One of the 240 subdivisions of the Quran (quarter of a Hizb)
Alif Lam Ra These are the verses of the Scripture, a Quran that makes things clear
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The disbelievers may well come to wish they had submitted to God
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so [Prophet] leave them to eat and enjoy themselves. Let [false] hopes distract them: they will come to know
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Never have We destroyed a community that did not have a set time
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no community can bring its time forward, nor delay it
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They say, ‘Receiver of this Quran! You are definitely mad
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Why do you not bring us the angels, if you are telling the truth?’
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But We send down the angels only to bring justice and then these people will not be reprieved
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We have sent down the Quran Ourself, and We Ourself will guard it. Even before you [Prophet]
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We sent messengers among the various communities of old
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but they mocked every single messenger that came to them
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in this way We make the message slip through the hearts of evildoers
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They will not believe in it. That was what happened with the peoples of long ago
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and even if We opened a gateway into Heaven for them and they rose through it, higher and higher
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they would still say, ‘Our eyes are hallucinating. We are bewitched.’
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We have set constellations up in the sky and made it beautiful for all to see
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and guarded it from every stoned satan
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any eavesdropper will be pursued by a clearly visible flame
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As for the earth, We have spread it out, set firm mountains on it, and made everything grow there in due balance
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We have provided sustenance in it for you and for all those creatures for whom you do not provide
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There is not a thing whose storehouses are not with Us. We send it down only according to a well-defined measure
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We send the winds to fertilize, and We bring down water from the sky for you to drink- you do not control its sources
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It is We who give life and death; it is We who inherit [everything]
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We know exactly those of you who come first and those who come later
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[Prophet], it is your Lord who will gather them all together: He is all wise, all knowing
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We created man out of dried clay formed from dark mud
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the jinn We created before, from the fire of scorching wind
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Your Lord said to the angels, ‘I will create a mortal out of dried clay, formed from dark mud
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When I have fashioned him and breathed My spirit into him, bow down before him,’
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and the angels all did so
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But not Iblis: he refused to bow down like the others
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God said, ‘Iblis, why did you not bow down like the others?’
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and he answered, ‘I will not bow to a mortal You created from dried clay, formed from dark mud.’
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‘Get out of here!’ said God. ‘You are an outcast
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rejected until the Day of Judgement.’
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Iblis said, ‘My Lord, give me respite until the Day when they are raised from the dead.’
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‘You have respite,’ said God
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‘until the Day of the Appointed Time.’
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Iblis then said to God, ‘Because You have put me in the wrong, I will lure mankind on earth and put them in the wrong
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all except Your devoted servants.’
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God said, ‘[Devotion] is a straight path to Me
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you will have no power over My servants, only over the ones who go astray and follow you
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Hell is the promised place for all these
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with seven gates, each gate having its allotted share of them
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But the righteous will be in Gardens with springs
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“Enter them in peace and safety!”––
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and We shall remove any bitterness from their hearts: [they will be like] brothers, sitting on couches, face to face
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No weariness will ever touch them there, nor will they ever be expelled.’
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