CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                                SECTION 4.  PART XXI

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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35  FOR SUBMITTING MEN AND WOMEN 
FOR BELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN 
FOR DEVOUT MEN AND WOMEN 
FOR TRUE MEN AND WOMEN 
FOR PATIENT MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR HUMBLE MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR CHARITABLE MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR FASTING MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR CHASTE MEN AND WOMEN 
AND FOR MEN AND WOMEN 

WHO ENGAGE MUCH IN THE PRAISE OF THEIR LORD
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A GREAT REWARD 

36  IT IS NOT FITTING FOR A BELIEVER 
MAN OR WOMAN THAT WHEN A MATTER 
HAS BEEN DECIDED BY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
TO HAVE ANY OPTION ABOUT THE MATTER
IF ANY ONE DISOBEYS GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
HE IS INDEED A WRONG DOER

37  YOU SAID TO ONE WHO HAD BEEN THE RECEIVER
OF THE GRACE OF GOD AND YOUR FAVOR
RETAIN YOUR WIFE AND FEAR YOUR MAKER
BUT YOU HID IN YOUR HEART THAT WHICH THE CREATOR 
WAS ABOUT TO MAKE MANIFEST AND THE PEOPLE YOU FEARED 
BUT GOD IS MORE FITTING THAT HIM YOU SHOULD FEAR 
BUT WHEN ZAID HAD DISSOLVED HIS MARRIAGE WITH HER 
WITH THE NECESSARY FORMALITY, WE THEN JOINED HER 
IN MARRIAGE TO YOU SO THAT THERE MAY BE TO THE BELIEVERS 
NO DIFFICULTY IN THE MATTER 
OF MARRIAGE WITH WIVES OF THEIR ADOPTED SONS WHEN THE LATTER 
HAD DISSOLVED THEIR MARRIAGE PRIOR
AND GOD'S COMMAND MUST BE FULFILLED FOR SURE

38  TO THE PROPHET THERE CAN BE NO DIFFICULTY
IN WHAT GOD HAS INDICATED TO HIM AS A DUTY
IT IS THE PRACTICE THAT GOD APPROVED FORMERLY
AND GOD'S COMMAND IS A DETERMINED DECREE 

39  IT IS THE PRACTICE OF THE PREACHERS 
OF THE MESSAGES OF YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 

AND FEAR HIM AND FEAR NONE BUT GOD 
AND ENOUGH TO CALL MEN TO ACCOUNT IS GOD

40  MUHAMMAD IS NOT THE FATHER 
OF ANY OF YOUR MEN BUT HE IS GOD'S MESSENGER 
AND THE SEAL OF THE PROPHETS AND GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

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41  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE 
CELEBRATE GOD'S PRAISES AND DO THIS FREQUENTLY

42  AND GLORIFY HIM IN THE MORNING
AND GLORIFY HIM IN THE EVENING

43  IT IS YOU WHOM HE AND HIS ANGELS BLESS 
TO BRING YOU INTO LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS 
AND HE IS FULL OF MERCY AND KINDNESS

44  THEIR SALUTATION ON THE DAY THEY MEET HIM WILL BE PEACE 
AND HE HAS PREPARED FOR THEM A REWARD GENEROUSLY

45  OH MESSENGER, WE HAVE SENT YOU AS A WITNESS BEARER
AND A BEARER OF GLAD TIDINGS AND AS A WARNER

46  AND ONE WHO INVITES TO GOD'S GRACE BY HIS MIGHT
AND AS A LAMP SPREADING LIGHT

47  THEN GIVE THE GOOD NEWS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
THAT THEY WILL HAVE FROM GOD A GREAT BOUNTY

48  OBEY NOT THE HYPOCRITES AND THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE 
BUT TRUST IN GOD AND THEIR ANNOYANCE DO NOT HEED 
FOR ENOUGH IS GOD AS A DISPOSER OF DEEDS

49  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, WHEN YOU MARRY BELIEVING WOMEN
AND THEN DIVORCE THEM BEFORE YOU HAVE TOUCHED THEM
THEN YOU HAVE NO TERM TO RECKON IN RESPECT TO THEM 
SO GIVE A HANDSOME PRESENT TO THEM 
AND SET THEM FREE IN A GOOD MANNER FOR THEM

50  OH MESSENGER
WE HAVE MADE LAWFUL YOUR MARITAL PARTNERS 
TO WHOM YOU HAVE PAID THEIR DOWERS
AND YOUR CAPTIVES OUT OF THE WAR PRISONERS  
WHOM GOD HAS ASSIGNED INTO YOUR CARE 
AND YOUR PATERNAL UNCLE'S AND AUNT'S DAUGHTERS
AND YOUR MATERNAL UNCLE'S AND AUNT'S DAUGHTERS
WHO CAME FROM MECCA WITH YOU AS MIGRATERS
AND ANY WOMEN WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
WHO DEDICATE THEMSELVES TO YOU AND YOU WISH TO WED HER 
THIS IS ONLY FOR YOU AND NOT FOR ALL THE BELIEVERS 
WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE APPOINTED CONCERNING THEIR PARTNERS 
AND THE CAPTIVES OF WHOM THEIR RIGHT HANDS ARE POSSESSORS
SO THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO DIFFICULTY FOR YOU WHATSOEVER
AND GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

51  YOU MAY DEFER THE TURN OF ANY OF THEM AS PLEASES YOU
AND YOU MAY RECEIVE ANY AS IT PLEASES YOU
AND THERE IS NO BLAME ON YOU 
IF YOU INVITE ONE WHOSE TURN HAS BEEN SET ASIDE BY YOU
AND THIS WAS NEARER TO THEIR COMFORT FROM YOU 
FOR PREVENTION OF THEIR GRIEF AND FOR THEIR GRATITUDE
THAT ALL OF THEM MAY BE PLEASED BY WHAT IS GIVEN BY YOU 
AND GOD KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE HEARTS OF YOU
FOR GOD IS ALL KNOWING AND MOST FORBEARING TO YOU

