M.Asad · MealMerkezi.Net

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Alif Lam. Ra. THESE ARE MESSAGES of the divine writ, full of wisdom.

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Do people deem it strange that We should have inspired a man from their own midst (with this Our message): "Warn all mankind, and give unto those who have attained to faith the glad tiding that in their Sustainer's sight they surpass all others in that they are completely sincere-? (Only) they who deny the truth say, "Behold. he is clearly but a spellbinder!"

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VERILY, your Sustainer is God, who has created the heavens and the earth in six aeons, and is established on the throne of His almightiness, governing all that exists. There is none that could intercede with Him unless He grants leave therefor. Thus is God, your Sustainer: worship, therefore, Him (alone): will you not, then, keep this in mind?

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Unto Him you all must return: this is, in truth, God's promise-for, behold, He creates (man) in the first instance, and then brings him forth anew to the end that He may reward with equity all who attain to faith and do righteous deeds; whereas for those who are bent on denying the truth there is in store a draught of burning despair and grievous suffering because of their persistent refusal to acknowledge the truth.

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He it is who has made the sun a (source of) radiant light and the moon a light (reflected), and has determined for it phases so that you might know how to compute the years and to measure (time). None of this has God created without (an inner) truth. Clearly does He spell out these messages unto people of (innate) knowledge:

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for, verily, in the alternating of night and day, and in all that God has created in the heavens and on earth there are messages indeed for people who are conscious of Him!

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Verily, as for those who do not believe that they are destined to meet Us, but content themselves with the life of this world and do not look beyond it, and are heedless of Our messages -

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their goal is the fire in return for all (the evil) that they were wont to do.

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(But,) verily, as for those who have attained to faith and do righteous deeds - their Sustainer guides them aright by means of their faith. (In the life to come,) running waters will flow at their feet in gardens of bliss;

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(and) in that (state of happiness) they will call out, "Limitless art Thou in Thy glory, O God!"-and will be answered with the greeting, "Peace !" And their call will close with (the words), "All praise is due to God, the Sustainer of all the worlds!"

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NOW IF GOD were to hasten for human beings the ill (which they deserve by their sinning) in the same manner as they (themselves) would hasten (the coming to them of what they consider to be) goad, their end would indeed come forthwith! But We leave them alone (for a while) -all those who do not believe that they are destined to meet Us: (We leave them alone) in their overweening arrogance, blindly stumbling to and fro.

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For (thus it is:) when affliction befalls man, he cries out unto Us, whether he be lying on his side or sitting or standing; but as soon as We have freed him of his affliction, he goes on as though he had never invoked Us to save him from the affliction that befell him! Thus do their own doings seem goodly unto those who waste their own selves.

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And, indeed, We destroyed before your time (whole) generations when they (persistently) did evil although the apostles sent unto them brought them all evidence of the truth; for they refused to believe (them). Thus do We requite people who are lost in sin.

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And thereupon We made you their successors on earth, so that We might behold how you act.

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AND (thus it is:) whenever Our messages are conveyed unto them in all their clarity, those who do not believe that they are destined to meet Us (are wont to) say, "Bring us a discourse other than this, or alter this one.” Say (O Prophet): "It is not conceivable that I should alter it of my own volition; I only follow what is revealed to me. Behold, I would dread, were I (thus) to rebel against my Sustainer, the suffering (which would befall me) on that ,awesome Day (of Judgment)!"

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Say: "Had God willed it (otherwise), I would not have conveyed this (divine writ) unto you, nor would He have brought it to your knowledge. Indeed. a whole lifetime have I dwelt among you ere this (revelation came unto me): will you not, then, use your reason ?”

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And who could be more wicked than they who attribute their own lying inventions to God or give the lie to His messages? Verily, those who are lost in sin will never attain to a happy state -

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and (neither will) they (who) worship, side by side with God, things or beings that can neither harm nor benefit them, saying (to themselves), "These are our intercessors with God!" Say: "Do you (think that you could) inform God of anything in the heavens or on earth that He does not know? Limitless is He in His glory, and sublimely exalted above anything to which men may ascribe a share in His divinity!"

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AND (know that) all mankind were once but one single community, and only later did they begin to hold divergent views. And had it not been for a decree- that had already gone forth from thy Sustainer, all their differences would indeed have been settled (from the outset).

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NOW THEY (who deny the truth) are wont to ask, "Why has no miraculous sign ever been bestowed upon him from on high by his Sustainer?" Say, then: "God's alone is the knowledge of that which. is beyond the reach of human perception. Wait, then, (until His will becomes manifest:) verily, I shall wait with you!"

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And (thus it is:) whenever We let (such) people taste (some of Our) grace after hardship has visited them-lo! they forthwith turn to devising false arguments against Our messages. Say: "God is swifter (than you) in His deep devising!" Behold, Our (heavenly) messengers are recording all that you may devise!

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He it is who enables you to travel on land and sea. And (behold what happens) when you go to sea in ships: (they go to sea in ships,) and they sail on in them in a favourable wind, and they rejoice thereat until there comes upon them a tempest, and waves surge towards them from all sides, so that they believe themselves to be encompassed (by death; and then) they call unto God, (at that moment) sincere in their faith in Him alone, "If Thou wilt but save us from this, we shall most certainly be among the grateful!"

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Yet as soon as He has saved them from this (danger), lo! they behave outrageously on earth, offending against all right ! O men! All your outrageous deeds are bound to fall back upon your own selves! (You care only for) the enjoyment of life in this world: (but remember that) in the end unto Us you must return, whereupon We shall make you truly understand all that you were doing (in life).

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The parable of the life of this world is but that of rain which We send down from the sky, and which is absorbed by the plants of the earth whereof men and animals draw nourishment, until -when the earth has assumed its artful adornment and has been embellished, and they who dwell on it believe that they have gained mastery over it -there comes down upon it Our judgment, by night or by day, and We cause it to become (like) a field mown down, as if there had been no yesterday. Thus clearly do We spell out these messages unto people who think!

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AND (know that) God invites (man) unto the abode of peace, and guides him that wills (to be guided) onto a straight way.

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For those who persevere in doing good there is the ultimate good in store, and more (than that). No darkness and no ignominy will overshadow their faces (on Resurrection Day): it is they who are destined for paradise, therein to abide.

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But us for those who have done evil deeds - the recompense of an evil, deed shall be the like thereof: and - since they will have none to defend them against God - ignominy will overshadow them as though their faces were veiled by the night's own darkness: it is they who are destined for the fire. therein to abide.

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For, one Day We shall gather them all together, and then We shall say unto those who (in their lifetime) ascribed divinity to aught but God, "Stand where you are, you and those (beings and powers) to whom you were wont to ascribe a share in God's divinity! -for by then We shall have (visibly) separated them from one another . And the beings to whom they had ascribed a share in God's divinity will say (to those who had worshipped them), "It was not us that you were wont to worship;

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and none can bear witness between us and you as God does: we were, for certain, unaware of your worshipping (us).

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There and then will every human being clearly apprehend what he has done in the past; and all will be brought back unto God, their true Lord Supreme, and all their false imagery will have forsaken them.

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