CHAPTER 9.  REPENTANCE                                                                SECTION 12.  PART X

90  AND THERE WERE AMONG THE ARABS OF THE DESERT  
MEN WHO MADE EXCUSES AND WERE FALSE TO THE CREATOR
AND ASKED FOR EXEMPTION AND WERE FALSE TO THE MESSENGER
AND SAT INACTIVE AND SOON WILL A DISASTER 
SEIZE ALL THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS 

91  THERE IS NO BLAME ON THE WEAK OR THE SICK OR EITHER
THOSE WHO FIND NOTHING TO SPEND BUT ARE SINCERE 
IN THEIR DUTY TO GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
NO COMPLAINT IS THERE AGAINST THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
AND GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER 

92  NOR IS THEIR BLAME ON ACCOUNT
OF THOSE WHO CAME TO YOU TO BE PROVIDED WITH MOUNTS
BUT WHEN THEN YOU SAID TO THEM, I CAN FIND FOR YOU NO MOUNTS  
THEY TURNED BACK CRYING ON ACCOUNT
THAT THEY HAD NO RESOURCES TO AFFORD THE AMOUNTS

93  THE COMPLAINT IS AGAINST THOSE WHO CLAIM EXEMPTION 
WHILE THEY ARE RICH AND PREFER TO STAY BEHIND WITH THE WOMEN 
GOD HAS SEALED THEIR HEARTS SO THAT THEY HAVE NO COMPREHENSION

PART XI

94  WHEN THEY RETURN TO YOU
THEY WILL PRESENT THEIR EXCUSES TO YOU
SAY TO THEM, PRESENT NO EXCUSES WE WILL NOT BELIEVE YOU
GOD HAS TOLD US THE TRUE STATE OF MATTERS CONCERNING YOU
WHAT MATTERS TO GOD AND THE APOSTLE ARE THE ACTIONS OF YOU 
AND YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO GOD AND HE WILL THEN SHOW YOU 
THE TRUTH OF ALL THAT WAS DONE BY YOU 

95  THEY WILL SWEAR BY GOD WHEN YOU RETURN TO THEM
THAT YOU MAY LEAVE THEM ALONE, THEREFORE LEAVE THEM  
THEY ARE AN ABOMINATION AND HELL IS THE PLACE FOR THEM
A FITTING RECOMPENSE FOR EVIL DONE BY THEM

96  THEY WILL SWEAR TO MAKE YOU PLEASED WITH THEM
BUT EVEN IF YOU ARE PLEASED WITH THEM
GOD IS NOT PLEASED WITH THEM

97  THE DESERT DWELLERS 
ARE THE WORST HYPOCRITES AND DISBELIEVERS
AND MORE IGNORANT OF WHAT GOD REVEALED TO HIS MESSENGER
BUT GOD IS ALL WISE AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

98  SOME OF THE DESERT DWELLERS
LOOK ON THEIR PAYMENTS AS A FINE AND WATCH FOR DISASTERS 
TO FALL ON YOU, BUT ON THEM BE THE EVIL DISASTER 
GOD IS ALL HEARING AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

99  BUT SOME OF THE DESERT DWELLERS
THOSE WHO IN GOD AND THE LAST DAY ARE BELIEVERS
LOOK ON THEIR PAYMENTS AS GIFTS BRINGING THEM NEARER 
TO THE CREATOR AND OBTAINING THE PRAYERS OF THE MESSENGER
THEY DO BRING THEM NEARER AND GOD WILL ADMIT THEM TO HIS FAVOR 
FOR GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

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100  THE VANGUARD OF ISLAM WHO WERE THE FIRST OF THEM 
WHO FORSOOK THEIR HOMES AND THOSE WHO AIDED THEM 
AND THOSE WHO IN ALL GOOD DEEDS FOLLOW THEM 
GOD IS WELL PLEASED WITH THEM 
AS ARE THEY WITH HIM AND FOR THEM
HE HAS PREPARED GARDENS TO DWELL IN FOR THEM
AND THAT IS THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT FOR THEM

101  AROUND YOU THERE ARE DESERT ARABS THAT ARE HYPOCRITES TRULY
AND AMONG THE MEDINA FOLK THAT ARE OBSTINATE IN HYPOCRISY 
YOU DO NOT KNOW THEM BUT WE DO KNOW THEM CLEARLY
AND TWICE WILL WE PUNISH THEM AND ADDITIONALLY
THEY WILL BE SENT TO A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

102  OTHERS THERE ARE WHO ACKNOWLEDGED THEIR EVILS 
AND THEY HAVE MIXED A GOOD ACT WITH ONE THAT WAS SINFUL
PERHAPS GOD WILL TURN TO THEM IN MERCY, FOR GOD IS MERCIFUL 

103  AND OF THEIR GOODS TAKE CHARITY FROM THEM
SO THAT YOU MIGHT PURIFY AND SANCTIFY THEM 
AND ON THEIR BEHALF PRAY FOR THEM
YOUR PRAYERS ARE A SOURCE OF SECURITY FOR THEM 
AND GOD IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE AFFAIRS OF THEM

104  GOD ACCEPTS REPENTANCE FROM HIS SERVANTS GRATEFULLY
AND GRACEFULLY RECEIVES THEIR GIFTS OF CHARITY 
AND GOD IS OFTEN RETURNING TO MERCY

1O5  AND SAY, WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS. GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
WILL BE THE OBSERVER OF YOUR WORK AND THE BELIEVERS 
AND YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE KNOWER 
OF WHAT IS HIDDEN AND OPEN, THEN WE WILL MAKE CLEAR 
THE TRUTH TO YOU OF ALL OF YOUR ENDEAVORS

106  THERE ARE YET OTHERS 
HELD IN SUSPENSE FOR GOD'S ORDERS
WHETHER HE WILL PUNISH THEM OR GIVE THEM FAVOR 
FOR GOD IS ALL WISE AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

