CHAPTER 41.  HA-MIM                                                                    SECTION 6.  PART XXIV

45  WE GAVE MOSES THE BOOK BEFORE BUT THEN DISPUTES AROSE IN IT 
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A WORD THAT CAME FROM GOD BEFORE IT 

THEIR DIFFERENCES WOULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED BETWEEN THEM 
BUT THEY KEPT THEIR DOUBTS WITHIN THEM

46  WHOEVER WORKS RIGHTEOUSNESS BENEFITS HIS OWN SOUL 
WHOEVER WORKS EVIL IT IS AGAINST HIS OWN SOUL 
NOR IS YOUR LORD EVER UNJUST TO ANY SOUL

PART  XXV

47  HIS IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE JUDGEMENT HOUR  
AND NO DATE FRUIT COMES OUT OF ITS COVER 
OR DOES A FEMALE CONCEIVE WITHIN HER
NOR BRING FORTH YOUNG BUT BY HIS ORDER
THE DAY THAT GOD WILL ASK THEM TO ANSWER 
WHERE ARE THOSE YOU ATTRIBUTED TO ME AS PARTNERS?
THEY WILL SAY, NONE OF US CAN POSITIVELY ANSWER

48  THE DEITIES THAT WERE WORSHIPPED BY THEM
IN THE LURCH THEY WILL HAVE LEFT THEM 
NO ESCAPE WILL THERE BE FOR THEM

49  MAN DOES NOT WEARY OF ASKING FOR GOOD THINGS 
BUT IF ILL TOUCHES HIM HE GIVES UP HOPING
AND HE IS LOST IN DESPAIRING

50  WHEN WE GIVE MAN A TASTE OF SOME MERCY 
AFTER HAS TOUCHED HIM SOME ADVERSITY 
THEN HE WILL SAY, THIS IS DUE TO ME 
AND I BELIEVE THAT THE HOUR OF JUDGMENT WILL NEVER BE  
BUT IF I AM BROUGHT BACK TO MY LORD INEVITABLY 
I HAVE MUCH GOOD STORED IN HIS SIGHT INDEED
BUT WE WILL SHOW THE DISBELIEVERS THEIR DEEDS
AND WE WILL MAKE THEM TASTE A SEVERE PENALTY

51  WHEN WE BESTOW FAVORS ON MAN HE TURNS ASIDE
AND GETS HIMSELF REMOTELY ON HIS SIDE

INSTEAD OF COMING TO US AND AFTER EVIL SEIZES HIM
HE COMES FULL OF PROLONGED PRAYER TO US FROM HIM

52  SAY, SEE IF THIS IS REALLY GOD'S REVELATION 
AND YET OF IT YOU ARE IN REJECTION
WHO IS MORE ASTRAY THAN ONE WHO DENIES TRUTH AND REASON?

53  WE WILL SHOW THEM OUR SIGNS IN THE FURTHEST REGIONS 
OF THE EARTH AND IN THEIR OWN PERSONS
UNTIL THE TRUTH COMES TO THEM IN MANIFESTATION
IS IT NOT ENOUGH THAT GOD IS WITNESS OVER ALL CREATION?

54  THEY ARE IN DOUBT CONCERNING THE MEETING 
WITH GOD AND HE ENCOMPASSES ALL THINGS

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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  KNOWING, HEARING, POWERFUL GOD

3  SO DOES YOUR LORD SEND TO YOU INSPIRATION 
AS HE SENT TO THOSE BEFORE YOU INSPIRATION
AND HE HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

4  TO HIM BELONG ALL THINGS IN EARTH AND HEAVEN
AND HE IS MOST HIGH IN EXALTATION

5  THE HEAVENS MAY ALMOST BE RENT ASUNDER BY HIS GRACES
AND THE ANGELS GLORIFY THEIR LORD'S PRAISES 
FOR ALL BEINGS ON EARTH THEY PRAY FOR THEIR FORGIVENESS 
AND HE IS FULL OF MERCY AND FORGIVENESS

6  AND THOSE WHO TAKE AS PROTECTORS 
OTHERS BESIDES HIM, THEM GOD WATCHES OVER 
AND OF THEIR AFFAIRS YOU ARE NOT THE DISPOSER

7  WE HAVE REVEALED AN ARABIC QURAN TO YOU CLEARLY
THAT YOU MAY WARN THE MOTHER OF CITIES 
AND ALL AROUND HER ADDITIONALLY 
AND WARN THEM OF THE DAY OF ASSEMBLY 
WHEN SOME WILL BE IN THE GARDEN SECURELY
AND SOME IN THE FIRE BLAZING FIERCELY

8  IF GOD HAD SO WILLED 
HE COULD HAVE MADE THEM ONE PEOPLE
BUT HE ADMITS TO HIS MERCY WHOM HE WILLS  
NO HELPER WILL THERE BE FOR WRONG DOING PEOPLE

9  HAVE THEY TAKEN FOR OTHERS BESIDES GOD AS PROTECTORS?  
BUT GOD GIVES LIFE TO THE DEAD AND HAS ALL POWER

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10  AND WHATEVER IT BE IN WHICH YOU DIFFER
THE DECISION OF IT IS WITH THE CREATOR
THIS IS GOD, MY LORD AND CHERISHER 
MY TRUST IN HIM IS COMPLETE AND SINCERE 

11  AND OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH HE IS THE CREATOR
HE HAS MADE FOR YOU FROM AMONG YOURSELVES PAIRS 
AND HE HAS MADE AMONG CATTLE PAIRS 
BY THIS MEANS DOES HE MULTIPLY YOU FURTHER
AS TO ANYONE LIKE HIM THERE IS NO OTHER
AND ALL THINGS DOES HE SEE AND HEAR

12  TO HIM BELONG THE KEYS OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
TO WHOM HE WILLS HE ENLARGES AND RESTRICTS SUSTENANCE
FOR HE IS ALL KNOWING OF ALL THINGS IN CREATION

