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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26  IT WAS SAID, ENTER THE GARDEN OF ETERNITY
HE SAID, IF MY PEOPLE KNEW WHAT IS KNOWN TO ME

27  FOR MY LORD HAS GRANTED FORGIVENESS TO ME
AND HAS PLACED ME AMONG THOSE HELD HONORABLY

28  AND WE SENT NOT DOWN UPON HIS PEOPLE AFTER
ANY HOST FROM HEAVEN NOR DO WE EVER

29  IT WAS NOTHING BUT A SINGLE BLAST SENT
AND THEY WERE QUENCHED AND SILENT

30  AS FOR MY SERVANTS THERE COMES NOT TO THEM 
A MESSENGER BUT HE IS MOCKED BY THEM

31  SEE HOW MANY GENERATIONS WE DESTROYED BEFORE THEM
THAT WILL NEVER RETURN TO THEM?

32  AND THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE US ALL OF THEM

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33  A SIGN FOR THEM IS THE DEAD EARTH THAT WE GIVE LIFE TO
AND PRODUCE GRAIN THEREFROM OF WHICH IS EATEN BY YOU

34  AND WE PRODUCE ORCHARDS WITH DATE-PALMS THEREIN
AND VINES AND WE CAUSE SPRINGS TO GUSH FORTH THEREIN

35  THAT THEY MAY ENJOY THE FRUITS OF THIS 
IT WAS NOT THEIR HANDS THAT MADE ANY OF THIS 
WILL THEY NOT THEN GIVE THANKS FOR ALL OF THIS?

36  GLORY TO GOD WHO CREATED IN PAIRS ALL THINGS 
THAT THE EARTH PRODUCES AS WELL AS THEIR OWN BEINGS
AND AS WELL AS OTHER THINGS OF WHICH THEY KNOW NOTHING

37  THERE IS A SIGN IN THE NIGHT, WE WITHDRAW FROM IT THE DAY
AND PLUNGED DEEPLY INTO DARKNESS ARE THEY

38  AND THE SUN HE RUNS HIS COURSE OBEDIENTLY
FOR A PERIOD DETERMINED FOR HIM PREVIOUSLY
THAT IS THE DECREE OF THE ALL MIGHTY

39  THE MOON WE HAVE MEASURED FOR HER MANSIONS TO TRAVERSE 
UNTIL SHE RETURNS LIKE A DATE STALK OLD AND WITHERED 

40  THE SUN CANNOT CATCH UP TO THE MOON NOR CAN THE DAY 
OUTSTRIP THE NIGHT, EACH ONE OF THEM STAYS
EACH IN ITS OWN INDIVIDUAL WAYS 

41  AND A SIGN FOR THEM IS THAT THEIR RACE WE BORE 
THROUGH THE FLOOD IN THE LOADED ARK BEFORE

42  AND WE HAVE CREATED FOR THEM 
SIMILAR VESSELS AND THEY RIDE ON THEM

43  IF IT WERE OUR WILL WE COULD DROWN THEM
THEN THERE WOULD BE NO ONE TO HEAR THEM
NOR TO HELP THEM OR TO DELIVER THEM

44  EXCEPT BY WAY OF OUR MERCY AND BY WORLDLY
CONVENIENCE TO SERVE THEM TEMPORARILY

45  WHEN THEY ARE TOLD, FEAR THAT WHICH IS BEFORE YOU 
AND ALSO THAT WHICH WILL BE COMING AFTER YOU 
IN ORDER THAT MERCY MAY BE SHOWN TO YOU

46  NOT A SIGN FROM GOD COMES TO THEM 
BUT THEY TURN AWAY FROM THEM

47  AND WHEN THEY ARE TOLD, SPEND OF THE BOUNTY 
WITH WHICH YOUR LORD HAS PROVIDED YOU FREELY
THE DISBELIEVERS SAY TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE
WILL WE THEN BE THE ONES TO FEED 
THOSE WHOM IF GOD WILLED HE WOULD FEED
YOU ARE IN MANIFEST ERROR INDEED

48  AND THEY SAY, WHEN WILL THIS PROMISE COME TRUE
IF THAT WHICH YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE

49  THEY WILL NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANYTHING 
IT WILL SEIZE THEM WHILE THEY ARE DISPUTING 

50  NO CHANCE WILL THERE BE TO DISPOSE OF THEIR AFFAIRS
NOR WILL THEY RETURN TO THEIR FAMILIES THEREAFTER

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51  THE TRUMPET WILL BE SOUNDED WHEN MEN
FROM THEIR GRAVES TO THEIR LORD THEY WILL HASTEN

52  THEN THEY WILL SAY, WOE UNTO US 
UP FROM OUR BEDS OF REST WHO HAS RAISED US?  
SURELY THIS IS WHAT OUR LORD HAS PROMISED TO US
AND THE MESSENGERS DID INDEED TELL THE TRUTH TO US

53  IT WILL BE A SINGLE CRY BUT NO MORE 
AND TO US THEY WILL BE BROUGHT UP BEFORE 

54  AND NO SOUL WILL BE WRONGED THAT DAY IN THE LEAST
AND YOU THEN WILL ALL BE REPAID ALL OF THE MEADS 
OF ALL OF YOUR EARNINGS OF ALL OF YOUR DEEDS

55  THAT DAY THE GARDEN'S COMPANIONS 
WILL HAVE A HAPPY OCCUPATION

56  THEY AND THEIR ASSOCIATES WILL BE 
IN SHADES RECLINING ON THRONES OF DIGNITY

57  EVERY FRUIT OF ENJOYMENT WILL BE THERE FOR THEM 
THEY WILL HAVE WHATEVER IS DESIRED BY THEM

58  PEACE, A WORD FROM A LORD MOST MERCIFUL TO THEM

59  AND THE SINNERS, GET AWAY, IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM 

60  DID I NOT ENJOIN YOU, OH CHILDREN OF ADAM
THAT YOU SHOULD NOT BE WORSHIPERS OF SATAN?
FOR HE IS AN ENEMY TO YOU FOR CERTAIN 

61  AND THAT YOU SHOULD WORSHIP ONLY ME 
FOR THIS IS THE STRAIGHT WAY INDEED?

62  BUT HE MISLEAD A GREAT MULTITUDE OF YOU 
WAS THIS NOT THEN UNDERSTOOD BY YOU?

63  THIS IS THE HELL OF WHICH WE WARNED YOU 

64  EMBRACE THE FIRE THIS DAY FOR THAT YOU 
PERSISTENTLY REJECTED THE TRUTH

65  THAT DAY THEIR MOUTHS WILL BE SEALED BY US
BUT THEIR HANDS AND FEET WILL SPEAK TO US 

66  WE COULD HAVE PUT OUT THEIR EYES IF WE PLEASED 
AND THEN THEY WOULD HAVE RUN ABOUT GROPINGLY
HOW THEN WOULD THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SEE?

