CHAPTER 51.  THE WINDS THAT SCATTER                             SECTION 2.  PART XXVI

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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43  AND IN THE THAMUD WAS ANOTHER SIGN
THEY WERE TOLD, ENJOY YOUR BRIEF DAY FOR A SHORT TIME

44  BUT THEY DEFIED GOD'S ORDERING
SO THE  STUNNING EARTHQUAKE'S SEIZING
OVERTOOK THEM WHILE THEY WERE LOOKING 

45  THEN THEY WERE UNABLE TO RISE UP
NOR COULD THEY HELP THEMSELVES UP

46  SO WERE THE PEOPLE OF NOAH PREVIOUSLY
FOR THEY TRANSGRESSED WICKEDLY

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47  WITH POWER AND SKILL DID WE CONSTRUCT THE FIRMAMENT
FOR IT IS WE WHO CREATED THE VAST EXTENT

48  AND THE EARTH WE HAVE SPREAD IT OUT 
AND HOW EXCELLENT HAVE WE SPREAD IT OUT

49  WE MADE EVERY THING IN PAIRS IN CREATION
SO THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE INSTRUCTION

50  HASTEN THEN AT ONCE TO YOUR MAKER
I AM A WARNER FROM HIM TO YOU OPEN AND CLEAR

51  AND MAKE NOT ANOTHER 
AN OBJECT OF WORSHIP WITH THE CREATOR 
FOR I AM A WARNER TO YOU OPEN AND CLEAR 

52  NEVER BEFORE CAME TO PEOPLE A MESSENGER
BUT THEY SAID OF HIM IN LIKE MANNER 
ONE POSSESSED OR A SORCERER

53  IS THIS THE LEGACY THEY HAVE TRANSMITTED ONE TO ANOTHER?
NO, THEY ARE THEMSELVES PEOPLE WHO ARE TRANSGRESSORS

54  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM 
FOR YOU ARE NOT THE BLAME FOR THEM

55  BUT REMIND THEM FOR THE MESSAGE OF THE REMINDER
IS BENEFICIAL TO THE BELIEVERS

56  I HAVE CREATED DEMONS AND MEN ONLY 
THAT THEY MAY SERVE ME ONLY

57  NO SUSTENANCE DO I REQUIRE OF THEM FOR ME 
NOR DO I REQUIRE THAT THEY SHOULD FEED ME

58  FOR GOD IS THE SUSTAINER
LORD OF POWER AND STEADFAST FOR EVER

59  FOR THE WRONG DOERS THEIR PORTION 
IS SIMILAR TO THE PORTION 
OF THE PEOPLE OF EARLIER GENERATIONS 
LET THEM NOT ASK ME TO HASTEN THAT PORTION

60  THEN WOE TO THE DISBELIEVERS
ON ACCOUNT OF WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN ASSURED

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CHAPTER 52.  THE MOUNTAIN                                                    SECTION 1.  PART XXVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE MOUNT OF REVELATION

2  BY A DECREE OF INSCRIPTION

3  IN A SCROLL
UNROLLED

4  BY THE HOUSE VISITED FREQUENTLY

5  BY THE ELEVATED CANOPY

6  BY THE SWOLLEN SEA

7  FROM YOUR LORD WILL COME THE DESTRUCTION

8  IT CANNOT BE AVERTED BY ANYONE

9  THE DAY WHEN THE HEAVEN WILL BE IN A STATE OF COMMOTION

10  AND THE MOUNTAINS WILL MOVE AWAY
WITH A HORRIBLE MOVEMENT ON THAT DAY

11  THEY WHO TREAT TRUTH AS FALSEHOOD, WOE TO THEM THAT DAY

12  WHO IN SHALLOW TRIFLES PADDLE AND PLAY

13  THEY WILL BE THROWN INTO THE HELL FIRE THAT DAY

14  IT WILL BE SAID, THIS IS THE FIRE 
OF WHICH YOU WERE A DENIER

15  IS THIS THEN SORCERY
OR IS IT YOU THAT DO NOT SEE?

16  BURN IN IT, TO YOU THE SAME IS IT 
WHETHER WITH OR WITHOUT PATIENCE YOU BEAR IT 
FOR YOU WILL ONLY RECEIVE IN IT 
THE RECOMPENSE OF YOUR DEEDS BECAUSE OF IT

17  AS TO THE RIGHTEOUS 
THEY WILL BE IN GARDENS AND IN HAPPINESS

18  ENJOYING THE BLISS THEIR LORD HAS BESTOWED ON THEM 
AND FROM THE FIRE THEIR LORD WILL DELIVER THEM 

19   TO THEM WILL BE SAID, DRINK AND EAT
WITH PROFIT AND HEALTH BECAUSE OF YOUR GOOD DEEDS

20  THEY WILL RECLINE WITH EASE ON THRONES OF DIGNITY
ARRANGED IN RANKS AND WE WILL  ADDITIONALLY
JOIN THEM TO COMPANIONS WITH EYES OF BEAUTY

21  AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE
AND ARE FOLLOWED BY THEIR FAMILIES  
WE WILL THEN JOIN THEM TO THEIR FAMILIES 
NOR WILL WE DEPRIVE THEM OF THE FRUITS OF THEIR DEEDS 
YET IS EACH INDIVIDUAL IN PLEDGE FOR HIS DEEDS

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22  WE WILL BESTOW ON THEM FRUIT AND MEAT
WHATEVER THEY WILL DESIRE TO EAT

23  THEY WILL EXCHANGE WITH EACH OTHER A CUP FREE OF FRIVOLITY 
FREE OF ALL TAINT AND ANYTHING DIRTY

24  SERVING THEM WILL BE YOUTHS DEVOTED 
HANDSOME AS PEARLS WELL GUARDED

25  THEY WILL ADVANCE TO EACH OTHER 
ENGAGING IN MUTUAL QUESTIONING WITH EACH OTHER

26  THEY WILL SAY, WE WERE INDEED
AFRAID FOR OURSELVES AND OUR FAMILIES

27  BUT GOD HAS BEEN GRACIOUS TO US
AND FROM THE TORMENT OF THE FIRE HAS SAVED US

28  WE DID CALL ON HIM PREVIOUSLY
AND HE IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

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CHAPTER 52.  THE MOUNTAIN                                                    SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