107  THERE ARE THOSE WHO PUT UP A MOSQUE IN ERROR
IN AN EFFORT TO DISUNITE THE BELIEVERS
AND IN PREPARATION FOR ONE WHO WAS A WARRIOR
AGAINST THE CREATOR AND HIS MESSENGER
BEFORE THAT THEY WILL INDEED SWEAR 
THAT THEIR INTENTIONS WERE THOSE OF RIGHT DOERS
BUT GOD DOES DECLARE THAT THEY ARE LIARS 

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108  NEVER STAND IN IT, THERE IS A MOSQUE SURELY
WHOSE FOUNDATION WAS LAID FROM THE FIRST DAY ON PIETY 
YOUR STANDING IN IT IS MORE WORTHY
FOR OFFERING YOUR PRAYERS IN IT REGULARLY
FOR IN IT ARE MEN WHO LOVE PURITY
AND GOD LOVES THOSE WHO LOVE PURITY

109  WHICH THEN IS BEST, HE THAT LAYS HIS FOUNDATION 
ON PIETY TO GOD OR HE THAT LAYS HIS FOUNDATION

ON AN UNDERMINED SAND CLIFF READY TO CRUMBLE? 
AND IT DOES CRUMBLE DOWN WITH HIM INTO HELL 
AND GOD GUIDES NOT WRONG DOING PEOPLE 

110  THOSE WHO BUILD SUCH A FOUNDATION 
ARE NEVER FREE FROM SUSPICION 
THEIR HEARTS ARE IN A SHAKY CONDITION
UNTIL THEIR HEARTS ARE CUT UP INTO SECTIONS
AND SURELY GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS IN CREATION

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111  GOD HAS PURCHASED OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE
THEIR PERSONS AND THEIR PROPERTIES
FOR THEIRS IN RETURN IS THE GARDEN OF ETERNITY
FOR THEY FIGHT AND KILL AND ARE KILLED FOR HIS GLORY
A PROMISE THAT IS BINDING ON HIM IN TRUTH AND CERTAINTY
THROUGH THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL AND THE QURAN FIRMLY

WHO BESIDES GOD IS MORE FAITHFUL TO HIS COVENANT?
THEN REJOICE IN THE CONCLUDED AGREEMENT
AND THAT IS THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT 

112  THOSE THAT TURN IN REPENTANCE TO GOD 
AND THAT SERVE GOD AND PRAISE GOD
THAT WANDER IN DEVOTION TO THE CAUSE OF GOD 
THAT BOW DOWN AND PROSTRATE THEMSELVES IN PRAYER TO GOD  
WHO ENJOIN GOOD, FORBID EVIL AND OBSERVE THE LIMITS SET BY GOD 
THEY REJOICE, SO GIVE GOOD NEWS TO THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS IN GOD

113  IT IS NOT FITTING FOR THE PROPHET AND FOR THE BELIEVERS
THAT THEY SHOULD PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS FOR DISBELIEVERS
EVEN THOUGH THEY BE NEAR OF KIN AFTER IT IS CLEAR 
THAT THEY ARE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE

114  AND ABRAHAM PRAYED FOR FORGIVENESS FOR HIS FATHER  
ONLY BECAUSE HE HAD MADE TO HIM A PROMISE PRIOR
BUT WHEN HIS ENMITY TO GOD BECAME CLEAR  
HE DISASSOCIATED HIMSELF FROM HIM ALTOGETHER
FOR ABRAHAM WAS A TENDER HEARTED AND FORBEARING BELIEVER

115  AND GOD WILL NOT MISLEAD A PEOPLE AFTER
HE HAS GUIDED THEM IN ORDER THAT HE MAY MAKE CLEAR
WHAT TO AVOID, FOR GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

116  THE DOMINION OF HEAVEN AND EARTH BELONG TO THE CREATOR
HE GIVES LIFE AND HE TAKES IT AND YOU HAVE NO HELPER
EXCEPT FOR HIM AND NO PROTECTOR

117  GOD TURNED WITH FAVOR TO THE PROPHET AND THE EMIGRANTS   
AND HELPERS WHO FOLLOWED HIM IN A TIME OF TORMENT

THEN AFTER THE HEARTS OF A PARTY OF THEM 
HAD NEARLY SWERVED FROM DUTY HE TURNED TO THEM 
FOR INDEED HE IS MOST KIND AND MOST MERCIFUL TO THEM

118  TO THE THREE WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND HE TURNED IN MERCY
AND THEY FELT GUILTY TO SUCH A DEGREE 
THAT THE EARTH SEEMED CONSTRAINED IN ALL ITS EXTENSITY 
THEIR SOULS SEEMED STRAIGHTENED AND THEY PERCEIVED 
THAT FROM GOD THERE IS NOWHERE TO FLEE 
AND NO REFUGE BUT IN GOD AND HE TURNED TO THEM MERCIFULLY
THAT THEY MIGHT REPENT, FOR HE IS FULL OF MERCY

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119 FEAR GOD, OH YOU WHO BELIEVE 
AND BE WITH THOSE WHO ARE TRUE IN WORD AND DEED

120  FOR THE PEOPLE OF MEDINAH IT WAS NOT PROPER
AND THOSE ROUND ABOUT THEM OF THE DESERT DWELLERS
TO REFUSE TO FOLLOW GOD'S MESSENGER 
NOR TO THEIR OWN LIVES TO HIS TO PREFER 
BECAUSE NOTHING COULD THEY DO OR SUFFER 
BUT WAS TO THEIR CREDIT OF DEEDS OF RIGHT  DOERS
WHETHER THEY SUFFERED THIRST OR FATIGUE OR HUNGER 
OR TROD PATHS TO RAISE THE ANGER OF DISBELIEVERS
OR RECEIVED AN INJURY FROM AN ENEMY WHATEVER
FOR YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER DOES NOT SUFFER
THE REWARD TO BE LOST OF RIGHTEOUS DOERS

121  AND NOR COULD THEY SPEND CHARITABLY
ANYTHING LARGE OR SMALL FOR THE NEED
OR CUT ACROSS A VALLEY BUT THE DEED
IS INSCRIBED TO THEIR CREDIT INDEED
THAT HE MAY REWARD THEM AMPLY