13  HE HAS ESTABLISHED FOR YOU THE SAME RELIGION 
THAT HE ENJOINED ON NOAH BY INSPIRATION
WHICH WE HAVE SENT TO YOU AND THAT SAME INSPIRATION 
WE GAVE TO JESUS, ABRAHAM, MOSES AND ARRON
NAMELY THAT YOU SHOULD REMAIN STEADFAST IN RELIGION 
AND DO NOT MAKE THEREIN ANY DIVISIONS 
AND TO THOSE WHO JOIN WITH THEIR LORD OTHER ASSOCIATIONS
THE WAY TO WHICH YOU CALL THEM TO IS A HARD DIRECTION
AND GOD TURNS TO HIMSELF THOSE WHOM HE HAS CHOSEN
AND GUIDES THOSE WHO TURN TO HIM IN SUBMISSION

14  THEY BECAME DIVIDED AFTER KNOWLEDGE REACHED THEM
THROUGH SELFISH ENVY FROM AMONG THEM
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A WORD THAT WENT BEFORE THEM 
TENDING TO A TERM APPOINTED FOR THEM
THE MATTER WOULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED BETWEEN THEM
BUT THE INHERITORS OF THE BOOK ARE DOUBTERS AFTER THEM 

15  FOR THAT REASON CALL THEM TO BE BELIEVERS
AND STAND STEADFAST AS YOU ARE ORDERED
NOR FOLLOW THEIR VAIN DESIRES
BUT SAY, IN THE BOOK GOD HAS SENT I AM A BELIEVER

AND I AM COMMANDED TO JUDGE BETWEEN YOU JUSTLY
GOD IS OUR LORD AND YOUR LORD ASSUREDLY
AND OURS IS THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR DEEDS
AND FOR YOU IS THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR DEEDS
THERE IS NO CONTENTION BETWEEN US INDEED
GOD WILL BRING US TOGETHER AND TO HIM IS OUR DESTINY

16  THOSE WHO DISPUTE ABOUT GOD AFTER BEING A BELIEVER 
FUTILE IS THEIR DISPUTE IN THE SIGHT OF THEIR CREATOR
AND UPON THEM IS THEIR LORD'S ANGER
FOR THEM WILL BE THE PENALTY OF THE FIRE

17  IT IS GOD WHO HAS SENT DOWN THE BOOK IN TRUTH 
 AND THE BALANCE BY WHICH TO WEIGH CONDUCT TO
AND WHAT WILL MAKE IT QUITE CLEAR TO YOU 
THAT PERHAPS THE HOUR IS CLOSE UPON YOU?

18  ONLY THOSE WISH TO HASTEN IT 
ARE THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN IT
THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN AWE THEY HOLD IT 
AND KNOW OF THE HOUR THAT IT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT IT 
BUT THOSE THAT DISPUTE ARE FAR AWAY FROM THE TRUTH OF IT

19  AND GRACIOUS IS YOUR LORD TO HIS SERVANTS
TO WHOM HE PLEASES HE GIVES SUSTENANCE 
FOR SURELY HE HAS ALL COMPETENCE

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20  TO ANY THAT DESIRE THE REWARD OF THE HEREAFTER 
WE GIVE INCREASE IN HIS REWARD AND TO ANY THAT DESIRES 
REWARDS OF THIS WORLD, WE GRANT SOME OF IT FROM OUR FAVOR
BUT HE HAS NO SHARE IN THE HEREAFTER 

21  HAVE THEY PARTNERS WHO HAVE ESTABLISHED A RELIGION
AND HAVE DONE IT FOR THEM WITHOUT GOD'S PERMISSION? 
BUT HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE DETERMINATION
THE MATTER WOULD HAVE HAD AN IMMEDIATE DECISION
BUT THE WRONG DOERS WILL HAVE A GRIEVOUS PENALIZATION

22  YOU WILL SEE THE WRONG DOERS FEARFULLY
CONCERNED FOR WHAT THEY HAVE EARNED BY THEIR DEEDS 
AND THE BURDEN OF THAT MUST FALL ON THEM INDEED
THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WORK RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 
WILL BE IN GARDENS OF LUXURIANT MEADS 
AND THEY WILL HAVE IN THEIR LORD'S DECREE
ALL THAT THEY COULD EVER WISH FOR PLENTIFULLY
AND THAT WILL BE THEIR LORD'S MAGNIFICENT BOUNTY 

23	THAT IS THE BOUNTY GOD GIVES TO HIS DEVOTEES 
THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO RIGHTEOUS DEEDS 

SAY, FOR THIS NO REWARD DO I ASK OF YOU 
EXCEPT THE LOVE OF THOSE NEAR OF KIN TO YOU

AND IF ANY ONE EARNS ANY GOOD 
WE WILL GIVE HIM AN INCREASE OF GOOD 

FOR GOD IS MOST READY TO FORGIVE
AND HE IS MOST APPRECIATIVE 

24  AND DO THEY THEN SAY HE HAS FORGED AGAINST GOD A LIE? 
BUT IF GOD WILLED HE COULD SEAL UP YOUR HEART INSIDE
AND GOD BLOTS OUT VANITY AND HE DOES PROVIDE
THE TRUTH BY HIS WORDS FOR HE KNOWS WHAT YOU HIDE 

25  HE IS THE ONE THAT ACCEPTS REPENTANCE 
AND FORGIVES THE SINS OF HIS SERVANTS 
AND KNOWS ALL YOU KEEP HIDDEN

26  HE LISTENS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
THOSE WHO CONSTANTLY DO GOOD DEEDS 
AND GIVES THEM INCREASE OF HIS BOUNTY 
BUT FOR DISBELIEVERS THERE IS A TERRIBLE PENALTY

27  IF GOD WERE TO ENLARGE HIS SERVANT'S PROVISIONS
THEY WOULD TRANSGRESS BEYOND LIMITATIONS 
BUT HE SENDS IT DOWN IN DUE PROPORTIONS
FOR HIS SERVANTS ARE UNDER HIS OBSERVATIONS

28  HE IS THE ONE THAT SENDS DOWN RAIN AMPLY
EVEN AFTER MEN HAVE GIVEN UP ALL HOPE OF HIS MERCY
AND HE IS THE PROTECTOR AND IS PRAISEWORTHY 

29  AND AMONG HIS SIGNS IS THE CREATION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND THE LIVING CREATURES HE HAS SCATTERED WITHIN
AND HE HAS THE POWER TO GATHER THEM THEREIN

