CHAPTER 7.  THE ELEVATED PLACES                                        SECTION 11.  PART VIII

85  TO THE MADYAN PEOPLE WE SENT AS A MESSENGER
SHUAIB, ONE OF THEIR OWN BROTHERS

HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE ,WORSHIP GOD 
FOR BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD 
NOW HAS COME TO YOU A CLEAR MESSAGE FROM GOD 

GIVE JUST WEIGHT AND MEASURE
NOR WITHHOLD FROM PEOPLE WHAT IS PROPER
DO NO MISCHIEF ON THE EARTH AFTER IT HAS BEEN SET IN ORDER 
THAT WILL BE BEST FOR YOU IF YOU ARE BELIEVERS

86  AND LIE NOT IN WAIT ON EVERY HIGHWAY                                                           
BREATHING THREATS, HINDERING MEN FROM GOD'S WAY 

AND SEEKING IN IT SOMETHING UNTRUE
REMEMBER YOU WERE LITTLE AND HE GAVE INCREASE TO YOU 
AND REMEMBER THE END OF THOSE WHO DID MISCHIEF BEFORE YOU

87  IF THERE IS AMONG YOU A PARTY THAT BELIEVES
IN THE MESSAGES WHICH I HAVE RECEIVED                                                       
AND A PARTY WHICH DOES NOT BELIEVE  
BE PATIENT UNTIL GOD INTERCEDES 
FOR HE IS THE BEST TO INTERCEDE

PART IX

88  THE LEADERS, THE ARROGANT PARTY 
SAID, OH SHUAIB, WE WILL CERTAINLY 
DRIVE YOU OUT OF OUR CITY 

YOU AND THOSE WHO ARE WITH YOU OR ELSE YOU AND THEY
WILL HAVE TO RETURN TO OUR RELIGION AND OUR WAYS 
HE SAID, EVEN THOUGH WE DETEST YOUR WAYS?

89  WE WOULD INDEED BE LIARS IF WE RETURNED TO THEM 
NOW AFTER OUR LORD HAS RESCUED US FROM THEM 
NOR COULD WE BY ANY MEANS RETURN TO THEM 

UNLESS IT BE IN GOD'S WILL AND PLANNING
GOD IN HIS KNOWLEDGE COMPREHENDS ALL THINGS 

AND IN GOD IS OUR TRUST  
OUR LORD DECIDES BETWEEN OUR PEOPLE AND US
FOR SURELY YOU ARE THE BEST TO DECIDE BETWEEN US

90  THE LEADERS OF THE DISBELIEVERS AMONG HIS PEOPLE 
SAID, IF YOU FOLLOW SHUAIB YOU WILL BE A RUINED PEOPLE

91  THE EARTHQUAKE TOOK THEM WHEN THEY WERE NOT PERCEIVING 
AND THEY LAID MOTIONLESS IN THEIR HOMES BEFORE THE MORNING

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92  THE MEN WHO REJECTED SHUAIB 
BECAME AS IF THEY HAD NEVER STAYED 
IN THE HOMES IN WHICH THEY HAD LAID
AND THE MEN WHO HAD REJECTED SHUAIB
THE ONES WHO WERE RUINED WERE THEY

93  SHUAIB LEFT THEM SAYING, OH MY PEOPLE, I GAVE YOU
THE MESSAGE WHICH WAS SENT BY MY LORD FOR YOU

I GAVE YOU GOOD COUNSEL BUT HOW SHALL I GRIEVE 
OVER A PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO BELIEVE?

  SECTION  12

94  WHENEVER WE SENT A PROPHET TO A CITY
WE TOOK UP ITS PEOPLE IN ADVERSITY
SO THEY MAY LEARN HUMILITY

95  WE CHANGED THEIR SUFFERING INTO PROSPEROUS WAYS
UNTIL THEY GREW AND MULTIPLIED AND BEGAN TO SAY

OUR FATHERS WERE TOUCHED BY AFFLUENCE AND SUFFERING 
AND SO THEN AFTER WE CALLED THEM INTO ACCOUNTING
ALL OF A SUDDEN WHILE THEY WERE NOT PERCEIVING

96  IF THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK HAD BELIEVED
AND FEARED GOD AND KEPT THEIR DUTY

WE WOULD HAVE OPENED OUT TO THEM ALL KINDS OF BLESSINGS 
FROM HEAVEN AND EARTH BUT THEY CONTINUED REJECTING
SO WE BROUGHT THEM TO BOOK FOR THEIR DISBELIEVING

97  DID THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWNS FEEL SECURE FROM THE COMING
OF OUR WRATH BY NIGHT WHILE THEY WERE SLEEPING?

98  OR DID THEY FEEL SECURE AGAINST ITS COMING 
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT WHILE THEY WERE PLAYING?  

99  DID THEY THEN FEEL SECURE AGAINST THE PLAN OF GOD? 
BUT NO ONE CAN FEEL SECURE FROM THE PLAN OF GOD 
EXCEPT THOSE DOOMED TO RUIN BY GOD

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100  TO THOSE WHO INHERIT THE EARTH IN SUCCESSION 
TO ITS PREVIOUS POSSESSORS, IS IT NOT A GUIDING LESSON 
THAT IF WE SO WILLED WE COULD PUNISH THEM FOR THEIR SINS
AND ALSO SEAL UP THEIR HEARTS SO THAT THEY COULD NOT LISTEN?

