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78  THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WHO DISBELIEVED
WERE CURSED BY CHRIST JESUS, THE SON OF MARY
AND BY DAVID BECAUSE THEY DISOBEYED PERSISTENTLY

79  AND NOR DID THEY USUALLY
FORBID EACH OTHER'S INIQUITIES 
FOR EVIL INDEED WERE THEIR DEEDS 

80  YOU SEE MANY OF THEM 
BEFRIENDING THE DISBELIEVERS AMONG THEM
EVIL ARE THE WORKS THEIR SOULS HAVE SENT BEFORE THEM 
WITH THE RESULT THAT THEIR LORD'S WRATH IS ON THEM 
AND AN EVIL TORMENT IS IN STORE FOR THEM

81  IF ONLY THEY HAD BEEN BELIEVERS 
IN THE TRUTH FROM GOD AND IN THE MESSENGER
AND IN WHAT HAS BEEN REVEALED TO THE MESSENGER  
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN THEM FOR PROTECTORS 
BUT MOST OF THEM ARE REBELLIOUS AND WRONG-DOERS

82  STRONGEST AMONG MEN IN ENMITY TO THE BELIEVERS 
YOU WILL FIND THOSE WHO ARE JEWS AND IDOLATERS
NEARER AMONG MEN IN LOVE TO THE BELIEVERS 

WILL YOU FIND THOSE MEN 
WHO SAY, WE ARE CHRISTIANS 
BECAUSE AMONG THESE ARE MEN 
DEVOTED TO LEARNING AND THEY ARE MEN 
WHO HAVE RENOUNCED THE WORLD AND ARE NOT ARROGANT MEN

PART VII

83  WHEN THEY LISTEN TO THE REVELATION FROM THE MESSENGER 
YOU WILL THEN SEE THEIR EYES OVER FLOWING WITH TEARS
FOR THE TRUTH THEY HEAR AND THIS IS THEIR PRAYER
OUR LORD AND CHERISHER, WE ARE BELIEVERS
SO WRITE US DOWN AMONG THE WITNESS BEARERS

84  WHAT CAUSE CAN THERE BE FOR US 
NOT TO BELIEVE IN THE TRUTH WHICH HAS COME TO US  
SEEING THAT WE LONG FOR OUR LORD TO ADMIT US 
INTO THE COMPANY OF THE RIGHTEOUS

85  FOR THIS THEIR PRAYER GOD HAS REWARDED THEM 
WITH GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING UNDERNEATH THEM

THEIR ETERNAL HOME, THIS IS THE REWARD
OF THOSE WHO DO GOOD WITH THEIR LORD

86  BUT THOSE WHO REJECT OUR SIGNS AND ARE DISBELIEVERS
THEY WILL BE COMPANIONS OF THE HELL-FIRE

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87  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, MAKE NOT UNLAWFUL 
THE GOOD THINGS WHICH FOR YOU GOD HAS MADE LAWFUL 

AND DO NOT COMMIT EXCESS 
FOR GOD LOVES NOT THOSE GIVEN TO EXCESS

88  EAT OF THE LAWFUL THINGS PROVIDED FOR YOU BY GOD 
BUT FEAR GOD IF YOU ARE BELIEVERS IN GOD

89  FOR YOUR FUTILE OATHS GOD WILL NOT CALL YOU TO ACCOUNT
BUT FOR YOUR DELIBERATE OATHS HE WILL CALL YOU TO ACCOUNT

AND FOR EXPIATION
FEED TEN INDIGENT PERSONS 

ON A SCALE OF THE AVERAGE FOOD OF YOUR FAMILIES 
OR CLOTHE THEM OR SET A SLAVE FREE

IF THAT IS BEYOND YOUR INSTRUMENTATION
FAST FOR THREE DAYS, THAT IS THE EXPIATION 

FOR THE OATHS THAT YOU HAVE MADE
BUT KEEP YOUR OATHS THAT YOU HAVE MADE

SO DOES GOD MAKE HIS SIGNS CLEAR TO YOU 
THAT GRATITUDE MAY BE SHOWN BY YOU

90  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, INTOXICANTS AND DEDICATION 
OF STONES AND GAMBLING AND DIVINATION 
BY ARROWS ARE SATAN'S ABOMINATIONS 
SO THAT YOU MAY PROSPER SHUN SUCH ABOMINATIONS 

91  SATAN PLANS TO EXCITE ENMITY BETWEEN YOU 
WITH INTOXICANTS AND GAMBLING AND HINDER YOU 

FROM PRAYER AND FROM GOD'S REMEMBRANCE 
WILL YOU NOT THEN PRACTICE ABSTINENCE?

92  OBEY GOD AND THE APOSTLE AND BEWARE OF EVIL 
IF YOU DO TURN BACK IT IS THE DUTY OF OUR APOSTLE 
ONLY TO PROCLAIM THE MESSAGE CLEARLY TO THE PEOPLE

93  ON THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO GOOD DEEDS 
THERE IS NO BLAME FOR WHAT THEY ATE WHEN INDEED
THEY KEEP THEIR DUTY AND BELIEVE AND DO GOOD DEEDS
AND AGAIN BELIEVE AND KEEP THEIR DUTY 
AND AGAIN DO GOOD AND KEEP THEIR DUTY
FOR GOD LOVES THOSE WHO DO GOOD INDEED

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94  GOD WILL TRY YOU, OH YOU WHO BELIEVE
IN RESPECT OF SOME GAME WELL WITHIN THE REACH 
OF YOUR HANDS AND YOUR LANCES THAT HE MAY INDEED
TEST THOSE OF YOU WHO FEARED HIM UNSEEN
WHOEVER TRANSGRESSES WILL HAVE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

95  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, KILL NOT GAME
WHILE YOU ARE IN THE SACRED DOMAIN

OR WHILE YOU ARE IN PILGRIM CLOTHING                                                                     
IF YOU DO TO COMPENSATE BRING AND OFFERING                                                      

TO THE KABA OF A DOMESTIC ANIMAL 
EQUIVALENT TO THE ONE YOU KILLED

AS ADJUDGED BY TWO 
JUST MEN AMONG YOU

OR BY WAY OF ATONEMENT 
THE FEEDING OF THE INDIGENT 

OR ITS EQUIVALENT IN FASTING
SO YOU MAY TASTE THE PENALTY OF YOUR DOINGS 

GOD FORGIVES WHAT IS PAST BUT WILL PENALIZE FOR REPETITION 
FOR GOD IS EXALTED AND LORD OF RETRIBUTION

96  THE PURSUIT OF WATER-GAME FOR YOU 
IS LAWFUL FOR FOOD FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOU 
THE PURSUIT OF LAND GAME IS FORBIDDEN TO YOU
AS LONG IN THE SACRED PRECINCTS ARE YOU 