67  IF WE WISH WE COULD TRANSFORM THEM IN THEIR PLACES
THEN THEY COULD NOT MOVE FORWARD OR BACKWARDS 

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68  IF WE GRANT LONG LIFE TO ANYONE
WE CAUSE HIM TO BE REVERSED IN CREATION
WHY WILL THEY NOT THEN GAIN COMPREHENSION?

69  WE HAVE NOT TAUGHT POETRY TO THE MESSENGER
THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A REMINDER
AND A QURAN MAKING THINGS CLEAR

70  THAT IT MAY GIVE ADMONITION TO ANY WHO ARE ALIVE
AND THAT THE CHARGE MAY BE PROVED AGAINST THOSE WHO LIED 

71  DO THEY NOT SEE THAT IT IS WE WHO HAVE CREATED FOR THEM 
AMONG THE THINGS WHICH OUR HANDS FASHIONED FOR THEM 
CATTLE WHICH ARE UNDER THE DOMINION OF THEM?

72  AND TO THEIR USE WE HAVE SUBJECTED THEM 
SOME THEY EAT AND SOME OF THEM CARRY THEM 

73  THEY HAVE OTHER PROFITS BESIDES FROM THEM 
FOR THEY GET PURE MILK TO DRINK FROM THEM
WILL GRATITUDE NOT BE SHOWN BY THEM?

74  YET THEY TAKE FOR WORSHIP GODS OTHER THAN GOD 
HOPING THAT THEY MIGHT BE HELPED BY THOSE SO CALLED GODS

75  THEY HAVE NOT THE POWER TO HELP THEM IN THE LEAST
BUT THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE OUR JUDGMENT SEAT 
AS A TROOP TO BE CONDEMNED BY US COMPLETELY

76  LET NOT THEIR SPEECH GRIEVE YOU
WE KNOW WHAT THEY SECRETLY DO
AS WELL AS WHAT THEY OPENLY DO

77  WE CREATED MAN FROM A SPERM DROP HUMBLY  
YET HE STANDS FORTH AS AN OPEN ADVERSARY

78  AND HE MAKES FOR US COMPARISONS 
AND FORGETS HIS OWN ORIGINATION  
HE SAYS, WHO CAN GIVE TO DRY BONES RESURRECTION 
AND EVEN BONES IN DECOMPOSITION?

79  SAY, HE WHO GAVE THEM LIFE IN THEIR FIRST CREATION 
FOR HE IS THE KNOWER OF ALL CREATION

80  THE SAME WHO PRODUCES FOR YOU FIRE 
OUT OF THE GREEN TREE WHICH YOU KINDLE FOR FIRES

81  IS NOT HE WHO CREATED THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
THEREFORE ABLE TO ALSO RECREATE THE LIKE OF MEN?  
YES, FOR HE IS THE KNOWER OF ALL THAT IS THEREIN

82  HIS COMMAND WHEN HE INTENDS A THING IS
ONLY THAT HE SAYS TO IT, BE, AND IT IS

83  SO GLORY TO HIM IN WHOSE HANDS IS ALL THINGS
AND TO HIM YOU WILL ALL BE RETURNING

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CHAPTER 37.  THOSE RANGED IN RANKS                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THOSE WHO RANGE
THEMSELVES IN RANKS

2  AND THOSE WHO RESTRAIN
HOLDING IN RESTRAINT

3  AND THOSE WHO ARE RECITERS 
OF THE REMINDER

4  SURELY YOUR GOD
IS ONE GOD

5  LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND EVERYTHING 
BETWEEN THEM AND LORD OF EVERYTHING
THAT IS WITHIN THE SUN'S RISING

6  WITH THE STARS WE HAVE DECORATIVELY
DECKED THE LOWER HEAVEN WITH BEAUTY  

7  AND TO GUARD IT
AGAINST ALL EVIL SPIRITS

8   THE EXALTED ASSEMBLY, THEY CANNOT LISTEN TO IT
AND FROM EVERY SIDE THEY ARE CAST AWAY FROM IT

9  THEY ARE UNDER A PENALTY AND DRIVEN OFF FROM IT

10  EXCEPT THOSE WHO SNATCH AWAY SOMETHING BY STEALING 
AND THEY ARE PURSUED BY A FIRE  FLAMING

11  JUST ASK THEM, ARE THEY THE MORE DIFFICULT TO CREATE
OR THE OTHER BEINGS WE CREATE? 
OUT OF STICKY CLAY THEM DID WE CREATE

12  DO YOU MARVEL WHILE THEY MAKE MOCKERY?

13  AND WHEN THEY ARE ADMONISHED THEY PAY NO HEED

14  AND WHEN THEY SEE A SIGN TURN IT INTO MOCKERY

15  AND SAY, THIS IS NOTHING BUT SORCERY

16  WHEN WE DIE AND BECOME BONES DRY AND DUSTY 
WILL WE THEN BE RAISED UP AGAIN REALLY?

17  AND ALSO OUR FATHERS OF OLD INDEED?

18  SAY, YES, AND YOU WILL BE HUMILIATED COMPLETELY

19  THEN IT WILL BE A SINGLE CRY AND THEY WILL SEE

20  THEN THEY WILL SAY 
WOE TO US THIS IS THE JUDGMENT DAY

21  A VOICE WILL SAY, THIS IS THE DAY OF SORTING OUT 
WHOSE TRUTH YOU WERE ONCE IN DENIAL ABOUT

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22  IT WILL BE SAID, BRING UP THE WRONG DOERS 
AND THEIR WIVES AND THE THINGS THEY SERVED

