M.Asad · MealMerkezi.Net

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Hallowed is He who from on high, step by step, has bestowed upon His servant the standard by which to discern the true from the false, so that to all the world it might be a warning:

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He to whom the dominion over the heavens and the earth belongs, and who begets no offspring, and has no partner in His dominion: for it is He who creates every thing and determines its nature in accordance with (His own) design.

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And yet, some choose to worship, instead of Him, imaginary deities that cannot create anything but are themselves created, and have it not within their power to avert harm from, or bring benefit to, themselves, and have no power over death, nor over life, nor over resurrection!

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Moreover, those who are bent on denying the truth are wont to say, “This (Qur’an) is nothing but a lie, which he (himself) has devised with the help of other people, who thereupon have perverted the truth and brought a falsehood into being.”

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And they say, “Fables of ancient times which he has caused to be written down, so that they might be read out to him at morn and evening!”

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Say (O Muhammad): “He who knows all the mysteries of the heavens and the earth has bestowed from on high this (Qur’an upon me)! Verily, He is much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace!”

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Yet they say: What sort of apostle is this (man) who eats food (like all other mortals) and goes about in the market places? Why has not an angel (visibly) been sent down unto him, to act as a warner together with him?”

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Or: “(Why has not) a treasure been granted to him (by God)?” Or: “He should (at least) have a (bountiful) garden, so that he could eat thereof (without effort)!” And so these evildoers say (unto one another), “If you were to follow (Muhammad, you would follow) but a man bewitched!”

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See to what they liken thee, (O Prophet, simply) because they have gone astray and are now unable to find a way to the truth)!

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Hallowed is He who, if it be His will, shall give thee something better than that (whereof they speak) - gardens through which running waters flow - and shall assign to thee mansions (of bliss in the life to come).

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But nay! It is (the very coming of) the Last Hour to which they give the lie! However, for such as give the lie to (the announcement of) the Last Hour We have readied a blazing flame:

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when it shall face them from afar, they will hear its angry roar and its hiss;

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and when they are flung, linked (all) together, into a tight space within, they will pray for extinction there and then!

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(But they will be told:) “Pray not today for one single extinction, but pray for many extinctions!”

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Say: “Which is better - that, or the paradise of life abiding which has been promised to the God-conscious as their reward and their journey’s end –

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a promise given by thy Sustainer, (always) to be prayed for?”

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BUT (as for people who are oblivious of thy Sustainer’s oneness -) one Day He will gather them together with all that they (now) worship instead of God, and will ask (those to whom divinity was falsely ascribed): “Was it you who led these My creatures astray, or did they by themselves stray from the right path?”

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They will answer: “Limitless art Thou in Thy glory! It was inconceivable for us to take for our masters anyone but Thyself! But (as for them -) Thou didst allow them and their forefathers to enjoy (the pleasures of) life to such an extent that they forgot all remembrance (of Thee): for they were people devoid of all good.”

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(Thereupon God will say:) “And now, they (whom you regarded as divine) have given the lie to all your (past) assertions, and you can neither ward off (your punishment) nor obtain any succour! For, whoever of you has committed (such) evil, him shall We cause to taste great suffering!”

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AND (even) before thee, (O Muhammad,) We never sent as Our message-bearers any but (mortal men) who indeed ate food (like other human beings) and went about in the market places: for (it is thus that) We cause you (human beings) to be a means of testing one another. Are you able to endure (this test) with patience? For (remember, O man,) thy Sustainer is truly all-seeing!

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But those who do not believe that they are destined to meet Us are wont to say, “Why have no angels been sent down to us?” – or, “Why do we not see our Sustainer?” Indeed, they are far too proud of themselves, having rebelled (against God’s truth) with utter disdain!

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(Yet) on that Day - the Day on which they shall see the angels there will be no glad tiding for those who were lost in sin; and they will exclaim, “By a forbidding ban (are we from God’s grace debarred)!” –

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for We shall have turned towards all the (supposedly good) deeds they ever wrought, and shall have transformed them into scattered dust –

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(whereas) on that same Day those who are destined for paradise will be graced with the best of abodes and the fairest place of repose.

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And on the Day on which the skies, together with the clouds, shall burst asunder, and the angels are made to descend in a mighty descent –

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on that Day (it will become obvious to all that) true sovereignty belongs to the Most Gracious (alone): hence, a Day of distress will it be for all who deny the truth,

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and a Day on which the evildoer will bite his hands (in despair), exclaiming: “Oh, would that I had followed the path shown to me by the apostle!

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Oh, woe is me! Would that I had not taken so-and-so for a friend!

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Indeed, he led me astray from the remembrance (of God) after it had come unto me!” For (thus it is:) Satan is ever a betrayer of man.

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AND (on that Day) the Apostle will say: “O my Sustainer! Behold, (some of) my people have come to regard this Qur’an as something (that ought to be) discarded!”

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