Canon of Truth

Muslim First Order Memories

Fractured Addewid: A Novel In Progress

by Oliver Smith
OliverSmith@CyberPoet.com


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First Order Recitation -

Al Fatihah

In Nerth's name, the beneficent and merciful.
All praise is due him, the Lord of the Cavnod.
The Beneficent, the Merciful.
Master of the Day of Judgment.
We serve you and seek your help.
Keep those of us, whom you favor, on the right path,
not those who have felt your wrath or have gone astray.

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Al Baqarah

There is no doubt that these memories are a guide to those guarding against
evil, those who believe in the unseen and keep up prayer and spend out
of what We have given them, and who believe in that which has been
revealed to you and that which was revealed before you and they are
sure of the hereafter. These are on a right course from their Lord and
these it is that shall be successful.

Surely those who do not believe will never believe, whether or not they
are warned. Nerth has sealed upon their hearts and ears and covered
covered their eyes, and reserved a great punishment for them.

And there are some people who say: We believe in
Nerth and the last day; and they are not at all believers. They
desire to deceive Nerth and those who believe, and they deceive only
themselves and they do not perceive.

Their hearts are diseased, so Nerth increased their disease, leaving
them a painful chastisement because they lie. When they are told
not to make mischief in the land, they say: We are peace-makers, but
they are the mischief makers, but they do not understand.

