CHAPTER 26.  THE POETS                                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XIX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENIGNANT, HEARING, KNOWING GOD

2  THESE ARE THE VERSES 
OF THE BOOK THAT MAKES MANIFEST

3  IT MAY BE THAT YOU FRET YOUR SOUL WITH GRIEF 
BECAUSE THEY INSIST ON DISBELIEF

4  IF IT WERE OUR WILL WE COULD SEND 
A SIGN TO THEM WHICH WOULD BEND 
THEIR NECKS IN HUMILITY THEREIN

5  THERE COMES NOT TO THEM FROM GOD A NEW MESSAGE 
BUT THEY TURN AWAY FROM THE MESSAGE

6  THEY HAVE REJECTED THE MESSAGE SO THEY WILL SURELY
SOON KNOW THE TRUTH OF THAT OF WHICH THEY MADE MOCKERY

7  AND THE EARTH, DO THEY NOT SEE WHILE LOOKING AT IT
HOW MANY NOBLE THINGS OF ALL KINDS WE HAVE PRODUCED IN IT?

8  IN THIS IS A SIGN, BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT BELIEVE IT

9  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY
THE MERCIFUL, THE MIGHTY

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10  GOD TOLD MOSES TO GO TO THE PEOPLE
WHO WERE WRONG DOING PEOPLE

11  TO PHARAOH'S PEOPLE
THAT THEY MIGHT FEAR GOD AND BECOME RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE

12  HE SAID, OH MY LORD, I DO FEAR WITH CERTAINTY
THAT THEY WILL CHARGE ME WITH FALSITY

13  MY BREAST WILL BE STRAITENED TIGHTLY
AND MY SPEECH MAY NOT GO SMOOTHLY
SO SEND MY BROTHER AARON WITH ME

14  AND FURTHER, THEY HAVE A CHARGE OF CRIME AGAINST ME 
AND I FEAR THAT THEY MAY KILL ME

15  GOD SAID, PROCEED WITH MY MESSAGES BOTH OF YOU 
WE ARE WITH YOU AND WILL LISTEN TO YOU

16  SO GO TO PHARAOH BOTH OF YOU
AND SAY, WE HAVE BEEN SENT TO YOU

AND WE ARE MESSENGERS
OF THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

17  SO SEND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WITH US

18  PHARAOH SAID, DID WE NOT RAISE YOU AS A CHILD AMONG US 
AND DID YOU NOT STAY MANY YEARS OF YOUR LIFE WITH US?

19  AND YOU DID A DEED OF WHICH YOU ARE KNOWLEDGEABLE 
WITHOUT DOUBT YOU ARE INDEED UNGRATEFUL

20  MOSES SAID, I DID IT THEN WHEN I WAS UNKNOWLEDGEABLE

21  SO I FLED FROM YOU OUT OF FEAR 
BUT MY LORD HAS SINCE GIVEN ME POWER
AND GIVEN ME RIGHT JUDGMENT OF AFFAIRS
AND APPOINTED ME AS ONE OF THE MESSENGERS

22  AND IS THIS THE FAVOR WITH WHICH FOR ME YOU HAVE SAVED 
THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL YOU HAVE ENSLAVED?

23  PHARAOH SAID, AND WHAT FOR SURE
IS THIS LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER?

24  MOSES SAID, HE IS THE LORD AND THE CHERISHER 
OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN TO BE SURE

25  PHARAOH SAID TO THOSE AROUND, ARE YOU LISTENING
TO WHAT IT IS THIS MAN IS SAYING?

26  MOSES SAID, HE IS THE LORD OF YOU 
AND YOUR FATHERS BEFORE YOU

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CHAPTER 26.  THE POETS                                               SECTION 2 (CONT'D). PART XIX

27  PHARAOH SAID, TRULY YOUR MESSENGER
WHO HAS BEEN SENT TO YOU IS MAD FOR SURE

28  MOSES SAID, LORD OF THE EAST AND WEST TOO
IF YOU ONLY HAD ANY SENSE IN YOU

29  PHARAOH SAID, IF YOU CHOOSE ANY GOD OTHER THAN ME  
I WILL PUT YOU IN PRISON INDEFINITELY

30  MOSES SAID, EVEN IF I SHOWED YOU SOMETHING 
THAT IS CLEAR AND CONVINCING?

31  PHARAOH SAID, SHOW YOUR PROOF 
IT YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH

32  SO MOSES THREW HIS ROD AND CLEARLY
IT WAS A SERPENT PLAIN FOR ALL TO SEE

33  HE DREW OUT HIS HAND AND IT WAS WHITE
TO ALL THAT WAS WITHIN SIGHT

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34  PHARAOH SAID TO THE CHIEFS
THIS IS ONE WELL VERSED IN SORCERY

35  HIS PLAN IS TO BY HIS SORCERY GET YOU OUT OF YOUR LAND 
WHAT IS YOUR COUNCIL AND WHAT DO YOU COMMAND?

36  THEY SAID, KEEP HIM IN SUSPENSE, HIM AND HIS BROTHER 
AND TO THE CITIES SEND OUT CALLERS

37  AND BRING IN ALL OUR SORCERERS
AND WELL VERSED ENCHANTERS

38  SO THE SORCERERS WERE ASSEMBLED

39  AND IT WAS SAID TO THE PEOPLE 
ARE YOU NOW ASSEMBLED?

40  THAT WE MAY FOLLOW THE SORCERERS 
IN RELIGION IF THEY ARE THE WINNERS?

41  SO WHEN THE SORCERERS ARRIVED TO PHARAOH THEY SAID
WILL WE HAVE A SUITABLE REWARD IF WE COME OUT AHEAD?

42  HE SAID, YES AND MORE FOR YOU WILL  BE 
RAISED TO POSITIONS NEAREST TO ME

43  MOSES SAID TO THEM, THROW 
THAT WHICH YOU ARE GOING TO THROW

44  SO THEY THREW THEIR ROPES AND THEIR RODS AND SAID 
BY THE MIGHT OF PHARAOH WE WILL COME OUT AHEAD

45  THEN MOSES THREW HIS ROD AND IT STRAIGHTWAY 
SWALLOWED UP ALL THE FALSEHOODS THEY FAKED

46  THEN THE SORCERERS IN ADORATION
FELL DOWN IN PROSTRATION

47  SAYING THESE WORDS
WE BELIEVE IN THE LORD OF THE WORLDS

48  MOSES'S LORD
AND AARON'S LORD

49  PHARAOH SAID, BELIEVE IN HIM BEFORE I GIVE YOU PERMISSION? 
SURELY HE IS YOUR LEADER WHO HAS GIVEN YOU INSTRUCTION 
BUT SOON WILL YOU KNOW THE REPERCUSSION

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

50  THEY SAID, TO US IT DOES NOT MATTER  
FOR WE WILL BUT RETURN TO OUR CREATOR

51  THAT GOD WILL FORGIVE US OUR FAULTS IS OUR ONLY DESIRE 
THAT WE MAY BECOME FOREMOST AMONG THE BELIEVERS

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52  WE TOLD MOSES BY INSPIRATION
TRAVEL BY NIGHT WITH MY SERVANTS 
FOR YOU WILL BE PURSUED FOR CERTAIN

53  THEN PHARAOH SENT HERALDS TO ALL THE CITIES

54  SAYING, A SMALL BAND ARE THESE

55  AND THEY HAVE DONE WHAT HAS ENRAGED US GREATLY

56  BUT WE ARE A MULTITUDE FOREWARNED AMPLY

57  SO WE EXPELLED THEM FROM GARDENS AND SPRINGS

58  AND TREASURES AND EVERY KIND OF HONORABLE THING

59  WE MADE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL INHERITORS OF SUCH THINGS

60  SO THEY PURSUED THEM AT THE SUN'S RISING

61  AND WHEN THE TWO PARTIES SAW EACH OTHER 
MOSES'S PEOPLE SAID, WE ARE SURE TO BE TAKEN OVER

62  MOSES SAID, BY NO MEANS, MY LORD IS WITH ME 
AND SOON WILL HE SURELY GUIDE ME

63  THEN WE TOLD MOSES BY INSPIRATION, STRIKE THE SEA 
WITH YOUR STAFF, SO IT DIVIDED AND EACH PARTY
BECAME AS MOUNTAINS MASSED GIGANTICALLY

64  AND THERE WE BROUGHT FORTH THE OTHERS

65  AND MOSES AND ALL WHO WERE WITH HIM WE DELIVERED

66  BUT WE DROWNED ALL OF THE OTHERS

67  IN THIS IS A SIGN THAT IS CLEAR
BUT MOST OF THEM ARE NOT BELIEVERS

68  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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69  AND RECITE TO THEM 
THE STORY OF ABRAHAM

70  HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE AND HIS FATHER 
WHAT IS THAT OF WHICH YOU ARE WORSHIPPERS?

71  THEY SAID, WE WORSHIP IDOLS
AND TO THEM WE ARE FAITHFUL

72  HE SAID, WHEN YOU CALL ON THEM DO THEY LISTEN TO YOU?

73  OR DO THEY DO ANY GOOD OR HARM TO YOU?

74  THEY SAID, NO, BUT WE FOUND OUR FATHERS DOING WHAT WE DO 

75  HE SAID, DO YOU SEE WHAT IS BEING WORSHIPPED BY YOU?

76  YOU AND YOUR FATHERS BEFORE YOU?

77  FOR THEY ARE ENEMIES TO ME 
NOT SO THE LORD WHO CREATED ME

78  HE IT IS WHO CREATED ME 
AND IT IS HE WHO GUIDES ME

79  AND WHO GIVES FOOD AND DRINK TO ME

80  AND WHEN I AM SICK HE CURES ME

81  AND HE WILL CAUSE ME TO DIE AND THEN AGAIN RAISE ME 

82  AND WHO I HOPE WILL ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT FORGIVE ME 

83  OH MY LORD, BESTOW WISDOM ON ME 
AND JOIN ME WITH THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

84  AND MAKE AN HONORABLE MENTION OF ME
IN THE LATER GENERATIONS AFTER ME

85  AND MAKE ME ONE OF THE INHERITORS
OF THE GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS

86  AND FORGIVE MY FATHER 
SURELY HE IS IN ERROR

87  AND LET ME NOT BE IN DISGRACE
ON THE DAY WHEN MEN WILL BE RAISED

88  THE DAY WHEN NEITHER WEALTH OR SONS WILL FURTHER

89  BUT HE THAT BRINGS TO GOD A GOOD HEART WILL PROSPER 

90  AND TO THE RIGHTEOUS THE GARDEN WILL BE BROUGHT NEAR

91  AND THE EVIL ONES WILL BE PLACED IN VIEW OF THE FIRE

92  WE WILL ASK, WHERE ARE THE GODS YOU HAD FOR YOURSELVES

93  BESIDES GOD, CAN THEY HELP YOU OR HELP THEMSELVES?

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94  THEN THEY WILL BE THROWN HEADLONG INTO THE FIRE 
THEY AND THOSE WHO WERE REJECTERS

95  AND THE WHOLE ARMY OF SATAN ALL TOGETHER

96  THEY WILL SAY WHILE THEY MUTUALLY BICKER

97  BY GOD WE WERE TRULY IN MANIFEST ERROR

98  WHEN WE HELD YOU AS EQUAL WITH OUR LORD AND CHERISHER

99  AND THOSE WHO WERE GUILTY WERE OUR SEDUCERS 

100  NOW THEN WE HAVE NONE TO INTERCEDE FOR US

101  NOR A SINGLE FRIEND TO FEEL FOR US

102  NOW IF WE ONLY HAD A CHANCE OF REPRIEVE 
WE WOULD TRULY BE OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE

103  IN THIS THERE IS A SIGN INDEED
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT BELIEVE

104  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY 
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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CHAPTER 26.  THE POETS                                                                 SECTION 6.  PART XIX

105  THE PEOPLE OF NOAH WERE REJECTERS OF THE MESSENGERS

106  WILL YOU NOT FEAR GOD?  SAID NOAH THEIR BROTHER

107  I AM TO YOU A TRUSTWORTHY MESSENGER

108  SO OBEY ME AND OF YOUR LORD HAVE FEAR

109  NO REWARD 
DO I ASK OF YOU FOR IT, MY REWARD 
IS ONLY FROM MY LORD

110  SO OBEY ME AND FEAR YOUR LORD

111  THEY SAID, WILL WE BELIEVE IN YOU 
WHEN IT IS THE MEANEST THAT FOLLOW YOU?

112  HE SAID, AND WHAT DO I KNOW AS TO WHAT THEY DO?

113  THEIR ACCOUNT IS WITH GOD IF YOU COULD BUT PERCEIVE

114  AND WILL NOT DRIVE AWAY THOSE WHO BELIEVE

115  I AM SENT ONLY TO WARN PUBLICLY AND PLAINLY

116  THEY SAID, OH NOAH, IF YOU DO NOT CEASE
YOU WILL BE STONED TO DEATH SURELY

117  HE SAID, OH MY LORD, TRULY 
MY PEOPLE HAVE REJECTED ME

118  JUDGE THEN BETWEEN ME AND THEM OPENLY
AND DELIVER ME AND THE BELIEVERS WHO ARE WITH ME

119  SO WE DELIVERED HIM AND THOSE IN THE ARK WITH HIM

120  AND WE DROWNED THOSE WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND HIM

121  AND IN THIS IS A SIGN INDEED 
BUT MOST PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE

122  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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CHAPTER 26.  THE POETS                                                                 SECTION 7.  PART XIX

123  THE AD PEOPLE WERE REJECTERS OF THE MESSENGERS

124  WILL YOU NOT FEAR GOD?  SAID HUD, THEIR BROTHER

125  I AM TO YOU A TRUSTWORTHY MESSENGER

126  SO OBEY ME AND OF YOUR LORD HAVE FEAR

127  NO REWARD 
DO I ASK YOU FOR IT, MY REWARD 
IS ONLY FROM MY LORD

128  DO YOU BUILD HIGH BUILDINGS 
JUST FOR YOURSELVES TO BE AMUSING?

129  AND DO YOU GET FOR YOURSELVES FINE BUILDINGS 
IN THE HOPE OF HAVING THEM FOR ETERNAL LIVING?

130  AND WHEN YOU SEIZE 
DO YOU SEIZE AS TYRANTS SEIZE?

131  BUT FEAR GOD AND OBEY ME

132  FEAR HIM WHO HAS BOUNTIFULLY
BESTOWED ON YOU ALL THAT YOU HAVE FREELY

133  HE HAS BESTOWED ON YOU CATTLE AND CHILDREN

134  AND GIVEN YOU SPRINGS AND GARDENS

135  I FEAR FOR YOU TRULY 
A GREAT PENALTY

136  THEY SAID, IT IS THE SAME TO US 
WHETHER YOU ADMONISH US 
OR DO NOT ADMONISH US

137  THIS IS NOTHING MORE 
THAN A CUSTOMARY DEVICE OF THE ANCIENTS BEFORE

138  AND WE ARE NOT THE ONES TO RECEIVE 
ANY PAINS OR PENALTIES

139  SO THEY REJECTED HIM AND WE DESTROYED THEM 
AND IN THIS IS A SIGN BUT THEY DO NOT BELIEVE MOST OF THEM

140  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY 
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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CHAPTER 26.  THE POETS                                                                 SECTION 8.  PART XIX

141  THE THAMUD PEOPLE WERE REJECTERS OF THE MESSENGERS

142  WILL YOU NOT FEAR GOD?  SAID SALIH, THEIR BROTHER

143  I AM TO YOU A TRUSTWORTHY MESSENGER

144  SO OBEY ME AND OF YOUR LORD HAVE FEAR

145  NO REWARD 
DO I ASK YOU FOR IT, MY REWARD 
IS ONLY FROM MY LORD

146  WILL YOU BE LEFT SECURE 
IN THE ENJOYMENT OF ALL THAT YOU HAVE HERE?

147  GARDENS AND SPRINGS?

148  CORN FIELDS AND DATE PALMS WITH SPATHES NEAR BREAKING?

149  AND YOU CARVE HOUSES OUT OF ROCKY MOUNTAINS SKILLFULLY 

150  BUT FEAR YOUR LORD AND OBEY ME

151  FOLLOW NOT THE BIDDING OF THOSE WHO ACT EXTRAVAGANTLY

152  WHO MAKE MISCHIEF IN THE LAND AND ACT UNRIGHTEOUSLY

153  THEY SAID, YOU ARE ONLY 
ONE OF THOSE BEWITCHED INDEED

154  YOU ARE NO MORE THAN A MORTAL LIKE US
THEN BRING TO US A CLEAR SIGN FOR US
IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH TO US

155  HE SAID, HERE IS A SHE CAMEL, SHE HAS A RIGHT OF WATERING 
AND ON A DAY APPOINTED YOU HAVE A RIGHT OF WATERING  

156  TOUCH HER NOT WITH HARM OR YOU WILL SURELY
BE SEIZED WITH A GREAT PENALTY

157  BUT THEY SLAUGHTERED HER 
THEN THEY BECAME FULL OF REGRETS AFTER

158  BUT BY THE PENALTY THEY WERE SEIZED  
IN THIS IS A SIGN, BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT BELIEVE 

159	AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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CHAPTER 26.  THE POETS                                                                 SECTION 9.  PART XIX

160  THE PEOPLE OF LOT WERE REJECTERS OF THE MESSENGERS

161  WILL YOU NOT FEAR GOD?  SAID LOT, THEIR BROTHER

162  I AM TO YOU A TRUSTWORTHY MESSENGER 

163  SO OBEY ME AND OF YOUR LORD HAVE FEAR

164  NO REWARD 
DO I ASK OF YOU FOR IT, MY REWARD 
IS ONLY FROM MY LORD

165  OF ALL THE CREATURES IN THE WORLD, WILL YOU 
APPROACH MALES IN LUST AMONG YOU?

166  AND LEAVE THOSE WHOM GOD CREATES  
TO BE YOUR RIGHTFUL MATES? 

YOU ARE A PEOPLE IN TRANSGRESSION 
EXCEEDING BEYOND ALL LIMITATIONS

167  THEY SAID, IF YOU DESIST NOT
YOU WILL BE CAST OUT, OH LOT

168  HE SAID, I DO DETEST WHAT YOU DO SURELY

169  MY LORD, FROM THESE PEOPLE DELIVER ME AND MY FAMILY

170  SO WE DELIVERED HIM AND HIS FAMILY

171  EXCEPT AN OLD WOMAN WHO LINGERED BELATEDLY

172  BUT THE REST WE DESTROYED UTTERLY

173  WE RAINED DOWN ON THEM A SHOWER 
OF BRIMSTONE, AND EVIL WAS THE SHOWER 

ON THOSE WHO WERE INDEED
ADMONISHED BUT DID NOT HEED

174  IN THIS IS A SIGN CLEARLY
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT BELIEVE

175  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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CHAPTER 26.  THE POETS                                                              SECTION 10.  PART XIX

176  THE WOOD'S COMPANIONS REJECTED THE MESSENGERS

177  WILL YOU NOT FEAR GOD?  SAID SHUAIB, THEIR BROTHER

178  I AM TO YOU A TRUSTWORTHY MESSENGER

179  SO OBEY ME AND OF YOUR LORD HAVE FEAR

180  NO REWARD 
DO I ASK OF YOU FOR IT, MY REWARD 
IS ONLY FROM MY LORD

181  GIVE JUST MEASURE AND CAUSE NO LOSS TO OTHERS 

182  AND WEIGH WITH SCALES TRUE IN MEASURE

183  AND WITHHOLD NOT THINGS DUE TO MEN JUSTLY 
NOR DO EVIL IN THE LAND WORKING MISCHIEVOUSLY

184  AND FEAR HIM WHO CREATED YOU 
AND WHO CREATED THE GENERATIONS BEFORE YOU

185  THEY SAID, YOU ARE ONLY 
ONE OF THOSE BEWITCHED INDEED

186  YOU ARE NO MORE THAN A MORTAL LIKE US 
AND WE THINK THAT YOU ARE LYING TO US

187  NOW CAUSE A PIECE OF THE SKY TO FALL ON US 
IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH TO US

188  MY LORD KNOWS BEST WHAT YOU DO, HE SAID TO THEM

189	BUT THEY ARROGANTLY REJECTED HIM
THEN THE PENALTY OF A GLOOMY DAY SEIZED THEM
AND GREAT WAS PUNISHMENT OF THAT DAY TO THEM

190  IN THAT IS A SIGN INDEED
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT BELIEVE

191  AND YOUR LORD IS SURELY
EXALTED IN MIGHT AND FULL OF MERCY

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CHAPTER 26.  THE POETS                                                              SECTION 11.  PART XIX

192  SURELY THIS IS A REVELATION 
FROM THE LORD OF ALL CREATION

193  THE FAITHFUL SPIRIT 
HAS SURELY BROUGHT IT

194  TO YOUR HEART AND MIND IN ORDER
THAT YOU MAY BE A CLEAR WARNER

195  IN THE ARABIC LANGUAGE PLAINLY

196  IT IS IN THE MYSTIC BOOKS OF PEOPLE FORMERLY

197  IS IT NOT A SIGN TO THEM THAT 
THE LEARNED OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL KNEW IT AS FACT ?

