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The
revelation of this Book is from Allah, the Exalted in Power, Full
of Wisdom. |
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Verily
it is We Who have revealed the Book to you in Truth: so serve Allah,
offering Him sincere devotion. |
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Is
it not to Allah that sincere devotion is due? But those who take for
protectors other than Allah (say):
"We only serve them in order that they may bring us nearer to
Allah." Truly Allah will judge between them in that wherein they
differ. But Allah guides not such as are false and ungrateful. |
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Had
Allah wished to take to Himself a son, He could have chosen whom He
pleased out of those whom He does create: but Glory be to Him! (He
is above such things.) He is
Allah, the One, the Irresistible. |
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He
created the heavens and the earth in true (proportions):
He makes the Night overlap the Day, and the Day overlap the Night:
He has subjected the sun and the moon (to
His law) each one follows a
course for a time appointed. Is not He the Exalted in Power--He Who
forgives again and again? |
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He
created you (all)
from a single Person: then created, of like nature, his mate; and
He sent down for you eight head of cattle in pairs: He makes you,
in the wombs of your mothers, in stages, one after another, in three
veils of darkness. Such is Allah, your Lord and Cherisher: to Him
belongs (all)
dominion. There is no god but He: then how are you turned away
(from your true Center)? |
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It
you reject (Allah),
truly Allah has no need of you; but He likes not ingratitude from
His servants: if you are grateful, He is pleased with you. No bearer
of burdens can bear the burden of another. In the End, to your Lord
is your Return, when He will tell you the truth of all that you did
(in this life).
For He knows well all that is in (men's)
hearts. |
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When
some trouble touches man, he cries unto his Lord, turning to Him in
repentance: but when He bestows a favor upon him as from Himself,
(man)
does forget what he cried and prayed for before, and he does set up
rivals unto Allah, thus misleading others from Allah's Path. Say "Enjoy
your blasphemy for a little while: verily you are
(one) of the Companions of the
Fire!" |
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Is
one who worships devoutly during the hours of the night prostrating
himself or standing (in adoration),
who takes heed of the Hereafter, and who places his hope in the Mercy
of his Lord--(like one who does
not)? Say: "Are those equal,
those who know and those who do not know? It is those who are endued
with understanding that receive admonition." |
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Say:
"O you my servants who believe! Fear your Lord: good is (the
reward) for those who do good
in this world. Spacious is Allah's earth! Those who patiently persevere
will truly receive a reward without measure!" |
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Say:
"Verily, I am commanded to serve Allah with sincere devotion; |
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"And
I am commanded to be the first of those who bow to Allah in Islam." |
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Say:
"I would, if I disobeyed my Lord, indeed have fear of the Penalty
of a Mighty Day." |
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Say:
"It is Allah I serve, with my sincere (and
exclusive) devotion: |
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"Serve
you what you will besides Him." Say: "Truly, those in loss
are those who lose their own souls and their People on the Day of
Judgment: Ah! That is indeed the (real
and) evident Loss!" |
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They
shall have layers of fire above them, and layers (of
fire) below them: with this
does Allah warn off His servants: "O my servants! Then fear you
Me!" |
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Those
who eschew Evil--and fall not into its worship--and turn to Allah
(in repentance)--for
them is Good News: so announce the Good News to My Servants-- |
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Those
who listen to the Word, and follow the best (meaning)
in it: those are the ones whom Allah has guided, and those are the
ones endued with understanding. |
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Is,
then, one against whom the decree of Punishment is justly due
(equal to one who eschews evil)?
would you, then, deliver one
(who is) in the Fire? |
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But
it is for those who fear their Lord, that lofty mansions, one above
another, have been built: beneath them flow rivers (of
delight): (such
is) the promise of Allah: never
does Allah fail in (His)
promise. |
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See
you not that Allah sends down rain from the sky, and leads it through
springs in the earth? Then He causes to grow, therewith, produce of
various colors: then it withers; you will see it grow yellow; then
He makes it dry up and crumble away. Truly, in this, is a Message
of remembrance to men of understanding. |
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Is
one whose heart Allah has opened to Islam, so that he has received
enlightenment from Allah, (no
better than one hard-hearted)?
Woe to those whose hearts are hardened against celebrating the praises
of Allah! They are manifestly wandering (in
error)! |
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Allah
has revealed (from time to
time) the most beautiful message
in the form of a Book, consistent with itself, (yet)
repeating (its teaching in various
aspects): the skins of those
who fear their Lord tremble thereat; then their skins and their hearts
do soften to the celebration of Allah's praises. Such is the guidance
of Allah: He guides therewith whom He pleases, but such as Allah leaves
to stray, can have none to guide. |
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Is,
then, one who has to fear the brunt of the Penalty on the Day of Judgment
(and receive it)
on his face, (like one guarded
there from)? It will be said
to the wrongdoers: "Taste you (the
fruits of) what you earned!" |
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Those
before them (also)
rejected (revelation),
and so the Punishment came to them from directions they did not perceive. |
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So
Allah gave them a taste of humiliation in the present life, but greater
is the Punishment of the Hereafter, if they only knew! |
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We
have put forth for men, in this Qur-an every kind of Parable, in order
that they may receive admonition. |
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(It
is) a Qur-an in Arabic, without
any crookedness (therein):
in order that they may guard against Evil. |
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Allah
puts forth a Parable--a person belonging to many partners at variance
with each other, and a person belonging entirely to one master: are
those two equal in comparison? Praise be to Allah! But most of them
have no knowledge. |
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Truly
you will die (one day),
and truly they (too)
will die (one day). |
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