Hizb 16

Alif Lam Mim Sad

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This Book has been sent down to you [Prophet]––let there be no anxiety in your heart because of it––so that you may use it to give warning and to remind the believers

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‘Follow what has been sent down to you from your Lord; do not follow other masters beside Him. How seldom you take heed!’

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How many towns We have destroyed! Our punishment came to them by night or while they slept in the afternoon

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their only cry when Our punishment came to them was, ‘How wrong we were!’

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We shall certainly question those to whom messengers were sent–– and We shall question the messengers themselves––

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and, with full knowledge, for We were never far from them, We shall tell them what they did

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On that Day the weighing of deeds will be true and just: those whose good deeds are heavy on the scales will be the ones to prosper

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and those whose good deeds are light will be the ones who have lost their souls through their wrongful rejection of Our messages

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We established you [people] on the earth and provided you with a means of livelihood there––small thanks you give

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We created you, We gave you shape, and then We said to the angels, ‘Bow down before Adam,’ and they did. But not Iblis: he was not one of those who bowed down

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God said, ‘What prevented you from bowing down as I commanded you?’ and he said, ‘I am better than him: You created me from fire and him from clay.’

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God said, ‘Get down from here! This is no place for your arrogance. Get out! You are contemptible!’

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but Iblis said, ‘Give me respite until the Day people are raised from the dead,’

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and God replied, ‘You have respite.’

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And then Iblis said, ‘Because You have put me in the wrong, I will lie in wait for them all on Your straight path

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I will come at them- from their front and their back, from their right and their left- and You will find that most of them are ungrateful.’

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God said, ‘Get out! You are disgraced and banished! I swear I shall fill Hell with you and all who follow you

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But you and your wife, Adam, live in the Garden. Both of you eat whatever you like, but do not go near this tree or you will become wrongdoers.’

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Satan whispered to them so as to expose their nakedness, which had been hidden from them: he said, ‘Your Lord only forbade you this tree to prevent you becoming angels or immortals,’

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and he swore to them, ‘I am giving you sincere advice’

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he lured them with lies. Their nakedness became exposed to them when they had eaten from the tree: they began to put together leaves from the Garden to cover themselves. Their Lord called to them, ‘Did I not forbid you to approach that tree? Did I not warn you that Satan was your sworn enemy?’

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They replied, ‘Our Lord, we have wronged our souls: if You do not forgive us and have mercy, we shall be lost.’

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He said, ‘All of you get out! You are each other’s enemies. On earth you will have a place to stay and livelihood- for a time.’

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He said, ‘There you will live; there you will die; from there you will be brought out.’

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Children of Adam, We have given you garments to cover your nakedness and as adornment for you; the garment of God-consciousness is the best of all garments- this is one of God’s signs, so that people may take heed

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Children of Adam, do not let Satan seduce you, as he did your parents, causing them to leave the Garden, stripping them of their garments to expose their nakedness to them: he and his forces can see you from where you cannot see them: We have made evil ones allies to those who do not believe

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Yet when [these people] do something disgraceful, they say, ‘We found our forefathers doing this,’ and, ‘God has commanded us to do this.’ Say [Prophet], ‘God does not command disgraceful deeds. How can you say about God things that you do not know [to be true]?’

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Say, ‘My Lord commands righteousness. Direct your worship straight to Him wherever you pray; call on Him; devote your religion entirely to Him. Just as He first created you, so you will come back [to life] again.’

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Some He has guided and some are doomed to stray: they have taken evil ones rather than God as their masters, thinking that they are rightly guided

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Children of Adam, dress well whenever you are at worship, and eat and drink [as We have permitted] but do not be extravagant: God does not like extravagant people

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Say [Prophet], ‘Who has forbidden the adornment and the nourishment God has provided for His servants?’ Say, ‘They are [allowed] for those who believe during the life of this world: they will be theirs alone on the Day of Resurrection.’ This is how We make Our revelation clear for those who understand

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Say [Prophet], ‘My Lord only forbids disgraceful deeds- whether they be open or hidden- and sin and unjustified aggression, and that you, without His sanction, associate things with Him, and that you say things about Him without knowledge.’

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There is a time set for every people: they cannot hasten it, nor, when it comes, will they be able to delay it for a single moment

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Children of Adam, when messengers come to you from among yourselves, reciting My revelations to you, for those who are conscious of God and live righteously, there will be no fear, nor will they grieve

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But those who reject Our revelations and arrogantly scorn them are the people of the Fire and there they will remain

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Who is more wrong than the person who invents lies against God or rejects His revelations? Such people will have their preordained share [in this world], but then, when Our angels arrive to take them back, saying, ‘Where are those you used to call on beside God?’ they will say, ‘They have deserted us.’ They will confess that they were disbelievers and

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God will say, ‘Join the crowds of jinn and humans who have gone before you into the Fire.’ Every crowd curses its fellow crowd as it enters, then, when they are all gathered inside, the last of them will say of the first, ‘Our Lord, it was they who led us astray: give them double punishment in the Fire’- God says, ‘Every one of you will have double punishment, though you do not know it’

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and the first of them will say to the last, ‘You were no better than us: taste the punishment you have earned.’

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The gates of Heaven will not be open to those who rejected Our revelations and arrogantly spurned them; even if a thick rope were to pass through the eye of a needle they would not enter the Garden. This is how We punish the guilty

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Hell will be their resting place and their covering, layer upon layer- this is how We punish those who do evil

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But those who believe and do good deeds- and We do not burden any soul with more than it can bear- are the people of the Garden and there they will remain

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We shall have removed all ill feeling from their hearts; streams will flow at their feet. They will say, ‘Praise be to God, who guided us to this: had God not guided us, We would never have found the way. The messengers of our Lord brought the Truth.’ A voice will call out to them, ‘This is the Garden you have been given as your own on account of your deeds.’

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The people of the Garden will cry out to the people of the Fire, ‘We have found what our Lord promised us to be true. Have you found what your Lord promised you to be true?’ and they will answer, ‘Yes’. A voice will proclaim from their midst, ‘God’s rejection [hangs] over the evildoers

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those who turned others away from God’s path and tried to make it crooked, those who denied the Hereafter.’

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A barrier divides the two groups with men on its heights recognizing each group by their marks: they will call out to the people of the Garden, ‘Peace be with you!’- they will not have entered, but they will be hoping

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and when their glance falls upon the people of the Fire, they will say, ‘Our Lord, do not let us join the evildoers!’

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and the people of the heights will call out to certain men they recognize by their marks, ‘What use were your great numbers and your false pride

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And are these the people you swore God would never bless? [Now these people are being told], “Enter the Garden! No fear for you, nor shall you grieve.”’

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The people of the Fire will call to the people of Paradise, ‘Give us some water, or any of the sustenance God has granted you!’ and they will reply, ‘God has forbidden both to the disbelievers

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those who took their religion for distraction, a mere game, and were deluded by worldly life.’ Today We shall ignore them, just as they have ignored their meeting with this Day and denied Our Revelations

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We have brought people a Scripture- We have explained it on the basis of true knowledge- as guidance and mercy for those who believe

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What are they waiting for but the fulfilment of its [final prophecy]? On the Day it is fulfilled, those who had ignored it will say, ‘Our Lord’s messenger spoke the truth. Is there anyone to intercede for us now? Or can we be sent back to behave differently from the way we behaved before?’ They will really have squandered their souls, and all [the idols] they invented will have deserted them

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