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30  WHATEVER MISFORTUNE HAPPENS TO YOU 
IS BECAUSE OF THE THINGS THAT ARE DONE BY YOU
AND FOR MANY OF THEM HE GRANTS FORGIVENESS TO YOU

31  NOR CAN YOU ESCAPE ANYTHING BY FLEEING  
NOR HAVE YOU BESIDES GOD ANY ONE FOR PROTECTING

32  AMONG HIS SIGNS ARE THE SHIP'S MOTIONS
TALL AS MOUNTAINS RUNNING THROUGH THE OCEANS 

33  AND IF IT WERE HIS WILL HE COULD STILL THE WIND'S MOTION
THEN WOULD THEY BECOME WITHOUT MOTION ON THE OCEAN 
AND IN THIS ARE CLEAR SIGNS FOR EVERYONE
WHO IS A PATIENT AND GRATEFUL ONE

34  OR HE CAN CAUSE THEM TO PERISH FOR THEIR EVIL DOINGS
BUT HE IS MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING

35  LET THOSE KNOW WHO ABOUT OUR SIGNS ARE DISPUTING
THAT THERE IS FOR THEM NO WAY OF ESCAPING

36  WHAT YOU ARE GIVEN OF THIS LIFE IS ONLY A CONVENIENCE HERE  
BUT THAT WHICH IS WITH YOUR LORD IN THE HEREAFTER IS BETTER 
AND MORE LASTING IT IS FOR THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
AND WHO PUT THEIR TRUST IN THEIR CREATOR

37  THOSE WHO AVOID GREATER CRIMES AND SHAMEFUL DOINGS
AND WHEN THEY ARE ANGRY ARE EVEN THEN FORGIVING

38  THOSE WHO LISTEN TO GOD AND ESTABLISH REGULAR PRAYERS 
AND BY MUTUAL CONSULTATION CONDUCT THEIR AFFAIRS 
WHO SPEND OUT OF WHAT WE GIVE THEM AS HEIRS

39  AND THOSE WHO WHEN OPPRESSED BY WRONG DOERS 
DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSORS

40  THE RECOMPENSE FOR ONE WHO IS INJURED 
IS AN INJURY EQUAL TO IT IN MEASURE
BUT IF ANY PERSON RECONSIDERS 
HIS REWARD IS DUE FROM HIS CREATOR 
FOR GOD DOES NOT LOVE WRONGDOERS

41  IF ANY DEFEND THEMSELVES AFTER WRONG DONE TO THEM 
THERE IS NO CAUSE OF BLAME AGAINST THEM

42  THE BLAME IS AGAINST ONLY
THOSE WHO OPPRESS MEN INSOLENTLY 
AND TRANSGRESS BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES 
FOR THEM IS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY 

43  BUT IF ANY SHOW PATIENCE AND FORGIVENESS 
THAT WOULD BE AN EXERCISE OF COURAGEOUSNESS
IN RESOLUTION OF CONDUCT IN AFFAIRS OF PUPOSE

 

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44  THERE IS NO HELPER FOR HIM WHOM GOD LEAVES TO STRAY 
THE WRONG DOERS WHEN THEY SEE THE PENALTY WILL SAY 
TO EFFECT A RETURN IS THERE ANY WAY?

45  AND YOU WILL SEE THEM BROUGHT FORWARD TO THE PENALTY 
IN A HUMBLE FRAME OF MIND BECAUSE OF THEIR IGNOMINY
AND LOOKING WITH A GLANCE THAT IS STEALTHY 

AND THE BELIEVERS WILL SAY 
THE LOSERS ARE THOSE WHO LOSE THEIR WAY 
AND THE WAY OF THEIR FOLLOWERS ON JUDGMENT DAY
THE WRONG DOERS IN A LASTING PENALTY ARE THEY

46  NO PROTECTORS OTHER THAN GOD HAVE THEY 
AND FOR ANY WHOM GOD LEAVES TO STRAY 
FOR THEM YOU WILL NOT FIND A WAY 

47  LISTEN TO YOUR LORD BEFORE THERE COMES A DAY 
WHEN THERE WILL BE NO PUTTING BACK AND THAT DAY 
THERE WILL BE NO PLACE OF REFUGE FOR YOU THAT DAY
NOR WILL YOU BE ABLE TO DENY IN ANY WAY

48  IF THEN THEY TURN AWAY FROM YOU, YOUR DUTY 
IS TO CONVEY TO THEM THE MESSAGE CLEARLY
BUT WHEN WE GIVE MAN A TASTE OF MERCY 
THEN HE BOASTS EXULTANTLY
BUT WHEN AFFLICTED BY ADVERSITY 
THEN HE ACTS UNGRATEFULLY  

49  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF EVERYTHING ON EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS 
HE CREATES WHAT HE WILLS AND BESTOWS CHILDREN 
MALE OR FEMALE IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS DECISIONS

50  OR HE BESTOWS BOTH MALES AND FEMALES AS HE PLEASES
AND HE LEAVES BARREN WHOM HE PLEASES 
FOR SURELY ALL POWER HE POSSESSES

51  IT IS NOT FITTING FOR ANY HUMAN 
THAT GOD SHOULD SPEAK TO HIM EXCEPT BY INSPIRATION 
OR FROM BEHIND A VEIL OR BY THE SENDING OF REVELATION
BY A MESSENGER WITH YOUR LORD'S PERMISSION 
FOR GOD HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

52  SO WE HAVE SENT TO YOU INSPIRATION 
YOU KNEW NOT BEFORE WHAT WAS REVELATION 
NOR WHAT FAITH WAS BUT WE HAVE MADE THE QURAN
A LIGHT WITH WHICH WE GUIDE OUR CHOSEN ONES
AND YOU GUIDE MEN TO THE RIGHT DIRECTION

53  THE WAY OF GOD TO WHOM BELONGS EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND TO GOD IS THE FINAL GOAL IN THE END

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 1.  PART XXV

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  BY THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS MANIFESTLY

