CHAPTER 37.  THOSE RANGED IN RANKS                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THOSE WHO RANGE
THEMSELVES IN RANKS

2  AND THOSE WHO RESTRAIN
HOLDING IN RESTRAINT

3  AND THOSE WHO ARE RECITERS 
OF THE REMINDER

4  SURELY YOUR GOD
IS ONE GOD

5  LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND EVERYTHING 
BETWEEN THEM AND LORD OF EVERYTHING
THAT IS WITHIN THE SUN'S RISING

6  WITH THE STARS WE HAVE DECORATIVELY
DECKED THE LOWER HEAVEN WITH BEAUTY  

7  AND TO GUARD IT
AGAINST ALL EVIL SPIRITS

8   THE EXALTED ASSEMBLY, THEY CANNOT LISTEN TO IT
AND FROM EVERY SIDE THEY ARE CAST AWAY FROM IT

9  THEY ARE UNDER A PENALTY AND DRIVEN OFF FROM IT

10  EXCEPT THOSE WHO SNATCH AWAY SOMETHING BY STEALING 
AND THEY ARE PURSUED BY A FIRE  FLAMING

11  JUST ASK THEM, ARE THEY THE MORE DIFFICULT TO CREATE
OR THE OTHER BEINGS WE CREATE? 
OUT OF STICKY CLAY THEM DID WE CREATE

12  DO YOU MARVEL WHILE THEY MAKE MOCKERY?

13  AND WHEN THEY ARE ADMONISHED THEY PAY NO HEED

14  AND WHEN THEY SEE A SIGN TURN IT INTO MOCKERY

15  AND SAY, THIS IS NOTHING BUT SORCERY

16  WHEN WE DIE AND BECOME BONES DRY AND DUSTY 
WILL WE THEN BE RAISED UP AGAIN REALLY?

17  AND ALSO OUR FATHERS OF OLD INDEED?

18  SAY, YES, AND YOU WILL BE HUMILIATED COMPLETELY

19  THEN IT WILL BE A SINGLE CRY AND THEY WILL SEE

20  THEN THEY WILL SAY 
WOE TO US THIS IS THE JUDGMENT DAY

21  A VOICE WILL SAY, THIS IS THE DAY OF SORTING OUT 
WHOSE TRUTH YOU WERE ONCE IN DENIAL ABOUT

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22  IT WILL BE SAID, BRING UP THE WRONG DOERS 
AND THEIR WIVES AND THE THINGS THEY SERVED

23  BESIDES GOD AND LEAD THEM TO THE FIRE

24  BUT STOP THEM 
FOR IT MUST BE ASKED OF THEM

25  WHAT IS THE MATTER THAT YOU HELP NOT EACH OTHER?

26  NAY, BUT TO JUDGEMENT THAT DAY THEY WILL BE SUBMITTERS  

27  THEY WILL TURN TO ONE ANOTHER
AND THEY WILL QUESTION EACH OTHER

28  THEY WILL SAY, YOU USED TO PRIOR
COME TO US FROM THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER

29  THEY WILL REPLY, NO INDEED
YOU YOURSELVES DISBELIEVED

30  NOR HAD WE ANY AUTHORITY OVER YOU PEOPLE
IT WAS YOU WHO WERE REBELLIOUS AND EVIL 

31  NOW HAS BEEN PROVED TRUE AGAINST US THE WORD OF GOD 
THAT WE WILL HAVE TO TASTE THE PUNISHMENT OF GOD

32  WE LED YOU ASTRAY 
FOR WE WERE OURSELVES ASTRAY

33  THAT DAY THEY WILL EQUALLY 
ALL SHARE IN THE PENALTY

34  THAT IS HOW WE WILL JUSTLY
DEAL WITH THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY

35  FOR THEY BEHAVED ARROGANTLY
WHEN THEY WERE TOLD THERE WAS ONE GOD ONLY

36  AND SAID, WILL WE GIVE UP THE GOD'S WE WORSHIP 
FOR THE SAKE OF A MAD POET?

37  NO, HE HAS COME WITH A MESSAGE CLEAR 
CONFIRMING THE MESSAGE OF THE FORMER MESSENGERS 

38  YOU WILL SURELY
TASTE THE GRIEVOUS PENALTY

39  BUT IT WILL BE NO MORE THAN THE RETRIBUTION
FOR THE EVIL THAT YOU HAVE DONE

40  BUT THE SINCERE AND DEVOTED SERVANTS OF GOD 

41  FOR THEM IS A SUSTENANCE DETERMINED FROM GOD

42  FRUITS AND DELIGHTS THAT THEY WILL HAPPILY
ENJOY IN HONOR AND DIGNITY

43  IN GARDENS OF FELICITY

44  FACING EACH OTHER ON THRONES OF DIGNITY

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45  PASSED ROUND TO THEM WILL BE ADDITIONALLY 
A CUP FROM A FOUNTAIN FLOWING CLEARLY

46  CRYSTAL WHITE AND IT TASTES DELICIOUS 
TO THOSE WHO DRINK IT FOR SUSTENANCE

47  IT DEPRIVES NOT OF REASON
NOR WILL THEY SUFFER INTOXICATION 

48  AND BESIDES THEM WILL BE CHASTE LADIES
MODEST IN GAZE WITH EYES OF BEAUTY

49  AS IF THEY WERE DELICATE EGGS GUARDED CLOSELY

50  THEN THEY WILL TURN TO EACH OTHER 
AND THEY WILL QUESTION ONE ANOTHER

51  THEY WILL START TO TALK AND IT WILL BE SAID BY ONE
I HAD ON THE EARTH AN INTIMATE COMPANION 

52  WHO USED TO SAY TO ME, ARE YOU 
AMONG THOSE WHO BEAR WITNESS TO THE TRUTH? 

53  WHEN WE DIE AND BECOME BONES DRY AND DUSTY
WILL WE THEN RECEIVE REWARDS AND PENALTIES?

54  A VOICE SAID, WOULD YOU LIKE TO LOOK DOWN? 

55  HE SAW HIMSELF IN THE FIRE WHEN HE LOOKED DOWN

56  BY GOD, SAID HE
YOU NEARLY RUINED ME

57  HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR MY LORD'S GRACE 
I WOULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO THAT PLACE

58  IS IT THE CASE THAT WE WILL NOT PERISH?

59  EXCEPT FOR OUR FIRST DEATH AND WE WILL NOT BE PUNISHED?

60  SURELY THIS IS THE SUPREME SUCCESS

61  FOR THE LIKE OF THIS LET ALL STRIVE
ALL OF THOSE WHO WISH TO STRIVE

62  IS THAT THE BETTER ENTERTAINMENT OR THE CURSED TREE?

63  FOR WE HAVE MADE IT A TRIAL FOR THOSE WHO ACT WRONGFULLY

64  IT IS A TREE THAT SPRINGS OUT OF THE BOTTOM OF HELL 

65  THE SHOOTS OF ITS FRUIT STALKS ARE EVIL
AND ARE LIKE THE HEADS OF DEVILS

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66  THEY WILL EAT FROM IT
AND FILL THEIR BELLIES FROM IT

67  THEN THEY WILL BE GIVEN A MIXTURE
MADE OF BOILING WATER

68  THEN WILL THEIR RETURN BE TO THE BLAZING FIRE

69  THEY FOUND THEIR FATHERS ON THE WRONG WAY

70  SO THEY TOO WERE RUSHED DOWN ON THEIR PATHWAYS

71  AND BEFORE THEM MANY OF THE ANCIENTS WENT ASTRAY

72  BUT WE SENT BEFORE AMONG THEM 
APOSTLES TO ADMONISH THEM

73  THEN SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO INDEED
WERE ADMONISHED BUT DID NOT HEED

74  EXCEPT GOD'S SERVANTS 
SINCERE AND OBEDIENT

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75  NOAH CRIED TO US AND OF PRAYERS
WE ARE THE BEST OF HEARERS

76  AND WE DELIVERED HIM AND HIS FAMILY
FROM THE GREAT CALAMITY

77  AND MADE SURVIVORS OF HIS PROGENY

78  AND WE LEFT THIS BLESSING FOR HIM
AMONG GENERATIONS COMING AFTER HIM

79  PEACE AND SALUTATIONS 
TO NOAH AMONG THE NATIONS

80  SO DO WE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

81  FOR HE WAS ONE OF THE BELIEVING ONES

82  THEN WE DROWNED THE OTHER ONES

83  AND OF THOSE WHO FOLLOWED HIS WAYS ABRAHAM WAS ONE

84  HE CAME TO HIS LORD AS A PURIFIED ONE

85  HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE AND TO HIS FATHER 
WHAT IS THIS OF WHICH YOU ARE WORSHIPPERS?

86  IS IT FALSE GODS YOU DESIRE OTHER THAN GOD?

87  THEN WHAT IS YOUR IDEA ABOUT GOD?

88  THEN HE CAST A GLANCE AT THE STARS

89  AND HE SAID, I AM SICK AT HEART

90  SO THEY TURNED AWAY FROM HIM AND DID DEPART

91  THEN HE TURNED TO THEIR GODS AND SAID, WILL YOU 
NOT EAT OF THE OFFERINGS BEFORE YOU?

92  AND YOU SPEAK NOT, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? 

93  THEN DID HE TURN UPON THEM 
AND WITH HIS RIGHT HAND HE STRUCK THEM

94  THEN CAME THE WORSHIPPERS TOWARDS HIM
WITH HURRIED STEPS AND FACED HIM

95  HE SAID, ARE THINGS WORSHIPPED BY YOU 
THAT HAVE BEEN CARVED OUT BY YOU?

96  BUT GOD HAS CREATED YOUR HANDIWORK AND YOU

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97  THEY SAID, BUILD A FURNACE FOR HIM
AND INTO THE BLAZING FIRE THROW HIM

98  THIS FAILING THEY SOUGHT AGAINST HIM A STRATAGEM 
BUT WE MADE THE ONES MOST HUMILIATED TO BE THEM

99  HE SAID, I WILL GO TO MY LORD 
AND I WILL BE GUIDED BY MY LORD

100  OH MY LORD, GRANT TO ME A RIGHTEOUS SON 

101  WE GAVE HIM GOOD NEWS OF A RIGHTEOUS SON 

102  WHEN HE REACHED THE AGE TO WORK WITH HIS SON
HE SAID, OH MY SON, I SEE IN A VISION 
THAT IN SACRIFICE I OFFER YOU, WHAT IS YOUR OPINION? 
HE SAID, OH MY FATHER, ACT ON YOUR INSTRUCTION
IF GOD PLEASES HE WILL FIND ME A PATIENT ONE 

103  WHEN THEY HAD SUBMITTED TO GOD AND HE HAD LAID HIM 
PROSTRATE ON HIS FOREHEAD TO SACRIFICE HIM

104  OH ABRAHAM, WE CALLED OUT TO HIM

105  YOU HAVE FULFILLED THE VISION ALREADY
SO DO WE REWARD THOSE WHO DO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

106  FOR THIS WAS A TRIAL OBVIOUSLY FOR HIM

107  AND WITH A SACRIFICE WE RANSOMED HIM

108  WE GRANTED HIM THE SALUTATION
AMONG THE LATER GENERATIONS

109  TO ABRAHAM PEACE AND SALUTATIONS

110  SO DO WE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

111  SURELY OF OUR SERVANTS HE WAS ONE

112  WE GAVE HIM NEWS OF ISAAC A PROPHET, A TRUE ONE

113  WE BLESSED HIM AND ISAAC AND OF THEIR PROGENY
SOME ARE DOERS OF GOOD BUT SOME ACTED UNJUSTLY 

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114  TO MOSES AND AARON WE TURNED FAVORABLY

115  AND DELIVERED THEM AND THEIR PEOPLE FROM THE CALAMITY 

116  WE HELPED THEM SO THEY OVERCAME THEIR DIFFICULTIES

117  WE GAVE THEM THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THINGS CLEARLY

118  AND WE GUIDED THEM ON THE RIGHT WAY INDEED

119  AND GRANTED THEM THE SALUTATION
AMONG LATER GENERATIONS

120  PEACE AND SALUTATIONS 
TO MOSES AND AARON

121  SO DO WE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

122  FOR OF OUR SERVANTS THEY WERE BELIEVING ONES

123  ALSO WAS ELIAS AMONG THOSE SENT BY THE CREATOR 

124  HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE, WILL YOU NOT FEAR YOUR MAKER?

125  WILL YOU CALL UPON BAAL AND FORSAKE THE BEST CREATOR? 

126  GOD YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
AND THE LORD AND CHERISHER
OF YOUR FORE FATHERS

127  BUT THEY REJECTED HIM AND THEY WILL CERTAINLY 
BE CALLED UP FOR THE PENALTY

128  EXCEPT THOSE WHO SERVE GOD SINCERELY 

129  AND WE LEFT THIS SALUTATION
AMONG LATER GENERATIONS

130  TO ELIAS PEACE AND SALUTATIONS

131  SO DO WE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

132  FOR OF OUR BELIEVING SERVANTS HE WAS ONE

133  ALSO WAS LOT AMONG THOSE SENT BY THE CREATOR

134  HIM AND ALL HIS FOLLOWERS WERE DELIVERED 

135  EXCEPT AN OLD WOMAN WHO IT WAS ORDERED
TO BE AMONG THOSE WHO REMAINED AFTER

136  THEN DID WE DESTROY THE OTHERS

137  YOU PASS BY THEIR SITES IN THE MORNINGS

138  AND YOU PASS BY THEM IN THE EVENINGS
WILL YOU NOT THEN HAVE UNDERSTANDING?

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139  SO WAS JONAH AMONG THOSE SENT 

140  WHEN HE RAN AWAY TO THE SHIP FULLY LADEN

141  HE CAST LOTS AND WAS CONDEMNED

142  THE BIG FISH SWALLOWED HIM AND HE COMMITTED SIN 

143  HAD HE NOT GLORIFIED GOD AND DID REPENT

144  HE WOULD HAVE STAYED IN THE FISH UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

145  BUT WE CAST HIM ON THE SHORE'S NAKEDNESS 
IN A HUMILIATING STATE OF SICKNESS

146  WE CAUSED TO GROW OVER HIM A SPREADING PLANT OF GOURD 

147  AND WE SENT HIM TO A HUNDRED THOUSAND OR MORE

148  AND THEY BELIEVED TRULY
SO WE PERMITTED THEM TO ENJOY THEIR DESTINY

149  NOW ASK THEM THEIR OPINION 
DOES GOD HAVE DAUGHTERS AND THEY HAVE SONS?

150  OR THAT WE CREATED THE ANGELS AS FEMALE BEINGS
AND OF THIS DO THEY BEAR WITNESSING?

151  IS IT NOT THAT THEY FROM THEIR OWN INVENTION SAY THIS?

152  GOD HAS BEGOTTEN CHILDREN THEY BUT LIE ABOUT THIS

153  THEN DID HE CHOOSE DAUGHTERS RATHER THAN SONS?

154  WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU THAT YOU MADE THIS DECISION

155  WILL YOU NOT THEN RECEIVE ADMONITION?

156  OR HAVE YOU A MANIFEST DOCUMENTATION?

157  IF YOU ARE TRUTHFUL THEN BRING YOUR DOCUMENTATION

158  THEY ASSERT A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIM AND THE DEMONS 
BUT THE DEMONS KNOW THEY WILL RETURN TO HIM FOR DECISION

159  GLORY TO GOD HE IS FREE FROM THEIR ASSERTIONS 

160  NOT SO GOD'S SERVANTS THE PURIFIED ONES

161  FOR NEITHER YOU NOR THOSE YOU SERVE IN DEVOTION

162  CAN LEAD ANY CONCERNING GOD INTO TEMPTATION

163  EXCEPT THOSE WHO THE FIRE IS THEIR DESTINATION

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164  THOSE RANGED IN RANKS SAY, WE ALL HAVE A POSITION

165  AND WE ARE RANGED IN RANKS FOR SERVICE TRULY

166  AND WE ARE THOSE WHO DECLARE GOD'S GLORY

167  AND THERE WERE THOSE WHO SAID, SURELY

168  IF WE HAD BEFORE FROM THOSE OF OLD A REMINDER CLEARLY

169  WE WOULD HAVE BEEN SERVANTS OF GOD DEVOTED SINCERELY

170  BUT NOW THE QURAN HAS COME AND THEY DISBELIEVE
SOON WILL THEY COME TO KNOW TRUTHFULLY

171  OUR WORD CAME BEFORE TO OUR MESSENGERS ALREADY 

172  THAT THEY WOULD BE ASSISTED WITH CERTAINTY

173  AND THAT OUR FORCES MUST CONQUER INEVITABLY

174  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM TEMPORARILY

175  AND WATCH THEM HOW THEY FARE 
AND THEY SOON WILL SEE HOW YOU FARE

176  DO THEY WISH TRULY
TO HURRY ON OUR PENALTY?

177  BUT WHEN IT DESCENDS TO THEM THE MORNING WILL INDEED
BE EVIL FOR THOSE WHO WERE WARNED AND DID NOT HEED

178  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM TEMPORARILY

179  AND WATCH THEM AND SOON THEY WILL SEE

180  GLORY TO GOD, THE LORD OF HONOR AND POWER  
HE IS FREE FROM WHAT THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM AS PARTNERS

181  AND PEACE BE UPON THE MESSENGERS

182  PRAISE BE TO GOD, THE CHERISHER

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CHAPTER 38.  SAD                                                                             SECTION 1.  PART XXIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  TRUTHFUL GOD

BY THE QURAN FULL OF ADMONITION

2  THE DISBELIEVERS ARE IN SELF GLORY AND OPPOSITION

3  WE DESTROYED COUNTLESS GENERATIONS
BEFORE THEM, IN THE END THEY CRIED FOR COMPASSION 
WHEN THERE WAS NO TIME FOR BEING SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION

4  THEY WONDER THAT HAS COME FROM AMONG THEM A WARNER 
BUT THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, THIS IS A LYING SORCERER 

5  HAS HE MADE THE GODS ALL INTO ONE DIETY 
THIS IS A STRANGE THING INDEED

6  AND THE LEADERS AMONG THEM GO AWAY IMPATIENTLY
SAYING, WALK AWAY AND REMAIN TRUE TO YOUR DIETIES  
FOR THIS IS A THING DESIGNED AGAINST YOU SURELY

7  WE NEVER HEARD THE LIKE OF THIS FORMERLY AMONG THE PEOPLE 
THIS IS NOTHING BUT A MADE UP FABLE

8  OF ALL PERSONS AMONG US THE MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT TO HIM? 
BUT MY OWN MESSAGE IS INDEED DOUBTED BY THEM
AND MY PENALTY HAS NOT BEEN TASTED BY THEM

9  OR HAVE THEY THE TREASURES
OF GOD'S MERCY, THE EXALTED IN POWER 
THE GRANTOR OF BOUNTIES WITHOUT MEASURE?

10  OR HAVE THEY THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 

AND ALL BETWEEN? 
IF SO LET THEM ASCEND UP TO IT WITH MEANS 

11  BUT THERE WILL BE PUT TO FLIGHT 
EVEN A HOST OF ALLIES

12  BEFORE THEM WERE MANY PEOPLE WHO REJECTED APOSTLES 
NOAH'S PEOPLE AND AD'S PEOPLE AND PHARAOH AND HIS PEOPLE

13  AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE AND THE COMPANIONS OF THE WOOD 
AND LOT'S PEOPLE, THEY WERE CONFEDERATES IN OPPOSITION TO GOOD

14  ALL OF THEM WERE REJECTERS OF THE MESSENGERS
SO MY PUNISHMENT CAME TO THEM IN A JUST MANNER

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CHAPTER 38.  SAD                                                                             SECTION 2.  PART XXIII

15  THESE ONLY WAIT FOR A SINGLE BLAST DAY TO DAY
WHEN IT COMES THAT DAY THERE WILL BE NO DELAY

16  THEY SAY, OUR LORD HASTEN TO US OUR SENTENCING
EVEN BEFORE THE DAY OF RECKONING

17  HAVE PATIENCE AT WHAT THEY SAY AND REMEMBER 
OUR SERVANT DAVID THE MAN OF POWER 
HE TURNED TO GOD IN ALL MATTERS

18  IT WAS WE THAT MADE THE HILLS SUBJECT TO HIS ORDERING 
GLORIFYING GOD AT NIGHTFALL AND MORNING 

19  AND THE BIRDS GATHERED WITH HIM
AND TURNED TO GOD WITH HIM

20  WE STRENGTHENED HIS KINGDOM AND GAVE HIM WISDOM 
AND SOUND JUDGMENT IN SPEECH AND DECISION

21  HAS THE STORY REACHED YOU OF THE OPPOSERS?
THEY CLIMBED OVER THE WALL OF THE PRIVATE CHAMBER

22  AND INTO THE PRESENCE OF DAVID THEY ENTERED 
WHEN HE SAW THEM HE WAS FILLED WITH TERROR 
THEY SAID, FEAR NOT WE ARE TWO DISPUTERS
ONE OF WHOM HAS WRONGED THE OTHER 

DECIDE NOW BETWEEN US WITH TRUTH AND TREAT US 
NOT WITH INJUSTICE BUT TO THE RIGHT WAY GUIDE US 

23  THIS MAN IS MY BROTHER MY MOTHERS SON
HE HAS NINETY-NINE SHEEP AND I HAVE ONLY ONE
YET HE SPEAKS TO ME AND SAYS, GIVE ME YOUR ONE

24  DAVID SAID, HE HAS WRONGED YOU DEMANDING YOUR SINGLE SHEEP 
TO BE ADDED TO HIS FLOCK OF SHEEP 

MANY PARTNERS IN BUSINESS WRONG EACH OTHER 
NOT SO DO BELIEVERS AND RIGHTEOUS DOERS
AND THEYARE FEW AND DAVID GATHERED 

THAT WE HAD TRIED HIM AND HE ASKED FORGIVENESS OF GOD
AND FELL DOWN BOWING IN PROSTRATION AND TO GOD 

25  SO WE FORGAVE HIM THIS 
HE ENJOYED TO US A NEARNESS
AND A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OF FINAL BLISS

26  OH DAVID, WE DID MAKE YOU A RULER
SO JUDGE IN TRUTH AND FOLLOW NOT YOUR DESIRES
FOR THEY WILL MISLEAD YOU FROM THE WAY OF YOUR CREATOR
FOR THOSE WHO FROM GOD'S WAY WANDER 
ON JUDGMENT DAY THEIRS IS A PENALTY THAT IS SEVERE

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CHAPTER 38.  SAD                                                                             SECTION 3.  PART XXIII

27  AND NOT WITHOUT PURPOSE DID WE CREATE HEAVEN AND EARTH
AND ALL BETWEEN BUT THAT IS THE THOUGHT OF DISBELIEVERS 
BUT WOE TO THE DISBELIEVERS BECAUSE OF THE FIRE 

28  WILL WE TREAT THOSE WHO BELIEVE
THE SAME AS WE TREAT THOSE WHO DO EVIL DEEDS?
WILL WE TREAT THOSE WHO GUARD AGAINST EVIL DEEDS
IN THE SAME MANNER AS WE TREAT THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE?

