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PART VIII

111  IF WE SENT ANGELS TO THEM 
AND EVEN IF THE DEAD DID SPEAK TO THEM 
AND IF WE GATHERED ALL THINGS TOGETHER BEFORE THEM
THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE UNLESS IT IS IN GOD'S PLAN FOR THEM
BUT THEY IGNORE THE TRUTH MOST OF THEM  

112  WE MADE FOR EVERY MESSENGER EVIL ONES
AS ENEMIES AMONG MEN AND DEMONS 
INSPIRING EACH OTHER WITH FLOWERY DISCOURSE BY DECEPTION 
IF YOUR LORD SO PLANNED IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE 
SO LEAVE THEM ALONE, THEM AND THEIR INVENTIONS 

113  AND TO SUCH DECEIT LET THE HEARTS OF THOSE INCLINE TO IT
WHO HAVE NO FAITH IN THE HEREAFTER LET THEM DELIGHT IN IT 
AND LET THEM EARN WHAT THEY MAY FROM IT 

114  SAY, SHALL I SEEK BESIDES GOD FOR ANOTHER DEITY
AND IT IS HE THAT HAS SENT TO YOU THE BOOK EXPLAINED FULLY?  
THEY KNOW TO WHOM WE HAVE GIVEN THE BOOK CLEARLY
THAT IT HAS BEEN SENT DOWN FROM YOUR LORD TRUTHFULLY
SO NEVER BE OF THOSE WHO ACT DOUBTFULLY

115  THE WORD OF YOUR LORD HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED JUSTLY 
AND THERE IS NONE CAN CHANGE HIS WORDS IN ANY DEGREE
FOR HE IS THE ONE WHO HEARS AND KNOWS ALL INDEED

116  IF YOU WERE TO OBEY THOSE WHO ARE ON EARTH 
THEY WILL LEAD YOU AWAY FROM THE CREATOR 
AND THEY FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE 
AND THEY DO NOTHING BUT LIE FOR SURE

117  YOUR LORD KNOWS BEST WHO STRAYS FROM HIS WAY 
AND HE KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE GUIDED TO THE RIGHT WAY

118  SO EAT OF THE MEATS ON WHICH THE NAME OF GOD
HAS BEEN PRONOUNCED, IF YOU HAVE FAITH IN GOD

119  WHY WOULD YOU NOT EAT OF MEATS 
ON WHICH GOD'S NAME HAS BEEN DECREED
WHEN GOD HAS EXPLAINED TO YOU CLEARLY
WHAT IS FORBIDDEN YOU EXCEPT COMPULSITORY 
MANY MISLEAD MEN BY THEIR APPETITES IGNORANTLY 
AND GOD KNOWS THOSE WHO TRANSGRESS ARROGANTLY

120  SHUN ALL SIN, OPEN OR HIDDEN
SURELY THOSE AMONG YOU WHO EARN SIN
WILL GET DUE RECOMPENSE FOR THEIR SINS

121  DO NOT EAT OF THOSE MEATS 
ON WHICH GOD'S NAME HAS NOT BEEN DECREED 
INDEED THAT WOULD MOST ASSUREDLY BE INIQUITY
BUT THE DEVILS DO INSPIRE THEIR FRIENDS TO DISAGREE
IF YOU WERE TO OBEY THEM YOU WOULD BE PAGANS INDEED

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122  CAN HE WHO WAS DEAD TO WHOM WE GAVE LIFE 
WHEREBY HE CAN WALK AMONG MEN AND GAVE HIM LIGHT

BE LIKE HIM WHO IS IN THE DEPTHS OF A DARK PIT
FROM WHERE HE CANNOT COME OUT FROM IT? 

SO TO THOSE WHO ARE WITHOUT BELIEF
PLEASING TO THEM ARE THEIR OWN DEEDS 

123  IN EVERY TOWN WE PLACED LEADERS IN IT
AND THOSE WHO ARE WICKED, PLOT AND BURROW IN IT
THEY PLOT AGAINST THEIR OWN SOULS AND DO NOT PERCEIVE IT 

124  WHEN A SIGN COMES TO THEM CLEARLY
THEY SAY, WE WILL NOT BELIEVE UNTIL WE RECEIVE 
ONE EXACTLY LIKE THOSE THAT GOD'S APOSTLES RECEIVED

AND GOD KNOWS BEST HOW TO CARRY OUT HIS MISSION 
AND THE WICKED WILL BE OVERTAKEN BY HUMILIATION 
AND A SEVERE PENALTY FOR ALL THEIR MACHINATIONS

125  THOSE WHO GOD WILLS TO GUIDE TO INSTRUCTION
HE OPENS THEIR BREASTS TO SUBMISSION 
AND WHOM HE LEAVES IN REJECTION
HE MAKES THEIR BREASTS CLOSE IN CONSTRICTION
AS IF THEY HAD TO CLIMB UP TO THE HEAVENS 
AND SO DOES HE HEAP THE DESTRUCTION 
ON THOSE WHO INSIST ON REJECTION 

126  THIS IS THE WAY OF YOUR LORD LEADING STRAIGHT INDEED 
WE HAVE DETAILED THE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO TAKE HEED

127  FOR THEM WILL BE A HOME OF PEACE AND TRANQUILLITY
IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR LORD ETERNALLY
AND THEIR FRIEND HE WILL BE
BECAUSE THEY PRACTICED ACTING RIGHTEOUSLY

128  ONE DAY WILL HE GATHER THE DEMONS AND SAY
INDEED MUCH TOIL OF MEN DID YOU TAKE 
THEIR FRIENDS AMONG MEN WILL SAY

OUR LORD, WE MADE PROFIT FROM EACH OTHER 
BUT WE REACHED OUR TERM OF WHICH YOU WERE THE APPOINTER 
AND HE WILL SAY, YOUR DWELLING PLACE WILL BE THE FIRE  
YOU WILL DWELL IN IT FOREVER
EXCEPT AS I CHOOSE, FOR I AM THE BEST KNOWER

129  SO DO WE MAKE THE WRONG-DOERS TURN 
TO EACH OTHER BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY EARN

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130  OH ASSEMBLY OF DEMONS AND MEN, DID THERE NOT COME TO YOU 
APOSTLES FROM AMONG YOU SETTING FORTH MY MESSAGES TO YOU 
AND WARNING YOU OF THE MEETING OF THIS DAY TO YOU?