OR AS LONG AS YOU ARE IN PILGRIM CLOTHING 
AND FEAR GOD TO WHOM WILL BE YOUR RETURNING

97  GOD MADE THE SACRED HOUSE AN ASYLUM FOR MEN'S SECURING 
AND ALSO THE SACRED MONTHS AND ANIMALS FOR OFFERINGS 
AND THE GARLANDS THAT MARK THEM FOR YOUR KNOWING
THAT OF WHAT IS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH GOD IS ALL KNOWING
AND THAT GOD IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THINGS

98  KNOW YOU THAT GOD IS STRICT IN REQUITING EVIL
AND THAT GOD IS MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL

99  THE APOSTLE'S DUTY 
IS ONLY TO PROCLAIM THE MESSAGE CLEARLY

BUT GOD KNOWS ALL THAT YOU REVEAL 
AND HE KNOWS ALL THAT YOU CONCEAL

100  SAY, NOT EQUAL ARE GOOD THINGS AND BAD THINGS  
THOUGH YOU MAY BE DAZZLED BY THE ABUNDANCE OF BAD THINGS

OH MEN OF UNDERSTANDING, TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY GAIN PROSPERITY 

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101  OH BELIEVERS, ASK NOT QUESTIONS ABOUT THINGS 
WHICH IF MADE PLAIN TO YOU MAY BE TROUBLING
BUT IF YOU SHOULD ASK ABOUT SUCH THINGS 

WHEN THE QURAN IS BEING REVEALED TO YOU
THEN THEY WILL BE MADE PLAIN TO YOU 
AND GOD WILL SURELY FORGIVE YOU
FOR GOD IS FORGIVING AND MERCIFUL TO YOU

102  SOME PEOPLE BEFORE YOU DID ASK SUCH QUESTIONS
AND ON THAT ACCOUNT BECAME DISBELIEVING ONES

103  IT WAS NOT GOD'S INSTITUTIONS
OF MADE UP SUPERSTITIONS 

LIKE THOSE OF A SLIT-EAR SHE-CAMEL 
OR A LET LOOSE FOR FREE PASTURE SHE-CAMEL 
OR IDOL SACRIFICES FOR TWIN-BIRTHS IN ANIMALS 
OR FREED FROM WORK STALLION-CAMELS 

IT IS BLASPHEMERS WHO AGAINST GOD MAKE FABRICATIONS 
BUT MOST OF THEM REALLY LACK DISCRETION

104  WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, COME TO WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED
AND COME AND FOLLOW THE APOSTLE

THEY SAY, WE FOLLOW THE WAYS WE FOUND OUR FATHERS FOLLOWING 
EVEN THOUGH THEIR FATHERS WERE VOID OF UNDERSTANDING

105  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS                                                                          
OF YOUR OWN SOULS BE PROTECTORS
AND IF YOU FOLLOW IN THE RIGHT MANNER
NO HURT CAN COME TO YOU FROM THE WRONG DOERS

FOR TO GOD IS THE GOAL OF ALL OF YOU 
AND IT IS HE THAT WILL SHOW TO YOU 
THE TRUTH OF ALL THAT IS DONE BY YOU

106  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, WHEN ANY OF YOU DEATH APPROACHES                                 
WHEN MAKING A BEQUEST, FROM AMONG YOU TAKE WITNESSES 

USING TWO JUST MEN FROM AMONG YOU
OR OTHERS FROM OUTSIDE OF YOU
IF YOU ARE ON A JOURNEY WHERE DEATH CAN BEFALL YOU 
AND IF YOU DOUBT THEIR BEING TRUE 

THEN AFTER PRAYER DETAIN BOTH OF THEM 
AND LET THEM SWEAR BY GOD BOTH OF THEM

WE WISH NOT IN THIS FOR ANY WORLDLY ACCUMULATION 
EVEN THOUGH THE BENEFICIARY BE OUR NEAR RELATION 
 
FOR WE WILL NOT HIDE THE EVIDENCE BEFORE GOD SECRETLY
IF WE DID THEN THE SIN WOULD BE UPON US CERTAINLY

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107  BUT IF IT GETS KNOWN MANIFESTLY
THAT THESE TWO WERE GUILTY OF PERJURY 

LET TWO OTHERS STAND FORTH NEAREST IN KIN IN PLACE OF THEM 
FROM THOSE WHO CLAIM A LAWFUL RIGHT AMONG THEM

LET THEM  SWEAR BY THE CREATOR
WE AFFIRM THAT OUR WITNESS IS TRUER 
THAN THAT OF THOSE TWO AND THAT FURTHER 

WE HAVE NOT TRESPASSED BEYOND ACTING TRUTHFULLY 
IF WE DID, THE WRONG WOULD BE UPON US CERTAINLY

1O8  THAT IS MOST SUITABLE AND PROPER
THAT THEY MAY GIVE THE EVIDENCE IN ITS TRUE NATURE

OR ELSE THEY WOULD FEAR THAT OTHER OATHS 
WOULD BE TAKEN AFTER THEIR OATHS 

BUT FEAR GOD AND LISTEN TO HIS COUNSEL 
FOR GOD GUIDES NOT REBELLIOUS PEOPLE

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109  ONE DAY WILL GOD GATHER AND ASK THE APOSTLES
 WHAT WAS THE RESPONSE YOU RECEIVED FROM THE PEOPLE

THEY WILL SAY, WE HAVE NO INFORMATION
IT IS YOU WHO KNOWS ALL THINGS IN CREATION

110  GOD WILL SAY, OH JESUS, SON OF MARY
REMEMBER MY FAVOR TO YOU AND YOUR MOTHER MARY

THAT WITH THE HOLY SPRIT I STRENGTHENED YOU 
SO YOU DID SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE AS A YOUTH
AND YOU SPOKE TO THEM IN MATURITY TOO
I TAUGHT THE BOOK AND WISDOM TO YOU
AND THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL TOO

AND YOU MADE OUT OF CLAY THE FIGURE OF A BIRD BY MY PERMISSION 
YOU BREATHED INTO IT AND IT BECAME A BIRD BY MY PERMISSION
AND YOU BROUGHT FORTH THE DEAD BY MY PERMISSION

