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25. Those before them denied, and so the doom came on
them whence they did not perceive.
26. Thus Allah made them taste humiliation in the life of
the world, and verily the doom of the Hereafter will be
greater if they did but know.
27. And verily We have coined for mankind in this Qur’ân all
kinds of similitudes, that perhaps they may reflect;
28. [It is] an Arabic Qur’ân, containing no crookedness, that
perhaps they may become righteous.
29. Allah coins a similitude: A man in relation to whom are
several part-owners, quarrelling, and a man belonging
wholly to one man. Are the two equal in similitude? Praise
be to Allah! But most of them know not.
30. Lo! you will die, and lo! they will die;
31. Then lo! on the Day of Resurrection, before your Lord
you will dispute.
? . 32 And who does greater wrong than he who tells a lie
against Allah, and denies the truth when it reaches him?
Is there not in Hell an abode for the disbelievers?
33. And whoso brings the truth and believes therein– Such
are the righteous.
34. They shall have what they will of their Lord’s bounty. That
is the reward of the doers of good:
35. That Allah will remit from them the worst of what they
did, and will pay them for reward the best they used to do.
36. Will not Allah sufficient for His slave? Yet they would
frighten you with those besides Him. He whom Allah
sends astray, for him there is no guide.
37. And he whom Allah guides, for him there can be no
misleader. Is not Allah Mighty, Owner of Retribution?
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38. And verily, if you ask them: Who created the heavens
and the earth? they will say: Allah. Say: Then have you
considered what you invoke besides Allah, if Allah willed
some hurt for me, could they remove from me His hurt;
or if He willed some mercy for me, could they restrain His
mercy? Say: Allah is my all. In Him do [all] the trusting
put their trust.
39. Say: O my people! Act in your manner. Lo! I too am
acting. Thus you will come to know.
40. To whom comes a doom that will abase him, and on
whom descends an everlasting doom.
41. Lo! We have sent down to you [Muhammad] the Book for
mankind with truth. Then whosoever goes right it is for
his soul, and whosoever strays, strays only to its hurt. And
you are not a trustee over them.
42. Allah takes [men’s] souls at the time of their death, and
those [souls] which die not [He takes] during their sleep.
He keeps that [soul] for which He has ordained death and
dismisses the rest till an appointed term. Lo! herein verily
are signs for people who take thought.
43. Or they take intercessors other than Allah? Say: What!
Even though they have power over anything, nor do they
reason?
44. Say: To Allah belongs all intercession. His is the Sovereignty
of the heavens and the earth. And afterward to Him you
will be brought back.
45. And when Allah alone is mentioned, the hearts of those
who believe not in the Hereafter are filled with disgust,
and when those [whom they worship] besides Him are
mentioned, behold! they rejoice.
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46. Say: O Allah! Creator of the heavens and the earth! Knower
of the unseen and the witnessed! You will judge between
Your slaves concerning that wherein they used to differ.
47. And though those who do wrong possess all that is in the
earth, and therewith as much again, they verily will seek to
ransom themselves therewith on the Day of Resurrection
from the awful doom; and there will appear to them, from
their Lord, that wherewith they never reckoned.
48. And the evils that they earned will appear to them, and
that whereat they used to mock will surround them.
49. Now when hurt touches man he cries to Us, and afterward
when We have granted him a favour from Us, he says:
Only by force of knowledge I obtained it. Nay, but it is a
test. But most of them know not.
50. Those before them said it, yet [all] that they had earned
availed them not;
51. But the evils that they earned smote them; and such of
these as do wrong, the evils that they earn will smite them;
they cannot escape.
52. Know they not that Allah enlarges providence for whom
He wills, and straitens it [for whom He wills]. Lo! herein
verily are signs for people who believe.
53. Say: My slaves who have been prodigal to their own
hurt! [by committing misdeeds and sins] Despair not of
the mercy of Allah, Who forgives all sins. Lo! He is the
Forgiving, the Merciful.
54. Turn to your Lord repentant, and surrender to Him,
before there come to you the doom, when you cannot be
helped.
55. And follow the better [guidance] of that which is revealed
to you from your Lord, before the doom comes on you
suddenly when you know not,
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56. Lest any soul should say: Alas, my grief that I was
unmindful of Allah, and I was indeed among the mockers!
