M.Asad · MealMerkezi.Net

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Ha. Mim.

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CONSIDER this divine writ, clear in itself and clearly showing the truth:

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behold, We have caused it to be a discourse in the Arabic tongue, so that you might encompass it with your reason.

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And, verily, (originating as it does) in the source, with Us, of all revelation, it is indeed sublime, full of wisdom.

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(O YOU who deny the truth!) Should We, perchance, withdraw this reminder from you altogether, seeing that you are people bent on wasting your own selves?

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And how many a prophet did We send to people of olden times!

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But never yet came a prophet to them without their deriding him –

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and so, (in the end,) We destroyed them (even though they were) of greater might than these: and the (very) image of those people of old became a thing of the past.

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Yet thus it is (with most people): if thou ask them, “Who is it that has created the heavens and the earth?” - they will surely answer, “The Almighty, the All-Knowing has created them.”

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He it is who has made the earth a cradle for you, and has provided for you ways (of livelihood) thereon, so that you might follow the right path.

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And He it is who sends down, again and again, waters from the sky in due measure: and (as) We raise therewith dead land to life, even thus will you be brought forth (from the dead).

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And He it is who has created all opposites. And He (it is who) has provided for you all those ships and animals whereon you ride,

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in order that you might gain mastery over them, and that, whenever you have mastered them, you might remember your Sustainer’s blessings and say: “Limitless in His glory is He who has made (all) this subservient to our use - since (but for Him,) we would not have been able to attain to it.

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Hence, verily, it is unto Him that we must always turn.”

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AND YET, they attribute to Him offspring from among some of the beings created by Him! Verily, most obviously bereft of all gratitude is man!

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Or (do you think), perchance, that out of all His creation He has chosen for Himself daughters, and favoured you with sons?

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For (thus it is:) if any of them is given the glad tiding of (the birth of) what he so readily attributes to the Most Gracious, his face darkens, and he is filled with suppressed anger:

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“What! (Am I to have a daughter -) one who is to be reared (only) for the sake of ornament?” and thereupon he finds himself torn by a vague inner conflict.

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And (yet) they claim that the angels - who in themselves are but beings created by the Most Gracious - are females: (but) did they witness their creation? This false claim of theirs will be recorded, and they will be called to account (for it on Judgment Day)!

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Yet they say, “Had (not) the Most Gracious so willed, we would never have worshipped them!” (But) they cannot have any knowledge of (His having willed) such a thing: they do nothing but guess.

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Or have We, perchance, vouchsafed them, before this one, a revelation (to the contrary,) to which they are still holding fast?

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Nay, but they say, “Behold, We found our forefathers agreed on what to believe - and, verily, it is in their footsteps that we find our guidance!”

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And thus it is: whenever We sent, before thy time, a warner to any community, those of its people who had lost themselves entirely in the pursuit of pleasures would always say, “Behold, we found our forefathers agreed on what to believe - and, verily, it is but in their footsteps that we follow!”

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(Whereupon each prophet) would say, “Why, even though I bring you guidance better than that which you found your forefathers believing in?” - (to which) the others would reply, “Behold, we deny that there is any truth in (what you claim to be) your messages!”

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And so We inflicted Our retribution on them: and behold what happened in the end to those who gave the lie to the truth!

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AND WHEN Abraham spoke to his father and his people, (he had this very truth in mind:) “Verily, far be it from me to worship what you worship!

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None (do I worship) but Him who has brought me into being: and, behold, it is He who will guide me!”

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And he uttered this as a word destined to endure among those who would come after him, so that they might (always) return (to it).

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Now (as for those who did come after him,) I allowed them - as (I had allowed) their forebears - to enjoy their lives freely until the truth should come unto them through an apostle who would make all things clear:

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but now that the truth has come to them, they say, “All this is mere spellbinding eloquence” - and, behold, we deny that there is any truth in it!”

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