122  NOR SHOULD THE BELIEVERS ALL GO FORTH IN ONE CONGREGATION 
IF A CONTINGENT FROM EVERY EXPEDITION 
REMAINED BEHIND THEY COULD STUDY RELIGION 
AND GIVE TO THE PEOPLE TRUE AND CLEAR ADMONITION 
SO THE PEOPLE MAY LEARN TO GUARD AGAINST PERDITION

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123  FIGHT THE DISBELIEVERS WHO ARE NEAR YOU 
AND LET THEM FIND FIRMNESS IN YOU 
AND KNOW THAT IF YOU FEAR GOD HE IS WITH YOU

124  WHENEVER THERE COMES DOWN A CHAPTER 
SOME OF THEM SAY, WHICH OF YOU BELIEVERS
BY IT HAS HAD HIS FAITH MADE STRONGER 
THOSE WHO ARE TRUE BELIEVERS
REJOICE BECAUSE THEIR FAITH IS MADE STRONGER

125  THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE, IT WILL ADD DOUBT
TO THEIR DOUBT AND THEY WILL DIE IN A STATE OF DOUBT

126  THEY ARE TRIED EVERY YEAR ONCE OR TWICE
YET THEY TURN NOT IN REPENTANCE AND THEY TAKE NO ADVICE

127  AND THEN WHENEVER THERE COMES DOWN TO THEM A REVELATION
THEY LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER AND SAY, ARE YOU SEEN BY ANYONE?
THEN THEY TURN AWAY, SO GOD HAS TURNED THE DIRECTION
OF THEIR HEARTS AWAY FROM THE LIGHT FOR THE REASON
THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY COMPREHENSION

128  NOW HAS COME FROM AMONG YOU AN APOSTLE
IT GRIEVES HIM THAT YOU SHOULD BE STRESSFUL
SO ARDENTLY ANXIOUS IS HE OVER YOU PEOPLE
TO THE BELIEVERS IS HE KIND AND MERCIFUL 

129  BUT IF THEY TURN AWAY SAY, GOD SUFFICES ME 
THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE AND ON HIM IS MY DEPENDENCY
AND MY LORD IS THE LORD OF THE THRONE OF SUPREME GLORY

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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD AM THE SEER
THESE ARE THE VERSES OF THE BOOK OF WISDOM THAT IS CLEAR

2  IS IT A MATTER OF WONDERMENT TO MEN THAT TO THEM
WE HAVE SENT INSPIRATION TO A MAN FROM AMONG THEM

THAT HE SHOULD BE A WARNER 
TO MANKIND OF THEIR DANGER 
AND GIVE GOOD NEWS TO THE BELIEVERS 

THAT THEY HAVE BEFORE THEIR LORD 
THE LOFTY RANK OF TRUTH AS THEIR REWARD?

BUT SAY THE DISBELIEVERS 
THIS IS AN EVIDENT SORCERER

3  YOUR LORD IS GOD WHO IN SIX DAYS CREATED EVERYTHING
AND IS ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE REGULATING 
AND CONSTANTLY GOVERNING ALL THINGS 
 
EXCEPT BY HIS LEAVE NO INTERCESSOR CAN PLEAD WITH HIM
SURELY THIS IS MY LORD AND YOUR LORD SO SERVE HIM 
WILL YOU NOT RECEIVE ADMONITION FROM HIM?

4  TO HIM WILL BE YOUR RETURN ALL OF YOU 
THE PROMISE OF GOD IS SURE AND TRUE 

IT IS HE WHO BEGINS THE CREATION PROCESS 
AND HE REPEATS IT SO THAT HE MAY GIVE JUSTICE 
TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS

BUT THOSE WHO REJECT HIM 
WILL HAVE DRAUGHTS OF BOILING FLUIDS FROM HIM
AND A GRIEVOUS PENALTY BECAUSE THEY REJECTED HIM

5  IT IS HE WHO MADE THE SUN TO BE A SHINING GLORY 
AND THE MOON TO BE A LIGHT OF BEAUTY 
AND MEASURED OUT STAGES FOR HER DISTINCTIVELY
THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW THE NUMBER OF YEARS ACCURATELY
AND THE COUNT OF TIME ADDITIONALLY
AND GOD CREATED ALL OF THIS TRUTHFULLY 
SO DOES HE GIVE MESSAGES CLEARLY
FOR ALL OF THOSE WITH COMPREHENSIBILITY

6  SURELY IN THE ALTERNATION 
OF NIGHT AND DAY AND IN THE CREATION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WITH COMPREHENSION

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7  THOSE WHO REST NOT THEIR HOPE ON THEIR MEETING THEIR LORD
BUT ARE SATISFIED WITH LIVING THIS LIFE THEY ADORE 
AND OUR MESSAGES THEY IGNORE

8  THEIR ABODE IS THE FIRE 
BECAUSE OF THEIR EVIL THEY EARNED A PLACE IN THE FIRE

9  THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS 
GOD WILL GUIDE THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITHFULNESS
AND BENEATH THEM WILL FLOW RIVERS IN GARDENS OF BLISS

10  THEIR CRY THEREIN WILL BE 
GLORY TO YOU OH LORD, AND PEACE WILL BE 
THEIR GREETING AND THE CLOSE OF THEIR CRY WILL BE 
ALL PRAISE IS DUE TO GOD, THE LORD OF THE WORLDS IS HE

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CHAPTER 10.  JONAH                                                                           SECTION 2.  PART XI

11  IF GOD HASTENED FOR MEN THE ILL OF THEIR EARNINGS
AS THEY WOULD HASTEN THE GOOD OF THEIR EARNINGS
THEIR RESPITE BE AN IMMEDIATE SETTLING
WE LEAVE THOSE WHO HOPE NOT MEETING 
WITH US, IN DISTRACTION WANDERING 

12  WHEN TROUBLE TOUCHES A MAN HE CRIES TO US LYING
DOWN ON HIS SIDE OR SITTING OR STANDING 
BUT WHEN WE HAVE SOLVED HIS DISCOMFORTING 
HE ACTS AS IF HE NEVER CRIED TO US FOR HIS TROUBLING
AND SO DO THE DEEDS OF THOSE TRANSGRESSING 
TO THEM IN THEIR EYES SEEM FAIR SEEMING