THEY WILL SAY, AGAINST OURSELVES WE BEAR WITNESS
INDEED THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD SURELY DECEIVED US
SO AGAINST THEMSELVES THEY WILL BEAR WITNESS
THEY REJECTED FAITH AND DID TRANSGRESS

131  THE APOSTLES WERE SENT 
FOR YOUR LORD WOULD NOT DESTROY THE OCCUPANTS 

OF MEN'S HABITANTS FOR WRONG-DOING  
WHILE THEY WERE NOT GIVEN WARNING

132  TO ALL ARE DEGREES OR RANKS ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY DO
FOR YOUR LORD IS NOT UNMINDFUL OF ANYTHING THAT THEY DO

133  YOUR LORD IS SELF-SUFFICIENT AND FULL OF MERCY 
IF IT WERE HIS WILL HE COULD DESTROY YOU EASILY

AND IN YOUR PLACE APPOINT WHOM HE PLEASES AS YOUR SUCCESSORS 
AS HE RAISED YOU UP AS OTHER PEOPLE'S SUCCESSORS 

134  ALL THAT HAS BEEN PROMISED TO YOU 
WILL COME TO PASS AND CANNOT BE FRUSTRATED BY YOU

135  SAY, OH MY PEOPLE, DO WHATEVER YOU CAN DO
AND I WILL DO MY PART AND SOON WILL YOU 

KNOW WHO IT IS WHOSE END WILL BE BEST IN THE HEREAFTER 
CERTAIN IT IS THAT THE WRONG-DOERS WILL NOT PROSPER

136  OUT OF WHAT IS PRODUCED IN THE EARTH BY GOD
AND IN CATTLE THEY ASSIGN A DETERMINED SHARE FOR GOD
AND THEY SAY ACCORDING TO THEIR FANCIES, THIS IS FOR GOD 

AND THIS SHARE IS ASSIGNED FOR OUR PARTNERS 
THE SHARE DOES NOT REACH GOD OF THEIR PARTNERS  
WHILE THE SHARE OF GOD DOES REACH THEIR PARTNERS 

AND EVIL AND ILL INTENT
IS THEIR ASSIGNMENT

137  EVEN SO IN THE EYES OF MOST OF THE PARTNERS OF THE PAGANS  
MADE ALLURING TO THEM THE SLAUGHTER OF THEIR CHILDREN
IN ORDER TO LEAD THEM TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION 
AND TO CAUSE CONFUSION IN THEIR RELIGION 
IF GOD HAD WILLED THIS THEY WOULD NOT HAVE DONE 
THEREFORE LEAVE THEM ALONE, THEM AND THEIR INVENTIONS

138  SUCH AND SUCH CATTLE AND CROPS ARE TABOO, THEY SAY
AND NONE SHOULD EAT OF THEM EXCEPT THOSE WHO THEY SAY

AND FURTHER THERE ARE CATTLE FORBIDDEN TO YOKE OR BURDEN 
AND CATTLE ON WHICH GOD'S NAME HAS NOT BEEN MENTIONED
AND THESE ARE AGAINST GOD'S INTENTIONS 
AND HE WILL HE REQUITE THEM FOR THEIR INVENTIONS 

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139  THEY SAY, WHAT IS IN THE WOMBS OF CERTAIN 
OF THE CATTLE IS RESERVED FOR OUR MEN 
AND IS FORBIDDEN TO OUR WOMEN
BUT IF IT IS STILL BORN ALL HAVE SHARES THEREIN

FOR THEIR FALSE ATTRIBUTION 
TO THEIR LORD OF SUPERSTITIONS 
HE WILL ISSUE OUT TO THEM RETRIBUTION 
FOR HE IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND INSTRUCTION

140  LOST ARE THOSE WHO SLAY THEIR CHILDREN FROM FOLLY 
AND FORBID FOOD WHICH GOD HAS PROVIDED FOR THEM AMPLY 

INVENTING LIES AGAINST GOD AND NO GUIDANCE DO THEY HEED 
AND THEY HAVE GONE FAR ASTRAY INDEED 

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141  IT IS HE WHO PRODUCES 
GARDENS WITH AND WITHOUT TRELLISES 
 
AND DATES AND HARVESTS WITH PRODUCE OF ALL KINDS 
AND OLIVES AND POMEGRANATES SIMILAR IN KIND 

AND DIFFERENT IN SHAPE AND VARIETY 
SO EAT OF THEIR FRUIT IN THEIR SEASON BUT PROPERLY

RENDER THE DUES ON THE DAY THAT THE HARVEST IS GATHERED
BUT WASTE NOT BY EXCESS, FOR GOD LOVES NOT WASTERS

142  OF THE CATTLE SOME ARE FOR BURDEN AND SOME FOR MEAT
WHAT GOD HAS PROVIDED ENJOY IT AND EAT
  
AND FOLLOW NOT THE FOOTSTEPS OF SATAN
FOR HE IS AN AVOWED ENEMY TO MAN

143  TAKE EIGHT HEAD OF CATTLE IN FOUR PAIRS 
OF SHEEP A PAIR AND OF GOATS A PAIR 

SAY, HAS HE FORBIDDEN THE TWO MALES OR THE TWO FEMALES 
OR THE YOUNG ENCLOSED IN THE WOMBS OF THE TWO FEMALES?

