* | quran | * | 26. ash-shu`ara'. the poets      <   > 

arberry
 
1.  *     Ta Sin Mim
 
2.  *     Those are the signs of the Manifest Book.
 
3.  *     Perchance thou consumest thyself that they are not believers.
 
4.  *     If We will, We shall send down on them out of heaven a sign, so their necks will stay humbled to it.
 
5.  *     But never fresh remembrance comes to them from the All-merciful, except they turn away from it.
 
6.  *     So they have cried lies; therefore assuredly tidings will come to them of that they mocked at.
 
7.  *     What, have they not regarded the earth, how many therein We have caused to grow of every generous kind?
 
8.  *     Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers.
 
9.  *     Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate.
 
10.  *     And when thy Lord called to Moses, 'Go to the people of the evildoers,
 
11.  *     the people of Pharaoh; will they not be godfearing?'
 
12.  *     He said, 'My Lord, I fear they will cry me lies,
 
13.  *     and my breast will be straitened, and my tongue will not be loosed; so send to Aaron.
 
14.  *     They also have a sin against me, and I fear they will slay me.'
 
15.  *     Said He, 'No indeed; but go, both of you, with Our signs, and We assuredly shall be with you, listening.
 
16.  *     So go you to Pharaoh, and say, "Verily, I am the Messenger of the Lord of all Being;
 
17.  *     so send forth with us the Children of Israel."
 
18.  *     He said, 'Did we not raise thee amongst us as a child? Didst thou not tarry among us years of thy life?
 
19.  *     And thou didst the deed thou didst, being one of the ungrateful!'
 
20.  *     Said he, 'Indeed I did it then, being one of those that stray;
 
21.  *     so I fled from you, fearing you. But my Lord gave me Judgment and made me one of the Envoys.
 
22.  *     That is a blessing thou reproachest me with, having enslaved the Children of Israel.'
 
23.  *     Pharaoh said, 'And what is the Lord of all Being?'
 
24.  *     He said, 'The Lord of the heavens and earth, and what between them is, if you have faith.'
 
25.  *     Said he to those about him, 'Do you not hear?'
 
26.  *     He said, 'Your Lord and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients.'
 
27.  *     Said he, 'Surely your Messenger who was sent to you is possessed!'
 
28.  *     He said, 'The Lord of the East and West, and what between them is, if you have understanding,'
 
29.  *     Said he, 'If thou takest a god other than me, I shall surely make thee one of the imprisoned.'
 
30.  *     He said, 'What, even though I brought thee something so manifest?'
 
31.  *     Said he, 'Bring it then, if thou art of the truthful.'
 
32.  *     So he cast his staff, and behold, it was a serpent manifest.
 
33.  *     And he drew forth his hand, and lo, it was white to the beholders.
 
34.  *     Said he to the Council about him, 'Surely this man is a cunning sorcerer
 
35.  *     who desires to expel you from your land by his sorcery; what do you command?'
 
36.  *     They said, 'Put him and his brother off a while, and send among the cities musterers,
 
37.  *     to bring thee every cunning sorcerer.
 
38.  *     So the sorcerers were assembled for the appointed time of a fixed day.
 
39.  *     The people were asked, 'Will you assemble?
 
40.  *     Haply we shall follow the sorcerers if it should be they are the victors.'
 
41.  *     Then, when the sorcerers came, they said to Pharaoh, 'Shall we indeed have a wage, if we should be the victors?'
 
42.  *     He said, 'Yes indeed; and you shall then be among the near-stationed.'
 
43.  *     Moses said to them, 'Cast you down what you will cast.'
 
44.  *     So they cast their ropes and their staffs, and said, 'By the might of Pharaoh we shall be the victors.'
 
45.  *     Then Moses cast his staff and lo, it forthwith swallowed up their lying invention;
 
46.  *     so the sorcerers were cast down, bowing themselves.
 