AND I DID RESTRAIN FROM YOU
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM VIOLENCE TO YOU 

WHEN YOU DID SHOW THEM THE SIGNS CLEARLY 
AND THE DISBELIEVERS SAID, THIS IS SORCERY

111  AND THE DISCIPLES I INDEED INSPIRED
TO BELIEVE IN ME AND MY MESSENGER
AND THEY SAID, WE ARE BELIEVERS
AND WE ARE WITNESS BEARERS 
AND WE BOW OUR WILL TO GOD AS SUBMITTERS

112  THE DISCIPLES SAID, OH JESUS, SON OF MARY
CAN YOUR LORD SEND DOWN TO US FAVORABLY
A TABLE SET FROM HEAVEN? AND JESUS SAID, SURELY
IF YOU BELIEVE IN GOD THEN TO HIM KEEP YOUR DUTY

113  THEY SAID, WE ONLY WISH TO EAT OF IT 
TO SATISFY OUR HEARTS AND TO KNOW FROM IT
THAT YOU SURELY HAVE TOLD US THE TRUTH ABOUT IT
AND THAT WE MAY REALLY WITNESS THE MIRACLE OF IT

114  CHRIST JESUS, THE SON OF MARY SAID, OUR LORD, SEND US 
FROM HEAVEN A TABLE SET THAT THERE MAY BE FOR US 
FOR THE FIRST AND FOR THE LAST OF US 
A SOLEMN FESTIVAL AND A SIGN FROM YOU TO US
AND PROVIDE SUSTENANCE FROM YOU FOR US
FOR YOU ARE THE BEST SUSTAINER OF US

115  GOD SAID, I WILL SEND IT DOWN TO YOU 
BUT IF FAITH IS RESISTED AFTER BY ANY OF YOU 

I WILL PUNISH HIM WITH A PENALTY 
SUCH AS I HAVE NOT INFLICTED ON ANY PEOPLE IN HISTORY

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116  AND GOD WILL SAY, OH JESUS, SON OF MARY
DID YOU TELL MEN TO WORSHIP YOU AND YOUR MOTHER MARY
AS GODS BESIDES ME?  AND HE WILL SAY, NO, TO YOU BE THE GLORY 

NEVER COULD I SAY WHAT I HAD NO RIGHT TO SAY OF YOU
HAD I SAID SUCH A THING IT WOULD BE KNOWN BY YOU
FOR WHAT IS IN MY HEART IS KNOWN BY YOU 
I KNOW NOT WHAT IS IN THE HEART OF YOU
ALL THAT IS HIDDEN IS KNOWN BY YOU

117  NEVER DID I SAY ANYTHING TO THEM
EXCEPT WHAT YOU COMMANDED ME TO SAY TO THEM
I SAID, WORSHIP GOD, MY LORD AND YOUR LORD, TO THEM
AND WHILE I LIVED AMONG THEM I WAS A WITNESS OVER THEM 
WHEN YOU DID TAKE ME UP YOU WERE THE WATCHER OVER THEM 
AND OF ALL THINGS AND TO THIS YOU ARE THE WITNESS OVER THEM

118  IF YOU DO PUNISH THEM 
THEY ARE YOUR SERVANTS AND IF YOU FORGIVE THEM 
YOU ARE ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER OVER THEM

119  GOD WILL SAY, THIS IS A DAY WHICH MEN OF TRUTH
WILL SURELY PROFIT FROM THEIR TRUTH 

THEIRS ARE GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING BENEATH THEM
AS THEIR ETERNAL HOME WITH GOD WELL-PLEASED WITH THEM 
AND THEY PLEASED WITH GOD, THAT IS THE GREAT SALVATION FOR THEM 

120  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND ALL THAT IS THEREIN 
AND HE HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

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IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE BENEFICENT AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
AND WHO MADE THE DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT TOGETHER
BUT THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH HOLD OTHERS 
AS EQUALS WITH THEIR CREATOR

2  HE IT IS WHO FROM CLAY CREATED YOU 
AND THEN DECREED A STATED TERM FOR YOU 
THERE IS IN HIS PRESENCE ANOTHER TERM FOR YOU
YET YOU HAVE DOUBTS WITHIN YOU

3  AND HE IS GOD ON THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS 
HE KNOWS WHAT YOU REVEAL AND WHAT YOU KEEP HIDDEN 
AND WHAT YOU EARN BY YOUR DEEDS HE KNOWS WHAT IS THEREIN

4  NEVER DID ANY OF THE SIGNS OF THEIR LORD REACH THEM 
BUT THEY ARROGANTLY TURNED AWAY FROM THEM

5  AND THEY REJECT TRUTH WHEN IT COMES CLEARLY
BUT SOON WILL THEY SURELY LEARN THE REALITY
OF WHAT THEY USED TO MAKE MOCKERY

6  SEE THEY NOT HOW MANY GENERATIONS BEFORE THEM
WE DID COMPLETELY DESTROY BEFORE THEM
THAT WE HAD ESTABLISHED ON EARTH BEFORE THEM
AND WITH STRENGTH THAT WE HAVE NOT GIVEN TO THEM?
FOR WHOM WE POURED RAIN FROM THE SKIES FOR THEM
AND GAVE FERTILE STREAMS FLOWING BENEATH THEM
BUT FOR THEIR SINS WE DESTROYED THEM
AND THEN WE RAISED UP AFTER THEM
FRESH GENERATIONS TO SUCCEED THEM

7  AND IF WE HAD SENT TO YOU A WRITTEN MESSAGE ON PAPER 
THEY COULD TOUCH WITH THEIR HANDS, THE DISBELIEVERS 
WOULD HAVE SAID, THIS IS THE WORK OF A SORCERER

8  THEY SAY, WHY IS NOT SENT DOWN TO HIM AN ANGEL?
AND IF WE DID SEND DOWN AN ANGEL 
THE MATTER WOULD BE IMMEDIATELY SETTLED 
AND NO RESPITE WOULD BE GRANTED THE PEOPLE

9  AND SURELY IF WE HAD APPOINTED AN ANGEL THEN FOR CERTAIN
WE WOULD HAVE SENT HIM AS A MAN AND CAUSED CONFUSION 
IN A MATTER IN WHICH THEY ARE ALREADY IN CONFUSION

10  MANY APOSTLES BEFORE YOU WERE MOCKED
BUT THEIR SCOFFERS WERE HEMMED IN BY WHAT THEY MOCKED

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11  SAY, TRAVEL THE EARTH THROUGH 
AND SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THE REJECTERS BEFORE YOU

