CHAPTER 15.  THE ROCK                                                                   SECTION 1.  PART XIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM  THE SEER
THESE ARE THE VERSES OF A QURAN THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR

PART  XIV

2  AGAIN AND AGAIN THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE 
WILL WISH THAT THEY HAD BELIEVED

3  BUT LEAVE THEM 
TO LET THE GOOD THINGS OF THIS LIFE PLEASE THEM 
AND LET FALSE HOPE BE AMUSING TO THEM 
SOON WILL REALITY UNDECEIVE THEM

4  NEVER DID WE DESTROY A POPULATION 
THAT HAD NOT A DECREED TERMINATION

5  PEOPLE CANNOT ANTICIPATE THEIR TERM
NOR CAN THEY DELAY THEIR TERM

6  THEY SAY, OH YOU TO WHOM THE MESSAGE IS BEING RECEIVED
YOU ARE TRULY MAD INDEED

7  WHY DO YOU NOT BRING ANGELS TO US 
IF YOU HAVE BROUGHT THE TRUTH TO US?

8  WE ONLY SEND ANGELS FOR CAUSES THAT ARE JUSTLY                                           
AND IF HAD ANGELS COME TO THE UNGODLY
NO DELAY WOULD THEY HAVE RECEIVED

9  WE HAVE SENT DOWN THE MESSAGE UNDOUBTEDLY
AND WE WILL GUARD IT FROM CORRUPTION ASSUREDLY

10  WE SENT MESSENGERS BEFORE YOU 
AMONG THE RELIGIOUS SECTS OF OLD TOO

11  BUT NEVER CAME TO THEM A MESSENGER
BUT OF HIM THEY BECAME MOCKERS

12  EVEN SO DO WE LET IT ENTER
INTO THE HEARTS OF THE SINNERS

13  AND DISBELIEVERS IN THE MESSAGE ARE THEY
BUT THE WAYS OF THE ANCIENTS HAVE PASSED AWAY

14  EVEN IF WE OPENED OUT TO THEM A GATE FROM HEAVEN 
AND THEY WERE TO CONTINUE ALL DAY ASCENDING THEREIN

15  THEY WOULD SAY, OUR EYES HAVE BEEN INTOXICATED SURELY
OR WE HAVE BY BEEN BEWITCHED BY SORCERY

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16  WE HAVE SET THE ZODIACAL SIGNS IN THE SKIES
AND WE MADE THEM FAIR SEEMING TO ALL WHO HAVE EYES 

17  AND FROM EVERY ACCURSED EVIL SPIRIT
WE GUARD THEM SAFELY FROM IT

18  BUT ANY THAT GAINS A HEARING BY STEALING 
IS PURSUED BY FIRE FLAMING BRIGHT TO ONE'S SEEING

19  THE EARTH WE HAVE SPREAD OUT LIKE A CARPET
AND HAVE SET MOUNTAINS FIRM AND IMMOVABLE ON IT
AND PRODUCED ALL KINDS OF THINGS IN DUE BALANCE ON IT

20  WE HAVE PROVIDED ON IT MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE FOR YOU 
AND FOR THOSE FOR WHOSE SUBSISTENCE RELIES NOT UPON YOU
 
21  THERE IS NOT A THING BUT ITS SOURCES AND TREASURES 
ARE WITH US BUT WE ONLY SEND IT DOWN IN DUE MEASURES

22  AND WE SEND THE FERTILIZING WINDS 
THEN CAUSE THE RAINS FROM THE SKY TO DESCEND

PROVIDING YOU WITH WATER FOR DRINKING
AND YOU ARE NOT THE GUARDIANS OF ITS STORING

23  WE GIVE LIFE AND DEATH AND IT IS WE  WHO STAY
AS INHERITORS AFTER ALL ELSE PASSES AWAY

24  TO US ARE KNOWN THOSE OF YOU 
WHO HASTEN FORWARD AND THOSE WHO LAG BEHIND TOO

25  IT IS YOUR LORD WHO WILL GATHER THEM ASSUREDLY 
FOR PERFECT IN WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE IS HE

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26  MAN WE CREATED 
FROM MUD MOLDED 

27  AND THE DEMON RACE WE CREATED FROM THE FIRE
OF A SCORCHING WIND, BURNING INTENSELY HOTTER

28  GOD SAID TO THE ANGELS, I AM ABOUT TO CREATE  
A MORTAL MAN FROM SOUNDING CLAY 
FROM MUD MOLDED INTO SHAPE

29  WHEN I HAVE IN DUE PROPORTION FASHIONED HIM 
AND I HAVE BREATHED MY SPIRIT INTO HIM 
FALL DOWN IN SUBMISSION TO HIM

30  SO THE ANGELS DID GATHER
AND PROSTRATED THEMSELVES TOGETHER

31  BUT NOT SO SATAN, HE REFUSED TO BE 
AMONG THOSE WHO PROSTRATED SUBMISSIVELY

32  GOD SAID, OH SATAN, WHAT IS YOUR REASON NOT TO BE
AMONG THOSE WHO PROSTRATE THEMSELVES SUBMISSIVELY?

33  SATAN SAID, I AM NOT ONE TO PROSTRATE 
MYSELF TO A MAN WHOM YOU DID CREATE 
FROM MUD MOLDED INTO SHAPE

34  GOD SAID, THEN GET OUT FROM HERE 
FOR YOU ARE A CURSED REJECTER 

35  AND THE CURSE WILL BE 
ON YOU UNTIL THE DAY OF ETERNITY

36  SATAN SAID, LORD, RESPITE ME UNTIL THE DAY 
THAT THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED

37  GOD SAID, IT IS GRANTED
YOU ARE OF THOSE WHO ARE RESPITED

38  UNTIL THE DAY OF THE TIME APPOINTED

39  SATAN SAID, MY LORD, SINCE YOU HAVE PUT ME IN THE WRONG 
I WILL MAKE FAIR SEEMING TO THEM ALL THAT IS WRONG  
AND I WILL PUT THEM ALL IN THE WRONG