101  SUCH WERE THE TOWNS WE RELATE TO YOU THEIR STORY
TO THEM CAME APOSTLES WITH SIGNS CLEARLY
BUT THEY DISBELIEVED
IN WHAT THEY HAD BEFORE DISBELIEVED
GOD SEALS UP THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

102  MOST OF THEM WE FOUND NOT MEN TRUE TO THEIR COVENANT 
BUT MOST OF THEM WE FOUND REBELLIOUS AND DISOBEDIENT

103  AFTER THEM WE SENT MOSES 
WITH OUR MESSAGES

104  TO PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS
BUT THEY REJECTED THEM WRONGFULLY
SO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO ACT MISCHIEVOUSLY

MOSES SAID, OH PHARAOH, I AM A MESSENGER
FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

105  ONE FOR WHOM IT IS RIGHT TO SAY ABOUT GOD TRUTH ONLY 
NOW HAVE I COME TO YOU FROM GOD WITH SIGNS CLEARLY
SO LET THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DEPART WITH ME

106  PHARAOH SAID, IF YOU HAVE COME WITH A SIGN, SHOW PROOF
IF YOU ARE INDEED TELLING THE TRUTH

107  THEN MOSES THREW HIS ROD AND SUDDENLY
IT WAS A SERPENT PLAIN FOR ALL TO SEE 

108  AND HE DREW OUT HIS HAND AND CLEARLY
IT WAS WHITE FOR ALL TO SEE

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109  SAID THE CHIEFS OF PHARAOH'S PEOPLE
THIS IS A SORCERER THAT IS VERY SKILLFUL

110  HIS PLAN IS TO GET YOU OUT OF YOUR LAND
WHAT DO YOU COUNSEL AGAINST HIS PLAN?

111  THEY SAID, KEEP IN SUSPENSE HIM AND HIS BROTHER 
AND TO THE CITIES SEND OUT SUMMONERS

112  AND BRING UP ALL OUR WELL-VERSED 
AND TALENTED AND SKILLFUL SORCERERS

113  SO WHEN THE SORCERERS CAME TO PHARAOH THEY SAID
OF COURSE WE WILL HAVE A REWARD IF WE COME OUT AHEAD

114  HE SAID, YES AND MORE FOR YOU WILL BE
RAISED TO POSITIONS NEAR TO ME

115  THEY SAID, OH MOSES, WILL YOU THROW FIRST
OR WILL WE BE THE ONES TO THROW FIRST?

116  MOSES SAID, YOU MAY THROW FIRST 
SO WHEN THEY DID THROW FIRST

THEY BEWITCHED THE PEOPLE'S EYES AND STRUCK FEAR INTO THEM 
FOR THEY SHOWED A GREAT FEAT OF MAGIC TO THEM

117  WE PUT INTO MOSES'S MIND BY INSPIRATION
THROW YOUR ROD AND IT SWALLOWED UP THEIR FABRICATIONS 

118  SO TRUTH WAS CONFIRMED AND HENCE
ALL THAT THEY DID WAS MADE OF NO CONSEQUENCE

119  SO THE GREAT ONES WERE VANQUISHED
AND WERE MADE TO LOOK DIMINISHED

120  AND THE SORCERERS IN ADORATION
FELL DOWN IN PROSTRATION

121  THEY SAID, WE BELIEVE TRULY
IN THE LORD OF THE WORLDS COMPLETELY

122  THE LORD OF MOSES AND THE LORD OF AARON

123  PHAROAH SAID, YOU BELIEVE HIM BEFORE I GIVE YOU PERMISSION?
SURELY YOU PLANNED IN THE CITY THIS DECEPTION
TO TURN OUT ITS PEOPLE BUT YOU WILL KNOW THE REPERCUSSIONS

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

125  THEY SAID, AS FOR US WE ARE ONLY
SENT BACK TO OUR LORD SECURELY

126  BUT YOU WREAK YOUR VENGEANCE ON US 
BECAUSE WE BELIEVED GOD'S SIGNS WHEN THEY REACHED US 
OUR LORD AND CHERISHER POUR PATIENCE AND CONSTANCY ON US 

AND TAKE OUR SOULS UNTO YOU 
AS SUBMITTERS WHO BOW TO YOU

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127  SAID THE CHIEFS OF PHARAOH'S PEOPLE 
WILL YOU LEAVE MOSES AND HIS PEOPLE 

TO SPREAD MISCHIEF IN THE LAND FREELY
AND TO ABANDON YOU AND YOUR DEITIES?  

SO HE SAID, THEIR MALE CHILDREN WE WILL KILL THEM
AND ALL OF THEIR FEMALES WE WILL SAVE THEM 
FOR WE HAVE IRRESISTIBLE POWER OVER THEM 

128  MOSES SAID TO HIS PEOPLE, PRAY FOR HELP FROM GOD 
AND WAIT PATIENTLY, FOR THE EARTH BELONGS TO GOD
TO GIVE AS A HERITAGE TO THE SERVANTS OF GOD
THE END IS BEST FOR THE SERVANTS OF GOD

129  THEY SAID, THERE HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT TROUBLE FOR US
BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER YOU CAME TO US

MOSES SAID,  OH MY PEOPLE, YOUR LORD MAY DESTROY YOUR ENEMY 
AND MAKE YOU INHERITORS IN THE EARTH SUBSEQUENTLY 
SO THAT HE MAY TRY YOU BY YOUR DEEDS

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130  WE PUNISHED PHARAOH'S PEOPLE WITH YEARS OF DESTRUCTION  
OF CROPS AND DROUGHT THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVE ADMONITION

131  WHEN GOOD TIMES CAME THEY DECREED  
THIS IS DUE TO US, BUT WHEN GRIPPED BY CALAMITY 
THEY ASCRIBED IT TO EVIL OMENS FROM MOSES UNJUSTLY 
BUT THE OMENS ARE THEIRS IN REALITY
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT UNDERSTAND CLEARLY

132  THEY SAID TO MOSES, WHATEVER BE THE MESSAGES
THAT YOU BRING WITH YOUR SORCERY TO US
YOU WILL NEVER BE BELIEVED BY US

133  SO WE THEREFORE SENT PLAGUES ON THEM 
WHOLESALE DEATH AND LOCUSTS ON THEM
LICE AND FROGS AND BLOOD ON THEM

SIGNS SELF-EXPLAINED PLAINLY
BUT THEY WERE STEEPED IN ACTING ARROGANTLY
FOR THEY WERE PEOPLE SURELY GIVEN TO INIQUITY

134  EVERY TIME THE PENALTY FELL ON THEM THEY SAID, IF YOU                                                                                        
OH MOSES, CALL ON GOD IN VIRTUE OF HIS PROMISE TO YOU 
AND REMOVE THE PENALTY, WE WILL BELIEVE IN YOU
AND WE WILL SEND AWAY THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WITH YOU

135  BUT EVERY TIME WE REMOVED THE PENALTY FROM THEM 
ACCORDING TO A FIXED TERM WHICH WE SET FOR THEM 
THEY BROKE THE PROMISE WE TOOK FROM THEM