3  A QURAN IN ARABIC THAT YOU MAY UNDERSTAND CLEARLY

4   IT IS IN THE MOTHER OF THE BOOK IN OUR PRESENCE HIGH IN DIGNITY 

5  WE WILL THEN TAKE AWAY THE MESSAGE FROM YOU 
FOR A TRANSGRESSING PEOPLE ARE YOU

6  BUT HOW MANY WERE THE PROPHETS THAT WE 
SENT AMONG THE PEOPLE FORMERLY

7  NO PROPHET BEFORE CAME TO THEM
BUT HE WAS MOCKED BY THEM

8  THEN WE DESTROYED THOSE STRONGER THAN THESE IN ABILITY 
AND THE EXAMPLE OF THE ANCIENTS HAS PASSED ALREADY 

9  IF THEM YOU WERE TO QUESTION 
AS TO WHO CREATED THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
THEY WOULD REPLY, THEY WERE CREATED BY ONE 
WHO IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM

10  HE THAT MADE THE EARTH A RESTING PLACE FOR YOU
AND HAS MADE FOR YOU ROADS TO GUIDE YOU 

11  HE THAT SENDS DOWN RAIN FROM THE SKY OVERHEAD
AND RAISES TO LIFE THEREBY A LAND THAT IS DEAD 
EVEN SO WILL YOU BE RAISED FROM THE DEAD

12  ALL THINGS IN PAIRS DOES HE PROVIDE 
AND MADE FOR YOU SHIPS THAT GLIDE
AND CATTLE ON WHICH YOU RIDE

13  IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY SIT FIRM ON THEM 
AND THAT YOU MAY BE THANKFUL TO GOD FOR THEM
AND SAY, TO HE WHO HAS SUBJECTED THIS TO US, GLORY TO HIM
FOR NEVER COULD THIS HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED EXCEPT BY HIM 

14  AND OUR LORD WE MUST RETURN BACK TO HIM

15  YET THEY ATTRIBUTE TO SOME OF HIS DEVOTEES
A SHARE WITH HIM IN HIS AUTHORITY 
MAN DOES ACT UNGRATEFULLY

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                         SECTION 2.  PART XXV

16  HAS HE TAKEN DAUGHTERS OUT OF WHAT HE HAS CREATED
AND TO YOU SONS FOR CHOICE HAS HE GRANTED?

17  WHEN NEWS IS BROUGHT TO ONE OF THEM 
OF A LIKENESS TO GOD OF WHAT HE SETS UP WITH HIM
HE IS FILLED WITH GRIEF AND HIS FACE FILLS WITH GRIM

18  IS THEN TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH GOD A CREATURE
BROUGHT UP AMONG TRINKETS AND UNABLE TO DISPUTE CLEAR? 

19  AND THEY MAKE ANGELS AS GODS
WHO THEMSELVES SERVE GOD 

DID THEY WITNESS THEM BEING CREATED?  
SURELY THEIR EVIDENCE WILL BE RECORDED
AND THEY WILL BE CALLED TO BE RECOUNTED

20  THEY SAY, IF IT HAD BEEN THE WILL OF OUR CREATOR
THEN WE WOULD NOT HAVE WORSHIPPED OTHERS 
OF THAT THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE, THEY ARE LIARS

21  HAVE WE GIVEN THEM A BOOK BEFORE IT 
WHICH THEY ARE HOLDING FAST TO IT?

22  NAY, THEY SAY, THIS IS WHAT OUR FATHERS WERE FOLLOWING 
AND WE ARE FOLLOWING IN THEIR FOOTING

23  WHENEVER WE SENT A WARNER BEFORE YOU TO ANYONE 
ALSO AMONG THEM SAID THOSE WHO WERE WEALTHY ONES 
WE FOUND OUR FATHERS FOLLOWING A CERTAIN RELIGION
AND WE WILL FOLLOW IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS FOR CERTAIN

24  HE SAID, EVEN IF I BROUGHT YOU GUIDANCE BETTER 
THAN THAT WHICH YOU FOUND WITH YOUR FATHERS  
THEY SAID, WE DENY YOUR MISSION ALL TOGETHER

25  SO RETRIBUTION FROM THEM WE EXACTED
NOW SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE WHO REJECTED 

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 3.  PART XXV

26  ABRAHAM SAID TO HIS FATHER AND HIS PEOPLE 
I CLEAR MYSELF OF WHAT IS SERVED BY YOU PEOPLE

27  I WORSHIP ONLY HIM WHO MADE ME 
AND HE WILL CERTAINLY GUIDE ME

28  AND HE LEFT IT AS A WORD TO ENDURE 
AMONG THOSE WHO CAME BEHIND HIM AFTER 
THAT THEY MAY RETURN TO THEIR CREATOR

29  I GAVE GOOD THINGS TO THESE MEN AND THEIR FATHERS 
UNTIL THE TRUTH HAS COME TO THEM AND A MESSENGER

30  WHEN THE TRUTH CAME TO THEM THEY DECREED 
THIS IS DEFINITELY SORCERY INDEED 
AND WE DO REJECT IT ASSUREDLY

31  ALSO THEY SAY, WHY IS NOT THIS QURAN SENT DOWN 
TO SOME LEADING MAN IN EITHER OF THE TWO TOWNS?

32  IS IT THEY WHO WOULD PORTION OUT THEIR LORD'S FAVORS?
BUT IT IS WE WHO PORTION OUT TO THEM THEIR TREASURES
AND WE RAISE SOME OF THEM IN RANKS ABOVE OTHERS 
SO THAT SOME MAY COMMAND WORK FROM OTHERS 
BUT THE MERCY OF YOUR LORD IS MUCH BETTER 
THAN THE WEALTH THEY AMASS TOGETHER

33  WERE IT NOT THAT ALL PEOPLE MIGHT BECOME DISBELIEVERS
WE COULD PROVIDE FOR ALL WHO ARE BLASPHEMERS
AGAINST GOD MOST GRACIOUS ROOFS OF SILVER
FOR THEIR HOUSES AND STAIRWAYS OF SILVER 

34  AND DOORS OF SILVER
TO THEIR HOUSES AND THRONES OF SILVER
ON WHICH THEY COULD RECLINE ON IN PLEASURE

35  AND ALSO GOLD ADORNMENTS
THIS WOULD BE CONVENIENCES OF THE PRESENT 
BUT THE HEREAFTER IS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS SERVANTS

