CHAPTER 50.  QAF                                                                           SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  ALMIGHTY GOD
BY THE GLORIOUS QURAN, YOU ARE THE APOSTLE OF GOD

2  THEY WONDER THAT A WARNER 
HAS COME TO THEM FROM AMONG THEIR CENTER 
THIS IS A STRANGE THING INDEED, SAY THE DISBELIEVERS

3  WHEN WE DIE AND BECOME DUST WILL WE LIVE AGAIN?  
THAT IS FAR FROM WHAT WE UNDERSTAND 

4  WE KNOW HOW MUCH THE EARTH TAKES AWAY OF THEM 
WITH US IS A RECORD REGARDING THE FULL ACCOUNT OF THEM

5  WHEN THE TRUTH COMES TO THEM THEY ARE IN REJECTION
SO THEY ARE THEREFORE IN A STATE OF CONFUSION

6  DO THEY NOT LOOK AT THE SKY AND SEE HOW WE HAVE MADE IT  
AND ADORNED IT AND THERE ARE NO FLAWS IN IT?

7  AND THE EARTH WE HAVE SPREAD IT AND SET ON IT 
MOUNTAINS STANDING FIRM AND PRODUCED IN IT 
EVERY KIND OF BEAUTIFUL GROWTH IN PAIRS IN IT

8  TO BE COMMEMORATED AND OBSERVED
BY EVERY DEVOTEE THAT TURNS TO HIS MAKER

9  WE SEND DOWN FROM THE SKY RAIN CHARGED WITH BLESSINGS 
AND WE PRODUCE WITH IT GARDENS AND GRAIN FOR HARVESTING

10  AND PALM TREES TALL IN STATURE
WITH SPIKES OF FLOWERS PILED ONE OVER ANOTHER

11  AS SUSTENANCE FOR GOD'S SERVANTS 
AND WE GIVE DEAD LAND NEW PROVISIONS 
AND SURELY SO WILL BE THE RESSURECTION

12  BEFORE THEM WAS DENIED THE HEREAFTER BY NOAH'S PEOPLE 
THE COMPANIONS OF THE RASS AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE

13   AND THE AD AND PHARAOH AND LOT'S PEOPLE

14  THE COMPANIONS OF THE WOOD AND TUBBA'S PEOPLE 
THEY ALL REJECTED THEIR COMMISSIONED APOSTLES 
AND MY WARNING TO THEM WAS DULY FULFILLED 

15  WERE WE THEN WEARY WITH THE FIRST CREATION 
THAT THEY SHOULD BE IN DOUBT ABOUT A NEW CREATION?

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16  WE CREATED MAN AND WE KNOW OF HIM
WHAT DARK SUGGESTIONS HIS SOUL MAKES TO HIM 
FOR WE ARE NEARER THAN HIS JUGULAR VEIN IS TO HIM

17  WHEN THE TWO ANGELS APPOINTED TO LEARN HIS DOINGS 
ONE SITTING ON THE RIGHT AND ONE ON THE LEFT SITTING

18  NOT A WORD DOES HE UTTER 
BUT BY HIM THERE IS A WATCHER

19  AND THE STUPOR OF DEATH WILL BRING 
TRUTH BEFORE HIS EYES, THIS WAS THE THING 
WHICH YOU WERE TRYING SO HARD OF ESCAPING

20  AND THE TRUMPET WILL BE BLOWN AND THAT WILL INDEED
BE THE DAY IN WHICH THE WARNING HAD BEEN DECREED

21  AND THERE WILL COME FORTH EVERY CREATURE 
WITH EACH WILL BE AN ANGEL AS A DRIVER
AND AN ANGEL AS A WITNESS BEARER 

22  IT WILL BE SAID, YOU DID NOT TAKE HEED OF THIS DAY
AND NOW HAVE WE REMOVED YOUR VEIL AWAY
AND SHARP IS YOUR SIGHT THIS DAY

23  AND HIS COMPANION WILL SAY 
HERE IS HIS RECORD READY WITH ME TODAY

24  THE SENTENCE WILL BE, THROW INTO HELL 
EVERY CONTUMACIOUS UNGRATEFUL REBEL

25  WHO MADE WHAT WAS GOOD FORBIDDEN
AND CONTINUED IN TRANSGRESSIONS 
AND CAST DOUBTS AND SUSPICIONS  

26  WHO SET UP BESIDES GOD ANOTHER DEITY
THROW HIM INTO A SEVERE PENALTY

27  HIS COMPANION WILL SAY 
LORD, I DID NOT MAKE HIM STRAY
BUT HE WAS HIMSELF FAR ASTRAY

28  HE WILL BE NOT IN MY PRESENCE DISPUTING
I HAD ALREADY IN ADVANCE SENT YOU WARNING 

29  THE WORD CHANGES NOT BEFORE ME 
AND I DO NOT TREAT MY SERVANTS UNJUSTLY

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30  ONE DAY WE WILL ASK, HELL ARE YOU FILLED? 
IT WILL SAY, ARE THERE ANY MORE TO COME STILL?

31  AND THE GARDEN WILL BE BROUGHT THAT DAY
NEAR TO THE RIGHTEOUS NO MORE A THING FAR AWAY

32  A VOICE WILL SAY, THIS IS WHAT WAS PROMISED TO YOU 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO TURNED TO GOD IN GRATITUDE
AND WHO KEPT HIS COVENANT AMONG YOU

33  WHO FEARED IN SECRET THE BENEFICENT
AND COMES WITH A HEART THAT IS PENITENT

34  ENTER IN IT IN PEACE AND SECURITY 
THIS IS THE DAY OF ETERNITY

35  THERE WILL BE FOR THEM THEREIN ALL THAT THEY WISH FOR
IN OUR PRESENCE AND MUCH MORE

36  BUT HOW MANY GENERATIONS DID WE DESTROY BEFORE THEM 
FOR THEIR SINS WHO WERE STRONGER IN POWER THAN THEM? 
WAS THE LAND NOT THEN WANDERED THROUGH BY THEM?
WAS THERE ANY PLACE OF ESCAPE FOR THEM?

37  SURELY IN THIS IS A REMINDER
FOR ANY WHO HAS A HEART AND LENDS AN EAR

38  HEAVEN AND EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN WERE CREATED BY US
IN SIX DAYS NOR DID ANY SENSE OF WEARINESS TOUCH US

39  BEAR PATIENTLY ALL OF THEIR TALKING
AND THEN BE REGULAR IN YOUR LORD'S PRAISING
BEFORE THE SUN'S RISING AND BEFORE ITS SETTING

40  AND DURING PART OF THE NIGHT ALSO PRAISE IN CELEBRATION
AND SO LIKEWISE AFTER THE POSTURES OF ADORATION

41  AND LISTEN FOR THE DAY WHEN THE CALLER 
WILL CALL OUT FROM A PLACE QUITE NEAR

42  WHEN THEY WILL HEAR A MIGHTY EXPLOSION
THAT WILL BE THE DAY OF RESURRECTION 

43  THE GIVER OF LIFE AND DEATH ARE WE 
AND TO US IS THE FINAL DESTINY

44  THE DAY WHEN THE EARTH WILL BE RENT ASUNDER 
FROM MEN HURRYING OUT GATHERING TOGETHER 

45  AND WE KNOW BEST WHAT IS SAID BY THEM
AND YOU ARE NOT ONE TO COMPEL THEM 
SO WITH THE QURAN ADMONISH THEM
THOSE WHO FEAR MY WARNING AMONG THEM

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CHAPTER 51.  THE WINDS THAT SCATTER                             SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE WINDS THAT SCATTER 

2  AND THE CLOUDS THAT BEAR HEAVY WEIGHTS OF WATER

3  AND THE SHIPS THAT FLOAT WITH EASE IN MANNER

4  AND THOSE DISTRIBUTING THE AFFAIR

5  THAT WHICH YOU ARE PROMISED IS NOT IN ERROR

6  AND JUSTICE MUST COME TO PASS FOR SURE

7  BY THE SKY WITH ITS NUMEROUS WAYS

8  TRULY YOU ARE IN VARYING WAYS

9  THROUGH WHICH FROM THE TRUTH ARE DELUDED AWAY 
THOSE WHO WOULD BE DELUDED AWAY

10  WOE TO THE FALSEHOOD MONGERS

11  WHO ARE HEEDLESS OF THE HEREAFTER

12  AND ASK WHEN WILL THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT BE

13  IT WILL BE A DAY WHEN THEY WILL BE 
TRIED AND TESTED OVER THE FIRE AS A PENALTY

14  TASTE YOUR TRIAL, THIS IS WHAT YOU HURRIED TO SEE

15  AS TO THE RIGHTEOUS THEY WILL BE IN DWELLINGS
IN THE MIDST OF GARDENS AND SPRINGS

16  TAKING JOY IN THE THINGS WHICH THEIR LORD IS GIVING 
BECAUSE BEFORE THEN THEY LIVED A LIFE OF GOOD LIVING

17  THEY WERE IN THE HABIT OF AT NIGHT RARELY SLEEPING 

18  AND IN THE HOURS OF EARLY DAWN THEY WERE FOUND PRAYING

19  AND IN THEIR PROPERTIES THERE WAS THE RIGHT OF THE BEGGAR
AND THE POOR WHO DO NOT ASK THE OTHERS

20  ON THE EARTH ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS

21  AS ALSO IN YOURSELVES WILL YOU NOT THEN CONSIDER?

22  AND IN HEAVEN IS SUSTENANCE FOR YOU
AS ALSO THAT WHICH IS PROMISED TO YOU

23  BY THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH THIS IS THE VERY TRUTH 
IN AS MUCH THAT YOU CAN SPEAK TO EACH OTHER IS THE TRUTH

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24  HAS THE STORY REACHED YOU OF THE GUESTS OF ABRAHAM?

25  THEY ENTERED INTO THE PRESENCE OF ABRAHAM

26  THEY SAID PEACE TO HIM 
AND HE SAID PEACE TO THEM

AND HE SAID TO HIMSELF, THESE PEOPLE
ARE UNUSUAL AND STRANGE PEOPLE 

27  THEN HE TURNED TO HIS HOUSEHOLD QUICKLY 
AND BROUGHT A FATTED CALF FOR THEM TO EAT

28  WHEN THEY DID NOT EAT HE CONCEIVED OF THEM A FEAR 
AND THEY SAID TO HIM, OH ABRAHAM, DO NOT FEAR  

29  AND THEY GAVE HIM GOOD NEWS
OF A SON ENDOWED WITH KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH

BUT HIS WIFE CAME FORWARD LAUGHING LOUDLY
AND SHE SAID, A BARREN OLD WOMEN INDEED?

30  THEY SAID, EVEN SO HAS YOUR LORD SPOKEN
AND HE IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM 

PART XXVII 

31 ABRAHAM SAID, AND WHAT NOW
OH YOU MESSENGERS, IS YOUR ERRAND NOW?

32  THEY SAID, WE HAVE BEEN
SENT TO A PEOPLE DEEP IN SIN

33  TO BRING ON THEM A SHOWER OF STONES
OF CLAY BRIMSTONE

34  MARKED FROM YOUR LORD FOR THESE
WHO HAVE TRESPASSED BEYOND BOUNDARIES

35  THEN WE EVACUATED FROM THERE SAFELY
THEY WHO WERE OF THOSE WHO DID BELIEVE

36  BUT WE FOUND ONE RIGHTEOUS HOUSEHOLD ONLY

37  AND WE LEFT A SIGN FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THE PENALTY 

38  MOSES WAS SIGN, WE SENT HIM TO PHARAOH WITH AUTHORITY 

39  BUT PHARAOH TURNED BACK WITH HIS CHIEFS
AND SAID, THIS IS ONE POSSESSED WITH SORCERY

40  SO WE THREW HIM AND HIS FORCES INTO THE SEA 
AND HIS WAS THE BLAME MOST ASSUREDLY

41  AND TO THE AD PEOPLE WE DID SEND
AGAINST THEM A DEVASTATING WIND

42  IT LEFT NOTHING WHATEVER
BUT REDUCED IT TO RUINED MATTER

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CHAPTER 51.  THE WINDS THAT SCATTER                             SECTION 2.  PART XXVI

24  HAS THE STORY REACHED YOU OF THE GUESTS OF ABRAHAM?

25  THEY ENTERED INTO THE PRESENCE OF ABRAHAM

26  THEY SAID PEACE TO HIM 
AND HE SAID PEACE TO THEM

AND HE SAID TO HIMSELF, THESE PEOPLE
ARE UNUSUAL AND STRANGE PEOPLE 

27  THEN HE TURNED TO HIS HOUSEHOLD QUICKLY 
AND BROUGHT A FATTED CALF FOR THEM TO EAT

28  WHEN THEY DID NOT EAT HE CONCEIVED OF THEM A FEAR 
AND THEY SAID TO HIM, OH ABRAHAM, DO NOT FEAR  

29  AND THEY GAVE HIM GOOD NEWS
OF A SON ENDOWED WITH KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH

BUT HIS WIFE CAME FORWARD LAUGHING LOUDLY
AND SHE SAID, A BARREN OLD WOMEN INDEED?

30  THEY SAID, EVEN SO HAS YOUR LORD SPOKEN
AND HE IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM 

PART XXVII 

31 ABRAHAM SAID, AND WHAT NOW
OH YOU MESSENGERS, IS YOUR ERRAND NOW?

32  THEY SAID, WE HAVE BEEN
SENT TO A PEOPLE DEEP IN SIN

33  TO BRING ON THEM A SHOWER OF STONES
OF CLAY BRIMSTONE

34  MARKED FROM YOUR LORD FOR THESE
WHO HAVE TRESPASSED BEYOND BOUNDARIES

35  THEN WE EVACUATED FROM THERE SAFELY
THEY WHO WERE OF THOSE WHO DID BELIEVE

36  BUT WE FOUND ONE RIGHTEOUS HOUSEHOLD ONLY

37  AND WE LEFT A SIGN FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THE PENALTY 

38  MOSES WAS SIGN, WE SENT HIM TO PHARAOH WITH AUTHORITY 

39  BUT PHARAOH TURNED BACK WITH HIS CHIEFS
AND SAID, THIS IS ONE POSSESSED WITH SORCERY

40  SO WE THREW HIM AND HIS FORCES INTO THE SEA 
AND HIS WAS THE BLAME MOST ASSUREDLY

41  AND TO THE AD PEOPLE WE DID SEND
AGAINST THEM A DEVASTATING WIND

42  IT LEFT NOTHING WHATEVER
BUT REDUCED IT TO RUINED MATTER

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CHAPTER 51.  THE WINDS THAT SCATTER                            SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

43  AND IN THE THAMUD WAS ANOTHER SIGN
THEY WERE TOLD, ENJOY YOUR BRIEF DAY FOR A SHORT TIME

44  BUT THEY DEFIED GOD'S ORDERING
SO THE  STUNNING EARTHQUAKE'S SEIZING
OVERTOOK THEM WHILE THEY WERE LOOKING 

45  THEN THEY WERE UNABLE TO RISE UP
NOR COULD THEY HELP THEMSELVES UP

46  SO WERE THE PEOPLE OF NOAH PREVIOUSLY
FOR THEY TRANSGRESSED WICKEDLY

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CHAPTER 51.  THE WINDS THAT SCATTER                           SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

47  WITH POWER AND SKILL DID WE CONSTRUCT THE FIRMAMENT
FOR IT IS WE WHO CREATED THE VAST EXTENT

48  AND THE EARTH WE HAVE SPREAD IT OUT 
AND HOW EXCELLENT HAVE WE SPREAD IT OUT

49  WE MADE EVERY THING IN PAIRS IN CREATION
SO THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE INSTRUCTION

50  HASTEN THEN AT ONCE TO YOUR MAKER
I AM A WARNER FROM HIM TO YOU OPEN AND CLEAR

51  AND MAKE NOT ANOTHER 
AN OBJECT OF WORSHIP WITH THE CREATOR 
FOR I AM A WARNER TO YOU OPEN AND CLEAR 

52  NEVER BEFORE CAME TO PEOPLE A MESSENGER
BUT THEY SAID OF HIM IN LIKE MANNER 
ONE POSSESSED OR A SORCERER

53  IS THIS THE LEGACY THEY HAVE TRANSMITTED ONE TO ANOTHER?
NO, THEY ARE THEMSELVES PEOPLE WHO ARE TRANSGRESSORS

54  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM 
FOR YOU ARE NOT THE BLAME FOR THEM

55  BUT REMIND THEM FOR THE MESSAGE OF THE REMINDER
IS BENEFICIAL TO THE BELIEVERS

56  I HAVE CREATED DEMONS AND MEN ONLY 
THAT THEY MAY SERVE ME ONLY

57  NO SUSTENANCE DO I REQUIRE OF THEM FOR ME 
NOR DO I REQUIRE THAT THEY SHOULD FEED ME

58  FOR GOD IS THE SUSTAINER
LORD OF POWER AND STEADFAST FOR EVER

59  FOR THE WRONG DOERS THEIR PORTION 
IS SIMILAR TO THE PORTION 
OF THE PEOPLE OF EARLIER GENERATIONS 
LET THEM NOT ASK ME TO HASTEN THAT PORTION

60  THEN WOE TO THE DISBELIEVERS
ON ACCOUNT OF WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN ASSURED

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CHAPTER 52.  THE MOUNTAIN                                                    SECTION 1.  PART XXVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE MOUNT OF REVELATION

2  BY A DECREE OF INSCRIPTION

3  IN A SCROLL
UNROLLED

4  BY THE HOUSE VISITED FREQUENTLY

5  BY THE ELEVATED CANOPY

6  BY THE SWOLLEN SEA

7  FROM YOUR LORD WILL COME THE DESTRUCTION

8  IT CANNOT BE AVERTED BY ANYONE

9  THE DAY WHEN THE HEAVEN WILL BE IN A STATE OF COMMOTION

10  AND THE MOUNTAINS WILL MOVE AWAY
WITH A HORRIBLE MOVEMENT ON THAT DAY

11  THEY WHO TREAT TRUTH AS FALSEHOOD, WOE TO THEM THAT DAY

12  WHO IN SHALLOW TRIFLES PADDLE AND PLAY

13  THEY WILL BE THROWN INTO THE HELL FIRE THAT DAY

14  IT WILL BE SAID, THIS IS THE FIRE 
OF WHICH YOU WERE A DENIER

15  IS THIS THEN SORCERY
OR IS IT YOU THAT DO NOT SEE?

16  BURN IN IT, TO YOU THE SAME IS IT 
WHETHER WITH OR WITHOUT PATIENCE YOU BEAR IT 
FOR YOU WILL ONLY RECEIVE IN IT 
THE RECOMPENSE OF YOUR DEEDS BECAUSE OF IT

17  AS TO THE RIGHTEOUS 
THEY WILL BE IN GARDENS AND IN HAPPINESS

18  ENJOYING THE BLISS THEIR LORD HAS BESTOWED ON THEM 
AND FROM THE FIRE THEIR LORD WILL DELIVER THEM 

19   TO THEM WILL BE SAID, DRINK AND EAT
WITH PROFIT AND HEALTH BECAUSE OF YOUR GOOD DEEDS

20  THEY WILL RECLINE WITH EASE ON THRONES OF DIGNITY
ARRANGED IN RANKS AND WE WILL  ADDITIONALLY
JOIN THEM TO COMPANIONS WITH EYES OF BEAUTY

21  AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE
AND ARE FOLLOWED BY THEIR FAMILIES  
WE WILL THEN JOIN THEM TO THEIR FAMILIES 
NOR WILL WE DEPRIVE THEM OF THE FRUITS OF THEIR DEEDS 
YET IS EACH INDIVIDUAL IN PLEDGE FOR HIS DEEDS

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22  WE WILL BESTOW ON THEM FRUIT AND MEAT
WHATEVER THEY WILL DESIRE TO EAT

23  THEY WILL EXCHANGE WITH EACH OTHER A CUP FREE OF FRIVOLITY 
FREE OF ALL TAINT AND ANYTHING DIRTY

24  SERVING THEM WILL BE YOUTHS DEVOTED 
HANDSOME AS PEARLS WELL GUARDED

25  THEY WILL ADVANCE TO EACH OTHER 
ENGAGING IN MUTUAL QUESTIONING WITH EACH OTHER

26  THEY WILL SAY, WE WERE INDEED
AFRAID FOR OURSELVES AND OUR FAMILIES

27  BUT GOD HAS BEEN GRACIOUS TO US
AND FROM THE TORMENT OF THE FIRE HAS SAVED US

28  WE DID CALL ON HIM PREVIOUSLY
AND HE IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

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CHAPTER 52.  THE MOUNTAIN                                                    SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

29  THEREFORE PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF YOUR CREATOR 
FOR BY THE GRACE OF YOUR LORD YOU ARE NEITHER
POSSESSED NOR A SOOTHSAYER

30  OR DO THEY SAY, A POET IS HE
WE AWAIT FOR HIM SOME CALAMITY 

31  SAY, WAIT, I TOO 
WILL WAIT ALONG WITH YOU 

32  IS IT THAT THEIR UNDERSTANDING URGES THEM TO THIS
 OR ARE THEY BUT PEOPLE THAT TRANSGRESS? 

33  OR DO THEY SAY HE FABRICATED THE REVELATION?  
NO, THEY ARE PEOPLE IN REJECTION

34  LET THEM THEN PRODUCE A SAYING LIKE IT
IF THEY SPEAK TRUTHFULLY ABOUT IT

35  WERE THEY CREATED OF NOTHING 
OR WERE THEY THE CREATORS OF THEIR OWN BEINGS?

36  OR DID THEY CREATE HEAVEN AND EARTH?  
NO, THEY ARE SURELY DISBELIEVERS 

37  OR ARE WITH THEM YOUR LORD'S TREASURES
OR ARE THEY THE MANAGERS OF AFFAIRS?

38  OR CAN THEY CLIMB UP TO THE HEAVENS ON A LADDER
AND LISTEN TO ITS SECRETS?  THEN LET SUCH A LISTENER 
PRODUCE PROOF OF THEIR ENDEAVORS

39  OR DO YOU HAVE SONS AND HAS HE ONLY DAUGHTERS? 

40  OR IS IT THAT YOU ASK FOR A REWARD SO THAT THEY 
ARE BURDENED WITH A LOAD OF DEBT TO PAY?

41  OR IS THE UNSEEN IN THEIR HANDS
SO THAT THEY CAN WRITE IT WITH THEIR HANDS?

42  OR DO THEY INTEND AGAINST YOU A PLOT? 
BUT THOSE WHO DEFY GOD ARE INVOLVED IN A PLOT

43  OR HAVE THEY A GOD OTHER THAN GOD?
FAR IS GOD ABOVE THE THINGS THEY ASSOCIATE WITH GOD

44  IF THEY SAW A PIECE OF THE SKY FALLING DOWN ON THE EARTH 
THEY WOULD SAY, THESE ARE ONLY CLOUDS HEAPED UP TOGETHER

45  SO LEAVE THEM ALONE UNTIL THEY ENCOUNTER 
THAT DAY WHEN THEY WILL SWOON WITH HORROR

46  THE DAY WHEN NONE OF THEIR PLOTTING WILL AVAIL THEM  
AND NO HELP WILL BE GIVEN TO THEM

47  AND FOR THOSE WHO DO WRONG THERE IS ANOTHER PUNISHING  
BUT MOST OF THEM HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING

48  YOU ARE IN OUR EYES SO WAIT FOR THE JUDGMENT OF YOUR LORD 
AND WHEN YOU RISE, CELEBRATE THE PRAISES OF YOUR LORD 

49  AND FOR PART OF THE NIGHT ALSO PRAISE HIM 
AND AT THE RETREAT OF THE STARS GIVE PRAISE TO HIM

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 CHAPTER 53.  THE STAR                                                               SECTION 1.  PART XXVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE STAR WHEN IT GOES AWAY

2  YOUR COMPANION IS NEITHER MISLEAD OR ASTRAY

3  NOR DOES HE SAY ANYTHING OF HIS OWN DESIRE 

4  IT IS NO LESS THAN A MESSAGE THAT IS INSPIRED

5  HE HAS BEEN TAUGHT THIS QURAN BY ONE MIGHTY IN POWER

6  THE LORD OF STRENGTH, SO HE GAINED HIS PROTECTION

7  WHILE HE WAS IN THE HIGHEST PART OF THE HORIZON

8  THEN HE APPROACHED AND CAME CLOSER

9  AND WAS AT A DISTANCE OF TWO BOW LENGTHS OR NEARER

10  SO DID GOD BY INSPIRATION CONVEY 
TO HIS SERVANT WHAT HE MEANT TO CONVEY

11  HIS HEART WAS NOT UNTRUE IN WHAT HE SAW IN ANY WAY

12  WILL YOU THEN DISPUTE WITH HIM 
CONCERNING WHAT WAS SEEN BY HIM?

13  FOR AT A SECOND DESCENT HE SAW HIM 

14  NEAR THE LOTE TREE WHICH NONE CAN PASS BEYOND IT

15  THE GARDEN OF ABODE IS NEAR IT

16  BEHOLD, THE LOTE TREE WAS SHROUDED

17  HIS SIGHT SWERVED NEVER
 NOR DID IT GO WRONG EVER

18  FOR TRULY HE DID SEE
THE SIGNS OF HIS LORD, THE GREATEST INDEED

19  HAVE YOU SEEN UZZA AND LAT?

20  AND ANOTHER THIRD GODDESS MANAT?

21  ARE FOR YOU THE MALES
AND FOR HIM THE FEMALES?

22  SUCH A DIVISION WOULD BE
MOST UNFAIR INDEED

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CHAPTER 53.  THE STAR                                             SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXVII

23  THESE ARE NOTHING BUT NAMES
WHICH YOU AND YOUR FATHERS HAVE NAMED
       
FOR WHICH GOD HAS SENT DOWN NO AUTHORITY WHATSOEVER
THEY FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE
AND WHAT THEIR OWN SOULS DESIRE
EVEN THOUGH THERE HAS ALREADY APPEARED
SIGNS FROM THEIR LORD AND GUIDANCE CLEAR

24  OR WILL MAN HAVE WHATEVER
THAT HE JUST HANKERS AFTER?

25  BUT IT IS TO GOD THAT BELONGS THE ENDING
AND THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS

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CHAPTER 53.  THE STAR                                                               SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

26  HOW MANY ANGELS IN THE HEAVENS WHOSE INTERCESSION
AVAILS NAUGHT EXCEPT AFTER GOD GIVES PERMISSION
TO WHOM HE PLEASES OF HIS SELECTION?