12  SAY, TO WHOM BELONGS ALL THAT IS IN 
THE  EARTH AND THE HEAVENS?
SAY, TO GOD WHO HAS MADE FOR HIMSELF A DECLARATION 
THE RULE OF COMPASSION, AND ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
HE WILL GATHER YOU TOGETHER AS ONE
THE LOSERS WILL BE THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION  

13  TO HIM BELONGS ALL THINGS 
THAT LURK IN THE NIGHT AND ALL THINGS
THAT DWELL IN THE DAY, FOR OF ALL THINGS
GOD IS ALL HEARING AND ALL KNOWING 

14  SAY, SHOULD I TAKE OTHER THAN GOD FOR MY PROTECTOR  
AND IT IS HE THAT FEEDS BUT IS FED NOT BY OTHERS?  
SAY, NO, I AM COMMANDED TO BOW TO THE CREATOR 
AND TO BE NOT OF THOSE WHO JOIN WITH HIM PARTNERS

15  SAY, IF MY LORD I WERE TO DISOBEY
I WOULD FEAR THE PENALTY OF A MIGHTY DAY

16  THAT DAY IF THE PENALTY IS AVERTED FROM ANY 
IT WILL BE DUE TO GOD'S MERCY 
AND THAT WOULD BE SALVATION SURELY
THE  FULFILLMENT OF ALL DESIRES COMPLETELY

17  IF GOD TOUCHES YOU WITH AFFLICTION
IT CANNOT BE REMOVED BY ANYONE 
AND IF HE TOUCHES YOU WITH COMPASSION
HE HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

18  HE IS THE IRRESISTIBLE AND ALWAYS WATCHING 
OVER THOSE WHO OF HIM ARE WORSHIPPING
AND HE IS ALL WISE AND ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THINGS

19  SAY, WHAT THING IS THE WEIGHTIEST IN TESTIMONY?
SAY, GOD IS WITNESS BETWEEN YOU AND ME 
THIS QURAN WAS REVEALED BY INSPIRATION TO ME 
THAT I MAY WARN YOU AND ALL WHOM IT DOES REACH
AND CAN YOU BEAR WITNESS REALLY
THAT BESIDES GOD THERE IS ANOTHER DEITY? 
SAY, NO I CANNOT BEAR WITNESS TRUTHFULLY
HE IS THE ONE GOD AND I JOIN NO ONE WITH HIM EQUALLY

20  THOSE TO WHOM WE HAVE GIVEN THE BOOK ARE THE ONES 
THAT KNOW THIS AS THEY KNOW THEIR OWN SONS
BUT THEY ARE LOSERS WHO ARE IN REJECTION

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21  WHO IS MORE WRONG THAN HE WHO LIES ABOUT THE CREATOR 
OR HE WHO OF HIS MESSAGES ARE REJECTERS 
BUT THE WRONG-DOERS WILL NOT PROSPER

22  ONE DAY WILL WE GATHER THEM ALL TOGETHER 
AND WE WILL SAY TO THOSE WHO ASCRIBED TO US PARTNERS 
WHOM THEY TALKED AND LIED ABOUT, WHERE ARE THOSE PARTNERS?

23  THERE WILL BE LEFT NO CHOICE FOR THEM BUT TO UTTER
WE WERE NOT THOSE WHO JOINED WITH GOD PARTNERS

24  SEE HOW AGAINST THEIR OWN SOULS THEY LIE
BUT THEY WILL BE LEFT IN THE LURCH BY THEIR OWN LIES

25  SOME OF THEM PRETEND TO LISTEN  
WE PUT VEILS ON THEIR HEARTS SO THEY HAVE NO COMPREHENSION
AND WE PUT DEAFNESS IN THEIR EARS SO THAT EVEN THEN
IF THEY SAW  ALL THE SIGNS THEY  WOULD NOT BELIEVE THEN EVEN    
WHEN THEY COME TO YOU THEY COME WITH DISPUTATIONS
THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, THESE BUT ARE STORIES OF THE ANCIENTS

26  THEY KEEP OTHERS AWAY FROM IT 
AND THEY KEEP THEMSELVES AWAY FROM IT
THEY DESTROY THEIR OWN SOULS AND DO NOT PERCEIVE IT

27  IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE WHEN THEY ARE CONFRONTED WITH THE FIRE 
THEY WILL SAY, IF WE COULD GO BACK WE WOULD NOT BE REJECTERS 
OF THE SIGNS OF OUR LORD BUT WE WOULD BE BELIEVERS 

28  IT WILL BE MANIFEST TO THEM WHAT BEFORE TO THEM WAS HIDDEN 
IF THEY WENT BACK THEY WOULD GO BACK TO WHAT THEY WERE FORBIDDEN
FOR THEY ARE SURELY LIARS AND ADDICTED TO SIN

29  AND THEY SAY, THERE IS NOTHING EXCEPT OUR EARTHLY LIFE
AND NEVER WILL WE BE RAISED UP AGAIN TO LIFE

30  IF YOU COULD BUT SEE WHEN THEY STAND BEFORE THEIR LORD
HE WILL SAY, IS THIS THE TRUTH?  AND THEY WILL SAY, YES OUR LORD 
AND HE WILL SAY, BECAUSE YOU DISBELIEVED THE FIRE IS YOUR REWARD

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31  LOST INDEED ARE THEY WHO FALSELY TREAT IT
THAT THEY MUST MEET GOD UNTIL THEY LOOK UP AND SEE IT 
AND THEY SAY, CURSED ARE WE THAT WE TOOK NO THOUGHT OF IT

FOR THEY BEAR ON THEIR BACKS THEIR BURDENS 
AND EVIL INDEED ARE THEIR BURDENS 

32  WHAT IS THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD BUT PLAY AND AMUSEMENT
BUT THE HOME IN THE HEREAFTER IS THE BEST ENJOYMENT

33  WE KNOW THEIR WORDS CAUSE YOU TO FRET
BUT IT IS NOT YOU THAT THE DISBELIEVERS REJECT 
IT IS THE MESSAGES OF GOD THAT THE WICKED REJECT

34   REJECTED WERE THE MESSENGERS PRIOR 
WITH PATIENCE AND CONSTANCY THEY PERSEVERED
AND BORE THEIR WRONGS FROM THEIR REJECTERS 
UNTIL OUR AID REACHED THEM AND NONE  CAN ALTER
THE WORDS AND DECREES OF THE CREATOR
YOU HAVE RECEIVED SOME ACCOUNT OF GOD'S MESSENGERS

