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Praise be to Allah Who has revealed
the Scripture unto His slave, and has not placed therein any crookedness, |
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(But has made it)
straight, to give warning of stern punishment from Him, and to bring
unto the believers who do good works the news that theirs will be
a fair reward, |
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Wherein they will abide for ever; |
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And to warn those who say: Allah has
chosen a son, |
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(A thing)
whereof they have no knowledge, nor (had)
you fathers. Dreadful is the word that comes out of their mouths.
They speak naught but a lie. |
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Yet it may be, if they believe not
in this statement, that you (Muhammad) will
torment your soul with grief over their footsteps. |
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Lo! We have placed all that is in the
earth as an ornament thereof that we may try them: which of them is
best in conduct. |
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And lo! We shall make all that is therein
a barren mound. |
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Or deem you that the People of the
Cave and the Inscription are a wonder among Our portents? |
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When the young men fled for refuge
to the Cave and said: Our Lord! Give us mercy from Your presence and
shape for us right conduct in our plight. |
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Then We sealed up their hearing in
the Cave for a number of years. |
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And afterward We raised them up that
We might know which of the two parties would best calculate the time
that they had tarried. |
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We narrate unto you their story with
truth. Lo! they were young men who believed in their Lord, and We
increased them in guidance. |
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And We made firm their hearts when
they stood forth and said: Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and
the earth. We cry unto no god beside Him, for then should we utter
an enormity. |
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These, our people, have chosen
(other)
gods beside Him though they bring no clear warrant (vouchsafed)
to them. And who does greater wrong than he who invents a lie concerning
Allah? |
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And when you withdraw from them and
that which they worship except Allah, then seek refuge in the Cave;
your Lord will spread for you of His mercy and will prepare for you
a pillow in your plight. |
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And you might have seen the sun when
it rose move away from their cave to the right, and when it set go
past them on the left, and they were in the cleft thereof. That was
(one)
of the portents of Allah. He whom Allah guides, he indeed is led aright,
and he whom He sends astray, for him you will not find a guiding friend. |
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And you wouldst have deemed them waking
though they were asleep, and we caused them to turn over to the right
and the left, and their dog stretching out his paws on the threshold.
If you hadst observed them closely you hadst assuredly turned away
from them in flight, and hadst been filled with awe of them. |
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And in like manner We awakened them
that they might question one another. A speaker from among them said
: How long have you tarried? They said: We have tarried a day or some
part of a day, (Other)
said: Your Lord best knows what you have tarried. Now send one of
you with this your silver coin unto the city, and let him see what
food is purest there and bring you a supply thereof. Let him be courteous
and let no man know of you. |
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For they, if they should come to know
of you, will stone you or turn you back to their religion; then you
will never prosper. |
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And in like manner We disclosed them
(to the people of the city)
that they might know that the promise of Allah is true, and that,
as for the Hour, there is no doubt concerning it. When (the
people of the city) disputed
of their case among themselves, they said: Build over them a building;
their Lord knows best concerning them. Those who won their point said:
We verily shall build a place of worship over them. |
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(Some)
will say: They were three, their dog the fourth, and (some)
say: Five, their dog the sixth, guessing at random; and (some)
say: Seven, and their dog the eighth. Say (O
Muhammad): My Lord is best aware
of their number. None knows them save a few. So contend not concerning
them except with an outward contending, and ask not any of them to
pronounce concerning them. |
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And say not of anything: Lo! I shall
do that tomorrow, |
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Except if Allah will. And remember
your Lord when you forgettest, and say: It may be that my Lord guides
me unto a nearer way of truth than this. |
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And (it
is said) they tarried in their
Cave three hundred years and add nine. |
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Say: Allah is best aware how long they
tarried. His is the Invisible of the heavens and the earth. How clear
of sight is He and keen of hearing! They have no protecting friend
beside Him, and He makes none to share in His government. |
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And recite that which has been revealed
unto you of the scripture of your Lord. There is none who can change
His words, and you will find no refuge beside Him. |
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Restrain thyself along with those who
cry unto their Lord at morn and evening, seeking His countenance;
and let not your eyes overlook them, desiring the pomp of the life
of the world; and obey not him whose heart We have made heedless of
Our remembrance, who follows his own lust and whose case has been
abandoned. |
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Say: (It
is) the truth from the Lord
of you (all).
Then whosoever will, let him believe, and whosoever will, let him
disbelieve. Lo! We have prepared for disbelievers Fire. Its tent encloses
them. If they ask for showers, they will be showered with water like
to molten lead which burns the faces. Calamitous the drink and ill
the resting place! |
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Lo! as for those who believe and do
good works, Lo! We suffer not the reward of one whose work is goodly
to be lost. |
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