CHAPTER 46.  THE SANDHILLS                                                   SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

PART XXVI

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  WE CREATED NOT THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
AND ALL BETWEEN THEM BUT FOR JUST ENDS 
BUT THOSE BENT ON REJECTION
TURN AWAY FROM THE ADMONITION

4  SAY, DO YOU SEE WHAT IT IS BESIDES GOD YOU SERVE?  
SHOW ME WHAT THEY HAVE CREATED ON EARTH

OR HAVE THEY ANY SHARE IN THE HEAVENS?  
THEN BRING ME A BOOK BEFORE THIS REVELATION
OR ANY REMNANT OF KNOWLEDGE IN YOUR POSSESSION
IF YOU ARE AT ALL TRUTHFUL IN ANY OF YOUR ASSERTIONS

5  AND WHO IS MORE ASTRAY THAN ONE WHO WORSHIPS THINGS
WHO TO JUDGMENT DAY WILL GIVE THEM NO ANSWERING 
AND IN FACT HAVE NO HEARING OF THEIR CALLING 

6  AND WHEN MANKIND ARE GATHERED TOGETHER 
THEY WILL BE HOSTILE TO THEM AND WILL BE REJECTERS
OF THEIR WORSHIP OF THEM ALTOGETHER

7  WHEN OUR CLEAR MESSAGES ARE RECITED TO THE DISBELIEVERS 
THEY SAY OF THE TRUTH, THIS IS THE WORK OF A SORCERER

8  OR THEY SAY, HE HAS FORGED IT. SAY, HAD I FORGED IT REALLY
THEN CAN YOU OBTAIN A SINGLE BLESSING FROM GOD FOR ME? 
AND HE KNOWS BEST OF THAT OF WHICH YOU TALK SO GLIBLY 
AND ENOUGH IS HE FOR A WITNESS BETWEEN YOU AND ME 
AND MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL IS HE

9  SAY, I AM NO BRINGER OF NEW INFORMATION
NOR DO I KNOW WHAT WITH YOU OR ME WILL BE DONE  
I ONLY FOLLOW THAT WHICH IS REVEALED TO ME BY INSPIRATION  
AND I AM ONLY A WARNER TO YOU CLEAR AND OPEN

10  SAY, SEE IF THIS TEACHING BE FROM GOD AND YOU REJECT IT
AND A WITNESS FROM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TESTIFIES TO IT 

AS TO ITS SIMILARITY WITH EARLIER TESTAMENT
AND HAS BELIEVED WHILE YOU ARE ARROGANT
AND GOD GUIDES NOT THE IGNORANT

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11  DISBELIEVERS SAY OF THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
IF THIS MESSAGE WERE REALLY A GOOD THING TO OCCUR
SUCH MEN WOULD NOT HAVE RECEIVED IT BEFORE US FOR SURE

SEEING THAT THEY GUIDE NOT THEMSELVES THEREBY
AND THEY WILL SAY, THIS IS JUST AN OLD LIE

12  BEFORE THIS THE BOOK OF MOSES WAS A GUIDE AND A MERCY 
AND THIS BOOK CONFIRMS IN THE ARABIC CLEARLY
TO ADMONISH THOSE WHO ACT UNJUSTLY  
AND AS GLAD TIDINGS TO THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

13  THOSE WHO SAY, OUR LORD IS GOD TRULY
AND REMAIN FIRM ON THAT PATH STEADFASTLY
THEY WILL NOT GRIEVE NOR WILL THEY BE FEARFULLY

14  THEY WILL BE COMPANIONS OF THE GARDEN 
A REWARD FOR THE RIGHTEOUS AMONG MEN

15  ON MAN WE HAVE ORDAINED KINDNESS TO HIS PARENTS ON HIM
FOR SURELY IN PAIN DID HIS MOTHER BEAR HIM
AND IN PAIN DID SHE GIVE BIRTH TO HIM
AND THE CARRYING OF THE CHILD TO THE WEANING OF HIM

IS A PERIOD OF TWO AND ONE HALF YEARS 
WHEN HE REACHES FULL STRENGTH AND ATTAINS FORTY YEARS
THEN HE SAYS, GRANT ME OH CREATOR
THAT I MAY BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR FAVOR

WHICH YOU HAVE BESTOWED UPON ME 
AND UPON BOTH MY PARENTS BEFORE ME
THAT I MAY DO THAT WHICH YOU ARE PLEASED
OH MY LORD, BE GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL TO ME 
I DO TURN TO YOU AND BOW TO YOU SUBMISSIVELY 

16  THOSE ARE THE ONES FROM WHOM WE INDEED
ACCEPT FROM THEM THE BEST OF THEIR DEEDS 
AND WE PASS BY THEIR EVIL DEEDS 

THEY WILL BE AMONG THE COMPANIONS OF THE GARDEN
AND THIS WAS A PROMISE TO THEM NOT TO BE BROKEN

17  BUT THERE IS ONE WHO SAYS TO HIS PARENTS, SHAME ON YOU 
DO YOU HOLD OUT THE PROMISE TO ME TO BE TRUE

THAT I WILL BE RAISED UP EVEN THOUGH GENERATIONS 
HAVE PASSED BEFORE ME WITHOUT RISING AGAIN? 

AND THEY SEEK GOD'S AID AND WOE TO YOU
HAVE FAITH FOR SURELY THE PROMISE OF GOD IS TRUE 
BUT HE SAYS, THIS IS BUT STORIES OF THE ANCIENTS TOLD BY YOU

18  AND THEY ARE WHOM THE WORD IS PROVED TRUE AMONG NATIONS
OF MEN AND DEMONS THAT HAVE PASSED OF FORMER GENERATIONS
FOR THEY WILL BE IN AN UTTERLY LOST SITUATION

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CHAPTER 46.  THE SANDHILLS                                   SECTION 2 (CONT'D). PART XXVI

19  TO ALL ARE ASSIGNED DEGREES ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS 
THAT GOD MAY RECOMPENSE THEM FOR THEIR DEEDS 
AND THEY WILL NOT BE DEALT WITH UNJUSTLY

20  AND ON THE DAY THAT THE DISBELIEVERS 
WILL BE PLACED BEFORE THE FIRE 
IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM, YOU RECEIVED GOOD FAVORS
IN THE WORLD'S LIFE AND YOU TOOK YOUR PLEASURE
OUT OF THEM BUT TODAY YOU WILL FOR SURE