136  SO WE EXACTED RETRIBUTION FROM THEM 
AND IN THE SEA WE DROWNED THEM 
BECAUSE OUR SIGNS WERE REJECTED BY THEM
AND THEY FAILED TO TAKE WARNING FROM THEM

137  AND WE MADE A PEOPLE WHO WERE ASSESSED 
AS WEAK AND OF NO ACCOUNT AND OPPRESSED
INHERITORS OF THE LANDS, EAST AND WEST
LANDS ON WHICH WE BLESSED

THE PROMISE OF YOUR LORD WAS FULFILLED 
IN COMPLETION FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
BECAUSE THEY HAD PATIENCE AND WERE GRATEFUL

AND WE LEVELED TO THE GROUND THE FINE BUILDINGS 
WHICH PHARAOH AND HIS PEOPLE ERECTED SELF ESTEEMING

138  WE TOOK THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAFELY ACROSS THE SEA 
AND THEY CAME UPON A PEOPLE DEVOTED TO IDOLS ENTIRELY 
THEY SAID, OH MOSES, MAKE US A GOD LIKE THEIR DEITIES 
HE SAID, YOU ARE PEOPLE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE INDEED

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CHAPTER 7.  THE ELEVATED PLACES                         SECTION 16 (CONT'D). PART IX

139  THESE FOLK THE CULT THEY ARE IN 
IS ONLY MERELY A FRAGMENT OF A RUIN 
AND VAIN IS THE WORSHIP THEY PRACTICE IN

140  HE SAID, SHOULD I SEEK FOR YOU A GOD 
ONE OTHER THAN THE ONE TRUE AND LIVING GOD 
WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN ENDOWED WITH GIFTS BY GOD
AND YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED ABOVE THE NATIONS BY GOD?

141  AND REMEMBER WE RESCUED YOU 
FROM PHARAOH'S PEOPLE WHO AFFLICTED YOU 
WITH THE WORST OF PENALTIES AND WHO ALSO SLEW 

YOUR MALE CHILDREN 
AND SAVED ALIVE YOUR FEMALE CHILDREN
AND THAT WAS A TRIAL FROM THE LORD OF CREATION

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CHAPTER 7.  THE ELEVATED PLACES                                           SECTION 17.  PART IX

142  WE APPOINTED FOR MOSES THIRTY NIGHTS 
AND COMPLETED THE PERIOD WITH TEN MORE NIGHTS

SO WAS COMPLETED WITH GOD THE TERM OF COMMUNION 
FORTY NIGHTS, AND MOSES HAD CHARGED HIS BROTHER AARON 

BEFORE HE WENT UP SAYING, ACT AMONG MY PEOPLE FOR ME 
DO RIGHT AND FOLLOW NOT THOSE WHO ACT MISCHIEVOUSLY

143  WHEN MOSES CAME TO THE PLACE APPOINTED 
HIS LORD ADDRESSED HIM AND MOSES SAID 

THAT I MAY LOOK UPON YOU SHOW YOURSELF TO ME 
HIS LORD SAID, BY NO MEANS CAN YOU SEE ME DIRECTLY
LOOK UPON THE MOUNTAIN, IF IT ABIDES IN ITS PLACE FIRMLY 
YOU WILL SEE ME AND WHEN HIS LORD MANIFESTED HIS GLORY 
ON THE MOUNTAIN HE MADE IT CRUMBLE AND IMMEDIATELY
MOSES FELL DOWN AND FAINTED AND WHEN HE CLEARLY
RECOVERED HIS SENSES HE SAID, TO YOU BE THE GLORY  
I TURN IN REPENTANCE AND AM THE FIRST TO BELIEVE 

144  GOD SAID, OH MOSES, I HAVE CHOSEN YOU 
ABOVE OTHER MEN BY THE MISSION I HAVE GIVEN YOU 
AND BY THE WORDS WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU 
TAKE THE REVELATION WHICH I GIVE TO YOU 
AND BE OF THOSE WHO GIVE THANKS AMONG YOU

145  WE ORDAINED LAWS FOR HIM AND ADMONITION
AND OF ALL THINGS A CLEAR EXPLANATION
AND SAID, TAKE AND HOLD TO THESE WITH CONVICTION 
AND ENJOIN ON YOUR PEOPLE TO HOLD TO THIS RELIGION 
I WILL SHOW YOU THE HOME OF THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION   

146  THOSE WHO BEHAVE ON THE EARTH ARROGANTLY
AND THEY DO IT IN DEFIANCE OF ACTING RIGHTLY

I WILL TURN AWAY MY SIGNS FROM THEM
IF THEY SEE ALL THE SIGNS THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE IN THEM
AND IF THE WAY OF RIGHT CONDUCT IS SEEN BY THEM
IT WILL NOT BE ADOPTED AS THE WAY BY THEM
BUT IF THE WRONG WAY IS SEEN BY THEM 
THAT IS THE WAY THAT WILL BE ADOPTED BY THEM
FOR THEY HAVE TAKEN OUR SIGNS AND REJECTED THEM
AND ALSO THEY HAVE FAILED TO TAKE WARNING FROM THEM

147  THOSE WHO OF OUR MESSAGES ARE REJECTERS 
AND IN THE MEETING OF THE HEREAFTER 
VAIN WILL BE THEIR ENDEAVORS 
THEY WILL RECEIVE WHAT THEY EARNED IN DUE MEASURE

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CHAPTER 7.  THE ELEVATED PLACES                                           SECTION 18.  PART IX

148  THE PEOPLE OF MOSES MADE IN HIS ABSENCE
THE IMAGE OF A CALF FOR WORSHIP OUT OF THEIR ORNAMENTS

AND IT SEEMED THAT IT HAD A HOLLOW SOUND TO THEM 
DID THEY NOT SEE THAT IT COULD NOT SPEAK TO THEM 
AND NOR COULD IT SHOW THE WAY TO THEM ? 
THEY TOOK IT FOR WORSHIP WHICH WAS WRONG OF THEM

149  THEY REPENTED AND SAW THAT THEY ACTED WRONGFULLY  
THEY SAID, IF OUR LORD DOES NOT UPON US HAVE MERCY
WE WILL BE OF THOSE WHO PERISH CERTAINLY

150  AND WHEN MOSES CAME BACK TO HIS PEOPLE 
ANGRY AND GRIEVED HE SAID, WHAT YOU HAVE DONE IS EVIL 

IN MY ABSENCE DID YOU HURRY 
TO BRING UPON YOU GOD'S FURY?