47.  *     They said, 'We believe in the Lord of all Being,
 
48.  *     the Lord of Moses and Aaron.'
 
49.  *     Said Pharaoh, 'You have believed him before I gave you leave. Why, he is the chief of you, the same that taught you sorcery; now you shall know! I shall assuredly cut off alternately your hands and feet, then I shall crucify you all together.'
 
50.  *     They said, 'There is no harm; surely unto our Lord we are turning.
 
51.  *     We are eager that our Lord should forgive us our offences, for that we are the first of the believers.'
 
52.  *     Also We revealed unto Moses, 'Go with My servants by night; surely you will be followed.'
 
53.  *     Then Pharaoh sent among the cities musterers:
 
54.  *     'Behold, these are a small troop,
 
55.  *     and indeed they are enraging us;
 
56.  *     and we are a host on our guard.'
 
57.  *     So We expelled them from gardens and fountains,
 
58.  *     and treasures and a noble station;
 
59.  *     even so, and We bequeathed them upon the Children of Israel.
 
60.  *     Then they followed them at the sunrise;
 
61.  *     and, when the two hosts sighted each other, the companions of Moses said, 'We are overtaken!'
 
62.  *     Said he, 'No indeed; surely my Lord is with me; He will guide me.'
 
63.  *     Then We revealed to Moses, 'Strike with thy staff the sea'; and it clave, and each part was as a mighty mount.
 
64.  *     And there We brought the others on,
 
65.  *     and We delivered Moses and those with him all together;
 
66.  *     then We drowned the others.
 
67.  *     Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers.
 
68.  *     Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate.
 
69.  *     And recite to them the tiding of Abraham
 
70.  *     when he said to his father and his people, 'What do you serve?'
 
71.  *     They said, 'We serve idols, and continue cleaving to them.
 
72.  *     He said, 'Do they hear you when you call,
 
73.  *     or do they profit you, or harm?'
 
74.  *     They said, 'Nay, but we found our fathers so doing.'
 
75.  *     He said, 'And have you considered what you have been serving,
 
76.  *     you and your fathers, the elders?
 
77.  *     They are an enemy to me, except the Lord of all Being
 
78.  *     who created me, and Himself guides me,
 
79.  *     and Himself gives me to eat and drink,
 
80.  *     and, whenever I am sick, heals me,
 
81.  *     who makes me to die, then gives me life,
 
82.  *     and who I am eager shall forgive me my offence on the Day of Doom.
 
83.  *     My Lord, give me Judgment, and join me with the righteous,
 
84.  *     and appoint me a tongue of truthfulness among the others.
 
85.  *     Make me one of the inheritors of the Garden of Bliss
 
86.  *     and forgive my father, for he is one of those astray.
 
87.  *     Degrade me not upon the day when they are raised up,
 
88.  *     the day when neither wealth nor sons shall profit
 
89.  *     except for him who comes to God with a pure heart.
 
90.  *     And Paradise shall be brought forward for the godfearing,
 
91.  *     and Hell advanced for the perverse.
 
92.  *     It shall be said to them, 'Where is that you were serving
 
93.  *     apart from God? Do they help you or help themselves?'
 
94.  *     Then they shall be pitched into it, they and the perverse
 
95.  *     and the hosts of Iblis, all together.
 
96.  *     They shall say, as they dispute there one with another,
 
97.  *     'By God, we were certainly in manifest error
 
98.  *     when we made you equal with the Lord of all Being.
 
99.  *     It was naught but the sinners that led us astray;
 
100.  *     so now we have no intercessors,
 
101.  *     no loyal friend.
 
102.  *     O that we might return again, and be among the believers!'
 
103.  *     Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers.
 
104.  *     Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate.
 
105.  *     The people of Noah cried lies to the Envoys
 
106.  *     when their brother Noah said to them, 'Will you not be godfearing?
 
107.  *     I am for you a faithful Messenger,
 
108.  *     so serve you God, and obey you me.
 
