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[This is] a Revelation from the Compassionate, the Merciful,
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a Scripture with Verses made clear, an Arabic Koran for the people who understand.
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It contains good tidings and warnings, yet most of them turn away and do not listen.
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They say: “Our hearts are veiled from what you’re calling us to. Our ears are deaf, between us is a curtain. Do [as you want], and we’ll do [as we want]!”
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Say: “I’am a man like you. I’ve been inspired that your God is One God. So stand before Him and ask for His forgiveness!” Woe to the Associators —
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to those who withhold the zakat and deny the Hereafter!
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But there is a sure reward for those who believed and did good works.
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Say: “You’re denying the One, Who created the earth in two days, and you associate equals to Him!” He is the Lord of the Worlds.
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He has set firmly standing mountains. He has blessed [the earth], and in four days He has distributed provisions upon it, equitably for all the seekers.
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Then He turned to the sky, which was then [like] smoke, and said to it and to the earth: — Come willingly or unwillingly! They said: “We’re coming willingly!”
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He has installed seven skies in two days and gave a function to each sky. We adorned the lower sky with lights and provided [it] with guard. Such was the Decree of the Mighty, the All-Knowing.
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If they turn away, say: “I’m warning you about a thunderbolt like the one [which struck] ’Ad and Thamood!”
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Messengers came to them from all sides: “Don’t worship anyone, but God alone!” But they said: “Had Our Lord so willed, He would have rather sent Angels. We reject what you’ve been sent with!”
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Making much of themselves in the land and defying the Truth, [the people of] ’Ad said: “Is there anyone stronger than us?” Did they not see that the strongest is God, their Creator? But they continued to reject Our Signs until came the days of their demise.
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We sent upon them a howling wind to make them taste a shameful punishment in this life. But still more shameful is the punishment in the Hereafter when they will have no assistance.
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We gave Guidance to [the people of] Thamood, but they chose to stay blind. A humiliating punishment struck them like a thunderbolt for all they had done.
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But We saved those who believed and feared God.
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On that Day the enemies of God shall be rounded up before the Fire and sorted out.
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And when they reach it, their hearing, sight, and skins will bear witness against them in their deeds.
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They shall say to their skins: “Why are you witnessing against us?” They shall say: “God, Who gave speech to all things, gave speech to us. He created you in the first Creation and to Him you shall return.
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Wherever you hide, your hearing, sight, and skins shall bear witness against you. You shouldn’t have thought that God is unaware of many of your deeds.
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Your thoughts have caused your destruction because of what you imagined about your Lord, and now you’re among the losers.”
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Even if they endure, they shall abide in the Fire. And if they ask for mercy, they shall not be of those who receive mercy.
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We have assigned to them companions to make their past and their future appealing to them. The sentence passed against the former generations of Jinn and men shall be passed against them. They shall all turn out to be losers.
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The disbelievers say: “Don’t listen to this Koran! Keep prattling while it’s recited — perhaps you’ll prevail!”
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Surely, We will make the disbelievers taste a severe punishment, and We will reward them for the worst of their deeds.
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The reward of God’s enemies shall be the Fire in which they shall abide for ever in retaliation for denying Our Signs.
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The disbelievers will say: “O our Lord! Show us the Jinn and men who have deceived us. We’ll trample them under our feet to better humiliate them.”
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Verily, those who say: “Our Lord is God,” and keep on holding firmly to it, the Angels alight on them: “Don’t fear and don’t grieve, but rejoice at the news of the promised Paradise.
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