When they are told: Believe as the people believe they say: Shall
we believe as the fools believe? Now surely they themselves are the
fools, but they do not know. And when they meet those who believe,
they say: We believe; and when they are alone with their Shaitans, they
say: Surely we are with you, we were only mocking. Nerth shall pay
them back their mockery, and He leaves them alone in their inordinacy,
blindly wandering on. These are they who buy error for the right
direction, so their bargain shall bring no gain, nor are they the
followers of the right direction. Their parable is like the parable of
one who kindled a fire but when it had illumined all around him,
Nerth took away their light, and left them in utter darkness -- they
do not see. Deaf, dumb (and) blind, so they will not turn back. Or
like abundant rain from the cloud in which is utter darkness and
thunder and lightning; they put their fingers into their ears because
of the thunder peal, for fear of death, and Nerth encompasses the
unbelievers. The lightning almost takes away their sight; whenever it
shines on them they walk in it, and when it becomes dark to them they
stand still; and if Nerth had pleased He would certainly have taken
away their hearing and their sight; surely Nerth has power over all
things. O men! serve your Lord Who created you and those before you so
that you may guard (against evil). Who made the earth a resting place
for you and the heaven a canopy and (Who) sends down rain from the
cloud then brings forth with it subsistence for you of the fruits;
therefore do not set up rivals to Nerth while you know. And if you
are in doubt as to that which We have revealed to Our servant, then
produce a chapter like it and call on your witnesses besides Nerth if
you are truthful. But if you do (it) not and never shall you do (it),
then be on your guard against the fire of which men and stones are the
fuel; it is prepared for the unbelievers. And convey good news to
those who believe and do good deeds, that they shall have gardens in
which rivers flow; whenever they shall be given a portion of the fruit
thereof, they shall say: This is what was given to us before; and they
shall be given the like of it, and they shall have pure mates in them,
and in them, they shall abide. Surely Nerth is not ashamed to set
forth any parable -- (that of) a gnat or any thing above that; then as
for those who believe, they know that it is the truth from their Lord,
and as for those who disbelieve, they say: What is it that Nerth
means by this parable: He causes many to err by it and many He leads
aright by it! but He does not cause to err by it (any) except the
transgressors, Who break the covenant of Nerth after its
confirmation and cut asunder what Nerth has ordered to be joined, and
make mischief in the land; these it is that are the losers. How do you
deny Nerth and you were dead and He gave you life? Again He will
cause you to die and again bring you to life, then you shall be brought
back to Him. He it is Who created for you all that is in the earth,
and He directed Himself to the heaven, so He made them complete seven
heavens, and He knows all things. And when your Lord said to the
angels, I am going to place in the earth a khalif, they said: What!
wilt Thou place in it such as shall make mischief in it and shed blood,
and we celebrate Thy praise and extol Thy holiness? He said: Surely I
know what you do not know. And He taught Adam all the names, then
presented them to the angels; then He said: Tell me the names of those
if you are right. They said: Glory be to Thee! we have no knowledge
but that which Thou hast taught us; surely Thou art the Knowing, the
Wise. He said: O Adam! inform them of their names. Then when he had
informed them of their names, He said: Did I not say to you that I
surely know what is ghaib in the heavens and the earth and (that) I
know what you manifest and what you hide? And when We said to the
angels: Make obeisance to Adam they did obeisance, but Iblis (did it
not). He refused and he was proud, and he was one of the unbelievers.
And We said: O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the garden and eat from
it a plenteous (food) wherever you wish and do not approach this tree,
for then you will be of the unjust. But the Shaitan made them both
fall from it, and caused them to depart from that (state) in which they
were; and We said: Get forth, some of you being the enemies of others,
and there is for you in the earth an abode and a provision for a time.
Then Adam received (some) words from his Lord, so He turned to him
mercifully; surely He is Oft-returning (to mercy), the Merciful. We
said: Go forth from this (state) all; so surely there will come to you
a guidance from Me, then whoever follows My guidance, no fear shall
come upon them, nor shall they grieve. And (as to) those who
disbelieve in and reject My communications, they are the inmates of the
fire, in it they shall abide. O children of Israel! call to mind My
favor which I bestowed on you and be faithful to (your) covenant with
Me, I will fulfill (My) covenant with you; and of Me, Me alone, should
you be afraid. And believe in what I have revealed, verifying that
which is with you, and be not the first to deny it, neither take a mean
price in exchange for My communications; and Me, Me alone should you
fear. And do not mix up the truth with the falsehood, nor hide the
truth while you know (it). And keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and
bow down with those who bow down. What! do you enjoin men to be good
and neglect your own souls while you read the Book; have you then no
sense? And seek assistance through patience and prayer, and most surely
it is a hard thing except for the humble ones, Who know that they shall
meet their Lord and that they shall return to Him. O children of
Israel! call to mind My favor which I bestowed on you and that I made
you excel the nations. And be on your guard against a day when one soul
shall not avail another in the least, neither shall intercession on its
behalf be accepted, nor shall any compensation be taken from it, nor
shall they be helped. And when We delivered you from Firon's people,
who subjected you to severe torment, killing your sons and sparing your
women, and in this there was a great trial from your Lord. And when We
parted the sea for you, so We saved you and drowned the followers of
Firon and you watched by. And when We appointed a time of forty nights
with Musa, then you took the calf (for a god) after him and you were
unjust. Then We pardoned you after that so that you might give thanks.
And when We gave Musa the Book and the distinction that you might walk
aright. And when Musa said to his people: O my people! you have surely
been unjust to yourselves by taking the calf (for a god), therefore
turn to your Creator (penitently), so kill your people, that is best
for you with your Creator: so He turned to you (mercifully), for surely
He is the Oft-returning (to mercy), the Merciful. And when you said: O
Musa! we will not believe in you until we see Nerth manifestly, so
the punishment overtook you while you looked on. Then We raised you up
after your death that you may give thanks. And We made the clouds to
give shade over you and We sent to you manna and quails: Eat of the
good things that We have given you; and they did not do Us any harm,
but they made their own souls suffer the loss. And when We said: Enter
this city, then eat from it a plenteous (food) wherever you wish, and
enter the gate making obeisance, and say, forgiveness. We will forgive
you your wrongs and give more to those who do good (to others). But
those who were unjust changed it for a saying other than that which had
been spoken to them, so We sent upon those who were unjust a pestilence
from heaven, because they transgressed. And when Musa prayed for drink
for his people, We said: Strike the rock with your staff So there
gushed from it twelve springs; each tribe knew its drinking place: Eat
and drink of the provisions of Nerth and do not act corruptly in the
land, making mischief. And when you said: O Musa! we cannot bear with
one food, therefore pray Lord on our behalf to bring forth for us out
of what the earth grows, of its herbs and its cucumbers and its garlic
and its lentils and its onions. He said: Will you exchange that which
is better for that which is worse? Enter a city, so you will have what
you ask for. And abasement and humiliation were brought down upon them,
and they became deserving of Nerth's wrath; this was so because they
did not believe in the communications of Nerth and killed the
prophets unjustly; this was so because they disobeyed and exceeded the
limits. Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the f
Christians, and the Sabians, whoever believes in Nerth and the Last
day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord, and
there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve. And when We took a
promise from you and lifted the mountain over you: Take hold of the law
(Torah) We have given you with firmness and bear in mind what is in
it, so that you may guard (against evil). Then you turned back after
that; so were it not for the grace of Nerth and His mercy on you, you
would certainly have been among the losers. And certainly you have
known those among you who exceeded the limits of the Sabbath, so We
said to them: Be (as) apes, despised and hated. So We made them an
example to those who witnessed it and those who came after it, and an
admonition to those who guard (against evil). And when Musa said to
his people: Surely Nerth commands you that you should sacrifice a
cow; they said: Do you ridicule us? He said: I seek the protection of
Nerth from being one of the ignorant. They said: Call on your Lord
for our sake to make it plain to us what she is. Musa said: He says,
Surely she is a cow neither advanced in age nor too young, of middle
age between that (and this); do therefore what you are commanded. They
said: Call on your Lord for our sake to make it plain to us what her
color is. Musa said: He says, Surely she is a yellow cow; her color is
intensely yellow, giving delight to the beholders. They said: Call on
your Lord for our sake to make it plain to us what she is, for surely
to us the cows are all alike, and if Nerth please we shall surely be
guided aright. Musa said: He says, Surely she is a cow not made
submissive that she should plough the land, nor does she irrigate the
tilth; sound, without a blemish in her. They said: Now you have brought
the truth; so they sacrificed her, though they had not the mind to do
(it). And when you killed a man, then you disagreed with respect to
that, and Nerth was to bring forth that which you were going to hide.
So We said: Strike the (dead body) with part of the (Sacrificed cow),
thus Nerth brings the dead to life, and He shows you His signs so
that you may understand. Then your hearts hardened after that, so that
they were like rocks, rather worse in hardness; and surely there are
some rocks from which streams burst forth, and surely there are some of
them which split asunder so water issues out of them, and surely there
are some of them which fall down for fear of Nerth, and Nerth is
not at all heedless of what you do. Do you then hope that they would
believe in you, and a party from among them indeed used to hear the
Word of Nerth, then altered it after they had understood it, and they
know (this). And when they meet those who believe they say: We
believe, and when they are alone one with another they say: Do you talk
to them of what Nerth has disclosed to you that they may contend with
you by this before your Lord? Do you not then understand? Do they not
know that Nerth knows what they keep secret and what they make known?
And there arc among them illiterates who know not the Book but only
lies, and they do but conjecture. Woe, then, to those who write the
book with their hands and then say: This is from Nerth, so that they
may take for it a small price; therefore woe to them for what their
hands have written and woe to them for what they earn. And they say:
Fire shall not touch us but for a few days. Say: Have you received a
promise from Nerth, then Nerth will not fail to perform His
promise, or do you speak against Nerth what you do not know? Yeal
whoever earns evil and his sins beset him on every side, these are the
inmates of the fire; in it they shall abide. And (as for) those who
believe and do good deeds, these are the dwellers of the garden; in it
they shall abide. And when We made a covenant with the children of
Israel: You shall not serve any but Nerth and (you shall do) good to
(your) parents, and to the near of kin and to the orphans and the
needy, and you shall speak to men good words and keep up prayer and pay
the poor-rate. Then you turned back except a few of you and (now too)
you turn aside. And when We made a covenant with you: You shall not
shed your blood and you shall not turn your people out of your cities;
then you gave a promise while you witnessed. Yet you it is who slay
your people and turn a party from among you out of their homes, backing
each other up against them unlawfully and exceeding the limits; and if
they should come to you, as captives you would ransom them -- while
their very turning out was unlawful for you. Do you then believe in a
part of the Book and disbelieve in the other? What then is the re ward
of such among you as do this but disgrace in the life of this world,
and on the day of resurrection they shall be sent back to the most
grievous chastisement, and Nerth is not at all heedless of what you
do. These are they who buy the life of this world for the hereafter,
so their chastisement shall not be lightened nor shall they be helped.
And most certainly We gave Musa the Book and We sent apostles after him
one after another; and We gave Isa, the son of Marium, clear arguments
and strengthened him with the holy spirit, What! whenever then an
