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Alif-Lam-Ra.
[These letters are one of the
miracles of the Qur-an, and none but Allah (Alone) knows their meanings].
These are the Verses of the Book (the
Qur-an) Al-Hakim [showing
lawful and unlawful things, explaining Allah's (Divine) Laws for mankind,
leading them to eternal happiness by ordering them to follow the true
Islamic Monotheism, - worshipping none but Allah Alone - that will
guide them to Paradise and save them from Hell]. |
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| 2. |
Is
it wonder for mankind that We have sent Our Inspiration to a man from
among themselves (i.e. Prophet
Muhammad SAW) (saying):
"Warn mankind (of the
coming torment in Hell), and
give good news to those who believe (in
the Oneness of Allah and in His Prophet Muhammad SAW) that
they shall have with their Lord the rewards of their good deeds?"
(But)
the disbelievers say: "This is indeed an evident sorcerer
(i.e. Prophet Muhammad SAW and the
Qur-an)! |
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Surely,
your Lord is Allah Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days
and then Istawa (rose over)
the Throne (really in a manner
that suits His Majesty), disposing
the affair of all things. No intercessor (can
plead with Him) except after
His Leave. That is Allah, your Lord; so worship Him (Alone).
Then, will you not remember? |
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To
Him is the return of all of you. The Promise of Allah is true. It
is He Who begins the creation and then will repeat it, that He may
reward with justice those who believed (in
the Oneness of Allah - Islamic Monotheism)
and did deeds of righteousness. But those who disbelieved will have
a drink of boiling fluids and painful torment because they used to
disbelieve. |
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It
is He Who made the sun a shining thing and the moon as a light and
measured out its (their)
stages, that you might know the number of years and the reckoning.
Allah did not create this but in truth. He explains the Ayat
(proofs, evidences, verses, lessons,
signs, revelations, etc.) in
detail for people who have knowledge. |
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Verily,
in the alternation of the night and the day and in all that Allah
has created in the heavens and the earth are Ayat (proofs,
evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.)
for those people who keep their duty to Allah, and fear Him much. |
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Verily,
those who hope not for their meeting with Us, but are pleased and
satisfied with the life of the present world, and those who are heedless
of Our Ayat (proofs, evidences,
verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), |
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Those,
their abode will be the Fire, because of what they used to earn. |
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Verily,
those who believe [in the Oneness
of Allah along with the six articles of Faith, i.e. to believe in
Allah, His Angels, His Books, His Messengers, Day of Resurrection,
and Al-Qadar (Divine Preordainments) - Islamic Monotheism],
and do deeds of righteousness, their Lord will guide them through
their Faith; under them will flow rivers in the Gardens of delight
(Paradise). |
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Their
way of request therein will be Subhanaka Allahumma (Glory
to You, O Allah!) and Salam
(peace, safe from each and
every evil) will be their greetings therein (Paradise)!
and the close of their request will be: Al-Hamdu Lillahi Rabbil-'Alamin
[All the praises and thanks
are to Allah, the Lord of 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists)]. |
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And
were Allah to hasten for mankind the evil (they
invoke for themselves and for their children, etc. while in a state
of anger) as He hastens for
them the good (they invoke)
then they would have been ruined. So We leave those who expect not
their meeting with Us, in their trespasses, wandering blindly in distraction.
(Tafsir At-Tabari; Vol. 11,
Page 91) |
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And
when harm touches man, he invokes Us, lying down on his side, or sitting
or standing. But when We have removed his harm from him, he passes
on his way as if he had never invoked Us for a harm that touched him!