109.  *     I ask of you no wage for this; my wage falls only upon the Lord of all Being;
 
110.  *     so fear you God, and obey you me.'
 
111.  *     They said, 'Shall we believe thee, whom the vilest follow?'
 
112.  *     He said, 'What knowledge have I of that they have been doing?
 
113.  *     Their account falls only upon my Lord, were you but aware.
 
114.  *     I would not drive away the believers;
 
115.  *     'I am naught but a plain warner.'
 
116.  *     They said, 'If thou givest not over, Noah, thou shalt assuredly be one of the stoned.'
 
117.  *     He said, 'My Lord, my people have cried me lies,
 
118.  *     so give true deliverance between me and them, and deliver me and the believers that are with me.
 
119.  *     So We delivered him, and those with him, in the laden ship,
 
120.  *     then afterwards We drowned the rest.
 
121.  *     Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers.
 
122.  *     Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate.
 
123.  *     Ad cried lies to the Envoys
 
124.  *     when their brother Hood said to them, 'Will you not be godfearing?
 
125.  *     I am for you a faithful Messenger,
 
126.  *     so fear you God, and obey you me.
 
127.  *     I ask of you no wage for this; my wage falls only upon the Lord of all Being.
 
128.  *     What, do you build on every prominence a sign, sporting,
 
129.  *     and do you take to you castles, haply to dwell forever?
 
130.  *     When you assault, you assault like tyrants!
 
131.  *     So fear you God, and obey you me;
 
132.  *     and fear Him who has succoured you with what you know,
 
133.  *     succoured you with flocks and sons,
 
134.  *     gardens and fountains.
 
135.  *     'Indeed, I fear for you the chastisement of a dreadful day.'
 
136.  *     They said, 'Alike it is to us, whether thou admonishest, or art not one of the admonishers;
 
137.  *     this is nothing but the habit of the ancients,
 
138.  *     and we shall not be chastised.'
 
139.  *     So they cried him lies; then We destroyed them. Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers.
 
140.  *     Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate.
 
141.  *     Thamood cried lies to the Envoys
 
142.  *     when their brother Salih said to them, 'Will you not be godfearing?
 
143.  *     I am for you a faithful Messenger,
 
144.  *     so fear you God, and obey you me.'
 
145.  *     'I ask of you no wage for this; my wage falls only upon the Lord of all Being.
 
146.  *     Will you be left secure in this here,
 
147.  *     among gardens and fountains,
 
148.  *     sown fields, and palms with slender spathes?
 
149.  *     Will you still skilfully hew houses out of the mountains?
 
150.  *     So fear you God, and obey you me;
 
151.  *     and obey not the commandment of the prodigal
 
152.  *     who do corruption in the earth, and set not things aright.'
 
153.  *     They said, 'Thou art merely one of those that are bewitched;
 
154.  *     thou art naught but a mortal, like us; then produce a sign, if thou art one of the truthful.'
 
155.  *     He said, 'This is a she-camel; to her a draught and to you a draught, on a day appointed,
 
156.  *     and do not touch her with malice so that there seize you the chastisement of a dreadful day.'
 
157.  *     But they hamstrung her, and in the morning they were remorseful,
 
158.  *     and the chastisement seized them. Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers.
 
159.  *     Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate.
 
160.  *     The people of Lot cried lies to the Envoys
 
161.  *     when their brother Lot said to them, 'Will you not be godfearing?
 
162.  *     I am for you a faithful Messenger,
 
163.  *     so fear you God, and obey you me.
 
164.  *     I ask of you no wage for this; my wage falls only upon the Lord of all Being.
 
165.  *     What, do you come to male beings,
 
166.  *     leaving your wives that your Lord created for you? Nay, but you are a people of transgressors.
 
167.  *     They said, 'If thou givest not over, Lot, thou shalt assuredly be one of the expelled.'
 