57. Or should say: If Allah had but guided me I should have
been among the God-fearing!
58. Or should say, when it sees the doom: Oh, that I had but a
second chance that I might be among the righteous!
59. [But now the answer will be]: Nay, for My verses came to
you, but you did deny them and were scornful and you
were among the disbelievers.
60. And on the Day of Resurrection you [Muhammad]
see those who lied concerning Allah with their faces
blackened. Is there not in Hell an abode for the arrogant?
61. And Allah delivers those who feared Him because of their
deserts. Evil touches them not, nor do they grieve.
62. Allah is Creator of all things, and He is Guardian over all
things.
63. His are the keys of the heavens and the earth, and they
who disbelieve the verses of Allah– such are they who are
the losers.
64. Say [O Muhammad, to the disbelievers]: Do you bid me to
worship other than Allah? O you ignorant ones!
65. And verily it has been revealed to you as to those before
you [saying]: If you associate [anything] with Allah your
work will fail and you indeed will be among the losers.
66. Nay, but worship Allah and be among the thankful!
67. And they esteem not Allah as He has the right to be
esteemed, when the whole earth is His handful on the
Day of Resurrection, and the heavens are rolled in His
Right Hand. Glorified is He and High Exalted from all
that they associate with Him.
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68. And the Horn is blown, and all who are in the heavens
and the earth will fall dead, save him whom Allah wills.
Then it is blown a second time, and behold them standing
looking on [waiting!]
69. And the earth shines with the light of her Lord, and the
Book is set up, and the prophets and the witnesses are
brought, and it is judged between them with truth, and
they are not wronged.
70. And each soul is paid in full for what it did. And He is
Best Aware of what they do.
71. And those who disbelieve are driven to Hell in troops
till, when they reach it and the gates thereof are opened,
and the warders thereof say to them: Came there not to
you messengers of your own, reciting to you the verses
of your Lord and warning you of the meeting of this
your Day? they say: Yea, verily. But the word of doom for
disbelievers is fulfilled.
72. It is said [to them]: Enter the gates of Hell to dwell eternally
therein. Thus wretched is the abode of the arrogant.
73. And those who feared their Lord are driven to the Garden
in troops till, when they reach it, and the gates thereof are
opened, and the warders thereof say to them: Peace be to
you! You are good, so enter [the Garden of Delight], to
dwell eternally therein;
74. And they say: Praise be to Allah, Who has fulfilled His
promise to us and has made us inherit the earth, dwelling
in the Garden where we will! So bounteous is the reward
of workers.
75. And you [O Muhammad] see the angels thronging round
the Throne, glorifying the praises of their Lord. And they
are judged aright. And it is said: Praise be to Allah, the
Lord of the Worlds!
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40- FORGIVER [GHAFIR]
Revealed at Mecca, [85 verses]
Ghafir, “Forgiver,” takes its name from vv. 28-45, which
describe the attempt of a believer, in the house of Pharaoh,
to dissuade his people from opposing Moses and Aaron. It
is the first of seven Sûrahs beginning with the Arabic letters
Hâ, Mîm, all of which are sometimes referred to as Hâ, Mîm.
It belongs to the middle group of Meccan Sûrahs. Some
authorities hold vv. 56 and 57 to have been revealed at
Al-Madînah.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Hâ. Mîm.[1]
2. The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Mighty, the
Knower,
3. The Forgiver of sin, the Accepter of repentance, the Stern
in punishment, the Bountiful. There is no deity save Him.
To Him is the final return.
4. None argue concerning the signs of Allah save those who
disbelieve, so let not their turn of fortune in the land
deceive you [O Muhammad].
5. The folk of Noah and the factions after them denied [their
messengers] before these, and every nation purposed to
seize their messenger and argued falsely, [thinking] thereby
to refute the Truth. Then I seized them, and how [awful]
was My punishment.
6. Thus was the word of your Lord concerning those who
disbelieve fulfilled: that they are dwellers of the Fire.
[1] See Sûr. [2]. V.1, footnote.
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7. Those who bear the Throne, and all who are round about
it, glorify the praises of their Lord and believe in Him
and ask forgiveness for those who believe [saying]: Our
Lord! You comprehend all things in mercy and knowledge,
therefor forgive those who repent and follow Your way.