13  GENERATIONS BEFORE YOU WE DESTROYED PRIOR
FOR THEIR WRONGS WHEN CAME TO THEM THEIR MESSENGERS
WITH CLEAR SIGNS BUT THEY WOULD NOT BE BELIEVERS 
SO DO WE REQUITE THOSE WHO ARE TRANSGRESSORS

14  THEN AFTER THEM WE MADE YOU 
HEIRS IN THE LAND TO SEE WHAT YOU WOULD DO

15  BUT WHEN ARE RECITED TO THEM OUR CLEAR MESSAGES 
THOSE WHO REST NOT THEIR HOPE ON THEIR MEETING WITH US

THEY SAY, BRING US A READING OTHER THAN THIS ONE OR CHANGE IT 
SAY TO THEM, IT IS NOT FOR ME OF MY OWN ACCORD TO CHANGE IT

FOR I FOLLOW NOTHING BUT WHAT IS REVEALED TO ME
AND IF I WERE TO DISOBEY MY LORD THEN I INDEED
WOULD FEAR FOR MYSELF THE PENALTY 
OF A GREAT DAY TO COME SURELY

16  SAY, IF GOD HAD WILLED I WOULD NOT HAVE RECITED IT TO YOU
NOR WOULD HE HAVE MADE IT KNOWN TO YOU 
A WHOLE LIFE TIME BEFORE THIS HAVE I STAYED AMONG YOU 
IS THIS NOT THEN UNDERSTOOD BY YOU?

17  WHO DOES MORE WRONG THAN ONE WHO FORGES
A LIE AGAINST HIS LORD OR DENIES HIS LORD'S MESSAGES?  
BUT NEVER WILL SUCCESS COME TO HE WHO TRANSGRESSES

18  THEY SERVE BESIDES GOD THINGS THAT DO NOT HURT THEM 
NOR DO THE THINGS THAT THEY SERVE PROFIT THEM 

AND THEY SAY OF GOD, THESE ARE OUR INTERCESSORS WITH HIM
SAY, DO YOU INFORM GOD OF SOMETHING NOT KNOWN TO HIM  
AND FAR IS HE ABOVE THE PARTNERS THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM

19  MANKIND WAS BUT ONE NATION BUT DIFFERED LATER 
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A WORD THAT CAME FROM THE CREATOR
THEY WOULD HAVE SETTLED THE THINGS IN WHICH THEY DIFFERED

20  THEY ASK. WHY IS NOT A SIGN SENT DOWN FROM GOD TO YOU? 
SAY, THE UNSEEN IS KNOWN ONLY TO GOD NOT TO YOU
THEN WAIT, I TOO WILL WAIT ALONG WITH YOU

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21  WHEN WE MAKE MANKIND TASTE OF SOME MERCY 
AFTER HAS TOUCH THEM SOME ADVERSITY 

AGAINST OUR SIGNS THEY TAKE TO PLOTTING 
SAY TO THEM, GOD IS SWIFTER IN PLANNING
AND OUR MESSENGERS RECORD ALL YOUR DOINGS 

22  GOD ENABLES YOU TO TRAVERSE THROUGH LAND AND SEA 
SO THAT YOU MAY BOARD SHIPS AND YOU SAIL WITH THEM EASILY
WITH A FAVORABLE WIND AND THEN WHEN IT BECOMES COMES STORMY  

AND THE WAVES COME TO THEM FROM ALL SIDES
AND THEY THINK THEY ARE GOING TO SUBSIDE

THEY CRY TO GOD SINCERELY
OFFERING TO HIM THEIR SINCERE DUTY 
SAYING, DELIVER US FROM THIS AND WE WILL ACT GRATEFULLY 

23  BUT WHEN HE DELIVERS THEM SAFELY
THEN THEY TRANSGRESS INSOLENTLY 
THROUGH THE EARTH DEFIANTLY
SAY, OH MANKIND, YOUR INSOLENCE 
IS AGAINST YOURSELVES AND MAKES YOU HAPPY
BUT SURELY TO US WILL BE YOUR RETURN INEVITABLY
WE WILL THEN SHOW YOU ALL THAT YOU DID CLEARLY

24  THE LIKENESS OF THE PRESENT LIFE 
IS AS THE RAIN WHICH IS SENT DOWN FROM THE SKIES
AND THEN BY ITS MINGLING IT CAUSES PRODUCE TO RISE 

PROVIDING FOOD FOR ANIMALS AND MEN 
IT GROWS AND THE EARTH'S ORNAMENTS BECOME GOLDEN 

AND IS DECKED OUT IN BEAUTY AND THE PEOPLE 
THINK THEY HAVE OVER IT ALL POWERS OF DISPOSAL 

AND WHEN OUR COMMAND REACHES IT BY NIGHT OR BY DAY 
AND WE MAKE IT A HARVEST CLEAN AND MOWN AWAY
AS IF IT HAD NOT FLOURISHED THE PREVIOUS DAY

SO DO WE EXPLAIN THE SIGNS CLEARLY 
FOR THOSE WHO REFLECT SINCERELY

25  BUT GOD DOES CALL TO THE HOME OF PEACE 
HE GUIDES TO THE STRAIGHT WAY THOSE WHOM HE DOES PLEASE

26  TO THOSE WHO DO RIGHT IS A GOOD REWARD 
MORE THAN IN MEASURE FROM THEIR LORD
 
THEIR FACES NO GLOOMINESS NOR SHAME WILL COVER 
THEIR HOME IS THE GARDEN, THEY WILL ABIDE IN IT FOREVER

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27  BUT THOSE WHO HAVE EARNED EVIL 
WILL HAVE A REWARD OF LIKE EVIL 

THEIR FACES, IGNOMONY WILL COVER 
AND THEY WILL HAVE NO DEFENDER 
FROM THE WRATH OF THE CREATOR

AND OVER THEIR FACES WILL BE COVERED WITH PIECES 
FROM THE DEPTH OF THE NIGHT'S DARKNESS 

AND THEY ARE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE 
THEY WILL ABIDE IN IT FOR EVER

