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PART XXI

45  RECITE WHAT IS SENT OF THE BOOK BY INSPIRATION TO YOU 
ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER, FOR PRAYER RESTRAINS YOU 
FROM DOING THE SHAMEFUL DEEDS THAT YOU DO
AND REMEMBRANCE OF GOD IS THE GREATEST THING FOR YOU
AND GOD KNOWS WELL THE DEEDS THAT YOU DO 

46  AND DISPUTE NOT WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE REVELATIONS 
EXCEPT WITH MEANS BETTER THAN MERE DISPUTATION
UNLESS IT BE WITH THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION
BUT SAY, WE BELIEVE IN THE REVELATION 
WHICH HAS COME TO US AND IN THE REVELATION
WHICH HAS COME TO YOU AND OUR GOD IS ONE
AND TO HIM DO WE BOW TO IN SUBMISSION

47  AND SO IT IS THAT WE HAVE SENT DOWN TO YOU REVELATION
AND THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK BELIEVE IN THE REVELATIONS
AS DO ALSO SOME OF THE PAGANS 
AND NONE BUT DISBELIEVERS REJECT OUR REVELATIONS

48  AND YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO RECITE A BOOK BEFORE IT
NOR ARE YOU ABLE TO WITH YOUR RIGHT HAND TRANSCRIBE IT
IN THAT CASE WOULD THE TALKERS OF VANITIES HAVE DOUBTED IT

49  HERE ARE SELF EVIDENT LESSONS
IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WITH COMPRESSION 
AND NONE DENY OUR MESSAGES BUT THOSE IN REJECTION

50  YET THEY SAY, WHY ARE NOT SIGNS SENT TO HIM FROM GOD? 
SAY TO THEM, THE SIGNS ARE INDEED WITH GOD 
AND I AM A CLEAR WARNER FROM GOD

51  AND IS IT NOT ENOUGH FOR THEM 
THAT WE GAVE YOU THE BOOK WHICH IS RECITED TO THEM
AS A MERCY AND A REMINDER TO THE BELIEVERS AMONG THEM?

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52  SAY, ENOUGH IS GOD FOR A WITNESS BETWEEN ME AND YOU 
HE KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH TOO
AND THE REJECTERS ARE THE ONES WHO WILL LOSE

53  THEY ASK YOU TO HASTEN THE PUNISHMENT FOR THEM  
AND HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A TERM APPOINTED FOR THEM
THE PUNISHMENT WOULD SURELY HAVE COME TO THEM
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT WILL REACH THEM
WHILE NOT BEING PERCEIVED BY THEM 

54  THEY ASK YOU TO HASTEN ON THE PENALTY
BUT HELL WILL ENCOMPASS THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

55  ON THE DAY THAT THE PUNISHMENT WILL COVER THEM 
FROM ABOVE THEM AND FROM BELOW THEM  
TASTE THE FRUITS OF YOUR DEEDS, A VOICE WILL SAY TO THEM 

56  OH MY SERVANTS WHO BELIEVE TRULY 
SPACIOUS IS MY EARTH SO SERVE ME ONLY

57  EVERY SOUL WILL HAVE A TASTE OF DEATH AND IN THE END 
TO US YOU WILL ALL BE BROUGHT BACK AGAIN

58  BUT THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO GOOD DEEDS 
TO THEM WILL WE GIVE A HOME IN HEAVEN ETERNALLY

LOFTY MANSIONS BENEATH WHICH FLOW RIVERS 
AND THEY WILL DWELL IN THEM IN PEACE FOREVER 
AN EXCELLENT REWARD FOR THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

59  THOSE WHO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE 
AND PUT THEIR TRUST IN THEIR LORD AND CHERISHER

60  HOW MANY CREATURES CARRY NOT THEIR OWN FOOD 
IT IS YOUR LORD WHO FEEDS BOTH THEM AND YOU
FOR HE HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THAT YOU DO

61  IF YOU ASK THEM, WHO CREATED THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND THE SUN AND THE MOON BOWING TO HIM IN SUBMISSION?  
THEY WILL SAY, GOD, HOW THEN ARE THEY IN REJECTION? 

62  GOD ENLARGES THE SUSTENANCE 
OF WHICH EVER HE PLEASES OF HIS SERVANTS 

AND HE GRANTS BY STRICT MEASURE SIMILARLY 
FOR FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS HAS HE

63  IF YOU ASK THEM, WHO SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKIES
AND WITH IT GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER IT DIES
THEY WILL CERTAINLY SAY, GOD, AS THEIR REPLY
SAY, PRAISE BE TO GOD, BUT MOST OF THEM HAVE NO SIGHT

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64  THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD IS AMUSING TO YOU  
BUT THE HEREAFTER IS BETTER IF YOU ONLY KNEW 

65  IF THEY EMBARK ON A BOAT THEY CALL ON GOD
MAKING THEIR DEVOTION SINCERELY TO GOD
BUT WHEN THEY ARE DELIVERED TO DRY LAND BY GOD
THEY WORSHIP OTHER GODS BESIDES GOD

66  BEING UNGRATEFUL FOR OUR PRESENTS
AND GIVING THEMSELVES TO WORLDLY ENJOYMENT 
BUT SOON WILL THEY SURELY KNOW THE PUNISHMENT

67  SEE HOW WE HAVE MADE A SECURE SANCTUARY FOR THEM 
WHILE MEN ARE BEING SNATCHED AWAY FROM ALL AROUND THEM
EVEN THEN THAT WHICH IS BESIDES GOD IS BELIEVED IN BY THEM
AND THE GRACE OF GOD IS REJECTED BY THEM

68  AND WHO DOES MORE WRONG THAN HE WHO LIES AGAINST GOD
OR WHO REJECTS THE TRUTH WHEN IT REACHES HIM FROM GOD
IS THERE NOT A HOME IN HELL FOR DISBELIEVERS IN GOD?

