT HIM AS A SON
THIS ACCORDING TO GOD'S PLAN WAS DONE
AND WAS HOW HE ESTABLISHED JOSEPH IN THE KINGDOM
THAT HE MIGHT TEACH HIM THE INTERPRETATIONS
OF STORIES AND OF DREAMS AND VISIONS
FOR GOD HAS FULL POWER OVER ALL CREATION
BUT MOST MEN ARE UNAWARE OF THIS REALIZATION

22  WE GAVE JOSEPH WISDOM AND POWER 
WHEN HE GREW AND BECAME FULLY MATURED  
FOR THIS IS HOW WE REWARD RIGHTEOUS DOERS

23  BUT SHE IN WHOSE HOUSE HE WAS TRIED TO SEDUCE HIM
AND SO SHE FASTENED THE DOORS BEHIND HIM
AND THEN SAID, COME HERE, TO HIM

JOSEPH SAID, YOUR HUSBAND HAS BEEN KIND TO ME
AND NO GOOD COMES TO THOSE WHO ACT WRONGFULLY

24  BUT FOR HIM SHE HAD A PASSIONATE DESIRE
AND HE WOULD SURELY HAVE INCLINED TO HER DESIRE
HAD HE NOT ALREADY SEEN EVIDENCE OF HIS LORD'S POWER

THIS WAS DONE ACCORDING TO OUR DECREE
THAT WE MIGHT TURN AWAY FROM JOSEPH ALL INDECENCY
FOR HE WAS ONE OF OUR SERVANTS TRULY
ONE OF PURITY AND SINCERITY

25  SO THEY BOTH RACED EACH OTHER TO THE DOOR
HIS COAT FROM BEHIND SHE REACHED AND TORE
THEY BOTH MET HER HUSBAND AT THE DOOR

SHE SAID, WHAT IS THE PUNISHMENT
FOR ONE WHO HAS FOR YOUR WIFE AN EVIL INTENT
BUT IMPRISONMENT OR A REAL PAINFUL CHASTISEMENT?

26  JOSEPH SAID, IT WAS SHE WHO TRIED TO SEDUCE ME
ONE OF HER FAMILY SAW ALL OF THIS TOTALLY
AND SHE BORE WITNESS WITH THIS AS TESTIMONY
IF HIS COAT IS TORN FROM THE FRONT THEN SHE
IS TELLING THE TRUTH AND THE LIAR IS HE 

27  BUT IF IT BE 
THAT HIS COAT IS TORN FROM THE BACK, THEN HE 
IS INDEED TELLING THE TRUTH AND THE REAL LIAR IS SHE

28  HER HUSBAND SAW HIS COAT TORN FROM THE BACK CLEARLY
HE SAID, THIS PLOT IS YOURS WOMAN AND YOUR PLOT IS MIGHTY

29  THEN HER HUSBAND SAID, OH JOSEPH, PASS OVER THIS
AND MY WIFE, YOU ARE THE ONE AT FAULT SO BEG FORGIVENESS

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30  SAID SOME OF THE WOMEN IN THE CITY WHO WERE GOSSIPERS
THE CHIEF'S WIFE IS TRYING TO SEDUCE A SLAVE OF HERS
WITH PASSIONATE LOVE HE HAS INSPIRED HER
TRULY IN MANIFEST ERROR DO WE SEE HER

31 WHEN SHE HEARD OF THEIR TALK SHE SENT FOR THEM
AND PREPARED A BANQUET FOR THEM
THEN SHE GAVE A KNIFE TO EACH OF THEM
THEN SAID TO JOSEPH, COME OUT BEFORE THEM

AND WHEN THEY SAW HIM THEY WERE SO AMAZED AT HIM
THEY CUT THEIR HANDS INSTEAD OF THEIR FOOD WHILE LOOKING AT HIM

THEY SAID, BY GOD, THIS IS NO MORTAL
THIS IS NOTHING LESS THAN A NOBLE ANGEL

32  THE CHIEF'S WIFE SAID, THERE YOU SEE
THE MAN ABOUT WHOM YOU DID BLAME ME
I CERTAINLY DID TRY TO SEDUCE HIM BUT HE
DID HOLD HIMSELF FIRMLY AND GUILTLESSLY
NOW IF HE DOES NOT WHAT I BID HIM HE WILL SURELY
BE THROWN INTO PRISON AND BE OF THE WORST COMPANY

33  JOSEPH PRAYED, OH MY LORD, THE PRISON IS DEARER TO ME
THAN THAT TO WHICH THEY DO INVITE ME
BUT UNLESS YOU TURN AWAY THEIR SNARE FROM ME
I WILL IN MY YOUTHFUL FOLLY 
INCLINE TO LEAN TOWARDS THEM AND BE
AMONG THOSE WHO DO BEHAVE IGNORANTLY

34  SO HIS LORD HEARD HIS PRAYER
AND TURNED AWAY FROM HIM THEIR SNARE
FOR SURELY OF ALL THINGS HE IS FULLY AWARE

35  BUT THE MEN, AFTER THEY HAD SEEN THE SIGNS 
THOUGHT IT BEST TO IMPRISON JOSEPH FOR A TIME

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36  NOW WITH HIM THERE CAME TWO YOUNG MEN INTO THE PRISON 
ONE OF THEM SAID, I SAW  MYSELF POURING WINE IN A VISION
THE OTHER SAID, I SAW MYSELF WITH BIRDS IN A VISION
EATING BREAD OFF OF MY HEAD, TELL US ITS INTERPRETATION
FOR WE SEE YOU TO BE A MAN OF TRUTH AND VISION

37  HE SAID BEFORE YOUR NEXT MEAL COMES FOR CONSUMPTION
I WILL TELL YOU THE MEANING OF IT BEFORE IT HAPPENS 
THIS IS WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN ME OF INSTRUCTION
AND I ASSURE YOU I HAVE ABANDONED 
THE WAYS OF THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION
OF GOD'S REVELATIONS AND DENY THE RESSURECTION

38  I FOLLOW THE WAYS OF MY FORE-FATHERS
ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB AND NEVER
WOULD WE WORSHIP ANYTHING OTHER
THAN THE ONE TRUE GOD EVER
THIS COMES TO US FROM THE GRACE OF THE CREATOR
BUT MOST AMONG MEN ARE NOT GRATEFUL TO THEIR MAKER

39  MY TWO FELLOW PRISONERS
IS WORSHIPPING MANY GODS BETTER
THAN WORSHIPPING THE ONE SUPREME CREATOR?

40  BESIDES HIM NOTHING BUT NAMES DO YOU SERVE
NAMES WHICH HAVE BEEN NAMED BY YOU AND YOUR FATHERS 
FOR WHICH NO AUTHORITY HAS BEEN SENT DOWN BY THE CREATOR
JUDGMENT IS FOR NONE BUT YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
THAT YOU WORSHIP NO ONE BUT HIM IS CLEARLY HIS ORDER
THAT IS THE RIGHT RELIGION, BUT MOST MEN ARE DISBELIEVERS

41 MY TWO FELLOW PRISONERS
ONE OF YOU WILL POUR THE KING'S WINE AND THE OTHER
YOU WILL BE CRUCIFIED ON THE CROSS AND FURTHER
THE BIRDS WILL EAT THE EYES OUT OF YOUR HEAD THEREAFTER
THIS IS THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER OF WHICH YOU BOTH DID INQUIRE

42  AND TO THE ONE WHOM HE KNEW
WOULD BE DELIVERED OF THE TWO

HE SAID TO HIM, REMEMBER TO MENTION ME TO THE KING
BUT THE DEVIL MADE HIM TO FORGET MENTIONING
SO JOSEPH STAYED IN THE PRISON REMAINING
A FEW MORE YEARS LINGERING

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CHAPTER 12.  JOSEPH                                                                         SECTION 6.  PART XII

43  THE KING OF EGYPT SAID, IN A DREAM I HAVE SEEN
SEVEN FAT COWS EATEN BY SEVEN OTHERS THAT ARE LEAN
AND SEVEN WITHERED EARS OF CORN AND SEVEN THAT ARE GREEN
OH YOU CHIEFS, EXPLAIN MY DREAM TO ME AND TELL ME WHAT IT MEANS

44  THEY SAID IT IS A CONFUSED MEDLEY OF DREAMS AND VISIONS
AND WE ARE NOT SKILLED IN THE INTERPRETATIONS 
OF STORIES AND DREAMS AND VISIONS

45  THE MAN WHO WAS RELEASED OF THE TWO FROM THE PRISON
SAID TO THE KING, I WILL TELL YOU ITS INTERPRETATION
BUT SEND ME OVER TO THE PRISON

46  HE SAID TO JOSEPH, OH MAN OF TRUTH, TELL ME WHAT IT MEANS
SEVEN FAT COWS EATEN BY SEVEN OTHERS THAT ARE LEAN
AND SEVEN WITHERED EARS OF CORN AND SEVEN THAT ARE GREEN
SO I MAY GO BACK AND TELL THE PEOPLE WHAT IT MEANS

47  HE SAID, FOR SEVEN YEARS YOUR HARVESTS YOU WILL REAP
BUT SAVE IT EXCEPT FOR THE LITTLE WHICH YOU WILL  EAT

48  THEN THERE WILL COME AFTER THAT SEVEN
DREADFUL YEARS OF FAMINE

THAT WILL EAT AWAY ALL THAT YOU HAVE STORED AWAY
EXCEPT A LITTLE THAT YOU WILL HAVE ESPECIALLY PUT AWAY

49  THEN THERE WILL COME A YEAR AFTER
IN WHICH THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE ABUNDANT WATER
AND IN WHICH THEY WILL AGAIN POUR 
WINE AND OIL AS THEY DID BEFORE

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50  BRING HIM TO ME, SAID THE KING
BUT WHEN THE MESSENGER OF THE KING
CAME TO HIM JOSEPH SAID, GO BACK TO THE KING

AND ASK HIM ABOUT THE WOMEN WHO CUT THEIR HANDS
FOR MY LORD IS WELL AWARE OF THEIR PLANS

51  WHAT WAS YOUR AFFAIR,  THE KING SAID TO THE WOMEN
WHEN YOU TRIED TO SEDUCE JOSEPH?  THEN SAID THE WOMEN

BY GOD, HIS WIFE SAID, NOW THE TRUTH IS MANIFEST TO ALL

YES IT WAS ME WHO TRIED TO SEDUCE HIM BUT HE
HELD HIMSELF FIRMLY AND VIRTUOUSLY

52  I SAY THIS SO THAT HE 
MAY KNOW THAT IN HIS ABSENCE I HAVE NOT BEHAVED FALSELY
AND ASSUREDLY GOD DOES NOT GUIDE THOSE WHO BEHAVE FALSELY

PART XIII

53  NOR DO I HOLD MYSELF BLAMELESSLY
FOR THE HUMAN SOUL IS CERTAINLY 
PRONE TO ACT UNRIGHTEOUSLY
EXCEPT FOR THOSE UPON WHOM GOD BESTOWS MERCY
AND GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

54  SO THE KING SAID, BRING HIM TO ME
I WILL CHOOSE HIM TO SERVE ME PERSONALLY
THE KING SAID TO JOSEPH, TODAY YOU ARE HONORABLY
RESTORED INTO OUR PRESENCE WITH DIGNITY

55  JOSEPH SAID, THEN PLACE ME OVER THE TREASURES OF THE LAND
AND I WILL GUARD THEM AS ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS

56  THIS WAS HOW WE GAVE POWER TO JOSEPH IN THE LAND
HE HAD MASTERY OVER IT AT HIS COMMAND

WE BESTOW OUR MERCY UPON WHOMEVER WE LIKE
AND NEVER DO WE WASTE THE REWARD OF THOSE WHO DO RIGHT

57  AND THE REWARD OF HEREAFTER IS EVEN BETTER
FOR THOSE WHO DO GOOD AND ARE TRUE BELIEVERS 

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58  THEN JOSEPH'S BROTHERS CAME TO HIM
AND HE RECOGNIZED THEM BUT THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM

59  AND WHEN HE HAD FURNISHED THEM
WITH SUITABLE PROVISIONS HE SAID TO THEM

BRING TO ME THAT YOUNGER BROTHER
THAT YOU HAVE FROM YOUR FATHER
DO YOU SEE I PAY FULL MEASURE
AND THAT I AM A GOOD HOSPITALITY PROVIDER?