23  BESIDES GOD AND LEAD THEM TO THE FIRE

24  BUT STOP THEM 
FOR IT MUST BE ASKED OF THEM

25  WHAT IS THE MATTER THAT YOU HELP NOT EACH OTHER?

26  NAY, BUT TO JUDGEMENT THAT DAY THEY WILL BE SUBMITTERS  

27  THEY WILL TURN TO ONE ANOTHER
AND THEY WILL QUESTION EACH OTHER

28  THEY WILL SAY, YOU USED TO PRIOR
COME TO US FROM THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER

29  THEY WILL REPLY, NO INDEED
YOU YOURSELVES DISBELIEVED

30  NOR HAD WE ANY AUTHORITY OVER YOU PEOPLE
IT WAS YOU WHO WERE REBELLIOUS AND EVIL 

31  NOW HAS BEEN PROVED TRUE AGAINST US THE WORD OF GOD 
THAT WE WILL HAVE TO TASTE THE PUNISHMENT OF GOD

32  WE LED YOU ASTRAY 
FOR WE WERE OURSELVES ASTRAY

33  THAT DAY THEY WILL EQUALLY 
ALL SHARE IN THE PENALTY

34  THAT IS HOW WE WILL JUSTLY
DEAL WITH THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY

35  FOR THEY BEHAVED ARROGANTLY
WHEN THEY WERE TOLD THERE WAS ONE GOD ONLY

36  AND SAID, WILL WE GIVE UP THE GOD'S WE WORSHIP 
FOR THE SAKE OF A MAD POET?

37  NO, HE HAS COME WITH A MESSAGE CLEAR 
CONFIRMING THE MESSAGE OF THE FORMER MESSENGERS 

38  YOU WILL SURELY
TASTE THE GRIEVOUS PENALTY

39  BUT IT WILL BE NO MORE THAN THE RETRIBUTION
FOR THE EVIL THAT YOU HAVE DONE

40  BUT THE SINCERE AND DEVOTED SERVANTS OF GOD 

41  FOR THEM IS A SUSTENANCE DETERMINED FROM GOD

42  FRUITS AND DELIGHTS THAT THEY WILL HAPPILY
ENJOY IN HONOR AND DIGNITY

43  IN GARDENS OF FELICITY

44  FACING EACH OTHER ON THRONES OF DIGNITY

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45  PASSED ROUND TO THEM WILL BE ADDITIONALLY 
A CUP FROM A FOUNTAIN FLOWING CLEARLY

46  CRYSTAL WHITE AND IT TASTES DELICIOUS 
TO THOSE WHO DRINK IT FOR SUSTENANCE

47  IT DEPRIVES NOT OF REASON
NOR WILL THEY SUFFER INTOXICATION 

48  AND BESIDES THEM WILL BE CHASTE LADIES
MODEST IN GAZE WITH EYES OF BEAUTY

49  AS IF THEY WERE DELICATE EGGS GUARDED CLOSELY

50  THEN THEY WILL TURN TO EACH OTHER 
AND THEY WILL QUESTION ONE ANOTHER

51  THEY WILL START TO TALK AND IT WILL BE SAID BY ONE
I HAD ON THE EARTH AN INTIMATE COMPANION 

52  WHO USED TO SAY TO ME, ARE YOU 
AMONG THOSE WHO BEAR WITNESS TO THE TRUTH? 

53  WHEN WE DIE AND BECOME BONES DRY AND DUSTY
WILL WE THEN RECEIVE REWARDS AND PENALTIES?

54  A VOICE SAID, WOULD YOU LIKE TO LOOK DOWN? 

55  HE SAW HIMSELF IN THE FIRE WHEN HE LOOKED DOWN

56  BY GOD, SAID HE
YOU NEARLY RUINED ME

57  HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR MY LORD'S GRACE 
I WOULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO THAT PLACE

58  IS IT THE CASE THAT WE WILL NOT PERISH?

59  EXCEPT FOR OUR FIRST DEATH AND WE WILL NOT BE PUNISHED?

60  SURELY THIS IS THE SUPREME SUCCESS

61  FOR THE LIKE OF THIS LET ALL STRIVE
ALL OF THOSE WHO WISH TO STRIVE

62  IS THAT THE BETTER ENTERTAINMENT OR THE CURSED TREE?

63  FOR WE HAVE MADE IT A TRIAL FOR THOSE WHO ACT WRONGFULLY

64  IT IS A TREE THAT SPRINGS OUT OF THE BOTTOM OF HELL 

65  THE SHOOTS OF ITS FRUIT STALKS ARE EVIL
AND ARE LIKE THE HEADS OF DEVILS

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66  THEY WILL EAT FROM IT
AND FILL THEIR BELLIES FROM IT

67  THEN THEY WILL BE GIVEN A MIXTURE
MADE OF BOILING WATER

68  THEN WILL THEIR RETURN BE TO THE BLAZING FIRE

69  THEY FOUND THEIR FATHERS ON THE WRONG WAY

70  SO THEY TOO WERE RUSHED DOWN ON THEIR PATHWAYS

71  AND BEFORE THEM MANY OF THE ANCIENTS WENT ASTRAY

72  BUT WE SENT BEFORE AMONG THEM 
APOSTLES TO ADMONISH THEM

73  THEN SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO INDEED
WERE ADMONISHED BUT DID NOT HEED

74  EXCEPT GOD'S SERVANTS 
SINCERE AND OBEDIENT

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75  NOAH CRIED TO US AND OF PRAYERS
WE ARE THE BEST OF HEARERS

76  AND WE DELIVERED HIM AND HIS FAMILY
FROM THE GREAT CALAMITY

77  AND MADE SURVIVORS OF HIS PROGENY

78  AND WE LEFT THIS BLESSING FOR HIM
AMONG GENERATIONS COMING AFTER HIM

79  PEACE AND SALUTATIONS 
TO NOAH AMONG THE NATIONS

80  SO DO WE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

81  FOR HE WAS ONE OF THE BELIEVING ONES

82  THEN WE DROWNED THE OTHER ONES

83  AND OF THOSE WHO FOLLOWED HIS WAYS ABRAHAM WAS ONE

84  HE CAME TO HIS LORD AS A PURIFIED ONE

85  HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE AND TO HIS FATHER 
WHAT IS THIS OF WHICH YOU ARE WORSHIPPERS?