29  HERE IS A BOOK WE HAVE SENT FULL OF BLESSINGS  
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY MEDITATE ON ITS MEANINGS 
AND THAT MEN OF UNDERSTANDING MAY RECEIVE WARNING
 
30  WE GAVE SOLOMON TO DAVID AS HIS PROGENY 
HOW EXCELLENT IN OUR SERVICE WAS HE
AND HE TURNED TO US REPEATEDLY

31  THERE WAS BROUGHT BEFORE HIM AT EVENING 
SWIFT HORSES OF THE HIGHEST BREEDING 

32  HE SAID, I LOVE THE LOVE OF THINGS GODLY 
AND WITH A VIEW TO GOD'S GLORY 

UNTIL THE SUN WAS HIDDEN OVER 
IN THE VEIL OF NIGHT'S COVER

33  HE SAID, BRING THEM BACK TO ME 
THEN HE PASSED HIS HAND OVER THEIR LEGS AND NECKS GENTLY

34  AND WE TRIED SOLOMON PLACING ON HIS THRONE A BODY 
WITHOUT LIFE BUT HE DID TURN TO US SINCERELY

35  HE SAID, OH MY LORD, PLEASE DO FORGIVE ME
AND GRANT ME A KINGDOM WHICH IT MAY BE
SUITS NOT ANOTHER AFTER ME 

FOR YOU ARE THE GRANTOR 
OF BOUNTIES WITHOUT MEASURE

36  AND WE SUBJECTED THE WIND TO HIS POWER 
TO FLOW GENTLY WHERE EVER HE PLEASED TO HIS ORDER

37  AS ALSO THE DEVILS INCLUDING EVERY KIND OF BUILDER 
AND IN ADDITION TO EVERY KIND OF DIVER

38  AS ALSO OTHERS BOUND IN FETTERS

39  THESE ARE OUR BOUNTIES AND WHETHER YOU 
BESTOW THEM FREELY ON OTHERS OR WHETHER YOU
WITHHOLD THEM NO ACCOUNT WILL BE ASKED OF YOU

40  AND HE ENJOYED TO US A NEARNESS 
AND A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OF FINAL BLISS

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CHAPTER 38.  SAD                                                                             SECTION 4.  PART XXIII

41  REMEMBER OUR SERVANT JOB WHEN HE DESPERATELY 
CRIED TO HIS LORD, THE DEVIL HAS AFFLICTED ME 
WITH SEVERE DISTRESS AND ADVERSITY

42  THE COMMAND WAS GIVEN, STRIKE THE ROCK HERE IS WATER 
TO WASH AND COOL AND REFRESHING DRINKING WATER 

43  WE GAVE HIM BACK HIS PEOPLE DOUBLING THEIR NUMBER
AS A GRACE FROM OURSELVES AND A THING TO REMEMBER 
FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE UNDERSTANDING CLEAR

44  AND TAKE IN YOUR HAND A FEW WORLDLY GOODS
AND EARN GOODNESS AND INCLINE NOT TO FALSEHOOD

A MOST EXCELLENT SERVANT AND PATIENT WAS HE
AND HE TURNED TO US REPEATEDLY

45  OUR SERVANTS ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB, REMEMBER  
THEY WERE ALL POSSESSORS OF VISION AND POWER 

46  WE CHOSE THEM AS PROCLAIMERS 
OF THE MESSAGE OF THE HEREAFTER

47  THEY WERE IN OUR SIGHT TRULY 
OF THE ELECT AND THE GOOD COMPANY

48  AND REMEMBER ISHMAEL AND ELISHA AND ZUL-KIFL 
EACH OF THEM WAS OF THOSE WHO WERE GRATEFUL

49  THIS IS A MESSAGE OF ADMONITION AND WARNING
FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OF FINAL DWELLING

50  IN GARDENS OF ETERNITY 
WHOSE DOORS WILL BE OPEN TO THEM ETERNALLY 

51  THERE WILL THEY RECLINE AT EASE 
AND CALL FOR FRUIT AND DRINK AS THEY PLEASE

52  AND BESIDE THEM WILL BE CHASTE WOMEN 
RESTRAINING THEIR GLANCES EQUAL AGED COMPANIONS 

53  THIS IS THE PROMISE 
MADE TO YOU FOR THE DAY OF JUSTICE

54  THIS WILL BE OUR BOUNTY TO YOU
AND IT WILL NEVER FAIL YOU

55  BUT FOR THE WRONG DOERS WILL BE 
A FINAL EVIL PLACE TO BE

56  HELL - THEY WILL BURN THEREIN 
AN EVIL BED FOR THEM TO LIE IN

57  AND THEN THEY WILL TASTE A BOILING FLUID
AND A DARK MURKY INTENSELY COLD FLUID

58  AND OTHER PENALTIES FOR THEM
OF SIMILAR KIND TO MATCH THEM

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CHAPTER 38.  SAD                                                           SECTION 4 (CONT'D). PART XXIII

59  HERE IS A TROOP RUSHING 
HEADLONG WITH YOU AND FOR THEM NO WELCOMING
AND THEY WILL BE IN THE FIRE BURNING 

60  THE FOLLOWERS WILL CRY TO THE MISLEADERS
THERE IS NO WELCOME FOR YOU EITHER? 

IT IS YOU WHO HAVE BROUGHT THIS UPON US 
NOW EVIL IS THIS PLACE TO STAY IN FOR US

61  THEY WILL SAY, OUR LORD AND CHERISHER
WHOEVER FOR THIS WAS OUR PREPARER 
GIVE HIM A DOUBLE PUNISHMENT IN THE FIRE

62  AND THEY WILL SAY, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US THAT WE SEE 
NOT MEN WHOM WE USED TO NUMBER AMONG THE BAD COMPANY?

63  IN RIDICULE DID WE TREAT THEM
OR HAVE OUR EYES FAILED TO PERCEIVE THEM?

64  TRULY THAT IS JUST AND FITTING FOR SURE
THE MUTUAL RECRIMINATIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE FIRE

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CHAPTER 38.  SAD                                                                            SECTION 5.  PART XXIII

65  SAY, TRULY AM I A WARNER THERE IS NO GOD  
BUT THE ONE, THE SUPREME AND IRRESISTIBLE GOD

66  THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN IS HE
AND HE IS MOST FORGIVING AND ALL MIGHTY

67  SAY, THAT IS A MESSAGE SUPREME TRULY

68  FROM WHICH YOU TURN AWAY ARROGANTLY

69  NO KNOWLEDGE HAVE I 
OF THE CHIEFS ON HIGH 

WHEN THEY DISCUSS MATTERS 
AMONG THEMSELVES IN CHAMBERS

70  ONLY THIS HAS BEEN REVEALED TO ME 
THAT I AM TO GIVE WARNING PLAINLY AND PUBLICLY

71  TO THE ANGELS YOUR LORD DID SAY
I AM ABOUT TO CREATE MAN FROM CLAY

72  WHEN I HAVE FASHIONED HIM IN DUE PROPORTION
AND BREATHED INTO HIM MY INSPIRATION  
BOW DOWN TO HIM IN SUBMISSION

73  SO THE ANGELS GATHERED 
AND PROSTRATED THEMSELVES TOGETHER

74  NOT SO SATAN HE WAS HAUGHTY
AND BECAME ONE OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED

75  GOD SAID, OH SATAN, WHAT PREVENTS YOU FROM SUBMISSIVELY 
PROSTRATING YOURSELF TO ONE WHO WAS CREATED BY ME
ARE YOU HAUGHTY OR ARE YOU TOO HIGH AND MIGHTY?

76  SATAN SAID, I AM BETTER THAN HE 
YOU CREATED HIM FROM CLAY AND FROM FIRE YOU MADE ME 

77  GOD SAID, THEN FROM HERE GET OUT
FOR YOU ARE REJECTED AND CURSED AND CAST OUT

78  AND MY CURSE AND PUNISHMENT
WILL BE ON YOU UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

79  OH MY LORD, SATAN DID SAY
RESPITE ME UNTIL THE DAY THE DEAD ARE RAISED

80  GOD SAID, RESPITE TO YOU IS GRANTED

81  UNTIL THE DAY OF THE TIME APPOINTED 

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CHAPTER 38.  SAD                                                            SECTION 5 (CONT'D). PART XXIII

82  SATAN SAID, THEN BY YOUR POWER 
I WILL MAKE THEM ALL WRONG DOERS

83  EXCEPT YOUR SERVANTS WHO ARE SINCERE 
AND PURIFIED ONES WHO ARE TRUE BELIEVERS

84  GOD SAID, THEN IT IS JUST AND FITTING 
AND I SAY ONLY WHAT IS JUST AND FITTING

85  THAT I WILL CERTAINLY FILL HELL WITH YOU 
AND ALL OF THOSE THAT FOLLOW YOU 

86  SAY, NO REWARD AM I ASKING OF YOU 
FOR THIS QURAN NOR AM I UNTRUE

87  THIS IS NO LESS THAN A MESSAGE TO ALL OF YOU

88  AND AFTER A WHILE YOU WILL KNOW THAT IT IS TRUE

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CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                                                  SECTION 1.  PART XXIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  GOD IS WHOM THE REVELATION OF THIS BOOK IS FROM 
GOD, THE EXALTED IN POWER, FULL OF WISDOM

2  IT IS WE WHO REVEALED THE BOOK TO YOU TRUTHFULLY  
SO SERVE GOD OFFERING HIM DEVOTION SINCERELY

3  IS NOT SINCERE DEVOTION DUE TO GOD?
BUT SAY, THOSE WHO TAKE PROTECTORS OTHER THAN GOD 
BUT WE ONLY SERVE THEM TO BRING US NEARER TO GOD
THEY WILL BE JUDGED IN THEIR DIFFERENCES BY GOD 
THOSE WHO ARE FALSE ARE NOT GUIDED BY GOD

4  HAD GOD WISHED TO TAKE TO HIMSELF A SON
THEN HE COULD HAVE CHOSEN ANYONE 

OUT OF THOSE WHOM HE CREATES THAT HE PLEASED
BUT TO HIM BE THE GLORY 
FAR ABOVE SUCH THINGS IS HE
THE ONE, THE IRRESISTIBLE GOD IS HE

5  HE CREATED THE HEAVENS 
AND THE EARTH IN TRUE PROPORTIONS 

HE MAKES THE NIGHT 
OVERLAP THE DAY AND THE DAY OVERLAP THE NIGHT 

THE SUN AND THE MOON TO HIS LAW HE HAS SUBJECTED
EACH ONE FOLLOWS A COURSE FOR A TIME APPOINTED 

HE IS THE EXALTED IN POWER
AND THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

6  HE CREATED YOU ALL FROM A SINGLE PERSON
THEN HE CREATED OF LIKE NATURE HIS COMPANION

HE SENT DOWN FOR YOU EIGHT HEAD OF CATTLE IN PAIRS
AND HE MAKES YOU IN THE WOMBS OF YOUR MOTHERS 
IN TRIPLE DARKNESS IN STAGES ONE AFTER ANOTHER 
THIS IS GOD, YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE, TO HIM BELONGS ALL POWER 
THEN HOW ARE YOU TURNED AWAY FROM YOUR TRUE CENTER?

7  AND IF YOU REJECT GOD, GOD HAS NO NEED OF YOU 
AND HE LIKES NOT FROM HIS SERVANTS INGRATITUDE 
AND IF YOU ARE GRATEFUL HE IS PLEASED WITH YOU 
AND NO ONE CAN BEAR YOUR BURDENS FOR YOU 
TO GOD IS YOUR RETURN AND HE WILL TELL YOU 
THE TRUTH OF ALL THAT WAS DONE BY YOU 
FOR HE KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE HEARTS OF YOU

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8  WHEN SOME TROUBLE TOUCHES MAN HE CRIES TO GOD
TURNING IN REPENTANCE, BUT WHEN HE RECEIVES FAVOR FROM GOD
HE FORGETS WHAT HE PRAYED FOR AND SETS UP RIVALS TO GOD 
SO MISLEADING OTHERS FROM THE PATH OF GOD

SAY, ENJOY YOUR BLASPHEMY FOR A LITTLE WHILE FURTHER
BUT YOU ARE ONE OF THE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE

9  IS ONE WHO WORSHIPS DURING THE NIGHT HOURS IN DEVOTION
PROSTRATING HIMSELF OR STANDING IN ADORATION
AND WHO TAKES HEED OF THE RESURRECTION
AND WHO PLACES HIS HOPE IN HIS LORD'S AFFECTION 

IS HE LIKE ONE WHO DOES NOT? 
SAY, ARE THOSE EQUAL, THOSE WHO KNOW AND WHO KNOW NOT? 

IT IS THOSE WHO ARE BLESSED WITH COMPREHENSION
THAT WILL RECEIVE GOD'S ADMONITION

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10  SAY, OH MY SERVANTS WHO BELIEVE, TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY
FOR THOSE WHO DO GOOD ARE REWARDS THAT ARE GOODLY

SPACIOUS IS GOD'S EARTH, THOSE WHO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE 
WILL SURELY RECEIVE A REWARD WITHOUT MEASURE

11  SAY, I AM COMMANDED TO SERVE GOD ONLY
WITH DEVOTION AND SINCERITY 

12  AND I AM UNDER INSTRUCTION
TO BE THE FIRST OF THOSE WHO BOW TO GOD IN SUBMISSION

13  SAY, I FEAR THE PENALTY OF A GRIEVOUS DAY
IF MY LORD I SHOULD DISOBEY

14  SAY, SERVE WHAT YOU WILL BESIDES GOD IN DIETY 
THOSE IN LOSS ARE THOSE WHO MISLEADINGLY
LOSE THEIR OWN SOULS AND THEIR PEOPLE'S ADDITIONALLY
AND ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THAT IS THE REAL LOSS ASSUREDLY

16  THEY WILL HAVE LAYERS OF FIRE ABOVE THEM 
AND LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FIRE BELOW THEM 

WITH THIS DOES GOD WARN HIS SERVANTS 
THEN FEAR ME, OH MY SERVANTS

17  THOSE WHO SHUN EVIL 
AND FALL NOT INTO THE WORSHIP OF EVIL

AND TURN TO GOD IN REPENTANCE, FOR THEM IS GOOD NEWS 
SO ANNOUNCE TO MY SERVANTS THE GOOD NEWS 

18  THOSE WHO LISTEN TO THE WORD ARE THE ONES
WHO FOLLOW THE BEST MEANING IN IT AND THEY ARE THE ONES 
WHOM GOD HAS GUIDED AND THEY ARE THE ONES 
THAT ARE BLESSED WITH COMPREHENSION

19  IS THEN ONE AGAINST WHOM THE DECREE 
OF PUNISHMENT IS DUE JUSTLY 
EQUAL TO ONE WHO SHUNS INIQUITY  
WOULD YOU THEN DELIVER HIM FROM THE PENALTY?

20  BUT IT IS FOR THOSE WHO TRULY FEAR THEIR CREATOR
THAT MANSIONS HAVE BEEN BUILT ONE ABOVE ANOTHER 
AND BENEATH THEM WILL FLOW DELIGHTFUL RIVERS 
AND GOD DOES NOT FAIL IN HIS PROMISES EVER

21  SEE YOU NOT THAT YOUR LORD SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKIES 
AND LEADS IT THROUGH SPRINGS IN THE EARTH CAUSING TO RISE 
PRODUCE OF VARIOUS COLORS THEN IT WITHERS AND DIES 
YOU SEE IT GROW YELLOW THEN IT CRUMBLES AND DRIES
IN THIS THERE IS A MESSAGE FOR MEN WHO ARE WISE

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22  IS ONE WHOSE HEART IS OPENED TO SUBMISSION BY GOD
SO THAT HE HAS RECEIVED ENLIGHTENMENT FROM GOD 

NO BETTER THAN ONE WHO IS HARD HEARTED? 
WOE TO THOSE WHOSE HEARTS ARE HARDENED 

AGAINST CELEBRATING THE PRAISES OF THE CREATOR
THEY ARE SURELY IN MANIFEST ERROR 

23  GOD HAS SENT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ANNOUNCEMENT
WITH TEACHING REPEATING ITSELF IN A BOOK CONSISTENT 

THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD IT TREMBLES THEIR SKINS                           
THEN THEIR SKINS AND THEIR HEARTS DO SOFTEN 

TO THE CELEBRATION OF THE PRAISES OF GOD
SO IS THE BLESSINGS AND GUIDANCE OF GOD 

HE GUIDES WHOM HE PLEASES BUT THOSE WHO STRAY 
NO ONE CAN HIM GUIDE HIM TO THE RIGHT WAY

24  IS THEN HE WHO FEARS THE BRUNT 
OF THE PENALTY OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

AND ON HIS FACE HE RECEIVES IT 
LIKE ONE WHO IS GUARDED FROM IT?  

IT WILL BE SAID TO THE WRONG DOERS 
TASTE THE FRUITS OF THAT OF WHICH YOU ARE EARNERS

25  THOSE BEFORE THEM ALSO REJECTED REVELATION 
SO PUNISHMENT CAME TO THEM FROM DIRECTIONS 
THAT WERE FAR BEYOND THEIR PERCEPTIONS

26  GOD HUMILIATED THEM IN THE PRESENT LIFE BUT GREATER 
IF THEY ONLY KNEW IS THE PUNISHMENT OF THE HEREAFTER

27  WE HAVE PUT FORTH IN THIS QURAN FOR MANKIND
PARABLES THAT THEY MAY REMEMBER OF EVERY KIND

28  IT IS A QURAN IN ARABIC WITHOUT ANY CROOKEDNESS 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY GUARD AGAINST WICKEDNESS

29  GOD PUTS FORTH A PARABLE TO PONDER 
A MAN BELONGING TO PARTNERS AT VARIANCE WITH EACH OTHER 
AND A MAN BELONGING ENTIRELY TO ONE MASTER
ARE THOSE TWO EQUAL WHEN COMPARED? 
PRAISE BE TO GOD BUT MOST OF THEM ARE UNAWARE

30  SURELY YOU WILL DIE ONE DAY 
AND THEY TOO WILL DIE ONE DAY

31  IN THE END WILL YOU ALL ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT 
SETTLE YOUR DISPUTES IN GOD'S PRESENCE 

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PART XXIV

32  AND WHO THEN DOES MORE WRONG THAN ONE WHO UTTERS
A LIE ABOUT GOD AND WHEN TRUTH COMES IS A REJECTER? 
IS THERE NOT IN HELL A HOME FOR BLASPHEMERS?

