M.Asad · MealMerkezi.Net

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Ha. Mim.

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THE BESTOWAL from on high of this divine writ issues from God, the Almighty, the All-Knowing,

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forgiving sins and accepting repentance, severe in retribution, limitless in His bounty. There is no deity save Him: with Him is all journeys’ end.

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NONE BUT THOSE who are bent on denying the truth would call God’s messages in question. But let it not deceive thee that they seem to be able to do as they please on earth:

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to the truth gave the lie, before their time, the people of Noah and, after them, all those (others) who were leagued together (against God’s message-bearers); and each of those communities schemed against the apostle sent unto them, aiming to lay hands on him; and they contended (against his message) with fallacious arguments, so as to render void the truth thereby: but then I took them to task - and how awesome was My retribution!

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And thus shall thy Sustainer’s word come true against all who are bent on denying the truth: they shall find themselves in the fire (of hell).

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THEY WHO BEAR (within themselves the knowledge of) the throne of (God’s) almightiness, as well as all who are near it, extol their Sustainer’s limitless glory and praise, and have faith in Him, and ask forgiveness for all (others) who have attained to faith: “O our Sustainer! Thou embracest all things within (Thy) grace and knowledge: forgive, then, their sins unto those who repent and follow Thy path, and preserve them from suffering through the blazing fire!

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“And, O our Sustainer, bring them into the gardens of perpetual bliss which Thou hast promised them, together with the righteous from among their forebears, and their spouses, and their offspring - for, verily, Thou alone art almighty, truly wise –

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and preserve them from (doing) evil deeds: for anyone whom on that Day (of Judgment) Thou wilt have preserved from (the taint of) evil deeds, him wilt Thou have graced with Thy mercy: and that, that will be the triumph supreme!”

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(But,) behold, as for those who are bent on denying the truth - (on that same Day) a voice will call out unto them: “Indeed, greater than your (present) loathing of yourselves was God’s loathing of you (at the time) when you were called unto faith but went on denying the truth!”

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(Whereupon) they will exclaim: “O our Sustainer! Twice hast Thou caused us to die, just as twice Thou hast brought us to life!

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(And they will be told:) “This (has befallen you) because, whenever the One God was invoked, you denied this truth; whereas, when divinity was ascribed to aught beside Him, you believed (in it)! But all judgment rests with God, the Exalted, the Great!”

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HE IT IS who shows you His wonders (in all nature), and sends down sustenance for you from the sky: but none bethinks himself (thereof) save those who are wont to turn to God.

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Invoke, then, God, sincere in your faith in Him alone, however hateful this may be to those who deny the truth!

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High above all orders (of being) is He, in almightiness enthroned. By His Own will does He bestow inspiration upon whomever He wills of His servants, so as to warn (all human beings of the coming) of the Day when they shall meet Him

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the Day when they shall come forth (from death), with nothing of themselves hidden from God. With whom will sovereignty rest on that Day? With God, the One who holds absolute sway over all that exists!

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On that Day will every human being be requited for what he has earned: no wrong (will be done) on that Day: verily, swift in reckoning is God!

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Hence, warn them of that Day which draws ever nearer, when the hearts will chokingly come up to the throats: no loving friend will the evildoers have, nor any intercessor who would be heeded:

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(for) He is aware of the (most) stealthy glance, and of all that the hearts would conceal.

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And God will judge in accordance with truth and justice, whereas those (beings) whom they invoke beside Him cannot judge at all: for, verily, God alone is all-hearing, all-seeing.

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Have they, then, never journeyed about the earth and beheld what happened in the end to those (deniers of the truth) who lived before their time? Greater were they in power than they are, and in the impact which they left on earth: but God took them to task for their sins, and they had none to defend them against God:

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this, because their apostles had come to them with all evidence of the truth, and yet they rejected it: and so God took them to task - for, verily, He is powerful, severe in retribution!

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THUS, INDEED, did We send Moses with Our messages and a manifest authority (from Us)

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unto Pharaoh, and Haman, and Qarun; but they (only) said, “A spellbinder is he, a liar!”

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Now (as for Pharaoh and his followers,) when he came to them, setting forth the truth from Us, they said, “Slay the sons of those who share his beliefs, and spare (only) their women!” - but the guile of those deniers of the truth could not lead to aught but failure.

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And Pharaoh said: “Leave it to me to slay Moses - and let him invoke his (alleged) sustainer! Behold, I fear lest he cause you to change your religion, or lest he cause corruption to prevail in the land!”

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But Moses said: “With (Him who is) my Sustainer as well as your Sustainer have I indeed found refuge from everyone who, immersed in false pride, will not believe in (the coming of) the Day of Reckoning!”

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At that, a believing man of Pharaoh’s family, who (until then) had concealed his faith, exclaimed: “Would you slay a man because he says, ‘God is my Sustainer’ - seeing, withal, that he has brought you all evidence of this truth from your Sustainer? Now if he be a liar, his lie will fall back on him; but if he is a man of truth, something (of the punishment) whereof he warns you is bound to befall you: for, verily, God would not grace with His guidance one who has wasted his own self by lying (about Him).

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“O my people! Yours is the dominion today, (and) most eminent are you on earth: but who will rescue us from God’s punishment, once it befalls us?” Said Pharaoh: “I but want to make you see what I see myself; and I would never make you follow any path but that of rectitude!”

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Thereupon exclaimed he who had attained to faith: “O my people! Verily, I fear for you the like of what one day befell those others who were leagued together (against God’s truth) –

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