# ayatafseer

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And Zachariah -- when he called unto his Lord, ´O my Lord, leave me not solitary; though Thou art the best of inheritors.´


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So We answered him, and bestowed on him John, and We set his wife right for him; truly they vied with one another, hastening to good works, and called upon Us out of yearning and awe; and they were humble to Us.


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And she who guarded her virginity, so We breathed into her of Our spirit and appointed her and her son to be a sign unto all beings.


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And whosoever does deeds of righteousness, being a believer, no unthankfulness shall befall his endeavour; We Ourselves write it down for him.


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and nigh has drawn the true promise, and behold, the eyes of the unbelievers staring: ´Alas for us! We were heedless of this; ´nay, we were evildoers.´


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´Surely you, and that you were serving apart from God, are fuel for Gehenna; you shall go down to it.´


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If those had been gods, they would never have gone down to it; yet every one of them shall therein abide forever;´


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they shall be, kept far from it neither shall they hear any whisper of it, and they shall dwell forever in that their souls desired;


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the greatest terror shall not grieve them, and the angels shall receive them: ´This is your day that you were promised.´


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On the day when We shall roll up heaven as a scroll is rolled for the writings; as We originated the first creation, so We shall bring it back again -- a promise binding on Us; so We shall do.


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For We have written in the Psalms, after the Remembrance, ´The earth shall be the inheritance of My righteous servants.´


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Then, if they should turn their backs, say: ´I have proclaimed to you all equally, even though I know not whether near or far is that you are promised.´


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He said: ´My Lord, judge Thou with truth! And our Lord is the All-merciful; His succour is ever to be sought against that you describe.´


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on the day when you behold it, every suckling woman shall neglect the child she has suckled, and every pregnant woman shall deposit her burden, and thou shalt see mankind drunk, yet they are not drunk, but God´s chastisement is terrible.


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And among men there is such a one that disputes concerning God without knowledge and follows every rebel Satan,


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against whom it is written down that whosoever takes him for a friend, him he leads astray, and he guides him to the chastisement of the burning.


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O men, if you are in doubt as to the Uprising, surely We created you of dust then of a sperm-drop, then of a blood clot, then of a lump of flesh, formed and unformed that We may make clear to you. And We establish in the wombs what We will, till a stated term, then We deliver you as infants, then that you may come of age; and some of you die, and some of you are kept back unto the vilest state of life, that after knowing somewhat, they may know nothing. And thou beholdest the earth blackened, then, when We send down water upon it, it quivers, and swells, and puts forth herbs of every joyous kind.


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That is because God -- He is the Truth, and brings the dead to life, and is powerful over everything,


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and because the Hour is coming, no doubt of it, and God shall raise up whosoever is within the tombs.


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And among men there is such a one that disputes concerning God without knowledge or guidance, or an illuminating Book,


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turning his side to lead astray from God´s way; for him is degradation in this world; and on the Resurrection Day We shall let him taste the chastisement of the burning:


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And among men there is such a one as serves God upon the very edge -- if good befalls him he is at rest in it, but if a trial befalls him he turns completely over; he loses this world and the world to come; that is indeed the manifest loss.


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He calls, apart from God, upon that which hurts him not, and which neither profits him anything; that is indeed the far error.


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He calls upon him who is likelier to hurt him, rather than to profit him -- an evil protector indeed, he, an evil friend!


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God shall surely admit those who believe and do righteous deeds into gardens underneath which rivers flow; surely God does that He desires.


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Whosoever thinks God will not help him in the present world and the world to come; let him stretch up a rope to heaven, then let him sever it, and behold whether his guile does away with what enrages him.


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Surely they that believe, and those of Jewry, the Sabaeans, the Christians, the Magians and the idolaters -- God shall distinguish between them on the Day of Resurrection; assuredly God is witness over everything.


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Hast thou not seen how to God bow all who are in the and all who are in the earth, heavens the sun and the moon, the stars and the mountains, the trees and the beasts, and many of mankind? And many merit the chastisement; and whom God abases, there is none to honour him. God does whatsoever He will.


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These are two disputants who have disputed concerning their Lord. As for the unbelievers, for them garments of fire shall, be cut, and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water


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as often as they desire in their anguish to come forth from it, they shall be restored into it, and: ´Taste the chastisement of the burning!´


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God shall surely admit those who believe and do righteous deeds into gardens underneath which rivers flow; therein they shall be adorned with bracelets of gold and with pearls, and their apparel there shall be of silk;


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and they; shall be guided unto goodly speech, and they shall be guided unto the path of the All-laudable.


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Those who disbelieve, and bar from God´s way and the Holy Mosque that We have appointed equal unto men, alike him who cleaves to it and the tent-dweller, and whosoever purposes to violate it wrongly, We shall let him taste a painful chastisement.


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And when We settled for Abraham the place of the House: ´Thou shall not associate with Me anything. And do thou purify My House for those that shall go about it and those that stand, for those that bow and prostrate themselves;


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and proclaim among men the Pilgrimage, and they shall come unto thee on foot and upon every lean beast, they shall come from every deep ravine


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that they may witness things profitable to them and mention God´s Name on days well-known over such beasts of the flocks as He has provided them: "So eat thereof, and feed the wretched poor.


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Let them then finish with their self-neglect and let them fulfil their vows, and go about the Ancient House.´


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All that; and whosoever venerates the sacred things of God, it shall be better for him with his Lord. And permitted to you are the flocks, except that which is recited to you. And eschew the abomination of idols, and eschew the speaking of falsehood,


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being men pure of faith unto God, not associating with Him anything; for whosoever associates with God anything, it is as though he has fallen from heaven and the birds snatch him away, or the wind sweeps him headlong into a place far away.


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There are things therein profitable to you unto a stated term; thereafter their lawful place of sacrifice is by the Ancient House.


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We have appointed for every nation a holy rite, that they may mention God´s Name over such beasts of the flocks as He has provided them. Your God is One God, so to Him surrender. And give thou good tidings unto the humble


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who, when God is mentioned, their hearts quake, and such as endure patiently whatever visits them, and who perform the prayer, and expend of what We have provided them.


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And the beasts of sacrifice -- We have appointed them for you as among God´s waymarks; therein is good for you. So mention God´s Name over them, standing in ranks then, when their flanks collapse, eat of them and feed the beggar and the suppliant. So We have subjected them to you; haply you will be thankful.


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The flesh of them shall not reach God, neither their blood, but godliness from you shall reach Him. So He has subjected them to you, that you may magnify God for that He has guided you. And give thou good tidings unto the good-doers.


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who were expelled from their habitations without right, except that they say ´Our Lord is God.´ Had God not driven back the people, some by the means of others, there had been destroyed cloisters and churches, oratories and mosques, wherein God´s Name is much mentioned. Assuredly God will help him who helps Him -- surely God is All-strong, All-mighty


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who, if We establish them in the land, perform the prayer, and pay the alms, and bid to honour, and forbid dishonour; and unto God belongs the issue of all affairs.


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and the men of Midian; to Moses also they cried lies. And I respited the unbelievers, then I seized them; and how was My horror!


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How many a city We have destroyed in its evildoing, and now it is fallen down upon its turrets! How many a ruined well, a tall palace!


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What, have they not journeyed in the land so that they have hearts to understand with or ears to hear with? It is not the eyes that are blind, but blind are the hearts within the breasts.


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And they demand of thee to hasten the chastisement! God will not fail His promise; and surely a day with thy Lord is as a thousand years of your counting.


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Those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness -- theirs shall be forgiveness and generous provision.


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We sent not ever any Messenger or Prophet before thee, but that Satan cast into his fancy, when he was fancying; but God annuls what Satan casts, then God confirms His signs -- surely God is All-knowing, All-wise --


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that He may make what Satan casts a trial for those in whose hearts is sickness, and those whose hearts are hard; and surely the evildoers are in wide schism;


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and that they who have been given knowledge may know that it is the truth from thy Lord and believe in it, and so their hearts be humble unto Him; and assuredly God ever guides those who believe to a straight path.


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And the unbelievers will not cease to be in doubt of it, until the Hour comes on them suddenly, or there shall come upon them the chastisement of a barren day.


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The Kingdom upon that day shall belong to God, and He shall judge between them. As for those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, they shall be in Gardens of Bliss.


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And those who emigrated in God´s way and were slain, or died, God shall provide them with a fair provision; and surely God is the best of providers.


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He shall admit them by a gate that is well-pleasing to them; and surely God is All-knowing, All-clement.


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All that; and whosoever chastises after the manner that he was chastised and then again is oppressed, assuredly God will help him; surely God is All-pardoning, All-forgiving.


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That is because God makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night; and that God is All-hearing, All-seeing.


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That is because God -- He is the Truth, and that they call upon apart from Him -- that is the false; and for that God is the All-high, the All-great.


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Hast thou not seen how that God has sent down out of heaven water, and in the morning the earth becomes green? God is All-subtle, All-aware.


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To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth; surely God -- He is the All-sufficient, the All-laudable.


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Hast thou not seen how that God has subjected to you all that is in the earth and the ships to run upon the sea at His commandment, and He holds back heaven lest it should fall upon the earth, save by His leave? Surely God is All-gentle to men, All-compassionate.


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It is He who gave you life, then He shall make you dead, then He shall give you life. Surely man is ungrateful.


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We have appointed for every nation a holy rite that they shall perform. Let them not therefore wrangle with thee upon the matter, and do thou summon unto thy Lord; surely thou art upon a straight guidance.


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Didst thou not know that God knows all that is in heaven and earth? Surely that is in a Book; surely that for God is an easy matter.


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They serve, apart from God, that whereon He has sent down never authority and that whereof they have no knowledge; and for the evildoers there shall be no helper.


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And when Our signs are recited to them, clear signs, thou recognisest in the faces of the unbelievers denial; wellnigh they rush upon those who recite to them Our signs. Say: ´Shall I tell you of something worse than that? The Fire -- God has promised it to the unbelievers -- an evil homecoming!´


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O men, a similitude is struck; so give you ear to it. Surely those upon whom you call, apart from God, shall never create a fly, though they banded together to do it; and if a fly should rob them of aught, they would never rescue it from him. Feeble indeed alike are the seeker and the sought!


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O men, bow you down and prostrate yourselves, and serve your Lord, and do good; haply so you shall prosper;


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and struggle for God as is His due, for He has chosen you, and has laid on you no impediment in your religion, being the creed of your father Abraham; He named you Muslims aforetime and in this, that the Messenger might be a witness against you, and that you might be witnesses against mankind. So perform the prayer, and pay the alms, and hold you fast to God; He is your Protector -- an excellent Protector, an excellent Helper.


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then We created of the drop a clot then We created of the clot a tissue then We created of the tissue bones then We garmented the bones in flesh; thereafter We produced him as another creature. So blessed be God, the fairest of creators!


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And We sent down out of heaven water in measure and lodged it in the earth; and We are able to take it away.


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Then We produced for you therewith gardens of palms and vines wherein are many fruits for you, and of them you eat,


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And surely in the cattle there is a lesson for you; We give you to drink of what is in their bellies, and many uses there are in them for you, and of them you eat;


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And We sent Noah to his people; and he, said, ´O my people, serve God! You have no god other than He. Will you not be godfearing?


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Said the Council of the unbelievers of his people, ´This is naught but a mortal like yourselves, who desires to gain superiority over you. And if God willed, He would have sent down angels. We never heard of this among, our fathers, the ancients.


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Then We said to him, ´Make thou the Ark under Our eyes and as We reveal, and then, when Our command comes and the Oven boils, insert in it two of every kind and thy, family -- except for him against whom the word already has been spoken; and address Me not concerning those who have done evil; they shall be drowned.


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Then, when thou art seated in the Ark and those with thee, say, "Praise belongs to God, who has delivered us from the people of the evildoers.


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and We sent amongst them a Messenger of themselves, saying, ´Serve God! You have no god other than He. Will you not be godfearing?´


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Said the Council of the unbelievers of his people, who cried lies to the encounter of the world to come, and to whom We had given ease in the present´ life, ´This is naught but a mortal like yourselves, who eats of what you eat and drinks of what you drink.


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What, does he promise you that when you are dead, and become dust and bones, you shall be brought forth?


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Then sent We Our Messengers successively; whenever its Messenger came to a nation they cried him lies, so We caused some of them to follow others, and We made them as but tales; so away with a people who do not believe!


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and We made Mary´s son, and his mother, to be a sign, and gave them refuge upon a height, where was a hollow and a spring:


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We charge not any soul save to its capacity, and with Us is a Book speaking truth, and they shall not be wronged.


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Nay, but their hearts are in perplexity as to this, and they have deeds besides that that they are doing.


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Have they not pondered the saying, or came there upon them that which came not upon their fathers, the ancients?


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Or do they say, ´He is bedevilled´? Nay, he has brought them the truth, but most of them are averse from the truth.


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Had the truth followed their caprices, the heavens and the earth and whosoever in them is had surely corrupted. Nay, We brought them their Remembrance, but from their Remembrance they turned.


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Or dost thou ask them for tribute? Yet the tribute of thy Lord is better, and He is the best of providers.


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Did We have mercy on them, and remove the affliction that is upon them, they would persist in their insolence wandering blindly.


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We already seized them with the chastisement, yet they abased not themselves to their Lord nor were they humble;


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until, when We open against them a door of terrible chastisement, lo, they are sore confounded at it.


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It is He who gives life, and makes to die, and to Him belongs the alternation of night and day; what, will you not understand?


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We and our fathers have been promised this before; this is naught but the fairy-tales of the ancients.´


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Say: ´In whose hand is the dominion of everything, protecting and Himself unprotected, if you have knowledge?´


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God has not taken to Himself any son, nor is there any god with Him; for then each god would have taken off that he created and some of them would have risen up over others; glory to be God, beyond that they describe,


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haply I shall do righteousness in that I forsook.´ Nay, it is but a word he speaks; and there; behind them, is a barrier until the day that they shall be raised up.


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For when the Trumpet is blown, that day there shall be no kinship any more between them, neither will they question one another.


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There is a party of My servants who said, "Our Lord, we believe; therefore forgive us, and have mercy on us, for Thou art the best of the merciful.


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And whosoever calls upon another god with God, whereof he has no proof, his reckoning is with his Lord; surely the unbelievers shall not prosper.


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A sura that We have sent down and appointed; and We have sent down in it signs, clear signs, that haply you will remember.


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The fornicatress and the fornicator -- scourge each one of them a hundred stripes, and in the matter of God´s religion let no tenderness for them seize you if you believe in God and the Last Day; and let a party of the believers witness their chastisement.


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The fornicator shall marry none but a fornicatress or an idolatress, and the fornicatress -- none shall marry her but a fornicator or an idolator; that is forbidden to the believers.


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And those who cast it up on women in wedlock, and then bring not four witnesses, scourge them with eighty stripes, and do not accept any testimony of theirs ever; those -- they are the ungodly,


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And those who cast it up on their wives having no witnesses except themselves, the testimony of one of them shall be to testify by God four times that he is of the truthful,


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Those who came with the slander are a band of you; do not reckon it evil for you; rather it is good for you. Every man of them shall have the sin that he has earned charged to him; and whosoever of them took upon himself the greater part of it, him there awaits a mighty chastisement.


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Why, when you heard it, did the believing men and women not of their own account think good thoughts, and say, ´This is a manifest calumny´?


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Why did they not bring four witnesses against it? But since they did not bring the witnesses, in God´s sight they are the liars.


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But for God´s bounty to you and His mercy in the present world and the world to come there would have visited you for your mutterings a mighty chastisement.


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When you received it on your tongues, and were speaking with your mouths that whereof you had no knowledge, and reckoned it a light thing, and with God it was a mighty thing --


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And why, when you heard it, did you not say, ´It is not for us to speak about this; glory be to Thee! This is a mighty calumny´?


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Those who love that indecency should be spread abroad concerning them that believe -- there awaits them a painful chastisement in the present world and the world to come; and God knows, and you know not.


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O believers, follow not the steps of Satan; for whosoever follows the steps of Satan, assuredly he bids to indecency and dishonour. But for God´s bounty to you and His mercy not one of you would have been pure ever; but God purifies whom He will; and God is All-hearing, All-knowing.


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Let not those of you who possess bounty and plenty swear off giving kinsmen and the poor and those who emigrate in the way of God; but let them pardon and forgive. Do you not wish that God should forgive you? God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


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Surely those who cast it up on women in wedlock that are heedless but believing shall be accursed in the present world and the world to come; and there awaits them a mighty chastisement


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on the day when their tongues, their hands and their feet shall testify against them touching that they were doing.


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Upon that day God will pay them in full their just due, and they shall know that God is the manifest Truth.


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Corrupt women for corrupt men, and corrupt men for corrupt women; good women for good men, and good men for good women -- these are declared quit of what they say; theirs shall be forgiveness and generous provision.


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O believers, do not enter houses other than your houses until you first ask leave and, salute the people thereof; that is better for you; haply you will remember.


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And if you find not anyone therein, enter it not until leave is given to you. And if you are told, ´Return,´ return; that is purer for you; and God knows the things you do.


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There is no fault in you that you enter houses uninhabited wherein enjoyment is for you. God knows what you reveal and what you hide.


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Say to the believers, that they cast down their eyes and guard their private parts; that is purer for them. God is aware of the things they work.


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And say to the believing women, that they cast down their eyes´ and guard their private parts, and reveal not their adornment save such as is outward; and let them cast their veils over their bosoms, and not reveal their adornment save to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husbands´ fathers, or their sons, or their husbands´ sons, or their brothers, or their brothers´ sons, or their sisters´ sons, or their women, or what their right hands own, or such men as attend them, not having sexual desire, or children who have not yet attained knowledge of women´s private parts; nor let them stamp their feet, so that their hidden ornament may be known. And turn all together to God, O you believers; haply so you will prosper.


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Marry the spouseless among you, and your slaves and handmaidens that are righteous; if they are poor, God will enrich them of His bounty; God is All-embracing, All-knowing.


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And let those who find not the means to marry be abstinent till God enriches them of His bounty. Those your right hands own who seek emancipation, contract with them accordingly, if you know some good in them; and give them of the wealth of God that He has given you. And constrain not your slave-girls to prostitution, if they desire to live in chastity, that you may seek the chance goods of the present life. Whosoever constrains them, surely God, after their being constrained, is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


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Now We have sent down to you signs making all clear, and an example of those who passed away before you, and an admonition for the godfearing.


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God is the Light of the heavens and the earth; the likeness of His Light is as a niche wherein is a lamp (the lamp in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering star) kindled from a Blessed Tree, an olive that is neither of the East nor of the West whose oil wellnigh would shine, even if no fire touched it; Light upon Light; (God guides to His Light whom He will.) (And God strikes similitudes for men, and God has knowledge of everything.)


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in temples God has allowed to be raised up, and His Name to be commemorated therein; therein glorifying Him, in the mornings and the evenings,


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are men whom neither commerce nor trafficking diverts from the remembrance of God and to perform the prayer, and to pay the alms, fearing a day when hearts and eyes shall be turned about,


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that God may recompense them for their fairest works and give them increase of His bounty; and God provides whomsoever He will, without reckoning.


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And as for the unbelievers, their works are as a mirage in a spacious plain which the man athirst supposes to be water, till, when he comes to it, he finds it is nothing; there indeed he finds God, and He pays him his account in full; (and God is swift at the reckoning.)


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or they are as shadows upon a sea obscure covered by a billow above which is a billow above which are clouds, shadows piled one upon another; when he puts forth his hand, wellnigh he cannot see it. And to whomsoever God assigns no light, no light has he.


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Hast thou not seen how that whatsoever is in the heavens and in the earth extols God, and the birds spreading their wings? Each -- He knows its prayer and its extolling; and God knows the things they do.


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´hast thou not seen how God drives the clouds, then composes them, then converts them into a mass, then thou seest the rain issuing out of the midst of them? And He sends down out of heaven mountains, wherein is hail, so that He smites whom He will with it, and turns it aside from whom He will; wellnigh the gleam of His lightning snatches away the sight.


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God has created every beast of water, and some of them go upon their bellies, and some of them go upon two feet, and some of them go upon four; God creates whatever He will; God is powerful over everything.


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They say, ´We believe in God and the Messenger, and we obey.´ Then after that a party of them turn away; those -- they are not believers.


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When they are called to God and His Messenger that he may judge between them, lo, a party of them are swerving aside;


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What, is there sickness in their hearts, or are they in doubt, or do they fear that God may be unjust towards them and His Messenger? Nay, but those -- they are the evildoers.


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All that the believers say, when they are called to God and His Messenger, that he may judge between them, is that they say, ´We hear, and we obey´; those -- they are the prosperers.


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Whoso obeys God and His Messenger, and fears God and has awe of Him, those -- they are the triumphant.


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They have sworn by God the most earnest oaths, if thou commandest them they will go forth. Say: ´Do not swear; honourable obedience is sufficient. Surely God is aware of the things you do.´


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Say: ´Obey God, and obey the Messenger; then, if you turn away, only upon him rests what is laid on him, and upon you rests what is laid on you. If you obey him, you will be guided. It is only for the Messenger to deliver the manifest Message.´


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God has promised those of you who believe and do righteous deeds that He will surely make you successors in the land, even as He made those who were before them successors, and that He will surely establish their religion for them that He has approved. for them, and will give them in exchange, after their fear, security: ´They shall serve Me, not associating with Me anything.´ Whoso disbelieves after that, those - they are the ungodly.


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Think not the unbelievers able to frustrate God in the earth; their refuge is the Fire -- an evil homecoming.


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O believers, let those your right hands own and those of you who have not reached puberty ask leave of you three times -- before the prayer of dawn, and when you put off your garments at the noon, and after the evening prayer -- three times of nakedness for you. There is no fault in you or them, apart from these, that you go about one to the other. So God makes clear to you the signs; and God is All-knowing, All-wise.


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When your children reach puberty, let them ask leave, as those before them asked leave. So God makes clear to you His signs; and God is All-knowing, All-wise.


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Such women as are past child- bearing and have no hope of marriage -- there is no fault in them that they put off their clothes, so be it that they flaunt no ornament; but to abstain is better for them; and God is All-hearing, All-knowing.


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There is no fault in the blind, and there is no fault in the lame, and there is no fault in the sick, neither in yourselves, that you eat of your houses, or your fathers´ houses, or your mothers´ houses, or your brothers´ houses, or your sisters´ houses, or the houses of your uncles or your aunts paternal, or the houses of your uncles or your aunts maternal, or that whereof you own the keys, or of your friend; there is no fault in you that you eat all together, or in groups separately. But when you enter houses, greet one another with a greeting from God, blessed and good. So God makes clear to you the signs; haply you will understand.


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Those only are believers, who believe in God and His Messenger and who, when they are with him upon a common matter, go not away until they ask his leave. Surely those who ask thy leave -- those are they that believe in God and His Messenger; so, when they ask thy leave for some affair of their own, give leave to whom thou wilt of them, and ask God´s forgiveness for them; surely God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


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Make not the calling of the Messenger among yourselves like your calling one of another. God knows those of you who slip away surreptitiously; so let those who go against His command beware, lest a trial befall them, or there befall them a painful chastisement.


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Why, surely to God belongs whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth; He ever knows what state you are upon; and the day when they shall be returned to Him, then He will tell them of what they did; and God knows everything.


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Blessed be He who has sent down the Salvation upon His servant, that he may be a warner to all beings;


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to whom belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and He has not taken to Him a son, and He has no associate in the Kingdom; and He created every thing, then He ordained it very exactly.