27  THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN THE HEREAFTER NAME 
THE ANGELS WITH FEMALE NAMES

28  BUT THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF IT FOR SURE
THEY FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE
AND TRUTH EXCELS OVER CONJECTURE 

29  THEREFORE SHUN THOSE WHO TURN AWAY FROM OUR REMINDER
AND THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD IS THEIR ONLY DESIRE

30  THAT IS AS FAR AS KNOWLEDGE WILL REACH THEM 
YOUR LORD KNOWS BEST THOSE WHO STRAY AMONG THEM
AND HE KNOWS BEST THOSE WHO RECEIVE GUIDANCE AMONG THEM

31  TO GOD BELONGS ALL THAT IS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH INDEED 
HE REWARDS THOSE WHO DO EVIL ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS 
AND THOSE WHO DO GOOD IN WHAT IS BEST OF THEIR DEEDS

32  THOSE WHO AVOID GREAT SINS AND SHAMEFUL INIQUITIES
THOSE WHO ONLY FALL INTO SMALL DELINQUENCIES
YOUR LORD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

AND WELL DOES HE KNOW YOU
WHEN OUT OF THE EARTH HE BRINGS YOU
AND WHEN IN YOUR MOTHER'S WOMBS ARE YOU 
SO JUSTIFY NOT YOURSELVES FOR  HE KNOWS TOO
WHO IT IS THAT GUARDS AGAINST EVIL AMONG YOU

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CHAPTER 53.  THE STAR                                                               SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

33  SEE THE ONE WHO TURNS BACK AND THEN

34  GIVES A LITTLE THEN HIS HEART HARDENS?

35  HAS HE KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN
SO THAT HE CAN SEE THE UNSEEN?

36  OR IS HE NOT ACQUAINTED WITH THE MESSAGES
THAT ARE IN THE BOOK OF MOSES

37  AND OF ABRAHAM WHO FULFILLED HIS PROMISES?

38  NAMELY THAT NO BURDEN BEARER 
CAN BEAR THE BURDEN OF ANOTHER

39  AND THAT MAN CAN HAVE NOTHING BUT WHAT HE STRIVES AFTER

40  THE FRUITS OF HIS STRIVING WILL SOON BE SEEN CLEARLY

41  THEN WILL HE BE REWARDED FULLY

42  AND TO YOUR LORD IS THE FINAL DESTINY

43  AND THE GRANTOR OF LAUGHTER AND TEARS IS HE

44  AND THE GRANTOR OF LIFE AND DEATH IS HE

45  AND THE CREATOR OF PAIRS, MALE AND FEMALE IS HE

46  FROM A SEED WHEN LODGED IN ITS PLACE FIRMLY

47  AND HE HAS PROMISED A SECOND CREATION 

48  AND IT IS HE WHO GIVES WEALTH AND SATISFACTION

49  AND HE IS THE LORD OF SIRIUS FOR CERTAIN

50  AND IT IS HE WHO DESTROYED FOR THEIR EVIL
THE POWERFUL ANCIENT AD PEOPLE

51  AND THE THAMUD NOR GAVE THEM A LEASE OF LIFE PERPETUAL

52  AND BEFORE THEM NOAH'S PEOPLE
FOR THEY WERE UNJUST AND INSOLENT PEOPLE 

53  AND HE DESTROYED THE OVERTHROWN CITIES
OF SODOM AND GOMORRA FOR THEIR INIQUITIES

54  SO THAT RUINS UNKNOWN OVER THEM HAVE GROWN OVER

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CHAPTER 53.  THE STAR                                             SECTION 3 (CONT'D). PART XXVII

55  WHICH OF THE GIFTS OF YOUR LORD WILL YOU BE A DISPUTER?

56  THIS IS A WARNER OF THE SERIES OF WARNERS

57  THE JUDGMENT EVER APPROACHING DRAWS NEAR

58  NO SOUL BUT GOD CAN LAY IT BARE

59  DO YOU THEN WONDER AT THIS REMINDER?

60  AND WILL YOU LAUGH AND NOT WEEP?

61  WASTING YOUR TIME IN VANITIES?

62  BUT TO GOD, BOW DOWN IN PROSTRATION 
AND IN SINCERE ADORATION

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CHAPTER 54.  THE MOON                                                             SECTION 1.  PART XXVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THE HOUR OF JUDGMENT IS NEAR
AND THE MOON IS CLEFT ASUNDER

2  BUT IF THEY SEE THE SIGNS THEY TURN AWAY
THIS IS BUT TRANSIENT MAGIC, THEY SAY

3  THEY REJECT THE WARNING AND FOLLOW THEIR OWN DESIRES
BUT THERE IS AN APPOINTED TIME FOR EVERY MATTER 

4  THERE HAVE ALREADY COME TO THEM 
RECITALS ENOUGH TO CHECK THEM

5  MATURE WISDOM BUT WARNERS DO NOT PROFIT THEM

6  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM
THE DAY THE CALLER WILL CALL THEM 
TO A TERRIBLE AFFAIR FOR THEM

7  THEY WILL COME FROM THEIR GRAVES, THEIR EYES CAST DOWN 
LIKE LOCUSTS SCATTERED AROUND

8  HASTENING TOWARDS THE CALLER
HARD IS THIS DAY, WILL SAY THE DISBELIEVERS 

9  BEFORE THEM NOAH'S PEOPLE 
REJECTED THEIR APOSTLE 

THEY REJECTED OUR SERVANT AND DID SAY
HERE IS ONE POSSESSED AND HE WAS DRIVEN AWAY

10  THEN HE CALLED ON HIS LORD AND SAID IN A PLEA
I AM ONE OVERCOME, WILL YOU THEN HELP ME?

11  SO WE OPENED THE GATES OF HEAVEN 
WITH WATER POURING THEREIN

12  WE CAUSED THE EARTH TO GUSH FORTH WATERS 
FOR A PREDETERMINED MATTER

13  BUT WE BORE HIM ON AN ARK THAT SAILED
MADE OF BROAD PLANKS AND NAILS

14  FLOATING UNDER OUR EYES 
A REWARD FOR HIM WHO WAS DENIED

15  AND WE HAVE LEFT THIS AS A LESSON
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

16  BUT HOW TERRIBLE INDEED
WAS MY WARNING AND MY PENALTY

17  AND WE HAVE MADE THE QURAN  
EASY FOR REMEMBRANCE AND COMPREHENSION
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

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CHAPTER 54.  THE MOON                                            SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXVII

18  THE AD PEOPLE WERE REJECTORS INSOLENTLY
THEN HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY WARNING AND MY PENALTY

19  FOR WE SENT AGAINST THEM A WIND FURIOUSLY 
BLOWING ON A BITTER DAY VIOLENTLY

20  PLUCKING OUT MEN EASILY
AS IF THEY WERE ROOTS OF PALM TREES 

21  HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY WARNING AND MY PENALTY

22  AND WE HAVE MADE THE QURAN 
EASY FOR REMEMBRANCE AND COMPREHENSION
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

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CHAPTER 54.  THE MOON                                                             SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

23  THE THAMUD PEOPLE WERE REJECTERS
OF THEIR COMMISSIONED WARNERS

24  FOR THEY SAID, ARE WE TO FOLLOW A MAN FROM AMONG US?
WE WOULD BE IN ERROR OR MADNESS WILL HAVE STRICKEN US

25  IS THE MESSAGE SENT TO HIM OF ALL PEOPLE AMONG US? 
NO, HE IS A LIAR AND AN INSOLENT ONE AMONG US

26  THEY WILL KNOW TOMORROW WHICH ONE
IS THE LIAR AND THE INSOLENT ONE 

27  FOR WE WILL SEND THE SHE-CAMEL AS A TRIAL FOR THEM 
SO BE PATIENT WITH THEM AND WATCH THEM

28  AND TELL THEM 
THAT THE WATER IS TO BE DIVIDED BETWEEN THEM 
EACH ONE'S RIGHT TO DRINK ARRANGED BY TURNS AMONG THEM

29  BUT THEY CALLED THEIR COMPANION AND HE INSOLENTLY
TOOK A SWORD IN HAND AND SLAUGHTERED HER MALICIOUSLY

30  HOW TERRIBLE INDEED
WAS MY WARNING AND MY PENALTY 

31  FOR WE SENT AGAINST THEM A BLAST THAT WAS TERRIBLE 
AND THEY BECAME LIKE THE DRY STUBBLE 
USED BY ONE WHO PENS CATTLE

32  AND WE HAVE MADE THE QURAN  
EASY FOR REMEMBRANCE AND COMPREHENSION 
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

33  THE PEOPLE OF LOT WERE REJECTERS
OF THEIR COMMISSIONED WARNER 

34  WE SENT A VIOLENT TORNADO AGAINST THEM
AND WITH SHOWERS OF STONES WHICH DESTROYED THEM 
EXCEPT LOT'S HOUSEHOLD, BY EARLY DAWN WE DELIVERED THEM

35  AS A GRACE FROM US SO DO WE 
REWARD THOSE WHO ACT GRATEFULLY

36  LOT WARNED THEM OF OUR PUNISHMENT COMING
BUT THEY DISPUTED ABOUT THE WARNING

37  HIS GUESTS THEY EVEN TRIED SNATCHING
BUT TO THEIR EYES WE CAUSED BLINDING
NOW TASTE MY PENALTY AND MY WARNING

38  AND A LASTING CHASTISEMENT OVERTOOK THEM IN THE MORNING

39  SO TASTE MY CHASTISEMENT AND MY WARNING

40  AND WE HAVE FOR MADE THE QURAN  
EASY FOR REMEMBRANCE AND COMPREHENSION
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

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CHAPTER 54.  THE MOON                                                             SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

41  TO PHAROAH'S PEOPLE 
CAME APOSTLES

42  ALL OUR SIGNS WE REJECTED BY THE PEOPLE
BUT WE SEIZED THEM WITH A PENALTY  THAT WAS TERRIBLE
FROM ONE EXALTED IN POWER AND ABLE 
TO CARRY OUT AND ENFORCE HIS WILL

43  ARE YOU DISBELIEVERS BETTER 
OR HAVE YOU AN IMMUNITY IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES?

44  OR THEY SAY, WE ARE A HOST ALLIED TOGETHER 
FOR THE PURPOSE OF GIVING HELP TO EACH OTHER

45  THEY WILL BE DEFEATED AND SHOW THEIR BACKS FOR SURE

46  THEIR PROMISED TIME IS THE HOUR 
AND THE HOUR IS MOST GRIEVOUS AND BITTER

47  THE GUILTY ARE DISTRESSED AND IN ERROR

48   THEY WILL BE DRAGGED ON THEIR FACES THROUGH THE FIRE
TASTE THE TOUCH OF HELL ALL OF YOU TOGETHER

49  ALL THINGS HAVE WE CREATED PROPORTIONATELY MEASURED 

50  LIKE THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE IS OUR ORDER

51  IN THE PAST WE BROUGHT PEOPLE LIKE YOU TO DESTRUCTION
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

52  ALL THEY DO IS NOTED INDEED
RECORDED IN THEIR BOOKS OF DEEDS

53  EVERY MATTER
SMALL OR GREAT IS ON RECORD

54  AS TO THE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS
THEY WILL BE IN THE MIDST OF GARDENS AND RIVERS

55  IN AN ASSEMBLY OF TRUTH BEFORE ONE EXALTED IN POWER 

523
CHAPTER 55 THE BENEFICENT                                                   SECTION 1.  PART XXVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  MOST GRACIOUS GOD

2  THE QURAN HAS BEEN TAUGHT BY GOD

3  MAN WAS CREATED BY GOD

4  GOD TAUGHT HIM EXPRESSION

5  THE SUN AND MOON FOLLOW COURSES OF EXACT COMPUTATIONS

6  AND THE HERBS AND THE TREES BOTH BOW IN ADORATION

7  HE HAS RAISED THE HEAVENS HIGH AND SET UP THE MEASURE

8  IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY NOT EXCEED THE MEASURE

9  AND KEEP UP THE BALANCE NOR FALL SHORT IN THE MEASURE

10  IT IS HE WHO HAS SPREAD OUT THE EARTH FOR HIS CREATURES

11  THEREIN IS FRUIT AND PALMS HAVING SHEATHED CLUSTERS

12  ALSO CORN WITH LEAVES AND STALK FOR FODDER
AND IN IT ARE PLANTS SMELLING SWEETER

13  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

14  HE CREATED MAN FROM SOUNDING CLAY LIKE POTTERY

15  HE CREATED DEMONS FROM FIRE THAT IS SMOKE FREE

16  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

17  LORD OF THE TWO EASTS
AND LORD OF THE TWO WESTS

18  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

19  HE HAS LET MEET TOGETHER
THE TWO BODIES OF FLOWING WATER 

20  BETWEEN THEM IS A BARRIER
THAT THEY DO NOT CROSS OVER

21  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

22  OUT OF THEM COME PEARLS 
AND OUT OF THEM COME CORALS

23  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

24  AND HIS ARE THE SHIPS SAILING SMOOTHLY 
LOFTY AS MOUNTAINS THROUGH THE SEAS

25  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

524
CHAPTER 55.  THE BENEFICENT                                                 SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

26  EVERYTHING ON EARTH WILL PERISH EVENTUALLY

27  BUT THE PERSON OF GOD WILL EXIST ETERNALLY

28  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

29  IN HEAVEN AND EARTH EVERY CREATURE 
SEEKS ITS NEED OF THE CREATOR
AND EVERY DAY HE SHINES IN NEW SPLENDOR 

30  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

31  AND SOON WILL WE 
SETTLE YOUR AFFAIRS OF BOTH YOU PARTIES

32  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

33  OH YOU ASSEMBLY OF DEMONS AND MEN 
IF YOU CAN PASS THROUGH THE ZONES OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 

THEN PASS THROUGH 
BUT NOT WITHOUT AUTHORITY WILL YOU BE ABLE TO

34  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

35  ON YOU WILL BE SENT A FLAME OF FIRE TO BURN YOU 
AND SMOKE TO CHOKE YOU 
AND NO DEFENSE WILL THERE BE FOR YOU

36  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

37  WHEN THE SKY IS RENT 
AND IT BECOMES RED LIKE OINTMENT

38  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

39  ON THAT DAY NO QUESTION 
WILL THEN BE ASKED OF MEN 
OR DEMON AS TO HIS SIN

40  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

41  FOR THE SINNERS WILL BE 
KNOWN BY THEIR MARKS AND THEY WILL BE SEIZED 
BY THEIR FORELOCKS AND THEIR FEET

42  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER

43  THE IS THE HELL DENIED BY THE SINNERS 

44  IN ITS MIDST THEY WILL WANDER 
AND IN THE MIDST OF BOILING HOT WATER 

45  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

525
CHAPTER 55.  THE BENEFICENT                                                 SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

46  BUT FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THE TIME THAT WHEN 
THEY WILL STAND BEFORE GOD, THERE WILL BE TWO GARDENS

47  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

48  FULL OF VARIETIES
OF FRUITS AND TREES

49  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

50  IN THEM WILL BE 
TWO SPRINGS FLOWING FREE

51  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

52  IN THEM WILL BE FRUITS 
OF EVERY KIND TWO AND TWO

53  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS 
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

54  THEY WILL RECLINE ON CARPETS WHOSE INNER LININGS WILL BE 
OF RICH BROCADE, THE FRUIT OF THE GARDENS WILL BE 
NEAR AND REACHABLE EASILY 

55  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

56  THERE WILL BE THOSE RESTRAINING THEIR GLANCES IN THEM
WHO NO MAN OR DEMON HAS BEFORE TOUCHED THEM 

57  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS 
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

58  LIKE PEARLS
OR LIKE CORALS

59  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

60  IS THE REWARD FOR GOODNESS
ANYTHING BUT GOODNESS?

61  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

62  AND BESIDES THESE TWO 
THERE ARE TWO OTHER GARDENS TOO

63  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS 
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

526
CHAPTER 55.  THE BENEFICENT                                SECTION 3 (CONT'D). PART XXVII

64  DARK GREEN IN COLORING
FROM PLENTIFUL WATERING

65  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

66  IN EACH OF THEM WILL BE TWO SPRINGS  
WITH WATER CONTINUOUSLY FLOWING

67  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

68  IN THEM WILL BE FRUITS AND DATES 
AND IN THEM WILL BE POMEGRANATES

69  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

70  IN THEM WILL BE FAIR COMPANIONS 
GOOD BEAUTIFUL ONES

71  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

72  RESTRAINED COMPANIONS  
AS TO THEIR GLANCES IN GOOD PAVILIONS

73  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

74 UNTOUCHED BY ANYONE
NEITHER MAN OR DEMON

75  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

76  RECLINING ON GREEN CUSHIONS RICHLY 
CARPETED IN BEAUTY

77  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS 
WILL YOU THEN BE DENIERS?

78  TO GOD ALL PRAISES BE
FULL OF MAJESTY AND GLORY

     

527
 CHAPTER 56.  THE EVENT                                                            SECTION 1.  PART XXVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHEN THE EVENT COMES TO PASS

2  THERE WILL BE NO DENYING IT COMING TO PASS

3  IT WILL BRING LOW MANY
IT WILL EXALT MANY

4  WHEN THE EARTH WILL SHAKE
WITH A TERRIBLE SHAKE

5  THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE CRUMBLED TO DUST

6  AND SCATTERED AS PARTICLES OF DUST

7  AND MEN WILL BE
SORTED OUT IN CLASSES OF THREE

8  THERE WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND 
WHAT WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND?

9  AND THE COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT HAND 
WHAT WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT HAND?

10  AND THOSE FOREMOST IN FAITH WILL BE 
FOREMOST IN THE HEREAFTER SURELY

11  NEAREST TO GOD WILL THEY BE

12  IN GARDENS OF ETERNITY

13  OF PEOPLE OF OLD A GREAT NUMBER

14  AND A FEW FROM THOSE OF TIMES LATER

15  THEY WILL BE ON THRONES 
ENCRUSTED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES

16  RECLINING ON THEM FACING EACH OTHER

17  AROUND THEM WILL BE YOUTHS WHO AGE NEVER

18  WITH BEAKERS AND GOBLETS SHINING 
AND CUPS FILLED OUT OF CLEAR FOUNTAINS FLOWING

19  THEY WILL RECEIVE NO HEADACHE AFTER
AND NO INTOXICATION WILL THEY SUFFER

20  AND WITH FRUITS ANY 
THAT THEY MAY CHOOSE FROM MANY

21  AND THE FLESH OF FOWLS ANY THAT THEY MAY DESIRE

22  AND COMPANIONS BEAUTIFUL AND PURE

23  LIKE WELL GUARDED PEARLS

24  A REWARD FOR WHAT THEY DID IN THE WORLD

528
 CHAPTER 56.  THE EVENT                                           SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXVII

25  NO FRIVOLITY WILL THEY HEAR THEREIN
NOR ANY TAINT OF EVIL OR SIN

26  ONLY THE SAYINGS
OF PEACEFUL GREETINGS

27  THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND 
WHAT WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND?

28  THEY WILL BE 
AMONG LOTE-TREES

29  AMONG TALL TREES WITH FLOWERS 
PILED ONE ABOVE ANOTHER

30  IN SHADE EXTENDED LENGTHY

31  BY WATER FLOWING CONSTANTLY

32  AND FRUIT ABUNDANTLY

33  WHOSE SEASON 
IS NOT LIMITED NOR SUPPLY FORBIDDEN

34  AND ON THRONES OF DIGNITY 
RAISED MAJESTICALLY

35  WE HAVE CREATED THEIR COMPANIONS 
OF A SPECIAL CREATION

36  AND MADE THEM VIRGIN PURE

37  EQUAL IN AGE, BELOVED BY NATURE

38  FOR THE COMPANIONS 
OF THE RIGHT HAND

39  FROM THOSE OF OLD A GREAT NUMBER

40  AND A GOOD NUMBER FROM THOSE LATER

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CHAPTER 56.  THE EVENT                                                             SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

41  THE COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT HAND
WHAT WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT HAND?

42  THEY WILL BE IN THE MIDST OF A FIERCE BLAZE OF FIRE
AND IN THE MIDST OF BOILING WATER

43  AND IN THE SHADES OF BLACK SMOKE AND SURELY

44  NOTHING WILL THERE BE TO REFRESH OR PLEASE

45  FOR THAT THEY WERE WANTING TO BE
INDULGED BEFORE IN WEALTH AND LUXURY

46  AND PERSISTED IN SUPREME WICKEDNESS OBSTINATELY

47  AND THEY USED TO SAY, WHEN WE DIE
AND BECOME DUST AND BONES WILL WE AGAIN RISE?

48  OUR FATHERS OF OLD AND WE AFTER WE DIE?

49  SAY, YES THOSE OF OLD AND THOSE OF TIMES LATER 

50  ALL WILL CERTAINLY BE GATHERED TOGETHER 
FOR THE MEETING APPOINTED FOR A DAY WELL ASSURED

51  THEN WILL YOU WHO ACT WRONGFULLY
AND TREAT TRUTH AS FALSITY

52  YOU WILL TASTE OF THE ZAQQUM TREE

53  THEN WILL YOU FILL YOUR INSIDES WITH IT

54  AND DRINK BOILING WATER ON TOP OF IT

55  YOU WILL DRINK LIKE CAMELS THAT ARE DISEASED 
RAGING WITH THIRST AND GREED

56  THIS IS THEIR ENTERTAINMENT
ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

57  IT IS WE WHO HAVE CREATED YOU 
WHY WILL YOU NOT WITNESS THE TRUTH?

58  DO YOU SEE THE HUMAN SEED THAT IS THROWN OUT BY YOU? 

59  ARE WE THE CREATORS OF IT OR ARE YOU?

60  WE HAVE DECREED DEATH TO BE YOUR COMMON LOT
AND TO BE FRUSTRATED WE ARE NOT

61  FROM CHANGING YOUR FORMS AND CREATING YOU 
AGAIN INTO OTHER FORMS NOT KNOWN BY YOU

62  AND YOU KNOW THE FIRST FORM ALREADY
WHY DO YOU NOT THEN TAKE HEED?

63  SEE THE SEED SOWN IN THE GROUND BY YOU?

64  DO WE CAUSE IT TO GROW OR DO YOU?

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CHAPTER 56.  THE EVENT                                            SECTION 2 (CONT'D). PART XXVII

65  WERE IT OUR WILL WE COULD CRUMBLE IT TO DRY POWDER
AND THEN YOU WOULD BE LEFT IN WONDER

66  SAYING, WE ARE LEFT WITH DEBTS FOR NOTHING 

67  AND SHUT OUT OF THE FRUITS OF OUR LABORING

68  SEE THE WATER THAT IS CONSUMED BY YOU?

69  DO WE BRING IT DOWN FROM THE CLOUD OR DO YOU?

70  IF WE WILLED WE COULD MAKE IT SALTY AND UNPALATABLE 
THEN WHY DO YOU NOT GIVE THANKS AND BE GRATEFUL?

71  SEE THE FIRE THAT IS KINDLED BY YOU?

72  IS IT WE WHO GROW THE TREE THAT FEEDS THE FIRE OR YOU?

73  WE HAVE MADE IT A MEMORIAL OF OUR HANDIWORK 
AND AN ARTICLE OF COMFORT FOR THE WAYFARERS OF THE DESERT

74  THEN CELEBRATE WITH PRAISES 
THE NAME OF YOUR LORD THE GREATEST

531
CHAPTER 56.  THE EVENT                                                             SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

75  FURTHERMORE I CALL TO WITNESS THE SETTING 
OF THE STARS IN THEIR TRAVERSING

76  AND THAT IS AN ADJURATION THAT IS MIGHTY 

77  THAT THIS IS A QURAN HELD MOST HONORABLY 

78  IN A BOOK WELL GUARDED SECURELY

79  WHICH WILL BE TOUCHED BY NONE EXCEPT THE PURE ONES

80  A REVELATION FROM THE LORD OF CREATION

81  A MESSAGE THIS MIGHTY
WOULD YOU TAKE IT LIGHTLY?

82  AND HAVE YOU MADE IT YOUR LIVELIHOOD 
THAT YOU SHOULD DECLARE IT AS FALSEHOOD?

83  THEN WHY ARE YOU NOT INTERVENING 
WHEN THE DYING MAN IS DYING?

84  WHILE YOU ARE THERE LOOKING?

85  BUT WE ARE NEARER TO HIM THAN YOU
BUT THIS IS NOT SEEN BY YOU

86  WHY DO YOU NOT IF YOU ARE FREE FROM ACCOUNTABILITY

87  BRING BACK THE SOUL TO ITS BODY
IF YOU ARE ACTING TRUTHFULLY?

88  THEN IF HE BE OF THOSE NEAREST TO GOD TRULY

89  THERE IS FOR HIM REST AND PROVISION
AND A GARDEN OF SATISFACTION

90  IF HE BE OF THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND

91  PEACE BE UNTO YOU THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND

92  AND IF HE BE OF THOSE WHO ARE REJECTERS

93  FOR HIM IS A DRINK OF BOILING WATER

94  AND BURNING IN HELLFIRE

95  THIS IS THE TRUTH FOR SURE

96  SO CELEBRATE WITH PRAISES 
THE NAME OF YOUR LORD THE GREATEST

532
CHAPTER 57.  IRON                                                                         SECTION 1.  PART XXVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHATEVER IS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH DECLARES GOD'S GLORY 
FOR HE IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

2  TO HIM BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 

HE CAUSES DEATH AND IS LIFE GIVING 
AND HE HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS 

3  HE IS THE FIRST AND THE LAST, THE EVIDENT 
AND THE IMMANENT 

AND HE IS ALL KNOWING
OF ALL THINGS

4  HE IT IS WHO IN SIX DAYS CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH 
AND IS MOREOVER ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE OF POWER 

HE KNOWS WHAT ENTERS THE EARTH AND WHAT COMES OUT OF IT 
WHAT COMES DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND WHAT MOUNTS UP TO IT 

WHEREVER YOU MAY BE HE IS WITH YOU
AND GOD SEES WELL ALL THAT YOU DO

5  THE DOMINION OF HEAVEN AND EARTH BELONG TO GOD
AND ALL AFFAIRS ARE REFERRED BACK TO GOD

6  HE MERGES NIGHT
INTO DAY AND DAY INTO NIGHT

AND HE HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE
OF ALL OF THE HEART'S SECRETS

7  BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER AND SPEND IN CHARITY
OUT OF THE SUBSTANCE HE HAS GIVEN YOU INHERENTLY
FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND SPEND IN CHARITY
FOR THEM IS A GREAT REWARD INDEED

8  AND WHAT CAUSE HAVE YOU WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BELIEVE 
IN GOD AND WHEN THE APOSTLE INVITES YOU TO BELIEVE 
AND HE HAS TAKEN YOUR COVENANT IF YOU BELIEVE?

