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Verily, to Allah belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. He knows their condition, and the Day when they shall be returned unto Him so that He may inform them of what they did. Allah is Knower of all things.
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Blessed is He Who has revealed unto His servants the Discrimination (or Criterion) that it may be an admonition to all peoples.
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He unto Whom belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth, He has chosen no son nor has He any partner in the sovereignty. He has created everything, and then given it its measure (proportions).
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Yet they take beside Him other gods who create not aught, but are themselves created, and cannot control harm or profit for themselves, and can control neither death, nor life, nor resurrection.
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And those who disbelieve say, "This is nothing but a lie which he has invented, and another people hath helped him with it;" But, in truth, it is they who have wrought an injustice and a falsehood.
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And they say, "Old folks' tales, which he has written down while they are dictated to him morning and evening."
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Say, "He Who knows the secret of the heavens and the earth, He has revealed it; verily, He is ever Forgiving, Merciful!"
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And they say, "What ails this messenger that he eats food and walks in the markets? Why is not an angel sent down unto him, to be a Warner with him....
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Or a treasure thrown down unto him, or why has he not a garden to eat from....?" And the unjust say, "You only follow a man bewitched (or obsessed)."
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See how they coin similitudes for you, so that they are all astray and cannot find a way!
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Blessed is He Who, if He will, can make for you better than all that - Gardens beneath which rivers flow - and can make for you castles (mansions, palaces).
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Nay, but they deny the coming of the Hour, and for those who deny the Hour We have prepared a blaze:
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When it sees them from a far place, they shall hear its raging and roaring;
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And when they are thrown into a narrow place thereof, chained together, they shall pray for destruction there.
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Pray not that day for one destruction, but pray for many destructions!
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Say, "Is that better or the Garden of Eternity (Immortality) which is promised unto those who fear (ward off evil), which is ever a reward and a goal?
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Therein abiding, they shall have all that they desire. It is for your Lord a promise that must be fulfiled.
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And on the day when He will gather them and that which they served beside Allah, He will say, "Was it you who misled these my servants or did they themselves wander from the way?"
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They will say, "Be you glorified! It was not befitting for us to take any patrons besides Thee; but Thou didst give them and their fathers ease until they forgot the Reminder and became a lost people!"
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And thus have they proved you liars for what you say, and you cannot avert or obtain help. And he among you who does wrong, We will make him taste great torment.
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We have not sent before you any messengers, but lo! They ate food and walked in the markets; but We have made some of you a test for others: will you be steadfast? your Lord is ever Seer.
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And those who look not for a meeting with Us say, "Why are angels not sent down to us, or we do not see our Lord?" Assuredly they have an arrogant conceit of themselves and excessive is their insolence.
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On the day when they behold the angels, there will be no good tidings for the guilty; and the angels will say, "There is a forbidden barrier for you."
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And We will turn on to the works which they have done, and make them like dust scattered.
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The companions of the Garden on that day shall be in a better abiding-place and a better noonday rest.
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The day the heavens shall be cleft asunder with the clouds, and the angels shall be sent down, descending in ranks.
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The true kingdom (sovereignty, dominion) on that day shall belong to the Beneficent, and it shall be a hard day for the disbelievers.
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And the day when the wrongdoers shall bite his hands and say, "O, would that I had chosen the way with the Messenger.
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O, woe is me! Would that I had not taken such a one for a friend.
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He verily led me astray from the Reminder after it had reached me. Satan is ever a deserter of men.
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