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 4.  PART XXV

36  IF ANYONE WITHDRAWS FROM DEVOTION
TO HIS LORD, THE MOST GRACIOUS ONE
WE APPOINT A DEVIL FOR HIM AS A COMPANION 

37  SUCH DEVILS REALLY HINDER THEM FROM THE PATH OF RIGHT 
BUT THEY THINK THAT THEY ARE REALLY BEING GUIDED RIGHT

38  AT LENGTH WHEN COMES TO US SUCH A ONE  
THEN HE SAYS TO HIS EVIL COMPANION
WOULD THAT BETWEEN US WERE THE DIMENSION
OF THE EAST AND THE WEST, FOR EVIL IS THE COMPANION 

39  AND NOTHING WILL AVAIL YOU THAT DAY IN THE LEAST
IF YOU HAVE ACTED UNGRATEFUL AND WRONGFULLY
AND YOU WILL BE PARTNERS IN THE PENALTY

40  CAN YOU THEN MAKE THE DEAF TO HEAR 
OR DIRECT THE BLIND OR THOSE IN ERROR? 

41  EVEN IF WE TAKE YOU AWAY FROM THEM
THEN WE WILL EXACT RETRIBUTION FROM THEM 

42  OR WE WILL SHOW YOU WHAT WE HAVE PROMISED THEM 
FOR WE WILL SURELY PREVAIL OVER THEM 

43  SO HOLD FAST TO THE REVELATION SENT DOWN TO YOU 
FOR CLEARLY ON A STRAIGHT WAY ARE YOU

44  THE QURAN IS INDEED THE MESSAGE FOR YOU 
AND AN ACCOUNT WILL BE TAKEN FROM YOU

45  AND DO YOU QUESTION OUR FORMER MESSENGERS?
DID WE APPOINT OTHERS TO BE SERVED THAN THE CREATOR?

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 5.  PART XXV

46  WE SENT MOSES BEFORE WITH MESSAGES CLEAR
TO PHARAOH AND HIS CHIEFS AND HE SAID, I AM A MESSENGER 
OF THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, THE CHERISHER

47  BUT WHEN OUR SIGNS CAME THEY WERE RIDICULERS 

48  WE SHOWED THEM SIGN AFTER SIGN EACH ONE GREATER 
AND WE SEIZED THEM WITH A PUNISHMENT OF TERROR
IN ORDER THAT THEY MIGHT TURN TO US AFTER

49  THEY SAID TO HIM, OH YOU SORCERER 
INVOKE YOUR LORD IN OUR FAVOR
AND WE WILL BE BELIEVERS

50  BUT WHEN WE REMOVED FROM THEM THE PUNISHMENT
THEY UNFAITHFULLY BROKE THEIR COVENANT

51  AND PHARAOH PROCLAIMED AMONG HIS DEVOTEES
SAYING, DOES NOT THE DOMINION OF EGYPT BELONG TO ME? 
WITNESS THESE STREAMS THAT ARE FLOWING UNDERNEATH ME 

52  AM I NOT BETTER THAN THIS MOSES WHO IS REALLY
A CONTEMPTIBLE WRETCH AND CAN NOT EXPRESS HIMSELF CLEARLY?

53  THEN WHY ARE NOT GOLD BRACELETS BESTOWED ON HIM 
OR WHY ARE ANGELS NOT SENT DOWN WITH HIM? 

54  SO DID HE MAKE FOOLS OF HIS PEOPLE 
AND THEY OBEYED HIM AND WERE MISLEAD PEOPLE

55  SO WHEN WE BECAME ANGERED BY THEM
WE PUNISHED THEM AND DROWNED THEM

56  AND WE MADE THEM A PEOPLE OF A PAST GENERATION
AND A LESSON TO LATER GENERATIONS

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 6.  PART XXV

57  WHEN JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, IS HELD UP AS AN EXAMPLE 
YOUR PEOPLE RAISE A CLAMOR AT THE EXAMPLE

58  AND THEY SAY, ARE OUR GODS BEST OR HE? 
THIS THEY SET FORTH TO YOU ONLY
JUST TO DISPUTE WITH YOU ARBITRARILY 
FOR THEY ARE PEOPLE IN OPPOSITION CLEARLY

59  HE WAS NO MORE THAN A SERVANT
TO WHOM WE GRANTED OUR COVENANT

AND WE MADE HIM AN EXAMPLE 
TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL

60  IF WE WILLED WE COULD MAKE ANGELS FROM AMONG YOU 
SUCCEEDING EACH OTHER ON THE EARTH REPLACING YOU

61  AND JESUS WILL BE A SIGN FOR THE COMING OF THE HOUR 
SO HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT THE COMING OF THE HOUR 
BUT FOLLOW ME THIS IS A STRAIGHT WAY FOR SURE

62  LET NOT THE DEVIL HINDER YOU 
FOR HE IS AN OPEN ENEMY TO YOU

63  WHEN JESUS CAME WITH SIGNS THAT WERE CLEAR
HE SAID, I COME TO YOU WITH WISDOM IN ORDER 
TO MAKE CLEAR SOME POINTS ON WHICH YOU DIFFER
SO OBEY ME AND KEEP YOUR DUTY TO THE CREATOR

64  FOR GOD, HE IS MY LORD AND YOUR LORD 
SO WORSHIP HIM, THIS IS A STRAIGHT WAY WITH YOUR LORD

65  BUT SECTIONS FROM AMONG THEM FELL INTO DISAGREEMENT 
SO WOE TO THE WRONG DOERS FOR THEM IS A SEVERE PUNISHMENT

66  DO THEY ONLY WAIT FOR THE HOUR TO COME ON THEM 
ALL OF A SUDDEN WHILE  NOT PERCEIVED BY THEM?

67  FRIENDS ON THAT DAY WILL BE FOES TO ONE ANOTHER 
EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                                          SECTION 7.  PART XXV