9  HE SENDS TO HIS SERVANT MANIFEST MESSAGES 
TO LEAD YOU INTO LIGHT OUT FROM DARKNESS 
AND GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND KINDNESS

10  AND WHY SHOULD YOU NOT SPEND IN GOD'S CAUSE FREELY
WHEN TO GOD BELONGS EVERYTHING EARTHLY AND HEAVENLY?
AND NOT EQUAL ARE THOSE WHO DID SPEND FREELY  
AND FOUGHT BEFORE THE VICTORY 
WITH THOSE WHO DID SO BELATEDY 
THOSE ARE IN RANK A HIGHER DEGREE
THAN THOSE WHO FOUGHT AFTER AND SPENT FREELY
BUT TO ALL HAS GOD PROMISED A REWARD THAT IS GOODLY 
AND ALL THAT YOU DO GOD SEES CLEARLY

533
CHAPTER 57.  IRON                                                                         SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

11  WHO IS HE THAT WILL LOAN 
TO GOD A BEAUTIFUL LOAN?  

FOR GOD WILL INCREASE IT MANIFOLD TO HIS CREDIT 
AND HE WILL BE LIBERALLY REWARDED FOR IT

12  ON THAT DAY YOU WILL SEE THE BELIEVING
MEN AND WOMEN, BEFORE THEM THEIR LIGHT BURNING
AND BY THEIR HANDS GLAD TIDINGS
FOR YOU THIS DAY ARE GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING
AS THEIR PERMANENT DWELLING 
AND THAT WILL BE THE ULTIMATE BLESSING

13  THE HYPOCRITES, MEN AND WOMEN WILL SAY 
TO THE BELIEVERS ON THAT DAY

WAIT FOR US THAT WE MIGHT
BORROW A LIGHT FROM YOUR LIGHT 
IT WILL BE SAID, TURN BACK IN FLIGHT
THEN FROM WHERE YOU CAN SEEK A LIGHT 

A WALL WILL BE PUT UP BETWEEN THEM WITH A GATE WITHIN IT 
THERE WILL BE MERCY INSIDE IT AND WRATH OUTSIDE OF IT 

14  THOSE WITHOUT WILL CALL OUT, WERE WE NOT WITH YOU? 
THE OTHERS WILL REPLY, WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE 
BUT YOU LET YOUR TEMPTATIONS MISLEAD YOU 
AND YOU LOOKED FORWARD TO OUR RUIN TOO
AND YOU DOUBTED GOD'S PROMISE TO YOU
AND YOUR FALSE DESIRES DECEIVED YOU 
UNTIL GOD'S COMMAND WAS ISSUED TO YOU 
AND THE ARCH DECEIVER DECEIVED YOU 

15  THIS DAY OF YOU WILL NO RANSOM BE CONSIDERED 
NOR OF THOSE AMONG YOU WHO WERE REJECTERS 
YOUR ABODE TODAY WILL BE THE FIRE
AND THAT PLACE FOR YOU IS PROPER
AND AN EVIL REFUGE IT IS FOR SURE

16  HAS NOT THE TIME ARRIVED FOR THE BELIEVERS 
THAT THEIR HEARTS IN ALL HUMILITY SHOULD REMEMBER
GOD AND THE TRUTH WHICH HAS BEEN DELIVERED?
THEY SHOULD NOT BECOME LIKE THOSE TO WHOM SCRIPTURES
WERE REVEALED TO THEM IN DAYS PRIOR
BUT LONG AGES PASSED THEM OVER  
AND THEIR HEARTS GREW HARDER
FOR MANY AMONG THEM ARE TRANSGRESSORS 
AND REBELLIOUS DISOBEDIENT SINNERS

17  YOUR LORD GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER IT DIES  
AND ALREADY HAVE WE SHOWN YOU THE SIGNS  
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY BECOME WISE

18  THOSE MEN AND WOMEN WHO GIVE IN CHARITY 
AND LOAN TO THEIR LORD A LOAN OF BEAUTY 
IT WILL BE INCREASED FOR THEM GREATLY
AND THEY WILL BE REWARDED LIBERALLY

19  AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
THEY ARE LOVERS OF TRUTH AND ARE SINCERE

AND THE WITNESSES WHO IN THE EYES OF THEIR LORD 
THEY WILL HAVE THEIR LIGHT AND THEIR REWARD 

BUT THOSE WHO DENY OUR SIGNS AND ARE DISBELIEVERS
THEY ARE THE COMPANIONS OF HELL FIRE

534
CHAPTER 57.  IRON                                                                         SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

20  KNOW THAT THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD IS BUT SPORTING
AND PLAYING AND AMUSEMENT AND  POMP AND BOASTING 

AND AMONG YOURSELVES MULTIPLYING IN RIVALRY  
RICHES AND CHILDREN AND HERE IS A ALLEGORY

HOW RAIN AND THE GROWTH WHICH IT BEARS
DELIGHTS THE HEARTS OF THE TILLERS
IT GROWS YELLOW AND WITHERS 
THEN IT DRIES AND CRUMBLES THEREAFTER  
THERE IS A SEVERE PENALTY IN THE HEREAFTER 
FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE WRONG DOERS
AND FORGIVENESS FROM GOD AND HIS GOOD PLEASURE 
FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

AND WHAT IS THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD REALLY?
NOTHING BUT GOODS AND CHATTELS OF VANITY

21  SEEK FORGIVENESS FROM YOUR CREATOR
AND A GARDEN WHEREIN FLOW PLEASANT RIVERS 
THE WIDTH OF IT IS THE WIDTH OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGERS
WHICH GOD BESTOWS ON THOSE OF HIS PLEASURE
AND GOD IS THE LORD OF GRACE AND HONOR

22  NO MISFORTUNE ON EARTH OR IN YOUR PERSONS CAN HAPPEN
BUT IS RECORDED IN A DECREE WE BEFORE CAUSE  IT TO HAPPEN 
AND THAT FOR GOD IS EASY FOR CERTAIN

23  IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY NOT DESPAIR OVER MATTERS 
THAT PASS YOU BY NOR EXULT OVER FAVORS 
BESTOWED UPON YOU, FOR GOD LOVES NOT ANY BOASTERS

24  SUCH PERSONS THAT ARE MISERLY 
AND COMMEND MEN TO BE MISERLY 
AND TURN BACK FROM GOD, GOD IS SURELY 
FREE OF ALL NEEDS AND IS PRAISEWORTHY

25  WITH CLEAR MESSAGES WE SENT MESSENGERS
AND SENT DOWN WITH THEM SCRIPTURES
AND SENT DOWN THE JUST MEASURE
AND WE SENT DOWN IRON IN WHICH IS MATTER
FOR MIGHTY WAR AS WELL AS MANY OTHER
BENEFITS FOR MEN THAT GOD MAY TEST THE HELPERS 
THAT WILL HELP HIM UNSEEN AND HIS MESSENGERS
FOR GOD IS FULL OF STRENGTH AND EXALTED IN POWER

535
CHAPTER 57.  IRON                                                                        SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

26  AND WE SENT NOAH AND ABRAHAM AND OTHERS
AND GAVE THEIR OFFSPRING PROPHETHOOD AND SCRIPTURE
AND SOME OF THEM WERE RIGHTEOUS DOERS 
AND SOME OF THEM WERE IN MANIFEST ERROR

27  WE FOLLOWED THEM UP WITH OTHERS OF OUR APOSTLES
WE SENT  JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, AND GAVE HIM THE GOSPELS 

AND WE ORDAINED IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO FOLLOWED HIM 
COMPASSION AND MERCY, BUT THE MONASTICISM 
WHICH THEY INVENTED WE DID NOT PRESCRIBE FOR THEM

WE ONLY ORDERED THE SEEKING OF GOD'S PLEASURE 
BUT THAT THEY DID NOT FOSTER 
AS THEY SHOULD HAVE ENDEAVORED
YET WE REWARDED THOSE WHO WERE BELIEVERS 
BUT MANY OF THEM ARE REBELLIOUS TRANSGRESSORS

28  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
FEAR GOD AND BELIEVE IN HIS MESSENGER
AND HE WILL GIVE YOU DOUBLE PORTIONS OF HIS FAVORS 
HE WILL GIVE YOU LIGHT BY WHICH YOU WILL WALK STRAIGHTER  
AND WILL FORGIVE YOU YOUR PAST FOR HE IS THE MERCIFUL FORGIVER

29  THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK MAY KNOW OF HIS GRACE
AND THEY HAVE NO POWER OVER GOD'S GRACE 
THAT ENTIRELY IN HIS HAND IS HIS GRACE 
ON WHOEVER HE PLEASES HE BESTOWS HIS GRACE
FOR GOD IS THE LORD OF UNBOUNDED GRACE 

536
CHAPTER 58.  THE WOMAN WHO PLEADS                           SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

PART  XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  GOD HAS HEARD THE PLEA OF HER
WHO PLEADS WITH YOU IN HER HUSBAND'S MATTER
AND SHE CARRIES HER COMPLAINT TO GOD IN PRAYER 
GOD HEARS BOTH ARGUMENTS FOR GOD DOES HEAR 
AND OF ALL THINGS HE IS THE SEER

2  IF ANY MEN DIVORCE THEIR MARITAL PARTNERS
BY SAYING TO THEM, YOU ARE LIKE MY MOTHER 
THEY CANNOT BE THEIR MOTHERS 
AND NONE CAN BE THEIR MOTHERS 
EXCEPT THOSE WHO GAVE THEM BIRTH
AND IN FACT THEY USE WORDS IN ERROR 
BUT GOD DOES FORGIVE TRANSGRESSORS
FOR GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

3  THOSE WHO DIVORCE WIVES BY SAYING, YOU ARE LIKE MY MOTHER 
THEN THEY WISH TO GO BACK ON THE WORDS THEY UTTERED 
MUST FREE A SLAVE BEFORE THEY TOUCH EACH OTHER 
AND TO PERFORM THIS YOU ARE ORDERED
FOR OF ALL THINGS GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

4  AND IF ANY HAS NOT THE ABILITY
THEN HE SHOULD FAST FOR TWO MONTHS CONSECUTIVELY 
BEFORE THEY TOUCH EACH OTHER SUBSEQUENTLY
BUT IF ANY IS UNABLE THEN SHOULD FEED SIXTY 
INDIGENT ONES SO THAT YOU MAY SHOW YOUR PIETY 
TO GOD AND HIS APOSTLE AND THIS IS GOD'S PERIPHERY  
FOR THOSE WHO REJECT HIM IS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

5  THOSE WHO RESIST GOD AND HIS MESSENGER  
WILL BE HUMBLED TO DUST AS THOSE BEFORE THEM WERE
FOR WE HAVE SENT DOWN CLEAR SIGNS TO THE DISBELIEVERS 
THAT THEIR PUNISHMENT WILL BE SEVERE

6  ON THE DAY THAT GOD WILL RAISE THEM ALL UP AGAIN
AND SHOW THEM THE TRUTH OF THEIR ACTIONS
AND THIS IS WHAT GOD HAS RECKONED 
ALTHOUGH THEY MAY HAVE FORGOTTEN  
FOR GOD IS THE WITNESSES OVER ALL CREATION

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CHAPTER 58.  THE WOMAN WHO PLEADS                          SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

7  GOD KNOWS ALL IN HEAVEN AND EARTH INDEED 
THERE IS NOT A SECRET CONSULTATION BETWEEN THREE
BUT HE MAKES THE FOURTH NOR BETWEEN FIVE BUT HE 
MAKES THE SIXTH NOR BETWEEN FEWER THAN THESE
OR BETWEEN MORE THAN THESE
BUT HE IS IN THEIR MIDST WHEREVER THEY MAY BE 
IN THE END ON JUDGMENT DAY HE WILL SURELY
TELL THEM WHAT THEY DID, FOR ALL KNOWLEDGE HAS HE

8  HAVE YOU NOT TURNED YOUR VISION
TOWARDS THOSE WHO WERE FORBIDDEN SECRET CONSULTATIONS
AND YET THEY REVERT TO WHAT THEY WERE FORBIDDEN? 
AND YET THEY STILL HOLD SECRET CONSULTATIONS 
AMONG THEMSELVES FOR TRANSGRESSIONS 
FOR DISOBEDIENCE TO THE APOSTLE AND REBELLION
WHEN THEY COME TO YOU THEY GIVE YOU SALUTATIONS
NOT AS GOD GIVES YOU SALUTATIONS 
BUT IN CROOKED WAYS AND TO THEMSELVES THEY MENTION 
WHY DOES NOT GOD GIVE US A PENALIZATION? 
BUT FOR THEM HELL IS A SUFFICIENT PROVISION
IN IT THEY WILL BURN AND IT IS AN EVIL DESTINATION

9  THOSE OF YOU WHO BELIEVE SINCERELY 
WHEN YOU HOLD COUNSEL SECRETLY
DO IT NOT FOR INIQUITY 
AND DISOBEDIENCE TO THE PROPHET OR HOSTILITY
DO IT FOR GOODNESS AND OBSERVANCE OF DUTY
AND FEAR GOD TO WHOM IS YOUR FINAL DESTINY

10  SECRET COUNSELS ARE INSPIRED BY THE DEVIL  
SO HE MAY CAUSE GRIEF TO BELIEVING PEOPLE
 
BUT HE CANNOT HARM THEM EXCEPT AS GOD ORDERS  
AND IN GOD LET BE THE TRUST OF THE BELIEVERS 

11  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE 
WHEN YOU ARE TOLD TO MAKE ROOM IN THE ASSEMBLIES 
MAKE ROOM AND GOD WILL PROVIDE ROOM FOR YOU AMPLY
AND WHEN YOU ARE TOLD TO RISE UP, GOD WILL SURELY
RAISE YOU UP IN RANKS AND DEGREES
THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE AMONG YOU WHO BELIEVE 
AND SURELY GOD KNOWS ALL OF YOUR DEEDS 

12  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE 
WHEN YOU CONSULT THE APOSTLE PRIVATELY  
SPEND SOMETHING IN CHARITY 
BEFORE YOU CONSULT WITH HIM PRIVATELY  
THAT WILL BE MOST CONDUCIVE TO PURITY 
BUT IF YOU FIND NOT THE MEANS IMMEDIATELY
GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

13  IS IT THAT YOU ARE AFRAID OF SPENDING SUMS IN CHARITY 
BEFORE CONSULTING WITH HIM PRIVATELY? 
IF THEN YOU DO NOT SO AND GOD GIVES YOU MERCY 
THEN AT LEAST ESTABLISH PRAYER REGULARLY
AND PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY 
AND OBEY GOD AND THE APOSTLE SINCERELY
AND GOD KNOWS ALL OF YOUR DEEDS SURELY

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CHAPTER 58.  THE WOMAN WHO PLEADS                          SECTION 3.  PART XXVIII

14  HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THOSE WHO TAKE FOR PARTNERS
PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE WRATH OF THE CREATOR?
THEY ARE NOT OF YOU NOR ARE YOU OF THEM EITHER
AND THEY SWEAR KNOWING THEY ARE IN ERROR

15  GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THEM A SEVERE PENALTY
AND EVIL INDEED ARE THEIR DEEDS

16  AND THEY HAVE MADE THEIR OATHS TO BE A SHIELD
SO THEY OBSTRUCT MEN FROM DOING GOD'S WILL
AND THEY WILL HAVE A PENALTY OF EVIL

17  OF NO PROFIT TO THEM AGAINST THE CREATOR
WILL BE THEIR RICHES NOR THEIR SONS EITHER
THEIR DWELLING PLACE WILL BE THE FIRE

18  GOD WILL RAISE THEM ALL UP ONE DAY
THEY WILL SWEAR TO YOU AS TO HIM WILL THEY 
AND THEY THINK THAT THEY HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY 
NO INDEED, BUT LIARS ARE THEY

19  THEY HAVE BEEN MASTERED BY THE DEVIL 
SO HE HAS MADE THEM FORGET DOING GOD'S WILL
AND THEY ARE NOW THE PARTY OF THE DEVIL
AND THE PARTY OF THE DEVIL WILL PERISH IN HELL

20  THOSE WHO RESIST GOD AND HIS APOSTLE 
WILL BE AMONG THOSE WHO WILL BE HUMBLED

21  GOD HAS DECREED
I AND MY APOSTLES WILL SUCCEED
FOR GOD IS STRONG AND ALL MIGHTY INDEED

22  YOU WILL NOT FIND ANY PEOPLE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
LOVING ANY WHO RESIST GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 
EVEN IF THEY ARE THEIR SONS OR THEIR FATHERS
OR THEIR KINDRED OR THEIR BROTHERS 

FOR HE HAS PUT FAITH IN THE HEARTS OF THEM
AND WITH HIS SPIRIT HAS STRENGTHENED THEM
AND HE WILL SURELY ADMIT THEM 
TO GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING BENEATH THEM
AND THEY WILL FOREVER DWELL IN THEM  
THEY WILL BE PLEASED WITH GOD AND HE WITH THEM
AND THEY ARE GOD'S PARTY AND SUCCESS IS ASSURED THEM

 

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CHAPTER 59.  THE GATHERING                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHATEVER IS IN HEAVEN EARTH GLORIFIES  
GOD, FOR HE IS MIGHTY AND WISE

2  IT IS HE WHO GOT OUT THE DISBELIEVERS 
FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES
FROM THEIR HOMES IN THE BANISHMENT PRIOR
THAT THEY WOULD GET OUT YOU DID NOT CONSIDER 
THEY THOUGHT THAT THEIR BARRIERS
WOULD DEFEND THEM FROM THE CREATOR
BUT GOD'S WRATH CAME TO THEM FROM QUARTERS 
FROM WHICH THEY DID NOT CONSIDER
AND INTO THEIR HEARTS CAST TERROR 
AND THEIR DWELLINGS THEY SHATTERED 
BY THEIR OWN HANDS AND THE BELIEVERS  
SO WITH YOUR EYES OBSERVE AND CONSIDER

3  AND HAD IT NOT BEEN THAT GOD HAD ORDERED 
BANISHMENT FOR THEM HE WOULD HAVE FOR SURE 
PUNISHED THEM IN THIS WORLD AND IN THE HEREAFTER 
THEY WILL CERTAINLY HAVE THE PUNISHMENT OF THE FIRE

4  THAT IS BECAUSE THEY RESISTED GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND IF ANY ONE RESISTS THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER 
GOD'S PUNISHMENT IS STRICT AND SEVERE

5  WHETHER YOU CUT THE TENDER PALM TREES ASUNDER
OR LEFT THEM STANDING ON THEIR ROOTS IT WAS BY GOD'S ORDER
THAT WITH SHAME HE MIGHT COVER THE REBELLIOUS TRANSGRESSORS

6  WHAT GOD HAS FROM THEM BESTOWED ON HIS MESSENGER
FOR THIS YOU MADE NO EXPEDITION WITH EITHER 
CAVALRY OR INFANTRY BUT GOD GIVES POWER 
TO HIS MESSENGERS OVER ANY HE DESIRES
AND OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER

7  AND WHAT GOD HAS BESTOWED ON HIS MESSENGER
AND TAKEN AWAY FROM THE TOWN'S DWELLERS 
BELONGS TO GOD AND TO HIS MESSENGER
AND KINDRED AND ORPHANS, THE NEEDY AND WAYFARERS
IN ORDER THAT IT MAY NOT MERELY MAKE A CIRCULAR
BETWEEN THOSE AMONG YOU WHO ARE RICHER 
SO TAKE WHAT IS ASSIGNED TO YOU BY THE MESSENGER 
AND DENY YOURSELVES THAT OF WHICH HE DETERS
AND FEAR GOD FOR HIS PUNISHMENT IS SEVERE

      

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 CHAPTER 59.  THE GATHERING                               SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXVIII

8  SOME PART IS DUE TO THE INDIGENT MIGRATORS
WHO WERE EXPELLED FROM WHERE THEY WERE DWELLERS
WHILE SEEKING GOD'S GRACE  AND HIS GOOD PLEASURE 
AND AIDING THE CREATOR AND HIS MESSENGER
THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE SINCERE 

9  THOSE WHO HAD HOMES IN THE CITY
AND WHO ADOPTED THE FAITH FORMERLY
LOVE THOSE WHO CAME TO THEM FOR SECURITY 
AND IN THEIR HEARTS FOR THEIR THINGS HAVE NO NEED  
BUT PREFER THEM OVER THEMSELVES THOUGH IN POVERTY
AND WHOEVER IS SAVED FROM BEING MISERLY
THEY WILL SURELY ACHIEVE PROSPERITY

10  AND THOSE WHO CAME AFTER 
SAY, OUR LORD, FORGIVE US AND OUR BROTHERS 
WHO CAME BEFORE US AS BELIEVERS
AND LEAVE NOT IN OUR HEARTS ANY RANCOR
OR SENSE OF INJURY AGAINST THE BELIEVERS 
YOU ARE INDEED THE MERCIFUL FORGIVER

 

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CHAPTER 59.  THE GATHERING                                                 SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

11  HAVE YOU NOT BEEN AN OBSERVER 
OF THE HYPOCRITES SAYING TO THEIR DISBELIEVING BROTHERS 
AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES  
IF YOU ARE EXPELLED WE WILL GO OUT WITH YOU TOGETHER 
WE WILL NEVER LISTEN TO ANYONE IN YOUR AFFAIR
AND IF YOU ARE ATTACKED WE WILL BE YOUR HELPERS 
BUT GOD IS THE WITNESS THAT THEY ARE LIARS

12  IF THEY ARE EXPELLED NEVER WILL THEY GO OUT WITH THEM 
AND IF THEY ARE ATTACKED THEY WILL NEVER HELP THEM 
BUT THEY WILL SURELY TURN THEIR BACKS TO THEM
SO THEY WILL RECEIVE NO HELP FROM THEM 

13  SURELY YOU ARE STRONGER 
THAN THEY BECAUSE OF THE TERROR 
IN THEIR HEARTS SENT BY THE CREATOR
FOR THEY ARE MEN COMPLETELY IN ERROR

14  THEY WILL NOT FIGHT YOU EVEN AS A BODY TOGETHER 
EXCEPT IN FORTIFIED CITIES OR FROM BEHIND BARRIERS
THEIR FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES IS SEVERE  
YOU WOULD THINK THEY WERE TOGETHER 
BUT THEIR HEARTS ARE DIVIDED AGAINST EACH OTHER
AND THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLETELY IN ERROR

15  LIKE THOSE WHO PRECEEDED THEM LATELY 
HAVE TASTED THE EVIL RESULT OF THEIR ACTIVITY
AND IN THE HEREAFTER THERE IS FOR THEM A PENALTY

16  LIKE THE DEVIL WHEN HE SAYS TO MEN, DENY GOD 
BUT WHEN MAN OBEYS THE DEVIL AND DENIES GOD 
THE DEVIL SAYS, I AM FREE OF YOU, I FEAR GOD 

17  THE END OF THEM WILL BE THAT THEY WILL GO INTO THE FIRE 
DWELLING IN IT AS A REWARD FOR THE WRONG-DOERS

 

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CHAPTER 59.  THE GATHERING                                                 SECTION 3.  PART XXVIII

18  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
FEAR GOD AND LET EVERY PERSON CONSIDER
WHAT PROVISIONS HE HAS SENT FORTH FOR THE FUTURE 
YES, FEAR GOD FOR GOD KNOWS ALL OF YOUR ENDEAVORS

19  AND BE NOT LIKE THOSE WHO FORGOT THEIR CREATOR
AND HE MADE THEM FORGET THEIR OWN SOULS ALL TOGETHER
AND FURTHER THEY ARE REBELLIOUS TRANSGRESSORS