AND THOSE WHO STRIVE HARD IN OUR WAY
WE WILL GRACEFULLY GUIDE THEM IN OUR WAYS 
AND GOD IS WITH THOSE WHO ACT IN THE RIGHT WAY

     

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IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM THE BEST KNOWER

2  THE ROMAN EMPIRE 
HAS BEEN EXPIRED

3  IN A LAND CLOSE BY BUT THEY EVEN AFTER
THIS DEFEAT OF THEIRS WILL SOON BE THE VICTORS

4  WITHIN A FEW YEARS 
WITH GOD IS THE DECISION OF THE MATTER
IN THE PAST AND IN THE FUTURE 
ON THAT DAY REJOICING WILL BE THE BELIEVERS 

5  WITH THE HELP OF GOD AND HE HELPS WHOM HE PLEASES
 AND HE  IS EXALTED IN MIGHT AND MOST GRACIOUS

6  IT IS GOD'S PROMISE 
NEVER DOES GOD FAIL IN HIS PROMISE 
BUT MOST MEN DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS

7  THEY KNOW BUT THE OUTER THINGS 
BUT ARE HEEDLESS OF THE END OF THINGS
 
8  DO THEY NOT REFLECT THAT NOT BUT FOR JUST ENDS 
AND FOR A TERM APPOINTED DID GOD CREATE THE HEAVENS 

AND THE EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN THEM?   
YET THE MEETING WITH THEIR LORD IS DENIED BY THEM

9  AND IS THE EARTH NOT TRAVELED THROUGH BY THEM
TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE BEFORE THEM? 
THEY WERE SUPERIOR IN STRENGTH TO THEM
AND POPULATED THE EARTH GREATER THAN THEM 
AND THEIR MESSENGERS CAME TO THEM
WITH CLEAR SIGNS AND THEY REJECTED THEM
WHICH BROUGHT ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THEM
AND IT WAS NOT THEIR LORD THAT WRONGED THEM
THEIR OWN SOULS WERE WRONGED BY THEM

I0  EVIL WILL BE THE END OF THOSE WHO PRACTICE INIQUITY 
FOR THAT THEY REJECTED GOD'S MESSAGES UNJUSTLY
AND THEY HELD THEM UP IN MOCKERY

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11  IT IS GOD WHO ORIGINATES AND REPEATS CREATION
AND TO HIM YOU WILL BE RETURNED AGAIN 

12  ON THE DAY THAT THE HOUR WILL BE ESTABLISHED
THE GUILTY WILL BE STRUCK DUMB AND DEPRESSED

13  NO INTERCESSOR WILL THEY HAVE AMONG THEIR PARTNERS
AND THEY WILL THEMSELVES REJECT THEIR PARTNERS

14  ON THE DAY WHEN COMES THE HOUR 
ALL MEN WILL BE SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER 

15  THOSE WHO HAVE BELIEVED AND WORKED RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
WILL BE MADE HAPPY IN A DELIGHTFUL MEAD 

16  AND THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN REJECTERS  
OF OUR SIGNS AND THE MEETING OF THE HEREAFTER
WILL BE BROUGHT FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF THE FIRE

17  SO GIVE GLORY TO GOD IN THE EVENING
AND WHEN YOU RISE IN THE MORNING

18  TO HIM BE PRAISE IN THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS  
AND IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND WHEN THE DAY ENDS

19  IT IS HE WHO BRINGS OUT THE LIVING
FROM THE DEAD AND BRINGS OUT THE DEAD FROM THE LIVING 

AND WHO GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER IT IS DEAD 
AND SO WILL YOU BE BROUGHT OUT FROM THE DEAD

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20  AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THAT FROM DUST HE CREATED YOU 
AND THEN AFTER THAT HE SCATTERED YOU 

21  AND AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THIS ADDITIONALLY
THAT HE CREATED MATES FROM AMONG YOU MERCIFULLY
THAT YOU MAY DWELL WITH THEM IN TRANQUILLITY
AND HE HAS PUT BETWEEN YOUR HEARTS LOVE AND MERCY 
IN THAT ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO THINK DEEPLY

22  AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THE CREATION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND IN YOUR LANGUAGES IN THEIR VARIATIONS 

AND IN THE DIVERSITY OF YOUR COLORS
ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO ARE OBSERVERS

23  AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THE SLEEP THAT YOU TAKE BY NIGHT
AND BY DAY THE QUEST THAT YOU MAKE FOR LIFE
IN THAT ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SIGHT

24  AMONG HIS SIGNS HE SHOWS YOU THE LIGHTNING 
BY WAY OF FEAR AND BY WAY OF HOPING

AND IT IS HE WHO SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKIES 
AND WITH IT GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER IT DIES
IN THAT ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO ARE WISE

25  AND BY HIS COMMAND SUBSISTS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH  
THEN WHEN HE CALLS YOU BY A SINGLE CALL FROM THE EARTH
THEN YOU STRAIGHTWAY COME FORTH FROM THE EARTH

26  EVERY BEING THAT IS IN THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
BELONG TO HIM AND BOW TO HIM IN SUBMISSION

27  HE ORIGINATES CREATION THEN REPEATS IT 
AND FOR HIM MOST EASY IS IT

HIS IS THE HIGHEST STATE IN THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
AND HE IS FULL OF MIGHT AND WISDOM

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28  AND HE SHOWS SIMILITUDES FROM YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE TO YOU 
DO YOU SHARE EQUALLY WITH YOUR SLAVES WEALTH GIVEN TO YOU 
AND DO YOU FEAR THEM AS YOU FEAR EACH OTHER AMONG YOU?
AND SO DO WE EXPLAIN THE SIGNS IN DETAIL TO YOU 
THAT UNDERSTANDING MAY BE GIVEN TO YOU 