86  IS IT FALSE GODS YOU DESIRE OTHER THAN GOD?

87  THEN WHAT IS YOUR IDEA ABOUT GOD?

88  THEN HE CAST A GLANCE AT THE STARS

89  AND HE SAID, I AM SICK AT HEART

90  SO THEY TURNED AWAY FROM HIM AND DID DEPART

91  THEN HE TURNED TO THEIR GODS AND SAID, WILL YOU 
NOT EAT OF THE OFFERINGS BEFORE YOU?

92  AND YOU SPEAK NOT, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? 

93  THEN DID HE TURN UPON THEM 
AND WITH HIS RIGHT HAND HE STRUCK THEM

94  THEN CAME THE WORSHIPPERS TOWARDS HIM
WITH HURRIED STEPS AND FACED HIM

95  HE SAID, ARE THINGS WORSHIPPED BY YOU 
THAT HAVE BEEN CARVED OUT BY YOU?

96  BUT GOD HAS CREATED YOUR HANDIWORK AND YOU

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97  THEY SAID, BUILD A FURNACE FOR HIM
AND INTO THE BLAZING FIRE THROW HIM

98  THIS FAILING THEY SOUGHT AGAINST HIM A STRATAGEM 
BUT WE MADE THE ONES MOST HUMILIATED TO BE THEM

99  HE SAID, I WILL GO TO MY LORD 
AND I WILL BE GUIDED BY MY LORD

100  OH MY LORD, GRANT TO ME A RIGHTEOUS SON 

101  WE GAVE HIM GOOD NEWS OF A RIGHTEOUS SON 

102  WHEN HE REACHED THE AGE TO WORK WITH HIS SON
HE SAID, OH MY SON, I SEE IN A VISION 
THAT IN SACRIFICE I OFFER YOU, WHAT IS YOUR OPINION? 
HE SAID, OH MY FATHER, ACT ON YOUR INSTRUCTION
IF GOD PLEASES HE WILL FIND ME A PATIENT ONE 

103  WHEN THEY HAD SUBMITTED TO GOD AND HE HAD LAID HIM 
PROSTRATE ON HIS FOREHEAD TO SACRIFICE HIM

104  OH ABRAHAM, WE CALLED OUT TO HIM

105  YOU HAVE FULFILLED THE VISION ALREADY
SO DO WE REWARD THOSE WHO DO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

106  FOR THIS WAS A TRIAL OBVIOUSLY FOR HIM

107  AND WITH A SACRIFICE WE RANSOMED HIM

108  WE GRANTED HIM THE SALUTATION
AMONG THE LATER GENERATIONS

109  TO ABRAHAM PEACE AND SALUTATIONS

110  SO DO WE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

111  SURELY OF OUR SERVANTS HE WAS ONE

112  WE GAVE HIM NEWS OF ISAAC A PROPHET, A TRUE ONE

113  WE BLESSED HIM AND ISAAC AND OF THEIR PROGENY
SOME ARE DOERS OF GOOD BUT SOME ACTED UNJUSTLY 

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114  TO MOSES AND AARON WE TURNED FAVORABLY

115  AND DELIVERED THEM AND THEIR PEOPLE FROM THE CALAMITY 

116  WE HELPED THEM SO THEY OVERCAME THEIR DIFFICULTIES

117  WE GAVE THEM THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THINGS CLEARLY

118  AND WE GUIDED THEM ON THE RIGHT WAY INDEED

119  AND GRANTED THEM THE SALUTATION
AMONG LATER GENERATIONS

120  PEACE AND SALUTATIONS 
TO MOSES AND AARON

121  SO DO WE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

122  FOR OF OUR SERVANTS THEY WERE BELIEVING ONES

123  ALSO WAS ELIAS AMONG THOSE SENT BY THE CREATOR 

124  HE SAID TO HIS PEOPLE, WILL YOU NOT FEAR YOUR MAKER?

125  WILL YOU CALL UPON BAAL AND FORSAKE THE BEST CREATOR? 

126  GOD YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
AND THE LORD AND CHERISHER
OF YOUR FORE FATHERS

127  BUT THEY REJECTED HIM AND THEY WILL CERTAINLY 
BE CALLED UP FOR THE PENALTY

128  EXCEPT THOSE WHO SERVE GOD SINCERELY 

129  AND WE LEFT THIS SALUTATION
AMONG LATER GENERATIONS

130  TO ELIAS PEACE AND SALUTATIONS

131  SO DO WE REWARD THE RIGHTEOUS ONES

132  FOR OF OUR BELIEVING SERVANTS HE WAS ONE

133  ALSO WAS LOT AMONG THOSE SENT BY THE CREATOR

134  HIM AND ALL HIS FOLLOWERS WERE DELIVERED 

135  EXCEPT AN OLD WOMAN WHO IT WAS ORDERED
TO BE AMONG THOSE WHO REMAINED AFTER

136  THEN DID WE DESTROY THE OTHERS

137  YOU PASS BY THEIR SITES IN THE MORNINGS

138  AND YOU PASS BY THEM IN THE EVENINGS
WILL YOU NOT THEN HAVE UNDERSTANDING?

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139  SO WAS JONAH AMONG THOSE SENT 

140  WHEN HE RAN AWAY TO THE SHIP FULLY LADEN

141  HE CAST LOTS AND WAS CONDEMNED

142  THE BIG FISH SWALLOWED HIM AND HE COMMITTED SIN 

143  HAD HE NOT GLORIFIED GOD AND DID REPENT

144  HE WOULD HAVE STAYED IN THE FISH UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

145  BUT WE CAST HIM ON THE SHORE'S NAKEDNESS 
IN A HUMILIATING STATE OF SICKNESS

146  WE CAUSED TO GROW OVER HIM A SPREADING PLANT OF GOURD 

147  AND WE SENT HIM TO A HUNDRED THOUSAND OR MORE

148  AND THEY BELIEVED TRULY
SO WE PERMITTED THEM TO ENJOY THEIR DESTINY

149  NOW ASK THEM THEIR OPINION 
DOES GOD HAVE DAUGHTERS AND THEY HAVE SONS?

150  OR THAT WE CREATED THE ANGELS AS FEMALE BEINGS
AND OF THIS DO THEY BEAR WITNESSING?

151  IS IT NOT THAT THEY FROM THEIR OWN INVENTION SAY THIS?

152  GOD HAS BEGOTTEN CHILDREN THEY BUT LIE ABOUT THIS

153  THEN DID HE CHOOSE DAUGHTERS RATHER THAN SONS?

154  WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU THAT YOU MADE THIS DECISION

155  WILL YOU NOT THEN RECEIVE ADMONITION?

156  OR HAVE YOU A MANIFEST DOCUMENTATION?

157  IF YOU ARE TRUTHFUL THEN BRING YOUR DOCUMENTATION

158  THEY ASSERT A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIM AND THE DEMONS 
BUT THE DEMONS KNOW THEY WILL RETURN TO HIM FOR DECISION

159  GLORY TO GOD HE IS FREE FROM THEIR ASSERTIONS 

160  NOT SO GOD'S SERVANTS THE PURIFIED ONES

161  FOR NEITHER YOU NOR THOSE YOU SERVE IN DEVOTION

162  CAN LEAD ANY CONCERNING GOD INTO TEMPTATION

163  EXCEPT THOSE WHO THE FIRE IS THEIR DESTINATION

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CHAPTER 37.  THOSE RANGED IN RANKS              SECTION 5 (CONT'D).  PART XXIII