20  NOT EQUAL ARE THE FIRE'S COMPANIONS 
AND THE COMPANIONS OF THE GARDEN 
IT IS THE GARDEN'S COMPANIONS THAT ACHIEVE SALVATION

21  HAD WE SENT DOWN THIS QURAN ON A MOUNTAIN
YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN IT CRUMBLE FOR CERTAIN 
THESE ARE THE PARABLES WE MAKE TO MEN
THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE ADMONITION

22  GOD IS HE BESIDES WHOM THERE IS NO OTHER DIETY
AND HE KNOWS ALL THINGS DONE OPENLY AND SECRETLY 
AND HE IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

23  AND GOD IS HE BESIDES WHOM THERE IS NO OTHER DEITY
THE SOVEREIGN, THE SOURCE OF PERFECTION AND PEACE
THE GUARDIAN OF FAITH, THE PRESERVER OF SAFETY 
THE IRRESISTIBLE, THE SUPREME, THE ALMIGHTY
GLORY TO GOD, HIGHLY EXALTED IS HE 
ABOVE THE PARTNERS THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM INDEED

24  HE IS GOD, THE CREATOR, THE EVOLVER 
HE IS THE BESTOWER OF FORMS OR COLORS 
TO HIM BELONG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAMES OF HONOR
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH DECLARE HIS POWER 
AND HE IS ALL WISE AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

             

543
CHAPTER 60.  THE WOMAN WHO IS EXAMINED                 SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
TAKE NOT MY AND YOUR ENEMIES AS FRIENDS OR PROTECTORS
OFFERING THEM YOUR LOVE AND THEY ARE REJECTORS
AND THEY HAVE DRIVEN OUT YOU AND THE MESSENGER 
FROM YOUR HOMES SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU ARE BELIEVERS
AND IF YOU HAVE COME OUT TO SEEK MY GOOD PLEASURE 
TAKE THEM NOT AS FRIENDS HOLDING SECRET CONVERSE 
OF LOVE WITH THEM FOR I KNOW ALL YOUR ENDEAVORS
OPEN AND SECRET AND ANY OF YOU WHO DO HAS FOR SURE 
STRAYED FROM THE WAY AND IS IN MANIFEST ERROR

2  IF THEY WERE TO GET THE BETTER OF YOU 
THEY WOULD SURELY BEHAVE AS ENEMIES TO YOU 
AND STRETCH FORTH THEIR HANDS AND TONGUES AGAINST YOU 
AND THEIR DESIRE IS THAT YOU SHOULD REJECT TRUTH AS THEY DO

3  NO PROFIT WILL YOUR RELATIVES AND YOUR CHILDREN BE TO YOU   
ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND HE WILL JUDGE BETWEEN YOU 
FOR GOD SEES WELL ALL THAT YOU DO

4   THERE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE IN ABRAHAM AND HIS FOLLOWERS 
WHEN HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE ,OF YOU WE ARE CLEAR 
AND OF WHATEVER YOU WORSHIP BESIDES THE CREATOR
AND WE HAVE REJECTED YOU AND THERE IS A BARRIER
BETWEEN US, AND ENMITY FOREVER
UNLESS YOU BELIEVE ALONE IN THE CREATOR 
BUT ABRAHAM SAID TO HIS FATHER
I WILL PRAY FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS THOUGH I HAVE NO POWER
TO GET ANYTHING ON YOUR BEHALF FROM YOUR MAKER 
THEY PRAYED, OH OUR LORD AND CHERISHER
IN YOU WE TRUST, FORGIVE US FOR OUR ERRORS 
AND TO YOU IS OUR FINAL GOAL IN THE HEREAFTER

5  OUR LORD MAKE US NOT A TRIAL FOR THOSE WHO ACT UNJUSTLY
BUT FORGIVE US, OUR LORD, FOR YOU ARE ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

6  THERE WAS IN THEM AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE 
FOR YOU TO FOLLOW AND FOR THOSE PEOPLE

WHOSE HOPE IS IN GOD AND IN THE LAST DAY 
BUT IF ANY OF THOSE AMONG YOU TURN AWAY 
GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE

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CHAPTER 60.  THE WOMAN WHO IS EXAMINED                 SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

7  IT MAY BE THAT GOD WILL POSSIBLY
GRANT LOVE BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR ENEMIES 
FOR GOD IS FULL OF POWER AND FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

8  GOD FORBIDS YOU NOT REGARDING
THOSE WHO ARE NOT GUILTY OF FIGHTING YOU FOR BELIEVING
AND FOR DRIVING YOU OUT OF YOUR DWELLINGS
FROM ENGAGING WITH THEM IN JUST DEALING
GOD LOVES THOSE WHO ENGAGE IN JUST DEALING

9  GOD ONLY FORBIDS YOU REGARDING
THOSE WHO ARE GUILTY OF FIGHTING YOU FOR BELIEVING
AND DRIVING YOU OUT OF YOUR DWELLINGS
AND SUPPORTING OTHERS IN DRIVING YOU FROM YOUR DWELLINGS
FROM TURNING TO THEM, FOR THIS IS WRONG IN DOING 

10  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
WHEN THERE COME TO YOU REFUGEE WOMEN AS BELIEVERS
EXAMINE THEM AS TO THEIR BEING BELIEVERS
AND YOUR LORD IS THE BEST KNOWER  
IF YOU ASCERTAIN THAT THEY ARE BELIEVERS 
THEN SEND THEM NOT BACK TO THE DISBELIEVERS 
THEY ARE NOT LAWFUL WIVES FOR THE DISBELIEVERS 
NOR ARE THE DISBELIEVERS LAWFUL HUSBANDS FOR THEM EITHER
BUT PAY THE DISBELIEVERS WHAT THEY HAVE SPENT ON THEIR DOWERS 
AND THERE WILL BE NO BLAME ON YOU IF THEREAFTER 
YOU PAY THEM THEIR DOWERS IF YOU WED THEM AS PARTNERS
BUT HOLD NOT WOMEN TO THE GUARDIANSHIP OF DISBELIEVERS
AND ASK FOR WHAT YOU HAVE SPENT ON THEIR DOWERS 
LET THE DISBELIEVERS ASK FOR WHAT THEY SPENT ON THE DOWERS 
OF WOMEN WHO TO YOU COME OVER  
THIS IS BETWEEN YOU YOUR LORD'S ORDER 
AND GOD IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND POWER

11  AND IF ANY OF YOUR WIVES DESERT TO THE DISBELIEVERS
AND YOU HAVE AN ACCESSION THEN PAY OVER
TO THOSE WHOSE WIVES ARE DESERTERS 
THE EQUIVALENT OF WHAT THEY HAD SPENT ON THEIR DOWERS 
AND FEAR GOD IN WHOM YOU ARE A BELIEVER

12  OH PROPHET, WHEN BELIEVING WOMEN COME TO YOU EARNESTLY
TO TAKE THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE AND SINCERITY 
THAT THEY WILL WORSHIP THE ONE GOD ONLY
AND THAT THEY WILL NOT STEAL OR COMMIT ADULTERY
NOT KILL THEIR CHILDREN OR BRING A CALUMNY
UTTERING SLANDER AND ACTING FALSELY 
AND THAT THEY WILL NOT ACT DISOBEDIENTLY
THEN SHOULD YOU RECEIVE THEIR ALLEGIANCE SINCERELY
AND PRAY TO GOD FOR THEIR FORGIVENESS EARNESTLY
FOR GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY 

13  TURN NOT FOR FRIENDSHIP, OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
TO PEOPLE ON WHOM IS THE WRATH OF THE CREATOR
FOR OF THE HEREAFTER THEY ARE ALREADY IN DESPAIR
AS THE DISBELIEVERS ABOUT THOSE IN THE GRAVES ARE IN DESPAIR 

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 CHAPTER 61.  THE RANKS                                                         SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHATEVER IS IN THE HEAVENS AND ON EARTH GLORIFIES
THE PRAISES OF GOD, FOR HE IS MIGHTY AND WISE

2  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, WHY SAY YOU 
THAT WHICH YOU DO NOT DO?

3  HATEFUL IS IT IN GOD'S SIGHT THAT YOU
SAY THAT WHICH YOU DO NOT DO

4  THOSE WHO FIGHT IN GOD'S WAY HE LOVES THEM ALL
WHO FIGHT IN RANKS AS IF THEY WERE A SOLID WALL

5  AND REMEMBER MOSES SAID TO HIS PEOPLE
WHY DO YOU INSULT ME WHEN YOU KNOW I AM GOD'S APOSTLE 
THEN WHEN THEY WENT WRONG AND DID EVIL
GOD LET THEM FOR GOD GUIDES NOT WRONG DOING PEOPLE

6  JESUS, THE SON OF MARY SAID, OH CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
I AM SENT TO YOU AS GOD'S APOSTLE 
CONFIRMING THE LAW WHICH CAME WITH THE APOSTLE 
BEFORE ME AND GIVING GLAD TIDINGS OF AFTER ME AN APOSTLE 
WHOSE NAME WILL BE AHMAD, AND HE FULFILLED
GIVING THEM CLEAR SIGNS AND THEY SAID, THIS A SPELL

7  WHO DOES GREATER WRONG THAN ONE WHO INVENTS FALSITY 
AGAINST GOD WHEN HE IS BEING INVITED TO ACT SUBMISSIVELY?  
AND GOD GUIDES NOT THOSE WHO ACT WRONGFULLY

8  THEIR INTENTION IS TO EXTINGUISH GOD'S LIGHT 
WITH THEIR MOUTHS BUT HE WILL COMPLETE HIS LIGHT 
EVEN THOUGH IT WOULD BE TO THE DISBELIEVERS DISLIKE

9  GOD SENT HIS APOSTLE WITH GUIDANCE AND THE TRUE RELIGION 
THAT HE MAY MAKE IT OVERCOME ALL OF THE RELIGIONS 
ALTHOUGH THE POLYTHEISTS MAY BE IN OPPOSITION

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CHAPTER 61.  THE RANKS                                                          SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

10  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, SHALL I LEAD YOU 
TO A BARGAIN THAT WILL SAVE YOU 
FROM A GRIEVOUS PENALTY FALLING UPON YOU?

11  THAT YOU BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND THAT YOU STRIVE IN THE CAUSE OF YOUR MAKER
WITH YOUR PERSONS AND YOUR PROPERTY YOU HAVE ACQUIRED 
IF YOU BUT KNEW THAT FOR YOU WOULD BE BETTER

12  HE WILL FORGIVE YOU YOUR SINS
AND WILL ADMIT YOU TO GARDENS 
IN WHICH RIVERS FLOW WITHIN
AND TO BEAUTIFUL MANSIONS 
AND PERPETUAL GARDENS 
THAT IS THE SUPREME SALVATION

13  AND ANOTHER FAVOR WILL HE SURELY
BESTOW WHICH YOU LOVE INDEED
HELP FROM GOD AND A SPEEDY VICTORY 
SO GIVE THE GOOD NEWS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE

14  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, BE GOD'S HELPERS 
AS JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, SAID TO HIS FOLLOWERS
TO DO GOD'S WORK WHO OF YOU WILL BE MY HELPERS? 
THE DISCIPLES SAID TO HIM, WE ARE GOD'S HELPERS 
SOME OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BECAME BELIEVERS 
AND A PORTION OF THEM WERE DISBELIEVERS 
WE GAVE POWER AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES TO THE BELIEVERS 
AND THEY BECAME THE ONES THAT WERE THE WINNERS

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CHAPTER 62.  THE CONGREGATION                                       SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHATEVER IS IN THE HEAVENS AND ON EARTH GLORIFIES
GOD, THE SOVEREIGN, THE HOLY, THE MIGHTY, THE WISE

2  IT IS HE WHO HAS SENT AMONG THE UNLETTERED 
FROM AMONG THEM A MESSENGER
TO RECITE TO THEM HIS MESSAGES CLEAR 
AND INSTRUCT THEM IN WISDOM AND IN SCRIPTURE
ALTHOUGH THEY HAD BEEN BEFORE IN MANIFEST ERROR

3  AS WELL AS TO CONFER 
ALL THESE BENEFITS UPON OTHERS 
WHO HAVE NOT JOINED IN THEM PRIOR 
AND HE IS ALL WISE AND HAS ALL POWER 

4  THIS IS THE BOUNTY OF GOD WHICH HE BESTOWS FREELY
 ON WHOM HE PLEASES, AND GOD IS THE LORD OF BOUNTY

5  THE SIMILITUDE OF THOSE WHO WERE CHARGED FAITHFULLY
WITH THE TORAH AND FAILED IN THOSE OBLIGATIONS SUBSEQUENTLY 
IS THAT OF BOOKS BEING CARRIED BY A DONKEY 
AND EVIL IS THE SIMILITUDE OF PEOPLE WHO FALSELY
REJECT GOD'S SIGNS INSOLENTLY
AND GOD GUIDES NOT PEOPLE OF INIQUITY

6  SAY, OH YOU THAT ARE JEWS
IF YOU THINK THAT YOU 
ARE FRIENDS TO GOD TO EXCLUDE 
OTHER MEN THEN WISH DEATH UPON YOU
IF YOU THINK WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE

7  BUT NEVER WILL THEY EXPRESS THEIR DESIRE 
FOR DEATH BECAUSE OF THE DEEDS THEY HAVE DONE PRIOR
AND YOUR LORD SURELY KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE WRONG DOERS

8  SAY, THE DEATH FROM WHICH YOU FLEE 
WILL OVERTAKE YOU THEN WILL YOU BE 
SENT BACK TO THE KNOWER OF DEEDS
SECRET AND OPEN AND HE WILL INDEED
TELL YOU THE TRUTH OF ALL OF YOUR DEEDS

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CHAPTER 62.  THE CONGREGATION                                      SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

9  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
WHEN THE CALL IS MADE FOR FRIDAY PRAYER  
HASTEN TO THE REMEMBRANCE OF YOUR MAKER
AND LEAVE OFF BUSINESS, FOR YOU THAT WILL BE  BETTER

10  AND WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED THE PRAYER 
THEN THROUGH THE LAND YOU MAY DISPERSE 
AND SEEK OF YOUR LORD'S TREASURES 
AND CELEBRATE THE PRAISES OF THE CREATOR 
OFTEN SO THAT YOU MAY PROSPER

11  BUT WHEN THEY SEE SOME BARGAIN OR SOMETHING AMUSING
THEY DISPERSE HEADLONG INTO IT AND LEAVE YOU STANDING 
SAY, FROM THE PRESENCE OF OUR LORD, HIS BLESSING
IS BETTER THAN ANY AMUSEMENT OR BARGAINING
GOD IS THE BEST TO PROVIDE FOR ALL THINGS

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CHAPTER 63.  THE HYPOCRITES                                               SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THE HYPOCRITES SAY, WE ARE WITNESS BEARERS  
THAT YOU ARE INDEED GOD'S MESSENGER 
AND YES, GOD KNOWS THAT YOU ARE HIS MESSENGER 
AND GOD IS THE WITNESS BEARER 
THAT THE HYPOCRITES ARE SURELY LIARS 

2  THEY HAVE MADE THEIR OATHS A SCREEN FOR THEIR MISDEEDS
SO THEY OBSTRUCT MEN FROM GOD'S PATH INDEED
AND SINFUL AND EVIL ARE THEIR DEEDS

3  THAT IS BECAUSE THEY REJECTED BELIEVING
SO OVER THEIR HEARTS WAS SET A SEALING
SO THAT THEY HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING

4  WHEN YOU LOOK AT THEM YOU ARE PLEASED WITH THEM
AND WHEN THEY SPEAK YOU LISTEN TO THEM
AS PROPPED UP PIECES OF TIMBER IS THE LIKENESS OF THEM
AND THEY THINK THAT EVERY CRY IS AGAINST THEM 
THEY ARE THE ENEMIES SO BEWARE OF THEM 
AND THE CURSE OF GOD BE ON THEM 
AND DELUSION IS UPON THEM

5  AND WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, COME, GOD'S APOSTLE WILL PRAY 
FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS BUT THEY TURN THEIR HEADS AWAY
AND THEY ARROGANTLY TURN THEIR FACES AWAY

6  IT IS EQUAL TO THEM
WHETHER OR NOT YOU PRAY FOR THEM
GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE THEM 
FOR TRANSGRESSORS GOD DOES NOT GUIDE THEM

7  THEY ARE THE ONES WHO SAY, SPEND NOT YOUR TREASURES
ON THOSE WHO ARE ON THE WAY WITH GOD'S MESSENGER 
TO THE END THAT THEY MAY DISPERSE 
BUT TO GOD BELONG THE TREASURES 
OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
BUT THE HYPOCRITES HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE FOR SURE

8  THEY SAY, IF WE RETURN TO MEDINA THOSE MORE HONORED 
WILL BE EXPELLED FROM THE WEAKER
BUT ALL HONOR BELONGS TO GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND TO THE BELIEVERS
BUT THE HYPOCRITES KNOW NOT FOR SURE

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CHAPTER 63.  THE HYPOCRITES                                              SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

9  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, LET NOT YOUR CHILDREN DIVERT YOU 
FROM THE REMEMBRANCE OF GOD, IF ANY OF YOU DO
THE LOSS WILL SURELY BE TO YOU

10  AND SPEND SOMETHING IN CHARITY OUT OF THE BOUNTY
WHICH WE HAVE BESTOWED UPON YOU FREELY
BEFORE DEATH COMES TO YOU AND YOU WILL PLEA
OH MY LORD, WHY DID YOU NOT GIVE RESPITE TO ME
I WOULD THEN HAVE GIVEN LARGELY IN CHARITY
AND WOULD HAVE BEEN OF THOSE WHO ACTED RIGHTEOUSLY

11  GOD GRANTS TO NO SOUL RESPITE WHEN ITS TIME HAS ENDED 
AND WITH ALL THAT YOU DO GOD IS AQUATINTED

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CHAPTER 64.  THE MUTUAL LOSS AND GAIN                      SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE BENEFICENT AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  EVERYTHING IN HEAVEN AND EARTH DECLARES GOD'S GLORY 
TO HIM BELONGS THE SOVEREIGNTY 
TO HIM BELONGS PRAISE AND DIGNITY
AND ALL POWER OVER ALL THINGS HAS HE

2  IT IS HE WHO IS YOUR CREATOR 
AND SOME OF YOU ARE DISBELIEVERS
AND SOME OTHERS OF YOU ARE BELIEVERS
AND OF ALL THAT YOU DO YOUR LORD IS THE SEER 

3  HE HAS CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH IN JUST PROPORTIONS 
AND HAS GIVEN YOU SHAPES IN BEAUTIFUL FORMATIONS 
AND TO HIM IS THE FINAL DESTINATION

4  HE KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS 
HE KNOWS WHAT YOU REVEAL AND WHAT YOU KEEP HIDDEN 
YES GOD KNOWS WELL THE SECRETS THE HEARTS KEEP WITHIN

5  HAS NOT REACH YOU THE STORY  
OF THOSE WHO REJECTED FAITH PREVIOUSLY?
THEY TASTED THE EVIL RESULT OF THEIR FOLLY
AND THEY HAD TO ENDURE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

6  THAT WAS BECAUSE THERE CAME TO THEM MESSENGERS
BRINGING TO THEM CLEAR MESSAGES AND SCRIPTURES
BUT THEY SAID, WILL HUMANS BE OUR DIRECTORS? 
SO OF THE MESSAGES THEY BECAME REJECTORS  
BUT GOD CAN DO WITHOUT THEM AS HELPERS
FOR GOD IS FREE OF ALL NEEDS AND EXALTED IN POWER

7  THE DISBELIEVERS THINK THAT RAISED UP THEY WILL NOT BE  
SAY, YES, BY MY LORD YOU WILL BE RAISED UP SURELY
THEN WILL YOU BE TOLD OF ALL THAT YOU DID TRUTHFULLY
AND SURELY FOR GOD THAT IS NO DIFFICULTY

8  BELIEVE THEREFORE IN GOD AND THE MESSENGER
AND IN THE LIGHT WE SENT DOWN MAKING THINGS CLEAR
AND OF ALL THAT YOU DO GOD IS THE SEER

9  THE DAY THAT YOUR LORD ASSEMBLES ALL OF YOU TOGETHER 
THAT WILL BE A DAY OF LOSS FOR SOME AND GAIN FOR OTHERS
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
HE WILL REMOVE FROM THEM THEIR ILLS AND ERRORS
AND WILL ADMIT THEM TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS  
AND THEY WILL DWELL IN THEM FOR EVER 
THAT WILL BE THE SUPREME FAVOR

10  BUT THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
AND TREAT OUR MESSENGERS AS LIARS
THEY WILL BE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE 
THEY WILL DWELL IN IT FOR EVER 
AN EVIL DESTINY OF TERROR

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CHAPTER 64.  THE MUTUAL LOSS AND GAIN                      SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

11  AND NO KIND OF CALAMITY CAN OCCUR 
EXCEPT BY THE LEAVE OF THE CREATOR
AND ANY ONE THAT IS A BELIEVER 
GOD GUIDES HIS HEART FOR GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

12  SO OBEY GOD AND OBEY HIS MESSENGER 
BUT IF YOU TURN BACK THE DUTY OF THE MESSENGER 
IS ONLY TO PROCLAIM THE MESSAGE CLEAR

13  GOD, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
ON GOD LET THE BELIEVERS PUT THEIR TRUST COMPLETELY

14  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
AMONG YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR MARITAL PARTNERS
ARE ENEMIES TO YOU SO OF THEM BEWARE 
BUT IF THEIR FAULTS YOU WILL COVER
YOUR LORD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER 

15  YOUR RICHES AND YOUR CHILDREN MAY BE  A TRIAL TO YOU
BUT WITH YOUR LORD IS THE GREATEST REWARD FOR YOU

16  SO FEAR GOD AND KEEP YOUR DUTY 
AND LISTEN AND OBEY AND SPEND IN CHARITY 
FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOURSELVES AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT GREEDY 
THEY ARE THE ONES THAT WILL ACHIEVE PROSPERITY

17  IF YOU LOAN A BEAUTIFUL LOAN TO YOUR CREATOR
HE WILL DOUBLE IT TO YOUR CREDIT AND MAKE IT GREATER
AND FORGIVE YOU FOR HE IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER 

18  KNOWER OF WHAT IS DONE SECRETLY AND OPENLY
FOR HE IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY 

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CHAPTER 65.  DIVORCE                                                               SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH PROPHET WHEN YOU DIVORCE WOMEN IT IS PRESCRIBED
THAT YOU DIVORCE THEM AT THEIR PERIODS THAT ARE PRESCRIBED 
AND COUNT THE PERIODS THAT ARE PRESCRIBED
AND TURN THEM NOT OUT FROM WHERE THEY RESIDE
UNLESS THEY ARE GUILTY OF LEWDNESS THAT THEY DID NOT HIDE
DO NOT LEAVE THEM AND THESE LIMITS ARE SET FOR YOU TO ABIDE 
WHOEVER DOES SO WRONGS HIMSELF AND BESIDES
GOD MAY BRING SOME NEW SITUATION FOR WHICH TO ABIDE

2  SO WHEN THEY FULFILL THEIR TERMS APPROPRIATELY 
EITHER TAKE THEM BACK ON TERMS EQUITABLY
OR PART WITH THEM ON TERMS EQUITABLY 
AND TAKE TWO PERSONS FOR WITNESSES JUSTLY 
AND ESTABLISH THE EVIDENCE BEFORE GOD PROPERLY
THIS IS THE ADMONITION GIVEN TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE   
FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD HE DELIVERS SECURELY 

3  HE PROVIDES FOR HIM FROM SOURCES HE COULD NOT PERCEIVE 
AND IF ANY ONE PUTS HIS TRUST IN GOD COMPLETELY
GOD PROVIDES FOR HIM SUFFICIENTLY
FOR GOD WILL ACCOMPLISH HIS PURPOSE SURELY 
FOR HE INDEED PROPORTIONS DULY

4  FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE PASSED THE AGE OF MONTHLY PERIODS
THREE MONTHS OF WAITING IS THE PRESCRIBED PERIOD
AND FOR THEY WHO HAVE NO PERIODS
UNTIL THEY DELIVER THEIR BURDEN IS THEIR PERIOD 

AND FOR THOSE WHO KEEP THEIR DUTY
HE WILL MAKE THEIR PATH EASY

5  THAT IS THE COMMAND OF GOD SENT TO YOU FROM HIM
ANY WHO FEARS GOD HE WILL REMOVE EVIL FROM HIM 
AND WILL ENLARGE HIS REWARD FOR HIM

6  FOR WOMEN THE STYLE AS YOU LIVE PROVIDE THE SAME FOR THEM
ACCORDING TO YOUR MEANS AND DO NOT ANNOY  THEM  
AND IF THEY CARRY LIFE WITHIN THEM
UNTIL THEY DELIVER SPEND YOUR SUBSTANCE ON THEM  
IF THEY NURSE YOUR OFFSPRING COMPENSATE THEM 
AND TAKE MUTUAL COUNSEL WITH THEM
ACCORDING TO WHAT IS JUST FOR YOU AND THEM 
AND IF YOU FIND YOURSELVES IN DIFFICULTIES WITH THEM
LET ANOTHER WOMAN NURSE THE CHILD ON BEHALF OF HIM

7  LET THE MAN OF MEANS SPEND ACCORDINGLY
LET THE MAN OF LESSER MEANS SPEND ACCORDINGLY  
GOD PUTS NO BURDEN ON ANY BUT WHAT HE CAN CARRY
AND AFTER A DIFFICULTY GOD GRANTS RELIEF SURELY