HE PUT DOWN THE TABLETS AND SEIZED HIS BROTHER BY THE HEAD
AND DRAGGED HIM TOWARDS HIM AND AARON SAID

SON OF MY MOTHER, THE PEOPLE RECKONED ME AS NOTHING
AND EVEN CONSIDERED ME FOR SLAYING  

MAKE NOT MY ENEMIES REJOICE OVER MY TRAGEDY
NOR COUNT ME AMONG THE PEOPLE OF INIQUITY

151  MOSES PRAYED, OH MY LORD, FORGIVE ME 
AND MY BROTHER AND ADMIT US TO YOUR MERCY 
FOR YOU ARE THE MOST MERCIFUL OF THOSE WHO SHOW MERCY

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CHAPTER 7.  THE ELEVATED PLACES                                           SECTION 19.  PART IX

152  THOSE WHO TOOK AND WORSHIPPED THE CALF 
THEY WILL SURLEY BE OVERWHELMED WITH WRATH
AND SO DO WE PUNISH THOSE WHO FORSAKE THE PATH

153  BUT THOSE WHO DO WRONG BUT REPENT AFTER AND BELIEVE 
YOUR LORD THEREAFTER IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

154  WHEN THE ANGER OF MOSES WAS APPEASED
HE TOOK UP THE TABLETS AND IN ITS WRITING WAS MERCY 
AND GUIDANCE FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD AND BELIEVE

155  MOSES CHOSE SEVENTY PEOPLE FOR OUR PLACE OF MEETING 
AND WHEN THEY WERE SEIZED WITH VIOLENT QUAKING 

HE PRAYED, OH MY LORD, IF IT HAD BEEN YOUR WILL YOU EASILY
COULD HAVE DESTROYED LONG BEFORE BOTH THEM AND ME 

WOULD YOU DESTROY US
FOR THE DEEDS OF THE FOOLISH ONES AMONG US? 
FOR SURELY THIS IS NO MORE THAN YOUR TRIAL UPON US

AND BY IT YOU CAUSE WHOM YOU WILL TO GO ASTRAY 
AND YOU LEAD WHOM YOU WILL TO THE RIGHT WAY 

AND YOU ARE OUR PROTECTOR SO FORGIVE US
AND GIVE YOUR KINDNESS AND MERCY TO US
FOR YOU ARE THE BEST FORGIVER OF US
 
156  AND ORDAIN FOR US
THAT WHICH IS GOOD FOR US
IN THIS LIFE AND IN THE HEREAFTER FOR US 

FOR WE HAVE TURNED TO YOU SUBMISSIVELY
AND HE SAID, WITH MY PENALTY
I VISIT WHOM I WILL BUT MY MERCY
EXTENDS TO ALL THINGS AND THAT MERCY 
I WILL ORDAIN FOR THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
AND FOR THOSE WHO DO PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN OUR MESSAGES SINCERELY 

157  THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE UNLETTERED MESSENGER 
WHOM THEY FIND MENTIONED IN THEIR OWN SCRIPTURES 

AND IN THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL, FOR HE COMMANDS THEM
JUSTICE AND FORBIDS THEM EVIL AND ALLOWS THEM 
AS LAWFUL WHAT IS GOOD AND HE PROHIBITS THEM 
FROM WHAT IS BAD AND IS IMPURE AND HE RELEASES THEM 
FROM THEIR BURDENS AND THE SHACKLES THAT ARE ON THEM 

IT IS THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM AND HONOR HIM AND HELP HIM 
AND FOLLOW THE LIGHT WHICH IS SENT DOWN WITH HIM 
IT IS THEY WHO WILL PROSPER THROUGH HIM

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CHAPTER 7.  THE ELEVATED PLACES                                           SECTION 20.  PART IX

158  SAY, OH MEN, I AM SENT TO YOU ALL AS THE MESSENGER
OF THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

TO WHOM BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS

BESIDES HIM THERE IS NO OTHER GOD 
IT IS HE THAT GIVES LIFE AND DEATH SO BELIEVE IN GOD 
AND THE UNLETTERED PROPHET WHO BELIEVES IN GOD 
AND FOLLOW HIM SO YOU MAY BE GUIDED BY GOD

159  OF THE PEOPLE OF MOSES 
ARE SOME WHO GUIDE WITH TRUTH AND JUSTICE 

160  WE DIVIDED THEM INTO TWELVE TRIBES OR NATIONS
AND WE DIRECTED MOSES BY INSPIRATION 

WHEN HIS PEOPLE ASKED HIM FOR WATER WHEN THIRSTY
WE SAID, STRIKE THE ROCK WITH YOUR STAFF AND IMMEDIATELY

FROM IT GUSHED THROUGH TWELVE SPRINGS OF RUNNING WATER
AND EACH GROUP KNEW ITS OWN PLACE FOR WATER

WE GAVE THE SHADE OF CLOUDS TO THEM 
AND SENT DOWN MANNA AND QUAILS TO THEM 

SAYING, EAT OF THE GOOD THINGS 
WE HAVE PROVIDED FOR YOUR SUSTAINING

BUT THEY REBELLED AND TO US THEY DID NO HARM
BUT TO THEIR OWN SELVES THEY DID DO HARM

161  AND REMEMBER IT WAS SAID TO THEM, DWELL IN THIS CITY                    
EAT AS YOU WISH THEREIN BUT SAY THE WORD OF HUMILITY 
AND ENTER THE GATE IN A POSTURE OF HUMILITY 
AND WE WILL FORGIVE YOU YOUR INIQUITIES
AND INCREASE THE PORTION OF THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

162  THE TRANSGRESSORS AMONG THEM 
CHANGED THE WORD WE HAD GIVEN TO THEM 
SO WE SENT A PLAGUE FROM HEAVEN UPON THEM 
BECAUSE OF THE REPEATED TRANSGRESSIONS OF THEM

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163  ASK THEM ABOUT THE STORY
OF THE TOWN BY THE SEA

WHEN THEY TRANSGRESSED IN THE MATTER OF THE SABBATH
THEIR FISH CAME TO THEM ON THE DAY OF THEIR SABBATH
BUT DID NOT COME WHEN THEY HAD NO SABBATH
THIS WAS A TRIAL BECAUSE THEY TRANSGRESSED IN THE SABBATH

