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| 1. * | Alif Lam Ra. Those are the signs of the Book and of a manifest Koran. |
| 2. * | Perchance the unbelievers will wish that they had surrendered: |
| 3. * | leave them to eat, and to take their joy, and to be bemused by hope; certainly they will soon know! |
| 4. * | Never a city have We destroyed, but it had a known decree, |
| 5. * | and no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back. |
| 6. * | They say: 'Thou, upon whom the Remembrance is sent down, thou art assuredly possessed! |
| 7. * | Why dost thou not bring the angels unto us, if thou speakest truly?' |
| 8. * | We send not down the angels, save with truth; |
| 9. * | then they would not be respited. It is We who have sent down the Remembrance, and We watch over it. |
| 10. * | Indeed, We sent Messengers before thee, among the factions of the ancients, |
| 11. * | and not a single Messenger came to them, but they mocked at him; |
| 12. * | even so We cause it to enter into the hearts of the sinners -- |
| 13. * | they believe not in it, though the wont of the ancients is already gone. |
| 14. * | Though We opened to them a gate in heaven, and still they mounted through it, |
| 15. * | yet would they say, 'Our eyes have been dazzled; nay, we are a people bewitched!' |
| 16. * | We have set in heaven constellations and decked them out fair to the beholders, |
| 17. * | and guarded them from every accursed Satan |
| 18. * | excepting such as listens by stealth -- and he is pursued by a manifest flame. |
| 19. * | And the earth -- We stretched it forth, and cast on it firm mountains, and We caused to grow therein of every thing justly weighed, |
| 20. * | and there appointed for you livelihood, and for those you provide not for. |
| 21. * | Naught is there, but its treasuries are with Us, and We send it not down but in a known measure. |
| 22. * | 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. |
| 23. * | It is We who give life, and make to die, and it is We who are the inheritors. |
| 24. * | We know the ones of you who press forward, and We know the laggards; |
| 25. * | and it is thy Lord shall muster them, and He is All-wise, All-knowing. |
| 26. * | Surely We created man of a clay of mud moulded, |
| 27. * | and the jinn created We before of fire flaming. |
| 28. * | And when thy Lord said to the angels, 'See, I am creating a mortal of a clay of mud moulded. |
| 29. * | When I have shaped him, and breathed My spirit in him, fall you down, bowing before him!' |
| 30. * | Then the angels bowed themselves all together, |
| 31. * | save Iblis; he refused to be among those bowing. |
| 32. * | Said He, 'What ails thee, Iblis, that thou art not among those bowing?' |
| 33. * | Said he, 'I would never bow myself before a mortal whom Thou hast created of a clay of mud moulded.' |
| 34. * | Said He, 'Then go thou forth hence; thou art accursed. |
| 35. * | Upon thee shall rest the curse, till the Day of Doom.' |
| 36. * | Said he, 'My Lord, respite me till the day they shall be raised.' |
| 37. * | Said He, 'Thou art among the ones that are respited |
| 38. * | unto the day of a known time.' |
| 39. * | 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, |
| 40. * | excepting those Thy servants among them that are devoted. |
| 41. * | Said He, 'This is for Me a straight path: |
| 42. * | over My servants thou shalt have no authority, except those that follow thee, |
| 43. * | being perverse; Gehenna shall be their promised land all together. |
| 44. * | Seven gates it has, and unto each gate a set portion of them belongs.' |
| 45. * | But the godfearing shall be amidst gardens and fountains: |
| 46. * | 'Enter you them, in peace and security!' |
| 47. * | We shall strip away all rancour that is in their breasts; as brothers they shall be upon couches set face to face; |
| 48. * | no fatigue there shall smite them, neither shall they ever be driven forth from there. |
| 49. * | Tell My servants I am the All-forgiving, the All-compassionate, |
| 50. * | and that My chastisement is the painful chastisement. |
| 51. * | And tell them of the guests of Abraham, |
| 52. * | when they entered unto him, saying, 'Peace!' He said, 'Behold, we are afraid of you.' |
| 53. * | They said, 'Be not afraid; behold, we give thee good tidings of a cunning boy.' |
| 54. * | He said, 'What, do you give me good tidings, though old age has smitten me? Of what do you |
| 55. * | give me good tidings?' They said, 'We give thee good tidings of truth. Be not of those that despair.' |
| 56. * | He said, 'And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord, excepting those that are astray?' |
| 57. * | He said, 'And what is your business, envoys?' |
| 58. * | They said, 'We have been sent unto a people of sinners, |
| 59. * | excepting the folk of Lot; them we shall deliver |
| 60. * | all together, excepting his wife -- we have decreed, she shall surely be of those that tarry.' |
| 61. * | So, when the envoys came to the folk of Lot, |
| 62. * | he said, 'Surely you are a people unknown to me!' |
| 63. * | They said, 'Nay, but we have brought thee that concerning which they were doubting. |
| 64. * | We have come to thee with the truth, and assuredly we speak truly. |
| 65. * | 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.' |
| 66. * | And We decreed for him that commandment, that the last remnant of those should be cut off in the morning. |
| 67. * | And the people of the city came rejoicing. |
| 68. * | He said, 'These are my guests; put me not to shame, |
| 69. * | and fear God, and do not degrade me.' |
| 70. * | They said, 'Have we not forbidden thee all beings?' |
| 71. * | He said, 'These are my daughters, if you would be doing.' |
| 72. * | By thy life, they wandered blindly in their dazzlement, |
| 73. * | and the Cry seized them at the sunrise, |
| 74. * | and We turned it uppermost nethermost and rained on it stones of baked clay. |
| 75. * | Surely in that are signs for such as mark; |
| 76. * | surely it is on a way yet remaining; |
| 77. * | surely in that is a sign for believers. |
| 78. * | Certainly the dwellers in the Thicket were evildoers, |
| 79. * | and We took vengeance on them. The two of them were upon a roadway manifest. |
| 80. * | The dwellers in El-Hijr cried lies to the Envoys. |
| 81. * | We brought them. Our signs, and they turned away from them. |
| 82. * | They were hewing the mountains into houses, therein dwelling securely; |
| 83. * | and the Cry seized them in the morning; |
| 84. * | that they earned did not avail them. |
| 85. * | 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. |
| 86. * | Surely thy Lord, He is the All-creator, the All-knowing. |
| 87. * | We have given thee seven of the oft-repeated, and the mighty Koran. |
| 88. * | 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, |
| 89. * | and say, 'Surely, I am the manifest warner.' |
| 90. * | So We sent it down to the partitioners, |
| 91. * | who have broken the Koran into fragments. |
| 92. * | Now by thy Lord, We shall surely question them all together |
| 93. * | concerning that they were doing. |
| 94. * | So shout that thou art commanded and turn thou away from the idolaters. |
| 95. * | We suffice thee against the mockers, |
| 96. * | even against those who set up with God another god. Certainly they will soon know! |
| 97. * | We know indeed thy breast is straitened by the things they say. |
| 98. * | Proclaim thy Lord's praise, and be of those that bow, |
| 99. * | and serve thy Lord, until the Certain comes to thee. |