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| 1. * | By the angels ranged in order for Songs of Praise, |
| 2. * | And by those who repel demons, |
| 3. * | And by those who recite the Koran for warning, |
| 4. * | Truly your God is but one, |
| 5. * | Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth, and of all that is between them, and Lord of the East. |
| 6. * | We have adorned the lower heaven with the adornment of the stars. |
| 7. * | They serve also as a guard against every rebellious Satan, |
| 8. * | That they overhear not what passeth in the assembly on high, for they are darted at from every side, |
| 9. * | Driven off and consigned to a lasting torment; |
| 10. * | While, if one steal a word by stealth, a glistening flame pursueth him. |
| 11. * | Ask the Meccans then, Are they, or the angels whom we have made, the stronger creation? Aye, of coarse clay have we created them. |
| 12. * | But while thou marvellest they mock; |
| 13. * | When they are warned, no warning do they take; |
| 14. * | And when they see a sign, they fall to mocking, |
| 15. * | And say, "This is no other than clear sorcery: |
| 16. * | What! when dead, and turned to dust and bones, shall we indeed be raised? |
| 17. * | Our sires also of olden times?" |
| 18. * | Say, Yes; and ye shall be covered with disgrace. |
| 19. * | For, one blast only, and lo! they shall gaze around them, |
| 20. * | And shall say, "Oh! woe to us! this is the day of reckoning; |
| 21. * | This is the day of decision which ye gainsaid as an untruth." |
| 22. * | Gather together those who have acted unjustly, and their consorts, and the gods whom they adored |
| 23. * | Beside God; and guide them to the road for Hell. |
| 24. * | Set them forth: they shall be questioned. |
| 25. * | How now, that ye help not one another? |
| 26. * | But on this day they shall submit themselves to God, |
| 27. * | And shall address one another with mutual reproaches. |
| 28. * | They shall say, "In sooth, ye came to us in well-omened sort:" |
| 29. * | But they will answer, "Nay, it was ye who would not believe; |
| 30. * | and we had no power whatever over you. Nay, ye were people given to transgress; |
| 31. * | Just, therefore, is the doom which our Lord hath passed upon us. We shall surely taste it: |
| 32. * | We made you err, for we had erred ourselves." |
| 33. * | Partners therefore shall they be in punishment on that day. |
| 34. * | Truly, thus will we deal with the wicked, |
| 35. * | Because when it was said to them, There is no God but God, they swelled with pride, |
| 36. * | And said, "Shall we then abandon our gods for a crazed poet?" |
| 37. * | Nay, he cometh with truth and confirmeth the Sent Ones of old. |
| 38. * | Ye shall surely taste the painful punishment, |
| 39. * | And ye shall not be rewarded but as ye have wrought, |
| 40. * | Save the sincere servants of God! |
| 41. * | A stated banquet shall they have |
| 42. * | Of fruits; and honoured shall they be |
| 43. * | In the gardens of delight, |
| 44. * | Upon couches face to face. |
| 45. * | A cup shall be borne round among them from a fountain, |
| 46. * | Limpid, delicious to those who drink; |
| 47. * | It shall not oppress the sense, nor shall they therewith be drunken. |
| 48. * | And with them are the large-eyed ones with modest refraining glances, |
| 49. * | fair like the sheltered egg. |
| 50. * | And they shall address one another with mutual questions. |
| 51. * | Saith one of them, "I truly had a bosom friend, |
| 52. * | Who said, 'Art thou of those who credit it? |
| 53. * | What! when we shall have died, and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be judged?"' |
| 54. * | He shall say to those around him, "Will ye look?" |
| 55. * | And he shall look and see him in the midst of Hell. |
| 56. * | And he shall say to him, "By God, thou hadst almost caused me to perish; |
| 57. * | And, but for the favour of my Lord, I had surely been of those who have been brought with thee into torment." |
