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For them will be Gardens of Eternity;
beneath them rivers will flow; they will be adorned therein with bracelets
of gold, and they will wear green garments of fine silk and heavy
brocade; they will recline therein on raised thrones. How good the
recompense! How beautiful a couch to recline on! |
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Set forth to them the parable of two
men: for one of them We provided two gardens of grapevines and surrounded
them with date-palms: in between the two We placed corn-fields. |
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Each of those gardens brought forth
its produce, and failed not in the least therein: in the midst of
them We caused a river to flow. |
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(Abundant)
was the produce this man had: he said to his companion, in the course
of a mutual argument: "More wealth have I than you, and more
honor and power in (my following
of) men." |
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He went into his garden in a state
(of mind)
unjust to his soul: He said, "I deem not that this will ever
perish. |
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"Nor do I deem that the Hour
(of Judgment)
will (ever)
come: even if I am brought back to my Lord, I shall surely find
(there)
something better in exchange." |
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His companion said to him, in the course
of the argument with him: "Do you deny Him Who created you out
of dust, then out of a sperm-drop, then fashioned you into a man? |
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"But (I
think) for my part that He is
Allah, my Lord and none shall I associate with my Lord. |
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"Why did you not, as you go into
your garden, say: `Allah's Will (be
done)! There is no power but
with Allah!' If you do see me less than you in wealth and sons, |
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"It may be that my Lord will give
me something better than your garden, and that He will send on your
garden thunderbolts (by way
of reckoning) from heaven, making
it (but)
slippery sand! |
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"Or the water of the garden will
run off underground so that you will never be able to find it." |
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So his fruits (and
enjoyment) were encompassed
(with ruin),
and he remained twisting and turning his hands over what he had spent
on his property, which had (now)
tumbled to pieces to its very foundations, and he could only say,
"Woe is me! would I had never ascribed partners to my Lord and
Cherisher!" |
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Nor had he numbers to help him against
Allah, nor was he able to deliver himself. |
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There, the (only)
protection comes from Allah, the True One. He is the Best to reward,
and the Best to give success. |
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Set forth to them the similitude of
the life of this world: it is like the rain which We send down from
the skies: the earth's vegetation absorbs it. But soon it becomes
dry stubble, which the winds do scatter: it is (only)
Allah Who prevails over all things. |
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Wealth and sons are allurements of
the life of this world: but the things that endure, good Deeds, are
best in the sight of your Lord, as rewards, and best as (the
foundation for) hopes. |
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One Day We shall remove the mountains,
and you will see the earth as a level stretch, and We shall gather
them, all together, nor shall We leave out any one of them. |
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And they will be marshaled before your
Lord in ranks, (with the announcement),
"Now have you come to Us (bare)
as We created you first: aye, you thought We shall not fulfill the
appointment made to you to meet
(Us)!": |
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And the Book (of
Deeds) will be placed (before
you); and you will see the sinful
in great terror because of what is (recorded)
therein; they will say, "Ah! woe to us! what a book is this!
It leaves out nothing small or great, but takes account thereof!"
They will find all that they did, placed before them: and not one
will your Lord treat with injustice. |
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Behold! We said to the angels, "Bow
down to Adam": they bowed down except Iblis. He was one of the
Jinns, and he broke the Command of his Lord. Will you then take him
and his progeny as protectors rather than Me? And they are enemies
to you! Evil would be the exchange for the wrongdoers! |
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I called them not to witness the creation
of the heavens and the earth, nor (even)
their own creation: nor is it for Me to take as helpers such as lead
(men)
astray! |
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One Day He will say, "Call on
those whom you thought to be My partners," and they will call
on them, but they will not listen to them; and We shall make for them
a place of common perdition. |
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And the Sinful shall see the Fire and
apprehend that they have to all therein; no means will they find to
turn away there from. |
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We have explained in detail in this
Qur-an, for the benefit of mankind, every kind of similitude: but
human is, in most things, contentious. |
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And what is there to keep back men
from believing, now that Guidance has come to them, nor from praying
for forgiveness from their Lord, but that (they
ask that) the ways of the ancients
be repeated with them, or the Wrath be brought to them face to face? |
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We only send the Messengers to give
glad tidings and to give warnings: but the Unbelievers dispute with
vain argument, in order therewith to weaken the truth and they treat
My Signs as a jest, as also the fact that they are warned! |
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And who does more wrong than one who
is reminded of the Signs of his Lord, but turns away from them, forgetting
the (deeds)
which his hands have sent forth? Verily We have set veils over their
hearts lest they should understand this, and over their ears deafness.
If you call them to guidance, even then will they never accept guidance |
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But your Lord is Most Forgiving, full
of Mercy. If He were to call them (at
once) to account for what they
have earned, then surely He would have hastened their Punishment:
but they have their appointed time, beyond which they will find no
refuge. |
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Such were the populations We destroyed
when they committed iniquities; but We fixed an appointed time for
their destruction. |
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Behold, Moses said to his attendant,
"I will not give up until I reach the junction of the two seas
or (until)
I spend years and years in travel." |
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