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CHAPTER 65.  DIVORCE                                                               SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

8  HOW MANY POPULATIONS THAT OPPOSED GOD AND HIS MESSENGERS  
DID WE CALL TO ACCOUNT AND PUNISH THEM AFTER?  

9  THEN DID THEY TASTE THE EVIL RESULT OF THEIR DEEDS 
AND PERDITION WAS THE END OF THEIR CONDUCT INDEED

10  GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THEM A SEVERE PENALTY
THEREFORE FEAR GOD, OH YOU WHO BELIEVE
FOR GOD HAS SENT DOWN TO YOU A MESSAGE CLEARLY

11  AN APOSTLE WHO CAME TO YOU WITH RECITATIONS
OF GOD'S MESSAGES CONTAINING CLEAR EXPLANATIONS 
THAT THOSE WHO BELIEVE FOR THE DEEDS THEY HAVE DONE 
HE MAY LEAD OUT OF DARKNESS INTO THE LIGHT OF THE SUN
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND ARE RIGHTEOUS ONES
WILL DWELL FOREVER IN GARDENS THROUGH WHICH RIVERS RUN 
THE FELICITY GOD HAS GRANTED THEM IS A MOST EXCELLENT ONE

12  GOD IS HE WHO CREATED THE SEVEN HEAVENS
AND OF THE EARTH A SIMILAR COMPOSITION
THROUGH THE MIDST OF THEM HIS COMMAND DESCENDS 
SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT ALL THINGS HE COMPREHENDS 

 

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CHAPTER 66.  THE PROHIBITION                                             SECTION 1.  PART XXVIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE BENEFICENT AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH PROPHET, WHY DO YOU MAKE UNLAWFUL
THAT WHICH GOD HAS MADE LAWFUL?  
YOU SEEK TO PLEASE YOUR WIVES BUT GOD IS MERCIFUL 

2  GOD HAS ALREADY ORDAINED FOR YOU THE DISSOLUTION 
OF YOUR OATHS AND WITH GOD IS YOUR PROTECTION
AND GOD IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM 

3  WHEN THE PROPHET DISCLOSED A MATTER 
CONFIDENTIALLY TO ONE OF HIS MARITAL PARTNERS
AND SHE THEN LAID IT BARE AND GOD MADE HIM AWARE 
AND PART OF IT HE DID CONFIRM AFTER 
AND REPUDIATED A PART OF ANOTHER 
THEN WHEN ABOUT IT HE TOLD HER 
SHE SAID, WHO TOLD YOU OF THESE MATTERS?  
HE SAID, HE TOLD ME, HE WHO IS THE BEST KNOWER 

4  IF YOU TWO TURN IN REPENTANCE TO YOUR MAKER
THEN YOUR HEARTS ARE SO ORDERED
BUT IF AGAINST HIM YOU BACK UP EACH OTHER 
TRULY GOD IS HIS PROTECTOR 
AND GABRIEL AND EVERY RIGHTEOUS BELIEVER
AND THE ANGELS AFTER THAT ARE ALSO HIS AIDERS

5  IT MAY BE IF HE DIVORCED ALL OF YOU 
THAT GOD WILL GIVE HIM BETTER WIVES THAN YOU 
WHO SUBMIT, WHO BELIEVE AND WHO ARE DEVOUT TOO

AND WHO TURN TO GOD IN REPENTANCE SINCERELY 
WHO WORSHIP, TRAVEL, FAST AND PRAY REGULARLY
EITHER VIRGINS OR WOMEN MARRIED PREVIOUSLY

6  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
SAVE YOURSELVES AND YOUR FAMILIES FROM A FIRE 
WHOSE FUEL IS MEN AND STONES AND APPOINTED OVER 
ARE ANGELS WHO FLINCH NOT FROM EXECUTING GOD'S ORDERS 
STERN AND SEVERE AND DO PRECISELY WHAT THEY ARE ORDERED

7  OH DISBELIEVERS, THIS DAY MAKE NO EXCUSES
YOU ARE BEING REQUITED FOR ALL YOUR PERFORMANCES

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CHAPTER 66.  THE PROHIBITION                                             SECTION 2.  PART XXVIII

8  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
TURN TO GOD IN REPENTANCE SINCERE
IN HOPE THAT GOD WILL REMOVE YOUR ERRORS
AND ADMIT YOU TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS  
GOD WILL NOT PERMIT TO BE HUMILIATED THE MESSENGER
AND THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
AND THEIR LIGHT WILL RUN FORWARD 
AND THEY BY THEIR RIGHT HANDS WILL DECLARE 
OUR LORD, PERFECT OUR LIGHT AND MAKE US SECURE
AND FORGIVE US FOR OVER ALL THINGS YOU HAVE POWER 

9  OH PROPHET, STRIVE HARD AGAINST THE DISBELIEVERS
AND THE HYPOCRITES AND AGAINST THEM BE SEVERE
AND THEIR ABODE IS HELL, AN EVIL PLACE FOR SURE

10  GOD SETS FORTH FOR AN EXAMPLE TO DISBELIEVERS 
NOAH AND LOT'S MARITAL PARTNERS
TWO OF OUR RIGHTEOUS SERVANTS WERE THEY UNDER
BUT THEY WERE FALSE TO THEIR PARTNERS
THEY PROFITED NOTHING BEFORE THEIR CREATOR
AND THEY WERE TOLD, ENTER THE FIRE 
ALONG WITH THE OTHERS THAT ENTER

11  GOD SETS FORTH AS AN EXAMPLE TO THE BELIEVERS 
THE WIFE OF PHARAOH, SHE SAID, OH CREATOR
BUILD ME A HOUSE THAT TO YOU I MAY BE NEARER
A MANSION IN THE GARDEN AND LET ME BE DELIVERED 
FROM PHARAOH AND SAVE ME FROM THE WRONG DOERS

MARY, THE DAUGHTER OF AMRAN
WHO GUARDED HER CHASTITY AND WE GAVE HER INSPIRATION 
TO THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD AND HIS REVELATIONS 
AND SHE WAS ONE OF THE DEVOUT BELIEVING ONES

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CHAPTER 67.  THE DOMINION                                                     SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

PART  XXIX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  IN WHOSE HANDS IS THE DOMINION, BLESSED IS HE
AND ALL POWER OVER ALL THINGS HAS HE

2  HE WHO CREATED LIFE AND DEATH 
SO HE MAY TRY WHICH OF YOU IS BEST
AND HE IS THE FORGIVING, THE GREATEST

3  HE WHO IS THE CREATOR OF THE SEVEN HEAVENS
ONE ABOVE THE OTHER AND NO WANT OF PROPORTION 
WILL YOU SEE IN YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER'S CREATION 
SO THEN TURN YOUR VISION, DO YOU SEE ANY IMPERFECTION?

4  AGAIN TURN YOUR VISION 
A SECOND TIME AND YOUR VISION 
WILL COME BACK TO YOU IN EXHAUSTION
AND IN A STATE OF HUMILIATION

5  AND WE HAVE WITH LAMPS ADORNED THE LOWEST HEAVEN 
WE HAVE MADE SUCH LAMPS AS MISSILES TO DRIVE AWAY DEMONS 
AND WE HAVE PREPARED FOR THEM THE FIRE FOR THEIR PENALIZATION

6  FOR THOSE WHO REJECT THEIR LORD IS THE PENALTY OF HELL 
AND IT IS AN EVIL PLACE TO DWELL

7  WHEN THEY ARE CAST INTO IT ON THEIR FACES
THEY WILL HEAR THE MOANING OF IT AS IT BLAZES 

8  ALMOST BURSTING WITH FURY AND EVERY TIME A NEW CREW
IS CAST INTO IT ITS KEEPERS ASK, DID NO WARNER COME TO YOU?

9  THEY WILL SAY, YES INDEED 
A WARNER DID COME TO US BUT WE DID NOT TAKE HEED
AND SAID TO HIM, GOD NEVER SENT DOWN A MESSAGE TO ANY 
YOU ARE IN  NOTHING BUT A FANTASY

10  THEY WILL FURTHER SAY, HAD WE BUT LISTENED
OR IF WE HAD ONLY USED OUR DISCRETION
WE WOULD NOT BE AMONG THE FIRE'S COMPANIONS 

11  THEY WILL CONFESS THEIR SINS BUT FORGIVENESS FOR SURE
WILL BE FAR FROM THE COMPANIONS OF THE BLAZING FIRE 

12  AS FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD 
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A GREAT REWARD

13  AND WHETHER YOU HIDE YOUR WORD OR PUBLISH IT 
WHAT IS IN THE HEARTS HE HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF IT

14  SHOULD HE NOT KNOW, HE THAT CREATED ALL THAT YOU SEE  
AND HE IS THE ONE THAT UNDERSTANDS THE FINEST MYSTERIES 
AND WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THEM IS HE?

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CHAPTER 67.  THE DOMINION                                                     SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

15  IT IS HE WHO HAS MADE THE EARTH YOUR HABITATION 
SO TRAVERSE THROUGH ITS DOMINION 
AND ENJOY WHAT HE FURNISHES OF PROVISIONS
BUT TO HIM IS THE RESURRECTION

16  DO YOU FEEL SECURE THAT HE WHO IS IN HEAVEN 
THAT HE WILL NOT CAUSE YOU TO EXPEND 
WHEN THE EARTH AS IN AN EARTHQUAKE IS SHAKEN?

17  OR DO YOU FEEL SECURE THAT HE WHO IS IN HEAVEN 
WILL NOT SEND AGAINST YOU A VIOLENT WIND
SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW HOW SERIOUS WAS MY ADMONITION?

18  BUT MEN REJECTED MY WARNINGS BEFORE THEM
THEN HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY REJECTION OF THEM

19  DO THEY NOT OBSERVE THE BIRDS ABOVE THEM 
SPREADING THEIR WINGS AND FOLDING THEM? 
NONE EXCEPT GOD CAN UPHOLD THEM 
AND OF ALL THINGS HE IS THE WATCHER OVER THEM

20  WHO CAN HELP YOU EVEN AS AN ARMY 
BESIDES YOUR LORD WHO IS FULL OF MERCY? 
THE DISBELIEVERS ARE IN NOTHING BUT FANTASY

21  OR WHO CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH PROVISION
IF HE WERE TO WITHHOLD FROM YOU HIS PROVISION? 
NO, THEY PERSIST IN FLIGHT FROM TRUTH AND REASON
OBSTINATELY WITH INSOLENT REJECTION  

22  IS THEN ONE WHO WALKS WITH OUT SEEING GUIDED MORE RIGHT
THAN ONE WHO WALKS ON A STRAIGHT WAY WITH CLEAR SIGHT?

23  SAY, IT IS HE WHO CREATED YOU AND CAUSED YOUR MATURING 
AND HAS MADE FOR YOU THE FACULTIES OF HEARING
AND SEEING AND FEELING AND UNDERSTANDING 
LITTLE THANKS IT IS THAT YOU ARE GIVING

24  SAY, IT IS HE WHO HAS MULTIPLIED YOU 
THROUGH THE EARTH AND HE WILL GATHER YOU

25  THEY ASK, WHEN WILL THIS PROMISE COME TRUE
IF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE

26  SAY, AS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TIME IT IS WITH GOD ONLY 
AND I AM SENT ONLY TO WARN PLAINLY AND PUBLICLY

27   AT LENGTH WHEN THEY SEE IT COME NEAR
GRIEVED WILL BE THE FACES OF THE DISBELIEVERS
AND IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM, YOUR TERM IS OVER
AND THIS IS WHAT YOU WERE CALLING FOR SO EAGER

28  SAY, SEE IF GOD WERE TO DESTROY ME 
AND THOSE WITH ME OR IF HE BESTOWS ON US HIS MERCY 
THEN WHO CAN DELIVER THE DISBELIEVERS FROM THE PENALTY?

29  SAY, HE IS GOD MOST GRACIOUS AND WE ARE BELIEVERS 
WE TRUST IN HIM AND SOON WILL YOU KNOW CLEARER
WHICH OF US IT IS THAT IS IN MANIFEST ERROR 

30  SAY, SEE IF YOUR STREAM BE LOST SOME MORNING 
WHO THEN CAN SUPPLY YOU WITH CLEAR WATER FLOWING? 

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CHAPTER 68.  THE PEN                                                                    SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE INKSTAND AND THE PEN AND BY THE RECORD
BY WHICH MEN WRITE AND RECORD

2  YOU ARE NOT MAD BY THE GRACE OF YOUR LORD

3  SURELY FOR YOU IS AN UNFAILING REWARD

4  YOU STAND ON AN EXALTED STANDARD OF CHARACTER INDEED

5  SOON WILL YOU SEE AND THEY WILL SEE

6  WHICH OF YOU ARE AFFLICTED WITH MADNESS INDEED

7  SURELY IT IS YOUR LORD THAT KNOWS BEST 
WHICH MEN HAVE STRAYED AND HE KNOWS BEST 
THOSE WHO RECEIVE GUIDANCE THE BEST

8  SO DO NOT LISTEN 
TO THOSE IN REJECTION

9  THEIR DESIRE IS THAT YOU SHOULD BE PLIANT 
SO THAT THEY WOULD BE PLIANT

10  AND OBEY NOT ANY MEAN SWEARER 

11  A DEFAMER GOING ABOUT WITH SLANDER 

12  A HINDERER OF GOOD, A TRANSGRESSOR

13  VIOLENT AND CRUEL BESIDES THAT A MISCHIEF MAKER

14  BECAUSE OF WEALTH AND SONS HE IS A POSSESSOR

15  WHEN TO HIM ARE OUR MESSAGES TOLD
HE SAYS, TALES OF THE ANCIENTS OF OLD

16  SOON WILL WE SURELY
BRAND HIM ON THE SNOUT SEVERELY

17  WE HAVE TRIED THEM AS WE TRIED THE PEOPLE OF THE GARDEN 
WHEN THEY RESOLVED TO GATHER THE FRUITS OF THE GARDEN

18  BUT THEY MADE NO RESERVATION

19  THEN THERE CAME FROM GOD WHILE THEY SLEPT A VISITATION

20  SO BY THE MORNING THE GARDEN 
BECAME DARK AND BARREN

21  AS THE MORNING BROKE THEY CALLED OUT ONE TO ANOTHER

22  GO TO YOUR HARVEST AND GATHER YOUR FRUITS TOGETHER

23  SO THEY DEPARTED CONVERSING 
IN SECRET LOW TONES SAYING

24  LET NOT A SINGLE INDIGENT PERSON 
BREAK IN UPON YOU THIS DAY INTO THE GARDEN

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CHAPTER 68.  THE PEN                                                  SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIX 

25  THEY OPENED THE MORNING STRONG IN AN UNJUST WAY

26  WHEN THEY SAW THE GARDEN THEY SAID,WE HAVE LOST OUR WAY

27  AND INDEED WE ARE SHUT OUT AND AWAY

28  ONE OF THEM MORE JUST SAID, GLORIFY GOD REPENTFULLY

29  THEY SAID, GLORY TO OUR LORD WE HAVE ACTED WRONGFULLY

30  THEN THEY TURNED AGAINST ONE ANOTHER BLAMEFULLY

31  THEY SAID, WOE TO US WE HAVE BEEN TRANSGRESSORS 
SURELY IT MAY BE THAT OUR LORD AND CHERISHER

32  WILL GIVE US A GARDEN THAT IS BETTER
FOR WE DO TURN TO HIM AND WE ARE SINCERE

33  THIS IS THEIR PUNISHMENT IN THIS LIFE, BUT GREATER 
IF ONLY THEY KNEW, IS THE PUNISHMENT IN THE HEREAFTER

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CHAPTER 68.  THE PEN                                                                    SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

34  SURELY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS ARE GARDENS
OF DELIGHT IN GOD'S PRESENCE 

35  WILL WE THEN TREAT THE FAITHFUL PEOPLE
THE SAME WAY AS WE TREAT THE SINFUL PEOPLE? 

36  HOW DO YOU JUDGE, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU

37  OR HAVE YOU A BOOK WHICH YOU LEARN THROUGH

38  THAT YOU WILL HAVE THROUGH IT WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE?

39  OR HAVE YOU COVENANTS WITH US ON OATHS REACHING 
TO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT PROVING 
THAT YOU WILL HAVE WHATEVER OF YOUR CHOOSING?

40  ASK THEM WHICH OF THEM FOR THAT WILL BE VOUCHING

41  OR HAVE THEY SOME PARTNERS 
THEN LET THEM IF THEY ARE TRUTHFUL PRODUCE THEIR PARTNERS

42  THE DAY THAT THEY WILL BE LAID OPEN
AND THEY WILL BE SUMMONED TO BOW IN ADORATION
BUT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE IN SUBMISSION

43  THEIR EYES WILL BE CAST DOWN AND THEY WILL BE IN HUMILIATION 
FOR THEY HAD BEEN SUMMONED IN ADORATION
WHILE THEY WERE IN A SAFE SITUATION

44  THOSE WHO REJECT THIS MESSAGE, LEAVE ME ALONE WITH THEM  
AND WE WILL BY DEGREES PUNISH THEM 
FROM DIRECTIONS NOT PERCEIVED BY THEM

45  A RESPITE WILL I GRANT THEM FOR A PERIOD PROLONGED
FOR SURELY MY PLAN IS STABLE AND STRONG

46  OR IS IT THAT YOU ASK THEM FOR WAGES
SO THAT THEY ARE BURDENED WITH INDEBTEDNESS?

47  OR IS IT THAT THE UNSEEN IS IN THEIR HANDS 
SO THAT THEY CAN WRITE IT WITH THEIR HANDS? 
 
48  WAIT WITH PATIENCE FOR THE COMMAND OF YOUR CREATOR
AND BE NOT LIKE THE FISH'S COMPANION WHEN HE CRIED IN TERROR

49  AND HAD HE NOT RECEIVED HIS LORD'S MIGHTY GRACE  
HE WOULD HAVE BEEN CAST OFF ON THE NAKED SHORE IN DISGRACE 

50  SO DID HIS LORD CHOOSE HIM GRACIOUSLY
AND MADE HIM OF THE COMPANY OF THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

51  AND THEY WOULD BATTER YOU, WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS 
WITH THEIR EYES WHEN THEY HEAR THE REMINDER
AND THEY SAY, HE IS A POSSESSED SORCERER

52  BUT THIS IS FOR ALL THE NATIONS A REMINDER

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CHAPTER 69.  THE SURE REALITY                                              SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THE SURE REALITY 

2  WHAT IS THE SURE REALITY?

3  AND WHAT WILL MAKE YOU REALIZE WHAT IS THE SURE REALITY?

4  THE THAMUD AND THE AD PEOPLE BRANDED AS A FALSITY
THE TERRIBLE STUNNING CALAMITY

5  BUT THE THAMUD, THEY WERE DESTROYED BY 
A GRIEVOUS AWFUL CRY

6  AND THE AD, THEY WERE DESTROYED IN THE END
BY A FURIOUS VIOLENT WIND

7  GOD MADE IT FOR SEVEN NIGHTS AND EIGHT DAYS TO COME DOWN
SO THAT YOU COULD SEE THEM IN ITS PATH LYING DOWN
AS IF THEY HAD BEEN ROOTS OF PALM TREES TUMBLED DOWN

8  CAN YOU SEE ANY OF THEIR SURVIVORS STILL AROUND?

9  PHARAOH AND THOSE BEFORE HIM PREVIOUSLY
AND THE OVERTHROWN CITIES COMMITTED SIN HABITUALLY

1O  AND DISOBEYED GOD'S APOSTLE
SO HE PUNISHED THEM WITH A PENALTY THAT WAS TERRIBLE

11  WHEN THE WATER OF NOAH'S FLOOD OVERFLOWED ITS LIMITS
WE CARRIED YOU IN THE FLOATING SHIP

12  THAT WE MIGHT MAKE IT FOR YOU A REMINDER
AND THAT THE RETAINING EAR MIGHT HEAR AND REMEMBER

13  WHEN THE TRUMPET BLASTS
WITH A SINGLE BLAST

14  AND THE MOUNTAINS OF THE EARTH 
IN ONE STROKE ARE CRUSHED TO POWDER 

15  THE GREAT EVENT WILL OCCUR

16  AND THE SKY WILL BE RENT ASUNDER 
FOR IT WILL THAT DAY BE TENDER

17  THE ANGELS WILL BE ON ITS SIDES AND EIGHT WILL BEAR 
THAT DAY YOUR LORD'S THRONE OF POWER

18  THAT DAY WILL YOU BE BROUGHT TO JUDGMENT 
NOT AN ACT OF YOURS THAT YOU HIDE WILL BE HIDDEN

19  THEN HE THAT WILL BE GIVEN HIS RECORD 
IN HIS RIGHT HAND WILL SAY, HERE READ MY RECORD

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CHAPTER 69.  THE SURE REALITY                             SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIX 

20  I DID REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT SURELY 
MY ACCOUNT WOULD ONE DAY REACH ME

21  AND IN A GARDEN OF BLISS WILL HE BE

22  IN A GARDEN OF ETERNITY

23  THE FRUITS OF IT WILL HANG WITHIN REACH EASILY

24  EAT AND DRINK WITH EASE 
BECAUSE OF THE GOOD THAT YOU DID PREVIOUSLY

25  AND HE THAT WILL BE
GIVEN HIS RECORD IN HIS LEFT HAND WILL PLEA  
SAYING, I WISH MY RECORD HAD NOT BEEN GIVEN TO ME

26  AND THAT I HAD NEVER REALIZED HOW MY ACCOUNT WOULD BE

27  OR WOULD THAT DEATH HAD MADE AN END OF ME

28  OF NO PROFIT HAS BEEN MY WEALTH TO ME

29  AND MY POWER HAS PERISHED FROM ME

30  THE STERN COMMAND WILL SAY, SEIZE HIM AND BIND HIM

31  AND INTO THE BLAZING FIRE BURN HIM

32  FURTHER MAKE HIM MARCH IN A CHAIN, THE LENGTH OF IT 
IS THE LENGTH OF SEVENTY CUBITS

33  THIS WAS HE THAT WOULD NOT BELIEVE 
IN GOD THE ALL MIGHTY

34  AND WOULD NOT ENCOURAGE TO FEED
THOSE WHO WERE IN NEED

35  SO NO FRIEND HERE THIS DAY HAS HE 

36  NOR FOR FOOD EXCEPT REFUGE HAS HE 

37  WHICH NONE DO EAT BUT THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY

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CHAPTER 69.  THE SURE REALITY                                               SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

38  SO I DO CALL TO WITNESS WHAT YOU SEE

39  AND WHAT YOU DO NOT SEE

40  THAT THIS IS THE WORD OF AN HONORED APOSTLE INDEED

41  IT IS NOT THE WORD OF A POET, BUT LITTLE DO YOU BELIEVE

42  NOR THE WORD OF A SOOTHSAYER, NO WARNING DO YOU HEED

43  THIS IS A MESSAGE SENT FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS SURELY 

44  IF THE APOSTLE WERE TO INVENT IN OUR NAME ANY FALSITY 

45  WE WOULD HAVE SEIZED HIM BY THE RIGHT HAND FIRMLY

46  AND WE WOULD CUT OFF HIS HEART'S ARTERY

47  NOR COULD ANY OF YOU WITHHOLD FROM HIM OUR PENALTY

48  BUT THIS IS A MESSAGE FOR THE BELIEVERS

49  AND WE KNOW THAT SOME OF YOU ARE REJECTERS 

50  BUT REVELATION IS A CAUSE OF GRIEF FOR DISBELIEVERS 

51  BUT IT IS TRUTH OF ASSURED CERTAINTY

52  SO GLORIFY THE NAME OF YOUR LORD, FULL OF MAJESTY

      

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CHAPTER 70.  THE WAYS OF ASCENT                                       SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  A QUESTION WAS ASKED ABOUT A PENALTY BY A QUESTIONER

2  THE WHICH THERE IS NONE TO AVERT FROM THE DISBELIEVERS

3  A PUNISHMENT
FROM THE LORD OF THE WAYS OF ASCENT

4  THE ANGELS ASCEND TO HIM IN A DAY THE MEASURE  
OF WHICH IS AS FIFTY THOUSAND YEARS 

5  THEREFORE BE PATIENT WITH CONTENTMENT

6  THEY SEE THE DAY AS A FAR OFF EVENT

7  BUT WE SEE IT AS A QUITE NEAR EVENT

8  THE DAY THAT LIKE MOLTEN BRASS THE SKY WILL BE 

9  AND LIKE WOOL THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE 

10  AND NO FRIEND
WILL ASK AFTER A FRIEND

11  THOUGH THEY WILL BE PUT IN SIGHT OF EACH OTHER
TO SACRIFICE HIS CHILDREN WOULD BE THE SINNER'S DESIRE 
IF IT WOULD REDEEM HIM FROM THE FIRE

12  HIS WIFE AND HIS BROTHER

13  HIS KINDRED WHO HAVE HIM SHELTER

14  AND ALL THAT IS ON EARTH SO THAT HIM IT COULD DELIVER

15  BY NO MEANS FOR IT WOULD BE HELL FIRE

16  RIGHT TO THE SKULL AND PLUCKING
OUT HIS VERY BEING

17  INVITING ALL THOSE WHO TURN THEIR BACKS IN FLIGHT
AND TURN AWAY THEIR FACES AWAY FROM RIGHT

18  AND COLLECT WEALTH AND HIDE IT FROM USE FOR RIGHT

19  TRULY MAN WAS CREATED VERY IMPATIENT

20  FRETFUL WHEN TOUCHED WITH TORMENT

21  AND MISERLY WHEN TOUCHED BY GOOD, UNWILLING TO SHARE

22  NOT SO THOSE DEVOTED TO PRAYER

23  WHO ARE CONSTANT IN THEIR PRAYER

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CHAPTER 70.  THE WAYS OF ASCENT                      SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIX 