35  THEIR TURNING AWAY IS HARD ON YOU FROM THEM
IF YOU COULD SEEK A TUNNEL INTO THE GROUND FOR THEM
OR A LADDER TO REACH THE SKIES AND BRING A SIGN TO THEM 
WHAT GOOD WOULD IT REALLY DO FOR THEM?
IF GOD WILLED HE COULD GATHER AND GUIDE THEM 
THEY ARE SWAYED BY IGNORANCE SO BE NOT AMONG THEM 

36  THOSE WHO LISTEN IN TRUTH, BE SURE THEY WILL 
ACCEPT IT, AND AS TO THE DEAD, GOD WILL 
RAISE THEM UP, AND THEN THEY WILL 
BE RETURNED TO HIM ACCORDING TO HIS WILL

37  THEY SAY, WHY IS NOT A SIGN SENT DOWN FOR THEM 
SAY, GOD HAS POWER TO SEND DOWN A SIGN TO THEM
BUT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND MOST OF THEM 

38  THERE IS NOT AN ANIMAL ON EARTH NOR A FLYING SPECIES
BUT FORMS SOCIETIES SIMILAR TO YOUR COMMUNITIES  

AND NOTHING HAVE WE OMITTED FROM THE SCRIPTURES
AND IN THE END TO THEIR LORD THEY ALL WILL BE GATHERED  

39  THOSE WHO REJECT OUR MESSAGES
ARE DEAF AND DUMB IN THE MIDST OF DARKNESS 

GOD LEAVES TO WANDER WHOM HE WILLS 
HE PLACES ON THE STRAIGHT WAY WHOM HE WILLS 

40  SAY, THINK TO YOURSELVES IF THERE COMES UPON YOU 
THE WRATH OF GOD OR THE HOUR THAT IS DREADED BY YOU
WOULD YOU CALL OTHER THAN GOD?  REPLY IF YOU ARE TRUE

41  NO, ON HIM YOU WOULD SURELY CALL 
AND IF IT BE HIS WILL HE WOULD REMOVE ALL
OF THE DISTRESS WHICH HAD CAUSED YOU TO CALL 
THE FALSE GODS YOU WORSHIPPED YOU WOULD FORGET THEM ALL

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42  BEFORE YOU WE SENT APOSTLES TO MANY NATIONS 
WITH ADVERSITY WE AFFLICTED THE NATIONS 
SO THEY MIGHT LEARN HUMILIATION

43  WHEN THEY SUFFERED ADVERSITY
WHY DID THEY NOT THEN LEARN HUMILITY?
THEIR HEARTS BECAME HARDENED CONTRARILY
AND SATAN MADE THEIR SINFUL ACTS SEEM GOODLY

44  BUT THEN WHEN THEY DID FORGET THE WARNINGS 
WE OPENED UP TO THEM THE GATES OF GOOD THINGS 
AND THEN WHILE OUR GIFTS THEY WERE ENJOYING 
SUDDENLY WE CALLED THEM INTO ACCOUNTING
THEN THEY WERE PLUNGED INTO DESPAIRING

45  THE LAST REMNANT WAS CUT OFF OF THE WRONG-DOERS 
PRAISE BE TO GOD, THE LORD AND CHERISHER 

46 SAY, IF GOD TOOK YOUR SIGHT AND HEARING FROM YOU
AND THEN HE SEALED UP YOUR HEART THAT IS WITHIN YOU
WHAT GOD BESIDES GOD COULD RESTORE THEM TO YOU?
SEE HOW WE EXPLAIN THE MESSAGES IN DETAIL TO YOU?  
YET YOU TURN AWAY AFTER THEY ARE CLEAR TO YOU

47  SAY, DO YOU THINK IF GOD'S PENALTY
DOES COME TO YOU SUDDENLY OR OPENLY
WILL ANY BE DESTROYED EXCEPT THE GUILTY?

48  WE SENT THE APOSTLES ONLY 
TO GIVE GOOD NEWS AND TO GIVE WARNING CLEARLY 
FOR THOSE WHO MEND THEIR LIVES AND BELIEVE
WILL BE NO FEAR NOR WILL THEY GRIEVE

49  BUT THOSE WHO REJECT OUR SIGNS WILL EARN THE PENALTY 
FOR THAT THEY CEASED NOT FROM ACTING SINFULLY 

50  SAY, I TELL YOU NOT THAT I HAVE GOD'S TREASURES WITH ME
NOR DO I KNOW WHAT IS HIDDEN SECRETLY
NOR AM I AN ANGEL IN DECREE
BUT I ONLY FOLLOW WHAT IS REVEALED TO ME 
SAY, CAN THE BLIND BE HELD EQUAL TO THOSE WHO CAN SEE?
WILL YOU NOT THEN CONSIDER CAREFULLY?

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51  WARN THOSE WHO IN THEIR HEARTS IS THE FEAR 
THAT THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE GOD TO APPEAR
AND EXCEPT FOR HIM THEY WILL HAVE NO PROTECTOR 
NOR INTERCESSOR SO THEY WILL NOT BE TRANSGRESSORS

52  SEND NOT AWAY THOSE WHO CALL ON GOD IN THE MORNING 
AND THEY CALL ON HIM SEEKING HIS WAY IN THE EVENING

YOU ARE NOT ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEM AND IN NOTHING ARE THEY 
ACCOUNTABLE TO YOU THAT YOU SHOULD TURN THEM AWAY 
AND THEN BE ONE WHO ACTS IN AN UNJUST WAY

53  SO DID WE TRY SOME OF THEM BY COMPARISON WITH OTHERS 
THAT THEY SHOULD SAY, IS IT THESE THAT GOD FAVORED?  
OF THOSE WHO ARE GRATEFUL, GOD IS THE KNOWER

54  WHEN BELIEVERS COME TO YOU ADDRESS THEM PEACEFULLY 
YOUR LORD HAS ASCRIBED FOR HIMSELF THE RULE OF MERCY 
IF ANY DID EVIL IGNORANTLY AND REPENTED SINCERELY
AND AMENDED HIS CONDUCT, GOD IS FULL OF MERCY

55  WE EXPLAIN THE MESSAGES IN DETAIL TO YOU
THAT THE WAY OF THE SINNERS MAY BE SHOWN TO YOU

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56  SAY, I AM FORBIDDEN TO WORSHIP BESIDES GOD 
THEY WHOM YOU CALL ON BESIDES GOD