40  EXCEPT YOUR DEVOTEES
THOSE OF SINCERITY AND PURITY 

41  GOD SAID, THIS WAY OF MY SINCERE SERVANTS IS INDEED 
A WAY THAT LEADS STRAIGHT TO ME

42  NO AUTHORITY OVER MY SERVANTS HAVE YOU
EXCEPT THOSE WHO GO WRONG AND FOLLOW YOU

43  AND THE ABODE OF HELL 
IS THE PLACE FOR THEM TO DWELL

44  TO IT ARE SEVEN GATES FOR EACH GATE ENTERS
A SPECIAL ASSIGNED CLASS OF SINNERS 

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45  THE RIGHTEOUS WILL BE AMID GARDENS 
AND CLEAR FLOWING FOUNTAINS 

46  THEIR GREETING WILL BE 
ENTER HERE IN PEACE AND SECURITY

47  WE WILL REMOVE FROM THEM ANY SENSE OF INJURY 
THEY WILL BE BROTHERS THAT WILL BE JOYFULLY 
FACING EACH OTHER ON THRONES OF DIGNITY

48  THERE WILL TOUCH THEM NO SENSE OF FATIGUE 
NOR WILL THEY EVER BE ASKED TO LEAVE

49  TELL MY SERVANTS THAT I AM SURELY 
FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

50  AND THAT MY PENALTY 
WILL BE THE MOST GRIEVOUS PENALTY

51  AND ALSO TELL THEM 
ABOUT THE GUESTS OF ABRAHAM

52  THEY ENTERED HIS PRESENCE AND SAID, PEACE BE UNTO YOU 
HE SAID, WE FEEL AFRAID OF YOU 

53  THEY SAID, FEAR NOT WE GIVE YOU GLAD TIDINGS
OF A SON ENDOWED WITH WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING

54  HE SAID, DO YOU GIVE TO ME 
GOOD NEWS THAT OLD AGE HAS SEIZED ME?  
OF WHAT THEN IS YOUR GOOD NEWS INDEED?

55  THEY SAID, WE IN TRUTH GIVE YOU GLAD TIDINGS 
SO BE NOT THEN ONE WHO IS DESPAIRING

56  THEY SAID, AND WHO DESPAIRS OF HIS LORD'S MERCY 
EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE?

57  ABRAHAM SAID, WHAT THEN IS THE NATURE
OF THE BUSINESS ON WHICH YOU HAVE COME, OH YOU MESSENGERS? 

58  THEY SAID, WE HAVE ASSUREDLY
BEEN SENT TO A PEOPLE IN INIQUITY

59  EXCEPT LOT'S FOLLOWERS 
THEM WE WILL DELIVER

60  EXCEPT HIS WIFE WHO WE HAVE ASCERTAINED 
WILL BE AMONG THOSE WHO WILL REMAIN

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61  AT LENGTH WHEN THE MESSENGERS 
ARRIVED AMONG LOT'S FOLLOWERS

62  HE SAID, YOU APPEAR TO BE 
UNCOMMON FOLK INDEED

63  THEY SAID, WE HAVE COME TO YOU TO BRING ABOUT
THAT OF WHICH THEY HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT

64  WE HAVE BROUGHT TO YOU 
THAT WHICH IS INEVITABLY DUE 
AND SURELY WHAT WE SAY IS TRUE

65  THEN TRAVEL BY NIGHT WITH YOUR FOLLOWERS
WHILE THE NIGHT YET REMAINS AND YOU BRING UP THE REAR 
AND LET NO ONE LOOK BACK BUT PASS ON AS YOU ARE ORDERED