29  THOSE WHO ARE UNJUST
BEING DEVOID OF KNOWLEDGE FOLLOW THEIR OWN LUSTS 
 
BUT WHO WILL GUIDE THOSE WHOM GOD LEAVES IN ERROR
FOR THEM THERE WILL BE NO HELPERS

30  SO SET YOUR FACE STEADILY TO THE TRUE RELIGION
BEING UPRIGHT ACCORDING TO GOD'S INSTRUCTIONS
TO THE WAY WHICH GOD MADE MAN'S CREATION
AND THERE IS NO ALTERING GOD'S CREATION
AND THAT IS THE STANDARD RELIGION 
BUT MOST PEOPLE HAVE NOT THIS REALIZATION

31  TURN BACK IN REPENTANCE TO GOD AND FEAR GOD
AND ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS TO GOD
AND BE NOT AMONG THOSE WHO JOIN GODS WITH GOD

32  THOSE WHO SPLIT UP THEIR RELIGION AND BECOME SECTS 
EACH PARTY REJOICING IN THAT WHICH IS WITH ITS SECT

33  WHEN TROUBLE TOUCHES MEN THEY CRY TO GOD
TURNING IN REPENTANCE BACK TO GOD
BUT WHEN THEY ARE GIVEN MERCY FROM GOD
SOME OF THEM WORSHIP OTHER GODS BESIDES GOD

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

35  WE HAVE SENT DOWN AUTHORITY TO THEM 
WHICH POINTS OUT THE THINGS TO THEM 
WHICH ARE WORSHIPPED BY THEM

36  AND MEN EXULT AFTER WE GIVE THEM A TASTE OF MERCY  
WHEN EVIL AFFLICTS THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR INIQUITY 
THEN THEY ARE LOST IN DISPARITY

37  SEE THEY NOT THAT GOD ENLARGES 
THE PROVISION AND RESTRICTS IT TO WHOM HE PLEASES 
IN THAT ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIS MESSAGES

38  GIVE WHAT IS DUE TO KINDRED, THE NEEDY AND THE WAYFARER 
THAT IS BEST FOR THOSE WHO SEEK GOD'S PLEASURE
AND IT IS THEY WHO WILL PROSPER

39  THAT WHICH YOU LAY OUT FOR INCREASE 
THROUGH THE PROPERTY OF OTHER PEOPLE WILL HAVE NO INCREASE 
WITH GOD, BUT THAT WHICH YOU LAY OUT FOR CHARITIES
SEEKING THE PLEASURE OF GOD WILL INCREASE 
AND THESE WILL GET A RECOMPENSE WITH MULTIPLIED INCREASE

40  IT IS GOD WHO HAS CREATED YOU
AND HAS PROVIDED SUSTENANCE FOR YOU
HE WILL CAUSE YOU TO DIE AND AGAIN RAISE YOU 

NOW ARE THERE ANY OF YOUR FALSE DIETIES
WHO CAN DO ANY OF THESE? 
TO GOD BE THE GLORY  
HIGH ABOVE THE PARTNERS THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM IS HE

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41  MISCHIEF HAS APPEARED ON LAND AND SEA 
BECAUSE OF THE MEAD MEN HAVE EARNED BY THEIR DEEDS
THAT GOD MAY GIVE THEM A TASTE OF SOME OF THEIR DEEDS 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY TURN BACK FROM DOING EVIL DEEDS

42  SAY, TRAVEL THE EARTH THROUGH
AND SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE BEFORE YOU 
MOST OF THEM WORSHIPPED GODS OTHER THAN GOD TOO

43  BUT SET YOUR FACE TO THE RIGHT RELIGION
BEFORE THE DAY COMES WHICH THERE IS NO AVERSION
AND ON THAT DAY MEN WILL BE DIVIDED IN TWO SECTIONS

44  THOSE WHO REJECT FAITH WILL SUFFER FROM THEIR REJECTION
AND THOSE WHO DO GOOD WILL REST IN HEAVEN

45  SO THAT HE MAY REWARD THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
AND WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS OUT OF HIS BOUNTY
FOR HE LOVES NOT THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE

46  AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THIS, THAT HE MERCIFULLY
SENDS THE WINDS AS HERALDS OF GLAD TIDINGS GENTLY
GIVING YOU A TASTE OF HIS GRACE AND MERCY 
THAT THE SHIPS MAY SAIL BY HIS COMMAND MAJESTICALLY 
AND SO THAT YOU MAY SEEK OF HIS BOUNTY 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY ACT GRATEFULLY

47  WE SENT BEFORE YOU APOSTLES 
TO THEIR RESPECTIVE PEOPLE 

AND THEY CAME WITH CLEAR MESSAGES TO THEM 
AND THOSE WHO TRANSGRESSED AMONG THEM
WE METED OUT RETRIBUTION TO THEM
AND WE AIDED THE BELIEVING ONES AMONG THEM

48  GOD SENDS THE WINDS AND THE CLOUDS ARE RAISED THEREBY 
THEN HE SPREADS THEM AS HE WILLS IN THE SKY

AND BREAKS THEM INTO FRAGMENTS UNTIL YOU SEE 
RAIN DROPS ISSUE FROM THE MIDST OF IT ABUNDANTLY 
WHEN HE HAS MADE THEM REACH HIS SERVANTS FAVORABLY
THEN THEY REJOICE GLEEFULLY

49  EVEN THOUGH BEFORE THEY RECEIVED THE RAIN 
THEY WERE DEPRESSED AND IN PAIN

50  THEN CONTEMPLATE THE MEMORIALS OF YOUR LORD'S MERCY
HOW HE GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER ITS DEATH DECREE 
THE SAME WILL GIVE LIFE TO DEAD MEN FOR SURELY 
ALL POWER OVER ALL THINGS HAS HE