60  BUT NOW IF YOU DO NOT BRING HIM TO ME
YOU WILL GET NO MORE GRAIN FROM ME
NOR WILL YOU EVEN COME NEAR ME

61  THEY SAID, WE WILL TRY TO GET HIM FROM HIS FATHER	 
AND WE WILL BE ABLE TO DO IT FOR SURE 

62  JOSEPH TOLD HIS SERVANTS TO SECRETLY
HIDE BACK INTO THEIR SADDLE BAGS THEIR MONEY
SO THEY WOULD FIND IT WHEN THEY RETURNED TO THEIR FAMILY
IN ORDER THAT THEY MIGHT COME BACK ASSUREDLY

63  WHEN THEY RETURNED TO THEIR FATHER
THEY SAID, OH OUR FATHER, NO MORE MEASURE
OF GRAIN WILL WE GET UNLESS WE TAKE OUR YOUNGER BROTHER
SEND HIM WITH US SO THAT WE CAN GET OUR FULL MEASURE
AND WE WILL SURELY GUARD HIM AS A TREASURE

64  HE SAID, SHOULD I TRUST HIM WITH YOU TO ANY RESULT OTHER
THAN WHEN I TRUSTED YOU BEFORE WITH JOSEPH HIS BROTHER

GOD IS THE BEST TO TAKE CARE OF HIM SURELY
AND GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL OF THOSE WHO SHOW MERCY

65  WHEN THEY LOOKED INTO THEIR BAGGAGE AND FOUND THEIR MONEY
RETURNED TO THEM THEY SAID, OH FATHER, COME LOOK AND SEE
THEY HAVE GRACIOUSLY RETURNED TO US OUR MONEY
NOW WE CAN GET MORE GRAIN FOR OUR FAMILY
AND WE WILL GUARD OUR BROTHER SAFELY
AND ADD A CAMEL'S LOAD OF GRAIN TO OUR PROVISIONS EASILY
THIS IS BUT A SMALL QUANTITY

66  JACOB SAID, I WILL ONLY SEND HIM WITH YOU IF YOU GIVE TO ME
A PROMISE IN GOD'S NAME THAT YOU WILL BRING HIM BACK TO ME
UNLESS YOU ARE YOURSELVES HEMMED IN HELPLESSLY

AND AFTER THEY HAD GIVEN HIM THEIR SINCERE PROMISE
HE SAID, OVER ALL THAT WE SAY GOD IS THE WITNESS

67  MY SONS, DO NOT ENTER ALL OF YOU BY THE SAME GATE TOGETHER
YOU MUST ALL FIND DIFFERENT GATES FOR EACH OF YOU TO ENTER 
NOT THAT I CAN ADVISE YOU AGAINST THE PLAN OF THE CREATOR
FOR NONE CAN COMMAND EXCEPT OUR LORD AND CHERISHER
AND I  PUT ALL MY TRUST IN GOD, OUR LORD AND SUSTAINER
AND LET ALL WHO TRUST PUT THEIR TRUST IN THEIR MAKER

68  WHEN THEY ENTERED ACCORDING TO THEIR FATHER'S INSTRUCTION
IT DID NOT PROFIT THEM IN THE LEAST AGAINST GOD'S ORCHESTRATION
IT WAS A DESIRE OF JACOB'S IN WHICH HE OBTAINED SATISFACTION
FOR HE WAS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE BY GOD'S INSTRUCTION
BUT MOST MEN ARE UNAWARE OF THIS REALIZATION

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69  AND WHEN THEY CAME TO JOSEPH, UPON ENTERING
HE RECEIVED HIS YOUNGER BROTHER TO STAY WITH HIM SAYING
I AM YOUR OWN BROTHER JOSEPH, SO GRIEVE NOT AT THEIR DOINGS

70  WHEN HE HAD FURNISHED THEM WITH PROVISIONS SUITABLY 
HE HID THE KING'S DRINKING CUP INTO HIS BROTHER'S BAG SECRETLY

THEN SOMEONE SHOUTED OUT 
OH YOU IN THE CARAVAN, YOU ARE THIEVES WITHOUT DOUBT

71  THEY SAID, WHAT DO YOU FIND YOURSELVES WITHOUT?

72  HE SAID, WE MISS THE DRINKING CUP OF THE KING
AND I WILL GIVE A REWARD FOR ITS RETURNING

73  THE BROTHERS SAID, SURELY YOU DO NOT BELIEVE
THAT WE CAME TO MAKE MISCHIEF AND WE ARE NOT THIEVES

74  THE EGYPTIANS SAID, THEN WHAT WILL BE
IF YOU ARE PROVEN TO HAVE LIED, THE PENALTY?

75  THEY SAID, THE PENALTY FAIRLY SHOULD BE  
THAT HE IN WHOSE BAGGAGE IT IS RETRIEVED
THAT HE SHOULD BE HELD IN SLAVERY
THIS IS HOW WE PUNISH THE GUILTY

76  HE BEGAN SEARCHING THEIR BAGGAGE ONE AFTER ANOTHER
EVENTUALLY HE BROUGHT IT OUT OF THE BAGGAGE OF HIS BROTHER
THIS WE PLANNED FOR JOSEPH FOR HE COULD NOT TAKE HIS BROTHER
UNDER THE KINGS LAW EXCEPT AS GOD ORDERED
WE RAISE IN DEGREES OF WISDOM THOSE WHOM WE DESIRE
BUT OVER THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE, GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

77  THE BROTHERS SAID, IF HE IS A THIEF
THERE WAS A BROTHER OF HIS BEFORE WHO WAS ALSO A THIEF

BUT THESE THINGS JOSEPH KEPT LOCKED IN HIS HEART FROM THEM
AND HE DID NOT REVEAL THE SECRETS TO THEM

HE SAID TO HIMSELF, THESE MEN ARE IN AN EVIL CONDITION
AND GOD KNOWS BEST THE TRUTH OF THEIR ASSERTIONS

78  THEY SAID TO HIM, OH MIGHTY CHIEF
HE HAS A FATHER WHO IS OLD WHO WILL BE FILLED WITH GRIEF

SO TAKE ONE OF US IN HIS PLACE
FOR WE SEE YOU ARE ONE WHO IS FULL OF GRACE

79  HE SAID, IF WE TOOK OTHER THAN HE
WITH WHOM WE FOUND OUR PROPERTY
WE WOULD BE ACTING WRONGFULLY

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80  NOW WHEN THEY SAW NO HOPE OF HIS YIELDING
THEY HELD TOGETHER A PRIVATE MEETING

THE LEADER AMONG THEM SAID, DO YOU REALIZE THAT WE
MADE A PROMISE TO OUR FATHER IN GOD'S NAME SINCERELY
AND BEFORE THIS HOW WE FAILED WITH JOSEPH IN OUR DUTY?
SO I WILL NOT LEAVE THIS LAND UNTIL MY FATHER PERMITS ME
OR UNLESS GOD MAKES A WAY FOR ME
AND GOD IS THE BEST TO MAKE A WAY FOR ME

81  OH MY BROTHERS
GO AND TELL WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR FATHER
WHEN THEY RETURNED HOME THEY SAID, OH OUR FATHER
YOUR SON, OUR YOUNGER BROTHER

IS BEING HELD AS A THIEF IN SLAVERY
AND WE COULD NOT GUARD AGAINST WHAT WE COULD NOT FORESEE

82  ASK AT THE TOWN WHERE WE WERE VISITING
AND OF THE CARAVAN IN WHICH WE ARE RETURNING
AND YOU WILL FIND THAT IT IS TRUE WHAT WE ARE SAYING

83  HE SAID, YOU HAVE CONTRIVED A STORY
GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU BUT NOT FOR ME
IT IS BETTER FOR ME TO BEAR PATIENTLY 
MAYBE IN THE END GOD WILL BRING THEM ALL BACK TO ME
FOR SURELY FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS HE

84  AND HE TURNED AWAY FROM THEM AND SAID, I MISS JOSEPH TERRIBLY
AND HIS EYES WERE FILLED WITH TEARS ON ACCOUNT OF THE GRIEF
AND HE FELL INTO A SILENT MELANCHOLY

85  THEY SAID, OH OUR FATHER, SURELY YOU
WILL NEVER CEASE TO REMEMBER JOSEPH UNTIL YOU
EITHER GET SICK OR UNTIL DEATH MAKES AN END OF YOU

86  HE SAID, TO GOD ALONE DO I COMPLAIN OF MY SORROW 
AND I KNOW FROM GOD THAT WHICH YOU DO NOT KNOW

87  OH MY SONS, GO BACK AND INQUIRE
ABOUT JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHER

AND DO NOT EVER GIVE UP HOPE OF MERCY FROM GOD
FOR NO ONE GIVES UP HOPE OF MERCY FROM GOD
EXCEPT PEOPLE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD

88  WHEN THEY CAME TO JOSEPH THEY SAID, OH MIGHTY CHIEF
DISTRESS HAS INDEED AFFLICTED OUR FAMILY WITH GRIEF
AND SO WE HAVE NOW BROUGHT JUST A LITTLE MONEY
BUT GIVE US FULL MEASURE AND TREAT IT AS CHARITY
FOR GOD LOVES THOSE WHO DO DEEDS OF CHARITY

89  HE SAID, DO YOU REMEMBER
HOW YOU TREATED JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHER
WHEN YOU WERE IGNORANT AND WRONGDOERS?

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90  THEY SAID, ARE YOU JOSEPH?
HE ANSWERED SAYING, YES, I AM JOSEPH 
AND THIS IS MY BROTHER AND TO US GOD HAS BEEN GRACIOUS
AND SURELY GOD NEVER WASTES THE REWARD OF THE RIGHTEOUS

91  THEY SAID, GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU OVER US SURELY
AND WE HAVE BEEN SINNERS CERTAINLY

92  JOSEPH SAID, NO REPROACH AGAINST YOU LET THERE BE 
PERHAPS GOD WILL FORGIVE YOU AND GOD IS SURELY
THE MOST MERCIFUL OF THOSE WHO SHOW MERCY

93  TAKE THIS MY COAT FROM ME
SHOW IT TO MY FATHER AND HE WILL COME TO SEE CLEARLY
THEN COME BACK HERE TO ME TOGETHER WITH ALL OF YOUR FAMILY

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CHAPTER 12.  JOSEPH                                                                     SECTION 11.  PART XIII

94  AS THE CARAVAN WAS LEAVING EGYPT FROM A DISTANCE
JACOB SAID, I SOMEHOW SENSE JOSEPH'S PRESENCE
DO NOT THINK THAT I AM LOSING MY SENSES

95  THOSE WHO WERE AT HOME AROUND HIM SAID
YOU HAVE WANDERED OUT OF YOUR OLD HEAD

96  WHEN THE BEARER OF THE GOOD NEWS CAME LATER THAT NIGHT
HE SHOWED JACOB THE COAT AND HE REGAINED CLEAR SIGHT

HE SAID, DID I NOT TELL YOU THAT I KNOW
FROM GOD THAT WHICH YOU DO NOT KNOW?

97  THEY SAID, ASK FORGIVENESS FOR OUR SINS, OUR FATHER
FOR CERTAINLY WE HAVE BEEN SINNERS

98  HE SAID, I WILL ASK GOD FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS
FOR HE IS FULL OF MERCY AND KINDNESS

99  AND WHEN THEY ENTERED INTO JOSEPH'S PRESENCE
HE PROVIDED A HOME WITH HIMSELF FOR HIS PARENTS
AND HE SAID, ENTER EGYPT WITH GOD'S ASSURANCE

100  AND HE RAISED HIS PARENTS HIGH ON THE THRONE OF HONOR
AND THE ELEVEN BROTHERS AND THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER

ALL BOWED DOWN BEFORE HIM IN SUBMISSION
HE SAID, MY FATHER, THIS IS THE FULFILLMENT OF MY OLD VISION
GOD HAS BROUGHT IT INTO REALIZATION
HE WAS KIND TO ME WHEN HE BROUGHT ME OUT OF PRISON

AND BROUGHT YOU ALL HERE TOGETHER OUT OF THE DESERT SAFELY
AFTER SATAN HAD SOWN ENMITY BETWEEN MY BROTHERS AND ME
SURELY GOD UNDERSTANDS BEST THE MYSTERIES
OF ALL THAT HE PLANS TO DO, FOR SURELY
FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS HE

101  THEN JOSEPH PRAYED, OH MY LORD, TO ME YOU HAVE GIVEN  
SOME POWER AND TAUGHT ME THE INTERPRETATIONS 
OF STORIES AND DREAMS AND VISIONS

OH MIGHTY ORIGINATOR OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
YOU ARE MY PROTECTOR IN THIS WORLD AND IN THE HEREAFTER
TAKE MY SOUL AT DEATH AS ONE OF THE SUBMITTERS
AND UNITE ME WITH THE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS

102  THIS IS ONE OF THE ANNOUNCEMENTS
RELATING TO UNSEEN EVENTS
WHICH WE REVEAL TO YOU BY INSPIRATION
YOU WERE NOT AMONG THEM DURING THEIR CONCERTIONS
OF THEIR PLANS AND IN THE DEVISINGS OF THEIR MACHINATIONS

103  AND MOST MEN WILL NOT BE BELIEVERS
THOUGH IT MAY BE YOUR EAGER DESIRES

104  AND NO REWARD FOR IT DO YOU ASK OF THE PEOPLE
IT IS NO LESS THAN A MESSAGE FOR ALL PEOPLE

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105  AND HOW MANY LESSONS
IN THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS
DO MEN PASS BY THEM IN REJECTION?

106  AND MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE NOT IN GOD
WITHOUT ASSOCIATING OTHERS WITH GOD

107  DO THEY THEN FEEL SECURE FROM THE COMING 
TO THEM OF A CHASTISEMENT FROM GOD OR THE COMING 
OF THE FINAL HOUR OF DEATH WHILE THEY ARE NOT PERCEIVING?

