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Alif-Lam-Ra +; these are verses of the Book of wisdom. (+alphabets of the Arabic language; Allah and to whomever He reveals, know their precise meanings.)
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Are people amazed that We have sent to a man among them, the divine revelation that "Warn the people and convey glad tidings to the believers that for them with their Lord is the place + of truth"? The disbelievers say, "Indeed he is an open magician." (+ Positions of honour on the Day of Resurrection or in heaven.)
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Indeed your Lord is Allah Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then as befits His Majesty, established Himself upon the Throne + - He plans all matters; there is no intercessor except after His permission;+ such is Allah, your Lord - therefore worship Him; so do you not ponder? (+ Of Control over everything. ++ Prophet Mohammed (peace and blessings be upon him) will be the first to be granted permission to intercede.)
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Towards Him only you all are to return; the promise of Allah; indeed He creates for the first time and then after its extinction creates it again, in order to give those who believe and do good deeds, the reward of justice; and for the disbelievers, boiling water to drink and a painful punishment - the recompense of their disbelief.
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It is He Who created the sun radiating and the moon shining and appointed positions for it, for you to know the number of the years, and the account; Allah has not created it except with the truth; He explains the verses in detail for the people of knowledge.
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Indeed in the alternation of the day and night, and all that Allah has created in the heavens and the earth, are signs for people who are pious.
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Indeed those who do not expect to meet Us and have preferred the worldly life and are content with it, and those who neglect Our signs, -
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Their destination is hell - the recompense of their deeds.
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Indeed those who accepted faith and did good deeds, their Lord will guide them due to their faith; rivers will flow beneath them in the Gardens of favours.
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Their prayers in it will be, "Purity is to You, O Allah" and their greetings in it will be, "Peace"; and the conclusion of their prayers is, "All praise is to Allah, the Lord Of The Creation."
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Were Allah to send misfortune to the people as quickly as they hasten for the good +, their appointed term would have been finished; so We leave those who do not expect to meet Us, to wander in their rebellion. (+ The way they wish the good to reach them quickly.)
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And when some hardship reaches man he prays to Us, while reclining and sitting and standing; and when We remove his hardship, he goes away as if he had never prayed to Us because of any hardship; this is how the deeds of the transgressors are made seeming good to them.
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And indeed We destroyed several generations before you when they crossed the limits - and their respective Noble Messengers came to them with clear proofs, but they were not such as would believe; this is how We reward the guilty.
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Then We appointed you as caliphs in the earth after them, in order that We might see what deeds you perform.
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And when Our clear verses are recited to them, the people who do not expect to meet Us say, "Bring a Qur'an other than this one, or change it"; say (O dear Prophet Mohammed - peace and blessings be upon him), "I do not have the right to change it on my own; I only follow what is divinely revealed to me; if I were to disobey my Lord +, then I fear the punishment of the Great Day (of Resurrection). (+ Which is impossible.)
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Say, "Had Allah willed I would not have recited it to you nor would He have made it known to you; so before this + I have spent an age among you; so do you not have sense?" (+ Before Allah's command to recite the Qur'an to you.)
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So who is more unjust than one who fabricates a lie concerning Allah and denies His signs? Indeed the guilty shall never prosper.
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And they worship the thing other than Allah, which neither harms them nor benefits them +, and they say, "These are our intercessors ++ before Allah"; say, "What! You inform Allah of something which in His knowledge does not exist in the heavens or in the earth?" Purity and Supremacy are to Him, above their association. (+ Some things like the sun, stars, trees are useful but they too are created by Allah. Their worship will not benefit - in fact it is harmful ++ Only the virtuous will be granted permission by Allah to intercede.)
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Mankind were only one nation + and then they differed, and had it not been for a promise ++ from your Lord, the matters in which they differed would have been decided here itself. (+ On one proper faith. ++ The account on the Last Day.)
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And they say, "Why is not a sign sent down upon him from his Lord?" Proclaim, (O dear Prophet Mohammed - peace and blessings be upon him), "The hidden is only for Allah, therefore wait; I too am waiting with you."
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And when We give mankind the taste of mercy after some hardship which had afflicted them, they immediately start conspiring against Our signs; proclaim, "The secret plan of Allah is the fastest"; indeed Our angels record your scheming.
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It is He Who transports you over the land and the sea; to the extent that when you are in ships - and the ships sail with them with a favourable breeze and they rejoice at it - a gust of strong wind reaches them and waves come to them from every side and they realise that they are surrounded, - thereupon they pray to Allah as His sincere bondmen that, "If You rescue us from this, we will surely be thankful."
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Then when He rescues them, they start wrongfully committing oppression in the earth; O mankind! Your oppression is only a torment against yourselves; derive the benefit until you live in this world; you have then to return to Us and thereupon We shall show you your misdeeds.
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The example of the life of this world is similar to the water which We sent down from the sky, so due to it the earth's vegetation grew in abundance - that which men and cattle eat; to the extent that when the earth has taken on her ornaments and is well beautified, and her owners thought that it is within their control, Our command came to it at night or at day - so We made it harvested as if it had not existed yesterday; this is how We explain the verses for the people who ponder.
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And Allah calls to the abode of peace, and guides whomever He wills on the Straight Path.
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For the people of virtue, is goodness and more than that; and neither will the blackness nor disgrace come upon their faces; it is they who are the people of Paradise; they will abide in it forever.
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And (for) those who earned evil +, the recompense of evil is equal to it - and disgrace will come upon them; they will have no one to save them from Allah; as if their faces are covered with pieces of the dark night; it is they who are the people of the fire; they will remain in it forever. (+ The disbelievers.)
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And on the day when We raise all of them together, then say to the polytheists, "Stay in your place - you and your partners (false deities)"; so We shall separate them from the believers, and their partners will say to them, "When did you ever worship us!?"
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Therefore Allah suffices as a Witness between us and you, that we were not even aware that you worshipped us!
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Here will every soul come to know what it has sent ahead, and they will be returned to Allah - their true Master, and they will lose all that they used to fabricate.
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