51  AND IF WE BUT SEND A WIND FROM WHICH THEY SEE 
THEIR HARVEST TURN YELLOW THEY ACT UNGRATEFULLY  

52  SO YOU CAN NOT MAKE THE DEAD TO HAVE HEARING 
NOR CAN YOU MAKE THE DEAF TO HEAR THE CALLING
ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY GO BACK RETREATING
 
53  NOR CAN YOU LEAD BACK THE BLIND OUT OF ERROR
YOU CAN MAKE NONE TO HEAR BUT THE BELIEVERS
IN OUR MESSAGES AND WHO ARE SUBMITTERS

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54  GOD CREATED YOU IN A STATE OF WEAKNESS 
THEN GAVE YOU STRENGTH AFTER WEAKNESS 
AND AFTER STRENGTH GAVE YOU WEAKNESS 
AND GRAY HAIR AND HE CREATES AS HE PLEASES
AND HE HAS POWER OVER ALL EXISTANCES

55  ON THE DAY THAT THE RECKONING HOUR 
WILL BE ESTABLISHED, THEN THE TRANSGRESSORS 
WILL SWEAR THAT THEY HAD STAYED NOT BUT AN HOUR 
SO USED WERE THEY TO BEING IN DISORDER

56  BUT THOSE ENDUED WITH KNOWLEDGE WILL SAY 
YOU STAYED WITHIN GOD'S DECREE TO THE RESURRECTION DAY

AND THIS IS THE DAY OF RESURRECTION 
BUT YOU ARE UNAWARE OF THIS REALIZATION

57  THAT DAY NO EXCUSE WILL AVAIL THOSE GUILTY OF SINNING
NOR WILL THEY THEN HAVE THE ABILITY OF SEEKING
GRACE FROM GOD BY REPENTING

58  WE HAVE GIVEN MEN IN THIS QURAN PARABLES OF EVERY KIND
BUT IF YOU BRING TO THEM ANY SIGN

IT WILL BE SAID BY THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS 
YOU ARE NOTHING BUT DECEIVERS

59  GOD SEALS UP THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO KNOW NOT
AND THOSE WHO TRY TO UNDERSTAND NOT 

60  SO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE FOR GOD'S PROMISE IS TRUE 
NOR LET THOSE SHAKE YOUR FIRMNESS WHO ARE FAITHLESS AMONG YOU

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CHAPTER 31.  LUQMAN                                                                     SECTION 1.  PART XX1

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM THE BEST KNOWER

2  THESE ARE THE VERSES OF THE BOOK THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR

3  A GUIDE AND A MERCY
FOR THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

4  THOSE WHO ESTABLISH PRAYERS REGULARLY
AND THOSE WHO GIVE REGULAR CHARITY 
AND HAVE FAITH IN THE HEREAFTER WITH CERTAINTY

5  THESE ARE ON TRUE GUIDANCE FROM THEIR MAKER
AND THESE ARE THE ONES WHO WILL PROSPER

6  BUT THERE ARE THOSE AMONG MEN WHO PURCHASE FRIVOLITY
WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE TO MISLEAD MEN AND MAKE MOCKERY
FOR THEM THERE WILL BE A HUMILIATING PENALTY

7  WHEN OUR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO SUCH A ONE
HE TURNS AWAY IN ARROGANT REJECTION 

AS IF THERE WAS DEAFNESS IN HIS EARS 
ANNOUNCE TO HIM A PUNISHMENT THAT IS SEVERE

8  FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
AND WORK RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
THERE WILL BE GARDENS OF ETERNITY

9  TO DWELL THEREIN, THE PROMISE OF GOD IS SURE
AND HE IS ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER

10  AND HE CREATED THE HEAVENS WITHOUT ANY PILLARS IN IT 
HE SET ON THE EARTH MOUNTAINS STANDING FIRMLY ON IT
OR ELSE IT WOULD SHAKE WITH YOU ON IT
AND HE SCATTERED BEASTS OF ALL KINDS THROUGH IT 

AND WE SEND DOWN RAIN FROM THE AIR 
AND PRODUCE EVERY KIND OF CREATURE IN PAIRS

11  THIS IS THE CREATION OF GOD, THE CREATOR 
NOW SHOW ME WHAT HAS BEEN CREATED BY OTHERS 
NO, BUT THE TRANSGRESSORS ARE IN MANIFEST ERROR

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12  WE BESTOWED WISDOM ON LUQMAN TO ACT GRATEFULLY
AND ANY WHO TO GOD DOES ACT GRATEFULLY
DOES SO FOR HIMSELF AS THE BENEFICIARY 
BUT IF ANY ACTS UNGRATEFULLY 
GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND IS PRAISEWORTHY

13  LUQMAN SAID TO HIS SON BY WAY OF INSTRUCTION
JOIN NOT IN WORSHIP ANY OTHERS WITH GOD, MY SON
FOR FALSE WORSHIP IS THE HIGHEST TRANSGRESSION

14  FOR MAN WE ENJOINED KINDNESS TO HIS PARENTS ON HIM
FOR IN HARDSHIP DID HIS MOTHER BEAR HIM 
AND IN TWO YEARS WAS THE WEANING OF HIM
SO HEAR GOD'S COMMAND AND SHOW GRATITUDE TO HIM
AND ALSO TO YOUR PARENTS AND YOUR FINAL GOAL IS TO HIM  

15  BUT IF THEY SHOULD STRIVE TO MAKE YOU WORSHIP BESIDES ME 
THINGS OF WHICH YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF CERTAINTY 
DO NOT OBEY THEM AND KEEP KINDLY COMPANY 
WITH THEM IN THIS LIFE CONSIDERATELY
AND FOLLOW THE WAY OF THOSE WHO LOVE ME 
FOR IN THE END THE RETURN OF YOU ALL IS TO ME 
AND I WILL THEN TELL YOU WHAT YOU DID TRUTHFULLY  