164  WHEN SOME OF THEM SAID, WHY DO YOU PREACH TO PEOPLE 
WHOM GOD WILL DESTROY WITH A PENALTY THAT IS TERRIBLE? 

SAID THE PREACHERS, TO DISCHARGE OUR DUTY TO GOD 
AND PERCHANCE THAT THEY MAY FEAR GOD

165  WHEN THEY DISREGARDED THE WARNINGS GIVEN TO THEM
THOSE WHO HAD FORBADE EVIL WE RESCUED THEM

BUT WE PUNISHED THE WRONG-DOERS WITH A SEVERE PENALTY 
BECAUSE THEY WERE GIVEN TO INIQUITY

166  AND IN THEIR INSOLENCE THEY TRANSGRESSED ALL PROHIBITIONS 
WE SAID TO THEM, BE YOU AS APES DESPISED AND WITH REJECTION

167  YOUR LORD DECLARED THAT HE WOULD SEND AGAINST THEM 
TO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THOSE WHO WOULD AFFLICT THEM 
 
FOR YOUR LORD IS SEVERE IN AFFLICTING PENALTY
HE IS ALSO FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

168  INTO SECTIONS ON THIS EARTH WE DIVIDED THEM 
THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE RIGHTEOUS AMONG THEM 
AND OTHERS THAT ARE THE OPPOSITE AMONG THEM

WE HAVE TRIED THEM WITH BOTH PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MIGHT TURN TO US HUMBLY

169  AFTER THEM SUCCEEDED AN EVIL GENERATION
THAT INHERITED THE BOOK OF REVELATION

THEY CHOSE FOR THEMSELVES VAIN THINGS
AND SAYING FOR AN EXCUSE THAT EVERYTHING 
WILL BE FORGIVEN US, SO IF SIMILAR VAIN THINGS

CAME THEIR WAY THEY WOULD AGAIN SEIZE THEM 
WAS NOT THE COVENANT OF THE BOOK TAKEN FROM THEM

THAT THEY WOULD NOT ASCRIBE TO GOD 
ANYTHING BUT THE TRUTH OF GOD?

AND THEY STUDY WHAT IS IN THE SCRIPTURES 
BUT BETTER FOR THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
IS THE HOME IN THE HEREAFTER 
WILL YOU NOT THEN BE OF THOSE WHO CONSIDER?

170  FOR THOSE WHO HOLD FAST BY THE SCRIPTURES
AND KEEP UP PRAYER, NEVER WILL WE SUFFER 
TO PERISH THE REWARD OF THE REFORMERS

171  WHEN WE SHOOK THE MOUNTAIN OVER THEM 
AS IF IT HAD BEEN A CANOPY AND IT WAS THOUGHT BY THEM
THAT IT WAS GOING TO FALL ON THEM 
WE TOLD THEM TO HOLD FIRMLY TO WHAT WE HAD GIVEN THEM

AND BRING EVER WHAT IS THEREIN TO REMEMBRANCE 
THAT YOU MAY FEAR GOD PERCHANCE

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172  WHEN YOUR LORD DREW FROM ADAM'S CHILDREN 
FROM THE LOINS OF THEM THEIR DESCENDANTS 
AND MADE THEM MAKE THIS TESTAMENT 

SAYING, AM I NOT YOUR LORD WHO SUSTAINS YOU?
THEY SAID, YES WE DO TESTIFY TO THIS UNLESS YOU 

SHOULD SAY ON THE DAY OF REQUITAL
THAT OF THIS WE WERE NEVER MINDFUL

173  OR ELSE YOU SHOULD SAY, OUR FATHERS BEFORE US 
MAY HAVE TAKEN FALSE GODS, BUT AS FOR US 

WE ARE THEIR DESCENDANTS AFTER THEM 
WILL YOU DESTROY US BECAUSE OF THEM?

174  SO DO WE EXPLAIN THE MESSAGES IN DETAIL FROM US
THAT PERCHANCE THEY MAY TURN TO US

175  RELATE TO THEM THE STORY 
OF THE MAN TO WHOM WE SENT MESSAGES CLEARLY

BUT HE PASSED THEM BY AND TURNED AWAY
SO SATAN FOLLOWED HIM UP AND HE WENT ASTRAY

176  IF IT HAD BEEN OUR WILL WE WOULD HAVE SURELY
ELEVATED HIM WITH OUR MESSAGES BUT HE INSISTENTLY 
INCLINED TO THE EARTH AND FOLLOWED HIS OWN VANITIES

HIS PARABLE IS THAT OF A DOG, IF YOU ATTACK HIM 
HE LOLLS OUT HIS TONGUE OR IF ALONE YOU LEAVE HIM 

HE STILL LOLLS OUT HIS TONGUE, THAT IS THE PARABLE
OF THOSE WHO REJECT OUR MESSAGES AND ARE UNGRATEFUL
SO RELATE THE PARABLE THAT PERCHANCE THEY MAY BE MINDFUL

177  EVIL AS AN EXAMPLE ARE PEOPLE 
WHO REJECT OUR SIGNS AND COMMIT THEIR SOULS TO EVIL

178  WHOM GOD DOES GUIDE IS ON THE RIGHT WAY
 WHOM HE REJECTS FROM HIS GUIDANCE GO ASTRAY

179  WE HAVE MADE HELL FOR MANY DEMONS AND MEN
THEY HAVE HEARTS WITH WHICH THEY DO NOT COMPREHEND

EYES WITH WHICH THEY SEE NOT
AND EARS WITH WHICH THEY HEAR NOT 

THEY ARE LIKE CATTLE BUT MORE MINDLESS
FOR OF WARNINGS THEY ARE HEEDLESS

180 TO GOD BELONG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAMES 
SO CALL ON HIM BY HIS NAMES
BUT SHUN MEN WHO USE PROFANITY IN HIS NAMES 
FOR WHAT THEY DO THEY WILL BE BROUGHT TO SHAME

181  OF THOSE WE HAVE CREATED ARE PEOPLE WHO WITH TRUTH
DIRECT OTHERS AND DISPENSE JUSTICE WITH TRUTH

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182  THOSE WHO REJECT OUR MESSAGES WE WILL GRADUALLY 
VISIT WITH PUNISHMENT IN WAYS THEY DO NOT PERCEIVE

183  RESPITE TO THEM I WILL BE GRANTING 
FOR MY SCHEME IS STRONG AND UNFAILING

184  DO THEY NOT REFLECT THAT THEIR MESSENGER
IS NOT SEIZED WITH MADNESS, HE IS BUT A PLAIN WARNER?

185   DO THEY SEE NOTHING IN THE GOVERNMENTS
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND ALL THAT GOD HAS IN HIS CREATION?

