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| 1. * | ELIF. LAM. RA. These are the signs of the Book, and of a lucid recital [Koran]. |
| 2. * | Many a time will the infidels wish that they had been Muslims. |
| 3. * | Let them feast and enjoy themselves, and let hope beguile them: but they shall know the truth at last. |
| 4. * | We never destroyed a city whose term was not perfixed: |
| 5. * | No people can forestall or retard its destiny. |
| 6. * | They say: "O thou to whom the warning hath been sent down, thou art surely possessed by a djinn: |
| 7. * | Wouldst thou not have come to us with the angels, if thou wert of those who assert the truth?" |
| 8. * | We will not send down the angels without due cause. The Infidels would not in that case have been respited. |
| 9. * | Verily, We have sent down the warning, and verily, We will be its guardian; |
| 10. * | And already have We sent Apostles, before thee, among the sects of the ancients; |
| 11. * | But never came Apostles to them whom they did not deride. |
| 12. * | In like manner will We put it into the hearts of the sinners of Mecca to do the same: |
| 13. * | They will not believe on him though the example of those of old hath gone before. |
| 14. * | Even were We to open above them a gate in Heaven, yet all the while they were mounting up to it, |
| 15. * | They would surely say: It is only that our eyes are drunken: nay, we are a people enchanted. |
| 16. * | We have set the signs of the zodiac in the Heavens, and adorned and decked them forth for the beholders, |
| 17. * | And We guard them from every stoned Satan, |
| 18. * | Save such as steal a hearing: and him doth a visible flame pursue. |
| 19. * | And the Earth have We spread forth, and thrown thereon the mountains, and caused everything to spring forth in it in balanced measure: |
| 20. * | And We have provided therein sustenance for you, and for the creatures which not ye sustain: |
| 21. * | And no one thing is there, but with Us are its storehouses; and We send it not down but in settled measure: |
| 22. * | And We send forth the fertilising winds, and cause the rain to come down from the heaven, and give you to drink of it; and it is not ye who are its storers: |
| 23. * | And We cause to live and We cause to die, and We are the heir of all things: |
| 24. * | We know those of you who flourish first and We know those who come later: |
| 25. * | And truly thy Lord will gather them together again, for He is Wise, Knowing. |
| 26. * | We created man of dried clay, of dark loam moulded; |
| 27. * | And the djinn had We before created of subtle fire. |
| 28. * | Remember when thy Lord said to the Angels, "I create man of dried clay, of dark loam moulded: |
| 29. * | And when I shall have fashioned him and breathed of my spirit into him, then fall ye down and worship him." |
| 30. * | And the Angels bowed down in worship, all of them, all together, |
| 31. * | Save Eblis: he refused to be with those who bowed in worship. |
| 32. * | O Eblis, said God, "wherefore art thou not with those who bow down in worship?" |
| 33. * | He said, "It beseemeth not me to bow in worship to man whom thou hast created of clay, of moulded loam." |
| 34. * | He said, "Begone then hence; thou art a stoned one, |
| 35. * | And the curse shall be on thee till the day of reckoning." |
| 36. * | He said, "O my Lord! respite me till the day when man shall be raised from the dead." |
| 37. * | He said, "One then of the respited shalt thou be |
| 38. * | Till the day of the predestined time." |
| 39. * | He said, "O my Lord! because thou hast beguiled me, I will surely make all fair seeming to them on the earth; I will surely beguile them all; |
| 40. * | Except such of them as shall be thy sincere servants." |
| 41. * | He said, "This is the right way with me; |
| 42. * | For over none of my servants shalt thou have power, save those beguiled ones who shall follow thee." |
| 43. * | And verily, Hell is the promise for them one and all. |
| 44. * | It hath seven Portals; at each Portal is a separate band of them; |
| 45. * | But 'mid gardens and fountains shall the pious dwell: |
| 46. * | Enter ye therein in peace, secure- |