29  THEREFORE PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF YOUR CREATOR 
FOR BY THE GRACE OF YOUR LORD YOU ARE NEITHER
POSSESSED NOR A SOOTHSAYER

30  OR DO THEY SAY, A POET IS HE
WE AWAIT FOR HIM SOME CALAMITY 

31  SAY, WAIT, I TOO 
WILL WAIT ALONG WITH YOU 

32  IS IT THAT THEIR UNDERSTANDING URGES THEM TO THIS
 OR ARE THEY BUT PEOPLE THAT TRANSGRESS? 

33  OR DO THEY SAY HE FABRICATED THE REVELATION?  
NO, THEY ARE PEOPLE IN REJECTION

34  LET THEM THEN PRODUCE A SAYING LIKE IT
IF THEY SPEAK TRUTHFULLY ABOUT IT

35  WERE THEY CREATED OF NOTHING 
OR WERE THEY THE CREATORS OF THEIR OWN BEINGS?

36  OR DID THEY CREATE HEAVEN AND EARTH?  
NO, THEY ARE SURELY DISBELIEVERS 

37  OR ARE WITH THEM YOUR LORD'S TREASURES
OR ARE THEY THE MANAGERS OF AFFAIRS?

38  OR CAN THEY CLIMB UP TO THE HEAVENS ON A LADDER
AND LISTEN TO ITS SECRETS?  THEN LET SUCH A LISTENER 
PRODUCE PROOF OF THEIR ENDEAVORS

39  OR DO YOU HAVE SONS AND HAS HE ONLY DAUGHTERS? 

40  OR IS IT THAT YOU ASK FOR A REWARD SO THAT THEY 
ARE BURDENED WITH A LOAD OF DEBT TO PAY?

41  OR IS THE UNSEEN IN THEIR HANDS
SO THAT THEY CAN WRITE IT WITH THEIR HANDS?

42  OR DO THEY INTEND AGAINST YOU A PLOT? 
BUT THOSE WHO DEFY GOD ARE INVOLVED IN A PLOT

43  OR HAVE THEY A GOD OTHER THAN GOD?
FAR IS GOD ABOVE THE THINGS THEY ASSOCIATE WITH GOD

44  IF THEY SAW A PIECE OF THE SKY FALLING DOWN ON THE EARTH 
THEY WOULD SAY, THESE ARE ONLY CLOUDS HEAPED UP TOGETHER

45  SO LEAVE THEM ALONE UNTIL THEY ENCOUNTER 
THAT DAY WHEN THEY WILL SWOON WITH HORROR

46  THE DAY WHEN NONE OF THEIR PLOTTING WILL AVAIL THEM  
AND NO HELP WILL BE GIVEN TO THEM

47  AND FOR THOSE WHO DO WRONG THERE IS ANOTHER PUNISHING  
BUT MOST OF THEM HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING

48  YOU ARE IN OUR EYES SO WAIT FOR THE JUDGMENT OF YOUR LORD 
AND WHEN YOU RISE, CELEBRATE THE PRAISES OF YOUR LORD 

49  AND FOR PART OF THE NIGHT ALSO PRAISE HIM 
AND AT THE RETREAT OF THE STARS GIVE PRAISE TO HIM

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 CHAPTER 53.  THE STAR                                                               SECTION 1.  PART XXVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE STAR WHEN IT GOES AWAY

2  YOUR COMPANION IS NEITHER MISLEAD OR ASTRAY

3  NOR DOES HE SAY ANYTHING OF HIS OWN DESIRE 

4  IT IS NO LESS THAN A MESSAGE THAT IS INSPIRED

5  HE HAS BEEN TAUGHT THIS QURAN BY ONE MIGHTY IN POWER

6  THE LORD OF STRENGTH, SO HE GAINED HIS PROTECTION

7  WHILE HE WAS IN THE HIGHEST PART OF THE HORIZON

8  THEN HE APPROACHED AND CAME CLOSER

9  AND WAS AT A DISTANCE OF TWO BOW LENGTHS OR NEARER

10  SO DID GOD BY INSPIRATION CONVEY 
TO HIS SERVANT WHAT HE MEANT TO CONVEY

11  HIS HEART WAS NOT UNTRUE IN WHAT HE SAW IN ANY WAY

12  WILL YOU THEN DISPUTE WITH HIM 
CONCERNING WHAT WAS SEEN BY HIM?

13  FOR AT A SECOND DESCENT HE SAW HIM 

14  NEAR THE LOTE TREE WHICH NONE CAN PASS BEYOND IT

15  THE GARDEN OF ABODE IS NEAR IT

16  BEHOLD, THE LOTE TREE WAS SHROUDED

17  HIS SIGHT SWERVED NEVER
 NOR DID IT GO WRONG EVER

18  FOR TRULY HE DID SEE
THE SIGNS OF HIS LORD, THE GREATEST INDEED

19  HAVE YOU SEEN UZZA AND LAT?

20  AND ANOTHER THIRD GODDESS MANAT?

21  ARE FOR YOU THE MALES
AND FOR HIM THE FEMALES?

22  SUCH A DIVISION WOULD BE
MOST UNFAIR INDEED

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CHAPTER 53.  THE STAR                                             SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXVII

23  THESE ARE NOTHING BUT NAMES
WHICH YOU AND YOUR FATHERS HAVE NAMED
       
FOR WHICH GOD HAS SENT DOWN NO AUTHORITY WHATSOEVER
THEY FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE
AND WHAT THEIR OWN SOULS DESIRE
EVEN THOUGH THERE HAS ALREADY APPEARED
SIGNS FROM THEIR LORD AND GUIDANCE CLEAR

24  OR WILL MAN HAVE WHATEVER
THAT HE JUST HANKERS AFTER?

25  BUT IT IS TO GOD THAT BELONGS THE ENDING
AND THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS

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CHAPTER 53.  THE STAR                                                               SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

26  HOW MANY ANGELS IN THE HEAVENS WHOSE INTERCESSION
AVAILS NAUGHT EXCEPT AFTER GOD GIVES PERMISSION
TO WHOM HE PLEASES OF HIS SELECTION?