THEN TELL ME 
IF YOU KNOW TRUTHFULLY

144  OF CAMELS A PAIR 
AND OF OXEN A PAIR 

SAY, HAS HE FORBIDDEN THE TWO MALES OR THE TWO FEMALES 
OR THE YOUNG ENCLOSED IN THE WOMBS OF THE TWO FEMALES?

WERE YOU PRESENT WHEN GOD ORDERED SUCH A THING TO YOU?
BUT WHO DOES MORE WRONG THAN ONE WHO AMONG YOU

INVENTS A LIE AGAINST GOD TO MISLEAD PEOPLE?
FOR GOD GUIDES NOT WRONG-DOING PEOPLE

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145  SAY, I FIND NOT IN THE REVELATION                                                          
RECEIVED BY ME ANY MEAT FORBIDDEN 

BY ONE WHO WISHES TO EAT IT UNLESS IT BE DEAD MEAT                               
OR BLOOD POURED FORTH OR SWINE'S MEAT                                                      
FOR IT IS SURELY UNCLEAN TO EAT 

AND WHAT IS IMPIOUS MEAT ON WHICH A NAME 
HAS BEEN INVOKED OTHER THAN GOD'S NAME

BUT EVEN SO IF A PERSON IS FORCED BY NECESSITY 
WITHOUT BEING DISOBEDIENT WILLFULLY

NOR EXCEEDING DUE LIMITS IN TRANSGRESSING 
GOD IS MOST MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING 

146  FOR THOSE WHO FOLLOWED THE JEWISH LAW, WE FORBADE 
EVERY ANIMAL WITH UNDIVIDED HOOF AND WE FORBADE 

THE FAT OF THE OX AND THE SHEEP EXCEPT WHAT 
ADHERES TO THEIR BACKS OR THEIR ENTRAILS OR WHAT

IS MIXED UP WITH A BONE, THIS IN RECOMPENSE 
FOR THEIR WILLFUL DISOBEDIENCE 
FOR WE ARE TRUE IN OUR ORDINANCE

147  IF THEY ACCUSE YOU OF SPEAKING FALSELY
SAY, YOUR LORD IS THE LORD OF ALL EMBRACING MERCY
BUT NEVER WILL HIS WRATH BE TURNED BACK FROM THE GUILTY

148  THOSE WILL SAY, WHO GIVE TO GOD PARTNERS 
IF GOD WILLED WE WOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN HIM PARTNERS 
NOR WOULD OUR FATHERS HAVE ASCRIBED TO GOD PARTNERS

NOR OF TABOOS WOULD WE HAVE HAD ANY
SO DID THEIR ANCESTORS ARGUE FALSELY 
UNTIL THEY TASTED OF OUR PENALTY 

SAY, HAVE YOU ANY CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE WITH YOU?
THEN DO PRODUCE IT BEFORE US IF YOU REALLY DO
NOTHING BUT LIE AND CONJECTURE DO YOU DO

149  WITH GOD IS THE ARGUMENT THAT REACHES HOME INDEED
IF IT HAD BEEN HIS WILL HE COULD HAVE GUIDED YOU EASILY

150  SAY TO THEM, BRING FORWARD YOUR WITNESSES 
PROVING YOUR LORD FORBADE  ANY OF THIS
AND IF THEY BRING SUCH WITNESSES 

BE NOT AMONG THEM NOR FOLLOW THE VAIN DESIRES 
OF THOSE WHO TREAT OUR MESSENGERS AS LIARS
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN THE HEREAFTER
FOR THEY HOLD GOD AS EQUAL WITH OTHERS

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151  SAY TO THEM, COME I WILL RECITE WHAT GOD HAS REALLY 
PROHIBITED YOU FROM, JOIN NOT ANYTHING WITH HIM EQUALLY
BE GOOD TO YOUR PARENTS, KILL NOT YOUR CHILDREN UNJUSTLY
FOR WE PROVIDE SUSTENANCE FOR YOU AND THEM AMPLY
AND COME NOT NEAR TO SHAMEFUL DEEDS
WHETHER OPENLY OR SECRETLY 
TAKE NOT LIFE WHICH GOD CREATED SACREDLY 
EXCEPT BY MANNER OF BEING LAWFUL AND JUSTLY
SO DOES HE SUMMON YOU THAT YOU MAKE ACT RIGHTLY

152  AND DO NOT COME NEAR TO THE ORPHAN'S PROPERTY 
BUT TO IMPROVE IT UNTIL HE ATTAINS FULL MATURITY
AND GIVE DUE MEASURE AND WEIGHT JUSTLY
NO BURDEN DO WE PLACE ON ANY SOUL BUT WHAT IT CAN CARRY 
AND WHENEVER YOU SPEAK, SPEAK FAIR AND SPEAK JUSTLY
EVEN AGAINST A RELATIVE, AND FULFILL YOUR DUTY 
YOU ARE COMMANDED THIS THAT YOU MAY ACT GRATEFULLY

153  AND SURELY THIS IS MY STRAIGHT LEADING WAY 
THEREFORE FOLLOW IT, FOLLOW NOT OTHER WAYS
OR THEY WILL DIVERT YOU FROM HIS GREAT WAY
SO DOES HE COMMAND YOU SO THAT YOU MAY 
CONDUCT YOURSELVES IN A RIGHTEOUS WAY 

154  MOREOVER WE GAVE MOSES THE SCRIPTURES
COMPLETING TO THOSE WHO WOULD BE RIGHT DOERS
OUR FAVORS AND EXPLAINING IN DETAIL ALL THINGS CLEAR
AND A GUIDE AND A MERCY SO THAT THEY MIGHT BE BELIEVERS
IN THE MEETING IN THE HEREAFTER WITH THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER  

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155  AND THIS IS A BOOK WHICH WE HAVE REVEALED CLEARLY
AS A BLESSING, SO FOLLOW IT AND ACT RIGHTEOUSLY 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE MERCY