BE RECOMPENSED WITH A SEVERE PENALTY OF HUMILIATION 
FOR THAT YOU WERE ARROGANT WITHOUT JUSTIFICATION 
AND THAT YOU CONTINUED IN TRANSGRESSION

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CHAPTER 46.  THE SANDHILLS                                                   SECTION 3.  PART XXVI

21  MENTION HUD, ONE OF AD'S OWN BROTHERS 
HE WAS TO HIS PEOPLE A WARNER 
ABOUT THE SANDHILLS BUT THERE HAVE BEEN WARNERS 
BEFORE HIM AND AFTER HIM SAYING, WORSHIP NONE OTHER
THAN GOD, THE CREATOR, YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER
FOR I FEAR FOR YOU THE PENALTY OF A MIGHTY DISASTER

22  THEY SAID, HAVE YOU COME IN ORDER TO TURN US 
ASIDE FROM OUR GODS?  THEN BRING DOWN UPON US 
THE CALAMITY WITH WHICH YOU DO THREATEN US 
IF YOU ARE TELLING THE TRUTH TO US

23  SO HE SAID, THE KNOWLEDGE OF IT WITH GOD ONLY
I PROCLAIM TO YOU THE MESSAGE WHICH IS WITH ME   
BUT YOU ARE A PEOPLE WHO BEHAVE IGNORANTLY

24  WHEN THEY SAW A CLOUD ADVANCING TOWARDS THEIR VALLEYS 
THEY SAID, THIS CLOUD WILL GIVE US RAIN.  NO, IT IS THE CALAMITY 
YOU WANTED HASTENED, A WIND WHEREIN IS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

25  IT WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING
BY THE COMMAND OF ITS LORD THEN BY THE MORNING 
NOTHING WAS TO BE SEEN BUT THE RUINS OF THEIR DWELLINGS 
SO DO WE RECOMPENSE THOSE GIVEN TO TRANSGRESSING

26  AND WE HAD FIRMLY ESTABLISHED THEM IN ABILITY
WE HAVE NOT GIVEN YOU AND GAVE THEM FACULTIES  
OF HEARING, SEEING, HEART AND INTELLIGENCY
BUT OF NO PROFIT TO THEM WERE THEIR FACULTIES 
OF HEARING, SIGHT AND HEART AND INTELLEGENCY
WHEN THEY REJECTED THE SIGNS OF GOD HABITUALLY
AND THEY WERE ENCIRCLED COMPLETELY
BY THAT OF WHICH THEY USED TO MAKE MOCKERY

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CHAPTER 46.  THE SANDHILLS                                                   SECTION 4.  PART XXVI

27  AND WE DESTROYED BEFORE YOU MANY POPULATIONS 
AND IN VARIOUS WAYS WE HAVE SHOWN THE LESSONS
SO THAT THEY MAY TURN TO US IN SUBMISSION

28  WHY THEN WAS NO HELP IN PROGRESSION 
TO THEM FROM THOSE WHOM THEY GAVE DEVOTION
BESIDES GOD WITH TO WHOM THEY GAVE ASSOCIATION?  
NO, THEY LEFT THEM IN THE LURCH BUT THEIR INVENTION 
AND FALSEHOOD LED TO THEIR DESTRUCTION

29  WE TURNED TOWARDS YOU A COMPANY OF DEMONS 
QUIETLY LISTENING TO THE QURAN 

WHEN THEY STOOD IN THE PRESENCE 
THEY SAID, LISTEN IN SILENCE 

WHEN THE READING WAS FINISHED THEY RETURNED AGAIN
TO THEIR PEOPLE TO WARN THEM OF THEIR SINS

30  THEY SAID, OH OUR PEOPLE, WE HAVE HEARD A SCRIPTURE
REVEALED AFTER MOSES CONFIRMING WHAT CAME PRIOR 
AND IT GUIDES MEN TO TRUTH AND A WAY THAT IS SURE

31  OH OUR PEOPLE, LISTEN TO THE ONE WHO TO GOD HE INVITES YOU 
AND BELIEVE IN HIM, HE WILL FORGIVE YOUR FAULTS FOR YOU 
AND FROM A GRIEVOUS PENALTY HE WILL DELIVER YOU

32  IF ANY LISTEN NOT TO HE WHO INVITES US TO GOD 
HE CANNOT FRUSTRATE THE PLAN OF GOD 
AND NO PROTECTORS CAN HE HAVE BESIDES GOD 
SUCH MEN WANDER IN ERROR FROM GOD

33  SEE THEY NOT THAT GOD WHO CREATED EARTH AND HEAVEN 
AND NEVER WEARIED WITH THEIR CREATION 
IS ABLE TO GIVE LIFE TO THE DEAD IN RESSURECTION? 
FOR HE HAS POWER OVER ALL CREATION

34  AND ON THE DAY THAT THE DISBELIEVERS 
WILL BE PLACED BEFORE THE FIRE 
THEY WILL THEN BE ASKED THEREAFTER
IS THIS NOT THE TRUTH FROM YOUR MAKER
AND THEY WILL SAY,  YES,  BY OUR LORD AND SUSTAINER
ONE WILL SAY, TASTE THE PENALTY OF WHAT YOU WERE A DENIER

35  SO PATIENTLY PERSEVERE AS DID ALL THE MESSENGERS
AND BE IN NO HASTE ABOUT THE DISBELIEVERS
WHEN THEY SEE THE PENALTY THAT THEY WERE ASSURED
IT WILL BE AS IF THEY HAD NOT STAYED BUT AN HOUR  
YOURS IS BUT TO PROCLAIM THE MESSAGE CLEAR
BUT WILL ANY BE DESTROYED EXCEPT THE WRONG DOERS?