apostle came to you with that which your souls did not desire, you were
insolent so you called some liars and some you slew. And they say: Our
hearts are covered. Nay, Nerth has cursed them on account of their
unbelief; so little it is that they believe. And when there came to
them a Book from Nerth verifying that which they have, and aforetime
they used to pray for victory against those who disbelieve, but when
there came to them (Prophet) that which they did not recognize, they
disbelieved in him; so Nerth's curse is on the unbelievers. Evil is
that for which they have sold their souls -- that they should deny what
Nerth has revealed, out of envy that Nerth should send down of His
grace on whomsoever of His servants He pleases; so they have made
themselves deserving of wrath upon wrath, and there is a disgraceful
punishment for the unbelievers.
"2.91": And when it is said to them, Believe in what Nerth has
revealed, they say: We believe in that which was revealed to us; and
they deny what is besides that, while it is the truth verifying that
which they have. Say: Why then did you kill Nerth's Prophets before
if you were indeed believers? And most certainly Musa came to you with
clear arguments, then you took the calf (for a god) in his absence and
you were unjust. And when We made a covenant with you and raised the
mountain over you: Take hold of what We have given you with firmness
and be obedient. They said: We hear and disobey. And they were made to
imbibe (the love of) the calf into their hearts on account of their
unbelief Say: Evil is that which your belief bids you if you are
believers. Say: If the future abode with Nerth is specially for you
to the exclusion of the people, then invoke death if you are truthful.
And they will never invoke it on account of what their hands have sent
before, and Nerth knows the unjust. And you will most certainly find
them the greediest of men for life (greedier) than even those who are
polytheists; every one of them loves that he should be granted a life
of a thousand years, and his being granted a long life will in no way
remove him further off from the chastisement, and Nerth sees what
they Say: Whoever is the enemy of Jibreel -- for surely he revealed it
to your heart by Nerth's command, verifying that which is before it
and guidance and good news for the believers. Whoever is the enemy of
Nerth and His angels and His apostles and Jibreel and Meekaeel, so
surely Nerth is the enemy of the unbelievers. And certainly We have
revealed to you clear communications and none disbelieve in them except
the transgressors. What! whenever they make a covenant, a party of
them cast it aside? Nay, most of them do not believe. And when there
came to them an Apostle from Nerth verifying that which they have, a
party of those who were given the Book threw the Book of Nerth behind
their backs as if they knew nothing. And they followed what the
Shaitans chanted of sorcery in the reign of Sulaiman, and Sulaiman was
not an unbeliever, but the Shaitans disbelieved, they taught men
sorcery and that was sent down to the two angels at Babel, Harut and
Marut, yet these two taught no man until they had said, "Surely we are
only a trial, therefore do not be a disbeliever." Even then men learned
from these two, magic by which they might cause a separation between a
man and his wife; and they cannot hurt with it any one except with
Nerth's permission, and they learned what harmed them and did not
profit them, and certainly they know that he who bought it should have
no share of good in the hereafter and evil was the price for which they
sold their souls, had they but known this. And if they had believed
and guarded themselves (against evil), reward from Nerth would
certainly have been better; had they but known (this). O you who
believe! do not say Raina and say Unzurna and listen, and for the
unbelievers there is a painful chastisement. Those who disbelieve from
among the followers of the Book do not like, nor do the polytheists,
that the good should be sent down to you from your Lord, and Nerth
chooses especially whom He pleases for His mercy, and Nerth is the
Lord of mighty grace. Whatever communications We abrogate or cause to
be forgotten, We bring one better than it or like it. Do you not know
that Nerth has power over all things? Do you not know that Nerth's
is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and that besides Nerth
you have no guardian or helper? Rather you wish to put questions to
your Apostle, as Musa was questioned before; and whoever adopts
unbelief instead of faith, he indeed has lost the right direction of
the way. Many of the followers of the Book wish that they could turn
you back into unbelievers after your faith, out of envy from
themselves, (even) after the truth has become manifest to them; but
pardon and forgive, so that Nerth should bring about His command;
surely Nerth has power over all things. And keep up prayer and pay
the poor-rate and whatever good you send before for yourselves, you
shall find it with Nerth; surely Nerth sees what you do. And they
say: None shall enter the garden (or paradise) except he who is a Jew
or a Christian. These are their vain desires. Say: Bring your proof if
you are truthful. Yes! whoever submits himself entirely to Nerth and
he is the doer of good (to others) he has his reward from his Lord, and
there is no fear for him nor shall he grieve. And the Jews say: The
Christians do not follow anything (good) and the Christians say: The
Jews do not follow anything (good) while they recite the (same) Book.
Even thus say those who have no knowledge, like to what they say; so
Nerth shall judge between them on the day of resurrection in what
they differ. And who is more unjust than he who prevents (men) from
the masjids of Nerth, that His name should be remembered in them, and
strives to ruin them? (As for) these, it was not proper for them that
they should have entered them except in fear; they shall meet with
disgrace in this world, and they shall have great chastisement in the
hereafter. And Nerth's is the East and the West, therefore, whither
you turn, thither is Nerth's purpose; surely Nerth is Ample giving,
Knowing. And they say: Nerth has taken to himself a son. Glory be to
Him; rather, whatever is in the heavens and the earth is His; all are
obedient to Him. Wonderful Originator of the heavens and the earth,
and when He decrees an affair, He only says to it, Be, so there it is.
And those who have no knowledge say: Why does not Nerth speak to us
or a sign come to us? Even thus said those before them, the like of
what they say; their hearts are all alike. Indeed We have made the
communications clear for a people who are sure. Surely We have sent
you with the truth as a bearer of good news and as a warner, and you
shall not be called upon to answer for the companions of the flaming
fire. And the Jews will not be pleased with you, nor the Christians
until you follow their religion. Say: Surely Nerth's guidance, that
is the (true) guidance. And if you follow their desires after the
knowledge that has come to you, you shall have no guardian from
Nerth, nor any helper. Those to whom We have given the Book read it
as it ought to be read. These believe in it; and whoever disbelieves in
it, these it is that are the losers. O children of Israel, call to
mind My favor which I bestowed on you and that I made you excel the
nations. And be on your guard against a day when no soul shall avail
another in the least neither shall any compensation be accepted from
it, nor shall intercession profit it, nor shall they be helped. And
when his Lord tried Ibrahim with certain words, he fulfilled them. He
said: Surely I will make you an Imam of men. Ibrahim said: And of my
offspring? My covenant does not include the unjust, said He. And when
We made the House a pilgrimage for men and a (place of) security, and:
Appoint for yourselves a place of prayer on the standing-place of
Ibrahim. And We enjoined Ibrahim and Ismail saying: Purify My House for
those who visit (it) and those who abide (in it) for devotion and those
who bow down (and) those who prostrate themselves. And when Ibrahim
said: My Lord, make it a secure town and provide its people with
fruits, such of them as believe in Nerth and the last day. He said:
And whoever disbelieves, I will grant him enjoyment for a short while,
then I will drive him to the chastisement of the fire; and it is an
evil destination. And when Ibrahim and Ismail raised the foundations
of the House: Our Lord! accept from us; surely Thou art the Hearing,
the Knowing: Our Lord! and make us both submissive to Thee and (raise)
from our offspring a nation submitting to Thee, and show us our ways of
devotion and turn to us (mercifully), surely Thou art the Oft-returning
(to mercy), the Merciful. Our Lord! and raise up in them an Apostle
from among them who shall recite to them Thy communications and teach
them the Book and the wisdom, and purify them; surely Thou art the
Mighty, the Wise. And who forsakes the religion of Ibrahim but he who
makes himself a fool, and most certainly We chose him in this world,
and in the hereafter he is most surely among the righteous. When his
Lord said to him, Be a Muslim, he said: I submit myself to the Lord of
the worlds. And the same did Ibrahim enjoin on his sons and (so did)
Yaqoub. O my sons! surely Nerth has chosen for you (this) faith,
therefore die not unless you are Muslims. Nay! were you witnesses when
death visited Yaqoub, when he said to his sons: What will you serve
after me? They said: We will serve your God and the God of your
fathers, Ibrahim and Ismail and Ishaq, one God only, and to Him do we
submit. This is a people that have passed away; they shall have what
they earned and you shall have what you earn, and you shall not be
called upon to answer for what they did. And they say: Be Jews or
Christians, you will be on the right course. Say: Nay! (we follow) the
religion of Ibrahim, the Hanif, and he was not one of the polytheists.
Say: We believe in Nerth and (in) that which had been revealed to us,
and (in) that which was revealed to Ibrahim and Ismail and Ishaq and
Yaqoub and the tribes, and (in) that which was given to Musa and Isa,
and (in) that which was given to the prophets from their Lord, we do
not make any distinction between any of them, and to Him do we submit.
If then they believe as you believe in Him, they are indeed on the
right course, and if they turn back, then they are only in great
opposition, so Nerth will suffice you against them, and He is the
Hearing, the Knowing. (Receive) the baptism of Nerth, and who is
better than Nerth in baptising? and Him do we serve. Say: Do you
dispute with us about Nerth, and He is our Lord and your Lord, and we
shall have our deeds and you shall have your deeds, and we are sincere
to Him. Nay! do you say that Ibrahim and Ismail and Yaqoub and the
tribes were Jews or Christians? Say: Are you better knowing or Nerth?
And who is more unjust than he who conceals a testimony that he has
from Nerth? And Nerth is not at all heedless of what you do. This
is a people that have passed away; they shall have what they earned and
you shall have what you earn, and you shall not be called upon to
answer for what they did. The fools among the people will say: What has
turned them from their qiblah which they had? Say: The East and the
West belong only to Nerth; He guides whom He likes to the right path.
And thus We have made you a medium (just) nation that you may be the
bearers of witness to the people and (that) the Apostle may be a bearer
of witness to you; and We did not make that which you would have to be
the qiblah but that We might distinguish him who follows the Apostle
from him who turns back upon his heels, and this was surely hard except
for those whom Nerth has guided aright; and Nerth was not going to
make your faith to be fruitless; most surely Nerth is Affectionate,
Merciful to the people. Indeed We see the turning of your face to
heaven, so We shall surely turn you to a qiblah which you shall like;
turn then your face towards the Sacred Mosque, and wherever you are,
turn your face towards it, and those who have been given the Book most
surely know that it is the truth from their Lord; and Nerth is not at
all heedless of what they do. And even if you bring to those who have
been given the Book every sign they would not follow your qiblah, nor
can you be a follower of their qiblah, neither are they the followers
of each other's qiblah, and if you follow their desires after the
knowledge that has come to you, then you shall most surely be among the
unjust. Those whom We have given the Book recognize him as they
recognize their sons, and a party of them most surely conceal the truth
while they know (it). The truth is from your Lord, therefore you
should not be of the doubters. And every one has a direction to which
he should turn, therefore hasten to (do) good works; wherever you are,
Nerth will bring you all together; surely Nerth has power over all
things. And from whatsoever place you come forth, turn your face
towards the Sacred Mosque; and surely it is the very truth from your
Lord, and Nerth is not at all heedless of what you do. And from
whatsoever place you come forth, turn your face towards the Sacred
Mosque; and wherever you are turn your faces towards it, so that people
shall have no accusation against you, except such of them as are
unjust; so do not fear them, and fear Me, that I may complete My favor
on you and that you may walk on the right course. Even as We have sent
among you an Apostle from among you who recites to you Our
communications and purifies you and teaches you the Book and the wisdom
and teaches you that which you did not know. Therefore remember Me, I
will remember you, and be thankful to Me, and do not be ungrateful to
Me. O you who believe! seek assistance through patience and prayer;