66  WE MADE KNOWN TO HIM THAT THE LAST REMAINING
OF THOSE SINNERS WOULD BE CUT OFF BY THE MORNING

67  THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY CAME IN 
REJOICING AT THE NEWS OF THE YOUNG MEN

68  LOT SAID, THESE ARE MY GUESTS DO NOT DISGRACE ME

69  BUT FEAR GOD AND DO NOT SHAME ME

70  THEY SAID, DID WE NOT FORBID YOU 
TO SPEAK FOR ALL AND FEW?

71  HE SAID, THESE ARE MY DAUGHTERS TO LAWFULLY
IF YOU MUST ACT SO, TO MARRY

72  BY YOUR LIFE IN THEIR WILD INTOXICATION 
THEY WANDER TO AND FRO IN DISTRACTION

73  BUT THE MIGHTY BLASTING 
OVERTOOK THEM BEFORE MORNING

74  UPON THEM BRIMSTONES HARD AS BAKED CLAY WERE RAINED DOWN
AND TURNED THEIR CITIES UPSIDE DOWN

75  SURELY IN THIS ARE SIGNS
FOR THOSE WHO LEARN LESSONS FROM SIGNS

76  AND THE CITIES WERE ON A HIGHWAY
THAT STILL EXISTS TODAY

77  SURELY IN THIS ARE LESSONS
FOR THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVING ONES

78  AND THE THICKET DWELLERS
WERE ALSO WRONGDOERS

79  WE TOOK VENGEANCE ON THEM TOTALLY
THEY WERE BOTH ON AN OPEN HIGHWAY TO SEE PLAINLY

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80  AND THE ROCKY TRACT DWELLERS
INDEED REJECTED MESSENGERS

81  WE GAVE MESSAGES TO THEM
BUT THEY TURNED AWAY FROM THEM

82  AND THEY USED TO CARVE OUT DWELLINGS
IN THE MOUNTAINS GIVING THEM SECURE FEELINGS

83  BUT A MIGHTY BLASTING
OVERTOOK THEM ONE MORNING

84  AND THEIR EARNINGS
AVAILED THEM NOTHING

85  WE CREATED NOT THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND ALL BETWEEN THEM BUT WITH JUST ENDS

AND THE HOUR IS SURELY COMING
SO OVERLOOK HUMAN FAULTS GRACIOUSLY AND FORGIVING

86  SURELY GOD IS THE MASTER-CREATOR
AND OF ALL THINGS HE IS THE BEST KNOWER

87  AND WE HAVE BESTOWED UPON YOU SEVEN
OFTEN REPEATED VERSES AND THE GRAND QURAN

88  AND STRAIN NOT YOUR GLANCES
AT WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN CERTAIN CLASSES

AND GRIEVE NOT FOR THEM EITHER
BUT BE GENTLE TO THE BELIEVERS

89  AND SAY, I AM HE THAT WARNS OPENLY
AND WITHOUT AMBIGUITY

90  AND WE SENT DOWN JUST PENALTY
ON THOSE WHO DIVIDED SCRIPTURE ARBITRARILY

91  THOSE WHO DIVIDED THE QURAN INTO PARTS
BELIEVING IN ONE PART AND DISBELIEVING IN ANOTHER PART

92  SO GOD WILL OF A SURETY
CALL THEM TO ACCOUNTABILITY

93  AS TO WHAT THEY DID DO ASSUREDLY

94  SO DECLARE OPENLY WHAT YOU ARE COMMANDED BY GOD
AND TURN AWAY FROM THOSE WHO JOIN GODS WITH GOD

95  FOR SUFFICIENT ARE WE
AGAINST THOSE WHO MAKE MOCKERY

96  THOSE WHO BESIDES GOD WORSHIP OTHERS
SOON WILL THEY COME TO KNOW BETTER 

97  AND GOD KNOWS FOR CERTAIN
THAT AT WHAT THEY SAY YOUR BREAST STRAIGHTENS

98  SO BE OF THOSE WHO PRAISE GOD IN CELEBRATION
WHO PROSTRATE THEMSELVES IN ADORATION

99  AND SERVE AND WORSHIP GOD
UNTIL THE HOUR COMES, WHICH IS CERTAIN FROM GOD

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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THE COMMAND OF GOD COMES TO PASS INEVITABLY
THEREFORE SEEK NOT TO HASTEN IT, TO HIM BE THE GLORY 
THE PARTNERS THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM, FAR ABOVE THEM IS HE

2  HE SENDS DOWN HIS ANGELS WITH THIS DECREE 
TO THOSE WHOM HE PLEASES OF HIS DEVOTEES 
WARNING THAT THERE IS NO GOD BUT ME
THEREFORE KEEP YOUR DUTY ME

3  FOR JUST ENDS HE CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH  
AND FAR IS HE ABOVE HAVING THE PARTNERS 
THAT THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM FOR SURE

4  HE HAS CREATED MAN FROM A SPERM DROP AND THEN AFTER
THIS SAME MAN BECOMES AN OPEN DISPUTER

5  AND HE HAS CREATED CATTLE FOR YOU 
IN THEM ARE NUMEROUS BENEFITS AND FOOD FOR YOU 

6  AND YOU HAVE IN THEM A SENSE OF WELL BEING 
AND BEAUTY AS YOU DRIVE THEM HOME IN THE EVENING
AND ALSO AS YOU LEAD THEM TO PASTURE IN THE MORNING

7  AND THEY CARRY YOUR LOADS THAT ARE EXCESSIVELY HEAVY 
TO LANDS YOU COULD NOT REACH EXCEPT DISTRESSFULLY
AND YOUR LORD IS MOST KIND AND FULL OF MERCY

8  HE HAS CREATED HORSES, MULES AND DONKEYS 
FOR YOU TO RIDE AND EXHIBIT FOR PEOPLE TO SEE

AND HE HAS CREATED OTHER THINGS FOR YOU
OF WHICH NO KNOWLEDGE HAVE YOU

9  GOD LEADS TO THE STRAIGHT WAY 
BUT THERE ARE OTHER DEVIATING WAYS 
GOD COULD HAVE GUIDED YOU ALL TO THE RIGHT WAY

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10  GOD SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKY AND FROM IT 
YOU DRINK AND VEGETATION GROWS OUT OF IT 
ON WHICH YOU FEED YOUR CATTLE FROM IT 

11  AND WITH IT HE PRODUCES FOR YOU 
CORN, OLIVES, DATES, GRAPES AND EVERY KIND OF FRUIT
AND IN THIS IS A SIGN FOR THOSE WHO GIVE THOUGHT AMONG YOU

12  HE HAS SUBJECTED TO YOU THE NIGHT, THE DAY AND THE SUN
THE MOON AND STARS ARE IN SUBJECTION BY HIS INSTRUCTION
IN THESE THINGS ARE SIGNS FOR MEN WITH COMPREHENSION

13  AND THE THINGS ON THIS EARTH WHICH HE HAS AMPLY
MULTIPLIED IN VARYING COLORS AND QUALITIES 
IN THIS IS A SIGN FOR THOSE WHO HAPPILY 
CELEBRATE GOD'S PRAISES GRATEFULLY

14  HE HAS MADE SUBJECT TO YOU THE SEA AND THE RIVERS
THAT YOU MAY EAT FROM IT FLESH, FRESH AND TENDER
AND EXTRACT FROM THEM ORNAMENTS TO WEAR
AND YOU SEE THE SHIPS THAT SAIL THE WATER
THAT YOU MAY SEEK OF THE BOUNTY OF THE CREATOR
AND THAT YOU MAY BE GRATEFUL TO GOD FOR HIS FAVORS

15  HE HAS SET UP ON THE EARTH MOUNTAINS FOR YOU
STANDING FIRM OR ELSE IT WOULD SHAKE WITH YOU 
AND RIVERS AND ROADS TO GUIDE YOU 

16  AND SIGN POSTS AND LANDMARKS
AND MEN FIND THEIR WAY BY THE STARS

I7  IS THEN HE WHO CREATES LIKE ONE 
WHO CREATES NOT, WILL YOU NOT RECEIVE ADMONITION?

