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Yâ Sîn - O perfect man (Muhammad)!
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I call to witness the perfect Qur'ân full of (convincing proofs and) wisdom.
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(That) you are indeed one of the Messengers,
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(Standing) on the right and straight path.
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(This Qur'ân is) a great revelation sent by the All-Mighty (and) the Ever Merciful (God),
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So that you may warn the people who are ignorant because their forefathers have not been warned (for a long time).
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Surely, most of them merit the sentence of Our punishment for they would not believe.
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Surely, We have put shackles (of customs and prejudices) round their necks and they are (reaching right) up to their chins, so that they have become stiff-necked (due to their pride and false notions of superiority).
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And We have placed barriers (of their stubbornness rendering them unable to look forward to the bright future of Islam and rise to eminence by accepting it) in front of them, and barriers (of their prejudices) behind them (thus rendering them unable to look back at the doom of those who rejected the truth in the past). Thus We have kept them behind the veil so that they cannot see (so have become totally devoid of spiritual light).
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And it is all the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them, they will not believe (for they have deliberately shut their eyes and ears to the truth).
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You can warn only those who would follow the Reminder (the Qur'ân) and are full of reverential awe of the Most Gracious (God) in the heart of their hearts. Therefore proclaim to them the glad tidings of protection (from the evil consequences of sins) and an honorable provision (from Us).
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Surely, it is We alone Who raise the dead to life. And We shall preserve (their noble deeds) which they send forward and their prints (of virtue and knowledge which they leave behind for others to emulate). Every thing We have comprehensively preserved in a clear record.
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And set forth to them for their good a parable of a people of the town when the Messengers (of God) came to them.
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(At first) We sent to them two (Messengers, Moses and Jesus) but they cried lies to them. Then We strengthened (Our Apostles) with a third (the Prophet Muhammad by fulfilling in his person their prophecies about his advent). So they said, (as a general Message to the people), 'We have been sent to you (as Messengers by God).'
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They (the contemporaries of the Messengers) gave (a general) reply, 'You are only human beings like ourselves. The Most Gracious (God) has revealed nothing (to you). You are simply telling lies.'
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They said, 'Our Lord knows that we have been, of course, sent to you,
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'And our duty is only to convey (the Message) in clear terms.'
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They (the people of the town) said, 'We augur ill from you (for we are always seize with one calamity or the other after your advent). If you do not give it (your preaching) over we will certainly excommunicate you and a painful punishment shall befall you at our hands.'
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They said, 'Your ills are of your own making. (Do you say all this) because you have been admonished? Nay, but the real thing is you are a pack of transgressors.'
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Now, there came a man running from the farthest end of the town. He said, 'O my people! follow the Messengers.
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'Follow those who ask no reward from you and who are following the right path.
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'What reason have I not to worship Him Who has created me, and to Whom you all shall be brought back?
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'Shall I take apart from Him others as gods whose intercession, if the Most Gracious (God) should decide to do me some harm, will be of no avail to me, nor will they be able (even) to rescue me (from that harm)?
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'Surely, in case (I do anything of the kind) I should be (falling) in (to) a clear error.
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'I have believed in your (true) Lord, therefore listen to me.'
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It was said (to him by God), 'Enter Paradise (while you are still living).' He said, 'O, would that my people knew,
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'For what reason has my Lord granted me protection (from pitfalls in this life) and included me among the honoured (servants of His)!'
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We sent no contingent (of force) from heaven, against his people (to destroy them), after that (he has believed) nor do We ever command (any of such things).
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It was just a single blast and behold! they were all (extinct) like a (spark of) fire extinguished.
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Alas for (My) servants! not a single Messenger comes to (reform) them but they treat him lightly.
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