33  BUT THEN HE WHO BRINGS THE TRUTH 
AND HE WHO CONFIRMS THE TRUTH
THESE ARE THE MEN OF TRUTH

34  THEY WILL HAVE ALL THAT THEY WISH FOR FROM THEIR LORD 
FOR THOSE WHO DO GOOD THIS IS THEIR REWARD

35  GOD WILL TURN OFF FROM THEM THE WORST IN THEIR DEEDS 
AND REWARD THEM ACCORDING TO THE BEST OF THEIR DEEDS

36  SUFFICIENT FOR HIS SERVANTS IS GOD 
BUT THEY TRY TO FRIGHTEN YOU WITH OTHERS BESIDES GOD
FOR THOSE WHO ARE LEFT TO STRAY BY GOD
NO ONE CAN GUIDE THEM TO THE WAY EXCEPT GOD

37  THOSE WHO GOD GUIDES NONE CAN LEAD ASTRAY
GOD IS EXALTED IN POWER AND LORD OF WAYS

38  IF YOU ASK THEM WHO CREATED THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS?  
THEY WOULD SAY, GOD IS THE AUTHOR OF ALL CREATION

SEE THE THINGS YOU INVOKE BESIDES GOD IN DIETY 
CAN THEY IF GOD WILLS FOR ME SOME PENALTY 
WHO CAN REMOVE FROM ME HIS PENALTY?
OR IF HE WILLS SOME GRACE FOR ME 
CAN THEY KEEP BACK HIS GRACE FROM ME?
SAY, SUFFICIENT IS GOD'S GRACE FOR ME 
AND IN HIM TRUST THOSE WHO BELIEVE

39  SAY, OH MY PEOPLE, DO WHATEVER YOU CAN
AND I TOO WILL DO WHATEVER IN CAN 

40  SOON WILL YOU KNOW SURELY 
TO WHOM COMES A PENALTY OF IGNOMINY 
AND ON WHOM DESCENDS AN ABIDING PENALTY

41  WE HAVE REVEALED THE BOOK FOR MAN'S INSTRUCTION
HE WHO RECEIVES GUIDANCE BENEFITS HIS OWN PERSON
BUT HE THAT STRAYS AWAY INJURES HIS OWN PERSON
NOR ARE YOU A DISPOSER OF AFFAIRS OF ANY ONE

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CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                                        SECTION 5.  PART XXIV

42  IT IS GOD THAT TAKES MEN'S SOULS AT THE DEATH DECREE
AND THERE ARE THOSE THAT HE TAKES DURING THEIR SLEEP
AND THOSE ON WHOM HE HAS PASSED THE DEATH DECREE 
HE KEEPS THEM BACK FROM RETURNING TO THEIR BODIES 
BUT THE REST HE SENDS BACK TO THEIR BODIES 
FOR A TERM APPOINTED DECISIVELY 
IN THIS ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO THINK DEEPLY

43  DO THEY TAKE OTHERS BESIDES GOD FOR INTERCESSORS
EVEN IF THEY HAVE NO INTELLIGENCE AND NO POWER? 

44  SAY, TO GOD BELONGS THE RIGHT TO GRANT INTERCESSION 
TO HIM BELONGS THE DOMINION OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO HIM IN THE END

45  AND WHEN THE NAME OF GOD, THE ONE AND ONLY IS UTTERED
THE DISBELIEVERS IN THE HEREAFTER ARE FILLED WITH HORROR
WHEN OTHER GODS OTHER THAN HIM ARE UTTERED 
THEN THEY ARE FILLED WITH LAUGHTER

46  SAY, OH GOD, CREATOR OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND THE KNOWER OF ALL THAT IS HIDDEN AND OPEN 

IT IS YOU THAT WILL JUDGE BETWEEN YOUR SERVANTS IN MATTERS 
ABOUT THOSE THINGS IN WHICH THEY DIFFER

47  IF THE WRONG DOERS HAD ALL ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN 
IN VAIN WOULD THEY OFFER IT FOR RANSOM

FROM THE PAIN OF THE PUNISHMENT 
ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT 

BUT THEY WILL BE CONFRONTED FROM GOD WITH SOMETHING  
OF WHICH THEY HAD NOT BEEN RECKONING

48  THEY WILL BE CONFRONTED FOR THE EVILS OF THEIR DEEDS 
AND THEY WILL BE COMPLETELY ENCIRCLED INDEED
BY THAT OF WHICH THEY USED TO MAKE MOCKERY

49  NOW WHEN TROUBLE TOUCHES MAN HE CRIES TO US 
BUT WHEN WE BESTOW A FAVOR UPON HIM FROM US
 
THEN HE SAYS, I HAVE BEEN GIVEN THIS
BECAUSE OF A CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE I POSSESS
NAY, BUT THIS IS BUT ONLY A TEST
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS

50  SO SAID THE GENERATIONS BEFORE THEM 
BUT ALL THAT THEY DID WAS OF NO PROFIT TO THEM

51  THE EVIL RESULTS OF THEIR DEEDS OVERTOOK THEM 
AND THE WRONG DOERS OF THIS GENERATION FOR THEM
THE EVIL RESULTS OF THEIR DEEDS WILL OVERTAKE THEM 
AND OUR PLANS THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FRUSTRATE THEM

52  KNOW THEY NOT THAT GOD ENLARGES 
THE PROVISION OR RESTRICTS IT FOR ANY HE PLEASES? 
IN THIS ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN OUR MESSAGES

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53  SAY, OH MY SERVANTS WHO HAVE COMMITTED INIQUITIES
DO NOT DESPAIR OF GOD'S MERCIES 
FOR GOD FORGIVES ALL SINS MERCIFULLY
AND GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

54  TURN TO YOUR LORD IN REPENTANCE QUICKLY 
AND BOW TO HIS WILL BEFORE BEFALLS YOU THE PENALTY 
AFTER THAT THERE WILL BE NO AMNESTY

55  AND FOLLOW THE BEST COURSE REVEALED TO YOU 
BEFORE THE PENALTY SUDDENLY COMES UPON YOU 
WHILE NOT BEING PERCEIVED BY YOU 

56  OR ELSE THE SOUL WOULD SAY REGRETFULLY 
WOE IS ME IN THAT I NEGLECTED MY DUTY 
AND WAS AMONG THOSE WHO MADE MOCKERY

57  OR ELSE IT WOULD SAY, IF ONLY GOD HAD GUIDED ME 
I WOULD HAVE BEEN AMONG THOSE WHO LIVED RIGHTEOUSLY

58  OR ELSE IT WOULD SAY WHEN IT ACTUALLY SEES THE PENALTY 
IF ONLY I HAD ANOTHER CHANCE THEN I WOULD SURELY
BE AMONG THOSE WHO DO GOOD CONSTANTLY

59  THE REPLY WILL BE, NO, BUT MY INSTRUCTIONS
CAME TO YOU AND YOU WERE IN REJECTION
AND YOU BECAME DISBELIEVING ONES

60  AND ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION YOU WILL SEE
THOSE WHO LIED AGAINST GOD THEIR FACES WILL BE GLOOMY
IS THERE NOT IN HELL A HOME FOR THOSE WHO ACT ARROGANTLY?

61  BUT THE RIGHTEOUS GOD WILL DELIVER THEM
TO SALVATION, NO EVIL WILL TOUCH THEM 
NOR WILL THERE BE ANY GRIEF FOR THEM

62  OF ALL THINGS GOD IS THE CREATOR 
AND HE IS THE GUARDIAN OF ALL AFFAIRS  

63  OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH TO HIM BELONG THE KEYS
AND THOSE WHO REJECT GOD'S MESSAGES IT IS THESE
WHO WILL SURELY BE IN LOSS INDEED

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CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                                        SECTION 7.  PART XXIV

64  SAY, IS IT SOME ONE OTHER THAN MY LORD AND CHERISHER
THAT YOU ORDER ME TO WORSHIP YOU IGNORANT REJECTERS?

65  BUT IT HAS ALREADY BEEN REVEALED TO YOU 
AS IT WAS REVEALED TO THOSE BEFORE YOU 
IF OTHER GODS BESIDES GOD ARE WORSHIPPED BY YOU
YOUR WORKS IN THIS LIFE WILL BEAR NO FRUIT
AND YOU WOULD BE ONES WHO LOSE 

66  NO, BUT WORSHIP GOD AND BE TRULY
ONE OF THOSE WHO ACT GRATEFULLY

67  THEY UNDERESTIMATE GOD INDEED 
AND ON JUDGMENT DAY THE EARTH WILL BE 
BUT HIS HANDFUL AND THE HEAVENS WILL BE 
ROLLED UP IN HIS RIGHT HAND, TO HIM BE THE GLORY 
EXALTED ABOVE THE PARTNERS THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM IS HE

68  THE TRUMPET WILL JUST BE SOUNDED 
WHEN ALL ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN WILL BE ROUNDED
EXCEPT THOSE WHO GOD WILLS TO BE EXEMPTED
THEN WILL A SECOND ONE BE SOUNDED
WHEN THEY WILL BE LOOKING ON DUMBFOUNDED

69  THE EARTH WILL SHINE WITH ITS LORD'S GLORY 
PLACED OPEN WILL BE THE RECORD OF DEEDS 
BROUGHT FORWARD THE PROPHETS WILL BE
AND THE WITNESSES AND A DECISION WILL BE JUSTLY

70  EVERY SOUL WILL BE PAID IN FULL THE FRUITS OF ITS DEEDS 
AND GOD KNOWS BEST ALL THAT THEY DO INDEED

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CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                                        SECTION 8.  PART XXIV

71  AND LED TO HELL IN CROWDS WILL BE THE DISBELIEVERS
UNTIL THEY ARRIVE AND ITS GATES OPEN AND ITS KEEPERS 
WILL SAY, DID NOT COME FROM AMONG YOU MESSENGERS
RECITING TO YOU CLEAR MESSAGES FROM YOUR CREATOR
WARNING YOU OF THE MEETING OF THIS DAY OF YOURS?  
THEY WILL SAY, TRUE AND FOR THE DISBELIEVERS 
THE DECREE HAS BEEN PROVED TRUE FOR SURE

72  TO THEM WILL BE SAID, ENTER THE GATES OF HELL 
AND EVIL IS THIS HOME FOR THE ARROGANT TO DWELL

73  AND LED TO THE GARDEN IN CROWDS WILL BE THE BELIEVERS
UNTIL THEY ARRIVE AND ITS GATES OPEN AND ITS KEEPERS 
WILL SAY, PEACE BE UPON YOU, YOU ARE IN GOOD FAVOR
SO ENTER HERE TO DWELL IN PARADISE FOREVER

74  THEY WILL SAY, PRAISE GOD WHO HAS FULFILLED HIS COVENANT   
AND HAS GIVEN TO US THIS LAND IN INHERITANCE 
THAT WE CAN DWELL IN THE GARDEN IN EXCELLENCE
A MAGNIFICENT REWARD FOR THOSE WHO ARE HIS SERVANTS

75  YOU WILL SEE THE ANGELS SURROUNDING THE PLACE OF HONOR 
DIVINE ON ALL SIDES SINGING GLORY TO THE CREATOR
THE DECIDING BETWEEN THEM AT JUDGMENT WILL BE FAIR
AND THE CRY ON ALL SIDES WILL BE, PRAISE BE TO OUR MAKER

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CHAPTER 40.  THE BELIEVERS                                                      SECTION 1.  PART XXIV

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  THE REVELATION OF THIS BOOK IS FROM GOD
HIGHLY EXALTED AND FULL OF KNOWLEDGE IS GOD

3  WHO ACCEPTS REPENTANCE AND FORGIVES INIQUITY
AND IS STRICT IN PENALTY, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
AND TO HIM IS THE FINAL DESTINY

4  NONE DENY GOD'S MESSAGES BUT THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE
LET NOT THEIR CONTROL IN THE LAND CAUSE YOU TO BE DECEIVED

5  BEFORE THEM SIGNS WERE DENIED BY PEOPLE
NOAH'S PEOPLE AND THE CONFEDERATES OF EVIL  
AND EVERY PEOPLE PLOTTED AGAINST THEIR APOSTLE

TO SEIZE HIM AND THEY DISPUTED ONLY BY MEANS OF VANITIES 
TO CONDEMN THE TRUTH BUT IT WAS THEM THAT I SEIZED 
AND HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY REQUITAL INDEED

6  GOD'S DECREE PROVED TRUE AGAINST THE DISBELIEVERS 
THAT THEY ARE TRULY COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE

7  THOSE WHO SUSTAIN THE THRONE OF GOD'S MAJESTY 
AND THOSE AROUND IT SING HIS PRAISES AND GLORY 
THEY ASK FORGIVENESS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE
OUR LORD, YOUR REACH IS OVER ALL THINGS IN MERCY
FORGIVE THOSE WHO REPENT FOR THEIR INIQUITY
AND KEEP THEM SAFE FROM THE PENALTY 

8  AND GRANT OUR LORD, THAT THEY ENTER THE GARDENS OF ETERNITY
THAT YOU HAVE PROMISED THEM AND THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
AMONG THEIR FATHERS, THEIR WIVES AND THEIR POSTERITY 
FOR YOU ARE  FULL OF WISDOM AND ALL MIGHTY

9  AND REMOVE ALL EVIL FROM THEM 
AND ANY WHOM YOU REMOVE EVIL FROM THEM
THAT DAY YOU WILL HAVE BESTOWED MERCY ON THEM
AND THAT WILL BE THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT FOR THEM

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CHAPTER 40.  THE BELIEVERS                                                      SECTION 2.  PART XXIV

10  IT WILL BE SAID TO THE DISBELIEVERS
GOD HATED YOU WHEN HE CALLED YOU TO BE BELIEVERS
BUT INSTEAD OF BEING BELIEVERS YOU WERE REJECTERS
NOW YOUR HATRED OF YOURSELVES IS EVEN GREATER

11  AND THEY WILL SAY, OUR LORD, TWICE HAVE YOU MADE US 
WITHOUT LIFE AND TWICE HAVE YOU GIVEN LIFE TO US 
NOW OUR SINS HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED BY US
IS THERE ANY WAY OUT OF THIS FOR US?

12  AND THE ANSWER WILL BE, THIS IS BECAUSE WHEN GOD,THE CREATOR
WAS INVOKED AS THE ONLY OBJECT OF WORSHIP YOU WERE REJECTERS 
BUT WHEN PARTNERS WERE JOINED TO HIM YOU WERE BELIEVERS
THE COMMAND IS WITH GOD AND MOST GREAT IS YOUR MAKER

13  HE IT IS WHO GIVES YOU INSTRUCTION
AND SENDS DOWN SUSTENANCE FOR YOU FOR PROVISIONS
BUT ONLY THOSE RECEIVE ADMONITION 
ARE THOSE WHO TURN TO GOD IN SUBMISSION

14  CALL THEN UPON GOD WITH SINCERE DEVOTION 
EVEN THOUGH THE DISBELIEVERS MAY HAVE AVERSION

15  HE IS RAISED HIGH ABOVE RANKS OR DEGREES 
HE IS THE LORD OF THE THRONE OF AUTHORITY 

BY HIS COMMAND HE SENDS THE SPIRIT OF INSPIRATION 
TO ANY THAT HE PLEASES OF HIS SERVANTS

THAT HE MAY GIVE TO MEN THE WARNING
OF THE DAY OF MUTUAL MEETING

16  THE DAY THEY COME FORTH NOT ONE THING WILL BE HIDDEN 
AND THAT DAY WILL BE GOD'S DOMINION 
GOD, THE IRRESISTIBLE ONE

17  THAT DAY EVERY SOUL WILL BE REQUITED FOR THEIR DEEDS
AND NO ONE WILL BE DEALT WITH THE LEAST UNJUSTLY
FOR GOD IS SWIFT IN TAKING ACCOUNT ACCURATELY

18  AND WARN THEM OF THE DAY THAT IS DRAWING CLOSE 
WHEN THEIR HEARTS WILL COME UP TO THEIR  THROATS 

TO CHOKE THEM AND NO INTERCESSOR 
WILL THERE BE FOR THE WRONG DOERS 
TO WHOM SHOULD BE LENDED AN EAR

19  GOD KNOWS OF THE TRICKS THAT DECEIVE WITH THE EYES 
AND ALL THAT THE HEARTS OF MEN CONCEAL AND CONTRIVE

20  AND GOD WILL JUDGE WITH JUSTICE AND TRUTHFULLY 
BUT THOSE WHO MEN CALL UPON BESIDES HIM IN DEITY
WILL NOT BE IN A POSITION TO JUDGE AGAINST ANY
THE ONE WHO HEARS AND SEES ALL THINGS IS HE

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CHAPTER 40.  THE BELIEVERS                                                      SECTION 3.  PART XXIV

21  IS THE EARTH NOT TRAVELED THROUGH BY THEM
TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE BEFORE THEM?
FOR THEY WERE EVEN SUPERIOR IN STRENGTH TO THEM 
GOD CALLED THEM TO ACCOUNT AND NONE COULD DEFEND THEM

22  THERE CAME TO THEM MESSENGERS WITH CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS 
BUT THEY WERE OBSTINATE IN REBELLION 
SO GOD CALLED THEM TO ACCOUNT FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS
FOR HE IS STRONG AND SEVERE IN RETRIBUTION

23  OF OLD WE SENT MOSES WITH OUR MESSAGES CLEARLY
AND WITH CLEAR AND MANIFEST AUTHORITY

24  TO PHARAOH, HAMAN AND KORAH, BUT A SORCERER
THEY CALLED HIM AND A LIAR

25  WHEN HE CAME TO THEM WITH MESSAGES CLEAR
THEY SAID, KILL THE SONS OF THE BELIEVERS 
AND KEEP ALIVE THEIR FEMALE FOLLOWERS
BUT THE PLOTS OF THE DISBELIEVERS 
END IN NOTHING BUT DELUSIONS AND ERRORS 

26  PHARAOH SAID, LEAVE ME TO KILL MOSES
AND LET HIM CALL ON THIS LORD OF HIS

I FEAR THAT HE WOULD CHANGE YOUR RELIGION
OR THAT HE WOULD CAUSE MISCHIEF IN THE REGION

27  MOSES SAID, I HAVE CALLED UPON 
MY LORD AND YOUR LORD FOR PROTECTION 
FROM EVERY ONE WHO IS IN REJECTION 
AND BELIEVES NOT IN THE RESURRECTION

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CHAPTER 40.  THE BELIEVERS                                                      SECTION 4.  PART XXIV

28  SAID A BELIEVER FROM AMONG PHARAOH'S PEOPLE  
ONE WHO HAD KEPT HIS FAITH CONCEALED 

WILL YOU KILL A MAN BECAUSE HE SAYS, MY LORD IS GOD  
WHEN HE HAS COME TO YOU WITH CLEAR SIGNS FROM GOD?

IF HE IS A LIAR ON HIM IS THE SIN BUT IF HE IS TELLING THE TRUTH 
THE CALAMITY OF WHICH HE WARNS YOU WILL FALL ON YOU 
FOR GOD GUIDES NOT ONE WHO IS SINFUL AND UNTRUE

29  OH MY PEOPLE, TODAY YOURS IS THE DOMINION 
AND YOU DO HAVE THE UPPER HAND OF THE SITUATION
BUT WHO WILL HELP US FROM OUR LORD'S RETRIBUTION  
PHARAOH SAID, I SHOW YOU WHAT IS IN MY PERCEPTION 
NOR DO I GUIDE YOU BUT TO THE  RIGHT DIRECTION

30  THEN SAID THE MAN WHO BELIEVED
OH MY PEOPLE, I FEAR FOR YOU INDEED

SOMETHING LIKE THE DAY OF DISASTER 
LIKE THE CONFEDERATES OF SIN PRIOR 

31  SOMETHING LIKE THE FATE OF NOAH'S PEOPLE 
AND THE AD AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE
AND THOSE WHO CAME AFTER THOSE PEOPLE
BUT GOD NEVER WISHES INJUSTICE TO HIS PEOPLE

32  AND OH MY PEOPLE, FOR YOU I AM FEARING 
FOR A DAY WHEN THERE WILL BE CALLING AND WAILING

33  A DAY WHEN YOU WILL TURN YOUR BACKS IN FEAR 
AND YOU WILL HAVE FROM GOD NO DEFENDER
FOR HE WHOM GOD LEAVES IN ERROR 
THERE IS NONE TO GUIDE HIM THEREAFTER

34  AND JOSEPH IN TIMES GONE BY WITH CLEAR SIGNS HAD COME
BUT YOU DOUBTED THE MISSION FOR WHICH HE HAD COME
AND YOU SAID, NO APOSTLE AFTER HIM WILL COME  
SO GOD REJECTS THOSE WHO REJECT SIGNS WHEN THEY COME

35  THOSE WHO DISPUTE ABOUT THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
WITHOUT ANY AUTHORITY THAT HAS REACHED THEM FROM GOD
GRIEVOUS IS SUCH CONDUCT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD 
AND GOD SEALS UP THE HEART OF EVERY REBEL AGAINST GOD

36  PHARAOH SAID, OH HAMAN, BUILD ME A LOFTY PALACE 
THAT I MAY ATTAIN THE WAYS AND MEANS OF ACCESS

37  THE WAYS AND MEANS OF REACHING THE HEAVENS
AND THAT I MAY FIND A WAY OF ASCENSION

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

IN PHARAOH'S EYES THE EVIL OF HIS DEEDS WAS MADE ALLURING
AND HE WAS HINDERED FROM THE PATH AND THE PLOTTING
OF PHARAOH LED HIM TO NOTHING 

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CHAPTER 40.  THE BELIEVERS                                                      SECTION 5.  PART XXIV

38  THE MAN WHO BELIEVED SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, FOLLOW ME  
I WILL LEAD YOU TO THE PATH OF RIGHT INDEED

39  OH MY PEOPLE, THIS LIFE OF THE PRESENT WILL COME TO PASS
IT IS THE HEREAFTER THAT IS THE HOME THAT WILL LAST

40  HE THAT WORKS EVIL WILL BE REQUITED SIMILAR  
AND HE THAT IS A RIGHTEOUS DOER 
WHETHER MAN OR WOMAN AND IS A BELIEVER
WILL ENTER PARADISE AND HAVE ABUNDANCE WITHOUT MEASURE

41  AND OH MY PEOPLE, I CALL YOU TO SALVATION
WHILE YOU CALL ME TO DESTRUCTION 

42  YOU CALL UPON ME TO BE A DISBELIEVER
AND TO JOIN WITH GOD PARTNERS 
OF WHOM I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE WHATSOEVER
AND I CALL YOU TO THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

43  WITHOUT DOUBT YOU CALL ME TO BE A BELIEVER 
IN ONE WHO IS NOT FIT TO EVEN CONSIDER 
NOT IN THIS WORLD OR THE HEREAFTER 
OUR RETURN WILL BE TO GOD, THE CREATOR
THE TRANSGRESSORS WILL BE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE

44  WHAT I SAY YOU WILL SOON REMEMBER
NOW MY OWN AFFAIR I COMMIT TO MY MAKER
FOR OVER ALL OF HIS SERVANTS GOD IS THE SEER

45  THEN GOD SAVED HIM FROM EVERY EVIL
THAT THEY PLOTTED AGAINST HIM AND HIS PEOPLE
BUT THE BRUNT OF THE PENALTY OF EVIL
ENCOMPASSED ON ALL SIDES OF PHARAOH'S PEOPLE 

46  BROUGHT IN FRONT OF THE FIRE THEY WILL BE 
MORNING AND EVENING AND THE SENTENCE WILL BE 
ON THE DAY THAT THE DAY OF RESURRECTION WILL BE 
PHARAOH'S PEOPLE WILL RECEIVE THE WORST PENALTY 

47  THEY WILL DISPUTE WITH EACH OTHER IN THE FIRE 
THE WEAK ONES AMONG THEM WHO WERE FOLLOWERS 
WILL SAY TO THE ARROGANT, WE WERE YOUR FOLLOWERS  
CAN YOU THEN TAKE A SHARE FROM US OF THE FIRE?