Thus it seems fair to the Musrifun that which they used to do. |
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And
indeed, We destroyed generations before you, when they did wrong while
their Messengers came to them with clear proofs, but they were not
such as to believe! Thus do We requite the people who are Mujrimun
(disbelievers, polytheists,
sinners, criminals, etc.). |
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Then
We made you follow after them, generations after generations in the
land, that We might see how you would work! |
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And
when Our Clear Verses are recited unto them, those who hope not for
their meeting with Us, say: Bring us a Qur-an other than this, or
change it. "Say (O Muhammad
SAW): "It is not for me
to change it on my own accord; I only follow that which is revealed
unto me. Verily, I fear if I were to disobey my Lord, the torment
of the Great Day (i.e. the
Day of Resurrection)." |
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Say
(O Muhammad SAW):
"If Allah had so willed, I should not have recited it to you
nor would He have made it known to you. Verily, I have stayed amongst
you a life time before this. Have you then no sense?" |
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So
who does more wrong than he who forges a lie against Allah or denies
His Ayat (proofs, evidences,
verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.)?
Surely, the Mujrimun (criminals,
sinners, disbelievers and polytheists)
will never be successful! |
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And
they worship besides Allah things that hurt them not, nor profit them,
and they say: "These are our intercessors with Allah." Say:
"Do you inform Allah of that which He knows not in the heavens
and on the earth?" Glorified and Exalted be He above all that
which they associate as partners with Him! |
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Mankind
were but one community (i.e.
on one religion - Islamic Monotheism),
then they differed (later),
and had not it been for a Word that went forth before from your Lord,
it would have been settled between them regarding what they differed. |
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And
they say: "How is it that not a sign is sent down on him from
his Lord?" Say: "The unseen belongs to Allah Alone, so wait
you, verily I am with you among those who wait (for
Allah's Judgement)." |
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And
when We let mankind taste of mercy after some adversity has afflicted
them, behold! They take to plotting against Our Ayat (proofs,
evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.)!
Say: "Allah is more Swift in planning!" Certainly, Our Messengers
(angels)
record all of that which you plot. |
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He
it is Who enables you to travel through land and sea, till when you
are in the ships and they sail with them with a favourable wind, and
they are glad therein, then comes a stormy wind and the waves come
to them from all sides, and they think that they are encircled therein,
they invoke Allah, making their Faith pure for Him Alone, saying:
"If You (Allah)
deliver us from this, we shall truly be of the grateful." |
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But
when He delivered them, behold! They rebel (disobey
Allah) in the earth wrongfully.
O mankind! Your rebellion (disobedience
to Allah) is only against your
ownselves, - a brief enjoyment of this worldly life, then
(in the end)
unto Us is your return, and We shall inform you that which you used
to do. |
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Verily
the likeness of (this)
worldly life is as the water (rain)
which We send down from the sky, so by it arises the intermingled
produce of the earth of which men and cattle eat until when the earth
is clad with its adornments and is beautified, and its people think
that they have all the powers of disposal over it, Our Command reaches
it by night or by day and We make it like a clean-mown harvest, as
if it had not flourished yesterday! Thus do We explain the Ayat
(proofs, evidences, verses, lessons,
signs, revelations, laws, etc.)
in detail for the people who reflect. |
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Allah
calls to the home of peace (i.e.
Paradise, by accepting Allah's religion of Islamic Monotheism and
by doing righteous good deeds and abstaining from polytheism and evil
deeds) and guides whom He wills
to a Straight Path. |
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For
those who have done good is the best (reward,
i.e. Paradise) and even more
(i.e. having the honour of
glancing at the Countenance of Allah)
Neither darkness nor dust nor any humiliating disgrace shall cover
their faces. They are the dwellers of Paradise, they will abide therein
forever. |
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And
those who have earned evil deeds, the recompense of an evil deed is
the like thereof, and humiliating disgrace will cover them
(their faces).
No defender will they have from Allah. Their faces will be covered,
as it were, with pieces from the darkness of night. They are dwellers
of the Fire, they will abide therein forever. |
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And
the Day whereon We shall gather them all together, then We shall say
to those who did set partners in worship with Us: "Stop at your
place! You and your partners (whom
you had worshipped in the worldly life)."
then We shall separate them, and their (Allah's
so-called) partners shall say:
"It was not us that you used to worship." |
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"So
sufficient is Allah for a witness between us and you, that We indeed
knew nothing of your worship of us." |
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There!
Every person will know (exactly)
what (all)
he had earned before, and they will be brought back to Allah, their
rightful Lord (Maula),
and their invented false deities will vanish from them. |
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