18  IF YOU COUNTED THE FAVORS OF GOD, NEVER WOULD YOU BE 
ABLE TO NUMBER THEM, FOR GOD IS FULL OF MERCY

19  GOD DOES KNOW WHAT YOU CONCEAL 
AND HE KNOWS WHAT YOU REVEAL

20  THOSE THEY PRAISE BESIDES GOD HAVE CREATED NOTHING 
AND THEY ARE THEMSELVES CREATED THINGS

21  DEAD AND LIFELESS THINGS ARE THEY
NOR DO THEY KNOW WHEN THEY WILL BE RAISED 

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22  YOUR GOD IS ONE GOD ONLY
AS TO THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE 

IN THEIR HEARTS THEY ARE ARROGANT
AND THEY THEMSELVES ARE IGNORANT

23  GOD KNOWS WHAT THEY CONCEAL SECRETLY
AND HE KNOWS THAT WHICH THEY REVEAL OPENLY
AND HE LOVES NOT THOSE WHO BEHAVE ARROGANTLY

24  WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, WHAT HAS YOUR LORD SENT?
THEY SAY, NOTHING BUT TALES OF THE ANCIENTS

25  LET THEM ON JUDGMENT DAY BEAR IN FULL THEIR BURDENS
AND THOSE WHO THEY MISLEAD ALSO BEAR THEIR BURDENS
GRIEVOUS IS THAT WHICH THEY WILL BEAR OF BURDENS

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26  THOSE BEFORE THEM ALSO PLOTTED AGAINST GOD'S INSTRUCTIONS
GOD TOOK THEIR STRUCTURES AWAY FROM THEIR FOUNDATIONS 
THE ROOF FELL DOWN ON THEM AND THE DESTRUCTION  
SEIZED THEM FROM UNPERCEIVED DIRECTIONS 

27  ON JUDGMENT DAY WITH SHAME THEY WILL BE COVERED
AND GOD WILL SAY TO THEM, WHERE ARE MY PARTNERS 
WHOM YOU USED TO DISPUTE ABOUT WITH THE BELIEVERS? 
AND THOSE ENDUED WITH KNOWLEDGE WILL UTTER
THIS DAY COVERED WITH SHAME ARE THE DISBELIEVERS

28  THOSE WHOSE LIVES THE ANGELS TAKE WHILE THEY UNJUSTLY
DO WRONG TO THEIR OWN SOULS, THEN WOULD THEY SURELY
SUBMIT WITH THE PRETENSE, WE DID NO EVIL KNOWINGLY 
AND THE ANGELS WILL REPLY, NAY BUT CERTAINLY
GOD KNOWS ALL THAT YOU DID TRUTHFULLY

29  SO ENTER INTO THE GATES OF HELL
IT IS THE EVIL PLACE FOR THE PROUD TO DWELL

30  IT WILL BE SAID TO THE BELIEVERS 
WHAT IS IT THAT YOUR LORD HAS ORDERED?
THEY WILL SAY, ALL THAT IS RICHER AND PURER 
TO THOSE WHO DO GOOD THERE IS GOOD, BUT BETTER
AND MORE EXCELLENT IS THE HOME OF THE HEREAFTER 
FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

31  GARDENS OF ETERNITY WHICH THEY WILL ENTER
BENEATH THEM WILL FLOW PLEASANT RIVERS 
THEY WILL HAVE ALL THAT THEY DESIRE
SO DOES GOD REWARD RIGHTEOUS DOERS

32  THOSE WHOSE LIVES THE ANGELS TAKE IN A STATE OF PURITY
SAYING TO THEM, ENTER INTO THE GARDEN PEACEFULLY

33  DO THE UNGODLY WAIT UNTIL THE ANGELS COME TO THEM  
OR GOD'S COMMAND COMES FOR THEIR DOOM TO THEM?
SO DID ALSO THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE THEM 
THEY WRONGED THEIR OWN SOULS, GOD DID NOT WRONG THEM

34  BUT THE EVIL RESULTS OF THEIR DEEDS OVERTOOK THEM 
SO THE WRATH AT WHICH THEY HAD SCOFFED ENCOMPASSED THEM 

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35  THE WORSHIPPERS OF FALSE GODS UTTER
IF GOD HAD WILLED WE WOULD NOT HAVE DIFFERED
AND WE WOULD SURELY NOT HAVE BEEN WORSHIPERS
OF ANYTHING BUT HIM, NEITHER WE NOR OUR FATHERS
NOR WOULD WE HAVE PRESCRIBED PROHIBITIONS OTHER 
THAN THAT OF WHICH HE HAD PRESCRIBED FORMER
ALSO DID THOSE SAY WHO WENT BEFORE PRIOR
BUT WHAT IS THE DUTY OF THE MESSENGERS?
ONLY TO PREACH THE MESSAGE CLEAR

36  FOR WE SENT AMONG EVERY PEOPLE AN APOSTLE 
WITH THE COMMAND SERVE GOD AND SHUN EVIL 
AND GOD GUIDED SOME OF THE PEOPLE
AND SOME BECAME ESTABLISHED IN EVIL
SO GO THROUGH THE EARTH AND TRAVEL
TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THE REBELS 

37  IF YOU ARE ANXIOUS FOR THEIR GUIDANCE 
WHO GOD ALLOWS TO STRAY HE GIVES NOT GUIDANCE 
AND THERE IS NO ONE TO HELP THEM TO FIND GUIDANCE

38  AND THEY SWEAR THEIR STRONGEST OATHS BY GOD 
THAT THE DEAD WOULD NOT BE RAISED UP BY GOD
BUT IT IS ASSUREDLY BINDING ON GOD
BUT MOST DO NOT REALIZE THIS TRUTH FROM GOD

39  BUT THEY MUST BE RAISED UP IN ORDER 
THAT HE MAY SHOW THEM THE TRUTH IN WHICH THEY DIFFER 
AND SO THAT THE REJECTERS MAY REALIZE THAT THEY WERE LIARS