48  THEN WILL SAY THOSE WHO HAD BEEN ARROGANT 
WE ARE ALL IN THIS FIRE, GOD HAS JUDGED HIS SERVANTS

49  THOSE IN THE FIRE WILL ASK THE KEEPERS OF HELL TO PRAY 
TO GOD TO LIGHTEN THE PENALTY FOR JUST A DAY   
   
50  THEY WILL SAY, DID THERE NOT COME TO YOU MESSENGERS
AND THEY WILL SAY, YES, THEN THE KEEPERS WILL ANSWER
PRAY AS YOU LIKE BUT THE PRAYER OF DISBELIEVERS
IS NOTHING BUT FUTILE WANDERING IN ERROR

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CHAPTER 40.  THE BELIEVERS                                                      SECTION 6.  PART XXIV

51  WE WITHOUT DOUBT HELP OUR MESSENGERS AND THE BELIEVERS 
BOTH IN THIS WORLD'S LIFE  AND IN THE HEREAFTER

52  THE DAY WHEN NO PROFIT WILL IT BE 
TO THE WRONG DOERS TO THEN MAKE A PLEA
BUT THEY WILL HAVE THE CURSE AND THE HOME OF MISERY

53  WE BEFORE GAVE MOSES THE BOOK OF GUIDANCE 
AND GAVE THE BOOK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN INHERITANCE

54  A GUIDE AND A MESSAGE TO MEN OF INTELLIGENCE

55  THE PROMISE OF GOD IS TRUE SO REMAIN PERSEVERING
AND FOR YOUR SIN ASK GOD TO BE FORGIVING
AND PRAISE GOD MORNING AND EVENING

56  THOSE WHO DISPUTE ABOUT THE MESSAGES OF GOD 
WITHOUT ANY AUTHORITY BESTOWED ON THEM FROM GOD

THERE IS NOTHING IN THEIR BREASTS 
BUT THE QUEST OF GREATNESS 

WHICH IS BEYOND THEIR ABILITY OF ATTAINING 
SO SEEK REFUGE IN GOD WHO IS ALL HEARING AND ALL SEEING

57  ASSUREDLY THE CREATION OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
IS A GREATER MATTER THAN THE CREATION OF MEN 
YET MOST MEN DO NOT COMPREHEND

58  NOT EQUAL ARE THE BLIND AND THOSE WHO SEE AND TAKE HEED 
NOR THOSE WHO DO EVIL AND THOSE WHO DO GOOD DEEDS   
BUT YOU LEARN BY ADMONITION VERY LITTLE INDEED

59  THE HOUR WILL COME YET MOST MEN DO NOT BELIEVE 

60  YOUR LORD SAYS, I WILL ANSWER YOUR PRAYER CALL ON ME 
BUT THOSE WHO ARE TOO ARROGANT TO SERVE ME 
WILL FIND THEMSELVES IN HELL IN HUMILITY

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61  GOD MADE THE NIGHT FOR YOU THAT YOU MAY SLEEP
AND HE MADE THE DAY WHICH HELPS YOU TO SEE 
TO MEN GOD IS FULL OF GRACE AND BOUNTY 
YET MOST MEN ACT UNGRATEFULLY

62  THIS IS GOD WHO CREATED ALL GOOD THINGS FOR YOU
BESIDES WHOM THERE IS NO GOD THEN HOW ARE YOU 
DELUDED AWAY FROM WHAT IS TRUE?

63  THOSE WHO REJECT THE SIGNS OF GOD
ARE DELUDED FROM THE TRUTH OF GOD

64  AND GOD MADE FOR YOU THE EARTH AS A PLACE OF RESTING 
AND THE SKY AS A CANOPY AND HE HAS SHAPED YOUR BEINGS
AND MADE YOUR SHAPES BEAUTIFUL AND PROVIDED THINGS 
PURE AND GOOD FOR YOU FOR YOUR SUSTAINING 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS 

65  HE IS THE LIVING THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
SO CALL ON HIM WITH SINCERITY 
TO GOD ALL PRAISES BE
THE LORD OF ALL THE WORLDS IS HE

66  I AM FORBIDDEN TO SERVE THOSE WHOM YOU SERVE BESIDES GOD 
WHEN CLEAR ARGUMENTS HAVE COME TO ME FROM GOD
AND I AM COMMANDED TO SUBMIT TO GOD

67  HE CREATED YOU FROM DUST THEN FROM A SPERM DROP
AND THEN FROM A LEECH LIKE CLOT 

AND THEN GETS YOU OUT AS A CHILD INTO THE LIGHT  
THEN LETS YOU REACH YOUR AGE OF FULL STRENGTH AND MIGHT 

AND THEN LETS YOU BECOME OLD THOUGH OF YOU 
THERE ARE SOME WHO DIE BEFORE AND HE LETS YOU 
REACH A TERM IN ORDER THAT WISDOM MAY BE LEARNED BY YOU

68  LIFE AND DEATH IT IS HE WHO GIVES
AND WHEN HE DECIDES AN AFFAIR ALL THAT HAPPENS IS
HE ONLY SAYS TO IT, BE, AND IT IS

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69  THOSE THAT DISPUTE ABOUT GOD'S MESSAGES IGNORANTLY 
DO YOU NOT SEE HOW ARE THEY TURNED AWAY FROM REALITY?

70  THOSE WHO ARE REJECTERS OF THE SCRIPTURES 
WHICH HAS BEEN SENT WITH OUR MESSENGERS 
SOON WILL THEY KNOW THEIR ERRORS

71  WHEN THE CHAINS WILL BE AROUND THEIR COLLARS 
AND THEY WILL BE DRAGGED IN CHAINS AND FETTERS         

72  INTO THE BOILING FETID WATER
AND BURNED IN THE BLAZING FIRE

73  THEN THEY WILL BE ASKED, WHERE ARE THE PARTNERS
THOSE OF WHICH YOU WERE WORSHIPPERS

74  IN DEROGATION OF YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER? 
THEY WILL SAY, THEY HAVE LEFT US IN THE LURCH 
WE INVOKE NOT OF OLD ANYTHING PRIOR
SO DOES GOD LEAVE TO STRAY THE DISBELIEVERS 

75  THAT WAS BECAUSE YOU EXULTED IN THE LAND UNJUSTLY 
AND BECAUSE YOU BEHAVED INSOLENTLY

76  NOW ENTER THE GATES OF HELL 
EVIL IS THIS ABODE FOR THE ARROGANT TO DWELL

77  SO PERSEVERE PATIENTLY
FOR THE PROMISE OF GOD IS TRUE INDEED
WHETHER WE SHOW YOU IN THIS LIFETIME TO SEE 
SOME PART OF WHAT WE PROMISE THEM TO RECEIVE
OR WE TAKE YOUR SOUL BEFORE THAT TO OUR MERCY 
TO US THEY WILL ALL RETURN EVENTUALLY

78  WE SENT BEFORE APOSTLES BEFORE YOU 
THERE ARE SOME WHOSE STORIES WE HAVE TOLD TO YOU 
AND THERE ARE SOME WHOSE STORIES WE HAVE NOT TOLD TO YOU 

IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE FOR ANY APOSTLE TO BRING MESSAGES
EXCEPT BY THE LEAVE OF GOD AS HE PLEASES
BUT GOD DECIDES IN TRUTH AND JUSTICE
AND HE WHO STANDS ON FALSEHOOD PERISHES

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79  IT IS GOD WHO MADE CATTLE FOR YOU 
THAT YOU MAY USE SOME FOR RIDING AND SOME FOR FOOD

80  THERE ARE OTHER ADVANTAGES FOR YOU IN THEM 
YOU MAY ATTAIN OTHER NEEDS THROUGH THEM 
AND ON THEM AS ON SHIPS YOU RIDE THEM

81  AND HE SHOWS YOU ALWAYS HIS SIGNS 
THEN WHICH WILL YOU DENY OF GOD'S SIGNS?

82  IS THE EARTH NOT TRAVELED THROUGH BY THEM
TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE BEFORE THEM? 
THEY WERE MORE NUMEROUS AND STRONGER THAN THEM 
AND IN THE TRACES WHICH WERE LEFT IN THE LAND BY THEM
YET ALL THAT THEY ACCOMPLISHED DID NOT PROFIT THEM 

83  WHEN THEIR MESSENGERS CAME WITH CLEAR MESSAGES TO THEM 
THEY EXULTED IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO THEM 
THE WRATH AT WHICH THEY SCOFFED AT ENCOMPASSED THEM 

84  BUT WHEN THEY SAW OUR PENALTY  
THEY SAID WE BELIEVE IN THE ONE DEITY
AND WE REJECT ALL OTHERS COMPLETELY
THEIR PROFESSING THE FAITH WHEN THEY SAW OUR PENALTY
WAS NOT GOING TO PROFIT THEM AND THIS HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY
GOD'S WAY OF DEALING WITH HIS SERVANTS FORMERLY
AND SO THE REJECTERS OF GOD PERISH UTTERLY

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 CHAPTER 41.  HA-MIM                                                                    SECTION 1.  PART XXIV

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  THIS IS A REVELATION FROM GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

3  A BOOK IN WHICH THE VERSES ARE COMPLETELY EXPLAINED 
A QURAN IN ARABIC FOR PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND

4  GIVING GOOD NEWS AND ADMONITION 
YET MOST OF THEM TURN AWAY AND DO NOT LISTEN

5  THEY SAY, OUR HEARTS ARE INDEED VEILED FROM YOU 
AND ARE VEILED TO THAT TO WHICH YOU INVITE US TO
AND IN OUR EARS IS DEAFNESS FROM HEARING YOU
AND THERE IS A SCREEN BETWEEN US AND YOU 
SO GO AHEAD AND DO WHAT PLEASES YOU 
AND WE WILL DO WHAT PLEASES US TOO

6  SAY, I AM BUT A MAN LIKE YOU INDEED
BUT A REVELATION HAS COME TO ME   
THAT YOUR GOD IS ONE GOD ONLY
SO STAND TRUE TO GOD AND ASK FOR HIS MERCY
AND WOE TO THOSE WHO JOIN GODS WITH GOD IN DEITY

7  THOSE WHO PRACTICE NOT REGULAR CHARITY
AND WHO EVEN DENY THE HEREAFTER INSOLENTLY

8  FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO RIGHTEOUS DEEDS
IS A REWARD THAT WILL NEVER FAIL INDEED

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9  SAY, IS IT THAT YOU DENY HIM WHO CREATED THE EARTH IN TWO DAYS  
AND DO YOU JOIN EQUALS WITH HIM AND HE IS THE LORD OF THE WAYS?

10  HE SET ON THE EARTH MOUNTAINS STANDING FIRM ABOVE IT 
AND HE BESTOWED BLESSINGS ON THE EARTH AND MEASURED IN IT
IN FOUR DAYS ALL THINGS TO GIVE THEM NOURISHMENT IN DUE LIMITS 
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THOSE WHO NEED IT

11  MOREOVER HE IN HIS DESIGN COMPREHEND THE SKY 
AND IT HAD BEEN AS SMOKE AND HE TOLD THE EARTH AND THE SKY 

TO COME TOGETHER WILLINGLY OR UNWILLINGLY 
THEY SAID, WE COME TOGETHER WILLINGLY 

12  SO HE COMPLETED THEM IN TWO DAYS AS SEVEN HEAVENS
AND HE ASSIGNED ITS DUTY TO EACH HEAVEN
AND WITH LIGHTS WE ADORNED THE LOWER HEAVEN 

AND PROVIDED IT WITH SECURITY 
THIS IS THE DECREE OF THE ALMIGHTY

13  IF THEY TURN AWAY SAY, I HAVE GIVEN YOU WARNING 
OF A STUNNING PUNISHMENT OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING

LIKE THAT WHICH OVERTOOK FOR THEIR EVIL
THE AD AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE

14  THE MESSENGERS CAME PREVIOUSLY AND SUBSEQUENTLY 
PREACHING, SERVE NONE BUT GOD AND WORSHIP HIM ONLY
THEY SAID, IF GOD HAD SO PLEASED HE WOULD CERTAINLY 
HAVE SENT DOWN ANGELS TO YOU TO PREACH CLEARLY
SO WE ARE REJECTERS OF YOUR MISSION COMPLETELY

15  NOW THE AD BEHAVED IN ERROR 
THEY SAID, WHO IN STRENGTH IS TO US SUPERIOR? 
DID THEY NOT SEE THAT GOD WHO CREATED THEM WAS SUPERIOR 
AND THAT HE WAS FAR ABOVE THEM IN STRENGTH AND POWER?  
BUT THEY CONTINUED TO BE DISBELIEVERS

16  SO WE SENT AGAINST THEM A WIND FURIOUSLY
THROUGH DAYS OF DISASTER IN ORDER THAT WE 
MIGHT GIVE THEM A TASTE OF A PENALTY 
OF HUMILIATION IN THIS LIFE TEMPORARILY

BUT THE PENALTY OF THE HEREAFTER 
WILL BE EVEN MORE OF A DISASTER
AND THEY WILL FIND NO HELPER 

17  AS TO THE THAMUD WE GAVE THEM GUIDANCE 
BUT THEY PREFERRED BLINDNESS OF HEART TO GUIDANCE 

SO THE PUNISHMENT OF HUMILIATION SEIZED THEM 
BECAUSE OF WHAT WAS EARNED BY THEM

18  BUT THEN WE DELIVERED THE BELIEVERS
THOSE WHO WERE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

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19  THE DAY THE ENEMIES OF GOD WILL BE GATHERED TOGETHER 
THEY WILL BE MARCHED IN RANKS TO THE FIRE

20  AT LENGTH WHEN THEY REACH THE FIRE, THEIR HEARING 
THEIR SIGHT AND THEIR SKINS WILL BEAR WITNESSING
AGAINST THEM AS TO ALL OF THEIR DOINGS

21  THEY WILL ASK THEIR SKINS, WHY DO YOU BEAR WITNESS AGAINST US 
THEY WILL SAY, GOD WHO GIVES SPEECH HAS GIVEN SPEECH TO US
IT WAS HE WHO IN THE FIRST PLACE CREATED US 
AND TO HIM WILL BE THE RETURN OF US 

22  AND YOU DID NOT SEEK TO HIDE YOURSELVES OR ELSE YOUR HEARING 
YOUR SIGHT AND YOUR SKINS WOULD AGAINST YOU BEAR WITNESSING 
BUT YOU THOUGHT THAT GOD KNEW NOT WHAT YOU WERE DOING

23  BUT THIS THOUGHT OF YOURS WHICH YOU DID ENVISION
CONCERNING YOUR LORD HAS BROUGHT YOU TO DESTRUCTION 
AND SO NOW HAVE YOU BECOME OF THOSE IN A LOST SITUATION

24  IF THEY HAVE PATIENCE THEIR HOME WILL BE THE FIRE  
AND IF THEY BEG TO BE RECEIVED INTO FAVOR 
THEY WILL NOT BE RECEIVED INTO FAVOR 

25  AND WE HAVE NOW DESTINED FOR THEM INTIMATE COMPANIONS
WHO MADE THEIR PAST AND FUTURE APPEAR WITH FASCINATION 
AND THE SENTENCE AMONG THE PREVIOUS GENERATIONS 
WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY OF MEN AND DEMONS
IS PROVED AGAINST THEM FOR THEY ARE IN A LOST SITUATION

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CHAPTER 41.  HA-MIM                                                                    SECTION 4.  PART XXIV

26  THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, LISTEN NOT TO THIS QURAN
BUT TALK AT RANDOM IN THE MIDST OF ITS RECITATION
THAT YOU MAY GAIN THE UPPER HAND OF THE SITUATION

27  BUT WE WILL CERTAINLY 
GIVE THE DISBELIEVERS A TASTE OF A SEVERE PENALTY 
AND WE WILL REQUITE THEM FOR THE WORST OF THEIR DEEDS

28  THIS IS THE REQUITAL OF THE ENEMIES OF THE CREATOR
AND THE FIRE WILL BE THEIR HOME IN THE HEREAFTER
A FIT REQUITAL FOR THEY WERE DISBELIEVERS

29  AND THE DISBELIEVERS WILL SAY, OUR LORD, SHOW US 
THOSE AMONG DEMONS AND MEN WHO MISLED US 

WE WILL BENEATH OUR FEET CRUSH THEM ALL
SO THAT THEY BECOME THE VILEST BEFORE ALL

30  THOSE WHO SAY, OUR LORD AND CHERISHER IS GOD, THE CREATOR
AND STAND STRAIGHT, THE ANGELS SAY TO THEM, DO NOT FEAR
BUT RECEIVE GLAD TIDINGS OF THE REWARD
OF THE GARDEN OF BLISS WHICH YOU WERE ASSURED

31  WE ARE YOUR PROTECTORS IN THIS LIFE AND IN THE HEREAFTER 
IN IT YOU WILL HAVE ALL THAT YOUR SOULS WILL DESIRE 
AND IN IT YOU WILL HAVE ALL THAT YOU ASK FOR

32  A HOSPITABLE GIFT FROM THE ONE 
THE FORGIVING THE MERCIFUL ONE

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33  WHO IS BETTER IN SPEECH THAN ONE WHO CALLS MEN TO GOD 
AND SAYS, I AM OF THOSE WHO BOW IN SUBMISSION TO GOD?

34  NOR CAN GOODNESS AND EVIL BE EQUAL
THEREFORE WITH GOODNESS REPEL EVIL 

THEN HE BETWEEN WHOM AND YOU WAS HATRED 
WILL BECOME AS YOUR FRIEND AND INTIMATE

35  NO ONE WILL BE GRANTED SUCH GOODNESS EXCEPT THE ONES
WHO EXERCISE PATIENCE AND SELF RESTRAINT AND NONE
BUT PERSONS OF THE GREATEST GOOD FORTUNE

36  IF AT ANY TIME AN INCITEMENT TO EVIL
IS MADE TO YOU BY THE DEVIL

SEEK REFUGE IN GOD FOR HE IS ALL HEARING 
AND ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS

37  THE NIGHT AND DAY, THE MOON AND THE SUN ARE SIGNS OF GOD
BUT DO NOT ADORE THE MOON AND THE SUN BUT ADORE GOD 
WHO CREATED THEM IF YOU WISH TO SERVE GOD

38  BUT IF THE DISBELIEVERS ARE ARROGANT IT IS NO MATTER 
FOR IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER
ARE THOSE WHO CELEBRATE THEIR CREATOR 
BY NIGHT AND BY DAY AND THEY NEVER  
FEEL THEMSELVES ABOVE IT EVER

39  AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THAT YOU SEE THE EARTH DESOLATE
BUT THEN WHEN HE SENDS DOWN RAIN UPON IT
IT IS STIRRED TO LIFE AND INCREASED IS IT

SO HE WHO GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH THAT IS DEAD  
CAN SURELY GIVE LIFE TO MEN WHO ARE DEAD

40  THOSE WHO PERVERT THE TRUTH IN OUR MESSAGES
THEY ARE SURELY NOT HIDDEN FROM US

WHICH IS BETTER, HE THAT IS CAST INTO THE FIRE 
OR HE THAT COMES THROUGH SAFELY IN THE HEREAFTER?
SO DO WHAT YOU WILL FOR IT IS FOR SURE 
ALL THAT YOU DO GOD SEES AND HEARS

41  AND THOSE WHO HEAR THE MESSAGE AND REJECT IT 
SURELY ARE NOT HIDDEN FROM US AND INDEED IT 
IS A BOOK EXALTED IN POWER AND RESPECTED

42  NO FALSEHOOD CAN APPROACH IT FROM BEFORE IT OR BEHIND IT 
FOR ONE WHO IS FULL OF WISDOM HAS SENT IT

43  NOTHING IS SAID TO YOU 
THAT WAS NOT SAID TO THE APOSTLES BEFORE YOU 

THAT YOUR LORD HAS AT HIS COMMAND ALL FORGIVENESS  
AS WELL AS A PUNISHMENT MOST GRIEVOUS 

44  HAD WE SENT THIS QURAN OTHER THAN IN ARABIC 
THEY WOULD SAY WHY IS IT NOT CLEAR, A BOOK NOT IN ARABIC 
AND MESSENGER WHOSE ANCESTRY IS ARABIC?