Protect them from the punishment of Hell.
8. Our Lord! And make them enter the Gardens of Eden
which You have promised them, with such of their fathers
and their wives and their descendants as do right. Lo! You,
only You, are the Mighty, the Wise.
9. And protect them from ill-deeds; and he whom You
protect from ill-deeds that day, him verily You have taken
into mercy. That is the supreme triumph.
10. Lo! [on that day] those who disbelieve are informed by
proclamation: Verily Allah’s abhorrence is more terrible
than your abhorrence one of another, when you were
called to the faith but did refuse.
11. They say: Our Lord! Twice You have made us die, and
twice You have made us live. Now we confess our sins. Is
there any way to go out?
12. [It is said to them]: This is [your plight] because, when
Allah only was invoked, you disbelieved, but if others
were associated with Him you believed. But the command
belongs only to Allah, the Sublime, the Majestic.
13. He it is Who shows you His signs, and sends down for you
provision from the sky. None pays heed save him who
turns [to Him] repentant.
14. Therefor [O believers] invoke Allah, making religion pure
for Him [only], however much the disbelievers be averse–
15. The Exalter of Ranks, the Lord of the Throne. He casts
the Spirit of His command upon whom He wills of His
slaves, that He may warn of the Day of Meeting,
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16. The day when they come forth, nothing of them being
hidden from Allah. Whose is the sovereignty this day? It
is Allah’s, the One, the Prevailing.
17. This day is each soul requited that which it has earned; no
wrong [is done] this day. Lo! Allah is swift at reckoning.
18. Warn them [O Muhammad] of the Day of the approaching
[doom], when the hearts will be choking the throats filled
[with distress], [when] there will be no friend for the
wrong-doers, nor any intercessor who will be obeyed.
19. He knows the traitor of the eyes, and what the breasts
hide.
20. Allah judges with truth, while those to whom they invoke
besides Him judge not at all. Lo! Allah, He is the Hearer,
the Seer.
21. Have they not travelled in the land to see the nature
of the consequence for those who disbelieved before
them? They were mightier than these in power and [in
the] traces [which they left behind them] in the earth.
Yet Allah seized them for their sins, and they had no
protector from Allah.
22. That was because their messengers kept bringing them
clear proofs [of Allah’s Sovereignty] but they disbelieved;
so Allah seized them. Lo! He is Strong, severe in
punishment.
23. And verily We sent Moses with Our signs and a clear
authority.
24. To Pharaoh and Haman and Korah, but they said: A lying
magician!
25. And when he brought them the Truth from Us, they said:
Slay the sons of those who believe with him, and spare
their women. But the plot of disbelievers is in nothing
but error.
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26. And Pharaoh said: Leave me to kill Moses, and let him cry
to his Lord. Lo! I fear that he will alter your religion or
that he will cause mischief in the land.
27. Moses said: Lo! I seek refuge in my Lord and your Lord from
every arrogant who believes not in a Day of Reckoning.
28. And a believing man of Pharaoh’s family, who hid his faith,
said: Would you kill a man because he says: My Lord is
Allah, and has brought you clear proofs from your Lord?
If he is lying, then his lie is upon him; and if he is truthful
then some of that wherewith he threatens you will strike
you. Lo! Allah guides not one who is a prodigal, a liar.
29. O my people! Yours is the kingdom to-day, you being
uppermost in the land. But who would save us from the
wrath of Allah should it reach us? Pharaoh said: I do but
show you what I think, and I do but guide you to the path
of right conduct.
30. And he who believed said: O my people! Lo! I fear for you
a fate like that of the factions [of old];
31. A plight like that of Noah’s folk, and A’âd and Thamûd,
and those after them, and Allah wants no injustice for
[His] slaves.
32. And, O my people! Lo! I fear for a Day of Summoning,
33. A day when you will turn to flee, having no preserver
from Allah: and he whom Allah sends astray, for him
there is no guide.
34. And verily Joseph brought you of old clear proofs, yet you
ceased not to be in doubt concerning what he brought
you till, when he died, he said: Allah will not send any
messenger after him. Thus Allah deceives him who is a
prodigal, a doubter.
35. Those who dispute concerning the signs of Allah without
any authority that has come to them, it is greatly hateful in
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the sight of Allah and in the sight of those who believe.