28  ONE DAY WE WILL GATHER THEM ALL TOGETHER 
THEN WE WILL SAY TO THOSE WHO JOINED WITH US PARTNERS
TO YOUR PLACE, YOU AND THOSE YOU JOINED WITH US AS PARTNERS 
WE WILL SEPARATE THEM, AND WILL SAY THEIR PARTNERS 
IT WAS NOT US THAT YOU WERE WORSHIPPERS

29  ENOUGH IS GOD FOR A WITNESS BETWEEN YOU AND US 
WE CERTAINLY KNEW NOTHING OF YOUR WORSHIP OF US

30  THERE WILL EVERY SOUL PROVE THE FRUITS OF THEIR DEEDS 
AND THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO GOD INDEED
AND THAT WHICH THEY INVENTED FALSELY 
WILL HAVE LEFT THEM IN THE LURCH HELPLESSLY

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CHAPTER 10.  JONAH                                                                            SECTION 4.  PART XI

31  SAY, WHO IS IT THAT DOES SUSTAIN YOUR LIVING
AND WHO HAS POWER OVER SIGHT AND HEARING 
AND WHO IS IT THAT BRINGS OUT THE LIVING 
FROM THE DEAD AND BRINGS OUT THE DEAD FROM THE LIVING? 

AND WHO RULES ALL AFFAIRS?  THEY WILL SAY GOD 
SAY TO THEM, WILL YOU NOT THEN SHOW PIETY TO GOD?

32  THIS IS GOD YOUR REAL CHERISHER AND SUSTAINER 
SO APART FROM TRUTH WHAT REMAINS BUT ERROR? 
HOW THEN ARE YOU TURNED AWAY THEREAFTER?

33  SO IS PROVED TRUE THE WORD OF GOD
AGAINST THOSE WHO REBEL, THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE IN GOD

34  SAY, OF YOUR PARTNERS CAN ANY ORIGINATE AND REPEAT CREATION?
SAY, IT IS GOD WHO ORIGINATES AND REPEATS CREATION
SO HOW THEN ARE THEY IN DELUSION? 
 
35  SAY, OF YOUR PARTNERS IS THERE ANY THAT GUIDES TO TRUTH?
SAY TO THEM, IT IS GOD WHO GIVES GUIDANCE TO TRUTH
IS THEN HE WHO GIVES GUIDANCE TO TRUTH
MORE WORTHY TO FOLLOW OR HE WHO FINDS NOT TRUTH
UNLESS HE HIMSELF IS GUIDED TO TRUTH? 
WHAT THEN IS THE MATTER WITH YOU  
HOW ARE MATTERS JUDGED BY YOU?

36  BUT MOST OF THEM FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE
AND SURELY OF NO AVAIL AGAINST TRUTH IS CONJECTURE
AND OF ALL THAT THEY DO, GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

37,  THIS QURAN CANNOT BE PRODUCED BY OTHER THAN THE CREATOR
IT IS A CONFIRMATION OF REEVALUATIONS PRIOR
AND A FULLER EXPLANATION OF THE SCRIPTURES  
IT IS FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

38  OR DO THEY SAY, HE IS A FORGER
SAY TO THEM, THEN PRODUCE LIKE IT ONE CHAPTER 
AND CALL ANYONE YOU CAN BESIDES GOD AS A HELPER
IF WHAT YOU SPEAK ABOUT IT IS PROPER

39  AND THEY INDEED REJECT WHAT IS NOT UNDERSTOOD BY THEM
EVEN WHEN THE ELUCIDATION OF IT HAS NOT REACHED THEM  
EVEN SO WERE THE REJECTORS BEFORE THEM 
BUT SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THEM

40  OF THEM THERE ARE SOME OF THEM WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND THERE ARE SOME OF THEM WHO ARE NOT BELIEVERS
AND YOUR LORD KNOWS BEST THE MISCHIEF MAKERS

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41 IF WITH FALSEHOOD THEY CHARGE YOU 
SAY TO THEM, MY WORK IS FOR ME AND YOURS IS FOR YOU 
AND YOU ARE FREE FROM RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT I DO 
AND I AM FREE OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU DO

42  AMONG THEM ARE SOME WHO ACT AS IF THEY ARE LISTENING 
BUT CAN YOU GIVE TO THOSE WHO ARE DEAF HEARING
EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING?

43  AND AMONG THEM ARE SOME WHO LOOK AT YOU, BUT REALLY
CAN YOU GUIDE THE BLIND EVEN THOUGH THEY WILL NOT SEE?

44  SURELY GOD WILL NOT DEAL WITH MAN UNJUSTLY
IT IS MAN THAT WRONGS HIS OWN SOUL UNJUSTLY

45  ONE DAY HE WILL GATHER THEM TOGETHER 
IT WILL BE AS IF THEY HAD STAYED BUT AN HOUR 
AND THEN THEY WILL CLEARLY RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER 
THOSE WILL BE LOST WHO DENIED THE MEETING WITH THE CREATOR 
AND REFUSED TO RECEIVE TRUE GUIDANCE FROM THEIR MAKER

46  WHETHER WE SHOW YOU IN YOUR LIFE WHAT FOR THEM WE DECREE 
OR WE TAKE YOUR SOUL BEFORE THAT UNTO OUR MERCY 
IN ANY CASE TO US IS THEIR RETURN ULTIMATELY 
AND GOD WITNESSES ALL OF THEIR DEEDS

47  TO EVERY PEOPLE A MESSENGER WAS SENT TO THEM
AND THEN WHEN THEIR MESSENGER DOES COME TO THEM 
THE MATTER WILL BE JUDGED WITH JUSTICE BETWEEN THEM 
AND THEN NO WRONG WHATSOEVER WILL BE DONE TO THEM

48  THEY SAY, WHEN WILL THIS PROMISE COME TRUE
IF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE?

49  SAY, EXCEPT AS MY LORD WILLS I HAVE NO POWER 
OF ANY HARM OR PROFIT TO MYSELF WHATSOEVER
AND TO EVERY PEOPLE IS AN APPOINTED HOUR 
WHEN THEY REACH THEIR APPOINTED HOUR
THEY CANNOT DELAY IT A SINGLE HOUR 
NOR CAN THEY ADVANCE IT IN A SINGLE HOUR

50  SAY, DO YOU NOT SEE IF YOUR LORD'S DESTRUCTION
COMES TO YOU BY NIGHT OR DAY, WHAT PORTION 
OF IT WOULD THE SINNERS WISH TO HASTEN?