198  TO ANY OF THE NON ARABS HAD WE REVEALED IT

199  AND TO THEM HAD HE RECITED IT 
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BELIEVED IN IT

200  SO HAVE WE CAUSED IT TO ENTER 
INTO THE HEARTS OF THE SINNERS

201  BUT THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE
UNTIL THEY SEE THE GRIEVOUS PENALTY

202  BUT THE PENALTY WILL COME TO THEM INDEED 
SUDDENLY WHILE THEY DO NOT PERCEIVE

203  THEN THEY WILL SAY, CAN WE BE RESPITED PLEASE?

204  DO THEY ASK THEN
FOR OUR PENALTY TO BE HASTENED?

205  IF WE DO LET THEM ENJOY THEMSELVES FOR A FEW YEARS

206  THEN THE PROMISED PUNISHMENT COMES TO THEM AFTER

207  ALL THAT WAS ENJOYED BY THEM
WILL NOT AT ALL AVAIL THEM

208  AND WE DESTROYED A POPULATION NEVER
WITHOUT SENDING THEM WARNERS

209  BY WAY OF REMINDERS 
AND WE ARE UNJUST NEVER

210  NO EVIL ONES HAVE BROUGHT IT

211  NOR WOULD THEY HAVE THE POWER TO DO IT

212  THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FAR FROM HEARING IT

213  SO CALL NOT ON BESIDES GOD ANOTHER DIETY
OR YOU WILL BE AMONG THOSE UNDER THE PENALTY

214  AND GIVE TO YOUR NEAREST KIN THE WARNING

215  AND LOWER YOUR WING 
TO THE BELIEVERS AMONG YOUR FOLLOWING

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CHAPTER 26.  THE POETS                                              SECTION 11 (CONT'D). PART XIX

216  THEN IF THEY DISOBEY YOU 
SAY, I AM FREE OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU DO

217  AND TRUST IN THE ONE WHO IS MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING

218  WHO SEES YOU STANDING FORTH WHILE PRAYING

219  AND YOUR MOVEMENTS AMONG THOSE WHO 
PROSTRATE THEMSELVES ALONG WITH YOU

220  FOR IT IS HE WHO IS ALL HEARING
AND ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS

221  SHALL I INFORM YOU OH PEOPLE, ON WHO 
IT IS THAT THE EVIL ONES DESCEND TO?

222  THEY DESCEND ON EVERY LYING 
SINFUL WICKED BEING
 
223  INTO WHOSE EARS THEY POUR HEARSAY VANITIES 
ALL OF THEM ARE LIARS INDEED

224  AND THE POETS, AS FOR THEM
THOSE WHO STRAY IN EVIL FOLLOW THEM

225  DO YOU NOT SEE
THAT THEY WANDER DISTRACTED IN EVERY VALLEY?

226  AND THAT WHAT THEY SAY TO YOU
IS NOT WHAT IT IS THAT THEY DO?

227  EXCEPT THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO GOOD DEEDS
AND ENGAGE IN THE REMEMBRANCE OF GOD CONSISTENTLY
AND DEFEND THEMSELVES AFTER THEY ARE ATTACKED UNJUSTLY 

AND SOON WILL THE UNJUST ASSAILANTS KNOW 
IN WHAT DIRECTION THEIR AFFAIRS WILL GO

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CHAPTER 27.  THE ANTS                                                                   SECTION 1.  PART XIX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENIGNANT, HEARING GOD

THESE ARE THE VERSES 
OF THE QURAN THAT MAKES MANIFEST

2  A GUIDANCE AND GOOD NEWS FOR THE BELIEVERS

3  WHO GIVE REGULAR CHARITY AND ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS
AND ALSO HAVE FULL ASSURANCE OF THE HEREAFTER

4  AS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN THE HEREAFTER
WE MAKE THEIR DEEDS PLEASING TO THEM SO THEY BLINDLY WANDER 

5  THOSE ARE THEY FOR WHOM WILL BE FOR SURE
A GRIEVOUS PENALTY AND IN THE HEREAFTER 
THEY WILL BE THE GREATEST LOSERS

6  THIS QURAN IS BESTOWED UPON YOU FROM THE PRESENCE OF ONE
WHO IS WISE AND ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS IN CREATION

7  MOSES SAID TO HIS FAMILY, I DO PERCEIVE A FIRE
AND I WILL BRING YOU SOME INFORMATION FROM THERE

OR I WILL BRING A BURNING BRAND TO YOU 
TO LIGHT OUR FUEL AND TO WARM YOU 

8  BUT A VOICE SAID WHEN HE CAME TO THE FIRE 
BLESSED IS HE WHO IS IN SEARCH OF FIRE 
AND GLORY TO GOD, THE CREATOR 

9  OH MOSES, I AM GOD, THE WISE, THE MIGHTY

10  THROW YOUR ROD, AND WHEN HE SAW IT MOVE INDEPENDENTLY 
AS IF IT HAD BEEN A SNAKE, HE TURNED BACK IN RETREAT 
AND RETRACED NOT HIS STEPS AND IT WAS DECREED
OH MOSES, DO NOT FEAR AND TAKE HEED 
THOSE I CALL AS MESSENGERS HAVE NO FEAR INDEED

11  BUT IF ANY HAVE DONE EVIL
AND HAVE SUBSTITUTED GOOD TO TAKE THE PLACE OF EVIL 
THEN TO THEM I AM SURELY MOST FORGIVING AND MERCIFUL

12  NOW PUT YOUR HAND INTO YOUR BOSOM 
IT WILL COME FORTH WHITE AND WITHOUT IMPERFECTION  

THESE ARE AMONG NINE SIGNS TO TAKE TO PHARAOH AND HIS PEOPLE 
FOR THEY ARE A REBELLIOUS TRANSGRESSING PEOPLE

13  WHEN OUR SIGNS CAME TO THEM THAT SHOULD HAVE CLEARLY 
OPENED THEIR EYES THEY SAID, THIS IS MANIFEST SORCERY

14  THEY REJECTED THOSE SIGNS IN ARROGANCE AND INIQUITY 
ALTHOUGH THEIR SOULS WERE CONVINCED CLEARLY
SO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO ACTED CORRUPTLY?

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CHAPTER 27.  THE ANTS                                                                    SECTION 2.  PART XIX

15  TO DAVID AND SOLOMON WE GAVE KNOWLEDGE CLEARLY
AND THEY BOTH SAID, TO GOD ALL PRAISES BE 
WHO HAS FAVORED US ABOVE MANY 
OF HIS SERVANTS WHO BELIEVE

16  AND SOLOMON WAS DAVID'S INHERITOR
HE SAID, MY PEOPLE WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT THE SPEECH OF BIRDS
ON US HAS BEEN BESTOWED FROM OUR LORD AND CHERISHER
A LITTLE OF ALL THINGS, THIS IS GRACE FROM OUR MAKER 

17  AND BEFORE SOLOMON WERE GATHERED 
HIS ARMY OF DEMONS AND MEN AND BIRDS 
AND THEY WERE ALL KEPT IN BATTLE ORDER 

18  AT LENGTH WHEN THEY CAME TO A VALLEY OF ANTS 
ONE OF THE ANTS SAID, OH YOU ANTS 
GET INTO YOUR HABITANTS 

LEST SOLOMON AND HIS COMPANY 
CRUSH YOU UNDERFOOT UNKNOWINGLY

19  SO HE SMILED AMUSED AT HER SPEECH
AND HE SAID, OH MY LORD, ORDER ME PLEASE
THAT I MAY BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR BOUNTIES
WHICH YOU HAVE BESTOWED ON ME AND MY FAMILY
AND THAT I MAY BE OF THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
THAT YOU MAY BE PLEASED AND BY YOUR GRACE ADMIT ME
IN TO THE RANKS OF YOUR SERVANTS WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY 

20  AND HE INSPECTED THE BIRDS IN HIS ARMY
AND SAID, WHY DO I NOT SEE THE HOOPOE 
OR IS HE AMONG THE ABSENTEES?

21  I WILL CERTAINLY PUNISH HIM WITH A SEVERE PENALTY 
OR EXECUTE HIM UNLESS HE BRINGS TO ME 
A CLEAR REASON FOR HIS ABSENTEE

22  BUT NOT FAR AWAY WAS THE HOOPOE
HE SAID, I HAVE COMPASSED TERRITORY 

WHICH HAS NOT BEEN COMPASSED BY YOU
AND I HAVE COME TO YOU FROM SHEBA WITH GOOD NEWS

23  I FOUND THERE A WOMAN RULING OVER THEM ALONE
SHE HAS EVERYTHING AND A MAGNIFICENT THRONE

24  I FOUND HER AND HER PEOPLE WORSHIPPING THE SUN
INSTEAD OF GOD, THE BENEFICENT ONE
AND SATAN, THE EVIL ONE
HAS MADE FAIRSEEMING THEIR REBELLION
AND HAS KEPT THEM AWAY FROM THE RIGHT DIRECTION
SO OF RIGHT GUIDANCE THEY HAVE NONE

25  THEY WORSHIP NOT GOD WHO BRINGS FORTH WHAT IS HIDDEN 
ALL THAT IS IN THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS 
AND KNOWS WHAT IS HIDDEN AND OPEN 

26  GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
LORD OF THE THRONE OF AUTHORITY

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CHAPTER 27.  THE ANTS                                                  SECTION 2 (CONT'D). PART XIX

27  SOLOMON SAID, SOON WILL WE SEE WHETHER YOU 
HAVE LIED OR IF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE

28  GO WITH THIS LETTER OF MINE AND DELIVER IT TO THEM 
THEN DRAW BACK AWAY FROM THEM 
AND WAIT TO SEE WHAT ANSWER RETURNS FROM THEM

29  THE QUEEN SAID, OH YOU CHIEFS, HERE IS DELIVERED TO ME 
A LETTER TO BE TREATED RESPECTFULLY

30 IT IS FROM SOLOMON AND IS IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MOST MERCIFUL GOD

31  BE NOT AMONG THE ARROGANT ONES
BUT COME TO ME IN SUBMISSION 
TO THE TRUE RELIGION

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CHAPTER 27.  THE ANTS                                                                   SECTION 3.  PART XIX

32  SHE SAID, OH YOU CHIEFS, ADVISE ME IN THIS MY AFFAIR 
I  DECIDE NOT OUTSIDE OF YOUR PRESENCE ANY AFFAIR

33  THEY SAID, GREAT STRENGTH HAVE WE
AND FOR WAR GREAT ABILITY 

BUT WITH YOU IS THE COMMAND 
SO CONSIDER WHAT YOU WILL COMMAND 

34  SHE SAID, KINGS WHEN THEY ENTER A COUNTRY DESPOIL IT 
AND MAKE THE NOBLEST OF ITS PEOPLE ITS WEAKEST 
THEY HAVE SURELY BEEN KNOWN TO DO IT

35  BUT I AM GOING TO SEND HIM A GIFT OF GRANDEUR
AND I WILL WAIT TO SEE WITH WHAT ANSWER 
RETURNS WITH MY AMBASSADORS

36  WHEN THE EMBASSY CAME TO SOLOMON
HE SAID, WILL YOU GIVE ME WEALTH AND POSSESSIONS?  

BUT GOD HAS GIVEN ME MORE THAN YOU
NO, THE ONE WHO REJOICES IN YOUR GIFT IS YOU

37  GO BACK AND TELL THEM THAT WE WILL COME TO THEM 
WITH AN ARMY THAT WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED BY THEM
AND WE WILL UTTERLY DISGRACE AND EXPEL THEM 
AND WE WILL COMPLETELY HUMBLE THEM

38  HE SAID TO HIS OWN MEN, OH YOU CHIEFS OF YOU WHICH ONE  
CAN BRING ME HER THRONE BEFORE SHE COMES IN SUBMISSION?

39  ONE AUDACIOUS AMONG THE DEMONS SAID, I WILL 
BRING IT TO YOU BEFORE YOU RISE FROM YOUR COUNCIL

I HAVE FULL STRENGTH FOR THE DUTY
AND I AM ONE WHO IS TRUSTWORTHY

40  ONE WHO HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE BOOK SAID, I 
WILL BRING IT TO YOU WITHIN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE 

THEN WHEN SOLOMON SAW IT PLACED BEFORE HIM FIRMLY
HE SAID, THIS IS BY THE GRACE OF MY LORD TO TEST ME 
WHETHER I ACT GRATEFUL OR UNGRATEFULLY
AND IF ANY ACT GRATEFUL HIS ACTING GRATEFULLY
IS A GAIN FOR HIS OWN SOUL, BUT IF ANY ACT UNGRATEFULLY
MY LORD IS SUPREME IN HONOR AND FREE OF ALL NEEDS 

41  HE SAID, TRANSFORM HER THRONE OUT OF ALL RECOGNITION 
LET US SEE WHETHER SHE IS GUIDED TO TRUTH AND REASON
OR IF SHE IS ONE WHO OF GUIDANCE RECEIVE NONE

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42  WHEN SHE ARRIVED HE WAS ASKED, WAS YOUR THRONE LIKE THIS? 
AND SHE ANSWERED AND SAID, IT WAS JUST LIKE THIS 
AND KNOWLEDGE WAS BESTOWED ON US IN ADVANCE OF THIS 
AND WE HAVE SUBMITTED TO GOD AND WE BEAR WITNESS

43  HE DIVERTED HER FROM THE WORSHIP OF OTHERS 
FOR SHE AND HER PEOPLE WERE DISBELIEVERS

44  SHE CAME TO THE LOFTY PALACE TO ENTER 
WHEN SHE SAW IT SHE THOUGHT IT WAS A LAKE OF WATER

SHE TUCKED UP HER SKIRT UNCOVERING HER LEGS OPENLY
HE SAID, THIS PALACE HAS SLABS OF GLASS PAVED SMOOTHLY  
AND SHE SAID, OH MY LORD, I HAVE WRONGED MY SOUL UNJUSTLY
I SUBMIT WITH SOLOMON TO THE LORD OF THE WORLDS COMPLETELY

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45  WE SENT TO THE THAMUD, SALIH THEIR BROTHER SAYING 
SERVE GOD, BUT THEY BECAME TWO FACTIONS QUARRELING  

46  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, WHY ASK FOR EVIL HASTILY
IN PREFERENCE TO THE GOOD FOR IF YOU WOULD HUMBLY 
ASK GOD FOR FORGIVENESS YOU MAY HOPE TO RECEIVE MERCY

47  THEY SAID, ILL OMEN DO WE AUGUR FROM YOU 
AND FROM THOSE THAT ARE WITH YOU 

HE SAID, WITH GOD IS YOUR OMEN OF ILL 
AND YOU ARE A PEOPLE UNDER TRIAL

48  THERE WAS IN THE CITY
NINE MEN OF A FAMILY 

WHO MADE MISCHIEF IN THE LAND 
AND WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND

49  THEY SAID, LET US SWEAR BY OUR LORD AN OATH THAT IS MUTUAL  
THAT WE WILL MAKE A NIGHT ATTACK ON HIM AND ON HIS PEOPLE
AND WE WILL SAY TO HIS HEIR WHEN HE BECOMES REVENGEFUL 
THAT WE WERE NOT THERE AT THE SLAUGHTER OF HIS PEOPLE
AND THAT WE ARE SURELY BEING TRUTHFUL 

50  SO THEY PLOTTED AND PLANNED 
BUT WHILE THEY PERCEIVED IT NOT WE TOO PLANNED

51  THE END OF THEIR PLOT WAS THAT WE DESTROYED THEM 
AND THEIR PEOPLE, ALL OF THEM

52  THEIR HOUSES WERE RUINED UTTERLY 
BECAUSE THEY PRACTICED INDECENCY 
IN THIS IS A SIGN FOR PEOPLE OF INIQUITY

53  WE SAVED THOSE WHO BELIEVED AND ACTED RIGHTEOUSLY

54  WE ALSO SENT LOT AS AN APOSTLE  
AND HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE 

DO YOU ACT SHAMEFULLY
THOUGH YOU SEE ITS INIQUITY?

55  DO YOU APPROACH MEN LUSTFULLY
RATHER THAN WOMEN REALLY
YOU ARE PEOPLE GROSSLY 
STEEPED IN INIQUITY

56  BUT HIS PEOPLE GAVE THIS ANSWER ONLY
THEY SAID, DRIVE OUT LOT'S FOLLOWERS FROM YOUR CITY 
THESE ARE INDEED MEN WHO ASCRIBE TO PURITY

57  BUT WE SAVED HIM AND HIS FAMILY 
EXCEPT HIS WIFE FOR SHE LAGGED BELATEDLY

58  WE RAINED DOWN ON THEM A SHOWER OF BRIMSTONES
AND EVIL WAS THE SHOWER UPON THE ONES
WHO REFUSE TO RECEIVE ADMONITION 

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59  SAY, PRAISE BE TO GOD
AND PEACE BE ON THE SERVANTS OF GOD 
WHO HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO RECEIVE THE MESSAGE OF GOD
AND WHO IS BETTER TO SERVE, GOD 
OR THE FALSE GODS THEY ASSOCIATE WITH GOD?

PART  XX

60  HE IT IS WHO CREATED THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND SENDS DOWN RAIN TO YOU FROM THE HEAVENS 

AND WE CAUSE TO GROW WITH IT ORCHARDS
FULL OF BEAUTY AND DELIGHT WELL NURTURED
TO CAUSE THE GROWTH OF TREES IS NOT IN YOUR POWER 
BESIDES GOD CAN THERE BE ANOTHER? 
NO, THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRANSGRESSORS

61  WHO IS IT THAT HAS MADE THE EARTH FIRM AND LIVEABLE
AND MADE RIVERS IN IT AND MOUNTAINS IMMOVABLE? 

AND MADE A SEPARATING BARRIER
BETWEEN THE TWO BODIES OF FLOWING WATER 
THEN A GOD BESIDES GOD CAN THERE BE ANOTHER? 
DEFINITELY NOT BUT MOST OF THEM ARE DISBELIEVERS

62  OR WHO LISTENS TO THE SOUL DISTRESSED 
WHEN IT CALLS ON HIM AND WHO RELIEVES ITS STRESS? 

AND OF THE EARTH MAKES YOU THE INHERITORS 
BESIDES GOD CAN THERE BE ANOTHER?
LITTLE IT IS THAT YOU CONSIDER

63  WHO GUIDES YOU THROUGH THE DARKNESS ON LAND AND SEA
AND WHO SENDS THE WINDS GOING BEFORE HIS MERCY?  

CAN THERE BE ANOTHER GOD BESIDES GOD?  
HIGH IS GOD ABOVE WHAT THEY ASSOCIATE WITH GOD

64  OR WHO ORIGINATES, THEN REPEATS CREATION 
AND WHO GIVES YOU SUSTENANCE FROM EARTH AND HEAVEN 
CAN THERE BE ANOTHER LORD OF CREATION?

SAY, BRING FORTH YOUR PROOF
IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH

65  SAY, NONE IN THE EARTH OR THE HEAVENS 
EXCEPT GOD KNOWS WHAT IS HIDDEN 
NEITHER CAN THEY PERCEIVE WHEN
THAT THEY WILL BE RAISED AGAIN

NOR CAN KNOWLEDGE OF THEIRS 
COMPREHEND THE HEREAFTER 

66  NO, THEY ARE IN DOUBT ABOUT IT
AND IN UNCERTAINTY ABOUT IT 
NO, THEY ARE BLIND TO IT

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CHAPTER 27.  THE ANTS                                                                     SECTION 6.  PART XX

67  THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, WHEN WE 
BECOME DUST, WE AND OUR FATHERS, WILL WE
THEN BE RAISED FROM THE DEAD REALLY?

68  THIS WAS PROMISED TO US
AND WAS PROMISED TO OUR FATHERS BEFORE US 
THESE ARE NOTHING BUT TALES OF THE ANCIENTS TO US

69  SAY, GO THROUGH THE EARTH AND SEE WHAT HAS BEEN 
THE END OF THOSE GUILTY OF SIN

70  BUT GRIEVE NOT OVER THEM AND DO NOT
DISTRESS YOURSELF BECAUSE OF THEIR PLOTS

71  AND THEY ALSO WILL SAY 
WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN IF IT IS TRUE WHAT YOU SAY?

72  SAY, IT MAY BE THAT SOME OF THE EVENTS WHICH YOU 
WISH TO HASTEN ON MAY BE CLOSE UPON YOU

73  BUT SURELY YOUR LORD TO MANKIND IS GRACEFUL 
YET MOST OF THEM ARE UNGRATEFUL

74  GOD KNOWS ALL THAT THEIR HEARTS CONCEAL 
AS WELL AS ALL THAT THEIR HEARTS REVEAL

75  NOR IS THERE ANYTHING HIDDEN
IN THE EARTH OR IN HEAVEN
BUT IS IN A BOOK CLEARLY WRITTEN 

76  THIS QURAN EXPLAINS TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CLEARLY 
MOST OF THE MATTERS IN WHICH THEY DISAGREE

77  AND IT CERTAINLY 
IS A GUIDE AND A MERCY 
TO ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE

78  YOUR LORD WILL DECIDE BETWEEN THEM BY HIS DECREE 
AND EXALTED IN MIGHT AND ALL KNOWING IS HE

79  SO PUT YOUR TRUST IN GOD COMPLETELY
FOR YOU ARE ON THE PATH OF TRUTH MANIFESTLY 

80  YOU CANNOT CAUSE THE DEAD TO HEAR
AND YOU CAN NOT CAUSE THE DEAF TO HEAR  
ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY TURN BACK DECLINING TO HEAR

81  NOR CAN YOU BE A GUIDE TO THE BLIND
PREVENTING THEM FROM IGNORING OUR SIGNS 
FOR ONLY THOSE WILL LISTEN AMONG MANKIND
WHO BOW IN SUBMISSION AND BELIEVE IN OUR SIGNS

82  AND WHEN THE WORD IS FULFILLED AGAINST THEM 
WE WILL PRODUCE FROM THE EARTH A BEAST TO FACE THEM 
AND HE WILL SPEAK TO THEM 
FOR OUR SIGNS MANKIND DID NOT BELIEVE IN THEM

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83  ONE DAY WE WILL GATHER FROM EVERY PEOPLE A TROOP 
THOSE WHO REJECT OUR SIGNS WILL BE IN GROUPS

84  WHEN THEY COME BEFORE US TO RECEIVE JUSTICE
GOD WILL SAY, DID YOU REJECT MY MESSAGES 
THOUGH YOU COMPREHENDED THEM NOT IN KNOWLEDGE 
OR WHAT EXACTLY WAS IT THAT YOU DID?

85  THE WORD WILL BE FULFILLED AGAINST THEM COMPLETELY
BECAUSE OF THEIR CONSISTENTLY ACTING WRONGFULLY 
AND THEY WILL BE UNABLE TO MAKE A PLEA

86  SEE THEY NOT THAT WE HAVE MADE THE NIGHT 
FOR THEM TO REST IN AND THE DAY TO GIVE THEM LIGHT? 
IN THIS ARE SIGNS INDEED FOR ALL PEOPLE WHO HAVE SIGHT

87  THE DAY THE TRUMPET WILL BE SOUNDED ALL WILL BE SMITTEN 
WITH TERROR WHO ARE ON EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS 
EXCEPT THOSE WHO GOD PLEASES TO GIVE EXEMPTION 
AND ALL WILL COME TO HIM IN SUBMISSION

88  YOU SEE THE MOUNTAINS AND THINK THAT THEY
ARE FIRMLY FIXED BUT THEY WILL PASS AWAY 
AS DO THE CLOUDS PASS AWAY

SUCH IS THE ARTISTRY OF GOD WHO DISPOSES OF ALL THINGS 
FOR HE IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THINGS

89  IF ANY DO GOOD, GOOD WILL ACCRUE TO THEM FROM IT 
AND THE TERROR THAT DAY, THEY WILL BE SECURE FROM IT

90  AND IF ANY DO EVIL THEIR FACES WILL BE
THROWN HEADLONG INTO THE FIRE, DO YOU RECEIVE 
A REWARD OTHER THAN THAT WHICH YOU EARN BY YOUR DEEDS? 