164  THOSE RANGED IN RANKS SAY, WE ALL HAVE A POSITION

165  AND WE ARE RANGED IN RANKS FOR SERVICE TRULY

166  AND WE ARE THOSE WHO DECLARE GOD'S GLORY

167  AND THERE WERE THOSE WHO SAID, SURELY

168  IF WE HAD BEFORE FROM THOSE OF OLD A REMINDER CLEARLY

169  WE WOULD HAVE BEEN SERVANTS OF GOD DEVOTED SINCERELY

170  BUT NOW THE QURAN HAS COME AND THEY DISBELIEVE
SOON WILL THEY COME TO KNOW TRUTHFULLY

171  OUR WORD CAME BEFORE TO OUR MESSENGERS ALREADY 

172  THAT THEY WOULD BE ASSISTED WITH CERTAINTY

173  AND THAT OUR FORCES MUST CONQUER INEVITABLY

174  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM TEMPORARILY

175  AND WATCH THEM HOW THEY FARE 
AND THEY SOON WILL SEE HOW YOU FARE

176  DO THEY WISH TRULY
TO HURRY ON OUR PENALTY?

177  BUT WHEN IT DESCENDS TO THEM THE MORNING WILL INDEED
BE EVIL FOR THOSE WHO WERE WARNED AND DID NOT HEED

178  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM TEMPORARILY

179  AND WATCH THEM AND SOON THEY WILL SEE

180  GLORY TO GOD, THE LORD OF HONOR AND POWER  
HE IS FREE FROM WHAT THEY ASCRIBE TO HIM AS PARTNERS

181  AND PEACE BE UPON THE MESSENGERS

182  PRAISE BE TO GOD, THE CHERISHER

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CHAPTER 38.  SAD                                                                             SECTION 1.  PART XXIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  TRUTHFUL GOD

BY THE QURAN FULL OF ADMONITION

2  THE DISBELIEVERS ARE IN SELF GLORY AND OPPOSITION

3  WE DESTROYED COUNTLESS GENERATIONS
BEFORE THEM, IN THE END THEY CRIED FOR COMPASSION 
WHEN THERE WAS NO TIME FOR BEING SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION

4  THEY WONDER THAT HAS COME FROM AMONG THEM A WARNER 
BUT THE DISBELIEVERS SAY, THIS IS A LYING SORCERER 

5  HAS HE MADE THE GODS ALL INTO ONE DIETY 
THIS IS A STRANGE THING INDEED

6  AND THE LEADERS AMONG THEM GO AWAY IMPATIENTLY
SAYING, WALK AWAY AND REMAIN TRUE TO YOUR DIETIES  
FOR THIS IS A THING DESIGNED AGAINST YOU SURELY

7  WE NEVER HEARD THE LIKE OF THIS FORMERLY AMONG THE PEOPLE 
THIS IS NOTHING BUT A MADE UP FABLE

8  OF ALL PERSONS AMONG US THE MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT TO HIM? 
BUT MY OWN MESSAGE IS INDEED DOUBTED BY THEM
AND MY PENALTY HAS NOT BEEN TASTED BY THEM

9  OR HAVE THEY THE TREASURES
OF GOD'S MERCY, THE EXALTED IN POWER 
THE GRANTOR OF BOUNTIES WITHOUT MEASURE?

10  OR HAVE THEY THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 

AND ALL BETWEEN? 
IF SO LET THEM ASCEND UP TO IT WITH MEANS 

11  BUT THERE WILL BE PUT TO FLIGHT 
EVEN A HOST OF ALLIES

12  BEFORE THEM WERE MANY PEOPLE WHO REJECTED APOSTLES 
NOAH'S PEOPLE AND AD'S PEOPLE AND PHARAOH AND HIS PEOPLE

13  AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE AND THE COMPANIONS OF THE WOOD 
AND LOT'S PEOPLE, THEY WERE CONFEDERATES IN OPPOSITION TO GOOD

14  ALL OF THEM WERE REJECTERS OF THE MESSENGERS
SO MY PUNISHMENT CAME TO THEM IN A JUST MANNER

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CHAPTER 38.  SAD                                                                             SECTION 2.  PART XXIII

15  THESE ONLY WAIT FOR A SINGLE BLAST DAY TO DAY
WHEN IT COMES THAT DAY THERE WILL BE NO DELAY

16  THEY SAY, OUR LORD HASTEN TO US OUR SENTENCING
EVEN BEFORE THE DAY OF RECKONING

17  HAVE PATIENCE AT WHAT THEY SAY AND REMEMBER 
OUR SERVANT DAVID THE MAN OF POWER 
HE TURNED TO GOD IN ALL MATTERS

18  IT WAS WE THAT MADE THE HILLS SUBJECT TO HIS ORDERING 
GLORIFYING GOD AT NIGHTFALL AND MORNING 

19  AND THE BIRDS GATHERED WITH HIM
AND TURNED TO GOD WITH HIM

20  WE STRENGTHENED HIS KINGDOM AND GAVE HIM WISDOM 
AND SOUND JUDGMENT IN SPEECH AND DECISION

21  HAS THE STORY REACHED YOU OF THE OPPOSERS?
THEY CLIMBED OVER THE WALL OF THE PRIVATE CHAMBER

22  AND INTO THE PRESENCE OF DAVID THEY ENTERED 
WHEN HE SAW THEM HE WAS FILLED WITH TERROR 
THEY SAID, FEAR NOT WE ARE TWO DISPUTERS
ONE OF WHOM HAS WRONGED THE OTHER 

DECIDE NOW BETWEEN US WITH TRUTH AND TREAT US 
NOT WITH INJUSTICE BUT TO THE RIGHT WAY GUIDE US 

23  THIS MAN IS MY BROTHER MY MOTHERS SON
HE HAS NINETY-NINE SHEEP AND I HAVE ONLY ONE
YET HE SPEAKS TO ME AND SAYS, GIVE ME YOUR ONE

24  DAVID SAID, HE HAS WRONGED YOU DEMANDING YOUR SINGLE SHEEP 
TO BE ADDED TO HIS FLOCK OF SHEEP 

MANY PARTNERS IN BUSINESS WRONG EACH OTHER 
NOT SO DO BELIEVERS AND RIGHTEOUS DOERS
AND THEYARE FEW AND DAVID GATHERED 

THAT WE HAD TRIED HIM AND HE ASKED FORGIVENESS OF GOD
AND FELL DOWN BOWING IN PROSTRATION AND TO GOD 

25  SO WE FORGAVE HIM THIS 
HE ENJOYED TO US A NEARNESS
AND A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OF FINAL BLISS