27  THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN THE HEREAFTER NAME 
THE ANGELS WITH FEMALE NAMES

28  BUT THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF IT FOR SURE
THEY FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE
AND TRUTH EXCELS OVER CONJECTURE 

29  THEREFORE SHUN THOSE WHO TURN AWAY FROM OUR REMINDER
AND THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD IS THEIR ONLY DESIRE

30  THAT IS AS FAR AS KNOWLEDGE WILL REACH THEM 
YOUR LORD KNOWS BEST THOSE WHO STRAY AMONG THEM
AND HE KNOWS BEST THOSE WHO RECEIVE GUIDANCE AMONG THEM

31  TO GOD BELONGS ALL THAT IS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH INDEED 
HE REWARDS THOSE WHO DO EVIL ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS 
AND THOSE WHO DO GOOD IN WHAT IS BEST OF THEIR DEEDS

32  THOSE WHO AVOID GREAT SINS AND SHAMEFUL INIQUITIES
THOSE WHO ONLY FALL INTO SMALL DELINQUENCIES
YOUR LORD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

AND WELL DOES HE KNOW YOU
WHEN OUT OF THE EARTH HE BRINGS YOU
AND WHEN IN YOUR MOTHER'S WOMBS ARE YOU 
SO JUSTIFY NOT YOURSELVES FOR  HE KNOWS TOO
WHO IT IS THAT GUARDS AGAINST EVIL AMONG YOU

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CHAPTER 53.  THE STAR                                                               SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

33  SEE THE ONE WHO TURNS BACK AND THEN

34  GIVES A LITTLE THEN HIS HEART HARDENS?

35  HAS HE KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN
SO THAT HE CAN SEE THE UNSEEN?

36  OR IS HE NOT ACQUAINTED WITH THE MESSAGES
THAT ARE IN THE BOOK OF MOSES

37  AND OF ABRAHAM WHO FULFILLED HIS PROMISES?

38  NAMELY THAT NO BURDEN BEARER 
CAN BEAR THE BURDEN OF ANOTHER

39  AND THAT MAN CAN HAVE NOTHING BUT WHAT HE STRIVES AFTER

40  THE FRUITS OF HIS STRIVING WILL SOON BE SEEN CLEARLY

41  THEN WILL HE BE REWARDED FULLY

42  AND TO YOUR LORD IS THE FINAL DESTINY

43  AND THE GRANTOR OF LAUGHTER AND TEARS IS HE

44  AND THE GRANTOR OF LIFE AND DEATH IS HE

45  AND THE CREATOR OF PAIRS, MALE AND FEMALE IS HE

46  FROM A SEED WHEN LODGED IN ITS PLACE FIRMLY

47  AND HE HAS PROMISED A SECOND CREATION 

48  AND IT IS HE WHO GIVES WEALTH AND SATISFACTION

49  AND HE IS THE LORD OF SIRIUS FOR CERTAIN

50  AND IT IS HE WHO DESTROYED FOR THEIR EVIL
THE POWERFUL ANCIENT AD PEOPLE

51  AND THE THAMUD NOR GAVE THEM A LEASE OF LIFE PERPETUAL

52  AND BEFORE THEM NOAH'S PEOPLE
FOR THEY WERE UNJUST AND INSOLENT PEOPLE 

53  AND HE DESTROYED THE OVERTHROWN CITIES
OF SODOM AND GOMORRA FOR THEIR INIQUITIES

54  SO THAT RUINS UNKNOWN OVER THEM HAVE GROWN OVER

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CHAPTER 53.  THE STAR                                             SECTION 3 (CONT'D). PART XXVII

55  WHICH OF THE GIFTS OF YOUR LORD WILL YOU BE A DISPUTER?

56  THIS IS A WARNER OF THE SERIES OF WARNERS

57  THE JUDGMENT EVER APPROACHING DRAWS NEAR

58  NO SOUL BUT GOD CAN LAY IT BARE

59  DO YOU THEN WONDER AT THIS REMINDER?

60  AND WILL YOU LAUGH AND NOT WEEP?

61  WASTING YOUR TIME IN VANITIES?

62  BUT TO GOD, BOW DOWN IN PROSTRATION 
AND IN SINCERE ADORATION

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CHAPTER 54.  THE MOON                                                             SECTION 1.  PART XXVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THE HOUR OF JUDGMENT IS NEAR
AND THE MOON IS CLEFT ASUNDER

2  BUT IF THEY SEE THE SIGNS THEY TURN AWAY
THIS IS BUT TRANSIENT MAGIC, THEY SAY

3  THEY REJECT THE WARNING AND FOLLOW THEIR OWN DESIRES
BUT THERE IS AN APPOINTED TIME FOR EVERY MATTER 

4  THERE HAVE ALREADY COME TO THEM 
RECITALS ENOUGH TO CHECK THEM

5  MATURE WISDOM BUT WARNERS DO NOT PROFIT THEM

6  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM
THE DAY THE CALLER WILL CALL THEM 
TO A TERRIBLE AFFAIR FOR THEM

7  THEY WILL COME FROM THEIR GRAVES, THEIR EYES CAST DOWN 
LIKE LOCUSTS SCATTERED AROUND

8  HASTENING TOWARDS THE CALLER
HARD IS THIS DAY, WILL SAY THE DISBELIEVERS 

9  BEFORE THEM NOAH'S PEOPLE 
REJECTED THEIR APOSTLE 

THEY REJECTED OUR SERVANT AND DID SAY
HERE IS ONE POSSESSED AND HE WAS DRIVEN AWAY

10  THEN HE CALLED ON HIS LORD AND SAID IN A PLEA
I AM ONE OVERCOME, WILL YOU THEN HELP ME?

11  SO WE OPENED THE GATES OF HEAVEN 
WITH WATER POURING THEREIN

12  WE CAUSED THE EARTH TO GUSH FORTH WATERS 
FOR A PREDETERMINED MATTER

13  BUT WE BORE HIM ON AN ARK THAT SAILED
MADE OF BROAD PLANKS AND NAILS

14  FLOATING UNDER OUR EYES 
A REWARD FOR HIM WHO WAS DENIED

15  AND WE HAVE LEFT THIS AS A LESSON
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

16  BUT HOW TERRIBLE INDEED
WAS MY WARNING AND MY PENALTY

17  AND WE HAVE MADE THE QURAN  
EASY FOR REMEMBRANCE AND COMPREHENSION
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