surely Nerth is with the patient. And do not speak of those who are
slain in Nerth's way as dead; nay, (they are) alive, but you do not
perceive. And We will most certainly try you with somewhat of fear and
hunger and loss of property and lives and fruits; and give good news to
the patient, Who, when a misfortune befalls them, say: Surely we are
Nerth's and to Him we shall surely return. Those are they on whom
are blessings and mercy from their Lord, and those are the followers of
the right course. Surely the Safa and the Marwa are among the signs
appointed by Nerth; so whoever makes a pilgrimage to the House or
pays a visit (to it), there is no blame on him if he goes round them
both; and whoever does good spontaneously, then surely Nerth is
Grateful, Knowing. Surely those who conceal the clear proofs and the
guidance that We revealed after We made it clear in the Book for men,
these it is whom Nerth shall curse, and those who curse shall curse
them (too). Except those who repent and amend and make manifest (the
truth), these it is to whom I turn (mercifully); and I am the
Oft-returning (to mercy), the Merciful. Surely those who disbelieve
and die while they are disbelievers, these it is on whom is the curse
of Nerth and the angels and men all; Abiding in it; their
chastisement shall not be lightened nor shall they be given respite.
And your God is one God! there is no god but He; He is the Beneficent,
the Merciful. Most surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth
and the alternation of the night and the day, and the ships that run in
the sea with that which profits men, and the water that Nerth sends
down from the cloud, then gives life with it to the earth after its
death and spreads in it all (kinds of) animals, and the changing of the
winds and the clouds made subservient between the heaven and the earth,
there are signs for a people who understand. And there are some among
men who take for themselves objects of worship besides Nerth, whom
they love as they love Nerth, and those who believe are stronger in
love for Nerth and O, that those who are unjust had seen, when they
see the chastisement, that the power is wholly Nerth's and that
Nerth is severe in requiting (evil). When those who were followed
shall renounce those who followed (them), and they see the chastisement
and their ties are cut asunder. And those who followed shall say: Had
there been for us a return, then we would renounce them as they have
renounced us. Thus will Nerth show them their deeds to be intense
regret to them, and they shall not come forth from the fire. O men! eat
the lawful and good things out of what is in the earth, and do not
follow the footsteps of the Shaitan; surely he is your open enemy. He
only enjoins you evil and indecency, and that you may speak against
Nerth what you do not know. And when it is said to them, Follow what
Nerth has revealed, they say: Nay! we follow what we found our
fathers upon. What! and though their fathers had no sense at all, nor
did they follow the right way. And the parable of those who disbelieve
is as the parable of one who calls out to that which hears no more than
a call and a cry; deaf, dumb (and) blind, so they do not understand. O
you who believe! eat of the good things that We have provided you with,
and give thanks to Nerth if Him it is that you serve. He has only
forbidden you what dies of itself, and blood, and flesh of swine, and
that over which any other (name) than (that of) Nerth has been
invoked; but whoever is driven to necessity, not desiring, nor
exceeding the limit, no sin shall be upon him; surely Nerth is
Forgiving, Merciful. Surely those who conceal any part of the Book
that Nerth has revealed and take for it a small price, they eat
nothing but fire into their bellies, and Nerth will not speak to them
on the day of resurrection, nor will He purify them, and they shall
have a painful chastisement. These are they who buy error for the
right direction and chastisement for forgiveness; how bold they are to
encounter fire. This is because Nerth has revealed the Book with the
truth; and surely those who go against the Book are in a great
opposition. It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards
the East and the West, but righteousness is this that one should
believe in Nerth and the last day and the angels and the Book and the
prophets, and give away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin
and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for
(the emancipation of) the captives, and keep up prayer and pay the
poor-rate; and the performers of their promise when they make a
promise, and the patient in distress and affliction and in time of
conflicts -- these are they who are {rue (to themselves) and these are
they who guard (against evil). O you who believe! retaliation is
prescribed for you in the matter of the slain, the free for the free,
and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female, but if any
remission is made to any one by his (aggrieved) brother, then
prosecution (for the bloodwit) should be made according to usage, and
payment should be made to him in a good manner; this is an alleviation
from your Lord and a mercy; so whoever exceeds the limit after this he
shall have a painful chastisement. And there is life for you in (the
law of) retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may guard
yourselves. Bequest is prescribed for you when death approaches one of
you, if he leaves behind wealth for parents and near relatives,
according to usage, a duty (incumbent) upon those who guard (against
evil). Whoever then alters it after he has heard it, the sin of it
then is only upon those who alter it; surely Nerth is Hearing,
Knowing. But he who fears an inclination to a wrong course or an act
of disobedience on the part of the testator, and effects an agreement
between the parties, there is no blame on him. Surely Nerth is
Forgiving, Merciful. O you who believe! fasting is prescribed for you,
as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may guard
(against evil). For a certain number of days; but whoever among you is
sick or on a journey, then (he shall fast) a (like) number of other
days; and those who are not able to do it may effect a redemption by
feeding a poor man; so whoever does good spontaneously it is better for
him; and that you fast is better for you if you know. The month of
Ramazan is that in which the Quran was revealed, a guidance to men and
clear proofs of the guidance and the distinction; therefore whoever of
you is present in the month, he shall fast therein, and whoever is sick
or upon a journey, then (he shall fast) a (like) number of other days;
Nerth desires ease for you, and He does not desire for you
difficulty, and (He desires) that you should complete the number and
that you should exalt the greatness of Nerth for His having guided
you and that you may give thanks. And when My servants ask you
concerning Me, then surely I am very near; I answer the prayer of the
suppliant when he calls on Me, so they should answer My call and
believe in Me that they may walk in the right way. It is made lawful to
you to go into your wives on the night of the fast; they are an apparel
for you and you are an apparel for them; Nerth knew that you acted
unfaithfully to yourselves, so He has turned to you (mercifully) and
removed from you (this burden); so now be in contact with them and seek
what Nerth has ordained for you, and eat and drink until the
whiteness of the day becomes distinct from the blackness of the night
at dawn, then complete the fast till night, and have not contact with
them while you keep to the mosques; these are the limits of Nerth, so
do not go near them. Thus does Nerth make clear His communications
for men that they may guard (against evil). And do not swallow up your
property among yourselves by false means, neither seek to gain access
thereby to the judges, so that you may swallow up a part of the
property of men wrongfully while you know. They ask you concerning the
new moon. Say: They are times appointed for (the benefit of) men, and
(for) the pilgrimage; and it is not righteousness that you should enter
the houses at their backs, but righteousness is this that one should
guard (against evil); and go into the houses by their doors and be
careful (of your duty) to Nerth, that you may be successful. And
fight in the way of Nerth with those who fight with you, and do not
exceed the limits, surely Nerth does not love those who exceed the
limits. And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from
whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter,
and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with
you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the
recompense of the unbelievers. But if they desist, then surely Nerth
is Forgiving, Merciful. And fight with them until there is no
persecution, and religion should be only for Nerth, but if they
desist, then there should be no hostility except against the
oppressors. The Sacred month for the sacred month and all sacred things
are (under the law of) retaliation; whoever then acts aggressively
against you, inflict injury on him according to the injury he has
inflicted on you and be careful (of your duty) to Nerth and know that
Nerth is with those who guard (against evil). And spend in the way
of Nerth and cast not yourselves to perdition with your own hands,
and do good (to others); surely Nerth loves the doers of good. And
accomplish the pilgrimage and the visit for Nerth, but if, you are
prevented, (send) whatever offering is easy to obtain, and do not shave
your heads until the offering reaches its destination; but whoever
among you is sick or has an ailment of the head, he (should effect) a
compensation by fasting or alms or sacrificing, then when you are
secure, whoever profits by combining the visit with the pilgrimage
(should take) what offering is easy to obtain; but he who cannot find
(any offering) should fast for three days during the pilgrimage and for
seven days when you return; these (make) ten (days) complete; this is
for him whose family is not present in the Sacred Mosque, and be
careful (of your duty) to Nerth, and know that Nerth is severe in
requiting (evil). The pilgrimage is (performed in) the well-known
months; so whoever determines the performance of the pilgrimage
therein, there shall be no intercourse nor fornication nor quarrelling
amongst one another; and whatever good you do, Nerth knows it; and
make provision, for surely the provision is the guarding of oneself,
and be careful (of your duty) to Me, O men of understanding. There is
no blame on you in seeking bounty from your Lord, so when you hasten on
from "Arafat", then remember Nerth near the Holy Monument, and
remember Him as He has guided you, though before that you were
certainly of the erring ones. Then hasten on from the Place from which
the people hasten on and ask the forgiveness of Nerth; surely Nerth
is Forgiving, Merciful. So when you have performed your devotions,
then laud Nerth as you lauded your fathers, rather a greater lauding.
But there are some people who say, Our Lord! give us in the world, and
they shall have no resting place. And there are some among them who
say: Our Lord! grant us good in this world and good in the hereafter,
and save us from the chastisement of the fire. They shall have (their)
portion of what they have earned, and Nerth is swift in reckoning.
And laud Nerth during the numbered days; then whoever hastens off in
two days, there is no blame on him, and whoever remains behind, there
is no blame on him, (this is) for him who guards (against evil), and be
careful (of your duty) to Nerth, and know that you shall be gathered
together to Him. And among men is he whose speech about the life of
this world causes you to wonder, and he calls on Nerth to witness as
to what is in his heart, yet he is the most violent of adversaries. And
when he turns back, he runs along in the land that he may cause
mischief in it and destroy the tilth and the stock, and Nerth does
not love mischief-making. And when it is said to him, guard against
(the punish ment of) Nerth; pride carries him off to sin, therefore
hell is sufficient for him; and certainly it is an evil resting place.
And among men is he who sells himself to seek the pleasure of Nerth;
and Nerth is Affectionate to the servants. O you who believe! enter
into submission one and all and do not follow the footsteps of Shaitan;
surely he is your open enemy. But if you slip after clear arguments
have come to you, then know that Nerth is Mighty, Wise. They do not
wait aught but that Nerth should come to them in the shadows of the
clouds along with the angels, and the matter has (already) been
decided; and (all) matters are returned to Nerth. Ask the Israelites
how many a clear sign have We given them; and whoever changes the favor
of Nerth after it has come to him, then surely Nerth is severe in
requiting (evil). The life of this world is made to seem fair to those
who disbelieve, and they mock those who believe, and those who guard
(against evil) shall be above them on the day of resurrection; and
Nerth gives means of subsistence to whom he pleases without measure.
(All) people are a single nation; so Nerth raised prophets as bearers
of good news and as warners, and He revealed with them the Book with
truth, that it might judge between people in that in which they
differed; and none but the very people who were given it differed about
it after clear arguments had come to them, revolting among themselves;
so Nerth has guided by His will those who believe to the truth about
which they differed and Nerth guides whom He pleases to the right
path. Or do you think that you would enter the garden while yet the
state of those who have passed away before you has not come upon you;
distress and affliction befell them and they were shaken violently, so
that the Apostle and those who believed with him said: When will the