91  FOR ME I HAVE BEEN COMMANDED 
TO SERVE THE LORD OF THIS CITY WHO HAS SANCTIFIED IT 
AND TO WHOM BELONG ALL THINGS AND I AM COMMANDED 
TO BE THE FIRST OF THOSE WHO HAVE SUBMITTED

92  AND TO RECITE THE QURAN IN THE BEST MANNER
WHOEVER ACCEPTS GUIDANCE DOES IT FOR HIS OWN ENDEAVOR 
AND TO WHOEVER GOES ASTRAY - SAY, I AM ONLY A PLAIN WARNER 

93  AND SAY, PRAISE BE TO GOD, WHOSE SIGNS HE WILL SHOW YOU 
SO THAT THEY WILL CLEARLY BE MADE KNOWN TO YOU
AND GOD IS NOT UNMINDFUL OF WHAT YOU DO

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CHAPTER 28.  THE NARRATIVE                                                        SECTION 1.  PART XX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENIGNANT, HEARING, KNOWING GOD

2  THESE ARE VERSES 
OF THE BOOK THAT MAKES MANIFEST
  
3   WE RECITE TO YOU IN TRUTH SOME OF THE STORY
OF MOSES AND PHARAOH FOR PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE

4  PHARAOH EXALTED HIMSELF IN THE LAND
AND DIVIDED ITS PEOPLE INTO BANDS
WEAKENING ONE OF THE BANDS

KEEPING ALIVE THEIR FEMALES
BUT SLAUGHTERING THEIR MALES 
FOR HE WAS A MISCHIEF MAKER REVEALED 

5  AND WE WISHED TO BESTOW FAVORS
TO THOSE OF WHOM HE WAS THEIR OPPRESSOR 
AND MAKE THEM HEIRS AND MAKE THEM LEADERS 

6  AND TO ESTABLISH A FIRM PLACE FOR THEM IN THE LAND 
AND SHOW PHARAOH, HAMAN AND THEIR HOSTS AT THEIR HANDS 
THE VERY THINGS WHICH THEY FEARED OF OUR PLANS

7  SO WE SENT THIS INSPIRATION TO MOSES'S MOTHER 
NURSE YOUR CHILD BUT WHEN ABOUT HIM YOU HAVE FEARS 
CAST HIM INTO THE RIVER
BUT FEAR NOT NOR GRIEVE FOR HIM EITHER
FOR WE WILL RESTORE HIM TO YOU THEREAFTER
AND MAKE HIM ONE OF THE MESSENGERS

8  THE PEOPLE OF PHARAOH PICKED HIM UP FROM THE RIVER 
IT WAS INTENDED THAT MOSES SHOULD BE AN OPPOSER 
FOR PHARAOH AND HAMAN AND THEIR HOSTS WERE WRONG DOERS

9  PHARAOH'S WIFE SAID, HERE IS A JOY OF THE EYE FOR ME AND YOU  
SLAY HIM NOT, HE MAY BE OF USE TO ME AND TO YOU
OR WE MAY ADOPT HIM AS A SON BUT THEY HAD NOT A CLUE
OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT THEY WERE GETTING READY TO DO

10  BUT THERE BECAME A VOID IN THE HEART OF THE MOTHER OF MOSES
AND SHE WAS ALMOST GOING TO DISCLOSE HIS CIRCUMSTANCES

HAD WE NOT STRENGTHENED HER HEART WITH RELIEF
SO THAT SHE MIGHT REMAIN FIRM IN BELIEF

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CHAPTER 28.  THE NARRATIVE                                      SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XX

11  AND SHE SAID TO MOSES'S SISTER 
FOLLOW HIM, SO SHE THE SISTER 
WATCHED HIM IN THE CHARACTER OF A STRANGER 
AND THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE HER

12  AND WE ORDAINED THAT AT FIRST 
THAT HE WOULD REFUSE TO BE NURSED 

UNTIL HIS SISTER SAID, SHALL I POINT OUT TO YOU 
THE PEOPLE THAT WILL BRING HIM UP FOR YOU? 
AND THEY WILL BE BONDED TO HIM IN TRUTH

13  SO WE RESTORED HIM TO HIS MOTHER
THAT HER EYE MIGHT FIND COMFORT
AND THAT SHE MIGHT NOT SUFFER 

AND THAT SHE MIGHT KNOW THE TRUTH OF GOD'S PROMISE 
BUT MOST PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS

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CHAPTER 28.  THE NARRATIVE                                                        SECTION 2.  PART XX

14  WHEN HE REACHED FULL MATURITY 
AND WAS THEN ESTABLISHED IN LIFE FIRMLY
THEN WE BESTOWED ON HIM FROM OUR MERCY
WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE FOR THIS IS HOW WE 
REWARD THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

15  HE ENTERED THE CITY WHEN ITS PEOPLE WERE NOT WATCHING 
AND HE FOUND THERE TWO MEN WHO WERE FIGHTING 

ONE OF HIS OWN PARTY, THE OTHER OF HIS ENEMIES
THE MAN OF HIS OWN PARTY APPEALED TO HIM AGAINST HIS ENEMY 
MOSES STRUCK HIM WITH HIS FIST AND KILLED HIM INSTANTLY
HE SAID, THIS IS A WORK OF SATAN FOR HE IS AN ENEMY 
THAT SURELY MISLEADS MANIFESTLY

16  THEN HE PRAYED, OH MY LORD, I HAVE INDEED 
WRONGED MY SOUL, WILL YOU FORGIVE ME? 
SO GOD FORGAVE HIM FOR HE IS SURELY
FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

17  HE SAID, OH MY LORD, FOR THAT YOU HAVE BESTOWED GRACE ON ME
NEVER WILL I BE A HELP TO WORKERS OF INIQUITY

18  AND HE WAS IN THE CITY FEARING AND WAITING
WHEN HE WHO ASKED HIS HELP THE DAY BEFORE WAS CRYING
OUT TO HIM FOR HELP, MOSES SAID, YOU ARE ONE ERRING

19  THEN HE DECIDED TO LAY HOLD OF HIM 
HE WHO WAS AN ENEMY TO BOTH OF THEM

HE SAID, OH MOSES, IS IT YOUR INTENTION TODAY
TO KILL ME AS YOU KILLED A MAN YESTERDAY?  

YOUR INTENTION IS NONE OTHER THAN 
TO BECOME A POWERFUL VIOLENT MAN IN THE LAND 
AND NOT TO BE ONE WHO SETS THINGS PROPERLY IN HAND

20  AND THERE CAME A MAN RUNNING
FROM THE FURTHEST END OF THE CITY SAYING 
OH MOSES, THE CHIEFS ARE TAKING 

COUNSEL TOGETHER ABOUT YOU TO KILL YOU 
SO GET AWAY FOR I GIVE SINCERE ADVICE TO YOU

21  SO HE GOT AWAY LOOKING ABOUT IN A STATE OF FEAR
AND HE PRAYED, OH MY LORD, SAVE ME FROM THE WRONG DOERS 

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CHAPTER 28.  THE NARRATIVE                                                        SECTION 3.  PART XX

22  THEN WHEN HE TURNED HIS FACE TOWARDS THE LAND OF MADYAN  
HE SAID, I HOPE THAT MY LORD WILL GUIDE ME HEREIN

23  HE ARRIVED AT A PLACE OF WATERING FLOCKS
HE FOUND A GROUP OF MEN WATERING THEIR FLOCKS 
AND HE FOUND TWO WOMEN KEEPING BACK THEIR FLOCKS
HE ASKED THE WOMEN WHY THEY WERE NOT WATERING THEIR FLOCKS 
THEY ANSWERED SAYING, WE CANNOT WATER OUR FLOCKS
UNTIL THE SHEPHERDS FINISH WATERING THEIR FLOCKS
AND OUR FATHER IS OLD AND CANNOT HELP US WITH OUR FLOCKS

24  SO HE WATERED THEIR FLOCKS FOR THEM                                                             
THEN HE TURNED BACK TO THE SHADE AWAY FROM THEM

AND SAID, OH MY LORD, I AM IN DESPERATE NEED 
OF ANY GOOD THAT YOU MAY SEND TO ME INDEED

25  ONE OF THE WOMEN CAME BACK TO HIM
WALKING BASHFULLY AND SHE SAID HIM

MY FATHER INVITES YOU TO JOIN US
THAT HE MAY REWARD YOU FOR WATERING OUR FLOCKS FOR US

SO WHEN HE CAME TO HIM AND NARRATED THE STORY 
HE SAID TO HIM, FEAR NOT FOR YOU HAVE SURELY
ESCAPED FROM THE PEOPLE WHO ACT UNJUSTLY

26  SAID ONE OF THE WOMEN, FATHER, EMPLOY HIM ON WAGES
TRULY THE BEST OF MEN FOR YOU TO EMPLOY ON WAGES
IS THE MAN WHO IS STRONG AND ACTS WITH JUSTICE

27  HE SAID, I INTEND TO WED TO YOU ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS
ON CONDITION THAT YOU SERVE ME FOR EIGHT YEARS

IF YOU COMPLETE TEN YEARS IT WILL BE GRACE FROM YOU 
BUT I INTEND NOT TO PLACE A DIFFICULTY UPON YOU
YOU WILL FIND ME IF GOD WILLS ONE WHO IS TRUE 

28  MOSES SAID, THE AGREEMENT IS SETTLED BETWEEN ME AND YOU 
AND WHICHEVER OF THE TERMS I FULFILL OF THE TWO
THERE WILL BE NO ILL WILL BETWEEN ME AND YOU
GOD IS THE WITNESS TO WHAT WE SAY AND DO

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CHAPTER 28.  THE NARRATIVE                                                        SECTION 4.  PART XX

29  WHEN MOSES HAD FULFILLED THE TERM COMPLETELY
AND HE WAS TRAVELING WITH HIS FAMILY 

ON THE SIDE OF A MOUNTAIN HE PERCEIVED A FIRE 
HE SAID TO HIS FAMILY, STAY HERE I PERCEIVE A FIRE

I HOPE TO BRING FROM IT SOME INFORMATION TO YOU 
OR BRING A BURNING FIREBRAND TO WARM YOU

30  WHEN HE CAME TO THE FIRE HE HEARD  
A VOICE FROM A BUSH SAYING THESE WORDS
OH MOSES, I AM GOD, THE LORD OF THE WORLDS 

31  NOW THROW YOUR ROD, AND WHEN HE SAW IT MOVING 
AS IF IT HAD BEEN A SNAKE HE TURNED BACK RETREATING

IT WAS SAID, OH MOSES, DRAW NEAR
AND DO NOT HAVE AT ALL ANY FEAR
YOU ARE OF THOSE WHO ARE SECURE

32  MOVE YOUR HAND INTO YOUR BOSOM AND IT 
WILL COME OUT WHITE AND WITHOUT STAIN ON IT 

AND REMAIN CALM AND BE NOT FEARFUL
THOSE ARE TWO OF THE CREDENTIALS 

FROM YOUR LORD TO PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS
FOR THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO ACT WICKEDLY

33  HE SAID, OH MY LORD ,I HAVE KILLED A MAN 
AND I FEAR THEY WILL KILL ME IF THEY CAN

34  AND MY BROTHER AARON                                                                                                        
HE IS MORE ELOQUENT IN CONVERSATION 

SO SEND HIM WITH ME 
AS A HELPER TO CONFIRM AND STRENGTHEN ME 
FOR I FEAR THAT THEY MAY ACCUSE ME OF FALSITY

35  HE SAID, WE WILL THROUGH YOUR BROTHER ADD STRENGTH TO YOU
AND GIVE AUTHORITY TO BOTH OF YOU 
SO THAT THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TOUCH YOU 
AND WITH OUR SIGNS YOU WILL TRIUMPH BOTH OF YOU  
AS WELL AS ALL OF THOSE WHO FOLLOW YOU

36  WHEN MOSES CAME TO THEM WITH OUR MESSAGES CLEARLY
THEY SAID, THIS IS NOTHING BUT FAKED UP SORCERY 
NEVER DID WE HEAR THE LIKE OF IT PREVIOUSLY

37  MOSES SAID, MY LORD KNOWS WHO HE SENDS AS A  MESSENGER
AND WHO IT IS IN THE END THAT WILL BE BEST IN THE HEREAFTER
CERTAIN IT IS THAT THE WRONG DOERS WILL NOT PROSPER

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CHAPTER 28.  THE NARRATIVE                                       SECTION 4 (CONT'D). PART XX

38  PHARAOH SAID, OH CHIEFS 
NO GOD DO I KNOW FOR YOU BUT ME 
THEREFORE OH HAMAN, LIGHT A FIRE FOR ME 
TO BAKE BRICKS OUT OF CLAY AND BUILD A PALACE FOR ME 

THAT I MAY MOUNT UP TO THE GOD OF MOSES 
BUT I THINK THAT THERE IS NO TRUTH IN MOSES  

39  AND HE WAS ARROGANT IN THE LAND BEYOND REASON 
HE AND HIS HOSTS THOUGHT THEY WOULD NOT HAVE REASON
TO RETURN TO US IN DUE SEASON

40  WE SEIZED HIM AND HIS ARMY AND FLUNG THEM INTO THE SEA 
NOW SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO ACT WRONGFULLY

41  AND WE MADE THEM LEADERS INVITING TO THE FIRE 
AND ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THEY WILL FIND NO HELPERS 

42  IN THIS WORLD WE MADE TO FOLLOW THEM A CURSE 
AND ON JUDGMENT DAY THEY WILL BE DESPISED EVEN WORSE

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CHAPTER 28.  THE NARRATIVE                                                        SECTION 5.  PART XX

43  WE GAVE TO MOSES THE REVELATION 
AFTER WE DESTROYED THE EARLIER GENERATIONS 
TO GIVE INSIGHT AND GUIDANCE AND MERCY TO MEN
SO THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVE ADMONITION

44  AND WHEN WE GAVE TO MOSES THE COMMANDMENTS 
ON THE SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN YOU WERE NOT PRESENT 
NOR WERE YOU A WITNESS OF THOSE EVENTS

45  BUT WE RAISED UP GENERATIONS AFTER THEM 
THEN LIFE BECAME PROLONGED TO THEM 
THE PEOPLE OF MIDIAN YOU WERE NOT AMONG THEM
RECITING OUR MESSAGES TO THEM 
BUT THE MESSENGERS WE ARE THE SENDERS OF THEM

46  YOU WERE NOT AT THE MOUNTAIN WHEN WE SAID TO MOSES 
YOU ARE SENT FROM YOUR LORD WITH HIS MESSAGES 
TO WARN PEOPLE  TO WHOM NO WARNER CAME PREVIOUS 
THAT THEY MAY BE MINDFUL OF MY PROMISES
 
47  OR ELSE A DISASTER SHOULD BEFALL THEM 
FOR WHAT THEIR HANDS HAVE SENT BEFORE THEM

AND THEY SAY, LORD, WHY DID YOU NOT SEND US A MESSENGER
SO THAT WE MIGHT HAVE FOLLOWED HIM AND BEEN BELIEVERS?

48  BUT NOW WHEN THE TRUTH HAS COME TO THEM FROM US 
AND THEY SAY, WHY ARE NOT SENT TO HIM MESSAGES 
LIKE THOSE OF WHICH WERE SENT TO MOSES?
DID THEY NOT REJECT THE MESSAGES
WHICH WERE SENT TO MOSES? 

THEY SAY, TWO KINDS OF SORCERY EACH ASSISTING THE OTHER  
AND THEY SAY, FOR US WE REJECT ALL SUCH THINGS ALL TOGETHER

49  SAY, THEN BRING FROM GOD A BETTER SCRIPTURE
THAT OF IT I MAY BE A FOLLOWER
IF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS BETTER

50  BUT IF THEY LISTEN NOT TO YOUR MESSAGE FROM US
KNOW THAT THEY ONLY FOLLOW THEIR OWN LUSTS
AND WHO IS MORE ASTRAY THAN ONE WHO FOLLOWS HIS OWN LUSTS 
VAINLY NOT BEING GUIDED BY US
FOR GOD GUIDES NOT THOSE WHO ARE UNJUST

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CHAPTER 28.  THE NARRATIVE                                                        SECTION 6.  PART XX

51  NOW HAVE WE CAUSED THE WORD TO REACH THEM 
IN ORDER THAT ADMONITION MAY BE RECEIVED BY THEM

52  THOSE TO WHOM BEFORE THIS WE SENT REVELATION
THEY BELIEVE TOO IN THIS REVELATION

53  AND WHEN IT IS RECITED TO THEM THEY SAY SINCERELY
IT IS THE TRUTH FROM GOD AND IN IT WE BELIEVE TRULY
AND WE HAVE BEEN SUBMITTERS BEFORE PREVIOUSLY

54  TWICE WILL THEY BE GIVEN THEIR REWARD FOR THAT THEY 
ARE STEADFAST AND REVERT EVIL WITH RIGHTEOUS WAYS
AND THEY SPEND IN CHARITY IN A GENEROUS WAY

55  AND WHEN THEY HEAR MEN TALKING VAINLY 
THEY TURN AWAY AND SAY, TO US ARE OUR DEEDS
AND TO YOU ARE YOURS AND TO YOU BE PEACE
AND WE SEEK NOT THOSE WHO ACT IGNORANTLY

56  TO ALL WHOM YOU PLEASE YOU CANNOT GIVE THEM GUIDANCE 
BUT THOSE WHOM GOD PLEASES HE GIVES TO THEM GUIDANCE 
AND HE KNOWS BEST THOSE WHO RECEIVE HIS GUIDANCE 

57  THEY SAY, IF WE WERE TO FOLLOW YOUR INSTRUCTIONS
WE SHOULD BE SNATCHED AWAY FROM OUR HABITATIONS
BUT HAVE WE NOT ESTABLISHED FOR THEM SECURE ENVIRONS 
TO WHICH ARE GIVEN TO THEM OF ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS?  
BUT MOST OF THEM HAVE NO COMPREHENSION

58  AND HOW MANY POPULATIONS
HAVE WE BROUGHT TO DESTRUCTION 
WHICH LIVED THEIR LIVES IN EXALTATION  
OF WHICH ARE NOW DESERTED HABITATIONS
AND OF WHICH ARE NOW IN OUR POSSESSIONS?

59  NOR DID YOUR LORD EVER DESTROY A POPULATION 
UNTIL HE SENT A MESSENGER TO GIVE ADMONITION
RECITING TO THEM OUR CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS
NOR ARE WE GOING TO DESTROY A POPULATION 
EXCEPT WHEN ITS MEMBERS PRACTICE REBELLION

60  THE MATERIAL THINGS YOU ARE GIVEN ARE AN ENJOYMENT
OF THIS LIFE AND ITS ADORNMENT
BUT THAT WHICH IS WITH GOD IS BETTER AND MORE PERMANENT 
WILL YOU NOT THEN BE OBEDIENT?

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CHAPTER 28.  THE NARRATIVE                                                        SECTION 7.  PART XX

61  ARE THESE ALIKE, ONE WITH WHOM WE HAVE MADE A COVENANT
AND WITH WHOM IT IS GOING TO REACH ITS FULFILLMENT?  
AND ONE TO WHOM GOOD THINGS HAVE BEEN SENT
BUT WHO ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT 
IS TO BE AMONG THOSE BROUGHT UP FOR PUNISHMENT?

62  THAT DAY GOD WILL CALL TO THEM 
AND ASK WHERE ARE THE PARTNERS THEY ASCRIBED TO HIM 

63  THOSE AGAINST WHOM THE CHARGE WILL BE PROVED WILL SAY 
OUR LORD, THESE ARE THE ONES WHOM WE LED ASTRAY 
WE LED THEM ASTRAY BECAUSE WE WERE ASTRAY 

IN YOUR PRESENCE WE FREE OURSELVES FROM THEM 
IT WAS NOT US THAT WAS WORSHIPPED BY THEM

64  AND IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM
CALL YOUR PARTNERS FOR HELP, AND THEY WILL CALL THEM 
BUT THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LISTEN TO THEM 
THEY WILL SEE THE PENALTY BEFORE THEM 
AND THEN WILL IT BE WISHED BY THEM
THAT THEY WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED THE GUIDANCE GIVEN TO THEM

65  GOD WILL SAY, WHAT WAS THE ANSWER 
THAT YOU GAVE TO THE MESSENGERS?

66  THE WHOLE STORY THAT DAY WILL SEEM TO THEM OBSCURE 
LIKE LIGHT TO THE BLIND AND THEY WILL NOT  QUESTION EACH OTHER

67  BUT IN THIS LIFE IF THEY HAD REPENTED AND BELIEVED 
AND WORKED RIGHTEOUSNESS THEY WOULD HAVE RECEIVED 
THE SALVATION WHICH THEY WOULD HAVE HOPED TO ACHIEVE

68  YOUR LORD DOES CREATE AND CHOOSES AS PLEASES HIM
NO CHOICE HAVE THEY IN THE MATTER, GLORY BE TO HIM
FAR IS HE ABOVE THE PARTNERS THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM

69  AND GOD KNOWS ALL THAT THEIR HEARTS CONCEAL 
AND HE KNOWS ALL THAT THEIR HEARTS REVEAL

70  AND HE IS GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE
AND TO HIM BE PRAISED FIRST AND LASTLY
AND YOU WILL RETURN TO HIM FINALLY

71  SAY, IF GOD WERE TO MAKE THE NIGHT PERPETUAL OVER YOU 
WHO OTHER THAN GOD CAN GIVE ENLIGHTENMENT TO YOU?
WILL YOU NOT THEN SHOW GRATITUDE ?

72  SAY, IF GOD WERE TO MAKE THE DAY PERPETUAL OVER YOU
WHO ELSE COULD BRING THE NIGHT TO GIVE REST TO YOU?
IS THIS NOT UNDERSTOOD BY YOU?

73  OUT OF HIS MERCY HE HAS MADE FOR YOU 
THE NIGHT TO GIVE REST TO YOU 
AND THE DAY THAT HIS GRACE MY BE SOUGHT BY 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY SHOW TO HIM YOUR GRATITUDE

74  THE DAY THAT HE WILL CALL ON THEM  
AND ASK WHERE ARE PARTNERS THEY ASCRIBED TO HIM

75  FROM EACH PEOPLE WILL WE  DRAW WITNESSES
AND WE WILL SAY, PRODUCE YOUR EVIDENCES
THEN WILL THEY KNOW THAT TRUTHFULNESS
IS IN GOD ALONE AND THEIR FALSE MESSAGES 
WILL HAVE LEFT THEM IN THE LURCHES

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CHAPTER 28.  THE NARRATIVE                                                        SECTION 8.  PART XX

76  KORAH WAS ONE OF  MOSES'S PEOPLE 
BUT HE ACTED INSOLENTLY TOWARDS THE APOSTLE

AND THE TREASURES TO HIM WHICH WE HAD GIVEN
THAT THEIR VERY KEYS WOULD HAVE BEEN 
A BURDEN TO A BODY OF STRONG MEN 

HIS PEOPLE SAID TO HIM, DO NOT EXULT
FOR GOD LOVES NOT THOSE WHO EXULT

77  BUT SEEK WITH THE WEALTH GOD HAS GIVEN TO YOU
THE HOME OF THE HEREAFTER, NOR FORGET TO DO 
GOOD IN THIS WORLD AS GOD HAS BEEN GOOD TO YOU 
AND MISCHIEF DO NOT SEEK TO DO
FOR GOD LOVES NOT THOSE WHO DO MISCHIEF AMONG YOU

78  HE SAID, THIS HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME 
BECAUSE OF KNOWLEDGE THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME

DID HE NOT KNOW THAT GOD HAD DESTROYED BEFORE HIM 
WHOLE GENERATIONS WHICH WERE SUPERIOR TO HIM 
AND MUCH GREATER IN RICHES THAN HIM? 

