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IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF
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AL-Quran is full of admonition Unbelievers are in sheer arrogance for calling the Prophet as liars
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1 | Sad.1 CONSIDER2 this Qur'an, endowed with all that one ought to remember!3 | ||
2 | But nay - they who are bent on denying the truth are lost in [false] pride, and [hence] deeply in the wrong.4 | |||
3 | How many a generation5 have We destroyed before their time [for this very sin]! And [how] they called [unto Us] when it was too late to escape!6 | |||
4 | Now these [people] deem it strange that a warner should have come unto them from their own midst - and [so] the deniers of the truth are saying: "A [mere] spellbinder is he, a liar!7 | |||
5 | Does he claim that all the deities are [but] one God? Verily, a most strange thing is this!"8 | |||
6 | And their leaders launch forth [thus]: "Go ahead, and hold steadfastly onto your deities: this, behold, is the only thing to do!9 | |||
7 | Never did we hear of [a claim like] this in any faith of latter days!10 It is nothing but [a mortal man's] invention! | |||
8 | What Upon him alone from among all of us should a [divine] reminder have been bestowed from on high?" Nay, but it is My Own reminder that they distrust!11 Nay, they have not yet tasted the suffering which I do impose!12 | |||
9 | Or do they [think that they] own the treasures of thy Sustainer's grace- [the grace] of the Almighty, the Giver of Gifts?13 | |||
10 | Or [that] the dominion over the heavens and the earth and all that is between them is theirs? Why, then, let them try to ascend [to God-like power] by all [conceivable] means!14 | |||
11 | [But] there it is: any and all human beings, however [strongly] leagued together,15 are bound to suffer defeat [whenever they refuse to accept the truth]. | |||
12 | To the truth gave the lie aforetime16 Noah's people, and [the tribe of] Ad, and Pharaoh of the [many] tent-poles,17 | |||
13 | and [the tribe of] Thamud, and the people of Lot, and the dwellers of the wooded dales [of Madyan]: they all were leagued together, [as it were, in their unbelief:] | |||
14 | not one [was there] but gave the lie to the apostles - and thereupon My retribution fell due. | |||
Story of Prophet Dawood -mountains and birds used to sing the rhymes of Allah and Story of the two litigants who came to Dawood for a decision
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15 | And they [who now deny the truth-they, too,] have but to wait for one single blast [of punishment to overtake them]: it shall not be delayed a whit.18 | ||
16 | As it is, they say [mockingly]: "O our Sustainer! Hasten on to us our share [of punishment even] before the Day of Reckoning!"19 | |||
17 | [But] bear thou with patience whatever they may say, and remember Our servant David, him who was endowed with [so much] inner strength! He, verily, would always turn unto Us: | |||
18 | [and for this,] behold, We caused20 the mountains to join him in extolling Our limitless glory at eventide and at sun-rise, | |||
19 | and [likewise] the birds in their assemblies:21 [together] they all would turn again and again unto Him [who had created them]. | |||
20 | And We streng-thened his dominion, and bestowed upon him wisdom and sagacity in judgment. | |||
21 | AND YET, has the story of the litigants come within thy ken- [the story of the two] who surmounted the walls of the sanctuary [in which David prayed ?22 | |||
22 | As they came upon David, and he shrank back in fear from them, they said: "Fear not! [We are but] two litigants. One of us has wronged the other: so judge thou between us with justice, and deviate not from what is right, and show [both of] us the way to rectitude. | |||
23 | "Behold, this is my brother: he has ninety-nine ewes, whereas I have [only] one ewe - and yet he said, 'Make her over to me,' and forcibly prevailed against me in this [our] dispute." | |||
24 | Said [David]: "He has certainly wronged thee by demanding that thy ewe be added to his ewes! Thus, behold, do many kinsmen23 wrong one another-[all] save those who believe [in God] and do righteous deeds: but how few are they!" And [suddenly] David understood that We had tried him:24 and so he asked his Sustainer to forgive him his sin, and fell down in prostration, and turned unto Him in repentance. | |||
25 | And thereupon We forgave him that [sin]: and, verily, nearness to Us awaits him [in the life to come], and the most beauteous of all goals! | |||