40  OUR WORD FOR A THING WHEN WE INTEND IT IS
ONLY THAT WE SAY TO IT, BE, AND IT IS

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41  THOSE WHO LEAVE THEIR HOMES IN THE CAUSE OF THE CREATOR
WILL BE GIVEN A HOME IN THIS WORLD FROM THEIR MAKER
BUT THE GOOD REWARD FOR THEM OF THE HEREAFTER 
IF THEY ONLY KNEW, WILL BE EVEN GREATER

42  THOSE WHO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE IN THE CAUSE OF GOD
AND THOSE WHO PUT ALL OF THEIR TRUST IN GOD

43  AND ALSO THE APOSTLES THAT WE SENT BEFORE YOU
WERE MEN TO WHOM WE GRANTED INSPIRATION TO
AND IF THIS TRUTH IS NOT KNOWN TO YOU
ASK THOSE WHO POSSESS THE MESSAGE AMONG YOU

44  WE SENT THEM WITH CLEAR MESSAGES AND SCRIPTURES
AND WE HAVE REVEALED TO YOU THE REMINDER
THAT YOU MAY EXPLAIN TO THEM CLEARER
THE MESSAGES SENT TO THEM THAT THEY MAY CONSIDER

45  DO THEN THOSE WHO DEVISE EVIL PLOTS FEEL SECURE
THAT GOD WILL NOT IN HIS UNLIMITED POWER

CAUSE THE EARTH TO SWALLOW THEM
OR THAT GOD'S WRATH WILL NOT SEIZE THEM 
FROM DIRECTIONS THAT ARE NOT PERCEIVED BY THEM?

46  OR THAT HE MAY NOT CALL THEM TO ACCOUNTING
IN THE MIDST OF THEIR COMINGS AND GOINGS 
WITHOUT A CHANCE OF THEIR FRUSTRATING 
HIM, WITH A PLAN OF ESCAPING?

47  OR THAT HE WILL NOT SEIZE THEM WITH DECREASE GRADUALLY
FOR YOUR LORD IS INDEED FULL OF KINDNESS AND MERCY

48  DO THEY NOT LOOK AT EVERYTHING 
IN GOD'S CREATION EVEN AMONG INANIMATE THINGS? 
HOW THEIR SHADOWS TURN RIGHT AND LEFT PROSTRATING 
THEMSELVES TO THEIR LORD AND IN A MANNER MOST HUMBLING? 

49  AND TO GOD OBEYS EVERYTHING IN HEAVEN AND EARTH
AND ALSO THE ANGELS AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE  
FOR NONE ARE ARROGANT BEFORE THE CREATOR 
THEY ALL REVERE THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER 

50  THEY FEAR THEIR LORD ABOVE THEM
AND THEY DO ALL THAT HE COMMANDS THEM

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51  GOD HAS SAID, TAKE NOT FOR WORSHIP TWO DEITIES
FOR I AM ONE GOD, SO FEAR ME AND ME ONLY

52  ALL IN THE HEAVEN AND EARTH BELONG TO GOD
AND ALL OBEDIENCE IS DUE ALWAYS TO GOD 
WILL YOU THEN FEAR OTHER THAN GOD?

53  YOU HAVE NO GOOD THING BUT IT IS FROM GOD 
WHEN YOU ARE TOUCHED BY DISTRESS YOU CRY TO GOD 

54  YET WHEN THE DISTRESS IS REMOVED FROM YOU BY GOD
SOME OF YOU TURN TO GODS OTHER THAN GOD

55  AS IF TO SHOW THEIR INGRATITUDE FOR THE FAVORS THAT WE 
HAVE BESTOWED ON THEM, THEN ENJOY YOURSELF BRIEFLY
BUT SOON WILL YOU SURELY KNOW YOUR FOLLY

56  THEY EVEN ASSIGN TO THINGS THEY DO NOT KNOW A PORTION 
OUT OF THAT WHICH WE HAVE BESTOWED FOR THEIR PROVISIONS
YOU WILL BE CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR YOUR INVENTIONS 

57  AND THEY ASSIGN FOR GOD DAUGHTERS 
AND FOR THEMSELVES THEIR DESIRES

58  WHEN IS BROUGHT TO ONE OF THEM INFORMATION
OF THE BIRTH OF A FEMALE CHILD HIS FACE DARKENS
AND THEN HE IS FILLED WITH INWARD DEPRESSION

59  HE HIDES HIMSELF FROM HIS PEOPLE WITH SHAME
BECAUSE OF THE BAD NEWS WHEN IT CAME

WILL HE KEEP IT WITH DISGRACE OR BURY IT IN THE DUST? 
WHAT AN EVIL CHOICE AND MOST UNJUST

60  TO DISBELIEVERS IN THE HEREAFTER APPLIES 
THE SIMILITUDE OF EVIL, BUT TO THE CREATOR APPLIES 
THE HIGHEST SIMILITUDE, FOR HE IS POWERFUL AND WISE

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61  IF GOD WERE TO PUNISH MEN FOR ALL THEIR ERRORS 
HE WOULD NOT LEAVE ON THE EARTH A SINGLE CREATURE  
BUT HE GIVES THEM RESPITE, AND WHEN THEIR TERM EXPIRES 
THEY CANNOT DELAY THE PENALTY FOR A SINGLE HOUR
NOR CAN THEY ADVANCE IT A SINGLE HOUR

62  WHAT THEY HATE FOR THEMSELVES THEY ATTRIBUTE TO THE CREATOR 
THEY LIE SAYING THAT ALL GOOD THINGS ARE FOR THEIR PLEASURE
BUT SURELY WITHOUT DOUBT FOR THEM IS THE FIRE  
INTO IT THEY WILL BE THE FIRST TO ENTER  

63  BEFORE YOU WE ALSO SENT TO PEOPLE OUR MESSENGERS
BUT SATAN MADE TO THE WICKED TRANSGRESSORS
THEIR OWN ACTS SEEM ALLURING AND TODAY HE IS THEIR PARTNER  
BUT THEY WILL HAVE A PENALTY OF HORROR

