| m_ali | |
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| 1. * | O man, |
| 2. * | By the Qur’an, full of wisdom! |
| 3. * | Surely thou art one of the messengers, |
| 4. * | On a right way. |
| 5. * | A revelation of the Mighty, |
| 6. * | That thou mayest warn a people whose fathers were not warned, so they are heedless. |
| 7. * | The word has indeed proved true of most of them, so they believe not. |
| 8. * | Surely We have placed on their necks chains reaching up to the chins, so they have their heads raised aloft. |
| 9. * | And We have set a barrier before them and a barrier behind them, thus We have covered them, so that they see not. |
| 10. * | And it is alike to them whether thou warn them or warn them not -- they believe not. |
| 11. * | Thou canst warn him only who follows the Reminder and fears the Beneficent in secret; so give him good news of forgiveness and a generous reward. |
| 12. * | Surely We give life to the dead, and We write down that which they send before and their footprints, and We record everything in a clear writing. |
| 13. * | And set out to them a parable of the people of the town, when apostles came to it. |
| 14. * | When We sent to them two, they rejected them both; then We strengthened (them) with a third, so they said: Surely we are sent to you. |
| 15. * | They said: You are only mortals like ourselves, nor has the Beneficent revealed anything -- you only lie. |
| 16. * | They said: Our Lord knows that we are surely sent to you. |
| 17. * | And our duty is only a clear deliverance (of the message). |
| 18. * | They said: Surely we augur evil from you. If you desist not, we will surely stone you, and a painful chastisement from us will certainly afflict you. |
| 19. * | They said: Your evil fortune is with you. What! If you are reminded! Nay, you are an extravagant people. |
| 20. * | And from the remote part of the city there came a man running. He said: O my people, follow the apostles. |
| 21. * | Follow him who asks of you no reward, and they are on the right course. |
| 22. * | And what reason have I that I should not serve Him Who created me and to Whom you will be brought back. |
| 23. * | Shall I take besides Him gods whose intercession, if the Beneficent should desire to afflict me with harm, will avail me naught, nor can they deliver me? |
| 24. * | Then I shall surely be in clear error. |
| 25. * | Surely I believe in your Lord, so hear me. |
| 26. * | It was said: Enter the Garden. He said: Would that my people knew, |
| 27. * | How my Lord has forgiven me and made me of the honoured ones! |
| 28. * | And We sent not down upon his people after him any host from heaven, nor do We ever send. |
| 29. * | It was naught but a single cry, and lo! they were still. |
| 30. * | Alas for the servants! Never does a messenger come to them but they mock him. |
| 31. * | See they not how many generations We destroyed before them, that they return not to them? |
| 32. * | And all -- surely all -- will be brought before Us. |
| 33. * | And a sign to them is the dead earth: We give life to it and bring forth from it grain so they eat of it. |
| 34. * | And We make therein gardens of date-palms and grapes and We make springs to flow forth therein, |
| 35. * | That they may eat of the fruit thereof, and their hands made it not. Will they not then give thanks? |
| 36. * | Glory be to Him Who created pairs of all things, of what the earth grows, and of their kind and of what they know not! |
| 37. * | And a sign to them is the night: We draw forth from it the day, then lo! they are in darkness; |
| 38. * | And the sun moves on to its destination. That is the ordinance of the Mighty, the Knower. |
| 39. * | And the moon, We have ordained for it stages till it becomes again as an old dry palm-branch. |
| 40. * | Neither is it for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day. And all float on in an orbit. |
| 41. * | And a sign to them is that We bear their offspring in the laden ship. |
| 42. * | And We have created for them the like thereof, whereon they ride. |
| 43. * | And if We please, We may drown them, then there is no succour for them, nor can they be rescued -- |
| 44. * | But by mercy from Us and for enjoyment till a time. |
| 45. * | And when it is said to them: Guard against that which is before you and that which is behind you, that mercy may be shown to you. |
| 46. * | And there comes to them no message of the messages of their Lord but they turn away from it. |
| 47. * | And when it is said to them: Spend out of that which Allah has given you, those who disbelieve say to those who believe: Shall we feed him whom, if Allah please, He could feed? You are in naught but clear error. |
| 48. * | And they say: When will this promise come to pass, if you are truthful? |
| 49. * | They await but a single cry, which will overtake them while they contend. |
| 50. * | So they will not be able to make a bequest, nor will they return to their families. |
| 51. * | And the trumpet is blown, when lo! from their graves they will hasten on to their Lord. |
| 52. * | They will say: O woe to us! Who has raised us up from our sleeping-place? This is what the Beneficent promised and the messengers told the truth. |
| 53. * | It is but a single cry, when lo! they are all brought before Us. |
| 54. * | So this day no soul is wronged in aught; and you are not rewarded aught but for what you did. |
| 55. * | Surely the owners of the Garden are on that day in a happy occupation. |
| 56. * | They and their wives are in shades, reclining on raised couches. |
| 57. * | They have fruits therein, and they have whatever they desire. |
| 58. * | Peace! A word from a Merciful Lord. |
| 59. * | And withdraw to-day, O guilty ones! |
| 60. * | Did I not charge you, O children of Adam, that you serve not the devil? Surely he is your open enemy. |
| 61. * | And that you serve Me. This is the right way. |
| 62. * | And certainly he led astray numerous people from among you. Could you not then understand? |
| 63. * | This is the hell which you were promised. |
| 64. * | Enter it this day because you disbelieved. |
| 65. * | That day We shall seal their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will bear witness as to what they earned. |
| 66. * | And if We pleased, We would put out their eyes, then they would strive to get first to the way, but how should they see? |
| 67. * | And if We pleased, We would transform them in their place, then they would not be able to go on, or turn back. |
| 68. * | And whomsoever We cause to live long, We reduce to an object state in creation. Do they not understand? |
| 69. * | And We have not taught him poetry, nor is it meet for him. This is naught but a Reminder and a plain Qur’an, |
| 70. * | To warn him who would have life, and (that) the word may prove true against the disbelievers. |
| 71. * | See they not that We have created cattle for them, out of what Our hands have wrought, so they are their masters? |
| 72. * | And We have subjected them to them, so some of them they ride, and some they eat. |
| 73. * | And therein they have advantages and drinks. Will they not then give thanks? |
| 74. * | And they take gods besides Allah and they may be helped. |
| 75. * | They are not able to help them, and they are a host brought up before them. |
| 76. * | So let not their speech grieve thee. Surely We know what they do in secret and what they do openly. |
| 77. * | Does not man see that We have created him from the small life-germ? Then lo! he is an open disputant. |
| 78. * | And he strikes out a likeness for Us and forgets his own creation. Says he: Who will give life to bones, when they are rotten? |
| 79. * | Say: He will give life to them, Who brought them into existence at first, and He is Knower of all creation, |
| 80. * | Who produced fire for you out of the green tree, so that with it you kindle. |
| 81. * | Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them? Yea! And He is the Creator (of all), the Knower. |
| 82. * | His command, when He intends anything, is only to say to it, Be, and it is. |
| 83. * | So glory be to Him in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things! and to Him you will be returned. |