N.Starkovsky · MealMerkezi.Net

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Alif lam mim ra. These are Verses from the Scripture. What has been sent down to you from your Lord is the Truth, but most people still do not believe.

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God is the One, Who has raised the Heavens without visible supports, and then sat securely upon the Throne. He controls the sun and the moon, and everything runs [its course] in a fixed time. He manages the Design and explains the Signs — perhaps you will believe in the meeting with your Lord?

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He is the One, Who has spread the earth and distributed on it mountain peaks and rivers; He has grown all the fruits in pairs; He veils the day with the darkness of the night. Verily, there are Signs in this for the people who think!

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There are adjacent plots on the land with vineyards and corn fields, with palm-trees [growing] single or otherwise, irrigated with the same water. We have made some of them more fitting for food than others. Verily, there are Signs in this for the people who reason!

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This puzzles you, but more puzzling are their words: “Shall we be revived in a new Creation after we turned to dust?” They are the ones who reject their Lord! With chains ’round their necks, they shall dwell in the Fire and stay in it for ever!

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They hasten you with wickedness instead of goodness, though exemplary punishments have been meted before them. Verily, your Lord is ready to forgive people their sins, but, verily, your Lord is stern in punishment!

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The disbelievers say: “Why doesn’t his Lord send him a Sign?” Truly, you are a Warner and a Guide for all nations!

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God knows what each female will bear in her womb, how briefly or how long — everything is in due measure with Him.

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He knows the Unseen and the manifest, He is the Great, the Sublime!

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You are the same, the one who conceals his speech and the one who speaks openly, the one who hides in the night and the one who gets out in daylight.

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Every man has Guardians ahead of him and behind him, who guard him as God commands. Verily, God will not change a man, unless the man changes himself! But if God intends to punish someone, nobody can repeal it — they have no protector besides Him.

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He is the One, Who displays to you the lightning that brings fear and hope. He piles up heavy clouds,

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thunder glorifies Him in praise and the Angels join in awe of Him! He sends thunderbolts to strike anyone He wills. Yet they still argue about God, although mighty is His vengeance!

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True prayer is for Him alone! Those they call upon besides Him do not hear anything. It is like extending a hand to water wishing that it will reach your mouth. But no, it will not reach it! So the prayer of the disbelievers is just a deception!

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All those who are in the Heavens and earth prostrate themselves before God willingly or unwillingly, and their shadows do the same mornings and evenings!

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Say: “Who’s the Lord of the Heavens and earth? Say: “It’s God.” Say: “Then why do you need other protectors besides Him if they neither benefit nor harm you?” Say: “Can the blind be compared to the sharp-sighted? Can darkness be compared to light?” Or have they found that God has some partners who have created as He has created, so that their creations seem to be alike? Say: “God is the Creator of all things. He’s the One, the Victorious!”

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Down from the sky He sends the water that is apportioned among the streams. A scum rises in them, and the current carries it away. A scum is also formed when [ores] are smelted in the fire to make ornaments and utensils. This is how God compares the true to the false: The scum disappears without a trace, and what is useful for man remains on the ground — this is how God comes up with analogies!

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Goodness is for those who respond to their Lord, but those who do not respond to Him will not redeem themselves with what is on earth, even with twice as much. Dreadful will be their Reckoning! Hell will be their abode — evil is that bedding!

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Is a man like a blind one if he knows that what has been sent down to you from your Lord is the Truth? Only the wise remember [God] —

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they fulfill the Covenant of God and keep their promises,

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They join what God has commanded to join. They are in awe before their Lord and fear an evil Account.

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They persist in striving to the Countenance of their Lord; they observe the prayer, contribute openly and secretly from what We have given to them, they repel evil with goodness. An everlasting dwelling shall be given to them:

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the Gardens of Eden they shall enter with the righteous among their fathers, spouses, and offspring. The Angels shall enter through every gate [saying]:

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“Peace upon you for your perseverance! Splendid is your last abode!”

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But the lot of those who broke the Covenant of God after they promised to uphold it, shall be a curse and an evil dwelling! They used to separate what God has commanded to join, and to spread corruption in the land.

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God increases or reduces the provision to anyone He wills. Everyone enjoys the life of this world, but compared to the Hereafter, the life of this world is just a pastime.

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The disbelievers say: “Why hasn’t a Sign been sent to him from his Lord?” Say: “God sends astray any one He wills, and He guides to Himself only those who turn [to Him],

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those who believe, and those whose hearts find comfort in remembering God — indeed, only the remembrance of God comforts the hearts!

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And [He also guides] those who believed and did good works. Let them enjoy bliss and a good place of rest!”

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We have sent you to a people that came in the wake of many [others]. Recite to them what We have inspired you with, even if they reject the Merciful! Say: “He’s my Lord! There’s no god but Him! I trust in Him and to Him I turn.”

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