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A revelation from the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful.
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A Book whose verses have been demarcated for people who know as an Arabic Qur'an,
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bringing good news and giving warning; but most of them have turned away and do not hear.
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They say, 'Our hearts are covered up against what you call us to and there is a heaviness in our ears. There is a screen between us and you. So act – we are certainly acting.'
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Say: 'I am only a human being like yourselves. It is revealed to me that your god is One God. So be straight with Him and ask His forgiveness.' Woe to those who associate others with Him:
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those who do not pay zakat and reject the Next World.
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Those who have iman and do right actions will have a wage which never fails.
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Say: 'Do you reject Him who created the earth in two days, and make others equal to Him? That is the Lord of all the worlds.'
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He placed firmly embedded mountains on it, towering over it, and blessed it and measured out its nourishment in it, laid out for those who seek it – all in four days.
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Then He turned to heaven when it was smoke and said to it and to the earth, 'Come willingly or unwillingly.' They both said, 'We come willingly.'
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In two days He determined them as seven heavens and revealed, in every heaven, its own mandate. We adorned the lowest heaven with lamps and guarded it. That is the decree of the Almighty, the All-Knowing.
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If they turn away, then say, 'I warn you of a lightning-bolt like the lightning-bolt of 'Ad and of Thamud.'
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When the Messengers came to them from in front and from behind, saying, 'Do not worship anyone but Allah.' they said, 'If our Lord had willed, He could have sent angels down, so we reject the Message you have been sent with.'
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'Ad were arrogant in the land, without any right, saying, 'Who has greater strength than us?' Did they not see that Allah, who created them, had greater strength than them? But they renounced Our Signs.
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So We sent a howling wind against them on disastrous ill-fated days to make them taste the punishment of degradation in this world. And the punishment of the Next World is even more degrading. And they will not be helped.
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As for Thamud, We guided them, but they preferred blindness to guidance. So the lightning-bolt of the punishment of humiliation seized them on account of what they earned.
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And We rescued those who had iman and taqwa.
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On the Day We crowd the enemies of Allah into the Fire and they are driven in close-packed ranks,
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when they reach it, their hearing, sight and skin will testify against them concerning what they did.
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They will ask their skins, 'Why did you testify against us?' and they will reply, 'Allah gave us speech as He has given speech to everything. He created you in the first place and you will be returned to Him.
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You did not think to shield yourselves from your hearing, sight and skin testifying against you and you thought that Allah would never know much of what you did.
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It is that thought you had about your Lord that has destroyed you so now you find yourselves among the lost.'
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If they are steadfast, the Fire will still be their residence! If they ask for favour, no favour will be given.
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We have assigned close comrades to them who have made what is before them and behind them seem good to them. And the statement about the nations, both of jinn and men, who passed away before them has proved true of them as well. Certainly they were lost.
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Those who are kafir say, 'Do not listen to this Qur'an. Drown it out so that hopefully you will gain the upper hand.'
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We will make those who are kafir suffer a severe punishment and repay them for the worst of what they did.
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That is the repayment of the enemies of Allah – the Fire. They will have it for their Eternal Home as repayment for their renunciation of Our Signs.
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Those who are kafir say, 'Our Lord, show us those jinn and men who misguided us and we will place them beneath our feet so that they will be among the lowest of the low.'
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The angels descend on those who say, 'Our Lord is Allah,' and then go straight: 'Do not fear and do not grieve but rejoice in the Garden you have been promised.
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