64  WE SENT DOWN TO YOU THE SCRIPTURES 
FOR THE PURPOSE THAT YOU CAN MAKE CLEAR 
TO THEM THOSE THINGS IN WHICH THEY DO DIFFER 
AND THAT IT SHOULD BE A GUIDE TO THE BELIEVERS 

65  AND GOD SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKIES
GIVING WITH IT LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER IT DIES
IN THIS IS A LESSON FOR THOSE WHO ARE WISE

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66  AND IN CATTLE YOU WILL FIND SIGNS AND INSTRUCTIONS
FROM WHAT IS IN THEIR BODIES BETWEEN BLOOD AND EXCRETIONS 

WE PRODUCE FOR YOU MILK TO DRINK  
PURE AND AGREEABLE FOR ALL TO DRINK

67  AND FROM THE FRUIT OF THE DATE PALM AND THE VINE 
YOU GET OUT WHOLESOME DRINK AND FOOD AND WINE
FOR THOSE WHO ARE WISE, IN THIS IS ALSO A SIGN

68  AND ALSO YOUR LORD TAUGHT THE BEES 
TO BUILD CELLS IN HILLS AND IN TREES 
AND IN MEN'S REPOSITORIES

69  THEN TO EAT OF THE EARTH'S FRUITS AND FIND SKILLFULLY 
THE SPACIOUS PATHS OF GOD AND BY GOD'S MERCY
THERE ALSO ISSUES FROM WITHIN THEIR BODIES 
A HEALING DRINK OF COLORS THAT VARY
AND IN THIS IS A SIGN FOR THOSE WHO THINK DEEPLY

70  IT IS GOD WHO CREATES YOU 
AND AT DEATH HE TAKES FROM YOU 
YOUR SOULS, AND OF YOU THERE ARE SOME OF YOU
WHO ARE SENT BACK TO A FEEBLE OLD AGE SO THAT YOU
KNOW NOTHING AFTER MUCH KNOWLEDGE GIVEN TO YOU  
FOR GOD HAS ALL KNOWLEDGE AND ALL POWER OVER YOU

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71  GOD HAS BESTOWED HIS GIFTS GREATER 
ON SOME OF YOU THAN ON OTHERS 
OF YOU THOSE WHO ARE MORE FAVORED 
ARE NOT GOING TO THROW BACK THEIR FAVORS
TO THEIR SLAVES TO BE EQUAL AND DENY GOD'S FAVORS

72  GOD HAS MADE FOR YOU MATES OF YOUR OWN NATURE 
AND MADE FOR YOU OUT OF THEM SONS AND DAUGHTERS 
AND GRANDCHILDREN AND HE IS THE BEST PROVIDER 
WILL THEY THEN BELIEVE IN VAIN THINGS AFTER
AND BE UNGRATEFUL FOR GOD'S FAVORS?

73  AND WORSHIP OTHERS THAN GOD, SUCH AS HAVE NO POWER   
OF PROVIDING THEM WITH ANYTHING IN HEAVEN OR EARTH
AND CANNOT POSSIBLY HAVE SUCH POWER?

74  INVENT NOT SIMILITUDES, FOR GOD KNOWS 
AND IT IS YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW

75  GOD SETS FORTH A PARABLE OF TWO MEN TO PONDER
ONE A SLAVE UNDER THE DOMINION OF ANOTHER
AND HE HAS NO POWER OF ANY SORT AND THE OTHER 
A MAN UPON WHOM WE HAVE BESTOWED GOOD FAVORS 

AND HE SPENDS OF IT FREELY 
PRIVATELY AND PUBLICLY 

ARE THE TWO EQUAL?  BY NO MEANS NOT
PRAISE BE TO GOD BUT MOST OF THEM UNDERSTAND NOT

76  GOD SETS FORTH ANOTHER PARABLE OF TWO MEN
ONE IS TO HIS MASTER A WORRISOME BURDEN  

WHICH EVER WAY HE DIRECTS HIM HE BRINGS NO GOOD 
IS SUCH A MAN EQUAL WITH ONE WHO DOES GOOD?

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77  TO GOD BELONGS THE MYSTERY OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND THE DECISION OF THE HOUR OF THE RESSURECTION

IS AS THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE OR EVEN QUICKER
FOR OVER ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER 

78  HE WHO BROUGHT YOU FORTH FROM THE WOMBS OF YOUR MOTHERS 
WHEN YOU KNEW NOTHING AND HE GAVE YOU POWER

AND AFFECTIONS AND SIGHT AND HEARING 
THAT YOU MAY BE THANKFUL BEINGS

79  DO THEY NOT LOOK AT THE BIRDS HELD POISED IN THE AIR? 
NOTHING HOLDS THEM UP EXCEPT GOD'S POWER 
IN THIS ARE SIGNS FOR BELIEVERS

80  GOD MADE YOUR HOMES QUIET AND RESTFUL  
AND MADE FOR YOU OUT OF THE SKINS OF ANIMALS  
TENTS FOR DWELLINGS WHICH YOU FIND HANDY WHEN YOU TRAVEL 
AND ALSO WHEN YOU STOP IN YOUR TRAVELS

AND OUT OF THEIR SOFT FIBERS
AND THEIR WOOL AND THEIR HAIR

RICH STUFF AND ARTICLES OF CONVENIENCE YOU FIND
TO SERVE YOU FOR A PERIOD TIME

81  IT IS GOD WHO IS THE CREATOR
OF THINGS HE MADE TO GIVE YOU SHELTER

HE HAS GIVEN YOU IN THE MOUNTAINS PLACES OF RETREAT 
MADE YOU GARMENTS TO PROTECT YOU FROM HEAT

COATS OF ARMOR TO PROTECT YOU FROM EACH OTHER
AND SO DOES HE COMPLETE TO YOU HIS FAVORS 
SO YOU MAY BOW TO HIS WILL AS SUBMITTERS