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Yet they have taken to them gods, apart from Him, that create nothing and themselves are created, and have no power to hurt or profit themselves, no power of death or life or raising up.


tafseer:
The unbelievers say, ´This is naught but a calumny he has forged, and other folk have helped him to it.´ So they have committed wrong and falsehood.


tafseer:
They say, ´Fairy-tales of the ancients that he has had written down, so that they are recited to him at the dawn and in the evening.´


tafseer:
Say: ´He sent it down, who knows the secret in the heavens and earth; He is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.´


tafseer:
They also say, ´What ails this Messenger that he eats food, and goes in the markets? Why has an angel not been sent down to him, to be a warner with him?


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Or why is not a treasure thrown to him, or why has he not a Garden to eat of?´ The evildoers say, ´You are only following a man bewitched!´


tafseer:
Blessed be He who, if He will, shall assign to them better than that -- gardens underneath which rivers flow, and he shall assign to thee palaces.


tafseer:
Nay, but they cry lies to the Hour; and We have prepared for him who cries lies to the Hour a Blaze.


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And when they are cast, coupled in fetters, into a narrow place of that Fire, they will call out there for destruction.


tafseer:
Say: ´Is that better, or the Garden of Eternity, that is promised to the godfearing, and is their recompense and homecoming?´


tafseer:
Therein they shall have what they will dwelling forever; it is a promise binding upon thy Lord, and of Him to be required.


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Upon the day when He shall muster them and that they serve, apart from God, and He shall say, ´Was it you that led these My servants astray, or did they themselves err from the way?´


tafseer:
They shall ´Glory be to Thee! It did not behove us to take unto say, ourselves protectors apart from Thee; but Thou gavest them and their fathers enjoyment of days, until they forgot


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the Remembrance, and were a people corrupt.´ So they cried lies touching the things you say, and you can neither turn it aside, nor find any help. Whosoever of you does evil, We shall let him taste a great chastisement.


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And We sent not before thee any Envoys, but that they ate food, and went in the markets; and We appointed some of you to be a trial for others: ´Will you endure?´ Thy Lord is ever All-seeing.


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Say those who look not to encounter Us, ´Why have the angels not been sent down on us, or why see we not our Lord?´ Waxed proud they have within them, and become greatly disdainful.


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Upon the day that they see the angels, no good tidings that day for the sinners; they shall say, ´A ban forbidden!´


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the Kingdom that day, the true Kingdom, shall belong to the All-merciful and it shall be a day harsh for the unbelievers.


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Upon the day the evildoer shall bite his hands, saying, ´Would that I had taken a way along with the Messenger!


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He indeed led me astray from the Remembrance, after it had come to me; Satan is ever a forsaker of men.´


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Even so We have appointed to every Prophet an enemy among the sinners; but thy Lord suffices as a guide and as a helper.


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The unbelievers say, ´Why has the Koran not been sent down upon him all at once?´ Even so, that We may strengthen thy heart thereby, and We have chanted it very distinctly.


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Those who shall be mustered to Gehenna upon their faces -- they shall be worse in place, and gone further astray from the way.


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And the people of Noah, when they cried lies to the Messengers, We drowned them, and made them to be a sign to mankind; and We have prepared for the evildoers a painful chastisement.


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Surely they have come by the city that was rained on by an evil rain; what, have they not seen it? Nay, but they look for no upraising.


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And when they see thee, they take thee in mockery only: ´What, is this he whom God sent forth as a Messenger?


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Wellnigh he had led us astray from our gods, but that we kept steadfast to them.´ Assuredly they shall know, when they see the chastisement, who is further astray from the way.


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Or deemest thou that most of them hear or understand? They are but as the cattle; nay, they are further astray from the way.


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Hast thou not regarded thy Lord, how He has stretched out the shadow? Had He willed, He would have made it still. Then We appointed the sun, to be a guide to it;


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It is He who appointed the night for you to be a garment and sleep for a rest, and day He appointed for a rising.


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And it is He who has loosed the winds, bearing good tidings before His mercy; and We sent down from heaven pure water


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so that We might revive a dead land, and give to drink of it, of that We created, cattle and men a many.


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We have indeed turned it about amongst them, so that they may remember; yet most men refuse all but unbelief.


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And it is He who let forth the two seas, this one Sweet, grateful to taste, and this salt, bitter to the tongue, and He set between them a barrier, and a ban forbidden.


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And it is He who created of water a mortal, and made him kindred of blood and marriage; thy Lord is All-powerful.


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And they serve, apart from God, what neither profits them nor hurts them; and the unbeliever is ever a partisan against his Lord.


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Put thy trust in the Living God, the Undying, and proclaim His praise. Sufficiently is He aware of His servants sins


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who created the heavens and the earth, and what between them is, in six days, then sat Himself upon the Throne, the All-compassionate: ask any informed of Him!


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But when they are told, ´Bow yourselves to the All-merciful,´ they say, ´And what is the All-merciful? Shall we bow ourselves to what thou biddest us?´ And it increases them in aversion.


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Blessed be He who has set in heaven constellations, and has set among them a lamp, and an illuminating moon.


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And it is He who made the night and day a succession for whom He desires to remember or He desires to be thankful.


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The servants of the All-merciful are those who walk in the earth modestly and who, when the ignorant address them, say, ´Peace´;


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who say, ´Our Lord, turn Thou from us the chastisement of Gehenna; surely its chastisement is torment most terrible;


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who call not upon another god with God, nor slay the soul God has forbidden except by right, neither fornicate, for whosoever does that shall meet the price


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of sin-doubled shall be the chastisement for him on the Resurrection Day, and he shall dwell therein humbled,


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save him who repents, and believes, and does righteous work -- those, God will change their evil deeds into good deeds, for God is ever All-forgiving, All-compassionate;


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who say, ´Our Lord, give us refreshment of our wives and seed, and make us a model to the godfearing.´


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Those shall be recompensed with the highest heaven, for that they endured patiently, and they shall receive therein a greeting and --´ Peace!´


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Say: ´My Lord esteems you not at all were it not for your prayer, for you have cried lies, and it shall surely be fastened.´


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If We will, We shall send down on them out of heaven a sign, so their necks will stay humbled to it.


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What, have they not regarded the earth, how many therein We have caused to grow of every generous kind?


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Said He, ´No indeed; but go, both of you, with Our signs, and We assuredly shall be with you, listening.


tafseer:
He said, ´Did we not raise thee amongst us as a child? Didst thou not tarry among us years of thy life?


tafseer:
Then, when the sorcerers came, they said to Pharaoh, ´Shall we indeed have a wage, if we should be the victors?´


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So they cast their ropes and their staffs, and said, ´By the might of Pharaoh we shall be the victors.´


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Said Pharaoh, ´You have believed him before I gave you leave. Why, he is the chief of you, the same that taught you sorcery; now you shall know! I shall assuredly cut off alternately your hands and feet, then I shall crucify you all together.´


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We are eager that our Lord should forgive us our offences, for that we are the first of the believers.´


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Then We revealed to Moses, ´Strike with thy staff the sea´; and it clave, and each part was as a mighty mount.


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So they cried him lies; then We destroyed them. Surely in that is a sign, yet most of them are not believers.


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But they cried him lies; then there seized them the chastisement of the Day of Shadow; assuredly it was the chastisement of a dreadful day.


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Save those that believe, and do righteous deeds, and remember God oft, and help themselves after being wronged; and those who do wrong shall surely know by what overturning they will he overturned.


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Those who believe not in the Hereafter, We have decked out fair for them their works, and they wander blindly;


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those are they whom an evil chastisement awaits, and they will be the greatest losers in the Hereafter.


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When Moses said to his people ´I observe a fire, and will bring you news of it, or I will bring you a flaming brand, that haply you shall warm yourselves.´


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So, when he came to it, he was called: ´Blessed is he who is in the fire, and he who is about it. Glory be to God, the Lord of all Being!


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Cast down thy staff.´ And when he saw it quivering like a serpent he turned about, retreating, and turned not back. ´Moses, fear not; surely the Envoys do not fear in My presence,


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save him who has done evil, then; after evil, has changed into good; All-forgiving am I, All-compassionate.


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Thrust thy hand in thy bosom and it will come forth white without evil-among nine signs to Pharaoh and his people; they are an ungodly people.´


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and they denied them, though their souls acknowledged them, wrongfully and out of pride. Behold, how was the end of the workers of corruption!


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And We gave David and Solomon knowledge and they said, ´Praise belongs to God who has preferred us over many of His believing servants.´


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And Solomon was David´s heir, and he said, ´Men, we have been taught the speech of the birds, and we have been given of everything; surely this is indeed the manifest bounty.´


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till, when they came on the Valley of Ants, an ant said, ´Ants, enter your dwelling-places, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you, being unaware!´


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But he smiled, laughing at its words, and he said, ´My Lord, dispose me that I may be thankful for Thy blessing wherewith Thou hast blessed me and my father and mother, and that I may do righteousness well-pleasing to Thee; and do Thou admit me, by Thy mercy, amongst Thy righteous servants.´


tafseer:
And he reviewed the birds; then he said, ´How is it with me, that I do not see the hoopoe? Or is he among the absent?


tafseer:
Assuredly I will chastise him with a terrible chastisement, or I will slaughter him, or he bring me a clear authority.´


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But he tarried not long, and said, ´I have comprehended that which thou hast not comprehended, and I have come from Sheba to thee with a sure tiding.


tafseer:
I found a woman ruling over them, and she has been given of everything, and she possesses a mighty throne.


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I found her and her people prostrating to the sun, apart from God; Satan has decked out fair their deeds to them and he has barred them from the way, and therefore they are not guided,


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so that they prostrate not themselves to God, who brings forth what is hidden in the heavens and earth; and He knows what you conceal and what you publish.


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Said he, ´Now We will see whether thou hast spoken truly, or whether thou art amongst those that lie.


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Take this letter of mine, and cast it unto them, then turn back from them and see what they shall return ´


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She said, ´O Council, pronounce to me concerning my affair; I am not used to decide an affair until you bear me witness.´


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They said, ´We possess force and we possess great might. The affair rests with thee; so consider what thou wilt command.´


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She said, ´Kings, when they enter a city, disorder it and make the mighty ones of its inhabitants abased. Even so they too will do.


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But when he came to Solomon he said, ´What, would you succour me with wealth, and what God gave me is better than what He has given you? Nay, but instead you rejoice in your gift!


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Return thou to them; we shall assuredly come against them with hosts they have not power to resist, and we shall expel them from there, abased and utterly humbled.´


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He said, ´O Council, which one of you will bring me her throne, before they come to me in surrender?´


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An efreet of the jinns said, ´I will bring it to thee, before thou risest from thy place; I have strength for it


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and I am trusty.´ Said he who possessed knowledge of the Book, ´I will bring it to thee, before ever thy glance returns to thee.´ Then, when he saw it settled before him, he said, ´This is of my Lord´s bounty that He may try me, whether I am thankful or ungrateful. Whosoever gives thanks gives thanks only for his own soul´s good, and whosoever is ungrateful -- my Lord is surely All-sufficient, All-generous.´


tafseer:
He said, ´Disguise her throne for her, and we shall behold whether she is guided or if she is of those that are not guided.´


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So, when she came, it was said, ´Is thy throne like this?´ She said, ´It seems the same.´ ´And we were given the knowledge before her, and we were in surrender,


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It was said to her, ´Enter the pavilion.´ But when she saw it, she supposed it was a spreading water, and she bared her legs. He said, ´It is a pavilion smoothed of crystal. She said, ´My Lord, indeed I have wronged myself, and I surrender with Solomon to God, the Lord of all Being.´


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And We sent to Thamood their brother Salih: ´Serve you God!´ And behold, they were two parties, that were disputing one with another.


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He said, ´O my people, why do you seek to hasten evil before good? Why do you not ask forgiveness of God? Haply so you will find mercy.´


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They said, ´We augur ill of thee and of those that are with thee.´ He said, ´Your augury is with God; nay, but you are a people being proved.´


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they said, ´Swear you, one to another, by God, "We will attack him and his family by night, then we will tell his protector, We were not witnesses of the destruction of his family; and assuredly we are truthful men."´


tafseer:
Those are their houses, all fallen down because of the evil they committed; surely in that is a sign for a people who have knowledge.


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And the only answer of his people was that they said, ´Expel the folk of Lot from your city; they are men that keep themselves clean!´


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So We delivered him and his family, except his wife; We decreed she should be of those that tarried.


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Say: ´Praise belongs to God, and peace be on His servants whom He has chosen.´ What, is God better, or that they associate?


tafseer:
He who created the heavens and earth, and sent down for you out of heaven water; and We caused to grow therewith gardens full of loveliness whose trees you could never grow. Is there a god with God? Nay, but they are a people who assign to Him equals!


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He who made the earth a fixed place and set amidst it rivers and appointed for it firm mountains and placed a partition between the two seas. Is there a god with God? Nay, but the most of them have no knowledge.


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He who answers the constrained, when he calls unto Him, and removes the evil and appoints you to be successors in the earth. Is there a god with God? Little indeed do you remember.


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He who guides you in the shadows of the land and the sea and looses the winds, bearing good tidings before His mercy. Is there a god with God? High exalted be God, above that which they associate!


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Who originates creation, then brings it back again, and provides you out of heaven and earth. Is there a god with God? Say: ´Produce your proof, if you speak truly.´


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Say: ´None knows the Unseen in the heavens and earth except God. And they are not aware when they shall be raised;


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nay, but their knowledge fails as to the Hereafter; nay, they are in doubt of it; nay, they are blind to it.


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We have been promised this, and our fathers before; this is naught but the fairy-tales of the ancients.´


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Surely this Koran relates to the Children of Israel most of that concerning which they are at variance;


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Thou shalt not make the dead to hear, neither shalt thou make the deaf to hear the call when they turn about, retreating.


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Thou shalt not guide the blind out of their error neither shalt thou make any to hear, save such as believe in Our signs, and so surrender.


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When the Word falls on them, We shall bring forth for them out of the earth a beast that shall speak unto them: ´Mankind had no faith in Our signs.´


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Upon the day when We shall muster out of every nation a troop of those that cried lies to Our signs, duly disposed,


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till, when they are come, He shall say, ´Did you cry lies to My signs, not comprehending them in knowledge, or what have you been doing?´


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Have they not seen how We made the night for them, to repose in it, and the day, to see? Surely in that is a sign for a people who are believers.


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On the day the Trumpet is blown, and terrified is whosoever is in the heavens and earth, excepting whom God wills, and every one shall come to Him, all utterly abject;


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and thou shalt see the mountains, that thou supposest fixed, passing by like clouds -- God´s handiwork, who has created everything very well. He is aware of the things you do.


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Whosoever comes with a good deed, he shall have better than it; and they shall be secure from terror that day.


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And whosoever comes with an evil deed, their faces shall be thrust into the Fire: ´Are you recompensed but for what you did?´


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I have only been commanded to serve the Lord of this territory which He has made sacred; to Him belongs everything. And I have been commanded to be of those that surrender,


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and to recite the Koran. So whosoever is guided, is only guided to his own gain; and whosoever goes astray, say: ´I am naught but a warner.


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And say: ´Praise belongs to God. He shall show you His signs and you will recognise them. Thy Lord is not heedless of the things you do.´


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We will recite to thee something of the tiding of Moses and Pharaoh truthfully, for a people who believe.


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Now Pharaoh had exalted himself in the land and had divided its inhabitants into sects, abasing one party of them, slaughtering their sons, and sparing their women; for he was of the workers of corruption.


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Yet We desired to be gracious to those that were abased in the land, and to make them leaders, and to make them the inheritors,


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and to establish them in the land, and to show Pharaoh and Ha man, and their hosts, what they were dreading from them.


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So We revealed to Moses´ mother, ´Suckle him, then, when thou fearest for him, cast him into the sea, and do not fear, neither sorrow, for We shall return him to thee, and shall appoint him one of the Envoys.´


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So then the folk of Pharaoh picked him out to be an enemy and a sorrow to them; certainly Pharaoh and Haman, and their hosts, were of the sinners.


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Said Pharaoh´s wife, ´He will be a comfort to me and thee. Slay him not; perchance he will profit us, or we will take him for a son.´ And they were not aware.


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On the morrow the heart of Moses" mother became empty, and she wellnigh disclosed him had We not strengthened her heart, that she might be among the believers;


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and she said to his sister, ´Follow him,´ and she perceived him from afar, even while they were not aware.


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Now We had forbidden to him aforetime to be suckled by any foster-mother; therefore she said, ´Shall I direct you to the people of a household who will take charge of him for you and look after him?´


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So We returned him to his mother, that she might be comforted and not sorrow, and that she might know that the promise of God is true; but most of them do not know.


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And when he was fully grown and in the perfection of his strength, We gave him judgment and knowledge; even so do We recompense the good-doers.


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And he entered the city, at a time when its people were unheeding, and found there two men fighting; the one was of his own party, and the other was of his enemies. Then the one that was of his party cried to him to aid him against the other that was of his enemies; so Moses struck him, and despatched him, and said, ´This is of Satan´s doing; he is surely an enemy misleading, manifest.´


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He said, ´My Lord, I have wronged myself. Forgive me!´ So God forgave him, for He is the All-forgiving, the All-compassionate.


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Now in the morning he was in the city, fearful and vigilant; and behold, the man who had sought his, succour on the day before cried out to him again. Moses said to him, ´Clearly thou art, a quarreller.´


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But when he would have assaulted the man who was an enemy to them both, the man said, ´Moses, dost thou´ desire to slay me, even as thou slewest a living ´soul yesterday? Thou only desirest to be a tyrant in the land; thou desirest not to be of them that put things right.´


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Then came a man from the furthest part of the city, running; he said, ´Moses, the Council are conspiring to slay thee. Depart; I am one of thy sincere advisers.´


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So he departed therefrom, fearful and vigilant; he said, ´My Lord, deliver me from the people of the evildoers.´


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On the right way. And when he came to the waters of Midian he found a company of the people there drawing water, and he found, apart from them, two women holding back their flocks. He said, ´What is your business?´ They said, ´We may not draw water until the shepherds drive off; and our father is passing old.´


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So he drew water for them; then he turned away to the shade, and he said, ´O my Lord, surely I have need of whatever good Thou shalt have sent down upon me.


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Then came one of the two women to him, walking modestly, and said, ´My father invites thee, that he may recompense thee with the wage of thy drawing water for us.´ So when he came to him and had related to him the story, he said, ´Be not afraid; thou hast escaped from the people of the evildoers.´


tafseer:
Said one of the two women, ´Father, hire him; surely the best man thou canst hire is the one strong and trusty.´


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He said, ´I desire to marry thee to one of these my two daughters, on condition that thou hirest thyself to me for eight years. If thou completest ten, that shall be of thy own accord; I do not desire to´ press hard ´upon thee. Thou shalt assuredly find me, if God wills, one of the righteous.´


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Said he, ´So let it be between me and thee. Whichever of the two´ terms I fulfil, it shall be no Injustice to me; and God is guardian of what we say.


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So when Moses had accomplished the term and departed with his household, he observed on the side of the Mount a fire. He said to his household, ´Tarry you here; I observe a fire. Perhaps I shall bring you news of it, or a faggot from the fire, that haply you shall warm yourselves.´


tafseer:
When he came to it, a voice cried from the right of the watercourse, in the sacred hollow, coming from the tree: ´Moses, I am God, the Lord of all Being.´


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´Cast down thy staff.´ And when he saw it quivering like a serpent, he turned about retreating, and turned not back. ´Moses, come forward, and fear not; for surely thou art in security.´


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Insert thy hand into thy bosom, and it will come forth white without evil; and press to thee thy arm, that thou be not afraid. So these shall be two proofs from thy Lord to Pharaoh and his Council; for surely they are an ungodly people.´


tafseer:
Moreover my brother Aaron is more eloquent than I. Send him with me as a helper and to confirm I speak truly, for´ I fear they will cry me lies.´


tafseer:
Said He, ´We will strengthen thy arm by means of thy brother, and We shall appoint. to you an authority, so that they shall not reach you because of Our signs; you, and whoso follows you, shall be the victors.´


tafseer:
So when Moses came to them with Our signs, clear signs, they said, ´This is nothing but a forged sorcery. We never heard of this among our fathers, the ancients.´


tafseer:
But Moses said, ´My Lord knows very well who comes with the guidance from Him, and shall possess the Ultimate Abode; surely the evildoers will not prosper.´


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And Pharaoh said, ´Council, I know not that you have any god but me. Kindle me, Haman, a fire upon the clay, and make me a tower, that I may mount up to Moses´ god; for I think that he is one of the liars.´


tafseer:
And he waxed proud in the land, he and his hosts, wrongfully; and they thought they should not be returned to Us.


tafseer:
Therefore We seized him and his hosts, and cast their into the sea; so behold how was the end of the evildoers!


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And We appointed them leaders, calling to the Fire; and on the Day of Resurrection they shall not be helped;


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and We pursued them in this world with a curse, and on the Day of Resurrection they shall be among the spurned.


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And We gave Moses the Book, after that We had destroyed the former generations, to be examples and a guidance and a mercy, that haply so they might remember.


tafseer:
Thou wast not upon the western side when We decreed to Moses the commandment, nor wast thou of those witnessing;


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but We raised up generations, and long their lives continued. Neither wast thou a dweller among the Midianites, reciting to them Our signs; but We were sending Messengers.


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Thou wast not upon the side of the Mount when We called; but for a mercy from thy Lord, that thou mayest warn a people to whom no warner came before thee, and that haply they may remember.


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Else, did an affliction visit them for that their own hands have forwarded then they might say, ´Our Lord, why didst Thou not send a Messenger to us that we might follow Thy signs and so be among the believers?´


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Yet when the truth came to them ´from Ourselves, they said, ´Why has he not been given the like´ of that Moses was given?´ But they, did they not disbelieve also in what Moses was given aforetime? They said, ´A pair of sorceries mutually supporting each other.´ They said, ´We disbelieve both.´


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Say: ´Bring a Book from God that gives better guidance than these, and follow it, if you speak truly.´


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Then if they do not answer thee, know that they are only following their caprices; and who is further astray than he who follows his caprice without guidance from God? Surely God guides not the people of the evildoers.


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and, when it is recited to them, they say, ´We believe in it; surely it is the truth from our Lord. Indeed, even before´ it we had surrendered.´


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These shall be given their wage twice over for that they patiently endured, and avert evil with good, and expend of that We have provided them.


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When they hear idle talk, they turn away from it and say, ´We have our deeds, and you your deeds. Peace be upon your We desire not the ignorant.´


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Thou guidest not whom thou likest, but God guides whom He wills, and knows very well those that are guided.


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They say, ´Should we follow the guidance with thee, we shall be snatched from our land.´ Have We not established for them a sanctuary secure, to which are collected the fruits of everything, as a provision from Us? But most of them know not.


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How many a city We have destroyed that flourished in insolent ease! Those are their dwelling-places, undwelt in after them, except a little; Ourselves are the inheritors.


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Yet thy Lord never destroyed the cities until He sent in their mother-city a Messenger, to recite Our signs unto them; and We never destroyed the cities, save that their inhabitants were evildoers.


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Whatever thing you have been given is the enjoyment of the present life and its adornment; and what is with God is better and more enduring.


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Will you not understand? What, is he to whom We have promised a fair promise, and he receives it, like him to whom We have given the enjoyment of the present life, then he on the Resurrection Day shall be of those that are arraigned?