BUT THE WICKED ARE NOT IMMEDIATELY 
CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR THEIR INIQUITY 

79  SO HE WENT AMONG HIS PEOPLE WITH HIS WORLDLY GLITTER 
AND IT WAS SAID BY THOSE WHOSE AIM IS WORLDLY GLITTER

IF ONLY WE HAD THE LIKE KORAH'S POSSESSIONS
FOR HE IS A LORD OF MIGHTY GOOD FORTUNE 

80  BUT THOSE WHO WERE GIVEN GUIDANCE CLEAR 
SAID, THE REWARD OF GOD IN THE HEREAFTER 
IS BEST FOR THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS 
BUT THE ATTAINERS OF THIS ARE THE PERSEVERERS 

81  SO WE CAUSED THE EARTH TO SWALLOW HIM 
AND HIS WHOLE HOUSEHOLD WITH HIM 
AND AGAINST GOD HE HAD NO ONE TO HELP HIM
NOR WAS THERE ANY DEFENSE FOR HIM

82  AND ALL THOSE WHO HAD THE DAY BEFORE ENVIED HIS POSITION
THE DAY AFTER SAID, IT IS GOD WHO ENLARGES THE PROVISION
OR RESTRICTS IT TO ANY HE PLEASES OF HIS SERVANTS 

AND HAD IT NOT BEEN THAT GOD WAS GRACIOUS TO US 
HE COULD HAVE CAUSED THE EARTH TO SWALLOW US 
THOSE WHO REJECT GOD WILL NOT BE PROSPEROUS

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CHAPTER 28.  THE NARRATIVE                                                        SECTION 9.  PART XX

83  THE HOME OF THE HEREAFTER WE WILL GIVE TO THE RIGHTEOUS 
WHO INTEND NOT MISCHIEF ON EARTH OR HIGH HANDEDNESS 
AND THE END IS BEST FOR THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS

84  IF ANY DOES GOOD HIS REWARD IS BETTER THAN HIS DEED 
BUT IF ANY DOES EVIL THEY ARE INDEED
PUNISHED TO THE EXTENT OF THEIR DEEDS

85  HE WHO ORDAINED THE QURAN FOR YOU
BACK TO THE PLACE OF RETURN HE WILL BRING YOU
SAY, MY LORD KNOWS BEST WHO BRINGS GUIDANCE TRUE 
AND WHO IS IN MANIFEST ERROR AMONG YOU

86  YOU HAD NOT EXPECTED THAT THE BOOK WOULD BE 
SENT TO YOU FROM GOD AS A MERCY 
SO DO NOT SUPPORT THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

87  LET NOTHING KEEP YOU BACK FROM THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN REVEALED AND INVITE MEN TO GOD 
AND BE NOT AMONG THOSE WHO JOIN GODS WITH GOD

88  AND CALL NOT BESIDES GOD ON ANOTHER GOD 
BESIDES HIM THERE IS NO OTHER GOD 

EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS WILL PERISH EXCEPT HIM  
THE COMMAND BELONGS ONLY TO HIM 
AND YOU WILL ALL BE BROUGHT BACK TO HIM

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CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                                SECTION 1.  PART XX

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, THE CREATOR
AM THE BEST KNOWER

2  DO MEN THINK THAT THEY WILL BE 
LEFT ALONE JUST SAYING, WE BELIEVE
AND WILL NOT BE TRIED BY THEIR DEEDS?

3  WE TESTED THOSE BEFORE THEM TOO
AND GOD WILL KNOW THOSE AMONG YOU
WHO ARE FALSE FROM THOSE WHO ARE TRUE

4  DO THOSE WHO PRACTICE EVIL THINK THAT THEY WILL 
GET THE BETTER OF US?  THEIR JUDGMENT IS ILL

5  FOR THOSE WHOSE HOPES ARE IN THE MEETING 
WITH GOD IN THE HEREAFTER, LET THEM ENGAGE IN STRIVING 
FOR THE TERM WITH GOD IS MOST SURELY COMING 
AND GOD IS ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING

6  IF ANY STRIVE THEY DO SO FOR THEIR OWN SALVATION
FOR GOD IS FREE OF ALL NEEDS FROM ALL CREATION

7  THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
WE WILL BLOT OUT ALL EVIL IN THEM AND WILL INDEED
REWARD THEM ACCORDING TO THE BEST OF THEIR DEEDS

8  WE HAVE ENJOINED ON MAN KINDNESS TO HIS PARENTS
BUT IF THEY STRIVE TO FORCE YOU TO BE A SERVANT

OF OR WORSHIP ANYTHING BESIDES ME
OBEY THEM NOT FOR YOU WILL ALL RETURN TO ME
AND I WILL TELL YOU ALL THAT YOU DID TRUTHFULLY

9  AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO DEEDS THAT ARE RIGHTEOUS 
THEM WILL WE ADMIT TO THE COMPANY OF THE RIGHTEOUS

10  AND THEN THERE ARE MEN WHO SAY, WE BELIEVE IN GOD 
BUT WHEN THEY SUFFER AFFLICTION IN THE CAUSE OF GOD 
THEY TREAT MEN'S OPPRESSION LIKE THE WRATH OF GOD 
AND IF HELP COMES TO YOU FROM GOD
THEY SAY, WE WERE WITH YOU, BUT ALL  IS KNOWN BY GOD

11  AND GOD KNOWS THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
AND THOSE WHO ARE HYPOCRITES INDEED

12  THE DISBELIEVERS SAY TO THE BELIEVERS 
FOLLOW OUR PATH AND YOUR FAULTS WE WILL BEAR
NEVER WILL THEY BEAR THEIR FAULTS, IN FACT THEY ARE LIARS

13  THEY WILL BEAR THEIR OWN BURDENS 
AND OTHER BURDENS ALONG WITH THEIR BURDENS
AND ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
THEY WILL BE CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR THEIR FABRICATIONS

380
CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                                SECTION 2.  PART XX

14  WE SENT NOAH TO HIS PEOPLE WHO BEHAVED INSOLENTLY
HE STAYED AMONG THEM A THOUSAND YEARS LESS FIFTY 
BUT THE FLOOD OVERWHELMED THEM COMPLETELY
WHILE THEY PERSISTED IN INIQUITY

15  BUT WE SAVED HIM IN THE ARK AND HIS PEOPLE 
AND WE MADE THE ARK A SIGN FOR ALL PEOPLE

16  WE ALSO SAVED ABRAHAM AND HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE
SERVE GOD, THAT WILL BE BEST FOR YOU PEOPLE

17  FOR YOU WORSHIP IDOLS BESIDES GOD 
AND THE THINGS THAT YOU WORSHIP BESIDES GOD 
HAVE NO POWER TO GIVE SUSTENANCE TO YOU BESIDES GOD
SO SERVE GOD THEN SEEK YOUR SUSTENANCE FROM GOD 
AND BE GRATEFUL TO HIM, YOU WILL RETURN TO GOD

18  IF YOU REJECT THE MESSAGE SO DID GENERATIONS PRIOR
AND THE ONLY DUTY OF THE MESSENGER
IS TO PREACH THE MESSAGE CLEAR

19  SEE HOW GOD ORIGINATES AND REPEATS CREATION  
AND FOR GOD THAT IS NO COMPLICATION? 

20  SAY, TRAVEL THE EARTH WITH OBSERVATION
AND SEE HOW GOD DID ORIGINATE CREATION
AND GOD WILL PRODUCE A LATER CREATION 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

21  HE PUNISHES WHOM HE PLEASES 
AND HE GRANTS MERCY TO WHOM HE PLEASES 
AND TO HIM YOU WILL BE RETURNED AS HE PLEASES

22  NOT ON EARTH NOR IN HEAVEN WILL YOU 
BE ABLE TO FRUSTRATE HIS PLAN NOR HAVE YOU 
BESIDES YOUR LORD ANYONE AS A PATRON FOR YOU

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CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                                SECTION 3.  PART XX

23  THOSE WHO REJECT THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
AND THE MEETING IN THE HEREAFTER WITH GOD
 
IT IS THEY WHO WILL DESPAIR OF MY MERCY
AND IT IS THEY WHO WILL SUFFER A GRIEVOUS PENALTY 

24  OF ABRAHAM'S PEOPLE THEIR ANSWER WAS, KILL HIM                                           
OR BURN HIM, BUT FROM THE FIRE GOD SAVED HIM 
FOR ANY BELIEVER THIS IS A SIGN FOR HIM 

25  HE SAID, YOU HAVE BESIDES GOD TAKEN FOR WORSHIP 
IDOLS OUT OF MUTUAL LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP

BUT IN THE HEREAFTER YOU WILL DISOWN EACH OTHER  
AND CURSE EACH OTHER AND YOU WILL ABIDE IN THE FIRE
AND YOU WILL HAVE NO FRIEND OR HELPER

26  SO LOT BELIEVED IN HIS LORD
AND SAID, I AM FLEEING TO MY LORD 
FOR SURELY WISE AND MIGHTY IS MY LORD

27  AND WE GAVE TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB AS SONS
AND WE GAVE HIS DESCENDANTS PROPHETHOOD AND REVELATION

AND WE GRANTED HIM HIS REWARD IN THIS LIFE GREATLY
AND HE WAS IN THE HEREAFTER OF THE COMPANY 
OF THOSE WHO ACTED RIGHTEOUSLY

28  LOT SAID TO HIS PEOPLE, YOU COMMIT ABOMINATION 
SUCH AS NO PEOPLE EVER DID BEFORE YOU IN CREATION 

29  DO YOU APPROACH MEN LUSTFULLY
AND CUT OFF THE HIGHWAYS RUTHLESSLY
AND IN YOUR COUNCILS YOU ACT WICKEDLY?  
BUT HIS PEOPLE GAVE NO ANSWERS PROPERLY
BUT THAT THEY SAID, BRING US GOD'S PENALTY
IF YOU ARE INDEED ACTING TRUTHFULLY 

30  HE SAID, MY LORD, BE MY HELPER
AGAINST THE MISCHIEF MAKERS

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CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                                  SECTION 4.  PART XX

31  WHEN OUR MESSENGERS CAME TO ABRAHAM OUR APOSTLE
THEY SAID, WE ARE GOING TO DESTROY THIS TOWN'S PEOPLE 
FOR THEY ARE SURELY ADDICTED CRIMINALS 

32  HE SAID, BUT LOT IS THERE 
THEY SAID, WELL DO WE KNOW WHO IS THERE 

WE WILL CERTAINLY SAVE HIM AND HIS FAMILY
EXCEPT HIS WIFE, SHE WILL LAG BELATEDLY

33  WHEN OUR MESSENGERS CAME TO LOT HE WAS GRIEVED 
AND HE FELT POWERLESS TO PROTECT THEM SAFELY
BUT THEY SAID, FEAR NOT AND DO NOT GRIEVE 
FOR WE ARE HERE TO SAVE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
EXCEPT FOR YOUR WIFE FOR SHE WILL LAG BELATEDLY

34  FOR WE ARE GOING TO BRING DOWN 
ON THE PEOPLE OF THIS TOWN

A PUNISHMENT FROM HEAVEN 
BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN IN TRANSGRESSION

35  WE HAVE LEFT THERE AN EVIDENT WARNING
FOR ANY PEOPLE WITH UNDERSTANDING

36  TO THE MADYAN PEOPLE 
WE SENT SHUAIB WHO SAID TO HIS PEOPLE 
SERVE GOD AND FEAR GOD AND COMMIT NO EVIL

37  BUT HE WAS REJECTED BY THEM
AND THE EARTHQUAKE SEIZED THEM

AND THEY LAID IN THEIR DWELLINGS
MOTIONLESS BY THE MORNING

38  REMEMBER ALSO THE AD AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE 
CLEARLY WILL THE FATE OF THEIR PEOPLE

APPEAR TO YOU FROM THE TRACES OF THEIR BUILDINGS 
TO THEM THE DEVIL MADE THEIR DEEDS SEEM ALLURING 

AND KEPT THEM BACK FROM THE RIGHT WAY
THOUGH GIFTED WITH INTELLIGENCE AND SKILL WERE THEY

39  REMEMBER ALSO 
KORAH, HAMAN AND PHARAOH

MOSES CAME WITH CLEAR SIGNS BUT THEY WERE INSOLENT
YET THEY COULD NOT ESCAPE OUR PUNISHMENT

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CHAPTER 28.  THE NARRATIVE                                     SECTION 4 (CONT'D).  PART XX

40  WE SEIZED FOR THEIR CRIMES EACH OF THEM 
AND WE SENT TORNADOES AGAINST SOME OF THEM
WITH VIOLENT SHOWERS OF STONES AND SOME OF THEM
WERE CAUGHT UP BY A MIGHTY BLAST AND SOME OF THEM
WE CAUSED THE EARTH TO SWALLOW THEM
AND WE DROWNED IN THE WATERS SOME OF THEM
IT WAS NOT GOD WHO INJURED OR OPPRESSED THEM
IT WAS THEIR OWN SELVES THAT INJURED AND OPPRESSED THEM

41  THE PARABLE OF THOSE WHO TAKE PROTECTORS 
OTHER THAN GOD IS THAT OF THE SPIDER 

WHO BUILDS FOR ITSELF A HOUSE 
AND THE FLIMSIEST HOUSE IS THE SPIDER'S HOUSE 

42  GOD KNOWS WHAT THEY CALL ON OTHER THAN HE
FOR HE IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

43  AND THESE ARE THE PARABLES 
WE SET FORTH FOR PEOPLE 

BUT ONLY THOSE WILL GRASP THEIR MEANING
WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

44  GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS 
AND THE EARTH IN TRUE PROPORTIONS
AND IN THAT IS A SIGN FOR BELIEVING ONES

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CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                               SECTION 5.  PART XX1

PART XXI

45  RECITE WHAT IS SENT OF THE BOOK BY INSPIRATION TO YOU 
ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER, FOR PRAYER RESTRAINS YOU 
FROM DOING THE SHAMEFUL DEEDS THAT YOU DO
AND REMEMBRANCE OF GOD IS THE GREATEST THING FOR YOU
AND GOD KNOWS WELL THE DEEDS THAT YOU DO 

46  AND DISPUTE NOT WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE REVELATIONS 
EXCEPT WITH MEANS BETTER THAN MERE DISPUTATION
UNLESS IT BE WITH THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION
BUT SAY, WE BELIEVE IN THE REVELATION 
WHICH HAS COME TO US AND IN THE REVELATION
WHICH HAS COME TO YOU AND OUR GOD IS ONE
AND TO HIM DO WE BOW TO IN SUBMISSION

47  AND SO IT IS THAT WE HAVE SENT DOWN TO YOU REVELATION
AND THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK BELIEVE IN THE REVELATIONS
AS DO ALSO SOME OF THE PAGANS 
AND NONE BUT DISBELIEVERS REJECT OUR REVELATIONS

48  AND YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO RECITE A BOOK BEFORE IT
NOR ARE YOU ABLE TO WITH YOUR RIGHT HAND TRANSCRIBE IT
IN THAT CASE WOULD THE TALKERS OF VANITIES HAVE DOUBTED IT

49  HERE ARE SELF EVIDENT LESSONS
IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WITH COMPRESSION 
AND NONE DENY OUR MESSAGES BUT THOSE IN REJECTION

50  YET THEY SAY, WHY ARE NOT SIGNS SENT TO HIM FROM GOD? 
SAY TO THEM, THE SIGNS ARE INDEED WITH GOD 
AND I AM A CLEAR WARNER FROM GOD

51  AND IS IT NOT ENOUGH FOR THEM 
THAT WE GAVE YOU THE BOOK WHICH IS RECITED TO THEM
AS A MERCY AND A REMINDER TO THE BELIEVERS AMONG THEM?

385
CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                                SECTION 6.  PART XX1

52  SAY, ENOUGH IS GOD FOR A WITNESS BETWEEN ME AND YOU 
HE KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH TOO
AND THE REJECTERS ARE THE ONES WHO WILL LOSE

53  THEY ASK YOU TO HASTEN THE PUNISHMENT FOR THEM  
AND HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A TERM APPOINTED FOR THEM
THE PUNISHMENT WOULD SURELY HAVE COME TO THEM
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT WILL REACH THEM
WHILE NOT BEING PERCEIVED BY THEM 

54  THEY ASK YOU TO HASTEN ON THE PENALTY
BUT HELL WILL ENCOMPASS THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

55  ON THE DAY THAT THE PUNISHMENT WILL COVER THEM 
FROM ABOVE THEM AND FROM BELOW THEM  
TASTE THE FRUITS OF YOUR DEEDS, A VOICE WILL SAY TO THEM 

56  OH MY SERVANTS WHO BELIEVE TRULY 
SPACIOUS IS MY EARTH SO SERVE ME ONLY

57  EVERY SOUL WILL HAVE A TASTE OF DEATH AND IN THE END 
TO US YOU WILL ALL BE BROUGHT BACK AGAIN

58  BUT THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO GOOD DEEDS 
TO THEM WILL WE GIVE A HOME IN HEAVEN ETERNALLY

LOFTY MANSIONS BENEATH WHICH FLOW RIVERS 
AND THEY WILL DWELL IN THEM IN PEACE FOREVER 
AN EXCELLENT REWARD FOR THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

59  THOSE WHO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE 
AND PUT THEIR TRUST IN THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER

60  HOW MANY CREATURES CARRY NOT THEIR OWN FOOD 
IT IS YOUR LORD WHO FEEDS BOTH THEM AND YOU
FOR HE HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THAT YOU DO

61  IF YOU ASK THEM, WHO CREATED THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND THE SUN AND THE MOON BOWING TO HIM IN SUBMISSION?  
THEY WILL SAY, GOD, HOW THEN ARE THEY IN REJECTION? 

62  GOD ENLARGES THE SUSTENANCE 
OF WHICH EVER HE PLEASES OF HIS SERVANTS 

AND HE GRANTS BY STRICT MEASURE SIMILARLY 
FOR FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS HAS HE

63  IF YOU ASK THEM, WHO SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKIES
AND WITH IT GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER IT DIES
THEY WILL CERTAINLY SAY, GOD, AS THEIR REPLY
SAY, PRAISE BE TO GOD, BUT MOST OF THEM HAVE NO SIGHT

386
CHAPTER 29.  THE SPIDER                                                               SECTION 7.  PART XX1

64  THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD IS AMUSING TO YOU  
BUT THE HEREAFTER IS BETTER IF YOU ONLY KNEW 

65  IF THEY EMBARK ON A BOAT THEY CALL ON GOD
MAKING THEIR DEVOTION SINCERELY TO GOD
BUT WHEN THEY ARE DELIVERED TO DRY LAND BY GOD
THEY WORSHIP OTHER GODS BESIDES GOD

66  BEING UNGRATEFUL FOR OUR PRESENTS
AND GIVING THEMSELVES TO WORLDLY ENJOYMENT 
BUT SOON WILL THEY SURELY KNOW THE PUNISHMENT

67  SEE HOW WE HAVE MADE A SECURE SANCTUARY FOR THEM 
WHILE MEN ARE BEING SNATCHED AWAY FROM ALL AROUND THEM
EVEN THEN THAT WHICH IS BESIDES GOD IS BELIEVED IN BY THEM
AND THE GRACE OF GOD IS REJECTED BY THEM

68  AND WHO DOES MORE WRONG THAN HE WHO LIES AGAINST GOD
OR WHO REJECTS THE TRUTH WHEN IT REACHES HIM FROM GOD
IS THERE NOT A HOME IN HELL FOR DISBELIEVERS IN GOD?

AND THOSE WHO STRIVE HARD IN OUR WAY
WE WILL GRACEFULLY GUIDE THEM IN OUR WAYS 
AND GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO ACT IN THE RIGHT WAY

     

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CHAPTER 30.  THE ROMAN EMPIRE                                              SECTION 1.  PART XX1

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM THE BEST KNOWER

2  THE ROMAN EMPIRE 
HAS BEEN EXPIRED

3  IN A LAND CLOSE BY BUT THEY EVEN AFTER
THIS DEFEAT OF THEIRS WILL SOON BE THE VICTORS

4  WITHIN A FEW YEARS 
WITH GOD IS THE DECISION OF THE MATTER
IN THE PAST AND IN THE FUTURE 
ON THAT DAY REJOICING WILL BE THE BELIEVERS 

5  WITH THE HELP OF GOD AND HE HELPS WHOM HE PLEASES
 AND HE  IS EXALTED IN MIGHT AND MOST GRACIOUS

6  IT IS GOD'S PROMISE 
NEVER DOES GOD FAIL IN HIS PROMISE 
BUT MOST MEN DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS

7  THEY KNOW BUT THE OUTER THINGS 
BUT ARE HEEDLESS OF THE END OF THINGS
 
8  DO THEY NOT REFLECT THAT NOT BUT FOR JUST ENDS 
AND FOR A TERM APPOINTED DID GOD CREATE THE HEAVENS 

AND THE EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN THEM?   
YET THE MEETING WITH THEIR LORD IS DENIED BY THEM

9  AND IS THE EARTH NOT TRAVELED THROUGH BY THEM
TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE BEFORE THEM? 
THEY WERE SUPERIOR IN STRENGTH TO THEM
AND POPULATED THE EARTH GREATER THAN THEM 
AND THEIR MESSENGERS CAME TO THEM
WITH CLEAR SIGNS AND THEY REJECTED THEM
WHICH BROUGHT ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THEM
AND IT WAS NOT THEIR LORD THAT WRONGED THEM
THEIR OWN SOULS WERE WRONGED BY THEM

I0  EVIL WILL BE THE END OF THOSE WHO PRACTICE INIQUITY 
FOR THAT THEY REJECTED GOD'S MESSAGES UNJUSTLY
AND THEY HELD THEM UP IN MOCKERY

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CHAPTER 30.  THE ROMAN EMPIRE                                                SECTION 2.  PART XX1

11  IT IS GOD WHO ORIGINATES AND REPEATS CREATION
AND TO HIM YOU WILL BE RETURNED AGAIN 

12  ON THE DAY THAT THE HOUR WILL BE ESTABLISHED
THE GUILTY WILL BE STRUCK DUMB AND DEPRESSED

13  NO INTERCESSOR WILL THEY HAVE AMONG THEIR PARTNERS
AND THEY WILL THEMSELVES REJECT THEIR PARTNERS

14  ON THE DAY WHEN COMES THE HOUR 
ALL MEN WILL BE SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER 

15  THOSE WHO HAVE BELIEVED AND WORKED RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
WILL BE MADE HAPPY IN A DELIGHTFUL MEAD 

16  AND THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN REJECTERS  
OF OUR SIGNS AND THE MEETING OF THE HEREAFTER
WILL BE BROUGHT FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF THE FIRE

17  SO GIVE GLORY TO GOD IN THE EVENING
AND WHEN YOU RISE IN THE MORNING

18  TO HIM BE PRAISE IN THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS  
AND IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND WHEN THE DAY ENDS

19  IT IS HE WHO BRINGS OUT THE LIVING
FROM THE DEAD AND BRINGS OUT THE DEAD FROM THE LIVING 

AND WHO GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER IT IS DEAD 
AND SO WILL YOU BE BROUGHT OUT FROM THE DEAD