52  IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR YOU TO MARRY MORE WOMEN 
AFTER THIS NOR TO CHANGE THEM FOR OTHER WIVES EVEN 
THOUGH THEIR BEAUTY ATTRACT YOU EXCEPT ANY WHO THEN
YOUR RIGHT HAND SHOULD POSSESS AS HANDMAIDENS 
AND GOD WATCHES OVER ALL CREATION

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CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                             SECTION 7.  PART  XXII

53  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
ENTER NOT THE HOUSES OF THE MESSENGER 
UNTIL LEAVE FOR A MEAL IS GIVEN YOU AND NEVER
SO EARLY AS TO WAIT FOR IT TO BE PREPARED
BUT WHEN YOU ARE INVITED TO ENTER 
AND WHEN YOU HAVE TAKEN YOUR MEAL DISPERSE 
WITHOUT SEEKING TALK BEING FAMILIAR 
FOR SUCH BEHAVIOR IS ANNOYING TO THE MESSENGER

AND HE IS ASHAMED TO DISMISS YOU 
BUT GOD IS NOT ASHAMED TO TELL THE TRUTH TO YOU 

AND WHEN YOU ASK HIS LADIES FOR ANYTHING 
ASK THEM FROM BEHIND A SCREEN 

FOR YOU AND FOR THEM THAT IS BETTER
NOR IS IT RIGHT THAT YOU SHOULD ANNOY GOD'S MESSENGER

OR THAT HIS WIDOWS AFTER HIM THAT YOU SHOULD MARRY
FOR SUCH A THING IN GOD'S SIGHT IS AN ENORMITY

54  WHETHER YOU REVEAL OR CONCEAL ANYTHING 
GOD HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS

55  AND THERE IS NO BLAME ON THESE LADIES IF THEY APPEAR  
BEFORE THEIR FATHERS OR THEIR SONS OR THEIR BROTHERS
OR THEIR BROTHER'S SONS OR THE SONS OF THEIR SISTERS

OR THE WOMEN OR THE SLAVES WHOM THEIR RIGHT HANDS POSSESS 
AND FEAR GOD FOR TO ALL THINGS GOD IS THE WITNESS

56  GOD AND HIS ANGELS SEND THEIR BLESSINGS ON THE APOSTLE 
OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, SEND YOUR BLESSINGS ON THE APOSTLE 
AND SALUTE HIM IN A MANNER THAT IS RESPECTFUL

57  THOSE WHO ANNOY GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
GOD HAS CURSED THEM IN THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER 
AND FOR THEM  HE HAS PREPARED A PUNISHMENT OF HORROR

58  THOSE WHO ANNOY BELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN 
BEAR A DEFAMATION AND A GLARING SIN

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CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                             SECTION 8.  PART  XXII

59  OH MESSENGER
TELL YOUR WIVES AND DAUGHTERS 
AND THE WOMEN BELIEVERS
THAT THEIR PERSONS THEY SHOULD COVER
THAT IS BEST THAT THEY SHOULD SO BE PATTERNED
AND NOT MOLESTED, AND GOD IS THE MERCIFUL FORGIVER

60  IF THE HYPOCRITES AND THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE 
AND THOSE WHO STIR UP SEDITION IN THE CITY 
AND DESIST NOT, WE WILL CERTAINLY 
STIR YOU UP AGAINST THEM, THEN WILL THEY NOT BE 
ABLE TO STAY IN IT AS YOUR NEIGHBORS BUT SHORTLY

61  THEY WILL HAVE A CURSE ON THEM WHEREVER THEY MAY BE
AND THEY WILL BE SEIZED AND KILLED WITHOUT MERCY

62  AMONG THOSE FORMALLY THIS WAS THE PRACTICE OF GOD 
AND NO CHANGE WILL YOU FIND IN THE PRACTICE OF GOD

63  MEN ASK YOU CONCERNING THE HOUR 
SAY, WITH GOD ALONE IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOUR
AND WHAT WILL TO YOU MAKE IT CLEAR
THAT THE HOUR MAY BE QUITE NEAR? 

64  SURELY GOD HAS CURSED THE DISBELIEVERS 
AND PREPARED FOR THEM A BLAZING FIRE

65  THEY WILL DWELL THEREIN FOREVER 
NO PROTECTOR WILL THEY FIND NOR HELPER

66  THEY WILL SAY THE DAY THAT THEIR LEADERS 
WILL BE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN IN THE FIRE 
IF WE ONLY HAD OBEYED GOD AND THE MESSENGER 

67  AND THEY WOULD SAY, OUR LORD WE OBEYED 
OUR CHIEFS AND OUR GREAT ONES AND FOLLOWED THEIR WAYS
AND THEY MISLED US AS TO THE RIGHT WAY

68  OUR LORD GIVE THEM A DOUBLE PENALTY
AND CURSE THEM WITH A CURSE GREATLY

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CHAPTER 33.  THE ALLIES                                                             SECTION 9.  PART  XXII

69  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, BE NOT LIKE THOSE WHO ANNOYED MOSES 
BUT GOD CLEARED HIM COMPLETELY OF THEIR CHARGES
AND HE IN GOD'S SIGHT WAS HELD WITH JUSTICE