| 58. * | But do we not die, say the blessed, |
| 59. * | Any other than our first death? and have we escaped the torment? |
| 60. * | This truly is the great felicity! |
| 61. * | For the like of this should the travailers travail! |
| 62. * | Is this the better repast or the tree Ez-zakkoum? |
| 63. * | Verily, we have made it for a subject of discord to the wicked. |
| 64. * | It is a tree which cometh up from the bottom of hell; |
| 65. * | Its fruits is as it were the heads of Satans; |
| 66. * | And, lo! the damned shall surely eat of it and fill their bellies with it: |
| 67. * | Then shall they have, thereon, a mixture of boiling water: |
| 68. * | Then shall they return to hell. |
| 69. * | They found their fathers erring, |
| 70. * | And they hastened on in their footsteps. |
| 71. * | Also before them the greater number of the ancients had erred. |
| 72. * | Though we had sent warners among them. |
| 73. * | But see what was the end of these warned ones, |
| 74. * | Except of God's true servants. |
| 75. * | Noah called on us of old, and right prompt were we to hear him, |
| 76. * | And we saved him and his family out of the great distress, |
| 77. * | And we made his offspring the survivors; |
| 78. * | And we left for him with posterity, |
| 79. * | Peace be on Noah throughout the worlds! |
| 80. * | Thus do we reward the well-doers, |
| 81. * | For he was one of our believing servants;- |
| 82. * | And the rest we drowned. |
| 83. * | And truly, of his faith was Abraham, |
| 84. * | When he brought to his Lord a perfect heart, |
| 85. * | When he said to his father and to his people, "What is this ye worship? |
| 86. * | Prefer ye with falsehood gods to God? |
| 87. * | And what deem ye of the Lord of the worlds?" |
| 88. * | So gazing he gazed towards the stars, |
| 89. * | And said, "In sooth I am ill: |
| 90. * | And they turned their back on him and departed. |
| 91. * | He went aside to their gods and said, "Do ye not eat? |
| 92. * | What aileth you that ye do not speak?" |
| 93. * | He broke out upon them, with the right hand striking: |
| 94. * | When his tribesmen came back to him with hasty steps |
| 95. * | He said, "Worship ye what ye carve, |
| 96. * | When God hath created you, and that ye make?" |
| 97. * | They said, "Build up a pyre for him and cast him into the glowing flame." |
| 98. * | Fain would they plot against him, but we brought them low. |
| 99. * | And he said, "Verily, I repair to my Lord who will guide me: |
| 100. * | O Lord give me a son, of the righteous." |
| 101. * | We announced to him a youth of meekness. |
| 102. * | And when he became a full-grown youth, His father said to him, "My son, I have seen in a dream that I should sacrifice thee; therefore, consider what thou seest right." He said, "My father, do what thou art bidden; of the patient, if God please, shalt thou |
| 103. * | And when they had surrendered them to the will of God, he laid him down upon his forehead: |
| 104. * | We cried unto him, "O Abraham! |
| 105. * | Now hast thou satisfied the vision." See how we recompense the righteous. |
| 106. * | This was indeed a decisive test. |
| 107. * | And we ransomed his son with a costly victim, |
| 108. * | And we left this for him among posterity, |
| 109. * | PEACE BE ON ABRAHAM! |
| 110. * | Thus do we reward the well-doers, |
| 111. * | For he was of our believing servants. |
| 112. * | And we announced Isaac to him-a righteous Prophet- |
| 113. * | And on him and on Isaac we bestowed our blessing. And among their offspring were well-doers, and others, to their own hurt undoubted sinners. |
| 114. * | And of old, to Moses and to Aaron shewed we favours: |
| 115. * | And both of them, and their people, we rescued from the great distress: |
| 116. * | And we succoured them, and they became the conquerors: |
| 117. * | And we gave them (Moses and Aaron) each the lucid book: |