DO THEY NOT SEE THAT IT MAY BE CERTAIN
THAT THEIR TERM IS NEAR DRAWING TO AN END 
IN WHAT MESSAGE AFTER THIS WILL THEY BELIEVE IN THEN?

186  THOSE WHO GOD REJECTS FROM HIS INSTRUCTION 
FOR THEM THERE CAN NEVER BE ANY DIRECTION 
HE LEAVES THEM IN THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS
WANDERING TO AND FRO IN DISTRACTION

187  THEY ASK YOU ABOUT THE FINAL HOUR, WHEN WILL IT BE ?                         
SAY, THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOUR IS WITH MY LORD ONLY                               

AND SURELY NONE BUT HE CAN REVEAL AS TO WHEN IT WILL HAPPEN
HEAVY IS ITS BURDEN THROUGH THE  EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND IT WILL COME TO YOU ALL OF A SUDDEN 
 
THEY ASK YOU AS IF YOU WERE EAGER IN SEARCH OF IT 
SAY TO THEM, WITH GOD IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF IT 
BUT MOST AMONG MEN DO NOT KNOW IT

188  SAY, NO POWER OVER ANY GOOD OR HARM HAVE I
TO MYSELF EXCEPT AS GOD WILLS AND IF I 
HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN THEN I 

WOULD HAVE MULTIPLIED ALL GOOD FOR ME
AND NO EVIL WOULD HAVE TOUCHED ME 

BUT I AM ONLY A PLAIN WARNER 
AND A BRINGER OF GOOD NEWS TO BELIEVERS

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189  GOD CREATED YOU FROM A SINGLE  CREATURE
AND MADE FOR YOU A MATE OF LIKE NATURE
IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT DWELL IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER
AND WHEN THEY ARE UNITED A LIGHT BURDEN SHE BEARS
AND CARRIES IT ABOUT UNNOTICED WITH HER
AND THEN WHEN SHE GROWS HEAVIER 
THEY BOTH PRAY TO GOD SAYING, OH CREATOR 
IF YOU GIVE US A GOOD CHILD WE SWEAR
THAT WE WILL BE GRATEFUL FOREVER

190  BUT WHEN HE GIVES THEM A GOOD CHILD THEY ASCRIBE TO OTHERS 
A SHARE IN THE GIFT THAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED FROM THEIR MAKER
BUT HE IS ABOVE WHAT THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM AS PARTNERS

191  DO THEY INDEED ASCRIBE TO HIM THINGS 
THAT HAVE THEMSELVES CREATED NOTHING
BUT ARE THEMSELVES CREATED THINGS?

192  AND THEY CAN GIVE TO THEM NO AID
NOR CAN THEY GIVE TO THEMSELVES AID

193  IF TO GUIDANCE YOU CALL THEM 
THEY WILL NOT OBEY YOU, IT IS THE SAME TO THEM 
WHETHER YOU CALL THEM OR WHETHER YOU DO NOT CALL THEM

194  SURELY THOSE WHOM YOU 
CALL ON BESIDES GOD ARE SERVANTS LIKE YOU 
SO CALL UPON THEM PRAYING AND LET THEM LISTEN TO YOU
IF YOU THINK THAT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE

195  HAVE THEY FEET TO WALK WITH OR HANDS TO MOVE FREELY
OR EARS TO HEAR WITH OR EYES TO SEE? 
SAY, CALL YOUR GOD-PARTNERS AND SCHEME AGAINST ME 
YOUR WORST SCHEME AND GIVE NO RESPITE TO ME 

196  GOD WHO REVEALED THE BOOK IS MY FRIEND
HE CHOOSES THE RIGHTEOUS AND THEM HE BEFRIENDS

197  AND BESIDES HIM THOSE WHO ARE CALLED ON BY YOU
ARE UNABLE TO HELP THEMSELVES OR YOU

198  IF YOU CALL THEM TO GUIDANCE THEY HEAR NOT 
YOU WILL SEE THEM LOOKING AT YOU BUT THEY SEE NOT

199  COMMAND WHAT IS RIGHT BUT TURN AWAY 
FROM THE IGNORANT AND EVIL WAYS

200  IF A SUGGESTION FROM SATAN IS MENTALLY AFFLICTING
SEEK REFUGE IN GOD, FOR HE IS ALL KNOWING

201  WHEN AN EVIL THOUGHT AFFLICTS THOSE WHO FEAR GOD
WHEN THEIR SIGHT RETURNS TO THEM THEY REMEMBER GOD

202  BUT THEIR BROTHERS THE EVIL ONES, PLUNGE THEM DEEPER
INTO ERROR AND RELAX THEIR EFFORTS NEVE

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203  IF YOU BRING THEM NOT A REVELATION THEY UTTER 
WHY HAVE YOU NOT GOT IT TOGETHER? 
SAY, I BUT FOLLOW WHAT IS REVEALED TO ME FROM THE CREATOR 
THIS IS GUIDANCE AND LIGHT FROM YOUR MAKER 
AND MERCY FOR THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 

204  WHEN THE QURAN IS RECITED, LISTEN TO IT ATTENTIVELY
AND HOLD YOUR PEACE THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE MERCY

205  AND REMEMBER YOUR LORD WITH HUMILITY
AND IN TRUE REVERENCE AND NOT NOISILY 
MORNING AND EVENING AND TAKE HEED

206  THOSE WHO ARE NEAR TO GOD, DO NOT REFUSE TO PRAISE HIM
THEY CELEBRATE HIS PRAISES AND BOW DOWN BEFORE HIM

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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THEY ASK YOU CONCERNING THINGS TAKEN AS SPOILS OF WAR 
SAY, SUCH SPOILS ARE AT THE DISPOSAL OF GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 
SO KEEP STRAIGHT YOUR RELATIONS AND FEAR YOUR MAKER
AND OBEY GOD AND HIS APOSTLE IF YOU ARE A BELIEVER  

