M.Asad · MealMerkezi.Net

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GOD'S JUDGMENT is (bound to) come: do not, therefore, call for its speedy advent! 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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He causes the angels to descend with this divine inspiration, (bestowed) at His behest upon whomever He wills of His servants: "Warn (all human beings) that there is no deity save Me: be, therefore, conscious of Me!"

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He has created the heavens and the earth in accordance with (an inner) truth; sublimely exalted is He above anything to which men may ascribe a share in His divinity!

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He creates man out of a (mere) drop of sperm: and lo! this same being shows himself endowed with the power to think and to argue!

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And He creates cattle: you derive warmth from them, and (various other) uses; and from them you obtain food;

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and you find beauty in them when you drive them home in the evenings and when you take them out to pasture in the mornings.

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And they carry your loads to (many) a place which (otherwise) you would be unable to reach without great hardship to yourselves. Verily, your Sustainer is most compassionate, a dispenser of grace!

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And (it is He who creates) horses and mules and asses for you to ride, as well as for (their) beauty: and He will yet create things of which (today) you have no knowledge.

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And (because He is your Creator,) it rests with God alone to show you the right path: yet there is (many a one) who swerves from it. However, had He so willed, He would have guided you all aright.

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It is He who sends down water from the skies; you drink thereof, and thereof (drink) the plants upon which you pasture your beasts;

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(and) by virtue thereof He causes crops to grow for you, and olive trees, and date palms, and grapes, and all (other) kinds of fruit: in this, behold, there is a message indeed for people who think!

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And He has made the night and the day and the sun and the moon subservient (to His laws, so that they be of use) to you; and all the stars are subservient to His command: in this, behold, there are messages indeed for people who use their reason!

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And all the (beauty of) many hues-which He has created for you on earth: in this, behold, there is a message for people who (are willing to) take it to heart!

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And He it is who has made the sea subservient (to His laws), so that you might eat fresh meat from it, and take from it gems which you may wear. And on that (very sea) one sees ships ploughing through the waves, so that you might (be able to) go forth in quest of some of His bounty, and thus have cause to be grateful (to Him).

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And he has placed firm mountains on earth, lest it sway with you, and rivers and paths, so that you might find your way,

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as well as (various other) means of orientation: for (it is) by the stars that men find their way.

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IS, THEN, HE who creates comparable to any (being) that cannot create? Will you not, then, bethink yourselves?

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For, should you try to count God's blessings, you could never compute them! Behold, God is indeed much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace;

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and God knows all that you keep secret as well as all that you bring into the open.

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Now those beings that some people invoke beside God cannot create anything, since they themselves are but created:

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they are dead, not living, and they do not (even) know when they will be raised from the dead!

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Your God is the One God: but because of their false pride, the hearts of those who do not believe in the life to come refuse to admit this (truth).

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Truly, God knows all that they keep secret as well as all that they bring into the open -(and,) behold, He does not love those who are given to arrogance,

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and (who), whenever they are asked, "What is it that your Sustainer has bestowed from on high?"-are wont to answer, "Fables of ancient times!"

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Hence, on Resurrection Day they shall bear the full weight of their own burdens, as well as some of the burdens of those ignorant ones whom they have led astray: oh, how evil the load with which they shall be burdened!

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Those who lived before them did, too, devise many a blasphemy -whereupon God visited with destruction all that they had ever built, (striking) at its very foundations, so that the roof fell in upon them from above and suffering befell them without their having perceived whence it came.

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And then, on Resurrection Day, He will cover them (all) with ignominy, and will say: "Where, now, are those beings to whom you ascribed a share in My divinity, (and) for whose sake you cut yourselves off (from My guidance)?" (Whereupon) those who (in their lifetime) were endowed with knowledge will say: "Verily, ignominy and misery (have fallen) this day upon those who have been denying the truth-

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those whom the angels have gathered in death while they were still sinning against themselves!" Then will they (who are thus arraigned) proffer their submission, (saying:) "We did not (mean to) do any evil! (But they will be answered:) "Yea, verily, God has full knowledge of all that you were doing!

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Hence, enter the gates of hell, therein to abide!" And evil, indeed, shall be the state of all who are given to false pride!

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But (when) those who are conscious of God are asked, "What is it that your Sustainer has bestowed from on high?" -they answer, "Goodness supreme!" Good fortune awaits, in this world, all who persevere in doing good; but their ultimate state will be far better still: for, how excellent indeed will be the state of the God-conscious (in the life to come)!

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