26  OH DAVID, WE DID MAKE YOU A RULER
SO JUDGE IN TRUTH AND FOLLOW NOT YOUR DESIRES
FOR THEY WILL MISLEAD YOU FROM THE WAY OF YOUR CREATOR
FOR THOSE WHO FROM GOD'S WAY WANDER 
ON JUDGMENT DAY THEIRS IS A PENALTY THAT IS SEVERE

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27  AND NOT WITHOUT PURPOSE DID WE CREATE HEAVEN AND EARTH
AND ALL BETWEEN BUT THAT IS THE THOUGHT OF DISBELIEVERS 
BUT WOE TO THE DISBELIEVERS BECAUSE OF THE FIRE 

28  WILL WE TREAT THOSE WHO BELIEVE
THE SAME AS WE TREAT THOSE WHO DO EVIL DEEDS?
WILL WE TREAT THOSE WHO GUARD AGAINST EVIL DEEDS
IN THE SAME MANNER AS WE TREAT THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE?

29  HERE IS A BOOK WE HAVE SENT FULL OF BLESSINGS  
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY MEDITATE ON ITS MEANINGS 
AND THAT MEN OF UNDERSTANDING MAY RECEIVE WARNING
 
30  WE GAVE SOLOMON TO DAVID AS HIS PROGENY 
HOW EXCELLENT IN OUR SERVICE WAS HE
AND HE TURNED TO US REPEATEDLY

31  THERE WAS BROUGHT BEFORE HIM AT EVENING 
SWIFT HORSES OF THE HIGHEST BREEDING 

32  HE SAID, I LOVE THE LOVE OF THINGS GODLY 
AND WITH A VIEW TO GOD'S GLORY 

UNTIL THE SUN WAS HIDDEN OVER 
IN THE VEIL OF NIGHT'S COVER

33  HE SAID, BRING THEM BACK TO ME 
THEN HE PASSED HIS HAND OVER THEIR LEGS AND NECKS GENTLY

34  AND WE TRIED SOLOMON PLACING ON HIS THRONE A BODY 
WITHOUT LIFE BUT HE DID TURN TO US SINCERELY

35  HE SAID, OH MY LORD, PLEASE DO FORGIVE ME
AND GRANT ME A KINGDOM WHICH IT MAY BE
SUITS NOT ANOTHER AFTER ME 

FOR YOU ARE THE GRANTOR 
OF BOUNTIES WITHOUT MEASURE

36  AND WE SUBJECTED THE WIND TO HIS POWER 
TO FLOW GENTLY WHERE EVER HE PLEASED TO HIS ORDER

37  AS ALSO THE DEVILS INCLUDING EVERY KIND OF BUILDER 
AND IN ADDITION TO EVERY KIND OF DIVER

38  AS ALSO OTHERS BOUND IN FETTERS

39  THESE ARE OUR BOUNTIES AND WHETHER YOU 
BESTOW THEM FREELY ON OTHERS OR WHETHER YOU
WITHHOLD THEM NO ACCOUNT WILL BE ASKED OF YOU

40  AND HE ENJOYED TO US A NEARNESS 
AND A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OF FINAL BLISS

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41  REMEMBER OUR SERVANT JOB WHEN HE DESPERATELY 
CRIED TO HIS LORD, THE DEVIL HAS AFFLICTED ME 
WITH SEVERE DISTRESS AND ADVERSITY

42  THE COMMAND WAS GIVEN, STRIKE THE ROCK HERE IS WATER 
TO WASH AND COOL AND REFRESHING DRINKING WATER 

43  WE GAVE HIM BACK HIS PEOPLE DOUBLING THEIR NUMBER
AS A GRACE FROM OURSELVES AND A THING TO REMEMBER 
FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE UNDERSTANDING CLEAR

44  AND TAKE IN YOUR HAND A FEW WORLDLY GOODS
AND EARN GOODNESS AND INCLINE NOT TO FALSEHOOD

A MOST EXCELLENT SERVANT AND PATIENT WAS HE
AND HE TURNED TO US REPEATEDLY

45  OUR SERVANTS ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB, REMEMBER  
THEY WERE ALL POSSESSORS OF VISION AND POWER 

46  WE CHOSE THEM AS PROCLAIMERS 
OF THE MESSAGE OF THE HEREAFTER

47  THEY WERE IN OUR SIGHT TRULY 
OF THE ELECT AND THE GOOD COMPANY

48  AND REMEMBER ISHMAEL AND ELISHA AND ZUL-KIFL 
EACH OF THEM WAS OF THOSE WHO WERE GRATEFUL

49  THIS IS A MESSAGE OF ADMONITION AND WARNING
FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OF FINAL DWELLING

50  IN GARDENS OF ETERNITY 
WHOSE DOORS WILL BE OPEN TO THEM ETERNALLY 

51  THERE WILL THEY RECLINE AT EASE 
AND CALL FOR FRUIT AND DRINK AS THEY PLEASE

52  AND BESIDE THEM WILL BE CHASTE WOMEN 
RESTRAINING THEIR GLANCES EQUAL AGED COMPANIONS 

53  THIS IS THE PROMISE 
MADE TO YOU FOR THE DAY OF JUSTICE

54  THIS WILL BE OUR BOUNTY TO YOU
AND IT WILL NEVER FAIL YOU

55  BUT FOR THE WRONG DOERS WILL BE 
A FINAL EVIL PLACE TO BE

56  HELL - THEY WILL BURN THEREIN 
AN EVIL BED FOR THEM TO LIE IN

57  AND THEN THEY WILL TASTE A BOILING FLUID
AND A DARK MURKY INTENSELY COLD FLUID

58  AND OTHER PENALTIES FOR THEM
OF SIMILAR KIND TO MATCH THEM

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59  HERE IS A TROOP RUSHING 
HEADLONG WITH YOU AND FOR THEM NO WELCOMING
AND THEY WILL BE IN THE FIRE BURNING 

60  THE FOLLOWERS WILL CRY TO THE MISLEADERS
THERE IS NO WELCOME FOR YOU EITHER? 

IT IS YOU WHO HAVE BROUGHT THIS UPON US 
NOW EVIL IS THIS PLACE TO STAY IN FOR US

61  THEY WILL SAY, OUR LORD AND CHERISHER
WHOEVER FOR THIS WAS OUR PREPARER 
GIVE HIM A DOUBLE PUNISHMENT IN THE FIRE

62  AND THEY WILL SAY, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US THAT WE SEE 
NOT MEN WHOM WE USED TO NUMBER AMONG THE BAD COMPANY?