2  BELIEVERS ARE THOSE WHO WHEN THEY HEAR GOD MENTIONED
FEEL IN THEIR HEARTS A TREMBLING SENSATION 
WHEN THEY HEAR HIS WORDS MENTIONED 
THEY FIND THEIR FAITH STRENGTHENED 
AND THEIR LORD IS WHOM THEY PUT ALL THEIR TRUST IN

3  THOSE WHO KEEP UP PRAYERS REGULARLY 
AND SPEND OUT OF WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN THEM FREELY

4  THESE ARE THE BELIEVERS TRULY
THEY HAVE WITH THEIR LORD GRADES OF DIGNITY  
AND THEY WILL INDEED BE REWARDED GENEROUSLY 

5  YOUR LORD SENT YOU FORTH FROM YOUR HOUSE WITH TRUTH 
ALTHOUGH A PARTY OF THE BELIEVERS DISPUTED WITH YOU

6  DISPUTING ABOUT THE TRUTH AFTER THE MANIFESTATION OF IT
AS IF THEY WERE BEING DRIVEN TO DEATH WHILE THEY SAW IT

7  GOD PROMISED YOU ONE OF THE ENEMY PARTIES SHOULD BE YOURS 
AND YOU WISHED THAT THE ONES UNARMED SHOULD BE YOURS 

BUT GOD WILLED TO ACCORDING TO HIS WORDS TO JUSTIFY TRUTH 
AND TO CUT OFF THE DISBELIEVERS AT THE ROOTS 

8  THAT HE MIGHT PROVE FALSEHOOD TO BE FALSE AND JUSTIFY TRUTH
DISTASTEFUL THOUGH IT BE TO THE GUILTY AMONG YOU

9  REMEMBER YOU IMPLORED 
THE ASSISTANCE OF YOUR LORD 

AND HE ANSWERED YOU SAYING, I WILL ASSIST YOU 
WITH A THOUSAND ANGELS IN RANKS TO HELP YOU

10  IT WAS A MESSAGE OF HOPE AND AN ASSURANCE FROM GOD
IN ANY CASE THERE IS NO HELP EXCEPT FROM GOD
EXALTED IN POWER AND ALL WISE IS GOD

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11  AND REMEMBER HE COVERED YOU 
WITH DROWSINESS TO GIVE PEACE TO YOU 
HE CAUSED TO DESCEND FROM HEAVEN ON YOU 
RAIN TO CLEANSE YOU AND TO REMOVE FROM YOU 
SATAN'S STAIN AND TO STRENGTHEN THE HEARTS OF YOU
AND TO PLANT YOUR FEET FIRMLY UNDER YOU

12  YOUR LORD INSPIRED THE ANGELS WITH THESE MESSAGES
I AM WITH YOU SO GIVE TO THE BELIEVERS FIRMNESS

FOR I WILL INSTILL HORROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THE DISBELIEVERS 
AND SMITE THEM ABOVE THEIR NECKS AND SMITE THEIR FINGERS

13  BECAUSE THEY CONTENDED AGAINST GOD AND HIS APOSTLE
AND IF ANY DO CONTEND AGAINST GOD AND HIS APOSTLE 
GOD IS STRICT IN PUNISHMENT AND SEVERE IN REQUITAL

14  SO WILL IT BE SAID, TASTE THEN OF THE PUNISHMENT 
FOR THOSE WHO RESIST GOD THE FIRE IS THEIR PUNISHMENT

15  YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
WHEN YOU MEET THE DISBELIEVERS 
NEVER TURN YOUR BACKS TO THEM EVER

16  IF ANY DO TURN HIS BACK TO THEM 
UNLESS IT BE IN A WAR STRATAGEM 

OR TO RETREAT TO A TROOP OF HIS OWN COMPANY
HE DRAWS ON HIMSELF GOD'S FURY

AND HIS ABODE IS HELL 
AN EVIL PLACE TO DWELL

17  IT IS NOT YOU WHO SLEW THEM IT WAS GOD 
YOU THREW A HANDFUL OF DUST, IT WAS NOT YOUR ACT BUT GOD'S 
SO THAT THE BELIEVERS MAY BE TESTED BY A TRIAL FROM GOD 
FOR ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS IS GOD

18  THAT, AND ALSO BECAUSE GOD IS HE 
WHO MAKES FEEBLE THE PLANS OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

19  IF YOU PRAYED FOR VICTORY AND JUDGMENT 
NOW HAS MOST ASSUREDLY COME TO YOU THE JUDGMENT 
IF YOU DESIST FROM WRONG IT WILL BE FOR YOUR BETTERMENT 

IF YOU RETURN TO THE ATTACK THEN INDEED SO WILL WE 
NOT THE LEAST GOOD TO YOU WILL YOUR FORCES BE 
EVEN IF THEY WERE MULTIPLIED GREATLY
FOR GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO BELIEVE

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20  OH YOU BELIEVERS
OBEY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND TURN NOT AWAY WHEN YOU HEAR 
HIM SPEAK THE MESSAGE HE HAS TO DELIVER

21  AND DO NOT
BE LIKE THOSE WHO SAY, WE HEAR BUT LISTEN NOT

22  IN THE SIGHT OF GOD THE WORST CREATURES LIVING
ARE THE DEAF AND THE DUMB, WITH NO UNDERSTANDING

23  IF GOD HAD FOUND IN THEM ANY GOOD INDEED
HE WOULD HAVE MADE THEM ALL TAKE HEED

IF HE HAD MADE THEM LISTEN TO HIS MESSAGES
THEY WOULD HAVE REJECTED THE MESSAGES

24  OH YOU BELIEVERS
GIVE YOUR RESPONSE TO GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
WHEN HE CALLS YOU TO WHAT GIVES YOU LIFE AND VIGOR 
GOD COMES IN BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS HEART 
AND TO HIM YOU WILL ALL BE GATHERED  