82  BUT IF THEY TURN AWAY YOUR DUTY IS ONLY 
TO PREACH THE MESSAGE TO THEM CLEARLY

83  THEY RECOGNIZE THE FAVORS OF GOD THEN DENY THEM 
THEY ARE UNGRATEFUL CREATURES MOST OF THEM

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84  AND ONE DAY WE WILL RAISE FROM ALL PEOPLE A WITNESS
FROM THE DISBELIEVERS WILL BE ACCEPTED NO EXCUSES
AND NOR WILL THEY RECEIVE ANY APPEASES

85  WHEN THE WRONG DOERS ACTUALLY SEE THE CHASTISEMENT 
THEN WILL IT IN NOT IN ANY WAY BE LIGHTENED
NOR WILL THERE BE ANY POSTPONEMENT

86  WHEN THOSE WHO GAVE TO GOD PARTNERS 
WILL SAY WHEN THEY SEE THEIR PARTNERS 
OUR LORD, THESE ARE OUR PARTNERS 
OF WHOM BESIDES YOU WE USED TO BE WORSHIPPERS
THEY WILL THROW BACK AT THEM THEIR WORDS
AND SAY TO THEM, INDEED YOU ARE LIARS 

87  THAT DAY WILL THEY OPENLY SHOW GOD THEIR SUBMISSION 
AND ALL THEIR INVENTIONS WILL LEAVE THEM IN DISPOSITION

88  THOSE WHO REJECT GOD INSOLENTLY
AND HINDER MEN FROM GOD'S PATH ARROGANTLY
FOR THEM WILL WE ADD PENALTY TO THEIR PENALTY 
BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THEY USE TO SPREAD INJURY

89  WE WILL RAISE UP A WITNESS FROM AMONG EVERY PEOPLE 
AND BRING YOU AS A WITNESS AGAINST YOUR PEOPLE

AND WE HAVE SENT TO YOU THE BOOK EXPLAINING ALL THINGS
A GUIDE AND A MERCY AND TO SUBMITTERS GLAD TIDINGS 

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90  GOD COMMANDS JUSTICE AND DOING OF GOOD DEEDS
AND LIBERALITY TO KIN AND HE FORBIDS SHAMEFUL DEEDS 
AND INJUSTICE AND REBELLION AND HE INSTRUCTS YOU INDEED
THAT TO HIS ADMONITION YOU MAY TAKE HEED

91  FULFILL THE COVENANT OF GOD WHEN YOU HAVE ENTERED INTO IT
AND BREAK NOT AN OATH AFTER YOU HAVE CONFIRMED IT

YOU HAVE MADE GOD YOUR SURETY 
AND GOD KNOWS ALL THAT YOU DO SURELY

92  DO NOT BE LIKE A WOMAN WHO UNRAVELS YARN AFTER
SHE HAS SPUN IT STRONGLY TOGETHER 

NOR TAKE YOUR OATHS TO BE DECEPTIVE BETWEEN YOU
BECAUSE ONE PARTY IS MORE NUMEROUS THAN YOU 
FOR BY THIS GOD WILL SURELY TEST YOU
ON JUDGMENT DAY HE WILL MAKE CLEAR TO YOU 
WITH CERTAINTY THAT IN WHICH YOU DISAGREE AMONG YOU

93  IF GOD SO WILLED 
HE COULD MAKE YOU ALL ONE PEOPLE 
BUT HE LEAVES STRAYING WHOM HE WILLS
AND HE GUIDES TO THE RIGHT WAY WHOM HE WILLS
BUT YOU WILL BE CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR ALL YOUR EVILS

94  AND TAKE NOT YOUR OATHS TO ACT DECEPTIVELY 
BETWEEN YOURSELVES WITH THE RESULT THAT POSSIBLY
SOME ONE'S FOOT MAY SLIP AFTER IT WAS PLANTED FIRMLY
IN SO DOING YOU MAY HAVE TO TASTE THE EVIL PENALTY 
OF HAVING HINDERED MEN FROM ACTING RIGHTEOUSLY 
AND HAVE GOD'S WRATH DESCEND UPON YOU HEAVILY

95  NOR SELL THE COVENANT OF GOD FOR A MISERABLE PRICE 
FOR FAR BETTER FOR YOU WITH GOD IS A PRIZE

96 WHAT IS WITH YOU MUST VANISH EVENTUALLY
WHAT IS WITH YOUR LORD WILL ENDURE ETERNALLY
WE WILL BESTOW ON THOSE WHO PERSEVERE PATIENTLY 
THEIR REWARDS ACCORDING TO THE BEST OF THEIR DEEDS

97  WHOEVER IS A RIGHTEOUS DOER
WHETHER MAN OR WOMAN AND IS A BELIEVER
TO HIM WILL WE GIVE A NEW LIFE THAT IS PURER

WE WILL BESTOW ON THEM THEIR REWARD INDEED
ACCORDING TO THE BEST OF THEIR DEEDS

98  WHEN YOU READ THE QURAN SEEK GOD'S PROTECTION 
FROM SATAN, THE EVIL REJECTED ONE

99  HE HAS NO AUTHORITY  
OVER THOSE WHO TRUST IN GOD AND BELIEVE 

100  HIS RULE IS OVER THOSE WHO BEFRIEND HIM INSTEAD OF GOD
AND OVER THOSE WHO ASSOCIATE PARTNERS WITH GOD

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101  WHEN WE SUBSTITUTE ONE REVELATION FOR ANOTHER 
GOD KNOWS BEST WHAT HE ORDERS
AND THEY SAY, YOU ARE BUT A FORGER 
BUT NO UNDERSTANDING HAVE THE DISBELIEVERS

102  SAY, THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS BROUGHT THE REVELATION 
FROM YOUR LORD IN TRUTH AND TO STRENGTHEN 
THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION 
AND AS A GUIDE AND GLAD TIDINGS TO THOSE IN SUBMISSION

103  WE KNOW THAT THEY SAY, A MAN TEACHES HIM SURELY
THE TONGUE OF HIM THEY POINT TO IS FOREIGN NOTABLY 
WHILE THIS IS ARABIC PURELY AND CLEARLY

