One of the 60 subdivisions of the Quran (half a Juz)
Exalted is He who holds all control in His hands; who has power over all things
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who created death and life to test you [people] and reveal which of you does best––He is the Mighty, the Forgiving
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who created the seven heavens, one above the other. You will not see any flaw in what the Lord of Mercy creates. Look again! Can you see any flaw
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Look again! And again! Your sight will turn back to you, weak and defeated
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We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps and made them [missiles] for stoning devils for whom We have also prepared the torment of a blazing fire
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For those who defy their Lord We have prepared the torment of Hell: an evil destination
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They will hear it drawing in its breath when they are thrown in. It blazes forth
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almost bursting with rage. Its keepers will ask every group that is thrown in, ‘Did no one come to warn you?’
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They will reply, ‘Yes, a warner did come to us, but we did not believe him. We said, “God has revealed nothing: you are greatly misguided”.’
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They will say, ‘If only we had listened, or reasoned, we would not be with the inhabitants of the blazing fire,’ and
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they will confess their sins. Away with the inhabitants of the blazing fire
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But there is forgiveness and a great reward for those who fear their Lord though they cannot see Him
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Whether you keep your words secret or state them openly, He knows the contents of every heart
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How could He who created not know His own creation, when He is the Most Subtle, the All Aware
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It is He who has made the earth manageable for you––travel its regions; eat His provision- and to Him you will be resurrected
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Are you sure that He who is in Heaven will not make the earth swallow you up with a violent shudder
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Are you sure that He who is in Heaven will not send a whirlwind to pelt you with stones? You will come to know what My warning means
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Those who went before them also disbelieved- how terrible was My condemnation
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Do they not see the birds above them spreading and closing their wings? It is only the Lord of Mercy who holds them up: He watches over everything
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What force can help you if the Lord of Mercy does not? The disbelievers are truly deluded
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Who can provide for you if He withholds His provision? Yet they persist in their insolence and their avoidance of the Truth
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Who is better guided: someone who falls on his face, or someone who walks steadily on a straight path
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Say [Prophet], ‘It is He who brought you into being, He who endowed you with hearing, sight, and understanding- what small thanks you give!’
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Say, ‘It is He who scattered you throughout the earth, He to whom you will be gathered.’
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They say, ‘If what you say is true, when will this promise be fulfilled?’
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Say, ‘God alone has knowledge of this: my only duty is to give clear warning.’
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When they see it close at hand, the disbelievers’ faces will be gloomy, and it will be said, ‘This is what you were calling for.’
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Say, ‘Just think- regardless of whether God destroys me and my followers or has mercy on us- who will protect the disbelievers from an agonizing torment?’
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Say, ‘He is the Lord of Mercy; we believe in Him; we put our trust in Him. You will come to know in time who is in obvious error.’
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Say, ‘Just think: if all your water were to sink deep into the earth who could give you flowing water in its place?’
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Nun By the pen! By all they write
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Your Lord’s grace does not make you [Prophet] a madman
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you will have a never-ending reward––
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truly you have a strong character––
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and soon you will see, as will they
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which of you is afflicted with madness
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Your Lord knows best who strays from His path and who is rightly guided
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So do not yield to those who deny the truth––
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they want you to compromise with them and then they will compromise with you––
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do not yield to any contemptible swearer
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to any backbiter, slander-monger
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or hinderer of good, to anyone who is sinful, aggressive
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coarse, and on top of all that, an imposter
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Just because he has wealth and sons
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when our revelations are recited to him, he says, ‘These are just ancient fables.’
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We shall brand him on the snout
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We have tried them as We tried the owners of a certain garden, who swore that they would harvest its fruits in the morning
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and made no allowance [for the Will of God]
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a disaster from your Lord struck the garden as they slept
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and by morning it was stripped bare, a desolate land
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Still they called each other at daybreak
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‘Go early to your field if you wish to gather all its fruits,’
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and went off, whispering
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‘Make sure no poor person enters the garden today!’––
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they left early, bent on their purpose
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but when they saw the garden, they said, ‘We must have lost our way
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No- we are ruined!’