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CHAPTER 54.  THE MOON                                            SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXVII

18  THE AD PEOPLE WERE REJECTORS INSOLENTLY
THEN HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY WARNING AND MY PENALTY

19  FOR WE SENT AGAINST THEM A WIND FURIOUSLY 
BLOWING ON A BITTER DAY VIOLENTLY

20  PLUCKING OUT MEN EASILY
AS IF THEY WERE ROOTS OF PALM TREES 

21  HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY WARNING AND MY PENALTY

22  AND WE HAVE MADE THE QURAN 
EASY FOR REMEMBRANCE AND COMPREHENSION
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

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CHAPTER 54.  THE MOON                                                             SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

23  THE THAMUD PEOPLE WERE REJECTERS
OF THEIR COMMISSIONED WARNERS

24  FOR THEY SAID, ARE WE TO FOLLOW A MAN FROM AMONG US?
WE WOULD BE IN ERROR OR MADNESS WILL HAVE STRICKEN US

25  IS THE MESSAGE SENT TO HIM OF ALL PEOPLE AMONG US? 
NO, HE IS A LIAR AND AN INSOLENT ONE AMONG US

26  THEY WILL KNOW TOMORROW WHICH ONE
IS THE LIAR AND THE INSOLENT ONE 

27  FOR WE WILL SEND THE SHE-CAMEL AS A TRIAL FOR THEM 
SO BE PATIENT WITH THEM AND WATCH THEM

28  AND TELL THEM 
THAT THE WATER IS TO BE DIVIDED BETWEEN THEM 
EACH ONE'S RIGHT TO DRINK ARRANGED BY TURNS AMONG THEM

29  BUT THEY CALLED THEIR COMPANION AND HE INSOLENTLY
TOOK A SWORD IN HAND AND SLAUGHTERED HER MALICIOUSLY

30  HOW TERRIBLE INDEED
WAS MY WARNING AND MY PENALTY 

31  FOR WE SENT AGAINST THEM A BLAST THAT WAS TERRIBLE 
AND THEY BECAME LIKE THE DRY STUBBLE 
USED BY ONE WHO PENS CATTLE

32  AND WE HAVE MADE THE QURAN  
EASY FOR REMEMBRANCE AND COMPREHENSION 
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

33  THE PEOPLE OF LOT WERE REJECTERS
OF THEIR COMMISSIONED WARNER 

34  WE SENT A VIOLENT TORNADO AGAINST THEM
AND WITH SHOWERS OF STONES WHICH DESTROYED THEM 
EXCEPT LOT'S HOUSEHOLD, BY EARLY DAWN WE DELIVERED THEM

35  AS A GRACE FROM US SO DO WE 
REWARD THOSE WHO ACT GRATEFULLY

36  LOT WARNED THEM OF OUR PUNISHMENT COMING
BUT THEY DISPUTED ABOUT THE WARNING

37  HIS GUESTS THEY EVEN TRIED SNATCHING
BUT TO THEIR EYES WE CAUSED BLINDING
NOW TASTE MY PENALTY AND MY WARNING

38  AND A LASTING CHASTISEMENT OVERTOOK THEM IN THE MORNING

39  SO TASTE MY CHASTISEMENT AND MY WARNING

40  AND WE HAVE FOR MADE THE QURAN  
EASY FOR REMEMBRANCE AND COMPREHENSION
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

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CHAPTER 54.  THE MOON                                                             SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

41  TO PHAROAH'S PEOPLE 
CAME APOSTLES

42  ALL OUR SIGNS WE REJECTED BY THE PEOPLE
BUT WE SEIZED THEM WITH A PENALTY  THAT WAS TERRIBLE
FROM ONE EXALTED IN POWER AND ABLE 
TO CARRY OUT AND ENFORCE HIS WILL

43  ARE YOU DISBELIEVERS BETTER 
OR HAVE YOU AN IMMUNITY IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES?

44  OR THEY SAY, WE ARE A HOST ALLIED TOGETHER 
FOR THE PURPOSE OF GIVING HELP TO EACH OTHER

45  THEY WILL BE DEFEATED AND SHOW THEIR BACKS FOR SURE

46  THEIR PROMISED TIME IS THE HOUR 
AND THE HOUR IS MOST GRIEVOUS AND BITTER

47  THE GUILTY ARE DISTRESSED AND IN ERROR

48   THEY WILL BE DRAGGED ON THEIR FACES THROUGH THE FIRE
TASTE THE TOUCH OF HELL ALL OF YOU TOGETHER

49  ALL THINGS HAVE WE CREATED PROPORTIONATELY MEASURED 

50  LIKE THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE IS OUR ORDER

51  IN THE PAST WE BROUGHT PEOPLE LIKE YOU TO DESTRUCTION
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

52  ALL THEY DO IS NOTED INDEED
RECORDED IN THEIR BOOKS OF DEEDS

53  EVERY MATTER
SMALL OR GREAT IS ON RECORD

54  AS TO THE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS
THEY WILL BE IN THE MIDST OF GARDENS AND RIVERS

55  IN AN ASSEMBLY OF TRUTH BEFORE ONE EXALTED IN POWER 

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CHAPTER 55 THE BENEFICENT                                                   SECTION 1.  PART XXVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  MOST GRACIOUS GOD