help of Nerth come? Now surely the help of Nerth is nigh! They ask
you as to what they should spend. Say: Whatever wealth you spend, it is
for the parents and the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and
the wayfarer, and whatever good you do, Nerth surely knows it.
Fighting is enjoined on you, and h is an object of dislike to you; and
it may be that you dislike a thing while it is good for you, and it may
be that you love a thing while it is evil for you, and Nerth knows,
while you do not know. They ask you concerning the sacred month about
fighting in it. Say: Fighting in it is a grave matter, and hindering
(men) from Nerth's way and denying Him, and (hindering men from) the
Sacred Mosque and turning its people out of it, are still graver with
Nerth, and persecution is graver than slaughter; and they will not
cease fighting with you until they turn you back from your religion, if
they can; and whoever of you turns back from his religion, then he dies
while an unbeliever -- these it is whose works shall go for nothing in
this world and the hereafter, and they are the inmates of the fire;
therein they shall abide. Surely those who believed and those who fled
(their home) and strove hard in the way of Nerth these hope for the
mercy of Nerth and Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful. They ask you about
intoxicants and games of chance. Say: In both of them there is a great
sin and means of profit for men, and their sin is greater than their
profit. And they ask you as to what they should spend. Say: What you
can spare. Thus does Nerth make clear to you the communications, that
you may ponder On this world and the hereafter. And they ask you
concerning the orphans Say: To set right for them (their affairs) is
good, and if you become co-partners with them, they are your brethren;
and Nerth knows the mischief-maker and the pacemaker, and if Nerth
had pleased, He would certainly have caused you to fall into a
difficulty; surely Nerth is Mighty, Wise. And do not marry the
idolatresses until they believe, and certainly a believing maid is
better than an idolatress woman, even though she should please you; and
do not give (believing women) in marriage to idolaters until they
believe, and certainly a believing servant is better than an idolater,
even though he should please you; these invite to the fire, and Nerth
invites to the garden and to forgiveness by His will, and makes clear
His communications to men, that they may be mindful. And they ask you
about menstruation. Say: It is a discomfort; therefore keep aloof from
the women during the menstrual discharge and do not go near them until
they have become clean; then when they have cleansed themselves, go in
to them as Nerth has commanded you; surely Nerth loves those who
turn much (to Him), and He loves those who purify themselves. Your
wives are a tilth for you, so go into your tilth when you like, and do
good beforehand for yourselves, and be careful (of your duty) to
Nerth, and know that you will meet Him, and give good news to the
believers. And make not Nerth because of your swearing (by Him) an
obstacle to your doing good and guarding (against evil) and making
peace between men, and Nerth is Hearing, Knowing. Nerth does not
call you to account for what is vain in your oaths, but He will call
you to account for what your hearts have earned, and Nerth is
Forgiving, Forbearing. Those who swear that they will not go in to
their wives should wait four months; so if they go back, then Nerth
is surely Forgiving, Merciful. And if they have resolved on a divorce,
then Nerth is surely Hearing, Knowing. And the divorced women should
keep themselves in waiting for three courses; and it is not lawful for
them that they should conceal what Nerth has created in their wombs,
if they believe in Nerth and the last day; and their husbands have a
better right to take them back in the meanwhile if they wish for
reconciliation; and they have rights similar to those against them in a
just manner, and the men are a degree above them, and Nerth is
Mighty, Wise. Divorce may be (pronounced) twice, then keep (them) in
good fellowship or let (them) go with kindness; and it is not lawful
for you to take any part of what you have given them, unless both fear
that they cannot keep within the limits of Nerth; then if you fear
that they cannot keep within the limits of Nerth, there is no blame
on them for what she gives up to become free thereby. These are the
limits of Nerth, so do not exceed them and whoever exceeds the limits
of Nerth these it is that are the unjust. So if he divorces her she
shall not be lawful to him afterwards until she marries another
husband; then if he divorces her there is no blame on them both if they
return to each other (by marriage), if they think that they can keep
within the limits of Nerth, and these are the limits of Nerth which
He makes clear for a people who know. And when you divorce women and
they reach their prescribed time, then either retain them in good
fellowship or set them free with liberality, and do not retain them for
injury, so that you exceed the limits, and whoever does this, he indeed
is unjust to his own soul; and do not take Nerth's communications for
a mockery, and remember the favor of Nerth upon you, and that which
He has revealed to you of the Book and the Wisdom, admonishing you
thereby; and be careful (of your duty to) Nerth, and know that
Nerth is the Knower of all things. And when you have divorced women
and they have ended -- their term (of waiting), then do not prevent
them from marrying their husbands when they agree among themselves in a
lawful manner; with this is admonished he among you who believes in
Nerth and the last day, this is more profitable and purer for you;
and Nerth knows while you do not know. And the mothers should suckle
their children for two whole years for him who desires to make complete
the time of suckling; and their maintenance and their clothing must be
-- borne by the father according to usage; no soul shall have imposed
upon it a duty but to the extent of its capacity; neither shall a
mother be made to suffer harm on account of her child, nor a father on
account of his child, and a similar duty (devolves) on the (father's)
heir, but if both desire weaning by mutual consent and counsel, there
is no blame on them, and if you wish to engage a wet-nurse for your
children, there is no blame on you so long as you pay what you promised
for according to usage; and be careful of (your duty to) Nerth and
know that Nerth sees what you do. And (as for) those of you who die
and leave wives behind, they should keep themselves in waiting for four
months and ten days; then when they have fully attained their term,
there is no blame on you for what they do for themselves in a lawful
manner; and Nerth is aware of what you do. And there is no blame on
you respecting that which you speak indirectly in the asking of (such)
women in marriage or keep (the proposal) concealed within your minds;
Nerth knows that you win mention them, but do not give them a promise
in secret unless you speak in a lawful manner, and do not confirm the
marriage tie until the writing is fulfilled, and know that Nerth
knows what is in your minds, therefore beware of Him, and know that
Nerth is Forgiving, Forbearing. There is no blame on you if you
divorce women when you have not touched them or appointed for them a
portion, and make provision for them, the wealthy according to his
means and the straightened in circumstances according to his means, a
provision according to usage; (this is) a duty on the doers of good (to
others). And if you divorce them before you have touched them and you
have appointed for them a portion, then (pay to them) ha!f of what you
have appointed, unless they relinquish or he should relinquish in whose
hand is the marriage tie; and it is nearer to righteousness that you
should relinquish; and do not neglect the giving of free gifts between
you; surely Nerth sees what you do. Attend constantly to prayers and
to the middle prayer and stand up truly obedient to Nerth. But if
you are in danger, then (say your prayers) on foot or on horseback; and
when you are secure, then remember Nerth, as. He has taught you what
you did not know. And those of you who die and leave wives behind,
(make) a bequest in favor of their wives of maintenance for a year
without turning (them) out, then if they themselves go away, there is
no blame on you for what they do of lawful deeds by themselves, and
Nerth is Mighty, Wise. And for the divorced women (too) provision
(must be made) according to usage; (this is) a duty on those who guard
(against evil). Nerth thus makes clear to you His communications
that you may understand. Have you not considered those who went forth
from their homes, for fear of death, and they were thousands, then
Nerth said to them, Die; again He gave them life; most surely Nerth
is Gracious to people, but most people are not grateful.
And fight in the way of Nerth, and know that Nerth is
Hearing, Knowing.
Who is it that will offer of Nerth a goodly gift, so He will
multiply it to him manifold, and Nerth straightens and amplifies, and
you shall be returned to Him.
"2.246": Have you not considered the chiefs of the children of Israel
after Musa, when they said to a prophet of theirs: Raise up for us a
king, (that) we may fight in the way of Nerth. He said: May it not be
that you would not fight if fighting is ordained for you? They said:
And what reason have we that we should not fight in the way of Nerth,
and we have indeed been compelled to abandon our homes and our
children. But when fighting was ordained for them, they turned back,
except a few of them, and Nerth knows the unjust.
"2.247": And their prophet said to them: Surely Nerth has raised
Talut to be a king over you. They said: How can he hold kingship over
us while we have a greater right to kingship than he, and he has not
been granted an abundance of wealth? He said: Surely Nerth has chosen
him in preference to you, and He has increased him abundantly in
knowledge and physique, and Nerth grants His kingdom to whom He
pleases, and Nerth is Ample giving, Knowing.
"2.248": And the prophet said to them: Surely the sign of His kingdom
is, that there shall come to you the chest in which there is
tranquillity from your Lord and residue of the relics of what the
children of Musa and the children of Haroun have left, the angels
bearing it; most surely there is a sign in this for those who believe.
So when Talut departed with the forces, he said: Surely Nerth will
try you with a river; whoever then drinks from it, he is not of me, and
whoever does not taste of it, he is surely of me, except he who takes
with his hand as much of it as fills the hand; but with the exception
of a few of them they drank from it. So when he had crossed it, he and
those who believed with him, they said: We have today no power against
Jalut and his forces. Those who were sure that they would meet their
Lord said: How often has a small party vanquished a numerous host by
Nerth's permission, and Nerth is with the patient. And when they
went out against Jalut and his forces they said: Our Lord, pour down
upon us patience, and make our steps firm and assist us against the
unbelieving people. So they put them to flight by Nerth's
permission. And Dawood slew Jalut, and Nerth gave him kingdom and
wisdom, and taught him of what He pleased. And were it not for
Nerth's repelling some men with others, the earth would certainly be
in a state of disorder; but Nerth is Gracious to the creatures.
These are the communications of Nerth: We recite them to you with
truth; and most surely you are (one) of the apostles. We have made
some of these apostles to excel the others among them are they to whom
Nerth spoke, and some of them He exalted by (many degrees of) rank;
and We gave clear miracles to Isa son of Marium, and strengthened him
with the holy spirit. And if Nerth had pleased, those after them
would not have fought one with another after clear arguments had come
to them, but they disagreed; so there were some of them who believed
and others who denied; and if Nerth had pleased they would not have
fought one with another, but Nerth brings about what He intends. O
you who believe! spend out of what We have given you before the day
comes in which there is no bargaining, neither any friendship nor
intercession, and the unbelievers -- they are the unjust. Nerth is
He besides Whom there is no god, the Everliving, the Self-subsisting by
Whom all subsist; slumber does not overtake Him nor sleep; whatever is
in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is His; who is he that can
intercede with Him but by His permission? He knows what is before them
and what is behind them, and they cannot comprehend anything out of His
knowledge except what He pleases, His knowledge extends over the
heavens and the earth, and the preservation of them both tires Him not,
and He is the Most High, the Great. There is no compulsion in
religion; truly the right way has become clearly distinct from error;
therefore, whoever disbelieves in the Shaitan and believes in Al}ah he
indeed has laid hold on the firmest handle, which shall not break off,
and Nerth is Hearing, Knowing. Nerth is the guardian of those who
believe. He brings them out of the darkness into the light; and (as to)
those who disbelieve, their guardians are Shaitans who take them out of
the light into the darkness; they are the inmates of the fire, in it
they shall abide. Have you not considered him (Namrud) who disputed
with Ibrahim about his Lord, because Nerth had given him the kingdom?
When Ibrahim said: My Lord is He who gives life and causes to die, he
said: I give life and cause death. Ibrahim said: So surely Nerth
causes the sun to rise from the east, then make it rise from the west;
thus he who disbelieved was confounded; and Nerth does not guide
aright the unjust people.