156  OR ELSE YOU WOULD SAY, THE BOOK WAS SENT DOWN ONLY
TO TWO PARTIES BEFORE US AND FOR OUR PART WE REALLY
WERE UNAWARE OF WHAT THEY LEARNED BY THEIR STUDY

157  OR ELSE YOU WOULD SAY, IF THE BOOK HAD ONLY 
BEEN SENT DOWN TO US THEN WE WOULD HAVE SURELY
FOLLOWED ITS GUIDANCE BETTER AND MORE TRUTHFULLY
BUT NOW HAS COME TO YOU CLEARLY AND MANIFESTLY 
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR LORD AND A GUIDE AND A MERCY 

WHO COULD DO MORE WRONG THAN THEY 
WHO REJECT GOD'S MESSAGES AND TURN AWAY 
IN TIME WILL WE REQUITE THOSE WHO TURN AWAY 
WITH A DREADFUL PENALTY FOR THEIR TURNING AWAY

158  ARE THEY WAITING TO SEE IF THE ANGELS COME TO THEM
OR GOD HIMSELF OR GOD'S SIGNS COME TO THEM?
THE DAY WHEN GOD'S SIGNS DO COME TO THEM
NO GOOD WILL IT DO FOR A SOUL TO THEN BELIEVE IN THEM 
IF BEFORE IT DID NOT BELIEVE IN THEM 
NOR EARNED RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH BELIEVING IN THEM
SAY, WAIT, WE ALSO ARE WAITING WITH THEM

159  THOSE WHO DIVIDE THEIR RELIGION 
AND WHO BREAK IT UP INTO SECTIONS

YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY PART IN THEM 
THEIR AFFAIR IS WITH GOD AND HE WILL TELL THEM 
THE TRUTH OF ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WERE DONE BY THEM

160  HE WHO DOES A GOOD DEED HE WILL HAVE TEN TO HIS CREDIT
HE WHO DOES EVIL WILL BE RECOMPENSED WITH THE LIKE OF IT
AND NO ONE WILL BE WRONGED THE LEAST LITTLE BIT

161  SAY, SURELY MY LORD HAS GUIDED ME 
TO A PATH THAT IS STRAIGHT, THE RIGHT RELIGION INDEED
THE PATH OF ABRAHAM, THE TRUE IN FAITH TRULY
AND HE JOINED NOT GODS WITH GOD IN DEITY

162  SAY, MY PRAYER AND MY SACRIFICES
MY LIFE AND MY DEATH AND ALL MY SERVICES
ARE ALL FOR GOD, THE LORD OF ALL EXISTENCES

163  NO PARTNER HAS HE AND OF THIS I AM COMMANDED 
AND I AM THE FIRST OF THOSE WHO HAVE SUBMITTED

164  SAY, SHALL I SEEK OTHER THAN GOD FOR MY PROTECTOR 
WHEN OF ALL THINGS THAT EXISTS HE IS THE SUSTAINER? 
EVERY SOUL DRAWS THE RESULTS OF ITS ACTS ON NONE OTHER
BUT ITS OWN SELF AND NO BURDEN BEARER 
CAN BEAR THE BURDEN OF ANOTHER 
YOUR GOAL IS TO ---GOD, THEN HE WILL BE THE RECOUNTER  
OF THE TRUTH OF THE THINGS OF WHICH YOU WERE DISPUTERS

165  AND IT IS HE WHO HAS MADE YOU HIS AGENTS AND INHERITORS 
AND HE HAS RAISED YOU IN RANKS, SOME OF YOU ABOVE OTHERS 
THAT HE MAY TRY YOU IN THE GIFTS OF WHICH HE IS THE GIVER
AND YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER IS THE PUNISHER
YET HE IS ALSO THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

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IN THE NAME OF GOD, 
THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL 
 
1  I, GOD, AM THE BEST KNOWER, THE TRUTHFUL

2  WE HAVE REVEALED TO YOU THIS SCRIPTURE
SO LET YOUR HEART NO LONGER
BE OPPRESSED BY ANY DIFFICULTY ON ANY MATTER
AND WITH IT YOU MAY WARN THOSE IN ERROR
AND TEACH THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS

3  FOLLOW WHAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO YOU BY THE GOD OF REVELATION
SEEK NOT OTHER THAN GOD FOR FRIENDS OR PROTECTION
LITTLE DO YOU MIND GOD'S ADMONITION 

4  HOW MANY TOWNS HAVE WE DESTROYED FOR THEIR SINS 
WHEN OUR PUNISHMENT TOOK THEM ALL OF A SUDDEN 
BY NIGHT OR AT MIDDAY WHILE THEY SLEPT IN?

5  WHEN OUR PUNISHMENT TOOK THEM NO CRY DID THEY UTTER
BUT THIS, INDEED WE WERE WRONG-DOERS

6  WE WILL QUESTION THOSE TO WHOM OUR MESSAGE WAS SENT 
AND WE WILL QUESTION THOSE BY WHOM IT WAS SENT

7  AND WITH KNOWLEDGE WE WILL SURELY 
RECOUNT THEIR WHOLE ENTIRE STORY 
FOR NEVER ABSENT WERE WE 

8  THE JUDGMENT THAT DAY WILL BE TRUE AND JUSTLY
THEY WILL PROSPER WHOSE GOOD DEEDS WILL BE HEAVY 

9  THOSE WHOSE GOOD DEEDS WILL BE LIGHT ONES
THEY WILL FIND THEIR SOULS IN PERDITION
BECAUSE THEY TREATED OUR MESSAGES WITH REJECTION

10  IT IS WE WHO HAVE PLACED YOU 
WITH AUTHORITY ON EARTH AND PROVIDED YOU 
WITH MEANS IN IT TO FULFILL YOUR LIFE FOR YOU 
AND SMALL ARE THE THANKS THAT ARE GIVEN BY YOU