| 47. * | And all rancour will We remove from their bosoms: they shall sit as brethren, face to face, on couches: |
| 48. * | Therein no weariness shall reach them, nor forth from it shall they be cast for ever. |
| 49. * | Announce to my servants that I am the Gracious, the Merciful, |
| 50. * | And that my chastisement is the grievous chastisement. |
| 51. * | And tell them of Abraham's guests. |
| 52. * | When they entered in unto him, and said, "Peace." Verily, said he, "We fear you." |
| 53. * | They said, "Fear not, for of a sage son we bring thee tidings." |
| 54. * | He said, "Bring ye me such tidings now that old age hath come upon me? What, therefore, are your tidings really?" |
| 55. * | They said, "We announce them to thee in very truth. Be not then one of the despairing." |
| 56. * | And who, said he, "despaireth of the mercy of his Lord, but they who err?" |
| 57. * | He said, "What is your business then, O ye Sent Ones?" |
| 58. * | They said, "We are sent unto a people who are sinners, |
| 59. * | Except the family of Lot, whom verily we will rescue all, |
| 60. * | Except his wife. We have decreed that she shall be of those who linger." |
| 61. * | And when the Sent Ones came to the family of Lot |
| 62. * | He said, "Yes; are persons unknown to me." |
| 63. * | They said, "Yes; but we have come to thee for a purpose about which thy people doubt: |
| 64. * | We have come to thee with very truth, and we are truthful envoys. |
| 65. * | Lead forth therefore thy family in the dead of the night; follow thou on their rear: and let no one of you turn round, but pass ye on whither ye are bidden." |
| 66. * | And this command we gave him because to the last man should these people be cut off at morning. |
| 67. * | Then came the people of the city rejoicing at the news- |
| 68. * | He said, "These are my guests: therefore disgrace me not. |
| 69. * | And fear God and put me not to shame." |
| 70. * | They said, "Have we not forbidden thee to entertain any one whatever?" |
| 71. * | He said, "Here are my daughters, if ye will thus act." |
| 72. * | As thou livest, O Muhammad, they were bewildered in the drunkenness of their lust. |
| 73. * | So a tempest overtook them at their sunrise, |
| 74. * | And we turned the city upside down, and we rained stones of baked clay upon them. |
| 75. * | Verily, in this are signs for those who scan heedfully; |
| 76. * | And these cities lay on the high road. |
| 77. * | Verily, in this are signs for the faithful. |
| 78. * | The inhabitants also of El Aika were sinners: |
| 79. * | So we took vengeance on them, and they both became a plain example. |
| 80. * | And the people of HEDJR treated God's messengers as liars. |
| 81. * | And we brought forth our signs to them, but they drew back from them: |
| 82. * | And they hewed them out abodes in the mountains to secure them: |
| 83. * | But a tempest surprised them at early morn, |
| 84. * | And their labours availed them nothing. |
| 85. * | We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that between them is, but for a worthy end. And verily, "the hour" shall surely come. Wherefore do thou, Muhammad, forgive with kindly forgiveness, |
| 86. * | For thy Lord! He is the Creator, the Wise. |
| 87. * | We have already given thee the seven verses of repetition and the glorious Koran. |
| 88. * | Strain not thine eyes after the good things we have bestowed on some of the unbelievers: afflict not thyself on their account, and lower thy wing to the faithful. |
| 89. * | And SAY: I am the only plain-spoken warner. |
| 90. * | We will punish those who foster divisions, |
| 91. * | Who break up the Koran into parts: |
| 92. * | By thy Lord! we will surely take account from them one and all, |
| 93. * | Concerning that which they have done. |
| 94. * | Profess publicly then what thou hast been bidden, and withdraw from those who join gods to God. |
| 95. * | Verily, We will maintain thy cause against those who deride thee, |
| 96. * | Who set up gods with God: and at last shall they know their folly. |
| 97. * | Now know We that thy heart is distressed at what they say: |
| 98. * | But do thou celebrate the praise of thy Lord, and be of those who bow down in worship; |
| 99. * | And serve thy Lord till the certainty o'ertake thee. |