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Alif Lam Ra. Those are the signs of the Book and of a manifest Koran.
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Perchance the unbelievers will wish that they had surrendered:
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leave them to eat, and to take their joy, and to be bemused by hope; certainly they will soon know!
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Never a city have We destroyed, but it had a known decree,
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and no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back.
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They say: 'Thou, upon whom the Remembrance is sent down, thou art assuredly possessed!
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Why dost thou not bring the angels unto us, if thou speakest truly?'
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We send not down the angels, save with truth;
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then they would not be respited. It is We who have sent down the Remembrance, and We watch over it.
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Indeed, We sent Messengers before thee, among the factions of the ancients,
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and not a single Messenger came to them, but they mocked at him;
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even so We cause it to enter into the hearts of the sinners --
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they believe not in it, though the wont of the ancients is already gone.
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Though We opened to them a gate in heaven, and still they mounted through it,
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yet would they say, 'Our eyes have been dazzled; nay, we are a people bewitched!'
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We have set in heaven constellations and decked them out fair to the beholders,
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and guarded them from every accursed Satan
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excepting such as listens by stealth -- and he is pursued by a manifest flame.
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And the earth -- We stretched it forth, and cast on it firm mountains, and We caused to grow therein of every thing justly weighed,
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and there appointed for you livelihood, and for those you provide not for.
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Naught is there, but its treasuries are with Us, and We send it not down but in a known measure.
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And We loose the winds fertilising, and We send down out of heaven water, then We give it to you to drink, and you are not its treasurers.
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It is We who give life, and make to die, and it is We who are the inheritors.
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We know the ones of you who press forward, and We know the laggards;
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and it is thy Lord shall muster them, and He is All-wise, All-knowing.
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Surely We created man of a clay of mud moulded,
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and the jinn created We before of fire flaming.
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And when thy Lord said to the angels, 'See, I am creating a mortal of a clay of mud moulded.
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When I have shaped him, and breathed My spirit in him, fall you down, bowing before him!'
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Then the angels bowed themselves all together,
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save Iblis; he refused to be among those bowing.
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Said He, 'What ails thee, Iblis, that thou art not among those bowing?'
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Said he, 'I would never bow myself before a mortal whom Thou hast created of a clay of mud moulded.'
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Said He, 'Then go thou forth hence; thou art accursed.
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Upon thee shall rest the curse, till the Day of Doom.'
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Said he, 'My Lord, respite me till the day they shall be raised.'
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Said He, 'Thou art among the ones that are respited
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unto the day of a known time.'
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Said he, 'My Lord, for Thy perverting me I shall deck all fair to them in the earth, and I shall pervert them, all together,
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excepting those Thy servants among them that are devoted.
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Said He, 'This is for Me a straight path:
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over My servants thou shalt have no authority, except those that follow thee,
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being perverse; Gehenna shall be their promised land all together.
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Seven gates it has, and unto each gate a set portion of them belongs.'
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But the godfearing shall be amidst gardens and fountains:
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'Enter you them, in peace and security!'
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We shall strip away all rancour that is in their breasts; as brothers they shall be upon couches set face to face;
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no fatigue there shall smite them, neither shall they ever be driven forth from there.
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Tell My servants I am the All-forgiving, the All-compassionate,
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and that My chastisement is the painful chastisement.
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And tell them of the guests of Abraham,
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when they entered unto him, saying, 'Peace!' He said, 'Behold, we are afraid of you.'
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They said, 'Be not afraid; behold, we give thee good tidings of a cunning boy.'
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He said, 'What, do you give me good tidings, though old age has smitten me? Of what do you
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give me good tidings?' They said, 'We give thee good tidings of truth. Be not of those that despair.'
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He said, 'And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord, excepting those that are astray?'
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He said, 'And what is your business, envoys?'
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They said, 'We have been sent unto a people of sinners,
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excepting the folk of Lot; them we shall deliver
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all together, excepting his wife -- we have decreed, she shall surely be of those that tarry.'
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So, when the envoys came to the folk of Lot,
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he said, 'Surely you are a people unknown to me!'
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They said, 'Nay, but we have brought thee that concerning which they were doubting.
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We have come to thee with the truth, and assuredly we speak truly.
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So set forth, thou with thy family, in a watch of the night, and follow after the backs of them, and let not any one of you turn round; and depart unto the place you are commanded.'
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And We decreed for him that commandment, that the last remnant of those should be cut off in the morning.
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And the people of the city came rejoicing.
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He said, 'These are my guests; put me not to shame,
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and fear God, and do not degrade me.'
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They said, 'Have we not forbidden thee all beings?'
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He said, 'These are my daughters, if you would be doing.'
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By thy life, they wandered blindly in their dazzlement,
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and the Cry seized them at the sunrise,
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and We turned it uppermost nethermost and rained on it stones of baked clay.
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Surely in that are signs for such as mark;
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surely it is on a way yet remaining;
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surely in that is a sign for believers.
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Certainly the dwellers in the Thicket were evildoers,
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and We took vengeance on them. The two of them were upon a roadway manifest.
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The dwellers in El-Hijr cried lies to the Envoys.
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We brought them. Our signs, and they turned away from them.
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They were hewing the mountains into houses, therein dwelling securely;
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and the Cry seized them in the morning;
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that they earned did not avail them.
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We created not the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, save in truth. Surely the Hour is coming; so pardon thou, with a gracious pardoning.
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Surely thy Lord, He is the All-creator, the All-knowing.
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We have given thee seven of the oft-repeated, and the mighty Koran.
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Stretch not thine eyes to that We have given pairs of them to enjoy; and do not sorrow for them, and lower thy wing unto the believers,
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and say, 'Surely, I am the manifest warner.'
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So We sent it down to the partitioners,
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who have broken the Koran into fragments.
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Now by thy Lord, We shall surely question them all together
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concerning that they were doing.
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So shout that thou art commanded and turn thou away from the idolaters.
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We suffice thee against the mockers,
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even against those who set up with God another god. Certainly they will soon know!
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We know indeed thy breast is straitened by the things they say.
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Proclaim thy Lord's praise, and be of those that bow,
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and serve thy Lord, until the Certain comes to thee.
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