24  AND THOSE IN WHOSE WEALTH IS A RECOGNIZED RIGHT 

25  FOR THE BEGGAR AND THE DESTITUTE ALIKE

26  AND THOSE WHO TO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT HOLD TO RIGHT

27  AND THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD'S DISLIKE

28  FOR THEIR LORD'S DISLIKE IS SURELY
THE OPPOSITE OF PEACE AND TRANQUILLITY

29  AND THOSE WHO GUARD THEIR CHASTITY

30  EXCEPT WITH THEIR WIVES AND WHOM THEIR RIGHT HANDS POSSESS 
FOR THEN IN THAT CASE THEY ARE BLAMELESS

31  BUT THOSE WHO ARE TRESPASSERS
BEYOND THIS ARE TRANSGRESSORS

32  AND THOSE WHO RESPECT THEIR TRUSTS AND COVENANTS

33  AND THOSE WHO STAND FIRM ON THEIR TESTAMENTS

34  AND THOSE WHO GUARD THE SACREDNESS OF THEIR WORSHIPS

35  THEY WILL BE THE HONORED ONES IN THE GARDEN OF BLISS

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CHAPTER 70.  THE WAYS OF ASCENT                                       SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

36  WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE DISBELIEVERS AMONG YOU
THAT THEY RUSH MADLY BEFORE YOU?

37  FROM THE RIGHT AND FROM THE LEFT OF YOU?

38  DOES EVERY MAN AMONG THEM LONG TO ENTER 
THE GARDEN OF BLISS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS?

39  BY NO MEANS, FOR WE HAVE CREATED THEM 
OUT OF THE BASE MATTER KNOWN TO THEM

40  NOW I CALL TO WITNESS THE LORD OF THE EASTERN LANDS
AND THE LORD AND SUSTAINER OF THE WESTERN LANDS
THAT WE CAN CERTAINLY IN OUR PLANS

41  SUBSTITUTE FOR THEM BETTER MEN  
WE ARE NOT TO BE DEFEATED OUR PLAN

42  SO LEAVE THEM TO PLUNGE IN VAIN TALK AND PLAY 
UNTIL THEY ENCOUNTER THAT PROMISED DAY 

43  WHEN THEY WILL ISSUE FROM THEIR GRAVES ALL OF A SUDDEN  
AS IF THEY WERE RUSHING TO A FIXED DESTINATION

44  THEIR EYES LOWERED IN DEJECTION, IGNOMINY COVERING THEM 
THIS IS THE DAY WHICH IS PROMISED TO THEM

 

568
 CHAPTER 71.  NOAH                                                                       SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WE SENT NOAH TO HIS PEOPLE 
WITH THE COMMAND, WARN YOUR PEOPLE 
BEFORE THEY RECEIVE A PENALTY THAT WILL BE TERRIBLE

2  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE 
I AM TO YOU AN APOSTLE 

3  THAT YOU SHOULD OBEY AND TO GOD BE GRATEFUL

4  SO HE MAY FORGIVE YOU YOUR SINS
AND GIVE YOU RESPITE FOR A TERM PREDESTINED 
WHEN THE TERM COMES IT CANNOT BE LENGTHENED

5  OH MY LORD, I HAVE CALLED TO MY PEOPLE NIGHT AND DAY

6  MY CALL ONLY INCREASES THEIR FLIGHT FROM THE RIGHT WAY

7  AND EVERY TIME I HAVE CALLED TO THEM 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT FORGIVE THEM 

THEY HAVE PUT THEIR FINGERS
INTO THEIR EARS 

AND COVERED THEMSELVES UP WITH THEIR GARMENTS 
AND GROWN OBSTINATE AND ACTED WITH ARROGANCE

8  SO I HAVE CALLED ALOUD TO THEM

9  AND IN PUBLIC AND IN PRIVATE SPOKEN TO THEM

10  SAYING, ASK GOD FOR FORGIVENESS 
FOR HE IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS

11  HE WILL SEND RAIN IN ABUNDANCE TO YOU

12  AND GIVE INCREASE IN WEALTH AND SONS TO YOU
AND GIVE YOU GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING BENEATH YOU

13  WHY DO YOU HOPE NOT FOR A REWARD 
OF KINDNESS AND LONG SUFFERING WITH YOUR LORD?

14  SEEING THAT IT IS HE THAT HAS CREATED YOU IN STAGES DIVERSE 

15  SEE YOU NOT HOW GOD IS THE CREATOR
OF THE SEVEN HEAVENS ONE ABOVE THE OTHER?

16  HE MADE THE MOON A LIGHT IN THE MIDST SHINING BRIGHTLY 
AND HE MADE THE SUN AS A LAMP SHINING GLORIOUSLY 

17  AND HAS PRODUCED YOU FROM THE EARTH GROWING GRADUALLY

18  IN THE END HE WILL RETURN YOU INTO THE EARTH AGAIN
AND THEN HE WILL RAISE YOU FORTH AGAIN

19  GOD MADE THE EARTH FOR YOU AS A CARPET SPREAD WIDELY

20  THAT YOU MAY GO ABOUT IN IT IN ROADS SPACIOUSLY 

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CHAPTER 71.  NOAH                                                                         SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

21 NOAH SAID, OH MY LORD, MY PEOPLE HAVE DISOBEYED ME
AND THEY FOLLOW MEN WHOSE WEALTH AND PROGENY 
GIVE THEM NO INCREASE BUT LOSS ONLY

22  AND THEY HAVE DEVISED A PLOT THAT IS MIGHTY

23  AND THEY HAVE SAID TO EACH OTHER, ABANDON NOT YOUR DIETIES 
NOT WADD, SUWA,YAGUTH,YAUQ, NASR OR ANY OF THESE

24  THEY HAVE ALREADY MISLED MANY 
AND GRANT TO THE WRONG DOERS NO INCREASE 
WHO CONTINUE TO ACT REBELLIOUSLY 

25  THEY WERE DROWNED IN THE FLOOD BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS  
AND THEY WERE MADE TO ENTER THE FIRE AS PUNISHMENT
AND THEY FOUND BESIDES GOD NO AVERTMENT

26  AND NOAH SAID, OH MY LORD, LEAVE NONE
OF THE DISBELIEVERS ON EARTH, NOT A SINGLE ONE

27  FOR IF YOU DO LEAVE OF THEM ANY
YOUR DEVOTEES THEY WILL INDEED MISLEAD  
AND NONE BUT UNGRATEFUL ONES WILL THEY BREED

28  LORD, FORGIVE ME AND MY PARENTS AND ALL WHO ENTER 
MY HOUSE IN FAITH AND ALL OF THE BELIEVERS 
MEN AND WOMEN AND TO THE WRONG DOERS 
GRANT NO INCREASE TO THEM BUT IN ERROR

     

570
CHAPTER 72.  THE DEMONS                                                          SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

571
CHAPTER 72.  THE DEMONS                                        SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIX 

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

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

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

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

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CHAPTER 72.  THE DEMONS                                                          SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

573
CHAPTER 73.  THE ONE WRAPPED IN GARMENTS                SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH YOU COVERING
IN WRAPPINGS

2  STAND TO PRAYER BY NIGHT
BUT NOT ALL NIGHT

3  HALF OF IT 
OR A LITTLE LESS THAN IT

4  OR A LITTLE MORE THAN IT
AND RECITE THE QURAN SLOWLY AND RHYTHMIC 

5  SOON WILL WE 
SEND DOWN TO YOU A MESSAGE THAT IS WEIGHTY

6  THE RISING BY NIGHT IS MOST POTENT FOR GOVERNING 
AND MOST SUITABLE FOR PRAYER AND PRAISING

7  TRUE THERE IS BY DAY FOR YOU 
PROLONGED OCCUPATION WITH ORDINARY DUES

8  BUT KEEP IN REMEMBRANCE GOD'S NAME DEVOTEDLY 
AND KEEP YOURSELF TO HIM WHOLE HEARTEDLY

9  HE IS LORD OF EAST AND WEST, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
TAKE HIM FOR YOUR DISPOSER OF AFFAIRS IN SECURITY

10  AND HAVE PATIENCE WITH WHAT THEY SAY
AND LEAVE THEM IN A NOBLE WAY

11  AND THE DENIERS AND POSSESSORS OF PLENTY
LEAVE THEM WITH ME AND RESPITE THEM TEMPORARILY

12  WITH US ARE FETTERS TO BIND THEM 
AND A FIRE TO BURN THEM

13  AND FOOD THAT CHOKES THEM
AND A GRIEVOUS PENALTY FOR THEM

14  ONE DAY THE EARTH AND THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE 
IN VIOLENT COMMOTION AND THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE 
JUST A HEAP OF SAND POURED OUT FLOWING HELPLESSLY

15  WE HAVE SENT TO YOU TO BE A WITNESS, AN APOSTLE 
EVEN AS WE SENT TO PHARAOH AN APOSTLE

16  BUT PHARAOH DISOBEYED THE APOSTLE 
SO WE SEIZED HIM WITH A PENALTY THAT WAS TERRIBLE

17  HOW WILL YOU IF YOU TURN AWAY
THEN GUARD YOURSELVES AGAINST A DAY 
THAT WILL MAKE CHILDREN'S HAIR GRAY

18  ON WHICH THE SKY WILL BE CLEFT ASUNDER 
HIS PROMISE MUST BE ACCOMPLISHED FOR SURE

19  SURELY THIS IS AN ADMONITION FROM YOUR LORD
WHOEVER WILL LET HIM TAKE A STRAIGHT PATH TO HIS LORD

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CHAPTER 73.  THE ONE WRAPPED IN GARMENTS               SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

20  YOUR LORD KNOWS THAT DURING THE NIGHT
YOU STAND UP PRAYING FOR TWO THIRDS OF THE NIGHT 
OR HALF OF THE NIGHT OR A THIRD OF THE NIGHT 

AND SO DO A PARTY OF THOSE WITH YOU
GOD APPOINTS DAY AND NIGHT AND KNOWS THAT YOU 
ARE UNABLE TO KEEP COUNT SO HE HAS TURNED TO YOU 
SO READ OF THE QURAN AS MUCH AS MAY BE EASY FOR YOU
HE KNOWS THAT THERE MAY BE SOME AMONG YOU 
IN ILL HEALTH, OTHERS TRAVELING THE EARTH THROUGH 

SEEKING OF THEIR LORD'S BOUNTY
OTHERS FIGHTING IN GOD'S CAUSE EARNESTLY
SO READ AS MUCH OF THE QURAN AS MAY BE EASY 
AND ESTABLISH PRAYER REGULARLY 
ALSO PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY 
AND LOAN TO GOD A LOAN OF BEAUTY

AND WHATEVER GOOD YOU SEND FORWARD 
YOU WILL FIND IT WITH GOD GREATER IN REWARD 
AND SEEK THE GRACE OF YOUR LORD 
FOR FORGIVING AND MERCIFUL IS YOUR LORD

575
CHAPTER 74.  ONE WRAPPED UP                                               SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH YOU WRAPPED UP IN WRAPPINGS

2  ARISE AND DELIVER YOUR WARNINGS

3  AND YOUR LORD MAGNIFY

4  AND YOUR GARMENTS PURIFY

5  AND FROM ALL ABOMINATIONS KEEP SHY

6  NOR ENGAGE IN GIVING
FOR THE PURPOSE OF GAINING

7  BUT FOR GOD'S CAUSE BE CONSTANT AND BEAR PATIENTLY

8  WHEN THE TRUMPET IS SOUNDED FINALLY

9  A DAY OF DISTRESS THAT WILL BE

10  FOR THOSE WITHOUT FAITH FAR FROM EASY

11  LEAVE ME TO DEAL ALONE
WITH THE CREATURE WHOM I CREATED BARE AND ALONE

12  TO WHOM I GRANTED RESOURCES IN ABUNDANCE

13  AND SONS DWELLING IN HIS PRESENCE

14  TO WHOM I MADE LIFE SMOOTH AND COMFORTABLE FOR HIM

15  AFTER ALL THAT HE DESIRES THAT I SHOULD GIVE MORE TO HIM

16  BY NO MEANS FOR TO OUR SIGNS HE HAS BEEN REFRACTORY

17  SOON WILL I VISIT HIM WITH A MOUNTAIN OF CALAMITIES

18  FOR HE THOUGHT AND HE PLOTTED 

19  AND WOE TO HIM HOW HE PLOTTED

20 YES, WOE TO HIM HOW HE PLOTTED

21  THEN HE LOOKED AROUND

22  THEN HE SCOWLED AND FROWNED

23  THEN HE TURNED BACK AND WAS HAUGHTY

24  HE SAID, THIS IS NOTHING BUT MAGIC DERIVED PREVIOUSLY

25  THIS IS NOTHING BUT THE WORD OF A MORTAL 

26  SOON WILL I CAST HIM INTO THE FIRE OF HELL

27  AND WHAT WILL MAKE YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE FIRE OF HELL?

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CHAPTER 74.  ONE WRAPPED UP                              SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIX 

28  NOTHING DOES IT PERMIT TO ENDURE 
AND NOTHING DOES IT LEAVE OF ANY SINNER

29  IT SCORCHES THE MORTAL

30  OVER IT ARE NINETEEN ANGELS

31  AND WE HAVE SET ANGELS AS GUARDIANS OF THE FIRE
WE HAVE FIXED THEIR NUMBER AS A TRIAL FOR DISBELIEVERS 
IN ORDER TO GIVE CERTAINTY TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES 
AND ALSO THAT BELIEVERS MAY INCREASE IN BELIEF AS BELIEVERS
THAT NO DOUBTS MAY BE LEFT FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES 
AND THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS  
AND THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS 
AND THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISORDER  
SAY, WHAT IS MEANT BY THIS PARABLE BY THE CREATOR
BUT GOD LEAVES WHOM HE PLEASES IN ERROR
 
AND GUIDES WHOM HE PLEASES 
AND NONE CAN KNOW THE FORCES 
OF YOUR LORD EXCEPT AS HE PLEASES
AND THIS IS TO MAN ONE OF HIS MESSAGES

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CHAPTER 74.  ONE WRAPPED UP                                                SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

32  NAY, BY THE MOON SURELY

33  AND BY THE NIGHT WHEN IT RETREATS

34  AND BY THE DAWN WHEN IT BRIGHTENS

35  THIS IS BUT ONE OF THE MIGHTY PORTENTS

36  A WARNING TO MANKIND

37  TO ANY OF YOU THAT GOES FORWARD OR REMAINS BEHIND

38  EVERY SOUL WILL BE
HELD IN PLEDGE FOR ITS DEEDS

39  EXCEPT THE RIGHT HAND COMPANIONS

40  IN GARDENS EACH OTHER THEY WILL QUESTION

41  AND ASK OF THE SINNERS

42  WHAT LED YOU INTO HELL FIRE?

43  THEY WILL SAY
WE WERE NOT OF THOSE WHO PRAYED

44  NOR DID WE FEED 
THOSE WHO WERE IN NEED

45  BUT WE USED TO TALK WITH VAIN TALKERS VANITIES

46  AND WE DENIED THE DAY OF RESSURECTION

47  UNTIL THERE CAME TO US THE HOUR THAT IS CERTAIN

48  THEN WILL NO INTERCESSION OF ANY INTERCESSORS PROFIT THEM

49  THEN WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THEM
THAT THEY TURN WHEN ADMONITION COMES TO THEM?

50  LIKE A FRIGHTENED ASS

51  FLEEING FROM A LIONS GRASP?

52  THEY WANT TO THEM TO BE GIVEN 
SCROLLS OF SPREAD OUT REVELATION

53  BY NO MEANS, BUT THEY FEAR NOT THE RESURRECTION

54  NAY, THIS SURELY IS AN ADMONITION

55  LET IT BE KEPT IN REMEMBRANCE BY EVERYONE

56  EXCEPT AS GOD WILLS IT WILL BE KEPT BY NONE 
AND HE IS THE LORD OF ALL CREATION

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CHAPTER 75.  THE RESURRECTION                                            SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I CALL TO WITNESS THE DAY OF RESURRECTION

2  AND I CALL TO WITNESS THE SELF REPROACHING PERSON

3  DOES MAN THINK WE CANNOT ASSEMBLE HIS CREATION?

4  WE ARE ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER 
IN PERFECT ORDER, THE VERY TIPS OF HIS FINGERS

5  BUT MAN WISHES TO CONTINUE TO COMMIT ERRORS

6  HE QUESTIONS, WHEN IS THE DAY OF THE FINAL HOUR?

7  AT LENGTH WHEN THE SIGHT IS IN BLACKNESS

8  AND THE MOON IS BURIED IN DARKNESS

9  AND THE SUN AND MOON COME TOGETHER JOINTLY

10  THAT DAY MAN WILL SAY, WHERE IS THERE TO FLEE?

11  BY NO MEANS, NO PLACE OF SAFETY WILL THE PLACE OF REST BE

13  THAT DAY WILL MAN BE TOLD 
ALL THAT HE PUT FORWARD AND ALL HE DID WITHHOLD

14  MAN WILL AGAINST HIMSELF BE A WITNESS

15  EVEN THOUGH HE WERE TO PUT UP EXCUSES

16  MOVE NOT YOUR TONGUE WITH THE QURAN IN HASTE WITH IT

17  IT IS FOR US TO COLLECT IT AND TO PROMULGATE IT

18  BUT WHEN WE HAVE PROMULGATED IT 
FOLLOW THE RECITATION OF IT

19  MOREOVER IS IT FOR US TO EXPLAIN IT 

20  BUT IT IS THE LIFE OF THIS LIFE YOU PREFER

21  AND YOU DENY THE HEREAFTER 

22  SOME FACES THAT DAY WILL BE BRIGHT

23  LOOKING TOWARDS THEIR LORD WITH DELIGHT

24  AND SOME FACES THAT DAY WILL BE SAD AND GLOOMY

25  KNOWING THAT INFLICTED ON THEM WILL BE A CALAMITY 

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CHAPTER 75.  THE RESURRECTION                          SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIX 

26  WHEN THE SOUL REACHES TO THE COLLAR BONE OF HIM

27  THERE WILL BE A CRY, WHO IS A MAGICIAN TO RESTORE HIM?

28  AND HE WILL CONCLUDE AS HE IS DYING
THAT IT WAS THE TIME OF DEPARTING

29  AND AFFLICTION WILL BE COMBINED WITH AFFLICTION

30  THAT DAY TO THEIR LORD IS THEIR DESTINATION

CHAPTER 75.  THE RESURRECTION                                           SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

31  SO HE GAVE NOTHING IN CHARITY NOR DID HE PRAY

32  ON THE CONTRARY HE REJECTED TRUTH AND TURNED AWAY

33  THEN DID HE TALK TO HIS FAMILY IN A CONCEITED WAY

34  WOE TO YOU
YES WOE TO YOU

35  AGAIN WOE TO YOU
YES WOE TO YOU

36  DOES MAN THINK THAT HE WILL BE LEFT UNCOMMITTED?

37  WAS HE NOT JUST A DROP OF SPERM EMITTED?

38  THEN WAS A LEECH LIKE CLOT MADE OF HIM
THEN DID GOD CREATE HIM AND FASHION HIM 

39  AND HE MADE THE TWO SEXES MALE AND FEMALE OF HIM

40  IS HE NOT POWERFUL TO GIVE LIFE AFTER DEATH TO HIM?

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CHAPTER 76.  MAN                                                                           SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THERE HAS BEEN OVER MAN A PERIOD WHEN HE WAS NOTHING 
NOT EVEN CAPABLE OF MENTIONING

2  WE CREATED MAN FROM A DROP OF SPERM IN ORDER TO TRY HIM 
SO WE GAVE THE GIFTS OF HEARING AND SIGHT TO HIM

3  BE HE GRATEFUL OR UNGRATEFUL WE SHOWED THE WAY TO HIM

4  FOR THE REJECTERS WE HAVE PREPARED
CHAINS AND YOKES AND A BLAZING FIRE

5  AS TO THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
THEY WILL DRINK OF A CUP TEMPERED WITH CAMPHOR

6  A FOUNTAIN WHERE GOD'S DEVOTEES 
DRINK IT FLOWING ABUNDANTLY

7  THEY PERFORM THEIR VOWS AND THEY FEAR
A DAY WHOSE EVIL FLIES FAR AND NEAR

8  AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THEY FEED 
THE ORPHAN AND THOSE IN NEED

9  SAYING, WE FEED YOU FOR THE SAKE OF OUR LORD 
NO THANKS DO WE DESIRE FROM YOU OR REWARD

10  WE FEAR FROM OUR LORD A DAY HARD AND DISTRESSFUL
THAT WILL MAKE THE FACES LOOK HORRIBLE

11  BUT GOD WILL DELIVER THEM FROM THE EVIL OF THAT DAY 
AND WILL GIVE THEM A LIGHT OF BEAUTY IN A BLISSFUL WAY 

12  AND BECAUSE THEY BORE PATIENTLY  
HE WILL REWARD THEM WITH GARDENS OF PERPETUITY

13  RECLINING IN THE GARDEN ON RAISED THRONES OF EASE
THEY WILL SEE NEITHER EXCESSIVE COLD OR HEAT EXCESSIVELY

14  AND THE SHADES OF THE GARDEN WILL COME LOWLY  
AND THE FRUIT THERE WILL HANG LOW IN HUMILITY 

15  AMONG THEM WILL BE PASSED ROUND SILVER VESSELS 
AND CRYSTAL CLEAR GOBLETS OF CRYSTAL

16  CRYSTAL CLEAR MADE OF SILVER 
AND THEY WILL DETERMINE THE MEASURE 

17  AND THEY WILL BE GIVEN THERE 
A CUP OF WINE MIXED WITH GINGER

18  AND A SALSABIL FOUNTAIN THERE

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CHAPTER 76.  MAN                                                         SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIX 

19  ROUND THEM WILL SERVE YOUTHS OF FRESHNESS PERPETUAL 
AND YOU WOULD THINK OF THEM AS SCATTERED PEARLS 

20  WHEN YOU LOOK THERE IT IS BLISS YOU WILL SEE 
AND A REALM MAGNIFICENTLY

21  AND THERE WILL BE GREEN GARMENTS OF FINE SILK UPON THEM
HEAVY BROCADE AND BRACELETS OF SILVER WILL ADORN THEM
THEIR LORD WILL GIVE WINE PURE AND HOLY TO THEM

22  SURELY THIS IS A REWARD FOR YOU
AND YOUR ENDEAVOR IS ACCEPTED FROM YOU

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CHAPTER 76.  MAN                                                                           SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

23  IT IS WE WHO HAVE SENT
THE QURAN IN INCREMENTS

24  THEREFORE BE PATIENT WITH CONSTANCY TO GOD'S ORDERS
AND LISTEN NOT TO THE INGRATE OR THE SINNER

25  AND CELEBRATE THE NAME OF GOD IN THE MORNING
AND CELEBRATE HIS NAME IN THE EVENING

26  AND PART OF THE NIGHT PROSTRATE YOURSELF TO HIM
AND ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT GLORIFY HIM

27  AS TO THESE THEY LOVE THE FLEETING LIFE AND PUT AWAY 
BEHIND THEM A DIFFICULT DAY

28  IT IS WE WHO CREATED THEM IN DECREE  
AND HAVE PUT TOGETHER THEIR JOINTS STRONGLY 
WE CAN SURELY SUBSTITUTE THE LIKE OF THEM EASILY

29  THIS IS A WARNING WORD
WHOEVER WILL LET HIM TAKE A STRAIGHT WAY TO HIS LORD

30  BUT YOU WILL NOT EXCEPT AS GOD DECREES
FOR FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS HE

31  WHOM HE PLEASES HE WILL ADMIT TO HIS MERCY
BUT HE HAS PREPARED FOR WRONG DOERS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

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CHAPTER 77.  THOSE SENT FORTH                                           SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE MESSENGERS
SENT FORTH ONE AFTER ANOTHER

2  AND BY THE WINDS THAT BLOW IN TERROR

3  AND BY THE WINDS THAT SCATTER

4  THEN SEPARATE THEM ONE FROM ANOTHER

5  BY THE ANGELS WHO BRING REVELATIONS TO THE MESSENGERS 

6  WHETHER AS JUSTIFIERS OR WARNERS

7  WHAT YOU ARE PROMISED MUST COME TO PASS FOR SURE

8  THEN WHEN THERE IS A DIMMING OF THE STARS

9  WHEN THE HEAVEN IS CLEFT ASUNDER

10  WHEN THE MOUNTAINS ARE AS DUST AND SCATTERED

11  AND WHEN THE MESSENGERS 
AT THEIR TIME APPOINTED ARE GATHERED

12  FOR WHAT DAY ARE THESE SIGNS DEFERRED?

13  THEY ARE DEFERRED FOR THE DAY OF DECISION

14  AND WHAT WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT IS THE DAY OF DECISION?

15  WOE THAT DAY TO THOSE IN REJECTION

16  DID WE NOT DESTROY THE FORMER GENERATIONS?

17  THEN WE FOLLOWED THEM UP WITH LATER ONES

18  SO DO WE DEAL WITH MEN OF TRANSGRESSION

19  WOE THAT DAY TO THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION

20  HAVE WE NOT CREATED YOU FROM ORDINARY WATER?

21  THEN WE PLACE IT IN A PLACE SECURE

22  FOR A PERIOD DETERMINED

23  FOR WE DO SURELY DETERMINE
AND WE ARE THE BEST TO DETERMINE

24  WOE THAT DAY TO THOSE IN REJECTION

25  HAVE WE NOT MADE THE EARTH DRAW TOGETHER

26  THE LIVING AND THE DEAD TOGETHER

27  AND MADE IN IT MOUNTAINS STANDING FIRM, LOFTY IN STATURE
AND PROVIDED FOR YOU SWEET AND WHOLESOME WATER?

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CHAPTER 77.  THOSE SENT FORTH                         SECTION 1 (CONT'D).  PART XXIX

28  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS

29  DEPART YOU WHO USED TO BE REJECTERS

30  TO THE SHADOW HAVING THREE BRANCHES ASCENDING

31  WITH NO SHADING AND NO AVAILING 
FROM THE FIRES BLAZING

32  IT THROWS OUT SPARKS LARGELY 

33  AS IF THEY WERE CAMELS MARCHING SWIFTLY

34  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS INDEED

35  THAT WILL BE A DAY THEN THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SPEAK

36  NOR WILL IT BE OPEN TO THEM TO PUT FORTH PLEAS

37  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS INDEED

38  THAT WILL BE A DAY OF SORTING OUT SEPARATELY 
WE WILL GATHER YOU TOGETHER AND THOSE PREVIOUSLY

39  NOW IF YOU HAVE NOW A PLOT AGAINST ME 
USE IT NOW AGAINST ME

40  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS INDEED

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CHAPTER 77.  THOSE SENT FORTH                                            SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

41  THE RIGHTEOUS WILL BE AMIDST SHADES AND SPRINGS

42  OF THEIR DESIRES THEY WILL HAVE EVERYTHING

43  EAT AND DRINK COMFORTABLY
FOR THAT YOU WORKED RIGHTEOUSLY

44  WE REWARD THE DOERS OF THINGS GODLY

45  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS 

46  OH YOU WRONG DOERS
EAT AND DRINK A LITTLE WHILE FOR YOU ARE SINNERS

47  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS

48  WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, BOW DOWN AS SUBMITTERS
THEY DO NOT BOW DOWN AS SUBMITTERS

49  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS

50  IN WHAT MESSAGE AFTER THIS WILL THEY THEN BE BELIEVERS?

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CHAPTER 78.  THE GREAT NEWS                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXX 

PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  CONCERNING WHAT ARE THEY DISPUTING?