168.  *     He said, 'Truly I am a detester of what you do.
 
169.  *     My Lord, deliver me and my people from that they do.'
 
170.  *     So We delivered him and his people all together,
 
171.  *     save an old woman among those that tarried;
 
172.  *     then We destroyed the others,
 
173.  *     and We rained on them a rain; and evil is the rain of them that are warned.
 
174.  *     Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers.
 
175.  *     Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate.
 
176.  *     The men of the Thicket cried lies to the Envoys
 
177.  *     when Shuaib said to them, 'Will you not be godfearing?
 
178.  *     I am for you a faithful Messenger, so fear you God, and obey you me.
 
179.  *     I ask of you no wage for this;
 
180.  *     my wage falls only upon the Lord of all Being.
 
181.  *     Fill up the measure, and be not cheaters,
 
182.  *     and weigh with the straight balance,
 
183.  *     and diminish not the goods of the people, and do not mischief in the earth, working corruption.
 
184.  *     Fear Him who created you, and the generations of the ancients.'
 
185.  *     They said, 'Thou art merely one of those that are bewitched;
 
186.  *     thou art naught but a mortal, like us; indeed, we think that thou art one of the liars.
 
187.  *     Then drop down on us lumps from heaven, if thou art one of the truthful.'
 
188.  *     He said, 'My Lord knows very well what you are doing.'
 
189.  *     But they cried him lies; then there seized them the chastisement of the Day of Shadow; assuredly it was the chastisement of a dreadful day.
 
190.  *     Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers.
 
191.  *     Surely thy Lord, He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate.
 
192.  *     Truly it is the revelation of the Lord of all Being,
 
193.  *     brought down by the Faithful Spirit
 
194.  *     upon thy heart, that thou mayest be one of the warners,
 
195.  *     in a clear, Arabic tongue.
 
196.  *     Truly it is in the Scriptures of the ancients.
 
197.  *     Was it not a sign for them, that it is known to the learned of the Children of Israel?
 
198.  *     If We had sent it down on a barbarian
 
199.  *     and he had recited it to them, they would not have believed in it.
 
200.  *     Even so We have caused it to enter into the hearts of the sinners,
 
201.  *     who will not believe in it, until they see the painful chastisement
 
202.  *     so that it will come upon them suddenly, while they are not aware,
 
203.  *     and they will say, 'Shall we be respited?'
 
204.  *     What, do they seek to hasten Our chastisement?
 
205.  *     What thinkest thou? If We give them enjoyment of days for many years,
 
206.  *     then there comes on them that they were promised,
 
207.  *     what will it then avail them, the enjoyment of days they were given?
 
208.  *     Never a city We destroyed, but it had warners
 
209.  *     for a reminder; and never did We wrong.
 
210.  *     Not by the Satans has it been brought down;
 
211.  *     it behoves them not, neither are they able.
 
212.  *     Truly, they are expelled from hearing.
 
213.  *     So call thou not upon another god with God, lest thou shouldst be one of those that are chastised.
 
214.  *     And warn thy clan, thy nearest kin.
 
215.  *     Lower thy wing to those who follow thee, being believers;
 
216.  *     then, if they disobey thee, say, 'I am quit of that you do.'
 
217.  *     Put thy trust in the All-mighty, the All-compassionate
 
218.  *     who sees thee when thou standest
 
219.  *     and when thou turnest about among those who bow.
 
220.  *     Surely He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing.
 
221.  *     Shall I tell you on whom the Satans come down?
 
222.  *     They come down on every guilty impostor.
 
223.  *     They give ear, but most of them are liars.
 
224.  *     And the poets -- the perverse follow them;
 
225.  *     hast thou not seen how they wander in every valley
 
226.  *     and how they say that which they do not?
 
227.  *     Save those that believe, and do righteous deeds, and remember God oft, and help themselves after being wronged; and those who do wrong shall surely know by what overturning they will he overturned.