SAY, IT IS A GUIDE AND A HEALING TO THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
AND AS FOR THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
THEIR EYES ARE BLIND AND DEAFNESS IS IN THEIR EARS
AS IF THEY WERE BEING CALLED FROM A PLACE NOT NEAR 

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45  WE GAVE MOSES THE BOOK BEFORE BUT THEN DISPUTES AROSE IN IT 
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A WORD THAT CAME FROM GOD BEFORE IT 

THEIR DIFFERENCES WOULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED BETWEEN THEM 
BUT THEY KEPT THEIR DOUBTS WITHIN THEM

46  WHOEVER WORKS RIGHTEOUSNESS BENEFITS HIS OWN SOUL 
WHOEVER WORKS EVIL IT IS AGAINST HIS OWN SOUL 
NOR IS YOUR LORD EVER UNJUST TO ANY SOUL

PART  XXV

47  HIS IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE JUDGEMENT HOUR  
AND NO DATE FRUIT COMES OUT OF ITS COVER 
OR DOES A FEMALE CONCEIVE WITHIN HER
NOR BRING FORTH YOUNG BUT BY HIS ORDER
THE DAY THAT GOD WILL ASK THEM TO ANSWER 
WHERE ARE THOSE YOU ATTRIBUTED TO ME AS PARTNERS?
THEY WILL SAY, NONE OF US CAN POSITIVELY ANSWER

48  THE DEITIES THAT WERE WORSHIPPED BY THEM
IN THE LURCH THEY WILL HAVE LEFT THEM 
NO ESCAPE WILL THERE BE FOR THEM

49  MAN DOES NOT WEARY OF ASKING FOR GOOD THINGS 
BUT IF ILL TOUCHES HIM HE GIVES UP HOPING
AND HE IS LOST IN DESPAIRING

50  WHEN WE GIVE MAN A TASTE OF SOME MERCY 
AFTER HAS TOUCHED HIM SOME ADVERSITY 
THEN HE WILL SAY, THIS IS DUE TO ME 
AND I BELIEVE THAT THE HOUR OF JUDGMENT WILL NEVER BE  
BUT IF I AM BROUGHT BACK TO MY LORD INEVITABLY 
I HAVE MUCH GOOD STORED IN HIS SIGHT INDEED
BUT WE WILL SHOW THE DISBELIEVERS THEIR DEEDS
AND WE WILL MAKE THEM TASTE A SEVERE PENALTY

51  WHEN WE BESTOW FAVORS ON MAN HE TURNS ASIDE
AND GETS HIMSELF REMOTELY ON HIS SIDE

INSTEAD OF COMING TO US AND AFTER EVIL SEIZES HIM
HE COMES FULL OF PROLONGED PRAYER TO US FROM HIM

52  SAY, SEE IF THIS IS REALLY GOD'S REVELATION 
AND YET OF IT YOU ARE IN REJECTION
WHO IS MORE ASTRAY THAN ONE WHO DENIES TRUTH AND REASON?

53  WE WILL SHOW THEM OUR SIGNS IN THE FURTHEST REGIONS 
OF THE EARTH AND IN THEIR OWN PERSONS
UNTIL THE TRUTH COMES TO THEM IN MANIFESTATION
IS IT NOT ENOUGH THAT GOD IS WITNESS OVER ALL CREATION?

54  THEY ARE IN DOUBT CONCERNING THE MEETING 
WITH GOD AND HE ENCOMPASSES ALL THINGS

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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  KNOWING, HEARING, POWERFUL GOD

3  SO DOES YOUR LORD SEND TO YOU INSPIRATION 
AS HE SENT TO THOSE BEFORE YOU INSPIRATION
AND HE HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

4  TO HIM BELONG ALL THINGS IN EARTH AND HEAVEN
AND HE IS MOST HIGH IN EXALTATION

5  THE HEAVENS MAY ALMOST BE RENT ASUNDER BY HIS GRACES
AND THE ANGELS GLORIFY THEIR LORD'S PRAISES 
FOR ALL BEINGS ON EARTH THEY PRAY FOR THEIR FORGIVENESS 
AND HE IS FULL OF MERCY AND FORGIVENESS

6  AND THOSE WHO TAKE AS PROTECTORS 
OTHERS BESIDES HIM, THEM GOD WATCHES OVER 
AND OF THEIR AFFAIRS YOU ARE NOT THE DISPOSER

7  WE HAVE REVEALED AN ARABIC QURAN TO YOU CLEARLY
THAT YOU MAY WARN THE MOTHER OF CITIES 
AND ALL AROUND HER ADDITIONALLY 
AND WARN THEM OF THE DAY OF ASSEMBLY 
WHEN SOME WILL BE IN THE GARDEN SECURELY
AND SOME IN THE FIRE BLAZING FIERCELY

8  IF GOD HAD SO WILLED 
HE COULD HAVE MADE THEM ONE PEOPLE
BUT HE ADMITS TO HIS MERCY WHOM HE WILLS  
NO HELPER WILL THERE BE FOR WRONG DOING PEOPLE

9  HAVE THEY TAKEN FOR OTHERS BESIDES GOD AS PROTECTORS?  
BUT GOD GIVES LIFE TO THE DEAD AND HAS ALL POWER

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10  AND WHATEVER IT BE IN WHICH YOU DIFFER
THE DECISION OF IT IS WITH THE CREATOR
THIS IS GOD, MY LORD AND CHERISHER 
MY TRUST IN HIM IS COMPLETE AND SINCERE 

11  AND OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH HE IS THE CREATOR
HE HAS MADE FOR YOU FROM AMONG YOURSELVES PAIRS 
AND HE HAS MADE AMONG CATTLE PAIRS 
BY THIS MEANS DOES HE MULTIPLY YOU FURTHER
AS TO ANYONE LIKE HIM THERE IS NO OTHER
AND ALL THINGS DOES HE SEE AND HEAR

12  TO HIM BELONG THE KEYS OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
TO WHOM HE WILLS HE ENLARGES AND RESTRICTS SUSTENANCE
FOR HE IS ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS IN CREATION

13  HE HAS ESTABLISHED FOR YOU THE SAME RELIGION 
THAT HE ENJOINED ON NOAH BY INSPIRATION
WHICH WE HAVE SENT TO YOU AND THAT SAME INSPIRATION 
WE GAVE TO JESUS, ABRAHAM, MOSES AND ARRON
NAMELY THAT YOU SHOULD REMAIN STEADFAST IN RELIGION 
AND DO NOT MAKE THEREIN ANY DIVISIONS 
AND TO THOSE WHO JOIN WITH THEIR LORD OTHER ASSOCIATIONS
THE WAY TO WHICH YOU CALL THEM TO IS A HARD DIRECTION
AND GOD TURNS TO HIMSELF THOSE WHOM HE HAS CHOSEN
AND GUIDES THOSE WHO TURN TO HIM IN SUBMISSION

14  THEY BECAME DIVIDED AFTER KNOWLEDGE REACHED THEM
THROUGH SELFISH ENVY FROM AMONG THEM
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A WORD THAT WENT BEFORE THEM 
TENDING TO A TERM APPOINTED FOR THEM
THE MATTER WOULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED BETWEEN THEM
BUT THE INHERITORS OF THE BOOK ARE DOUBTERS AFTER THEM 

15  FOR THAT REASON CALL THEM TO BE BELIEVERS
AND STAND STEADFAST AS YOU ARE ORDERED
NOR FOLLOW THEIR VAIN DESIRES
BUT SAY, IN THE BOOK GOD HAS SENT I AM A BELIEVER

AND I AM COMMANDED TO JUDGE BETWEEN YOU JUSTLY
GOD IS OUR LORD AND YOUR LORD ASSUREDLY
AND OURS IS THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR DEEDS
AND FOR YOU IS THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR DEEDS
THERE IS NO CONTENTION BETWEEN US INDEED
GOD WILL BRING US TOGETHER AND TO HIM IS OUR DESTINY

16  THOSE WHO DISPUTE ABOUT GOD AFTER BEING A BELIEVER 
FUTILE IS THEIR DISPUTE IN THE SIGHT OF THEIR CREATOR
AND UPON THEM IS THEIR LORD'S ANGER
FOR THEM WILL BE THE PENALTY OF THE FIRE

17  IT IS GOD WHO HAS SENT DOWN THE BOOK IN TRUTH 
 AND THE BALANCE BY WHICH TO WEIGH CONDUCT TO
AND WHAT WILL MAKE IT QUITE CLEAR TO YOU 
THAT PERHAPS THE HOUR IS CLOSE UPON YOU?

18  ONLY THOSE WISH TO HASTEN IT 
ARE THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN IT
THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN AWE THEY HOLD IT 
AND KNOW OF THE HOUR THAT IT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT IT 
BUT THOSE THAT DISPUTE ARE FAR AWAY FROM THE TRUTH OF IT

19  AND GRACIOUS IS YOUR LORD TO HIS SERVANTS
TO WHOM HE PLEASES HE GIVES SUSTENANCE 
FOR SURELY HE HAS ALL COMPETENCE

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 CHAPTER 42.  THE CONSULTATION                                           SECTION 3.  PART XXV

20  TO ANY THAT DESIRE THE REWARD OF THE HEREAFTER 
WE GIVE INCREASE IN HIS REWARD AND TO ANY THAT DESIRES 
REWARDS OF THIS WORLD, WE GRANT SOME OF IT FROM OUR FAVOR
BUT HE HAS NO SHARE IN THE HEREAFTER 

21  HAVE THEY PARTNERS WHO HAVE ESTABLISHED A RELIGION
AND HAVE DONE IT FOR THEM WITHOUT GOD'S PERMISSION? 
BUT HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE DETERMINATION
THE MATTER WOULD HAVE HAD AN IMMEDIATE DECISION
BUT THE WRONG DOERS WILL HAVE A GRIEVOUS PENALIZATION

22  YOU WILL SEE THE WRONG DOERS FEARFULLY
CONCERNED FOR WHAT THEY HAVE EARNED BY THEIR DEEDS 
AND THE BURDEN OF THAT MUST FALL ON THEM INDEED
THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
WILL BE IN GARDENS OF LUXURIANT MEADS 
AND THEY WILL HAVE IN THEIR LORD'S DECREE
ALL THAT THEY COULD EVER WISH FOR PLENTIFULLY
AND THAT WILL BE THEIR LORD'S MAGNIFICENT BOUNTY 

23	THAT IS THE BOUNTY GOD GIVES TO HIS DEVOTEES 
THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 

SAY, FOR THIS NO REWARD DO I ASK OF YOU 
EXCEPT THE LOVE OF THOSE NEAR OF KIN TO YOU

AND IF ANY ONE EARNS ANY GOOD 
WE WILL GIVE HIM AN INCREASE OF GOOD 

FOR GOD IS MOST READY TO FORGIVE
AND HE IS MOST APPRECIATIVE 

24  AND DO THEY THEN SAY HE HAS FORGED AGAINST GOD A LIE? 
BUT IF GOD WILLED HE COULD SEAL UP YOUR HEART INSIDE
AND GOD BLOTS OUT VANITY AND HE DOES PROVIDE
THE TRUTH BY HIS WORDS FOR HE KNOWS WHAT YOU HIDE 

25  HE IS THE ONE THAT ACCEPTS REPENTANCE 
AND FORGIVES THE SINS OF HIS SERVANTS 
AND KNOWS ALL YOU KEEP HIDDEN

26  HE LISTENS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
THOSE WHO CONSTANTLY DO GOOD DEEDS 
AND GIVES THEM INCREASE OF HIS BOUNTY 
BUT FOR DISBELIEVERS THERE IS A TERRIBLE PENALTY

27  IF GOD WERE TO ENLARGE HIS SERVANT'S PROVISIONS
THEY WOULD TRANSGRESS BEYOND LIMITATIONS 
BUT HE SENDS IT DOWN IN DUE PROPORTIONS
FOR HIS SERVANTS ARE UNDER HIS OBSERVATIONS

28  HE IS THE ONE THAT SENDS DOWN RAIN AMPLY
EVEN AFTER MEN HAVE GIVEN UP ALL HOPE OF HIS MERCY
AND HE IS THE PROTECTOR AND IS PRAISEWORTHY 

29  AND AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THE CREATION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND THE LIVING CREATURES HE HAS SCATTERED WITHIN
AND HE HAS THE POWER TO GATHER THEM THEREIN

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30  WHATEVER MISFORTUNE HAPPENS TO YOU 
IS BECAUSE OF THE THINGS THAT ARE DONE BY YOU
AND FOR MANY OF THEM HE GRANTS FORGIVENESS TO YOU

31  NOR CAN YOU ESCAPE ANYTHING BY FLEEING  
NOR HAVE YOU BESIDES GOD ANY ONE FOR PROTECTING

32  AMONG HIS SIGNS ARE THE SHIP'S MOTIONS
TALL AS MOUNTAINS RUNNING THROUGH THE OCEANS 

33  AND IF IT WERE HIS WILL HE COULD STILL THE WIND'S MOTION
THEN WOULD THEY BECOME WITHOUT MOTION ON THE OCEAN 
AND IN THIS ARE CLEAR SIGNS FOR EVERYONE
WHO IS A PATIENT AND GRATEFUL ONE

34  OR HE CAN CAUSE THEM TO PERISH FOR THEIR EVIL DOINGS
BUT HE IS MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING

35  LET THOSE KNOW WHO ABOUT OUR SIGNS ARE DISPUTING
THAT THERE IS FOR THEM NO WAY OF ESCAPING

36  WHAT YOU ARE GIVEN OF THIS LIFE IS ONLY A CONVENIENCE HERE  
BUT THAT WHICH IS WITH YOUR LORD IN THE HEREAFTER IS BETTER 
AND MORE LASTING IT IS FOR THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
AND WHO PUT THEIR TRUST IN THEIR CREATOR

37  THOSE WHO AVOID GREATER CRIMES AND SHAMEFUL DOINGS
AND WHEN THEY ARE ANGRY ARE EVEN THEN FORGIVING

38  THOSE WHO LISTEN TO GOD AND ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS 
AND BY MUTUAL CONSULTATION CONDUCT THEIR AFFAIRS 
WHO SPEND OUT OF WHAT WE GIVE THEM AS HEIRS

39  AND THOSE WHO WHEN OPPRESSED BY WRONG DOERS 
DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSORS

40  THE RECOMPENSE FOR ONE WHO IS INJURED 
IS AN INJURY EQUAL TO IT IN MEASURE
BUT IF ANY PERSON RECONSIDERS 
HIS REWARD IS DUE FROM HIS CREATOR 
FOR GOD DOES NOT LOVE WRONGDOERS

41  IF ANY DEFEND THEMSELVES AFTER WRONG DONE TO THEM 
THERE IS NO CAUSE OF BLAME AGAINST THEM

42  THE BLAME IS AGAINST ONLY
THOSE WHO OPPRESS MEN INSOLENTLY 
AND TRANSGRESS BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES 
FOR THEM IS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY 

43  BUT IF ANY SHOW PATIENCE AND FORGIVENESS 
THAT WOULD BE AN EXERCISE OF COURAGEOUSNESS
IN RESOLUTION OF CONDUCT IN AFFAIRS OF PUPOSE

 

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CHAPTER 42.  THE CONSULTATION                                            SECTION 5.  PART XXV

44  THERE IS NO HELPER FOR HIM WHOM GOD LEAVES TO STRAY 
THE WRONG DOERS WHEN THEY SEE THE PENALTY WILL SAY 
TO EFFECT A RETURN IS THERE ANY WAY?

45  AND YOU WILL SEE THEM BROUGHT FORWARD TO THE PENALTY 
IN A HUMBLE FRAME OF MIND BECAUSE OF THEIR IGNOMINY
AND LOOKING WITH A GLANCE THAT IS STEALTHY 

AND THE BELIEVERS WILL SAY 
THE LOSERS ARE THOSE WHO LOSE THEIR WAY 
AND THE WAY OF THEIR FOLLOWERS ON JUDGMENT DAY
THE WRONG DOERS IN A LASTING PENALTY ARE THEY

46  NO PROTECTORS OTHER THAN GOD HAVE THEY 
AND FOR ANY WHOM GOD LEAVES TO STRAY 
FOR THEM YOU WILL NOT FIND A WAY 

47  LISTEN TO YOUR LORD BEFORE THERE COMES A DAY 
WHEN THERE WILL BE NO PUTTING BACK AND THAT DAY 
THERE WILL BE NO PLACE OF REFUGE FOR YOU THAT DAY
NOR WILL YOU BE ABLE TO DENY IN ANY WAY

48  IF THEN THEY TURN AWAY FROM YOU, YOUR DUTY 
IS TO CONVEY TO THEM THE MESSAGE CLEARLY
BUT WHEN WE GIVE MAN A TASTE OF MERCY 
THEN HE BOASTS EXULTANTLY
BUT WHEN AFFLICTED BY ADVERSITY 
THEN HE ACTS UNGRATEFULLY  

49  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF EVERYTHING ON EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS 
HE CREATES WHAT HE WILLS AND BESTOWS CHILDREN 
MALE OR FEMALE IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS DECISIONS

50  OR HE BESTOWS BOTH MALES AND FEMALES AS HE PLEASES
AND HE LEAVES BARREN WHOM HE PLEASES 
FOR SURELY ALL POWER HE POSSESSES

51  IT IS NOT FITTING FOR ANY HUMAN 
THAT GOD SHOULD SPEAK TO HIM EXCEPT BY INSPIRATION 
OR FROM BEHIND A VEIL OR BY THE SENDING OF REVELATION
BY A MESSENGER WITH YOUR LORD'S PERMISSION 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

52  SO WE HAVE SENT TO YOU INSPIRATION 
YOU KNEW NOT BEFORE WHAT WAS REVELATION 
NOR WHAT FAITH WAS BUT WE HAVE MADE THE QURAN
A LIGHT WITH WHICH WE GUIDE OUR CHOSEN ONES
AND YOU GUIDE MEN TO THE RIGHT DIRECTION

53  THE WAY OF GOD TO WHOM BELONGS EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND TO GOD IS THE FINAL GOAL IN THE END

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 1.  PART XXV

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  BY THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS MANIFESTLY

3  A QURAN IN ARABIC THAT YOU MAY UNDERSTAND CLEARLY

4   IT IS IN THE MOTHER OF THE BOOK IN OUR PRESENCE HIGH IN DIGNITY 

5  WE WILL THEN TAKE AWAY THE MESSAGE FROM YOU 
FOR A TRANSGRESSING PEOPLE ARE YOU

6  BUT HOW MANY WERE THE PROPHETS THAT WE 
SENT AMONG THE PEOPLE FORMERLY

7  NO PROPHET BEFORE CAME TO THEM
BUT HE WAS MOCKED BY THEM

8  THEN WE DESTROYED THOSE STRONGER THAN THESE IN ABILITY 
AND THE EXAMPLE OF THE ANCIENTS HAS PASSED ALREADY 

9  IF THEM YOU WERE TO QUESTION 
AS TO WHO CREATED THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
THEY WOULD REPLY, THEY WERE CREATED BY ONE 
WHO IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM

10  HE THAT MADE THE EARTH A RESTING PLACE FOR YOU
AND HAS MADE FOR YOU ROADS TO GUIDE YOU 

11  HE THAT SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKY OVERHEAD
AND RAISES TO LIFE THEREBY A LAND THAT IS DEAD 
EVEN SO WILL YOU BE RAISED FROM THE DEAD

12  ALL THINGS IN PAIRS DOES HE PROVIDE 
AND MADE FOR YOU SHIPS THAT GLIDE
AND CATTLE ON WHICH YOU RIDE

13  IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY SIT FIRM ON THEM 
AND THAT YOU MAY BE THANKFUL TO GOD FOR THEM
AND SAY, TO HE WHO HAS SUBJECTED THIS TO US, GLORY TO HIM
FOR NEVER COULD THIS HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED EXCEPT BY HIM 

14  AND OUR LORD WE MUST RETURN BACK TO HIM

15  YET THEY ATTRIBUTE TO SOME OF HIS DEVOTEES
A SHARE WITH HIM IN HIS AUTHORITY 
MAN DOES ACT UNGRATEFULLY

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                         SECTION 2.  PART XXV

16  HAS HE TAKEN DAUGHTERS OUT OF WHAT HE HAS CREATED
AND TO YOU SONS FOR CHOICE HAS HE GRANTED?

17  WHEN NEWS IS BROUGHT TO ONE OF THEM 
OF A LIKENESS TO GOD OF WHAT HE SETS UP WITH HIM
HE IS FILLED WITH GRIEF AND HIS FACE FILLS WITH GRIM

18  IS THEN TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH GOD A CREATURE
BROUGHT UP AMONG TRINKETS AND UNABLE TO DISPUTE CLEAR? 