68  THAT DAY NO FEAR WILL BE ON MY DEVOTEES 
NOR WILL YOU HAVE ANY CAUSE TO GRIEVE

69  BEING THOSE WHO IN OUR SIGNS HAVE BELIEVED 
AND BOWED THEIR WILLS IN SUBMISSION COMPLETELY

70  ENTER THE GARDEN WITH YOUR WIVES HAPPILY 

71  TO THEM WILL BE PASSED ROUND DISHES AND GOBLETS OF GOLD 
AND THERE WILL BE  ALL THE DELIGHT THE EYES COULD BEHOLD

AND ALL THE SOULS COULD DESIRE 
AND YOU WILL ABIDE THERE FOREVER

72  THIS WILL BE THE GARDEN OF WHICH YOU ARE INDEED
MADE INHERITORS FOR YOUR GOOD DEEDS 

73  YOU WILL HAVE IN IT ABUNDANCE OF FRUIT
FROM WHICH YOU WILL HAVE TO SATISFY YOU

74  THE SINNERS WILL BE IN THE PUNISHMENT OF HELL
AND THEY WILL BE THERE FOREVER TO DWELL

75  IN NO WAY WILL BE LIGHTENED FOR THEM THE PENALTY
AND THEY WILL BE OVERWHELMED IN DISPARITY

76  IN NO WAY TO THEM WILL WE BE UNJUST
BUT IT IS THEY WHO TO THEMSELVES HAVE BEEN UNJUST

77  THEY WILL CRY, OH KEEPER OF HELL PUT IN CHARGE OF US
IF ONLY GOD HAD PUT AN END TO US 
AND HE WILL SAY, NAY, BUT HERE YOU WILL STAY WITH US

78  SURELY WE HAVE BROUGHT THE TRUTH TO YOU
BUT THE TRUTH IS HATED BY MOST OF YOU

79  HAVE THEY THEMSELVES SETTLED SOME PLAN?
BUT IT IS GOD WHO SETTLES ALL PLANS

80  DO THEY THINK THAT WE HEAR NOT THE PRIVATE PLOTS OF THEM?
WE DO AND OUR MESSENGERS ARE BY THEM TO RECORD THEM

81  SAY, IF GOD MOST GRACIOUS HAD A SON 
OF THOSE TO WORSHIP HIM, I WOULD BE THE FIRST ONE

82  TO THE LORD OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH BE THE GLORY
HE ALONE IS THE LORD OF THE THRONE OF AUTHORITY 
FREE FROM THE THINGS THEY ATTRIBUTE TO HIM IS HE

83  SO LEAVE THEM WITH VANITIES TO BABBLE AND PLAY 
UNTIL THEY MEET THEIR PROMISED DAY

84  HE IS GOD IN HEAVEN AND GOD ON EARTH IS HE
AND FULL OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE IS HE

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CHAPTER 43.  GOLD                                                        SECTION 7 (CONT'D). PART XXV

85  BLESSED IS HE TO WHOM BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF ALL THE EARTH AND ALL OF THE HEAVENS

THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOUR IS WITH HIM
AND YOU WILL ALL RETURN TO HIM

86  THOSE WHOM THEY PRAISE BESIDES GOD IN ASSOCIATION
WILL HAVE NO POWER OF INTERCESSION

ONLY HE WHO BEARS WITNESS TO THE TRUTH OF GOD
AND THEY KNOW THE FACTS ABOUT GOD

87  IF YOU ASK THEM WHO CREATED THEM
GOD, IS THE ANSWER THAT WILL BE GIVEN BY THEM
HOW THEN IS THE TRUTH REJECTED BY THEM? 

88  GOD HAS KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROPHET',S CRY OF GRIEF
OH MY LORD THESE ARE A PEOPLE WHO REFUSE BELIEF

89  BUT TURN AWAY FROM THEM AND SAY PEACE TO THEM
BUT SOON WILL KNOWLEDGE SURELY COME TO THEM

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CHAPTER 44.  THE SMOKE                                                              SECTION 1.  PART XXV

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  BY THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THINGS CLEARLY

3  WE SENT IT DOWN DURING A BLESSED EVE 
TO WARN AGAINST INIQUITY

4  IN IT IS MADE EVERY AFFAIR OF WISDOM DISTINCTLY

5  BY COMMAND FROM OUR PRESENCE FOR WE CONSTANTLY
SEND DOWN REVELATIONS CONSISTENTLY

6  AS A MERCY FROM YOUR LORD, FOR HE IS ALL HEARING
AND KNOWING OF ALL THINGS 

7  HE IS THE LORD OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH 
AND ALL BETWEEN THEM IF YOU WOULD BE SURE 

8  THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
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HE IS THE LORD AND CHERISHER 
OF YOU AND YOUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS

9  YET THEY PLAY ABOUT AS DOUBTERS

10  THEN WATCH FOR THE DAY THAT THE SKY WILL SURELY
BRING FORTH A KIND OF SMOKE OR MIST VISIBLY 

11  ENVELOPING THE PEOPLE AND THIS WILL BE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

12  THEY WILL SAY, OUR LORD REMOVE FROM US THE PENALTY 
FOR NOW WE DO BELIEVE TRULY

13  BUT HOW WILL THE MESSAGE BE EFFECTUAL FOR THEM 
SEEING THAT AN APOSTLE EXPLAINING TO THEM 
OUR MESSAGES HAS ALREADY COME TO THEM?

14  YET THEY TURN AWAY FROM HIM 
AND SAY, A MAN POSSESSED AND OTHERS HAVE TUTORED HIM

15  WE WILL REMOVE THE PENALTY FOR A FEW DAYS
BUT YOU WILL REVERT TO YOUR EVIL WAYS

16  ON THE DAY WE WILL SEIZE YOU WITH A MIGHTY SEIZING
WE WILL THEN EXACT RETRIBUTION FOR YOUR REJECTING

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17  WE DID BEFORE THEM TRY PHARAOH'S PEOPLE 
THERE CAME TO THEM AN APOSTLE MOST HONORABLE