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CHAPTER 47.  MUHAMMAD                                                          SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THOSE WHO REJECT GOD AND HINDER MEN FROM GOD'S WAY
GOD WILL RENDER THEIR DEEDS ASTRAY 

2  BUT THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO GOOD AMONG THEM
AND BELIEVE IN THE BOOK SENT TO MUHAMMAD FOR THEM
FOR IT IS THE TRUTH, HE WILL REMOVE THEIR ILLS FROM THEM
AND IMPROVE GREATLY THE CONDITION OF THEM

3  THIS IS BECAUSE THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE IN GOD
FOLLOW VANITIES WHILE THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD
THEY ARE THE ONES WHO FOLLOW THE TRUTH FROM GOD
AND LESSONS ARE GIVEN TO MEN BY PARABLES FROM GOD

4  WHEN YOU MEET THE DISBELIEVERS 
SMITE AT THEIR NECKS AND WHEN YOU HAVE THEM IN YOUR POWER
BIND A BOND FIRMLY ON THEM THEREAFTER 
THEN IS THE TIME FOR GENEROSITY OR RANSOM EITHER
UNTIL THE WAR LAYS DOWN ITS BURDENS SO ARE YOU ORDERED 
BUT IF IT HAD BEEN YOUR LORD'S DESIRE
HE COULD HAVE EXACTED RETRIBUTION FROM THEM PRIOR
BUT HE LETS YOU FIGHT TO TEST SOME OF YOU WITH OTHERS 
THOSE WHO ARE SLAIN IN GOD'S WAY HE WILL NEVER 
ALLOW THEIR DEEDS TO BE LOST EVER

5  SOON WILL HE GUIDE THEM 
AND IMPROVE THE CONDITION OF THEM

6  AND HE WILL ADMIT THEM 
TO THE GARDEN WHICH HE HAS ANNOUNCED FOR THEM 

7  THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS AMONG YOU
IF YOU WILL AID GOD'S CAUSE HE WILL AID YOU
AND WILL PLANT YOUR FEET FIRMLY BENEATH YOU

8  BUT THOSE WHO REJECT GOD ARE HOPELESS 
AND GOD WILL RENDER THEIR DEEDS AS FRUITLESS

9  THAT IS BECAUSE THEY HATE GOD'S REVELATIONS 
SO HE HAS MADE THEIR DEEDS COME TO NO FRUITION

10  DO THEY NOT TRAVEL THROUGH THE EARTH
SO TO SEE WHAT WAS THE END OF THOSE FORMER?  
GOD BROUGHT DESTRUCTION ON THEM AND DISASTER
AND SIMILAR FATES AWAIT THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS

11  THAT IS BECAUSE GOD IS THE PROTECTOR 
OF ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
BUT THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
HAVE NO ONE AS A PROTECTOR

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CHAPTER 47.  MUHAMMAD                                                           SECTION 2.  PART XXVI

12  GOD WILL ADMIT THOSE WHO DO GOOD AND ARE BELIEVERS 
TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW PLEASANT RIVERS
WHILE THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS
WILL ENJOY THIS WORLD AND EAT AS CATTLE AND THE FIRE
WILL BE THEIR ABODE IN THE HEREAFTER 

13  AND HOW MANY CITIES WITH MORE POWER THAN YOUR CITY 
WHICH HAS DRIVEN YOU OUT HAVE WE DESTROYED FOR THEIR INIQUITY
AND THERE WAS NONE TO AID THEM FROM THE PENALTY?

14  IS THEN ONE WHO IS ON A CLEAR PATH FROM HIS CREATOR
NO BETTER THAN ONE TO WHOM THE EVIL OF HIS BEHAVIOR
SEEMS PLEASING AND FOLLOW THEIR OWN DESIRES?

15  HERE IS A PARABLE OF THE GARDEN PROMISED THE BELIEVERS 
IN IT ARE RIVERS OF PURE WATER AND INCORRUPTIBLE RIVERS 
OF MILK OF WHICH THE TASTE NEVER CHANGES AND RIVERS 
OF WINE, A JOY TO THOSE WHO DRINK IT AND RIVERS 
OF HONEY RUNNING THROUGH PURE AND CLEAR 
FRUITS OF ALL KINDS AND MERCY FROM THEIR CREATOR
NOW ARE THESE LIKE THOSE THAT WILL DWELL IN THE FIRE
AND BE GIVEN TO DRINK NOTHING BUT HOT BOILING WATER
SO THAT IT CUTS UP THEIR BOWELS IN TORMENT AND TERROR?

16  AND AMONG THEM ARE MEN WHO LISTEN TO YOU
BUT IN THE END WHEN THEY GO OUT FROM YOU 

THEY SAY TO THOSE TO WHOM KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN GIVEN
WHAT IS IT THAT HE SAID JUST THEN? 

THESE ARE MEN WHOSE HEARTS GOD HAS SEALED UP
AND ARE UNJUST AND FOLLOW THEIR OWN LUSTS

17  BUT TO THOSE WHO RECEIVE GUIDANCE 
HE INCREASES THEIR LIGHT OF GUIDANCE 

AND BESTOWS ON THEM PIETY  
AND RESTRAINS THEM FROM INIQUITY

18  DO THEY WAIT FOR THE HOUR ONLY
FOR IT TO COME UPON THEM SUDDENLY?
SOME TOKENS OF IT HAVE COME ALREADY
AND WHEN IT INDEED DOES COME IN REALITY 
OF WHAT BENEFIT THEN WILL THEIR WARNING BE? 

19  BUT KNOW THEREFORE THAT THERE IS ONE GOD ONLY
AND THEN ASK FOR FORGIVENESS FOR YOUR DEEDS
AND FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO BELIEVE

FOR GOD KNOWS HOW YOU MOVE ABOUT 
AND HOW YOU DWELL IN YOUR HOMES IN AND OUT

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CHAPTER 47.  MUHAMMAD                                                           SECTION 3.  PART XXVI

20  THOSE WHO BELIEVE SAY, WHY IS NOT REVEALED A CHAPTER?  
BUT WHEN IS REVEALED A DECISIVE CHAPTER 
AND WHEN IN IT FIGHTING IS ORDERED
YOU WILL SEE THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS TERROR
LOOKING AT YOU LIKE ONE WHOM DEATH HOVERS OVER
      
21  BUT MORE FITTING FOR THEM
WERE IT TO OBEY AND SAY WHAT IS JUST OF THEM
AND THEN WHEN A MATTER IS RESOLVED ON FOR THEM
IF THEY WERE TRUE TO GOD IT WOULD BE BEST FOR THEM 

22  BUT IF YOU TURN AWAY YOU ARE SURE TO MAKE MISCHIEF
AND CUT OFF THE TIES OF KINSHIP AND FRIENDSHIP

23  THESE ARE THE MEN WHOM GOD HAS CURSED INDEED 
AND HAS MADE THEM DEAF AND BLIND SO THEY CANNOT SEE

24  AND THE QURAN, DO THEY NOT THEN SEEK TO UNDERSTAND IT
OR ARE THEIR HEARTS LOCKED UP SO THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND IT?

