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Their reckoning draws nigh for mankind,
while they turn away in heedlessness. |
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Never comes there unto them a new reminder
from their Lord but they listen to it while they play: |
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With hearts preoccupied. And they confer
in secret The wrong-doers say: Is this other than a mortal like you?
Will you then succumb to magic when you see (it)? |
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He says: My Lord knows what is spoken
in the heaven and the earth. He is the Hearer, the Knower. |
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Nay, say they, (these
are but) muddled dreams; nay,
he has but invented it; nay, he is but a poet. Let him bring us a
portent even as those of old (who
were God's messengers) were
sent (with portents). |
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Not a township believed of those which
We destroyed before them (though
We sent them portents): would
they then believe? |
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And We sent not (as
Our messengers) before you other
than men whom We inspired. Ask the followers of the Reminder if you
know not? |
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We gave them not bodies that would
not eat food, nor were they immortals. |
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Then We fulfilled the promise unto
them. So We delivered them and whom We would, and We destroyed the
prodigals. |
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Now We have revealed unto you a Scripture
wherein is your Reminder. Have you then no sense? |
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How many a community that dealt unjustly
have We shattered, and raised up after them another folk! |
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And, when they felt Our might, behold
them fleeing from it! |
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(But it was said unto them):
Flee not, but return to that
(existence) which emasculated
you and to your dwellings, that you may be questioned. |
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They cried: Alas for us! Lo! we were
wrongdoers. |
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And this their crying ceased not till
We made them as reaped corn, extinct. |
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We created not the heaven and the earth
and all that is between them in play. |
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If We had wished to find a pastime,
We could have found it in Our presence-- if We ever did. |
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Nay, but We hurl the true against the
false, and it does break its head and lo! it vanishes. And yours will
be woe for that which you ascribe (unto
Him). |
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Unto Him belongs whosoever is in the
heavens and the earth. And those who dwell in His presence are not
too proud to worship Him nor do they weary; |
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They glorify (Him)
night and day; they flag not. |
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Or have they chosen Gods from the earth
who raise the dead? |
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If there were therein Gods beside Allah,
then verily both (the heavens
and the earth) had been disordered.
Glorified be Allah, the Lord of the Throne, from all that they ascribe
(unto Him). |
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He will not be questioned as to that
which He does, but they will be questioned. |
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Or have they chosen other gods beside
Him? Say: Bring your proof (of
their godhead). This is the
Reminder of those with me and those before me, but most of them know
not the Truth and so they are averse. |
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And We sent no messenger before you
but We inspired him, (saying):
There is no God save Me (Allah),
so worship Me. |
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And they say: The Beneficent has taken
unto Himself a son. Be He glorified! Nay, but (those
whom they call sons) are honored
slaves; |
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They speak not until He has spoken,
and they act by His command. |
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He knows what is before them and what
is behind them, and they cannot intercede except for him whom He accepteth,
and they quake for awe of Him. |
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And one of them who should say: Lo!
I am a God beside Him, that one We should repay with hell. Thus We
repay wrong-doers. |
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Have not those who disbelieve known
that the heavens and the earth were of one piece, then We parted them,
and We made every living thing of water? Will they not then believe? |
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