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Blessed is He Who has revealed unto
His slave the Criterion (of
right and wrong), that he may
be a warner to the peoples: |
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He unto Whom belongs the sovereignty
of the heavens and the earth. He has chosen no son nor has He any
partne in the sovereignty. He has created everything and has meted
out for it a measure. |
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Yet they choose beside Him other gods
who create naught but are themselves created, and possess not hurt
nor profit for themselves, and possess not death nor life, nor power
to raise the dead. |
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Those who disbelieve say: This is naught
but a lie that he has invented, and other folk have helped him with
it, so that they have produced a slander and a lie. |
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And they say: Fables of the men of
old which he has had written down so that they are dictated to him
morn and evening. |
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Say (unto
them, O Muhammad): He Who knows
the secret of the heavens and the earth has revealed it. Lo! He ever
is Forgiving, Merciful. |
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And they say: What ails this messenger
(of Allah)
that he eats food and walks in the markets? Why is not an angel sent
down unto him, to be a warner with him? |
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Or (why
is not) a treasure thrown down
unto him, or why has he not a paradise from whence to eat? And the
evil-doers say: You are but following a man bewitched. |
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See how they coin similitudes for you,
so that they are all astray and cannot find a road! |
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Blessed is He Who, if He will, will
assign you better than (all)
that--Gardens underneath which rivers flow--and will assign you mansions. |
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Nay, but they deny (the
coming of) the Hour, and for
those who deny (the coming
of) the Hour We have prepared
a flame. |
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When it sees them from afar, they bear
the cracking and the roar thereof. |
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And when they are flung into a narrow
place thereof, chained together, they pray for destruction there. |
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Pray not that day for one destruction,
but pray for many destructions! |
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Say: Is that (doom)
better or the Garden of Immortality which is promised unto those who
ward off (evil)?
It will be their reward and journey's end. |
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Therein abiding, they have all that
they desire. It is for your Lord a promise that must be fulfilled. |
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And on the day when He will assemble
them and that which they worship instead of Allah and will say: Was
it you who misled these my slaves or did they (themselves)
wander from the way? |
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They will say: Be You glorified! It
was not for us to choose any protecting friends beside You; but You
didst give them and their fathers ease till they forgot the warning
and became lost folk. |
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Thus they will give you the lie regarding
what you say, then you can neither avert (the
doom) nor obtain help. And whoso
among you does wrong, We shall make him taste great torment. |
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We never sent before you any messengers
but lo! they ate food and walked in the markets. And We have appointed
some of you a test for others: Will you be steadfast? And your Lord
is ever Seer. |
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And those who look not for a meeting
with Us say: Why are angels not sent down unto us and (why)
do we not see our Lord? Assuredly they think too highly of themselves
and are scornful with great pride. |
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On the day when they behold the angels,
on that day there will be no good tidings for the guilty; and they
will cry: A forbidding ban! |
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And We shall turn unto the work they
did and make it scattered motes. |
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Those who have earned the Garden on
that day will be better in their home and happier in their place of
noonday rest; |
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A day when the heaven with the clouds
will be rent asunder and the angels will be sent down, a grand descent. |
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The Sovereignty on that day will be
the True (Sovereignty)
belonging to the Beneficent One, and it will be a hard day for disbelievers. |
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On the day when the wrongdoer gnaws
his hands, he will say: Ah, would that I had chosen a way together
with the messenger (of Allah)! |
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Alas for me! Ah, would that I had never
taken such an one for friend! |
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He verily led me astray from the Reminder
after it had reached me. Satan was ever man's deserter in the hour
of need. |
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And the messenger says: O my Lord!
Lo! mine own folk make this Qur-an of no account. |
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