M.Asad · MealMerkezi.Net

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ALL PRAISE is due to God, who has created the heavens and the earth, and brought into being deep darkness as well as light: and yet, those who are bent on denying the truth regard other powers as their Sustainer's equals!

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He it is who has created you out of clay, and then has decreed a term (for you) - a term known (only) to him. And yet you doubt –

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although He is God in the heavens and on earth, knowing all that you keep secret as well as all that you do openly, and knowing what you deserve.

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Yet whenever any of their Sustainer's messages comes unto them, they (who are bent on denying the truth) turn their backs upon it:

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and so they give the lie to this truth now that it has come unto them. In time, however, they will come to understand what it was that they were wont to deride.

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Do they not see how many a generation We have destroyed before their time - (people) whom We had given a (bountiful) place on earth, the like of which We never gave unto you, and upon whom We showered heavenly blessings abundant, and at whose feet We made running waters flow? And yet we destroyed them for their sins, and gave rise to other people in their stead.

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But even if we had sent down unto thee (O Prophet) a writing on paper, and they had touched it with their own hands - those who are bent on denying the truth would indeed have said, "This is clearly nothing but a deception!"

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They are saying, too, "Why has not an angel (visibly) been sent down unto him?" But had we sent down an angel, all would indeed have been decided, and they would have been allowed no further respite (for repentance.

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And (even) if We had appointed an angel as Our message-bearer, We would certainly have made him (appear as) a man - and thus We would only have confused them in the same way as they are now confusing themselves.

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And, indeed, (even) before thy time have apostles been derided - but those who scoffed at them were (in the end) overwhelmed by the very thing which they were wont to deride.

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Say: "Go all over the earth, and behold what happened in the end to those who gave the lie to the truth!"

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Say: "Unto whom belongs all that is in the heavens and on earth?" Say: "Unto God, who has willed upon Himself the law of grace and mercy. He will assuredly gather you all together on the Day of Resurrection, (the coming of) which is beyond all doubt: yet those who have squandered their own selves-it is they who refuse to believe (in Him),

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although His is all that dwells in the night and the day, and He alone is all-hearing, all-knowing.

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Say: "Am I to take for my master anyone but God, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, when it is He who gives nourishment and Himself needs none?” Say: "I am bidden to be foremost among those who surrender themselves unto God, and not to be among those who ascribe divinity to aught beside Him."

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Say: "Behold, I would dread, were I (thus) to rebel against my Sustainer, the suffering (which would befall me) on that awesome Day (of Judgment)."

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Upon him who shall be spared on that Day, He will indeed have bestowed His grace: and this will be a manifest triumph.

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And if God should touch thee with misfortune, there is none who could remove it but He; and if He should touch thee with good fortune -it is He who has the power to will anything:

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for He alone holds sway over His creatures, and He alone is truly wise, all-aware.

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Say: "What could most weightily bear witness to the truth?" Say: "God is witness between me and you; and this Qur’an has been revealed unto me so that on the strength thereof I might warn you and all whom it may reach." Could you in truth bear witness that there are other deities side by side with God? Say: "I bear no (such) witness!" Say: "He is the One God; and, behold, far be it from me to ascribe divinity, as, you do, to aught beside Him!"

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They unto whom we have vouchsafed revelation aforetime know this as they know their own children; yet those (of them) who have squandered their own selves -it is they who refuse to believe.

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And who could be more wicked than he who attributes his own lying inventions to God or gives the lie to His messages? Verily, such evildoers will never attain to a happy state:

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for one Day We shall gather them all together, and then We shall say unto those who ascribed divinity to aught beside God: "Where, now, are those beings whom you imagined to have a share in God's divinity?"

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Whereupon, in their utter confusion, they will only (be able to) say: "By God, our Sustainer, we did not (mean to) ascribe divinity to aught beside Him !"

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Behold how they have lied to themselves -and (how) their false imagery has forsaken them!

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And there are among them such as (seem to) listen to thee (O Prophet): but over their hearts We have laid veils which prevent them from grasping the truth, and into their ears, deafness. And were they to see every sign (of the truth), they would still not believe in it-so much so that when they come unto thee to contend with thee, those who are bent on denying the truth say, "This is nothing but fables of ancient times!"

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And they bar others therefrom. and go far away from it: but they destroy none but themselves, and perceive it not.

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If thou couldst but see (them) when they will be made to stand before the fire and will say, "Oh, would that we were brought back (to life): then we would not give the lie to our Sustainer's messages, but would be among the believers!"

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But nay -(they will say this only because) the truth which they used to conceal (from themselves) in the past will have become obvious to them; and if they were brought back (to life), they would return to the very thing which was forbidden to them: for behold, they are indeed liars!

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And some (of the unbelievers) say, "There is nothing beyond our life in this world, for We shall not be raised from the dead."

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If thou couldst but see (them) when they shall be made to stand before their Sustainer (and) He will say, "Is not this the truth?" They will answer: "Yea, indeed, by our Sustainer!" (Whereupon) He will say: "Taste, then, the suffering that comes from your having refused to acknowledge the truth!"

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