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IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF
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It is Allah Who created man, taught the Quran and taught him how to convey his feelings and thoughts
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1 | THE MOST GRACIOUS | ||
2 | has imparted this Qur'an [unto man]. | |||
3 | He has created man: | |||
4 | He has imparted unto him articulate thought and speech.1 | |||
5 | [At His behest] the sun and the moon run their appointed courses;2 | |||
6 | [before Him] prostrate themselves the stars and the trees. | |||
7 | And the skies has He raised high, and has devised [for all things] a measure,3 | |||
8 | so that you [too, O men,] might never transgress the measure [of what is right]: | |||
9 | weigh, therefore, [your deeds] with equity, and cut not the measure short! | |||
10 | And the earth has He spread out for all living beings, | |||
11 | with fruit thereon, and palm trees with sheathed clusters [of dates], | |||
12 | and grain growing tall on its stalks, and sweet-smelling plants. | |||
13 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow?4 | |||
14 | He has created man out of sounding clay, like pottery,5 | |||
Allah is the Rabb of the easts and wests and put the laws to regulate oceans, its products and ships
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15 | whereas the invisible beings He has created out of a confusing flame of fire.6 | ||
16 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
17 | [He is] the Sustainer of the two farthest points of sunrise, and the Sustainer of the two farthest points of sunset.7 | |||
18 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
19 | He has given freedom to the two great bodies of water, so that they might meet: | |||
20 | [yet] between them is a barrier which they may not transgress.8 | |||
21 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
22 | Out of these two [bodies of water] come forth pearls, both great and small. | |||
23 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
24 | And His are the lofty ships that sail like [floating] mountains through the seas.9 | |||
25 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
All that exist will perish except Allah, Who is busy in heavy tasks all the time
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26 | All that lives on earth or in the heavens10 is bound to pass away: | ||
27 | but forever will abide thy Sustainer's Self,11 full of majesty and glory. | |||
28 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
29 | On Him depend all creatures12 in the heavensn and on earth; [and] every day He manifests Himself in yet another [wondrous] way. | |||
30 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
31 | [ONE DAY] We shall take you to task,13 O you sin-laden two!14 | |||
32 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
No one can run away from the jurisdiction of Allah and Sinners will be punished in hell
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33 | O you who live in close communion with [evil] invisible beings and humans!15 If you [think that you] can pass beyond the regions of the heavens and the earth,16 pass beyond them! [But] you cannot pass beyond them, save by a sanction [from God]!17 | ||
34 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
35 | A flash of fire will be let loose upon you, and smoke, and you will be left without succour! | |||
36 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
37 | And when the sky is rent asunder and becomes red like [burning] oil18 - | |||
38 | which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
39 | For on that Day neither man nor invisible being will be asked about his sins.19 | |||
40 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
41 | All who were lost in sin shall by their marks be known, and shall by their forelocks and their feet be seized!20 | |||
42 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
43 | This will be the hell which those who are lost in sin [now] call a lie: | |||
44 | between it and [their own] burning-hot despair will they wander to and fro!21 | |||
45 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
Righteous will be rewarded in paradise with lush gardens, springs, fruits, bashful virgins and much more
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46 | BUT FOR THOSE who of their Sustainer's Presence stand in fear, two gardens [of paradise are readied]22 | ||
47 | which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
48 | [two gardens] of many wondrous hues.23 | |||
49 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
50 | In [each of] these two [gardens] two springs will flow.24 | |||
51 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
52 | In [each of] these two will two kinds of every fruit be [found].25 | |||
53 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
54 | [In such a paradise the blest will dwell,] reclining upon carpets lined with rich brocade;26 and the fruit of both these gardens will be within easy reach. | |||
55 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
56 | In these [gardens] will be mates of modest gaze, whom neither man nor invisible being will have touched ere then.27 | |||
57 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
58 | [When you are promised splendours] as though [of] rubies and [of] pearls - | |||
59 | which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
60 | Could the reward of good be aught but good? | |||
61 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
62 | And besides those two will be yet two [other] gardens28 - | |||
63 | which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? - | |||
64 | two [gardens] of the deepest green.29 | |||
65 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
66 | In [each of] these two [gardens] will two springs gush forth. | |||
67 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
68 | In both of them will be [all kinds of] fruit, and date-palms and pomegranates. | |||
69 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
70 | In these [gardens] will be [all] things most excellent and beautiful. | |||
71 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
72 | [There the blest will live with their] companions pure30 and modest, in pavillions [splendid] - | |||
73 | which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? - | |||
74 | [companions] whom neither man nor invisible being will have touched ere then. | |||
75 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
76 | [In such a paradise will they dwell,] reclining upon meadows green and carpets rich in beauty. | |||
77 | Which, then, of your Sustainer's powers can you disavow? | |||
78 | HALLOWED be thy Sustainer's name, full of majesty and glory! |
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