2  THE QURAN HAS BEEN TAUGHT BY GOD

3  MAN WAS CREATED BY GOD

4  GOD TAUGHT HIM EXPRESSION

5  THE SUN AND MOON FOLLOW COURSES OF EXACT COMPUTATIONS

6  AND THE HERBS AND THE TREES BOTH BOW IN ADORATION

7  HE HAS RAISED THE HEAVENS HIGH AND SET UP THE MEASURE

8  IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY NOT EXCEED THE MEASURE

9  AND KEEP UP THE BALANCE NOR FALL SHORT IN THE MEASURE

10  IT IS HE WHO HAS SPREAD OUT THE EARTH FOR HIS CREATURES

11  THEREIN IS FRUIT AND PALMS HAVING SHEATHED CLUSTERS

12  ALSO CORN WITH LEAVES AND STALK FOR FODDER
AND IN IT ARE PLANTS SMELLING SWEETER

13  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

14  HE CREATED MAN FROM SOUNDING CLAY LIKE POTTERY

15  HE CREATED DEMONS FROM FIRE THAT IS SMOKE FREE

16  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

17  LORD OF THE TWO EASTS
AND LORD OF THE TWO WESTS

18  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

19  HE HAS LET MEET TOGETHER
THE TWO BODIES OF FLOWING WATER 

20  BETWEEN THEM IS A BARRIER
THAT THEY DO NOT CROSS OVER

21  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

22  OUT OF THEM COME PEARLS 
AND OUT OF THEM COME CORALS

23  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

24  AND HIS ARE THE SHIPS SAILING SMOOTHLY 
LOFTY AS MOUNTAINS THROUGH THE SEAS

25  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

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CHAPTER 55.  THE BENEFICENT                                                 SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

26  EVERYTHING ON EARTH WILL PERISH EVENTUALLY

27  BUT THE PERSON OF GOD WILL EXIST ETERNALLY

28  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

29  IN HEAVEN AND EARTH EVERY CREATURE 
SEEKS ITS NEED OF THE CREATOR
AND EVERY DAY HE SHINES IN NEW SPLENDOR 

30  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

31  AND SOON WILL WE 
SETTLE YOUR AFFAIRS OF BOTH YOU PARTIES

32  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

33  OH YOU ASSEMBLY OF DEMONS AND MEN 
IF YOU CAN PASS THROUGH THE ZONES OF EARTH AND HEAVEN 

THEN PASS THROUGH 
BUT NOT WITHOUT AUTHORITY WILL YOU BE ABLE TO

34  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

35  ON YOU WILL BE SENT A FLAME OF FIRE TO BURN YOU 
AND SMOKE TO CHOKE YOU 
AND NO DEFENSE WILL THERE BE FOR YOU

36  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

37  WHEN THE SKY IS RENT 
AND IT BECOMES RED LIKE OINTMENT

38  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

39  ON THAT DAY NO QUESTION 
WILL THEN BE ASKED OF MEN 
OR DEMON AS TO HIS SIN

40  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

41  FOR THE SINNERS WILL BE 
KNOWN BY THEIR MARKS AND THEY WILL BE SEIZED 
BY THEIR FORELOCKS AND THEIR FEET

42  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER

43  THE IS THE HELL DENIED BY THE SINNERS 

44  IN ITS MIDST THEY WILL WANDER 
AND IN THE MIDST OF BOILING HOT WATER 

45  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

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CHAPTER 55.  THE BENEFICENT                                                 SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

46  BUT FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THE TIME THAT WHEN 
THEY WILL STAND BEFORE GOD, THERE WILL BE TWO GARDENS

47  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

48  FULL OF VARIETIES
OF FRUITS AND TREES

49  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

50  IN THEM WILL BE 
TWO SPRINGS FLOWING FREE

51  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

52  IN THEM WILL BE FRUITS 
OF EVERY KIND TWO AND TWO

53  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS 
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

54  THEY WILL RECLINE ON CARPETS WHOSE INNER LININGS WILL BE 
OF RICH BROCADE, THE FRUIT OF THE GARDENS WILL BE 
NEAR AND REACHABLE EASILY 

55  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

56  THERE WILL BE THOSE RESTRAINING THEIR GLANCES IN THEM
WHO NO MAN OR DEMON HAS BEFORE TOUCHED THEM 

57  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS 
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

58  LIKE PEARLS
OR LIKE CORALS

59  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

60  IS THE REWARD FOR GOODNESS
ANYTHING BUT GOODNESS?

61  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

62  AND BESIDES THESE TWO 
THERE ARE TWO OTHER GARDENS TOO

63  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS 
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

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CHAPTER 55.  THE BENEFICENT                                SECTION 3 (CONT'D). PART XXVII

64  DARK GREEN IN COLORING
FROM PLENTIFUL WATERING

65  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

66  IN EACH OF THEM WILL BE TWO SPRINGS  
WITH WATER CONTINUOUSLY FLOWING

67  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

68  IN THEM WILL BE FRUITS AND DATES 
AND IN THEM WILL BE POMEGRANATES

69  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

70  IN THEM WILL BE FAIR COMPANIONS 
GOOD BEAUTIFUL ONES

71  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

72  RESTRAINED COMPANIONS  
AS TO THEIR GLANCES IN GOOD PAVILIONS

73  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

74 UNTOUCHED BY ANYONE
NEITHER MAN OR DEMON

75  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS
WILL YOU THEN BE A DENIER?

76  RECLINING ON GREEN CUSHIONS RICHLY 
CARPETED IN BEAUTY

77  WHICH OF GOD'S FAVORS 
WILL YOU THEN BE DENIERS?

78  TO GOD ALL PRAISES BE
FULL OF MAJESTY AND GLORY

     

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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHEN THE EVENT COMES TO PASS

2  THERE WILL BE NO DENYING IT COMING TO PASS

3  IT WILL BRING LOW MANY
IT WILL EXALT MANY

4  WHEN THE EARTH WILL SHAKE
WITH A TERRIBLE SHAKE

5  THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE CRUMBLED TO DUST

6  AND SCATTERED AS PARTICLES OF DUST

7  AND MEN WILL BE
SORTED OUT IN CLASSES OF THREE

8  THERE WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND 
WHAT WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND?

9  AND THE COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT HAND 
WHAT WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT HAND?

