| 1 | Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things, | |
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| 2 | Who created death and life that He may try you-- which of you is best in deeds; and He is the Mighty, the Forgiving, | |
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| 3 | Who created the seven heavens one above another; you see no incongruity in the creation of the Beneficent Allah; then look again, can you see any disorder? | |
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| 4 | Then turn back the eye again and again; your look shall come back to you confused while it is fatigued. | |
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| 5 | And certainly We have adorned this lower heaven with lamps and We have made these missiles for the Shaitans, and We have prepared for them the chastisement of burning. | |
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| 6 | And for those who disbelieve in their Lord is the punishment of hell, and evil is the resort. | |
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| 7 | When they shall be cast therein, they shall hear a loud moaning of it as it heaves, | |
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| 8 | Almost bursting for fury. Whenever a group is cast into it, its keeper shall ask them: Did there not come to you a warner? | |
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| 9 | They shall say: Yea! indeed there came to us a warner, but we rejected (him) and said: Allah has not revealed anything, you are only in a great error. | |
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| 10 | And they shall say: Had we but listened or pondered, we should not have been among the inmates of the burning fire. | |
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| 11 | So they shall acknowledge their sins, but far will be (forgiveness) from the inmates of the burning fire. | |
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| 12 | (As for) those who fear their Lord in secret, they shall surely have forgiveness and a great reward. | |
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| 13 | And conceal your word or manifest it; surely He is Cognizant of what is in the hearts. | |
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| 14 | Does He not know, Who created? And He is the Knower of the subtleties, the Aware. | |
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| 15 | He it is Who made the earth smooth for you, therefore go about in the spacious sides thereof, and eat of His sustenance, and to Him is the return after death. | |
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| 16 | Are you secure of those in the heaven that He should not make the earth to swallow you up? Then lo! it shall be in a state of commotion. | |
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| 17 | Or are you secure of those in the heaven that He should not send down upon you a punishment? Then shall you know how was My warning. | |
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| 18 | And certainly those before them rejected (the truth), then how was My disapproval. | |
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| 19 | Have they not seen the birds above them expanding (their wings) and contracting (them)? What is it that withholds them save the Beneficent Allah? Surely He sees everything. | |
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| 20 | Or who is it that will be a host for you to assist you besides the Beneficent Allah? The unbelievers are only in deception. | |
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| 21 | Or who is it that will give you sustenance if He should withhold His sustenance? Nay! they persist in disdain and aversion. | |
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| 22 | What! is he who goes prone upon his face better guided or he who walks upright upon a straight path? | |
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| 23 | Say: He it is Who brought you into being and made for you the ears and the eyes and the hearts: little is it that you give thanks. | |
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| 24 | Say: He it is Who multiplied you in the earth and to Him you shall be gathered. | |
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| 25 | And they say: When shall this threat be (executed) if you are truthful? | |
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| 26 | Say: The knowledge (thereof is only with Allah and I am only a plain warner. | |
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| 27 | But when they shall see it nigh, the faces of those who disbelieve shall be sorry, and it shall be said; This is that which you used to call for. | |
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| 28 | Say: Have you considered if Allah should destroy me and those with me-- rather He will have mercy on us; yet who will protect the unbelievers from a painful punishment? | |
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| 29 | Say: He is the Beneficent Allah, we believe in Him and on Him do we rely, so you shall come to know who it is that is in clear error. | |
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| 30 | Say: Have you considered if your water should go down, who is it then that will bring you flowing water? | |
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