AND SAY TO THEM , I WILL NOT FOLLOW YOUR WAYS
IF I DID I WOULD STRAY FROM THE RIGHT WAY
AND THEN BE OF THOSE WHO GO ASTRAY

57  SAY, FOR ME I DO WORK ON A CLEAR SIGN FROM THE CREATOR
BUT YOU DO INSIST UPON BEING DISBELIEVERS AND REJECTERS 
AND WHAT YOU WOULD SEE HASTENED IS NOT IN MY POWER 
THE COMMAND RESTS WITH NONE BUT GOD, THE CREATOR
HE DECLARES THE TRUTH AND IS THE BEST OF DECODERS

58  SAY, IF WHAT YOU WOULD SEE HASTENED WERE IN MY POWER
THEN YOU AND I WOULD IMMEDIATELY SETTLE THE MATTER   
BUT GOD KNOWS BEST THOSE WHO ARE WRONGDOERS

59  WITH HIM ARE THE KEYS OF THE UNSEEN
AND THE TREASURES THAT NONE KNOWS BUT HE
AND HE KNOWS WHATEVER IS ON THE EARTH AND IN THE SEA
AND NOT A LEAF FALLS BUT HE KNOWS IT ALL INDEED
AND THERE IS NOT A GRAIN IN THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH UNSEEN
NOR ANYTHING DRY, FRESH, WITHERED OR GREEN 
BUT IS INSCRIBED IN A RECORD CLEARLY 

60  IT IS HE WHO BY NIGHT TAKES YOUR SOULS AWAY
AND HE KNOWS ALL THAT YOU DO BY DAY

AND BY DAY DOES HE RAISE YOU BY HIS WILL
THAT A TERM APPOINTED MAY BE FULFILLED

AND TO HIM WILL BE YOUR RETURN FINALLY
AND HE WILL SHOW YOU ALL THAT YOU DID CLEARLY

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61  HE IS SUPREME OVER YOU AND HE WATCHES HIS DEVOTEES
AND HE SETS GUARDIANS TO WATCH OVER YOU SECURELY
AND WHEN DEATH APPROACHES ONE OF YOU FINALLY
OUR ANGELS TAKE HIS SOUL AND THEY NEVER FAIL IN THEIR DUTY

62  THEN ARE MEN RETURNED TO GOD THE ONLY REALITY 
AND IS NOT YOUR LORD THE COMPLETE AUTHORITY?  
HE IS SWIFT IN TAKING ACCOUNT ACCURATELY

63  SAY, WHO IS IT THAT DELIVERS YOU SAFELY
FROM THE DARK RECESSES OF LAND AND SEA 
WHEN YOU CALL UPON HIM IN HUMILITY
AND IN SILENT TERROR SAYING SINCERELY
IF HE ONLY DELIVERS US FROM THESE DANGERS SAFELY
WE VOW THAT WE WILL SHOW OUR GRATITUDE FAITHFULLY

64  SAY, IT IS GOD THAT DELIVERS YOU FROM THESE
AND ALL OF YOUR OTHER DIFFICULTIES
YET YOU WORSHIP FALSE DEITIES

65  SAY, HE HAS THE POWER TO SEND CALAMITIES ON YOU 
FROM ABOVE YOU AND BELOW YOU OR TO COVER YOU 
WITH CONFUSION AND STRIFE GIVING TO YOU 
A TASTE OF MUTUAL VENGEANCE EACH FROM THE OTHER OF YOU
SEE HOW WE EXPLAIN THE SIGNS BY VARYING SYMBOLS FOR YOU
THAT UNDERSTANDING MAY BE GAINED BY YOU?

66  BUT IF YOUR PEOPLE REJECT THIS ALTHOUGH IT IS TRUE
SAY, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE TO ARRANGE YOUR AFFAIRS FOR YOU

67  FOR EVERY MESSAGE IS A TIME LIMIT
AND SOON WILL YOU COME TO KNOW IT

68  WHEN YOU SEE MEN WHO JEST ABOUT OUR INSTRUCTIONS 
TURN AWAY FROM THEM UNLESS THEY CHANGE THEIR CONVERSATION
AND IF SATAN MAKES YOU FORGET THEN AFTER RECOLLECTION 
SIT NOT IN THE COMPANY OF THOSE IN REJECTION

69  ON THEIR ACCOUNT NO RESPONSIBILITY 
FALLS ON THE RIGHTEOUS BUT THEIR ONLY DUTY 
IS TO REMIND THEM THAT THEY MAY FEAR GOD TRULY

70  LEAVE ALONE THOSE WHO TAKE THEIR RELIGION 
TO BE MERE PLAY AND RECREATION
AND THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD HAS CAUSED THEIR DECEPTION
BUT PROCLAIM TO THEM THAT EVERY SOUL BY ITS OWN ACTIONS 
DELIVERS ITSELF TO RUIN AND DESTRUCTION
AND BESIDES GOD IT WILL FIND NO PROTECTION OR INVERSION 
AND IF IT OFFERED EVERY RANSOM FOR REPARATION
NONE WILL BE ACCEPTED AS COMPENSATION
THIS IS THE END OF THOSE WHO DELIVER THEMSELVES TO DESTRUCTION
BY THEIR OWN ACTS AND THEY WILL HAVE FOR CONSUMPTION
ONLY BOILING WATER FOR A MOST GRIEVOUS PENALIZATION 
FOR THEY WERE PERSISTENTLY IN REJECTION

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71  SAY, WILL WE CALL ON OTHERS BESIDES OUR CREATOR
THINGS THAT CAN DO US NO GOOD OR ANY HARM EITHER 
AND TURN BACK AFTER RECEIVING GUIDANCE CLEAR?