10  AND THOSE FOREMOST IN FAITH WILL BE 
FOREMOST IN THE HEREAFTER SURELY

11  NEAREST TO GOD WILL THEY BE

12  IN GARDENS OF ETERNITY

13  OF PEOPLE OF OLD A GREAT NUMBER

14  AND A FEW FROM THOSE OF TIMES LATER

15  THEY WILL BE ON THRONES 
ENCRUSTED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES

16  RECLINING ON THEM FACING EACH OTHER

17  AROUND THEM WILL BE YOUTHS WHO AGE NEVER

18  WITH BEAKERS AND GOBLETS SHINING 
AND CUPS FILLED OUT OF CLEAR FOUNTAINS FLOWING

19  THEY WILL RECEIVE NO HEADACHE AFTER
AND NO INTOXICATION WILL THEY SUFFER

20  AND WITH FRUITS ANY 
THAT THEY MAY CHOOSE FROM MANY

21  AND THE FLESH OF FOWLS ANY THAT THEY MAY DESIRE

22  AND COMPANIONS BEAUTIFUL AND PURE

23  LIKE WELL GUARDED PEARLS

24  A REWARD FOR WHAT THEY DID IN THE WORLD

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25  NO FRIVOLITY WILL THEY HEAR THEREIN
NOR ANY TAINT OF EVIL OR SIN

26  ONLY THE SAYINGS
OF PEACEFUL GREETINGS

27  THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND 
WHAT WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND?

28  THEY WILL BE 
AMONG LOTE-TREES

29  AMONG TALL TREES WITH FLOWERS 
PILED ONE ABOVE ANOTHER

30  IN SHADE EXTENDED LENGTHY

31  BY WATER FLOWING CONSTANTLY

32  AND FRUIT ABUNDANTLY

33  WHOSE SEASON 
IS NOT LIMITED NOR SUPPLY FORBIDDEN

34  AND ON THRONES OF DIGNITY 
RAISED MAJESTICALLY

35  WE HAVE CREATED THEIR COMPANIONS 
OF A SPECIAL CREATION

36  AND MADE THEM VIRGIN PURE

37  EQUAL IN AGE, BELOVED BY NATURE

38  FOR THE COMPANIONS 
OF THE RIGHT HAND

39  FROM THOSE OF OLD A GREAT NUMBER

40  AND A GOOD NUMBER FROM THOSE LATER

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CHAPTER 56.  THE EVENT                                                             SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

41  THE COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT HAND
WHAT WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT HAND?

42  THEY WILL BE IN THE MIDST OF A FIERCE BLAZE OF FIRE
AND IN THE MIDST OF BOILING WATER

43  AND IN THE SHADES OF BLACK SMOKE AND SURELY

44  NOTHING WILL THERE BE TO REFRESH OR PLEASE

45  FOR THAT THEY WERE WANTING TO BE
INDULGED BEFORE IN WEALTH AND LUXURY

46  AND PERSISTED IN SUPREME WICKEDNESS OBSTINATELY

47  AND THEY USED TO SAY, WHEN WE DIE
AND BECOME DUST AND BONES WILL WE AGAIN RISE?

48  OUR FATHERS OF OLD AND WE AFTER WE DIE?

49  SAY, YES THOSE OF OLD AND THOSE OF TIMES LATER 

50  ALL WILL CERTAINLY BE GATHERED TOGETHER 
FOR THE MEETING APPOINTED FOR A DAY WELL ASSURED

51  THEN WILL YOU WHO ACT WRONGFULLY
AND TREAT TRUTH AS FALSITY

52  YOU WILL TASTE OF THE ZAQQUM TREE

53  THEN WILL YOU FILL YOUR INSIDES WITH IT

54  AND DRINK BOILING WATER ON TOP OF IT

55  YOU WILL DRINK LIKE CAMELS THAT ARE DISEASED 
RAGING WITH THIRST AND GREED

56  THIS IS THEIR ENTERTAINMENT
ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

57  IT IS WE WHO HAVE CREATED YOU 
WHY WILL YOU NOT WITNESS THE TRUTH?

58  DO YOU SEE THE HUMAN SEED THAT IS THROWN OUT BY YOU? 

59  ARE WE THE CREATORS OF IT OR ARE YOU?

60  WE HAVE DECREED DEATH TO BE YOUR COMMON LOT
AND TO BE FRUSTRATED WE ARE NOT

61  FROM CHANGING YOUR FORMS AND CREATING YOU 
AGAIN INTO OTHER FORMS NOT KNOWN BY YOU

62  AND YOU KNOW THE FIRST FORM ALREADY
WHY DO YOU NOT THEN TAKE HEED?

63  SEE THE SEED SOWN IN THE GROUND BY YOU?

64  DO WE CAUSE IT TO GROW OR DO YOU?

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65  WERE IT OUR WILL WE COULD CRUMBLE IT TO DRY POWDER
AND THEN YOU WOULD BE LEFT IN WONDER

66  SAYING, WE ARE LEFT WITH DEBTS FOR NOTHING 

67  AND SHUT OUT OF THE FRUITS OF OUR LABORING

68  SEE THE WATER THAT IS CONSUMED BY YOU?

69  DO WE BRING IT DOWN FROM THE CLOUD OR DO YOU?

70  IF WE WILLED WE COULD MAKE IT SALTY AND UNPALATABLE 
THEN WHY DO YOU NOT GIVE THANKS AND BE GRATEFUL?

71  SEE THE FIRE THAT IS KINDLED BY YOU?

72  IS IT WE WHO GROW THE TREE THAT FEEDS THE FIRE OR YOU?

73  WE HAVE MADE IT A MEMORIAL OF OUR HANDIWORK 
AND AN ARTICLE OF COMFORT FOR THE WAYFARERS OF THE DESERT

74  THEN CELEBRATE WITH PRAISES 
THE NAME OF YOUR LORD THE GREATEST

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75  FURTHERMORE I CALL TO WITNESS THE SETTING 
OF THE STARS IN THEIR TRAVERSING