63  IN RIDICULE DID WE TREAT THEM
OR HAVE OUR EYES FAILED TO PERCEIVE THEM?

64  TRULY THAT IS JUST AND FITTING FOR SURE
THE MUTUAL RECRIMINATIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE FIRE

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65  SAY, TRULY AM I A WARNER THERE IS NO GOD  
BUT THE ONE, THE SUPREME AND IRRESISTIBLE GOD

66  THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN IS HE
AND HE IS MOST FORGIVING AND ALL MIGHTY

67  SAY, THAT IS A MESSAGE SUPREME TRULY

68  FROM WHICH YOU TURN AWAY ARROGANTLY

69  NO KNOWLEDGE HAVE I 
OF THE CHIEFS ON HIGH 

WHEN THEY DISCUSS MATTERS 
AMONG THEMSELVES IN CHAMBERS

70  ONLY THIS HAS BEEN REVEALED TO ME 
THAT I AM TO GIVE WARNING PLAINLY AND PUBLICLY

71  TO THE ANGELS YOUR LORD DID SAY
I AM ABOUT TO CREATE MAN FROM CLAY

72  WHEN I HAVE FASHIONED HIM IN DUE PROPORTION
AND BREATHED INTO HIM MY INSPIRATION  
BOW DOWN TO HIM IN SUBMISSION

73  SO THE ANGELS GATHERED 
AND PROSTRATED THEMSELVES TOGETHER

74  NOT SO SATAN HE WAS HAUGHTY
AND BECAME ONE OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED

75  GOD SAID, OH SATAN, WHAT PREVENTS YOU FROM SUBMISSIVELY 
PROSTRATING YOURSELF TO ONE WHO WAS CREATED BY ME
ARE YOU HAUGHTY OR ARE YOU TOO HIGH AND MIGHTY?

76  SATAN SAID, I AM BETTER THAN HE 
YOU CREATED HIM FROM CLAY AND FROM FIRE YOU MADE ME 

77  GOD SAID, THEN FROM HERE GET OUT
FOR YOU ARE REJECTED AND CURSED AND CAST OUT

78  AND MY CURSE AND PUNISHMENT
WILL BE ON YOU UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

79  OH MY LORD, SATAN DID SAY
RESPITE ME UNTIL THE DAY THE DEAD ARE RAISED

80  GOD SAID, RESPITE TO YOU IS GRANTED

81  UNTIL THE DAY OF THE TIME APPOINTED 

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82  SATAN SAID, THEN BY YOUR POWER 
I WILL MAKE THEM ALL WRONG DOERS

83  EXCEPT YOUR SERVANTS WHO ARE SINCERE 
AND PURIFIED ONES WHO ARE TRUE BELIEVERS

84  GOD SAID, THEN IT IS JUST AND FITTING 
AND I SAY ONLY WHAT IS JUST AND FITTING

85  THAT I WILL CERTAINLY FILL HELL WITH YOU 
AND ALL OF THOSE THAT FOLLOW YOU 

86  SAY, NO REWARD AM I ASKING OF YOU 
FOR THIS QURAN NOR AM I UNTRUE

87  THIS IS NO LESS THAN A MESSAGE TO ALL OF YOU

88  AND AFTER A WHILE YOU WILL KNOW THAT IT IS TRUE

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CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                                                  SECTION 1.  PART XXIII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  GOD IS WHOM THE REVELATION OF THIS BOOK IS FROM 
GOD, THE EXALTED IN POWER, FULL OF WISDOM

2  IT IS WE WHO REVEALED THE BOOK TO YOU TRUTHFULLY  
SO SERVE GOD OFFERING HIM DEVOTION SINCERELY

3  IS NOT SINCERE DEVOTION DUE TO GOD?
BUT SAY, THOSE WHO TAKE PROTECTORS OTHER THAN GOD 
BUT WE ONLY SERVE THEM TO BRING US NEARER TO GOD
THEY WILL BE JUDGED IN THEIR DIFFERENCES BY GOD 
THOSE WHO ARE FALSE ARE NOT GUIDED BY GOD

4  HAD GOD WISHED TO TAKE TO HIMSELF A SON
THEN HE COULD HAVE CHOSEN ANYONE 

OUT OF THOSE WHOM HE CREATES THAT HE PLEASED
BUT TO HIM BE THE GLORY 
FAR ABOVE SUCH THINGS IS HE
THE ONE, THE IRRESISTIBLE GOD IS HE

5  HE CREATED THE HEAVENS 
AND THE EARTH IN TRUE PROPORTIONS 

HE MAKES THE NIGHT 
OVERLAP THE DAY AND THE DAY OVERLAP THE NIGHT 

THE SUN AND THE MOON TO HIS LAW HE HAS SUBJECTED
EACH ONE FOLLOWS A COURSE FOR A TIME APPOINTED 

HE IS THE EXALTED IN POWER
AND THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

6  HE CREATED YOU ALL FROM A SINGLE PERSON
THEN HE CREATED OF LIKE NATURE HIS COMPANION

HE SENT DOWN FOR YOU EIGHT HEAD OF CATTLE IN PAIRS
AND HE MAKES YOU IN THE WOMBS OF YOUR MOTHERS 
IN TRIPLE DARKNESS IN STAGES ONE AFTER ANOTHER 
THIS IS GOD, YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER 
THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE, TO HIM BELONGS ALL POWER 
THEN HOW ARE YOU TURNED AWAY FROM YOUR TRUE CENTER?

7  AND IF YOU REJECT GOD, GOD HAS NO NEED OF YOU 
AND HE LIKES NOT FROM HIS SERVANTS INGRATITUDE 
AND IF YOU ARE GRATEFUL HE IS PLEASED WITH YOU 
AND NO ONE CAN BEAR YOUR BURDENS FOR YOU 
TO GOD IS YOUR RETURN AND HE WILL TELL YOU 
THE TRUTH OF ALL THAT WAS DONE BY YOU 
FOR HE KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE HEARTS OF YOU

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CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                       SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIII

8  WHEN SOME TROUBLE TOUCHES MAN HE CRIES TO GOD
TURNING IN REPENTANCE, BUT WHEN HE RECEIVES FAVOR FROM GOD
HE FORGETS WHAT HE PRAYED FOR AND SETS UP RIVALS TO GOD 
SO MISLEADING OTHERS FROM THE PATH OF GOD

SAY, ENJOY YOUR BLASPHEMY FOR A LITTLE WHILE FURTHER
BUT YOU ARE ONE OF THE COMPANIONS OF THE FIRE

9  IS ONE WHO WORSHIPS DURING THE NIGHT HOURS IN DEVOTION
PROSTRATING HIMSELF OR STANDING IN ADORATION
AND WHO TAKES HEED OF THE RESURRECTION
AND WHO PLACES HIS HOPE IN HIS LORD'S AFFECTION 

IS HE LIKE ONE WHO DOES NOT? 
SAY, ARE THOSE EQUAL, THOSE WHO KNOW AND WHO KNOW NOT? 