2  CONCERNING THE GREAT NEWS COMING

3  ABOUT WHICH THEY CANNOT AGREE

4  THEY WILL SOON COME TO KNOW SURELY

5  THEY WILL SOON COME TO KNOW VERY SURELY

6  HAVE WE NOT MADE THE EARTH AS A BED?

7  AND MADE THE MOUNTAINS AS PEGS?

8  AND IN PAIRS CREATED YOU?

9  AND MADE YOUR SLEEP FOR REST FOR YOU?

10  AND MADE THE NIGHT AS A COVERING?

11  AND MADE THE DAY AS A MEANS FOR YOUR SUSTAINING?

12  AND HAVE WE NOT PLACED OVER YOU SEVEN HEAVENS?

13  AND PLACED A LIGHT OF SPLENDOR THEREIN?

14  DO WE NOT SEND DOWN FROM CLOUDS WATER IN ABUNDANCE? 

15  THAT WE MAY PRODUCE VEGETABLES FOR YOUR SUSTENANCE?

16  AND PRODUCE FOR YOU GARDENS OF LUXURIANCE?

17  THE DAY OF SORTING OUT IS A DAY APPOINTED

18  THE DAY THE TRUMPET WILL BE SOUNDED
AND YOU WILL COME FORTH IN CROWDS ROUNDED

19  THE HEAVENS AS IF THEY WERE DOORS WILL BE OPENED

20  THE MOUNTAINS WILL VANISH 
AS IF THEY WERE MIRAGES

21  AND TRULY WILL HELL 
LIE IN WAIT AS A PLACE TO DWELL

22  FOR THOSE IN TRANSGRESSION
A PLACE OF DESTINATION

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23  FOR AGES THEY WILL DWELL THEREIN

24  NOTHING COOL WILL THEY TASTE NOR ANY DRINK

25  EXCEPT A BOILING FLUID AND FLUID TOO COLD TO DRINK

26  A REQUITAL FOR THEM MOST FITTING

27  SURELY THEY FEARED NOT THE RECKONING 

28  THEY TREATED OUR SIGNS AS FALSE AND WENT ON REJECTING

29  AND WE HAVE RESERVED ON RECORD EVERYTHING

30  SO TASTE THE FRUITS OF YOUR DEEDS
NO INCREASE WILL WE GRANT YOU EXCEPT IN PENALTIES

SECTION 2 

31  FOR THE RIGHTEOUS THERE WILL BE SUCCESS DIVINE

32  GARDENS ENCLOSED AND GRAPEVINES

33  COMPANIONS OF EQUAL AGE AND KIND

34  AND A PURE CUP OF WINE

35  NO VANITY WILL THEY HEAR OF ANY KIND

36  A GIFT FROM THE LORD OF MANKIND

37  FROM THE LORD OF EARTH AND HEAVEN AND ALL BETWEEN
GOD MOST GRACIOUS AND NONE WILL HAVE POWER TO INTERVENE 

38  THE DAY THAT THE SPIRIT AND THE ANGELIC BEINGS
WILL STAND FORTH IN RANKS AND NONE WILL BE SPEAKING

EXCEPT ANY WHO IS PERMITTED BY GOD IN HIS SIGHT
AND HE WILL ONLY SAY WHAT IS RIGHT

39  THAT IS THE TRUE DAY 
LET HIM WHO WILL TAKE A RETURN TO GOD STRAIGHTWAY

40  SURELY WE HAVE WARNED YOU OF A PENALTY
NEAR THE DAY WHEN MAN WILL SEE THE DEEDS 

WHICH HIS HANDS HAVE SENT AND THE DISBELIEVER WILL SAY 
WOE UNTO ME, I WISH I WERE MERE DUST THIS DAY

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CHAPTER 79.  THOSE WHO TEAR OUT                                      SECTION 1.  PART XXX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE ANGELS WHO TEAR OUT THE SOULS OF THE WICKED HARSHLY

2  BY THOSE WHO DRAW OUT THE SOULS OF THE BLESSED GENTLY

3  AND BY THOSE WHO GLIDE ALONG ON ERRANDS OF MERCY

4  THEN AS IN A RACE PRESS FORWARD 

5  THEN ARRANGE TO DO THE COMMANDS OF THEIR LORD

6  ONE DAY EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE IN COMMOTION
WILL BE IN VIOLENT COMMOTION

7  FOLLOWED BY OFTEN REPEATED COMMOTIONS

8  HEARTS THAT DAY WILL BE IN AGITATION

9  CAST DOWN WILL BE THE EYES OF THEIR OWNERS 

10  THEY SAY, WILL WE BE RETURNED TO WHAT WE WERE FORMER?

11  WHEN WE WILL HAVE BECOME ROTTEN BONES AND FURTHER?

12  THEY SAY, IT WOULD IN THAT CASE BE
A RETURN WITH LOSS CERTAINLY

13  BUT JUST A SINGLE CRY WILL IT BE

14  WHEN IN THE FULL AWAKENING OF THE RECKONING THEY WILL BE

15  HAS NOT REACHED TO YOU MOSES'S STORY?

16  WHEN HIS LORD CALLED HIM IN THE SACRED VALLEY?

17  GO TO PHARAOH FOR HE SURELY 
HAS TRANSGRESSED ALL BOUNDARIES

18  AND SAY TO HIM, WOULD YOU BE 
PURIFIED FROM INIQUITY?

19  AND THAT I GUIDE YOU TO YOUR LORD, SO FEAR HIM WITH HEED

20  SO MOSES SHOWED HIM A SIGN MIRACULOUS AND MIGHTY

21  BUT HE REJECTED IT AND WAS HAUGHTY

22  FURTHER HE TURNED HIS BACK STRIVING ARROGANTLY

23  SO HE GATHERED HIS PEOPLE AND PROCLAIMED PUBLICLY

24  SAYING, I AM YOUR LORD MOST HIGH, FULL OF GLORY

25  BUT GOD IN THIS LIFE DID PUNISH HIM
AND IN THE HEREAFTER AND MADE AN EXAMPLE OF HIM

26  SURELY IN THIS IS AN INSTRUCTIVE WARNING
FOR WHOEVER IS GOD-FEARING

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CHAPTER 79.  THOSE WHO TEAR OUT                                      SECTION 2.  PART XXX 

27  ARE YOU THE MORE DIFFICULT IN CREATION
OR THE HEAVEN ABOVE WHICH IS GOD'S CREATION? 

28  ON HIGH HAS HE RAISED THE CANOPY
AND HAS GIVEN IT ORDER PERFECTLY

29  HE ENDOWS WITH DARKNESS THE NIGHT
AND ITS SPLENDOR HE BRINGS OUT WITH LIGHT

30  AND THE EARTH HAS HE EXTENDED MOREOVER

31  HE DRAWS OUT FROM IT, ITS MOISTURE AND PASTURE

32  HE HAS FIXED FIRMLY FOR YOU THE MOUNTAINS

33  AND YOUR CATTLE TO BE PROVISIONS

34  SO WHEN COMES THE GREAT EVENT OVERWHELMING

35  THE DAY WHEN MAN WILL REMEMBER ALL OF HIS STRIVING

36  AND PLACED IN FULL VIEW WILL BE THE HELL-FIRE 

37  THEN FOR THOSE WHO HAD BEEN TRANSGRESSORS

38  AND THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD THEY HAD PREFERRED

39  THEIR ABODE WILL BE THE HELL-FIRE

40  AND FOR THOSE WHO HAD ENTERTAINED THE FEAR OF STANDING  
BEFORE THEIR LORD AND HAD RESTRAINED THEIR YEARNINGS

41  THEY WILL BE IN GARDENS ABIDING

42  THEY ASK YOU ABOUT THE HOUR, WHEN WILL BE ITS APPOINTING?

43  ABOUT IT YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE TO SAY ANYTHING

44  WITH YOUR LORD IS THE LIMIT'S FIXING

45  YOU ARE BUT A WARNER FOR THE GOD-FEARING

46  THE DAY THEY SEE IT WILL BE AS IF THEIR STAYING
HAD BEEN BUT A SINGLE EVENING OR MORNING

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CHAPTER 80.  HE FROWNED                                                          SECTION 1.  PART XXX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THE PROPHET TURNED AWAY FROWNING

2  BECAUSE THERE CAME TO HIM A BLIND MAN INTERRUPTING

3  BUT WHAT COULD CAUSE YOUR KNOWING
THAT HE MIGHT GROW IN SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING?

4  OR THAT HE MIGHT RECEIVE WARNING
AND MIGHT PROFIT FROM THE SPIRITUAL TEACHING?

5  BUT AS TO ONE WHO REGARDS HIMSELF AS SELF-SUFFICIENT

6  TO HIM YOU WOULD BE AN ATTENDANT

7  IT IS NO BLAME ON YOU IF HE GROW NOT IN UNDERSTANDING

8  BUT AS TO HIM WHO CAME TO YOU EARNESTLY STRIVING 

9  AND WITH HIS HEART FEARING

10  OF HIM YOU WERE UNATTENDING

11  BY NO MEANS SHOULD IT BE 
FOR IT IS A MESSAGE OF INSTRUCTION INDEED

12  THEREFORE WHOSOEVER WILL LET HIM REMEMBER

13  IT IS IN BOOKS HELD GREATLY IN HONOR

14  EXALTED IN DIGNITY KEPT PURE AND HOLY

15  WRITTEN BY THE HAND OF SCRIBES OF PIETY

16  HONORABLY AND JUSTLY

17  WOE TO MAN, WHAT HAS MADE HIM REJECT GOD?

18  FROM WHAT STUFF WAS HE CREATED FROM BY GOD?

19  FROM A SPERM DROP HE HAS CREATED HIM 
AND THEN IN DUE PROPORTIONS MOLDED HIM

20  THEN DOES HE MAKE HIS PATH SMOOTH FOR HIM

21  THEN HE CAUSES HIM TO DIE AND IN HIS GRAVE HE PUTS HIM

22  THEN WHEN IT IS HIS WILL HE WILL RAISE HIM

23  HE HAS NOT FULFILLED WHAT GOD HAS COMMANDED HIM

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CHAPTER 80.  HE FROWNED                                        SECTION 1 (CONT'D).  PART XXX 

24  LET MAN LOOK AT HIS FOOD AND HOW WE PROVIDED IT FOR HIM

25  FOR THAT WE POUR FORTH WATER IN ABUNDANCE

26  AND WE SPOT THE EARTH IN FRAGMENTS

27  AND PRODUCE CORN THEREIN

28  AND NUTRITIOUS PLANTS AND GRAPES

29  AND OLIVES AND DATES

30  AND ENCLOSED GARDENS OF PERPETUITY
DENSE WITH LOFTY TREES

31  AND FRUITS AND VEGETATION

32  FOR YOU AND FOR YOUR CATTLE'S PROVISIONS

33  AT LENGTH WHEN THERE COMES THE NOISE DEAFENING THE EAR

34  THAT DAY WILL A MAN FLEE FROM HIS OWN BROTHER

35  AND FROM HIS MOTHER AND HIS FATHER

36  AND HIS WIFE AND HIS CHILDREN THAT HE FATHERED

37  EVERY MAN THAT DAY WILL HAVE ENOUGH BOTHERS
TO MAKE HIM CARELESS OF OTHERS

38  SOME FACES THAT DAY WILL BE BEAMING

39  LAUGHING AND REJOICING

40  AND OTHER FACES THAT DAY WILL HAVE DUST ON THEM

41  DARKNESS WILL COVER THEM

42  THOSE WILL BE
THE REJECTERS OF GOD, THE DOERS OF INIQUITY

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CHAPTER 81.  THE FOLDING UP                                                    SECTION 1.  PART XXX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHEN THE SUN IS FOLDED UP AND ITS LIGHT IS LOST

2  WHEN THE STARS FALL AND THEIR LUSTER IS LOST

3  WHEN THE MOUNTAINS ARE MADE TO VANISH

4  AND THE PREGNANT CAMELS ARE ABANDONED TO PERISH

5  WHEN THE WILD BEASTS ARE HERDED TOGETHER

6  WHEN THE OCEANS WITH A SWELL WILL BOIL OVER

7  WHEN THE SOULS ARE SORTED OUT

8  WHEN THE FEMALE INFANT BURIED ALIVE IS QUESTIONED ABOUT

9  FOR WHAT CRIME WAS SHE KILLED

10  WHEN THE SCROLLS ARE REVEALED

11  WHEN THE WORLD ON HIGH IS UNVEILED

12  WHEN HELL WILL BE KINDLED TO A BLAZING FIRE

13  AND WHEN THE GARDEN IS BROUGHT NEAR

14  EVERY SOUL WILL KNOW WHAT IT HAS PREPARED

15  I CALL TO WITNESS THE STARS

16  AS THEY HIDE OR GO STRAIGHT

17  AND THE NIGHT AS IT DISSIPATES

18  AND THE DAWN AS IT BREAKS

19  SURELY THIS IS THE WORD OF AN HONORABLE MESSENGER

20  HIGH IN RANK WITH GOD, THE OWNER OF POWER

21  WITH AUTHORITY
AND TRUSTWORTHY

22  AND YOUR COMPANION 
IS NOT A POSSESSED ONE

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CHAPTER 81.  THE FOLDING UP                                  SECTION 1(CONT'D).  PART XXX 

23  WITHOUT DOUBT HE SAW HIM IN THE CLEAR HORIZON

24  NEITHER DOES HE 
WITHHOLD KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN GRUDGINGLY

25  NOR IS IT
THE WORD OF AN EVIL SPIRIT

26  THEN WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO?

27  THIS IS NOTHING LESS THAN A REMINDER TO YOU

28  TO WHOEVER WILLS TO GO STRAIGHT AMONG YOU

29  BUT YOU WILL NOT EXCEPT AS GOD DECREES
THE LORD AND CHERISHER OF THE WORLDS IS HE

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  CHAPTER 82.  THE CLEAVING                                                        SECTION 1.  PART XXX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHEN THE SKY IS CLEFT ASUNDER

2  WHEN THE STARS ARE SCATTERED

3  WHEN BURST FORTH ARE THE OCEANS
 
4  AND WHEN THE GRAVES ARE OPENED

5  THEN EACH PERSON WILL KNOW WHAT HE HAS SENT BEFORE HIM
AND HE WILL KNOW WHAT HE HAS LEFT BEHIND HIM

6  OH MAN, WHAT HAS MADE YOU CARELESS
CONCERNING YOUR LORD THE MOST GENEROUS?

7  HIM WHO CREATED YOU AND FASHIONED YOU 
IN DUE PROPORTION AND GAVE A JUST BIAS TO YOU 

8  IN WHATEVER FORM HE WILLS DOES HE PUT YOU TOGETHER 

9  BUT OF RIGHT AND JUDGMENT YOU ARE REJECTERS

10  BUT AN ANGEL IS APPOINTED OVER YOU 

11  KIND AND HONORABLE WRITING DOWN WHAT YOU DO

12  THEY KNOW AND UNDERSTAND ALL THAT YOU DO

13  AND  THOSE WHO DO RIGHT
WILL BE IN DELIGHT

14  AND THE SINNERS
WILL BE IN HELL FIRE

15  WHICH THEY ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT WILL ENTER

16  AND THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO KEEP AWAY 

17  AND WHAT WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT IS THE JUDGMENT DAY?

18  AGAIN WHAT WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT IS THE JUDGMENT DAY?

19  IT WILL BE THE DAY WHEN NO SOUL WILL HAVE POWER 
TO DO ANYTHING FOR ANOTHER 
FOR THAT DAY GOD WILL BE THE COMMANDER

            

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CHAPTER 83.  DEALING IN FRAUD                                               SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WOE TO THE CHEATERS

2  THOSE WHO WHEN THEY FROM MEN RECEIVE MEASURE
THEY DEMAND FROM THEM FULL MEASURE

3  AND WHEN THEY HAVE TO GIVE MEASURE
THEY GIVE LESS THAN DUE MEASURE

4  THEY THINK THAT THEY WILL NOT BE RAISED

5  UP ON A MIGHTY DAY

6  ALL MEN WILL STAND BEFORE GOD THAT DAY

7  THE RECORD OF THE WICKED IS PRESERVED IN THE PRISON

8  AND WHAT WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT IS THE PRISON?

9  IT IS THE BOOK IN WHICH THE DEEDS ARE WRITTEN

10  WOE TO THOSE WHO DENY THAT DAY

11  THOSE THAT DENY THE JUDGMENT DAY

12  AND NONE CAN DENY IT BUT THE TRANSGRESSOR 
BEYOND ALL BOUNDS, THE INGRATE SINNER

13  WHEN OUR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO HIM CLEARLY
HE  SAYS, THESE ARE TALES OF THE ANCIENTS SURELY

14  NO, BUT THEIR HEARTS ARE STAINED BY THEIR ILL DEEDS

15  THEIR LORD THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEE

16  FURTHER THEY WILL ENTER
INTO THE HELL FIRE

17  IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM, THIS IS THE REALITY 
OF WHICH YOU REJECTED FALSELY

18  THE RECORD OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS PRESERVED IN THE HIGH PLACES

19  AND WHAT WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT IS THE HIGH PLACES?

20  IT IS A BOOK IN WHICH DEEDS ARE WRITTEN ON ITS PAGES

21  TO WHICH BEAR WITNESS
THOSE WHO TO GOD ARE NEAREST

22  THE RIGHTEOUS WILL BE IN BLISS

23  ON THRONES WILL THEY COMMAND SIGHT

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CHAPTER 83.  DEALING IN FRAUD                             SECTION 1(CONT'D).  PART XXX

24  YOU WILL RECOGNIZE THEIR FACES BEAMING BRIGHT

25  THEY WILL BE GIVEN TO DRINK
A PURE AND WHOLESOME DRINK

26  THE SEAL OF IT WILL BE MUSK AND FOR THIS LET ASPIRE
ALL  OF THOSE WHO WISH TO ASPIRE

27  IT WILL BE MIXED WITH HEAVENLY WATER

28  A SPRING FROM THE WATERS 
WHERE THOSE WHO ARE NEAREST TO GOD ARE THE DRINKERS

29  SURELY THOSE WHO ARE GUILTY
USED TO LAUGH AT THOSE WHO BELIEVE

30  WHEN THEY PASSED BY THEM WINKED AT EACH OTHER IN MOCKERY 

31  AND UPON THEIR RETURNING
TO THEIR OWN PEOPLE THEY WOULD RETURN JESTING

32  AND WHENEVER THEY SAW THEM THEY WOULD SAY 
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE TRULY ASTRAY

33  BUT NOT KEEPERS OVER THEM WERE THEY

34  BUT ON THIS DAY THE BELIEVERS 
WILL LAUGH AT THE DISBELIEVERS

35  ON THRONES LOOKING AT ALL THINGS

36  THE DISBELIEVERS ARE PAID BACK FOR THEIR DOINGS

    

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CHAPTER 84.  THE BURSTING ASUNDER                                   SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHEN THE HEAVEN IS SPLIT

2  AND LISTENS TO THE COMMAND OF ITS LORD AND IT MUST DO IT

3  AND THE EARTH FLATTENED OUT IS IT

4  AND BECOMES CLEANED OUT AND CAST OUT WHAT IS IN IT

5  AND LISTENS TO THE COMMAND OF ITS LORD AND IT MUST DO IT

6  OH MAN, TRULY
YOU ARE EVER TOILING ON TOWARDS YOUR LORD PAINFULLY 
BUT YOU WILL MEET HIM SURELY

7  THEN HE WHO IS GIVEN IN HAND
HIS RECORD IN HIS RIGHT HAND

8  SOON WILL HIS ACCOUNTING
BE TAKEN BY AN EASY RECKONING

9  AND HE WILL TURN TO HIS PEOPLE REJOICING

10  BUT HE THAT
IS GIVEN HIS RECORD BEHIND HIS BACK

11  FOR PERDITION HE WILL BE CRYING

12  AND WILL ENTER A FIRE BLAZING 

13  HE WENT AMONG HIS PEOPLE REJOICING

14  HE DID NOT THINK THAT TO US HE WOULD BE RETURNING

15  FOR SURELY HIS LORD ALWAYS WATCHES

16  SO I CALL TO WITNESS THE SUNSET REDNESS

17  THE NIGHT AND WHATEVER IT GATHERS IN ITS DARKNESS

18  AND THE MOON IN HER FULLNESS

19  YOU WILL TRAVEL FROM STAGES TO STAGES

20  WHAT IS THE MATTER
WITH THEM THAT THEY ARE NOT BELIEVERS?

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CHAPTER 84.  THE BURSTING ASUNDER     SECTION 1(CONT'D).  PART XXX

21  AND WHEN THE QURAN IS READ TO THEM 
NO ADORATION IS SHOWN BY THEM

22  BUT ON THE CONTRARY 
THEY REJECT IT, THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

23  BUT GOD KNOWS FULLY
WHAT THEY KEEP SECRETLY

24  SO ANNOUNCE TO THEM A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

25  EXCEPT TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
AND WORK RIGHTEOUS DEEDS

26  THERE IS A REWARD FOR THEM
THAT WILL NEVER FAIL THEM 

 

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CHAPTER 85. THE STARS                                                                SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE SKY WITH THE STARS ON DISPLAY

2  BY THE RESURRECTION DAY

3  BY ONE THAT BEARS WITNESS
AND THAT TO WHICH HE BEARS WITNESS

4  WOE TO THE MAKER 
OF THE PIT OF FIRE

5  THE ABUNDANTLY FUELED FIRE

6  THEY SAT OVER AGAINST THE FIRE

7  AND WITNESSED WHAT THEY WERE DOING AGAINST THE BELIEVERS

8  AND THEY ILL TREATED THEM FOR NO REASON OTHER 
THAN THAT THEY BELIEVED GOD, EXALTED IN POWER  
WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE FOREVER

9  HIM TO WHOM BELONGS THE DOMINION
OF ALL OF THE EARTH AND ALL THE HEAVENS
AND GOD IS THE WITNESS OVER ALL CREATION

10  THOSE WHO PERSECUTE THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
AND DO NOT TURN IN REPENTANCE WILL HAVE THE PENALTY
OF HELL AND THEY WILL HAVE THE PENALTY
OF THE FIRE BURNING FIERCELY

11  FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO RIGHTEOUS DEEDS
WILL BE GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING BENEATH 
THAT IS THE GREAT SALVATION INDEED

12  THE GRIP AND POWER OF YOUR LORD IS MIGHTY

13  IT IS HE WHO CREATES LIFE
FROM THE BEGINNING AND HE CAN RESTORE LIFE

14  AND HE IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND KINDNESS

15  OWNER OF THE THRONE, THE GLORIOUS

16  WHATEVER HE INTENDS, HE DOES

17  HAS NOT REACHED YOU THE PARABLE

18  OF PHARAOH AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE?

19  YET THOSE WHO ARE UNBELIEVING
THEY PERSIST IN REJECTING

20  BUT GOD IS ALL ENCOMPASSING

21  THIS IS A GLORIOUS QURAN

22  IN A TABLET PRESERVED AND WRITTEN

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CHAPTER 86.  THE COMER BY NIGHT                                        SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE HEAVEN AND THE NIGHT COMER

2  AND WHAT WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT IS THE NIGHT COMER?

3  IT IS THE PIERCING BRIGHT STAR

4  THERE IS NO SOUL BUT IT HAS OVER IT A PROTECTOR 

5  NOW LET MAN BUT THINK FROM WHAT HE IS CREATED

6  HE IS CREATED FROM A DROP OF SPERM EMITTED

7  FROM BETWEEN THE BACKBONE AND THE RIBS

8  SURELY HE IS ABLE TO RETURN HIM TO LIFE

9  ON THE DAY WHEN HIDDEN THINGS WILL BE BROUGHT TO LIGHT

10  MAN WILL HAVE NO POWER
AND HE WILL HAVE NO HELPER

11  BY THE FIRMAMENT WHEN IT TURNS ABOUT

12  AND BY THE EARTH WHICH OPENS OUT

13  THIS IS THE WORD THAT SORTS OUT

14  IT IS NOT AN AMUSING THING

15  AS FOR THEM THEY ARE BUT PLOTTING A SCHEME

16  AND I TOO AM PLANNING A SCHEME

17  GRANT A DELAY TO THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE
RESPITE THEM FOR A WHILE GENTLY

 

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CHAPTER 87.  THE MOST HIGH                                                     SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  GLORIFY THE NAME OF YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER

2  HE WHO IS THE CREATOR
OF EVERYTHING AND GAVE IT ORDER

3  WHO HAS ORDAINED LAWS AND GRANTED GUIDANCE SURE

4  AND WHO BRINGS OUT THE GREEN LUSCIOUS PASTURE

5  AND THEN MAKES IT DRY UP AND DUST COLORED

6  AND THE QURAN, WE WILL MAKE YOU RECITE IT
SO THAT YOU WILL NOT FORGET IT

7  EXCEPT AS GOD WILLS
FOR HE KNOWS WHAT IS REVEALED 
AND HE KNOWS WHAT IS CONCEALED

8  AND WE WILL MAKE IT EASY 
FOR YOU IN A WAY THAT IS EASY

9  THEREFORE GIVE ADMONITION
FOR PROFITABLE IS ADMONITION

10  HE WHO FEARS GOD WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION

11  BUT IT WILL BE AVOIDED BY THE UNFORTUNATE ONES

12  WHO WILL ENTER THE GREAT FIRE

13  IN WHICH THEY WILL NOT LIVE OR DIE EITHER

14  BUT THOSE WHO PURIFY THEMSELVES WILL PROSPER

15  WHO GLORIFY GOD AND LIFT THEIR HEARTS IN PRAYER

16  NAY, BUT THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD YOU DO PREFER

17  ALTHOUGH MORE LASTING AND BETTER IS THE HEREAFTER

18  AND THIS IS IN THE BOOKS OF REVELATIONS EARLIER

19  ABRAHAM AND MOSES'S SCRIPTURES

     

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CHAPTER 88.  THE OVERWHELMING EVENT                            SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  HAS THERE COME TO YOU THE NARRATION
OF THE OVERWHELMING DAY OF RESURRECTION?