16  LUQMAN SAID, OH MY SON, IF THERE BE 
BUT THE WEIGHT OF A MUSTARD SEED 
AND IF IT WERE HIDDEN IN A ROCK SECRETLY
OR ANYWHERE HEAVENLY OR EARTHLY
GOD WILL BRING IT FORTH MANIFESTLY
FOR HE UNDERSTANDS THE FINEST MYSTERIES 
AND WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THEM IS HE

17  OH MY SON, ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER 
ENJOIN WHAT IS JUST AND FORBID WHAT IS IN ERROR
AND BEAR WITH PATIENT CONSTANCY WHATEVER 
BEFALLS YOU FOR THIS IS FIRMNESS IN AFFAIRS

18  AND TURN NOT YOUR FACE FROM PEOPLE CONTEMPTUOUSLY 
NOR GO ABOUT IN THE LAND EXULTANTLY
FOR GOD LOVES NOT ANYONE WHO BOASTS ARROGANTLY 

19  AND LOWER YOUR VOICE AND BE MODERATE IN YOUR PACES
FOR THE HARSHEST OF SOUNDS IS THE BRAYING OF ASSES

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20  DO YOU NOT SEE THAT GOD HAS MADE FOR YOUR PLEASURE
ALL THINGS THAT ARE IN THE HEAVENS AND ON THE EARTH ? 
AND HAS GIVEN YOU BOUNTIES EXCEEDING IN MEASURE 
BOTH SEEN AND UNSEEN YET AMONG YOU CREATURES

THERE ARE MEN WHO DISPUTE WITH NO KNOWLEDGE GIVEN THEM 
AND WITHOUT ANY GUIDANCE GIVEN TO THEM
AND WITHOUT A BOOK TO ENLIGHTEN THEM 

21  WHEN THEY ARE TOLD TO FOLLOW GOD'S REVELATION 
THEY SAY, NO, WE FOLLOW OUR FATHER'S RELIGION

22  EVEN IF IT IS SATAN BECKONING THEM TO THE FIRE
AND WHOEVER SUBMITS HIMSELF TO HIS MAKER
AND IS A DOER OF GOOD TO OTHERS
HAS GRASPED THE HAND HOLD THAT IS STRONGER
AND WITH GOD RESTS THE END OF ALL ENDEAVORS

23  IF ANY REJECT FAITH, LET NOT HIS REJECTION
GRIEVE YOU FOR TO US IS THEIR FINAL DESTINATION
AND WE WILL INFORM THEM OF ALL OF THEIR ACTIONS 
YOUR LORD IS THE KNOWER OF ALL THINGS IN CREATION 

24  FOR A WHILE THEIR PLEASURES WE GRANT THEM 
BUT IN THE END WE WILL SURELY DRIVE THEM 
TO A SEVERE CHASTISEMENT FOR THEM

25  IF YOU ASK THEM WHO CREATED EARTH AND HEAVEN 
THEY WILL SAY GOD IS THE AUTHOR OF ALL CREATION

SAY TO THEM, PRAISE BE TO GOD
BUT MOST OF THEM HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF GOD

26  TO GOD BELONG ALL THINGS HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY 
AND HE IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND IS PRAISEWORTHY 

27  AND IF ALL THE TREES ON EARTH WERE PENS 
AND THE OCEANS WERE INK WITH SEVEN OCEANS 

BEHIND IT TO AID IT
THE WORDS OF GOD WOULD NOT BE EXHAUSTED 
IN THE PROCESS OF THE WRITING OF IT 
AND OF ALL THINGS GOD HAS POWER OVER IT

28  AND YOUR CREATION OR RESURRECTION 
IS BUT AS A SINGLE PERSON
FOR GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS IN CREATION

SEE YOU NOT THAT GOD MAKES THE NIGHT
ENTER INTO THE DAY AND THE DAY TO ENTER INTO THE NIGHT?

29  HE HAS MADE THE SUN AND THE MOON SUBSERVIENT TO YOU
ITS COURSE FOR AN APPOINTED TIME EACH ONE DOES PURSUE
AND YOUR LORD IS AWARE OF ALL THAT YOU DO

30  THAT IS BECAUSE GOD IS THE ONLY REALITY 
WHAT THEY WORSHIP BESIDES HIM IS FALSITY
AND MOST HIGH AND MOST GREAT IS HE

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31  DO YOU NOT SEE 
THAT THE SHIPS SAIL BY GOD'S GRACE THROUGH THE SEA
THAT HE MAY SHOW YOU HIS SIGNS CLEARLY? 
IN THIS ARE SIGNS FOR ALL WHO PERSEVERE CONSTANTLY 

32  WHEN A WAVE COVERS THEM LIKE A CANOPY
THEY THEN DO CALL ON THEIR LORD IN SINCERITY
BUT WHEN HE HAS DELIVERED THEM TO LAND SAFELY 
THERE ARE AMONG THEM THOSE THAT UNGRATEFULLY
HALT BETWEEN DOING WRONG AND ACTING RIGHTEOUSLY
BUT OUR SIGNS ARE REJECTED ONLY 
BY A PERFIDIOUS WRETCH THAT ACTS UNGRATEFULLY

33  DO YOUR DUTY TO GOD AND FEAR 
THE COMING OF A DAY WHEN NO FATHER 
CAN HELP HIS SON NOR CAN A SON HELP HIS FATHER

FOR SURELY THE PROMISE OF GOD IS TRUE 
LET NOT THEN THIS PRESENT LIFE DECEIVE YOU 

34  NOR LET THE CHIEF DECEIVER DECEIVE YOU ABOUT GOD
SURELY THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOUR IS WITH GOD 

IT IS HE WHO SENDS DOWN THE RAIN AND HE KNOWS 
WHAT IS IN THE WOMBS NOR DOES ANYONE KNOW 
WHAT IT IS THAT HE WILL EARN TOMORROW 
AND NEITHER DOES ANY ONE KNOW 
IN WHAT LAND HE WILL DIE BUT GOD KNOWS
FOR ALL THINGS HE INDEED DOES KNOW