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11  IT IS WE WHO CREATED AND SHAPED YOU BEAUTIFULLY
WE TOLD THE ANGELS TO BOW DOWN TO ADAM SUBMISSIVELY
THEY BOWED DOWN BUT NOT SATAN, HE REFUSED ARROGANTLY

12  GOD SAID, WHAT PREVENTED YOU FROM BOWING SUBMISSIVELY 
WHEN I COMMANDED YOU?  HE ANSWERED, I AM BETTER THAN HE 
YOU CREATED HIM FROM CLAY AND FROM FIRE YOU MADE ME

13  GOD SAID, GET OUT OF HERE
IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO BE ARROGANT HERE 
GET OUT FOR YOU ARE OF THE VILEST OF CREATURES

14  HE SAID, UNTIL THE DAY THEY ARE RAISED UP GRANT ME RESPITE

15  GOD SAID, YOU ARE AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE RESPITE

16  HE SAID, BECAUSE YOU HAVE THROWN ME OUT OF THE WAY 
I WILL LIE IN WAIT FOR THEM ON YOUR STRAIGHT WAY

17  AND I WILL ASSAULT THEM
FROM BEFORE THEM AND BEHIND THEM
FROM THE RIGHT AND FROM THE LEFT OF THEM
AND YOU WILL NOT FIND GRATITUDE IN MOST OF THEM

18  GOD SAID, GET OUT FROM HERE DISGRACED AND EXPELLED
IF ANY OF THEM FOLLOW YOU, I WILL THROW YOU ALL INTO HELL

19  OH ADAM, DWELL YOU AND YOUR WIFE IN THE GARDEN HAPPILY
AND ENJOY ITS GOOD THINGS BUT APPROACH NOT THIS TREE
OR YOU WILL TRANSGRESS ASSUREDLY

20  THEN SATAN MADE SUGGESTIONS TO THEM DECEITFULLY
BRINGING THEIR HIDDEN SHAME BEFORE THEM OPENLY
HE SAID, YOUR LORD ONLY FORBADE YOU THIS TREE 
LEST YOU WOULD BECOME ANGELS OR LIVE ETERNALLY

21  AND HE SWORE TO BOTH OF THEM 
THAT HE WAS A SINCERE ADVISOR TO THEM

22  HE BROUGHT ABOUT THEIR FALL DECEITFULLY
WHEN THEY TASTED OF THE TREE 
THEIR SHAME WAS SHOWN TO THEM MANIFESTLY 
AND THEY THEN BEGAN TO SEW THE LEAVES
OF THE GARDEN TOGETHER TO COVER THEIR BODIES
SO THEN THEIR LORD CALLED TO THEM REPROACHINGLY
AND SAID, DID I NOT FORBID YOU TO APPROACH THAT TREE 
AND I TOLD YOU THAT SATAN WAS TO YOU AN AVOWED ENEMY?

23  THEY SAID, OUR LORD WE HAVE WRONGED OUR OWN SOULS SURELY
IF YOU FORGIVE US NOT AND BESTOW NOT UPON US YOUR MERCY 
THEN WE WILL BE LOST MOST ASSUREDLY

24  GOD SAID, GET OUT WITH ENMITY BETWEEN YOURSELVES
AND ON THE EARTH WILL BE YOUR PLACE TO DWELL
AND YOUR MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD FOR A SPELL

25  HE SAID, YOU WILL LIVE IN IT AND DIE IN IT
AND THEN YOU WILL BE TAKEN OUT OF IT

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26  OH CHILDREN OF ADAM, WE HAVE BESTOWED ON YOU CLOTHING
TO COVER YOUR SHAME AND BEAUTIFUL CLOTHING

AND THE BEST CLOTHING THAT GUARDS AGAINST EVIL
THESE ARE GOD'S MESSAGES THAT YOU MAY BE MINDFUL 

27  OH CHILDREN OF ADAM, LET NOT SATAN 
SEDUCE YOU THE SAME WAY AS HE GOT YOUR PARENTS 
OUT OF FROM GARDEN STRIPPING THEM OF THEIR RAIMENT 

FOR SURELY HE AND HIS TRIBE THEY WATCH YOU FROM POSITIONS 
WHERE YOU CANNOT SEE THEM AND WE MADE THE EVIL ONES
FRIENDS TO THOSE WHO WERE IN REJECTION

28  WHEN THEY DO ANYTHING THAT IS SHAMEFUL 
THEY SAY, OUR FATHERS DID THESE THINGS AS WELL
SO THIS IS THEREFORE GOD'S COMMAND TO US AS WELL
SAY TO THEM, GOD NEVER COMMANDS WHAT IS SHAMEFUL
DO YOU SAY OF GOD THAT WHICH YOU ARE UNKNOWLEDGEABLE? 

29  SAY, MY LORD HAS COMMANDED JUSTICE FROM HIM
AND TO SET YOUR FACES AT EVERY TIME AND PLACE OF PRAYER TO HIM
AND CALL UPON HIM MAKING YOUR DEVOTION SINCERE TO HIM
AS HE CREATED YOU BEFORE YOU WILL RETURN TO HIM

30  SOME HE HAS GUIDED AND OTHERS 
WHO BY THEIR OWN CHOICE HAVE DESERVED 
THE LOSS OF THEIR WAY IN THAT THEY TOOK DEVILS RATHER 
THAN GOD FOR THEIR FRIENDS AND PROTECTORS 
AND THINK THAT THEY ARE GUIDED PROPER

31  OH CHILDREN OF ADAM DISPLAY YOUR BEAUTIFUL WEAR
AT EVERY TIME AND PLACE OF PRAYER 
EAT AND DRINK BUT WASTE NOT, FOR GOD LOVES NOT WASTERS

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32  SAY, WHO HAS FORBIDDEN GOD'S ADORNMENTS
WHICH HE HAS PRODUCED FOR PROVISIONS FOR HIS SERVANTS 
AND THE GOOD THINGS WHICH HE HAS PROVIDED FOR SUSTENANCE

