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| 1. * | Ya Sin |
| 2. * | By the Wise Koran, |
| 3. * | thou art truly among the Envoys |
| 4. * | on a straight path; |
| 5. * | the sending down of the All-mighty, the All-wise, |
| 6. * | that thou mayest warn a people whose fathers were never warned, so they are heedless. |
| 7. * | The Word has been realised against most of them, yet they do not believe. |
| 8. * | Surely We have put on their necks fetters up to the chin, so their heads are raised; |
| 9. * | and We have put before them a barrier and behind them a barrier; and We have covered them, so they do not see. |
| 10. * | Alike it is to them whether thou hast warned them or thou hast not warned them, they do not believe. |
| 11. * | Thou only warnest him who follows the Remembrance and who fears the All-merciful in the Unseen; so give him the good tidings of forgiveness and a generous wage. |
| 12. * | Surely it is We who bring the dead to life and write down what they have forwarded and what they have left behind; everything We have numbered in a clear register. |
| 13. * | Strike for them a similitude -- the inhabitants of the city, when the Envoys came to it; |
| 14. * | when We sent unto them two men, but they cried them lies, so We sent a third as reinforcement. They said, 'We are assuredly Envoys unto you. |
| 15. * | They said, 'You are naught but mortals like us; the All-merciful has not sent down anything. You are speaking only lies.' |
| 16. * | They said, 'Our Lord knows we are Envoys unto you; |
| 17. * | and it is only for us to deliver the Manifest Message.' |
| 18. * | They said, 'We augur ill of you. If you give not over, we will stone you and there shall visit you from us a painful chastisement.' |
| 19. * | They said, 'Your augury is with you; if you are reminded? But you are a prodigal people.' |
| 20. * | Then came a man from the furthest part of the city, running; he said, 'My people, follow the Envoys! |
| 21. * | Follow such as ask no wage of you, that are right-guided. |
| 22. * | And why should I not serve Him who originated me, and unto whom you shall be returned? |
| 23. * | What, shall I take, apart from Him, gods whose intercession, if the All-merciful desires affliction for me, shall not avail me anything, and who will never deliver me? |
| 24. * | Surely in that case I should be in manifest error. |
| 25. * | Behold, I believe in your Lord; therefore hear me!' |
| 26. * | It was said, 'Enter Paradise!' He said, 'Ah, would that my people had knowledge |
| 27. * | that my Lord has forgiven me and that He has placed me among the honoured.' |
| 28. * | And We sent not down upon his people, after him, any host out of heaven; neither would We send any down. |
| 29. * | It was only one Cry and lo, they were silent and still. |
| 30. * | Ah, woe for those servants! Never comes unto them a Messenger, but they mock at him. |
| 31. * | What, have they not seen how many generations We have destroyed before them, and that it is not unto them that they return? |
| 32. * | They shall every one of them be arraigned before Us. |
| 33. * | And a sign for them is the dead land, that We quickened and brought forth from it grain, whereof they eat; |
| 34. * | and We made therein gardens of palms and vines, and therein We caused fountains to gush forth, |
| 35. * | that they might eat of its fruits and their hands' labour. What, will they not be thankful? |
| 36. * | Glory be to Him, who created all the pairs of what the earth produces, and of themselves, and of what they know not. |
| 37. * | And a sign for them is the night; We strip it of the day and lo, they are in darkness. |
| 38. * | And the sun -- it runs to a fixed resting-place; that is the ordaining of the All-mighty, the All-knowing. |
| 39. * | And the moon -- We have determined it by stations, till it returns like an aged palm-bough. |
| 40. * | It behoves not the sun to overtake the moon, neither does the night outstrip the day, each swimming in a sky. |
| 41. * | And a sign for them is that We carried their seed in the laden ship, |
| 42. * | and We have created for them the like of it whereon they ride; |
| 43. * | and if We will, We drown them, then none have they to cry to, neither are they delivered, |
| 44. * | save as a mercy from Us, and enjoyment for a while. |
| 45. * | And when it is said to them, 'Fear what is before you and what is behind you; haply you will find mercy' -- |
| 46. * | yet never any sign of the signs of their Lord comes to them, but they are turning away from it. |
| 47. * | And when it is said to them, 'Expend of that God has provided you,' the unbelievers say to the believers, 'What, shall we feed such a one whom, if God willed, He would feed? You are only in manifest error!' |
| 48. * | They also say, 'When shall this promise come to pass, if you speak truly?' |
| 49. * | They are awaiting only for one Cry to seize them while they are yet disputing, |
| 50. * | then they will not be able to make any testament, nor will they return to their people. |
| 51. * | And the Trumpet shall be blown; then behold, they are sliding down from their tombs unto their Lord. |
| 52. * | They say, 'Alas for us! Who roused us out of our sleeping place? This is what the All-merciful promised, and the Envoys spoke truly.' |
| 53. * | 'It was only one Cry; then behold, they are all arraigned before Us. |
| 54. * | So today no soul shall be wronged anything, and you shall not be recompensed, except according to what you have been doing. |
| 55. * | See, the inhabitants of Paradise today are busy in their rejoicing, |
| 56. * | they and their spouses, reclining upon couches in the shade; |
| 57. * | therein they have fruits, and they have all that they call for. |
| 58. * | 'Peace!' -- such is the greeting, from a Lord All-compassionate. |
| 59. * | 'Now keep yourselves apart, you sinners, upon this day! |
| 60. * | Made I not covenant with you, Children of Adam, that you should not serve Satan -- surely he is a manifest foe to you -- |
| 61. * | and that you should serve Me? This is a straight path. |
| 62. * | He led astray many a throng of you; did you not understand? |
| 63. * | This is Gehenna, then, the same that you were promised; |
| 64. * | roast well in it today, for that you were unbelievers!' |
| 65. * | Today We set a seal on their mouths, and their hands speak to Us, and their feet bear witness as to what they have been earning. |
| 66. * | Did We will, We would have obliterated their eyes, then they would race to the path, but how would they see? |
| 67. * | Did We will, We would have changed them where they were, then they could not go on, nor could they return. |
| 68. * | And to whomsoever We give long life, We bend him over in His constitution; what, do they not understand? |
| 69. * | We have not taught him poetry; it is not seemly for him. It is only a Remembrance and a Clear Koran, |
| 70. * | that he may warn whosoever is living, and that the Word may be realized against the unbelievers. |
| 71. * | Have they not seen how that We have created for them of that Our hands wrought cattle that they own? |
| 72. * | We have subdued them to them, and some of them they ride, and some they eat; |
| 73. * | other uses also they have in them, and beverages. What, will they not be thankful? |
| 74. * | Yet they have taken, apart from God, gods; haply they might be helped. |
| 75. * | They cannot help them, though they be hosts made ready for them. |
| 76. * | So do not let their saying grieve thee; assuredly We know what they keep secret and what they publish. |
| 77. * | Has not man regarded how that We created him of a sperm-drop? Then lo, he is a manifest adversary. |
| 78. * | And he has struck for Us a similitude and forgotten his creation; he says, 'Who shall quicken the bones when they are decayed?' |
| 79. * | Say: 'He shall quicken them, who originated them the first time; He knows all creation, |
| 80. * | who has made for you out of the green tree fire and lo, from it you kindle.' |
| 81. * | Is not He, who created the heavens and earth, able to create the like of them? Yes indeed; He is the All-creator, the All-knowing. |
| 82. * | His command, when He desires a thing, is to say to it 'Be,' and it is. |
| 83. * | So glory be to Him, in whose hand is the dominion of everything, and unto whom you shall be returned. |