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CHAPTER 32.  ADORATION                                                              SECTION 1.  PART XX1

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I, GOD, AM THE BEST KNOWER

2  THIS REVELATION IS FROM GOD, THE CREATOR 
IT IS THE BOOK THAT MAKE THINGS CLEAR

3   OR DO THEY SAY HE IS A FORGER?  
NO, IT IS THE TRUTH FROM YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
THAT WITH IT YOU MAY WARN PEOPLE TO WHOM NO WARNER 
HAS EVER COME BEFORE YOU PRIOR
SO THEY MAY RECEIVE GUIDANCE CLEAR

4  IT IS GOD WHO HAS CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH SOLELY
AND ALL BETWEEN THEM IN SIX DAYS AND HE IS FIRMLY
ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE OF AUTHORITY 

BESIDES HIM YOU HAVE NONE FOR PROTECTION 
WILL YOU NOT THEN RECEIVE ADMONITION?

5  HE RULES FROM THE HEAVENS TO THE EARTH ALL AFFAIRS 
AND IN THE END WILL GO UP TO HIM ALL AFFAIRS 
ON A DAY THE SPACE WHICH WILL BE FOR SURE
AS A THOUSAND YEARS IN TERMS OF YOUR MEASURE

6  OF ALL THINGS HIDDEN AND OPEN HE IS THE KNOWER
HE IS THE MERCIFUL, THE EXALTED IN POWER

7  HE MADE EVERYTHING HE CREATED GOOD AND HE BEGAN 
WITH NOTHING MORE THAN CLAY, THE CREATION OF MAN

8  AND MADE HIS PROGENY FROM A QUINTESSENCE OF THE NATURE 
OF AN EXTRACT OF WORTHLESS WATER

9  THEN IN DUE PROPORTION WAS HIS FASHIONING 
HE BREATHED HIS SPIRIT INTO HIM GIVING HIM HEARING
AND SIGHT AND FEELING AND UNDERSTANDING 
AND LITTLE ARE THE THANKS YOU ARE GIVING

10  AND THEY SAY, WHEN WE LIE LOST AND HIDDEN IN THE EARTH
WILL WE BE RENEWED INTO A NEW CREATURE? 
SURELY THEY ARE DISBELIEVERS
IN THE MEETING WITH THEIR LORD IN THE HEREAFTER

11  SAY, THE ANGEL OF DEATH PUT IN CHARGE OF YOU WILL DULY 
TAKE YOUR SOULS, THEN YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO GOD SURELY

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12  IF ONLY YOU COULD SEE WHEN THE GUILTY 
WILL BEND THEIR HEADS BEFORE THEIR LORD LOWLY
SAYING, PLEASE OUR LORD, NOW WE HEAR AND SEE CLEARLY
THEN SEND US BACK TO THE WORLD AND WE WILL SURELY
WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR WE DO NOW BELIEVE TRULY 

13  IF WE HAD SO WILLED WE COULD HAVE CERTAINLY 
BROUGHT EVERY SOUL ITS TRUE GUIDANCE EASILY
BUT THE WORD WILL COME TRUE FROM ME 

THAT I WILL FILL THE HELL FIRE
WITH DEMONS AND MEN ALL TOGETHER

14  YOU FORGOT THE MEETING OF THIS DAY OF YOURS CARELESSLY
AND WE WILL FORGET YOU TOO SO TASTE THE PENALTY 
FOR YOUR EVIL DEEDS ETERNALLY

15  THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN OUR REVELATIONS
WHEN THEY HEAR THEIR RECITATIONS 
THEY FALL DOWN IN ADORATION
AND PRAISE THEIR LORD IN CELEBRATION 
NOR ARE THEY EVER PUFFED UP WITH REBELLION

16  THEIR LIMBS DO FORSAKE THEIR BEDS FROM SLEEPING
WHILE THEY CALL ON GOD IN FEAR AND IN HOPING
AND THEY ARE CHARITABLE IN THEIR SPENDING

17  NOW TO NO PERSON IS KNOWN TO THEM
WHAT DELIGHTS OF THE EYES ARE NOT SHOWN TO THEM 
BUT ARE KEPT HIDDEN FROM THEM IN RESERVE FOR THEM
AS A REWARD FOR THEIR GOOD DEEDS FROM GOD FOR THEM

18  IS THEN THE MAN WHO BELIEVES IN HIS LORD NO BETTER 
THAN THE MAN WHO IS A REBELLIOUS TRANSGRESSOR? 
NO, THEY ARE NOT EQUAL IN MEASURE

19  FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
ARE GARDENS AS HOSPITABLE HOMES FOR THEIR DEEDS

20  THE FIRE WILL BE THE HOME FOR THE REBELLIOUS AND WICKED
AND EVERY TIME THEY WISH TO GET AWAY FROM IT 
THEY WILL BE FORCED BACK IN TO IT 
IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM, HERE IS THE PENALTY TASTE IT
THIS IS THE FIRE WHICH YOU FALSELY REJECTED

21  AND WE WILL MAKE THEM TASTE OF THE PENALTY 
IN THIS LIFE PRIOR TO THE SUPREME PENALTY 
SO THAT THEY MAY REPENT HOPEFULLY

22  AND TO THOSE WHO GOD'S MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO THEM  
WHO IS MORE WRONG THEN HE TURNS AWAY FROM THEM
THOSE IN TRANSGRESSION WE WILL PUNISH THEM 

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23  WE GAVE THE BOOK TO MOSES BEFORE YOU 
THEREFORE BE NOT IN DOUBT OF ITS REACHING YOU 
WE MADE IT A GUIDE TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN TRUTH

24  WE APPOINTED FROM AMONG THEM LEADERS
GIVING GUIDANCE UNDER OUR ORDERS
SO LONG AS THEY PATIENTLY PERSEVERED 
AND CONTINUED BEING GRATEFUL FOR OUR FAVORS

25  YOUR LORD WILL JUDGE BETWEEN THEM IN THE MATTERS
ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT WHEREIN THEY DIFFER

26  DOES IT NOT TEACH THEM A LESSON 
JUST HOW MANY GENERATIONS 
WE DESTROYED BEFORE THEM IN WHOSE HABITATIONS
THEY NOW GO TO AND FRO IN 
SURELY IN THIS ARE SIGNS, DO THEY NOT LISTEN?