51  WOULD YOU THEN BELIEVE IN IT AT LAST WHEN 
IT DOES COMES TO PASS, IT WILL BE SAID THEN 
WHAT NOW AND YOU WANTED IT HASTENED? 

52  AT LENGTH IT WILL BE SAID TO THE WRONG DOERS 
NOW YOU TASTE THE PUNISHMENT THAT ENDURES
YOU ARE RECEIVING JUST WHAT YOU DESERVE
 
53  THEY ASK YOU, IS THAT TRUE? 
SAY, YES BY MY LORD IT IS VERY TRUE 
AND IT CANNOT BE FRUSTRATED BY YOU 

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54  AND EVERY SOUL THAT HAS INJUSTICES THAT THEY HAVE DONE
IF THEY POSSESSED ALL ON EARTH WOULD GIVE IT FOR RANSOM
AND THEY WOULD OPENLY DECLARE THEIR SUBMISSION
WHEN THEY FINALLY LOOK UP SEE THE DESTRUCTION
BUT THE JUDGMENT WILL BE JUST IN DECISION 
AND NO WRONG TO THEM WILL BE DONE 

55  GOD CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH IN TRUTH
IS IT NOT THE CASE THAT GOD'S PROMISE IS TRUE? 
YET MOST DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS TRUE

56  IT IS HE WHO GIVES LIFE AND WHO TAKES IT IN TURN                                  
AND TO HIM YOU WILL ALL BE RETURNED

57  OH MANKIND, THERE HAS COME TO YOU 
A DIRECTION FROM YOUR LORD AND A HEALING FOR YOU
FOR THE DISEASES IN THE HEARTS OF YOU
AND GUIDANCE AND MERCY FOR THE BELIEVERS AMONG YOU

58  SAY, IN THE BOUNTY AND IN THE MERCY OF THEIR LORD 
LET THEM REJOICE, THAT IS BETTER THAN THE WEALTH THEY HOARD

59  SAY, SEE WHAT GOD HAS SENT DOWN FOR SUSTENANCE TO YOU 
YET SOME THINGS ARE MADE FORBIDDEN BY YOU  
AND SOME OTHER THINGS ARE MADE LAWFUL BY YOU 
SAY, HAS THIS BEEN PERMITTED BY YOUR LORD TO YOU 
OR ARE INVENTED THINGS ATTRIBUTED TO GOD BY YOU?

60  AND WHAT DO THOSE THINK WHO INVENT 
LIES ABOUT GOD OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT? 
SURELY TO MANKIND GOD IS BENEFICENT 
BUT MOST OF THEM ACT IGNORANT

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61  IN WHATEVER BUSINESS YOU MAY BE CONDUCTING
AND WHATEVER PORTION OF THE QURAN YOU MAY BE RECITING 
AND WHATEVER DEED YOU MAY BE DOING 
WHEN YOU ARE ENGROSSED IN IT WE ARE WITNESSING

NOR IS HIDDEN FROM YOUR LORD ANYTHING
NOT AN ATOM AND NOT THE LEAST OF THESE THINGS
IN HEAVEN AND  EARTH AND NOT THE GREATEST OF THESE THINGS 
BUT ARE ALL ARE RECORDED IN A CLEAR RECORDING

62  THE FRIENDS OF GOD WILL NOT FEAR NOR WILL THEY GRIEVE 

63  WHO GUARD AGAINST EVIL CONSTANTLY AND BELIEVE

64  THERE IS NEWS IN THE LIFE OF THE PRESENT FOR THE BELIEVERS
AND BETTER NEWS FOR THEM IN THE LIFE OF THE HEREAFTER
THERE CAN BE NO CHANGE IN THE WORDS OF THE CREATOR
THIS IS INDEED THE SUPREME PLEASURE

65  LET NOT THEIR SPEECH GRIEVE YOU, OH MESSENGER 
FOR ALL POWER BELONGS TO GOD AND ALL HONOR 
GOD IS ALL HEARING AND IS THE BEST KNOWER

66  SURELY TO GOD BELONG IN THE HEAVENS ALL CREATURES
AND ALSO TO HIM BELONG ON THE EARTH ALL CREATURES
BUT WHAT DO THEY FOLLOW WHO WORSHIP OTHERS?  
THEY FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE
AND THEY ARE NOTHING BUT LIARS

67  HE MADE THE NIGHT FOR REST FOR YOU 
AND MADE THE DAY TO MAKE THINGS VISIBLE TO YOU 
AND IN THIS ARE SIGNS FOR THE LISTENERS AMONG YOU

68  THEY SAY, GOD HAS BEGOTTEN A SON.  NO, TO HIM BE THE GLORY 
HIS ARE ALL THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH, SELF SUFFICIENT IS HE
AND YOU HAVE FOR THIS NO AUTHORITY 
DO YOU SAY ABOUT GOD WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW CLEARLY?  

