Perchance the unbelievers will wish that they had surrendered: leave them to eat, and to take their joy, and to be bemused by hope; certainly they will soon know!
Never a city have We destroyed, but it had a known decree, and no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back.
They say: 'Thou, upon whom the Remembrance is sent down, thou art assuredly possessed!
Why dost thou not bring the angels unto us, if thou speakest truly?'
We send not down the angels, save with truth; then they would not be respited. It is We who have sent down the Remembrance, and We watch over it.
Indeed, We sent Messengers before thee, among the factions of the ancients, and not a single Messenger came to them, but they mocked at him; even so We cause it to enter into the hearts of the sinners -- they believe not in it, though the wont of the ancients is already gone.
Though We opened to them a gate in heaven, and still they mounted through it, yet would they say, 'Our eyes have been dazzled; nay, we are a people bewitched!'
We have set in heaven constellations and decked them out fair to the beholders, and guarded them from every accursed Satan excepting such as listens by stealth -- and he is pursued by a manifest flame.
And the earth -- We stretched it forth, and cast on it firm mountains, and We caused to grow therein of every thing justly weighed, and there appointed for you livelihood, and for those you provide not for.
Naught is there, but its treasuries are with Us, and We send it not down but in a known measure.
And We loose the winds fertilising, and We send down out of heaven water, then We give it to you to drink, and you are not its treasurers.
It is We who give life, and make to die, and it is We who are the inheritors.
We know the ones of you who press forward, and We know the laggards; and it is thy Lord shall muster them, and He is All-wise, All-knowing.
Surely We created man of a clay of mud moulded, and the jinn created We before of fire flaming.
And when thy Lord said to the angels, 'See, I am creating a mortal of a clay of mud moulded.
When I have shaped him, and breathed My spirit in him, fall you down, bowing before him!'
Then the angels bowed themselves all together, save Iblis; he refused to be among those bowing.
Said He, 'What ails thee, Iblis, that thou art not among those bowing?'
Said he, 'I would never bow myself before a mortal whom Thou hast created of a clay of mud moulded.'
Said He, 'Then go thou forth hence; thou art accursed.
Upon thee shall rest the curse, till the Day of Doom.'
Said he, 'My Lord, respite me till the day they shall be raised.'
Said He, 'Thou art among the ones that are respited unto the day of a known time.'
Said he, 'My Lord, for Thy perverting me I shall deck all fair to them in the earth, and I shall pervert them, all together, excepting those Thy servants among them that are devoted.
Said He, 'This is for Me a straight path: over My servants thou shalt have no authority, except those that follow thee, being perverse; Gehenna shall be their promised land all together.
Seven gates it has, and unto each gate a set portion of them belongs.'
But the godfearing shall be amidst gardens and fountains:
'Enter you them, in peace and security!'
We shall strip away all rancour that is in their breasts; as brothers they shall be upon couches set face to face; no fatigue there shall smite them, neither shall they ever be driven forth from there.
Tell My servants I am the All-forgiving, the All-compassionate, and that My chastisement is the painful chastisement.
And tell them of the guests of Abraham, when they entered unto him, saying, 'Peace!' He said, 'Behold, we are afraid of you.'
They said, 'Be not afraid; behold, we give thee good tidings of a cunning boy.'
He said, 'What, do you give me good tidings, though old age has smitten me? Of what do you give me good tidings?' They said, 'We give thee good tidings of truth. Be not of those that despair.'
He said, 'And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord, excepting those that are astray?'
He said, 'And what is your business, envoys?'
They said, 'We have been sent unto a people of sinners, excepting the folk of Lot; them we shall deliver all together, excepting his wife -- we have decreed, she shall surely be of those that tarry.'
So, when the envoys came to the folk of Lot, he said, 'Surely you are a people unknown to me!'
They said, 'Nay, but we have brought thee that concerning which they were doubting.
We have come to thee with the truth, and assuredly we speak truly.
So set forth, thou with thy family, in a watch of the night, and follow after the backs of them, and let not any one of you turn round; and depart unto the place you are commanded.'
And We decreed for him that commandment, that the last remnant of those should be cut off in the morning.
And the people of the city came rejoicing.
He said, 'These are my guests; put me not to shame, and fear God, and do not degrade me.'
They said, 'Have we not forbidden thee all beings?'
He said, 'These are my daughters, if you would be doing.'
By thy life, they wandered blindly in their dazzlement, and the Cry seized them at the sunrise, and We turned it uppermost nethermost and rained on it stones of baked clay.
Surely in that are signs for such as mark; surely it is on a way yet remaining; surely in that is a sign for believers.
Certainly the dwellers in the Thicket were evildoers, and We took vengeance on them. The two of them were upon a roadway manifest.
The dwellers in El-Hijr cried lies to the Envoys.
We brought them. Our signs, and they turned away from them.
They were hewing the mountains into houses, therein dwelling securely; and the Cry seized them in the morning; that they earned did not avail them.
We created not the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, save in truth. Surely the Hour is coming; so pardon thou, with a gracious pardoning.
Surely thy Lord, He is the All-creator, the All-knowing.
We have given thee seven of the oft-repeated, and the mighty Koran.
Stretch not thine eyes to that We have given pairs of them to enjoy; and do not sorrow for them, and lower thy wing unto the believers, and say, 'Surely, I am the manifest warner.'
So We sent it down to the partitioners, who have broken the Koran into fragments.
Now by thy Lord, We shall surely question them all together concerning that they were doing.
So shout that thou art commanded and turn thou away from the idolaters.