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Upon the day when He shall call to them, and He shall say, ´Where now are My associates whom you were asserting?´


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Those against whom the Word is realized they shall say, ´Our Lord, those whom we perverted, we perverted them even as we ourselves erred. We declare our innocence unto Thee; it was not us that they were serving.´


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It shall be said, ´Call you now upon your associates!´ And they will call upon them, but they shall not answer them, and they shall see the chastisement-ah, if they had been guided!


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But as for him who repents, and believes, and works righteousness, haply he shall be among the prosperers.


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Thy Lord creates whatsoever He will and He chooses; they have not the choice. Glory be to God! High be He exalted above that they associate!


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And He is God; there is no god but He. His is the praise in the former as in the latter; His too is the Judgment, and unto Him you shall be returned.


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Say: ´What think you? If God should make the night unceasing over you, until the Day of Resurrection, what god other than God shall bring you illumination? Will you not hear?´


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Say: ´What think you? If God should make the day unceasing over you, until the Day of Resurrection, what god other than God shall bring you night to repose in? Will you not see?


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Of His mercy He has appointed for you night and day, for you to repose in and seek after His bounty, that haply you will be thankful.´


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Upon the day when He shall call. to them, and He shall say, ´Where now are My associates whom you were asserting?´


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And We shall draw out from every nation a witness, and say, ´Produce your proof!´ Then will they know that Truth is God´s, and there shall go astray from them that they were forging.


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Now Korah was of the people of Moses; he became insolent to them, for We had given him treasures such that the very keys of them were too heavy a burden for a company of men endowed with strength. When his people said to him, ´Do not exult; God loves not those that exult;


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but seek, amidst that which God has given thee, the Last Abode, and forget not thy portion of the present world; and do good, as God has been good to thee.´ And seek not to work corruption in the earth; surely God loves not the workers of corruption.´


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He said, ´What I have been given is only because of a knowledge that is in me.´ What, did he not know that God bad destroyed before him generations of men stronger than he ill might, and more numerous in multitude? And yet the sinners shall not be questioned concerning their sins.


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So he went forth unto his people in his adornment. Those who desired the present life said, ´Would that we possessed the like of that Korah has been given! Surely he is a man of mighty fortune.


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But those to whom knowledge had been given said, ´Woe upon you! The reward of God is better for him who believes, and works righteousness; and none shall receive it except the steadfast.´


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So We made the earth to swallow him and his dwelling and there was no host to help him, apart from God, and he was helpless;


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and in the morning those who had longed to be in his place the day before were saying, ´Ah, God outspreads and straitens His provision to whomsoever He will of His servants. Had God not been gracious to us, He would have made us to be swallowed too. Ah, the unbelievers do not prosper,


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That is the Last Abode; We appoint it for those who desire not exorbitance in the earth, nor corruption. The issue ultimate is to the godfearing.


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Whoso brings a good deed shall have better than it; and whoso brings an evil deed those who have done evil deeds shall only be recompensed for that they were doing.


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He who imposed ´the Recitation upon thee. shall surely restore thee to a place of homing. Say: ´My Lord´ knows very well who comes with guidance, and who is in manifest error.


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Thou didst not hope that the Book should be cast unto thee, except it be as a mercy from thy Lord; so be thou not a partisan of the unbelievers.


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Let them not bar thee from the signs of God, after that they have been sent down to thee. And call upon thy Lord, and be thou´ not of the idolaters.


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And call not upon another god with God; there is no god but He. All things perish, except His Face. His is the Judgment, and unto Him you shall be returned.


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We certainly tried those that were before them, and assuredly God knows those who speak truly, and assuredly He knows the liars.


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Whosoever struggles, struggles only to his own gain; surely God is All-sufficient nor needs any being.


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And those who believe, and do righteous deeds, We shall surely acquit them of their evil deeds, and shall recompense them the best of what they were doing.


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We have charged man, that he be kind to his parents; but if they strive with thee to make thee associate with Me that whereof thou hast no knowledge, then do not obey them; unto Me you shall return, and I shall tell you what you were doing.


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Some men there are who say, ´We believe in God,´ but when such a man is hurt in God´s cause, he makes the persecution of men as it were God´s chastisement; then if help comes from thy Lord, he will say ´We were with you.´ What, does not God know very well what is in the breasts of all beings?


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The unbelievers say to the believers, ´Follow our path, and let us carry your offences´; yet they cannot carry anything, even of their own offences; they are truly liars.


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They shall certainly carry their loads, and other loads along with their loads, and upon the Day of Resurrection they shall surely be questioned concerning that they were forging.


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Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, and he tarried among them a thousand years, all but fifty; so the Flood seized them, while they were evildoers.


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And Abraham, when he said to his people, ´Serve God, and fear Him; that is better for you, did you know.


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You only serve, apart from God, idols and you create a calumny; those you serve, apart from God, have no power to provide for you. So seek after your provision with God, and serve Him, and be thankful to Him; unto Him you shall be returned.


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´But if you cry me lies, nations cried lies before you; and it is only for the Messenger to deliver the Manifest Message.´


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(Have they not seen how God originates creation, then brings it back again? Surely that is an easy matter for God.


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Say: Journey in the land, then behold how He originated creation; then God causes the second growth to grow; God is powerful over everything,


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You are not able to frustrate Him either in the earth or in heaven; and you have not, apart from God, either protector or helper.


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And those who disbelieve in God´s signs and the encounter with Him -- they despair of My mercy, and there awaits them a painful chastisement.)


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But the only answer of his people was that they said, ´Slay him, or burn him!´ Then God delivered him from the fire; surely in that are signs for a people who believe.


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And he said, ´You have only taken to yourselves idols, apart from God, as a mark of mutual love between you in the present life; then upon the Day of Resurrection you will deny one another, and you will curse one another, and your refuge will be the Fire, and you will have no helpers.´


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And We gave him Isaac and Jacob, and We appointed the Prophecy and the Book to be among his seed; We gave him his wage in this world, and in the world to come he shall be among the righteous.


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And Lot, when he said to his people ´Surely you commit such indecency as never any being in all the world committed before you.


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What, do you approach men, and cut the way, and commit in your assembly dishonour?´ But the only answer of his people was that they said, ´Then bring us the chastisement of God, if thou speakest truly.´


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And when Our messengers came to Abraham with the good tidings, they said, ´We shall destroy the people of this city, for its people are evildoers.´


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He said, ´Lot is in it.´ They said, ´We know very well who is in it; assuredly We shall deliver him and his family, except his wife; she has become of those that tarry.´


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When that Our messengers came to Lot he was troubled on their account and distressed for them; but they said, ´Fear not, neither sorrow, for surely we shall deliver thee and thy family, except thy wife; she has become of those that tarry.


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And to Midian their brother Shuaib; he said, ´O my people, serve God, and look you for the Last Day; and do not mischief in the land, working corruption.´


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But they cried lies to him; so the earthquake seized them, and morning found them in their habitation fallen prostrate.


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And Ad, and Thamood -- it has become clear to you from their dwelling-places; and Satan decked out fair to them their works, and barred them from the way, though they saw clearly.


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And Korah, and Pharaoh, and Haman; Moses came to them with the clear signs, but they waxed proud in the earth, yet they outstripped Us not.


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Each We seized for his sin; and of them against some We loosed a squall of pebbles and some were seized by the Cry, and some We made the earth to swallow, and some We drowned; God would never wrong them, but they wronged themselves.


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The likeness of those who have taken to them protectors, apart from God, is as the likeness of the spider that takes to itself a house; and surely the frailest of houses is the house of the spider, did they but know.


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And those similitudes -- We strike them for the people, but none understands them save those who know.


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Recite what has been revealed to thee of the Book, and perform the prayer; prayer forbids indecency and dishonour. God´s remembrance is greater; and God knows the things you work.


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Dispute not with the People of the Book save in the fairer manner, except for those of them that do wrong; and say, ´We believe in what has been sent down to us, and what has been sent down to you; our God and your God is One, and to Him we have surrendered.´


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Even so We have sent down to thee the Book. Those to whom We have given the Book believe in it; and some of these believe in it; and none denies Our signs but the unbelievers.


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Not before this didst thou recite any Book, or inscribe it with thy right hand, for then those who follow falsehood would have doubted.


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Nay; rather it is signs, clear signs in the breasts of those who have been given knowledge; and none denies Our signs but the evildoers.


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They say, ´Why have signs not been gent down upon him from his Lord?´ Say: ´The signs are only with God, and I am only a plain warner.


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What, is it not sufficient for them that We have sent down upon thee the Book that is recited to them? Surely in that is a mercy, and a reminder to a people who believe.


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Say: ´God suffices as a witness between me and you.´ He knows whatsoever is in the heavens and earth. Those who believe in vanity and disbelieve in God -- those, they are the losers.


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And they demand of thee to hasten the chastisement! But for a stated term the chastisement would have come upon them; but it shall come upon them suddenly, when they are not aware.


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Upon the day the chastisement shall overwhelm them from above them and from under their feet, and He shall say, ´Taste now what you were doing!´


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And those who believe, and do righteous deeds, We shall surely lodge them in lofty chambers of paradise, underneath which rivers flow, therein dwelling forever; and excellent is the wage of those who labour,


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How many a beast that bears not its own provision, but God provides for it and you! He is the All-hearer, the All-knower.


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If thou askest them, ´Who created the heavens and the earth and subjected the sun and the moon?´ they will say, ´God.´ How then are they perverted?


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God outspreads and straitens His provision to whomsoever He will of His servants; God has knowledge of everything.


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If thou askest them, ´Who sends down out of heaven water, and therewith revives the earth after it is dead?´ they will say, ´God.´ Say: ´Praise belongs to God.´ Nay, but most of them have no understanding.


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This present life is naught but a diversion and a sport; surely the Last Abode is Life, did they but know.


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When they embark in the ships, they call on God, making their religion sincerely His; but when He has delivered them to the land, they associate others with Him,


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that they may be ungrateful for what We have given them, and take their enjoyment; they will soon know!


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Have they not seen that We have appointed a sanctuary secure, while all about them the people are snatched away? What, do they believe in vanity, and do they disbelieve in God´s blessing?


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And who does greater evil than he who forges against God a lie, or cries lies to the truth when it comes to him? What, is there not in Gehenna a lodging for the unbelievers?


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But those who struggle in Our cause, surely We shall guide them in Our ways; and God is with the good-doers.


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in a few years. To God belongs the Command before and after, and on that day the believers shall rejoice


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What, have they not considered within themselves? God created not the heavens and the earth, and what between them is, save with the truth and a stated term; yet most men disbelieve in the encounter with their Lord.


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What, have they not journeyed in the land and beheld how was the end of those before them? They were stronger than themselves in might, and they ploughed up the earth and cultivated it more than they themselves have cultivated it; and their Messengers came to them with the clear signs; and God would never wrong them, but themselves they wronged.


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Then the end of those that did evil was evil, for that they cried lies to the signs of God and mocked at them.


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no intercessors shall they have amongst their associates, and they shall disbelieve in their associates.


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as for those who believed, and did deeds of righteousness, they shall walk with joy in a green meadow,


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but as for those who disbelieved, and cried lies to Our signs and the encounter of the Hereafter, they shall be arraigned into the chastisement.


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He brings forth the living from the dead, and brings forth the dead from the living, and He revives the earth after it is dead; even so you shall be brought forth.


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And of His signs is that He created for you, of yourselves, spouses, that you might repose in them, and He has set between you love and mercy. Surely in that are signs for a people who consider.


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And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and earth and the variety of your tongues and hues. Surely in that are signs for all living beings.


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And of His signs is your slumbering by night and day, and your seeking after His bounty. Surely in that are signs for a people who hear.


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And of His signs He shows you lightning, for fear and hope, and that He sends down out of heaven water and He revives the earth after it is dead. Surely in that are signs for a people who understand.


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And of His signs is that the heaven and earth stand firm by His command; then, when He calls you once and suddenly, out of the earth, lo you shall come forth.


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And it is He who originates creation, then brings it back again, and it is very easy for Him. His is the loftiest likeness in the heavens and the earth; He is the All-mighty, the All-wise.


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He has struck for you a similitude from yourselves; do you have, among that your right hands own, associates in what We have provided for you so that you are equal in regard to it, you fearing them as you fear each other? So We distinguish the signs for a people who understand.


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Nay, but the evildoers follow their own caprices, without knowledge; so who shall guide those whom God has led astray? They have no helpers.


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So set thy face to the religion, a man of pure faith -- God´s original upon which He originated mankind. There is no changing God´s creation. That is the right religion; but most men know it not --


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even of those who have divided up their religion, and become sects, each several party rejoicing in what is theirs.


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When some affliction visits mankind, they call unto their Lord, turning to Him; then, when He lets them taste mercy from Him, lo, a party of them assign associates to their Lord,


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that they may be ungrateful for what We have given them. ´Take your enjoyment; certainly you will soon know.´


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And when We let men taste mercy, they rejoice in it; but if some evil befalls them for that their own hands have forwarded, behold, they despair.


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Have they not seen that God outspreads and straitens His provision to whom He will? Surely in that are signs for a people who believe.


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And give the kinsman his right, and the needy, and the traveller; that is better for those who desire God´s Face; those they are the prosperers.


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And what you give in usury, that it may increase upon the people´s wealth, increases not with God; but what you give in alms, desiring God´s Face, those -- they receive recompense manifold.


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God is He that created you, then He provided for you, then He shall make you dead, then He shall give you life; is there any of your associates does aught of that? Glory be to Him! High be He exalted above that they associate!


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Corruption has appeared in the land and sea, for that men´s own hands have earned, that He may let them taste some part of that which they have done, that haply so they may return.


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Say: ´Journey in the land, then behold how was the end of those that were before; most of them were idolaters.´


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So set thy face to the true religion before there comes a day from God that cannot be turned back; on that day they shall be sundered apart.


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Whoso disbelieves, his unbelief shall be charged against him; and whosoever does righteousness for themselves they are making provision,


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that He may recompense those who believe and do righteous deeds of His bounty; He loves not the unbelievers.


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And of His signs is that He looses the winds, bearing good tidings and that He may let you taste of His mercy, and that the ships may run at His commandment, and that you may seek His bounty; haply so you will be thankful.


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Indeed, We sent before thee Messengers unto their people, and they brought them the clear signs; then We took vengeance upon those who sinned; and it was ever a duty incumbent upon Us, to help the believers.


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God is He that looses the winds, that stir up clouds; and He spreads them in heaven how He will, and shatters them; then thou seest the rain issuing out of the midst of them, and when He smites with it whomsoever of His servants He will, lo, they rejoice,


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So behold the marks of God´s mercy, how He quickens the earth after it was dead; surely He is the quickener of the dead, and He is powerful over everything.


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Thou shalt not guide the blind out of their error neither shalt thou make any to hear except for such as believe in Our signs, and so surrender.


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God is He that created you of weakness, then He appointed after weakness strength, then after strength He appointed weakness and grey hairs; He creates what He will, and He is the All-knowing, the All-powerful.


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Upon the day when the Hour is come, the sinners shall swear they have not tarried above an hour; so they were perverted.


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But those who have been given knowledge and faith shall say, ´You have tarried in God´s Book till the Day of the Upraising, This is the Day of the Upraising, but you did not know.´


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Indeed, We have struck for the people in this Koran every manner of similitude; and if thou bringest them a sign, those who are unbelievers will certainly say, ´You do nothing but follow falsehood.´


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So be thou patient; surely God´s promise is true; and let not those who have not sure faith make thee unsteady.


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Some men there are who buy diverting talk to lead astray from the way of God without knowledge, and to take it in mockery; those -- there awaits them a humbling chastisement.


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And when Our signs are recited to such a man he turns away, waxing proud, as though he heard them not, and in his ears were heaviness; so give him good tidings of a painful chastisement.


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He created the heavens without pillars you can see, and He cast on the earth firm mountains, lest it shake with you, and He scattered abroad in it all manner of crawling thing. And We sent down out of heaven water, and caused to grow in it of every generous kind.


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This is God´s creation; now show me what those have created that are apart from Him! Nay, but the evildoers are in manifest error.


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Indeed, We gave Lokman wisdom: ´Give thanks to God. Whosoever gives thanks gives thanks only for his own soul´s good, and whosoever is ungrateful -- surely God is All-sufficient, All-laudable.´


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And when Lokman said to his son, admonishing him, ´O my son, do not associate others with God; to associate others with God is a mighty wrong.


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(And We have charged man concerning his parents -- his mother bore him in weakness upon weakness, and his weaning was in two years -- ´Be thankful to Me, and to thy parents; to Me is the homecoming.


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But if they strive with thee to make thee associate with Me that whereof thou hast no knowledge, then do not obey them. Keep them company honourable in this world; but follow the way of him who turns to Me. Then unto Me you shall return, and I shall tell you what you were doing.´)


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´O my son, if it should be but the weight of one grain of mustard-seed, and though it be in a rock, or in the heavens, or in the earth, God shall bring it forth; surely God is All-subtle, All-aware.


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O my son, perform the prayer, and bid unto honour, and forbid dishonour. And bear patiently whatever may befall thee; surely that is true constancy.


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Turn not thy cheek away from men in scorn, and walk not in the earth exultantly; God loves not any man proud and boastful.


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Have you not seen how that God has subjected to you whatsoever is in the heavens and earth, and He has lavished on you His blessings, outward and inward? And among men there is such a one that disputes concerning God without knowledge or guidance, or an illuminating Book;


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and when it is said to them, ´Follow what God has sent down,´ they say, ´No; but we will follow such things as we found our fathers doing.´ What? Even though Satan were calling them to the chastisement of the burning?


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And whosoever submits his will to God, being a good-doer, has laid hold of the most firm handle; and unto God is the issue of all affairs.


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And whoso disbelieves, let not his disbelief grieve thee; unto Us they shall return, and We shall tell them what they did. Surely God knows all the thoughts within the breasts.


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If thou askest them, ´Who created the heavens and the earth?´ they will say, ´God.´ Say: ´Praise belongs to God.´ Nay, but most of them have no knowledge.


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To God belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth; surely God -- He is the All-sufficient, the All-laudable.


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Though all the trees in the earth were pens, and the sea-seven seas after it to replenish it, yet would the Words of God not be spent. God is All-mighty, All-wise.


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Hast thou not seen how that God makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night. and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them running to a stated term, and that God is aware of what you do?


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Hast thou not seen how that the ships run upon the sea by the blessing of God, that He may show you some of His signs? Surely in that are signs for every man enduring, thankful.


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And when the waves cover them like shadows they call upon God, making their religion sincerely His; but when He has delivered them to the land, some of them are lukewarm. And none denies Our signs, except every ungrateful traitor.


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O men, fear your Lord, and dread a day when no father shall give satisfaction for his child, and no child shall give satisfaction for his father whatever. Surely God´s promise is true; so let not the present life delude you, and let not the Deluder delude you concerning God.


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Surely God -- He has knowledge of the Hour; He sends down the rain; He knows what is in the wombs. No soul knows what it shall earn tomorrow, and no soul knows in what land it shall die. Surely God is All-knowing, All-aware.


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Or do they say, ´He has forged it´? Say: ´Not so; it is the truth from thy Lord that thou mayest warn a people to whom no warner came before thee, that haply so they may be guided.


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God is He that created the heavens and the earth, and what between them is, in six days, then seated Himself upon the Throne. Apart from Him, you have no protector neither mediator; will you not remember?


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He directs the affair from heaven to earth, then it goes up to Him in one day, whose measure is a thousand years of your counting.


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then He shaped him, and breathed His spirit in him. And He appointed for you hearing, and sight, and hearts; little thanks you show.


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They say, ´What, when we have gone astray in the earth, shall we indeed be in a new creation?´ Nay, but they disbelieve in the encounter with their Lord.


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Say: ´Death´s angel, who has been charged with you, shall gather you, then to your Lord you shall be returned.´


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Ah, if thou couldst see the guilty hanging their heads before their Lord! ´Our Lord, we have seen and heard; now return us, that we may do righteousness, for we have sure faith.´


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´If We had so willed, We could have given every soul its guidance; but now My Word is realized -- " Assuredly I shall fill Gehenna with jinn and men all together.


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So now taste, for that you forgot the encounter of this your day! We indeed have forgotten you. Taste the chastisement of eternity for that you were doing!´


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Only those believe in Our signs who, when they are reminded of them, fall down prostrate and proclaim the praise of their Lord, not waxing proud.


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Their sides shun their couches as they call on their Lord in fear and hope; and they expend of that We have provided them.


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As for those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, there await them the Gardens of the Refuge, in hospitality for that they were doing.


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But as for the ungodly, their refuge shall be the Fire; as often as they desire to come forth from it, they shall be restored into it, and it shall be said to them, ´Taste the chastisement of the Fire, which you cried lies to.´


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And We shall surely let them taste the nearer chastisement, before the greater; haply so they will return.


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And who does greater evil than he who is reminded of the signs of his Lord, then turns away from them? We shall take vengeance upon the sinners.


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Indeed, We gave Moses the Book; so he not in doubt concerning the encounter with him; and We appointed it for a guidance to the Children of Israel.


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And We appointed from among them leaders guiding by Our command, when they endured patiently, and had sure faith in Our signs.


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Surely thy Lord will distinguish between them on the Resurrection Day, touching that whereon they were at variance.


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Is it not a guidance to them, how many generations We destroyed before them in whose dwelling-places they walk? Surely in that are signs; what, will they not hear?


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Have they not seen how We drive the water to the dry land and bring forth crops therewith whereof their cattle and themselves eat? What, will they not see?


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Say: ´On the Day of Victory their faith shall not profit the unbelievers, nor shall they be respited.´


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God has not assigned to any man two hearts within his breast; nor has He made your wives, when you divorce, saying, ´Be as my mother´s back,´ truly your mothers, neither has He made your adopted sons your sons in fact. That is your own saying, the words of your mouths; but God speaks the truth, and guides on the way.


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Call them after their true fathers; that is more equitable in the sight of God. If you know not who their fathers were, then they are your brothers in religion, and your clients. There is no fault in you if you make mistakes, but only in what your hearts premeditate. God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


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The Prophet is nearer to the believers than their selves; his wives are their mothers. Those who are bound by blood are nearer to one another in the Book of God than the believers and the emigrants; nevertheless you should act towards your friends honourably; that stands inscribed in the Book.


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And when We took compact from the Prophets, and from thee, and from Noah, and Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, Mary´s son; We took from them a solemn compact,


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that He might question the truthful concerning their truthfulness; and He has prepared for the unbelievers a painful chastisement.


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O believers, remember God´s blessing upon you when hosts came against you, and We loosed against them a wind, and hosts you saw not; and God sees the things you do.


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When they came against you from above you and from below you, and when your eyes swerved and your hearts reached your throats, while you thought thoughts about God;


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And when tile hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is sickness, said, ´God and His Messenger promised us only delusion.´


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And when a party of them said, ´O people of Yathrib, there is no abiding here for you, therefore return!´ And a part of them Were asking leave of the Prophet, saying, ´Our houses are exposed´; yet they were not exposed; they desired only to flee.


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And if entrance had been forced against them from those quarters, and then they had been asked to apostatise, they would have done so, and but tarried about it briefly.


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Yet they had made covenant with God before that, that they would not turn their backs; and covenants with God shall be questioned of


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Say: ´Flight will not profit you, if you flee from death or slaying; you will be given enjoyment of days then but little.´


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Say: ´Who is he that shall defend you from God, if lie desires evil for you, or desires mercy for you?´ They shall find for themselves, apart from God, neither protector nor helper.