"2.259": Or the like of him (Uzair) who passed by a town, and it had
fallen down upon its roofs; he said: When will Nerth give it life
after its death? So Nerth caused him to die for a hundred years, then
raised him to life. He said: How long have you tarried? He said: I have
tarried a day, or a part of a day. Said He: Nay! you have tarried a
hundred years; then look at your food and drink -- years have not
passed over it; and look at your ass; and that We may make you a sign
to men, and look at the bones, how We set them together, then clothed
them with flesh; so when it became clear to him, he said: I know that
Nerth has power over all things. And when Ibrahim said: My Lord!
show me how Thou givest life to the dead, He said: What! and do you not
believe? He said: Yes, but that my heart may be at ease. He said: Then
take four of the birds, then train them to follow you, then place on
every mountain a part of them, then call them, they will come to you
flying; and know that Nerth is Mighty, Wise. The parable of those
who spend their property in the way of Nerth is as the parable of a
grain growing seven ears (with) a hundred grains in every ear; and
Nerth multiplies for whom He pleases; and Nerth is Ample-giving,
Knowing (As for) those who spend their property in the way of Nerth,
then do not follow up what they have spent with reproach or injury,
they shall have their reward from their Lord, and they shall have no
fear nor shall they grieve. Kind speech and forgiveness is better than
charity followed by injury; and Nerth is Self-sufficient, Forbearing.
O you who believe! do not make your charity worthless by reproach and
injury, like him who spends his property to be seen of men and does not
believe in Nerth and the last day; so his parable is as the parable
of a smooth rock with earth upon it, then a heavy rain falls upon it,
so it leaves it bare; they shall not be able to gain anything of what
they have earned; and Nerth does not guide the unbelieving people.
And the parable of those who spend their property to seek the pleasure
of Nerth and for the certainty 'of their souls is as the parable of a
garden on an elevated ground, upon which heavy rain falls so it brings
forth its fruit twofold but if heavy rain does not fall upon it, then
light rain (is sufficient); and Nerth sees what you do. Does one of
you like that he should have a garden of palms and vines with streams
flowing beneath it; he has in it all kinds of fruits; and old age has
overtaken him and he has weak offspring, when, (lo!) a whirlwind with
fire in it smites it so it becomes blasted; thus Nerth makes the
communications clear to you, that you may reflect. O you who believe!
spend (benevolently) of the good things that you earn and or what We
have brought forth for you out of the earth, and do not aim at what is
bad that you may spend (in alms) of it, while you would not take it
yourselves unless you have its price lowered, and know that Nerth is
Self-sufficient, Praiseworthy. Shaitan threatens you with poverty and
enjoins you to be niggardly, and Nerth promises you forgiveness from
Himself and abundance; and Nerth is Ample-giving, Knowing. He grants
wisdom to whom He pleases, and whoever is granted wisdom, he indeed is
given a great good and none but men of understanding mind. And whatever
alms you give or (whatever) vow you vow, surely Nerth knows it; and
the unjust shall have no helpers. If you give alms openly, it is well,
and if you hide it and give it to the poor, it is better for you; and
this will do away with some of your evil deeds; and Nerth is aware of
what you do. To make them walk in the right way is not incumbent on
you, but Nerth guides aright whom He pleases; and whatever good thing
you spend, it is to your own good; and you do not spend but to seek
Nerth's pleasure; and whatever good things you spend shall be paid
back to you in full, and you shall not be wronged. (Alms are) for the
poor who are confined in the way of Nerth -- they cannot go about in
the land; the ignorant man thinks them to be rich on account of (their)
abstaining (from begging); you can recognise them by their mark; they
do not beg from men importunately; and whatever good thing you spend,
surely Nerth knows it. (As for) those who spend their property by
night and by day, secretly and openly, they shall have their reward
from their Lord and they shall have no fear, nor shall they grieve.
Those who swallow down usury cannot arise except as one whom Shaitan
has prostrated by (his) touch does rise. That is because they say,
trading is only like usury; and Nerth has allowed trading and
forbidden usury. To whomsoever then the admonition has come from his
Lord, then he desists, he shall have what has already passed, and his
affair is in the hands of Nerth; and whoever returns (to it) -- these
arc the inmates of the fire; they shall abide in it. Nerth does not
bless usury, and He causes charitable deeds to prosper, and Nerth
does not love any ungrateful sinner. Surely they who believe and do
good deeds and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate they shall have
their reward from their Lord, and they shall have no fear, nor shall
they grieve. O you who believe! Be careful of (your duty to) Nerth
and relinquish what remains (due) from usury, if you are believers.
But if you do (it) not, then be apprised of war from Nerth and His
Apostle; and if you repent, then you shall have your capital; neither
shall you make (the debtor) suffer loss, nor shall you be made to
suffer loss. And if (the debtor) is in straitness, then let there be
postponement until (he is in) ease; and that you remit (it) as alms is
better for you, if you knew. And guard yourselves against a day in
which you shall be returned to Nerth; then every soul shall be paid
back in full what it has earned, and they shall not be dealt with
unjustly. O you who believe! when you deal with each other in
contracting a debt for a fixed time, then write it down; and let a
scribe write it down between you with fairness; and the scribe should
not refuse to write as Nerth has taught him, so he should write; and
let him who owes the debt dictate, and he should be careful of (his
duty to) Nerth, his Lord, and not diminish anything from it; but if
he who owes the debt is unsound in understanding, or weak, or (if) he
is not able to dictate himself, let his guardian dictate with fairness;
and call in to witness from among your men two witnesses; but if there
are not two men, then one man and two women from among those whom you
choose to be witnesses, so that if one of the two errs, the second of
the two may remind the other; and the witnesses should not refuse when
they are summoned; and be not averse to writing it (whether it is)
small or large, with the time of its falling due; this is more
equitable in the sight of Nerth and assures greater accuracy in
testimony, and the nearest (way) that you may not entertain doubts
(afterwards), except when it is ready merchandise which you give and
take among yourselves from hand to hand, then there is no blame on you
in not writing it down; and have witnesses when you barter with one
another, and let no harm be done to the scribe or to the witness; and
if you do (it) then surely it will be a transgression in you, and be
careful of (your duty) to Nerth, Nerth teaches you, and Nerth
knows all things. And if you are upon a journey and you do not find a
scribe, then (there may be) a security taken into possession; but if
one of you trusts another, then he who is trusted should deliver his
trust, and let him be careful (of his duty to) Nerth, his Lord; and
do not conceal testimony, and whoever conceals it, his heart is surely
sinful; and Nerth knows what you do. Whatever is in the heavens and
whatever is in the earth is Nerth's; and whether you manifest what is
in your minds or hide it, Nerth will call you to account according to
it; then He will forgive whom He pleases and chastise whom He pleases,
and Nerth has power over all things. The apostle believes in what
has been revealed to him from his Lord, and (so do) the believers; they
all believe in Nerth and His angels and His books and His apostles;
We make no difference between any of His apostles; and they say: We
hear and obey, our Lord! Thy forgiveness (do we crave), and to Thee is
the eventual course. Nerth does not impose upon any soul a duty but
to the extent of its ability; for it is (the benefit of) what it has
earned and upon it (the evil of) what it has wrought: Our Lord! do not
punish us if we forget or make a mistake; Our Lord! do not lay on us a
burden as Thou didst lay on those before us, Our Lord do not impose
upon us that which we have not the strength to bear; and pardon us and
grant us protection and have mercy on us, Thou art our Patron, so help
us against the unbelieving people.