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CHAPTER 30.  THE ROMAN EMPIRE                                               SECTION 3.  PART XX1

20  AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THAT FROM DUST HE CREATED YOU 
AND THEN AFTER THAT HE SCATTERED YOU 

21  AND AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THIS ADDITIONALLY
THAT HE CREATED MATES FROM AMONG YOU MERCIFULLY
THAT YOU MAY DWELL WITH THEM IN TRANQUILLITY
AND HE HAS PUT BETWEEN YOUR HEARTS LOVE AND MERCY 
IN THAT ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO THINK DEEPLY

22  AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THE CREATION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND IN YOUR LANGUAGES IN THEIR VARIATIONS 

AND IN THE DIVERSITY OF YOUR COLORS
ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO ARE OBSERVERS

23  AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THE SLEEP THAT YOU TAKE BY NIGHT
AND BY DAY THE QUEST THAT YOU MAKE FOR LIFE
IN THAT ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SIGHT

24  AMONG HIS SIGNS HE SHOWS YOU THE LIGHTNING 
BY WAY OF FEAR AND BY WAY OF HOPING

AND IT IS HE WHO SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKIES 
AND WITH IT GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER IT DIES
IN THAT ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO ARE WISE

25  AND BY HIS COMMAND SUBSISTS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH  
THEN WHEN HE CALLS YOU BY A SINGLE CALL FROM THE EARTH
THEN YOU STRAIGHTWAY COME FORTH FROM THE EARTH

26  EVERY BEING THAT IS IN THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
BELONG TO HIM AND BOW TO HIM IN SUBMISSION

27  HE ORIGINATES CREATION THEN REPEATS IT 
AND FOR HIM MOST EASY IS IT

HIS IS THE HIGHEST STATE IN THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND HE IS FULL OF MIGHT AND WISDOM

390
CHAPTER 30.  THE ROMAN EMPIRE                                               SECTION 4.  PART XX1

28  AND HE SHOWS SIMILITUDES FROM YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE TO YOU 
DO YOU SHARE EQUALLY WITH YOUR SLAVES WEALTH GIVEN TO YOU 
AND DO YOU FEAR THEM AS YOU FEAR EACH OTHER AMONG YOU?
AND SO DO WE EXPLAIN THE SIGNS IN DETAIL TO YOU 
THAT UNDERSTANDING MAY BE GIVEN TO YOU 

29  THOSE WHO ARE UNJUST
BEING DEVOID OF KNOWLEDGE FOLLOW THEIR OWN LUSTS 
 
BUT WHO WILL GUIDE THOSE WHOM GOD LEAVES IN ERROR
FOR THEM THERE WILL BE NO HELPERS

30  SO SET YOUR FACE STEADILY TO THE TRUE RELIGION
BEING UPRIGHT ACCORDING TO GOD'S INSTRUCTIONS
TO THE WAY WHICH GOD MADE MAN'S CREATION
AND THERE IS NO ALTERING GOD'S CREATION
AND THAT IS THE STANDARD RELIGION 
BUT MOST PEOPLE HAVE NOT THIS REALIZATION

31  TURN BACK IN REPENTANCE TO GOD AND FEAR GOD
AND ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS TO GOD
AND BE NOT AMONG THOSE WHO JOIN GODS WITH GOD

32  THOSE WHO SPLIT UP THEIR RELIGION AND BECOME SECTS 
EACH PARTY REJOICING IN THAT WHICH IS WITH ITS SECT

33  WHEN TROUBLE TOUCHES MEN THEY CRY TO GOD
TURNING IN REPENTANCE BACK TO GOD
BUT WHEN THEY ARE GIVEN MERCY FROM GOD
SOME OF THEM WORSHIP OTHER GODS BESIDES GOD

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

35  WE HAVE SENT DOWN AUTHORITY TO THEM 
WHICH POINTS OUT THE THINGS TO THEM 
WHICH ARE WORSHIPPED BY THEM

36  AND MEN EXULT AFTER WE GIVE THEM A TASTE OF MERCY  
WHEN EVIL AFFLICTS THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR INIQUITY 
THEN THEY ARE LOST IN DISPARITY

37  SEE THEY NOT THAT GOD ENLARGES 
THE PROVISION AND RESTRICTS IT TO WHOM HE PLEASES 
IN THAT ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIS MESSAGES

38  GIVE WHAT IS DUE TO KINDRED, THE NEEDY AND THE WAYFARER 
THAT IS BEST FOR THOSE WHO SEEK GOD'S PLEASURE
AND IT IS THEY WHO WILL PROSPER

39  THAT WHICH YOU LAY OUT FOR INCREASE 
THROUGH THE PROPERTY OF OTHER PEOPLE WILL HAVE NO INCREASE 
WITH GOD, BUT THAT WHICH YOU LAY OUT FOR CHARITIES
SEEKING THE PLEASURE OF GOD WILL INCREASE 
AND THESE WILL GET A RECOMPENSE WITH MULTIPLIED INCREASE

40  IT IS GOD WHO HAS CREATED YOU
AND HAS PROVIDED SUSTENANCE FOR YOU
HE WILL CAUSE YOU TO DIE AND AGAIN RAISE YOU 

NOW ARE THERE ANY OF YOUR FALSE DIETIES
WHO CAN DO ANY OF THESE? 
TO GOD BE THE GLORY  
HIGH ABOVE THE PARTNERS THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM IS HE

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CHAPTER 30.  THE ROMAN EMPIRE                                               SECTION 5.  PART XX1

41  MISCHIEF HAS APPEARED ON LAND AND SEA 
BECAUSE OF THE MEAD MEN HAVE EARNED BY THEIR DEEDS
THAT GOD MAY GIVE THEM A TASTE OF SOME OF THEIR DEEDS 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY TURN BACK FROM DOING EVIL DEEDS

42  SAY, TRAVEL THE EARTH THROUGH
AND SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE BEFORE YOU 
MOST OF THEM WORSHIPPED GODS OTHER THAN GOD TOO

43  BUT SET YOUR FACE TO THE RIGHT RELIGION
BEFORE THE DAY COMES WHICH THERE IS NO AVERSION
AND ON THAT DAY MEN WILL BE DIVIDED IN TWO SECTIONS

44  THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH WILL SUFFER FROM THEIR REJECTION
AND THOSE WHO DO GOOD WILL REST IN HEAVEN

45  SO THAT HE MAY REWARD THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
AND WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS OUT OF HIS BOUNTY
FOR HE LOVES NOT THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

46  AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THIS, THAT HE MERCIFULLY
SENDS THE WINDS AS HERALDS OF GLAD TIDINGS GENTLY
GIVING YOU A TASTE OF HIS GRACE AND MERCY 
THAT THE SHIPS MAY SAIL BY HIS COMMAND MAJESTICALLY 
AND SO THAT YOU MAY SEEK OF HIS BOUNTY 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY ACT GRATEFULLY

47  WE SENT BEFORE YOU APOSTLES 
TO THEIR RESPECTIVE PEOPLE 

AND THEY CAME WITH CLEAR MESSAGES TO THEM 
AND THOSE WHO TRANSGRESSED AMONG THEM
WE METED OUT RETRIBUTION TO THEM
AND WE AIDED THE BELIEVING ONES AMONG THEM

48  GOD SENDS THE WINDS AND THE CLOUDS ARE RAISED THEREBY 
THEN HE SPREADS THEM AS HE WILLS IN THE SKY

AND BREAKS THEM INTO FRAGMENTS UNTIL YOU SEE 
RAIN DROPS ISSUE FROM THE MIDST OF IT ABUNDANTLY 
WHEN HE HAS MADE THEM REACH HIS SERVANTS FAVORABLY
THEN THEY REJOICE GLEEFULLY

49  EVEN THOUGH BEFORE THEY RECEIVED THE RAIN 
THEY WERE DEPRESSED AND IN PAIN

50  THEN CONTEMPLATE THE MEMORIALS OF YOUR LORD'S MERCY
HOW HE GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER ITS DEATH DECREE 
THE SAME WILL GIVE LIFE TO DEAD MEN FOR SURELY 
ALL POWER OVER ALL THINGS HAS HE

51  AND IF WE BUT SEND A WIND FROM WHICH THEY SEE 
THEIR HARVEST TURN YELLOW THEY ACT UNGRATEFULLY  

52  SO YOU CAN NOT MAKE THE DEAD TO HAVE HEARING 
NOR CAN YOU MAKE THE DEAF TO HEAR THE CALLING
ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY GO BACK RETREATING
 
53  NOR CAN YOU LEAD BACK THE BLIND OUT OF ERROR
YOU CAN MAKE NONE TO HEAR BUT THE BELIEVERS
IN OUR MESSAGES AND WHO ARE SUBMITTERS

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54  GOD CREATED YOU IN A STATE OF WEAKNESS 
THEN GAVE YOU STRENGTH AFTER WEAKNESS 
AND AFTER STRENGTH GAVE YOU WEAKNESS 
AND GRAY HAIR AND HE CREATES AS HE PLEASES
AND HE HAS POWER OVER ALL EXISTANCES

55  ON THE DAY THAT THE RECKONING HOUR 
WILL BE ESTABLISHED, THEN THE TRANSGRESSORS 
WILL SWEAR THAT THEY HAD STAYED NOT BUT AN HOUR 
SO USED WERE THEY TO BEING IN DISORDER

56  BUT THOSE ENDUED WITH KNOWLEDGE WILL SAY 
YOU STAYED WITHIN GOD'S DECREE TO THE RESURRECTION DAY

AND THIS IS THE DAY OF RESURRECTION 
BUT YOU ARE UNAWARE OF THIS REALIZATION

57  THAT DAY NO EXCUSE WILL AVAIL THOSE GUILTY OF SINNING
NOR WILL THEY THEN HAVE THE ABILITY OF SEEKING
GRACE FROM GOD BY REPENTING

58  WE HAVE GIVEN MEN IN THIS QURAN PARABLES OF EVERY KIND
BUT IF YOU BRING TO THEM ANY SIGN

IT WILL BE SAID BY THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS 
YOU ARE NOTHING BUT DECEIVERS

59  GOD SEALS UP THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO KNOW NOT
AND THOSE WHO TRY TO UNDERSTAND NOT 

60  SO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE FOR GOD'S PROMISE IS TRUE 
NOR LET THOSE SHAKE YOUR FIRMNESS WHO ARE FAITHLESS AMONG YOU

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CHAPTER 31.  LUQMAN                                                                     SECTION 1.  PART XX1

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM THE BEST KNOWER

2  THESE ARE THE VERSES OF THE BOOK THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR

3  A GUIDE AND A MERCY
FOR THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

4  THOSE WHO ESTABLISH PRAYERS REGULARLY
AND THOSE WHO GIVE REGULAR CHARITY 
AND HAVE FAITH IN THE HEREAFTER WITH CERTAINTY

5  THESE ARE ON TRUE GUIDANCE FROM THEIR MAKER
AND THESE ARE THE ONES WHO WILL PROSPER

6  BUT THERE ARE THOSE AMONG MEN WHO PURCHASE FRIVOLITY
WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE TO MISLEAD MEN AND MAKE MOCKERY
FOR THEM THERE WILL BE A HUMILIATING PENALTY

7  WHEN OUR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO SUCH A ONE
HE TURNS AWAY IN ARROGANT REJECTION 

AS IF THERE WAS DEAFNESS IN HIS EARS 
ANNOUNCE TO HIM A PUNISHMENT THAT IS SEVERE

8  FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
AND WORK RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
THERE WILL BE GARDENS OF ETERNITY

9  TO DWELL THEREIN, THE PROMISE OF GOD IS SURE
AND HE IS ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER

10  AND HE CREATED THE HEAVENS WITHOUT ANY PILLARS IN IT 
HE SET ON THE EARTH MOUNTAINS STANDING FIRMLY ON IT
OR ELSE IT WOULD SHAKE WITH YOU ON IT
AND HE SCATTERED BEASTS OF ALL KINDS THROUGH IT 

AND WE SEND DOWN RAIN FROM THE AIR 
AND PRODUCE EVERY KIND OF CREATURE IN PAIRS

11  THIS IS THE CREATION OF GOD, THE CREATOR 
NOW SHOW ME WHAT HAS BEEN CREATED BY OTHERS 
NO, BUT THE TRANSGRESSORS ARE IN MANIFEST ERROR

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CHAPTER 31.  LUQMAN                                                                     SECTION 2.  PART XXI

12  WE BESTOWED WISDOM ON LUQMAN TO ACT GRATEFULLY
AND ANY WHO TO GOD DOES ACT GRATEFULLY
DOES SO FOR HIMSELF AS THE BENEFICIARY 
BUT IF ANY ACTS UNGRATEFULLY 
GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND IS PRAISEWORTHY

13  LUQMAN SAID TO HIS SON BY WAY OF INSTRUCTION
JOIN NOT IN WORSHIP ANY OTHERS WITH GOD, MY SON
FOR FALSE WORSHIP IS THE HIGHEST TRANSGRESSION

14  FOR MAN WE ENJOINED KINDNESS TO HIS PARENTS ON HIM
FOR IN HARDSHIP DID HIS MOTHER BEAR HIM 
AND IN TWO YEARS WAS THE WEANING OF HIM
SO HEAR GOD'S COMMAND AND SHOW GRATITUDE TO HIM
AND ALSO TO YOUR PARENTS AND YOUR FINAL GOAL IS TO HIM  

15  BUT IF THEY SHOULD STRIVE TO MAKE YOU WORSHIP BESIDES ME 
THINGS OF WHICH YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF CERTAINTY 
DO NOT OBEY THEM AND KEEP KINDLY COMPANY 
WITH THEM IN THIS LIFE CONSIDERATELY
AND FOLLOW THE WAY OF THOSE WHO LOVE ME 
FOR IN THE END THE RETURN OF YOU ALL IS TO ME 
AND I WILL THEN TELL YOU WHAT YOU DID TRUTHFULLY  

16  LUQMAN SAID, OH MY SON, IF THERE BE 
BUT THE WEIGHT OF A MUSTARD SEED 
AND IF IT WERE HIDDEN IN A ROCK SECRETLY
OR ANYWHERE HEAVENLY OR EARTHLY
GOD WILL BRING IT FORTH MANIFESTLY
FOR HE UNDERSTANDS THE FINEST MYSTERIES 
AND WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THEM IS HE

17  OH MY SON, ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER 
ENJOIN WHAT IS JUST AND FORBID WHAT IS IN ERROR
AND BEAR WITH PATIENT CONSTANCY WHATEVER 
BEFALLS YOU FOR THIS IS FIRMNESS IN AFFAIRS

18  AND TURN NOT YOUR FACE FROM PEOPLE CONTEMPTUOUSLY 
NOR GO ABOUT IN THE LAND EXULTANTLY
FOR GOD LOVES NOT ANYONE WHO BOASTS ARROGANTLY 

19  AND LOWER YOUR VOICE AND BE MODERATE IN YOUR PACES
FOR THE HARSHEST OF SOUNDS IS THE BRAYING OF ASSES

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CHAPTER 31.  LUQMAN                                                                      SECTION 3.  PART XX1

20  DO YOU NOT SEE THAT GOD HAS MADE FOR YOUR PLEASURE
ALL THINGS THAT ARE IN THE HEAVENS AND ON THE EARTH ? 
AND HAS GIVEN YOU BOUNTIES EXCEEDING IN MEASURE 
BOTH SEEN AND UNSEEN YET AMONG YOU CREATURES

THERE ARE MEN WHO DISPUTE WITH NO KNOWLEDGE GIVEN THEM 
AND WITHOUT ANY GUIDANCE GIVEN TO THEM
AND WITHOUT A BOOK TO ENLIGHTEN THEM 

21  WHEN THEY ARE TOLD TO FOLLOW GOD'S REVELATION 
THEY SAY, NO, WE FOLLOW OUR FATHER'S RELIGION

22  EVEN IF IT IS SATAN BECKONING THEM TO THE FIRE
AND WHOEVER SUBMITS HIMSELF TO HIS MAKER
AND IS A DOER OF GOOD TO OTHERS
HAS GRASPED THE HAND HOLD THAT IS STRONGER
AND WITH GOD RESTS THE END OF ALL ENDEAVORS

23  IF ANY REJECT FAITH, LET NOT HIS REJECTION
GRIEVE YOU FOR TO US IS THEIR FINAL DESTINATION
AND WE WILL INFORM THEM OF ALL OF THEIR ACTIONS 
YOUR LORD IS THE KNOWER OF ALL THINGS IN CREATION 

24  FOR A WHILE THEIR PLEASURES WE GRANT THEM 
BUT IN THE END WE WILL SURELY DRIVE THEM 
TO A SEVERE CHASTISEMENT FOR THEM

25  IF YOU ASK THEM WHO CREATED EARTH AND HEAVEN 
THEY WILL SAY GOD IS THE AUTHOR OF ALL CREATION

SAY TO THEM, PRAISE BE TO GOD
BUT MOST OF THEM HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF GOD

26  TO GOD BELONG ALL THINGS HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY 
AND HE IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND IS PRAISEWORTHY 

27  AND IF ALL THE TREES ON EARTH WERE PENS 
AND THE OCEANS WERE INK WITH SEVEN OCEANS 

BEHIND IT TO AID IT
THE WORDS OF GOD WOULD NOT BE EXHAUSTED 
IN THE PROCESS OF THE WRITING OF IT 
AND OF ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER OVER IT

28  AND YOUR CREATION OR RESURRECTION 
IS BUT AS A SINGLE PERSON
FOR GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS IN CREATION

SEE YOU NOT THAT GOD MAKES THE NIGHT
ENTER INTO THE DAY AND THE DAY TO ENTER INTO THE NIGHT?

29  HE HAS MADE THE SUN AND THE MOON SUBSERVIENT TO YOU
ITS COURSE FOR AN APPOINTED TIME EACH ONE DOES PURSUE
AND YOUR LORD IS AWARE OF ALL THAT YOU DO

30  THAT IS BECAUSE GOD IS THE ONLY REALITY 
WHAT THEY WORSHIP BESIDES HIM IS FALSITY
AND MOST HIGH AND MOST GREAT IS HE

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CHAPTER 31.  LUQMAN                                                                     SECTION 4.  PART XX1

31  DO YOU NOT SEE 
THAT THE SHIPS SAIL BY GOD'S GRACE THROUGH THE SEA
THAT HE MAY SHOW YOU HIS SIGNS CLEARLY? 
IN THIS ARE SIGNS FOR ALL WHO PERSEVERE CONSTANTLY 

32  WHEN A WAVE COVERS THEM LIKE A CANOPY
THEY THEN DO CALL ON THEIR LORD IN SINCERITY
BUT WHEN HE HAS DELIVERED THEM TO LAND SAFELY 
THERE ARE AMONG THEM THOSE THAT UNGRATEFULLY
HALT BETWEEN DOING WRONG AND ACTING RIGHTEOUSLY
BUT OUR SIGNS ARE REJECTED ONLY 
BY A PERFIDIOUS WRETCH THAT ACTS UNGRATEFULLY

33  DO YOUR DUTY TO GOD AND FEAR 
THE COMING OF A DAY WHEN NO FATHER 
CAN HELP HIS SON NOR CAN A SON HELP HIS FATHER

FOR SURELY THE PROMISE OF GOD IS TRUE 
LET NOT THEN THIS PRESENT LIFE DECEIVE YOU 

34  NOR LET THE CHIEF DECEIVER DECEIVE YOU ABOUT GOD
SURELY THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOUR IS WITH GOD 

IT IS HE WHO SENDS DOWN THE RAIN AND HE KNOWS 
WHAT IS IN THE WOMBS NOR DOES ANYONE KNOW 
WHAT IT IS THAT HE WILL EARN TOMORROW 
AND NEITHER DOES ANY ONE KNOW 
IN WHAT LAND HE WILL DIE BUT GOD KNOWS
FOR ALL THINGS HE INDEED DOES KNOW

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CHAPTER 32.  ADORATION                                                              SECTION 1.  PART XX1

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM THE BEST KNOWER

2  THIS REVELATION IS FROM GOD, THE CREATOR 
IT IS THE BOOK THAT MAKE THINGS CLEAR

3   OR DO THEY SAY HE IS A FORGER?  
NO, IT IS THE TRUTH FROM YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
THAT WITH IT YOU MAY WARN PEOPLE TO WHOM NO WARNER 
HAS EVER COME BEFORE YOU PRIOR
SO THEY MAY RECEIVE GUIDANCE CLEAR

4  IT IS GOD WHO HAS CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH SOLELY
AND ALL BETWEEN THEM IN SIX DAYS AND HE IS FIRMLY
ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE OF AUTHORITY 

BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NONE FOR PROTECTION 
WILL YOU NOT THEN RECEIVE ADMONITION?