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God would surely know those of you who hinder, and those who say to their brothers, ´Come to us,´ and come to battle but little,


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being niggardly towards you. When fear comes upon them, thou seest them looking at thee, their eyes rolling like one who swoons of death; but when the fear departs, they flay you with sharp tongues, being niggardly to possess the good things. Those have never believed; God has made their works to fail; and that is easy for God.


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They think the Confederates have not departed; and if the Confederates come, they will wish that they were desert-dwellers among the Bedoums asking for news of you. If they were among you, they would fight but little.


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You have had a good example in God´s Messenger for whosoever hopes for God and the Last Day, and remembers God oft.


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When the believers saw the Confederates they said, ´This is what God and His Messenger promised us, and God and His Messenger have spoken truly.´ And it only increased them in faith and surrender.


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Among the believers are men who were true to their covenant with God; some of them have fulfilled their vow by death, and some are still awaiting, and they have not changed in the least;


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that God may recompense the truthful ones for their truthfulness, and chastise the hypocrites, if He will, or turn again unto them. Surely God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


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And God sent back those that were unbelievers in their rage, and they attained no good; God spared the believers of fighting. Surely God is All-strong, All-mighty.


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And He brought down those of the People of the Book who supported them from their fortresses and cast terror in their hearts; some you slew, some you made captive.


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And He bequeathed upon you their lands, their habitations, and their possessions, and a land you never trod. God is powerful over everything.


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O Prophet, say to thy wives: ´If you desire the present life and its adornment, come now, I will make you provision, and set you free with kindliness.


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But if you desire God and His Messenger and the Last Abode, surely God has prepared for those amongst you such as do good a mighty wage.


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Wives of the Prophet, whosoever among you commits a flagrant indecency, for her the chastisement shall be doubled; that is easy for God.


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But whosoever of you is obedient to God and His Messenger, and does righteousness, We shall pay her her wage twice over; We have prepared for her a generous provision.


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Wives of the Prophet, you are not as other women. If you are godfearing, be not abject in your speech, so that he in whose heart is sickness may be lustful; but speak honourable words.


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Remain in your houses; and display not your finery, as did the pagans of old. And perform the prayer, and pay the alms, and obey God and His Messenger. People of the House, God only desires to put away from you abomination and to cleanse you.


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And remember that which is recited in your houses of the signs of God and the Wisdom; God is All-subtle, All-aware.


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Men and women who have surrendered, believing men and believing women, obedient men and obedient women, truthful men and truthful women, enduring men and enduring women, humble men and humble women, men and women who give in charity, men who fast and women who fast, men and women who guard their private parts, men and women who remember God oft -- for them God has prepared forgiveness and a mighty wage.


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It is not for any believer, man or woman, when God and His Messenger have decreed a matter, to have the choice in the affair. Whosoever disobeys God and His Messenger has gone astray into manifest error.


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When thou saidst to him whom God had blessed and thou hadst favoured, ´Keep thy wife to thyself, and fear God,´ and thou wast concealing within thyself what God should reveal, fearing other men; and God has better right for thee to fear Him. So when Zaid had accomplished what he would of her, then We gave her in marriage to thee, so that there should not be any fault in the believers, touching the wives of their adopted sons, when they have accomplished what they would of them; and God´s commandment must be performed.


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There is no fault in the Prophet, touching what God has ordained for him -- God´s wont with those who passed away before; and God´s commandment is doom decreed;


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who were delivering the Messages of God, and were fearing Him, and fearing not any one except Him; and God suffices as a reckoner.


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Muhammad is not the father of any one of your men, but the Messenger of God, and the Seal of the Prophets; God has knowledge of everything.


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It is He who blesses you, and His angels, to bring you forth from the shadows into the light. He is All-compassionate to the believers.


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Their greeting, on the day when they shall meet Him, will be ´Peace!´ And He has prepared for them a generous wage.


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And obey not the unbelievers and the hypocrites; heed not their hurt, but put thy trust in God; God suffices as a guardian.


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O believers, when you marry believing women and then divorce them before you touch them, you have no period to reckon against them; so make provision for them, and set them free with kindliness.


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O Prophet, We have made lawful for thee thy wives whom thou hast given their wages and what thy right hand owns, spoils of war that God has given thee, and the daughters of thy uncles paternal and aunts paternal, thy uncles maternal and aunts maternal, who have emigrated with thee, and any woman believer, if she give herself to the Prophet and if the Prophet desire to take her in marriage, for thee exclusively, apart from the believers -- We know what We have imposed upon them touching their wives and what their right hands own -- that there may be no fault in thee; God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


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Thou mayest put off whom thou wilt of them, and whom thou wilt thou mayest take to thee; and if thou seekest any thou hast set aside there is no fault in thee. So it is likelier they will be comforted, and not sorrow, and every one of them will be well-pleased with what thou givest her. God knows what is in your hearts; God is All-knowing, All-clement.


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Thereafter women are not lawful to thee, neither for thee to take other wives in exchange for them, though their beauty please thee, except what thy right hand owns; God is watchful over everything.


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O believers, enter not the houses of the Prophet, except leave is given you for a meal, without watching for its hour. But when you are invited, then enter; and when you have had the meal, disperse, neither lingering for idle talk; that is hurtful to the Prophet, and he is ashamed before you; but God is not ashamed before the truth. And when you ask his wives for any object, ask them from behind a curtain; that is cleaner for your hearts and theirs. It is not for you to hurt God´s Messenger, neither to marry his wives after him, ever; surely that would be, in God´s sight, a monstrous thing.


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There is no fault in the Prophet´s wives touching their fathers, their sons, their brothers, their brothers´ sons, their sisters´ sons, their women, and what their right hands own. And fear you God; surely God is witness of everything.


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Those who hurt God and His Messenger -- them God has cursed in the present world and the world to come, and has prepared for them a humbling chastisement.


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And those who hurt believing men and believing women, without that they have earned it, have laid upon themselves calumny and manifest sin.


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O Prophet, say to thy wives and daughters and the believing women, that they draw their veils close to them; so it is likelier they will be known, and not hurt. God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


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Now; if the hypocrites do not give over, and those in whose hearts there is sickness and they that make commotion in the city, We shall assuredly urge thee against them and then they will be thy neighbours there only a little;


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cursed they shalt be, and wheresoever they are come upon they shall be seized and slaughtered all --


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The people will question thee concerning the Hour. Say: ´The knowledge of it is only with God; what shall make thee know? Haply the Hour is nigh.´


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Upon the day when their faces are turned about in the Fire they shall say, ´Ah, would we had obeyed God and the Messenger!


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They shall say, ´Our Lord, we obeyed our chiefs and great ones, and they led us astray from the way.


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O believers, be not as those who hurt Moses, but God declared him quit of what they said, and he was high honoured with God.


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and He will set right your deeds for you and will forgive you your sins. Whosoever obeys God and His Messenger has won a mighty triumph.


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We offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to carry it and were afraid of it; and man carried it. Surely he is sinful, very foolish.


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That God may chastise the hypocrites, men and women alike, and the idolaters, men and women alike; and that God may turn again unto the believers, men and women alike. God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


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Praise belongs to God to whom belongs whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. To Him belongs praise also in the Hereafter; He is the All-wise, the All-aware.


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He knows what penetrates into the earth, and what comes forth from it, what comes down from heaven, and what goes up to it; He is the All-compassionate, the All-forgiving.


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The unbelievers say, ´The Hour will never come to us.´ Say: ´Yes indeed, by my Lord, it shall come to you, by Him who knows the Unseen; not so much as the weight of an ant in heaven and earth escapes from Him, neither is aught smaller than that, or greater, but it is in a Manifest Book;


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that He may recompense those who believe, and do righteous deeds; theirs shall be forgiveness and generous provision.


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´And those who strive against Our signs to void them -- theirs shall be a chastisement of painful wrath.´


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Those who have been given the knowledge see that what has been sent down to thee from thy Lord is the truth, and guides to the path of the All-mighty, the All-laudable.


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The unbelievers say, ´Shall we point you to a man who will tell you, when you have been utterly torn to pieces, then you shall be in a new creation?´


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What, has he forged against God a lie, or is he possessed? Not so; but those who believe not in the Hereafter are in chastisement and far error.


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Have they not regarded what lies before them and what lies behind them of heaven and earth? Did We will, We would make the earth to swallow them, or We would drop down on them lumps from heaven. Surely in that is a sign to every penitent servant.


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And We gave David bounty from Us: ´O you mountains, echo God´s praises with him, and you birds!´ And We softened for him iron:


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´Fashion wide coats of mail, and measure well the links. ´ -- And do ye righteousness, for surely I see the things you do.


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And to Solomon the wind; its morning course was a month´s journey, and its evening course was a month´s journey. And We made the Fount of Molten Brass to flow for him. And of the jinn, some worked before him by the leave of his Lord; and such of them as swerved away from Our commandment, We would let them taste the chastisement of the Blaze;


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fashioning for him whatsoever he would -- places of worship, statues, porringers like water-troughs, and anchored cooking-pots. ´Labour, O House of David, in thankfulness; for few indeed are those that are thankful among My servants.´


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And when We decreed that he should die, naught indicated to them that he was dead but the Beast of the Earth devouring his staff; and when he fell down, the jinn saw clearly that, had they only known the Unseen, they would not have continued in the humbling chastisement.


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For Sheba also there was a sign in their dwelling-place -- two gardens, one on the right and one on the left: ´Eat of your Lord´s provision, and give thanks to Him; a good land, and a Lord All-forgiving.´


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But they turned away; so We loosed on them the Flood of Arim, and We gave them, in exchange for their two gardens, two gardens bearing bitter produce and tamarisk-bushes, and here and there a few lote-trees.


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And We set, between them and the cities that We have blessed, cities apparent and well We measured the journey between them: ´Journey among them by night and day in security!´


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But they said, ´Our Lord, prolong the stages of our travel´; and they wronged themselves, so We made them as but tales, and We tore them utterly to pieces. Surely in that are signs for every man enduring, thankful.


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Yet he had no authority over them, but that We might know him who believed in the Hereafter from him who was in doubt thereof Thy Lord is Guardian over everything.


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Say: ´Call on those you have asserted apart from God; they possess not so much as the weight of an ant in the heavens nor in the earth; they have no partnership in either of them, nor has He in them any supporter.´


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Intercession will not avail with Him save for him to whom He gives leave; till, when terror is lifted from their hearts, they will say, "What said your Lord?´ They will say, ´The truth; and He is the All-high; the All-great.´


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Say: ´Who provides for you out of the heavens and the earth?´ Say: ´God.´ Surely, either we or you are upon right guidance, or in manifest error.


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Say: ´You will not be questioned concerning our sins, neither shall we be questioned as to what you do.´


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Say: ´Our Lord will bring us together, then make deliverance between us by the truth. He is the Deliverer, the All-knowing.´


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Say: ´Show me those you have joined to Him as associates. No indeed; rather He is God, the All-mighty, the All-wise.´


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We have sent thee not, except to mankind entire, good tidings to bear, and warning; but most men do not know it.


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The unbelievers say, ´We will not believe in this Koran, nor in that before it.´ Ah, if thou couldst see when the evildoers are stationed before their Lord, bandying argument the one against the other! Those that were abased will say to those that waxed proud, ´Had it not been for you, we would have been believers.


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Those that waxed proud will say to those that were abased, ´What, did we bar you from the guidance after it came to you? Nay, rather you were sinners.´


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And those that were abased will say to those that waxed proud, ´Nay, but devising night and day, when you were ordering us to disbelieve in God, and to set up compeers to Him.´ They will be secretly remorseful when they see the chastisement and We put fetters on the necks of the unbelievers; shall they be recompensed except for what they were doing?


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We sent no warner into any city except its men who lived at ease said, ´We disbelieve in the Message you have been sent with.´


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Say: ´My Lord outspreads and straitens His provision to whomsoever He will, but most men do not know it.´


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It is not your wealth nor your children that shall bring you nigh in nearness to Us, except for him who believes, and does righteousness; those -- there awaits them the double recompense for that they did, and they shall be in the lofty chambers in security.


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And those who strive against Our signs to void them -- those shall be arraigned into the chastisement.


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Say: ´My Lord outspreads and straitens His provision to whomsoever He will of His servants; and whatever thing you shall expend, He will replace it. He is the best of providers.´


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Upon the day when He shall muster them all together, then He shall say to the angels, ´Was it you these were serving?


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They shall say, ´Glory be to Thee´! Thou art our Protector, apart from them; nay rather, they were serving the jinn; most of them believed in them.´


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´Therefore today none of you shall have power to profit or hurt another.´ And We shall say to the evildoers, ´Taste the chastisement of the Fire, which you cried lies to!´


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And when Our signs are recited to them, clear signs, they say, ´This is naught but a man who desires to bar you from that your fathers served´; and they say, ´This is nothing but a forged calumny.´ And the unbelievers say to the truth, when it has come to them, ´This is nothing but manifest sorcery.


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Those that were before them also cried lies, yet they reached not a tenth of what We gave them; they cried lies to My Messengers, and how was My horror!


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Say: ´I give you but one admonition, that you stand unto God, two by two and one by one, and then reflect: no madness is in your comrade. He is naught but a warner unto you, before a terrible chastisement.´


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Say: ´I have asked no wage of you; that shall be yours. My wage falls only upon God; and He is witness over everything.´


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Say: ´If I go astray, I go astray only to my own loss; if I am guided, it is by what my Lord reveals to me. He is All-hearing, Ever-nigh.´


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Ah, if thou couldst see when they are terrified, and there is no escape, and they are seized from a place near at hand,


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And a barrier is set between them and that they desire, as was done with the likes of them aforetime; they were in doubt disquieting.


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Praise belongs to God, Originator of the heavens and earth, who appointed the angels to be messengers having wings two, three and four, increasing creation as He wills. Surely God is powerful over everything.


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Whatsoever mercy God opens to men, none can withhold and whatsoever He withholds, none can loose after Him. He is the All-mighty, the All-wise.


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O men, remember God´s blessing upon you; is there any creator, apart from God, who provides for you out of heaven and earth? There is no god but He: how then are you perverted?


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If they cry lies to thee, Messengers before thee were cried lies to; and unto God all matters are returned.


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O men, God´s promise is true; so let not the present life delude you, and let not the Deluder delude you concerning God.


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Surely Satan is an enemy to you; so take him for an enemy. He calls his party only that they may be among the inhabitants of the Blaze.


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Those who disbelieve -- there awaits them a terrible chastisement; but those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness -- theirs shall be forgiveness and a great wage.


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And what of him, the evil of whose deeds has been decked out fair to him, so that he thinks it is good? God leads astray whomsoever He will, and whomsoever He will He guides; so let not thy soul be wasted in regrets for them; God has knowledge of the things they work.


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God is He that looses the winds, that stir up cloud, then We drive it to a dead land and therewith revive the earth, after it is dead. Even so is the Uprising.


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Whosoever desires glory, the glory altogether belongs to God. To Him good words go up, and the righteous deed -- He uplifts it; but those who devise evil deeds -- theirs shall be a terrible chastisement, and their devising shall come to naught.


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God created you of dust then of a sperm-drop, then He made you pairs. No female bears or brings forth, save with His knowledge; and none is given long life who is given long life neither is any diminished in his life, but it is in a Book. Surely that is easy for God.


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Not equal are the two seas; this is sweet, grateful to taste, delicious to drink, and that is salt, bitter to the tongue. Yet of both you eat fresh flesh, and bring forth out of it ornaments for you to wear; and thou mayest see the ships cleaving through it, that you may seek of His bounty, and so haply you will be thankful.


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He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them running to a stated term. That is God, your Lord; to Him belongs the Kingdom; and those you call upon, apart from Him, possess not so much as the skin of a date-stone.


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If you call upon them, they will not hear your prayer, and if they heard, they would not answer you; and on the Day of Resurrection they will disown your partnership. None can tell thee like One who is aware.


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No soul laden bears the load of another; and if one heavy-burdened calls for its load to be carried, not a thing of it will be carried, though he be a near kinsman. Thou warnest only those who fear their Lord in the Unseen and perform the prayer; and whosoever purifies himself, purifies himself only for his own soul´s good. To God is the homecoming.


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not equal are the living and the dead. God makes to hear whomsoever He will; thou canst not make those in their tombs to hear -


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Surely We have sent thee with the truth good tidings to bear, and warning; not a nation there is, but there has passed away in it a warner.


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If they cry thee lies, those before them also cried lies; their Messengers came to them with the clear signs, the Psalms, the Illuminating Book;


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Hast thou not seen how that God sends down out of heaven water, and therewith We bring forth fruits of diverse hues? And in the mountains are streaks white and red, of diverse hues, and pitchy black;


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men too, and beasts and cattle -- diverse are their hues. Even so only those of His servants fear God who have knowledge; surely God is All-mighty, All-forgiving.


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Surely those who recite the Book of God and perform the prayer, and expend of that We have provided them, secretly and in public, look for a commerce that comes not to naught,


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that He may pay them in full their wages and enrich them of His bounty; surely He is All-forgiving, All-thankful.


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And that We have revealed to thee of the Book is the truth, confirming what is before it; God is aware of and sees His servants.


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Then We bequeathed the Book on those of Our servants We chose; but of them some wrong themselves, some of them are lukewarm, and some are outstrippers in good works by the leave of God; that is the great bounty.


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Gardens of Eden they shall enter; therein they shall be adorned with bracelets of gold and with pearls, and their apparel there shall be of silk.


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And they shall say, ´Praise belongs to God who has put away all sorrow from us. Surely our Lord is All-forgiving, All-thankful,


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who of His bounty has made us to dwell in the abode of everlasting life wherein no weariness assails us neither fatigue.´


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As for the unbelievers, theirs shall be the fire of Gehenna; they shall neither be done with and die, nor shall its chastisement be lightened for them. Even so We recompense every ungrateful one.


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Therein they shall shout, ´Our Lord, bring us forth, and we will do righteousness, other than what we have done.´ ´What, did We not give you long life, enough to remember in for him who would remember? To you the warner came; taste you now! The evildoers shall have no helper.´


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It is He who appointed you viceroys in the earth. So whosoever disbelieves, his unbelief shall be charged against him; their unbelief increases the disbelievers only in hate in God´s sight; their unbelief increases the disbelievers only in loss.


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Say: ´Have you considered your associates on whom you call, apart from God? Show me what they have created in the earth; or have they a partnership in the heavens?´ Or have We given them a Book, so that they are upon a clear sign from it? Nay, but the evildoers promise one another naught but delusion.


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God holds the heavens and the earth, lest they remove; did they remove, none would hold them after Him. Surely He is All-clement, All-forgiving.


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They have sworn by God the most earnest oaths that if a warner came to them, they would be more rightly guided than any one of the nations; but when a warner came to them, it increased them only in aversion,


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waxing proud in the land, and devising evil; but evil devising encompasses only those who do it; So do they expect anything but the wont of the ancients? And thou shalt never find any changing the Wont of God, and thou shalt never find any altering the wont of God.


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What, have they not journeyed in the land and beheld how was the end of those before them? They were stronger than themselves in might; but God -- there is naught in the heavens or the earth that can frustrate Him. Surely He is All-knowing, All-powerful.


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If God should take men to task for what they have earned He would not leave upon the face of the earth one creature that crawls; but He is deferring them to a stated term. But when their term is come -- surely God sees His servants.


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and We have put before them a barrier and behind them a barrier; and We have covered them, so they do not see.


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Alike it is to them whether thou hast warned them or thou hast not warned them, they do not believe.


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Thou only warnest him who follows the Remembrance and who fears the All-merciful in the Unseen; so give him the good tidings of forgiveness and a generous wage.


tafseer:
Surely it is We who bring the dead to life and write down what they have forwarded and what they have left behind; everything We have numbered in a clear register.


tafseer:
when We sent unto them two men, but they cried them lies, so We sent a third as reinforcement. They said, ´We are assuredly Envoys unto you.


tafseer:
They said, ´You are naught but mortals like us; the All-merciful has not sent down anything. You are speaking only lies.´


tafseer:
They said, ´We augur ill of you. If you give not over, we will stone you and there shall visit you from us a painful chastisement.´


tafseer:
Then came a man from the furthest part of the city, running; he said, ´My people, follow the Envoys!


tafseer:
What, shall I take, apart from Him, gods whose intercession, if the All-merciful desires affliction for me, shall not avail me anything, and who will never deliver me?


tafseer:
And We sent not down upon his people, after him, any host out of heaven; neither would We send any down.


tafseer:
What, have they not seen how many generations We have destroyed before them, and that it is not unto them that they return?


tafseer:
And a sign for them is the dead land, that We quickened and brought forth from it grain, whereof they eat;


tafseer:
Glory be to Him, who created all the pairs of what the earth produces, and of themselves, and of what they know not.


tafseer:
And the sun -- it runs to a fixed resting-place; that is the ordaining of the All-mighty, the All-knowing.


tafseer:
It behoves not the sun to overtake the moon, neither does the night outstrip the day, each swimming in a sky.


tafseer:
And when it is said to them, ´Fear what is before you and what is behind you; haply you will find mercy´ --


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And when it is said to them, ´Expend of that God has provided you,´ the unbelievers say to the believers, ´What, shall we feed such a one whom, if God willed, He would feed? You are only in manifest error!´


tafseer:
And the Trumpet shall be blown; then behold, they are sliding down from their tombs unto their Lord.


tafseer:
They say, ´Alas for us! Who roused us out of our sleeping place? This is what the All-merciful promised, and the Envoys spoke truly.´


tafseer:
So today no soul shall be wronged anything, and you shall not be recompensed, except according to what you have been doing.


tafseer:
Made I not covenant with you, Children of Adam, that you should not serve Satan -- surely he is a manifest foe to you --


tafseer:
Today We set a seal on their mouths, and their hands speak to Us, and their feet bear witness as to what they have been earning.


tafseer:
Did We will, We would have obliterated their eyes, then they would race to the path, but how would they see?


tafseer:
Did We will, We would have changed them where they were, then they could not go on, nor could they return.


tafseer:
And to whomsoever We give long life, We bend him over in His constitution; what, do they not understand?


tafseer:
We have not taught him poetry; it is not seemly for him. It is only a Remembrance and a Clear Koran,


tafseer:
Have they not seen how that We have created for them of that Our hands wrought cattle that they own?


tafseer:
So do not let their saying grieve thee; assuredly We know what they keep secret and what they publish.


tafseer:
And he has struck for Us a similitude and forgotten his creation; he says, ´Who shall quicken the bones when they are decayed?´


tafseer:
Is not He, who created the heavens and earth, able to create the like of them? Yes indeed; He is the All-creator, the All-knowing.


tafseer:
So glory be to Him, in whose hand is the dominion of everything, and unto whom you shall be returned.


tafseer:
So ask them for a pronouncement -- Are they stronger in constitution, or those We created? We created them of clinging clay.