18  SAYING, RESTORE THE SERVANTS OF GOD TO ME
I AM TO YOU AN APOSTLE TRUSTWORTHY 

19  AND BE NOT ARROGANT AGAINST GOD FOR SURELY 
I COME TO YOU WITH MANIFEST AUTHORITY

20  FOR ME I HAVE SOUGHT SAFETY 
WITH MY LORD AND YOUR LORD AGAINST YOUR INJURING ME

21  AND IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME 
AT LEAST KEEP YOURSELVES AWAY FROM ME

22  BUT THEY WERE AGGRESSIVE AND ACTED ARROGANTLY 
HE CRIED, LORD, THESE PEOPLE ARE GIVEN TO INIQUITY

23  CAME THE REPLY, MARCH FORTH WITH MY SERVANTS NIGHTLY 
FOR YOU WILL BE PURSUED MOST ASSUREDLY

24  AND LEAVE THE SEA DIVIDED QUIETLY
FOR THEY ARE A HOST TO BE DROWNED COMPLETELY

25  HOW MANY GARDENS AND SPRINGS OWNED BY THEM
DID THEY LEAVE BEHIND THEM

26  AND CORN FIELDS AND NOBLE BUILDINGS

27  AND GOOD THINGS IN WHICH THEY WERE REJOICING

28  SO WAS THE END OF THEM 
AND WE MADE OTHER PEOPLE INHERIT THEM

29  NEITHER HEAVEN NOR EARTH SHED A TEAR OVER THEM
NOR WAS ANY RESPITE GIVEN TO THEM  

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30  WE DID DELIVER BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
FROM A HUMILIATING PENALTY COMING TO THEIR PEOPLE

31  INFLICTED BY PHARAOH FOR ARROGANT WAS HE
AMONG THOSE WHO TRANSGRESSED INORDINATELY 

32  AND WE CHOSE THEM ABOVE THE NATIONS KNOWINGLY

33  AND GRANTED THEM SIGNS TO TRY THEM MANIFESTLY

34  AS TO THESE THEY SAY ARROGANTLY

35  THERE IS NOTHING BEYOND OUR FIRST DEATH 
AND WE WILL NOT BE RAISED AGAIN AFTER DEATH

36  THEN BRING BACK OUR FOREFATHERS 
IF WHAT YOU SAY IS TRUE FOR SURE

37  ARE THEY BETTER THAN TUBBA'S PEOPLE 
WE DESTROYED THEM FOR THEIR EVILS

38  THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN THEM 
NOT IN IDLE SPORT DID WE CREATE THEM

39  NOT BUT FOR JUST ENDS DID WE CREATE THEM
BUT THIS IS NOT UNDERSTOOD BY MOST OF THEM

40  THE DAY OF SORTING OUT IS THE TIME APPOINTED FOR THEM

41  THE DAY WHEN NO CLIENT CAN BE AVAILED BY HIS PROTECTOR
NOR WILL THEY BE ABLE TO RECEIVE ANY HELPER

42  EXCEPT THOSE WHO RECEIVE GOD'S MERCY 
FOR HE IS MOST MERCIFUL AND MIGHTY

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43  THE ZAQQUM TREE 

44  WILL BE THE FOOD OF THOSE WHO ACT SINFULLY

45  LIKE MOLTEN BRASS IT WILL BOIL IN THEIR INSIDES PAINFULLY

46  LIKE THE BOILING OF SCALDING WATER

47  SEIZE HIM AND DRAG HIM INTO THE MIDST OF THE FIRE

48  THEN POUR OVER HIS HEAD BOILING WATER

49  TASTE THIS, YOU WERE MIGHTY AND FULL OF HONOR

50  THIS IS THAT OF WHAT YOU USED TO ACT DOUBTFULLY

51  THE RIGHTEOUS WILL BE IN A POSITION OF SECURITY

52  AMONG GARDENS AND SPRINGS ETERNALLY

53  DRESSED IN FINE SILK AND RICH BROCADE FACING EACH OTHER

54  WITH COMPANIONS BEAUTIFUL AND PURE JOINED TOGETHER

55  THERE THEY CALL FOR EVERY KIND OF FRUIT IN PEACE AND SECURE

56  NOR WILL THEY THERE TASTE DEATH EXCEPT FOR THE FIRST 
AND HE WILL PRESERVE THEM FROM THE PENALTY OF THE FIRE

57  A GIFT FROM YOUR LORD'S BOUNTY
AND THAT WILL BE THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT SURELY

58  IN YOUR TONGUE WE HAVE MADE THIS QURAN EASY 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY TAKE HEED

59  SO WAIT AND WATCH, FOR SURELY
THEY TOO ARE WAITING AND WATCHING TO SEE

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CHAPTER 45.  THE KNEELING                                                        SECTION 1.  PART XXV

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  THE REVELATION OF THIS BOOK IS FROM GOD
THE ALL MIGHTY, THE ALL WISE GOD

3  IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH ARE SURELY
SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE SINCERELY

4  AND IN THE CREATION OF YOU
AND THE ANIMALS SCATTERED THE EARTH THROUGH 
ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE OF ASSURED FAITH AMONG YOU

5  AND IN THE ALTERNATION OF DAY AND NIGHT
AND THE PROVISION GOD SENDS DOWN FROM THE SKIES
AND REVIVES THE EARTH AFTER IT DIES
AND IN THE CHANGE OF THE WINDS ARE SIGNS FOR THE WISE

6  THESE ARE GOD'S SIGNS 
WE REHEARSE TO YOU, THEN IN WHAT SIGNS 
WILL THEY BELIEVE AFTER REJECTING GOD'S SIGNS?

7  TO EVERY SINFUL LIAR, WOE TO HIM

8  WHEN HE HEARS THE MESSAGES OF GOD RECITED TO HIM
HE IS OBSTINATE AS IF IT WAS NOT HEARD BY HIM 
ANNOUNCE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY TO HIM

9  AND WHEN HE LEARNS SOMETHING 
OF OUR SIGNS HE TAKES THEM IN JESTING
FOR HIM THE PENALTY WILL BE HUMILIATING 

10  HELL IS IN FRONT OF THEM 
AND OF NO PROFIT ARE THEIR EARNINGS TO THEM 
NOR ARE THERE ANY PROTECTORS BESIDES GOD FOR THEM
AND THERE IS A TREMENDOUS PUNISHMENT IN STORE FOR THEM

11  THIS IS TRUE GUIDANCE  
FOR THOSE WHO REJECT GOD'S GUIDANCE 
THERE IS FOR THEM A SEVERE CONSEQUENCE

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12  AND IT IS GOD WHO HAS SUBJECTED THE SEA TO YOU 
THAT SHIPS BY HIS COMMAND MAY SAIL THROUGH 
THAT HIS BOUNTY MAY BE SOUGHT BY YOU
AND THAT YOU MAY SHOW TO GOD YOUR GRATITUDE

13  HE HAS SUBJECTED TO YOU EVERYTHING IN EARTH AND HEAVEN
IN THESE THINGS ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WITH COMPREHENSION