70  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, FEAR GOD AND ALWAYS SAY 
A WORD DIRECTED TO THE RIGHT WAY

71  THAT HE MAY MAKE YOUR CONDUCT SOUND FOR YOU 
AND THAT HE MAY FORGIVE YOUR SINS FOR YOU 

HE THAT OBEYS GOD AND HIS APOSTLE 
HAS ATTAINED THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT POSSIBLE

72  WE OFFERED THE TRUST TO THE HEAVENS
AND TO THE EARTH AND TO THE MOUNTAINS

BUT THEY REFUSED TO UNDERTAKE IT
BEING AFRAID OF IT BUT MAN UNDERTOOK IT 
AND HE WAS UNJUST AND WAS FOOLISH ABOUT IT

73  SO THAT GOD HAS TO PUNISH THE MEN AND WOMEN 
AMONG THE HYPOCRITES AND UNBELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN 
AND GOD TURNS IN MERCY TO THE BELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN

FOR GOD IS SURELY
FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                                       SECTION 1.  PART  XXII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  PRAISE BE TO GOD TO WHOM BELONGS ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER
IS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH, TO HIM BE PRAISE IN THE HEREAFTER 
AND HE IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND POWER
AND IS ACQUAINTED WITH ALL MATTERS

2  HE KNOWS WHAT GOES INTO THE EARTH AND WHAT COMES OUT FROM IT 
AND WHAT COMES DOWN FROM THE SKY AND WHAT ASCENDS UP TO IT
AND OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY HE IS FULL OF IT

3  THE DISBELIEVERS 
SAY, NEVER TO US WILL COME THE HOUR 
SAY, BUT IT WILL COME UPON YOU FROM THE CREATOR

WHO KNOWS THE UNSEEN AND FROM WHOM IS NOT HIDDEN 
THE LEAST LITTLE ATOM IN THE EARTH OR THE HEAVENS 

NOR IS THERE ANYTHING LESS THAN THAT OR GREATER 
BUT ALL IS WRITTEN IN A CLEAR RECORD 

4  THAT HE MAY REWARD THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS 
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A SUSTENANCE MOST GENEROUS

5  BUT THOSE WHO STRIVE AGAINST OUR SIGNS TO FRUSTRATE THEM 
THERE WILL SURELY BE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY FOR THEM 
AND A PUNISHMENT MOST HUMILIATING FOR THEM

6  AND THOSE TO WHOM KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN GIVEN
KNOW THAT THIS IS GOD'S REVELATION   

AND THAT IT IS TRUE AND THAT IT GUIDES DIRECTLY 
TO THE PATH OF ONE EXALTED AND PRAISEWORTHY 

7  THE DISBELIEVERS SAY IN RIDICULE
SHALL WE POINT OUT TO YOU 
A MAN THAT WILL TELL YOU 

WHEN YOU ARE ALL SCATTERED TO PIECES IN DISINTEGRATION 
THAT YOU WILL THEN BE RAISED TO A NEW CREATION?

8  IS HE AGAINST GOD A LIAR OR IS HE INSANELY IN ERROR? 
NO, IT IS THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE HEREAFTER 
THAT ARE IN REAL TORMENT AND FARTHEST IN ERROR

9  SEE THEY NOT WHAT IS BEFORE THEM AND BEHIND THEM ?
AND WE COULD MAKE THE EARTH TO SWALLOW THEM 
OR CAUSE A PIECE OF THE SKY TO FALL UPON THEM
IN THIS FOR ALL DEVOTEES IS A SIGN FOR THEM 

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                                       SECTION 2.  PART  XXII

10  WE  BESTOWED GRACE UPON DAVID FROM OURSELVES TO HIM
OH YOU MOUNTAINS, SING BACK THE PRAISES OF GOD WITH HIM
AND YOU BIRDS ALSO AND WE MADE THE IRON SOFT FOR HIM

11  COMMANDING, MAKE COATS OF ARMOR
BALANCING THE RINGS OF CHAIN ARMOR 
AND BE A RIGHTEOUSNESS DOER
FOR OF ALL THAT YOU DO I AM AWARE

12  AND TO SOLOMON WE MADE THE WIND TO FLOW OBEDIENTLY
ITS EARLY MORNING STRIDE WAS A MONTHS JOURNEY 
AND ITS EVENING STRIDE WAS A MONTHS JOURNEY 
AND WE MADE MOLTEN BRASS TO FLOW FOR HIM TAMELY
AND THE DEMONS WORKED FOR HIM SUBMISSIVELY
AND IF ANY OF THEM TURNED ASIDE FROM OUR DECREES
WE MADE HIM TASTE OF THE FIRE AS A PENALTY 

13  THEY WORKED FOR HIM MAKING ARCHES, IMAGES AND BASINS 
AS LARGE AS RESERVOIRS AND FIXED COOKING CAULDRONS

SO WORK, YOU SONS OF DAVID, AND BE THANKFUL 
BUT FEW OF MY SERVANTS ARE GRATEFUL

14  WHEN SOLOMON'S DEATH WE DECREED  
NOTHING SHOWED THEM HIS DEATH CLEARLY
BUT A LITTLE  EARTHWORM WHICH KEPT GNAWING SLOWLY 
AWAY AT HIS STAFF SO WHEN HE FELL THE DEMONS SAW PLAINLY 
BUT IF THEY HAD KNOWN THE UNSEEN THEY SURELY
WOULD NOT HAVE STAYED IN THE HUMILIATING PENALTY 

15  IN SHEBA'S HOMELAND THERE WAS A SIGN  
TWO GARDENS TO THE LEFT AND TO THE RIGHT

AND SUSTENANCE PROVIDED BY GOD, MOST GRACEFUL
SO EAT AND BE PLENTIFUL AND TO GOD BE GRATEFUL 
FOR A GOOD LAND AND FOR A GOD MOST MERCIFUL

16  BUT THEY TURNED AWAY FROM THEIR MAKER 
AND WE SENT AGAINST THEM THE FLOOD FROM THE WATERS
AND WE MADE THEIR GARDENS INTO TREES THAT WERE BITTER
AND TAMARISKS AND TOO SOME LOTE TREES THAT WERE MEAGER