26 | [And We said:] "O David! Behold, We have made thee a [prophet and, thus, Our] vicegerent on earth: judge, then, between men with justice, and do not follow vain desire, lest it lead thee astray from the path of God: verily, for those who go astray from the path of God there is suffering severe in store for having forgotten the Day of Reckoning!" | |||
Allah has not created the heavens and the earth in vain
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27 | AND [thus it is:] We have not created heaven and earth and all that is between them without meaning and purpose, as is the surmise of those who are bent on denying the truth:25 but then, woe from the fire [of hell] unto all who are bent on denying the truth!26 | ||
28 | [For,] would We treat those who have attained to faith and do righteous deeds in the same manner as [We shall treat] those who spread corruption on earth? Would We treat the God-conscious in the same manner as the wicked?27 | |||
29 | [All this have We expounded in this] blessed divine writ which We have revealed unto thee, [O Muhammad,] so that men may ponder over its messages, and that those who are endowed with insight may take them to heart. | |||
Story of Sulaiman's inspection of steeds to be used in Jihad and Prophet Sulaiman's prayer of granting him a kingdom, similar of which may not be granted to any one else
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30 | AND UNTO DAVID We granted Solomon [as a son-and] how excellent a servant [of Ours he grew up to be]! Behold, he would always turn unto Us28 | ||
31 | [and even] when, towards the close of day, nobly-bred, swift-footed steeds were brought before him, | |||
32 | he would say, "Verily, I have come to love the love of all that is good because I bear my Sustainer in mind!"29 -[repeating these words as the steeds raced away,] until they were hidden by the veil [of distance30 whereupon he would command], | |||
33 | "Bring them back unto me!" - and would [lovingly] stroke their legs and their necks.31 | |||
34 | But [ere this], indeed, We had tried Solomon by placing upon his throne a [lifeless] body;32 and thereupon he turned [towards Us; and] | |||
35 | he prayed: "O my Sustainer! Forgive me my sins, and bestow upon me the gift of a kingdom which may not suit anyone after me:33 verily, Thou alone art a giver of gifts!" | |||
36 | And so34 We made subservient to him the wind, so that it gently sped at his behest withersoever he willed,35 | |||
37 | as well as all the rebellious forces [that We made to work for him]-every kind of builder and diver - | |||
38 | and others linked together in fetters.36 | |||
39 | [And We told him:] "This is Our gift, for thee to bestow freely on others, or to withhold, without [having to render] account!" | |||
40 | And, verily, nearness to Us awaits him life to comer, and the most beauteous of all goals | |||
Story of Ayub (Job), his sickness and relief
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41 | AND CALL to mind Our servant Job,37 [how it was] when he cried out to his Sustainer, "Behold, Satan has afflicted me with [utter] weariness and suffering!"38 | ||
42 | [and thereupon was told:] "Strike [the ground] with thy foot: here is cool water to wash with and to drink!"39 | |||
43 | And We bestowed upon him new offsprin ,40 doubling their number as an act of grace from Us, and as a reminder unto all who are endowed with insight. | |||
44 | [And finally We told him:] "Now take in thy hand a small bunch of grass, and strike therewith, and thou wilt not break shine oath!"41 - for, verily, We found him full of patience in adversity: how excellent a servant [of Ours], who, behold, would always turn unto us | |||
45 | AND CALL to mind Our servants Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, [all of them] endowed with inner strength and vision: | |||
46 | for, verily, We purified them by means of a thought most pure: the remembrance of the life to come.42 | |||
47 | And, behold, in Our sight they were indeed among the elect, the truly good! | |||
48 | And call to mind Ishmael and Elisha,43 and every one who [like them] has pledged himself [unto Us]:44 for, each of them was of the truly good! | |||
AL-Quran is but a reminder about the reward of Paradise and punishment of the hellfire
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49 | LET [all] this be a reminder [to those who believe in God] - for, verily, the most beauteous of all goals awaits the God-conscious: | ||