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The wisest of them said, ‘Did I not say to you, “Will you not glorify God?”’
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they said, ‘Glory be to God, Our Lord! Truly, we were doing wrong!’
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and then they turned to each other in mutual reproach
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They said, ‘Alas for us! We have done terrible wrong
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but maybe our Lord will give us something better in its place: we truly turn to Him in hope.’
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Such is the punishment [in this life], but greater still is the punishment in the Hereafter, if only they knew
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There will be Gardens of bliss for those who are mindful of God
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Should We treat those who submit to Us as We treat those who do evil
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What is the matter with you? On what basis do you judge
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Do you have a Scripture that tells you
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that you will be granted whatever you choose
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Have you received from Us solemn oaths, binding to the Day of Resurrection, that you will get whatever you yourselves decide
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Ask them [Prophet] which of them will guarantee this
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Do they have ‘partners’ [besides God]? Let them produce their ‘partners’, if what they say is true
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On the Day when matters become dire, they will be invited to prostrate themselves but will be prevented from doing so
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and their eyes will be downcast and they will be overwhelmed with shame: they were invited to prostrate themselves when they were safe [but refused]
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So [Prophet] leave those who reject this revelation to Me: We shall lead them on, step by step, in ways beyond their knowledge
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I will allow them more time, for My plan is powerful
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Do you demand some reward from them that would burden them with debt
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Do they have knowledge of the unseen that enables them to write it down
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Wait patiently [Prophet] for your Lord’s judgement: do not be like the man in the whale who called out in distress
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if his Lord’s grace had not reached him, he would have been left, abandoned and blameworthy, on the barren shore
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but his Lord chose him and made him one of the Righteous
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The disbelievers almost strike you down with their looks when they hear the Quran. They say, ‘He must be mad!’
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but truly it is nothing other than a Reminder for all peoples
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The Inevitable Hour
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What is the Inevitable Hour
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What will explain to you what the Inevitable Hour is
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The people of Thamud and 'Ad denied that the crashing blowwould come
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Thamud was destroyed by a deafening blast
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Ad was destroyed by a furious wind
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that God let loose against them for seven consecutive nights, eight consecutive days, so that you could have seen its people lying dead like hollow palm-trunks
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Can you see any trace of them now
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Pharaoh, too, and those before him, and the ruined cities: these people committed grave sins
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and disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, so He seized them with an ever-tightening grip
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But when the Flood rose high, We saved you in the floating ship
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making that event a reminder for you: attentive ears may take heed
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When the Trumpet is sounded a single time
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when the earth and its mountains are raised high and then crushed with a single blow
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on that Day the Great Event will come to pass
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The sky will be torn apart on that Day, it will be so frail
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The angels will be on all sides of it and, on that Day, eight of them will bear the throne of your Lord above them
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On that Day you will be brought to judgement and none of your secrets will remain hidden
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Anyone who is given his Record in his right hand will say, ‘Here is my Record, read it
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I knew I would meet my Reckoning,’
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and so he will have a pleasant life
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in a lofty Garden
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with clustered fruit within his reach
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It will be said, ‘Eat and drink to your heart’s content as a reward for what you have done in days gone by.’
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But anyone who is given his Record in his left hand will say, ‘If only I had never been given any Record
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and knew nothing of my Reckoning
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How I wish death had been the end of me
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My wealth has been no use to me
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and my power has vanished.’
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‘Take him, put a collar on him
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lead him to burn in the blazing Fire
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and [bind him] in a chain seventy metres long
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he would not believe in Almighty God
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he never encouraged feeding the hungry
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so today he has no real friend here
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and the only food he has is the filth
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that only sinners eat.’