SAY, THESE ARE IN THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD FOR THE FAITHFUL
AND FOR THEM ON THE JUDGMENT DAY AND THEY WILL BE SUCCESSFUL

33  WE EXPLAIN THE SIGNS FOR THOSE WITH COMPREHENSION
SAY, THE THINGS THAT MY LORD HAS INDEED FORBIDDEN 
ARE SHAMEFUL DEEDS WHETHER OPEN OR HIDDEN
AND SINS AND TRESPASSES AGAINST TRUTH AND REASON 
ASSIGNING OF PARTNERS TO GOD FOR WHICH HE HAS GIVEN 
NO AUTHORITY AND SAYING THINGS ABOUT GOD EVEN 
WHEN NO KNOWLEDGE TO YOU HAS BEEN GIVEN 

34  TO EVERY PEOPLE IS A TERM APPOINTED  
AND WHEN THEY REACH THEIR TERM APPOINTED
NOT FOR A SINGLE HOUR CAN THEY DELAY IT
NOR FOR AN HOUR CAN THEY ADVANCE IT 

35  OH CHILDREN OF ADAM, WHENEVER 
THERE COMES TO YOU FROM AMONG YOU MESSENGERS
RECITING MY MESSAGES, THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
AND MEND THEIR LIVES AND ARE BELIEVERS
ON THEM WILL BE NO FEAR NOR WILL THEY GRIEVE EITHER

36  THOSE WHO REJECT OUR SIGNS AND TURN AWAY ARROGANTLY 
THEY ARE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE TO DWELL IN IT ETERNALLY

37  WHO IS A MORE UNJUST WRONG DOER                                                                                  
THAN ONE WHO LIES AGAINST THE CREATOR
AND OF HIS LORD'S MESSAGES IS A REJECTER
THEIR PORTION APPOINTED FROM THE SCRIPTURES
MUST REACH THEM UNTIL WHEN THE DEATH MESSENGERS
TAKE THEIR SOULS AND SAY, WHERE ARE YOUR GOD PARTNERS 
THEY WILL SAY, THEY HAVE LEFT US IN THE LURCH
AND THEN THEY WILL BE WITNESS BEARERS
AGAINST THEMSELVES THAT THEY WERE DISBELIEVERS

38  AND HE WILL SAY, YOU PEOPLE WILL ENTER 
IN THE COMPANY OF THE PEOPLE PRIOR
OF MEN AND DEMONS INTO THE FIRE 
AND EVERY TIME A NEW PEOPLE DO ENTER
IT CURSES ITS SISTER PEOPLE THAT WENT PRIOR
UNTIL THEY FOLLOW EACH OTHER ALL INTO THE FIRE 
AND THE LAST WILL SAY ABOUT THE FIRST 
OUR LORD, THEY MISLEAD US SO GIVE THEM THE WORST
OUR LORD, GIVE THEM A DOUBLE PENALTY IN THE FIRE 
HE WILL SAY, YOU ALL HAVE A DOUBLE PENALTY TOGETHER

39  THE FIRST WILL SAY TO THE LAST, NOW WE SEE 
NO ADVANTAGE DO YOU HAVE OVER US INDEED
TASTE THE PENALTY FOR ALL OF YOUR DEEDS

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40  THOSE WHO OF OUR SIGNS ARE IN REJECTION
THERE WILL BE NO WAY OPEN
TO THEM OF THE GATES OF HEAVEN 
AND NOR WILL THEY ENTER THE GARDEN 

UNTIL THE CAMEL 
PASSES THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE 
THIS IS OUR REWARD FOR THE GUILTY PEOPLE

41  FOR THEM THERE IS HELL AS A COUCH BELOW THEM
AND FOLDINGS AND FOLDINGS OF COVERINGS ABOVE THEM
AND THIS IS OUR REQUITAL FOR THE WRONG DOERS AMONG THEM 

42  BUT THOSE WHO DO GOOD DEEDS AND ARE SINCERE BELIEVERS
NO BURDEN DO WE PLACE ON ANY SOUL BUT WHAT IT CAN BEAR 
AND THEY WILL DWELL IN THE GARDEN FOREVER

43  WE WILL REMOVE FROM THEIR HEARTS ANY INJURY 
AND THEY WILL HAVE RIVERS FLOWING BENEATH 
AND THEY WILL SAY, TO GOD ALL PRAISES BE 
WHO HAS GUIDED US TO THIS FELICITY 
WE COULD NOT HAVE FOUND MERCY
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR GOD'S MERCY

INDEED IT WAS THE TRUTH THAT THE MESSENGERS
OF GOD BROUGHT TO US AND THE CRY THEY WILL HEAR 
SEE THE GARDEN BEFORE YOU AND YOU ARE ITS INHERITORS
BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN CONSTANT RIGHTEOUS DOERS

44  THE GARDEN'S COMPANIONS WILL SAY TO THOSE IN THE FIRE 
WE HAVE FOUND TRUE THE PROMISE OF THE CREATOR  
HAVE YOU ALSO FOUND TRUE THE PROMISES OF YOUR MAKER? 
THEY WILL SAY, YES, BUT BETWEEN THEM A CRIER
WILL SAY, THE CURSE OF GOD IS ON THE WRONG-DOERS

45  THOSE WHO WOULD HINDER 
MEN FROM GOD'S WAY AND SEEK IN IT SOMETHING IN ERROR 
THEY WERE INDEED THOSE WHO WERE DENIERS OF THE HEREAFTER

46  BETWEEN THEM WILL BE A VEIL AND ON THE ELEVATED PLACES              
WILL BE MEN WHO WILL KNOW EVERY ONE BY THEIR FACES

