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Ta. Sin. THESE ARE MESSAGES of the Qur’an - a divine writ clear in itself and clearly showing the truth:
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a guidance and a glad tiding to the believers
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who are constant in prayer and spend in charity: for it is they, they who in their innermost are certain of the life to come!
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As for those who will not believe in the life to come - behold, goodly have We made their own doings appear unto them, and so they stumble blindly to and fro
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It is they whom the worst of suffering awaits: for it is they, they who in the life to come shall be the greatest losers!
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But (as for thee, O believer,) verily, thou hast received this Qur’an out of the grace of One who is wise, all-knowing.
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Lo! (While lost in the desert,) Moses said to his family: “Behold, I perceive a fire (far away); I may bring you from there some tiding (as to which way we arc to pursue), or bring you (at least) a burning brand so that you might warm yourselves.”
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But when he came close to it, a call was sounded: “Blessed are all who are within (reach of) this fire, and all who are near it! And limitless in His glory is God, the Sustainer of all the worlds!”
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(And God spoke thus:) “O Moses! Verily I alone am God, the Almighty, the Wise!”
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(And then He said:) “Now throw down thy staff!” But when he saw it move rapidly, as if it were a serpent, he drew back (in terror), and did not (dare to) return. (And God spoke to him again:) O Moses! Fear not - for, behold, no fear need the message-bearers have in My Presence,
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and neither need anyone who has done wrong and then has replaced the wrong with good: for, verily, I am much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace!
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“Now place thy hand into thy bosom: it will come forth (shining) white, without blemish!” (And thou shalt go) with nine (of My) messages unto Pharaoh and his people for, verily, they are people depraved!”
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But when Our light-giving messages came unto them, they said, “This is clearly (but) spellbinding deception!”
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- and in their wickedness and self-exaltation they rejected them, although their minds were convinced of their truth: and behold what happened in the end to those spreaders of corruption!
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AND, INDEED, We granted (true) knowledge unto David and Solomon (as well); and both were wont to say: All praise is due to God, who has (thus) favoured us above many of His believing servants!”
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And (in this insight) Solomon was (truly) David’s heir; and he would say: “O you people! We have been taught the speech of birds, and have been given (in abundance) of all (good) things: this, behold, is indeed a manifest favour (from God)!”
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And (one day) there were assembled before Solomon his hosts of invisible beings, and of men, and of birds; and then they were led forth in orderly ranks,
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till, when they came upon a valley (full) of ants, an ant exclaimed: “O you ants! Get into your dwellings, lest Solomon and his hosts crush you without (even) being aware (of you)!”
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Thereupon (Solomon) smiled joyously at her words, and said: “O my Sustainer! Inspire me so that I may forever be grateful for those blessings of Thine with which Thou hast graced me and my parents, and that I may do what is right (in a manner) that will please Thee; and include me, by Thy grace, among Thy righteous servants!”
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And (one day) he looked in vain for (a particular one of) the birds; and so he said: How is it that I do not see the hoopoe? Or could he be among the absent?
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(If so,) I will punish him most severely or will kill him unless he bring me a convincing excuse!”
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But (the hoopoe) tarried but a short while; and (when it came) it said: “I have encompassed (with my knowledge) something that thou hast never yet encompassed (with thine) - for I have come to thee from Sheba with a tiding sure!
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“Behold, I found there a woman ruling over them; and she has been given (abundance) of all (good) things, and hers is a mighty throne,
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And I found her and her people adoring the sun instead of God; and Satan has made these doings of theirs seem goodly to them, and (thus) has barred them from the path (of God), so that they cannot find the right way:
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(for they have come to believe) that they ought not to adore God (although it is He) who brings forth all that is hidden in the heavens and on earth, and knows all that you would conceal as well as all that you bring into the open:
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God, save whom there is no deity - the Sustainer, in awesome almightiness enthroned!”
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Said (Solomon): “We shall see whether thou hast told the truth or art one of the liars!
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Go with this my letter and convey it to them; and thereafter withdraw from them and see what (answer) they return.”
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(When the Queen had read Solomon’s letter,) she said: “O you nobles! A truly distinguished letter has been conveyed unto me.
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Behold, it is from Solomon, and it says, ‘In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Dispenser of Grace:
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