108  SAY, I INVITE YOU ON CLEAR EVIDENCE TO GOD
I AND THOSE WITH ME AND GLORY TO GOD
AND I AM NOT ONE WHO JOINS GOD'S WITH GOD

109  NOR DID EVER BEFORE GOD SEND WITH REVELATIONS
ANYTHING BUT MEN TO WHOM HE GAVE INSPIRATION
MEN LIVING IN HUMAN HABITATIONS
FROM THE TOWNS OF THE PEOPLE TO WHOM HE SENT REVELATION
HAVE YOU NOT TRAVELED THROUGH THE EARTH AND ITS REGIONS
AND SEEN WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE BEFORE REJECTION?
BUT THE REWARD OF THE HEREAFTER IS BEST FOR BELIEVING ONES
WILL MAN NOT THEN GAIN COMPREHENSION?

110  MORE TIME IS GIVEN TO PEOPLE
UNTIL THE MESSENGERS GIVE UP HOPE FOR THEIR PEOPLE
AND FEEL THEY HAVE BEEN TREATED AS LIARS BY THEIR PEOPLE

THEN OUR HELP REACHES THEM AND THOSE WHOM WE PLEASE 
ARE DELIVERED INTO SAFETY, BUT NEVER WILL THE PENALTY
BE WARDED OFF FROM THOSE WHO ARE GUILTY

111  IN THE HISTORIES OF THE PROPHETS THERE ARE INSTRUCTIONS
FOR SEEKERS AFTER TRUTH AND FOR MEN OF DISCRETION
THIS REVELATION IS NOT AN INVENTION
IT IS A CONFIRMATION OF FORMER REVELATIONS
AND A DETAILED EXPLANATION OF ALL THINGS IN CREATION
AND A MERCY  FOR THOSE WHO COME TO GOD IN SUBMISSION

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CHAPTER 13.  THUNDER                                                                    SECTION 1.  PART XIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM THE BEST KNOWER, THE SEER
THESE ARE THE VERSES OF THE BOOK THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR
IT IS TRUTH REVEALED TO YOU FROM THE CREATOR  
BUT MOST MEN WILL NOT BE BELIEVERS 

2  GOD RAISED THE HEAVENS WITHOUT ANY PILLARS
AND IS ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE OF POWER 
THE SUN AND MOON HE HAS SUBJECTED TO HIS ORDER
EACH ONE RUNS ITS COURSE FOR A TERM REQUIRED 
AND HE DOES REGULATE ALL AFFAIRS
EXPLAINING TO YOU THE MESSAGES CLEAR
THAT IN THE MEETING WITH YOUR CREATOR
YOU MAY BELIEVE WITHOUT BEING A DOUBTER

3  IT IS HE WHO HAS SPREAD OUT THE EARTH AND SET ON IT 
MOUNTAINS STANDING FIRM AND RIVERS FLOWING IN IT
FRUITS TWO OF EVERY KIND HE MADE IN PAIRS IN IT
AND THE DAY HE DRAWS THE NIGHT AS A VEIL OVER IT
IN THESE THINGS ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO TAKE HEED TO IT

4  AND IN THE EARTH ARE TRACTS DIVERSE THOUGH NEIGHBORING 
GARDENS OF VINES, FIELDS OF CORN AND PALM TREES GROWING 
OUT OF SINGLE ROOTS AND WATERED WITH THE SAME WATERING
YET SOME THINGS WE MAKE BETTER TO EAT THAN OTHER THINGS 
IN THESE THINGS ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WITH UNDERSTANDING

5  AND IT IS STRANGE THEIR SAYING, IF YOU DO MARVEL
WILL WE RISE AFTER WE ARE DUST, IS THIS FACTUAL
AND THEN BE MADE INTO ANOTHER RENEWAL? 
AND THEY ARE THOSE WHO DENY THEIR LORD, THE MOST MERCIFUL
AND THEY ARE THOSE ROUND WHOSE NECKS WILL BE SHACKLES
AND THEIR HOME WILL BE THE FIRE, IN IT THEY WILL DWELL

6  THEY ASK YOU TO HASTEN TO THEM THE PENALTY INSTEAD OF MERCY
EXEMPLARY PENALTIES HAVE GONE TO THEM ALREADY
BUT YOUR LORD TO MANKIND IS FULL OF MERCY
AND YOUR LORD IS ALSO STRICT IN PENALTIES

7  WHY IS NOT A SIGN SENT DOWN TO HIM?  SAY THE DISBELIEVERS 
BUT YOU ARE TO EVERY PEOPLE A GUIDE AND A WARNER 

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8  YOUR LORD DOES KNOW WHAT EVERY FEMALE WOMB DOES BEAR 
AND BY HOW MUCH THE WOMBS FALL SHORT OF THEIR NUMBER 
OR DO EXCEED AND EVERY SINGLE CREATURE 
IS BEFORE HIS SIGHT IN DUE MEASURE

9  HE KNOWS THE UNSEEN AND THAT WHICH IS OPEN
FOR HE IS THE LORD OF ALL CREATION

10  IT IS THE SAME TO HIM WHETHER OF YOU ANY 
EITHER CONCEALS HIS SPEECH OR DECLARES IT OPENLY 
WHETHER HE LIE HID BY NIGHT OR WALK FORTH BY DAY FREELY

11  THERE ARE ANGELS BEFORE EACH PERSON 
AND BEHIND HIM AND GUARD HIM BY GOD'S INSTRUCTION  
AND NEVER WILL GOD CHANGE PEOPLE'S CONDITION 
UNTIL THEY CHANGE THEIR OWN CONDITION
BUT WHEN ONCE HE WILLS A PEOPLE'S DESTRUCTION
THERE CAN BE NO ALLEVIATION
NOR WILL THEY FIND BESIDES HIM ANY PROTECTION

12  IT IS HE WHO SHOWS YOU THE LIGHTNING 
BY WAY OF FEAR AND HOPE AND HE CAUSES THE RAISING 
OF THE CLOUDS THAT ARE HEAVY WITH  RAIN THAT IS FERTILIZING

13  HIS PRAISES ARE REPEATED BY THE THUNDER
AND HE FLINGS THE LOUD VOICED BOLTS OF THUNDER 
AND LIGHTNING AND WITH IT HE STRIKES WHOM HE DESIRES
AND YET THERE ARE MEN WHO DARE TO BE DISPUTERS
ABOUT GOD WITH THE STRENGTH OF HIS POWER  

14  PRAYER IS ONLY FOR THE CREATOR
WHO THEY CALL UPON BESIDES HIM HEAR THEM NO BETTER 
THAN IF THEY WERE TO STRETCH FORTH THEIR HANDS FOR WATER 
BUT IT REACHES THEM NOT FOR THE PRAYERS OF DISBELIEVERS
IS NOTHING BUT THAT OF A MENTAL WANDERER 

15  IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH ALL BEINGS
PROSTRATE THEMSELVES TO GOD WILLINGLY OR UNWILLING
AND SO DO THEIR SHADOWS IN THE MORNINGS AND EVENINGS

16  SAY, WHO IS HEAVEN AND EARTH'S LORD AND SUSTAINER? 
SAY, GOD, THEN DO YOU TAKE OTHERS FOR PROTECTORS 
OTHER THAN HIM THAT HAVE NO POWER 
FOR GOOD OR HARM TO THEMSELVES OR OTHERS? 

SAY, ARE THE BLIND EQUAL WITH THOSE WHO HAVE SIGHT 
OR ARE THE DEPTHS OF DARKNESS EQUAL TO LIGHT?  

OR DO THEY ASSIGN TO GOD PARTNERS 
WHO CREATED ANYTHING LIKE OF WHICH HE IS THE CREATOR 
SO THAT THE CREATION SEEMED TO THEM SIMILAR? 
SAY, OF ALL THINGS GOD IS THE CREATOR 
HE IS THE ONE, THE SUPREME AND THE BEST KNOWER

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17  HE SENDS DOWN FROM THE SKIES WATER, AND THE CHANNELS 
FLOW EACH ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH IS MEASURABLE
BUT THE TORRENT BEARS AWAY THE FOAM THAT TO THE SURFACE FILLS 
FORMING ORE WHICH THEY HEAT TO MAKE ORNAMENTS OR UTENSILS 
WITH IT THERE IS A SCUM, LIKEWISE SO DOES GOD BY PARABLES 
SHOW TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD, FOR LIKE FROTH SCUM DISASSEMBLES
WHILE THAT WHICH IS GOOD REMAINS AS GOD WILLS
SO DOES GOD SET FORTH PARABLES

18  FOR THOSE WHO RESPOND TO THEIR LORD ARE ALL GOOD THINGS 
BUT THOSE WHO RESPOND NOT IF THEY HAD ALL THINGS
THAT ARE IN THE HEAVENS AND ALL THINGS
THAT ARE ON EARTH THEY WOULD OFFER IT FOR RANSOMING
AND TERRIBLE INDEED FOR THEM WILL BE THEIR RECKONING
AND HELL WILL BE THEIR HOME, WHAT A MISERABLE THING

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CHAPTER 13.  THUNDER                                                                    SECTION 3.  PART XIII

19  ARE THOSE WHO KNOW GOD'S REVELATIONS 
LIKE THOSE WHO ARE BLIND TO THEIR REALIZATION? 
IT IS THOSE WHO ARE ENDUED WITH COMPREHENSION
THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION

20  THOSE WHO FULFILL GOD'S PROMISE
AND FAIL NOT IN THEIR PROMISE

21  THOSE WHO JOIN THOSE THINGS TOGETHER 
WHICH GOD HAS COMMANDED TO BE JOINED TOGETHER
AND THEY HOLD THEIR LORD IN AWE AND TERROR
AND FEAR THE TERRIBLE RECKONING HOUR

22  THOSE WHO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE
SEEKING GOD'S GOOD PLEASURE  
AND WHO ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS
AND SPEND OF THE GIFTS THAT THE CREATOR 
HAS BESTOWED FOR THEIR SUSTENANCE IN MEASURE 
AND TURN AWAY ALL EVIL WITH THAT WHICH IS BETTER
FOR THEM IS THE ATTAINMENT OF THE GOOD HOME FOREVER 

23  GARDENS OF PERPETUAL BLISS THEY WILL ENTER 
AS WELL AS THE RIGHTEOUS AMONG THEIR FATHERS 

AND THEIR SPOUSES AND THE ANGELS AND THEIR OFFSPRING 
WILL ENTER TO THEM FROM EVERY PLACE OF ENTERING

24  PEACE UNTO YOU FOR THAT YOU PERSEVERED IN PATIENCE 
NOW HOW EXCELLENT IS THE FINAL RESIDENCE

25  BUT THOSE WHO BREAK THE COVENANT OF THE CREATOR 
AFTER THEY HAVE PLIGHTED THEIR WORD TO THEIR MAKER
AND CUT ASUNDER THAT WHICH GOD HAS ORDERED
FOR THEM TO BE JOINED TOGETHER 
AND WORK THROUGH THE LAND AS MISCHIEF MAKERS
ON THEM IS THE CURSE AND THE TERRIBLE HOME IN THE HEREAFTER

26  YOUR LORD GRANTS OR INCREASES BY STRICT MEASURE
THE SUSTENANCE WHICH HE GIVES OF HIS PLEASURE 
THE WORLDLY REJOICE IN THIS LIFE OF THEIRS
WHICH WHEN COMPARED TO THE HEREAFTER
 IN COMFORT IT IS MUCH SMALLER

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CHAPTER 13.  THUNDER                                                                    SECTION 4.  PART XIII

27  THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, WHY IS NOT A SIGN SENT DOWN TO HIM? 
SAY, GOD LEAVES TO STRAY WHOM HE WILLS BUT TURNS TO HIM 
THOSE WHO TURN IN REPENTANCE TO HIM 

28  THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WHOSE HEARTS FIND SATISFACTION 
IN THE REMEMBRANCE OF GOD AND DO IT WITHOUT HESITATION 
IN THE REMEMBRANCE OF GOD DO HEARTS FIND SATISFACTION

29  FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS
IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OF FINAL RETURN AND EVERY BLESSEDNESS

30  WE HAVE SENT YOU AMONG A PEOPLE WHOM OTHERS
HAVE GONE BEFORE AND PASSED AWAY PRIOR
IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT RECITE TO THEM THESE ORDERS
WE SEND DOWN WITH YOU YET THEY ARE REJECTORS
OF GOD, THE CREATOR, THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER
SAY, HE IS GOD BESIDES HIM THERE IS NO OTHER 
TO HIM I TURN AND I AM A SUBMITTER

31  IF THERE WERE A QURAN THAT WOULD MOVE MOUNTAINS 
OR THE EARTH WERE SPLIT OPEN INTO PIECES AND BROKEN 
OR THE DEAD MADE TO SPEAK THIS WOULD BE THE ONE
IN ALL THINGS WITH GOD IS THE DOMINION
DO NOT THE BELIEVERS KNOW THAT WERE IT GOD'S INTENTION
HE COULD HAVE GUIDED ALL MEN IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION?
BUT THE DISBELIEVERS NEVER WILL DESTRUCTION
CEASE TO SEIZE THEM FOR THE ILL DEEDS THEY HAVE DONE
OR TO SETTLE CLOSE TO THEM UNTIL COMES GOD'S DECISION 
FOR GOD WILL NOT FAIL IN HIS CONCLUSION

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CHAPTER 13.  THUNDER                                                                    SECTION 5.  PART XIII

32  BEFORE YOU WERE MOCKED MANY MESSENGERS 
BUT I GRANTED RESPITE TO THE DISBELIEVERS 
AND FINALLY I PUNISHED THE REJECTORS
MY REQUITAL TO THEM WAS STERN AND SEVERE

