H.S.Aziz · MealMerkezi.Net

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Glorified be He Who carried His servant on a journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Remote Mosque, the neighbourhood of which We have blessed, to show him of Our Signs. Verily, He is the Hearer and the Seer.

H.S.Aziz 17:1

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And We gave Moses the Book (Scripture) and made it a guidance to the Children of Israel, saying: "Take you no guardian besides Me."

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(They were) The seed of those We carried with Noah (in the ark). Verily, he was a thankful servant!

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And We clearly warned the Children of Israel in the Book, "You shall verily do evil in the earth twice, and you shall become great tyrants (or elated with pride)."

H.S.Aziz 17:4

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And when the first of the two came, We sent against you Our servants given to great violence. They entered the inner most parts of your homes; and it was a fulfiled warning.

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Then We rallied you once more against them, and aided you with resources and sons, and made you a numerous band.

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If you do well, you do well to your own souls; and if you do evil, you do it against your own souls. And when the second warning came, We permitted your enemies to disfigure your faces and to enter your Temple as they had entered it the first time, and to destroy all that fell into their hands."

H.S.Aziz 17:7

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It may be that your Lord will yet have mercy on you. But if you revert to wrongdoing We will revert to punishment, and We have made Hell a prison for the faithless.

H.S.Aziz 17:8

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Verily, this Quran does guide to the Straight Way, and gives glad tidings to the believers who do work righteousness, that for them is a great reward.

H.S.Aziz 17:9

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And that for those who believe not in the Hereafter, We have prepared a mighty doom.

H.S.Aziz 17:10

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Man prays for evil as (or when) he prays for good (or he makes his prayer evil or prays for evil when it should be for good); for man was ever hasty (or impatient or superficial).

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We made the night and the day two signs; and We make dark the sign of the night and make the sign of the day sight-giving, that you may seek the bounty of your Lord, and that you may calculate the years and the reckoning; and We have expounded everything in detail.

H.S.Aziz 17:12

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And every man's augury (fate) have We fastened on his own neck; and We will bring forth for him on the Day of Judgment a book offered to him wide open.

H.S.Aziz 17:13

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(It will be said to him) "Read your book. Your soul suffices as reckoner against you this day."

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He who accepts guidance (or does right), accepts it only for his own soul: and he who errs, errs only against it; nor shall one burdened soul bear the burden of another. Nor would We punish until we had sent a Messenger (with warnings).

H.S.Aziz 17:15

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And when We desire to destroy a people We send commands to the opulent ones thereof who yet work abomination therein; and then due sentence is pronounced; and We destroyed it utterly.

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How many generations have We destroyed after Noah. Your Lord is sufficient as Knower and Beholder of the sins of his servant.

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Whoever is desirous of this life that soon passes away, We will hasten on for him therein what We please for whom We please. Then We will make hell for him to broil in - despised and outcast (or condemned, disgraced and rejected).

H.S.Aziz 17:18

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But whoever desires the Hereafter, and strives for it with the necessary effort, for such, their striving shall find favour.

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To each do We supply, both these and those (the just and the unjust), from the bounty of your Lord; for the bounty of your Lord are not restricted.

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See how We have preferred some of them over others, and verily, the Hereafter will be greater in degree and greater in preference.

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Set not up with Allah other gods, or you will sit despised and forsaken.

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Your Lord has decreed that you serve none other than Him; and that you show kindness to parents. If one or both of them reach old age with you, say not unto them, "Fie!", nor repulse them, but speak to them graciously and kindly.

H.S.Aziz 17:23

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And lower to them the wing of humility out of compassion, and say, "O Lord! Have compassion on them both for they did take care of me when I was little!"

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Your Lord is best aware of what is in your souls. If you be righteous, lo! He was ever Forgiving unto those who turn back penitent.

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And give your kinsman his due and the needy and the son of the road (wayfarer); and squander (waste) not your wealth in wantonness.

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Lo! The squanderers were ever brothers of the devil; and the devil is ever ungrateful to his Lord.

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But if you do turn away from them to seek after mercy from your Lord, which you hope for, then speak to them in easy words (kindly and reasonably).

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Let not your hand be fettered to your neck (i.e. selfish and tight fisted), nor yet spread it out quite open, lest you should have to sit down blamed and destitute.

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Verily, your Lord spreads out provision to whomsoever He will or He restricts it. Verily, He is ever Knower and Seer of his servants.

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