17   WE GAVE THEM THIS AS A REQUITAL
BECAUSE THEY REJECTED FAITH AND WERE UNGRATEFUL
AND NEVER EXCEPT TO REJECTERS DO WE GIVE SUCH REQUITAL 

18  BETWEEN THEM AND CITIES ON WHICH WE HAD POURED BLESSINGS
WE HAD PLACED CITIES IN PROMINENT DWELLINGS 

AND BETWEEN THEM WE HAD APPOINTED JOURNEYS IN PROPORTION 
TRAVEL THEREIN BY NIGHT AND BY DAY WITH OUR PROTECTION

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                     SECTION 2 (CONT'D). PART  XXII

19  BUT THEY SAID, OUR LORD, PLACE LONGER DISTANCES 
BETWEEN OUR JOURNEY IN STAGES 

BUT THEY WRONGED THEIR OWN SOULS
AND WE MADE THEM AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD

AND WE DISPERSED THEM ALL IN SCATTERED FRAGMENTS
IN THIS ARE SIGNS FOR EVERY SOUL THAT IS PATIENT 
AND EVERYONE THAT IS GRATEFUL AND CONSTANT

20  AND ON THEM DID SATAN PROVE TRUE HIS IDEA FULLY
FOR THEY FOLLOWED HIM ALL BUT A BELIEVING PARTY 

21  BUT HE HAD OVER THEM NO AUTHORITY
EXCEPT THAT WE MIGHT TEST THE MAN WHO BELIEVES 
IN THE HEREAFTER FROM THOSE WHO ACT DOUBTFULLY
AND YOUR LORD DOES WATCH OVER ALL THINGS SURELY

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                                       SECTION 3.  PART  XXII

22  SAY, CALL ON WHOM YOU WILL BESIDES THE CREATOR 
BESIDES HIM THEY HAVE NO POWER
NOT THE WEIGHT OF AN ATOM ANYWHERE
IN HEAVEN OR EARTH NOR HAVE THEY IN IT A SHARE 
NOR IS ANY OF THEM TO GOD A HELPER 

23  IN HIS PRESENCE THERE CAN BE NO INTERCESSION 
EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO HE HAS GRANTED PERMISSION 
AND SO FAR IS THIS THE CASE THAT WHEN APPREHENSION
IS REMOVED FROM THEIR HEARTS ON THE DAY OF RESSURECTION
THEN THEY WILL BE ASKED THE QUESTION
WHAT IS IT THAT IS YOUR LORD'S INSTRUCTION? 
THEY WILL SAY, TO DO THAT WHICH IS TRUE IN DEVOTION
AND SURELY GOD IS THE LORD AND CHERISHER OF ALL CREATION

24  SAY, WHO IS HEAVEN AND EARTH'S SUSTAINER? 
SAY, IT IS GOD, THE CREATOR 
AND IT IS WE OR YOU WHO ARE EITHER
ON RIGHT GUIDANCE OR IN MANIFEST ERROR

25  SAY, YOU WILL NOT BE QUESTIONED AS TO OUR SINS
NOR WILL WE BE QUESTIONED AS TO YOUR SINS

26  SAY, OUR LORD WILL GATHER US TOGETHER 
AND WILL IN THE END DECIDE THE MATTER 
BETWEEN US AND YOU IN TRUTH AND HE WILL BE FAIR
AND HE IS THE BEST DECIDER AND BEST KNOWER

27  SHOW ME THOSE WHOM YOU HAVE JOINED WITH HIM AS PARTNERS
BY NO MEANS CAN YOU, HE IS GOD, AND IS EXALTED IN POWER 

28  AND WE HAVE SENT YOU AS A UNIVERSAL MESSENGER TO MEN 
GIVING THEM GLAD TIDINGS AND WARNING THEM AGAINST SIN 
BUT NO UNDERSTANDING HAVE MOST MEN 

29  THEY SAY WHEN WILL THIS PROMISE COME TRUE
IF WHAT IT IS YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE?

30  SAY, THE APPOINTMENT TO YOU IS FOR A DAY 
WHICH YOU CANNOT HASTEN NOR CAN YOU DELAY

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                                       SECTION 4.  PART  XXII

31  AND THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, WE WILL NEITHER
BELIEVE IN THIS SCRIPTURE NOR IN ANY OTHER
AND IF YOU COULD SEE THE WRONG DOERS 
WHEN THEY STAND BEFORE GOD BLAMING ONE ANOTHER 
THOSE WHO HAD BEEN DESPISED WILL SAY TO THEIR LEADERS 
IF IT HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR YOU WE WOULD HAVE BEEN BELIEVERS

32  THE ARROGANT ONES WILL SAY TO THOSE WHO 
HAD BEEN DESPISED, WAS IT WE WHO KEPT YOU 
BACK FROM THE RIGHT GUIDE AFTER IT REACHED YOU? 
NO, RATHER THE TRANSGRESSORS WERE YOU

33  THOSE WHO HAD BEEN THE DESPISED ONES WILL SURELY
SAY TO THE ONES WHO ACTED ARROGANTLY 
IT WAS A PLOT OF YOURS FOR YOU CONSTANTLY 
NIGHT AND DAY ORDERED US TO ACT UNGRATEFULLY
AND TO ATTRIBUTE OTHERS TO GOD EQUALLY
AND THEY WILL REPENT WHEN THEY SEE THE PENALTY
WE PUT SHACKLES ON THE NECKS OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED 
AND IT IS ONLY A REQUITAL FOR THEIR EVIL DEEDS

34  NEVER DID WE SEND A WARNER TO A POPULATION 
BUT AMONG THEM, SAID THE WEALTHY ONES 
WE BELIEVE NOT IN THE MISSION THAT YOU ARE ON