76  AND THAT IS AN ADJURATION THAT IS MIGHTY 

77  THAT THIS IS A QURAN HELD MOST HONORABLY 

78  IN A BOOK WELL GUARDED SECURELY

79  WHICH WILL BE TOUCHED BY NONE EXCEPT THE PURE ONES

80  A REVELATION FROM THE LORD OF CREATION

81  A MESSAGE THIS MIGHTY
WOULD YOU TAKE IT LIGHTLY?

82  AND HAVE YOU MADE IT YOUR LIVELIHOOD 
THAT YOU SHOULD DECLARE IT AS FALSEHOOD?

83  THEN WHY ARE YOU NOT INTERVENING 
WHEN THE DYING MAN IS DYING?

84  WHILE YOU ARE THERE LOOKING?

85  BUT WE ARE NEARER TO HIM THAN YOU
BUT THIS IS NOT SEEN BY YOU

86  WHY DO YOU NOT IF YOU ARE FREE FROM ACCOUNTABILITY

87  BRING BACK THE SOUL TO ITS BODY
IF YOU ARE ACTING TRUTHFULLY?

88  THEN IF HE BE OF THOSE NEAREST TO GOD TRULY

89  THERE IS FOR HIM REST AND PROVISION
AND A GARDEN OF SATISFACTION

90  IF HE BE OF THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND

91  PEACE BE UNTO YOU THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND

92  AND IF HE BE OF THOSE WHO ARE REJECTERS

93  FOR HIM IS A DRINK OF BOILING WATER

94  AND BURNING IN HELLFIRE

95  THIS IS THE TRUTH FOR SURE

96  SO CELEBRATE WITH PRAISES 
THE NAME OF YOUR LORD THE GREATEST

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CHAPTER 57.  IRON                                                                         SECTION 1.  PART XXVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHATEVER IS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH DECLARES GOD'S GLORY 
FOR HE IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

2  TO HIM BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 

HE CAUSES DEATH AND IS LIFE GIVING 
AND HE HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS 

3  HE IS THE FIRST AND THE LAST, THE EVIDENT 
AND THE IMMANENT 

AND HE IS ALL KNOWING
OF ALL THINGS

4  HE IT IS WHO IN SIX DAYS CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH 
AND IS MOREOVER ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE OF POWER 

HE KNOWS WHAT ENTERS THE EARTH AND WHAT COMES OUT OF IT 
WHAT COMES DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND WHAT MOUNTS UP TO IT 

WHEREVER YOU MAY BE HE IS WITH YOU
AND GOD SEES WELL ALL THAT YOU DO

5  THE DOMINION OF HEAVEN AND EARTH BELONG TO GOD
AND ALL AFFAIRS ARE REFERRED BACK TO GOD

6  HE MERGES NIGHT
INTO DAY AND DAY INTO NIGHT

AND HE HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE
OF ALL OF THE HEART'S SECRETS

7  BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER AND SPEND IN CHARITY
OUT OF THE SUBSTANCE HE HAS GIVEN YOU INHERENTLY
FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND SPEND IN CHARITY
FOR THEM IS A GREAT REWARD INDEED

8  AND WHAT CAUSE HAVE YOU WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BELIEVE 
IN GOD AND WHEN THE APOSTLE INVITES YOU TO BELIEVE 
AND HE HAS TAKEN YOUR COVENANT IF YOU BELIEVE?

9  HE SENDS TO HIS SERVANT MANIFEST MESSAGES 
TO LEAD YOU INTO LIGHT OUT FROM DARKNESS 
AND GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND KINDNESS

10  AND WHY SHOULD YOU NOT SPEND IN GOD'S CAUSE FREELY
WHEN TO GOD BELONGS EVERYTHING EARTHLY AND HEAVENLY?
AND NOT EQUAL ARE THOSE WHO DID SPEND FREELY  
AND FOUGHT BEFORE THE VICTORY 
WITH THOSE WHO DID SO BELATEDY 
THOSE ARE IN RANK A HIGHER DEGREE
THAN THOSE WHO FOUGHT AFTER AND SPENT FREELY
BUT TO ALL HAS GOD PROMISED A REWARD THAT IS GOODLY 
AND ALL THAT YOU DO GOD SEES CLEARLY

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CHAPTER 57.  IRON                                                                         SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

11  WHO IS HE THAT WILL LOAN 
TO GOD A BEAUTIFUL LOAN?  

FOR GOD WILL INCREASE IT MANIFOLD TO HIS CREDIT 
AND HE WILL BE LIBERALLY REWARDED FOR IT

12  ON THAT DAY YOU WILL SEE THE BELIEVING
MEN AND WOMEN, BEFORE THEM THEIR LIGHT BURNING
AND BY THEIR HANDS GLAD TIDINGS
FOR YOU THIS DAY ARE GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING
AS THEIR PERMANENT DWELLING 
AND THAT WILL BE THE ULTIMATE BLESSING

13  THE HYPOCRITES, MEN AND WOMEN WILL SAY 
TO THE BELIEVERS ON THAT DAY

WAIT FOR US THAT WE MIGHT
BORROW A LIGHT FROM YOUR LIGHT 
IT WILL BE SAID, TURN BACK IN FLIGHT
THEN FROM WHERE YOU CAN SEEK A LIGHT 

A WALL WILL BE PUT UP BETWEEN THEM WITH A GATE WITHIN IT 
THERE WILL BE MERCY INSIDE IT AND WRATH OUTSIDE OF IT 

14  THOSE WITHOUT WILL CALL OUT, WERE WE NOT WITH YOU? 
THE OTHERS WILL REPLY, WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE 
BUT YOU LET YOUR TEMPTATIONS MISLEAD YOU 
AND YOU LOOKED FORWARD TO OUR RUIN TOO
AND YOU DOUBTED GOD'S PROMISE TO YOU
AND YOUR FALSE DESIRES DECEIVED YOU 
UNTIL GOD'S COMMAND WAS ISSUED TO YOU 
AND THE ARCH DECEIVER DECEIVED YOU 