We suffice thee against the mockers, even against those who set up with God another god. Certainly they will soon know!
We know indeed thy breast is straitened by the things they say.
Proclaim thy Lord's praise, and be of those that bow, and serve thy Lord, until the Certain comes to thee.
God's command comes; so seek not to hasten it. Glory be to Him! High be He exalted above that they associate with Him!
He sends down the angels with the Spirit of His command upon whomsoever He will among His servants, saying: Give you warning that there is no God hut I; so fear you Me!
He created the heavens and the earth in truth; high be He exalted above that they associate With Him!
He created man of a sperm-drop; and, behold, he is a manifest adversary.
And the cattle -- He created them for you; in them is warmth, and uses various, and of them you eat, and there is beauty in them for you, when you bring them home to rest and when you drive them forth abroad to pasture; and they bear your loads unto a land that you never would reach, excepting with great distress. Surely your Lord is All-clement, All-compassionate.
And horses, and mules, and asses, for you to ride, and as an adornment; and He creates what you know not.
God's it is to show the way; and some do swerve from it. If He willed, He would have guided you all together.
It is He who sends down to you out of heaven water of which you have to drink, and of which trees, for you to pasture your herds, and thereby He brings forth for you crops, and olives, and palms, and vines, and all manner of fruit. Surely in that is a sign for a people who reflect.
And He subjected to you the night and day, and the sun and moon; and the stars are subjected by His command. Surely in that are signs for a people who understand.
And that which He has multiplied for you in the earth of diverse hues. Surely in that is a sign for a people who remember.
It is He who subjected to you the sea, that you may eat of it fresh flesh, and bring forth out of it ornaments for you to wear; and thou mayest see the ships cleaving through it; and that you may seek of His bounty, and so haply you will be thankful.
And He cast on the earth firm mountains, lest it shake with you, and rivers and ways; so haply you will be guided; and waymarks; and by the stars they are guided.
Is He who creates as he who does not create? Will you not remember?
If you count God's blessing, you will never number it; surely God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.
And God knows what you keep secret and what you publish.
And those they call upon, apart from God, created nothing, and themselves are created, dead, not alive; and are not aware when they shall be raised.
Your God is One God. And they who believe not in the world to come, their hearts deny, and they have waxed proud.
Without a doubt God knows what they keep secret and what they publish; He loves not those that wax proud.
And when it is said to them, 'What has your Lord sent down?' they say, 'Fairy-tales of the ancients.'
That they may bear their loads complete on the Day of Resurrection, and some of the loads of those that they lead astray without any knowledge. O evil the load they bear!
Those that were before them contrived; then God came upon their building from the foundations, and the roof fell down on them from over them, and the chastisement came upon them from whence they were not aware.
Then on the Day of Resurrection He will degrade them, saying, 'Where are My associates concerning which you made a breach together?' Those that were given the knowledge will say, 'Degradation today and evil are on the unbelievers, whom the angels take while still they are wronging themselves.' Then they will offer surrender: 'We were doing nothing evil. 'Nay; but surety God has knowledge of the things you did.
So enter the gates of Gehenna, there to dwell forever.' Evil is the lodging of those that wax proud.
And it shall be said to the godfearing, 'What has your Lord sent down?' They will say, 'Good! For those who do good in this world good; and surely the abode of the world to come is better; excellent is the abode of the godfearing -- Gardens of Eden they shall enter, underneath which rivers flow, wherein they shall have all they will. So God recompenses the godfearing, whom the angels take while they are goodly, saying, 'Peace be on you! Enter Paradise for that you were doing.'
Do they look for aught but that the angels shall come to them, or thy Lord's command shall come? So did those before them, and God wronged them not, but themselves they wronged.
So the evil things that they wrought. smote them, and they were encompassed by that they mocked at.
The idolators say, 'If God had willed we would not have served; apart from Him, anything, neither we nor our fathers, nor would we have forbidden, apart from Him, anything.' So did those before them; yet is aught for the Messengers, but to deliver the manifest Message?
Indeed, We sent forth among every nation a Messenger,; saying: 'Serve you God, and eschew idols.' Then some. of them God guided, and some were justly disposed to error. So journey in the land, and behold how was the end of them that cried lies.
Though thou art ever so eager to guide them, God guides not those whom He leads astray; they have no helpers. have sworn by God the most earnest oaths God will never raise up him who dies; nay, it is a promise binding upon Him, but most men know not, so that He may make clear to them that whereon they were at variance, and that the unbelievers may know that they were truly liars.
The only words We say to a thing, when We desire it, is that We say to it 'Be,' and it is.
And those that emigrated in God's cause after they were wronged -- We shall surely lodge them in this world in a goodly lodging, and the wage of the world to come is greater, did they but know; even such men as are patient, and put their trust in their Lord.
We sent not any before thee, except men to whom We revealed: 'Question the people of the Remembrance, if it should be that you do not know -- with the clear signs, and the Psalms; and We have sent down to thee the Remembrance that thou mayest make clear to mankind what was sent down to them; and so haply they will reflect.
Do they feel secure, those who devise evil things, that God will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the chastisement will not come upon them, from whence they are not aware?
Or that He will not seize them in their going to and fro, and they will not be able to frustrate Him?
Or that He will not seize them, little by little destroying them? Surely thy Lord is All-clement, All-compassionate.
Have they not regarded all things that God has created casting their shadows to the right and to the left, bowing themselves before God in all lowliness?
To God bows everything in the heavens, and every creature crawling on the earth, and the angels. They have not waxed proud; they fear their Lord above them, and they do what they are commanded.
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