LIKE ONE WHOM THE EVIL ONES 
HAVE MADE INTO A FOOLISH ONE

WANDERING THROUGH THE EARTH IN DISGUST
AND HIS FRIENDS CALLING, COME TO US 

VAINLY GUIDING HIM TO THE WAY?  
BUT SAY, GOD'S GUIDANCE IS THE ONLY WAY 

AND WE HAVE BEEN DIRECTED TO SUBMIT 
TO THE LORD OF ALL THAT EXISTS

72  AND TO ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS 
AND TO FEAR GOD TO WHOM WE WILL BE GATHERED 

73  GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH IN TRUTH 
WHEN HE SAYS, BE, IT IS AND HIS WORD IS THE TRUTH
 
ON THE DAY THE TRUMPET IS BLOWN HIS WILL BE THE DOMINION 
AND HE KNOWS THE UNSEEN AS WELL AS THAT WHICH IS OPEN 

FOR HE IS ALL WISE AND SURELY
WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THINGS IS HE

74  REMEMBER ABRAHAM WHEN HE SAID TO HIS FATHER
DO YOU TAKE IDOLS FOR GODS AND PROTECTORS? 
FOR I SEE YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE, MY FATHER
SURELY IN MANIFEST ERROR

75  ALSO DID WE SHOW ABRAHAM THE POWER
AND THE LAWS OF THE HEAVENS AND EARTH
SO HE MIGHT HAVE UNDERSTANDING CLEAR

76  WHEN THE NIGHT CAME HE SAW A STAR AND YET
HE SAID, THIS IS MY LORD, BUT WHEN IT SET 
HE SAID, I LOVE NOT THOSE THAT SET

77  WHEN HE SAW THE MOON RISING IN SPLENDOR
HE SAID, THIS IS MY LORD AND CHERISHER

BUT WHEN IT SET HE SAID, UNLESS I AM GUIDED BY MY LORD  
I WILL BE AMONG THOSE WHO GO ASTRAY FOR SURE

78  WHEN HE SAW THE SUN RISING IN SPLENDOR                                                 
HE SAID, THIS IS THE GREATEST, THIS IS THE CREATOR

BUT WHEN IT SET HE DECREED  
SAYING, OH MY PEOPLE, I AM FREE
FROM GUILT OF WORSHIPPING OTHER DEITIES 

79  FOR ME I HAVE SET MY FACE TOWARDS THE CREATOR
OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND NEVER 
WILL I GIVE TO GOD ANY PARTNERS 

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80  HIS PEOPLE DISPUTED WITH HIM
AND HE SAID TO THEM
  
DO YOU COME  TO DISPUTE ABOUT GOD WITH ME
WHEN HE HIMSELF HAS GUIDED ME? 

I FEAR NOT THE BEINGS YOU ASSOCIATE WITH GOD 
NOTHING CAN HAPPEN TO ME UNLESS IT PLEASES GOD

IN HIS KNOWLEDGE ALL THINGS GOD COMPREHENDED 
WILL YOU NOT THEN BE ADMONISHED?

81  HOW SHOULD I FEAR THE BEINGS YOU ASSOCIATE WITH GOD 
WHEN YOU FEAR NOT TO GIVE PARTNERS TO GOD 

WITHOUT HAVING BEEN GIVEN ANY WARRANTY 
WHICH OF US HAVE MORE RIGHT TO SECURITY?  
TELL ME IF IT YOU KNOW TRUTHFULLY 

82  IT IS THOSE WHO SINCERELY AND TRUTHFULLY BELIEVE 
AND CONFUSE NO WRONG WITH WHAT THEY BELIEVE
THAT ARE TRULY IN SECURITY AND GUIDED RIGHTLY

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83  AND THAT WAS THE REASONING ABOUT US WHICH WE 
GAVE TO ABRAHAM TO USE FOR HIS PEOPLE IN DECREE
WE RAISE WHOM WE WILL DEGREE AFTER DEGREE 
FOR GOD, FULL OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE IS HE

84  WE GAVE HIM ISAAC AND JACOB AND WE GUIDED ALL THREE 
AND WE GUIDED NOAH AND AMONG HIS PROGENY 

JOB, DAVID AND SOLOMON 
JOSEPH AND MOSES AND AARON
SO DO WE  REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

85  AND ZAKARIYA AND JOHN AND JESUS AND ELIAS 
THEY WERE ALL IN THE RANKS OF THE RIGHTEOUS

86  AND ISHMAEL, ELISHA, JONAH AND LOT, ALL OF THEM  
WE GAVE FAVOR ABOVE THE NATIONS TO THEM 

87  THEIR FATHERS AND PROGENY AND BRETHREN, WE CHOSE THEM 
AND TO A STRAIGHT WAY WE GUIDED THEM

88  THIS IS GOD'S GUIDANCE
AND HE GIVES THAT GUIDANCE 

TO WHOM HE PLEASES OF HIS WORSHIPPERS 
AND IF THEY WERE TO JOIN WITH HIM OTHERS 
ALL THAT WAS DONE BY THEM WOULD BE IN ERROR

89  THESE WERE THE MEN TO WHOM WE 
GAVE THE BOOK AND AUTHORITY AND PROPHECY

AND IF THESE THEIR DESCENDANTS REJECT THEM
THEN WE SHALL ENTRUST THE CHARGE OF THEM
TO A NEW PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT REJECT THEM 

90  THOSE WERE THE PROPHETS WHO RECEIVED 
GOD'S GUIDANCE SO COPY THE GUIDANCE THEY RECEIVED 

SAY, NO REWARD DO I ASK OF YOU FOR THIS LESSON
THIS IS NO LESS THAN A MESSAGE FOR ALL THE NATIONS

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91  NO JUST ESTIMATE DO THEY MAKE OF GOD 
WHEN THEY SAY, NO REVELATION IS SENT TO MAN BY GOD 

THEN SAY TO THEM, WHO THEN SENT DOWN THE BOOK TO MAN
WHICH MOSES BROUGHT AS A LIGHT AND GUIDANCE TO MAN? 

BUT YOU MAKE IT INTO SEPARATE SHEETS FOR SHOW
WHILE YOU CONCEAL MUCH OF ITS CONTENTS AND IN IT YOU KNOW 
YOU WERE TAUGHT THAT WHICH YOU AND YOU FATHERS DID NOT KNOW 

SAY, GOD SENT IT DOWN TO YOU, THEN LEAVE THEM PLUNGING 
INTO VAIN DISCOURSE AND TRIFLING

92  AND THIS IS A BOOK OF BLESSINGS WHICH WE HAVE SENT DOWN
CONFIRMING THE REVELATIONS FROM BEFORE IT CAME DOWN
SO YOU MAY WARN THE MOTHER OF CITIES AND ALL AROUND  

AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE HEREAFTER 
BELIEVE IN THIS BOOK AND GUARD THEIR PRAYERS

93  WHO IS MORE WICKED THAN HE 
WHO LIES ABOUT GOD OR SAYS, I HAVE RECEIVED 
INSPIRATION FROM GOD, WHEN NOTHING HAS HE RECEIVED 
OR AGAIN HE WHO SAYS, I CAN REVEAL SIMILARLY
OF WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED, BUT IF YOU COULD BUT SEE 
WHEN THE WRONGDOERS AT DEATH ARE IN AGONIES
WHEN THE ANGELS STRETCH FORTH THEIR HANDS AND DECREE
YIELD UP YOUR SOULS, THIS DAY WILL YOU WILL RECEIVE
AS YOUR REWARD A SHAMEFUL PENALTY 
BECAUSE YOU USED TO LIE ABOUT GOD SCORNFULLY 
AND REJECTED HIS MESSAGES ARROGANTLY

