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Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion to His servant that he may be a warner to all the nations.
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He, to whom belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth, and who did not take any offspring, nor has He any partner in sovereignty, and He created everything and determined it in a precise measure.
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Yet they have taken gods besides Him who create nothing and have themselves been created, and who have no control over their own harm or benefit and have no control over [their own] death, life, or resurrection.
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The faithless say, ‘This is nothing but a lie that he has fabricated, and other people have abetted him in it.’ Thus they have certainly come out with wrongdoing and falsehood.
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They say, ‘He has taken down myths of the ancients, and they are dictated to him morning and evening.’
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Say, ‘It has been sent down by Him who knows the hidden in the heavens and the earth. Indeed He is all-forgiving, all-merciful.’
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And they say, ‘What sort of apostle is this who eats food and walks in the marketplaces? Why has not an angel been sent down to him so as to be a warner along with him?’
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Or, ‘[Why is not] a treasure thrown to him, or [why does] he [not] have a garden from which he may eat?’ And the wrongdoers say, ‘You are just following a bewitched man.’
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Look, how they coin epithets for you; so they go astray, and cannot find the way.
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Blessed is He who will grant you better than that if He wishes—gardens with streams running in them, and He will make for you palaces.
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Indeed, they deny the Hour, and We have prepared a Blaze for those who deny the Hour.
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When it sights them from a distant place, they will hear it raging and roaring.
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And when they are cast into a narrow place in it, bound together [in chains], they will pray for [their own] annihilation.
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[They will be told:] ‘Do not pray for a single annihilation today, but pray for many annihilations!’
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Say, ‘Is that better, or the everlasting paradise promised to the Godwary, which will be their reward and destination?’
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There they will have whatever they wish, abiding [forever]—a promise [much] besought, [binding] on your Lord.
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On the day that He will muster them and those whom they worship besides Allah, He will say, ‘Was it you who led astray these servants of Mine, or did they themselves stray from the way?’
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They will say, ‘Immaculate are You! It does not behoove us to take any wali in Your stead! But You provided for them and their fathers until they forgot the Reminder, and they were a ruined lot.’
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So they will certainly impugn you in what you say, and you will neither be able to circumvent [punishment] nor find help, and whoever of you does wrong, We shall make him taste a terrible punishment.
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We did not send any apostles before you but that they indeed ate food and walked in marketplaces. We have made you a [means of] test for one another, [to see] if you will be patient and steadfast, and your Lord is all-seeing.
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Those who do not expect to encounter Us say, ‘Why have angels not been sent down to us, or why do we not see our Lord?’ Certainly, they are full of arrogance within their souls and have become terribly defiant.
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The day they will see the angels, there will be no good news for the guilty on that day, and they will say, ‘Keep off [from paradise]!’
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Then We shall attend to the works they have done and then turn them into scattered dust.
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On that day the inhabitants of paradise will be in the best abode and an excellent resting place.
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The day when the sky with its clouds will be split open, and the angels will be sent down [in a majestic] descent,
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on that day true sovereignty will belong to the All-beneficent, and it will be a hard day for the faithless.
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It will be a day when the wrongdoer will bite his hands, saying, ‘I wish I had followed the Apostle’s way!
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Woe to me! I wish I had not taken so and so as a friend!
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Certainly he led me astray from the Reminder after it had come to me, and Satan is a deserter of man.’
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And the Apostle will say, ‘O my Lord! Indeed my people consigned this Quran to oblivion.’
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