19  AND THEY MAKE ANGELS AS GODS
WHO THEMSELVES SERVE GOD 

DID THEY WITNESS THEM BEING CREATED?  
SURELY THEIR EVIDENCE WILL BE RECORDED
AND THEY WILL BE CALLED TO BE RECOUNTED

20  THEY SAY, IF IT HAD BEEN THE WILL OF OUR CREATOR
THEN WE WOULD NOT HAVE WORSHIPPED OTHERS 
OF THAT THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE, THEY ARE LIARS

21  HAVE WE GIVEN THEM A BOOK BEFORE IT 
WHICH THEY ARE HOLDING FAST TO IT?

22  NAY, THEY SAY, THIS IS WHAT OUR FATHERS WERE FOLLOWING 
AND WE ARE FOLLOWING IN THEIR FOOTING

23  WHENEVER WE SENT A WARNER BEFORE YOU TO ANYONE 
ALSO AMONG THEM SAID THOSE WHO WERE WEALTHY ONES 
WE FOUND OUR FATHERS FOLLOWING A CERTAIN RELIGION
AND WE WILL FOLLOW IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS FOR CERTAIN

24  HE SAID, EVEN IF I BROUGHT YOU GUIDANCE BETTER 
THAN THAT WHICH YOU FOUND WITH YOUR FATHERS  
THEY SAID, WE DENY YOUR MISSION ALL TOGETHER

25  SO RETRIBUTION FROM THEM WE EXACTED
NOW SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO REJECTED 

475
CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 3.  PART XXV

26  ABRAHAM SAID TO HIS FATHER AND HIS PEOPLE 
I CLEAR MYSELF OF WHAT IS SERVED BY YOU PEOPLE

27  I WORSHIP ONLY HIM WHO MADE ME 
AND HE WILL CERTAINLY GUIDE ME

28  AND HE LEFT IT AS A WORD TO ENDURE 
AMONG THOSE WHO CAME BEHIND HIM AFTER 
THAT THEY MAY RETURN TO THEIR CREATOR

29  I GAVE GOOD THINGS TO THESE MEN AND THEIR FATHERS 
UNTIL THE TRUTH HAS COME TO THEM AND A MESSENGER

30  WHEN THE TRUTH CAME TO THEM THEY DECREED 
THIS IS DEFINITELY SORCERY INDEED 
AND WE DO REJECT IT ASSUREDLY

31  ALSO THEY SAY, WHY IS NOT THIS QURAN SENT DOWN 
TO SOME LEADING MAN IN EITHER OF THE TWO TOWNS?

32  IS IT THEY WHO WOULD PORTION OUT THEIR LORD'S FAVORS?
BUT IT IS WE WHO PORTION OUT TO THEM THEIR TREASURES
AND WE RAISE SOME OF THEM IN RANKS ABOVE OTHERS 
SO THAT SOME MAY COMMAND WORK FROM OTHERS 
BUT THE MERCY OF YOUR LORD IS MUCH BETTER 
THAN THE WEALTH THEY AMASS TOGETHER

33  WERE IT NOT THAT ALL PEOPLE MIGHT BECOME DISBELIEVERS
WE COULD PROVIDE FOR ALL WHO ARE BLASPHEMERS
AGAINST GOD MOST GRACIOUS ROOFS OF SILVER
FOR THEIR HOUSES AND STAIRWAYS OF SILVER 

34  AND DOORS OF SILVER
TO THEIR HOUSES AND THRONES OF SILVER
ON WHICH THEY COULD RECLINE ON IN PLEASURE

35  AND ALSO GOLD ADORNMENTS
THIS WOULD BE CONVENIENCES OF THE PRESENT 
BUT THE HEREAFTER IS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS SERVANTS

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 4.  PART XXV

36  IF ANYONE WITHDRAWS FROM DEVOTION
TO HIS LORD, THE MOST GRACIOUS ONE
WE APPOINT A DEVIL FOR HIM AS A COMPANION 

37  SUCH DEVILS REALLY HINDER THEM FROM THE PATH OF RIGHT 
BUT THEY THINK THAT THEY ARE REALLY BEING GUIDED RIGHT

38  AT LENGTH WHEN COMES TO US SUCH A ONE  
THEN HE SAYS TO HIS EVIL COMPANION
WOULD THAT BETWEEN US WERE THE DIMENSION
OF THE EAST AND THE WEST, FOR EVIL IS THE COMPANION 

39  AND NOTHING WILL AVAIL YOU THAT DAY IN THE LEAST
IF YOU HAVE ACTED UNGRATEFUL AND WRONGFULLY
AND YOU WILL BE PARTNERS IN THE PENALTY

40  CAN YOU THEN MAKE THE DEAF TO HEAR 
OR DIRECT THE BLIND OR THOSE IN ERROR? 

41  EVEN IF WE TAKE YOU AWAY FROM THEM
THEN WE WILL EXACT RETRIBUTION FROM THEM 

42  OR WE WILL SHOW YOU WHAT WE HAVE PROMISED THEM 
FOR WE WILL SURELY PREVAIL OVER THEM 

43  SO HOLD FAST TO THE REVELATION SENT DOWN TO YOU 
FOR CLEARLY ON A STRAIGHT WAY ARE YOU

44  THE QURAN IS INDEED THE MESSAGE FOR YOU 
AND AN ACCOUNT WILL BE TAKEN FROM YOU

45  AND DO YOU QUESTION OUR FORMER MESSENGERS?
DID WE APPOINT OTHERS TO BE SERVED THAN THE CREATOR?

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 5.  PART XXV

46  WE SENT MOSES BEFORE WITH MESSAGES CLEAR
TO PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS AND HE SAID, I AM A MESSENGER 
OF THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

47  BUT WHEN OUR SIGNS CAME THEY WERE RIDICULERS 

48  WE SHOWED THEM SIGN AFTER SIGN EACH ONE GREATER 
AND WE SEIZED THEM WITH A PUNISHMENT OF TERROR
IN ORDER THAT THEY MIGHT TURN TO US AFTER

49  THEY SAID TO HIM, OH YOU SORCERER 
INVOKE YOUR LORD IN OUR FAVOR
AND WE WILL BE BELIEVERS

50  BUT WHEN WE REMOVED FROM THEM THE PUNISHMENT
THEY UNFAITHFULLY BROKE THEIR COVENANT

51  AND PHARAOH PROCLAIMED AMONG HIS DEVOTEES
SAYING, DOES NOT THE DOMINION OF EGYPT BELONG TO ME? 
WITNESS THESE STREAMS THAT ARE FLOWING UNDERNEATH ME 

52  AM I NOT BETTER THAN THIS MOSES WHO IS REALLY
A CONTEMPTIBLE WRETCH AND CAN NOT EXPRESS HIMSELF CLEARLY?

53  THEN WHY ARE NOT GOLD BRACELETS BESTOWED ON HIM 
OR WHY ARE ANGELS NOT SENT DOWN WITH HIM? 

54  SO DID HE MAKE FOOLS OF HIS PEOPLE 
AND THEY OBEYED HIM AND WERE MISLEAD PEOPLE

55  SO WHEN WE BECAME ANGERED BY THEM
WE PUNISHED THEM AND DROWNED THEM

56  AND WE MADE THEM A PEOPLE OF A PAST GENERATION
AND A LESSON TO LATER GENERATIONS

478
CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 6.  PART XXV

57  WHEN JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, IS HELD UP AS AN EXAMPLE 
YOUR PEOPLE RAISE A CLAMOR AT THE EXAMPLE

58  AND THEY SAY, ARE OUR GODS BEST OR HE? 
THIS THEY SET FORTH TO YOU ONLY
JUST TO DISPUTE WITH YOU ARBITRARILY 
FOR THEY ARE PEOPLE IN OPPOSITION CLEARLY

59  HE WAS NO MORE THAN A SERVANT
TO WHOM WE GRANTED OUR COVENANT

AND WE MADE HIM AN EXAMPLE 
TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL

60  IF WE WILLED WE COULD MAKE ANGELS FROM AMONG YOU 
SUCCEEDING EACH OTHER ON THE EARTH REPLACING YOU

61  AND JESUS WILL BE A SIGN FOR THE COMING OF THE HOUR 
SO HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT THE COMING OF THE HOUR 
BUT FOLLOW ME THIS IS A STRAIGHT WAY FOR SURE

62  LET NOT THE DEVIL HINDER YOU 
FOR HE IS AN OPEN ENEMY TO YOU

63  WHEN JESUS CAME WITH SIGNS THAT WERE CLEAR
HE SAID, I COME TO YOU WITH WISDOM IN ORDER 
TO MAKE CLEAR SOME POINTS ON WHICH YOU DIFFER
SO OBEY ME AND KEEP YOUR DUTY TO THE CREATOR

64  FOR GOD, HE IS MY LORD AND YOUR LORD 
SO WORSHIP HIM, THIS IS A STRAIGHT WAY WITH YOUR LORD

65  BUT SECTIONS FROM AMONG THEM FELL INTO DISAGREEMENT 
SO WOE TO THE WRONG DOERS FOR THEM IS A SEVERE PUNISHMENT

66  DO THEY ONLY WAIT FOR THE HOUR TO COME ON THEM 
ALL OF A SUDDEN WHILE  NOT PERCEIVED BY THEM?

67  FRIENDS ON THAT DAY WILL BE FOES TO ONE ANOTHER 
EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS

479
CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 7.  PART XXV

68  THAT DAY NO FEAR WILL BE ON MY DEVOTEES 
NOR WILL YOU HAVE ANY CAUSE TO GRIEVE

69  BEING THOSE WHO IN OUR SIGNS HAVE BELIEVED 
AND BOWED THEIR WILLS IN SUBMISSION COMPLETELY

70  ENTER THE GARDEN WITH YOUR WIVES HAPPILY 

71  TO THEM WILL BE PASSED ROUND DISHES AND GOBLETS OF GOLD 
AND THERE WILL BE  ALL THE DELIGHT THE EYES COULD BEHOLD

AND ALL THE SOULS COULD DESIRE 
AND YOU WILL ABIDE THERE FOREVER

72  THIS WILL BE THE GARDEN OF WHICH YOU ARE INDEED
MADE INHERITORS FOR YOUR GOOD DEEDS 

73  YOU WILL HAVE IN IT ABUNDANCE OF FRUIT
FROM WHICH YOU WILL HAVE TO SATISFY YOU

74  THE SINNERS WILL BE IN THE PUNISHMENT OF HELL
AND THEY WILL BE THERE FOREVER TO DWELL

75  IN NO WAY WILL BE LIGHTENED FOR THEM THE PENALTY
AND THEY WILL BE OVERWHELMED IN DISPARITY

76  IN NO WAY TO THEM WILL WE BE UNJUST
BUT IT IS THEY WHO TO THEMSELVES HAVE BEEN UNJUST

77  THEY WILL CRY, OH KEEPER OF HELL PUT IN CHARGE OF US
IF ONLY GOD HAD PUT AN END TO US 
AND HE WILL SAY, NAY, BUT HERE YOU WILL STAY WITH US

78  SURELY WE HAVE BROUGHT THE TRUTH TO YOU
BUT THE TRUTH IS HATED BY MOST OF YOU

79  HAVE THEY THEMSELVES SETTLED SOME PLAN?
BUT IT IS GOD WHO SETTLES ALL PLANS

80  DO THEY THINK THAT WE HEAR NOT THE PRIVATE PLOTS OF THEM?
WE DO AND OUR MESSENGERS ARE BY THEM TO RECORD THEM

81  SAY, IF GOD MOST GRACIOUS HAD A SON 
OF THOSE TO WORSHIP HIM, I WOULD BE THE FIRST ONE

82  TO THE LORD OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH BE THE GLORY
HE ALONE IS THE LORD OF THE THRONE OF AUTHORITY 
FREE FROM THE THINGS THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM IS HE

83  SO LEAVE THEM WITH VANITIES TO BABBLE AND PLAY 
UNTIL THEY MEET THEIR PROMISED DAY

84  HE IS GOD IN HEAVEN AND GOD ON EARTH IS HE
AND FULL OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE IS HE

480
CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                        SECTION 7 (CONT'D). PART XXV

85  BLESSED IS HE TO WHOM BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF ALL THE EARTH AND ALL OF THE HEAVENS

THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOUR IS WITH HIM
AND YOU WILL ALL RETURN TO HIM

86  THOSE WHOM THEY PRAISE BESIDES GOD IN ASSOCIATION
WILL HAVE NO POWER OF INTERCESSION

ONLY HE WHO BEARS WITNESS TO THE TRUTH OF GOD
AND THEY KNOW THE FACTS ABOUT GOD

87  IF YOU ASK THEM WHO CREATED THEM
GOD, IS THE ANSWER THAT WILL BE GIVEN BY THEM
HOW THEN IS THE TRUTH REJECTED BY THEM? 

88  GOD HAS KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROPHET',S CRY OF GRIEF
OH MY LORD THESE ARE A PEOPLE WHO REFUSE BELIEF

89  BUT TURN AWAY FROM THEM AND SAY PEACE TO THEM
BUT SOON WILL KNOWLEDGE SURELY COME TO THEM

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CHAPTER 44.  THE SMOKE                                                              SECTION 1.  PART XXV

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  BY THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THINGS CLEARLY

3  WE SENT IT DOWN DURING A BLESSED EVE 
TO WARN AGAINST INIQUITY

4  IN IT IS MADE EVERY AFFAIR OF WISDOM DISTINCTLY

5  BY COMMAND FROM OUR PRESENCE FOR WE CONSTANTLY
SEND DOWN REVELATIONS CONSISTENTLY

6  AS A MERCY FROM YOUR LORD, FOR HE IS ALL HEARING
AND KNOWING OF ALL THINGS 

7  HE IS THE LORD OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH 
AND ALL BETWEEN THEM IF YOU WOULD BE SURE 

8  THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
CHAPTER 44 THE SMOKE
THE GIVER OF LICHAPTER 44 THE SMOKEFE AND DEATH IS HE

HE IS THE LORD AND CHERISHER 
OF YOU AND YOUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS

9  YET THEY PLAY ABOUT AS DOUBTERS

10  THEN WATCH FOR THE DAY THAT THE SKY WILL SURELY
BRING FORTH A KIND OF SMOKE OR MIST VISIBLY 

11  ENVELOPING THE PEOPLE AND THIS WILL BE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

12  THEY WILL SAY, OUR LORD REMOVE FROM US THE PENALTY 
FOR NOW WE DO BELIEVE TRULY

13  BUT HOW WILL THE MESSAGE BE EFFECTUAL FOR THEM 
SEEING THAT AN APOSTLE EXPLAINING TO THEM 
OUR MESSAGES HAS ALREADY COME TO THEM?

14  YET THEY TURN AWAY FROM HIM 
AND SAY, A MAN POSSESSED AND OTHERS HAVE TUTORED HIM

15  WE WILL REMOVE THE PENALTY FOR A FEW DAYS
BUT YOU WILL REVERT TO YOUR EVIL WAYS

16  ON THE DAY WE WILL SEIZE YOU WITH A MIGHTY SEIZING
WE WILL THEN EXACT RETRIBUTION FOR YOUR REJECTING

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CHAPTER 44.  THE SMOKE                                           SECTION 1 (CONT'D).  PART XXV

17  WE DID BEFORE THEM TRY PHARAOH'S PEOPLE 
THERE CAME TO THEM AN APOSTLE MOST HONORABLE

18  SAYING, RESTORE THE SERVANTS OF GOD TO ME
I AM TO YOU AN APOSTLE TRUSTWORTHY 

19  AND BE NOT ARROGANT AGAINST GOD FOR SURELY 
I COME TO YOU WITH MANIFEST AUTHORITY

20  FOR ME I HAVE SOUGHT SAFETY 
WITH MY LORD AND YOUR LORD AGAINST YOUR INJURING ME

21  AND IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME 
AT LEAST KEEP YOURSELVES AWAY FROM ME

22  BUT THEY WERE AGGRESSIVE AND ACTED ARROGANTLY 
HE CRIED, LORD, THESE PEOPLE ARE GIVEN TO INIQUITY

23  CAME THE REPLY, MARCH FORTH WITH MY SERVANTS NIGHTLY 
FOR YOU WILL BE PURSUED MOST ASSUREDLY

24  AND LEAVE THE SEA DIVIDED QUIETLY
FOR THEY ARE A HOST TO BE DROWNED COMPLETELY

25  HOW MANY GARDENS AND SPRINGS OWNED BY THEM
DID THEY LEAVE BEHIND THEM

26  AND CORN FIELDS AND NOBLE BUILDINGS

27  AND GOOD THINGS IN WHICH THEY WERE REJOICING

28  SO WAS THE END OF THEM 
AND WE MADE OTHER PEOPLE INHERIT THEM

29  NEITHER HEAVEN NOR EARTH SHED A TEAR OVER THEM
NOR WAS ANY RESPITE GIVEN TO THEM  

483
CHAPTER 44.  THE SMOKE                                                              SECTION 2.  PART XXV

30  WE DID DELIVER BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
FROM A HUMILIATING PENALTY COMING TO THEIR PEOPLE

31  INFLICTED BY PHARAOH FOR ARROGANT WAS HE
AMONG THOSE WHO TRANSGRESSED INORDINATELY 

32  AND WE CHOSE THEM ABOVE THE NATIONS KNOWINGLY

33  AND GRANTED THEM SIGNS TO TRY THEM MANIFESTLY

34  AS TO THESE THEY SAY ARROGANTLY

35  THERE IS NOTHING BEYOND OUR FIRST DEATH 
AND WE WILL NOT BE RAISED AGAIN AFTER DEATH

36  THEN BRING BACK OUR FOREFATHERS 
IF WHAT YOU SAY IS TRUE FOR SURE

37  ARE THEY BETTER THAN TUBBA'S PEOPLE 
WE DESTROYED THEM FOR THEIR EVILS

38  THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN THEM 
NOT IN IDLE SPORT DID WE CREATE THEM

39  NOT BUT FOR JUST ENDS DID WE CREATE THEM
BUT THIS IS NOT UNDERSTOOD BY MOST OF THEM

40  THE DAY OF SORTING OUT IS THE TIME APPOINTED FOR THEM

41  THE DAY WHEN NO CLIENT CAN BE AVAILED BY HIS PROTECTOR
NOR WILL THEY BE ABLE TO RECEIVE ANY HELPER

42  EXCEPT THOSE WHO RECEIVE GOD'S MERCY 
FOR HE IS MOST MERCIFUL AND MIGHTY

484
CHAPTER 44.  THE SMOKE                                                              SECTION 3.  PART XXV

43  THE ZAQQUM TREE 

44  WILL BE THE FOOD OF THOSE WHO ACT SINFULLY

45  LIKE MOLTEN BRASS IT WILL BOIL IN THEIR INSIDES PAINFULLY

46  LIKE THE BOILING OF SCALDING WATER

47  SEIZE HIM AND DRAG HIM INTO THE MIDST OF THE FIRE

48  THEN POUR OVER HIS HEAD BOILING WATER

49  TASTE THIS, YOU WERE MIGHTY AND FULL OF HONOR

50  THIS IS THAT OF WHAT YOU USED TO ACT DOUBTFULLY

51  THE RIGHTEOUS WILL BE IN A POSITION OF SECURITY

52  AMONG GARDENS AND SPRINGS ETERNALLY

53  DRESSED IN FINE SILK AND RICH BROCADE FACING EACH OTHER

54  WITH COMPANIONS BEAUTIFUL AND PURE JOINED TOGETHER

55  THERE THEY CALL FOR EVERY KIND OF FRUIT IN PEACE AND SECURE

56  NOR WILL THEY THERE TASTE DEATH EXCEPT FOR THE FIRST 
AND HE WILL PRESERVE THEM FROM THE PENALTY OF THE FIRE

57  A GIFT FROM YOUR LORD'S BOUNTY
AND THAT WILL BE THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT SURELY

58  IN YOUR TONGUE WE HAVE MADE THIS QURAN EASY 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY TAKE HEED

59  SO WAIT AND WATCH, FOR SURELY
THEY TOO ARE WAITING AND WATCHING TO SEE

485
CHAPTER 45.  THE KNEELING                                                        SECTION 1.  PART XXV

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  THE REVELATION OF THIS BOOK IS FROM GOD
THE ALL MIGHTY, THE ALL WISE GOD

3  IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH ARE SURELY
SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE SINCERELY

4  AND IN THE CREATION OF YOU
AND THE ANIMALS SCATTERED THE EARTH THROUGH 
ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE OF ASSURED FAITH AMONG YOU

5  AND IN THE ALTERNATION OF DAY AND NIGHT
AND THE PROVISION GOD SENDS DOWN FROM THE SKIES
AND REVIVES THE EARTH AFTER IT DIES
AND IN THE CHANGE OF THE WINDS ARE SIGNS FOR THE WISE

6  THESE ARE GOD'S SIGNS 
WE REHEARSE TO YOU, THEN IN WHAT SIGNS 
WILL THEY BELIEVE AFTER REJECTING GOD'S SIGNS?

7  TO EVERY SINFUL LIAR, WOE TO HIM

8  WHEN HE HEARS THE MESSAGES OF GOD RECITED TO HIM
HE IS OBSTINATE AS IF IT WAS NOT HEARD BY HIM 
ANNOUNCE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY TO HIM

9  AND WHEN HE LEARNS SOMETHING 
OF OUR SIGNS HE TAKES THEM IN JESTING
FOR HIM THE PENALTY WILL BE HUMILIATING 

10  HELL IS IN FRONT OF THEM 
AND OF NO PROFIT ARE THEIR EARNINGS TO THEM 
NOR ARE THERE ANY PROTECTORS BESIDES GOD FOR THEM
AND THERE IS A TREMENDOUS PUNISHMENT IN STORE FOR THEM

11  THIS IS TRUE GUIDANCE  
FOR THOSE WHO REJECT GOD'S GUIDANCE 
THERE IS FOR THEM A SEVERE CONSEQUENCE

486
CHAPTER 45.  THE KNEELING                                                        SECTION 2.  PART XXV

12  AND IT IS GOD WHO HAS SUBJECTED THE SEA TO YOU 
THAT SHIPS BY HIS COMMAND MAY SAIL THROUGH 
THAT HIS BOUNTY MAY BE SOUGHT BY YOU
AND THAT YOU MAY SHOW TO GOD YOUR GRATITUDE

13  HE HAS SUBJECTED TO YOU EVERYTHING IN EARTH AND HEAVEN
IN THESE THINGS ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WITH COMPREHENSION

14  SO TELL THOSE WHO BELIEVE TO FORGIVE THOSE PEOPLE
WHO DO NOT LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY OF REQUITAL
IT IS FOR HIM TO RECOMPENSE FOR GOOD OR EVIL 
ACCORDING TO THE EARNINGS OF THE PEOPLE

15  IF ANY ONE DOES A RIGHTEOUS DEED 
IT IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS OWN SOUL INDEED
IT IS AGAINST HIS OWN SOUL IF HE DOES AN EVIL DEED
AND YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO YOUR LORD INDEED

16  WE DID BEFORE GRANT TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
THE BOOK AND THE POWER OF COMMAND AND APOSTLES 

AND WE GAVE THEM GOOD AND PURE THINGS FOR PROVISIONS
AND WE FAVORED THEM ABOVE ALL OF THE NATIONS

17  AND WE GRANTED CLEAR SIGNS IN ALL AFFAIRS TO THEM
AND IT WAS ONLY AFTER KNOWLEDGE HAD BEEN GRANTED TO THEM 
THAT THEY FELL INTO DIVISIONS THROUGH ENVY AMONG THEM  
ON JUDGMENT DAY YOUR LORD WILL JUDGE BETWEEN THEM 
IN THAT IN WHICH THEY DIFFERED AMONG THEM

18  THEN WE PUT YOU ON THE RIGHT WAY SO FOLLOW THAT WAY 
AND FOLLOW NOT THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW THE RIGHT WAY

19  THEY WILL BE OF NO USE TO YOU IN THE SIGHT OF THE CREATOR
THE WRONG DOERS STAND AS PROTECTORS OF ONE ANOTHER
BUT OF THE RIGHTEOUS, GOD IS THEIR PROTECTOR

20  THIS IS CLEAR EVIDENCE TO MEN AND GUIDANCE AND MERCY 
TO THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH WITH CERTAINTY

21  DO THOSE WHO SEEK AFTER EVIL 
THINK THAT WE WILL HOLD THEM EQUAL 
WITH THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND ARE FAITHFUL
AND THAT THEIR LIFE AND DEATH WILL BE EQUAL?  
NO, THEIR JUDGMENT IS DEFINITELY EVIL

487
CHAPTER 45.  THE KNEELING                                                        SECTION 3.  PART XXV

22  GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH FOR JUST ENDS 
IN ORDER THAT EACH SOUL MAY FIND THE RECOMPENSE 

OF WHAT IT HAS EARNED JUSTLY
AND NONE OF THEM WILL BE DEALT WITH UNJUSTLY

23  THEN SEE HIM WHO TAKES AS HIS GOD VAIN THINGS 
KNOWING HIM AS SUCH GOD LEFT HIM STRAYING
AND SEALED HIS HEARING AND HEART AND UNDERSTANDING 
AND PUT ON HIS SIGHT A COVERING 
WHO THEN WILL GUIDE HIM AFTER GOD'S WITHDRAWING
WILL YOU NOT THEN HEED THE WARNING?

