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Alif Lam Mim Sad

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A Book sent down to thee -- so let there be no impediment in thy breast because of it -- to warn thereby, and as a reminder to believers:

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Follow what has been sent down to you from your Lord, and follow no friends other than He; little do you remember.

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How many a city We have destroyed! Our might came upon it at night, or while they took their ease in the noontide,

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and they but cried, when Our might came upon there, 'We were evildoers.';

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So We shall question those unto whom a Message was sent, and We shall question the Envoys,

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and We shall relate to them with knowledge; assuredly We were not absent.

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The weighing that day is true; he whose scales are heavy -- they are the prosperers,

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and he whose scales are light -- they have lost their soul for wronging Our signs.

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We have established you in the earth and there appointed for you livelihood; little thanks you show.

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We created you, then We shaped you, then We said to the angels: 'Bow yourselves to Adam'; so they bowed themselves, save Iblis -- he was not of those that bowed themselves.

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Said He, 'What prevented thee to bow thyself, when I commanded thee?' Said he, 'I am better than he; Thou createdst me of fire, and him Thou createdst of clay.'

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Said He, 'Get thee down out of it; it is not for thee to wax proud here, so go thou forth; surely thou art among the humbled.'

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Said he, 'Respite me till the day they shall be raised.'

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Said He, 'Thou art among the ones that are respited.'

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Said he, 'Now, for Thy perverting me, I shall surely sit in ambush for them on Thy straight path;

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then I shall come on them from before them and from behind them, from their right hands and their left hands; Thou wilt not find most of them thankful.'

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Said He, 'Go thou forth from it, despised and banished. Those of them that follow thee -- I shall assuredly fill Gehenna with all of you.'

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'O Adam, inherit, thou and thy wife, the Garden, and eat of where you will, but come not nigh this tree, lest you be of the evildoers.'

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Then Satan whispered to them, to reveal to them that which was hidden from them of their shameful parts. He said, 'Your Lord has only prohibited you from this tree lest you become angels, or lest you become immortals.'

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And he swore to them, 'Truly, I am for you a sincere adviser.'

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So he led them on by delusion; and when they tasted the tree, their shameful parts revealed to them, so they took to stitching upon themselves leaves of the Garden. And their Lord called to them, 'Did not I prohibit you from this tree, and say to you, "Verily Satan is for you a manifest foe"?'

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They said, 'Lord, we have wronged ourselves, and if Thou dost not forgive us, and have mercy upon us, we shall surely be among the lost.'

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Said He, 'Get you down, each of you an enemy to each. In the earth a sojourn shall be yours, and enjoyment for a time.'

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Said He, 'Therein you shall live, and therein you shall die, and from there you shall be brought forth.'

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Children of Adam! We have sent down on you a garment to cover your shameful parts, and feathers; and the garment of godfearing -- that is better; that is one of God's signs; haply they will remember.

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Children of Adam! Let not Satan tempt you as he brought your parents out of the Garden, stripping them of their garments to show them their shameful parts. Surely he sees you, he and his tribe, from where you see them not. We have made the Satans the friends of those who do not believe.

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And whenever they commit an indecency they say, 'We found our fathers practising it, and God has commanded us to do it.' Say: 'God does not command indecency; what, do you say concerning God such things as you know not?'

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Say: 'My Lord has commanded justice. Set your faces in every place of worship and call on Him, making your religion sincerely His. As He originated you so you will return;

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a part He guided, and a part justly disposed to error -- they have taken Satans for friends instead of God, and think them guided.'

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