AND THEY WILL CALL TO THE GARDEN'S OWNERS
AND SAY, MAY PEACE BE UPON YOU FOREVER
AND THEY WILL NOT YET HAVE ENTERED  
BUT OF IT THEY WILL BE ASSURED

47  THEIR EYES WILL BE TURNED TO THE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE
THEY WILL SAY, LORD, SEND US NOT AMONGST THE WRONG DOERS

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48  THE MEN IN THE ELEVATED PLACES                                                                  
WILL CALL TO MEN WHOM THEY WILL KNOW BY THEIR FACES                                
AND SAY, NO PROFIT WAS YOUR WEALTH AND YOUR ARROGANTNESS

49  ARE THESE NOT THE MEN WHOM YOU EXPRESSED
THAT GOD IN HIS MERCY WOULD NEVER BLESS? 

ENTER THE GARDEN, NO FEAR ON YOU WILL THERE BE 
NOR WILL YOU HAVE ANY REASON TO GRIEVE

50  THE FIRE'S COMPANIONS 
WILL CALL TO THE GARDEN'S COMPANIONS 

POUR DOWN TO US WATER OR ANYTHING 
THAT GOD DOES PROVIDE FOR YOUR SUSTAINING
AND THEY WILL SAY TO THEM, BOTH THESE THINGS 
GOD HAS FORBIDDEN TO THOSE GUILTY OF REJECTING

51  THOSE WHO TOOK THEIR RELIGION FOR AMUSEMENT AND PLAY
AND WERE DECEIVED BY THE LIFE OF THE WORLD THAT DAY 
SO WE WILL FORGET THEM AS THEY FORGOT THIS DAY 
AND BECAUSE THEY REJECTED THE WAY

52  WE SENT TO THEM A BOOK BASED ON KNOWLEDGE CLEARLY
EXPLAINED IN DETAIL TO BELIEVERS, A GUIDE AND A MERCY 

53  DO THEY WAIT FOR THE FINAL FULFILLMENT OF THE EVENT?
ON THE DAY OF THE FINAL FULFILLMENT OF THE EVENT 

THOSE WHO DISREGARDED IT BEFORE 
WILL SAY, THE APOSTLES OF OUR LORD 

DID SURELY BRING TO US TRUE TIDINGS AND WE HAVE INDEED
NO INTERCESSORS NOW TO ON OUR BEHALF INTERCEDE 
OR IF WE COULD BE SENT BACK THEN WE INDEED
WOULD BEHAVE QUITE DIFFERENTLY 

THEY WILL HAVE LOST THEIR SALVATION
AND THE THINGS OF THEIR INVENTIONS 
WILL HAVE LEFT THEM IN DISPOSITION

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54  YOUR GUARDIAN-LORD IS GOD WHO ALONE
CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH IN SIX DAYS ON HIS OWN
AND IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED AS THE LORD OF THE THRONE  

AND HE DRAWS THE NIGHT AS A VEIL OVER THE DAY
EACH SEEKING THE OTHER IN SUCCESSIVE WAYS

OF THE SUN, MOON AND STARS, HE IS THEIR CREATOR
ALL GOVERNED BY LAWS UNDER HIS ORDER
ARE THEY NOT HIS TO BE THEIR CREATOR
AND TO BE THEIR GOVERNOR?
BLESSED BE GOD, THE CHERISHER
OF THE WORLDS AND THE SUSTAINER 

55  CALL ON YOUR LORD WITH HUMILITY AND IN PRIVATE 
FOR GOD LOVES NOT THOSE WHO TRESPASS BEYOND LIMITS

56  AND BE NOT A MISCHIEF MAKER
ON THE EARTH AFTER IT HAS BEEN SET IN ORDER 
BUT CALL ON HIM LONGING IN YOUR HEARTS AND IN FEAR
FOR THE MERCY OF YOUR LORD IS ALWAYS NEAR

57  IT IS HE WHO SENDS THE WINDS COOL AND BREEZY 
LIKE HERALDS OF GOOD NEWS GOING BEFORE HIS MERCY

AND WHEN THEY HAVE CARRIED THE CLOUDS THAT ARE HEAVY-LADEN 
WE DRIVE THEM TO A DEAD LAND AND MAKE RAIN TO DESCEND 

AND PRODUCE EVERY KIND OF HARVEST IN DUE MEASURE 
AND WE WILL RAISE UP THE DEAD SO THAT YOU MAY REMEMBER 

58  FROM THE LAND THAT IS GOOD BY THE WILL OF ITS CREATOR
SPRINGS UP PRODUCE RICH AFTER THAT OF WHICH IT IS SIMILAR

BUT FROM THE LAND THAT IS BAD
SPRINGS UP NOTHING BUT THAT WHICH IS BAD

SO DO WE EXPLAIN THE SIGNS BY VARIOUS SYMBOLS 
TO ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE GRATEFUL

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59  WE SENT NOAH TO HIS PEOPLE 
AND HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE 

WORSHIP GOD 
BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD 

I FEAR FOR YOU THE PENALTY
OF A DREADFUL DAY INDEED

60  THE LEADERS OF HIS PEOPLE UTTERED
WE SEE YOU TO BE CLEARLY IN ERROR 

61  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, I AM NOT IN ERROR
ON THE CONTRARY, I AM A MESSENGER
FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER 

62  I BUT FULFILL TOWARDS YOU 
THE DUTIES OF MY LORD'S MISSION TO YOU 
AND I KNOW FROM GOD WHAT IS NOT KNOWN TO YOU 

63  DO YOU WONDER THAT THERE HAS COME TO YOU 
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR LORD TO YOU THROUGH 
A MAN OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE TO WARN YOU  
SO YOU MAY FEAR HIM AND HE MAY HAVE MERCY ON YOU?