33  IS THEN HE WHO STANDS OVER EVERY CREATURE 
AND KNOWS ALL THAT IT DOES LIKE ANY OTHERS? 
AND YET THEY ASCRIBE TO GOD PARTNERS 
SAY, IS IT THAT YOU WILL INFORM THE CREATOR 
OF SOMETHING ON EARTH OF WHICH HE IS UNAWARE
OR IS IT A VERBAL DISPLAY FOR DISBELIEVERS?
THEY ARE KEPT FROM THE RIGHT MANNER
THOSE WHOM GOD LEAVES IN ERROR 
NO ONE CAN GUIDE TO RIGHT THEREAFTER

34  FOR THEM IS A PENALTY IN THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD
THE PENALTY OF THE HEREAFTER IS EVEN HARDER
AND THEY HAVE AGAINST GOD NO DEFENDER

35  THE PROMISE TO THOSE WHO KEEP THEIR DUTY
ARE GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS AND ITS FRUITS ARE PLENTY
THIS IS THE END FOR THOSE WHO KEEP THEIR DUTY 
THE END OF THE DISBELIEVERS THE FIRE IS THEIR PENALTY

36  THOSE TO WHOM THE BOOK HAS BEEN GIVEN
REJOICE AT THE REVELATION THAT TO YOU HAS BEEN GIVEN
BUT THERE ARE THOSE WHO REJECT GOD'S REVELATION  
SAY, I WORSHIP THE LORD OF ALL CREATION
AND I WILL NOT JOIN PARTNERS WITH GOD IN ASSOCIATION
TO HIM I CALL AND TO HIM IS MY DESTINATION

37  WE REVEALED IT IN ARABIC TO BE A JUDGMENT OF ORDER 
AND WERE YOU TO FOLLOW THEIR VAIN DESIRES
AFTER KNOWLEDGE HAS REACHED YOU, YOU WOULD FIND NEITHER 
A PROTECTOR AGAINST GOD NOR A DEFENDER

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CHAPTER 13.  THUNDER                                                                    SECTION 6.  PART XIII

38  BEFORE YOU WE DID SEND MESSENGERS
AND APPOINTED FOR THEM CHILDREN AND MARITAL PARTNERS 
AND IT WAS NEVER IN THE POWER OF ANY MESSENGER
TO BRING A SIGN TO MEN EXCEPT AS GOD ORDERED
AND FOR EACH PERIOD IS A TERM REQUIRED

39  GOD DOES BLOT OUT OR CONFIRMS WHAT PLEASES HIM
AND THE MOTHER OF THE BOOK IS WITH HIM

40  WHETHER WE SHOW YOU PART OF WHAT IS PROMISED TO THEM 
OR TAKE YOUR SOUL BEFORE, YOUR DUTY TO THEM 
IS TO MAKE THE MESSAGE TO REACH THEM 
TO CALL THEM TO ACCOUNT IS OUR DUTY TO THEM

41  SEE HOW WE REDUCE THE LAND FROM ITS OUTLYING BORDERS?  
AND WHERE GOD COMMANDS NONE CAN PUT BACK HIS ORDERS 
HE SWIFTLY CALLS TO ACCOUNT, AND HE IS THE RECOUNTER

42  THOSE BEFORE THEM DID ALSO DEVISE PLOTTINGS
BUT GOD IS THE MASTER PLANNER OF ALL THINGS
AND OF EVERY SOUL HE KNOWS THEIR DOINGS
AND SOON THOSE WHO ARE UNBELIEVING
WILL KNOW FOR WHOM IS THE GOOD ENDING

43  THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, NO MESSENGER ARE YOU 
SAY, GOD IS ENOUGH FOR A WITNESS BETWEEN ME AND YOU 
AND ALSO THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE BOOK TOO

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CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                  SECTION 1.  PART XIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM THE SEER 
THIS BOOK WE HAVE REVEALED TO YOU IN ORDER
SO BY THE PERMISSION OF YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER
YOU MIGHT LEAD MANKIND OUT OF DARKNESS AND OVER
INTO THE LIGHT OF HIM, THE EXALTED IN POWER 
WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE FOREVER

2  GOD TO WHOM BELONG ALL THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH
BUT FOR THE DISBELIEVERS IS A PENALTY THAT IS SEVERE

3  THOSE WHO LOVE THIS WORLD MORE THAN THE HEREAFTER 
AND WHO FROM THE PATH OF GOD WOULD HINDER OTHERS 
AND THEY SEEK IN IT SOMETHING IN ERROR 
THEY ARE ASTRAY BY A LONG MEASURE

4  WE SENT NOT AN APOSTLE
EXCEPT TO TEACH IN THE LANGUAGE OF HIS OWN PEOPLE
IN ORDER TO MAKE THINGS CLEAR TO THE PEOPLE
HOW GOD LEAVES STRAYING WHOM HE WILLS  
AND HE GUIDES THOSE WHOM HE WILLS 
GOD IS WISE AND KNOWLEDGEABLE

5  WE SENT MOSES WITH THE COMMAND AND OUR MESSAGES
BRING YOUR PEOPLE INTO THE LIGHT OUT OF THE DARKNESS 
AND REMIND THEM OF GOD'S DAYS, THESE ARE MESSAGES
FOR THOSE WHO ARE PATIENT AND SHOW GRATEFULNESS 

6  MOSES SAID TO HIS PEOPLE
REMEMBER GOD'S FAVOR TO YOU PEOPLE
WHEN HE DELIVERED YOU FROM PHARAOH'S PEOPLE
FOR THEY SET ON YOU HARD TASKS AND TRIALS
AND THEY SLAUGHTERED YOUR MALES 
AND KEPT ALIVE YOUR FEMALES
THIS WAS FROM YOUR LORD A TREMENDOUS TRIAL 

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CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                  SECTION 2.  PART XIII

7  YOUR LORD DECLARED, IF YOU SHOW GRATITUDE 
THAT I WILL ADD MORE FAVORS TO YOU 
BUT IF YOU SHOW INGRATITUDE 
MY PUNISHMENT WILL BE TERRIBLE TO YOU

8  MOSES SAID, IF YOU ACT UNGRATEFULLY
YOU AND ALL ON EARTH TOGETHER ADDITIONALLY
SURELY GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND IS PRAISEWORTHY 

9  HAS NOT THE STORY REACHED YOU, OH MY PEOPLE 
OF THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE YOU OF THE PEOPLE 
OF NOAH AND AD AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE
AND OF THOSE WHO CAME AFTER THOSE PEOPLE?
NONE BUT GOD KNOWS THEM, BUT APOSTLES
CAME TO THEM WITH CLEAR EXAMPLES
BUT THEY PUT THEIR HANDS UP TO THEIR TEMPLES
AND SAID, WE DENY THE MISSION ON WHICH YOU TRAVEL
AND AS TO THAT TO WHICH YOU INVITE US TO WE ARE DOUBTFUL

10  THEIR APOSTLES SAID, IS THERE DOUBT ABOUT YOUR LORD TO YOU
THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH WHO INVITES YOU 
IN ORDER THAT HE MAY FORGIVE YOU 
AND GIVE FROM HIM AN APPOINTED TERM TO YOU?
THEY SAID, NO MORE THAN A HUMAN LIKE US ARE YOU  
YOU WISH TO TURN US FROM WHAT OUR FATHERS WERE USED TO 
THEN BRING US A CLEAR AUTHORITY WITH YOU

11  THEIR MESSENGERS SAID TO THEM, TRUE
WE ARE ONLY HUMAN LIKE YOU
BUT GOD DOES GRANT HIS GRACES TO 
THOSE OF HIS SERVANTS AS HE PLEASES TO
AND IT IS NOT FOR US TO BRING AN AUTHORITY TO YOU  
EXCEPT AS OUR LORD AND CHERISHER PERMITS US TO  
AND LET ALL MEN PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM TOO

12  NO REASON HAVE WE WHY WE SHOULD NOT TRUST GOD COMPLETELY
WHEN HE HAS GUIDED US TO THE WAY WE FOLLOW CLEARLY 
AND WE WILL CERTAINLY BEAR PATIENTLY
ALL THE HURT YOU MAY CAUSE US DILIGENTLY
FOR ON GOD SHOULD THE RELIANT RELY TOTALLY

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CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                  SECTION 3.  PART XIII

13  AND THE DISBELIEVERS SAID TO THEIR MESSENGERS
WE WILL DRIVE YOU OUT OF OUR LAND FOR SURE
OR YOU WILL HAVE TO RETURN TO OUR CULTURE
BUT THIS MESSAGE TO THEM GOD INSPIRED 
WE WILL DESTROY THE WRONG DOERS 

14  YOU WILL SUCCEED THEM AND IN THE LAND THEY WILL DWELL
FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THE TIME WHEN THEY SHALL
STAND BEFORE MY TRIBUNAL 
THOSE WHO FEAR THE PUNISHMENT OF REQUITAL

15  BUT THEY SOUGHT VICTORY AND DECISION 
THERE AND THEN, AND THEREFORE FRUSTRATION 
WAS THE LOT OF THOSE GUILTY OF TRANSGRESSION

16  IN FRONT OF SUCH A ONE IS HELL SURELY
HE IS GIVEN FOR DRINK BOILING WATER WHEN THIRSTY

17  IN GULPS IT WILL BE SIPPED BY HIM
BUT NEVER WILL IT BE SWALLOWED BY HIM 
FROM EVERY QUARTER DEATH WILL COME TO HIM 
YET HE WILL NOT DIE AND IN FRONT OF HIM 
WILL BE A CHASTISEMENT UNRELENTING FOR HIM

18  THE PARABLE OF THOSE WHO REJECT GOD AND HIS MERCY 
IS THEIR WORKS ARE AS ASHES ON WHICH WIND BLOWS FURIOUSLY 
ON A DAY THAT IS STORMY AND WINDY
OVER NOTHING DO THEY HAVE ANY AUTHORITY
AND THEY HAVE STRAYED FAR AWAY FROM REALITY

19  GOD CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH IN TRUTH
AND IF GOD SO WILLED HE CAN REMOVE YOU 
AND PUT A NEW CREATION IN PLACE OF YOU

20  AND FOR GOD THAT IS EASY TO DO

21  THEY WILL ALL BE MARSHALLED BEFORE GOD TOGETHER
AND THE WEAK WILL SAY TO THOSE WHO BEHAVED IN ERROR
WE FOLLOWED YOU, CAN YOU AVAIL US AGAINST GOD'S ANGER? 
THEY WILL SAY, IF WE HAD RECEIVED THE GUIDANCE OF THE CREATOR 

WE WOULD HAVE GIVEN IT TO YOU BUT IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE 
WHETHER WE BEAR THESE PAINS WITH RAGE OR PATIENCE 
THERE IS NO WAY OF ESCAPE FROM THE SENTENCE

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CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                 SECTION 4.  PART XIII

22  WHEN THE MATTER IS DECIDED SATAN WILL SAY THIS
IT WAS GOD WHO GAVE YOU A TRUTHFUL PROMISE 
AND I TOO GAVE TO YOU A PROMISE
BUT I FAILED YOU IN MY PROMISE  

AND OVER YOU I HAD NO AUTHORITY 
EXCEPT TO CALL YOU AND YOU LISTENED TO ME 
SO THE BLAME IS ON YOU, YOU CANNOT NOT BLAME ME
I CANNOT LISTEN TO YOUR CRIES NOR CAN YOU LISTEN TO ME 
AND I REJECT YOUR ACT IN ASSOCIATING GOD WITH ME 
FOR WRONG DOERS THERE IS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY 

23  BUT THOSE WHO DO GOOD AND ARE BELIEVERS 
WILL BE ADMITTED TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 
WITH THE LEAVE OF GOD TO DWELL IN THEM FOREVER 
AND PEACE WILL BE THEIR GREETING THERE 

24  SEE YOU NOT HOW GOD SETS FORTH A PARABLE?
A GOOD WORK IS LIKE A GOOD TREE WHOSE ROOT IS STABLE 

AND ITS BRANCHES REACH HIGH
UP TOWARDS THE SKY

25  IT BRINGS FORTH FRUIT AT ALL TIMES BY GOD'S PERMISSION
GOD SETS FORTH PARABLES SO MEN MAY RECEIVE ADMONITION

26  THE PARABLE OF A WORD THAT IS EVIL 
IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF A TREE THAT IS EVIL
IT IS TORN UP BY THE ROOT AND IS UNSTABLE

27  GOD WILL ESTABLISH IN STRENGTH THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
WITH THE WORD THAT IS FIRM IN THIS LIFE AND THE HEREAFTER 
THOSE WHO DO WRONG ARE LEFT TO STRAY BY GOD'S ORDER 
FOR THE CREATOR DOES WHATEVER HE DESIRES

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CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                   SECTION 5.  PART XIII

28  HAVE YOU NOT TURNED YOUR VISION 
TO THOSE WHO HAVE CHANGED THE GOOD CONDITION
GIVEN THEM BY GOD TO A BLASPHEMOUS CONDITION 
AND HAS CAUSED THEIR PEOPLE'S DESCENSION
DOWN INTO THE HOUSE OF PERDITION?

