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Allah’s edict is coming! So do not seek to hasten it. Immaculate is He and exalted above [having] any partners that they ascribe [to Him].
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He sends down the angels with the spirit of His command to whomever He wishes of His servants: ‘Warn [the people] that there is no god except Me; so be wary of Me.’
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He created the heavens and the earth with consummate wisdom. He is above having any partners that they ascribe [to Him].
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He created man from a drop of [seminal] fluid, and, behold, he is an open contender!
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He created the cattle, in which there is warmth for you and [other] uses, and some of them you eat.
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There is in them a beauty for you when you bring them home for rest and when you drive them forth to pasture.
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And they bear your burdens to towns, which you could not reach except by straining yourselves. Indeed your Lord is most kind and merciful.
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And horses, mules and asses, for you to ride them, and for pomp, and He creates what you do not know.
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With Allah rests guidance to the straight path, and some of the paths are devious, and had He wished He would have guided you all.
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It is He who sends down water from the sky: from it you get your drink and with it are [sustained] the plants wherein you pasture your herds.
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For you He makes the crops grow with it and olives, date palms, vines, and fruits of all kinds. There is indeed a sign in that for a people who reflect.
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He disposed the night and the day for you, and the sun, the moon and the stars are disposed by His command. There are indeed signs in that for people who exercise their reason.
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And [He disposed for your benefit] whatever He has created for you in the earth of diverse hues—there is indeed a sign in that for a people who take admonition.
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It is He who disposed the sea [for your benefit] that you may eat from it fresh meat, and obtain from it ornaments which you wear, and you see the ships plowing through it, that you may seek His bounty and that you may give thanks.
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He cast firm mountains in the earth lest it should shake with you, and [made] streams and ways, so that you may be guided
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—and the landmarks [as well]—and by the stars they are guided.
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Is He who creates like one who does not create? Will you not then take admonition?
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If you enumerate Allah’s blessings, you will not be able to count them. Indeed Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful,
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and Allah knows whatever you hide and whatever you disclose.
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Those whom they invoke besides Allah do not create anything and are themselves created.
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They are dead and lifeless, and are not aware when they will be resurrected.
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Your God is the One God. Those who do not believe in the Hereafter, their hearts are in denial [of the truth], and they are arrogant.
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Undoubtedly, Allah knows whatever they hide and whatever they disclose. Indeed, He does not like the arrogant.
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When they are asked, ‘What is it that your Lord has sent down?’ They say, ‘Myths of the ancients,’
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[with the result] that they will bear the full weight of their own burden on the Day of Resurrection, along with part of the burden of those whom they mislead without any knowledge. Behold! Evil is what they bear!
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Those who were before them [had also] schemed. Then Allah came at their edifice from the foundations and the roof fell down upon them from above and the punishment overtook them whence they were not aware.
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Then, on the Day of Resurrection, He will disgrace them, and say, ‘Where are My “partners” for whose sake you used to defy [Allah]?’ Those who were given knowledge will say, ‘Indeed today disgrace and distress pursue the faithless.’
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—Those whom the angels take away while they were wronging themselves. Thereat they submit: ‘We were not doing any evil!’ ‘Yes, [the angels say to them,] indeed Allah knows best what you used to do!
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Enter the gates of hell to remain in it [forever]. Evil is the [final] abode of the arrogant.’
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But those who were Godwary will be asked, ‘What is it that your Lord has sent down?’ They will say, ‘Good.’ For those who do good in this world there will be a good [reward], and the abode of the Hereafter is better, and the abode of the Godwary is surely excellent:
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