M.Asad · MealMerkezi.Net

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Sad. CONSIDER this Qur’an, endowed with all that one ought to remember!

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But nay - they who are bent on denying the truth are lost in (false) pride, and (hence) deeply in the wrong.

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How many a generation have We destroyed before their time (for this very sin)! And (how) they called (unto Us) when it was too late to escape!

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Now these (people) deem it strange that a warner should have come unto them from their own midst - and (so) the deniers of the truth are saying: “A (mere) spellbinder is he, a liar!

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Does he claim that all the deities are (but) one God? Verily, a most strange thing is this!”

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And their leaders launch forth (thus): “Go ahead, and hold steadfastly onto your deities: this, behold, is the only thing to do!

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Never did we hear of (a claim like) this in any faith of latter days! It is nothing but (a mortal man’s) invention!

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What! Upon him alone from among all of us should a (divine) reminder have been bestowed from on high?” Nay, but it is My Own reminder that they distrust! Nay, they have not yet tasted the suffering which I do impose!

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Or do they (think that they) own the treasures of thy Sustainer’s grace - (the grace) of the Almighty, the Giver of Gifts?

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Or (that) the dominion over the heavens and the earth and all that is between them is theirs? Why, then, let them try to ascend (to God-like power) by all (conceivable) means!

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(But) there it is: any and all human beings, however (strongly) leagued together, are bound to suffer defeat (whenever they refuse to accept the truth).

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To the truth gave the lie aforetime Noah’s people, and (the tribe of) Ad, and Pharaoh of the (many) tent-poles,

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and (the tribe of) Thamud, and the people of Lot, and the dwellers of the wooded dales (of Madyan): they all were leagued together, (as it were, in their unbelief:)

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not one (was there) but gave the lie to the apostles - and thereupon My retribution fell due.

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And they (who now deny the truth - they, too,) have but to wait for one single blast (of punishment to overtake them): it shall not be delayed a whit.

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As it is, they say (mockingly): “O our Sustainer! Hasten on to us our share (of punishment even) before the Day of Reckoning!”

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(But) bear thou with patience whatever they may say, and remember Our servant David, him who was endowed with (so much) inner strength! He, verily, would always turn unto Us:

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(and for this,) behold, We caused the mountains to join him in extolling Our limitless glory at eventide and at sunrise,

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and (likewise) the birds in their assemblies: (together) they all Would turn again and again unto Him (who had created them).

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And We strengthened his dominion, and bestowed upon him wisdom and sagacity in judgment.

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AND YET, has the story of the litigants come within thy ken - (the story of the two) who surmounted the walls of the sanctuary (in which David prayed)?

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As they came upon David, and he shrank back in fear from them, they said: “Fear not! (We are but) two litigants. One of us has wronged the other: so judge thou between us with justice, and deviate not from what is right, and show (both of) us the way to rectitude.

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“Behold, this is my brother: he has ninety-nine ewes, whereas I have (only) one ewe - and yet he said, ‘Make her over to me,’ and forcibly prevailed against me in this (our) dispute.”

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Said (David): “He has certainly wronged thee by demanding that thy ewe be added to his ewes! Thus, behold, do many kinsmen wrong one another (all) save those who believe (in God) and do righteous deeds: but how few are they!” And (suddenly) David understood that We had tried him: and so he asked his Sustainer to forgive him his sin, and fell down in prostration, and turned unto Him in repentance.

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And thereupon We forgave him that (sin): and, verily, nearness to Us awaits him (in the life to come), and the most beauteous of all goals!

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(And We said:) “O David! Behold, We have made thee a (prophet and, thus, Our) vicegerent on earth: judge, then, between men with justice, and do not follow vain desire, lest it lead thee astray from the path of God: verily, for those who go astray from the path of God there is suffering severe in store for having forgotten the Day of Reckoning!”

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AND (thus it is:) We have not created heaven and earth and all that is between them without meaning and purpose, as is the surmise of those who are bent on denying the truth: but then, woe from the fire (of hell) unto all who are bent on denying the truth!

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(For,) would We treat those who have attained to faith and do righteous deeds in the same manner as (We shall treat) those who spread corruption on earth? Would We treat the God-conscious in the same manner as the wicked?

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(All this have We expounded in this) blessed divine writ which We have revealed unto thee, (O Muhammad,) so that men may ponder over its messages, and that those who are endowed with insight may take them to heart.

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AND UNTO DAVID We granted Solomon (as a son - and) how excellent a servant (of Ours he grew up to be)! Behold, he would always turn unto Us -

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