69  SAY, THOSE WHO LIE ABOUT THE CREATOR
NEVER INDEED WILL THEY PROSPER
 
70  A LITTLE ENJOYMENT IN THIS WORLD TEMPORARILY
AND THEN TO US THEY WILL RETURN, THEN WILL WE SURELY 
MAKE THEM TASTE THE SEVEREST PENALTY FOR THEIR BLASPHEMY

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73  RELATE TO THEM NOAH'S STORY
HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE, IF MY BEING IN YOUR COMPANY  
REMINDING YOU OF GOD'S MESSAGES CAUSES YOU DIFFICULTY
I PUT MY TRUST IN GOD SO DECIDE YOUR STRATEGY 
YOU AND YOUR PARTNERS, SO YOUR STRATEGY 
BE NOT TO YOU DARK AND WITHOUT CLARITY
THEN PASS YOUR SENTENCE ON ME
AND GIVE NO SLACK TO ME

72  BUT IF YOU TURN BACK, CONSIDER NO REWARD 
HAVE I ASKED OF YOU, MY REWARD 
IS ONLY DUE FROM MY LORD
AND I HAVE BEEN COMMANDED TO SUBMIT TO MY LORD

73  BUT THEY REJECTED HIM AND HIM WE DELIVERED 
AND THOSE IN THE ARK WITH HIM WHO WERE BELIEVERS
AND WE MADE THEM IN THE EARTH INHERITORS
WHILE WE DROWNED IN THE FLOOD THE REJECTERS  
THEN SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THE DISBELIEVERS

74  AND AFTER HIM WE SENT TO PEOPLE MANY MESSENGERS 
THEY BROUGHT THEM MESSAGES THAT WERE CLEAR 
BUT THEY WOULD NOT BE BELIEVERS
IN WHAT THEY HAD BEFORE BEEN REJECTERS
SO DO WE SEAL THE HEARTS OF THE TRANSGRESSORS

75  THEN AFTER THEM WE SENT AARON AND MOSES 
TO PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS WITH OUR MESSAGES 

BUT THEY WERE ARROGANT 
THEY WERE PEOPLE SINFUL AND IGNORANT

76  WHEN THE TRUTH CAME TO THEM THEY SAID, SURELY
THIS IS INDEED EVIDENT SORCERY

77  MOSES SAID, SAY YOU THAT THIS TRUTH IS SORCERY? 
BUT SURELY SORCERERS NEVER SUCCEED

78  THEY SAID, HAVE YOU COME, YOU AND YOUR BROTHER
TO TURN US AWAY FROM THE WAYS OF OUR FATHERS
IN ORDER THAT YOU AND YOUR BROTHER 
MAY HAVE GREATNESS FOR THE TWO OF YOU TOGETHER? 
BUT IN THE TWO OF YOU WE WILL NEVER BE BELIEVERS

79  PHARAOH SAID, BRING TO ME
ALL THOSE WELL VERSED IN SORCERY

80  WHEN THE SORCERERS CAME, MOSES SAID TO THEM, THROW 
ALL OF THAT WHICH YOU WISH TO THROW

81  WHEN THEY HAD THEIR THROW, MOSES SAID, SURELY
WHAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT IS SORCERY

AND GOD WILL MAKE IT OF NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER
FOR GOD PROSPERS NOT THE WORK MISCHIEF MAKERS

82  GOD BY HIS WORDS ESTABLISHES TRUTH AND PROVES IT 
HOWEVER MUCH THE SINNERS MAY HATE IT

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83  BUT IN MOSES NONE OF HIS PEOPLE HAD ANY BELIEF
EXCEPT SOME CHILDREN FOR FEAR OF PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS 
OR ELSE THEY WOULD PERSECUTE THEM AND PHARAOH WAS MIGHTY 
AND WAS ONE WHO TRANSGRESSED ALL BOUNDARIES

84  MOSES SAID, OH MY PEOPLE, IF YOU BELIEVE IN GOD 
THEN IN HIM PUT YOUR TRUST AND SUBMIT TO GOD

85  THEY SAID, IN GOD DO WE PUT OUR TRUST 
OUR LORD, MAKE US NOT A TRIAL FOR THE UNJUST

86  AND DELIVER US BY YOUR MERCY
FROM THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

87  WE INSPIRED MOSES 
AND HIS BROTHER WITH THESE MESSAGES 

 PROVIDE DWELLINGS FOR YOUR PEOPLE IN EGYPT
AND MAKE YOUR DWELLINGS INTO PLACES OF WORSHIP

AND ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS 
AND GIVE GLAD TIDINGS TO THE BELIEVERS

88  MOSES PRAYED, OUR LORD, YOU HAVE FAVORED 
PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS WITH WEALTH AND SPLENDOR 
IN THE LIFE OF THE PRESENT, AND SO OUR CREATOR 
THEY MISLEAD MEN FROM YOUR PLEASURE
SO DEFACE OUR LORD THE FEATURES 
OF THEIR WEALTH AND SEND TO THEIR HEARTS TERROR
AND HARDNESS SO THEY WILL NOT BE BELIEVERS 
TILL THEY SEE THE PENALTY OF THE HEREAFTER

89  GOD SAID, OH MOSES AND AARON, ACCEPTED ARE YOUR PRAYERS
CONTINUE ON THE RIGHT PATH AND FOLLOW NOT DISBELIEVERS

90  AND WE TOOK THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ACROSS THE SEA 
THEN PHARAOH AND HIS ARMY FOLLOWED THEM INSOLENTLY
WHEN OVERWHELMED WITH THE FLOOD HE SAID, I NOW BELIEVE 
THE ONLY GOD IS HE IN WHOM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BELIEVE 
I AM OF THOSE WHO SUBMIT TO GOD, YES NOW I BELIEVE

91  IT WAS SAID TO HIM, BUT A LITTLE WHILE BEFORE YOU SURELY 
WERE REBELLIOUS AND DID MISCHIEF VIOLENTLY

92  THIS DAY WE WILL SAVE YOU IN YOUR BODY
THAT THOSE WHO COME AFTER YOU CAN SEE
BUT MOST MEN DO NOT TAKE HEED

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93  IT WAS AFTER KNOWLEDGE HAD BEEN GRANTED THEM
THAT THEY FELL INTO DIFFERENCES AMONG THEM
ON JUDGMENT DAY GOD WILL JUDGE BETWEEN THEM
AS TO THAT IN WHICH THEY DIFFERED BETWEEN THEM

94  IF YOU ARE IN DOUBT AS TO WHAT WE HAVE REVEALED TO YOU 
ASK THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN READING THE BOOK BEFORE YOU 
THE TRUTH FROM YOUR LORD HAS INDEED COME TO YOU 
SO IN NO WAY HAVE ANY DOUBTS WITHIN YOU