25  AND FEAR TUMULT OR OPPRESSION WHICH AFFECTS NOT ONLY 
THOSE WHO DO WRONG AND KNOW THAT GOD IS STRICT IN PENALTY 

26  CALL TO MIND WHEN YOU WERE A SMALL BAND 
DESPISED AND OPPRESSED THROUGH THE LAND

AFRAID THAT MEN MIGHT DESPOIL AND KIDNAP YOU 
BUT HE PROVIDED A SAFE ASYLUM FOR YOU 
AND ALSO WITH HIS AID HE STRENGTHENED YOU 
AND GAVE GOOD THINGS FOR SUSTENANCE TO YOU 
IN ORDER THAT GRATITUDE MIGHT BE SHOWN BY YOU

27  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, BETRAY NOT GOD'S TRUST 
OR THE APOSTLE, NOR MISAPPROPRIATE THE TRUST
OF THINGS THAT ARE GIVEN INTO YOUR TRUST

28  YOUR CHILDREN AND THE POSSESSIONS YOU HOARD
ARE BUT A TRIAL FOR YOU AND WITH YOUR LORD
IS WITH WHOM LIES YOUR HIGHEST REWARD

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29  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, IF YOU FEAR GOD
YOU WILL BE GIVEN A CRITERION BY GOD 

TO JUDGE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG AND REMOVE FROM YOU 
ALL OF THE EVIL THAT MAY AFFLICT YOU AND FORGIVE YOU 
FOR GOD IS THE LORD OF GRACE UNBOUNDED TO YOU

30  REMEMBER HOW THE DISBELIEVERS PLOTTED AGAINST YOU 
TO KEEP YOU IN BONDS OR TO SLAY YOU 

OR GET YOU OUT OF YOUR HOME, AND THEY PLOT AND PLAN
AND GOD ALSO PLANS AND IS THE BEST OF THOSE WHO PLAN

31  WHEN OUR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO THEM THEY SAY 
WE HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE, THE SAME WE COULD SAY 
THESE ARE ONLY TALES OF THE ANCIENTS ANYWAY

32  REMEMBER HOW THEY SAID, OH GOD, IF TO US 
THIS IS INDEED THE TRUTH FROM YOU, RAIN DOWN ON US 
A SHOWER OF STONES FROM THE SKY OR SEND A PENALTY ON US 
 
33  BUT GOD WAS NOT GOING TO SEND THEM 
A PENALTY WHILE YOU WERE AMONG THEM 

NOR WAS HE GOING TO SEND IT 
WHILE THEY COULD ASK FOR PARDON FROM IT

34  BUT WHAT REASON SHOULD GOD NOT PUNISH THEM
WHEN MEN ARE KEPT OUT OF THE SACRED MOSQUE BY THEM?

AND THEY ARE NOT ITS GUARDIANS 
NO MEN CAN BE ITS GUARDIANS 

EXCEPT THE RIGHTEOUS IN THE LAND
BUT MOST OF THEM DO NOT UNDERSTAND

35  THEIR PRAYER AT THE HOUSE OF GOD IS NOTHING 
BUT WHISTLING AND HAND CLAPPING 
 
THEREFORE TASTE THE PENALTY 
BECAUSE OF YOUR BLASPHEMY

36  THE DISBELIEVERS SPEND THEIR WEALTH TO HINDER MEN 
FROM THE PATH OF GOD SO THEY CONTINUE TO SPEND 
BUT THEY WILL HAVE ONLY REGRETS IN THE END

AT LENGTH THEY WILL BE OVERCOME AND THE DISBELIEVERS 
WILL BE GATHERED AND THROWN INTO HELL ALL TOGETHER 

37  SO THAT GOD MAY SEPARATE THE IMPURE FROM THE PURE
AND PUT THE IMPURE ON ONE ANOTHER
AND HEAP THEM ALL TOGETHER 
AND CAST THEM INTO HELL AND THEY WILL BE THE LOSERS

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38  SAY TO THE  DISBELIEVERS, IF FROM UNBELIEF THEY DESIST 
THEIR PAST WILL BE FORGIVEN, BUT IF THEY PERSIST 

THE PUNISHMENT OF THOSE BEFORE THEM 
IS ALREADY A MATTER OF WARNING FOR THEM

39  FIGHT THEM UNTIL THERE IS NO MORE PERSECUTION 
AND JUSTICE PREVAILS AND GOD'S RELIGION 
BUT IF THEY CEASE GOD IS THE SEER AND THE PATRON 

40  IF THEY REFUSE KNOW THAT GOD IS YOUR PROTECTOR 
THE BEST PROTECTOR AND THE BEST HELPER

PART  X

41  KNOW THAT OF ALL THAT YOU MAY ACQUIRE IN WAR 
A FIFTH SHARE IS ASSIGNED TO GOD AND TO THE MESSENGER
AND TO RELATIVES, ORPHANS, THE NEEDY AND THE WAYFARER 
IF YOU DO BELIEVE IN GOD AND IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE SCRIPTURE 

WE SENT DOWN TO OUR SERVANT ON THE DAY OF TESTING 
ON THE DAY OF THE TWO FORCES MEETING 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS

42  REMEMBER YOU WERE ON THE NEAR SIDE OF THE VALLEY
AND THEY WERE ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE VALLEY

AND THE CARAVAN ON LOWER GROUND THAN YOU 
IF YOU HAD MADE AN APPOINTMENT BETWEEN YOU
THE APPOINTMENT WOULD HAVE BEEN FAILED BY YOU

BUT YOU MET THAT GOD MIGHT ACCOMPLISH A MATTER 
ALREADY ENACTED, THAT THOSE WHO DIED MIGHT DIE AFTER 
A CLEAR SIGN HAD BEEN GIVEN AND THOSE WHO LIVED AFTER 
MIGHT LIVE AFTER SIGNS HAD TO THEM BEEN MADE CLEAR 
AND GOD IS THE HEARER AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

43  GOD SHOWED THEM TO YOU IN YOUR DREAM AS FEW
AND IF HE HAD SHOWN THEM AS MANY TO YOU 
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DISCOURAGING TO YOU
YOU WOULD HAVE DISPUTED BUT GOD SAVED YOU
FOR HE KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE  HEARTS OF YOU

44  HE SHOWED THEM TO YOU AS FEW IN YOUR EYES
AND HE MADE YOU APPEAR AS CONTEMPTIBLE IN THEIR EYES
SO THAT GOD MIGHT ACCOMPLISH A MATTER THAT HE DID DECIDE
FOR TO GOD DO ALL QUESTIONS GO BACK TO DECIDE

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