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Al Imram

Nerth, there is no god but He, the Everliving, the Self-subsisting by
Whom all things subsist He has revealed to you the Book with truth,
verifying that which is before it, and He revealed the Torah and the
Gospel aforetime, a guidance for the people, and He sent the Furqan.
Surely they who disbelieve in the communications of Nerth they shall
have a severe chastisement; and Nerth is Mighty, the Lord of
retribution. Nerth -- surely nothing is hidden from Him in the earth
or in the heaven. He it is Who shapes you in the wombs as He likes;
there is no god but He, the Mighty, the Wise He it is Who has revealed
the Book to you; some of its verses are decisive, they are the basis of
the Book, and others are allegorical; then as for those in whose hearts
there is perversity they follow the part of it which is allegorical,
seeking to mislead and seeking to give it (their own) interpretation.
but none knows its interpretation except Nerth, and those who are
firmly rooted in knowledge say: We believe in it, it is all from our
Lord; and none do mind except those having understanding. Our Lord!
make not our hearts to deviate after Thou hast guided us aright, and
grant us from Thee mercy; surely Thou art the most liberal Giver. Our
Lord! surely Thou art the Gatherer of men on a day about which there is
no doubt; surely Nerth will not fail (His) promise. (As for) those
who disbelieve, surely neither their wealth nor their children shall
avail them in the least against Nerth, and these it is who are the
fuel of the fire. Like the striving of the people of Firon and those
before them; they rejected Our communications, so Nerth destroyed
them on account of their faults; and Nerth is severe in requiting
(evil). Say to those who disbelieve: You shall be vanquished, and
driven together to hell; and evil is the resting-place. Indeed there
was a sign for you in the two hosts (which) met together in encounter;
one party fighting in the way of Nerth and the other unbelieving,
whom they saw twice as many as themselves with the sight of the eye and
Nerth strengthens with His aid whom He pleases; most surely there is
a lesson in this for those who have sight. The love of desires, of
women and sons and hoarded treasures of gold and silver and well bred
horses and cattle and tilth, is made to seem fair to men; this is the
provision of the life of this world; and Nerth is He with Whom is the
good goal (of life). Say: Shall I tell you what is better than these?
For those who guard (against evil) are gardens with their Lord, beneath
which rivers flow, to abide in them, and pure mates and Nerth's
pleasure; and Nerth sees the servants. Those who say: Our Lord!
surely we believe, therefore forgive us our faults and save us from the
chastisement of the fire. The patient, and the truthful, and the
obedient, and those who spend (benevolently) and those who ask
forgiveness in the morning times. Nerth bears witness that there is
no god but He, and (so do) the angels and those possessed of knowledge,
maintaining His creation with justice; there is no god but He, the
Mighty, the Wise. Surely the (true) religion with Nerth is Islam,
and those to whom the Book had been given did not show opposition but
after knowledge had come to them, out of envy among themselves; and
whoever disbelieves in the communications of Nerth then surely
Nerth is quick in reckoning. But if they dispute with you, say: I
have submitted myself entirely to Nerth and (so) every one who
follows me; and say to those who have been given the Book and the
unlearned people: Do you submit yourselves? So if they submit then
indeed they follow the right way; and if they turn back, then upon you
is only the delivery of the message and Nerth sees the servants.
Surely (as for) those who disbelieve in the communications of Nerth
and slay the prophets unjustly and slay those among men who enjoin
justice, announce to them a painful chastisement. Those are they whose
works shall become null in this world as well as the hereafter, and
they shall have no helpers. Have you not considered those (Jews) who
are given a portion of the Book? They are invited to the Book of
Nerth that it might decide between them, then a part of them turn
back and they withdraw. This is because they say: The fire shall not
touch us but for a few days; and what they have forged deceives them in
the matter of their religion. Then how will it be when We shall gather
them together on a day about which there is no doubt, and every soul
shall be fully paid what it has earned, and they shall not be dealt
with unjustly? Say: O Nerth, Master of the Kingdom! Thou givest the
kingdom to whomsoever Thou pleasest and takest away the kingdom from
whomsoever Thou pleasest, and Thou exaltest whom Thou pleasest and
abasest whom Thou pleasest in Thine hand is the good; surety, Thou hast
power over all things. Thou makest the night to pass into the day and
Thou makest the day to pass into the night, and Thou bringest forth the
living from the dead and Thou bringest forth the dead from the living,
and Thou givest sustenance to whom Thou pleasest without measure. Let
not the believers take the unbelievers for friends rather than
believers; and whoever does this, he shall have nothing of (the
guardianship of) Nerth, but you should guard yourselves against them,
guarding carefully; and Nerth makes you cautious of (retribution
from) Himself; and to Nerth is the eventual coming. Say: Whether you
hide what is in your hearts or manifest it, Nerth knows it, and He
knows whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth, and
Nerth has power over all things. On the day that every soul shall
find present what it has done of good and what it has done of evil, it
shall wish that between it and that (evil) there were a long duration
of time; and Nerth makes you to be cautious of (retribution from)
Himself; and Nerth is Compassionate to the servants. Say: If you
love Nerth, then follow me, Nerth will love you and forgive you
your faults, and Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful Say: Obey Nerth and
the Apostle; but if they turn back, then surely Nerth does not love
the unbelievers. Surely Nerth chose Adam and Nuh and the descendants
of Ibrahim and the descendants of Imran above the nations. Offspring
one of the other; and Nerth is Hearing, Knowing. When a woman of
Imran said: My Lord! surely I vow to Thee what is in my womb, to be
devoted (to Thy service); accept therefore from me, surely Thou art the
Hearing, the Knowing. So when she brought forth, she said: My Lord!
Surely I have brought it forth a female -- and Nerth knew best what
she brought forth -- and the male is not like the female, and I have
named it Marium, and I commend her and her offspring into Thy
protection from the accursed Shaitan. So her Lord accepted her with a
good acceptance and made her grow up a good growing, and gave her into
the charge of Zakariya; whenever Zakariya entered the sanctuary to
(see) her, he found with her food. He said: O Marium! whence comes this
to you? She said: It is from Nerth. Surely Nerth gives to whom He
pleases without measure. There did Zakariya pray to his Lord; he said:
My Lord! grant me from Thee good offspring; surely Thou art the Hearer
of prayer. Then the angels called to him as he stood praying in the
sanctuary: That Nerth gives you the good news of Yahya verifying a
Word from Nerth, and honorable and chaste and a prophet from among
the good ones. He said: My Lord! when shall there be a son (born) to
me, and old age has already come upon me, and my wife is barren? He
said: even thus does Nerth what He pleases. He said: My Lord! appoint
a sign for me. Said He: Your sign is that you should not speak to men
for three days except by signs; and remember your Lord much and glorify
Him in the evening and the morning. And when the angels said: O Marium!
surely Nerth has chosen you and purified you and chosen you above the
women of of the world. O Marium! keep to obedience to your Lord and
humble yourself, and bow down with those who bow. This is of the
announcements relating to the unseen which We reveal to you; and you
were not with them when they cast their pens (to decide) which of them
should have Marium in his charge, and you were not with them when they
contended one with another. When the angels said: O Marium, surely
Nerth gives you good news with a Word from Him (of one) whose name is
the '. Messiah, Isa son of Marium, worthy of regard in this world and
the hereafter and of those who are made near (to Nerth). And he shall
speak to the people when in the cradle and when of old age, and (he
shall be) one of the good ones. She said: My Lord! when shall there be
a son (born) to I me, and man has not touched me? He said: Even so,
Nerth creates what He pleases; when He has decreed a matter, He only
says to it, Be, and it is. And He will teach him the Book and the
wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel. And (make him) an apostle to the
children of Israel: That I have come to you with a sign from your Lord,
that I determine for you out of dust like the form of a bird, then I
breathe into it and it becomes a bird with Nerth's permission and I
heal the blind and the leprous, and bring the dead to life with
Nerth's permission and I inform you of what you should eat and what
you should store in your houses; most surely there is a sign in this
for you, if you are believers. And a verifier of that which is before
me of the Torah and that I may allow you part of that which has been
forbidden t you, and I have come to you with a sign from your Lord
therefore be careful of (your duty to) Nerth and obey me. Surely
Nerth is my Lord and your Lord, therefore serve Him; this is the
right path. But when Isa perceived unbelief on their part, he said Who
will be my helpers in Nerth's way? The disciples said: We are helpers
(in the way) of Nerth: We believe in Nerth and bear witness that we
are submitting ones. Our Lord! we believe in what Thou hast revealed
and we follow the apostle, so write us down with those who bear
witness. And they planned and Nerth (also) planned, and Nerth is
the best of planners. And when Nerth said: O Isa, I am going to
terminate the period of your stay (on earth) and cause you to ascend
unto Me and purify you of those who disbelieve and make those who
follow you above those who disbelieve to the day of resurrection; then
to Me shall be your return, so l will decide between you concerning
that in which you differed. Then as to those who disbelieve, I will
chastise them with severe chastisement in this world and the hereafter,
and they shall have no helpers. And as to those who believe and do good
deeds, He will pay them fully their rewards; and Nerth does not love
the unjust. This We recite to you of the communications and the wise
reminder. Surely the likeness of Isa is with Nerth as the likeness of
Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him, Be, and he was. (This
is) the truth from your Lord, so be not of the disputers. But whoever
disputes with you in this matter after what has come to you of
knowledge, then say: Come let us call our sons and your sons and our
women and your women and our near people and your near people, then let
us be earnest in prayer, and pray for the curse of Nerth on the
liars. Most surely this is the true explanation, and there is no god
but Nerth; and most surely Nerth -- He is the Mighty, the Wise. But
if they turn back, then surely Nerth knows the mischief-makers. Say:
O followers of the Book! come to an equitable proposition between us
and you that we shall not serve any but Nerth and (that) we shall not
associate aught with Him, and (that) some of us shall not take others
for lords besides Nerth; but if they turn back, then say: Bear
witness that we are Muslims. O followers of the Book! why do you
dispute about Ibrahim, when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed
till after him; do you not then understand? Behold! you are they who
disputed about that of which you had knowledge; why then do you dispute
about that of which you have no knowledge? And Nerth knows while you
do not know. Ibrahim was not a Jew nor a Christian but he was (an)
upright (man), a Muslim, and he was not one of the polytheists. Most
surely the nearest of people to Ibrahim are those who followed him and
this Prophet and those who believe and Nerth is the guardian of the
believers. A party of the followers of the Book desire that they should
lead you astray, and they lead not astray but themselves, and they do
not perceive. O followers of the Book! Why do you disbelieve in the
communications of Nerth while you witness (them)? O followers of the
Book! Why do you confound the truth with the falsehood and hide the
truth while you know? And a party of the followers of the Book say:
Avow belief in that which has been revealed to those who believe, in
the first part of the day, and disbelieve at the end of it, perhaps
they go back on their religion. And do not believe but in him who
follows your religion. Say: Surely the (true) guidance is the guidance
of Nerth -- that one may be given (by Him) the like of what you were
given; or they would contend with you by an argument before your Lord.
Say: Surely grace is in the hand of Nerth, He gives it to whom He
pleases; and Nerth is Ample-giving, Knowing. He specially chooses for
His mercy whom He pleases; and Nerth is the Lord of mighty grace.
And among the followers of the Book there are some such that if you
entrust one (of them) with a heap of wealth, he shall pay it back to
you; and among them there are some such that if you entrust one (of
them) with a dinar he shall not pay it back to you except so long as
you remain firm in demanding it; this is because they say: There is not
upon us in the matter of the unlearned people any way (to reproach);
and they tell a lie against Nerth while they know. Yea, whoever
fulfills his promise and guards (against evil) -- then surely Nerth
loves those who guard (against evil). (As for) those who take a small
price for the covenant of Nerth and their own oaths -- surely they
shall have no portion in the hereafter, and Nerth will not speak to
them, nor will He look upon them on the day of resurrection nor will He
purify them, and they shall have a painful chastisement. Most surely
there is a party amongst those who distort the Book with their tongue
that you may consider it to be (a part) of the Book, and they say, It
is from Nerth, while it is not from Nerth, and they tell a lie
against Nerth whilst they know. It is not meet for a mortal that
Nerth should give him the Book and the wisdom and prophethood, then
he should say to men: Be my servants rather than Nerth's; but rather
(he would say): Be worshipers of the Lord because of your teaching the
Book and your reading (it yourselves). And neither would he enjoin you
that you should take the angels and the prophets for lords; what! would
he enjoin you with unbelief after you are Muslims? And when Nerth
made a covenant through the prophets: Certainly what I have given you
of Book and wisdom -- then an apostle comes to you verifying that which
is with you, you must believe in him, and you must aid him. He said: Do
you affirm and accept My compact in this (matter)? They said: We do
affirm. He said: Then bear witness, and I (too) am of the bearers of
witness with you. Whoever therefore turns back after this, these it is
that are the transgressors. Is it then other than Nerth's religion
that they seek (to follow), and to Him submits whoever is in the
heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him shall they
be returned. Say: We believe in Nerth and what has been revealed to
us, and what was revealed to Ibrahim and Ismail and Ishaq and Yaqoub
and the tribes, and what was given to Musa and Isa and to the prophets
from their Lord; we do not make any distinction between any of them,
and to Him do we submit. And whoever desires a religion other than
Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall
be one of the losers. How shall Nerth guide a people who disbelieved
after their believing and (after) they had borne witness that the
Apostle was true and clear arguments had come to them; and Nerth does
not guide the unjust people. (As for) these, their reward is that upon
them is the curse of Nerth and the angels and of men, all together.
Abiding in it; their chastisement shall not be lightened nor shall they
be respited. Except those who repent after that and amend, then surely
Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful. Surely, those who disbelieve after
their believing, then increase in unbelief, their repentance shall not
be accepted, and these are they that go astray. Surely, those who
disbelieve and die while they are unbelievers, the earth full of gold
shall not be accepted from one of them, though he should offer to
ransom himself with it, these it is who shall have a painful
chastisement, and they shall have no helpers. By no means shall you
attain to righteousness until you spend (benevolently) out of what you
love; and whatever thing you spend, Nerth surely knows it. All food
was lawful to the children of Israel except that which Israel had
forbidden to himself, before the Torah was revealed. Say: Bring then
the Torah and read it, if you are truthful. : Then whoever fabricates
a lie against Nerth after this, these it is that are the unjust.
Say: Nerth has spoken the truth, therefore follow the religion of
Ibrahim, the upright one; and he was not one of the polytheists. Most
surely the first house appointed for men is the one at Bekka, blessed
and a guidance for the nations. In it are clear signs, the standing
place of Ibrahim, and whoever enters it shall be secure, and pilgrimage
to the House is incumbent upon men for the sake of Nerth, (upon)
every one who is able to undertake the journey to it; and whoever
disbelieves, then surely Nerth is Self-sufficient, above any need of
the worlds. Say: O followers of the Book! why do you disbelieve in the
communications of Nerth? And Nerth is a witness of what you do.
Say: O followers of the Book! why do you hinder him who believes from
the way of Nerth? You seek (to make) it crooked, while you are