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and when he had reached the age of running with him, he said, ´My son, I see in a dream that I shall sacrifice thee; consider, what thinkest thou?´ He said, ´My father, do as thou art bidden; thou shalt find me, God willing, one of the steadfast.´


tafseer:
And We blessed him, and Isaac; and of their seed some are good-doers, and some manifest self-wrongers.


tafseer:
They have set up a kinship between Him and the jinn; and the jinn know that they shall be arraigned.


tafseer:
Now they marvel that a warner has come to them from among them; and the unbelievers say, ´This is a lying sorcerer.


tafseer:
And the Council of them depart, saying ´Go! Be steadfast to your gods; this is a thing to be desired.


tafseer:
What, has the Remembrance been sent down on him out of us all?´ Nay, but they are in doubt of My Remembrance; nay, they have not yet tasted My chastisement.


tafseer:
Or is theirs the kingdom of the heavens and earth and of what between them is? Why, then let them ascend the cords!


tafseer:
when they entered upon David, and he took fright at them; and they said, ´Fear not; two disputants we are -- one of us has injured the other; so judge between us justly, and transgress not, and guide us to the right path.´


tafseer:
´Behold, this my brother has ninety-nine ewes, and I have one ewe. So he said, "Give her into my charge"; and he overcame me in the argument.´


tafseer:
Said he, ´Assuredly he has wronged thee in asking for thy ewe in addition to his sheep; and indeed many intermixers do injury one against the other, save those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness -- and how few they are!´ And David thought that We had only tried him; therefore he sought forgiveness of his Lord, and he fell down, bowing, and he repented.


tafseer:
´David, behold, We have appointed thee a viceroy in the earth; therefore judge between men justly, and follow not caprice, lest it lead thee astray from the way of God. Surely those who go astray from the way of God -- there awaits them a terrible chastisement, for that they have forgotten the Day of Reckoning.´


tafseer:
We have not created the heavens and earth, and what between them is, for vanity; such is the thought of the unbelievers, wherefore woe unto the unbelievers because of the Fire!


tafseer:
Or shall We make those who believe and do righteous deeds as the workers of corruption in the earth, or shall We make the godfearing as the transgressors?


tafseer:
A Book We have sent down to thee, Blessed, that men possessed of minds may ponder its signs and so remember.


tafseer:
he said, ´Lo, I have loved the love of good things better than the remembrance of my Lord, until the sun was bidden behind the veil.


tafseer:
He said, ´My Lord, forgive me, and give me a kingdom such as may not befall anyone after me; surely Thou art the All-giver.´


tafseer:
Remember also Our servant Job; when he called to his Lord, ´Behold, Satan has visited me with weariness and chastisement.´


tafseer:
And We gave to him his family, and the like of them with them, as a mercy from us, and a reminder unto men possessed of minds;


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and, ´Take in thy hand a bundle of rushes, and strike therewith, and do not fail in thy oath.´ Surely We found him a steadfast man. How excellent a servant he was! He was a penitent.


tafseer:
Said He, ´Iblis, what prevented thee to bow thyself before that I created with My own hands? Hast thou waxed proud, or art thou of the lofty ones?´


tafseer:
We have sent down to thee the Book with the truth; so worship God, making thy religion His sincerely.


tafseer:
Belongs not sincere religion to God? And those who take protectors, apart from Him -- ´We only serve them that they may bring us nigh in nearness to God´ -- surely God shall judge between them touching that whereon they are at variance. Surely God guides not him who is a liar, unthankful.


tafseer:
Had God desired to take to Him a son, He would have chosen whatever He willed of that He has created. Glory be to Him! He is God, the One, the Omnipotent.


tafseer:
He created the heavens and the earth in truth, wrapping night about the day, and wrapping the day about the night; and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them running to a stated term. Is not He the All-mighty, the All-forgiving?


tafseer:
He created you of a single soul, then from it He appointed its mate; and He sent down to you of the cattle eight couples. He creates you in your mothers´ wombs creation after creation in threefold shadows. That then is God, your Lord; to Him belongs the Kingdom; there is no god but He; so how are you turned about?


tafseer:
If you are unthankful, God is independent of you, yet He approves not unthankfulness in His servants; but if you are thankful, He will approve it in you. And no soul laden bears the load of another. Then to your Lord shall you return, and He will tell you what you have been doing. He knows the thoughts within the breasts.


tafseer:
When some affliction visits a man, he calls upon his Lord, turning to him; then when He confers on him a blessing from Him he forgets that he was calling to before and sets up compeers to God, to lead astray from His way. Say: ´Enjoy thy unbelief a little; thou shalt be among the inhabitants of the Fire.´


tafseer:
Or is he who is obedient in the watches of the night, bowing himself and standing, he being afraid of the world to come and hoping for the mercy of his Lord . . ? Say: ´Are they equal -- those who know and those who know not?´ Only men possessed of minds remember.


tafseer:
Say: ´My servants who believe, fear your Lord. For those who do good in this world good, and God´s earth is wide. Surely the patient will be paid their wages in full without reckoning.´


tafseer:
so serve what you will apart from Him.´ Say: ´Surely the losers are they who lose themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection; is not that the manifest loss?


tafseer:
Above them they shall have overshadowings. of the Fire, and underneath them overshadowings; that it is wherewith God frightens His servants: "O My servants, so fear you Me!"´


tafseer:
Those who eschew the serving of idols and turn penitent to God, for them is good tidings! So give thou good tidings to My servants


tafseer:
who give ear to the Word and follow the fairest of it. Those are they whom God has guided; those -- they are men possessed of minds.


tafseer:
But those who fear their Lord -- for them await lofty chambers, above which are built lofty chambers, underneath which rivers flow -- God´s promise; God fails not the tryst.


tafseer:
Hast thou not seen how that God has sent down out of heaven water and threaded it as springs in the earth, then He brings forth therewith crops of diverse hues, then they wither, and thou seest them turning yellow, then He makes them broken orts? Surely in that is a reminder for men possessed of minds.


tafseer:
Is he whose breast God has expanded unto Islam, so he walks in a light from his Lord . . .? But woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the remembrance of God! Those are in manifest error.


tafseer:
God has sent down the fairest discourse as a Book, consimilar in its oft-repeated, whereat shiver the skins of those who fear their Lord; then their skins and their hearts soften to the remembrance of God. That is God´s guidance, whereby. He guides whomsoever He will; and whomsoever God leads astray, no guide has he.


tafseer:
Is he who guards himself with his face against the evil of the chastisement on the Day of Resurrection . . .? And it is said to the evildoers, ´Taste now that you were earning!´


tafseer:
Those that were before them cried lies, then the chastisement came upon them from whence they were not aware;


tafseer:
so God let them taste degradation in this present life; and the chastisement of the world to come is assuredly greater, did they but know.


tafseer:
Indeed We have struck for the people in this Koran every manner of similitude; haply they will remember;


tafseer:
God has struck a similitude -- a man in whom partners disagreeing share, and a man the property of one man. Are the two equal in likeness? Praise belongs to God! Nay, but most of them do not know.


tafseer:
But who does greater evil than he who lies against God and cries lies to the very truth, when it comes to him? Is there not in Gehenna a lodging for the unbelievers?


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that God may acquit them of the worst of what they did, and recompense them with the wages of the fairest of what they were doing.


tafseer:
Shall not God suffice His servant, though they frighten thee with those apart from Him? And whomsoever God leads astray, no guide has he.


tafseer:
If thou askest them, ´Who created the heavens and the earth?´ they will say, ´God.´ Say: ´What think you? That you call upon apart from God -- if God desires affliction for me, shall they remove His affliction? Or if He desires mercy for me, shall they withhold His mercy?´ Say: ´God is enough for me; in Him all those put their trust who put their trust.´


tafseer:
Surely We have sent down upon thee the Book for mankind with the truth. Whosoever is guided, is only guided to his own gain, and whosoever goes astray, it is only to his own loss; thou art not a guardian over them.


tafseer:
God takes the souls at the time of their death, and that which has not died, in its sleep; He withholds that against which He has decreed death, but looses the other till a stated term. Surely in that are signs for a people who reflect. Or have they taken intercessors apart from God?


tafseer:
Say: ´To God belongs intercession altogether. His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; then unto Him you will be returned.´


tafseer:
When God is mentioned alone, then shudder the hearts of those who believe not in the Hereafter, but when those apart from Him are mentioned behold, they rejoice.


tafseer:
Say: ´O God, Thou originator of the heavens and the earth who knowest the Unseen and the Visible, Thou shalt judge between Thy servants touching that whereon they are at variance.´


tafseer:
If the evildoers possessed all that is in the earth, and the like of it with it, they would offer it to ransom themselves from the evil of the chastisement on the Day of Resurrection; yet there would appear to them from God that they never reckoned with,


tafseer:
and there would appear to them die evils of that they have earned, and they would be encompassed by that they mocked at.


tafseer:
When some affliction visits a man, he calls unto Us; then, when We confer on him a blessing from Us, he says, ´I was given it only because of a knowledge.´ Nay, it is a trial, but most of them do not know it.


tafseer:
in that the evils of that they earned smote them. The evildoers of these men, they too shall be smitten by the evils -- of that they earned; they will not be able to frustrate it.


tafseer:
Do they know that God outspreads and straitens His provision to whomsoever He will? Surely in that are signs for a people who believe.


tafseer:
Say: ´O my people who have been prodigal against yourselves, do not despair of God´s mercy; surely God forgives sins altogether; surely He is the All-forgiving, the All-compassionate.


tafseer:
Turn unto your Lord and surrender to Him, ere the chastisement comes upon you, then you will not be helped.


tafseer:
And follow the fairest of what has been sent down to you from your Lord, ere the chastisement comes upon you suddenly while you are unaware.


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or lest it should say, ´If only God had guided me, I should have been or lest among the godfearing,´


tafseer:
it should say, when it sees the chastisement, ´O that I might return again, and be among the good-doers.´


tafseer:
´Yes indeed! My signs did come to thee, but thou hast cried them lies, and thou hast waxed proud, and become one of the unbelievers.´


tafseer:
And upon the Day of Resurrection thou shalt see those who lied against God, their faces blackened; is there not in Gehenna a lodging for those that are proud?


tafseer:
But God shall deliver those that were godfearing in their security; evil shall not visit them, neither shall they sorrow.


tafseer:
unto Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth. And those who disbelieve in the signs of God, those they are the losers.


tafseer:
It has been revealed to thee, and to those before thee, ´If thou associatest other gods with God, thy work shall surely fail and thou wilt be among the losers.´


tafseer:
They measure not God with His true measure. The earth altogether shall be His handful on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens shall be rolled up in His right hand. Glory be to Him! High be He exalted above that they associate!


tafseer:
For the Trumpet shall be blown, and whosoever is in the heavens and whosoever is in the earth shall swoon, save whom God wills. Then it shall be blown again, and lo, they shall stand, beholding.


tafseer:
And the earth shall shine with the light of its Lord, and the Book shall be set in place, and the Prophets and witnesses shall be brought, and justly the issue be decided between them, and they not wronged.


tafseer:
Then the unbelievers shall be driven in companies into Gehenna till, when they have come thither, then its gates will be opened and its keepers will say to them, ´Did not Messengers come to you from among yourselves, reciting to you the signs of your Lord and warning you against the encounter of this your day?´ They shall say, ´Yes indeed; but the word of the chastisement has been realized against the unbelievers.´


tafseer:
It shall be said, ´Enter the gates of Gehenna, to dwell therein forever.´ How evil is the lodging of those that are proud!


tafseer:
Then those that feared their Lord shall be driven in companies into Paradise, till, when they have come thither, and its gates are opened, and its keepers will say to them, ´Peace be upon you! Well you have fared; enter in, to dwell forever.´


tafseer:
And they shall say, ´Praise belongs to God, who has been true in His promise to us, and has bequeathed upon us the earth, for us to make our dwelling wheresoever we will in Paradise.´ How excellent is the wage of those that labour!


tafseer:
And thou shalt see the angels encircling about the Throne proclaiming the praise of their Lord; and justly the issue shall be decided between them; and it shall be said, ´Praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being.´


tafseer:
Forgiver of sins, Accepter of penitence, Terrible in retribution, the Bountiful; there is no god but He, and unto Him is the homecoming.


tafseer:
None but the unbelievers dispute concerning the signs of God; so let not their going to and fro in the land delude thee.


tafseer:
The people of Noah before them also cried lies, and the parties after them; every nation purposed against their Messenger to seize him, and disputed with falsehood that they might rebut thereby the truth. Then I seized them; and how was My retribution!


tafseer:
Even so the Word of thy Lord was realised against the unbelievers, that they are the inhabitants of the Fire.


tafseer:
Those who bear the Throne, and those round about it proclaim the praise of their Lord, and believe in Him, and they ask forgiveness for those who believe: ´Our Lord, Thou embracest every thing in mercy and knowledge; therefore forgive those who have repented, and follow Thy way, and guard them against the chastisement of Hell.


tafseer:
Our Lord, and admit them to the Gardens of Eden that Thou hast promised them and those who were righteous of their fathers, and their wives, and their seed; surely Thou art the All-mighty, the All-wise.


tafseer:
And guard them against evil deeds; whomsoever Thou guardest against evil deeds on that day, on him Thou hast had mercy; and that is indeed the mighty triumph.


tafseer:
It shall be proclaimed to the unbelievers, ´Surely God´s hatred is greater than your hatred one of another, when you were called unto belief, and disbelieved.´


tafseer:
They shall say, ´Our Lord, Thou hast caused us to die two deaths and Thou hast given us twice to live; now we confess our sins. Is there any way to go forth?´


tafseer:
That is because, when God was called to alone, you disbelieved; but if others are associated with Him, then you believe. Judgment belongs to God, the All-high, the All-great.


tafseer:
It is He who shows you His signs and sends down to you out of heaven provision; yet none remembers but he who repents.


tafseer:
Exalter of ranks is He, Possessor of the Throne, casting the Spirit of His bidding upon whomever He will of His servants, that he may warn them of the Day of Encounter,


tafseer:
the day they sally forth, and naught of theirs is hidden from God. ´Whose is´ the Kingdom today?´ ´God´s, the One, the Omnipotent.


tafseer:
Today each soul shall be recompensed for that it has earned; no wrong today. Surely God is swift at the reckoning.´


tafseer:
And warn them against the Day of the Imminent when, choking with anguish, the hearts are in the throats and the evildoers have not one loyal friend, no intercessor to be heeded.


tafseer:
God shall decide justly, and those they call on, apart from Him, shall not decide by any means. surely God is the All-hearing, the All-seeing.


tafseer:
What, have they not journeyed in the land and beheld how was the end of those before them? They were stronger than themselves in might and left firmer traces in the earth; yet God seized them in their sins, and they had none to defend them from God.


tafseer:
That was because their Messengers came to them with the clear signs; but they disbelieved, so God seized them. Surely He is All-strong, terrible in retribution.


tafseer:
And when he brought them the truth from Us, they said, ´Slay the sons of those who believe with him, and spare their women.´ But the guile of the unbelievers is ever in error.


tafseer:
And Pharaoh said, ´Let me slay Moses, and let him call to his Lord. I fear that he may change, your religion, or that he may cause corruption to appear in the land.´


tafseer:
And Moses said, ´I take refuge in my Lord and your Lord from every man who is proud, and believes not in the Day of Reckoning.´


tafseer:
Then said a certain man, a believer ´of Pharaoh´s folk that kept hidden his belief, ´What, will you slay a man because he says, "My Lord is God," yet he has brought you the clear signs from your Lord? If he is a liar, his lying is upon his own head; but if he is truthful, somewhat of that he promises you will smite you. Surely God guides not him who is prodigal and a liar.


tafseer:
O my people, today the kingdom is yours, who are masters in the land. But who will help us, against the might of God, if it comes upon us?´ Said Pharaoh, ´I only let you see what I see; I only guide you in the way of rectitude.´


tafseer:
the like of the case of Noah´s people, Ad, Thamood, and those after them; and God desires not wrong for His servants.´


tafseer:
the day you turn about, retreating, having none to defend you from God; and whomsoever God leads astray, no guide has he.


tafseer:
Joseph brought you the clear signs before, yet you continued in doubt concerning that he brought you until, when he perished, you said, "God will never send forth a Messenger after him." Even, so God leads astray the prodigal and the doubter.´


tafseer:
(Those who dispute concerning the signs of God, without any authority come to them, very hateful is that in the sight of God and the believers; ´so God sets a seal on every heart proud´, arrogant.)


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the cords of the heavens, and look upon Moses´ God; for I think that he is a liar.´ So the evil of his deeds was decked out fair to Pharaoh, and he was barred from the way, and Pharaoh´s guile came only to ruin.


tafseer:
O my people, surely this present life is but a passing enjoyment; surely the world to come is the abode of stability.


tafseer:
Whosoever does an evil deed shall be recompensed only with the like of it, but whosoever does a righteous deed, be it male or female, believing -- those shall enter Paradise, therein provided without reckoning.


tafseer:
You call me to disbelieve in God, and to associate with Him that whereof I have no knowledge, while I call you to the All-mighty, the All-forgiving.


tafseer:
No doubt that what you call me to has no call heard, in this world or in the world to come, that to God we return, and that the prodigal are the inhabitants of the Fire.


tafseer:
So God guarded him against the evil things of their devising, and there encompassed the folk of Pharaoh the evil chastisement,


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the Fire, to which they shall be exposed morning and evening; and on the day when the Hour is come: ´Admit the folk of Pharaoh into the most terrible chastisement!´


tafseer:
And when they argue one with the other in the Fire, and the weak say unto those who waxed proud, ´Why, we were your followers; will you avail us now against any part of the Fire?´


tafseer:
Then those who waxed proud shall say, ´Every one of us is in it; indeed, God already has passed judgment between His servants.´


tafseer:
And those who are in the Fire will say to the keepers of Gehenna, ´Call on your Lord, to lighten for us one day of the chastisement!´


tafseer:
They shall say, ´Did not your Messengers bring you the clear signs?´ They shall say, ´Yes indeed.´ They shall say, ´Then do you call!´ But the calling of the unbelievers is only in error.


tafseer:
Surely We shall help Our Messengers and those who have believed, in the present life, and upon the day when the witnesses arise,


tafseer:
upon the day when their excuses shall not profit the evildoers, and theirs shall be the curse, and theirs the evil abode.


tafseer:
So be thou patient; surely God´s promise is true. And ask forgiveness for thy sin, and proclaim the praise of thy Lord at evening and dawn.


tafseer:
Those who dispute concerning the signs of God, without any authority come to them, in their breasts is only pride, that they shall never attain. So seek thou refuge in God; surely He is the All-hearing, the All-seeing.


tafseer:
Certainly the creation of the heavens and earth is greater than the creation of men; but most men know it not.


tafseer:
Not equal are the blind and the seeing man, those who believe and do deeds of righteousness, and the wrong-doer. Little do you reflect.


tafseer:
Your Lord has said, ´Call upon Me and I will answer you. Surely those who wax too proud to do Me service shall enter Gehenna utterly abject.´


tafseer:
It is God who made for you the night, to repose in it, and the day, to see. Surely God is bountiful to men, but most men are not thankful.


tafseer:
That then is God, your Lord, the Creator of everything; there is no god but He. How then are you perverted?


tafseer:
It is God who made for you the earth a fixed place and heaven for an edifice; And He shaped you, and shaped you well, and provided you with the good things. That then is God, your Lord, so blessed be God, the Lord of all Being.


tafseer:
He is the Living One; there is no god but He. So call upon Him, making your religion His sincerely. Praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being.


tafseer:
Say: ´I am forbidden to serve those you call on apart from God once the clear signs came to me from my Lord; and I am commanded to surrender to the Lord of All Being.´


tafseer:
It is He who created you of dust then of a sperm-drop, then of a blood-clot, then He delivers you as infants, then that you may come of age, then that you may be old men -- though some of you there are who die before it -- and that you may reach a stated term; haply you will understand.


tafseer:
It is He who gives life, and makes to die; and when He decrees a thing, He but says to it ´Be,´ and it is.


tafseer:
They shall say, ´They have gone astray from us; nay, but it was nothing at all that we called upon aforetime.´ Even so God leads astray the unbelievers.


tafseer:
Enter the gates of Gehenna, to dwell therein forever.´ How evil is the lodging of those that are proud!


tafseer:
So be thou patient; surely God´s promise is true. Whether We show thee a part of that We promise them, or We call thee unto Us, to Us they shall be returned.


tafseer:
We sent Messengers before thee; of some We have related to thee, and some We have not related to thee. It was not for any Messenger to bring a sign, save by God´s leave. When God´s command comes, justly the issue shall be decided; then the vain-doers shall be lost.


tafseer:
other uses also you have in them; and that on them you may attain a need in your breasts, and upon them and on the ships you are carried.


tafseer:
What, have they not journeyed in the land and beheld how was the end of those before them? They were stronger than themselves in might and left firmer traces in the earth; yet that they earned did not avail them.


tafseer:
So, when their Messengers brought them the clear signs, they rejoiced in what knowledge they had, and were encompassed by that they mocked at.


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Then, when they saw Our might, they said, ´We believe in God alone, and we disbelieve in that we were associating with Him.´


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But their belief when they saw Our might did not profit them -- the wont of God, as in the past, touching His servants; then the unbelievers shall be lost.


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They say, ´Our hearts are veiled from what thou callest us to, and in our ears is a heaviness, and between us and thee there is a veil; so act; we are acting!´


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Say: ´I am only a mortal, like you are. To me it has been revealed that your God is One God; so go straight with Him, and ask for His forgiveness; and woe to the idolaters


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Say: ´What, do you disbelieve in Him who created the earth in two days, and do you set up compeers to Him? That is the Lord of all Being.


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´And He set therein firm mountains over it, and He blessed it, and He ordained therein its diverse sustenance in four days, equal to those who ask.´


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Then He lifted Himself to heaven when it was smoke, and said to it and to the earth, "Come willingly, or unwillingly!" They said, "We come willingly.


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And We adorned the lower heaven with lamps, and to reserve; that is the ordaining of the All-mighty, the All-knowing. But if they turn away, then say, ´I warn you of a thunderbolt like to the thunderbolt of Ad and Thamood.´


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When the Messengers came unto them from before them and from behind them, saying, ´Serve none but God,´ they said, ´Had our Lord willed, surely He would have sent down angels; so we disbelieve in the Message you were sent with.´


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As for Ad, they waxed proud in the earth without right, and they said, ´Who is stronger than we in might?´ What, did they not see that God, who created them, was stronger than they in might? And they denied Our signs.


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Then We loosed against them a wind clamorous in days of ill fortune, that We might let them taste the chastisement of degradation in the present life; and the chastisement of the world to come is even more degrading, and they shall not be helped.


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As for Thamood, We guided them, but they preferred blindness above guidance, so the thunderbolt of the chastisement of humiliation seized them for that they were earning.


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till when they are come to it, their hearing, their eyes and their skins bear witness against them concerning what they have been doing,


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and they will say to their skins, ´Why bore you witness against us?´ They shall say, ´God gave us speech, as He gave everything speech. He created you the first time, and unto Him you shall be returned.


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Not so did you cover yourselves, that your hearing, your eyes and your skins should not bear witness against you; but you thought that God would never know much of the things that you were working.


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That then, the thought you thought about your Lord, has destroyed you, and therefore you find yourselves this morning among the losers.´


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Then if they persist, the Fire shall be a lodging for them; and if they ask amends yet no amends shall be made to them.


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We have allotted them comrades, and they have decked out fair to them that which is before them and behind them. So against them has been realized the Word concerning nations that passed away before them, men and jinn alike; surely they were losers.


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The unbelievers say, ´Do not give ear to this Koran, and talk idly about it; haply you will overcome.


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So We shall let the unbelievers taste a terrible chastisement, and shall recompense them with the worst of what they were working.


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That is the recompense of God´s enemies -- the Fire, wherein they shall have the Abode of Eternity as a recompense, for that they denied Our signs.


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And the unbelievers shall say, ´Our Lord, show us those that led us astray, both jinn and men, and we shall set them underneath our feet, that they may be among the lower ones.


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Those who have said, ´Our Lord is God.´ then have gone straight, upon them the angels descend, saying, ´Fear not, neither sorrow; rejoice in Paradise that you were promised.