25  THOSE WHO TURN BACK AS APOSTATES AMONG THEM
AFTER GUIDANCE WAS CLEARLY SHOWN TO THEM 
IT IS THE DEVIL THAT HAS INSTIGATED THEM 
AND BEAUTIFIED FALSE HOPES FOR THEM

26  THIS IS BECAUSE THEY SAID TO THOSE WHO 
HATE WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED TO YOU

WE WILL OBEY YOU IN THIS MATTER IN PART
BUT GOD KNOWS THEIR INNER HEARTS

27  HOW WILL IT BE WHEN THE ANGELS TAKE THE SOULS OF THEM
AT DEATH AND SMITE THE FACES AND THE BACKS OF THEM

28  THIS BECAUSE THEY FOLLOWED THAT WHICH ANGERED GOD
AND THEY HATED GOD AND THE GOOD PLEASURES OF GOD
SO THEIR DEEDS WERE MADE OF NO EFFECT BY GOD 

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CHAPTER 47.  MUHAMMAD                                                           SECTION 4.  PART XXVI

29  OR DO THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISEASE 
THINK THAT GOD WILL NOT EVENTUALLY
BRING TO LIGHT ALL THEIR ANTIPATHY?  

30  AND HAD WE SO WILLED WE COULD HAVE SHOWN THEM UP TO YOU
AND YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN THEM BY THEIR MARKS BUT YOU 
WILL KNOW THEM BY THE TONE OF THEIR SPEECH AND TOO
GOD KNOWS WELL ALL THAT YOU DO

31  AND WE WILL TRY YOU AND TEST THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
WHO STRIVE THEIR UTMOST AND PERSEVERE PATIENTLY
AND WE WILL TRY YOUR REPORTED FACTS JUSTLY

32  THOSE WHO REJECT GOD AND HINDER MEN FROM BELIEF 
AND RESIST THE APOSTLE AFTER BEING GUIDED CLEARLY 
WILL NOT INJURE THEIR LORD IN THE LEAST DEGREE
BUT HE WILL MAKE OF NO EFFECT THEIR DEEDS 

33  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE
OBEY GOD AND THE APOSTLE AND TAKE HEED
AND DO NOT MAKE OF NO ACCOUNT YOUR DEEDS

34  SURELY THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE 
AND HINDER MEN FROM BELIEF 
AND DIE IN DISBELIEF
GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE OR GIVE THEM ANY RELIEF

35  AND BE NOT SLACK SO AS TO CRY FOR PEACE
WHILE YOU ARE BEING UPPERMOST AND INDEED
GOD WILL NOT MAKE FRUITLESS YOUR DEEDS   

36  THIS WORLD'S LIFE IS BUT PLAY AND VANITY
AND IF YOU BELIEVE AND GUARD AGAINST INIQUITY
YOUR LORD WILL SURELY RECOMPENSE YOUR DEEDS
AND WILL NOT ASK YOU TO GIVE UP YOUR BOUNTIES 

37  IF HE WERE TO ASK YOU FOR THEM YOU SURELY
WOULD WITHOUT DOUBT WITHHOLD THEM COVETOUSLY
AND BRING OUT ALL OF YOUR ILL FEELING WITH CERTAINTY

38  YOU ARE INVITED TO SPEND YOUR SUBSTANCE FREELY
BUT AMONG YOU ARE SOME OF YOU THAT ARE MISERLY 
BUT ANY OF YOU WHO ARE MISERLY
ARE SO AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR OWN SOULS GREED
BUT GOD IS FREE OF ALL WANTS AND IT IS YOU THAT ARE IN NEED 
IF YOU TURN BACK FROM THE PATH THEN HE WILL INDEED
REPLACE YOU WITH PEOPLE WHO WILL TAKE HEED

   

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CHAPTER 48.  VICTORY                                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WE HAVE GRANTED A VICTORY TO YOU

2  THAT GOD MAY FORGIVE YOU 
AND WILL FULFILL HIS FAVOR TO YOU 
AND WILL TO THE RIGHT WAY GUIDE YOU

3  AND WITH POWERFUL HELP GOD MAY HELP YOU

4  GOD SENT DOWN TRANQUILITY 
INTO THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
SO THAT THEY MAY ADD BELIEF TO THEIR BELIEF
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH BELONG TO GOD ONLY
AND FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXALTED IN WISDOM IS HE

5  THAT HE MAY ADMIT THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
TO GARDENS BENEATH WHICH FLOW RIVERS 
THAT THEY MAY DWELL IN THEM FOREVER 
AND REMOVE FROM THEM THEIR ERRORS 
THAT IS IN THE SIGHT OF THE CREATOR
THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT FOR BELIEVERS

6  AND THAT HE MAY PUNISH THE HYPOCRITICAL MEN
AND THE HYPOCRITICAL WOMEN 
AND THE POLYTHEISTIC MEN
AND THE POLYTHEISTIC WOMEN 
WHO IMAGINE OF GOD AN EVIL OPINION 
FOR UPON THEM IS A ROUND OF PERDITION
GOD HAS CURSED THEM AND MADE HELL A PROVISION 
AND FOR THEM IT IS AN EVIL DESTINATION 

7  THE FORCES OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH BELONG TO GOD
AND EXALTED IN POWER AND FULL OF WISDOM IS GOD

8  WE HAVE SENT YOU AS A WITNESS AND AS A BRINGER 
OF GLAD TIDINGS AND AS A WARNER

9  THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
AND MORNING AND EVENING GIVE HIM PRAISE AND HONOR

10  SURELY THOSE WHO SWEAR TO YOU THEIR LOYALTY
DO NO LESS THAN SWEAR TO GOD THEIR LOYALTY
AND GOD'S HAND IS OVER THEIR HANDS GREATLY
AND ANY ONE WHO VIOLATES HIS TESTIMONY
DOES SO TO HIS OWN INJURY 
ANY ONE WHO FULFILLS WHAT HE DECREES 
THEY WILL BE GRANTED A GREAT REWARD INDEED

 

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   CHAPTER 48.  VICTORY                                                              SECTION 2.  PART XXVI

11  THE DESERT ARABS WHO LAGGED BELATEDLY
WILL SAY, WE WERE LOOKING AFTER OUR FAMILIES AND PROPERTY
WILL YOU THEN ASK GOD TO FORGIVE US AND HAVE MERCY?  
THEIR TONGUES SAY WHAT THEIR HEARTS DO NOT HEED