29  THEY WILL BURN IN HELL
AN EVIL PLACE TO DWELL

30  THEY SET UP IDOLS TO GOD AS EQUALS TO LEAD MEN ASTRAY
SAY TO THEM, GO AHEAD AND ENJOY YOUR BRIEF STAY
BUT YOU ARE GOING TO HELL STRAIGHT WAY

31  SPEAK TO MY SERVANTS WHO ARE BELIEVERS
THAT THEY MAY ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS 
AND SPEND IN CHARITY OUT OF THE FAVORS 
WE HAVE GIVEN TO THEM OPEN AND IN RESERVE
BEFORE THE COMING OF A DAY IN WHICH NEITHER 
WILL THERE BE BARGAINING NOR BEFRIENDING EITHER

32   GOD CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH AND SENDS DOWN TO YOU
RAIN FROM THE SKIES AND BRINGS OUT FRUITS TO FEED YOU 
AND IT IS HE WHO MADE THE SHIPS SUBJECT TO YOU 

THAT THEY MAY SAIL BY HIS COMMAND THROUGH THE SEA
AND THE RIVERS HAS HE MADE SUBJECT TO YOUR NEEDS

33  HE HAS MADE THE SUN AND THE MOON SUBJECT TO YOU 
AND THEIR COURSES THEY DO BOTH DILIGENTLY PURSUE
THE NIGHT AND THE DAY HE MADE SUBJECT TO YOU

34  AND ALL THAT YOU ASK FOR HE GIVES TO YOU
IF YOU TRIED TO COUNT GOD'S FAVORS TO YOU 
NEVER COULD THEY BE NUMBERED BY YOU
BUT UNJUST AND UNGRATEFUL ARE YOU

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CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                  SECTION 6.  PART XIII

35  ABRAHAM SAID, OH MY LORD, MAKE THIS CITY 
A CITY OF PEACE AND SECURITY
AND PRESERVE ME AND MY SONS FROM IDOLATRY

36  OH MY LORD, THEY HAVE LED ASTRAY MANY 
THEN HE WHO FOLLOWS MY WAY IS OF ME 
HE THAT DISOBEYS ME, STILL SURELY
YOU ARE FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

37  OH OUR LORD, I HAVE MADE SOME OF MY OFFSPRING INHABITORS
IN A VALLEY WITH NO CULTIVATING BY YOUR SACRED MANOR
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER
WITH LOVE TOWARDS THE PEOPLE WITH FRUITS TO FEED THEM PROPER 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR FAVORS

38  OH OUR LORD, YOU DO KNOW WHAT WE KEEP HIDDEN 
AND OUR LORD, YOU DO KNOW WHAT WE LAY OPEN 
FOR FROM GOD NOTHING WHATEVER IS HIDDEN
WHETHER ON EARTH OR IN HEAVEN

39  PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO HAS GRANTED TO ME 
IN OLD AGE ISHMAEL AND ISAAC, FOR SURELY
MY LORD IS THE HEARER OF PRAYERS INDEED

40  OH MY LORD, MAKE ME ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER 
AND MAKE MY OFFSPRING TO KEEP UP PRAYER
OH OUR LORD, AND ACCEPT MY PRAYER 

41  AND WITH YOUR FORGIVENESS COVER
ME AND MY PARENTS AND ALL OF THE BELIEVERS 
ON THE DAY THAT THE RECKONING COMES TO ORDER

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CHAPTER 14.  ABRAHAM                                                                  SECTION 7.  PART XIII

42  THINK NOT THAT GOD DOES NOT HEED 
THOSE AMONG YOU WHO DO WRONGFUL DEEDS
HE GIVES THEM RESPITE TO A DAY WHEN SURELY
THEIR EYES WILL STARE IN HORROR FIXEDLY

43  RUNNING FORWARD WITH NECKS STRETCHED AND HEADS RAISED 
AND NOT RETURNING TO THEM THEIR GAZE 
AND THEIR HEARTS IN A DAZE

44  THEREFORE WARN MANKIND OF THE DAY WHEN THE ANGER
WILL REACH THEM AND THEN WILL SAY THE WRONG DOERS 
OUR LORD, RESPITE US JUST FOR AN HOUR
WE WILL ANSWER YOUR CALL AND FOLLOW THE MESSENGERS
DID YOU NOT SWEAR BEFORE THAT NO DECLINE WOULD YOU SUFFER?

45  YOU DWELL IN THE DWELLINGS OF MEN                                                                                         
WHO WRONGED THEIR OWN SOULS AND THEN                                                          
YOU WERE SHOWN HOW WE DEALT WITH THEM THEN
AND WE PUT FORTH PARABLES FOR YOUR INSTRUCTION

46  AND THE PLOTS THEY MADE WERE MIGHTY
BUT THEIR PLOTS WERE WITHIN GOD'S SIGHT CLEARLY
THOUGH THEY WERE SUCH AS TO SHAKE THE HILLS VIOLENTLY

47  NEVER WOULD GOD FAIL IN HIS PROMISE TO HIS MESSENGERS 
FOR GOD IS LORD OF RETRIBUTION AND EXALTED IN POWER

48  ONE DAY THE EARTH 
WILL BE CHANGED INTO A DIFFERENT EARTH 

AND SO WILL BE THE HEAVENS AND MEN WILL BE MARSHALED 
INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD, THE ONE, THE IRRESISTIBLE

49  AND THAT DAY YOU WILL SEE THE SINNERS 
BOUND ALL TOGETHER IN FETTERS

50  LIQUID PITCH WILL BE THEIR ATTIRE
THEIR FACES WILL BE COVERED WITH FIRE

51  THAT GOD MAY REPAY EACH SOUL ACCORDING TO ITS EARNINGS 
AND SURELY GOD IS SWIFT IN RECKONING

52  HERE IS A MESSAGE FOR MANKIND, LET THEM HEED
LET THEM KNOW THAT HE IS ONLY ONE GOD INDEED
LET MEN OF UNDERSTANDING TAKE HEED

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CHAPTER 15.  THE ROCK                                                                   SECTION 1.  PART XIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM  THE SEER
THESE ARE THE VERSES OF A QURAN THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR

PART  XIV

2  AGAIN AND AGAIN THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE 
WILL WISH THAT THEY HAD BELIEVED

3  BUT LEAVE THEM 
TO LET THE GOOD THINGS OF THIS LIFE PLEASE THEM 
AND LET FALSE HOPE BE AMUSING TO THEM 
SOON WILL REALITY UNDECEIVE THEM

4  NEVER DID WE DESTROY A POPULATION 
THAT HAD NOT A DECREED TERMINATION

5  PEOPLE CANNOT ANTICIPATE THEIR TERM
NOR CAN THEY DELAY THEIR TERM

6  THEY SAY, OH YOU TO WHOM THE MESSAGE IS BEING RECEIVED
YOU ARE TRULY MAD INDEED

7  WHY DO YOU NOT BRING ANGELS TO US 
IF YOU HAVE BROUGHT THE TRUTH TO US?

8  WE ONLY SEND ANGELS FOR CAUSES THAT ARE JUSTLY                                           
AND IF HAD ANGELS COME TO THE UNGODLY
NO DELAY WOULD THEY HAVE RECEIVED

9  WE HAVE SENT DOWN THE MESSAGE UNDOUBTEDLY
AND WE WILL GUARD IT FROM CORRUPTION ASSUREDLY

10  WE SENT MESSENGERS BEFORE YOU 
AMONG THE RELIGIOUS SECTS OF OLD TOO

11  BUT NEVER CAME TO THEM A MESSENGER
BUT OF HIM THEY BECAME MOCKERS

12  EVEN SO DO WE LET IT ENTER
INTO THE HEARTS OF THE SINNERS

13  AND DISBELIEVERS IN THE MESSAGE ARE THEY
BUT THE WAYS OF THE ANCIENTS HAVE PASSED AWAY

14  EVEN IF WE OPENED OUT TO THEM A GATE FROM HEAVEN 
AND THEY WERE TO CONTINUE ALL DAY ASCENDING THEREIN

15  THEY WOULD SAY, OUR EYES HAVE BEEN INTOXICATED SURELY
OR WE HAVE BY BEEN BEWITCHED BY SORCERY

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CHAPTER 15.  THE ROCK                                                                 SECTION 2.  PART XIV

16  WE HAVE SET THE ZODIACAL SIGNS IN THE SKIES
AND WE MADE THEM FAIR SEEMING TO ALL WHO HAVE EYES 

17  AND FROM EVERY ACCURSED EVIL SPIRIT
WE GUARD THEM SAFELY FROM IT

18  BUT ANY THAT GAINS A HEARING BY STEALING 
IS PURSUED BY FIRE FLAMING BRIGHT TO ONE'S SEEING

19  THE EARTH WE HAVE SPREAD OUT LIKE A CARPET
AND HAVE SET MOUNTAINS FIRM AND IMMOVABLE ON IT
AND PRODUCED ALL KINDS OF THINGS IN DUE BALANCE ON IT

20  WE HAVE PROVIDED ON IT MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE FOR YOU 
AND FOR THOSE FOR WHOSE SUBSISTENCE RELIES NOT UPON YOU
 
21  THERE IS NOT A THING BUT ITS SOURCES AND TREASURES 
ARE WITH US BUT WE ONLY SEND IT DOWN IN DUE MEASURES

22  AND WE SEND THE FERTILIZING WINDS 
THEN CAUSE THE RAINS FROM THE SKY TO DESCEND

PROVIDING YOU WITH WATER FOR DRINKING
AND YOU ARE NOT THE GUARDIANS OF ITS STORING

23  WE GIVE LIFE AND DEATH AND IT IS WE  WHO STAY
AS INHERITORS AFTER ALL ELSE PASSES AWAY

24  TO US ARE KNOWN THOSE OF YOU 
WHO HASTEN FORWARD AND THOSE WHO LAG BEHIND TOO

25  IT IS YOUR LORD WHO WILL GATHER THEM ASSUREDLY 
FOR PERFECT IN WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE IS HE

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CHAPTER 15.  THE ROCK                                                                  SECTION 3.  PART XIV

26  MAN WE CREATED 
FROM MUD MOLDED 

27  AND THE DEMON RACE WE CREATED FROM THE FIRE
OF A SCORCHING WIND, BURNING INTENSELY HOTTER

28  GOD SAID TO THE ANGELS, I AM ABOUT TO CREATE  
A MORTAL MAN FROM SOUNDING CLAY 
FROM MUD MOLDED INTO SHAPE

29  WHEN I HAVE IN DUE PROPORTION FASHIONED HIM 
AND I HAVE BREATHED MY SPIRIT INTO HIM 
FALL DOWN IN SUBMISSION TO HIM

30  SO THE ANGELS DID GATHER
AND PROSTRATED THEMSELVES TOGETHER

31  BUT NOT SO SATAN, HE REFUSED TO BE 
AMONG THOSE WHO PROSTRATED SUBMISSIVELY

32  GOD SAID, OH SATAN, WHAT IS YOUR REASON NOT TO BE
AMONG THOSE WHO PROSTRATE THEMSELVES SUBMISSIVELY?

33  SATAN SAID, I AM NOT ONE TO PROSTRATE 
MYSELF TO A MAN WHOM YOU DID CREATE 
FROM MUD MOLDED INTO SHAPE

34  GOD SAID, THEN GET OUT FROM HERE 
FOR YOU ARE A CURSED REJECTER 

35  AND THE CURSE WILL BE 
ON YOU UNTIL THE DAY OF ETERNITY

36  SATAN SAID, LORD, RESPITE ME UNTIL THE DAY 
THAT THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED

37  GOD SAID, IT IS GRANTED
YOU ARE OF THOSE WHO ARE RESPITED

38  UNTIL THE DAY OF THE TIME APPOINTED

39  SATAN SAID, MY LORD, SINCE YOU HAVE PUT ME IN THE WRONG 
I WILL MAKE FAIR SEEMING TO THEM ALL THAT IS WRONG  
AND I WILL PUT THEM ALL IN THE WRONG

40  EXCEPT YOUR DEVOTEES
THOSE OF SINCERITY AND PURITY 

41  GOD SAID, THIS WAY OF MY SINCERE SERVANTS IS INDEED 
A WAY THAT LEADS STRAIGHT TO ME

42  NO AUTHORITY OVER MY SERVANTS HAVE YOU
EXCEPT THOSE WHO GO WRONG AND FOLLOW YOU

43  AND THE ABODE OF HELL 
IS THE PLACE FOR THEM TO DWELL

44  TO IT ARE SEVEN GATES FOR EACH GATE ENTERS
A SPECIAL ASSIGNED CLASS OF SINNERS 

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CHAPTER 15.  THE ROCK                                                                   SECTION 4.  PART XIV

45  THE RIGHTEOUS WILL BE AMID GARDENS 
AND CLEAR FLOWING FOUNTAINS 

46  THEIR GREETING WILL BE 
ENTER HERE IN PEACE AND SECURITY

47  WE WILL REMOVE FROM THEM ANY SENSE OF INJURY 
THEY WILL BE BROTHERS THAT WILL BE JOYFULLY 
FACING EACH OTHER ON THRONES OF DIGNITY