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We are your friends in the present life and in the world to come; therein you shall have all that your souls desire, all that you call for,


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And who speaks fairer than he who calls unto God and does righteousness and says, ´Surely I am of them that surrender´?


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Not equal are the good deed and the evil deed. Repel with that which is fairer and behold, he between whom and thee there is enmity shall be as if he were a loyal friend.


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Yet none shall receive it, except the steadfast; none shall receive it, except a man of mighty fortune.


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If a provocation from Satan should provoke thee, seek refuge in God; He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing.


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And of His signs are the night and the day, the sun and the moon. Bow not yourselves to the sun and moon, but bow yourselves to God who created them, if Him you serve.


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And if they wax proud, yet those who are with thy Lord do glorify Him by night and day, and grow not weary.


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And of His signs is that thou seest the earth humble; then, when We send down water upon it, it quivers, and swells. Surely He who quickens it is He who quickens the dead; surely He is powerful over everything.


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Those who blaspheme Our signs are not hidden from Us. What, is he who shall be cast into the Fire better, or he who comes on the Day of Resurrection in security? Do what you will; surely He sees the things you do.


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falsehood comes not to it from before it nor from behind it; a sending down from One All-wise, All-laudable.


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Naught is said to thee but what already was said to the Messengers before thee. Surely thy Lord is a Lord of forgiveness and of painful retribution.


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If We had made it a barbarous Koran, they would have said, ´Why are its signs not distinguished? What, barbarous and Arabic?´ Say: ´To the believers it is a guidance, and a healing; but those who believe not, in their ears is a heaviness, and to them it is a blindness; those -- they are called from a far place.´


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And We gave Moses the Book; and there was difference concerning it, and but for a Word that preceded from thy Lord, it had been decided between them; and they are in doubt of it disquieting.


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Whoso does righteousness, it is to his own gain, and whoso does evil, it is to his own loss. Thy Lord wrongs not His servants.


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To Him is referred the knowledge of the Hour. Not a fruit comes forth from its sheath, no female bears or brings forth, save with His knowledge. Upon the day when He shall call to them, ´Where now are My associates?´ they shall say, ´We proclaim to Thee, there is not a witness among us.


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Then that they called upon before will go astray from them and they will think that they have no asylum.


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And if We let him taste mercy from Us after hardship that has visited him, he surely says, ´This is mine; I think not the Hour is coming. If I am returned to my Lord, surely the reward most fair with Him will be mine.´ Then We shall tell the unbelievers the things they have done, and assuredly We shall let them taste a harsh chastisement.


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And when We bless man, he turns away and withdraws aside; but when evil visits him, he is full of endless prayers.


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Say: ´What think you? If it is from God, then you disbelieve in it, who is further astray than he who is in wide schism?´


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We shall show them Our signs in the horizons and in themselves, till it is clear to them that it is the truth. Suffices it not as to thy Lord, that He is witness over everything?


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To Him belongs whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth; and He is the All-high, the All-glorious.


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The heavens wellnigh are rent above them, when the angels proclaim the praise of their Lord, and ask forgiveness for those on earth. Surely God -- He is the All-forgiving, the All-compassionate.


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And those who have taken to them protectors apart from Him -- God is Warden over them; thou art not a guardian over them.


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And so We have revealed to thee an Arabic Koran, that thou mayest warn the Mother of Cities and those who dwell about it, and that thou mayest warn of the Day of Gathering, wherein is no doubt -- a party in Paradise, and a party in the Blaze.


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If God had willed, He would have made them one nation; but He admits whomsoever He will into His mercy, and the evildoers shall have neither protector nor helper.


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Or have they taken to them protectors apart from Him? But God -- He is the Protector; He quickens the dead, and He is powerful over everything.


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And whatever you are at variance on, the judgment thereof belongs to God. That then is God, my Lord; in Him I have put my trust, and to Him I turn, penitent.


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The Originator of the heavens and the earth; He has appointed for you, of yourselves, pairs, and pairs also of the cattle, therein multiplying you. Like Him there is naught; He is the All-hearing, the All-seeing.


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To Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth. He outspreads and straitens His provision to whom He will; surely He has knowledge of everything.


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He has laid down for you as religion that He charged Noah with, and that We have revealed to thee, and that We charged Abraham with, Moses and Jesus: ´Perform the religion, and scatter not regarding it. Very hateful is that for the idolaters, that thou callest them to. God chooses unto Himself whomsoever He will, and He guides to Himself whosoever turns, penitent.


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They scattered not, save after knowledge had come to them, being insolent one to another; and but for a Word that preceded from thy Lord until a stated term, it had been decided between them. But those to whom the Book has been given as an inheritance after them, behold, they are in doubt of it disquieting.


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Therefore call thou, and go straight as thou hast been commanded; do not follow their caprices. And say: ´I believe in whatever Book God has sent down; I have been commanded to be just between you. God is our Lord and your Lord. We have our deeds, and you have your deeds; there is no argument between us and you; God shall bring us together, and unto Him is the homecoming.´


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And those who argue concerning God after that answer has been made to Him, their argument is null and void in the sight of their Lord; anger shall rest upon them, and there awaits them a terrible chastisement.


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God it is who has sent down the Book with the truth, and also the Balance. And what shall make thee know? Haply the Hour is nigh.


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Those that believe not therein seek to hasten it; but those who believe in it go in fear of it, knowing that it is the truth. Why, surely those who are in doubt concerning the Hour are indeed in far error.


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God is All-gentle to His servants, providing for whomsoever He will. He is the All-strong, the All-mighty.


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Whoso desires the tillage of the world to come, We shall give him increase in his tillage; and whoso desires the tillage of this world, We shall give him of it, but in the world to come he will have no share.


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Or have they associates who have laid down for them as religion that for which God gave not leave? But for the Word of Decision, it had been decided between them. For the evildoers there awaits a painful chastisement.


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Thou seest the evildoers going in fear of that they have earned, that is about to fall on them; but those who believe and do righteous deeds are in Meadows of the Gardens; whatsoever they will they shall have with their Lord; that is the great bounty.


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That is the good tidings God gives to His servants who believe and do righteous deeds. Say: ´I do not ask of you a wage for this, except love for the kinsfolk; and whosoever gains a good deed, We shall give him increase of good in respect of it. Surely God is All-forgiving, All-thankful.


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Or do they say, ´He has forged against God a lie?´ But if God wills, He will set a seal on thy heart; and God blots out falsehood and verifies the truth by His words; He knows the thoughts within the breasts.


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It is He who accepts repentance from His servants, and pardons evil deeds; He knows the things you do.


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And He answers those who believe and do righteous deeds, and He gives them increase of His bounty. And the unbelievers -- for them awaits a terrible chastisement.


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Had God expanded His provision to His servants, they would have been insolent in the earth; but He sends down in measure whatsoever He will; surely He is aware of and sees His servants.


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And it is He who sends down the rain after they have despaired, and He unfolds His mercy; He is the Protector, the All-laudable.


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And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and earth and the crawling things He has scattered abroad in them; and He is able to gather them whenever He will.


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You are not able to frustrate Him in the earth; and, apart from God, you have neither protector nor helper.


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and if He wills, He stills the wind, and they remain motionless on its back. Surely in that are signs for every man enduring, thankful.


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Whatever thing you have been given is the enjoyment of the present life; but what is with God is better and more enduring for those who believe and put their trust in their Lord.


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and those who answer their Lord, and perform the prayer, their affair being counsel between them, and they expend of that We have provided them,


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and the recompense of evil is evil the like of it; but whoso pardons and puts things right, his wage falls upon God; surely He loves not the evildoers.


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The way is only open against those who do wrong to the people, and are insolent in the earth wrongfully; there awaits them a painful chastisement.


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Whomsoever God leads astray, he has no protector after him; and thou shalt see the evildoers, when they see the chastisement, saying, ´Is there any way to be sent back?´


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And thou shalt see them, as they are exposed to it, abject in humbleness, looking with furtive glance; and the believers shall say, ´Surely the losers are they who lose themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection; surely the evildoers are in lasting chastisement.


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They have no protectors to help them, apart from God, and whomsoever God leads astray, no way has he.´


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Answer your Lord, before there comes a day from God that cannot be turned back; upon that day you shall have no shelter, no denial.


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But if they turn away, We sent thee not to be a guardian over them. It is for thee only to deliver the Message. And when We let man taste mercy from Us, he rejoices in it; but if some evil befalls him for that his own hands have forwarded, then surely man is unthankful.


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To God belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth; He creates what He will; He gives to whom He will females, and He gives to whom He will males


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or He couples them, both males and females; and He makes whom He will barren. Surely He is All-knowing, All-powerful.


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It belongs not to any mortal that God should speak to him, except by revelation, or from behind a veil, or that He should send a messenger and he reveal whatsoever He will, by His leave; surely He is All-high, All-wise.


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Even so We have revealed to thee a Spirit of Our bidding. Thou knewest not what the Book was, nor belief; but We made it a light, whereby We guide whom We will of Our servants. And thou, surely thou shalt guide unto a straight path --


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the path of God, to whom belongs whatsoever is in the heavens, and whatsoever is in the earth. Surely unto God all things come home.


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If thou askest them, ´Who created the heavens and earth?´ they will say, ´The All-mighty, the All-knowing created them.´


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He who appointed the earth to be a cradle for you, and appointed ways for you therein, that haply you may be guided;


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and who sent down out of heaven water in measure; and We revived thereby a land that was dead; even so you shall be brought forth;


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that you may be seated on their backs and then remember your Lord´s blessing when you are seated on them, and say, ´Glory be to Him, who has subjected this to us, and we ourselves were not equal to it;


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And when any of them is given the good tidings of that he has likened to the All-merciful, his face is darkened, and he chokes inwardly.


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And they have made the angels, who are themselves servants of the All-merciful, females. What, did they witness their creation? Their witness shall be written down, and they shall be questioned.


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They say, ´Had the All-merciful so willed, we would not have served them.´ They have no knowledge of that; they are only conjecturing.


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Even so We sent never before thee any warner into any city, except that its men who lived at ease said, ´We indeed found our fathers upon a community, and we are following upon their traces.´


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Say: ´What, though I should bring you a better guidance than you found your fathers upon?´ They say, ´We disbelieve in that you were sent with.´


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Nay, but I gave these and their fathers enjoyment of days, until the truth came unto them, and a manifest Messenger.


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What, is it they who divide the mercy of the Lord? We have divided between them their livelihood in the present life, and raised some of them above others in rank, that some of them may take others in servitude; and the mercy of thy Lord is better than that they amass.


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And were it not that mankind would be one nation, We would have appointed for those who disbelieve in the All-merciful roofs of silver to their houses, and stairs whereon to mount,


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and ornaments; surely all this is but the enjoyment of the present life, and the world to come with thy Lord is for the godfearing.


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till, when he comes to Us, he says, ´Would there had been between me and thee the distance of the two Easts!´ An evil comrade!


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What, shalt thou make the deaf to hear, or shalt thou guide the blind and him who is in manifest error?


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So hold thou fast unto that which has been revealed unto thee; surely thou art upon a straight path.


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Ask those of Our Messengers We sent before thee: Have We appointed, apart from the All-merciful, gods to be served?


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We also sent Moses with Our signs to Pharaoh and his Council, and he said, ´Surely, I am the Messenger of the Lord of all Being.´


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And not a sign We showed them, but it was greater than its sister sign; and We seized them with chastisement, that haply they should return.


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And they said, ´Sorcerer, pray to thy Lord for us by the covenant He has made with thee, and surely we shall be right-guided.´


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And Pharaoh proclaimed among his people: ´O my people, do I not possess the kingdom of Egypt, and these rivers flowing beneath me? What, do you not see?


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and say, ´What, are our gods better, or he?´ They cite not him to thee, save to dispute;. nay, but they are a people contentious.


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And when Jesus came with the clear signs he said, ´I have come to you with wisdom, and that I may make clear to you some of that whereon you are at variance; so fear you God and obey you me.


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But the parties among them fell into variance; so woe unto those who did evil, because of the chastisement of a painful day.


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Are they looking for aught but the Hour, that it shall come upon them suddenly, when they are not aware?


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There shall be passed around them platters of gold, and cups, therein being whatever the souls desire, and the eyes delight in. ´And therein, you shall dwell forever.


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This is the Paradise that you have been given for an inheritance for the things that you were doing.


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Or do they think We hear not their secret and what they conspire together? Yes indeed, and Our messengers are present with them writing it down.


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Glory be to the Lord of the heavens and the earth, the Lord of the Throne, above that they describe.´


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Then leave them alone to plunge and play, until they encounter that day of theirs which they are promised.


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Glory be to Him, to whom belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth and all that between them is; with Him is the knowledge of the Hour, and to Him you shall be returned.


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Those they call upon, apart from Him, have no power of intercession, save such as have testified to the truth, and that knowingly.


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There is no god but He; He gives life and makes to die; your Lord and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients.


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Are they better, or the people of Tubba´ and those before them whom We destroyed? They were surely sinners.


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They shall not taste therein of death, save the first death, And He shall guard them against the chastisement of Hell --


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and in your creation, and the crawling things He scatters abroad, there are signs for a people having sure faith,


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and in the alternation of night and day, and the provision God sends down from heaven, and therewith revives the earth after it is dead, and the turning about of the winds, there are signs for a people who understand.


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Those are the signs of God that We recite to thee in truth; in what manner of discourse then, after God and His signs, will they believe?


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who hears the signs of God being recited to him, then perseveres in waxing proud, as if he has not heard them; so give him the good tidings of a painful chastisement.


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And when he knows anything of Our signs, he takes them in mockery; those for them awaits a humbling chastisement.


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Behind them Gehenna; and that they have earned shall not avail them aught, nor those they took as protectors, apart from God; for them awaits a mighty chastisement.


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This is guidance; and those who disbelieve in the signs of their Lord, there awaits them a painful chastisement of wrath.


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God is He who has subjected to you the sea, that the ships may run on it at His commandment, and that you may seek His bounty; haply so you will be thankful.


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And He has subjected to you what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, all together, from Him. Surely in that are signs for a people who reflect.


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Say unto those who believe, that they forgive those who do not look for the days of God, that He may recompense a people for that they have been earning.


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Whoso does righteousness, it is to his own gain, and whoso does evil, it is to his own loss; then to your Lord you shall be returned.


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Indeed, We gave the Children of Israel the Book, the Judgment, and the Prophethood, and We provided them with good things, and We preferred them above all beings.


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We gave them clear signs of the Command; so they differed not, except after the knowledge had come to them, being insolent one to another. Surely thy Lord will decide between them on the Day of Resurrection touching their differences.


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Then We set thee upon an open way of the Command; therefore follow it, and follow not the caprices of those who do not know.


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Surely they will not avail thee aught against God. Surely the evildoers are friends one of the other; God is the friend of the godfearing.


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Or do those who commit evil deeds think that We shall make them as those who believe and do righteous deeds, equal their living and their dying? How ill they judge!


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God created the heavens and the earth in truth, and that every soul may be recompensed for what it has earned; they shall not be wronged.


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Hast thou seen him who has taken his caprice to be his god, and God has led him astray out of a knowledge, and set a seal upon his hearing and his heart, and laid a covering on his eyes? Who shall guide him after God? What, will you not remember?


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They say, ´There is nothing but our present life; we die, and we live, and nothing but Time destroys us.´ Of that they have no knowledge; they merely conjecture.


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And when Our signs are recited to them, clear signs, their only argument is that they say, ´Bring us our fathers, if you speak truly.´


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Say: ´God gives you life, then makes you die, then He shall gather you to the Day of Resurrection, wherein is no doubt, but most men do not know.´


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To God belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth. And on the day when the Hour is come, upon that day the vain-doers shall lose.


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And thou shalt see every nation hobbling on their knees, every nation being summoned unto its Book: ´Today you shall be recompensed for that you were doing.


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This is Our Book, that speaks against you the truth; We have been registering all that you were doing.´


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And as for those who have believed and done deeds of righteousness, their Lord shall admit them into His mercy; that is the manifest triumph.


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But as for those who have disbelieved: ´Were not My signs recited to you, and you waxed proud, and were a sinful people?


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And when it was said, "God´s promise is true, and the Hour, there is no doubt of it," you said; "We know not what the Hour may be; we have only a surmise, and are by no means certain.


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And the evil deeds that they have done shall appear to them, and they shall be encompassed by that they mocked at.


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And it shall be said, ´Today We do forget you, even as you forgot the encounter of this your day; and your refuge is the Fire, and you shall have no helpers.


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That is for that you took God´s signs in mockery, and the present life deluded you.´ So today they shall not be brought forth from it, nor will they be suffered to make amends.


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We have not created the heavens and the earth, and what between them is, save with the truth and a stated term; but the unbelievers are turning away from that they were warned of.


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Say: ´Have you considered that you call upon apart from God? Show me what they have created of the earth; or have they a partnership in the heavens? Bring me a Book before this, or some remnant of a knowledge, if you speak truly.´


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And who is further astray than he who calls, apart from God, upon such a one as shall not answer him till the Day of Resurrection? Such as are heedless of their calling,


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And when Our signs are recited to them, clear signs, the unbelievers say to the truth when it has come to them, ´This is manifest sorcery.´


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Or do they say, ´He has forged it´? Say: ´If I have forged it, you have no power to help me against God. He knows very well what you are pressing upon; He suffices as a witness between me and you; He is the All-forgiving, the All-compassionate.´


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Say: ´I am not an innovation among the Messengers, and I know not what shall be done with me or with you. I only follow what is revealed to me; I am only a clear warner.´


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Say: ´Have you considered? If it be from God, and you disbelieve in it, and a witness from among the Children of Israel hears witness to its like, and believes, and you wax proud, God guides not the people of the evildoers.


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The unbelievers say, as regards the believers, ´If it had been aught good, they had not outstripped us to it.´ And since they are not guided by it, certainly they will say, ´This is an old calumny!´


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Yet before it was the Book of Moses for a model and a mercy; and this is a Book confirming, in Arabic tongue, to warn the evildoers, and good tidings to the good-doers.


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Surely those who say, ´Our Lord is God´ and then go straight, no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow.


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Those are the inhabitants of Paradise, therein dwelling forever, as a recompense for that they have been doing.


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We have charged man, that he be kind to his parents; his mother bore him painfully, and painfully she gave birth to him; his bearing and his weaning are thirty months. Until, when he is fully grown, and reaches forty years, he says, ´O my Lord, dispose me that I may be thankful for Thy blessing wherewith Thou hast blessed me and my father and mother, and that I may do righteousness well-pleasing to Thee; and make me righteous also in my seed. Behold, I repent to Thee, and am among those that surrender.´


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Those are they from whom We shall accept the best of what they have done, and We shall pass over their evil deeds. They are among the inhabitants of Paradise -- the promise of the very truth, which they were promised.


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But he who says to his father and his mother, ´Fie upon you! Do you promise me that I shall be brought forth, when already generations have passed away before me?´ while they call upon God for succour -- ´Woe upon thee! Believe; surely God´s promise is true´; then he says, ´This is naught but the fairy-tales of the ancients´ --


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such men are they against whom has been realized the Word concerning nations that passed away before them, men and jinn alike; they were losers.


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All shall have their degrees, according to what they have wrought, and that He may pay them in full for their works, and they not being wronged.


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Upon the day when the unbelievers are exposed to the Fire: ´You dissipated your good things in your present life, and you took your enjoyment in them; therefore today you shall be recompensed with the chastisement of humiliation for that you waxed proud in the earth without right, and for your ungodliness.


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And remember the brother of Ad, when he warned his people beside the sand-dunes -- and already warners had passed away alike before him and behind him -- saying, ´Serve none but God! Truly I fear for you the chastisement of a dreadful day.


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They said, ´What, hast thou come to pervert us from our gods? Then bring us that thou promisest us, if indeed thou speakest truly.´


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He said, ´Knowledge is only with God, and I deliver to you the Message with which I was sent; but I see you are an ignorant people.´


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Then, when they saw it as a sudden cloud coming towards their valleys, they said, ´This is a cloud, that shall give us rain!´ ´Not so; rather it is that you sought to hasten -- a wind, wherein is a painful chastisement,


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destroying everything by the commandment of its Lord.´ So in the morning there was naught to be seen but their dwelling-places. Even so do We recompense the people of the sinners.


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And We had established them in that wherein We have not established you, and We appointed for them hearing, and sight, and hearts; and yet their hearing, their sight and their hearts availed them nothing, since they denied the signs of God, and they were encompassed by that they mocked at.


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Then why did those not help them that they had taken to themselves as mediators, gods apart from God? Not so; but they went astray from them, and that was their calumny, and what they had been forging.


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And when We turned to thee a company of jinn giving ear to the Koran; and when they were in its presence they said, ´Be silent!´ Then, when it was finished, they turned back to their people, warning.


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They said, ´Our people, we have heard a Book that was sent down after Moses, confirming what was before it, guiding to the truth and to a straight path.


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O our people, answer God´s summoner, and believe in Him, and He will forgive you some of your sins, and protect you from a painful chastisement.


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Whosoever answers not God´s summoner cannot frustrate God in the earth, and he has no protectors apart from Him; those are in manifest error.


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What, have they not seen that God who created the heavens and earth, not being wearied by creating them, is able to give life to the dead? Yes indeed; He is powerful over everything.


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Upon the day when the unbelievers are exposed to the Fire: ´Is not this the truth?´ They shall say, ´Yes, by our Lord!´ He shall say, ´Then taste the chastisement of your unbelief!´


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So be thou patient, as the Messengers possessed of constancy were also patient. Seek not to hasten it for them -- it shall be as if on the day they see that they are promised, they had not tarried but for an hour of a single day. A Message to be delivered! And shall any be destroyed but the people of the ungodly?


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But those who believe and do righteous deeds and believe in what is sent down to Muhammad -- and it is the truth from their Lord -- He will acquit them of their evil deeds, and dispose their minds aright.


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That is because those who disbelieve follow falsehood, and those who believe follow the truth from their Lord. Even so God strikes their similitudes for men.


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When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if God had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of God, He will not send their works astray.


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That is because they have been averse to what God has sent down, so He has made their works to fail.


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What, have they not journeyed in the land and beheld how was the end of those before them? God destroyed them; the unbelievers shall have the likes thereof.


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God shall surely admit those who believe and do righteous deeds into gardens underneath which rivers flow. As for the unbelievers, they take their enjoyment and eat as cattle eat; and the Fire shall be their lodging.


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How many a city that was stronger in might than thy city which has expelled thee have We destroyed! And there was no helper for them.


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What, is he who is upon a clear sign from his Lord like unto such a one unto whom his evil deeds have been decked out fair, and they have followed their caprices?


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This is the similitude of Paradise which the godfearing have been promised: therein are rivers of water unstaling, rivers of milk unchanging in flavour, and rivers of wine -- a delight to the drinkers, rivers, too, of honey purified; and therein for them is every fruit, and forgiveness from their Lord -- Are they as he who dwells forever in the Fire, such as are given to drink boiling water, that tears their bowels asunder?


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And some of them there are give ear to thee, till, when they go forth from thee, they say to those who have been given knowledge, ´What said he just now?´ Those are they upon whose hearts God has set a seal, and they have followed their caprices.


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Are they looking for aught but the Hour, that it shall come upon them suddenly? Already its tokens have come; so, when it has come to them, how shall they have their Reminder?


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Know thou therefore that there is no god but God, and ask forgiveness for thy sin, and for the believers, men and women. God knows your going to and fro, and your lodging.