TO THEM SAY, WHO HAS POWER TO INTERVENE WITH GOD FOR YOU
IF HIS WILL IS TO GIVE SOME LOSS OR SOME PROFIT TO YOU? 
BUT GOD IS WELL AWARE OF ALL THAT YOU DO

12  BUT YOU THOUGHT THAT THE APOSTLE AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
WOULD NEVER RETURN TO THEIR FAMILIES 
THIS SEEMED PLEASING IN YOUR HEARTS AND YOU CONCEIVED 
AN EVIL THOUGHT FOR YOU ARE A LOST PEOPLE INDEED

13  AND IF ANY BELIEVE NOT IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
WE HAVE. PREPARED FOR THE DISBELIEVERS A BLAZING FIRE

14  TO GOD BELONGS THE DOMINION OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 
HE PUNISHES WHOM HE WILLS AND WHOM HE WILLS IS FORGIVEN 
AND GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND FORGIVENESS FOR MEN

15  THOSE WHO LAGGED BEHIND WILL SAY TO YOU
WHEN YOU MARCH AND TAKE SPOILS IN WAR LET US FOLLOW YOU 
THEY WISH TO CHANGE THE DECREE OF GOD, SAY, NOT SO WILL YOU 

FOR GOD HAS ALREADY DECLARED THIS BEFOREHAND 
THEY WILL SAY YOU ARE JEALOUS BUT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND 

16  SAY TO THE DESERT ARABS WHO LAGGED BELATEDLY
YOU WILL FIGHT AGAINST A PEOPLE GIVEN TO WAR FIERCELY 
YOU WILL FIGHT OR THEY WILL SURRENDER TO YOU SUBMISSIVELY
AND THEN IF YOU SHOW OBEDIENCE GOD WILL GRANT YOU BOUNTY 
BUT IF YOU TURN BACK AGAIN YOU WILL RECEIVE A SEVERE PENALTY

17  ON THE BLIND THERE IS NO BLAME 
NOR ON THE ILL NOR ON THE LAME 

BUT HE THAT OBEYS GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
GOD WILL ADMIT HIM TO GARDENS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS 

AND HE WHO TURNS BACK, GOD WILL DEFINITELY
PUNISH HIM WITH A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

 

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CHAPTER 48.  VICTORY                                                                  SECTION 3.  PART XXVI

18  GOD'S GOOD PLEASURE WAS UPON THOSE WHO BELIEVE 
WHEN THEY SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO YOU UNDER THE TREE 
HE KNEW WHAT WAS IN THEIR HEARTS COMPLETELY
AND HE SENT DOWN TO THEM TRANQUILLITY 
AND HE REWARDED THEM WITH A SPEEDY VICTORY

19  AND MANY GAINS BESIDES WILL THEY ACQUIRE 
AND GOD IS ALL WISE AND EXALTED IN POWER 

20  GOD HAS PROMISED MANY GAINS TO YOU 
AND HE HAS BEFOREHAND GIVEN THESE TO YOU 
HE HAS RESTRAINED THE HANDS OF MEN FROM YOU
THAT IT MAY BE A SIGN FOR THE BELIEVERS AMONG YOU
AND ALSO THAT TO THE STRAIGHT WAY HE MAY GUIDE YOU 

21  OTHER GAINS THERE ARE WHICH ARE NOT WITHIN YOUR POWER 
BUT WHICH GOD HAS COMPASSED, AND GOD HAS ALL POWER 

22  IF THE DISBELIEVERS SHOULD FIGHT YOU
THEY WOULD SURELY TURN THEIR BACKS TO YOU
AND THEY WOULD NOT FIND ANY HELPER AGAINST YOU

23  THIS HAS IN THE PAST BEEN THE PRACTICE OF GOD 
NO CHANGE WILL YOU FIND IN THE PRACTICE OF GOD

24  GOD RESTRAINED THEIR HANDS FROM YOU 
AND RESTRAINED YOUR HANDS FROM THEM TOO
IN THE MIDST OF MECCA, AFTER THAT HE GAVE YOU 
VICTORY OVER THEM AND GOD SEES ALL THAT YOU DO

25  THEY ARE THE ONES WHO DENIED REVELATION
AND HINDERED YOU FROM THE SACRED REGION

AND DETAINED THE ANIMALS FOR SACRIFICE 
FROM REACHING THEIR PLACE OF SACRIFICE 

HAD THERE NOT BEEN BELIEVING MEN AND WOMEN 
WHO DID NOT KNOW THAT YOU HAD TRODDEN 
AND ON WHOSE ACCOUNT A CRIME WOULD HAVE HAPPENED
WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE TO YOU HAVING BEEN GIVEN
 
THAT WE MAY ADMIT WHOM WE WILL TO OUR MERCY 
AND IF THEY HAD BEEN A PART OF IT THEN WE SURELY
WOULD HAVE PUNISHED THEM WITH A SEVERE PENALTY

26  THE DISBELIEVERS GOT UP IN THEIR PRIDE AND ARROGANCE 
THE PRIDE AND ARROGANCE OF IGNORANCE 

GOD SENT DOWN TO HIS MESSENGER TRANQUILITY
AND UNTO THE BELIEVERS AND MADE THEM STICK CLOSELY
TO THE OBSERVANCE OF THEIR DUTY
AND OF IT THEY WERE WELL WORTHY  
AND GOD IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

  
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CHAPTER 48.  VICTORY                                                                 SECTION 4.  PART XXVI

27  AND GOD FULFILLED THE VISION FOR HIS MESSENGER
THE SACRED MOSQUE YOU WILL CERTAINLY ENTER 
IF GOD WILLS WITH MINDS SECURE 
HEADS SHAVED, HAIR CUT AND WITHOUT FEAR 
FOR HE KNEW THAT YOU WERE NOT THE KNOWER
AND HE BESIDES THIS MADE YOU THE  SPEEDY VICTOR