2  SOME FACES THAT DAY WILL BE IN HUMILIATION

3  HARD AND WEARY IN LABOR

4  WHILE THEY ENTER THE BLAZING FIRE

5  WHILE THEY ARE GIVEN TO DRINK HOT BOILING WATER

6  ALL FOOD FOR THEM WILL BE BITTER

7  NEITHER NOURISHING NOR SATISFYING HUNGER

8  JOYFUL THAT DAY WILL BE THE FACES OF OTHERS

9  THAT ARE PLEASED WITH THEIR ENDEAVORS

10  IN A GARDEN HIGH AND LOFTY

11  WHERE NO WORDS WILL THEY HEAR OF VANITY

12  A BUBBLING SPRING THEREIN WILL BE

13  THEREIN WILL BE THRONES OF DIGNITY

14  AND GOBLETS PLACED READY

15  AND CUSHIONS IN ROWS SET

16  AND RICH SPREAD OUT CARPETS

17  DO THEY NOT LOOK AT THE CAMELS HOW THEY ARE MADE?

18  AND THE SKY HOW IT IS RAISED?

19  AND AT THE MOUNTAINS HOW FIRM ARE THEY?

20  AND AT THE EARTH HOW IT IS SPREAD OUT IN ARRAY?

21  SO REMIND THEM FOR YOU ARE ONLY A REMINDER

22  YOU ARE NOT ONE TO MANAGE MEN'S AFFAIRS

23  BUT IF THEY TURN AWAY FROM GOD AS REJECTERS

24  GOD WILL PUNISH THEM WITH A PENALTY THAT WILL BE SEVERE

25  THEN TO US THEIR RETURN WILL BE

26  THEN WE WILL CALL THEM TO ACCOUNTABILITY

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CHAPTER 89.  THE BREAK OF DAY                                              SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE DAWN IN ITS LIGHT

2  BY THE TEN NIGHTS

3  BY THE EVEN AND ODD WAYS

4  BY THE NIGHT WHEN IT PASSES AWAY

5  IS THERE NOT IN THESE EVIDENCE SUFFICING 
THOSE MEN OF UNDERSTANDING?

6  SEE HOW THE AD PEOPLE WERE IN YOUR LORD'S DEALING?

7  AND OF IRAM HAVING LOFTY BUILDINGS?

8  THE LIKE OF WHICH THERE HAS BEEN NO DUPLICATING?

9  AND THE THAMUD WHO CUT OUT ROCKS TO MAKE DWELLINGS?

10  AND WITH PHARAOH
THE LORD OF HOSTS?

11  ALL THESE, THE LIMITS THEY DID EXCEED

12  AND MADE GREAT MISCHIEF INDEED

13  SO YOUR LORD POURED ON THEM PENALTIES

14  FOR YOUR LORD IS WATCHFUL SURELY

15  AS FOR MAN, WHEN HIS LORD TRIES HIM
THEN GIVES HIM HONOR AND FAVORS HIM
MY LORD HONORS ME, IT IS SAID BY HIM

16  BUT WHEN HIS LORD TRIES HIM 
RESTRICTING HIS SUBSISTENCE FOR HIM
MY LORD HAS HUMILIATED ME, IT IS SAID BY HIM

17  NAY, BUT THE ORPHANS YOU DO NOT HONOR

18  NOR TO FEED THE POOR DO YOU ENCOURAGE ON ONE ANOTHER 

19  AND INHERITANCE WITH GREED YOU DO DEVOUR

20  AND YOU LOVE AS AN INORDINATE LOVER

21  NAY, WHEN THE EARTH IS POUNDED TO POWDER

22  AND GOD COMES WITH ANGELS IN RANKS ON TOP OF EACH OTHER

23  AND HELL THAT DAY IS BROUGHT NEAR
AND ON THAT DAY MAN WILL SURELY REMEMBER 
OF WHAT USE WILL IT DO FOR HIM THEN TO REMEMBER?

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CHAPTER 89.  THE BREAK OF DAY                            SECTION 1(CONT'D).  PART XXX

24  HE WILL SAY, WOULD THAT I HAD SENT FORTH GOOD DEEDS 
FOR THIS MY FUTURE LIFE INDEED

25  FOR THAT DAY HIS CHASTISEMENT WILL BE 
SUCH AS NONE ELSE CAN INFLICT THE PENALTY

26  AND HIS BONDS 
WILL BE SUCH AS NONE OTHER CAN BOND

27  TO THE RIGHTEOUS SOUL WILL BE SAID, OH SOUL IN RESTING

28  RETURN TO YOUR GOD WELL PLEASED AND WELL PLEASING

29  SO AMONG MY SERVANTS ENTER

30  AND INTO MY GARDEN ENTER

  

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CHAPTER 90.  THE CITY                                                                   SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I CALL TO WITNESS THIS CITY

2  AND YOU ARE A FREE MAN OF THIS CITY

3  AND THE PARENT AND HIS PROGENY

4  WE HAVE CREATED MEN TO FACE DIFFICULTIES

5  DOES HE THINK THAT NO ONE HAS POWER OVER HIM REALLY?

6  HE MAY SAY, I HAVE SQUANDERED WEALTH, BOASTFULLY

7  DOES HE THINK THAT NO ONE SEES HIM CLEARLY?

8  HAVE WE NOT MADE A PAIR OF EYES FOR HIM?

9  AND A TONGUE AND A PAIR OF LIPS FOR HIM?

10  AND SHOWN THE TWO HIGHWAYS TO HIM?

11  BUT HE HAS MADE NO HASTE ON THE PATH THAT IS STEEP

12  AND WHAT WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU THE PATH THAT IS STEEP?

13  IT IS SETTING A SLAVE FREE

14  OR THE GIVING OF FOOD IN A DAY OF NEED

15  TO THE ORPHAN OR ONE RELATED CLOSELY

16  OR TO A POOR MAN AFFLICTED WITH MISERY

17  THEN WILL HE BE OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
AND WHO ENJOIN PATIENCE AND CONSTANCY 
AND ENJOIN KIND AND COMPASSIONATE DEEDS

18  THESE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE RIGHT HAND

19  AND THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE LEFT HAND

20  ON THEM THE FIRE
IS CLOSED OVER

  

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CHAPTER 91.  THE SUN                                                                    SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE SUN AND THE SPLENDOR OF HIM

2  BY THE MOON AS SHE FOLLOWS HIM

3  BY THE DAY AS IT SHOWS UP THE SUN'S GLORY

4  BY THE NIGHT AS IT HIDES IT SECRETLY

5  BY THE WONDERFUL STRUCTURE OF HEAVEN

6  AND THE EARTH AND ITS EXTENSION

7  AND THE SOUL AND ITS PERFECTION

8  AND ITS ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE RIGHT AND WRONG OF IT

9  TRULY HE SUCCEEDS THAT PURIFIES IT

10  AND HE FAILS THAT CORRUPTS IT

11  THE THAMUD REJECTED IN THEIR INORDINANCY

12  WHEN THE WORST OF THEM BROKE FORTH MISCHIEVOUSLY

13  BUT THE APOSTLE OF GOD 
SAID TO THEM, THIS IS A SHE CAMEL OF GOD
SO LEAVE HER TO DRINK IN THE NAME OF GOD

14  SO THEY CALLED HIM A LIAR 
AND THEY SLAUGHTERED HER

SO  FOR THEIR SINS THEIR LORD DESTROYED THEM
AND TO THE GROUND HE LEVELED THEM

15  AND HE FEARS NOT THE CONSEQUENCE OF THEM

 

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CHAPTER 92.  THE NIGHT                                                                SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE NIGHT
AS IT CONCEALS ITS LIGHT

2  BY THE DAY WHEN IT SHINES BRIGHT

3  AND THE MALE AND THE FEMALE, OF ITS CREATING

4  DIVERSE ARE THE ENDS FOR WHICH YOU ARE STRIVING

5  SO HE WHO GIVES IN CHARITY AND IS GOD-FEARING

6  AND IN ALL SINCERITY TESTIFIES TO THE BEST

7  WE WILL MAKE SMOOTH FOR HIM THE PATH TO BLISS

8  BUT HE WHO THINKS HIMSELF SELF SUFFICIENT AND IS MISERLY

9  AND REJECTS WHAT IS GODLY

10  WE WILL MAKE SMOOTH FOR HIM THE PATH TO MISERY

11  NOR WILL HIS WEALTH AVAIL HIM AGAINST THE PENALTY

12  WE TAKE UPON OURSELVES THE TASK OF GUIDING

13  AND TO US BELONG THE END AND THE BEGINNING

14  SO I WARN YOU OF A FIRE BLAZING 

15  WHICH NONE BUT THE UNFORTUNATE ONES WILL ENTER

16  WHO TURNS HIS BACK AND ARE REJECTERS

17  BUT THOSE MOST DEVOTED TO GOD WILL BE
REMOVED FAR FROM IT SAFELY

18  THOSE WHO SPEND THEIR WEALTH FOR PURIFICATION

19  AND HAVE IN THEIR MINDS NO FAVORS FROM ANYONE

20  BUT ONLY THE DESIRE
TO SEEK GOD'S PLEASURE

21  AND THEY WILL SOON BE
PLEASED COMPLETELY

  

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CHAPTER 93.  THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE DAY                         SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE GLORIOUS MORNING LIGHT

2  AND THE STILL OF THE NIGHT

3  YOUR LORD HAS NOT FORSAKEN YOU 
NOR IS HE DISPLEASED WITH YOU

4  AND SURELY THE HEREAFTER
RATHER THAN THE PRESENT FOR YOU WILL BE BETTER

5  AND SOON WILL YOUR GUARDIAN LORD INDEED
GIVE YOU THAT WITH WHICH YOU WILL BE PLEASED

6  DID HE NOT FIND YOU 
AN ORPHAN AND GAVE SHELTER AND CARE TO YOU?

7  AND HE FOUND YOU 
WANDERING AND HE GAVE GUIDANCE TO YOU

8  AND HE FOUND YOU 
IN NEED AND GAVE INDEPENDENCE TO YOU

9  THEREFORE TREAT NOT THE ORPHAN HARSHLY

10  NOR THE PETITIONER REPULSIVELY

11  BUT PROCLAIM YOUR LORD'S BOUNTY

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CHAPTER 94.  THE EXPANSION                                                     SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  HAVE WE NOT EXPANDED YOUR BREASTS FOR YOU

2  AND REMOVED YOUR BURDEN FROM YOU

3  WHICH WEIGHED DOWN ON THE BACK OF YOU

4  AND IN HIGH ESTEEM WE RAISED YOU?

5  SO SURELY WITH EVERY DIFFICULTY THERE IS RELIEF

6  SURELY WITH EVERY DIFFICULTY THERE IS RELIEF

7  SO WORK HARD WHEN YOU ARE FREE FROM ANXIETY

8  AND MAKE YOUR LORD YOUR OBJECT EXCLUSIVELY

CHAPTER 95.  THE FIG                                                                       SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE FIG 
AND THE OLIVE 

2  AND BY
MOUNT SINAI

3  AND BY THIS CITY 
OF SECURITY

4  WE CREATED MAN OF THE BEST STATURE SURELY

5  THEN WE ABASE HIM THE LOWEST OF THE LOWLY

6  EXCEPT THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
THEY WILL HAVE A REWARD UNFAILING INDEED

7  THEN WHAT AFTER THIS CAN CONTRADICT YOU 
AS TO THE JUDGMENT TO COME TO YOU?

8  IS NOT GOD THE WISEST 
OF ALL JUDGES?

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CHAPTER 96.  THE CLOT                                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  READ IN THE NAME OF YOUR LORD WHO CREATES

2  MAN FROM A CLOT OF BLOOD HE CREATES

3  READ AND YOUR LORD IS MOST GENEROUS TO MEN

4  HE WHO TAUGHT MAN THE USE OF THE PEN

5  TAUGHT MAN WHAT WAS NOT KNOWN TO HIM

6  BUT MAN, ALL BOUNDS ARE TRANSGRESSED BY HIM

7  IN THAT HE LOOKS UPON HIMSELF
AS BEING SUFFICIENT IN HIMSELF

8  SURELY TO GOD IS THE RETURNING

9  SEE YOU THE ONE FORBIDDING

10  THE DEVOTEE FROM PRAYING?

11  SEE IF HE HAS RIGHT GUIDING

12  OR ENJOINS RIGHTEOUS DOING

13  SEE IF HE TURNS AWAY REJECTING

14  DOES HE NOT KNOW THAT GOD IS ALL SEEING?

15  LET HIM BEWARE IF HE DESISTS NOT 
WE WILL DRAG HIM BY THE FORELOCK

16  A LYING SINFUL FORELOCK

17  THEN LET HIM CALL HIS COMRADES TO HELP HIM

18  WE WILL CALL THE ANGELS TO PUNISH HIM

19  NAY, DO NOT OBEY HIM
BUT BOW DOWN TO GOD AND OBEY HIM

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CHAPTER 97.  THE NIGHT OF POWER                                         SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WE HAVE REVEALED THIS MESSAGE IN THE NIGHT OF POWER

2  AND WHAT WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT IS THE NIGHT OF POWER?

3  BETTER THAN A THOUSAND MONTHS IS THE NIGHT OF POWER

4  IN IT THE ANGELS AND THE SPIRIT DESCEND
BY GOD'S PERMISSION ON EVERY ERRAND

5  PEACE IT IS UNTIL THE RISING
 OF THE SUN IN THE MORNING

CHAPTER 98.  THE CLEAR EVIDENCE                                          SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THOSE WHO REJECT AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES 
AND AMONG THE POLYTHEISTS WERE NOT GOING TO DIFFER
UNTIL THERE CAME TO THEM A CLEAR WARNER 

2  AN APOSTLE FROM GOD REHEARSING SCRIPTURES HOLY AND PURE

3  WHEREIN ARE LAWS RIGHT AND SURE

4  NOR DID THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK BECOME DIVIDED UNTIL AFTER
THERE CAME TO THEM EVIDENCE THAT WAS CLEAR

5  AND THEY HAVE BEEN COMMANDED ONLY
TO WORSHIP GOD OFFERING HIM DEVOTION SINCERELY

TO ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER AND PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY 
FOR THAT IS THE RIGHT RELIGION INDEED

6  THOSE WHO REJECT AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURE
AND AMONG THE IDOLATERS WILL BE IN HELL FIRE 
THEY WILL DWELL THEREIN FOREVER 
FOR THEY ARE THE WORST OF CREATURES

7  THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH AND ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
THEY ARE THE BEST OF CREATURES 

8  THEIR REWARD IS WITH THE CREATOR
GARDENS BENEATH WHICH FLOW RIVERS 
AND THEY WILL DWELL IN THEM FOR EVER 

GOD WELL PLEASED WITH THEM AND THEY WITH HIM 
ALL THIS FOR THOSE WHO FEAR GOD AND CHERISH HIM

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CHAPTER 99.  THE SHAKING                                                          SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHEN WITH A SHAKING THE EARTH IS SHAKEN

2  AND THE EARTH BRINGS FORTH HER BURDEN

3  AND MEN SAY, WHAT UPON HER HAS FALLEN?

4  ON THE DAY HER GOOD NEWS WILL BE GIVEN BY HER

5  AS IF YOUR LORD HAD REVEALED IT TO HER

6  ON THAT DAY WILL MEN PROCEED IN COMPANIES 
SORTED OUT TO BE SHOWN WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IN DEEDS

7  SO HE WHO DOES AN ATOM'S WEIGHT OF GOOD WILL SEE IT

8  AND HE WHO DOES AN ATOM'S WEIGHT OF EVIL WILL SEE IT

CHAPTER 100.  THOSE THAT RUN                                               SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THOSE UTTERING CRIES AND RUNNING

2  AND THOSE PRODUCING FIRE STRIKING

3  AND THOSE SUDDENLY ATTACKING AT MORNING

4  THEN ARE THEREBY DUST RAISING

5  THEN PENETRATE THEREBY GATHERINGS

6  MAN IS UNGRATEFUL TO HIS CREATOR

7  AND HE IS TO THAT A WITNESS BEARER

8  ON ACCOUNT OF THE LOVE OF WEALTH HE IS A MISER

9  DOES HE NOT KNOW WHEN 
THAT WHICH IS IN THE GRAVES IS RAISED AGAIN?

10  AND THAT WHICH IN THE BREAST
IS MADE MANIFEST?

11  SURELY THAT DAY OF THEM
THEIR LORD HAD BEEN AWARE OF THEM

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CHAPTER 101.  THE CALAMITY                                                    SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THE CALAMITY

2  AND WHAT IS THE CALAMITY?

3  WHAT WILL MAKE YOU KNOW HOW BAD IS THE CALAMITY?

4  THE DAY WHEN AS SCATTERED MOTHS MEN WILL BE

5  AND LIKE CARDED WOOL THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE

6  THEN AS FOR HIM WHOSE GOOD DEEDS ARE HEAVY

7  HE WILL LIVE PLEASANTLY

8  FOR HIM WHO IS LIGHT IN GOOD DEEDS

9  WILL HAVE HIS HOME IN A BOTTOMLESS PIT

10  AND WHAT WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT IS IT?

11  A HOT BLAZING FIRE IS IT

CHAPTER 102.  PILING UP                                                                SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THE MUTUAL RIVALRY FOR PILING UP THE GOOD THINGS
OF THIS WORLD DIVERTS YOU FROM THE MORE SERIOUS THINGS

2  UNTIL YOU VISIT THE GRAVES, THEN SURELY

3  YOU SOON WILL KNOW THE REALITY

4  AGAIN YOU SOON WILL KNOW THE REALITY

5  YOU WOULD BEWARE OF IT WERE YOU TO KNOW WITH CERTAINTY

6  THE FIRE OF HELL YOU WILL CERTAINLY SEE

7  AGAIN YOU WILL SEE IT WITH CERTAINTY

8  ON THAT DAY YOU WILL BE ASKED THEN
ABOUT ALL THE JOY YOU INDULGED IN

   

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CHAPTER 103.  THE TIME                                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE TIME TRULY

2  MAN IS IN LOSS SURELY

3  EXCEPT THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO GOOD DEEDS
AND EXHORT ONE ANOTHER TO TRUTH AND BEAR PATIENTLY

     
CHAPTER 104.  THE SLANDERER                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WOE TO EVERY SLANDERER AND DEFAMER

2  WHO AMASSES WEALTH AND COUNTS IT AFTER

3  HE THINKS HIS WEALTH WILL MAKE HIM ABIDE FOREVER

4  HE WILL CERTAINLY BE HURLED INTO THE CRUSHING DISASTER

5  WHAT WILL MAKE YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE CRUSHING DISASTER?

6  IT IS THE WRATH OF GOD KINDLED INTO A FIRE

7  THE FIRE WHICH RISES THE HEARTS OVER

8  SURELY UPON THEM IT IS CLOSED OVER

9  IN STRETCHED FORTH PILLARS

    

 

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CHAPTER 105.  THE ELEPHANT                                                    SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  SEE HOW YOUR LORD DEALT WITH THE ELEPHANT'S COMPANIONS?
 
2  DID HE NOT CAUSE THEIR WAR TO END IN CONFUSION?

3  HE SENT BIRDS IN FLOCKS AGAINST THEM

4  CASTING DECREED STONES AT THEM

5  SO LIKE STRAW EATEN UP HE RENDERED THEM

 CHAPTER 106.  THE QURAISH                                                        SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  FOR THE COVENANTS OF SECURITY
AND SAFETY ENJOYED BY THE QURAISH SECURELY

2  THEIR COVENANTS THAT COVER
JOURNEYS BY WINTER AND SUMMER

3  THE LORD OF THIS HOUSE LET THEM ADORE

4  WHO PROVIDED THEM WITH FOOD AGAINST HUNGER
AND WITH SECURITY AGAINST FEAR OF DANGER

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CHAPTER 107.  ACTS OF KINDNESS                                           SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  HAVE YOU SEEN HIM WHO DENIES RELIGION?

2  THAT IS THE ONE WHO IS ROUGH TO THE ORPHAN

3  AND DOES NOT FEED
THOSE IN NEED

4  SO WOE TO THE ONES WHO PRAY

5  WHO ARE NOT MINDFUL OF WHAT THEY SAY

6  ONLY TO BE SEEN OF MEN DO THEY DO GOOD DEEDS

7  AND THEY REFUSE TO SUPPLY EVEN NEIGHBORLY NEEDS

CHAPTER 108.  ABUNDANCE                                                         SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  SURELY WE HAVE GIVEN YOU ABUNDANCE OF GOOD

2  THEREFORE PRAY TO YOUR LORD AND DO GOOD

3  SURELY YOUR ENEMY IS CUT OF FROM GOOD

 

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CHAPTER 109.  THE DISBELIEVERS                                             SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  SAY, OH YOU DISBELIEVERS

2  I SERVE NOT THAT WHICH YOU SERVE

3  NOR DO YOU SERVE HIM WHOM I SERVE

4  NOR WILL I SERVE THAT WHICH YOU SERVE

5  NOR WILL YOU SERVE HIM WHOM I SERVE

6  TO ME BE MY WAY AND TO YOU BE YOURS

CHAPTER 110.  HELP                                                                        SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHEN THE HELP OF GOD COMES AND VICTORY

2  AND YOU SEE MEN ENTERING GOD'S RELIGION IN COMPANIES

3  CELEBRATE GOD'S PRAISE AND ASK HIS MERCY
FOR HE IS FULL OF GRACE AND MERCY

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CHAPTER 111.  THE FLAME                                                             SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  HE WILL PERISH THE FATHER OF THE FLAME

2  NO PROFIT TO HIM FROM ALL HIS WEALTH AND HIS GAINS

3  BURNT SOON WILL HE BE IN A BLAZING FLAME

4  AND HIS WIFE THE BEARER OF SLANDER

5  AROUND HER NECK A TWISTED ROPE OF PALM LEAF FIBER

CHAPTER 112.  THE PURITY                                                           SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  SAY, HE IS GOD, THE ONE

2  HE IS ON WHOM WE ALL DEPEND ON

3  HE BEGETS NOT NOR IS HE BEGOTTEN

4  AND LIKE HIM THERE IS NONE

     

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CHAPTER 113.  THE DAWN                                                              SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  SAY, I SEEK REFUGE IN THE LORD OF THE DAWNING

2  FROM THE MISCHIEF OF CREATED THINGS

3  AND FROM THE MISCHIEF OF THE NIGHT IN ITS DARKENING

4  AND FROM THE EVIL OF THOSE WHO CAST EVIL SUGGESTINGS

5  AND FROM THE EVIL OF THE ENVY OF THE ONE WHO IS ENVYING 

CHAPTER 114.  THE MEN                                                                  SECTION 1.  PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  SAY, I SEEK REFUGE IN THE LORD OF MEN

2  THE KING OF MEN

3  THE GOD OF MEN

4  FROM THE MISCHIEF OF THE EVIL WHISPERER
WHO WITHDRAWS AFTER HIS WHISPER

5  WHO WHISPERS INTO THE HEARTS OF MEN

6  FROM AMONG DEMONS AND AMONG MEN

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