35  THEY SAID, WE HAVE MORE WEALTH AND SONS
AND WE WILL NOT BE THE PUNISHED ONES

36  SAY, SURELY MY LORD ENLARGES AND RESTRICTS THE PROVISION 
TO WHOM HE PLEASES BUT NO UNDERSTANDING HAVE MOST MEN 

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                                       SECTION 5.  PART  XXII

37  IT IS NOT YOUR WEALTH NOR YOUR SONS EITHER
THAT TO US WILL BRING YOU NEARER 
BUT ONLY THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
ARE THE ONES WHO WILL BE THE ACHIEVERS 
WHILE THEY RESIDE IN HIGH DWELLINGS SECURE

38  THOSE WHO STRIVE AGAINST OUR SIGNS ARROGANTLY 
WILL BE GIVEN OVER INTO PENALTY

39  SAY, MY LORD RESTRICTS AND ENLARGES
THE SUSTENANCE TO THOSE OF HIS SERVANTS HE PLEASES 
AND WHATEVER YOU SPEND IN CHARITY HE REPLACES 
FOR HE IS THE BEST PROVIDER OF SUBSTANCES

40  AND ONE DAY HE WILL GATHER THEM ALL TOGETHER 
AND ASK THE ANGELS, WHAT DID THESE DISBELIEVERS
USE TO WORSHIP BESIDES ME AS PARTNERS?

41  THEY WILL SAY, GLORY TO YOU, YOU ARE OUR PROTECTOR
NOT THEM FOR THEY INDEED WERE DEVIL WORSHIPPERS  
AND MOST OF THEM IN THEM WERE BELIEVERS 

42  SO ON THAT DAY NO POWER WILL THEY HAVE OVER EACH OTHER 
FOR PROFIT OR HARM AND WE WILL SAY TO THE WRONG DOERS 
TASTE THE PENALTY OF THE FIRE OF WHICH YOU WERE DENIERS

43  AND WHEN OUR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO THEM CLEAR 
THEY SAY, THIS IS ONLY A MAN WHO WISHES TO HINDER 
YOU FROM THE PRACTICES OF YOUR FATHERS 
AND THEY SAY THIS IS FALSEHOOD AND SAY THE DISBELIEVERS 
OF THE TRUTH WHEN IT COMES TO THEM, THIS IS FOR SURE
NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE OF SORCERERS

44  BUT WE HAD CERTAINLY NOT GIVEN THEM SCRIPTURES
WHICH THEY COULD STUDY NOR SENT MESSENGERS
TO THEM BEFORE YOU AS WARNERS

45  THEIR PREDECESSORS REJECTED THE TRUTH WHEN IT CAME TO THEM 
AND THESE HAVE NOT RECEIVED A TENTH OF WHAT WE GAVE THEM   
AND WHEN THEY REJECTED THE TRUTH SENT TO THEM
HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY REJECTION OF THEM 

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CHAPTER 34.  SHEBA                                                                       SECTION 6.  PART  XXII

46  SAY, I DO ADMONISH YOU ON ONE POINT THAT YOU EARNESTLY
STAND UP BEFORE GOD, IT MAY BE IN PAIRS OR IT MAY BE SINGULARLY 
AND REFLECT WITHIN YOURSELVES. YOUR COMPANION SURELY
IS NOT POSSESSED BUT ON THE CONTRARY HE IS CLEARLY
A WARNER TO YOU IN FACE OF A TERRIBLE PENALTY

47  SAY, NO REWARD DO I ASK OF YOU, IT IS ALL IN YOUR INTEREST
MY REWARD IS FROM GOD AND TO ALL THINGS HE IS THE WITNESS

48  SAY,  MY LORD CASTS THE MANTLE OF TRUTH OVER HIS SERVANTS 
AND HE HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THAT IS HIDDEN 

49  SAY, THE TRUTH HAS ARRIVED AND FALSEHOOD NEITHER 
CREATES ANYTHING NEW NOR RESTORES ANYTHING EITHER

50  SAY, IF I AM ASTRAY IT IS MY LOSS ONLY  
AND IF I RECEIVE GUIDANCE THEN IT IS SURELY
BECAUSE OF THE INSPIRATION OF MY LORD TO ME 
IT IS HE WHO HEARS AND KNOWS ALL THINGS INDEED

51  IF YOU COULD BUT SEE WHEN WITH HORROR THEY WILL QUAKE  
THEN THERE WILL BE FOR THEM NO ESCAPE 
AND THEY WILL BE SEIZED FROM A NEAR PLACE 

52  AND WE NOW BELIEVE THE TRUTH, THEY WILL SAY 
BUT HOW COULD THEY THEN RECEIVE FAITH 
FROM A POSITION SO FAR AWAY?

53  SEEING THAT THEY REJECTED FAITH PREVIOUSLY 
AND THAT THEY CAST SLANDERS CONTINUALLY 
ON THE UNSEEN FROM A FAR OFF LOCALITY

54  BETWEEN THEM AND THEIR DESIRES IS PLACED A BARRIER 
AS WAS DONE IN THE PAST WITH THEIR PREDECESSORS
ABOUT THAT IN WHICH THEY WERE DOUBTERS

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CHAPTER 35.  THE ORIGINATOR                                                  SECTION 1.  PART  XXII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO IS HEAVEN AND EARTH'S CREATOR 
AND MADE THE ANGELS MESSENGERS 
WITH WINGS, TWO OR THREE OR FOUR PAIRS 
HE ADDS TO CREATION ACCORDING TO HIS PLEASURE
FOR SURELY OVER ALL THING GOD HAS COMPLETE POWER

2  WHATEVER GOD GRANTS TO MEN THERE IS NONE TO WITHHOLD               
AND NONE CAN GRANT THAT WHICH HE WITHHOLDS 

AND HE IS SURELY
ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

3  OH MEN, CALL  TO MIND THE GRACE OF GOD 
IS THERE A GOD BESIDES GOD WHO GIVES SUSTENANCE TO YOU?
NO GOD IS THERE BUT HE, HOW THEN ARE YOU 
DELUDED AWAY FROM WHAT IS TRUE?