28  GOD SENT HIS MESSENGER WITH THE TRUE RELIGION
AND TO PROCLAIM IT OVER ALL RELIGIONS 
AND ENOUGH IS GOD FOR A PATRON

29  MUHAMMAD IS GOD'S MESSENGER 
THOSE WITH HIM ARE STRONG AGAINST DISBELIEVERS 
BUT THEY ARE COMPASSIONATE AMONG EACH OTHER 
THEY BOW AND PROSTRATE THEMSELVES IN PRAYER 
SEEKING GOD'S GRACE AND HIS GOOD PLEASURE 
ON THEIR FACES ARE MARKS BEING INDICATORS
OF THEIR PROSTRATIONS IN THEIR PRAYERS
IN THE TORAH THIS IS TO WHAT THEY ARE SIMILAR
AND ALSO IN THE GOSPEL TO WHAT THEY ARE SIMILAR 
IS LIKE A SEED WHICH SENDS ITS BLADE AND MAKES IT STRONGER
AND THEN IT GROWS AND THEN IT BECOMES THICKER
AND IT STANDS ON ITS OWN STEM FILLING THE SOWERS 
WITH WONDER AND FILLING THE DISBELIEVERS WITH ANGER
AND GOD HAS PROMISED THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS
AND THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
FORGIVENESS AND A REWARD IN GREAT MEASURE

 

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CHAPTER 49.  THE APARTMENTS                                              SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
BE NOT FORWARD BEFORE GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
BUT FEAR GOD FOR GOD IS THE HEARER AND THE BEST  KNOWER

2  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
RAISE NOT YOUR VOICE ABOVE THE MESSENGER'S  
NOR SPEAK ALOUD TO HIM AS YOU DO TO EACH OTHER
LEST YOUR DEEDS BECOME VAIN WHILE YOU ARE UNAWARE 

3  THOSE WHO IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD'S MESSENGER
LOWER THEIR VOICES AND THEIR HEARTS GOD HAS MEASURED  
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A GREAT REWARD OF GREAT FAVOR

4  THOSE WHO SHOUT OUT TO YOU FROM BEHIND DWELLINGS 
MOST OF THEM LACK UNDERSTANDING

5  IF THEY HAD PATIENCE UNTIL YOU CAME TO THEM 
IT WOULD SURELY BE BEST FOR THEM 
BUT GOD IS FORGIVING AND MERCIFUL TO THEM

6  OH YOU WHO BELIEVE, IF A WICKED PERSON COMES TO YOU
WITH ANY NEWS, ASCERTAIN THE TRUTH OR ELSE YOU 

MAY HARM PEOPLE UNWITTINGLY AND AFTERWARDS BECOME 
FULL OF REPENTANCE FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE

7  KNOW THAT AMONG YOU IS GOD'S MESSENGER
AND WERE HE TO FOLLOW YOUR WISHES IN MATTERS
YOU WOULD FALL INTO MISFORTUNE BUT GOD HAS ENDEARED
THE FAITH TO YOU AND IN YOUR HEARTS HAS MADE IT SUPERB 

AND HAS MADE HATEFUL UNBELIEF, REBELLION AND WICKEDNESS  
SUCH INDEED ARE THOSE WHO WALK IN RIGHTEOUSNESS

8  THIS IS A GRACE AND A FAVOR FROM GOD 
AND FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS GOD

9  MAKE PEACE BETWEEN TWO QUARRELING BELIEVERS
IF ONE OF THEM TRANSGRESSES AGAINST THE OTHER 
FIGHT ALL OF YOU AGAINST THE TRANSGRESSOR
UNTIL WITH THE COMMAND OF GOD THEY ADHERE 
MAKE PEACE BETWEEN THEM WITH JUSTICE AND BE FAIR 
FOR YOUR LORD DOES LOVE THOSE WHO ARE JUST AND FAIR 

10  THE BELIEVERS ARE NOTHING LESS THAN BROTHERS
SO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN YOUR TWO CONTENDING BROTHERS 
AND FEAR GOD THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE MERCY FROM YOUR MAKER

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11  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
LET NOT SOME MEN AMONG YOU LAUGH AT OTHERS 
IT MAY BE THAT THE LATTER ARE BETTER THAN THE FORMER 
NOR LET SOME WOMEN LAUGH AT OTHERS 
IT MAY BE THAT THE LATTER ARE BETTER THAN THE FORMER 
NOR DEFAME NOR BE SARCASTIC TO EACH OTHER 
NOR BY OFFENSIVE NICKNAMES ADDRESS EACH OTHER
FOR ILL SEEMING IS A NAME CONNOTING ERROR 
TO BE USED ON ONE AFTER HE IS A BELIEVER
AND THOSE WHO DO NOT DESIST ARE WRONG DOERS

12  AVOID SUSPICION, OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS
FOR SUSPICION IS A SIN AND SPY NOT ON EACH OTHER 
NOR SPEAK ILL BEHIND THE BACKS OF EACH OTHER
WOULD ANY OF YOU LIKE TO EAT THE FLESH OF HIS DEAD BROTHER?   
NO, IT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD ABHOR 
BUT FEAR GOD FOR GOD IS THE MOST MERCIFUL FORGIVER

13  MANKIND WE CREATED FROM A SINGLE PAIR 
OF A MALE AND A FEMALE AND MADE YOU FROM THERE
INTO NATIONS AND TRIBES THAT YOU MAY KNOW EACH OTHER
BUT NOT SO THAT YOU MAY DESPISE EACH OTHER
IN THE SIGHT OF GOD HE OF YOU IS THE MOST HONORED  
IS HE WHO IS THE MOST RIGHTEOUS DOER 
AND OF ALL THINGS GOD IS THE BEST KNOWER

14  THE DESERT ARABS SAY, WE BELIEVE
BUT TO THEM SAY, YOU DO NOT REALLY BELIEVE
BUT YOU ONLY SAY THAT YOU BELIEVE 
NOT YET HAS ENTERED YOUR HEARTS BELIEF
BUT IF YOU OBEY GOD AND HIS APOSTLE HE WILL INDEED
NOT BELITTLE ANYTHING OF YOUR DEEDS 
FOR GOD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

15  ONLY THOSE ARE BELIEVERS 
WHO HAVE BELIEVED IN GOD AND THE MESSENGER
AND HAVE NEVER SINCE BEEN DOUBTERS 
BUT HAVE STRIVEN WITH BELONGINGS OF THEIRS
AND THEIR PERSONS IN GOD'S CAUSE AND ARE SINCERE 

16  SAY, WHAT WILL YOU INSTRUCT GOD ABOUT YOUR RELIGION
WHEN GOD KNOWS ALL THAT IS IN THE EARTH AND IN HEAVEN
AND HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS IN CREATION?