5  HE RULES FROM THE HEAVENS TO THE EARTH ALL AFFAIRS 
AND IN THE END WILL GO UP TO HIM ALL AFFAIRS 
ON A DAY THE SPACE WHICH WILL BE FOR SURE
AS A THOUSAND YEARS IN TERMS OF YOUR MEASURE

6  OF ALL THINGS HIDDEN AND OPEN HE IS THE KNOWER
HE IS THE MERCIFUL, THE EXALTED IN POWER

7  HE MADE EVERYTHING HE CREATED GOOD AND HE BEGAN 
WITH NOTHING MORE THAN CLAY, THE CREATION OF MAN

8  AND MADE HIS PROGENY FROM A QUINTESSENCE OF THE NATURE 
OF AN EXTRACT OF WORTHLESS WATER

9  THEN IN DUE PROPORTION WAS HIS FASHIONING 
HE BREATHED HIS SPIRIT INTO HIM GIVING HIM HEARING
AND SIGHT AND FEELING AND UNDERSTANDING 
AND LITTLE ARE THE THANKS YOU ARE GIVING

10  AND THEY SAY, WHEN WE LIE LOST AND HIDDEN IN THE EARTH
WILL WE BE RENEWED INTO A NEW CREATURE? 
SURELY THEY ARE DISBELIEVERS
IN THE MEETING WITH THEIR LORD IN THE HEREAFTER

11  SAY, THE ANGEL OF DEATH PUT IN CHARGE OF YOU WILL DULY 
TAKE YOUR SOULS, THEN YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO GOD SURELY

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12  IF ONLY YOU COULD SEE WHEN THE GUILTY 
WILL BEND THEIR HEADS BEFORE THEIR LORD LOWLY
SAYING, PLEASE OUR LORD, NOW WE HEAR AND SEE CLEARLY
THEN SEND US BACK TO THE WORLD AND WE WILL SURELY
WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR WE DO NOW BELIEVE TRULY 

13  IF WE HAD SO WILLED WE COULD HAVE CERTAINLY 
BROUGHT EVERY SOUL ITS TRUE GUIDANCE EASILY
BUT THE WORD WILL COME TRUE FROM ME 

THAT I WILL FILL THE HELL FIRE
WITH DEMONS AND MEN ALL TOGETHER

14  YOU FORGOT THE MEETING OF THIS DAY OF YOURS CARELESSLY
AND WE WILL FORGET YOU TOO SO TASTE THE PENALTY 
FOR YOUR EVIL DEEDS ETERNALLY

15  THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN OUR REVELATIONS
WHEN THEY HEAR THEIR RECITATIONS 
THEY FALL DOWN IN ADORATION
AND PRAISE THEIR LORD IN CELEBRATION 
NOR ARE THEY EVER PUFFED UP WITH REBELLION

16  THEIR LIMBS DO FORSAKE THEIR BEDS FROM SLEEPING
WHILE THEY CALL ON GOD IN FEAR AND IN HOPING
AND THEY ARE CHARITABLE IN THEIR SPENDING

17  NOW TO NO PERSON IS KNOWN TO THEM
WHAT DELIGHTS OF THE EYES ARE NOT SHOWN TO THEM 
BUT ARE KEPT HIDDEN FROM THEM IN RESERVE FOR THEM
AS A REWARD FOR THEIR GOOD DEEDS FROM GOD FOR THEM

18  IS THEN THE MAN WHO BELIEVES IN HIS LORD NO BETTER 
THAN THE MAN WHO IS A REBELLIOUS TRANSGRESSOR? 
NO, THEY ARE NOT EQUAL IN MEASURE

19  FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
ARE GARDENS AS HOSPITABLE HOMES FOR THEIR DEEDS

20  THE FIRE WILL BE THE HOME FOR THE REBELLIOUS AND WICKED
AND EVERY TIME THEY WISH TO GET AWAY FROM IT 
THEY WILL BE FORCED BACK IN TO IT 
IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM, HERE IS THE PENALTY TASTE IT
THIS IS THE FIRE WHICH YOU FALSELY REJECTED

21  AND WE WILL MAKE THEM TASTE OF THE PENALTY 
IN THIS LIFE PRIOR TO THE SUPREME PENALTY 
SO THAT THEY MAY REPENT HOPEFULLY

22  AND TO THOSE WHO GOD'S MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO THEM  
WHO IS MORE WRONG THEN HE TURNS AWAY FROM THEM
THOSE IN TRANSGRESSION WE WILL PUNISH THEM 

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CHAPTER 32.  ADORATION                                                               SECTION 3.  PART XX1

23  WE GAVE THE BOOK TO MOSES BEFORE YOU 
THEREFORE BE NOT IN DOUBT OF ITS REACHING YOU 
WE MADE IT A GUIDE TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN TRUTH

24  WE APPOINTED FROM AMONG THEM LEADERS
GIVING GUIDANCE UNDER OUR ORDERS
SO LONG AS THEY PATIENTLY PERSEVERED 
AND CONTINUED BEING GRATEFUL FOR OUR FAVORS

25  YOUR LORD WILL JUDGE BETWEEN THEM IN THE MATTERS
ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT WHEREIN THEY DIFFER

26  DOES IT NOT TEACH THEM A LESSON 
JUST HOW MANY GENERATIONS 
WE DESTROYED BEFORE THEM IN WHOSE HABITATIONS
THEY NOW GO TO AND FRO IN 
SURELY IN THIS ARE SIGNS, DO THEY NOT LISTEN?

27  AND DO THEY NOT SEE THAT WE DRIVE RAIN 
TO PARCHED SOIL BARE OF HERBAGE AND PRODUCE WITH IT GRAIN 

FOR THEIR CATTLE AND THEMSELVES FOR NUTRITION?
HAVE THEY ABSOLUTELY NO VISION?

28  THEY SAY, WHEN WILL THIS DECISION BE 
IF YOU ARE ACTING TRUTHFULLY?

29  SAY, ON THE DAY OF DECISION OF NO PROFIT WILL IT BE 
TO THE DISBELIEVERS IF THEY THEN BELIEVE 
NOR ANY RESPITE WILL THEY RECEIVE

30  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM AND WAIT 
THEY TOO ARE OF THOSE WHO WAIT

 

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CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                                  SECTION 1.  PART XX1

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH PROPHET, TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY 
LISTEN NOT TO THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE 
OR TO THE HYPOCRITES FOR SURELY
GOD IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

2  BUT FOLLOW THAT WHICH COMES FROM GOD TO YOU 
FOR HE IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THAT YOU DO

3  AND PUT YOUR TRUST IN GOD 
AND ENOUGH AS A DISPOSER OF AFFAIRS IS GOD

4  GOD HAS NOT MADE FOR ANY MAN TWO HEARTS IN HIS ONE BODY 
NOR HAS HE MADE YOUR WIVES WHOM YOU DECLARE TO BE 
LIKE YOUR MOTHERS YOUR MOTHERS, NOR HAS HE 
MADE YOUR ADOPTED SONS YOUR SONS, THIS IS ONLY 
YOUR MANNER OF SPEECH BUT GOD TELLS YOU TRUTHFULLY
AND HE SHOWS THE RIGHT WAY TO YOU CLEARLY

5  CALL THEM BY THE NAMES OF THEIR FATHERS 
IN THE SIGHT OF YOUR LORD THAT IS JUSTER 
BUT IF YOU KNOW NOT THE NAMES OF THEIR FATHERS 
CALL THEM YOUR FRIENDS OR IN FAITH YOUR BROTHERS 

BUT IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU 
WHAT COUNTS WITH GOD IS THE INTENTION OF YOU 
AND GOD IS FORGIVING AND MERCIFUL TO YOU

6  THE PROPHET IS CLOSER TO THE BELIEVERS 
THAN THEIR OWN SELVES AND HIS WIVES ARE THEIR MOTHERS 
BUT BLOOD RELATIONS AMONG EACH OTHER HAVE CLOSER 
PERSONAL TIES IN GOD'S SIGHT THAN THE BELIEVERS 
AND OF THOSE WHO FLED THEIR HOMES HOWEVER
DO WHAT IS JUST TO YOUR CLOSEST PARTNERS
FOR THIS IS WRITTEN IN GOD'S ORDERS 

7  AND REMEMBER WE TOOK FROM THE PROPHETS THEIR PROMISE  
AS WE DID FROM YOU AND NOAH AND ABRAHAM AND MOSES
AND JESUS, SON OF MARY, WE TOOK FROM THEM A PROMISE

8  THAT GOD MAY QUESTION THE CUSTODIANS TRUTHFULLY 
CONCERNING THE TRUTH THEY WERE CHARGED WITH FAITHFULLY
AND HE HAS PREPARED FOR THE DISBELIEVERS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

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CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                                SECTION 2.  PART XX1

9  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, REMEMBER GOD'S GRACE TO YOU 
WHEN THERE CAME DOWN ON YOU HOSTS TO OVERWHELM YOU 
WE SENT AGAINST THEM A HURRICANE AND FORCES NOT SEEN BY YOU
BUT GOD SEES CLEARLY ALL THAT YOU DO

10  THEY CAME ON YOU FROM ABOVE AND BELOW YOU 
AND YOUR EYES BECAME DIM WITHIN YOU
AND YOUR HEARTS GAPED UP TO THE THROATS OF YOU 
AND DIVERSE THOUGHTS OF GOD WERE THOUGHT BY YOU

11  IN THAT SITUATION WAS THE BELIEVER'S TESTING 
BEING SHAKEN BY A TREMENDOUS SHAKING

12  THE HYPOCRITES AND THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE 
EVEN SAID, GOD AND HIS APOSTLE PROMISED US ONLY TO DECEIVE

13  AMONG THEM SAID A PARTY 
OH PEOPLE OF YATHRIB, SURELY

YOU CANNOT STAND THE ATTACK 
THEREFORE GO BACK 

AND A BAND OF THEM ASK FOR LEAVE OF THE MESSENGER 
SAYING, OUR HOUSES ARE EXPOSED AND BARE

THOUGH THEY WERE NOT EXPOSED AS THEY DID SAY
BUT THEY INTENDED NOTHING BUT TO RUN AWAY

14  AND TOO IF AN ENTRY WERE MADE FROM THE OUTLYING PARTS OF IT
AND THEY WERE ASKED TO WAGE WAR THEY WOULD HAVE DONE IT
AND THEY WOULD NOT HAVE STAYED BUT A LITTLE WHILE IN IT

15  AND YET THEY HAD ALREADY COVENANTED WITH GOD 
NOT TO TURN BACK AND A COVENANT WITH GOD 
MUST SURELY BE ANSWERED FOR TO GOD

16  SAY, RUNNING AWAY WILL NOT PROFIT YOU
IF RUNNING AWAY FROM DEATH OR SLAUGHTER ARE YOU
IF YOU ESCAPE ONLY A BRIEF DELAY WILL BE ALLOWED YOU

17  SAY, WHO IS IT THAT CAN SCREEN YOU FROM THE CREATOR
IF IT BE HIS WISH TO BESTOW UPON YOU HIS FAVOR? 
FOR BESIDES GOD THEY WILL FIND NO PROTECTOR
NOR WILL THEY FIND ANY ONE AS A HELPER

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CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                 SECTION 2 (CONT'D). PART XX1

18  SURELY GOD KNOWS THOSE WHO OTHER MEN HINDER 
AND THOSE WHO SAY, COME WITH US, TO THEIR BROTHERS
 
BUT COME NOT TO THE BATTLE
EXCEPT FOR JUST A LITTLE 

19  BEING COVETOUS OVER YOU BUT THEN WHEN COMES FEAR
THEY LOOK AT YOU WITH THEIR EYES FILLED WITH TEARS
LIKE THOSE OF ONE WHO DEATH HOVERS OVER  
AND WITH SHARP TONGUES WILL SMITE YOU WHEN THE FEAR IS OVER
COVETOUS OF GOODS AND THEY ARE NOT BELIEVERS
GOD HAS MADE FRUITLESS THEIR ENDEAVORS
AND FOR GOD THAT IS AN EASY MATTER

20  THEY THINK THAT THE CONFEDERATES HAVE NOT GIVEN IN
AND IF THE CONFEDERATES SHOULD COME AGAIN
THEY WOULD WISH THAT THEY WERE IN 
THE DESERTS WANDERING AMONG THE BEDOUINS 

AND SEEKING NEWS ABOUT YOU 
FROM A SAFE DISTANCE AND IF THEY WERE WITH YOU
THEY WOULD ONLY FIGHT BUT A LITTLE WITH YOU

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CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                                SECTION 3.  PART XX1

21  YOU HAVE INDEED IN THE APOSTLE OF GOD 
A GOOD PATTERN OF CONDUCT FOR BELIEVERS IN GOD 
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE LAST DAY AND PRAISE GOD

22  WHEN THE CONFEDERATE FORCES WERE SEEN BY THE BELIEVERS 
THEY SAID, THIS IS WHAT WAS PROMISED BY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND IT WAS TRUE WHAT WAS TOLD TO US BY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND IT ONLY MADE THEM STRONGER BELIEVERS

23  OF THE BELIEVERS ARE MEN WHO HAVE BEEN TRUE TO THEIR PROMISE 
AND SOME OF THEM WHO HAVE COMPLETED THEIR PROMISE

AND SOME STILL WAIT BUT THEY HAVE NEVER
CHANGED THEIR DETERMINATION EVER

24  GOD WILL REWARD THE TRUTHFUL FOR ACTING TRUTHFULLY 
AND PUNISH THE HYPOCRITES OR TURN TO THEM IN MERCY 
FOR MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL IS HE

25  AND FOR ALL OF THEIR FURY GOD TURNED BACK THE DISBELIEVERS 
NO ADVANTAGE DID THEY GAIN AND GOD SUFFICED THE BELIEVERS
IN THEIR FIGHT, FOR GOD IS STRONG AND FULL OF POWER

26  THOSE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK WHO WERE THEIR HELPERS 
GOD TOOK THEM DOWN AND INTO THEIR HEARTS CAST HORROR
SO SOME YOU KILLED AND SOME YOU MADE PRISONERS

27  HE MADE YOU HEIRS OF THEIR LANDS AND THEIR DWELLINGS 
AND OF A LAND OF WHICH YOU HAD NOT BEEN TRAVELING
AND GOD IS POSSESSOR OF POWER OVER ALL THINGS

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CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                                SECTION 4.  PART XXI

28  OH PROPHET, SAY TO YOUR MARITAL PARTNERS
IF YOU DESIRE THIS WORLD'S LIFE AND ITS GLITTER 
THEN COME AND FOR IT I WILL BE YOUR PROVIDER
AND SET YOU FREE IN A HANDSOME MANNER

29  BUT IF YOU SEEK GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND THE HOME OF THE HEREAFTER 
GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS 
A GREAT REWARD THAT ENDURES FOREVER

30  OH WIVES OF THE PROPHET, IF ANY OF YOU ARE GUILTY 
OF EVIDENT CONDUCT UNSEEMLY 

THE PUNISHMENT WOULD BE DOUBLED TO HER
AND THAT FOR GOD IS AND EASY MATTER

PART XXII

31  ANY OF YOU THAT IS SINCERE TO GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 
AND DOES GOOD, WE WILL GRANT TWICE THE REWARD TO HER  
AND WE HAVE PREPARED A GENEROUS SUSTENANCE FOR HER

32  OH WIVES OF THE PROPHET, YOU ARE NOT LIKE OTHER WOMEN 
IF YOU DO FEAR GOD IN YOUR SPEECH BE NOT COMPLACENT 

OR ELSE ONE IN WHOSE HEART IS A DISORDER 
COULD THEN POSSIBLY BE MOVED WITH DESIRE 
BUT SPEAK IN SPEECH THAT IS JUST IN MANNER

33  AND QUIETLY IN YOUR HOUSES STAY
AND MAKE NOT OF YOUR BEAUTY A DAZZLING DISPLAY 

LIKE THAT OF THOSE OF TIMES OF IGNORANCE FORMER 
AND ESTABLISH REGULAR CHARITY AND PRAYER  
AND OBEY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 

GOD WISHES TO REMOVE FROM YOU ALL UNCLEANNESS
AND TO MAKE YOU PURE AND SPOTLESS

34  AND RECITE THE MESSAGES 
OF GOD IN YOUR HOUSES

FOR GOD UNDERSTANDS THE FINEST MYSTERIES 
AND WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THEM IS HE

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CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                              SECTION 5.  PART  XXII

35  FOR SUBMITTING MEN AND WOMEN 
FOR BELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN 
FOR DEVOUT MEN AND WOMEN 
FOR TRUE MEN AND WOMEN 
FOR PATIENT MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR HUMBLE MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR CHARITABLE MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR FASTING MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR CHASTE MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR MEN AND WOMEN 

WHO ENGAGE MUCH IN THE PRAISE OF THEIR LORD
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A GREAT REWARD 

36  IT IS NOT FITTING FOR A BELIEVER 
MAN OR WOMAN THAT WHEN A MATTER 
HAS BEEN DECIDED BY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
TO HAVE ANY OPTION ABOUT THE MATTER
IF ANY ONE DISOBEYS GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
HE IS INDEED A WRONG DOER

37  YOU SAID TO ONE WHO HAD BEEN THE RECEIVER
OF THE GRACE OF GOD AND YOUR FAVOR
RETAIN YOUR WIFE AND FEAR YOUR MAKER
BUT YOU HID IN YOUR HEART THAT WHICH THE CREATOR 
WAS ABOUT TO MAKE MANIFEST AND THE PEOPLE YOU FEARED 
BUT GOD IS MORE FITTING THAT HIM YOU SHOULD FEAR 
BUT WHEN ZAID HAD DISSOLVED HIS MARRIAGE WITH HER 
WITH THE NECESSARY FORMALITY, WE THEN JOINED HER 
IN MARRIAGE TO YOU SO THAT THERE MAY BE TO THE BELIEVERS 
NO DIFFICULTY IN THE MATTER 
OF MARRIAGE WITH WIVES OF THEIR ADOPTED SONS WHEN THE LATTER 
HAD DISSOLVED THEIR MARRIAGE PRIOR
AND GOD'S COMMAND MUST BE FULFILLED FOR SURE

38  TO THE PROPHET THERE CAN BE NO DIFFICULTY
IN WHAT GOD HAS INDICATED TO HIM AS A DUTY
IT IS THE PRACTICE THAT GOD APPROVED FORMERLY
AND GOD'S COMMAND IS A DETERMINED DECREE 

39  IT IS THE PRACTICE OF THE PREACHERS 
OF THE MESSAGES OF YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 

AND FEAR HIM AND FEAR NONE BUT GOD 
AND ENOUGH TO CALL MEN TO ACCOUNT IS GOD

40  MUHAMMAD IS NOT THE FATHER 
OF ANY OF YOUR MEN BUT HE IS GOD'S MESSENGER 
AND THE SEAL OF THE PROPHETS AND GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

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CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                             SECTION 6.  PART  XXII

41  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE 
CELEBRATE GOD'S PRAISES AND DO THIS FREQUENTLY

42  AND GLORIFY HIM IN THE MORNING
AND GLORIFY HIM IN THE EVENING

43  IT IS YOU WHOM HE AND HIS ANGELS BLESS 
TO BRING YOU INTO LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS 
AND HE IS FULL OF MERCY AND KINDNESS

44  THEIR SALUTATION ON THE DAY THEY MEET HIM WILL BE PEACE 
AND HE HAS PREPARED FOR THEM A REWARD GENEROUSLY

45  OH MESSENGER, WE HAVE SENT YOU AS A WITNESS BEARER
AND A BEARER OF GLAD TIDINGS AND AS A WARNER

46  AND ONE WHO INVITES TO GOD'S GRACE BY HIS MIGHT
AND AS A LAMP SPREADING LIGHT

47  THEN GIVE THE GOOD NEWS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
THAT THEY WILL HAVE FROM GOD A GREAT BOUNTY

48  OBEY NOT THE HYPOCRITES AND THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE 
BUT TRUST IN GOD AND THEIR ANNOYANCE DO NOT HEED 
FOR ENOUGH IS GOD AS A DISPOSER OF DEEDS

49  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, WHEN YOU MARRY BELIEVING WOMEN
AND THEN DIVORCE THEM BEFORE YOU HAVE TOUCHED THEM
THEN YOU HAVE NO TERM TO RECKON IN RESPECT TO THEM 
SO GIVE A HANDSOME PRESENT TO THEM 
AND SET THEM FREE IN A GOOD MANNER FOR THEM

50  OH MESSENGER
WE HAVE MADE LAWFUL YOUR MARITAL PARTNERS 
TO WHOM YOU HAVE PAID THEIR DOWERS
AND YOUR CAPTIVES OUT OF THE WAR PRISONERS  
WHOM GOD HAS ASSIGNED INTO YOUR CARE 
AND YOUR PATERNAL UNCLE'S AND AUNT'S DAUGHTERS
AND YOUR MATERNAL UNCLE'S AND AUNT'S DAUGHTERS
WHO CAME FROM MECCA WITH YOU AS MIGRATERS
AND ANY WOMEN WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
WHO DEDICATE THEMSELVES TO YOU AND YOU WISH TO WED HER 
THIS IS ONLY FOR YOU AND NOT FOR ALL THE BELIEVERS 
WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE APPOINTED CONCERNING THEIR PARTNERS 
AND THE CAPTIVES OF WHOM THEIR RIGHT HANDS ARE POSSESSORS
SO THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO DIFFICULTY FOR YOU WHATSOEVER
AND GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

51  YOU MAY DEFER THE TURN OF ANY OF THEM AS PLEASES YOU
AND YOU MAY RECEIVE ANY AS IT PLEASES YOU
AND THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU 
IF YOU INVITE ONE WHOSE TURN HAS BEEN SET ASIDE BY YOU
AND THIS WAS NEARER TO THEIR COMFORT FROM YOU 
FOR PREVENTION OF THEIR GRIEF AND FOR THEIR GRATITUDE
THAT ALL OF THEM MAY BE PLEASED BY WHAT IS GIVEN BY YOU 
AND GOD KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE HEARTS OF YOU
FOR GOD IS ALL KNOWING AND MOST FORBEARING TO YOU

52  IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR YOU TO MARRY MORE WOMEN 
AFTER THIS NOR TO CHANGE THEM FOR OTHER WIVES EVEN 
THOUGH THEIR BEAUTY ATTRACT YOU EXCEPT ANY WHO THEN
YOUR RIGHT HAND SHOULD POSSESS AS HANDMAIDENS 
AND GOD WATCHES OVER ALL CREATION

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CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                             SECTION 7.  PART  XXII

53  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
ENTER NOT THE HOUSES OF THE MESSENGER 
UNTIL LEAVE FOR A MEAL IS GIVEN YOU AND NEVER
SO EARLY AS TO WAIT FOR IT TO BE PREPARED
BUT WHEN YOU ARE INVITED TO ENTER 
AND WHEN YOU HAVE TAKEN YOUR MEAL DISPERSE 
WITHOUT SEEKING TALK BEING FAMILIAR 
FOR SUCH BEHAVIOR IS ANNOYING TO THE MESSENGER

AND HE IS ASHAMED TO DISMISS YOU 
BUT GOD IS NOT ASHAMED TO TELL THE TRUTH TO YOU 

AND WHEN YOU ASK HIS LADIES FOR ANYTHING 
ASK THEM FROM BEHIND A SCREEN 

FOR YOU AND FOR THEM THAT IS BETTER
NOR IS IT RIGHT THAT YOU SHOULD ANNOY GOD'S MESSENGER

OR THAT HIS WIDOWS AFTER HIM THAT YOU SHOULD MARRY
FOR SUCH A THING IN GOD'S SIGHT IS AN ENORMITY

54  WHETHER YOU REVEAL OR CONCEAL ANYTHING 
GOD HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS

55  AND THERE IS NO BLAME ON THESE LADIES IF THEY APPEAR  
BEFORE THEIR FATHERS OR THEIR SONS OR THEIR BROTHERS
OR THEIR BROTHER'S SONS OR THE SONS OF THEIR SISTERS

OR THE WOMEN OR THE SLAVES WHOM THEIR RIGHT HANDS POSSESS 
AND FEAR GOD FOR TO ALL THINGS GOD IS THE WITNESS

56  GOD AND HIS ANGELS SEND THEIR BLESSINGS ON THE APOSTLE 
OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, SEND YOUR BLESSINGS ON THE APOSTLE 
AND SALUTE HIM IN A MANNER THAT IS RESPECTFUL

57  THOSE WHO ANNOY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
GOD HAS CURSED THEM IN THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER 
AND FOR THEM  HE HAS PREPARED A PUNISHMENT OF HORROR

58  THOSE WHO ANNOY BELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN 
BEAR A DEFAMATION AND A GLARING SIN

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CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                             SECTION 8.  PART  XXII

59  OH MESSENGER
TELL YOUR WIVES AND DAUGHTERS 
AND THE WOMEN BELIEVERS
THAT THEIR PERSONS THEY SHOULD COVER
THAT IS BEST THAT THEY SHOULD SO BE PATTERNED
AND NOT MOLESTED, AND GOD IS THE MERCIFUL FORGIVER

60  IF THE HYPOCRITES AND THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE 
AND THOSE WHO STIR UP SEDITION IN THE CITY 
AND DESIST NOT, WE WILL CERTAINLY 
STIR YOU UP AGAINST THEM, THEN WILL THEY NOT BE 
ABLE TO STAY IN IT AS YOUR NEIGHBORS BUT SHORTLY

61  THEY WILL HAVE A CURSE ON THEM WHEREVER THEY MAY BE
AND THEY WILL BE SEIZED AND KILLED WITHOUT MERCY

62  AMONG THOSE FORMALLY THIS WAS THE PRACTICE OF GOD 
AND NO CHANGE WILL YOU FIND IN THE PRACTICE OF GOD

63  MEN ASK YOU CONCERNING THE HOUR 
SAY, WITH GOD ALONE IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOUR
AND WHAT WILL TO YOU MAKE IT CLEAR
THAT THE HOUR MAY BE QUITE NEAR? 

