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Their reckoning has drawn near for humankind, yet they do not pay heed to it, being lost in worldly things and heedlessness.

Ali Unal 21:1

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Whenever a new Revelation comes to them from their Lord to warn and enlighten them, they only listen to it in a playful manner,

Ali Unal 21:2

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With hearts set on passing pleasures; yet those who lead in wrongdoing, especially by associating partners with God, confer among themselves in great secret: "Is this (not) but a mortal like you? Will you, then, yield to magic while you see it patently?"

Ali Unal 21:3

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(The Messenger) says (in response): "My Lord knows every word spoken in the heaven and on the earth. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing."

Ali Unal 21:4

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(Confused about which source they should attribute the Qur’an to) they say, "No, but Muhammad offers some jumbles of dream images he has. No, but he fabricates all this! No, but he is a poet. If he is true in his claim, then let him come to us with a sign (a miracle), just as the previous Messengers were sent with miracles!"

Ali Unal 21:5

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Not one of the peoples before them that We destroyed believed (even though the Messengers came to them with miracles). Will then these believe?

Ali Unal 21:6

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We did not send as Messengers before you (O Muhammad), any but men to whom We revealed. So (O people) ask those who have special knowledge (of the Divine Revelations), if you do not know.

Ali Unal 21:7

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Nor did We make them bodies not needing food so that they would not eat like others, nor were they immortals.

Ali Unal 21:8

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We promised them help and victory and We kept Our promise: We saved them and all whom We willed (and bound Ourselves to save – the believers), and We destroyed those who wasted their God-given faculties and committed excesses.

Ali Unal 21:9

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Now We send down to you (O people of Makkah and O all humankind,) a Book which contains what you must heed in life for your honor and happiness. Will you not, then, use your reason?

Ali Unal 21:10

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How many a community that did the greatest wrong (by associating partners with God) and thereby wronged itself have We shattered, and raised up another people after them.

Ali Unal 21:11

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When they felt Our mighty punishment coming, they at once attempted to flee from it.

Ali Unal 21:12

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Do not attempt to flee, but return to all that (ease and comfort) in which you had been lost without scruples, and to your homes, that you may be appealed to by the poor and needy, or to take your valuable counsels!

Ali Unal 21:13

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They could only cry: "Oh, woe to us! We were indeed wrongdoers!"

Ali Unal 21:14

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That cry of theirs did not cease until We made them like reaped corn, and a heap of ashes.

Ali Unal 21:15

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We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them as a play and game for Us.

Ali Unal 21:16

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If We had willed to find a pastime (without creating the heavens and the earth with all that is in and between them), We would indeed have found it in Our Presence, if We were going to do so!

Ali Unal 21:17

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No, but We hurl the truth against falsehood, and it breaks the latter’s head, and see, it vanishes. So woe to you for all the falsehood you attribute to God.

Ali Unal 21:18

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To Him belongs whoever is in the heavens and the earth. And those (the angels) who are with Him, never disdain to worship Him, nor do they ever weary.

Ali Unal 21:19

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They glorify Him by night and day (proclaiming that He is absolutely exalted above any shortcoming or need of partners or doing pointless things), and never show tiredness and never lose zeal.

Ali Unal 21:20

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What, have those polytheists (given up hope of heaven and) adopted deities from the earth, (do they believe) that they (those deities) can raise up the dead?

Ali Unal 21:21

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But the fact is that had there been in the heavens and the earth any deities other than God, both (of those realms) would certainly have fallen into ruin. All-Glorified God is, the Lord of the Supreme Throne, in that He is absolutely above all that they attribute to Him.

Ali Unal 21:22

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He cannot be called to account for whatever He does, but their false deities (they have adopted from among conscious beings) are accountable.

Ali Unal 21:23

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What, have they adopted deities other than Him? Say (O Messenger): "If so, present your proof! But look, here is the Book those who are in my company follow, and there are the Books those who came before me followed: (what is stressed in all of them is that there is no deity other than Him.)" Whereas they have nothing to do with knowledge so that they might know the truth. This is why they turn away from it in aversion.

Ali Unal 21:24

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We never sent any Messenger before you except that We revealed to him that there is no deity but Me, so worship Me alone.

Ali Unal 21:25

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Yet some say, "The All-Merciful has taken to Himself a child." All-Glorified He is (in that He is absolutely above doing such things). Rather, those (the angels, whom they regard as God’s offspring) are but His honored servants.

Ali Unal 21:26

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They speak only what He has spoken to them and allows them to speak, and they act by His command.

Ali Unal 21:27

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He knows what lies before them and what lies after them (what lies in their future and in their past, what is known to them and what is hidden from them); and they cannot intercede for any but His believing servants, those with whom He is well-pleased, and they themselves quake for reverent awe of Him.

Ali Unal 21:28

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If any of them were to attempt to say, "I am a deity besides Him," We would recompense him with Hell. Thus do We recompense all such wrongdoers.

Ali Unal 21:29

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Do those who disbelieve ever consider that the heavens and the earth were at first one piece, and then We parted them as separate entities; and that We have made every living thing from water? Will they still not come to believe?

Ali Unal 21:30