Thus does Allah seal on every arrogant, tyrant heart.
36. And Pharaoh said: O Haman! Build for me a tower that
perhaps I may reach the ways,
37. The ways of the heavens, and may look upon the god
of Moses, though verily I think him a liar. Thus was the
evil that he did made fairseeming to Pharaoh, and he was
debarred from the [right] way. The plot of Pharaoh ended
but in ruin.
38. And he who believed said: O my people! Follow me. I will
show you the way of right conduct.
39. O my people! Lo! this life of the world is but a passing
comfort, and lo! the Hereafter, that is the enduring home.
40. Whoso does an ill-deed, he will be repaid the like thereof,
while whoso does right, whether male or female, and is a
believer, [all] such will enter the Garden, where they will
be provided without account.
41. And, O my people! What ails me that I call you to salvation
when you call me to the Fire?
42. You call me to disbelieve in Allah and associate with Him
that whereof I have no knowledge, while I call you to the
Mighty, the Oft-Forgiving.
43. Assuredly that whereto you call me has no claim in the
world or in the Hereafter, and our return will be to Allah,
and the prodigals will be owners of the Fire.
44. And you will remember what I say to you. I confide my
affair to Allah. Lo! Allah is Seer of [His] slaves.
45. So Allah protected him from the evils which they plotted,
while a dreadful doom encompassed Pharaoh’s folk.
46. The Fire; they are exposed to it morning and evening;
and on the day when the Hour uprises [it is said]: Cause
Pharaoh’s folk to enter the most awful doom.
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47. And when they dispute in the Fire, the weak say to those
who were arrogant: Lo! we were a following to you: will
you therefor rid us of a portion of the Fire?
48. Those who were arrogant say: Lo! we are all [together]
herein. Lo! Allah has judged between [His] slaves.
49. And those in the Fire say to the guards of Hell: Entreat
your Lord that He relieve us of a day of the doom.
50. They say: Came not your messengers to you with clear
proofs? They say: Yea, verily. They say: Then do you pray,
although the prayer of disbelievers is in vain.
51. Lo! We verily do help Our messengers, and those who
believe, in the life of the world and on the day when the
witnesses arise,
52. The day when their excuse avails not the wrong-doers and
theirs is the curse, and theirs the ill abode.
53. And we verily gave Moses the guidance, and We caused
the Children of Israel to inherit the Scripture,
54. A guide and a reminder for those of understanding.
55. Then have patience [O Muhammad]. Lo! the promise
of Allah is true. And ask forgiveness of your sin, and
glorify the praise of your Lord at fall of night and in the
early hours.
56. Lo! those who dispute concerning the signs of Allah
without any authority having come to them, there is
nothing else in their breasts save pride which they will
never attain. So take refuge in Allah. Lo! He, only He, is
the Hearer, the Seer.
57. Assuredly the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater
than the creation of mankind; but most of people know not.
58. And the blind man and the seer are not equal, neither are
those who believe and do good deeds [equal with] the
wrong-doer. Little do you remember!
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59. Lo! the Hour is surely coming, there is no doubt thereof;
yet most of the people believe not.
60. And your Lord has said: Call upon me and I will respond
to you. Lo! those who disdain My worship, they will enter
Hell, disgraced.
61. Allah it is Who has appointed for you night that you may
rest therein, and day for seeing. Lo! Allah is bountiful to
mankind, yet most of mankind give not thanks.
62. Such is Allah, your Lord, the Creator of all things. There
is no deity save Him. How then are you perverted?
63. Thus are they perverted who deny the signs of Allah.
64. Allah it is Who made for you the earth for a dwelling–
place and the sky for a canopy, and fashioned you and
perfected your shapes, and has provided you with good
things. Such is Allah, your Lord. Then blessed be Allah,
the Lord of the Worlds!
65. He is the Living One. There is no deity save Him. So pray
to Him, making religion pure for Him [only]. Praise be to
Allah, the Lord of the Worlds!
66. Say [O Muhammad]: I am forbidden to worship those
to whom you cry besides Allah since there have come to
me clear proofs from my Lord, and I am commanded to
surrender [in Islâm] to the Lord of the Worlds.
