A.J.Arberry · MealMerkezi.Net

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O men, fear your Lord! Surely the earthquake of the Hour is a mighty thing;

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on the day when you behold it, every suckling woman shall neglect the child she has suckled, and every pregnant woman shall deposit her burden, and thou shalt see mankind drunk, yet they are not drunk, but God's chastisement is terrible.

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And among men there is such a one that disputes concerning God without knowledge and follows every rebel Satan,

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against whom it is written down that whosoever takes him for a friend, him he leads astray, and he guides him to the chastisement of the burning.

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O men, if you are in doubt as to the Uprising, surely We created you of dust then of a sperm-drop, then of a blood clot, then of a lump of flesh, formed and unformed that We may make clear to you. And We establish in the wombs what We will, till a stated term, then We deliver you as infants, then that you may come of age; and some of you die, and some of you are kept back unto the vilest state of life, that after knowing somewhat, they may know nothing. And thou beholdest the earth blackened, then, when We send down water upon it, it quivers, and swells, and puts forth herbs of every joyous kind.

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That is because God -- He is the Truth, and brings the dead to life, and is powerful over everything,

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and because the Hour is coming, no doubt of it, and God shall raise up whosoever is within the tombs.

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And among men there is such a one that disputes concerning God without knowledge or guidance, or an illuminating Book,

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turning his side to lead astray from God's way; for him is degradation in this world; and on the Resurrection Day We shall let him taste the chastisement of the burning:

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'That is for what thy hands have forwarded and for that God is never unjust unto His servants.'

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And among men there is such a one as serves God upon the very edge -- if good befalls him he is at rest in it, but if a trial befalls him he turns completely over; he loses this world and the world to come; that is indeed the manifest loss.

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He calls, apart from God, upon that which hurts him not, and which neither profits him anything; that is indeed the far error.

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He calls upon him who is likelier to hurt him, rather than to profit him -- an evil protector indeed, he, an evil friend!

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God shall surely admit those who believe and do righteous deeds into gardens underneath which rivers flow; surely God does that He desires.

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Whosoever thinks God will not help him in the present world and the world to come; let him stretch up a rope to heaven, then let him sever it, and behold whether his guile does away with what enrages him.

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Even so We have sent it down as signs, clear signs, and for that God guides whom He desires.

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Surely they that believe, and those of Jewry, the Sabaeans, the Christians, the Magians and the idolaters -- God shall distinguish between them on the Day of Resurrection; assuredly God is witness over everything.

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Hast thou not seen how to God bow all who are in the and all who are in the earth, heavens the sun and the moon, the stars and the mountains, the trees and the beasts, and many of mankind? And many merit the chastisement; and whom God abases, there is none to honour him. God does whatsoever He will.

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These are two disputants who have disputed concerning their Lord. As for the unbelievers, for them garments of fire shall, be cut, and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water

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whereby whatsoever is in their bellies and their skins shall be melted;

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for them await hooked iron rods;

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as often as they desire in their anguish to come forth from it, they shall be restored into it, and: 'Taste the chastisement of the burning!'

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God shall surely admit those who believe and do righteous deeds into gardens underneath which rivers flow; therein they shall be adorned with bracelets of gold and with pearls, and their apparel there shall be of silk;

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and they; shall be guided unto goodly speech, and they shall be guided unto the path of the All-laudable.

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Those who disbelieve, and bar from God's way and the Holy Mosque that We have appointed equal unto men, alike him who cleaves to it and the tent-dweller, and whosoever purposes to violate it wrongly, We shall let him taste a painful chastisement.

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And when We settled for Abraham the place of the House: 'Thou shall not associate with Me anything. And do thou purify My House for those that shall go about it and those that stand, for those that bow and prostrate themselves;

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and proclaim among men the Pilgrimage, and they shall come unto thee on foot and upon every lean beast, they shall come from every deep ravine

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that they may witness things profitable to them and mention God's Name on days well-known over such beasts of the flocks as He has provided them: "So eat thereof, and feed the wretched poor."

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Let them then finish with their self-neglect and let them fulfil their vows, and go about the Ancient House.'

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All that; and whosoever venerates the sacred things of God, it shall be better for him with his Lord. And permitted to you are the flocks, except that which is recited to you. And eschew the abomination of idols, and eschew the speaking of falsehood,

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