48  THERE WILL TOUCH THEM NO SENSE OF FATIGUE 
NOR WILL THEY EVER BE ASKED TO LEAVE

49  TELL MY SERVANTS THAT I AM SURELY 
FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

50  AND THAT MY PENALTY 
WILL BE THE MOST GRIEVOUS PENALTY

51  AND ALSO TELL THEM 
ABOUT THE GUESTS OF ABRAHAM

52  THEY ENTERED HIS PRESENCE AND SAID, PEACE BE UNTO YOU 
HE SAID, WE FEEL AFRAID OF YOU 

53  THEY SAID, FEAR NOT WE GIVE YOU GLAD TIDINGS
OF A SON ENDOWED WITH WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING

54  HE SAID, DO YOU GIVE TO ME 
GOOD NEWS THAT OLD AGE HAS SEIZED ME?  
OF WHAT THEN IS YOUR GOOD NEWS INDEED?

55  THEY SAID, WE IN TRUTH GIVE YOU GLAD TIDINGS 
SO BE NOT THEN ONE WHO IS DESPAIRING

56  THEY SAID, AND WHO DESPAIRS OF HIS LORD'S MERCY 
EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE?

57  ABRAHAM SAID, WHAT THEN IS THE NATURE
OF THE BUSINESS ON WHICH YOU HAVE COME, OH YOU MESSENGERS? 

58  THEY SAID, WE HAVE ASSUREDLY
BEEN SENT TO A PEOPLE IN INIQUITY

59  EXCEPT LOT'S FOLLOWERS 
THEM WE WILL DELIVER

60  EXCEPT HIS WIFE WHO WE HAVE ASCERTAINED 
WILL BE AMONG THOSE WHO WILL REMAIN

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61  AT LENGTH WHEN THE MESSENGERS 
ARRIVED AMONG LOT'S FOLLOWERS

62  HE SAID, YOU APPEAR TO BE 
UNCOMMON FOLK INDEED

63  THEY SAID, WE HAVE COME TO YOU TO BRING ABOUT
THAT OF WHICH THEY HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT

64  WE HAVE BROUGHT TO YOU 
THAT WHICH IS INEVITABLY DUE 
AND SURELY WHAT WE SAY IS TRUE

65  THEN TRAVEL BY NIGHT WITH YOUR FOLLOWERS
WHILE THE NIGHT YET REMAINS AND YOU BRING UP THE REAR 
AND LET NO ONE LOOK BACK BUT PASS ON AS YOU ARE ORDERED

66  WE MADE KNOWN TO HIM THAT THE LAST REMAINING
OF THOSE SINNERS WOULD BE CUT OFF BY THE MORNING

67  THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY CAME IN 
REJOICING AT THE NEWS OF THE YOUNG MEN

68  LOT SAID, THESE ARE MY GUESTS DO NOT DISGRACE ME

69  BUT FEAR GOD AND DO NOT SHAME ME

70  THEY SAID, DID WE NOT FORBID YOU 
TO SPEAK FOR ALL AND FEW?

71  HE SAID, THESE ARE MY DAUGHTERS TO LAWFULLY
IF YOU MUST ACT SO, TO MARRY

72  BY YOUR LIFE IN THEIR WILD INTOXICATION 
THEY WANDER TO AND FRO IN DISTRACTION

73  BUT THE MIGHTY BLASTING 
OVERTOOK THEM BEFORE MORNING

74  UPON THEM BRIMSTONES HARD AS BAKED CLAY WERE RAINED DOWN
AND TURNED THEIR CITIES UPSIDE DOWN

75  SURELY IN THIS ARE SIGNS
FOR THOSE WHO LEARN LESSONS FROM SIGNS

76  AND THE CITIES WERE ON A HIGHWAY
THAT STILL EXISTS TODAY

77  SURELY IN THIS ARE LESSONS
FOR THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVING ONES

78  AND THE THICKET DWELLERS
WERE ALSO WRONGDOERS

79  WE TOOK VENGEANCE ON THEM TOTALLY
THEY WERE BOTH ON AN OPEN HIGHWAY TO SEE PLAINLY

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80  AND THE ROCKY TRACT DWELLERS
INDEED REJECTED MESSENGERS

81  WE GAVE MESSAGES TO THEM
BUT THEY TURNED AWAY FROM THEM

82  AND THEY USED TO CARVE OUT DWELLINGS
IN THE MOUNTAINS GIVING THEM SECURE FEELINGS

83  BUT A MIGHTY BLASTING
OVERTOOK THEM ONE MORNING

84  AND THEIR EARNINGS
AVAILED THEM NOTHING

85  WE CREATED NOT THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND ALL BETWEEN THEM BUT WITH JUST ENDS

AND THE HOUR IS SURELY COMING
SO OVERLOOK HUMAN FAULTS GRACIOUSLY AND FORGIVING

86  SURELY GOD IS THE MASTER-CREATOR
AND OF ALL THINGS HE IS THE BEST KNOWER

87  AND WE HAVE BESTOWED UPON YOU SEVEN
OFTEN REPEATED VERSES AND THE GRAND QURAN

88  AND STRAIN NOT YOUR GLANCES
AT WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN CERTAIN CLASSES

AND GRIEVE NOT FOR THEM EITHER
BUT BE GENTLE TO THE BELIEVERS

89  AND SAY, I AM HE THAT WARNS OPENLY
AND WITHOUT AMBIGUITY

90  AND WE SENT DOWN JUST PENALTY
ON THOSE WHO DIVIDED SCRIPTURE ARBITRARILY

91  THOSE WHO DIVIDED THE QURAN INTO PARTS
BELIEVING IN ONE PART AND DISBELIEVING IN ANOTHER PART

92  SO GOD WILL OF A SURETY
CALL THEM TO ACCOUNTABILITY

93  AS TO WHAT THEY DID DO ASSUREDLY

94  SO DECLARE OPENLY WHAT YOU ARE COMMANDED BY GOD
AND TURN AWAY FROM THOSE WHO JOIN GODS WITH GOD

95  FOR SUFFICIENT ARE WE
AGAINST THOSE WHO MAKE MOCKERY

96  THOSE WHO BESIDES GOD WORSHIP OTHERS
SOON WILL THEY COME TO KNOW BETTER 

97  AND GOD KNOWS FOR CERTAIN
THAT AT WHAT THEY SAY YOUR BREAST STRAIGHTENS

98  SO BE OF THOSE WHO PRAISE GOD IN CELEBRATION
WHO PROSTRATE THEMSELVES IN ADORATION

99  AND SERVE AND WORSHIP GOD
UNTIL THE HOUR COMES, WHICH IS CERTAIN FROM GOD

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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THE COMMAND OF GOD COMES TO PASS INEVITABLY
THEREFORE SEEK NOT TO HASTEN IT, TO HIM BE THE GLORY 
THE PARTNERS THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM, FAR ABOVE THEM IS HE

2  HE SENDS DOWN HIS ANGELS WITH THIS DECREE 
TO THOSE WHOM HE PLEASES OF HIS DEVOTEES 
WARNING THAT THERE IS NO GOD BUT ME
THEREFORE KEEP YOUR DUTY TO ME

3  FOR JUST ENDS HE CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH  
AND FAR IS HE ABOVE HAVING THE PARTNERS 
THAT THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM FOR SURE

4  HE HAS CREATED MAN FROM A SPERM DROP AND THEN AFTER
THIS SAME MAN BECOMES AN OPEN DISPUTER

5  AND HE HAS CREATED CATTLE FOR YOU 
IN THEM ARE NUMEROUS BENEFITS AND FOOD FOR YOU 

6  AND YOU HAVE IN THEM A SENSE OF WELL BEING 
AND BEAUTY AS YOU DRIVE THEM HOME IN THE EVENING
AND ALSO AS YOU LEAD THEM TO PASTURE IN THE MORNING

7  AND THEY CARRY YOUR LOADS THAT ARE EXCESSIVELY HEAVY 
TO LANDS YOU COULD NOT REACH EXCEPT DISTRESSFULLY
AND YOUR LORD IS MOST KIND AND FULL OF MERCY

8  HE HAS CREATED HORSES, MULES AND DONKEYS 
FOR YOU TO RIDE AND EXHIBIT FOR PEOPLE TO SEE

AND HE HAS CREATED OTHER THINGS FOR YOU
OF WHICH NO KNOWLEDGE HAVE YOU

9  GOD LEADS TO THE STRAIGHT WAY 
BUT THERE ARE OTHER DEVIATING WAYS 
GOD COULD HAVE GUIDED YOU ALL TO THE RIGHT WAY

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10  GOD SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKY AND FROM IT 
YOU DRINK AND VEGETATION GROWS OUT OF IT 
ON WHICH YOU FEED YOUR CATTLE FROM IT 

11  AND WITH IT HE PRODUCES FOR YOU 
CORN, OLIVES, DATES, GRAPES AND EVERY KIND OF FRUIT
AND IN THIS IS A SIGN FOR THOSE WHO GIVE THOUGHT AMONG YOU

12  HE HAS SUBJECTED TO YOU THE NIGHT, THE DAY AND THE SUN
THE MOON AND STARS ARE IN SUBJECTION BY HIS INSTRUCTION
IN THESE THINGS ARE SIGNS FOR MEN WITH COMPREHENSION

13  AND THE THINGS ON THIS EARTH WHICH HE HAS AMPLY
MULTIPLIED IN VARYING COLORS AND QUALITIES 
IN THIS IS A SIGN FOR THOSE WHO HAPPILY 
CELEBRATE GOD'S PRAISES GRATEFULLY

14  HE HAS MADE SUBJECT TO YOU THE SEA AND THE RIVERS
THAT YOU MAY EAT FROM IT FLESH, FRESH AND TENDER
AND EXTRACT FROM THEM ORNAMENTS TO WEAR
AND YOU SEE THE SHIPS THAT SAIL THE WATER
THAT YOU MAY SEEK OF THE BOUNTY OF THE CREATOR
AND THAT YOU MAY BE GRATEFUL TO GOD FOR HIS FAVORS

15  HE HAS SET UP ON THE EARTH MOUNTAINS FOR YOU
STANDING FIRM OR ELSE IT WOULD SHAKE WITH YOU 
AND RIVERS AND ROADS TO GUIDE YOU 

16  AND SIGN POSTS AND LANDMARKS
AND MEN FIND THEIR WAY BY THE STARS

I7  IS THEN HE WHO CREATES LIKE ONE 
WHO CREATES NOT, WILL YOU NOT RECEIVE ADMONITION?

18  IF YOU COUNTED THE FAVORS OF GOD, NEVER WOULD YOU BE 
ABLE TO NUMBER THEM, FOR GOD IS FULL OF MERCY

19  GOD DOES KNOW WHAT YOU CONCEAL 
AND HE KNOWS WHAT YOU REVEAL

20  THOSE THEY PRAISE BESIDES GOD HAVE CREATED NOTHING 
AND THEY ARE THEMSELVES CREATED THINGS

21  DEAD AND LIFELESS THINGS ARE THEY
NOR DO THEY KNOW WHEN THEY WILL BE RAISED 

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22  YOUR GOD IS ONE GOD ONLY
AS TO THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE 

IN THEIR HEARTS THEY ARE ARROGANT
AND THEY THEMSELVES ARE IGNORANT

23  GOD KNOWS WHAT THEY CONCEAL SECRETLY
AND HE KNOWS THAT WHICH THEY REVEAL OPENLY
AND HE LOVES NOT THOSE WHO BEHAVE ARROGANTLY

24  WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, WHAT HAS YOUR LORD SENT?
THEY SAY, NOTHING BUT TALES OF THE ANCIENTS

25  LET THEM ON JUDGMENT DAY BEAR IN FULL THEIR BURDENS
AND THOSE WHO THEY MISLEAD ALSO BEAR THEIR BURDENS
GRIEVOUS IS THAT WHICH THEY WILL BEAR OF BURDENS

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26  THOSE BEFORE THEM ALSO PLOTTED AGAINST GOD'S INSTRUCTIONS
GOD TOOK THEIR STRUCTURES AWAY FROM THEIR FOUNDATIONS 
THE ROOF FELL DOWN ON THEM AND THE DESTRUCTION  
SEIZED THEM FROM UNPERCEIVED DIRECTIONS 

27  ON JUDGMENT DAY WITH SHAME THEY WILL BE COVERED
AND GOD WILL SAY TO THEM, WHERE ARE MY PARTNERS 
WHOM YOU USED TO DISPUTE ABOUT WITH THE BELIEVERS? 
AND THOSE ENDUED WITH KNOWLEDGE WILL UTTER
THIS DAY COVERED WITH SHAME ARE THE DISBELIEVERS

28  THOSE WHOSE LIVES THE ANGELS TAKE WHILE THEY UNJUSTLY
DO WRONG TO THEIR OWN SOULS, THEN WOULD THEY SURELY
SUBMIT WITH THE PRETENSE, WE DID NO EVIL KNOWINGLY 
AND THE ANGELS WILL REPLY, NAY BUT CERTAINLY
GOD KNOWS ALL THAT YOU DID TRUTHFULLY

29  SO ENTER INTO THE GATES OF HELL
IT IS THE EVIL PLACE FOR THE PROUD TO DWELL

30  IT WILL BE SAID TO THE BELIEVERS 
WHAT IS IT THAT YOUR LORD HAS ORDERED?
THEY WILL SAY, ALL THAT IS RICHER AND PURER 
TO THOSE WHO DO GOOD THERE IS GOOD, BUT BETTER
AND MORE EXCELLENT IS THE HOME OF THE HEREAFTER 
FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