67. He it is Who created you from dust, then from a spermdrop
then from a clot, then brings you forth as a child,
then [ordains] that you attain full strength and afterward
that you become old men though some among you die
before– and that you reach an appointed term, that
perhaps you may understand.
68. He it is who quickens and causes death. When He ordains
a thing, He says to it only: Be! and it is.
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69. Have you not seen those who dispute concerning the
signs of Allah, how they are turned away?–
70. Those who deny the Book and that wherewith We send
Our messengers. But they will come to know,
71. When shackles are about their necks and chains. They are
dragged
72. Through boiling waters; then they are thrust into the Fire.
73. Then it is said to them: Where are [all] that you used to
associate [with Him in worship]
74. Besides Allah? They say: They have failed us: but we used
not to invoke anything before. Thus does Allah send
astray the disbelievers.
75. [And it is said to them]: This is because you exulted in the
earth without right, and because you were insolent.
76. Enter the gates of Hell, to dwell therein. Evil is the abode
of the arrogant.
77. Then have patience [O Muhammad]. Lo! the promise of
Allah is true. And whether we let you see a part of that
which We promise them, or [whether] We cause you to
die, still to us they will be brought back.
78. Verily We sent messengers before you, among them those
of whom We have told you, and some of whom We have
not told you; and it was not given to any messenger that
he should bring a sign save by Allah’s leave, but when
Allah’s commandment comes [the cause] is judged aright,
and the followers of falsehood will then lose.
79. Allah it is Who has appointed for you cattle, that you may
ride on some of them, and eat of some–
80. And [many] benefits you have from them–and that you
may satisfy by their means a need that is in your breasts,
and may be borne upon them as upon the ship.
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81. And He shows you His signs. Which, then, of the signs of
Allah do you deny?
82. Have they not travelled in the land to see the nature of
the consequence for those before them? They were more
numerous than these, and mightier in power and [in the]
traces [which they left behind them] in the earth. But all
that they used to earn availed them not.
83. And when their messengers brought them clear proofs
[of Allah’s Sovereignty] they exulted in the knowledge
they [themselves] possessed. And that which they were
used to mock befell them.
84. Then, when they saw Our punishment, they said: We
believe in Allah only and reject [all] that we used to
associate [with Him].
85. But their faith could not avail them when they saw Our
punishment. This is Allah’s law which has ever taken
course for His Bondsmen. And then the disbelievers will
be ruined.
41- THEY ARE EXPOUNDED [ FUSSILAT]
Revealed at Mecca, [54 verses]
Fusilat, “They are expounded,” derives its title from a
word in v. 2. It is also often called Hâ, Mîm, As-Sajdah, from
a word in v. 37, Hâ Mîm being added to distinguish it from
Sûrah 32, which is called As-Sajdah. It belongs to the middle
group of Meccan Sûrahs.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Hâ. Mîm.[1]
[1] See Sûr. [2]. V.1, footnote.
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2. A revelation from the Beneficent, the Merciful,
3. A Book whereof the verses are expounded, an Arabic
Qur’ân for people who know.
4. Good tidings and a warning. But most of them turn away
so that they hear not.
5. And they say: Our hearts are protected from that to which
you [O Muhammad] call us, and in our ears there is a
deafness, and between us and you there is a veil. Act, then.
Lo! we also shall be acting.
6. Say [to them O Muhammad]: I am only a mortal like you. It
is revealed to me that your God is One God, therefor take
the straight path to Him and seek forgiveness of Him. And
woe to the associators,
7. Who give not the poor-due, and who are disbelievers in the
Hereafter.
8. Lo! as for those who believe and do good deeds, for them
is a reward enduring.
9. Say [O Muhammad, to the polytheists]: Disbelieve you
verily in Him Who created the earth in two Days, and
ascribe you to Him rivals? He [and none else] is the Lord
of the Worlds.
10. He placed therein firm mountains rising above it, and
blessed it and measured therein its sustenance in four
Days, alike for [all] who ask;
11. Then He Istawa [rose over] towards the heaven when it
was smoke, and said to it and to the earth: Come both
of you, willingly or unwillingly. They said: We come,
obedient.
12. Then He ordained them seven heavens in two days and
inspired in each heaven its mandate; and we adorned the
lowest heaven with lamps, and rendered it inviolable. That
is the Decree of the Mighty, the Knower.