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Those who believe say, ´Why has a sura not been sent down?´ Then, when a clear sura is sent down, and therein fighting is mentioned, thou seest those in whose hearts is sickness looking at thee as one who swoons of death; but better for them would be


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obedience, and words honourable. Then, when the matter is resolved, if they were true to God, it would be better for them.


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Those who have turned back in their traces after the guidance has become clear to them, Satan it was that tempted them, and God respited them.


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That is because they said to those who were averse to what God sent down, ´We will obey you in some of the affair´; and God knows their secrets.


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That is because they have followed what angers God, and have been averse to His good pleasure, so He has made their works to fail.


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Did We will, We would show them to thee, then thou wouldst know them by their mark; and thou shalt certainly know them in the twisting of their speech; and God knows your deeds.


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And We shall assuredly try you until We know those of you who struggle and are steadfast, and try your tidings.


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Those who disbelieve and bar from God´s way and make a breach with the Messenger after the guidance has become clear to them, they will nothing hurt God, and He will make their works to fail.


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So do not faint and call for peace; you shall be the upper ones, and God is with you, and will not deprive you of your works.


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The present life is naught but a sport and a diversion; and if you believe and are godfearing, He will give you your wages, and will not ask of you your goods.


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Ha, there you are; you are called upon to expend in God´s way, and some of you are niggardly. Whoso is niggardly is niggardly only to his own soul. God is the All-sufficient; you are the needy ones. If you turn away, He will substitute another people instead of you, then they will not be your likes.


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that God may forgive thee thy former and thy latter sins, and complete His blessing upon thee, and guide thee on a straight path,


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It is He who sent down the Shechina (tranquillity) into the hearts of the believers, that they might add faith to their faith -- to God belong the hosts of the heavens and the earth; God is All-knowing, All-wise --


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and that He may admit the believers, men and women alike, into gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein to dwell forever, and acquit them of their evil deeds; that is in God´s sight a mighty triumph;


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and that He may chastise the hypocrites, men and women alike, and the idolaters men and women alike, and those who think evil thoughts of God; against them shall be the evil turn of fortune. God is wroth with them, and has cursed them, and has prepared for them Gehenna -- an evil homecoming!


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that you may believe in God and His Messenger and succour Him, and reverence Him, and that you may give Him glory at the dawn and in the evening.


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Those who swear fealty to thee swear fealty in truth to God; God´s hand is over their hands. Then whosoever breaks his oath breaks it but to his own hurt; and whoso fulfils his covenant made with God, God will give him a mighty wage.


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The Bedouins who were left behind will say to thee, ´We were occupied by our possessions and our families; so ask forgiveness for us!´ They say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: ´Who can avail you aught against God, if He desires hurt for you, or desires profit for you? Nay, but God is ever aware of the things you do.


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Nay, but you thought that the Messenger and the believers would never return to their families, and that was decked out fair in your hearts, and you thought evil thoughts, and you were a people corrupt.´


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To God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and of the earth; whomsoever He will He forgives, and whomsoever He will He chastises; God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


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The Bedouins who were left behind will say, when you set forth after spoils, to take them, ´Let us follow you,´ desiring to change God´s words. Say: ´You shall not follow us; so God said before.´ Then they will say, ´Nay, but you´ are jealous of us.´ Nay, but they have not understood except a little.


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Say to the Bedouins who were left behind: ´You shall be called against a people possessed of great might´ to fight them, or they surrender. If you obey, God will give you a goodly wage; but if you turn your backs, as you turned your backs before, He will chastise you with a painful chastisement.´


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There is no fault in the blind, and there is no fault in the lame, and there is no fault in the sick. And whosoever obeys God and His Messenger, He will admit him into gardens underneath which rivers flow; but whosoever turns his back, him He will chastise with a painful chastisement.


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God was well pleased with the believers when they were swearing fealty to thee under the tree, and He knew what was in their hearts, so He sent down the Shechina upon them, and rewarded them with a nigh victory


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God has promised you many spoils to take; these He has hastened to you, and has restrained the hands of men from you, and that it may be a sign to the believers, and to guide you on a straight path,


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and other spoils you were not able to take; God had encompassed them already. God is powerful over everything.


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If the unbelievers had fought you, they would have turned their backs, and then found neither protector nor helper;


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It is He who restrained their hands from you, and your hands from them, in the hollow of Mecca, after that He made you victors over them. God sees the things you do.


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They are the ones who disbelieved, and barred you from the Holy Mosque and the offering, detained so as not to reach its place of sacrifice. If it had not been for certain men believers and certain women believers whom you knew not, lest you should trample them, and there befall you guilt unwittingly on their account (that God may admit into His mercy whom He will), had they been separated clearly, then We would have chastised the unbelievers among them with a painful chastisement.


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When the unbelievers set in their hearts fierceness, the fierceness of pagandom, then God sent down His Shechina upon His Messenger and the believers, and fastened to them the word of godfearing to which they have better right and are worthy of; and God has´ knowledge of everything.


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God has indeed fulfilled the vision He vouchsafed to His Messenger truly: ´You shall enter the Holy Mosque, if God wills, in security, your heads shaved, your hair cut short, not fearing.´ He knew what you knew not, and appointed ere that a nigh victory.


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It is He who has sent His Messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may uplift it above every religion. God suffices as a witness.


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Muhammad is the Messenger of God, and those who are with him are hard against the unbelievers, merciful one to another. Thou seest them bowing, prostrating, seeking bounty from God and good pleasure. Their mark is on their faces, the trace of prostration. That is their likeness in the Torah, and their likeness in the Gospel: as a seed that puts forth its shoot, and strengthens it, and it grows stout and rises straight upon its stalk, pleasing the sowers, that through them He may enrage the unbelievers. God has promised those of them who believe and do deeds of righteousness forgiveness and a mighty wage.


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O believers, advance not before God and His Messenger; and fear God. God is All-hearing, All-knowing.


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O believers, raise not your voices above the Prophet´s voice, and be not loud in your speech to him, as you are loud one to another, lest your works fail while you are not aware.


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Surely those who lower their voices in the presence of God´s Messenger, those are they whose hearts God has tested for godfearing; they shall have forgiveness and a mighty wage.


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And if they had patience, until thou comest out to them, that would be better for them; and God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


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O believers, if an ungodly man comes to you with a tiding, make clear, lest you afflict a people unwittingly, and then repent of what you have done.


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And know that the Messenger of God is among you. If he obeyed you in much of the affair, you would suffer; but God has endeared to you belief, decking it fair in your hearts, and He has made detestable to you unbelief and ungodliness and disobedience. Those -- they are the right-minded,


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If two parties of the believers fight, put things right between them; then, if one of them is insolent against the other, fight the insolent one till it reverts to God´s commandment. If it reverts, set things right between them equitably, and be just. Surely God loves the just.


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The believers indeed are brothers; so set things right between your two brothers, and fear God; haply so you will find mercy.


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O believers, let not any people scoff at another people who may be better than they; neither let women scoff at women who may be better than themselves. And find not fault with one another, neither revile one another by nicknames. An evil name is ungodliness after belief. And whoso repents not, those -- they are the evildoers.


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O believers, eschew much suspicion; some suspicion is a sin. And do not spy, neither backbite one another; would any of you like to eat the flesh of his brother dead? You would abominate it. And fear you God; assuredly God turns, and He is All-compassionate.


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O mankind, We have created you male and female, and appointed you races and tribes, that you may know one another. Surely the noblest among you in the sight of God is the most godfearing of you. God is All-knowing, All-aware.


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The Bedouins say, ´We believe.´ Say: ´You do not believe; rather say, "We surrender"; for belief has not yet entered your hearts. If you obey God and His Messenger, He will not diminish you anything of your works. God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.´


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The believers are those who believe in God and His Messenger, then have not doubted, and have struggled with their possessions and their selves in the way of God; those -- they are the truthful ones.


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Say: ´What, would you teach God what your religion is, and God knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth? And God has knowledge of everything.´


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They count it as a favour to thee that they have surrendered! Say: ´Do not count your surrendering as a favour to me; nay, but rather God confers a favour upon you, in that He has guided you to belief, if it be that you are truthful.


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Nay, but they marvel that a warner has come to them from among them; and the unbelievers say, ´This is a marvellous thing!


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What, have they not beheld heaven above them, how We have built it, and decked it out fair, and it has no cracks?


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And the earth -- We stretched it forth, and cast on it firm mountains, and We caused to grow therein of every joyous kind


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And We sent down out of heaven water blessed, and caused to grow thereby gardens and grain of harvest


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a provision for the servants, and thereby We revived a land that was dead. Even so is the coming forth.


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the men of the Thicket, the people of Tubba´. Every one cried lies to the Messengers, and My threat came true.


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What, were We wearied by the first creation? No indeed; but they are in uncertainty as to the new creation.


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We indeed created man; and We know what his soul whispers within him, and We are nearer to him than the jugular vein.


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´Thou wast heedless of this; therefore We have now removed from thee thy covering, and so thy sight today is piercing.´


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Upon the day We shall say unto Gehenna, ´Art thou filled?´ And it shall say, ´Are there any more to come?´


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How many a generation We destroyed before them that was stronger in valour than they, then they searched about in the land; was there any asylum?


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We created the heavens and the earth, and what between them is, in six days, and no weariness touched Us.


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So be thou patient under what they say, and proclaim thy Lord´s praise before the rising of the sun, and before its setting,


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Upon the day when the earth is split asunder from about them as they hasten forth; that is a mustering easy for Us.


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We know very well what they say; thou art not a tyrant over them. Therefore remind by the Koran him who fears My threat.


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Then he conceived a fear of them. They said, ´Be not afraid!´ And they gave him good tidings of a cunning boy.


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Then they turned in disdain from the commandment of their Lord, and the thunderbolt took them and they themselves beholding


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The evildoers shall have their portion, like the portion of their fellows; so let them not hasten Me!


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Roast in it! And bear you patiently, or bear not patiently, equal it is to you; you are only being recompensed for that you were working.´


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rejoicing in that their Lord has given them; and their Lord shall guard them against the chastisement of Hell.


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And those who believed, and their seed followed them in belief, We shall join their seed with them, and We shall not defraud them of aught of their work; every man shall be pledged for what he earned.


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Or have they a ladder whereon they listen? Then let any of them that has listened bring a clear authority.


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And there surely awaits the evildoers a chastisement beyond even that, but most of them know it not.


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And be thou patient under the judgment of thy Lord; surely thou art before Our eyes. And proclaim the praise of thy Lord when thou arisest,


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They are naught but names yourselves have named, and your fathers; God has sent down no authority touching them. They follow only surmise, and what the souls desire; and yet guidance has come to them from their Lord.


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How many an angel there is in the heavens whose intercession avails not anything, save after that God gives leave to whomsoever He wills and is well-pleased.


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They have not any knowledge thereof; they follow only surmise, and surmise avails naught against truth.


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That is their attainment of knowledge. Surely thy Lord knows very well those who have gone astray from His way, and He knows very well those who are guided.


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To God belongs whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, that He may recompense those who do evil for what they have done, and recompense those who have done good with the reward most fair.


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Those who avoid the heinous sins and indecencies, save lesser offences surely thy Lord is wide in His forgiveness. Very well He knows you, when He produced you from the earth, and when you were yet unborn in your mothers´ wombs; therefore hold not yourselves purified; God knows very well him who is godfearing.


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The people of Noah cried lies before them; they cried lies to Our servant, and said, ´A man possessed!´ And he was rejected.


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and said, ´What, shall we follow a mortal, one out of ourselves? Then indeed we should be in error and insanity!


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Even his guests they had solicited of him; so We obliterated their eyes, saying, ´Taste now My chastisement and My warnings!´


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They cried lies to Our signs, all of them, so We seized them with the seizing of One mighty, omnipotent.


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O tribe of jinn and of men, if you are able to pass through the confines of heaven and earth, pass through them! You shall not pass through except with an authority.


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The sinners shall be known by their mark, and they shall be seized by their forelocks and their feet.


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To Him belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth; He gives life, and He makes to die, and He is powerful over everything.


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It is He that created the heavens and the earth in six days then seated Himself upon the Throne. He knows what penetrates into the earth, and what comes forth from it, -- what comes down from heaven, and what goes up unto it. He is with you wherever you are; and God sees the things you do.


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He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night. He knows the thoughts within the breasts.


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Believe in God and His Messenger, and expend of that unto which He has made you successors. And those of you who believe and expend shall have a mighty wage.


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How is it with you, that you believe not in God seeing that the Messenger is calling you to believe in your Lord, and He has taken compact with you, if you are believers?


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It is He who sends down upon His servant signs, clear signs, that He may bring you forth from the shadows into the light. Surely God is to you All-gentle, All-compassionate.


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How is it with you, that you expend not in the way of God, and to God belongs the inheritance of the heavens and the earth? Not equal is he among you who spent, and who fought before the victory; those are mightier in rank than they who spent and fought afterwards; and unto each God has promised the reward most fair; and God is aware of the things you do.


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Who is he that will lend to God a good loan, and He will multiply it for him, and his shall be a generous wage?


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Upon the day when thou seest the believers, men and women, their light running before them, and on their right hands. ´Good tidings for you today! Gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein to dwell for ever; that is indeed the mighty triumph.´


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Upon the day when the hypocrites, men and women, shall say to those who have believed, ´Wait for us, so that we may borrow your light!´ It shall be said, ´Return you back behind, and seek for a light!´ And a wall shall be set up between them, having a door in the inward whereof is mercy, and against the outward thereof is chastisement.


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They shall be calling unto them, ´Were we not with you?´ They shall say, ´Yes indeed; but you tempted yourselves, and you awaited, and you were in doubt, and fancies deluded you, until God´s commandment came, and the Deluder deluded you concerning God.


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Therefore today no ransom shall be taken from you, neither from those who disbelieved. Your refuge is the Fire, that is your master -- an evil homecoming!´


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Is it not time that the hearts of those who believe should be humbled to the Remembrance of God and the Truth which He has sent down, and that they should not be as those to whom the Book was given aforetime, and the term seemed over long to them, so that their hearts have become hard, and many of them are ungodly?


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Know that God revives the earth after it was dead. We have indeed made clear for you the signs, that haply you will understand.


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Surely those, the men and the women, who make freewill offerings and have lent to God a good loan, it shall be multiplied for them, and theirs shall be a generous wage.


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And those who believe in God and His Messengers -- they are the just men and the martyrs in their Lord´s sight; they have their wage, and their light. But the unbelievers, who have cried lies to Our signs, they are the inhabitants of Hell.


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Know that the present life is but a sport and a diversion, an adornment and a cause for boasting among you, and a rivalry in wealth and children. It is as a rain whose vegetation pleases the unbelievers; then it withers, and thou seest it turning yellow, then it becomes broken orts. And in the world to come there is a terrible chastisement, and forgiveness from God and good pleasure; and the present life is but the joy of delusion.


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Race to forgiveness from your Lord, and a Garden the breadth whereof is as the breadth of heaven and earth, made ready for those who believe in God and His Messengers. That is the bounty of God; He gives it unto whomsoever He will; and God is of bounty abounding.


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No affliction befalls in the earth or in yourselves, but it is in a Book, before We create it; that is easy for God;


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that you may not grieve for what escapes you, nor rejoice in what has come to you; God loves not any man proud and boastful,


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such as are niggardly, and bid men to be niggardly. And whosoever turns away, God is the All-sufficient, the All-laudable.


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Indeed, We sent Our Messengers with the clear signs, and We sent down with them the Book and the Balance so that men might uphold justice. And We sent down iron, wherein is great might, and many uses for men, and so that God might know who helps Him, and His Messengers, in the Unseen. Surely God is All-strong, All-mighty.


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And We sent Noah, and Abraham, and We appointed the Prophecy and the Book to be among their seed; and some of them are guided, and many of them are ungodly.


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Then We sent, following in their footsteps, Our Messengers; and We sent, following, Jesus son of Mary, and gave unto him the Gospel. And We set in the hearts of those who followed him tenderness and mercy. And monasticism they invented -- We did not prescribe it for them -- only seeking the good pleasure of God; but they observed it not as it should be observed. So We gave those of them who believed their wage; and many of them are ungodly.


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O believers, fear God, and believe in His Messenger, and He will give you a twofold portion of His mercy; and He will appoint for you a light whereby you shall walk, and forgive you; God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate;


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that the People of the Book may know that they have no power over anything of God´s bounty, and that bounty is in the hand of God; He gives it unto whomsoever He will; and God is of bounty abounding.


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God has heard the words of her that disputes with thee concerning her husband, and makes complaint unto God. God hears the two of you conversing together; surely God is All-hearing, All-seeing.


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Those of you who say, regarding their wives, ´Be as my mother´s back,´ they are not truly their mothers; their mothers are only those who gave them birth, and they are surely saying a dishonourable saying, and a falsehood. Yet surely God is All-pardoning, All-forgiving.


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And those who say, regarding their wives, ´Be as my mother´s back,´ and then retract what they have said, they shall set free a slave, before the two of them touch one another. By that you are admonished; and God is aware of the things you do.


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But whosoever finds not the means, then let him fast two successive months, before the two of them touch one another. And if any man is not able to, then let him feed sixty poor persons -- that, that you may believe in God and His Messenger. Those are God´s bounds; and for the unbelievers there awaits yet a painful chastisement.


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Surely those who oppose God and His Messenger shall be frustrated as those before them were frustrated. Now We have sent down signs, clear signs; and for the unbelievers awaits a humbling chastisement,


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God has numbered it, and they have forgotten it. God is witness over everything. Hast thou not seen that God knows whatsoever is in the heavens, and whatsoever is in the earth? Three men conspire not secretly together, but He is the fourth of them, neither five men, but He is the sixth of them, neither fewer than that, neither more, but He is with them, wherever they may be; then He shall tell them what they have done, on the Day of Resurrection. Surely God has knowledge of everything.


tafseer:
Hast thou not regarded those who were forbidden to converse secretly together, then they return to that they were forbidden, and they converse secretly together in sin and enmity, and in disobedience to the Messenger? Then, when they come to thee, they greet thee with a greeting God never greeted thee withal; and they say within themselves, ´Why does God not chastise us for what we say?´ Sufficient for them shall be Gehenna, at which they, shall be roasted -- an evil homecoming!


tafseer:
O believers, when you conspire secretly, then conspire not together in sin and enmity and disobedience to the Messenger, but conspire in piety and godfearing. Fear God, unto whom you shall be mustered.


tafseer:
Conspiring secretly together is of Satan, that the believers may sorrow; but he will not hurt them anything, except by the leave of God. And in God let the believers put all their trust.


tafseer:
O believers, when it is said to you ´Make room in the assemblies´, then make room, and God will make room for you; and when it is said, ´Move up´, move up, and God will raise up in rank those of you who believe and have been given knowledge. And God is aware of the things you do.


tafseer:
O believers, when you conspire with the Messenger, before your conspiring advance a freewill offering; that is better for you and purer. Yet if you find not means, God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


tafseer:
Are you afraid, before your conspiring, to advance freewill offerings? If you do not so, and God turns again unto you, then perform the prayer, and pay the alms, and obey God and His Messenger. God is aware of the things you do.


tafseer:
Hast thou not regarded those who have taken for friends a people against whom God is wrathful? They belong neither to you nor to them; and they swear upon falsehood, and that wittingly.


tafseer:
God has made ready for them a chastisement terrible; surely they -- evil are the things they have been doing.


tafseer:
They have taken their oaths as a covering, and barred from God´s way; so there awaits them a humbling chastisement.


tafseer:
Neither their riches nor their children shall avail them anything against God; those -- they are the inhabitants of the Fire, therein dwelling forever.


tafseer:
Upon the day when God shall raise them up all together, and they will swear to Him, as they swear to you, and think they are on something. Surely, they are the liars!


tafseer:
Satan has gained the mastery over them, and caused them to forget God´s Remembrance. Those are Satan´s party; why, Satan´s party, surely, they are the losers!


tafseer:
God has written, ´I shall assuredly be the victor, I and My Messengers.´ Surely God is All-strong, All-mighty.


tafseer:
Thou shalt not find any people who believe in God and the Last Day who are loving to anyone who opposes. God and His Messenger, not though they were their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their clan. Those -- He has written faith upon their hearts, and He has confirmed them with a Spirit from Himself; and He shall admit them into gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein to dwell forever, God being well-pleased with them, and they well-pleased with Him. Those are God´s party; why, surely God´s party -- they are the prosperers.


tafseer:
It is He who expelled from their habitations the unbelievers among the People of the Book at the first mustering. You did not think that they would go forth, and they thought that their fortresses would defend them against God; then God came upon them from whence they had not reckoned, and He cast terror into their hearts as they destroyed their houses with their own hands, and the hands of the believers; therefore take heed, you who have eyes!


tafseer:
Had God not prescribed dispersal for them, He would have chastised them in this world; and there awaits them in the world to come the chastisement of the Fire.


tafseer:
That is because they made a breach with God and His Messenger; and whosoever makes a breach with God, God is terrible in retribution.


tafseer:
Whatever palm-trees you cut down, or left standing upon their roots, that was by God´s leave, and that He might degrade the ungodly.


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And whatever spoils of war God has given unto His Messenger from them, against that you pricked neither horse nor camel; but God gives authority to His Messengers over whomsoever He will. God is powerful over everything.


tafseer:
Whatsoever spoils of war God has given to His Messenger from the people of the cities belongs to God, and His Messenger, and the near kinsman, orphans, the needy and the traveller, so that it be not a thing taken in turns among the rich of you. Whatever the Messenger gives you, take; whatever he forbids you, give over. And fear God; surely God is terrible in retribution.


tafseer:
It is for the poor emigrants, who were expelled from their habitations and their possessions, seeking bounty from God and good pleasure, and helping God and His Messenger; those -- they are the truthful ones.


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And those who made their dwelling in the abode, and in belief, before them; love whosoever has emigrated to them, not finding in their breasts any need for what they have been given, and preferring others above themselves, even though poverty be their portion. And whoso is guarded against the avarice of his own soul, those -- they are the prosperers.


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And as for those who came after them, they say, ´Our Lord, forgive us and our brothers, who preceded us in belief, and put Thou not into our hearts any rancour towards those who believe. Our Lord, surely Thou art the All-gentle, the All-compassionate.´


tafseer:
Hast thou not regarded the hypocrites, saying to their brothers of the People of the Book who disbelieve, ´If you are expelled, we will go forth with you, and we will never obey anyone in regard to you. If you are fought against, we will help you.´ And God bears witness that they are truly liars.


tafseer:
If those are expelled, they will not go forth with them, and if they are fought against, they will not help them. Even if they helped them, they would surely turn their backs, then they would not be helped.


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Why, you arouse greater fear in their hearts than God; that is because they are a people who understand not.


tafseer:
They will not fight against you all together except in fortified cities, or from behind walls. Their valour is great, among themselves; you think of them as a host; but their hearts are scattered; that is because they are a people who have no sense.


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Like those who a short time before them tasted the mischief of their action; there awaits them a painful chastisement.


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Like Satan, when he said to man, ´Disbelieve´; then, when he disbelieved, he said, ´Surely I am quit of you. Surely I fear God, the Lord of all Being.´


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Their end is, both are in the Fire, there dwelling forever; that is the recompense of the evildoers.


tafseer:
O believers, fear God. Let every soul consider what it has forwarded for the morrow. And fear God; God is aware of the things you do.


tafseer:
Be not as those who forgot God, and so He caused them to forget their souls; those -- they are the ungodly.


tafseer:
Not equal are the inhabitants of the Fire and the inhabitants of Paradise. The inhabitants of Paradise -- they are the triumphant.