104  THOSE WHO IN GOD'S MESSAGES DO NOT BELIEVE  
WILL NOT BE GUIDED AND HAVE MUCH CAUSE TO GRIEVE

105  THOSE WHO OF GOD'S MESSAGES ARE DISBELIEVERS
ARE THE FORGERS OF FALSEHOOD AND IT IS THEY WHO ARE LIARS

106  ANY ONE WHO DISBELIEVES IN GOD AFTER BELIEF
NOT ONE WHO IS COMPELLED WHILE REMAINING FIRM IN BELIEF
BUT THOSE WHO OPEN THEIR BREASTS TO UNBELIEF 
GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE THEM OR GIVE THEM ANY RELIEF

107  THIS IS BECAUSE THEY LOVE BETTER
THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD THAN THE HEREAFTER 
AND GOD WILL NOT GUIDE THOSE WHO ARE REJECTERS 

108  THOSE ARE THEY WHOSE HEARTS, EARS AND EYES INDEED
GOD HAS SEALED UP AND THEY TAKE NO HEED

109  AND IN THE HEREAFTER 
THEY WILL BE LOSERS

110  BUT TO THOSE WHO LEAVE THEIR HOMES AFTER 
TRIALS AND PERSECUTIONS AND WHO THEREAFTER  
STRIVE AND FIGHT FOR FAITH AND ARE PERSEVERERS  
GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

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111  AND ONE DAY EVERY SOUL WILL COME UP STRUGGLING  
EVERY SOUL WILL BE RECOMPENSED FOR ITS DOINGS  
AND NONE WILL RECEIVE ANY UNJUST DEALINGS 

112  GOD SETS FORTH A PARABLE
A CITY SECURE WITH SUSTENANCE AMPLE
YET FOR GOD'S FAVORS IT WAS UNGRATEFUL
SO GOD MADE IT TASTE PENALTIES THAT WERE TERRIBLE 
CLOSING IN ON IT FROM EVERY SIDE BECAUSE OF THE EVIL 
WHICH WAS CONTINUALLY DONE  BY ITS PEOPLE 

113  THERE CAME TO THEM AN APOSTLE 
BUT HE WAS REJECTED FALSELY BY THE PEOPLE
SO THE WRATH SEIZED THEM IN THE MIDST OF THEIR EVIL

114  SO EAT WHAT GOD PROVIDES FOR YOU GOOD AND LAWFUL 
AND FOR ALL OF YOUR LORD'S FAVORS BE GRATEFUL 
IF IT IS HE OF WHOM YOU ARE WORSHIPFUL

115  HE HAS ONLY FORBIDDEN YOU TO EAT 
THE FLESH OF SWINE, BLOOD AND DEAD MEAT

AND ANY FOOD OVER WHICH A NAME 
HAS BEEN INVOKED OTHER THAN GOD'S NAME

BUT IF ONE IS FORCED BY NECESSITY 
WITHOUT TRANSGRESSING LIMITS WILLFULLY
YOUR LORD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

116  BUT DO NOT SAY OF ANY FALSE THING 
THAT THIS IS A LAWFUL THING
AND THIS IS AN UNLAWFUL THING
IN ORDER TO ASCRIBE TO GOD FALSE THINGS 
FOR THOSE WHO ASCRIBE TO GOD FALSE THINGS 
WILL NEVER HAVE THE BLESSINGS OF PROSPERING

117  IN SUCH FALSEHOOD IS BUT A LITTLE ENJOYMENT
BUT THEY WILL HAVE A MOST GRIEVOUS PUNISHMENT

118  AND TO THE JEWS WE DID PROHIBIT SUCH THINGS
AS WE HAVE BEEN BEFORE TO YOU IN MENTIONING 
AND WE DID THEM NO WRONG IN ANYTHING
BUT THEY WERE THEMSELVES USED TO WRONG DOING 

119  BUT YOUR LORD TO THOSE WHO DO WRONG IN IGNORANCE 
BUT WHO CEASE DOING WRONG AFTER REPENTANCE
YOUR LORD IS MERCIFUL IN RECOMPENSE

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120  ABRAHAM WAS A MODEL DEVOUTLY OBEDIENT TO GOD 
AND TRUE IN FAITH AND HE JOINED NOT GODS WITH GOD

121  HE SHOWED GRATITUDE FOR THE FAVORS OF GOD
HE WAS CHOSEN AND GUIDED ON THE RIGHT PATH BY GOD

122  AND WE GAVE HIM GOOD IN THIS WORLD GRACIOUSLY
IN THE HEREAFTER HE WILL BE OF THOSE WHO LIVED RIGHTEOUSLY

123  SO WE HAVE TAUGHT YOU THE INSPIRATION
FOLLOW THE WAYS OF ABRAHAM, THE TRUE IN RELIGION
AND HE JOINED NOT PARTNERS WITH HIS LORD IN DEVOTION

124  THE SABBATH WAS ONLY MADE OBLIGATORY
AS TO ITS OBSERVANCE FOR THOSE WHO DISAGREED 
BUT ON JUDGMENT DAY GOD WILL JUDGE THEM JUSTLY
AS TO THAT IN WHICH THEY DISAGREE

125  WITH WISDOM AND SUPERB PREACHING INVITE TO GOD'S WAY 
AND ARGUE WITH THEM IN THE BEST OF WAYS  
FOR GOD KNOWS BEST THOSE WHO FROM HIS PATH STRAYS 
AND WHO RECEIVE GUIDANCE TO THE RIGHT WAY

126  AND IF YOU TAKE YOUR TURN TO PUNISH THEM
DO IT WITH THEM THE SAME AFFLICTION YOU RECEIVED FROM THEM 
BUT IF YOU SHOW PATIENCE THAT WILL BE BETTER FOR YOU AND THEM

127  AND BE PATIENT FOR IT IS FROM GOD AND DO NOT 
GRIEVE OVER THEM AND STRESS YOURSELF NOT 
BECAUSE OF THEIR EVIL PLOTS 

128  FOR GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO DO INDEED
RESTRAIN THEMSELVES AND DO GOOD DEEDS

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