17  THEY REGARD THEIR ACCEPTING THE FAITH AS DOING YOU A FAVOR 
SAY, COUNT NOT YOUR ACCEPTING FAITH AS DOING ME A FAVOR  
NO, GOD HAS UPON YOU CONFERRED A FAVOR  
THAT HE HAS GUIDED YOU TO THE FAITH IF YOU ARE A BELIEVER

18  GOD KNOWS WHAT IS HIDDEN
IN THE EARTH AND IN THE HEAVENS
AND GOD SEES ALL THE DOINGS OF MEN

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CHAPTER 50.  QAF                                                                           SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  ALMIGHTY GOD
BY THE GLORIOUS QURAN, YOU ARE THE APOSTLE OF GOD

2  THEY WONDER THAT A WARNER 
HAS COME TO THEM FROM AMONG THEIR CENTER 
THIS IS A STRANGE THING INDEED, SAY THE DISBELIEVERS

3  WHEN WE DIE AND BECOME DUST WILL WE LIVE AGAIN?  
THAT IS FAR FROM WHAT WE UNDERSTAND 

4  WE KNOW HOW MUCH THE EARTH TAKES AWAY OF THEM 
WITH US IS A RECORD REGARDING THE FULL ACCOUNT OF THEM

5  WHEN THE TRUTH COMES TO THEM THEY ARE IN REJECTION
SO THEY ARE THEREFORE IN A STATE OF CONFUSION

6  DO THEY NOT LOOK AT THE SKY AND SEE HOW WE HAVE MADE IT  
AND ADORNED IT AND THERE ARE NO FLAWS IN IT?

7  AND THE EARTH WE HAVE SPREAD IT AND SET ON IT 
MOUNTAINS STANDING FIRM AND PRODUCED IN IT 
EVERY KIND OF BEAUTIFUL GROWTH IN PAIRS IN IT

8  TO BE COMMEMORATED AND OBSERVED
BY EVERY DEVOTEE THAT TURNS TO HIS MAKER

9  WE SEND DOWN FROM THE SKY RAIN CHARGED WITH BLESSINGS 
AND WE PRODUCE WITH IT GARDENS AND GRAIN FOR HARVESTING

10  AND PALM TREES TALL IN STATURE
WITH SPIKES OF FLOWERS PILED ONE OVER ANOTHER

11  AS SUSTENANCE FOR GOD'S SERVANTS 
AND WE GIVE DEAD LAND NEW PROVISIONS 
AND SURELY SO WILL BE THE RESSURECTION

12  BEFORE THEM WAS DENIED THE HEREAFTER BY NOAH'S PEOPLE 
THE COMPANIONS OF THE RASS AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE

13   AND THE AD AND PHARAOH AND LOT'S PEOPLE

14  THE COMPANIONS OF THE WOOD AND TUBBA'S PEOPLE 
THEY ALL REJECTED THEIR COMMISSIONED APOSTLES 
AND MY WARNING TO THEM WAS DULY FULFILLED 

15  WERE WE THEN WEARY WITH THE FIRST CREATION 
THAT THEY SHOULD BE IN DOUBT ABOUT A NEW CREATION?

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16  WE CREATED MAN AND WE KNOW OF HIM
WHAT DARK SUGGESTIONS HIS SOUL MAKES TO HIM 
FOR WE ARE NEARER THAN HIS JUGULAR VEIN IS TO HIM

17  WHEN THE TWO ANGELS APPOINTED TO LEARN HIS DOINGS 
ONE SITTING ON THE RIGHT AND ONE ON THE LEFT SITTING

18  NOT A WORD DOES HE UTTER 
BUT BY HIM THERE IS A WATCHER

19  AND THE STUPOR OF DEATH WILL BRING 
TRUTH BEFORE HIS EYES, THIS WAS THE THING 
WHICH YOU WERE TRYING SO HARD OF ESCAPING

20  AND THE TRUMPET WILL BE BLOWN AND THAT WILL INDEED
BE THE DAY IN WHICH THE WARNING HAD BEEN DECREED

21  AND THERE WILL COME FORTH EVERY CREATURE 
WITH EACH WILL BE AN ANGEL AS A DRIVER
AND AN ANGEL AS A WITNESS BEARER 

22  IT WILL BE SAID, YOU DID NOT TAKE HEED OF THIS DAY
AND NOW HAVE WE REMOVED YOUR VEIL AWAY
AND SHARP IS YOUR SIGHT THIS DAY

23  AND HIS COMPANION WILL SAY 
HERE IS HIS RECORD READY WITH ME TODAY

24  THE SENTENCE WILL BE, THROW INTO HELL 
EVERY CONTUMACIOUS UNGRATEFUL REBEL

25  WHO MADE WHAT WAS GOOD FORBIDDEN
AND CONTINUED IN TRANSGRESSIONS 
AND CAST DOUBTS AND SUSPICIONS  

26  WHO SET UP BESIDES GOD ANOTHER DEITY
THROW HIM INTO A SEVERE PENALTY

27  HIS COMPANION WILL SAY 
LORD, I DID NOT MAKE HIM STRAY
BUT HE WAS HIMSELF FAR ASTRAY

28  HE WILL BE NOT IN MY PRESENCE DISPUTING
I HAD ALREADY IN ADVANCE SENT YOU WARNING 

29  THE WORD CHANGES NOT BEFORE ME 
AND I DO NOT TREAT MY SERVANTS UNJUSTLY

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30  ONE DAY WE WILL ASK, HELL ARE YOU FILLED? 
IT WILL SAY, ARE THERE ANY MORE TO COME STILL?

31  AND THE GARDEN WILL BE BROUGHT THAT DAY
NEAR TO THE RIGHTEOUS NO MORE A THING FAR AWAY

32  A VOICE WILL SAY, THIS IS WHAT WAS PROMISED TO YOU 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO TURNED TO GOD IN GRATITUDE
AND WHO KEPT HIS COVENANT AMONG YOU

33  WHO FEARED IN SECRET THE BENEFICENT
AND COMES WITH A HEART THAT IS PENITENT

34  ENTER IN IT IN PEACE AND SECURITY 
THIS IS THE DAY OF ETERNITY

35  THERE WILL BE FOR THEM THEREIN ALL THAT THEY WISH FOR
IN OUR PRESENCE AND MUCH MORE

36  BUT HOW MANY GENERATIONS DID WE DESTROY BEFORE THEM 
FOR THEIR SINS WHO WERE STRONGER IN POWER THAN THEM? 
WAS THE LAND NOT THEN WANDERED THROUGH BY THEM?
WAS THERE ANY PLACE OF ESCAPE FOR THEM?