31  GARDENS OF ETERNITY WHICH THEY WILL ENTER
BENEATH THEM WILL FLOW PLEASANT RIVERS 
THEY WILL HAVE ALL THAT THEY DESIRE
SO DOES GOD REWARD RIGHTEOUS DOERS

32  THOSE WHOSE LIVES THE ANGELS TAKE IN A STATE OF PURITY
SAYING TO THEM, ENTER INTO THE GARDEN PEACEFULLY

33  DO THE UNGODLY WAIT UNTIL THE ANGELS COME TO THEM  
OR GOD'S COMMAND COMES FOR THEIR DOOM TO THEM?
SO DID ALSO THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE THEM 
THEY WRONGED THEIR OWN SOULS, GOD DID NOT WRONG THEM

34  BUT THE EVIL RESULTS OF THEIR DEEDS OVERTOOK THEM 
SO THE WRATH AT WHICH THEY HAD SCOFFED ENCOMPASSED THEM 

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35  THE WORSHIPPERS OF FALSE GODS UTTER
IF GOD HAD WILLED WE WOULD NOT HAVE DIFFERED
AND WE WOULD SURELY NOT HAVE BEEN WORSHIPERS
OF ANYTHING BUT HIM, NEITHER WE NOR OUR FATHERS
NOR WOULD WE HAVE PRESCRIBED PROHIBITIONS OTHER 
THAN THAT OF WHICH HE HAD PRESCRIBED FORMER
ALSO DID THOSE SAY WHO WENT BEFORE PRIOR
BUT WHAT IS THE DUTY OF THE MESSENGERS?
ONLY TO PREACH THE MESSAGE CLEAR

36  FOR WE SENT AMONG EVERY PEOPLE AN APOSTLE 
WITH THE COMMAND SERVE GOD AND SHUN EVIL 
AND GOD GUIDED SOME OF THE PEOPLE
AND SOME BECAME ESTABLISHED IN EVIL
SO GO THROUGH THE EARTH AND TRAVEL
TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THE REBELS 

37  IF YOU ARE ANXIOUS FOR THEIR GUIDANCE 
WHO GOD ALLOWS TO STRAY HE GIVES NOT GUIDANCE 
AND THERE IS NO ONE TO HELP THEM TO FIND GUIDANCE

38  AND THEY SWEAR THEIR STRONGEST OATHS BY GOD 
THAT THE DEAD WOULD NOT BE RAISED UP BY GOD
BUT IT IS ASSUREDLY BINDING ON GOD
BUT MOST DO NOT REALIZE THIS TRUTH FROM GOD

39  BUT THEY MUST BE RAISED UP IN ORDER 
THAT HE MAY SHOW THEM THE TRUTH IN WHICH THEY DIFFER 
AND SO THAT THE REJECTERS MAY REALIZE THAT THEY WERE LIARS

40  OUR WORD FOR A THING WHEN WE INTEND IT IS
ONLY THAT WE SAY TO IT, BE, AND IT IS

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41  THOSE WHO LEAVE THEIR HOMES IN THE CAUSE OF THE CREATOR
WILL BE GIVEN A HOME IN THIS WORLD FROM THEIR MAKER
BUT THE GOOD REWARD FOR THEM OF THE HEREAFTER 
IF THEY ONLY KNEW, WILL BE EVEN GREATER

42  THOSE WHO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE IN THE CAUSE OF GOD
AND THOSE WHO PUT ALL OF THEIR TRUST IN GOD

43  AND ALSO THE APOSTLES THAT WE SENT BEFORE YOU
WERE MEN TO WHOM WE GRANTED INSPIRATION TO
AND IF THIS TRUTH IS NOT KNOWN TO YOU
ASK THOSE WHO POSSESS THE MESSAGE AMONG YOU

44  WE SENT THEM WITH CLEAR MESSAGES AND SCRIPTURES
AND WE HAVE REVEALED TO YOU THE REMINDER
THAT YOU MAY EXPLAIN TO THEM CLEARER
THE MESSAGES SENT TO THEM THAT THEY MAY CONSIDER

45  DO THEN THOSE WHO DEVISE EVIL PLOTS FEEL SECURE
THAT GOD WILL NOT IN HIS UNLIMITED POWER

CAUSE THE EARTH TO SWALLOW THEM
OR THAT GOD'S WRATH WILL NOT SEIZE THEM 
FROM DIRECTIONS THAT ARE NOT PERCEIVED BY THEM?

46  OR THAT HE MAY NOT CALL THEM TO ACCOUNTING
IN THE MIDST OF THEIR COMINGS AND GOINGS 
WITHOUT A CHANCE OF THEIR FRUSTRATING 
HIM, WITH A PLAN OF ESCAPING?

47  OR THAT HE WILL NOT SEIZE THEM WITH DECREASE GRADUALLY
FOR YOUR LORD IS INDEED FULL OF KINDNESS AND MERCY

48  DO THEY NOT LOOK AT EVERYTHING 
IN GOD'S CREATION EVEN AMONG INANIMATE THINGS? 
HOW THEIR SHADOWS TURN RIGHT AND LEFT PROSTRATING 
THEMSELVES TO THEIR LORD AND IN A MANNER MOST HUMBLING? 

49  AND TO GOD OBEYS EVERYTHING IN HEAVEN AND EARTH
AND ALSO THE ANGELS AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE  
FOR NONE ARE ARROGANT BEFORE THE CREATOR 
THEY ALL REVERE THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER 

50  THEY FEAR THEIR LORD ABOVE THEM
AND THEY DO ALL THAT HE COMMANDS THEM

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51  GOD HAS SAID, TAKE NOT FOR WORSHIP TWO DEITIES
FOR I AM ONE GOD, SO FEAR ME AND ME ONLY

52  ALL IN THE HEAVEN AND EARTH BELONG TO GOD
AND ALL OBEDIENCE IS DUE ALWAYS TO GOD 
WILL YOU THEN FEAR OTHER THAN GOD?

53  YOU HAVE NO GOOD THING BUT IT IS FROM GOD 
WHEN YOU ARE TOUCHED BY DISTRESS YOU CRY TO GOD 

54  YET WHEN THE DISTRESS IS REMOVED FROM YOU BY GOD
SOME OF YOU TURN TO GODS OTHER THAN GOD

55  AS IF TO SHOW THEIR INGRATITUDE FOR THE FAVORS THAT WE 
HAVE BESTOWED ON THEM, THEN ENJOY YOURSELF BRIEFLY
BUT SOON WILL YOU SURELY KNOW YOUR FOLLY

56  THEY EVEN ASSIGN TO THINGS THEY DO NOT KNOW A PORTION 
OUT OF THAT WHICH WE HAVE BESTOWED FOR THEIR PROVISIONS
YOU WILL BE CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR YOUR INVENTIONS 

57  AND THEY ASSIGN FOR GOD DAUGHTERS 
AND FOR THEMSELVES THEIR DESIRES

58  WHEN IS BROUGHT TO ONE OF THEM INFORMATION
OF THE BIRTH OF A FEMALE CHILD HIS FACE DARKENS
AND THEN HE IS FILLED WITH INWARD DEPRESSION

59  HE HIDES HIMSELF FROM HIS PEOPLE WITH SHAME
BECAUSE OF THE BAD NEWS WHEN IT CAME

WILL HE KEEP IT WITH DISGRACE OR BURY IT IN THE DUST? 
WHAT AN EVIL CHOICE AND MOST UNJUST

60  TO DISBELIEVERS IN THE HEREAFTER APPLIES 
THE SIMILITUDE OF EVIL, BUT TO THE CREATOR APPLIES 
THE HIGHEST SIMILITUDE, FOR HE IS POWERFUL AND WISE

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61  IF GOD WERE TO PUNISH MEN FOR ALL THEIR ERRORS 
HE WOULD NOT LEAVE ON THE EARTH A SINGLE CREATURE  
BUT HE GIVES THEM RESPITE, AND WHEN THEIR TERM EXPIRES 
THEY CANNOT DELAY THE PENALTY FOR A SINGLE HOUR
NOR CAN THEY ADVANCE IT A SINGLE HOUR

62  WHAT THEY HATE FOR THEMSELVES THEY ATTRIBUTE TO THE CREATOR 
THEY LIE SAYING THAT ALL GOOD THINGS ARE FOR THEIR PLEASURE
BUT SURELY WITHOUT DOUBT FOR THEM IS THE FIRE  
INTO IT THEY WILL BE THE FIRST TO ENTER  

63  BEFORE YOU WE ALSO SENT TO PEOPLE OUR MESSENGERS
BUT SATAN MADE TO THE WICKED TRANSGRESSORS
THEIR OWN ACTS SEEM ALLURING AND TODAY HE IS THEIR PARTNER  
BUT THEY WILL HAVE A PENALTY OF HORROR

64  WE SENT DOWN TO YOU THE SCRIPTURES 
FOR THE PURPOSE THAT YOU CAN MAKE CLEAR 
TO THEM THOSE THINGS IN WHICH THEY DO DIFFER 
AND THAT IT SHOULD BE A GUIDE TO THE BELIEVERS 

65  AND GOD SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKIES
GIVING WITH IT LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER IT DIES
IN THIS IS A LESSON FOR THOSE WHO ARE WISE

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66  AND IN CATTLE YOU WILL FIND SIGNS AND INSTRUCTIONS
FROM WHAT IS IN THEIR BODIES BETWEEN BLOOD AND EXCRETIONS 

WE PRODUCE FOR YOU MILK TO DRINK  
PURE AND AGREEABLE FOR ALL TO DRINK

67  AND FROM THE FRUIT OF THE DATE PALM AND THE VINE 
YOU GET OUT WHOLESOME DRINK AND FOOD AND WINE
FOR THOSE WHO ARE WISE, IN THIS IS ALSO A SIGN

68  AND ALSO YOUR LORD TAUGHT THE BEES 
TO BUILD CELLS IN HILLS AND IN TREES 
AND IN MEN'S REPOSITORIES

69  THEN TO EAT OF THE EARTH'S FRUITS AND FIND SKILLFULLY 
THE SPACIOUS PATHS OF GOD AND BY GOD'S MERCY
THERE ALSO ISSUES FROM WITHIN THEIR BODIES 
A HEALING DRINK OF COLORS THAT VARY
AND IN THIS IS A SIGN FOR THOSE WHO THINK DEEPLY

70  IT IS GOD WHO CREATES YOU 
AND AT DEATH HE TAKES FROM YOU 
YOUR SOULS, AND OF YOU THERE ARE SOME OF YOU
WHO ARE SENT BACK TO A FEEBLE OLD AGE SO THAT YOU
KNOW NOTHING AFTER MUCH KNOWLEDGE GIVEN TO YOU  
FOR GOD HAS ALL KNOWLEDGE AND ALL POWER OVER YOU

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71  GOD HAS BESTOWED HIS GIFTS GREATER 
ON SOME OF YOU THAN ON OTHERS 
OF YOU THOSE WHO ARE MORE FAVORED 
ARE NOT GOING TO THROW BACK THEIR FAVORS
TO THEIR SLAVES TO BE EQUAL AND DENY GOD'S FAVORS

72  GOD HAS MADE FOR YOU MATES OF YOUR OWN NATURE 
AND MADE FOR YOU OUT OF THEM SONS AND DAUGHTERS 
AND GRANDCHILDREN AND HE IS THE BEST PROVIDER 
WILL THEY THEN BELIEVE IN VAIN THINGS AFTER
AND BE UNGRATEFUL FOR GOD'S FAVORS?

73  AND WORSHIP OTHERS THAN GOD, SUCH AS HAVE NO POWER   
OF PROVIDING THEM WITH ANYTHING IN HEAVEN OR EARTH
AND CANNOT POSSIBLY HAVE SUCH POWER?

74  INVENT NOT SIMILITUDES, FOR GOD KNOWS 
AND IT IS YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW

75  GOD SETS FORTH A PARABLE OF TWO MEN TO PONDER
ONE A SLAVE UNDER THE DOMINION OF ANOTHER
AND HE HAS NO POWER OF ANY SORT AND THE OTHER 
A MAN UPON WHOM WE HAVE BESTOWED GOOD FAVORS 

AND HE SPENDS OF IT FREELY 
PRIVATELY AND PUBLICLY 

ARE THE TWO EQUAL?  BY NO MEANS NOT
PRAISE BE TO GOD BUT MOST OF THEM UNDERSTAND NOT

76  GOD SETS FORTH ANOTHER PARABLE OF TWO MEN
ONE IS TO HIS MASTER A WORRISOME BURDEN  

WHICH EVER WAY HE DIRECTS HIM HE BRINGS NO GOOD 
IS SUCH A MAN EQUAL WITH ONE WHO DOES GOOD?