27  AND DO THEY NOT SEE THAT WE DRIVE RAIN 
TO PARCHED SOIL BARE OF HERBAGE AND PRODUCE WITH IT GRAIN 

FOR THEIR CATTLE AND THEMSELVES FOR NUTRITION?
HAVE THEY ABSOLUTELY NO VISION?

28  THEY SAY, WHEN WILL THIS DECISION BE 
IF YOU ARE ACTING TRUTHFULLY?

29  SAY, ON THE DAY OF DECISION OF NO PROFIT WILL IT BE 
TO THE DISBELIEVERS IF THEY THEN BELIEVE 
NOR ANY RESPITE WILL THEY RECEIVE

30  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM AND WAIT 
THEY TOO ARE OF THOSE WHO WAIT

 

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IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH PROPHET, TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY 
LISTEN NOT TO THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE 
OR TO THE HYPOCRITES FOR SURELY
GOD IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

2  BUT FOLLOW THAT WHICH COMES FROM GOD TO YOU 
FOR HE IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THAT YOU DO

3  AND PUT YOUR TRUST IN GOD 
AND ENOUGH AS A DISPOSER OF AFFAIRS IS GOD

4  GOD HAS NOT MADE FOR ANY MAN TWO HEARTS IN HIS ONE BODY 
NOR HAS HE MADE YOUR WIVES WHOM YOU DECLARE TO BE 
LIKE YOUR MOTHERS YOUR MOTHERS, NOR HAS HE 
MADE YOUR ADOPTED SONS YOUR SONS, THIS IS ONLY 
YOUR MANNER OF SPEECH BUT GOD TELLS YOU TRUTHFULLY
AND HE SHOWS THE RIGHT WAY TO YOU CLEARLY

5  CALL THEM BY THE NAMES OF THEIR FATHERS 
IN THE SIGHT OF YOUR LORD THAT IS JUSTER 
BUT IF YOU KNOW NOT THE NAMES OF THEIR FATHERS 
CALL THEM YOUR FRIENDS OR IN FAITH YOUR BROTHERS 

BUT IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU 
WHAT COUNTS WITH GOD IS THE INTENTION OF YOU 
AND GOD IS FORGIVING AND MERCIFUL TO YOU

6  THE PROPHET IS CLOSER TO THE BELIEVERS 
THAN THEIR OWN SELVES AND HIS WIVES ARE THEIR MOTHERS 
BUT BLOOD RELATIONS AMONG EACH OTHER HAVE CLOSER 
PERSONAL TIES IN GOD'S SIGHT THAN THE BELIEVERS 
AND OF THOSE WHO FLED THEIR HOMES HOWEVER
DO WHAT IS JUST TO YOUR CLOSEST PARTNERS
FOR THIS IS WRITTEN IN GOD'S ORDERS 

7  AND REMEMBER WE TOOK FROM THE PROPHETS THEIR PROMISE  
AS WE DID FROM YOU AND NOAH AND ABRAHAM AND MOSES
AND JESUS, SON OF MARY, WE TOOK FROM THEM A PROMISE

8  THAT GOD MAY QUESTION THE CUSTODIANS TRUTHFULLY 
CONCERNING THE TRUTH THEY WERE CHARGED WITH FAITHFULLY
AND HE HAS PREPARED FOR THE DISBELIEVERS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

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9  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, REMEMBER GOD'S GRACE TO YOU 
WHEN THERE CAME DOWN ON YOU HOSTS TO OVERWHELM YOU 
WE SENT AGAINST THEM A HURRICANE AND FORCES NOT SEEN BY YOU
BUT GOD SEES CLEARLY ALL THAT YOU DO

10  THEY CAME ON YOU FROM ABOVE AND BELOW YOU 
AND YOUR EYES BECAME DIM WITHIN YOU
AND YOUR HEARTS GAPED UP TO THE THROATS OF YOU 
AND DIVERSE THOUGHTS OF GOD WERE THOUGHT BY YOU

11  IN THAT SITUATION WAS THE BELIEVER'S TESTING 
BEING SHAKEN BY A TREMENDOUS SHAKING

12  THE HYPOCRITES AND THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE 
EVEN SAID, GOD AND HIS APOSTLE PROMISED US ONLY TO DECEIVE

13  AMONG THEM SAID A PARTY 
OH PEOPLE OF YATHRIB, SURELY

YOU CANNOT STAND THE ATTACK 
THEREFORE GO BACK 

AND A BAND OF THEM ASK FOR LEAVE OF THE MESSENGER 
SAYING, OUR HOUSES ARE EXPOSED AND BARE

THOUGH THEY WERE NOT EXPOSED AS THEY DID SAY
BUT THEY INTENDED NOTHING BUT TO RUN AWAY

14  AND TOO IF AN ENTRY WERE MADE FROM THE OUTLYING PARTS OF IT
AND THEY WERE ASKED TO WAGE WAR THEY WOULD HAVE DONE IT
AND THEY WOULD NOT HAVE STAYED BUT A LITTLE WHILE IN IT

15  AND YET THEY HAD ALREADY COVENANTED WITH GOD 
NOT TO TURN BACK AND A COVENANT WITH GOD 
MUST SURELY BE ANSWERED FOR TO GOD