4  AND IF OF YOU THEY ARE REJECTERS 
THOSE BEFORE YOU REJECTED THEIR MESSENGERS
AND TO YOUR LORD GO BACK FOR DECISION ALL AFFAIRS

5  OH MEN, THE PROMISE OF GOD IS TRUE 
LET NOT THEN THIS PRESENT LIFE DECEIVE YOU 
NOR ABOUT GOD LET THE CHIEF DECEIVER DECEIVE YOU 

6   SATAN IS TO YOU AN ENEMY 
SO TREAT HIM AS AN ENEMY 

HE ONLY INVITES HIS FOLLOWERS
THAT THEY MAY BECOME COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE

7  FOR THOSE WHO REJECT GOD IS A TERRIBLE PENALTY 
BUT FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
GOD WILL FORGIVE THEM AND REWARD THEM MAGNIFICENTLY

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CHAPTER 35.  THE ORIGINATOR                                                  SECTION 2.  PART  XXII

8  IS HE TO WHOM HIS CONDUCT OF EVIL IS MADE ALLURING 
SO THAT HE LOOKS UPON IT AS FAIR SEEMING
EQUAL TO ONE WHO HAS RIGHT GUIDING?
FOR GOD LEAVES WHOM HE WILLS STRAYING
AND WHOM HE WILLS HE GIVES RIGHT GUIDING
SO LET NOT YOUR SOUL GO AFTER THEM SIGHING 
FOR YOUR LORD HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS

9  GOD SENDS THE WINDS FROM THE SKIES
SO THAT THEY RAISE UP THE CLOUDS THEREBY
AND WE DRIVE THEM TO A DEAD LAND AND REVIVE 
THE EARTH WITH IT AFTER IT DIES
SO WILL BE YOUR RISE AFTER YOU DIE

10  ANY WHO SEEK POWER AND GLORY 
TO GOD BELONGS ALL POWER AND GLORY
TO HIM MOUNT UP ALL WORDS OF PURITY
IT IS HE WHO EXALTS EACH RIGHTEOUS DEED 
AND THOSE THAT LAY PLOTS OF INIQUITY
FOR THEM IS A TERRIBLE PENALTY 
AND SUCH PLOTTING WILL BE VOID OF EFFICIENCY

11  YOU WERE MADE FROM DUST BY YOUR CREATOR    
THEN FROM A SPERM DROP THEN HE MADE YOU INTO PAIRS
NO FEMALE CONCEIVES OR DELIVERS BUT HE IS AWARE
NOR IS A MAN GRANTED LIFE LONGER OR SHORTER
BUT IT IS ALL ORDAINED FOR HIM PRIOR
AND THIS IS EASY FOR THE CREATOR

12  AND NOT ALIKE ARE THE TWO BODIES OF FLOWING WATER 
ONE PALATABLE, SWEET AND PLEASANT TO THE DRINKERS 
AND THE OTHER ONE IS SALTY AND BITTER
YET FROM EACH KIND OF WATER 
YOU EAT FLESH FRESH AND TENDER 
AND YOU EXTRACT ORNAMENTS TO WEAR 
AND YOU SEE THE SHIPS THAT SAIL THE WATERS 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY SEEK OF GOD'S TREASURES
AND IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY THANK GOD FOR HIS FAVORS

13  AND HE IT IS WHO MERGES NIGHT 
INTO DAY AND MERGES DAY INTO NIGHT 

TO HIS LAW, THE SUN AND THE MOON HE HAS SUBJECTED 
EACH ONE RUNS ITS COURSE FOR A TERM APPOINTED 

THIS IS GOD, YOUR LORD, TO HIM BELONGS ALL POWER
AND THOSE WHOM YOU CALL ON BESIDES HIM HAVE NO POWER

14  IF YOU CALL ON THEM THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO YOUR PRAYER
AND IF THEY WERE TO LISTEN THEY CANNOT ANSWER YOUR PRAYER
AND ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THEY WILL REJECT YOU AS A PARTNER 
AND NONE CAN TELL YOU THE TRUTH LIKE ONE WHO IS WISE AND AWARE

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15  OH YOU MEN, IT IS YOU THAT HAVE NEED OF GOD 
BUT FREE OF ALL WANTS AND PRAISEWORTHY IS GOD

16  IF HE SO PLEASED HE COULD REMOVE YOU 
AND BRING IN A NEW CREATION TO REPLACE YOU

17  NOR IS THAT DIFFICULT FOR GOD TO DO

18  NOR CAN A BEARER OF BURDENS 
BEAR ANOTHER’S BURDEN 
IF ONE HEAVILY LADEN 
SHOULD CALL ANOTHER TO BEAR HIS BURDEN 
NOT THE LEAST PORTION OF HIS BURDEN
CAN BE CARRIED BY ANOTHER PERSON 
EVEN IF HE BE OF NEAR RELATION 
AND YOU CAN ONLY GIVE ADMONITION
TO THOSE THAT FEAR GOD'S DESTRUCTION
SO ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION
WHOEVER PURIFIES HIMSELF BENEFITS HIS OWN PERSON
AND TO YOUR LORD AND SUSTAINER IS THE FINAL DESTINATION