15  THIS DAY OF YOU WILL NO RANSOM BE CONSIDERED 
NOR OF THOSE AMONG YOU WHO WERE REJECTERS 
YOUR ABODE TODAY WILL BE THE FIRE
AND THAT PLACE FOR YOU IS PROPER
AND AN EVIL REFUGE IT IS FOR SURE

16  HAS NOT THE TIME ARRIVED FOR THE BELIEVERS 
THAT THEIR HEARTS IN ALL HUMILITY SHOULD REMEMBER
GOD AND THE TRUTH WHICH HAS BEEN DELIVERED?
THEY SHOULD NOT BECOME LIKE THOSE TO WHOM SCRIPTURES
WERE REVEALED TO THEM IN DAYS PRIOR
BUT LONG AGES PASSED THEM OVER  
AND THEIR HEARTS GREW HARDER
FOR MANY AMONG THEM ARE TRANSGRESSORS 
AND REBELLIOUS DISOBEDIENT SINNERS

17  YOUR LORD GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER IT DIES  
AND ALREADY HAVE WE SHOWN YOU THE SIGNS  
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY BECOME WISE

18  THOSE MEN AND WOMEN WHO GIVE IN CHARITY 
AND LOAN TO THEIR LORD A LOAN OF BEAUTY 
IT WILL BE INCREASED FOR THEM GREATLY
AND THEY WILL BE REWARDED LIBERALLY

19  AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
THEY ARE LOVERS OF TRUTH AND ARE SINCERE

AND THE WITNESSES WHO IN THE EYES OF THEIR LORD 
THEY WILL HAVE THEIR LIGHT AND THEIR REWARD 

BUT THOSE WHO DENY OUR SIGNS AND ARE DISBELIEVERS
THEY ARE THE COMPANIONS OF HELL FIRE

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CHAPTER 57.  IRON                                                                         SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

20  KNOW THAT THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD IS BUT SPORTING
AND PLAYING AND AMUSEMENT AND  POMP AND BOASTING 

AND AMONG YOURSELVES MULTIPLYING IN RIVALRY  
RICHES AND CHILDREN AND HERE IS A ALLEGORY

HOW RAIN AND THE GROWTH WHICH IT BEARS
DELIGHTS THE HEARTS OF THE TILLERS
IT GROWS YELLOW AND WITHERS 
THEN IT DRIES AND CRUMBLES THEREAFTER  
THERE IS A SEVERE PENALTY IN THE HEREAFTER 
FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE WRONG DOERS
AND FORGIVENESS FROM GOD AND HIS GOOD PLEASURE 
FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

AND WHAT IS THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD REALLY?
NOTHING BUT GOODS AND CHATTELS OF VANITY

21  SEEK FORGIVENESS FROM YOUR CREATOR
AND A GARDEN WHEREIN FLOW PLEASANT RIVERS 
THE WIDTH OF IT IS THE WIDTH OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGERS
WHICH GOD BESTOWS ON THOSE OF HIS PLEASURE
AND GOD IS THE LORD OF GRACE AND HONOR

22  NO MISFORTUNE ON EARTH OR IN YOUR PERSONS CAN HAPPEN
BUT IS RECORDED IN A DECREE WE BEFORE CAUSE  IT TO HAPPEN 
AND THAT FOR GOD IS EASY FOR CERTAIN

23  IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY NOT DESPAIR OVER MATTERS 
THAT PASS YOU BY NOR EXULT OVER FAVORS 
BESTOWED UPON YOU, FOR GOD LOVES NOT ANY BOASTERS

24  SUCH PERSONS THAT ARE MISERLY 
AND COMMEND MEN TO BE MISERLY 
AND TURN BACK FROM GOD, GOD IS SURELY 
FREE OF ALL NEEDS AND IS PRAISEWORTHY

25  WITH CLEAR MESSAGES WE SENT MESSENGERS
AND SENT DOWN WITH THEM SCRIPTURES
AND SENT DOWN THE JUST MEASURE
AND WE SENT DOWN IRON IN WHICH IS MATTER
FOR MIGHTY WAR AS WELL AS MANY OTHER
BENEFITS FOR MEN THAT GOD MAY TEST THE HELPERS 
THAT WILL HELP HIM UNSEEN AND HIS MESSENGERS
FOR GOD IS FULL OF STRENGTH AND EXALTED IN POWER

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CHAPTER 57.  IRON                                                                        SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

26  AND WE SENT NOAH AND ABRAHAM AND OTHERS
AND GAVE THEIR OFFSPRING PROPHETHOOD AND SCRIPTURE
AND SOME OF THEM WERE RIGHTEOUS DOERS 
AND SOME OF THEM WERE IN MANIFEST ERROR

27  WE FOLLOWED THEM UP WITH OTHERS OF OUR APOSTLES
WE SENT  JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, AND GAVE HIM THE GOSPELS 

AND WE ORDAINED IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO FOLLOWED HIM 
COMPASSION AND MERCY, BUT THE MONASTICISM 
WHICH THEY INVENTED WE DID NOT PRESCRIBE FOR THEM

WE ONLY ORDERED THE SEEKING OF GOD'S PLEASURE 
BUT THAT THEY DID NOT FOSTER 
AS THEY SHOULD HAVE ENDEAVORED
YET WE REWARDED THOSE WHO WERE BELIEVERS 
BUT MANY OF THEM ARE REBELLIOUS TRANSGRESSORS

28  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
FEAR GOD AND BELIEVE IN HIS MESSENGER
AND HE WILL GIVE YOU DOUBLE PORTIONS OF HIS FAVORS 
HE WILL GIVE YOU LIGHT BY WHICH YOU WILL WALK STRAIGHTER  
AND WILL FORGIVE YOU YOUR PAST FOR HE IS THE MERCIFUL FORGIVER

29  THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK MAY KNOW OF HIS GRACE
AND THEY HAVE NO POWER OVER GOD'S GRACE 
THAT ENTIRELY IN HIS HAND IS HIS GRACE 
ON WHOEVER HE PLEASES HE BESTOWS HIS GRACE
FOR GOD IS THE LORD OF UNBOUNDED GRACE 

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