24  THEY SAY, WHAT IS THERE BUT OUR LIFE IN THIS WORLD FOR US?
WE LIVE AND WE DIE AND NOTHING BUT TIME CAN DESTROY US 

BUT OF THAT THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE FOR SURE
AND ABOUT IT THEY MERELY CONJECTURE

25  WHEN OUR CLEAR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO THEM 
THEIR ARGUMENT IS THIS WHICH IS SAID BY THEM 

BRING BACK OUR FOREFATHERS 
IF WHAT YOU SAY IS PROPER

26  SAY, GOD GIVES YOU LIFE AND DEATH AND FOR CERTAIN 
HE WILL GATHER YOU FOR THE DAY OF RESSURECTION 
ABOUT THAT OF WHICH THERE IS NO QUESTION
BUT MOST MEN HAVE NO COMPREHENSION 

488
CHAPTER 45.  THE KNEELING                                                        SECTION 4.  PART XXV

27  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
BUT ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION 
THE FALSE ONES WILL SUFFER DESTRUCTION

28  AND YOU WILL SEE EVERY SECT BOWING THE KNEE 
AND EVERY SECT WILL BE CALLED TO ITS RECORD OF DEEDS
THIS DAY WILL YOU BE RECOMPENSED FOR ALL OF YOUR DEEDS

29  THIS OUR RECORD SPEAKS WITH TRUTH ABOUT YOU
FOR WE PUT ON RECORD ALL THAT YOU DID DO 

30  THOSE WHO BELIEVED AND DID RIGHTEOUS DEEDS
THEIR LORD WILL ADMIT THEM TO HIS MERCY 
THAT WILL BE THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT INDEED

31  BUT TO THOSE WHO REJECTED GOD, TO THEM WILL BE SAID 
WERE NOT OUR MESSAGES RECITED TO YOU?  BUT INSTEAD
YOU WERE ARROGANT AND SINFUL AND MISLEAD

32  AND WHEN IT WAS SAID THAT GOD'S PROMISE WAS SURE 
AND THAT THERE WAS NO DOUBT ABOUT THE COMING OF THE HOUR 
YOU USED TO SAY, WE KNOW NOT WHAT IS THE HOUR 
WE THINK ITS AN IDEA AND WE KNOW NOTHING FOR SURE

33  THEN THE EVIL THEY DID WILL BECOME MANIFEST TO THEM 
AND THAT WHICH THEY MOCKED WILL ENCOMPASS THEM 

34  IT WILL ALSO BE SAID, THIS DAY WE WILL FORGET YOU 
AS THE MEETING OF THIS DAY WAS FORGOTTEN BY YOU
YOUR ABODE IS THE FIRE AND NO ONE CAN HELP YOU  

35  THIS BECAUSE YOU USED TO TAKE GOD'S SIGNS IN MOCKERY 
AND BY THE LIFE OF THE WORLD YOU WERE DECEIVED 
FROM THAT DAY TAKEN OUT THEY WILL NOT BE 
NOR WILL THEY INTO GRACE BE RECEIVED 

36  THEN PRAISE BE TO GOD, THE LORD OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND HE IS THE LORD AND SUSTAINER OF ALL CREATION

37  THROUGHOUT HEAVEN AND EARTH TO HIM BE THE GLORY 
EXALTED IN POWER AND FULL OF WISDOM IS HE

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PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  THE REVELATION OF THIS BOOK IS FROM GOD 
THE ALL MIGHTY, THE ALL WISE GOD

3  WE CREATED NOT THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND ALL BETWEEN THEM BUT FOR JUST ENDS 
BUT THOSE BENT ON REJECTION
TURN AWAY FROM THE ADMONITION

4  SAY, DO YOU SEE WHAT IT IS BESIDES GOD YOU SERVE?  
SHOW ME WHAT THEY HAVE CREATED ON EARTH

OR HAVE THEY ANY SHARE IN THE HEAVENS?  
THEN BRING ME A BOOK BEFORE THIS REVELATION
OR ANY REMNANT OF KNOWLEDGE IN YOUR POSSESSION
IF YOU ARE AT ALL TRUTHFUL IN ANY OF YOUR ASSERTIONS

5  AND WHO IS MORE ASTRAY THAN ONE WHO WORSHIPS THINGS
WHO TO JUDGMENT DAY WILL GIVE THEM NO ANSWERING 
AND IN FACT HAVE NO HEARING OF THEIR CALLING 

6  AND WHEN MANKIND ARE GATHERED TOGETHER 
THEY WILL BE HOSTILE TO THEM AND WILL BE REJECTERS
OF THEIR WORSHIP OF THEM ALTOGETHER

7  WHEN OUR CLEAR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO THE DISBELIEVERS 
THEY SAY OF THE TRUTH, THIS IS THE WORK OF A SORCERER

8  OR THEY SAY, HE HAS FORGED IT. SAY, HAD I FORGED IT REALLY
THEN CAN YOU OBTAIN A SINGLE BLESSING FROM GOD FOR ME? 
AND HE KNOWS BEST OF THAT OF WHICH YOU TALK SO GLIBLY 
AND ENOUGH IS HE FOR A WITNESS BETWEEN YOU AND ME 
AND MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL IS HE

9  SAY, I AM NO BRINGER OF NEW INFORMATION
NOR DO I KNOW WHAT WITH YOU OR ME WILL BE DONE  
I ONLY FOLLOW THAT WHICH IS REVEALED TO ME BY INSPIRATION  
AND I AM ONLY A WARNER TO YOU CLEAR AND OPEN

10  SAY, SEE IF THIS TEACHING BE FROM GOD AND YOU REJECT IT
AND A WITNESS FROM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TESTIFIES TO IT 

AS TO ITS SIMILARITY WITH EARLIER TESTAMENT
AND HAS BELIEVED WHILE YOU ARE ARROGANT
AND GOD GUIDES NOT THE IGNORANT

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CHAPTER 46.  THE SANDHILLS                                                    SECTION 2.  PART XXVI

11  DISBELIEVERS SAY OF THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
IF THIS MESSAGE WERE REALLY A GOOD THING TO OCCUR
SUCH MEN WOULD NOT HAVE RECEIVED IT BEFORE US FOR SURE

SEEING THAT THEY GUIDE NOT THEMSELVES THEREBY
AND THEY WILL SAY, THIS IS JUST AN OLD LIE

12  BEFORE THIS THE BOOK OF MOSES WAS A GUIDE AND A MERCY 
AND THIS BOOK CONFIRMS IN THE ARABIC CLEARLY
TO ADMONISH THOSE WHO ACT UNJUSTLY  
AND AS GLAD TIDINGS TO THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

13  THOSE WHO SAY, OUR LORD IS GOD TRULY
AND REMAIN FIRM ON THAT PATH STEADFASTLY
THEY WILL NOT GRIEVE NOR WILL THEY BE FEARFULLY

14  THEY WILL BE COMPANIONS OF THE GARDEN 
A REWARD FOR THE RIGHTEOUS AMONG MEN

15  ON MAN WE HAVE ORDAINED KINDNESS TO HIS PARENTS ON HIM
FOR SURELY IN PAIN DID HIS MOTHER BEAR HIM
AND IN PAIN DID SHE GIVE BIRTH TO HIM
AND THE CARRYING OF THE CHILD TO THE WEANING OF HIM

IS A PERIOD OF TWO AND ONE HALF YEARS 
WHEN HE REACHES FULL STRENGTH AND ATTAINS FORTY YEARS
THEN HE SAYS, GRANT ME OH CREATOR
THAT I MAY BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR FAVOR

WHICH YOU HAVE BESTOWED UPON ME 
AND UPON BOTH MY PARENTS BEFORE ME
THAT I MAY DO THAT WHICH YOU ARE PLEASED
OH MY LORD, BE GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL TO ME 
I DO TURN TO YOU AND BOW TO YOU SUBMISSIVELY 

16  THOSE ARE THE ONES FROM WHOM WE INDEED
ACCEPT FROM THEM THE BEST OF THEIR DEEDS 
AND WE PASS BY THEIR EVIL DEEDS 

THEY WILL BE AMONG THE COMPANIONS OF THE GARDEN
AND THIS WAS A PROMISE TO THEM NOT TO BE BROKEN

17  BUT THERE IS ONE WHO SAYS TO HIS PARENTS, SHAME ON YOU 
DO YOU HOLD OUT THE PROMISE TO ME TO BE TRUE

THAT I WILL BE RAISED UP EVEN THOUGH GENERATIONS 
HAVE PASSED BEFORE ME WITHOUT RISING AGAIN? 

AND THEY SEEK GOD'S AID AND WOE TO YOU
HAVE FAITH FOR SURELY THE PROMISE OF GOD IS TRUE 
BUT HE SAYS, THIS IS BUT STORIES OF THE ANCIENTS TOLD BY YOU

18  AND THEY ARE WHOM THE WORD IS PROVED TRUE AMONG NATIONS
OF MEN AND DEMONS THAT HAVE PASSED OF FORMER GENERATIONS
FOR THEY WILL BE IN AN UTTERLY LOST SITUATION

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19  TO ALL ARE ASSIGNED DEGREES ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS 
THAT GOD MAY RECOMPENSE THEM FOR THEIR DEEDS 
AND THEY WILL NOT BE DEALT WITH UNJUSTLY

20  AND ON THE DAY THAT THE DISBELIEVERS 
WILL BE PLACED BEFORE THE FIRE 
IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM, YOU RECEIVED GOOD FAVORS
IN THE WORLD'S LIFE AND YOU TOOK YOUR PLEASURE
OUT OF THEM BUT TODAY YOU WILL FOR SURE

BE RECOMPENSED WITH A SEVERE PENALTY OF HUMILIATION 
FOR THAT YOU WERE ARROGANT WITHOUT JUSTIFICATION 
AND THAT YOU CONTINUED IN TRANSGRESSION

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CHAPTER 46.  THE SANDHILLS                                                   SECTION 3.  PART XXVI

21  MENTION HUD, ONE OF AD'S OWN BROTHERS 
HE WAS TO HIS PEOPLE A WARNER 
ABOUT THE SANDHILLS BUT THERE HAVE BEEN WARNERS 
BEFORE HIM AND AFTER HIM SAYING, WORSHIP NONE OTHER
THAN GOD, THE CREATOR, YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
FOR I FEAR FOR YOU THE PENALTY OF A MIGHTY DISASTER

22  THEY SAID, HAVE YOU COME IN ORDER TO TURN US 
ASIDE FROM OUR GODS?  THEN BRING DOWN UPON US 
THE CALAMITY WITH WHICH YOU DO THREATEN US 
IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH TO US

23  SO HE SAID, THE KNOWLEDGE OF IT WITH GOD ONLY
I PROCLAIM TO YOU THE MESSAGE WHICH IS WITH ME   
BUT YOU ARE A PEOPLE WHO BEHAVE IGNORANTLY

24  WHEN THEY SAW A CLOUD ADVANCING TOWARDS THEIR VALLEYS 
THEY SAID, THIS CLOUD WILL GIVE US RAIN.  NO, IT IS THE CALAMITY 
YOU WANTED HASTENED, A WIND WHEREIN IS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

25  IT WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING
BY THE COMMAND OF ITS LORD THEN BY THE MORNING 
NOTHING WAS TO BE SEEN BUT THE RUINS OF THEIR DWELLINGS 
SO DO WE RECOMPENSE THOSE GIVEN TO TRANSGRESSING

26  AND WE HAD FIRMLY ESTABLISHED THEM IN ABILITY
WE HAVE NOT GIVEN YOU AND GAVE THEM FACULTIES  
OF HEARING, SEEING, HEART AND INTELLIGENCY
BUT OF NO PROFIT TO THEM WERE THEIR FACULTIES 
OF HEARING, SIGHT AND HEART AND INTELLEGENCY
WHEN THEY REJECTED THE SIGNS OF GOD HABITUALLY
AND THEY WERE ENCIRCLED COMPLETELY
BY THAT OF WHICH THEY USED TO MAKE MOCKERY

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CHAPTER 46.  THE SANDHILLS                                                   SECTION 4.  PART XXVI

27  AND WE DESTROYED BEFORE YOU MANY POPULATIONS 
AND IN VARIOUS WAYS WE HAVE SHOWN THE LESSONS
SO THAT THEY MAY TURN TO US IN SUBMISSION

28  WHY THEN WAS NO HELP IN PROGRESSION 
TO THEM FROM THOSE WHOM THEY GAVE DEVOTION
BESIDES GOD WITH TO WHOM THEY GAVE ASSOCIATION?  
NO, THEY LEFT THEM IN THE LURCH BUT THEIR INVENTION 
AND FALSEHOOD LED TO THEIR DESTRUCTION

29  WE TURNED TOWARDS YOU A COMPANY OF DEMONS 
QUIETLY LISTENING TO THE QURAN 

WHEN THEY STOOD IN THE PRESENCE 
THEY SAID, LISTEN IN SILENCE 

WHEN THE READING WAS FINISHED THEY RETURNED AGAIN
TO THEIR PEOPLE TO WARN THEM OF THEIR SINS

30  THEY SAID, OH OUR PEOPLE, WE HAVE HEARD A SCRIPTURE
REVEALED AFTER MOSES CONFIRMING WHAT CAME PRIOR 
AND IT GUIDES MEN TO TRUTH AND A WAY THAT IS SURE

31  OH OUR PEOPLE, LISTEN TO THE ONE WHO TO GOD HE INVITES YOU 
AND BELIEVE IN HIM, HE WILL FORGIVE YOUR FAULTS FOR YOU 
AND FROM A GRIEVOUS PENALTY HE WILL DELIVER YOU

32  IF ANY LISTEN NOT TO HE WHO INVITES US TO GOD 
HE CANNOT FRUSTRATE THE PLAN OF GOD 
AND NO PROTECTORS CAN HE HAVE BESIDES GOD 
SUCH MEN WANDER IN ERROR FROM GOD

33  SEE THEY NOT THAT GOD WHO CREATED EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND NEVER WEARIED WITH THEIR CREATION 
IS ABLE TO GIVE LIFE TO THE DEAD IN RESSURECTION? 
FOR HE HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

34  AND ON THE DAY THAT THE DISBELIEVERS 
WILL BE PLACED BEFORE THE FIRE 
THEY WILL THEN BE ASKED THEREAFTER
IS THIS NOT THE TRUTH FROM YOUR MAKER
AND THEY WILL SAY,  YES,  BY OUR LORD AND SUSTAINER
ONE WILL SAY, TASTE THE PENALTY OF WHAT YOU WERE A DENIER

35  SO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE AS DID ALL THE MESSENGERS
AND BE IN NO HASTE ABOUT THE DISBELIEVERS
WHEN THEY SEE THE PENALTY THAT THEY WERE ASSURED
IT WILL BE AS IF THEY HAD NOT STAYED BUT AN HOUR  
YOURS IS BUT TO PROCLAIM THE MESSAGE CLEAR
BUT WILL ANY BE DESTROYED EXCEPT THE WRONG DOERS?

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CHAPTER 47.  MUHAMMAD                                                          SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THOSE WHO REJECT GOD AND HINDER MEN FROM GOD'S WAY
GOD WILL RENDER THEIR DEEDS ASTRAY 

2  BUT THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO GOOD AMONG THEM
AND BELIEVE IN THE BOOK SENT TO MUHAMMAD FOR THEM
FOR IT IS THE TRUTH, HE WILL REMOVE THEIR ILLS FROM THEM
AND IMPROVE GREATLY THE CONDITION OF THEM

3  THIS IS BECAUSE THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE IN GOD
FOLLOW VANITIES WHILE THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD
THEY ARE THE ONES WHO FOLLOW THE TRUTH FROM GOD
AND LESSONS ARE GIVEN TO MEN BY PARABLES FROM GOD

4  WHEN YOU MEET THE DISBELIEVERS 
SMITE AT THEIR NECKS AND WHEN YOU HAVE THEM IN YOUR POWER
BIND A BOND FIRMLY ON THEM THEREAFTER 
THEN IS THE TIME FOR GENEROSITY OR RANSOM EITHER
UNTIL THE WAR LAYS DOWN ITS BURDENS SO ARE YOU ORDERED 
BUT IF IT HAD BEEN YOUR LORD'S DESIRE
HE COULD HAVE EXACTED RETRIBUTION FROM THEM PRIOR
BUT HE LETS YOU FIGHT TO TEST SOME OF YOU WITH OTHERS 
THOSE WHO ARE SLAIN IN GOD'S WAY HE WILL NEVER 
ALLOW THEIR DEEDS TO BE LOST EVER

5  SOON WILL HE GUIDE THEM 
AND IMPROVE THE CONDITION OF THEM

6  AND HE WILL ADMIT THEM 
TO THE GARDEN WHICH HE HAS ANNOUNCED FOR THEM 

7  THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS AMONG YOU
IF YOU WILL AID GOD'S CAUSE HE WILL AID YOU
AND WILL PLANT YOUR FEET FIRMLY BENEATH YOU

8  BUT THOSE WHO REJECT GOD ARE HOPELESS 
AND GOD WILL RENDER THEIR DEEDS AS FRUITLESS

9  THAT IS BECAUSE THEY HATE GOD'S REVELATIONS 
SO HE HAS MADE THEIR DEEDS COME TO NO FRUITION

10  DO THEY NOT TRAVEL THROUGH THE EARTH
SO TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE FORMER?  
GOD BROUGHT DESTRUCTION ON THEM AND DISASTER
AND SIMILAR FATES AWAIT THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS

11  THAT IS BECAUSE GOD IS THE PROTECTOR 
OF ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
BUT THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
HAVE NO ONE AS A PROTECTOR

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CHAPTER 47.  MUHAMMAD                                                           SECTION 2.  PART XXVI

12  GOD WILL ADMIT THOSE WHO DO GOOD AND ARE BELIEVERS 
TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW PLEASANT RIVERS
WHILE THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
WILL ENJOY THIS WORLD AND EAT AS CATTLE AND THE FIRE
WILL BE THEIR ABODE IN THE HEREAFTER 

13  AND HOW MANY CITIES WITH MORE POWER THAN YOUR CITY 
WHICH HAS DRIVEN YOU OUT HAVE WE DESTROYED FOR THEIR INIQUITY
AND THERE WAS NONE TO AID THEM FROM THE PENALTY?

14  IS THEN ONE WHO IS ON A CLEAR PATH FROM HIS CREATOR
NO BETTER THAN ONE TO WHOM THE EVIL OF HIS BEHAVIOR
SEEMS PLEASING AND FOLLOW THEIR OWN DESIRES?

15  HERE IS A PARABLE OF THE GARDEN PROMISED THE BELIEVERS 
IN IT ARE RIVERS OF PURE WATER AND INCORRUPTIBLE RIVERS 
OF MILK OF WHICH THE TASTE NEVER CHANGES AND RIVERS 
OF WINE, A JOY TO THOSE WHO DRINK IT AND RIVERS 
OF HONEY RUNNING THROUGH PURE AND CLEAR 
FRUITS OF ALL KINDS AND MERCY FROM THEIR CREATOR
NOW ARE THESE LIKE THOSE THAT WILL DWELL IN THE FIRE
AND BE GIVEN TO DRINK NOTHING BUT HOT BOILING WATER
SO THAT IT CUTS UP THEIR BOWELS IN TORMENT AND TERROR?