64  SURELY GOD HAS CURSED THE DISBELIEVERS 
AND PREPARED FOR THEM A BLAZING FIRE

65  THEY WILL DWELL THEREIN FOREVER 
NO PROTECTOR WILL THEY FIND NOR HELPER

66  THEY WILL SAY THE DAY THAT THEIR LEADERS 
WILL BE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN IN THE FIRE 
IF WE ONLY HAD OBEYED GOD AND THE MESSENGER 

67  AND THEY WOULD SAY, OUR LORD WE OBEYED 
OUR CHIEFS AND OUR GREAT ONES AND FOLLOWED THEIR WAYS
AND THEY MISLED US AS TO THE RIGHT WAY

68  OUR LORD GIVE THEM A DOUBLE PENALTY
AND CURSE THEM WITH A CURSE GREATLY

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69  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, BE NOT LIKE THOSE WHO ANNOYED MOSES 
BUT GOD CLEARED HIM COMPLETELY OF THEIR CHARGES
AND HE IN GOD'S SIGHT WAS HELD WITH JUSTICE

70  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, FEAR GOD AND ALWAYS SAY 
A WORD DIRECTED TO THE RIGHT WAY

71  THAT HE MAY MAKE YOUR CONDUCT SOUND FOR YOU 
AND THAT HE MAY FORGIVE YOUR SINS FOR YOU 

HE THAT OBEYS GOD AND HIS APOSTLE 
HAS ATTAINED THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT POSSIBLE

72  WE OFFERED THE TRUST TO THE HEAVENS
AND TO THE EARTH AND TO THE MOUNTAINS

BUT THEY REFUSED TO UNDERTAKE IT
BEING AFRAID OF IT BUT MAN UNDERTOOK IT 
AND HE WAS UNJUST AND WAS FOOLISH ABOUT IT

73  SO THAT GOD HAS TO PUNISH THE MEN AND WOMEN 
AMONG THE HYPOCRITES AND UNBELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN 
AND GOD TURNS IN MERCY TO THE BELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN

FOR GOD IS SURELY
FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                                       SECTION 1.  PART  XXII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  PRAISE BE TO GOD TO WHOM BELONGS ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER
IS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH, TO HIM BE PRAISE IN THE HEREAFTER 
AND HE IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND POWER
AND IS ACQUAINTED WITH ALL MATTERS

2  HE KNOWS WHAT GOES INTO THE EARTH AND WHAT COMES OUT FROM IT 
AND WHAT COMES DOWN FROM THE SKY AND WHAT ASCENDS UP TO IT
AND OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY HE IS FULL OF IT

3  THE DISBELIEVERS 
SAY, NEVER TO US WILL COME THE HOUR 
SAY, BUT IT WILL COME UPON YOU FROM THE CREATOR

WHO KNOWS THE UNSEEN AND FROM WHOM IS NOT HIDDEN 
THE LEAST LITTLE ATOM IN THE EARTH OR THE HEAVENS 

NOR IS THERE ANYTHING LESS THAN THAT OR GREATER 
BUT ALL IS WRITTEN IN A CLEAR RECORD 

4  THAT HE MAY REWARD THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS 
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A SUSTENANCE MOST GENEROUS

5  BUT THOSE WHO STRIVE AGAINST OUR SIGNS TO FRUSTRATE THEM 
THERE WILL SURELY BE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY FOR THEM 
AND A PUNISHMENT MOST HUMILIATING FOR THEM

6  AND THOSE TO WHOM KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN GIVEN
KNOW THAT THIS IS GOD'S REVELATION   

AND THAT IT IS TRUE AND THAT IT GUIDES DIRECTLY 
TO THE PATH OF ONE EXALTED AND PRAISEWORTHY 

7  THE DISBELIEVERS SAY IN RIDICULE
SHALL WE POINT OUT TO YOU 
A MAN THAT WILL TELL YOU 

WHEN YOU ARE ALL SCATTERED TO PIECES IN DISINTEGRATION 
THAT YOU WILL THEN BE RAISED TO A NEW CREATION?

8  IS HE AGAINST GOD A LIAR OR IS HE INSANELY IN ERROR? 
NO, IT IS THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE HEREAFTER 
THAT ARE IN REAL TORMENT AND FARTHEST IN ERROR

9  SEE THEY NOT WHAT IS BEFORE THEM AND BEHIND THEM ?
AND WE COULD MAKE THE EARTH TO SWALLOW THEM 
OR CAUSE A PIECE OF THE SKY TO FALL UPON THEM
IN THIS FOR ALL DEVOTEES IS A SIGN FOR THEM 

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                                       SECTION 2.  PART  XXII

10  WE  BESTOWED GRACE UPON DAVID FROM OURSELVES TO HIM
OH YOU MOUNTAINS, SING BACK THE PRAISES OF GOD WITH HIM
AND YOU BIRDS ALSO AND WE MADE THE IRON SOFT FOR HIM

11  COMMANDING, MAKE COATS OF ARMOR
BALANCING THE RINGS OF CHAIN ARMOR 
AND BE A RIGHTEOUSNESS DOER
FOR OF ALL THAT YOU DO I AM AWARE

12  AND TO SOLOMON WE MADE THE WIND TO FLOW OBEDIENTLY
ITS EARLY MORNING STRIDE WAS A MONTHS JOURNEY 
AND ITS EVENING STRIDE WAS A MONTHS JOURNEY 
AND WE MADE MOLTEN BRASS TO FLOW FOR HIM TAMELY
AND THE DEMONS WORKED FOR HIM SUBMISSIVELY
AND IF ANY OF THEM TURNED ASIDE FROM OUR DECREES
WE MADE HIM TASTE OF THE FIRE AS A PENALTY 

13  THEY WORKED FOR HIM MAKING ARCHES, IMAGES AND BASINS 
AS LARGE AS RESERVOIRS AND FIXED COOKING CAULDRONS

SO WORK, YOU SONS OF DAVID, AND BE THANKFUL 
BUT FEW OF MY SERVANTS ARE GRATEFUL

14  WHEN SOLOMON'S DEATH WE DECREED  
NOTHING SHOWED THEM HIS DEATH CLEARLY
BUT A LITTLE  EARTHWORM WHICH KEPT GNAWING SLOWLY 
AWAY AT HIS STAFF SO WHEN HE FELL THE DEMONS SAW PLAINLY 
BUT IF THEY HAD KNOWN THE UNSEEN THEY SURELY
WOULD NOT HAVE STAYED IN THE HUMILIATING PENALTY 

15  IN SHEBA'S HOMELAND THERE WAS A SIGN  
TWO GARDENS TO THE LEFT AND TO THE RIGHT

AND SUSTENANCE PROVIDED BY GOD, MOST GRACEFUL
SO EAT AND BE PLENTIFUL AND TO GOD BE GRATEFUL 
FOR A GOOD LAND AND FOR A GOD MOST MERCIFUL

16  BUT THEY TURNED AWAY FROM THEIR MAKER 
AND WE SENT AGAINST THEM THE FLOOD FROM THE WATERS
AND WE MADE THEIR GARDENS INTO TREES THAT WERE BITTER
AND TAMARISKS AND TOO SOME LOTE TREES THAT WERE MEAGER

17   WE GAVE THEM THIS AS A REQUITAL
BECAUSE THEY REJECTED FAITH AND WERE UNGRATEFUL
AND NEVER EXCEPT TO REJECTERS DO WE GIVE SUCH REQUITAL 

18  BETWEEN THEM AND CITIES ON WHICH WE HAD POURED BLESSINGS
WE HAD PLACED CITIES IN PROMINENT DWELLINGS 

AND BETWEEN THEM WE HAD APPOINTED JOURNEYS IN PROPORTION 
TRAVEL THEREIN BY NIGHT AND BY DAY WITH OUR PROTECTION

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                     SECTION 2 (CONT'D). PART  XXII

19  BUT THEY SAID, OUR LORD, PLACE LONGER DISTANCES 
BETWEEN OUR JOURNEY IN STAGES 

BUT THEY WRONGED THEIR OWN SOULS
AND WE MADE THEM AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD

AND WE DISPERSED THEM ALL IN SCATTERED FRAGMENTS
IN THIS ARE SIGNS FOR EVERY SOUL THAT IS PATIENT 
AND EVERYONE THAT IS GRATEFUL AND CONSTANT

20  AND ON THEM DID SATAN PROVE TRUE HIS IDEA FULLY
FOR THEY FOLLOWED HIM ALL BUT A BELIEVING PARTY 

21  BUT HE HAD OVER THEM NO AUTHORITY
EXCEPT THAT WE MIGHT TEST THE MAN WHO BELIEVES 
IN THE HEREAFTER FROM THOSE WHO ACT DOUBTFULLY
AND YOUR LORD DOES WATCH OVER ALL THINGS SURELY

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                                       SECTION 3.  PART  XXII

22  SAY, CALL ON WHOM YOU WILL BESIDES THE CREATOR 
BESIDES HIM THEY HAVE NO POWER
NOT THE WEIGHT OF AN ATOM ANYWHERE
IN HEAVEN OR EARTH NOR HAVE THEY IN IT A SHARE 
NOR IS ANY OF THEM TO GOD A HELPER 

23  IN HIS PRESENCE THERE CAN BE NO INTERCESSION 
EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO HE HAS GRANTED PERMISSION 
AND SO FAR IS THIS THE CASE THAT WHEN APPREHENSION
IS REMOVED FROM THEIR HEARTS ON THE DAY OF RESSURECTION
THEN THEY WILL BE ASKED THE QUESTION
WHAT IS IT THAT IS YOUR LORD'S INSTRUCTION? 
THEY WILL SAY, TO DO THAT WHICH IS TRUE IN DEVOTION
AND SURELY GOD IS THE LORD AND CHERISHER OF ALL CREATION

24  SAY, WHO IS HEAVEN AND EARTH'S SUSTAINER? 
SAY, IT IS GOD, THE CREATOR 
AND IT IS WE OR YOU WHO ARE EITHER
ON RIGHT GUIDANCE OR IN MANIFEST ERROR

25  SAY, YOU WILL NOT BE QUESTIONED AS TO OUR SINS
NOR WILL WE BE QUESTIONED AS TO YOUR SINS

26  SAY, OUR LORD WILL GATHER US TOGETHER 
AND WILL IN THE END DECIDE THE MATTER 
BETWEEN US AND YOU IN TRUTH AND HE WILL BE FAIR
AND HE IS THE BEST DECIDER AND BEST KNOWER

27  SHOW ME THOSE WHOM YOU HAVE JOINED WITH HIM AS PARTNERS
BY NO MEANS CAN YOU, HE IS GOD, AND IS EXALTED IN POWER 

28  AND WE HAVE SENT YOU AS A UNIVERSAL MESSENGER TO MEN 
GIVING THEM GLAD TIDINGS AND WARNING THEM AGAINST SIN 
BUT NO UNDERSTANDING HAVE MOST MEN 

29  THEY SAY WHEN WILL THIS PROMISE COME TRUE
IF WHAT IT IS YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE?

30  SAY, THE APPOINTMENT TO YOU IS FOR A DAY 
WHICH YOU CANNOT HASTEN NOR CAN YOU DELAY

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                                       SECTION 4.  PART  XXII

31  AND THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, WE WILL NEITHER
BELIEVE IN THIS SCRIPTURE NOR IN ANY OTHER
AND IF YOU COULD SEE THE WRONG DOERS 
WHEN THEY STAND BEFORE GOD BLAMING ONE ANOTHER 
THOSE WHO HAD BEEN DESPISED WILL SAY TO THEIR LEADERS 
IF IT HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR YOU WE WOULD HAVE BEEN BELIEVERS

32  THE ARROGANT ONES WILL SAY TO THOSE WHO 
HAD BEEN DESPISED, WAS IT WE WHO KEPT YOU 
BACK FROM THE RIGHT GUIDE AFTER IT REACHED YOU? 
NO, RATHER THE TRANSGRESSORS WERE YOU

33  THOSE WHO HAD BEEN THE DESPISED ONES WILL SURELY
SAY TO THE ONES WHO ACTED ARROGANTLY 
IT WAS A PLOT OF YOURS FOR YOU CONSTANTLY 
NIGHT AND DAY ORDERED US TO ACT UNGRATEFULLY
AND TO ATTRIBUTE OTHERS TO GOD EQUALLY
AND THEY WILL REPENT WHEN THEY SEE THE PENALTY
WE PUT SHACKLES ON THE NECKS OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED 
AND IT IS ONLY A REQUITAL FOR THEIR EVIL DEEDS

34  NEVER DID WE SEND A WARNER TO A POPULATION 
BUT AMONG THEM, SAID THE WEALTHY ONES 
WE BELIEVE NOT IN THE MISSION THAT YOU ARE ON

35  THEY SAID, WE HAVE MORE WEALTH AND SONS
AND WE WILL NOT BE THE PUNISHED ONES

36  SAY, SURELY MY LORD ENLARGES AND RESTRICTS THE PROVISION 
TO WHOM HE PLEASES BUT NO UNDERSTANDING HAVE MOST MEN 

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                                       SECTION 5.  PART  XXII

37  IT IS NOT YOUR WEALTH NOR YOUR SONS EITHER
THAT TO US WILL BRING YOU NEARER 
BUT ONLY THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
ARE THE ONES WHO WILL BE THE ACHIEVERS 
WHILE THEY RESIDE IN HIGH DWELLINGS SECURE

38  THOSE WHO STRIVE AGAINST OUR SIGNS ARROGANTLY 
WILL BE GIVEN OVER INTO PENALTY

39  SAY, MY LORD RESTRICTS AND ENLARGES
THE SUSTENANCE TO THOSE OF HIS SERVANTS HE PLEASES 
AND WHATEVER YOU SPEND IN CHARITY HE REPLACES 
FOR HE IS THE BEST PROVIDER OF SUBSTANCES

40  AND ONE DAY HE WILL GATHER THEM ALL TOGETHER 
AND ASK THE ANGELS, WHAT DID THESE DISBELIEVERS
USE TO WORSHIP BESIDES ME AS PARTNERS?

41  THEY WILL SAY, GLORY TO YOU, YOU ARE OUR PROTECTOR
NOT THEM FOR THEY INDEED WERE DEVIL WORSHIPPERS  
AND MOST OF THEM IN THEM WERE BELIEVERS 

42  SO ON THAT DAY NO POWER WILL THEY HAVE OVER EACH OTHER 
FOR PROFIT OR HARM AND WE WILL SAY TO THE WRONG DOERS 
TASTE THE PENALTY OF THE FIRE OF WHICH YOU WERE DENIERS

43  AND WHEN OUR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO THEM CLEAR 
THEY SAY, THIS IS ONLY A MAN WHO WISHES TO HINDER 
YOU FROM THE PRACTICES OF YOUR FATHERS 
AND THEY SAY THIS IS FALSEHOOD AND SAY THE DISBELIEVERS 
OF THE TRUTH WHEN IT COMES TO THEM, THIS IS FOR SURE
NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE OF SORCERERS

44  BUT WE HAD CERTAINLY NOT GIVEN THEM SCRIPTURES
WHICH THEY COULD STUDY NOR SENT MESSENGERS
TO THEM BEFORE YOU AS WARNERS

45  THEIR PREDECESSORS REJECTED THE TRUTH WHEN IT CAME TO THEM 
AND THESE HAVE NOT RECEIVED A TENTH OF WHAT WE GAVE THEM   
AND WHEN THEY REJECTED THE TRUTH SENT TO THEM
HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY REJECTION OF THEM 

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                                       SECTION 6.  PART  XXII

46  SAY, I DO ADMONISH YOU ON ONE POINT THAT YOU EARNESTLY
STAND UP BEFORE GOD, IT MAY BE IN PAIRS OR IT MAY BE SINGULARLY 
AND REFLECT WITHIN YOURSELVES. YOUR COMPANION SURELY
IS NOT POSSESSED BUT ON THE CONTRARY HE IS CLEARLY
A WARNER TO YOU IN FACE OF A TERRIBLE PENALTY

47  SAY, NO REWARD DO I ASK OF YOU, IT IS ALL IN YOUR INTEREST
MY REWARD IS FROM GOD AND TO ALL THINGS HE IS THE WITNESS

48  SAY,  MY LORD CASTS THE MANTLE OF TRUTH OVER HIS SERVANTS 
AND HE HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THAT IS HIDDEN 

49  SAY, THE TRUTH HAS ARRIVED AND FALSEHOOD NEITHER 
CREATES ANYTHING NEW NOR RESTORES ANYTHING EITHER

50  SAY, IF I AM ASTRAY IT IS MY LOSS ONLY  
AND IF I RECEIVE GUIDANCE THEN IT IS SURELY
BECAUSE OF THE INSPIRATION OF MY LORD TO ME 
IT IS HE WHO HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THINGS INDEED

51  IF YOU COULD BUT SEE WHEN WITH HORROR THEY WILL QUAKE  
THEN THERE WILL BE FOR THEM NO ESCAPE 
AND THEY WILL BE SEIZED FROM A NEAR PLACE 

52  AND WE NOW BELIEVE THE TRUTH, THEY WILL SAY 
BUT HOW COULD THEY THEN RECEIVE FAITH 
FROM A POSITION SO FAR AWAY?

53  SEEING THAT THEY REJECTED FAITH PREVIOUSLY 
AND THAT THEY CAST SLANDERS CONTINUALLY 
ON THE UNSEEN FROM A FAR OFF LOCALITY

54  BETWEEN THEM AND THEIR DESIRES IS PLACED A BARRIER 
AS WAS DONE IN THE PAST WITH THEIR PREDECESSORS
ABOUT THAT IN WHICH THEY WERE DOUBTERS

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CHAPTER 35.  THE ORIGINATOR                                                  SECTION 1.  PART  XXII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO IS HEAVEN AND EARTH'S CREATOR 
AND MADE THE ANGELS MESSENGERS 
WITH WINGS, TWO OR THREE OR FOUR PAIRS 
HE ADDS TO CREATION ACCORDING TO HIS PLEASURE
FOR SURELY OVER ALL THING GOD HAS COMPLETE POWER

2  WHATEVER GOD GRANTS TO MEN THERE IS NONE TO WITHHOLD               
AND NONE CAN GRANT THAT WHICH HE WITHHOLDS 

AND HE IS SURELY
ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

3  OH MEN, CALL  TO MIND THE GRACE OF GOD 
IS THERE A GOD BESIDES GOD WHO GIVES SUSTENANCE TO YOU?
NO GOD IS THERE BUT HE, HOW THEN ARE YOU 
DELUDED AWAY FROM WHAT IS TRUE?

4  AND IF OF YOU THEY ARE REJECTERS 
THOSE BEFORE YOU REJECTED THEIR MESSENGERS
AND TO YOUR LORD GO BACK FOR DECISION ALL AFFAIRS

5  OH MEN, THE PROMISE OF GOD IS TRUE 
LET NOT THEN THIS PRESENT LIFE DECEIVE YOU 
NOR ABOUT GOD LET THE CHIEF DECEIVER DECEIVE YOU 

6   SATAN IS TO YOU AN ENEMY 
SO TREAT HIM AS AN ENEMY 

HE ONLY INVITES HIS FOLLOWERS
THAT THEY MAY BECOME COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE

7  FOR THOSE WHO REJECT GOD IS A TERRIBLE PENALTY 
BUT FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
GOD WILL FORGIVE THEM AND REWARD THEM MAGNIFICENTLY

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CHAPTER 35.  THE ORIGINATOR                                                  SECTION 2.  PART  XXII

8  IS HE TO WHOM HIS CONDUCT OF EVIL IS MADE ALLURING 
SO THAT HE LOOKS UPON IT AS FAIR SEEMING
EQUAL TO ONE WHO HAS RIGHT GUIDING?
FOR GOD LEAVES WHOM HE WILLS STRAYING
AND WHOM HE WILLS HE GIVES RIGHT GUIDING
SO LET NOT YOUR SOUL GO AFTER THEM SIGHING 
FOR YOUR LORD HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS

9  GOD SENDS THE WINDS FROM THE SKIES
SO THAT THEY RAISE UP THE CLOUDS THEREBY
AND WE DRIVE THEM TO A DEAD LAND AND REVIVE 
THE EARTH WITH IT AFTER IT DIES
SO WILL BE YOUR RISE AFTER YOU DIE

10  ANY WHO SEEK POWER AND GLORY 
TO GOD BELONGS ALL POWER AND GLORY
TO HIM MOUNT UP ALL WORDS OF PURITY
IT IS HE WHO EXALTS EACH RIGHTEOUS DEED 
AND THOSE THAT LAY PLOTS OF INIQUITY
FOR THEM IS A TERRIBLE PENALTY 
AND SUCH PLOTTING WILL BE VOID OF EFFICIENCY

11  YOU WERE MADE FROM DUST BY YOUR CREATOR    
THEN FROM A SPERM DROP THEN HE MADE YOU INTO PAIRS
NO FEMALE CONCEIVES OR DELIVERS BUT HE IS AWARE
NOR IS A MAN GRANTED LIFE LONGER OR SHORTER
BUT IT IS ALL ORDAINED FOR HIM PRIOR
AND THIS IS EASY FOR THE CREATOR

12  AND NOT ALIKE ARE THE TWO BODIES OF FLOWING WATER 
ONE PALATABLE, SWEET AND PLEASANT TO THE DRINKERS 
AND THE OTHER ONE IS SALTY AND BITTER
YET FROM EACH KIND OF WATER 
YOU EAT FLESH FRESH AND TENDER 
AND YOU EXTRACT ORNAMENTS TO WEAR 
AND YOU SEE THE SHIPS THAT SAIL THE WATERS 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY SEEK OF GOD'S TREASURES
AND IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY THANK GOD FOR HIS FAVORS

13  AND HE IT IS WHO MERGES NIGHT 
INTO DAY AND MERGES DAY INTO NIGHT 

TO HIS LAW, THE SUN AND THE MOON HE HAS SUBJECTED 
EACH ONE RUNS ITS COURSE FOR A TERM APPOINTED 

THIS IS GOD, YOUR LORD, TO HIM BELONGS ALL POWER
AND THOSE WHOM YOU CALL ON BESIDES HIM HAVE NO POWER

14  IF YOU CALL ON THEM THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO YOUR PRAYER
AND IF THEY WERE TO LISTEN THEY CANNOT ANSWER YOUR PRAYER
AND ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THEY WILL REJECT YOU AS A PARTNER 
AND NONE CAN TELL YOU THE TRUTH LIKE ONE WHO IS WISE AND AWARE