14  SO TELL THOSE WHO BELIEVE TO FORGIVE THOSE PEOPLE
WHO DO NOT LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY OF REQUITAL
IT IS FOR HIM TO RECOMPENSE FOR GOOD OR EVIL 
ACCORDING TO THE EARNINGS OF THE PEOPLE

15  IF ANY ONE DOES A RIGHTEOUS DEED 
IT IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS OWN SOUL INDEED
IT IS AGAINST HIS OWN SOUL IF HE DOES AN EVIL DEED
AND YOU WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO YOUR LORD INDEED

16  WE DID BEFORE GRANT TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
THE BOOK AND THE POWER OF COMMAND AND APOSTLES 

AND WE GAVE THEM GOOD AND PURE THINGS FOR PROVISIONS
AND WE FAVORED THEM ABOVE ALL OF THE NATIONS

17  AND WE GRANTED CLEAR SIGNS IN ALL AFFAIRS TO THEM
AND IT WAS ONLY AFTER KNOWLEDGE HAD BEEN GRANTED TO THEM 
THAT THEY FELL INTO DIVISIONS THROUGH ENVY AMONG THEM  
ON JUDGMENT DAY YOUR LORD WILL JUDGE BETWEEN THEM 
IN THAT IN WHICH THEY DIFFERED AMONG THEM

18  THEN WE PUT YOU ON THE RIGHT WAY SO FOLLOW THAT WAY 
AND FOLLOW NOT THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW THE RIGHT WAY

19  THEY WILL BE OF NO USE TO YOU IN THE SIGHT OF THE CREATOR
THE WRONG DOERS STAND AS PROTECTORS OF ONE ANOTHER
BUT OF THE RIGHTEOUS, GOD IS THEIR PROTECTOR

20  THIS IS CLEAR EVIDENCE TO MEN AND GUIDANCE AND MERCY 
TO THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH WITH CERTAINTY

21  DO THOSE WHO SEEK AFTER EVIL 
THINK THAT WE WILL HOLD THEM EQUAL 
WITH THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND ARE FAITHFUL
AND THAT THEIR LIFE AND DEATH WILL BE EQUAL?  
NO, THEIR JUDGMENT IS DEFINITELY EVIL

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CHAPTER 45.  THE KNEELING                                                        SECTION 3.  PART XXV

22  GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH FOR JUST ENDS 
IN ORDER THAT EACH SOUL MAY FIND THE RECOMPENSE 

OF WHAT IT HAS EARNED JUSTLY
AND NONE OF THEM WILL BE DEALT WITH UNJUSTLY

23  THEN SEE HIM WHO TAKES AS HIS GOD VAIN THINGS 
KNOWING HIM AS SUCH GOD LEFT HIM STRAYING
AND SEALED HIS HEARING AND HEART AND UNDERSTANDING 
AND PUT ON HIS SIGHT A COVERING 
WHO THEN WILL GUIDE HIM AFTER GOD'S WITHDRAWING
WILL YOU NOT THEN HEED THE WARNING?

24  THEY SAY, WHAT IS THERE BUT OUR LIFE IN THIS WORLD FOR US?
WE LIVE AND WE DIE AND NOTHING BUT TIME CAN DESTROY US 

BUT OF THAT THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE FOR SURE
AND ABOUT IT THEY MERELY CONJECTURE

25  WHEN OUR CLEAR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO THEM 
THEIR ARGUMENT IS THIS WHICH IS SAID BY THEM 

BRING BACK OUR FOREFATHERS 
IF WHAT YOU SAY IS PROPER

26  SAY, GOD GIVES YOU LIFE AND DEATH AND FOR CERTAIN 
HE WILL GATHER YOU FOR THE DAY OF RESSURECTION 
ABOUT THAT OF WHICH THERE IS NO QUESTION
BUT MOST MEN HAVE NO COMPREHENSION 

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27  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
BUT ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION 
THE FALSE ONES WILL SUFFER DESTRUCTION

28  AND YOU WILL SEE EVERY SECT BOWING THE KNEE 
AND EVERY SECT WILL BE CALLED TO ITS RECORD OF DEEDS
THIS DAY WILL YOU BE RECOMPENSED FOR ALL OF YOUR DEEDS

29  THIS OUR RECORD SPEAKS WITH TRUTH ABOUT YOU
FOR WE PUT ON RECORD ALL THAT YOU DID DO 

30  THOSE WHO BELIEVED AND DID RIGHTEOUS DEEDS
THEIR LORD WILL ADMIT THEM TO HIS MERCY 
THAT WILL BE THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT INDEED

31  BUT TO THOSE WHO REJECTED GOD, TO THEM WILL BE SAID 
WERE NOT OUR MESSAGES RECITED TO YOU?  BUT INSTEAD
YOU WERE ARROGANT AND SINFUL AND MISLEAD

32  AND WHEN IT WAS SAID THAT GOD'S PROMISE WAS SURE 
AND THAT THERE WAS NO DOUBT ABOUT THE COMING OF THE HOUR 
YOU USED TO SAY, WE KNOW NOT WHAT IS THE HOUR 
WE THINK ITS AN IDEA AND WE KNOW NOTHING FOR SURE

33  THEN THE EVIL THEY DID WILL BECOME MANIFEST TO THEM 
AND THAT WHICH THEY MOCKED WILL ENCOMPASS THEM 

34  IT WILL ALSO BE SAID, THIS DAY WE WILL FORGET YOU 
AS THE MEETING OF THIS DAY WAS FORGOTTEN BY YOU
YOUR ABODE IS THE FIRE AND NO ONE CAN HELP YOU  

35  THIS BECAUSE YOU USED TO TAKE GOD'S SIGNS IN MOCKERY 
AND BY THE LIFE OF THE WORLD YOU WERE DECEIVED 
FROM THAT DAY TAKEN OUT THEY WILL NOT BE 
NOR WILL THEY INTO GRACE BE RECEIVED 

36  THEN PRAISE BE TO GOD, THE LORD OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND HE IS THE LORD AND SUSTAINER OF ALL CREATION

37  THROUGHOUT HEAVEN AND EARTH TO HIM BE THE GLORY 
EXALTED IN POWER AND FULL OF WISDOM IS HE

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