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| 1. * | Kaf. |
| 2. * | By the glorious Koran: |
| 3. * | They marvel forsooth that one of themselves hath come to them charged with warnings. "This," say the infidels, "is a marvellous thing: |
| 4. * | What! when dead and turned to dust shall we. . . .? Far off is such a return as this?" |
| 5. * | Now know we what the earth consumeth of them, and with us is a Book in which account is kept. |
| 6. * | But they have treated the truth which hath come to them as falsehood; perplexed therefore is their state. |
| 7. * | Will they not look up to the heaven above them, and consider how we have reared it and decked it forth, and that there are no flaws therein? |
| 8. * | And as to the earth, we have spread it out, and have thrown the mountains upon it, and have caused an upgrowth in it of all beauteous kinds of plants, |
| 9. * | For insight and admonition to every servant who loveth to turn to God: |
| 10. * | And we send down the rain from Heaven with its blessings, by which we cause gardens to spring forth and the grain of harvest, |
| 11. * | And the tall palm trees with date-bearing branches one above the other |
| 12. * | For man's nourishment: And life give we thereby to a dead country. So also shall be the resurrection. |
| 13. * | Ere the days of these (Meccans) the people of Noah, and the men of Rass and Themoud, treated their prophets as impostors: |
| 14. * | And Ad and Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lot and the dwellers in the forest, and the people of Tobba, all gave the lie to their prophets: justly, therefore, were the menaces inflicted. |
| 15. * | Are we wearied out with the first creation? Yet are they in doubt with regard to a new creation! |
| 16. * | We created man: and we know what his soul whispereth to him, and we are closer to him than his neck-vein. |
| 17. * | When the two angels charged with taking account shall take it, one sitting on the right hand, the other on the left: |
| 18. * | Not a word doth he utter, but there is a watcher with him ready to note it down: |
| 19. * | And the stupor of certain death cometh upon him: "This is what thou wouldst have shunned"- |
| 20. * | And there shall be a blast on the trumpet,-it is the threatened day! |
| 21. * | And every soul shall come,-an angel with it urging it along, and an angel to witness against it- |
| 22. * | Saith he, "Of this day didst thou live in heedlessness: but we have taken off thy veil from thee, and thy sight is becoming sharp this day." |
| 23. * | And he who is at this side shall say, "This is what I am prepared with against thee." |
| 24. * | And God will say, "Cast into Hell, ye twain, every infidel, every hardened one, |
| 25. * | The hinderer of the good, the transgressor, the doubter, |
| 26. * | Who set up other gods with God. Cast ye him into the fierce torment." |
| 27. * | He who is at his side shall say, "O our Lord! I led him not astray, yet was he in an error wide of truth." |
| 28. * | He shall say, "Wrangle not in my presence. I had plied you beforehand with menaces: |
| 29. * | My doom changeth not, and I am not unjust to man." |
| 30. * | On that day will we cry to Hell, "Art thou full?" And it shall say, "Are there more?" |
| 31. * | And not far from thence shall Paradise be brought near unto the Pious: |
| 32. * | - "This is what ye have been promised: to every one who hath turned in penitence to God and kept his laws; |
| 33. * | Who hath feared the God of Mercy in secret, and come to him with a contrite heart: |
| 34. * | Enter it in peace: this is the day of Eternity." |
| 35. * | There shall they have all that they can desire: and our's will it be to augment their bliss: |
| 36. * | And how many generations have we destroyed ere the days of these (Meccans), mightier than they in strength! Search ye then the land. Is there any escape? |
| 37. * | Lo! herein is warning for him who hath a heart, or giveth ear, and is himself an eye-witness. |
| 38. * | We created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six days, and no weariness touched us. |
| 39. * | Wherefore put up with what they say, and celebrate the praise of thy Lord before sunrise and before sunset: |
| 40. * | And praise Him in the night: and perform the two final prostrations. |
| 41. * | And list for the day whereon the crier shall cry from a place near to every one alike: |
| 42. * | The day on which men shall in truth hear that shout will be the day of their coming forth from the grave. |
| 43. * | Verily, we cause to live, and we cause to die. To us shall all return. |
| 44. * | On the day when the earth shall swiftly cleave asunder over the dead, will this gathering be easy to Us. |
| 45. * | We know best what the infidels say: and thou art not to compel them. Warn then by the Koran those who fear my menace. |