19  THE BLIND AND THE SEEING ARE NOT ALIKE 

20  NOR ARE THE DEPTHS OF DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT

21  NOR IS THE CHILLY SHADE AND THE SUN'S HEAT ALIKE

22  NOR ARE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD ALIKE

AND GOD CAN MAKE ANY THAT HE WILLS TO HEAR 
BUT YOU CANNOT MAKE THOSE WHO ARE IN GRAVES TO HEAR

23  YOU ARE NOTHING OTHER 
THAN A PLAIN WARNER

24  SURELY WE HAVE SENT YOU IN TRUTH AS A BEARER 
OF GLAD TIDINGS AND AS A WARNER
AND THERE WAS NEVER A PEOPLE WITHOUT A WARNER
HAVING LIVED AMONG THEM EVER

25  IF THEY REJECT YOU, SO DID THEIR PREDECESSORS 
TO WHOM CAME TO THEM THEIR MESSENGERS 
WITH BOOKS OF DARK PROPHECIES AND SIGNS THAT WERE CLEAR
AND WITH THE BOOK OF ENLIGHTENMENT THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR

26  I PUNISHED THOSE WHO REJECTED FAITH WHEN IT CAME TO THEM 
AND HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY REJECTION OF THEM

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27  GOD SENDS DOWN FROM THE SKY THE RAIN WATERS
WITH WHICH WE BRING OUT PRODUCE OF VARIOUS COLORS             
THE MOUNTAINS HAVE TRACTS WHITE AND RED OF VARIOUS COLORS 
AND INTENSELY BLACK IN HUE ARE OTHERS

28  ALSO AMONG MEN AND CRAWLING CREATURES 
AND CATTLE THEY ARE OF VARIOUS COLORS 
THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE FEAR THE CREATOR
FOR HE IS EXALTED IN MIGHT AND THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER 

 29  AND THOSE WHO RECITE THE BOOK OF GOD CONSISTENTLY
AND WHO ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYER AND SPEND IN CHARITY 
OUT OF WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN THEM SECRETLY AND OPENLY 
THEY HOPE FOR A COMMERCE THAT LASTS ETERNALLY

30  FOR HE WILL REWARD THEM FOR THEIR GOOD DEEDS
AND GIVE THEM EVEN MORE OUT OF HIS BOUNTY 
FOR HE IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

31  THIS IS THE TRUTH THAT TO YOU WE HAVE REVEALED 
CONFIRMING WHAT CAME BEFORE IT WAS REVEALED 

FOR GOD IS WITH RESPECT TO HIS SERVANTS 
WELL ACQUAINTED AND FULLY OBSERVANT

32  THE BOOK WE HAVE GIVEN 
TO OUR SERVANTS WHOM WE HAVE CHOSEN 
BUT THERE ARE SOME WHO WRONG THEIR OWN PERSONS 
AND THERE ARE SOME WHO FOLLOW A MIDDLE DIRECTION
AND SOME WHO ARE FOREMOST IN RIGHT ACTIONS
AND THAT IS THE HIGHEST GRATIFICATION

33  THEY WILL ENTER THE PARADISE PROMISED TO THE RIGHTEOUS  
THEY WILL BE ADORNED WITH GOLD AND PEARL BRACELETS
AND SILK GARMENTS AS THEIR MODE OF DRESS

34  AND THEY WILL SAY, PRAISE BE TO OUR CREATOR
WHO INDEED HAS REMOVED FROM US ALL TERROR
FOR GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

35  AND WHO HAS OUT OF HIS BOUNTY SETTLED US 
IN A HOME THAT WILL LAST AND NO WEARINESS WILL TOUCH US 

36  BUT THOSE WHO REJECT GOD, FOR THEM WILL BE 
THE FIRE OF HELL AND NO TERM WILL BE 
DETERMINED FOR THEM TO DIE AND ITS PENALTY 
WILL NOT BE LIGHTENED FOR THEM IN ANY DEGREE
SO DO WE REWARD THOSE WHO ACT UNGRATEFULLY

37  THEREIN WILL THEY CRY OUT, OUR LORD, GIVE US MERCY. FROM YOU 
WE WILL WORK RIGHTEOUSNESS NOT THE DEEDS WE USED TO DO 
DID WE NOT GIVE LONG ENOUGH LIFE TO YOU
SO THAT YOU COULD RECEIVE THE ADMONITION SENT TO YOU?
AND MOREOVER THE WARNER CAME TO YOU 
SO TASTE THE FRUIT OF YOUR BEHAVIOR, THERE IS NO HELP FOR YOU

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CHAPTER 35.  THE ORIGINATOR                                                  SECTION 5.  PART  XXII

38  GOD KNOWS ALL THE THINGS HIDDEN
IN THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS
HE HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THAT IS IN 
THE INNERMOST HEARTS OF MEN

39  AND HE HAS MADE YOU INHERITORS OF HIS CREATION
IF THEN ANY DO REJECT GOD THEN THEIR REJECTION 
WORKS AGAINST THEM AND THEIR REJECTION 
BUT ADDS TO THEIR UNBELIEF AND THEIR REJECTION
IN THE SIGHT OF GOD IS ONLY AN ADDITION
TO THEIR OWN SELF DESTRUCTION

40  SAY, HAVE YOU SEEN THESE PARTNERS 
WHOM YOU CALL UPON BESIDES YOUR CREATOR?  
SHOW ME WHAT IN THE EARTH ARE THEY ORIGINATORS
OR IN THE HEAVENS HAVE THEY A SHARE? 
OR IS THERE GIVEN TO THEM A BOOK FROM WHERE 
THEY CAN DERIVE EVIDENCE CLEAR?  
NO, NOTHING BUT DELUSIONS PROMISE THE WRONG DOERS

41  IT IS GOD WHO SUSTAINS THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
OR ELSE THEY WOULD BOTH CEASE TO FUNCTION 
AND IF THEY WOULD FAIL THERE IS NONE
CAN SUSTAIN THEM THEREAFTER, AND GOD IS THE ONE
THE MOST MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING ONE

