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IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF
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Surely the day of judgement shall come to pass, only the perverse persons turn away from this truth
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1 | CONSIDER the winds that scatter the dust far and wide, | ||
2 | and those that carry the burden [of heavy clouds], | |||
3 | and those that speed along with gentle ease, | |||
4 | and those that apportion [the gift of life] at [God's] behest!1 | |||
5 | Verily, that which you are promised2 is true indeed, | |||
6 | and, verily, judgment is bound to come! | |||
7 | CONSIDER the firmament full of starry paths!3 | |||
8 | Verily, [O men,] you are deeply at variance as to what to believe:4 | |||
9 | perverted in his views thereon is he who would deceive himself!5 | |||
10 | They but destroy themselves,6 they who are given to guessing at what they cannot ascertain7 - | |||
11 | they who blunder along, in ignorance lost - | |||
12 | they who [mockingly] ask, "When is that Day of Judgment to be?" | |||
13 | [It will be] a Day when they will be sorely tried by the fire,8 | |||
14 | [and will be told:] "Taste this your trial! It is this that you were so hastily asking for!"9 | |||
15 | [But,] behold, the God-conscious will find themselves amid gardens and springs, | |||
16 | enjoying all that their Sustainer will have granted them [because], verily, they were doers of good in the past:10 | |||
17 | they would lie asleep during but a small part of the night, | |||
18 | from their innermost hearts;11 | |||
19 | and [would assign] in all that they possessed a due share unto such as might ask [for help] and such as might suffer privation.12 | |||
20 | AND ON EARTH there are signs [of God's existence, visible] to all who are endowed with inner certainty, | |||
21 | just as [there are signs thereof] within your own selves:13 can you not, then, see? | |||
22 | And in heaven is [the source of] your sustenance [on earth]14 and [of] all that you are promised [for your life after death]: | |||
23 | for, by the Sustainer of heaven and earth, this [life after death] is the very truth - as true as that you are endowed with speech!15 | |||
Story of Prophet Ibrahim, when he was given a good news of having a son
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24 | AND HAS the story of Abraham's honoured guests ever come within thy ken?16 | ||
25 | When those [heavenly messengers] came unto him and bade him peace, he answered, "[And upon you be] peace!" - [saying to himself,] "They are strangers."17 | |||
26 | Then he turned quietly to his household, and brought forth a fat [roasted] calf, | |||
27 | and placed it before them, saying, "Will you not eat?" | |||
28 | [And when he saw that the guests would not eat,] he became apprehensive of them;18 [but] they said, "Fear not" - and gave him the glad tiding of [the birth of] a son who would be endowed with deep knowledge.19 | |||
29 | Thereupon his wife approached [the guests] with a loud cry, and struck her face [in astonishment] and exclaimed: "A barren old woman [like me]!" | |||
30 | They answered: "Thus has thy Sustainer decreed; and, verily, He alone is truly wise, all-knowing!" | |||
The same angels who gave good news to Ibrahim annihilated the nation of homosexuals
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31 | Said [Abraham]: "And what [else] may you have in view, O you [heavenly] messengers?" | ||
32 | They answered: "Behold, we have been sent unto a people lost in sin,20 | |||
33 | to let loose upon them stone-hard blows of chastisement,21 | |||
34 | marked out in thy Sustainer's sight for [the punishment of] such as have wasted their own selves."22 | |||
35 | And in the course of time23 We brought out [of Lot's city] such [few] believers as were there: | |||
36 | for apart from one [single] house24 We did not find there any who had surrendered themselves to Us. | |||
37 | And so We left therein25 a message for those who fear the grievous suffering [which awaits all evildoers]. | |||
There is a lesson in the stories of Fir'on, A'd, Thamud and people of Nuh
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38 | AND IN [the story of Pharaoh and] Moses, too, [We left the same message:26 for] when We sent him unto Pharaoh with [Our] manifest authority, | ||
39 | and he turned away in [the pride of] his power and said, "A sorcerer [is this Moses], or a madman!" - | |||
40 | We seized him and his hosts, and cast them all into the sea: and [none but Pharaoh] himself was to blame [for what happened].27 | |||
41 | And [you have the same message] in [what happened to the tribe of] 'Ad, when We let loose against them that life-destroying wind | |||
42 | which spared nothing of what it came upon, but caused [all of] it to become like bones dead and decayed.28 | |||
43 | And in [the story of the tribe of] Thamud, too, when they were told, "You shall enjoy your life for [but] a little while,"29 | |||
44 | after they had turned with disdain from their Sustainer's commandment - whereupon the thunderbolt of punishment overtook them while they were [helplessly] looking on: | |||
45 | or they were unable even to rise, and could not defend themselves. | |||
46 | And [thus, too, We destroyed] Noah's people aforetime: for they were iniquitous folk. | |||
Allah, Who built the heavens and spread out the earth, has assigned Prophet Muhammad to be a Warner for mankind
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47 | AND IT IS We who have built the universe30 with [Our creative] power; and, verily, it is We who are steadily expanding it.31 | ||
48 | And the earth have We spread out wide and how well have We ordered it!32 | |||
49 | And in everything have We created opposite,33 so that you might bear in mind [God alone is one].34 | |||
50 | And so, [O Muhammad, say unto them:] "Flee unto God [from all that is false and evil]! Verily, I am a plain warner to you from Him! | |||
51 | And do not ascribe divinity to aught35 side by side with God: verily, I am a plain warner to you from Him!" | |||
52 | [But] thus it is: never yet came any apostle to those who lived before their time but they said, "A spellbinder36 [is he], or a madman!" | |||
53 | Have they, perchance, handed down this [way of thinking] as a legacy unto one another? Nay, they are people filled with overweening arrogance! | |||
54 | Turn, then, away from them, and thou shalt incur no blame; | |||
55 | yet go on reminding [all who would listen]: for, verily, such a reminder will profit the believers. | |||
56 | And [tell them that] I have not created the invisible beings37 and men to any end other than that they may [know and] worship Me.38 | |||
57 | [But withal,] no sustenance do I ever demand of them, nor do I demand that they feed Me: | |||
58 | for, verily, God Himself is the Provider of all sustenance, the Lord of all might, the Eternal! | |||
59 | And, verily, they who are bent on doing evil shall have their share [of evil] like unto the share of their fellows [of old]:39 so let them not ask Me to hasten [their doom]! | |||
60 | For, woe unto those who are bent on denying the truth - [woe] on the Day which they have been promised! |
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