37  SURELY IN THIS IS A REMINDER
FOR ANY WHO HAS A HEART AND LENDS AN EAR

38  HEAVEN AND EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN WERE CREATED BY US
IN SIX DAYS NOR DID ANY SENSE OF WEARINESS TOUCH US

39  BEAR PATIENTLY ALL OF THEIR TALKING
AND THEN BE REGULAR IN YOUR LORD'S PRAISING
BEFORE THE SUN'S RISING AND BEFORE ITS SETTING

40  AND DURING PART OF THE NIGHT ALSO PRAISE IN CELEBRATION
AND SO LIKEWISE AFTER THE POSTURES OF ADORATION

41  AND LISTEN FOR THE DAY WHEN THE CALLER 
WILL CALL OUT FROM A PLACE QUITE NEAR

42  WHEN THEY WILL HEAR A MIGHTY EXPLOSION
THAT WILL BE THE DAY OF RESURRECTION 

43  THE GIVER OF LIFE AND DEATH ARE WE 
AND TO US IS THE FINAL DESTINY

44  THE DAY WHEN THE EARTH WILL BE RENT ASUNDER 
FROM MEN HURRYING OUT GATHERING TOGETHER 

45  AND WE KNOW BEST WHAT IS SAID BY THEM
AND YOU ARE NOT ONE TO COMPEL THEM 
SO WITH THE QURAN ADMONISH THEM
THOSE WHO FEAR MY WARNING AMONG THEM

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CHAPTER 51.  THE WINDS THAT SCATTER                             SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE WINDS THAT SCATTER 

2  AND THE CLOUDS THAT BEAR HEAVY WEIGHTS OF WATER

3  AND THE SHIPS THAT FLOAT WITH EASE IN MANNER

4  AND THOSE DISTRIBUTING THE AFFAIR

5  THAT WHICH YOU ARE PROMISED IS NOT IN ERROR

6  AND JUSTICE MUST COME TO PASS FOR SURE

7  BY THE SKY WITH ITS NUMEROUS WAYS

8  TRULY YOU ARE IN VARYING WAYS

9  THROUGH WHICH FROM THE TRUTH ARE DELUDED AWAY 
THOSE WHO WOULD BE DELUDED AWAY

10  WOE TO THE FALSEHOOD MONGERS

11  WHO ARE HEEDLESS OF THE HEREAFTER

12  AND ASK WHEN WILL THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT BE

13  IT WILL BE A DAY WHEN THEY WILL BE 
TRIED AND TESTED OVER THE FIRE AS A PENALTY

14  TASTE YOUR TRIAL, THIS IS WHAT YOU HURRIED TO SEE

15  AS TO THE RIGHTEOUS THEY WILL BE IN DWELLINGS
IN THE MIDST OF GARDENS AND SPRINGS

16  TAKING JOY IN THE THINGS WHICH THEIR LORD IS GIVING 
BECAUSE BEFORE THEN THEY LIVED A LIFE OF GOOD LIVING

17  THEY WERE IN THE HABIT OF AT NIGHT RARELY SLEEPING 

18  AND IN THE HOURS OF EARLY DAWN THEY WERE FOUND PRAYING

19  AND IN THEIR PROPERTIES THERE WAS THE RIGHT OF THE BEGGAR
AND THE POOR WHO DO NOT ASK THE OTHERS

20  ON THE EARTH ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS

21  AS ALSO IN YOURSELVES WILL YOU NOT THEN CONSIDER?

22  AND IN HEAVEN IS SUSTENANCE FOR YOU
AS ALSO THAT WHICH IS PROMISED TO YOU

23  BY THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH THIS IS THE VERY TRUTH 
IN AS MUCH THAT YOU CAN SPEAK TO EACH OTHER IS THE TRUTH

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24  HAS THE STORY REACHED YOU OF THE GUESTS OF ABRAHAM?

25  THEY ENTERED INTO THE PRESENCE OF ABRAHAM

26  THEY SAID PEACE TO HIM 
AND HE SAID PEACE TO THEM

AND HE SAID TO HIMSELF, THESE PEOPLE
ARE UNUSUAL AND STRANGE PEOPLE 

27  THEN HE TURNED TO HIS HOUSEHOLD QUICKLY 
AND BROUGHT A FATTED CALF FOR THEM TO EAT

28  WHEN THEY DID NOT EAT HE CONCEIVED OF THEM A FEAR 
AND THEY SAID TO HIM, OH ABRAHAM, DO NOT FEAR  

29  AND THEY GAVE HIM GOOD NEWS
OF A SON ENDOWED WITH KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH

BUT HIS WIFE CAME FORWARD LAUGHING LOUDLY
AND SHE SAID, A BARREN OLD WOMEN INDEED?

30  THEY SAID, EVEN SO HAS YOUR LORD SPOKEN
AND HE IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM 

PART XXVII 

31 ABRAHAM SAID, AND WHAT NOW
OH YOU MESSENGERS, IS YOUR ERRAND NOW?

32  THEY SAID, WE HAVE BEEN
SENT TO A PEOPLE DEEP IN SIN

33  TO BRING ON THEM A SHOWER OF STONES
OF CLAY BRIMSTONE

34  MARKED FROM YOUR LORD FOR THESE
WHO HAVE TRESPASSED BEYOND BOUNDARIES

35  THEN WE EVACUATED FROM THERE SAFELY
THEY WHO WERE OF THOSE WHO DID BELIEVE

36  BUT WE FOUND ONE RIGHTEOUS HOUSEHOLD ONLY

37  AND WE LEFT A SIGN FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THE PENALTY 

38  MOSES WAS SIGN, WE SENT HIM TO PHARAOH WITH AUTHORITY 

39  BUT PHARAOH TURNED BACK WITH HIS CHIEFS
AND SAID, THIS IS ONE POSSESSED WITH SORCERY

40  SO WE THREW HIM AND HIS FORCES INTO THE SEA 
AND HIS WAS THE BLAME MOST ASSUREDLY

41  AND TO THE AD PEOPLE WE DID SEND
AGAINST THEM A DEVASTATING WIND

42  IT LEFT NOTHING WHATEVER
BUT REDUCED IT TO RUINED MATTER

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