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If We had sent down this Koran upon a mountain, thou wouldst have seen it humbled, split asunder out of the fear of God. And those similitudes -- We strike them for men; haply they will reflect.


tafseer:
He is God; there is no god but He. He is the knower of the Unseen and the Visible; He is the All-merciful, the All-compassionate.


tafseer:
He is God; there is no god but He. He is the King, the All-holy, the All-peaceable, the All-faithful, the All-preserver, the All-mighty, the All-compeller, the All-sublime. Glory be to God, above that they associate!


tafseer:
He is God, the Creator, the Maker, the Shaper. To Him belong the Names Most Beautiful. All that is in the heavens and the earth magnifies Him; He is the All-mighty, the All-wise.


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O believers, take not My enemy and your enemy for friends, offering them love, though they have disbelieved in the truth that has come to you, expelling the Messenger and you because you believe in God your Lord. If you go forth to struggle in My way and seek My good pleasure, secretly loving them, yet I know very well what you conceal and what you publish; and whosoever of you does that, has gone astray from the right way.


tafseer:
If they come on you, they will be enemies to you, and stretch against you their hands and their tongues, to do you evil, and they wish that you may disbelieve.


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Neither your blood-kindred nor your children shall profit you upon the Day of Resurrection; He shall distinguish between you. And God sees the things you do.


tafseer:
You have had a good example in Abraham, and those with him, when they said to their people, ´We are quit of you and that you serve, apart from God. We disbelieve in you, and between us and you enmity has shown itself, and hatred for ever, until you believe in God alone. (Except that Abraham said unto his father, ´Certainly I shall ask pardon for thee; but I have no power to do aught for thee against God.´) ´Our Lord, in Thee we trust; to Thee we turn; to Thee is the homecoming.


tafseer:
Our Lord, make us not a temptation to those who disbelieve; and forgive us. Our. Lord, Thou art the All-mighty, the All-wise.´


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You have had a good example in them for whoever hopes for God and the Last Day. And whosoever turns away, surely God is the All-sufficient, the All-laudable.


tafseer:
It may be God will yet establish between you and those of them with whom you are at enmity love. God is All-powerful; God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


tafseer:
God forbids you not, as regards those who have not fought you in religion´s cause, nor expelled you from your habitations, that you should be kindly to them, and act justly towards them; surely God loves the just.


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God only forbids you as to those who have fought you in religion´s cause, and expelled you from your habitations, and have supported in your expulsion, that you should take them for friends. And whosoever takes them for friends, those -- they are the evildoers.


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O believers, when believing women come to you as emigrants, test them. God knows very well their belief. Then, if you know them to be believers, return them not to the unbelievers. They are not permitted to the unbelievers, nor are the unbelievers permitted to them. Give the unbelievers what they have expended; and there is no fault in you to marry them when you have given them their wages. Do not hold fast to the ties of unbelieving women, and ask what you have expended, and let them ask what they have expended. That is God´s judgment; He judges between you; and God is All-knowing, All-wise.


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And if any of your wives slips away from you to the unbelievers, and then you retaliate, give those whose wives have gone away the like of what they have expended. And fear God, in whom you believe.


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O Prophet, when believing women come to thee, swearing fealty to thee upon the terms that they will not associate with God anything, and will not steal, neither commit adultery, nor slay their children, nor bring a calumny they forge between their hands and their feet, nor disobey thee in aught honourable, ask God´s forgiveness for them; God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


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O believers, take not for friends a people against whom God is wrathful, and who have despaired of the world to come, even as the unbelievers have despaired of the inhabitants of the tombs.


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And when Moses said to his people, ´O my people, why do you hurt me, though you know I am the Messenger of God to you?´ When they swerved, God caused their hearts to swerve; and God. guides never the people of the ungodly.


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And when Jesus son of Mary said, ´Children of Israel, I am indeed the Messenger of God to you, confirming the Torah that is before me, and giving good tidings of a Messenger who shall come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad.´ Then, when he brought them the clear signs, they said, ´This is a manifest sorcery.´


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And who does greater evil than he who forges against God falsehood, when he is being called unto surrender? And God guides never the people of the evildoers.


tafseer:
They desire to extinguish with their mouths, the light of God; but God will perfect His light, though the unbelievers be averse.


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It is He who has sent His Messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that he may uplift it above every religion, though the unbelievers be averse.


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You shall believe in God and His Messenger, and struggle in the way of God with your possessions and your selves. That is better for you, did you but know.


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He will forgive you your sins and admit you into gardens underneath which rivers flow, and to dwelling-places goodly in Gardens of Eden; that is the mighty triumph;


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and other things you love, help from God and a nigh victory. Give thou good tidings to the believers!


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O believers, be you God´s helpers, as Jesus, Mary´s son, said to the Apostles. ´Who will be my helpers unto God?´ The Apostles said, ´We will be helpers of God.´ And a party of the Children of Israel believed, and a party disbelieved. So We confirmed those who believed against their enemy, and they became masters.


tafseer:
All that is in the heavens and the earth magnifies God, the King, the All-holy, the All-mighty, the All-wise.


tafseer:
It is He who has raised up from among the common people a Messenger from among them, to recite His signs to them and to purify them, and to teach them the Book and the Wisdom, though before that they were in manifest error,


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The likeness of those who have been loaded with the Torah then they have not carried it, is as the likeness of an ass carrying books. Evil is the likeness of the people who have cried lies to God´s signs. God guides never the people of the evildoers.


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Say: ´You of Jewry, if you assert that you are the friends of God, apart from other men, then do you long for death, if you speak truly.´


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But they will never long for it, because of that their hands have forwarded; God knows the evildoers.


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Say: ´Surely death, from which you flee, shall encounter you; then you shall be returned to the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible, and He will tell you that you have been doing.´


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O believers, when proclamation is made for prayer on the Day of Congregation, hasten to God´s remembrance and leave trafficking aside; that is better for you, did you but know.


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Then, when the prayer is finished, scatter in the land and seek God´s bounty, and remember God frequently; haply you will prosper.


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But when they see merchandise or diversion they scatter off to it, and they leave thee standing. Say: ´What is with God is better than diversion and merchandise. God is the best of providers.´


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When the hypocrites come to thee they say, ´We bear witness that thou art indeed the Messenger of God.´ And God knows that thou art indeed His Messenger, and God bears witness that the hypocrites are truly liars.


tafseer:
They have taken their oaths as a covering, then they have barred from the way of God. Surely they -- evil are the things they have been doing.


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That is because they have believed, then they have disbelieved; therefore a seal has been set on their hearts, and they do not understand.


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When thou seest them, their bodies please thee; but when they speak, thou listenest to their speech, and it is as they were propped-up timbers. They think every cry is against them. They are the enemy; so beware of them. God assail them! How they are perverted!


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And when it is said to them, ´Come now, and God´s Messenger will ask forgiveness for you,´ they twist their heads, and thou seest them turning their faces away, waxing proud.


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Equal it is for them, whether thou askest forgiveness for them or thou askest not forgiveness for them; God will never forgive them. God guides not the people of the ungodly.


tafseer:
Those are they that say, ´Do not expend on them that are with God´s Messenger until they scatter off´; yet unto God belong the treasuries of the heavens and of the earth, but the hypocrites do not understand.


tafseer:
They say, ´If we return to the City, the mightier ones of it will expel the more abased´; yet glory belongs unto God, and unto His Messenger and the believers, but the hypocrites do not know it.


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O believers, let not your possessions neither your children divert you from God´s remembrance; whoso does that, they are the losers.


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Expend of what We have provided you before that death comes upon one of you and he says, ´O my Lord, if only Thou wouldst defer me unto a near term, so that I may make freewill offering, and so I may become one of the righteous.´


tafseer:
All that is in the heavens and the earth magnifies God. His is the Kingdom, and His is the praise, and He is powerful over everything.


tafseer:
It is He who created you. One of you is an unbeliever, and one of you a believer; and God sees the things you do.


tafseer:
He created the heavens and the earth with the truth, and He shaped you, and shaped you well; and unto Him is the homecoming.


tafseer:
He knows whatever is in the heavens and the earth, and He knows what you conceal and what you publish. God knows the thoughts within the breasts.


tafseer:
Has there not come to you the tidings of those that disbelieved before, then tasted the mischief of their action, and there yet awaits them a painful chastisement?


tafseer:
That is because their Messengers came to them with the clear signs, and then they said, ´What, shall mortals be our guides?´ Therefore they disbelieved, and turned away; and God was in no need of them. And God is All-sufficient, All-laudable.


tafseer:
The unbelievers assert that they will never be raised up. Say: ´Yes indeed, by my Lord! You shall be raised up, then you shall be told the things you did. That is easy for God.´


tafseer:
Therefore believe in God and His Messenger, and in the Light which We have sent down. And God is aware of the things you do.


tafseer:
Upon the day when He shall gather you for the Day of Gathering; that shall be the Day of Mutual Fraud. And whosoever believes in God, and does righteousness, God will acquit him of his evil deeds, and admit him into gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein to dwell for ever and ever; that is the mighty triumph.


tafseer:
And those who disbelieved and cried lies to Our signs, those shall be the inhabitants of the Fire. therein to dwell forever -- an evil homecoming!


tafseer:
No affliction befalls, except it be by the leave of God. Whosoever believes in God, He will guide his heart. And God has knowledge of everything.


tafseer:
And obey God, and obey the Messenger; but if you turn your backs, it is only for the Messenger to deliver the Manifest Message.


tafseer:
O believers, among your wives and children there is an enemy to you; so beware of them. But if you pardon, and overlook, and if you forgive, surely God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


tafseer:
So fear God as far as you are able, and give ear, and obey, and expend well for yourselves. And whosoever is guarded against the avarice of his own soul, those -- they are the prosperers.


tafseer:
If you lend to God a good loan, He will multiply it for you, and will forgive you. God is All-thankful, All-clement,


tafseer:
O Prophet, when you divorce women, divorce them when they have reached their period. Count the period, and fear God your Lord. Do not expel them from their houses, nor let them go forth, except when they commit a flagrant indecency. Those are God´s bounds; whosoever trespasses the bounds of God has done wrong to himself. Thou knowest not, perchance after that God will bring something new to pass.


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Then, when they have reached their term, retain them honourably, or part from them honourably. And call in to witness two men of equity from among yourselves; and perform the witnessing to God Himself. By this then is admonished whosoever believes in God and the Last Day. And whosoever fears God, He will appoint for him a way out,


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and He will provide for him from whence he never reckoned. And whosoever puts his trust in God, He shall suffice him. God attains his purpose. God has appointed a measure for everything.


tafseer:
As for your women who have despaired of further menstruating, if you are in doubt, their period shall be three months; and those who have not menstruated as yet. And those who are with child, their term is when they bring forth their burden. Whoso fears God, God will appoint for him, of His command, easiness.


tafseer:
That is God´s command, that He has sent down unto you. And whosoever fears God, He will acquit him of his evil deeds, and He will give him a mighty wage.


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Lodge them where you are lodging, according to your means, and do not press them, so as to straiten their circumstances. If they are with child, expend upon them until they bring forth their burden. If they suckle for you, give them their wages, and consult together honourably. If you both make difficulties, another woman shall suckle for him.


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Let the man of plenty expend out of his plenty. As for him whose provision is stinted to him, let him expend of what God has given him. God charges no soul save with what He has given him. God will assuredly appoint, after difficulty, easiness.


tafseer:
How many a city turned in disdain from the commandment of its Lord and His Messengers; and then We made with it a terrible reckoning and chastised it with a horrible chastisement.


tafseer:
God prepared for them a terrible chastisement. So fear God, O men possessed of minds! Believers, God has sent down to you, for a remembrance,


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a Messenger reciting to you the signs of God, clear signs, that He may bring forth those who believe and do righteous deeds from the shadows into the light. Whosoever believes in God, and does righteousness, He will admit him to gardens underneath which rivers flow; therein they shall dwell for ever and ever. God has made for him a goodly provision.


tafseer:
It is God who created seven heavens, and of earth their like, between them the Command descending, that you may know that God is powerful over everything and that God encompasses everything in knowledge.


tafseer:
O Prophet, why forbiddest thou what God has made lawful to thee, seeking the good pleasure of thy wives? And God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


tafseer:
God has ordained for you the absolution of your oaths. God is your Protector, and He is the All-knowing, the All-wise.


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And when the Prophet confided to one of his wives a certain matter; and then, when she told of it, and God disclosed that to him, he made known part of it, and turned aside from part; then, when he told her of it, she said, ´Who told thee this?´ He said, ´I was told of it by the All-knowing, the All-aware.´


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If you two repent to God, yet your hearts certainly inclined; but if you support one another against him, God is his Protector, and Gabriel, and the righteous among the believers; and, after that, the angels are his supporters.


tafseer:
It is possible that, if he divorces you, his Lord will give him in exchange wives better than you, women who have surrendered, believing, obedient, penitent, devout, given to fasting, who have been married and virgins too.


tafseer:
Believers, guard yourselves and your families against a Fire whose fuel is men and stones, and over which are harsh, terrible angels who disobey not God in what He commands them and do what they are commanded.


tafseer:
´O you unbelievers, do not excuse yourselves today; you are only being recompensed for what you were doing.´


tafseer:
Believers, turn to God in sincere repentance; it may be that your Lord will acquit you of your evil deeds, and will admit you into gardens underneath which rivers flow. Upon the day when God will not degrade the Prophet and those who believe with him, their light running before them, and on their right hands; and they say, ´Our ´Lord, perfect for us our light, and forgive us; surely Thou art powerful over everything.´


tafseer:
O Prophet, struggle with the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and be thou harsh with them; their refuge shall be Gehenna -- an evil homecoming!


tafseer:
God has struck a similitude for the unbelievers -- the wife of Noah, and the wife of Lot; for they were under two of Our righteous servants, but they betrayed them, so they availed them nothing whatsoever against God; so it was said, ´Enter, you two, the Fire with those who enter.´


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God has struck a similitude for the believers -- the wife of Pharaoh, when she said, ´My Lord, build for me a house in Paradise, in Thy presence, and deliver me from Pharaoh and his work, and do Thou deliver me from the people of the evildoers.´


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And Mary, Imran´s daughter, who guarded her virginity, so We breathed into her of Our Spirit, and she confirmed the Words of her Lord and His Books, and became one of the obedient.


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who created death and life, that He might try you which of you is fairest in works; and He is the All-mighty, the All-forgiving --


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who created seven heavens one upon another. Thou seest not in the creation of the All-merciful any imperfection. Return thy gaze; seest thou any fissure?


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And We adorned the lower heaven with lamps, and made them things to stone Satans; and We have prepared for them the chastisement of the Blaze.


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And for those who disbelieve in their Lord there awaits the chastisement of Gehenna -- an evil homecoming!


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and wellnigh bursts asunder with rage. As often as a troop is cast into it, its keepers ask them, ´Came there no warner to you?´;


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They say, ´Yes indeed, a warner came to us; but we cried lies, saying, "God has not sent down anything; you are only in great error.


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They also say, ´If we had only heard, or had understood, we would not have been of the inhabitants of the Blaze.´


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It is He who made the earth submissive to you; therefore walk in its tracts, and eat of His provision; to Him is the Uprising.


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Do you feel secure that He who is in heaven will not cause the earth to swallow you, the while it rocks?


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Do you feel secure that He who is in heaven will not loose against you a squall of pebbles, then you shall know how My warning is?


tafseer:
Have they not regarded the birds above them spreading their wings, and closing them? Naught holds them but the All-merciful. Surely He sees everything.


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Or who is this that shall be a host for you to help you, apart from the All-merciful? The unbelievers are only in delusion.


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Or who is this that shall provide for you if He withholds His provision? No, but they persist in disdain and aversion.


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What, is he who walks prone upon his face better guided than he who walks upright on a straight path?


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Say: ´It is He who produced you, and appointed for you hearing and sight and hearts; little thanks you show!´


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Then, when they see it nigh at hand, the faces of the unbelievers will be vexed, and it will be said, ´This is what you were promised.´


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Say: ´What think you? If God destroys me and those with me, or has mercy on us, then who will protect the unbelievers from a painful chastisement?´


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Say: ´He is the All-merciful. We believe in Him, and in Him we put all our trust. Assuredly, you will soon, know who is in manifest error.


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Say: ´What think you? If in the morning your water should have vanished into the earth, then who would bring you running water?´


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Surely thy Lord knows very well those who have gone astray from His way, and He knows very well those who are guided.


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Now We have tried them, even as We tried the owners of the garden when they swore they would pluck in the morning


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Such is the chastisement; and the chastisement of the world to come, is assuredly greater, did they but know.


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Or have you oaths from Us, reaching to the Day of Resurrection? Surely you shall have whatever you judge!


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Upon the day when the leg shall be bared, and they shall be summoned to bow themselves, but they cannot;


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humbled shall be their eyes, and abasement shall overspread them, for they had been summoned to bow themselves while they were whole.


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So leave Me with him who cries lies to this discourse! We will draw them on little by little whence they know not;


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So be thou patient under the judgment of thy Lord, and be not as the Man of the Fish, when he called, choking inwardly.


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Had there not overtaken him a blessing from his Lord he would have been cast upon the wilderness, being condemned.


tafseer:
The unbelievers wellnigh strike thee down with their glances, when they hear the Reminder, and they say, ´Surely he is a man possessed!´


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violent that He compelled against them seven nights and eight days, uninterruptedly, and thou mightest see the people laid prostrate in it as if they were the stumps of fallen down palm-trees.


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and the angels shall stand upon its borders, and upon that day eight shall carry above them the Throne of thy Lord.


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Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he shall say, ´Here, take and read my book!


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But as for him who is given his book in his left hand, he shall say, ´Would that I had not been given my book


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as they are given sight of them. The sinner will wish that he might ransom himself from the chastisement of that day even by his sons,


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Then leave them alone to plunge and play until they encounter that day of theirs which they are promised,


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We sent Noah to his people, saying, ´Warn thy people, ere there come on them a painful chastisement.´


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and He will forgive you your sins, and defer you to a stated term; God´s term, when it comes, cannot be deferred, did you but know."´


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And whenever I called them, that Thou mightest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, and wrapped them in their garments, and persisted, and waxed very proud.


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and will succour you with wealth and sons, and will appoint for you gardens, and will appoint for you rivers.


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Noah said, ´My Lord, they have rebelled against me, and followed him whose wealth and children increase him only in loss,


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and have said, "Do not leave your gods, and do not leave Wadd, nor Suwa´, Yaghuth, Ya´uq, neither Nasr.


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And because of their transgressions they were drowned, and admitted into a Fire, for they found not, apart from God, any to help them.


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Surely, if Thou leavest them, they will lead Thy servants astray, and will beget none but unbelieving libertines.


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My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whosoever enters my house as a believer, and the believers, men and women alike; and do Thou not increase the evildoers save in ruin!´


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Say: ´It has been revealed to me that a company of the jinn gave ear, then they said, "We have indeed heard a Koran wonderful,


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But there were certain men of mankind who would take refuge with certain men of the jinn, and they increased them in vileness,


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And so we know not whether evil is intended for those in the earth, or whether their Lord intends for them rectitude.


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Indeed, we thought that we should never be able to frustrate God in the earth, neither be able to frustrate Him by flight.


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When we heard the guidance, we believed in it; and whosoever believes in his Lord, he shall fear neither paltriness nor vileness.


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And some of us have surrendered, and some of us have deviated. Those who have surrendered sought rectitude;


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that We might try them therein. And whosoever turns away from the Remembrance of his Lord, He will thrust him into chastisement rigorous.


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excepting a Deliverance from God and His Messages. And whoso rebels against God and His messenger, for him there awaits the Fire of Gehenna; therein they shall dwell forever.´


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Until, when they see that which they are promised, then they will know who is weaker in helpers and fewer in numbers.


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Say: ´I do not know whether that which you are promised is nigh, or whether my Lord will appoint for it a space;


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save only to such a Messenger as He is well-pleased with; then He despatches before him and behind him watchers,


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that He may know they have delivered the Messages of their Lord; and He encompasses all that is with them, and He has numbered everything in numbers.´


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upon the day when the earth and the mountains shall quake and the mountains become a slipping heap of sand.


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Surely We have sent unto you a Messenger as a witness over you, even as We sent to Pharaoh a Messenger,


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If therefore you disbelieve, how will you guard yourselves against a day that shall make the children grey-headed?


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Thy Lord knows that thou keepest vigil nearly two-thirds of the night, or a half of it, or a third of it, and a party of those with thee; and God determines the night and the day. He knows that you will not number it, and He has turned towards you. Therefore recite of the Koran so much as is feasible. He knows that some of you are sick, and others journeying in the land, seeking the bounty of God, and others fighting in the way of God. So recite of it so much as is feasible. And perform the prayer, and pay the alms, and lend to God a good loan. Whatever good you shall forward to your souls´ account, you shall find it with God as better, and mightier a wage. And ask God´s forgiveness; God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.


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We have appointed only angels to be masters of the Fire, and their number We have appointed only as a trial for the unbelievers, that those who were given the Book may have certainty, and that those who believe may increase in belief, and that those who were given the Book and those who believe may not be in-doubt, and that those in whose hearts there is sickness, and the unbelievers, may say, ´What did God intend by this as a similitude?´ So God leads astray whomsoever He will, and He guides whomsoever He will; and none knows the hosts of thy Lord but He. And it is naught but a Reminder to mortals.


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Upon them shall be green garments of silk and brocade; they are adorned with bracelets of silver, and their Lord shall give them to drink a pure draught.


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We created them, and We strengthened their joints; and, when We will, We shall exchange their likes.


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For He admits into His mercy whomsoever He will; as for the evildoers, He has prepared for them a painful chastisement.


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Lord of the heavens and earth, and all that between them is, the All-merciful of whom they have no power to speak.


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Upon the day when the Spirit and the angels stand in ranks they shall speak not, save him to whom the All-merciful has given leave, and who speaks aright.


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Lo, We have warned you of a nigh chastisement, upon the day when a man shall behold what his hands have forwarded, and the unbeliever shall say, ´O would that I were dust!´


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A day when no soul shall possess aught to succour another soul; that day the Command shall belong unto God.


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Those who persecute the believers, men and women, and then have not repented, there awaits them the chastisement of Gehenna, and there awaits them the chastisement of the burning.


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Those who believe, and do righteous deeds, for them await gardens underneath which rivers flow; that is the great triumph.


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As for man, whenever his Lord tries him, and honours him, and blesses him, then he says, ´My Lord has honoured me.´


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then that he become of those who believe and counsel each other to be steadfast, and counsel each other to be merciful.


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But they cried him lies, and hamstrung her, so their Lord crushed them for their sin, and leveled them:


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The unbelievers of the People of the Book and the idolaters would never leave off; till the Clear Sign came to them,


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And they scattered not, those that were given the Book, excepting after the Clear Sign came to them.


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They were commanded only to serve God, making the religion His sincerely, men of pure faith, and to perform the prayer, and pay the alms -- that is the religion of the True.


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The unbelievers of the People of the Book and the idolaters shall be in the Fire of Gehenna, therein dwelling forever; those are the worst of creatures.


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their recompense is with their Lord-Gardens of Eden, underneath which rivers flow, therein dwelling for ever and ever. God is well-pleased with them, and they are well-pleased with Him; that is for him who fears his Lord.


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save those who believe, and do righteous deeds, and counsel each other unto the truth, and counsel each other to be steadfast.