95  NOR BE OF THOSE WHO REJECT GOD'S MESSAGES
OR YOU WILL BE ONE OF THOSE WHO TRANSGRESSES 

96  THOSE AGAINST WHOM THE WORD OF GOD
HAS BEEN VERIFIED WOULD NOT BELIEVE IN GOD

97  EVEN IF EVERY SIGN WAS BROUGHT TO THEM
UNTIL THEY SEE THE PENALTY BEFORE THEM

98  WHY DID NOT A TOWN WHICH WHEN WARNED BELIEVE
SO THAT THEY WOULD HAVE PROFITED BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED?
BUT THE PEOPLE OF JONAH WHEN THEY BELIEVED
GOD REMOVED FROM THEM THE PENALTY 
AND PERMITTED THEM TO ENJOY THEIR DESTINY

99  IF IT HAD BEEN YOUR LORD'S DESIRE 
ALL WHO ARE ON EARTH WOULD HAVE BEEN BELIEVERS
WILL YOU COMPEL MEN TO AGAINST THEIR WILL BE BELIEVERS ?

100  EXCEPT BY THE WILL OF GOD, NO SOUL CAN BELIEVE
AND HE WILL PLACE OBSCURITY ON THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

101  SAY, SEE WHAT IS IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
AND SIGNS AND WARNERS AVAIL NOT DISBELIEVERS

102  DO THEY THEN EXPECT ANY THING BUT WHAT HAPPENED PRIOR
IN THE DAYS OF THE MEN WHO PASSED AWAY FORMER
SAY, WAIT FOR I WILL WAIT WITH YOU TOGETHER

103  IN THE END WE DELIVER OUR MESSENGERS
AND THOSE WITH THEM WHO ARE BELIEVERS
IT IS BINDING ON US TO DELIVER BELIEVERS

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104  SAY, IF YOU ARE IN DOUBT AS TO MY WORSHIP OF THE CREATOR
I WORSHIP NOT WHAT YOU WORSHIP OTHER THAN THE CREATOR
I WORSHIP GOD WHO TAKES YOUR SOULS WHEN YOU EXPIRE
AND I AM COMMANDED TO BE IN THE RANKS OF THE BELIEVERS

105  AND SET YOUR FACE TOWARDS RELIGION WITH TRUE PIETY 
AND NEVER IN ANY WAY BE OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

106  AND DO NOT CALL ON ANY OTHER THAN THE CREATOR
FOR THEY WILL NOT HELP YOU NOR HURT YOU EITHER
AND IF YOU DO YOU WILL BE A WRONGDOER

107  IF GOD TOUCHES YOU WITH HURT NONE CAN REMOVE IT 
BUT HE, IF HE DOES DESIGN FOR YOU ANY BENEFIT 
THERE IS NONE THAT CAN KEEP YOU BACK FROM IT
AND WHOEVER HE PLEASES TO HE CAUSES TO REACH IT 
AND AS FOR FORGIVENESS AND MERCY HE IS FULL OF IT

108  SAY, OH MEN, NOW TRUTH HAS REACHED YOU 
RECEIVING GUIDANCE IS GOOD FOR YOU
YOU WHO STRAY DO SO TO THE LOSS OF YOU
AND I AM NOT HERE TO ARRANGE YOUR AFFAIRS FOR YOU

109  AND FOLLOW THE INSPIRATION THAT TO YOU HAS BEEN SENT 
AND BE CONSTANT AND BE PATIENT UNTIL GOD'S JUDGEMENT
FOR HE IS THE BEST TO EXECUTE JUDGEMENT

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CHAPTER 11.  HUD                                                                                   SECTION 1.  PART XI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD AM THE SEER 
THIS IS A BOOK WITH VERSES THAT ARE FUNDAMENTAL AND CLEAR
WITH ESTABLISHED MEANINGS AND EXPLAINED FURTHER
FROM ONE WHO IS WISE AND AWARE 

2  IT TEACHES THAT YOU SHOULD SERVE NONE BUT GOD.  
SAY, I AM SENT TO YOU AS A MESSENGER FROM GOD
TO WARN AND GIVE YOU GOOD NEWS FROM GOD

3  SEEK THE FORGIVENESS OF YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
AND TURN TO HIM AND HE WILL BE YOUR PROVIDER 
OF GOOD PROVISIONS AND BESTOW HIS FAVOR 
ON EVERY ONE ENDOWED WITH FAVOR 
IF YOU TURN AWAY, FOR YOU I FEAR 
THE SEVERE PENALTY OF THE HEREAFTER

4  TO GOD WILL BE YOUR RETURNING 
AND HE HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS

5  THEY FOLD UP THEIR HEARTS IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY LIE HIDDEN
BUT EVEN WHEN THEY COVER THEMSELVES WITH THEIR GARMENTS
HE KNOWS WHAT THEY KEEP HIDDEN AND WHAT THEY LAY OPEN
FOR HE KNOWS SECRETS WITHIN THE HEARTS OF MEN

PART  XII

6  THERE IS NO CREATURE ON EARTH BUT ITS SUSTAINING
DEPENDS ON GOD, WHO KNOWS THE PLACE OF ITS RESTING
AND KNOWS THE PLACE OF ITS TEMPORARY DEPOSITING
IT IS ALL RECORDED IN A CLEAR RECORDING

7  IN SIX DAYS HE CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH 
AND HIS THRONE WAS ESTABLISHED OVER THE WATERS
SO THAT HE  MAY TEST WHICH OF YOU IS BEST IN MANNER
IF YOU SAID TO THEM, FROM DEATH YOU WILL BE RAISED UP AFTER
THE DISBELIEVERS WOULD SAY THAT YOU ARE A SORCERER

8  IF THE PENALTY FOR THEM WE DID DELAY
FOR A DEFINITE TERM THEY WOULD SAY
WHAT KEEPS IT BACK, BUT ON THE DAY 
IT REACHES THEM NOTHING WILL TURN IT AWAY 

AND THEY WILL BE ENCIRCLED COMPLETELY 
BY THAT AT WHICH THEY USE TO MAKE MOCKERY

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