94  NOW YOU COME TO US BARE AND ALONE AS WE CREATED YOU 
AND NOW YOU HAVE LEFT BEHIND YOU 
ALL OF THE FAVORS WE BESTOWED ON YOU 
AND WE SEE NOT YOUR INTERCESSORS WITH YOU 
WHOM YOU HAD THOUGHT TO BE PARTNERS WITH YOU
ALL YOUR RELATIONS HAVE BEEN CUT OFF BETWEEN YOU 
AND ALL OF YOUR PET FANCIES THEY ALL HAVE LEFT YOU 

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95  IT IS GOD WHO CAUSES THE GRAIN-SEED'S SPROUTING
AND HE CAUSES THE DATE-STONE'S SPLITTING
AND IT IS HE WHO BRINGS THE LIVING 
OUT OF THE DEAD AND BRINGS THE DEAD OUT OF THE LIVING
THEN WHAT IS IT THAT KEEPS YOU FROM DOING THE RIGHT THING?

96  AND HE IT IS THAT CLEAVES THE DAY'S BREAKING
AND HE MAKES THE NIGHT FOR YOU FOR RESTING 
AND THE SUN AND MOON FOR TIME CALCULATING
AND THIS IS HIS JUDGMENT AND HIS ORDERING 
FOR HE IS ALL MIGHTY AND ALL KNOWING

97  IT IS HE WHO MAKES THE STARS AS BEACONS FOR YOU TO SEE 
THAT YOU MAY GUIDE YOURSELVES THROUGH LAND AND SEA 
WE DETAIL OUR MESSAGES FOR PEOPLE WITH CERTAINTY

98  IT IS HE WHO HAS PRODUCED YOU FROM A SINGLE BEING
THEN  PLACED YOU INTO A PLACE OF RESTING 
THEN PLACES YOU INTO A PLACE OF DEPARTING
WE DETAIL OUR SIGNS FOR PEOPLE OF UNDERSTANDING

99  IT IS HE WHO SENDS DOWN RAIN AND WITH IT WE PRODUCE 
VEGETATION OF ALL KINDS AND FROM SOME WE PRODUCE
GREEN CROPS OUT OF WHICH WE PRODUCE 

GRAIN HEAPED UP AT HARVEST AND FROM THE DATE TREE
COME CLUSTERS OF DATES HANGING NEAR AND LOWLY 

AND GARDENS OF OLIVES AND POMEGRANATES AND GRAPES
SIMILAR IN KIND YET DIFFERENT IN SHAPE 

WHEN THEY EACH BEGIN TO BEAR FRUIT 
SO FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE RIPENESS OF THE FRUIT 

FOR IN THESE THINGS THERE ARE SIGNS
FOR PEOPLE WITH WISE MINDS

100  YET THEY MAKE EQUAL WITH GOD THE DEMONS
ALTHOUGH GOD DID CREATE THE DEMONS 

AND THEY HAVING NO KNOWLEDGE FALSELY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM 
SONS AND DAUGHTERS BUT PRAISE AND GLORY BE TO HIM
HE IS FAR ABOVE WHAT THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM 

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CHAPTER 6.  THE CATTLE                                                               SECTION 13.  PART VII

101  TO HIM IS DUE THE PRIMAL ORIGIN 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
HOW CAN HE HAVE A SON
WHEN HE HAS NO COMPANION?  
AND HE CREATED ALL CREATION
AND HE IS THE ALL KNOWING ONE

102  THAT IS GOD, YOUR LORD AND THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
HE IS THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS SO WORSHIP HIM ONLY
HE HAS POWER TO DISPOSE OF ALL AFFAIRS COMPLETELY

103  VISION CAN NOT COMPREHEND HIM BUT HE COMPREHENDS ALL VISION 
AND HE IS ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THINGS IN CREATION

104  PROOF HAS COME TO YOU FROM YOUR LORD SO WHOEVER
WILL SEE IT WILL BE TO HIS OWN GOOD AND WHOEVER
IS BLIND IT WILL BE TO HIS OWN HARM, HOWEVER
I AM NOT HERE FOR YOUR AFFAIRS TO WATCH OVER 

105  SO DO WE REPEAT THE MESSAGES THAT THEY MAY
SAY, YOU HAVE TAUGHT US DILIGENTL AND THAT WE MAY
MAKE THE MATTER CLEAR TO THOSE WHO KNOW THE RIGHT WAY

106  FOLLOW WHAT YOU ARE TAUGHT BY INSPIRATION FROM GOD
BESIDES HIM THERE IS NO OTHER GOD 
AND TURN AWAY FROM THOSE WHO JOIN GODS WITH GOD 

107  IF IT HAD BEEN THE PLAN OF GOD 
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN FALSE GODS 

BUT WE MADE YOU NOT ONE TO WATCH OVER THEIR DOINGS
NOR ARE YOU SET OVER THEIR AFFAIRS FOR DISPOSING

108  REVILE NOT THOSE WHOM THEY CALL UPON BESIDES GOD 
OR THEY OUT OF SPITE IN THEIR IGNORANCE MAY REVILE GOD 

AND SO HAVE WE MADE ALLURING 
TO EACH PEOPLE ITS OWN DOINGS 

IN THE END WILL THEY RETURN TO THEIR LORD INEVITABLY
AND WE WILL TELL THEM THE TRUTH OF ALL THEY DID CLEARLY 

109  AND THEY SWEAR THEIR STRONGEST OATHS BY THE CREATOR 
THAT IF A SPECIAL SIGN CAME TO THEM FROM THEIR MAKER
THEN THAT BY IT THEY WOULD BE BELIEVERS 
SAY, ALL SIGNS ARE IN GOD'S POWER  
IF SIGNS CAME TO THEM THAT WERE CLEARER 
THEY WILL STILL NOT EVEN THEN BE BELIEVERS? 

110  WE WILL TURN THEIR HEARTS AND THEIR EYES TO PERPLEXITY 
AND EVEN AS THEY REFUSED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO BELIEVE
WE LEAVE THEM IN THEIR TRESPASSES TO WANDER BLINDLY 

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