| 118. * | And we guided them each into the right way: |
| 119. * | And we left this for each among posterity, |
| 120. * | PEACE BE ON MOSES AND AARON. |
| 121. * | Thus do we reward the well-doers, |
| 122. * | For they were two of our believing servants. |
| 123. * | And Elias truly was of our Sent Ones, |
| 124. * | When he said to his people, "Fear ye not God? |
| 125. * | Invoke ye Baal and forsake ye the most skilful Creator? |
| 126. * | God is your Lord, and the Lord of your sires of old?" |
| 127. * | But they treated him as a liar, and shall therefore be consigned to punishment, |
| 128. * | Except God's faithful servants. |
| 129. * | And we left this for him among posterity, |
| 130. * | PEACE BE ON ELIASIN! |
| 131. * | Thus do we reward the well-doers, |
| 132. * | For he was one of our believing servants. |
| 133. * | And Lot truly was of our Sent Ones, |
| 134. * | When we rescued him and all his family, |
| 135. * | Save an aged woman among those who tarried. |
| 136. * | Afterward we destroyed the others. |
| 137. * | And ye indeed pass by their ruined dwellings at morn |
| 138. * | And night: will ye not then reflect? |
| 139. * | Jonas, too, was one of the Apostles, |
| 140. * | When he fled unto the laden ship, |
| 141. * | And lots were cast, and he was doomed, |
| 142. * | And the fish swallowed him, for he was blameworthy. |
| 143. * | But had he not been of those who praise Us, |
| 144. * | In its belly had he surely remained, till the day of resurrection. |
| 145. * | And we cast him on the bare shore-and he was sick;- |
| 146. * | And we caused a gourd-plant to grow up over him, |
| 147. * | And we sent him to a hundred thousand persons, or even more, |
| 148. * | And because they believed, we continued their enjoyments for a season. |
| 149. * | Inquire then of the Meccans whether thy Lord hath daughters, and they, sons? |
| 150. * | Have we created the angels females? and did they witness it? |
| 151. * | Is it not a falsehood of their own devising, when they say, |
| 152. * | God hath begotten? They are indeed liars. |
| 153. * | Would he have preferred daughters to sons? |
| 154. * | What reason have ye for thus judging? |
| 155. * | Will ye not then receive this warning? |
| 156. * | Have ye a clear proof for them? |
| 157. * | Produce your Book if ye speak truth. |
| 158. * | And they make him to be of kin with the Djinn: but the Djinn have long known that these idolaters shall be brought up before God. |
| 159. * | Far be the glory of God from what they impute to him. |
| 160. * | His faithful servants do not thus. |
| 161. * | Moreover, ye and what ye worship |
| 162. * | Shall not stir up any against God, |
| 163. * | Save him who shall burn in Hell. |
| 164. * | And verily each one of us hath his appointed place, |
| 165. * | And we range ourselves in order, |
| 166. * | And we celebrate His praises. |
| 167. * | And if those infidels say, |
| 168. * | Had we a revelation transmitted to us from those of old, |
| 169. * | We had surely been God's faithful servants. |
| 170. * | Yet they believe not the Koran. But they shall know its truth at last. |
| 171. * | Our word came of old to our servants the apostles, |
| 172. * | That they should surely be the succoured, |
| 173. * | And that our armies should procure the victory for them. |
| 174. * | Turn aside therefore from them for a time, |
| 175. * | And behold them, for they too shall in the end behold their doom. |
| 176. * | Would they then hasten our vengeance? |
| 177. * | But when it shall come down into their courts, an evil morning shall it be to those who have had their warning. |
| 178. * | Turn aside from them therefore for a time. |
| 179. * | And behold; for they too shall in the end behold their doom. |
| 180. * | Far be the glory of thy Lord, the Lord of all greatness, from what they impute to him, |
| 181. * | And peace be on his Apostles! |
| 182. * | And praise be to God the Lord of the worlds. |