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Suad. By the Quran bearing the Reminder,
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the faithless indeed dwell in conceit and defiance.
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How many a generation We have destroyed before them! They cried out [for help], but gone was the time for escape.
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They consider it odd that there should come to them a warner from among themselves, and the faithless say, ‘This is a magician, a mendacious liar.’
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‘Has he reduced the gods to one god? This is indeed an odd thing!’
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Their elite go about [urging others]: ‘Go and stand by your gods! This is indeed the desirable thing [to do].
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We did not hear of this in the latter-day creed. This is nothing but a fabrication.
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Has the Reminder been sent down to him out of [all of] us?’ Indeed, they are in doubt concerning My Reminder. Indeed, they have not yet tasted My punishment.
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Do they possess the treasuries of the mercy of your Lord, the All-mighty, the All-munificent?
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Do they own the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them? [If so,] let them ascend [to the higher spheres] by the means [of ascension].
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[They are but] a host routed out there of the factions.
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Before them Noah’s people impugned [their apostle] and [so did the people of] ‘Ad, and Pharaoh, the Impaler [of his victims],
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and Thamud, and the people of Lot, and the inhabitants of Aykah: those were the factions.
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There was not any one but such as impugned the apostles; so My retribution became due [against them].
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These [too] do not await but a single Cry, which will not grant [them] any respite.
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They say, ‘Our Lord! Hasten on for us our share before the Day of Reckoning.’
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Be patient over what they say, and remember Our servant, David, [the man] of strength. Indeed he was a penitent [soul].
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We disposed the mountains to glorify [Allah] with him at evening and dawn,
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and the birds [as well], mustered [in flocks]; all echoing him [in a chorus].
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We consolidated his kingdom and gave him wisdom and conclusive speech.
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Has there not come to you the account of the contenders, when they scaled the wall into the sanctuary?
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When they entered into the presence of David, he was alarmed by them. They said, ‘Do not be afraid. [We are only] two contenders: one of us has bullied the other. So judge justly between us, and do not exceed [the bounds of justice], and show us the right path.’
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‘This brother of mine has ninety-nine ewes, while I have only a single ewe, and [yet] he says, ‘Commit it to my care,’ and he browbeats me in speech.’
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He said, ‘He has certainly wronged you by asking your ewe in addition to his own ewes, and indeed many partners bully one another, except such as have faith and do righteous deeds, and few are they.’ Then David knew that We had tested him, whereat he pleaded with his Lord for forgiveness, and fell down in prostration and repented.
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So We forgave him that, and indeed he has [a station of] nearness with Us and a good destination.
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‘O David! Indeed, We have made you a vicegerent on the earth. So judge between people with justice, and do not follow your desires, or they will lead you astray from the way of Allah. Indeed there is a severe punishment for those who stray from the way of Allah, because of their forgetting the Day of Reckoning.’
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We did not create the sky and the earth and whatever is between them in vain. That is a conjecture of the faithless. So woe to the faithless for the Fire!
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Shall We treat those who have faith and do righteous deeds like those who cause corruption on the earth? Shall We treat the Godwary like the vicious?
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[This is] a blessed Book that We have sent down to you, so that they may contemplate its signs, and that those who possess intellect may take admonition.
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And to David We gave Solomon—what an excellent servant he was! Indeed, he was a penitent [soul].
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