IT IS THOSE WHO ARE BLESSED WITH COMPREHENSION
THAT WILL RECEIVE GOD'S ADMONITION

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CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                                         SECTION 2.  PART XXIII

10  SAY, OH MY SERVANTS WHO BELIEVE, TO GOD KEEP YOUR DUTY
FOR THOSE WHO DO GOOD ARE REWARDS THAT ARE GOODLY

SPACIOUS IS GOD'S EARTH, THOSE WHO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE 
WILL SURELY RECEIVE A REWARD WITHOUT MEASURE

11  SAY, I AM COMMANDED TO SERVE GOD ONLY
WITH DEVOTION AND SINCERITY 

12  AND I AM UNDER INSTRUCTION
TO BE THE FIRST OF THOSE WHO BOW TO GOD IN SUBMISSION

13  SAY, I FEAR THE PENALTY OF A GRIEVOUS DAY
IF MY LORD I SHOULD DISOBEY

14  SAY, SERVE WHAT YOU WILL BESIDES GOD IN DIETY 
THOSE IN LOSS ARE THOSE WHO MISLEADINGLY
LOSE THEIR OWN SOULS AND THEIR PEOPLE'S ADDITIONALLY
AND ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THAT IS THE REAL LOSS ASSUREDLY

16  THEY WILL HAVE LAYERS OF FIRE ABOVE THEM 
AND LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FIRE BELOW THEM 

WITH THIS DOES GOD WARN HIS SERVANTS 
THEN FEAR ME, OH MY SERVANTS

17  THOSE WHO SHUN EVIL 
AND FALL NOT INTO THE WORSHIP OF EVIL

AND TURN TO GOD IN REPENTANCE, FOR THEM IS GOOD NEWS 
SO ANNOUNCE TO MY SERVANTS THE GOOD NEWS 

18  THOSE WHO LISTEN TO THE WORD ARE THE ONES
WHO FOLLOW THE BEST MEANING IN IT AND THEY ARE THE ONES 
WHOM GOD HAS GUIDED AND THEY ARE THE ONES 
THAT ARE BLESSED WITH COMPREHENSION

19  IS THEN ONE AGAINST WHOM THE DECREE 
OF PUNISHMENT IS DUE JUSTLY 
EQUAL TO ONE WHO SHUNS INIQUITY  
WOULD YOU THEN DELIVER HIM FROM THE PENALTY?

20  BUT IT IS FOR THOSE WHO TRULY FEAR THEIR CREATOR
THAT MANSIONS HAVE BEEN BUILT ONE ABOVE ANOTHER 
AND BENEATH THEM WILL FLOW DELIGHTFUL RIVERS 
AND GOD DOES NOT FAIL IN HIS PROMISES EVER

21  SEE YOU NOT THAT YOUR LORD SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKIES 
AND LEADS IT THROUGH SPRINGS IN THE EARTH CAUSING TO RISE 
PRODUCE OF VARIOUS COLORS THEN IT WITHERS AND DIES 
YOU SEE IT GROW YELLOW THEN IT CRUMBLES AND DRIES
IN THIS THERE IS A MESSAGE FOR MEN WHO ARE WISE

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CHAPTER 39.  THE CROWDS                                                         SECTION 3.  PART XXIII

22  IS ONE WHOSE HEART IS OPENED TO SUBMISSION BY GOD
SO THAT HE HAS RECEIVED ENLIGHTENMENT FROM GOD 

NO BETTER THAN ONE WHO IS HARD HEARTED? 
WOE TO THOSE WHOSE HEARTS ARE HARDENED 

AGAINST CELEBRATING THE PRAISES OF THE CREATOR
THEY ARE SURELY IN MANIFEST ERROR 

23  GOD HAS SENT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ANNOUNCEMENT
WITH TEACHING REPEATING ITSELF IN A BOOK CONSISTENT 

THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD IT TREMBLES THEIR SKINS                           
THEN THEIR SKINS AND THEIR HEARTS DO SOFTEN 

TO THE CELEBRATION OF THE PRAISES OF GOD
SO IS THE BLESSINGS AND GUIDANCE OF GOD 

HE GUIDES WHOM HE PLEASES BUT THOSE WHO STRAY 
NO ONE CAN HIM GUIDE HIM TO THE RIGHT WAY

24  IS THEN HE WHO FEARS THE BRUNT 
OF THE PENALTY OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

AND ON HIS FACE HE RECEIVES IT 
LIKE ONE WHO IS GUARDED FROM IT?  

IT WILL BE SAID TO THE WRONG DOERS 
TASTE THE FRUITS OF THAT OF WHICH YOU ARE EARNERS

25  THOSE BEFORE THEM ALSO REJECTED REVELATION 
SO PUNISHMENT CAME TO THEM FROM DIRECTIONS 
THAT WERE FAR BEYOND THEIR PERCEPTIONS

26  GOD HUMILIATED THEM IN THE PRESENT LIFE BUT GREATER 
IF THEY ONLY KNEW IS THE PUNISHMENT OF THE HEREAFTER

27  WE HAVE PUT FORTH IN THIS QURAN FOR MANKIND
PARABLES THAT THEY MAY REMEMBER OF EVERY KIND

28  IT IS A QURAN IN ARABIC WITHOUT ANY CROOKEDNESS 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY GUARD AGAINST WICKEDNESS

29  GOD PUTS FORTH A PARABLE TO PONDER 
A MAN BELONGING TO PARTNERS AT VARIANCE WITH EACH OTHER 
AND A MAN BELONGING ENTIRELY TO ONE MASTER
ARE THOSE TWO EQUAL WHEN COMPARED? 
PRAISE BE TO GOD BUT MOST OF THEM ARE UNAWARE

30  SURELY YOU WILL DIE ONE DAY 
AND THEY TOO WILL DIE ONE DAY

31  IN THE END WILL YOU ALL ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT 
SETTLE YOUR DISPUTES IN GOD'S PRESENCE 

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