42  THEY SWORE BY GOD THAT IF CAME TO THEM A WARNER 
THAT THEY WOULD FOLLOW HIS GUIDANCE BETTER 
THAN ANY OF THE OTHER PEOPLE PRIOR
BUT WHEN CAME TO THEM A WARNER 
IT HAS ONLY INCREASED THEM IN ERROR

43  PLOTTING EVIL AND BEHAVING ARROGANTLY
BUT THEIR PLOTTING OF EVIL WILL HEM IN THEM ONLY 
NOW THEY ARE LOOKING FOR THE WAY OF THOSE PREVIOUSLY  
BUT NO CHANGE WILL THEY FIND IN GOD'S DECREE 
AND NO TURNING OFF WILL YOU FIND IN GOD'S DECREE 

44  DO THEY NOT TRAVEL THE EARTH OVER
TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE PRIOR 
FOR TO THEM THEY WERE IN STRENGTH SUPERIOR  
NOR IS GOD TO BE FRUSTRATED BY ANYTHING EVER
IN HEAVEN OR EARTH, FOR HE HAS ALL POWER

45  IF GOD PUNISHED MEN ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY DESERVE 
HE WOULD NOT LEAVE A SINGLE CREATURE ON THE EARTH 
BUT HE GIVES THEM RESPITE FOR A STATED TERM 
THEN WHEN COMES THE END OF THEIR TERM 

GOD IS OBSERVANT 
OF ALL HIS SERVANTS 

 

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CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                                        SECTION 1.  PART XXII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH MAN OF GOD

2  BY THE QURAN THAT MAKES THINGS CLEAR

3  YOU ARE INDEED ONE OF THE MESSENGERS

4  ON A WAY THAT IS SURE

5  IT IS A REVELATION SENT DOWN CLEARLY
BY ONE WHO IS MERCIFUL AND MIGHTY

6  IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY ADMONISH 
PEOPLE WHOSE FATHERS HAD NOT BEEN ADMONISHED
AND WHO THEREFORE REMAIN HEEDLESS OF GOD'S MESSAGES

7  THE WORD IS PROVED TRUE AGAINST THE GREATER 
PART OF THEM, FOR THEY ARE NOT BELIEVERS

8  WE HAVE PUT CHAINS ROUND THEIR NECKS RIGHT UP 
TO THEIR CHINS SO THAT THEIR HEADS ARE FORCED UP 

9  WE HAVE PUT A BARRIER IN FRONT OF THEM 
AND WE HAVE PUT A BARRIER BEHIND THEM 
AND FURTHER WE HAVE COVERED THEM 
SO NO VISION IS POSSESSED BY THEM

10  THE SAME IS IT TO THEM 
WHETHER YOU ADMONISH THEM 
OR YOU DO NOT ADMONISH THEM 
THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE MOST OF THEM

11  YOU CAN ONLY ADMONISH HE WHO FOLLOWS THE MESSAGES
AND FEARS GOD UNSEEN, TO HIM GIVE NEWS OF FORGIVENESS
AND A REWARD FROM GOD MOST GENEROUS

12  AND WE WILL GIVE LIFE TO THE DEAD AND WE ARE RECORDING
WHAT THEY SEND BEFORE AND THAT WHICH THEY ARE LEAVING
 AND WE HAVE TAKEN ALL THINGS INTO ACCOUNTING

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CHAPTER 36.  YA SIN                                                                        SECTION 2.  PART XXII

13  SET FORTH TO THEM THE STORY BY WAY OF A PARABLE 
OF THE COMPANIONS OF THE CITY, TO IT CAME APOSTLES 

14  WHEN WE FIRST SENT TO THEM TWO APOSTLES 
THEY REJECTED THEM SO WE SENT A THIRD APOSTLE
THEY SAID, WE HAVE BEEN SENT TO YOU AS APOSTLES

15  AND THE PEOPLE SAID, YOU ARE ONLY HUMAN BEINGS
AND OF REVELATION GOD HAS SENT BY YOU NOTHING
AND YOU ARE DOING NOTHING BUT LYING

16  THEY SAID, OUR LORD DOES KNOW THAT IT IS TRUE
WE HAVE BEEN SENT ON A MISSION TO YOU

17  AND OUR DUTY IS ONLY
TO DELIVER THE MESSAGE CLEARLY

18  THE PEOPLE SAID, FOR US WE AUGUR AN EVIL OMEN FROM YOU 
THEREFORE IF YOU DESIST NOT, WE WILL CERTAINLY STONE YOU
AND A GRIEVOUS PUNISHMENT WILL BE INFLICTED ON YOU 

19  THEY SAID, WITH YOURSELVES ARE YOUR EVIL OMENS 
AND WOULD YOU DEEM THIS AS AN EVIL OMEN 
THAT YOU WERE TO BE GIVEN ADMONITION? 
NO, YOU ARE PEOPLE IN TRANSGRESSION 

20  FROM THE FARTHEST PART OF THE CITY CAME  A MAN RUNNING
SAYING, OH MY PEOPLE, GIVE THE APOSTLES YOUR FOLLOWING

21  FOLLOW THOSE WHO ASK OF YOU NO REWARD  
AND WHO HAVE RECEIVED GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LORD 

PART XXIII

22  IT WOULD NOT BE REASONABLE FOR ME 
NOT TO SERVE AND WORSHIP HIM WHO CREATED ME 
AND TO WHOM YOU WILL RETURN TO EVENTUALLY

23  SHALL I TAKE OTHER GODS BESIDES GOD IN DIETY?
IF HE SHOULD INTEND FOR ME SOME ADVERSITY 
OF NO USE WILL THEIR INTERCESSION BE
NOR ARE THEY ABLE TO DELIVER ME

24  IF I WERE TO DO SO I WOULD BE 
IN CLEAR ERROR MANIFESTLY  
 
25  BELIEVE IN YOUR LORD, SO LISTEN TO ME

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