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CHAPTER 35.  THE ORIGINATOR                                                  SECTION 3.  PART  XXII

15  OH YOU MEN, IT IS YOU THAT HAVE NEED OF GOD 
BUT FREE OF ALL WANTS AND PRAISEWORTHY IS GOD

16  IF HE SO PLEASED HE COULD REMOVE YOU 
AND BRING IN A NEW CREATION TO REPLACE YOU

17  NOR IS THAT DIFFICULT FOR GOD TO DO

18  NOR CAN A BEARER OF BURDENS 
BEAR ANOTHER’S BURDEN 
IF ONE HEAVILY LADEN 
SHOULD CALL ANOTHER TO BEAR HIS BURDEN 
NOT THE LEAST PORTION OF HIS BURDEN
CAN BE CARRIED BY ANOTHER PERSON 
EVEN IF HE BE OF NEAR RELATION 
AND YOU CAN ONLY GIVE ADMONITION
TO THOSE THAT FEAR GOD'S DESTRUCTION
SO ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION
WHOEVER PURIFIES HIMSELF BENEFITS HIS OWN PERSON
AND TO YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER IS THE FINAL DESTINATION

19  THE BLIND AND THE SEEING ARE NOT ALIKE 

20  NOR ARE THE DEPTHS OF DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT

21  NOR IS THE CHILLY SHADE AND THE SUN'S HEAT ALIKE

22  NOR ARE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD ALIKE

AND GOD CAN MAKE ANY THAT HE WILLS TO HEAR 
BUT YOU CANNOT MAKE THOSE WHO ARE IN GRAVES TO HEAR

23  YOU ARE NOTHING OTHER 
THAN A PLAIN WARNER

24  SURELY WE HAVE SENT YOU IN TRUTH AS A BEARER 
OF GLAD TIDINGS AND AS A WARNER
AND THERE WAS NEVER A PEOPLE WITHOUT A WARNER
HAVING LIVED AMONG THEM EVER

25  IF THEY REJECT YOU, SO DID THEIR PREDECESSORS 
TO WHOM CAME TO THEM THEIR MESSENGERS 
WITH BOOKS OF DARK PROPHECIES AND SIGNS THAT WERE CLEAR
AND WITH THE BOOK OF ENLIGHTENMENT THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR

26  I PUNISHED THOSE WHO REJECTED FAITH WHEN IT CAME TO THEM 
AND HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY REJECTION OF THEM

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CHAPTER 35.  THE ORIGINATOR                                                  SECTION 4.  PART  XXII

27  GOD SENDS DOWN FROM THE SKY THE RAIN WATERS
WITH WHICH WE BRING OUT PRODUCE OF VARIOUS COLORS             
THE MOUNTAINS HAVE TRACTS WHITE AND RED OF VARIOUS COLORS 
AND INTENSELY BLACK IN HUE ARE OTHERS

28  ALSO AMONG MEN AND CRAWLING CREATURES 
AND CATTLE THEY ARE OF VARIOUS COLORS 
THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE FEAR THE CREATOR
FOR HE IS EXALTED IN MIGHT AND THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER 

 29  AND THOSE WHO RECITE THE BOOK OF GOD CONSISTENTLY
AND WHO ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER AND SPEND IN CHARITY 
OUT OF WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN THEM SECRETLY AND OPENLY 
THEY HOPE FOR A COMMERCE THAT LASTS ETERNALLY

30  FOR HE WILL REWARD THEM FOR THEIR GOOD DEEDS
AND GIVE THEM EVEN MORE OUT OF HIS BOUNTY 
FOR HE IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

31  THIS IS THE TRUTH THAT TO YOU WE HAVE REVEALED 
CONFIRMING WHAT CAME BEFORE IT WAS REVEALED 

FOR GOD IS WITH RESPECT TO HIS SERVANTS 
WELL ACQUAINTED AND FULLY OBSERVANT

32  THE BOOK WE HAVE GIVEN 
TO OUR SERVANTS WHOM WE HAVE CHOSEN 
BUT THERE ARE SOME WHO WRONG THEIR OWN PERSONS 
AND THERE ARE SOME WHO FOLLOW A MIDDLE DIRECTION
AND SOME WHO ARE FOREMOST IN RIGHT ACTIONS
AND THAT IS THE HIGHEST GRATIFICATION

33  THEY WILL ENTER THE PARADISE PROMISED TO THE RIGHTEOUS  
THEY WILL BE ADORNED WITH GOLD AND PEARL BRACELETS
AND SILK GARMENTS AS THEIR MODE OF DRESS

34  AND THEY WILL SAY, PRAISE BE TO OUR CREATOR
WHO INDEED HAS REMOVED FROM US ALL TERROR
FOR GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

35  AND WHO HAS OUT OF HIS BOUNTY SETTLED US 
IN A HOME THAT WILL LAST AND NO WEARINESS WILL TOUCH US 

36  BUT THOSE WHO REJECT GOD, FOR THEM WILL BE 
THE FIRE OF HELL AND NO TERM WILL BE 
DETERMINED FOR THEM TO DIE AND ITS PENALTY 
WILL NOT BE LIGHTENED FOR THEM IN ANY DEGREE
SO DO WE REWARD THOSE WHO ACT UNGRATEFULLY

37  THEREIN WILL THEY CRY OUT, OUR LORD, GIVE US MERCY. FROM YOU 
WE WILL WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS NOT THE DEEDS WE USED TO DO 
DID WE NOT GIVE LONG ENOUGH LIFE TO YOU
SO THAT YOU COULD RECEIVE THE ADMONITION SENT TO YOU?
AND MOREOVER THE WARNER CAME TO YOU 
SO TASTE THE FRUIT OF YOUR BEHAVIOR, THERE IS NO HELP FOR YOU

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CHAPTER 35.  THE ORIGINATOR                                                  SECTION 5.  PART  XXII

38  GOD KNOWS ALL THE THINGS HIDDEN
IN THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS
HE HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THAT IS IN 
THE INNERMOST HEARTS OF MEN

39  AND HE HAS MADE YOU INHERITORS OF HIS CREATION
IF THEN ANY DO REJECT GOD THEN THEIR REJECTION 
WORKS AGAINST THEM AND THEIR REJECTION 
BUT ADDS TO THEIR UNBELIEF AND THEIR REJECTION
IN THE SIGHT OF GOD IS ONLY AN ADDITION
TO THEIR OWN SELF DESTRUCTION

40  SAY, HAVE YOU SEEN THESE PARTNERS 
WHOM YOU CALL UPON BESIDES YOUR CREATOR?  
SHOW ME WHAT IN THE EARTH ARE THEY ORIGINATORS
OR IN THE HEAVENS HAVE THEY A SHARE? 
OR IS THERE GIVEN TO THEM A BOOK FROM WHERE 
THEY CAN DERIVE EVIDENCE CLEAR?  
NO, NOTHING BUT DELUSIONS PROMISE THE WRONG DOERS

41  IT IS GOD WHO SUSTAINS THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
OR ELSE THEY WOULD BOTH CEASE TO FUNCTION 
AND IF THEY WOULD FAIL THERE IS NONE
CAN SUSTAIN THEM THEREAFTER, AND GOD IS THE ONE
THE MOST MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING ONE

42  THEY SWORE BY GOD THAT IF CAME TO THEM A WARNER 
THAT THEY WOULD FOLLOW HIS GUIDANCE BETTER 
THAN ANY OF THE OTHER PEOPLE PRIOR
BUT WHEN CAME TO THEM A WARNER 
IT HAS ONLY INCREASED THEM IN ERROR

43  PLOTTING EVIL AND BEHAVING ARROGANTLY
BUT THEIR PLOTTING OF EVIL WILL HEM IN THEM ONLY 
NOW THEY ARE LOOKING FOR THE WAY OF THOSE PREVIOUSLY  
BUT NO CHANGE WILL THEY FIND IN GOD'S DECREE 
AND NO TURNING OFF WILL YOU FIND IN GOD'S DECREE 

44  DO THEY NOT TRAVEL THE EARTH OVER
TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE PRIOR 
FOR TO THEM THEY WERE IN STRENGTH SUPERIOR  
NOR IS GOD TO BE FRUSTRATED BY ANYTHING EVER
IN HEAVEN OR EARTH, FOR HE HAS ALL POWER

45  IF GOD PUNISHED MEN ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY DESERVE 
HE WOULD NOT LEAVE A SINGLE CREATURE ON THE EARTH 
BUT HE GIVES THEM RESPITE FOR A STATED TERM 
THEN WHEN COMES THE END OF THEIR TERM 

GOD IS OBSERVANT 
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CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                                        SECTION 1.  PART XXII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH MAN OF GOD

2  BY THE QURAN THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR

3  YOU ARE INDEED ONE OF THE MESSENGERS

4  ON A WAY THAT IS SURE

5  IT IS A REVELATION SENT DOWN CLEARLY
BY ONE WHO IS MERCIFUL AND MIGHTY

6  IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY ADMONISH 
PEOPLE WHOSE FATHERS HAD NOT BEEN ADMONISHED
AND WHO THEREFORE REMAIN HEEDLESS OF GOD'S MESSAGES

7  THE WORD IS PROVED TRUE AGAINST THE GREATER 
PART OF THEM, FOR THEY ARE NOT BELIEVERS

8  WE HAVE PUT CHAINS ROUND THEIR NECKS RIGHT UP 
TO THEIR CHINS SO THAT THEIR HEADS ARE FORCED UP 

9  WE HAVE PUT A BARRIER IN FRONT OF THEM 
AND WE HAVE PUT A BARRIER BEHIND THEM 
AND FURTHER WE HAVE COVERED THEM 
SO NO VISION IS POSSESSED BY THEM

10  THE SAME IS IT TO THEM 
WHETHER YOU ADMONISH THEM 
OR YOU DO NOT ADMONISH THEM 
THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE MOST OF THEM

11  YOU CAN ONLY ADMONISH HE WHO FOLLOWS THE MESSAGES
AND FEARS GOD UNSEEN, TO HIM GIVE NEWS OF FORGIVENESS
AND A REWARD FROM GOD MOST GENEROUS

12  AND WE WILL GIVE LIFE TO THE DEAD AND WE ARE RECORDING
WHAT THEY SEND BEFORE AND THAT WHICH THEY ARE LEAVING
 AND WE HAVE TAKEN ALL THINGS INTO ACCOUNTING

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CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                                        SECTION 2.  PART XXII

13  SET FORTH TO THEM THE STORY BY WAY OF A PARABLE 
OF THE COMPANIONS OF THE CITY, TO IT CAME APOSTLES 

14  WHEN WE FIRST SENT TO THEM TWO APOSTLES 
THEY REJECTED THEM SO WE SENT A THIRD APOSTLE
THEY SAID, WE HAVE BEEN SENT TO YOU AS APOSTLES

15  AND THE PEOPLE SAID, YOU ARE ONLY HUMAN BEINGS
AND OF REVELATION GOD HAS SENT BY YOU NOTHING
AND YOU ARE DOING NOTHING BUT LYING

16  THEY SAID, OUR LORD DOES KNOW THAT IT IS TRUE
WE HAVE BEEN SENT ON A MISSION TO YOU

17  AND OUR DUTY IS ONLY
TO DELIVER THE MESSAGE CLEARLY

18  THE PEOPLE SAID, FOR US WE AUGUR AN EVIL OMEN FROM YOU 
THEREFORE IF YOU DESIST NOT, WE WILL CERTAINLY STONE YOU
AND A GRIEVOUS PUNISHMENT WILL BE INFLICTED ON YOU 

19  THEY SAID, WITH YOURSELVES ARE YOUR EVIL OMENS 
AND WOULD YOU DEEM THIS AS AN EVIL OMEN 
THAT YOU WERE TO BE GIVEN ADMONITION? 
NO, YOU ARE PEOPLE IN TRANSGRESSION 

20  FROM THE FARTHEST PART OF THE CITY CAME  A MAN RUNNING
SAYING, OH MY PEOPLE, GIVE THE APOSTLES YOUR FOLLOWING

21  FOLLOW THOSE WHO ASK OF YOU NO REWARD  
AND WHO HAVE RECEIVED GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LORD 

PART XXIII

22  IT WOULD NOT BE REASONABLE FOR ME 
NOT TO SERVE AND WORSHIP HIM WHO CREATED ME 
AND TO WHOM YOU WILL RETURN TO EVENTUALLY

23  SHALL I TAKE OTHER GODS BESIDES GOD IN DIETY?
IF HE SHOULD INTEND FOR ME SOME ADVERSITY 
OF NO USE WILL THEIR INTERCESSION BE
NOR ARE THEY ABLE TO DELIVER ME

24  IF I WERE TO DO SO I WOULD BE 
IN CLEAR ERROR MANIFESTLY  
 
25  BELIEVE IN YOUR LORD, SO LISTEN TO ME

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CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                   SECTION 2  (CONT'D). PART  XXIII

26  IT WAS SAID, ENTER THE GARDEN OF ETERNITY
HE SAID, IF MY PEOPLE KNEW WHAT IS KNOWN TO ME

27  FOR MY LORD HAS GRANTED FORGIVENESS TO ME
AND HAS PLACED ME AMONG THOSE HELD HONORABLY

28  AND WE SENT NOT DOWN UPON HIS PEOPLE AFTER
ANY HOST FROM HEAVEN NOR DO WE EVER

29  IT WAS NOTHING BUT A SINGLE BLAST SENT
AND THEY WERE QUENCHED AND SILENT

30  AS FOR MY SERVANTS THERE COMES NOT TO THEM 
A MESSENGER BUT HE IS MOCKED BY THEM

31  SEE HOW MANY GENERATIONS WE DESTROYED BEFORE THEM
THAT WILL NEVER RETURN TO THEM?

32  AND THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE US ALL OF THEM

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CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                                       SECTION 3.  PART XXIII

33  A SIGN FOR THEM IS THE DEAD EARTH THAT WE GIVE LIFE TO
AND PRODUCE GRAIN THEREFROM OF WHICH IS EATEN BY YOU

34  AND WE PRODUCE ORCHARDS WITH DATE-PALMS THEREIN
AND VINES AND WE CAUSE SPRINGS TO GUSH FORTH THEREIN

35  THAT THEY MAY ENJOY THE FRUITS OF THIS 
IT WAS NOT THEIR HANDS THAT MADE ANY OF THIS 
WILL THEY NOT THEN GIVE THANKS FOR ALL OF THIS?

36  GLORY TO GOD WHO CREATED IN PAIRS ALL THINGS 
THAT THE EARTH PRODUCES AS WELL AS THEIR OWN BEINGS
AND AS WELL AS OTHER THINGS OF WHICH THEY KNOW NOTHING

37  THERE IS A SIGN IN THE NIGHT, WE WITHDRAW FROM IT THE DAY
AND PLUNGED DEEPLY INTO DARKNESS ARE THEY

38  AND THE SUN HE RUNS HIS COURSE OBEDIENTLY
FOR A PERIOD DETERMINED FOR HIM PREVIOUSLY
THAT IS THE DECREE OF THE ALL MIGHTY

39  THE MOON WE HAVE MEASURED FOR HER MANSIONS TO TRAVERSE 
UNTIL SHE RETURNS LIKE A DATE STALK OLD AND WITHERED 

40  THE SUN CANNOT CATCH UP TO THE MOON NOR CAN THE DAY 
OUTSTRIP THE NIGHT, EACH ONE OF THEM STAYS
EACH IN ITS OWN INDIVIDUAL WAYS 

41  AND A SIGN FOR THEM IS THAT THEIR RACE WE BORE 
THROUGH THE FLOOD IN THE LOADED ARK BEFORE

42  AND WE HAVE CREATED FOR THEM 
SIMILAR VESSELS AND THEY RIDE ON THEM

43  IF IT WERE OUR WILL WE COULD DROWN THEM
THEN THERE WOULD BE NO ONE TO HEAR THEM
NOR TO HELP THEM OR TO DELIVER THEM

44  EXCEPT BY WAY OF OUR MERCY AND BY WORLDLY
CONVENIENCE TO SERVE THEM TEMPORARILY

45  WHEN THEY ARE TOLD, FEAR THAT WHICH IS BEFORE YOU 
AND ALSO THAT WHICH WILL BE COMING AFTER YOU 
IN ORDER THAT MERCY MAY BE SHOWN TO YOU

46  NOT A SIGN FROM GOD COMES TO THEM 
BUT THEY TURN AWAY FROM THEM

47  AND WHEN THEY ARE TOLD, SPEND OF THE BOUNTY 
WITH WHICH YOUR LORD HAS PROVIDED YOU FREELY
THE DISBELIEVERS SAY TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE
WILL WE THEN BE THE ONES TO FEED 
THOSE WHOM IF GOD WILLED HE WOULD FEED
YOU ARE IN MANIFEST ERROR INDEED

48  AND THEY SAY, WHEN WILL THIS PROMISE COME TRUE
IF THAT WHICH YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE

49  THEY WILL NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANYTHING 
IT WILL SEIZE THEM WHILE THEY ARE DISPUTING 

50  NO CHANCE WILL THERE BE TO DISPOSE OF THEIR AFFAIRS
NOR WILL THEY RETURN TO THEIR FAMILIES THEREAFTER

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CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                                       SECTION 4.  PART XXIII

51  THE TRUMPET WILL BE SOUNDED WHEN MEN
FROM THEIR GRAVES TO THEIR LORD THEY WILL HASTEN

52  THEN THEY WILL SAY, WOE UNTO US 
UP FROM OUR BEDS OF REST WHO HAS RAISED US?  
SURELY THIS IS WHAT OUR LORD HAS PROMISED TO US
AND THE MESSENGERS DID INDEED TELL THE TRUTH TO US

53  IT WILL BE A SINGLE CRY BUT NO MORE 
AND TO US THEY WILL BE BROUGHT UP BEFORE 

54  AND NO SOUL WILL BE WRONGED THAT DAY IN THE LEAST
AND YOU THEN WILL ALL BE REPAID ALL OF THE MEADS 
OF ALL OF YOUR EARNINGS OF ALL OF YOUR DEEDS

55  THAT DAY THE GARDEN'S COMPANIONS 
WILL HAVE A HAPPY OCCUPATION

56  THEY AND THEIR ASSOCIATES WILL BE 
IN SHADES RECLINING ON THRONES OF DIGNITY

57  EVERY FRUIT OF ENJOYMENT WILL BE THERE FOR THEM 
THEY WILL HAVE WHATEVER IS DESIRED BY THEM

58  PEACE, A WORD FROM A LORD MOST MERCIFUL TO THEM

59  AND THE SINNERS, GET AWAY, IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM 

60  DID I NOT ENJOIN YOU, OH CHILDREN OF ADAM
THAT YOU SHOULD NOT BE WORSHIPERS OF SATAN?
FOR HE IS AN ENEMY TO YOU FOR CERTAIN 

61  AND THAT YOU SHOULD WORSHIP ONLY ME 
FOR THIS IS THE STRAIGHT WAY INDEED?

62  BUT HE MISLEAD A GREAT MULTITUDE OF YOU 
WAS THIS NOT THEN UNDERSTOOD BY YOU?

63  THIS IS THE HELL OF WHICH WE WARNED YOU 

64  EMBRACE THE FIRE THIS DAY FOR THAT YOU 
PERSISTENTLY REJECTED THE TRUTH

65  THAT DAY THEIR MOUTHS WILL BE SEALED BY US
BUT THEIR HANDS AND FEET WILL SPEAK TO US 

66  WE COULD HAVE PUT OUT THEIR EYES IF WE PLEASED 
AND THEN THEY WOULD HAVE RUN ABOUT GROPINGLY
HOW THEN WOULD THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SEE?

67  IF WE WISH WE COULD TRANSFORM THEM IN THEIR PLACES
THEN THEY COULD NOT MOVE FORWARD OR BACKWARDS 

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CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                                        SECTION 5.  PART XXIII

68  IF WE GRANT LONG LIFE TO ANYONE
WE CAUSE HIM TO BE REVERSED IN CREATION
WHY WILL THEY NOT THEN GAIN COMPREHENSION?

69  WE HAVE NOT TAUGHT POETRY TO THE MESSENGER
THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A REMINDER
AND A QURAN MAKING THINGS CLEAR

70  THAT IT MAY GIVE ADMONITION TO ANY WHO ARE ALIVE
AND THAT THE CHARGE MAY BE PROVED AGAINST THOSE WHO LIED 

71  DO THEY NOT SEE THAT IT IS WE WHO HAVE CREATED FOR THEM 
AMONG THE THINGS WHICH OUR HANDS FASHIONED FOR THEM 
CATTLE WHICH ARE UNDER THE DOMINION OF THEM?

72  AND TO THEIR USE WE HAVE SUBJECTED THEM 
SOME THEY EAT AND SOME OF THEM CARRY THEM 

73  THEY HAVE OTHER PROFITS BESIDES FROM THEM 
FOR THEY GET PURE MILK TO DRINK FROM THEM
WILL GRATITUDE NOT BE SHOWN BY THEM?

74  YET THEY TAKE FOR WORSHIP GODS OTHER THAN GOD 
HOPING THAT THEY MIGHT BE HELPED BY THOSE SO CALLED GODS

75  THEY HAVE NOT THE POWER TO HELP THEM IN THE LEAST
BUT THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE OUR JUDGMENT SEAT 
AS A TROOP TO BE CONDEMNED BY US COMPLETELY

76  LET NOT THEIR SPEECH GRIEVE YOU
WE KNOW WHAT THEY SECRETLY DO
AS WELL AS WHAT THEY OPENLY DO

77  WE CREATED MAN FROM A SPERM DROP HUMBLY  
YET HE STANDS FORTH AS AN OPEN ADVERSARY

78  AND HE MAKES FOR US COMPARISONS 
AND FORGETS HIS OWN ORIGINATION  
HE SAYS, WHO CAN GIVE TO DRY BONES RESURRECTION 
AND EVEN BONES IN DECOMPOSITION?

79  SAY, HE WHO GAVE THEM LIFE IN THEIR FIRST CREATION 
FOR HE IS THE KNOWER OF ALL CREATION

80  THE SAME WHO PRODUCES FOR YOU FIRE 
OUT OF THE GREEN TREE WHICH YOU KINDLE FOR FIRES

81  IS NOT HE WHO CREATED THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
THEREFORE ABLE TO ALSO RECREATE THE LIKE OF MEN?  
YES, FOR HE IS THE KNOWER OF ALL THAT IS THEREIN

82  HIS COMMAND WHEN HE INTENDS A THING IS
ONLY THAT HE SAYS TO IT, BE, AND IT IS

83  SO GLORY TO HIM IN WHOSE HANDS IS ALL THINGS
AND TO HIM YOU WILL ALL BE RETURNING

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