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So I swear by what you can see
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and by what you cannot see
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this [Quran] is the speech of an honoured messenger
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not the words of a poet- how little you believe
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nor the words of a soothsayer- how little you reflect
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This [Quran] is a message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds
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if [the Prophet] had attributed some fabrication to Us
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We would certainly have seized his right hand
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and cut off his lifeblood
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and none of you could have defended him
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This [Quran] is a reminder for those who are aware of God
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We know that some of you consider it to be lies
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this will be a source of bitter regret for the disbelievers
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but it is in fact the certain Truth
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So [Prophet] glorify the name of your Lord, the Almighty
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A man [mockingly] demanded the punishment
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It will fall on the disbelievers––none can deflect it––
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from God, the Lord of the Ways of Ascent
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by which the angels and the Spirit ascend to Him, on a Day whose length is fifty thousand years
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So be patient, [Prophet], as befits you
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The disbelievers think it is distant
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but We know it to be close
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On a Day when the heavens will be like molten brass
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and the mountains like tufts of wool
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when no friend will ask about his friend
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even when they are within sight of one another. The guilty person will wish he could save himself from the suffering of that Day by sacrificing his sons
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his spouse, his brother
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the kinsfolk who gave him shelter
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and everyone on earth, if it could save him
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But no! There is a raging flame
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that strips away the skin
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and it will claim everyone who rejects the truth, turns away
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amasses wealth and hoards it
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Man was truly created anxious
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he is fretful when misfortune touches him
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but tight-fisted when good fortune comes his way
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Not so those who pray
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and are constant in their prayers
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who give a due share of their wealth
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to beggars and the deprived
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who believe in the Day of Judgement
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and fear the punishment of their Lord––
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none may feel wholly secure from it––
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who guard their chastity
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from all but their spouses or their slave-girls––there is no blame attached to [relations with] these
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but those whose desires exceed this limit are truly transgressors––
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who are faithful to their trusts and their pledges
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who give honest testimony
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and are steadfast in their prayers
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They will be honoured in Gardens of bliss
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What is wrong with the disbelievers? Why do they rush to peer at you [Prophet]
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from right and left, in crowds
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Does every one of them expect to enter a Garden of bliss
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No! We created them from the substance they know
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and, by the Lord of every sunrise and sunset, We have the power
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to substitute for them others better than they are- nothing can prevent Us from doing this
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So leave them to wallow in idle talk, until they come face to face with their promised Day
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the Day they will rush out of their graves as if rallying to a flag
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eyes downcast and covered in shame: that is the Day of which they were warned
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We sent Noah to his people: ‘Warn your people, before a painful punishment comes to them.’
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And so he said, ‘My people, I am here to warn you plainly
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Serve God, be mindful of Him and obey me
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He will forgive you your sins and spare you until your appointed time––when God’s appointed time arrives it cannot be postponed. If only you understood!’
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He said, ‘My Lord, I have called my people night and day
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but the more I call them, the further they run away
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every time I call them, so that You may forgive them, they thrust their fingers into their ears, cover their heads with their garments, persist in their rejection, and grow more insolent and arrogant
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I have tried calling them openly
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I have tried preaching to them in public and speaking to them in private
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I said, “Ask forgiveness of your Lord: He is ever forgiving
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He will send down abundant rain from the sky for you
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He will give you wealth and sons; He will provide you with gardens and rivers
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What is the matter with you? Why will you not fear God’s majesty
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when He has created you stage by stage
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Have you ever wondered how God created seven heavens, one above the other
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placed the moon as a light in them and the sun as a lamp
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how God made you spring forth from the earth like a plant
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how He will return you into it and then bring you out again
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and how He has spread the Earth out for you
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to walk along its spacious paths?” ’
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Noah said, ‘My Lord, they have disobeyed me and followed those whose riches and children only increase their ruin
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who have made a grand plan
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saying, “Do not renounce your gods
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Do not renounce Wadd, Suwa, Yaghuth, Yauq, or Nasr!” They have led many astray. Lord, bring nothing but destruction down on the evildoers!’
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They were drowned and sent to Hell for their evildoings: they found no one to help them against God
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And Noah said, ‘Lord, do not leave any of the disbelievers on the earth
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if you leave them they will lead Your servants astray and beget only sinners and disbelievers
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Lord, forgive me, my parents, and whoever enters my house as a believer. Forgive believing men and women but bring nothing but ruin down on the evildoers!’
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