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77  TO GOD BELONGS THE MYSTERY OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND THE DECISION OF THE HOUR OF THE RESSURECTION

IS AS THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE OR EVEN QUICKER
FOR OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER 

78  HE WHO BROUGHT YOU FORTH FROM THE WOMBS OF YOUR MOTHERS 
WHEN YOU KNEW NOTHING AND HE GAVE YOU POWER

AND AFFECTIONS AND SIGHT AND HEARING 
THAT YOU MAY BE THANKFUL BEINGS

79  DO THEY NOT LOOK AT THE BIRDS HELD POISED IN THE AIR? 
NOTHING HOLDS THEM UP EXCEPT GOD'S POWER 
IN THIS ARE SIGNS FOR BELIEVERS

80  GOD MADE YOUR HOMES QUIET AND RESTFUL  
AND MADE FOR YOU OUT OF THE SKINS OF ANIMALS  
TENTS FOR DWELLINGS WHICH YOU FIND HANDY WHEN YOU TRAVEL 
AND ALSO WHEN YOU STOP IN YOUR TRAVELS

AND OUT OF THEIR SOFT FIBERS
AND THEIR WOOL AND THEIR HAIR

RICH STUFF AND ARTICLES OF CONVENIENCE YOU FIND
TO SERVE YOU FOR A PERIOD TIME

81  IT IS GOD WHO IS THE CREATOR
OF THINGS HE MADE TO GIVE YOU SHELTER

HE HAS GIVEN YOU IN THE MOUNTAINS PLACES OF RETREAT 
MADE YOU GARMENTS TO PROTECT YOU FROM HEAT

COATS OF ARMOR TO PROTECT YOU FROM EACH OTHER
AND SO DOES HE COMPLETE TO YOU HIS FAVORS 
SO YOU MAY BOW TO HIS WILL AS SUBMITTERS

82  BUT IF THEY TURN AWAY YOUR DUTY IS ONLY 
TO PREACH THE MESSAGE TO THEM CLEARLY

83  THEY RECOGNIZE THE FAVORS OF GOD THEN DENY THEM 
THEY ARE UNGRATEFUL CREATURES MOST OF THEM

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84  AND ONE DAY WE WILL RAISE FROM ALL PEOPLE A WITNESS
FROM THE DISBELIEVERS WILL BE ACCEPTED NO EXCUSES
AND NOR WILL THEY RECEIVE ANY APPEASES

85  WHEN THE WRONG DOERS ACTUALLY SEE THE CHASTISEMENT 
THEN WILL IT IN NOT IN ANY WAY BE LIGHTENED
NOR WILL THERE BE ANY POSTPONEMENT

86  WHEN THOSE WHO GAVE TO GOD PARTNERS 
WILL SAY WHEN THEY SEE THEIR PARTNERS 
OUR LORD, THESE ARE OUR PARTNERS 
OF WHOM BESIDES YOU WE USED TO BE WORSHIPPERS
THEY WILL THROW BACK AT THEM THEIR WORDS
AND SAY TO THEM, INDEED YOU ARE LIARS 

87  THAT DAY WILL THEY OPENLY SHOW GOD THEIR SUBMISSION 
AND ALL THEIR INVENTIONS WILL LEAVE THEM IN DISPOSITION

88  THOSE WHO REJECT GOD INSOLENTLY
AND HINDER MEN FROM GOD'S PATH ARROGANTLY
FOR THEM WILL WE ADD PENALTY TO THEIR PENALTY 
BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THEY USE TO SPREAD INJURY

89  WE WILL RAISE UP A WITNESS FROM AMONG EVERY PEOPLE 
AND BRING YOU AS A WITNESS AGAINST YOUR PEOPLE

AND WE HAVE SENT TO YOU THE BOOK EXPLAINING ALL THINGS
A GUIDE AND A MERCY AND TO SUBMITTERS GLAD TIDINGS 

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90  GOD COMMANDS JUSTICE AND DOING OF GOOD DEEDS
AND LIBERALITY TO KIN AND HE FORBIDS SHAMEFUL DEEDS 
AND INJUSTICE AND REBELLION AND HE INSTRUCTS YOU INDEED
THAT TO HIS ADMONITION YOU MAY TAKE HEED

91  FULFILL THE COVENANT OF GOD WHEN YOU HAVE ENTERED INTO IT
AND BREAK NOT AN OATH AFTER YOU HAVE CONFIRMED IT

YOU HAVE MADE GOD YOUR SURETY 
AND GOD KNOWS ALL THAT YOU DO SURELY

92  DO NOT BE LIKE A WOMAN WHO UNRAVELS YARN AFTER
SHE HAS SPUN IT STRONGLY TOGETHER 

NOR TAKE YOUR OATHS TO BE DECEPTIVE BETWEEN YOU
BECAUSE ONE PARTY IS MORE NUMEROUS THAN YOU 
FOR BY THIS GOD WILL SURELY TEST YOU
ON JUDGMENT DAY HE WILL MAKE CLEAR TO YOU 
WITH CERTAINTY THAT IN WHICH YOU DISAGREE AMONG YOU

93  IF GOD SO WILLED 
HE COULD MAKE YOU ALL ONE PEOPLE 
BUT HE LEAVES STRAYING WHOM HE WILLS
AND HE GUIDES TO THE RIGHT WAY WHOM HE WILLS
BUT YOU WILL BE CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR ALL YOUR EVILS

94  AND TAKE NOT YOUR OATHS TO ACT DECEPTIVELY 
BETWEEN YOURSELVES WITH THE RESULT THAT POSSIBLY
SOME ONE'S FOOT MAY SLIP AFTER IT WAS PLANTED FIRMLY
IN SO DOING YOU MAY HAVE TO TASTE THE EVIL PENALTY 
OF HAVING HINDERED MEN FROM ACTING RIGHTEOUSLY 
AND HAVE GOD'S WRATH DESCEND UPON YOU HEAVILY

95  NOR SELL THE COVENANT OF GOD FOR A MISERABLE PRICE 
FOR FAR BETTER FOR YOU WITH GOD IS A PRIZE

96 WHAT IS WITH YOU MUST VANISH EVENTUALLY
WHAT IS WITH YOUR LORD WILL ENDURE ETERNALLY
WE WILL BESTOW ON THOSE WHO PERSEVERE PATIENTLY 
THEIR REWARDS ACCORDING TO THE BEST OF THEIR DEEDS

97  WHOEVER IS A RIGHTEOUS DOER
WHETHER MAN OR WOMAN AND IS A BELIEVER
TO HIM WILL WE GIVE A NEW LIFE THAT IS PURER

WE WILL BESTOW ON THEM THEIR REWARD INDEED
ACCORDING TO THE BEST OF THEIR DEEDS

98  WHEN YOU READ THE QURAN SEEK GOD'S PROTECTION 
FROM SATAN, THE EVIL REJECTED ONE

99  HE HAS NO AUTHORITY  
OVER THOSE WHO TRUST IN GOD AND BELIEVE 

100  HIS RULE IS OVER THOSE WHO BEFRIEND HIM INSTEAD OF GOD
AND OVER THOSE WHO ASSOCIATE PARTNERS WITH GOD

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101  WHEN WE SUBSTITUTE ONE REVELATION FOR ANOTHER 
GOD KNOWS BEST WHAT HE ORDERS
AND THEY SAY, YOU ARE BUT A FORGER 
BUT NO UNDERSTANDING HAVE THE DISBELIEVERS

102  SAY, THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS BROUGHT THE REVELATION 
FROM YOUR LORD IN TRUTH AND TO STRENGTHEN 
THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION 
AND AS A GUIDE AND GLAD TIDINGS TO THOSE IN SUBMISSION

103  WE KNOW THAT THEY SAY, A MAN TEACHES HIM SURELY
THE TONGUE OF HIM THEY POINT TO IS FOREIGN NOTABLY 
WHILE THIS IS ARABIC PURELY AND CLEARLY

104  THOSE WHO IN GOD'S MESSAGES DO NOT BELIEVE  
WILL NOT BE GUIDED AND HAVE MUCH CAUSE TO GRIEVE

105  THOSE WHO OF GOD'S MESSAGES ARE DISBELIEVERS
ARE THE FORGERS OF FALSEHOOD AND IT IS THEY WHO ARE LIARS

106  ANY ONE WHO DISBELIEVES IN GOD AFTER BELIEF
NOT ONE WHO IS COMPELLED WHILE REMAINING FIRM IN BELIEF
BUT THOSE WHO OPEN THEIR BREASTS TO UNBELIEF 
GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE THEM OR GIVE THEM ANY RELIEF

107  THIS IS BECAUSE THEY LOVE BETTER
THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD THAN THE HEREAFTER 
AND GOD WILL NOT GUIDE THOSE WHO ARE REJECTERS 

108  THOSE ARE THEY WHOSE HEARTS, EARS AND EYES INDEED
GOD HAS SEALED UP AND THEY TAKE NO HEED

109  AND IN THE HEREAFTER 
THEY WILL BE LOSERS

110  BUT TO THOSE WHO LEAVE THEIR HOMES AFTER 
TRIALS AND PERSECUTIONS AND WHO THEREAFTER  
STRIVE AND FIGHT FOR FAITH AND ARE PERSEVERERS  
GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

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111  AND ONE DAY EVERY SOUL WILL COME UP STRUGGLING  
EVERY SOUL WILL BE RECOMPENSED FOR ITS DOINGS  
AND NONE WILL RECEIVE ANY UNJUST DEALINGS 

112  GOD SETS FORTH A PARABLE
A CITY SECURE WITH SUSTENANCE AMPLE
YET FOR GOD'S FAVORS IT WAS UNGRATEFUL
SO GOD MADE IT TASTE PENALTIES THAT WERE TERRIBLE 
CLOSING IN ON IT FROM EVERY SIDE BECAUSE OF THE EVIL 
WHICH WAS CONTINUALLY DONE  BY ITS PEOPLE 

113  THERE CAME TO THEM AN APOSTLE 
BUT HE WAS REJECTED FALSELY BY THE PEOPLE
SO THE WRATH SEIZED THEM IN THE MIDST OF THEIR EVIL

114  SO EAT WHAT GOD PROVIDES FOR YOU GOOD AND LAWFUL 
AND FOR ALL OF YOUR LORD'S FAVORS BE GRATEFUL 
IF IT IS HE OF WHOM YOU ARE WORSHIPFUL

115  HE HAS ONLY FORBIDDEN YOU TO EAT 
THE FLESH OF SWINE, BLOOD AND DEAD MEAT

AND ANY FOOD OVER WHICH A NAME 
HAS BEEN INVOKED OTHER THAN GOD'S NAME

BUT IF ONE IS FORCED BY NECESSITY 
WITHOUT TRANSGRESSING LIMITS WILLFULLY
YOUR LORD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

116  BUT DO NOT SAY OF ANY FALSE THING 
THAT THIS IS A LAWFUL THING
AND THIS IS AN UNLAWFUL THING
IN ORDER TO ASCRIBE TO GOD FALSE THINGS 
FOR THOSE WHO ASCRIBE TO GOD FALSE THINGS 
WILL NEVER HAVE THE BLESSINGS OF PROSPERING

117  IN SUCH FALSEHOOD IS BUT A LITTLE ENJOYMENT
BUT THEY WILL HAVE A MOST GRIEVOUS PUNISHMENT

118  AND TO THE JEWS WE DID PROHIBIT SUCH THINGS
AS WE HAVE BEEN BEFORE TO YOU IN MENTIONING 
AND WE DID THEM NO WRONG IN ANYTHING
BUT THEY WERE THEMSELVES USED TO WRONG DOING 

119  BUT YOUR LORD TO THOSE WHO DO WRONG IN IGNORANCE 
BUT WHO CEASE DOING WRONG AFTER REPENTANCE
YOUR LORD IS MERCIFUL IN RECOMPENSE

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120  ABRAHAM WAS A MODEL DEVOUTLY OBEDIENT TO GOD 
AND TRUE IN FAITH AND HE JOINED NOT GODS WITH GOD

121  HE SHOWED GRATITUDE FOR THE FAVORS OF GOD
HE WAS CHOSEN AND GUIDED ON THE RIGHT PATH BY GOD

122  AND WE GAVE HIM GOOD IN THIS WORLD GRACIOUSLY
IN THE HEREAFTER HE WILL BE OF THOSE WHO LIVED RIGHTEOUSLY

123  SO WE HAVE TAUGHT YOU THE INSPIRATION
FOLLOW THE WAYS OF ABRAHAM, THE TRUE IN RELIGION
AND HE JOINED NOT PARTNERS WITH HIS LORD IN DEVOTION

124  THE SABBATH WAS ONLY MADE OBLIGATORY
AS TO ITS OBSERVANCE FOR THOSE WHO DISAGREED 
BUT ON JUDGMENT DAY GOD WILL JUDGE THEM JUSTLY
AS TO THAT IN WHICH THEY DISAGREE

125  WITH WISDOM AND SUPERB PREACHING INVITE TO GOD'S WAY 
AND ARGUE WITH THEM IN THE BEST OF WAYS  
FOR GOD KNOWS BEST THOSE WHO FROM HIS PATH STRAYS 
AND WHO RECEIVE GUIDANCE TO THE RIGHT WAY

126  AND IF YOU TAKE YOUR TURN TO PUNISH THEM
DO IT WITH THEM THE SAME AFFLICTION YOU RECEIVED FROM THEM 
BUT IF YOU SHOW PATIENCE THAT WILL BE BETTER FOR YOU AND THEM

127  AND BE PATIENT FOR IT IS FROM GOD AND DO NOT 
GRIEVE OVER THEM AND STRESS YOURSELF NOT 
BECAUSE OF THEIR EVIL PLOTS 

128  FOR GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO DO INDEED
RESTRAIN THEMSELVES AND DO GOOD DEEDS

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