16  SAY, RUNNING AWAY WILL NOT PROFIT YOU
IF RUNNING AWAY FROM DEATH OR SLAUGHTER ARE YOU
IF YOU ESCAPE ONLY A BRIEF DELAY WILL BE ALLOWED YOU

17  SAY, WHO IS IT THAT CAN SCREEN YOU FROM THE CREATOR
IF IT BE HIS WISH TO BESTOW UPON YOU HIS FAVOR? 
FOR BESIDES GOD THEY WILL FIND NO PROTECTOR
NOR WILL THEY FIND ANY ONE AS A HELPER

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18  SURELY GOD KNOWS THOSE WHO OTHER MEN HINDER 
AND THOSE WHO SAY, COME WITH US, TO THEIR BROTHERS
 
BUT COME NOT TO THE BATTLE
EXCEPT FOR JUST A LITTLE 

19  BEING COVETOUS OVER YOU BUT THEN WHEN COMES FEAR
THEY LOOK AT YOU WITH THEIR EYES FILLED WITH TEARS
LIKE THOSE OF ONE WHO DEATH HOVERS OVER  
AND WITH SHARP TONGUES WILL SMITE YOU WHEN THE FEAR IS OVER
COVETOUS OF GOODS AND THEY ARE NOT BELIEVERS
GOD HAS MADE FRUITLESS THEIR ENDEAVORS
AND FOR GOD THAT IS AN EASY MATTER

20  THEY THINK THAT THE CONFEDERATES HAVE NOT GIVEN IN
AND IF THE CONFEDERATES SHOULD COME AGAIN
THEY WOULD WISH THAT THEY WERE IN 
THE DESERTS WANDERING AMONG THE BEDOUINS 

AND SEEKING NEWS ABOUT YOU 
FROM A SAFE DISTANCE AND IF THEY WERE WITH YOU
THEY WOULD ONLY FIGHT BUT A LITTLE WITH YOU

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21  YOU HAVE INDEED IN THE APOSTLE OF GOD 
A GOOD PATTERN OF CONDUCT FOR BELIEVERS IN GOD 
AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE LAST DAY AND PRAISE GOD

22  WHEN THE CONFEDERATE FORCES WERE SEEN BY THE BELIEVERS 
THEY SAID, THIS IS WHAT WAS PROMISED BY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND IT WAS TRUE WHAT WAS TOLD TO US BY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND IT ONLY MADE THEM STRONGER BELIEVERS

23  OF THE BELIEVERS ARE MEN WHO HAVE BEEN TRUE TO THEIR PROMISE 
AND SOME OF THEM WHO HAVE COMPLETED THEIR PROMISE

AND SOME STILL WAIT BUT THEY HAVE NEVER
CHANGED THEIR DETERMINATION EVER

24  GOD WILL REWARD THE TRUTHFUL FOR ACTING TRUTHFULLY 
AND PUNISH THE HYPOCRITES OR TURN TO THEM IN MERCY 
FOR MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL IS HE

25  AND FOR ALL OF THEIR FURY GOD TURNED BACK THE DISBELIEVERS 
NO ADVANTAGE DID THEY GAIN AND GOD SUFFICED THE BELIEVERS
IN THEIR FIGHT, FOR GOD IS STRONG AND FULL OF POWER

26  THOSE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK WHO WERE THEIR HELPERS 
GOD TOOK THEM DOWN AND INTO THEIR HEARTS CAST HORROR
SO SOME YOU KILLED AND SOME YOU MADE PRISONERS

27  HE MADE YOU HEIRS OF THEIR LANDS AND THEIR DWELLINGS 
AND OF A LAND OF WHICH YOU HAD NOT BEEN TRAVELING
AND GOD IS POSSESSOR OF POWER OVER ALL THINGS

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28  OH PROPHET, SAY TO YOUR MARITAL PARTNERS
IF YOU DESIRE THIS WORLD'S LIFE AND ITS GLITTER 
THEN COME AND FOR IT I WILL BE YOUR PROVIDER
AND SET YOU FREE IN A HANDSOME MANNER

29  BUT IF YOU SEEK GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND THE HOME OF THE HEREAFTER 
GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS 
A GREAT REWARD THAT ENDURES FOREVER

30  OH WIVES OF THE PROPHET, IF ANY OF YOU ARE GUILTY 
OF EVIDENT CONDUCT UNSEEMLY 

THE PUNISHMENT WOULD BE DOUBLED TO HER
AND THAT FOR GOD IS AND EASY MATTER

PART XXII

31  ANY OF YOU THAT IS SINCERE TO GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 
AND DOES GOOD, WE WILL GRANT TWICE THE REWARD TO HER  
AND WE HAVE PREPARED A GENEROUS SUSTENANCE FOR HER

32  OH WIVES OF THE PROPHET, YOU ARE NOT LIKE OTHER WOMEN 
IF YOU DO FEAR GOD IN YOUR SPEECH BE NOT COMPLACENT 

OR ELSE ONE IN WHOSE HEART IS A DISORDER 
COULD THEN POSSIBLY BE MOVED WITH DESIRE 
BUT SPEAK IN SPEECH THAT IS JUST IN MANNER

33  AND QUIETLY IN YOUR HOUSES STAY
AND MAKE NOT OF YOUR BEAUTY A DAZZLING DISPLAY 

LIKE THAT OF THOSE OF TIMES OF IGNORANCE FORMER 
AND ESTABLISH REGULAR CHARITY AND PRAYER  
AND OBEY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER 

GOD WISHES TO REMOVE FROM YOU ALL UNCLEANNESS
AND TO MAKE YOU PURE AND SPOTLESS

34  AND RECITE THE MESSAGES 
OF GOD IN YOUR HOUSES

FOR GOD UNDERSTANDS THE FINEST MYSTERIES 
AND WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THEM IS HE

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