16  AND AMONG THEM ARE MEN WHO LISTEN TO YOU
BUT IN THE END WHEN THEY GO OUT FROM YOU 

THEY SAY TO THOSE TO WHOM KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN GIVEN
WHAT IS IT THAT HE SAID JUST THEN? 

THESE ARE MEN WHOSE HEARTS GOD HAS SEALED UP
AND ARE UNJUST AND FOLLOW THEIR OWN LUSTS

17  BUT TO THOSE WHO RECEIVE GUIDANCE 
HE INCREASES THEIR LIGHT OF GUIDANCE 

AND BESTOWS ON THEM PIETY  
AND RESTRAINS THEM FROM INIQUITY

18  DO THEY WAIT FOR THE HOUR ONLY
FOR IT TO COME UPON THEM SUDDENLY?
SOME TOKENS OF IT HAVE COME ALREADY
AND WHEN IT INDEED DOES COME IN REALITY 
OF WHAT BENEFIT THEN WILL THEIR WARNING BE? 

19  BUT KNOW THEREFORE THAT THERE IS ONE GOD ONLY
AND THEN ASK FOR FORGIVENESS FOR YOUR DEEDS
AND FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO BELIEVE

FOR GOD KNOWS HOW YOU MOVE ABOUT 
AND HOW YOU DWELL IN YOUR HOMES IN AND OUT

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CHAPTER 47.  MUHAMMAD                                                           SECTION 3.  PART XXVI

20  THOSE WHO BELIEVE SAY, WHY IS NOT REVEALED A CHAPTER?  
BUT WHEN IS REVEALED A DECISIVE CHAPTER 
AND WHEN IN IT FIGHTING IS ORDERED
YOU WILL SEE THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS TERROR
LOOKING AT YOU LIKE ONE WHOM DEATH HOVERS OVER
      
21  BUT MORE FITTING FOR THEM
WERE IT TO OBEY AND SAY WHAT IS JUST OF THEM
AND THEN WHEN A MATTER IS RESOLVED ON FOR THEM
IF THEY WERE TRUE TO GOD IT WOULD BE BEST FOR THEM 

22  BUT IF YOU TURN AWAY YOU ARE SURE TO MAKE MISCHIEF
AND CUT OFF THE TIES OF KINSHIP AND FRIENDSHIP

23  THESE ARE THE MEN WHOM GOD HAS CURSED INDEED 
AND HAS MADE THEM DEAF AND BLIND SO THEY CANNOT SEE

24  AND THE QURAN, DO THEY NOT THEN SEEK TO UNDERSTAND IT
OR ARE THEIR HEARTS LOCKED UP SO THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND IT?

25  THOSE WHO TURN BACK AS APOSTATES AMONG THEM
AFTER GUIDANCE WAS CLEARLY SHOWN TO THEM 
IT IS THE DEVIL THAT HAS INSTIGATED THEM 
AND BEAUTIFIED FALSE HOPES FOR THEM

26  THIS IS BECAUSE THEY SAID TO THOSE WHO 
HATE WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED TO YOU

WE WILL OBEY YOU IN THIS MATTER IN PART
BUT GOD KNOWS THEIR INNER HEARTS

27  HOW WILL IT BE WHEN THE ANGELS TAKE THE SOULS OF THEM
AT DEATH AND SMITE THE FACES AND THE BACKS OF THEM

28  THIS BECAUSE THEY FOLLOWED THAT WHICH ANGERED GOD
AND THEY HATED GOD AND THE GOOD PLEASURES OF GOD
SO THEIR DEEDS WERE MADE OF NO EFFECT BY GOD 

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CHAPTER 47.  MUHAMMAD                                                           SECTION 4.  PART XXVI

29  OR DO THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE 
THINK THAT GOD WILL NOT EVENTUALLY
BRING TO LIGHT ALL THEIR ANTIPATHY?  

30  AND HAD WE SO WILLED WE COULD HAVE SHOWN THEM UP TO YOU
AND YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN THEM BY THEIR MARKS BUT YOU 
WILL KNOW THEM BY THE TONE OF THEIR SPEECH AND TOO
GOD KNOWS WELL ALL THAT YOU DO

31  AND WE WILL TRY YOU AND TEST THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
WHO STRIVE THEIR UTMOST AND PERSEVERE PATIENTLY
AND WE WILL TRY YOUR REPORTED FACTS JUSTLY

32  THOSE WHO REJECT GOD AND HINDER MEN FROM BELIEF 
AND RESIST THE APOSTLE AFTER BEING GUIDED CLEARLY 
WILL NOT INJURE THEIR LORD IN THE LEAST DEGREE
BUT HE WILL MAKE OF NO EFFECT THEIR DEEDS 

33  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE
OBEY GOD AND THE APOSTLE AND TAKE HEED
AND DO NOT MAKE OF NO ACCOUNT YOUR DEEDS

34  SURELY THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE 
AND HINDER MEN FROM BELIEF 
AND DIE IN DISBELIEF
GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE OR GIVE THEM ANY RELIEF

35  AND BE NOT SLACK SO AS TO CRY FOR PEACE
WHILE YOU ARE BEING UPPERMOST AND INDEED
GOD WILL NOT MAKE FRUITLESS YOUR DEEDS   

36  THIS WORLD'S LIFE IS BUT PLAY AND VANITY
AND IF YOU BELIEVE AND GUARD AGAINST INIQUITY
YOUR LORD WILL SURELY RECOMPENSE YOUR DEEDS
AND WILL NOT ASK YOU TO GIVE UP YOUR BOUNTIES 

37  IF HE WERE TO ASK YOU FOR THEM YOU SURELY
WOULD WITHOUT DOUBT WITHHOLD THEM COVETOUSLY
AND BRING OUT ALL OF YOUR ILL FEELING WITH CERTAINTY

38  YOU ARE INVITED TO SPEND YOUR SUBSTANCE FREELY
BUT AMONG YOU ARE SOME OF YOU THAT ARE MISERLY 
BUT ANY OF YOU WHO ARE MISERLY
ARE SO AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR OWN SOULS GREED
BUT GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND IT IS YOU THAT ARE IN NEED 
IF YOU TURN BACK FROM THE PATH THEN HE WILL INDEED
REPLACE YOU WITH PEOPLE WHO WILL TAKE HEED

   

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CHAPTER 48.  VICTORY                                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WE HAVE GRANTED A VICTORY TO YOU

2  THAT GOD MAY FORGIVE YOU 
AND WILL FULFILL HIS FAVOR TO YOU 
AND WILL TO THE RIGHT WAY GUIDE YOU

3  AND WITH POWERFUL HELP GOD MAY HELP YOU

4  GOD SENT DOWN TRANQUILITY 
INTO THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
SO THAT THEY MAY ADD BELIEF TO THEIR BELIEF
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH BELONG TO GOD ONLY
AND FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXALTED IN WISDOM IS HE

5  THAT HE MAY ADMIT THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
TO GARDENS BENEATH WHICH FLOW RIVERS 
THAT THEY MAY DWELL IN THEM FOREVER 
AND REMOVE FROM THEM THEIR ERRORS 
THAT IS IN THE SIGHT OF THE CREATOR
THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT FOR BELIEVERS

6  AND THAT HE MAY PUNISH THE HYPOCRITICAL MEN
AND THE HYPOCRITICAL WOMEN 
AND THE POLYTHEISTIC MEN
AND THE POLYTHEISTIC WOMEN 
WHO IMAGINE OF GOD AN EVIL OPINION 
FOR UPON THEM IS A ROUND OF PERDITION
GOD HAS CURSED THEM AND MADE HELL A PROVISION 
AND FOR THEM IT IS AN EVIL DESTINATION 

7  THE FORCES OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH BELONG TO GOD
AND EXALTED IN POWER AND FULL OF WISDOM IS GOD

8  WE HAVE SENT YOU AS A WITNESS AND AS A BRINGER 
OF GLAD TIDINGS AND AS A WARNER

9  THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND MORNING AND EVENING GIVE HIM PRAISE AND HONOR

10  SURELY THOSE WHO SWEAR TO YOU THEIR LOYALTY
DO NO LESS THAN SWEAR TO GOD THEIR LOYALTY
AND GOD'S HAND IS OVER THEIR HANDS GREATLY
AND ANY ONE WHO VIOLATES HIS TESTIMONY
DOES SO TO HIS OWN INJURY 
ANY ONE WHO FULFILLS WHAT HE DECREES 
THEY WILL BE GRANTED A GREAT REWARD INDEED

 

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   CHAPTER 48.  VICTORY                                                              SECTION 2.  PART XXVI

11  THE DESERT ARABS WHO LAGGED BELATEDLY
WILL SAY, WE WERE LOOKING AFTER OUR FAMILIES AND PROPERTY
WILL YOU THEN ASK GOD TO FORGIVE US AND HAVE MERCY?  
THEIR TONGUES SAY WHAT THEIR HEARTS DO NOT HEED

TO THEM SAY, WHO HAS POWER TO INTERVENE WITH GOD FOR YOU
IF HIS WILL IS TO GIVE SOME LOSS OR SOME PROFIT TO YOU? 
BUT GOD IS WELL AWARE OF ALL THAT YOU DO

12  BUT YOU THOUGHT THAT THE APOSTLE AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
WOULD NEVER RETURN TO THEIR FAMILIES 
THIS SEEMED PLEASING IN YOUR HEARTS AND YOU CONCEIVED 
AN EVIL THOUGHT FOR YOU ARE A LOST PEOPLE INDEED

13  AND IF ANY BELIEVE NOT IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
WE HAVE. PREPARED FOR THE DISBELIEVERS A BLAZING FIRE

14  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
HE PUNISHES WHOM HE WILLS AND WHOM HE WILLS IS FORGIVEN 
AND GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND FORGIVENESS FOR MEN

15  THOSE WHO LAGGED BEHIND WILL SAY TO YOU
WHEN YOU MARCH AND TAKE SPOILS IN WAR LET US FOLLOW YOU 
THEY WISH TO CHANGE THE DECREE OF GOD, SAY, NOT SO WILL YOU 

FOR GOD HAS ALREADY DECLARED THIS BEFOREHAND 
THEY WILL SAY YOU ARE JEALOUS BUT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND 

16  SAY TO THE DESERT ARABS WHO LAGGED BELATEDLY
YOU WILL FIGHT AGAINST A PEOPLE GIVEN TO WAR FIERCELY 
YOU WILL FIGHT OR THEY WILL SURRENDER TO YOU SUBMISSIVELY
AND THEN IF YOU SHOW OBEDIENCE GOD WILL GRANT YOU BOUNTY 
BUT IF YOU TURN BACK AGAIN YOU WILL RECEIVE A SEVERE PENALTY

17  ON THE BLIND THERE IS NO BLAME 
NOR ON THE ILL NOR ON THE LAME 

BUT HE THAT OBEYS GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
GOD WILL ADMIT HIM TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 

AND HE WHO TURNS BACK, GOD WILL DEFINITELY
PUNISH HIM WITH A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

 

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CHAPTER 48.  VICTORY                                                                  SECTION 3.  PART XXVI

18  GOD'S GOOD PLEASURE WAS UPON THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
WHEN THEY SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO YOU UNDER THE TREE 
HE KNEW WHAT WAS IN THEIR HEARTS COMPLETELY
AND HE SENT DOWN TO THEM TRANQUILLITY 
AND HE REWARDED THEM WITH A SPEEDY VICTORY

19  AND MANY GAINS BESIDES WILL THEY ACQUIRE 
AND GOD IS ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER 

20  GOD HAS PROMISED MANY GAINS TO YOU 
AND HE HAS BEFOREHAND GIVEN THESE TO YOU 
HE HAS RESTRAINED THE HANDS OF MEN FROM YOU
THAT IT MAY BE A SIGN FOR THE BELIEVERS AMONG YOU
AND ALSO THAT TO THE STRAIGHT WAY HE MAY GUIDE YOU 

21  OTHER GAINS THERE ARE WHICH ARE NOT WITHIN YOUR POWER 
BUT WHICH GOD HAS COMPASSED, AND GOD HAS ALL POWER 

22  IF THE DISBELIEVERS SHOULD FIGHT YOU
THEY WOULD SURELY TURN THEIR BACKS TO YOU
AND THEY WOULD NOT FIND ANY HELPER AGAINST YOU

23  THIS HAS IN THE PAST BEEN THE PRACTICE OF GOD 
NO CHANGE WILL YOU FIND IN THE PRACTICE OF GOD

24  GOD RESTRAINED THEIR HANDS FROM YOU 
AND RESTRAINED YOUR HANDS FROM THEM TOO
IN THE MIDST OF MECCA, AFTER THAT HE GAVE YOU 
VICTORY OVER THEM AND GOD SEES ALL THAT YOU DO

25  THEY ARE THE ONES WHO DENIED REVELATION
AND HINDERED YOU FROM THE SACRED REGION

AND DETAINED THE ANIMALS FOR SACRIFICE 
FROM REACHING THEIR PLACE OF SACRIFICE 

HAD THERE NOT BEEN BELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN 
WHO DID NOT KNOW THAT YOU HAD TRODDEN 
AND ON WHOSE ACCOUNT A CRIME WOULD HAVE HAPPENED
WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE TO YOU HAVING BEEN GIVEN
 
THAT WE MAY ADMIT WHOM WE WILL TO OUR MERCY 
AND IF THEY HAD BEEN A PART OF IT THEN WE SURELY
WOULD HAVE PUNISHED THEM WITH A SEVERE PENALTY

26  THE DISBELIEVERS GOT UP IN THEIR PRIDE AND ARROGANCE 
THE PRIDE AND ARROGANCE OF IGNORANCE 

GOD SENT DOWN TO HIS MESSENGER TRANQUILITY
AND UNTO THE BELIEVERS AND MADE THEM STICK CLOSELY
TO THE OBSERVANCE OF THEIR DUTY
AND OF IT THEY WERE WELL WORTHY  
AND GOD IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

  
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CHAPTER 48.  VICTORY                                                                 SECTION 4.  PART XXVI

27  AND GOD FULFILLED THE VISION FOR HIS MESSENGER
THE SACRED MOSQUE YOU WILL CERTAINLY ENTER 
IF GOD WILLS WITH MINDS SECURE 
HEADS SHAVED, HAIR CUT AND WITHOUT FEAR 
FOR HE KNEW THAT YOU WERE NOT THE KNOWER
AND HE BESIDES THIS MADE YOU THE  SPEEDY VICTOR

28  GOD SENT HIS MESSENGER WITH THE TRUE RELIGION
AND TO PROCLAIM IT OVER ALL RELIGIONS 
AND ENOUGH IS GOD FOR A PATRON

29  MUHAMMAD IS GOD'S MESSENGER 
THOSE WITH HIM ARE STRONG AGAINST DISBELIEVERS 
BUT THEY ARE COMPASSIONATE AMONG EACH OTHER 
THEY BOW AND PROSTRATE THEMSELVES IN PRAYER 
SEEKING GOD'S GRACE AND HIS GOOD PLEASURE 
ON THEIR FACES ARE MARKS BEING INDICATORS
OF THEIR PROSTRATIONS IN THEIR PRAYERS
IN THE TORAH THIS IS TO WHAT THEY ARE SIMILAR
AND ALSO IN THE GOSPEL TO WHAT THEY ARE SIMILAR 
IS LIKE A SEED WHICH SENDS ITS BLADE AND MAKES IT STRONGER
AND THEN IT GROWS AND THEN IT BECOMES THICKER
AND IT STANDS ON ITS OWN STEM FILLING THE SOWERS 
WITH WONDER AND FILLING THE DISBELIEVERS WITH ANGER
AND GOD HAS PROMISED THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
FORGIVENESS AND A REWARD IN GREAT MEASURE

 

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CHAPTER 49.  THE APARTMENTS                                              SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
BE NOT FORWARD BEFORE GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
BUT FEAR GOD FOR GOD IS THE HEARER AND THE BEST  KNOWER

2  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
RAISE NOT YOUR VOICE ABOVE THE MESSENGER'S  
NOR SPEAK ALOUD TO HIM AS YOU DO TO EACH OTHER
LEST YOUR DEEDS BECOME VAIN WHILE YOU ARE UNAWARE 

3  THOSE WHO IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD'S MESSENGER
LOWER THEIR VOICES AND THEIR HEARTS GOD HAS MEASURED  
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A GREAT REWARD OF GREAT FAVOR

4  THOSE WHO SHOUT OUT TO YOU FROM BEHIND DWELLINGS 
MOST OF THEM LACK UNDERSTANDING

5  IF THEY HAD PATIENCE UNTIL YOU CAME TO THEM 
IT WOULD SURELY BE BEST FOR THEM 
BUT GOD IS FORGIVING AND MERCIFUL TO THEM

6  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, IF A WICKED PERSON COMES TO YOU
WITH ANY NEWS, ASCERTAIN THE TRUTH OR ELSE YOU 

MAY HARM PEOPLE UNWITTINGLY AND AFTERWARDS BECOME 
FULL OF REPENTANCE FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE

7  KNOW THAT AMONG YOU IS GOD'S MESSENGER
AND WERE HE TO FOLLOW YOUR WISHES IN MATTERS
YOU WOULD FALL INTO MISFORTUNE BUT GOD HAS ENDEARED
THE FAITH TO YOU AND IN YOUR HEARTS HAS MADE IT SUPERB 

AND HAS MADE HATEFUL UNBELIEF, REBELLION AND WICKEDNESS  
SUCH INDEED ARE THOSE WHO WALK IN RIGHTEOUSNESS

8  THIS IS A GRACE AND A FAVOR FROM GOD 
AND FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS GOD

9  MAKE PEACE BETWEEN TWO QUARRELING BELIEVERS
IF ONE OF THEM TRANSGRESSES AGAINST THE OTHER 
FIGHT ALL OF YOU AGAINST THE TRANSGRESSOR
UNTIL WITH THE COMMAND OF GOD THEY ADHERE 
MAKE PEACE BETWEEN THEM WITH JUSTICE AND BE FAIR 
FOR YOUR LORD DOES LOVE THOSE WHO ARE JUST AND FAIR 

10  THE BELIEVERS ARE NOTHING LESS THAN BROTHERS
SO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN YOUR TWO CONTENDING BROTHERS 
AND FEAR GOD THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE MERCY FROM YOUR MAKER

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CHAPTER 49.  THE APARTMENTS                                               SECTION 2.  PART XXVI

11  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
LET NOT SOME MEN AMONG YOU LAUGH AT OTHERS 
IT MAY BE THAT THE LATTER ARE BETTER THAN THE FORMER 
NOR LET SOME WOMEN LAUGH AT OTHERS 
IT MAY BE THAT THE LATTER ARE BETTER THAN THE FORMER 
NOR DEFAME NOR BE SARCASTIC TO EACH OTHER 
NOR BY OFFENSIVE NICKNAMES ADDRESS EACH OTHER
FOR ILL SEEMING IS A NAME CONNOTING ERROR 
TO BE USED ON ONE AFTER HE IS A BELIEVER
AND THOSE WHO DO NOT DESIST ARE WRONG DOERS

12  AVOID SUSPICION, OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
FOR SUSPICION IS A SIN AND SPY NOT ON EACH OTHER 
NOR SPEAK ILL BEHIND THE BACKS OF EACH OTHER
WOULD ANY OF YOU LIKE TO EAT THE FLESH OF HIS DEAD BROTHER?   
NO, IT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD ABHOR 
BUT FEAR GOD FOR GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

13  MANKIND WE CREATED FROM A SINGLE PAIR 
OF A MALE AND A FEMALE AND MADE YOU FROM THERE
INTO NATIONS AND TRIBES THAT YOU MAY KNOW EACH OTHER
BUT NOT SO THAT YOU MAY DESPISE EACH OTHER
IN THE SIGHT OF GOD HE OF YOU IS THE MOST HONORED  
IS HE WHO IS THE MOST RIGHTEOUS DOER 
AND OF ALL THINGS GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

14  THE DESERT ARABS SAY, WE BELIEVE
BUT TO THEM SAY, YOU DO NOT REALLY BELIEVE
BUT YOU ONLY SAY THAT YOU BELIEVE 
NOT YET HAS ENTERED YOUR HEARTS BELIEF
BUT IF YOU OBEY GOD AND HIS APOSTLE HE WILL INDEED
NOT BELITTLE ANYTHING OF YOUR DEEDS 
FOR GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

15  ONLY THOSE ARE BELIEVERS 
WHO HAVE BELIEVED IN GOD AND THE MESSENGER
AND HAVE NEVER SINCE BEEN DOUBTERS 
BUT HAVE STRIVEN WITH BELONGINGS OF THEIRS
AND THEIR PERSONS IN GOD'S CAUSE AND ARE SINCERE 

16  SAY, WHAT WILL YOU INSTRUCT GOD ABOUT YOUR RELIGION
WHEN GOD KNOWS ALL THAT IS IN THE EARTH AND IN HEAVEN
AND HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS IN CREATION?

17  THEY REGARD THEIR ACCEPTING THE FAITH AS DOING YOU A FAVOR 
SAY, COUNT NOT YOUR ACCEPTING FAITH AS DOING ME A FAVOR  
NO, GOD HAS UPON YOU CONFERRED A FAVOR  
THAT HE HAS GUIDED YOU TO THE FAITH IF YOU ARE A BELIEVER

18  GOD KNOWS WHAT IS HIDDEN
IN THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS
AND GOD SEES ALL THE DOINGS OF MEN

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