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Alif
Lam Ra. These are the Ayats of Revelation--of a Qur-an that makes
things clear. |
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Again
and again will those who disbelieve, wish that they had bowed
(to Allah's Will)
in Islam. |
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Leave
them alone, to enjoy (the good
things of this life) and to
please themselves: let (false)
Hope amuse them: soon will knowledge (undeceive
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Never
did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned
beforehand. |
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Neither
can a people anticipate its Term, nor delay it. |
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They
say: "O you to whom the Message is being revealed! Truly you
are mad (or possessed)! |
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"Why
bring you not angels to us if it be that you have the Truth?" |
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We
send not the angels down except for just cause: if they came (to
the ungodly), behold! No respite
would they have! |
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We
have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly
guard it (from corruption). |
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We
did send messengers before you amongst the religious sects of old: |
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But
never came an messenger to them but they mocked him. |
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Even
so do We let it creep into the hearts of the sinners-- |
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That
they should not believe in the (Message);
but the ways of the ancients have passed away. |
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Even
if We opened out to them a gate from heaven, and they were to continue
(all day)
ascending therein, |
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They
would only say: "Our eyes have been intoxicated: nay, we have
been bewitched by sorcery." |
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It
is We who have set out the Zodiacal Signs in the heavens, and made
them fair-seeming to (all)
beholders; |
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And
(moreover)
we have guarded them from every evil spirit accursed: |
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But
any that gains a hearing by stealth, is pursued by a flaming fire,
bright (to see). |
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And
the earth We have spread out (like
a carpet); set thereon mountains
firm and immovable; and produced therein all kinds of things in due
balance. |
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And
We have provided therein means of subsistence--for you and for those
for whose sustenance you are not responsible. |
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And
there is not a thing but its (sources
and) treasures (inexhaustible)
are with Us; but We only send down thereof in due and ascertainable
measures. |
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And
We send the fecundating winds, then cause the rain to descend from
the sky, therewith providing you with water (in
abundance), though you are not
the guardians of its stores. |
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And
verily, it is We Who give life, and Who give death: it is We Who remain
Inheritors (after all else
passes away). |
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To
Us are known those of you who hasten forward, and those who lag behind. |
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Assuredly
it is your Lord who will gather them together: for He is Perfect in
Wisdom and Knowledge. |
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We
created human from sounding clay, from mud molded into shape; |
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And
the Jinn race, We had created before, from the fire of a scorching
wind. |
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Behold!
Your Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create man, from
sounding clay from mud molded into shape; |
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"When
I have fashioned him (in due
proportion) and breathed into
him of My spirit, fall you down in obeisance unto him." |
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So
the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together: |
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