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13. But if they turn away, then say: I warn you of a thunderbolt
like the thunderbolt [which fell of old upon the tribes] of
A’âd and Thamûd;
14. When messengers came to them from before them and
behind them, saying: Worship none but Allah! They said:
If our Lord had willed, He surely would have sent down
angels [to us], so lo! we are disbelievers in that wherewith
you have been sent.
15. As for A’âd, they were arrogant in the land without
right, and they said: Who is mightier than us in power?
Could they not see that Allah Who created them, He was
mightier than them in power? And they denied Our signs.
16. Therefor We let loose on them a raging wind in evil days,
that We might make them taste the doom of disgrace in
the life of the world. And verily the doom of the Hereafter
will be more shameful, and they will not be helped.
17. And as for Thamûd, We guided them, but they preferred
blindness to the guidance, so the thunderbolt of the
doom of humiliation overtook them because of what
they used to earn.
18. And We saved those who believed and used to fear Allah.
19. And [make mention of] the day when the enemies of
Allah are gathered to the Fire, they are driven on
20. Till, when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their
skins testify against them as to what they used to do.
21. And they say to their skins: Why do you testify against us?
They say: Allah has given us speech Who gives speech to
all things, and Who created you at the first, and to Whom
you are returned.
22. You did not hide yourselves lest your ears and your eyes
and your skins should testify against you, but you deemed
that Allah does not know much of what you do.
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23. That, your thought which you did think about your Lord,
has ruined you; and you find yourselves [this day] among
the losers.
24. And though they are patient, yet the Fire is still their home;
and if they ask to be excused, yet they are not of those to
whom excuse can be shown.
25. And We assigned them intimate companions [in the
world], who made their present and their past fairseeming
to them. And the Word concerning nations of the jinn
and humankind who passed away before them has effect
for them. Verily they are the losers.
26. Those who disbelieve say: Listen not to this Qur’ân, and
drown the hearing of it; perhaps you may conquer.
27. But verily We shall cause those who disbelieve to taste an
awful doom, and verily We shall requite them the worst
of what they used to do.
28. That is the recompense of Allah’s enemies: the Fire.
Therein is their immortal home; recompense forasmuch
as they denied Our verses.
29. And those who disbelieve will say: Our Lord! Show us
those who beguiled us of the jinn and men. We will place
them underneath our feet that they may be among the
lowest.
30. Lo! those who say: Our Lord is Allah, and afterward are
upright, the angels descend upon them, saying: Fear not
nor grieve, but bear good tidings of the Paradise which
you are promised.
31. We are your protectors in the life of the world and in the
Hereafter. There you will have [all] that your souls desire,
and there you will have [all] for which you ask for.
32. A gift of welcome from the Forgiving, the Merciful.
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33. And who is better in speech than him who prays to his
Lord and does right, and says: Lo! I am of those who are
Muslims [surrender to Him].
34. The good deed and the misdeed are not alike. Repel the
misdeed with one which is better, then lo! he, between
whom and you there was enmity [will become] as though
he was an intimate friend.
35. But none is granted it save those who are patient, and
none is granted it save the owner of great portion of
happiness.
36. And if a whisper from the Satan reaches you [O
Muhammad] then seek refuge in Allah. Lo! He is the
Hearer, the Knower.
37. And of His signs are the night and the day and the sun
and the moon. Prostrate not to the sun nor the moon; but
prostrate to Allah Who created them, if it is in truth Him
Whom you worship.
38. But if they are too proud– still those who are with your
Lord glorify Him night and day, and tire not.
39. And of His signs [is this]: that you see the earth barren,
but when We send down water thereon it thrills and
grows. Lo! He Who quickens it is verily the Quickener of
the dead. Lo! He is Able to do all things.
40. Lo! those who distort Our verses are not hid from Us. Is
he who is hurled into the Fire better, or he who comes
secure on the Day of Resurrection? Do what you will. Lo!
He is Seer of what you do.
41. Lo! those who disbelieve in the Reminder [i.e. the
Qur’ân] when it comes to them [are guilty], for lo! it is an
unassailable Book.
42. Falsehood cannot come at it from before it or behind it.
[It is] a revelation from the Wise, the Praiseworthy.