64  BUT THEY REJECTED HIM 
AND WE SAFELY DELIVERED HIM 
AND THOSE IN THE ARK WITH HIM 

BUT WE OVERWHELMED IN THE FLOOD THOSE PEOPLE 
WHO REJECTED OUR SIGNS, THEY WERE A BLIND PEOPLE

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CHAPTER 7.  THE ELEVATED PLACES                                           SECTION 9.  PART VIII

65  TO THE AD PEOPLE, AS A MESSENGER
WE SENT HUD ONE OF THEIR BROTHERS

AND HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD
BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD 
WILL YOU NOT KEEP YOUR DUTY TO GOD?

66  AMONG HIS PEOPLE, SAID THE LEADERS OF THE DISBELIEVERS
WE SEE YOU ARE AN IMBECILE AND WE THINK YOU ARE A LIAR

67  HE SAID, I AM NO IMBECILE BUT I AM A MESSENGER 
FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

68  I BUT FULFILL TOWARDS YOU 
THE DUTIES OF GOD'S MISSION TO YOU 
AND I AM A TRUSTWORTHY ADVISER TO YOU

69  DO YOU WONDER THAT THERE HAS COME TO YOU 
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR LORD TO YOU THROUGH 
A MAN OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE TO WARN YOU? 
CALL IN REMEMBRANCE THAT HE MADE YOU 
INHERITORS AFTER NOAH'S PEOPLE AND GAVE YOU 

A STATURE AMONG THE NATIONS
AND CALL TO MIND HIS BENEFITS IN YOUR POSSESSION
THAT TO YOU PROSPERITY MAY BE GIVEN  

70  THEY SAID, HAVE YOU COME THAT WE MAY WORSHIP GOD AS ONE 
AND GIVE UP TOTALLY OUR FATHER'S RELIGION?  

THEN BRING US THAT WITH WHICH YOU THREATEN US 
IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH TO US

71  HE SAID, PUNISHMENT HAS ALREADY COME FROM GOD UPON YOU 
DO YOU DISPUTE WITH NAMES DEVISED BY YOUR FATHERS AND YOU 
AND WITHOUT AUTHORITY FROM GOD BEING GIVEN TO YOU?
THEN WAIT I TOO WILL WAIT ALONG WITH YOU

72  WE SAVED HIM AND THOSE WHO TO HIM ADHERED  
AND WE CUT OFF THE ROOTS OF THE REJECTERS
AND THOSE WHO WERE NOT BELIEVERS

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CHAPTER 7.  THE ELEVATED PLACES                                         SECTION 10.  PART VIII

73  WE SENT SALIH TO THE THAMUD PEOPLE
ONE THEIR OWN BROTHERS AS AN APOSTLE 

HE SAID TO THEM, OH MY PEOPLE, WORSHIP GOD 
BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NO OTHER GOD 
NOW HAS COME TO YOU A SIGN FROM GOD
THIS SHE-CAMEL IS A SIGN TO YOU FROM GOD

SO LEAVE HER HERE TO GRAZE UNHARMED BY YOU
OR A GRIEVOUS PUNISHMENT WILL SEIZE YOU

74  REMEMBER HOW HE MADE YOU INHERITORS IN THE LAND
AFTER THE AD PEOPLE AND GAVE YOU HABITATIONS IN THE LAND                                        

YOU BUILD PALACES AND CASTLES IN OPEN PLAINS 
AND CARVE OUT HOMES IN THE MOUNTAINS 

SO REMEMBER GOD'S BENEFITS OF WHICH YOU ARE THE RECEIVERS
AND REFRAIN FROM EVIL ON EARTH AND BE NOT MISCHIEF MAKERS 

75  THOSE WHO WERE OF THE ARROGANT LEADERS   
SAID TO THOSE WHO WERE RECKONED WITHOUT POWER
AMONG THOSE OF HIS FOLLOWERS WHO WERE BELIEVERS
DO YOU KNOW INDEED THAT SALIH IS GOD'S MESSENGER?
THEY ANSWERED SAYING, WE INDEED ARE SURELY BELIEVERS 
THE REVELATION HE HAS BROUGHT US HAS MADE US BELIEVERS

76  THE ARROGANT PARTY SAID, FOR OUR PART WE DISBELIEVE
IN WHAT IT IS THAT YOU PEOPLE BELIEVE 

77  THEN THE SHE-CAMEL THEY SLAUGHTERED 
IN DEFIANCE OF THEIR LORD'S ORDER
AND SAID, OH SALIH, BRING YOUR THREATS IF YOU ARE A MESSENGER

78  THE EARTHQUAKE OVERTOOK THEM WHEN THEY WERE NOT PERCEIVING 
AND THEY WERE MOTIONLESS BODIES IN THEIR HOMES IN THE MORNING
SALIH LEFT THEM SAYING, OH MY PEOPLE, I GAVE TO YOU THE WARNING
WHICH WAS SENT BY MY LORD AND I GAVE YOU GOOD COUNSELING
BUT YOU ARE NOT OF THOSE WHO LOVE GOOD COUNSELING

80  WE ALSO SENT LOT, HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE 
DO YOU COMMIT LEWDNESS SUCH AS NO PEOPLE 
IN CREATION EVER COMMITTED BEFORE YOU PEOPLE?

81  FOR YOU PRACTICE YOUR LUSTS ON MEN 
IN PREFERENCE TO WOMEN 

YOU ARE PEOPLE INDEED EXCEEDING
BEYOND ALL BOUNDS IN TRANSGRESSING

82  AND NO ANSWER WAS GIVEN BY HIS PEOPLE 
BUT THAT THEY SAID, DRIVE THESE PEOPLE
OUT OF YOUR CITY, THESE ARE PEOPLE
WHO WANT TO BE CLEAN AND PURE PEOPLE

83  WE SAVED HIM AND HIS FAMILY 
EXCEPT HIS WIFE FOR IT WAS DECREED
THAT SHE WOULD LAG BEHIND BELATEDLY

84  WE RAINED BRIMSTONES UPON THEM FOR THEIR SINS
THIS WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO INDULGED IN CRIME AND SIN

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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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