50 | gardens of perpetual bliss,45 with gates wide-open to them, | |||
51 | wherein they will recline, [and] wherein they may [freely] call for many a fruit and drink, | |||
52 | having beside them well-matched mates of modest gaze.46 | |||
53 | This is what you are promised for the Day of Reckoning: | |||
54 | this, verily, shall be Our provision [for you], with no end to it! | |||
55 | All this [for the righteous]: but, verily, the most evil of all goals awaits those who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right: | |||
56 | hell will they have to endure - and how vile a resting-place! | |||
57 | This, [then, for them-] so let them taste it: burning despair and ice-cold darkness | |||
58 | and coupled with it, further [suffering] of a similar nature.47 | |||
59 | [And they will say to one another: "Do you see] this crowd of people who rushed headlong [into sin] with you?48 No welcome to them! Verily, they [too] shall have to endure the fire!49 | |||
60 | [And] they [who had been seduced] will exclaim: "Nay, but it is you! No welcome to you! It is you who have prepared this for us: and how vile a state to abide in!" | |||
61 | [And] they will pray: "O our Sustainer! Whoever has prepared this for us. double Thou his suffering in the fire!"50 | |||
62 | And they will add: "How is it that we do not see [here any of the] men whom we were wont to count among the wicked, | |||
63 | [and] whom we made the target of our derision?51 Or is it that [they are here, and] our eyes have missed them?" | |||
64 | Such, behold, will in truth be the [confusion and] mutual wrangling of the people of the fire! | |||
The mission of the Rasools' is to warn people and declare that there is no divinity except Allah
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65 | SAY [O Muhammad]: "I am only a warner; and there is no deity whatever save God, the One, who holds absolute sway over all that exists, | ||
66 | the Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, the Almighty, the All-Forgiving!" | |||
67 | Say: "This is a message tremendous: | |||
68 | [how can] you turn away from it?" | |||
69 | [Say, O Muhammad:] "No knowledge would I have had of [what passed among] the host on high when they argued [against the creation of man],52 | |||
70 | had it not been revealed unto me [by God] - to no other end than that l might convey [unto you] a plain warning"53 | |||
Story of the creation of Adam and disobedience of Iblees (Shaitan)
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71 | [For,] lo,54 thy Sustainer said unto the angels:"Behold, I am about to create a human being out of clay;55 | ||
72 | and when I have formed him fully and breathed into him of My spirit, fall you down before him in prostration!"56 | |||
73 | Thereupon the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together, | |||
74 | save Iblis: he gloried in his arrogance, and [thus] became one of those who deny the truth.57 | |||
75 | Said He: "O Iblis! What has kept thee from prostrating thyself before that [being] which I have created with My hands?58 Art thou too proud [to bow down before another created being], or art thou of those who think [only] of themselves as high?"59 | |||
76 | Answered [Iblls]: "I am better than he: Thou hast created me out of fire,60 whereas him Thou hast created out of clay." | |||
77 | Said He: "Go forth, then, from this [angelic state] - for, behold, thou art henceforth accursed, | |||
78 | and My rejection shall be thy due until the Day of Judgment!" | |||
79 | Said [Iblis]: "Then, O my Sustainer, grant me a respite till the Day when all shall be raised from the dead! " | |||
80 | Answered He: "Verily, so [be it:] thou shalt be among those who are granted respite | |||
81 | till the Day the time whereof is known [only to Me]."61 | |||
82 | [Whereupon Iblis] said: "Then [I swear] by Thy very might: I shall most certainly beguile them all into grievous error- | |||
83 | [all] save such of them as are truly Thy servants!" | |||
84 | [And God] said: "This, then, is the truth!62 And this truth do I state: | |||
85 | Most certainly will I fill hell with thee and such of them as shall follow thee, all together!" | |||
86 | SAY [O Prophet]: "No reward whatever do I ask of you for this [message]; and I am not one of those who claim to be what they are not.63 | |||
87 | This [divine writ], behold, is no less than a reminder to all the worlds | |||
88 | and you will most certainly grasp its purport after a lapse of time!" |
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