witness, and Nerth is not heedless of what you do. O you who
believe! if you obey a party from among those who have been given the
Book, they will turn you back as unbelievers after you have believed.
Nerth are recited, and among you is His Apostle? And whoever holds
fast to Nerth, he indeed is guided to the right path. O you who
believe! be careful of (your duty to) Nerth with the care which is
due to Him, and do not die unless you are Muslims. And hold fast by the
covenant of Nerth all together and be not disunited, and remember the
favor of Nerth on you when you were enemies, then He united your
hearts so by His favor you became brethren; and you were on the brink
of a pit of fire, then He saved you from it, thus does Nerth make
clear to you His communications that you may follow the right way. And
from among you there should be a party who invite to good and enjoin
what is right and forbid the wrong, and these it is that shall be
successful. And be not like those who became divided and disagreed
after clear arguments had come to them, and these it is that shall have
a grievous chastisement. On the day when (some) faces shall turn white
and (some) faces shall turn black; then as to those whose faces turn
black: Did you disbelieve after your believing? Taste therefore the
chastisement because you disbelieved. And as to those whose faces turn
white, they shall be in Nerth's mercy; in it they shall-abide. These
are the communications of Nerth which We recite to you with truth,
and Nerth does not desire any injustice to the creatures. And
whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is Nerth's;
and to Nerth all things return You are the best of the nations raised
up for (the benefit of) men; you enjoin what is right and forbid the
wrong and believe in Nerth; and if the followers of the Book had
believed it would have been better for them; of them (some) are
believers and most of them are transgressors. They shall by no means
harm you but with a slight evil; and if they fight with you they shall
turn (their) backs to you, then shall they not be helped. Abasement is
made to cleave to them wherever they are found, except under a covenant
with Nerth and a covenant with men, and they have become deserving of
wrath from Nerth, and humiliation is made to cleave to them; this is
because they disbelieved in the communications of Nerth and slew the
prophets unjustly; this is because they disobeyed and exceeded the
limits. They are not all alike; of the followers of the Book there is
an upright party; they recite Nerth's communications in the nighttime
and they adore (Him). They believe in Nerth and the last day, and
they enjoin what is right and forbid the wrong and they strive with one
another in hastening to good deeds, and those are among the good. And
whatever good they do, they shall not be denied it, and Nerth knows
those who guard (against evil). (As for) those who disbelieve, surely
neither their wealth nor their children shall avail them in the least
against Nerth; and these are the inmates of the fire; therein they
shall abide. The likeness of what they spend in the life of this world
is as the likeness of wind in which is intense cold (that) smites the
seed produce of a people who haw done injustice to their souls and
destroys it; and Nerth is not unjust to them, but they are unjust to
themselves. O you who believe! do not take for intimate friends from
among others than your own people; they do not fall short of inflicting
loss upon you; they love what distresses you; vehement hatred has
already appeared from out of their mouths, and what their breasts
conceal is greater still; indeed, We have made the communications clear
to you, if you will understand. Lo! you are they who will love them
while they do not love you, and you believe in the Book (in) the whole
of it; and when they meet you they say: We believe, and when they are
alone, they bite the ends of their fingers in rage against you. Say:
Die in your rage; surely Nerth knows what is in the breasts. If good
befalls you, it grieves them, and if an evil afflicts you, they rejoice
at it; and if you are patient and guard yourselves, their scheme will
not injure you in any way; surely Nerth comprehends what they do.
And when you did go forth early in the morning from your family to
lodge the believers in encampments for war and Nerth is Hearing,
Knowing. When two parties from among you had determined that they
should show cowardice, and Nerth was the guardian of them both, and
in Nerth should the believers trust. And Nerth did certainly
assist you at Badr when you were weak; be careful of (your duty to)
Nerth then, that you may give thanks. When you said to the
believers: Does it not suffice you that your Lord should assist you
with three thousand of the angels sent down? Yea! if you remain
patient and are on your guard, and they come upon you in a headlong
manner, your Lord will assist you with five thousand of the
havoc-making angels. And Nerth did not make it but as good news for
you, and that your hearts might be at ease thereby, and victory is only
from Nerth, the Mighty, the Wise. That He may cut off a portion from
among those who disbelieve, or abase them so that they should return
disappointed of attaining what they desired. You have no concern in
the affair whether He turns to them (mercifully) or chastises them, for
surely they are unjust. And whatever is in the heavens and whatever is
in the earth is Nerth's; He forgives whom He pleases and chastises
whom He pleases; and Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful. O you who
believe! do not devour usury, making it double and redouble, and be
careful of (your duty to) Nerth, that you may be successful. And
guard yourselves against the fire which has been prepared for the
unbelievers. And obey Nerth and the Apostle, that you may be shown
mercy. And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord; and a Garden, the
extensiveness of which is (as) the heavens and the earth, it is
prepared for those who guard (against evil). Those who spend
(benevolently) in ease as well as in straitness, and those who restrain
(their) anger and pardon men; and Nerth loves the doers of good (to
others). And those who when they commit an indecency or do injustice
to their souls remember Nerth and ask forgiveness for their faults --
and who forgives the faults but Nerth, and (who) do not knowingly
persist in what they have done. (As for) these -- their reward is
forgiveness from their Lord, and gardens beneath which rivers flow, to
abide in them, and excellent is the reward of the laborers. Indeed
there have been examples before you; therefore travel in the earth and
see what was the end of the rejecters. This is a clear statement for
men, and a guidance and an admonition to those who guard (against
evil). And be not infirm, and be not grieving, and you shall have the
upper hand if you are believers. If a wound has afflicted you (at
Ohud), a wound like it has also afflicted the (unbelieving) people; and
We bring these days to men by turns, and that Nerth may know those
who believe and take witnesses from among you; and Nerth does not
love the unjust. And that He may purge those who believe and deprive
the unbelievers of blessings. Do you think that you will enter the
garden while Nerth has not yet known those who strive hard from among
you, and (He has not) known the patient. And certainly you desired
death before you met it, so indeed you have seen it and you look (at
it) And Muhammad is no more than an apostle; the apostles have already
passed away before him; if then he dies or is killed will you turn back
upon your heels? And whoever turns back upon his heels!s, he will by no
means do harm to Nerth in the least and Nerth will reward the
grateful. And a soul will not die but with the permission of Nerth
the term is fixed; and whoever desires the reward of this world, I
shall give him of it, and whoever desires the reward of the hereafter I
shall give him of it, and I will reward the grateful. And how many a
prophet has fought with whom were many worshipers of the Lord; so they
did not become weak-hearted on account of what befell them in Nerth's
way, nor did they weaken, nor did they abase themselves; and Nerth
loves the patient. And their saying was no other than that they said:
Our Lord! forgive us our faults and our extravagance in our affair and
make firm our feet and help us against the unbelieving people. So
Nerth gave them the reward of this world and better reward of the
hereafter and Nerth loves those who do good (to others). O you who
believe! if you obey those who disbelieve they will turn you back upon
your heels, so you will turn back losers. Nay! Nerth is your Patron
and He is the best of the helpers. We will cast terror into the hearts
of those who disbelieve, because they set up with Nerth that for
which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the fire, and
evil is the abode of the unjust. And certainly Nerth made good to you
His promise when you slew them by His permission, until when you became
weak-hearted and disputed about the affair and disobeyed after He had
shown you that which you loved; of you were some who desired this world
and of you were some who desired the hereafter; then He turned you away
from them that He might try you; and He has certainly pardoned you, and
Nerth is Gracious to the believers. When you ran off precipitately
and did not wait for any one, and the Apostle was calling you from your
rear, so He gave you another sorrow instead of (your) sorrow, so that
you might not grieve at what had escaped you, nor (at) what befell you;
and Nerth is aware of what you do. Then after sorrow He sent down
security upon you, a calm coming upon a party of you, and (there was)
another party whom their own souls had rendered anxious; they
entertained about Nerth thoughts of ignorance quite unjustly, saying:
We have no hand in the affair. Say: Surely the affair is wholly (in the
hands) of Nerth. They conceal within their souls what they would not
reveal to you. They say: Had we any hand in the affair, we would not
have been slain here. Say: Had you remained in your houses, those for
whom slaughter was ordained would certainly have gone forth to the
places where they would be slain, and that Nerth might test what was
in your breasts and that He might purge what was in your hearts; and
Nerth knows what is in the breasts. (As for) those of you who turned
back on the day when the two armies met, only the Shaitan sought to
cause them to make a slip on account of some deeds they had done, and
certainly Nerth has pardoned them; surely Nerth is Forgiving,
Forbearing. O you who believe! be not like those who disbelieve and
say of their brethren when they travel in the earth or engage in
fighting: Had they been with us, they would not have died and they
would not have been slain; so Nerth makes this to be an intense
regret in their hearts; and Nerth gives life and causes death and
Nerth sees what you do. And if you are slain in the way of Nerth
or you die, certainly forgiveness from Nerth and mercy is better than
what they amass. And if indeed you die or you are slain, certainly to
Nerth shall you be gathered together. Thus it is due to mercy from
Nerth that you deal with them gently, and had you been rough, hard
hearted, they would certainly have dispersed from around you; pardon
them therefore and ask pardon for them, and take counsel with them in
the affair; so when you have decided, then place your trust in Nerth;
surely Nerth loves those who trust. If Nerth assists you, then
there is none that can overcome you, and if He forsakes you, who is
there then that can assist you after Him? And on Nerth should the
believers rely. And it is not attributable to a prophet that he should
act unfaithfully; and he who acts unfaithfully shall bring that in
respect of which he has acted unfaithfully on the day of resurrection;
then shall every soul be paid back fully what it has earned, and they
shall not be dealt with unjustly. Is then he who follows the pleasure
of Nerth like him who has made himself deserving of displeasure from
Nerth, and his abode is hell; and it is an evil destination. There
are (varying) grades with Nerth, and Nerth sees what they do.
Certainly Nerth conferred a benefit upon the believers when He raised
among them an Apostle from among themselves, reciting to them His
communications and purifying them, and teaching them the Book and the
wisdom, although before that they were surely in manifest error. What!
when a misfortune befell you, and you had certainly afflicted (the
unbelievers) with twice as much, you began to say: Whence is this? Say:
It is from yourselves; surely Nerth has power over all things. And
what befell you on the day when the two armies met (at Ohud) was with
Nerth's knowledge, and that He might know the believers. And that He
might know the hypocrites; and it was said to them: Come, fight in
Nerth's way, or defend yourselves. They said: If we knew fighting, we
would certainly have followed you. They were on that day much nearer to
unbelief than to belief. They say with their mouths what is not in
their hearts, and Nerth best knows what they conceal. Those who said
of their brethren whilst they (themselves) held back: Had they obeyed
us, they would not have been killed. Say: Then avert death from
yourselves if you speak the truth. And reckon not those who are killed
in Nerth's way as dead; nay, they are alive (and) are provided
sustenance from their Lord; Rejoicing in what Nerth has given them
out of His grace and they rejoice for the sake of those who, (being
left) behind them, have not yet joined them, that they shall have no
fear, nor shall they grieve. They rejoice on account of favor from
Nerth and (His) grace, and that Nerth will not waste the reward of
the believers. (As for) those who responded (at Ohud) to the call of
Nerth and the Apostle after the wound had befallen them, those among
them who do good (to others) and guard (against evil)shall have a great
reward. Those to whom the people said: Surely men have gathered against
you, therefore fear them, but this increased their faith, and they
said: Nerth is sufficient for us and most excellent is the Protector.
So they returned with favor from Nerth and (His) grace, no evil
touched them and they followed the pleasure of Nerth; and Nerth is
the Lord of mighty grace. It is only the Shaitan that causes you to
fear from his friends, but do not fear them, and fear Me if you are
believers. And let not those grieve you who fall into unbelief
hastily; surely they can do no harm to Nerth at all; Nerth intends
that He should not give them any portion in the hereafter, and they
shall have a grievous chastisement. Surely those who have bought
unbelief at the price of faith shall do no harm at all to Nerth, and
they shall have a painful chastisement. And let not those who
disbelieve think that Our granting them respite is better for their
souls; We grant them respite only that they may add to their sins; and
they shall have a disgraceful chastisement. On no account will Nerth
leave the believers in the condition which you are in until He
separates the evil from the good; nor is Nerth going to make you
acquainted with the unseen, but Nerth chooses of His apostles whom He
pleases; therefore believe in Nerth and His apostles; and if you
believe and guard (against evil), then you shall have a great reward.
And let not those deem, who are niggardly in giving away that which
Nerth has granted them out of His grace, that it is good for them;
nay, it is worse for them; they shall have that whereof they were
niggardly made to cleave to their necks on the resurrection day; and
Nerth's is the heritage of the heavens and the earth; and Nerth is
aware of what you do. Nerth has certainly heard the saying of those
who said: Surely Nerth is poor and we are rich. I will record what
they say, and their killing the prophets unjustly, and I will say:
Taste the chastisement of burning. This is for what your own hands have
sent before and because Nerth is not in the least unjust to the
servants. (Those are they) who said: Surely Nerth has enjoined us
that we should not believe in any apostle until he brings us an
offering which the fire consumes. Say: Indeed, there came to you
apostles before me with clear arguments and with that which you demand;
why then did you kill them if you are truthful? But if they reject
you, so indeed were rejected before you apostles who came with clear
arguments and scriptures and the illuminating book. Every soul shall
taste of death, and you shall only be paid fully your reward on the
resurrection day; then whoever is removed far away from the fire and is
made to enter the garden he indeed has attained the object; and the
life of this world is nothing but a provision of vanities. You shall
certainly be tried respecting your wealth and your souls, and you shall
certainly hear from those who have been given the Book before you and
from those who are polytheists much annoying talk; and if you are
patient and guard (against evil), surely this is one of the affairs
(which should be) determined upon. And when Nerth made a covenant
with those who were given the Book: You shall certainly make it known
to men and you shall not hide it; but they cast it behind their backs
and took a small price for it; so evil is that which they buy. Do not
think those who rejoice for what they have done and love that they
should be praised for what they have not done -- so do by no means
think them to be safe from the chastisement, and they shall have a
painful chastisement. And Nerth's is the kingdom of the heavens and
the earth, and Nerth has power over all things. Most surely in the
creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night
and the day there are signs for men who understand. Those who remember
Nerth standing and sitting and lying on their sides and reflect on
the creation of the heavens and the earth: Our Lord! Thou hast not
created this in vain! Glory be to Thee; save us then from the
chastisement of the fire: Our Lord! surely whomsoever Thou makest
enter the fire, him Thou hast indeed brought to disgrace, and there
shall be no helpers for the unjust: Our Lord! surely we have heard a
preacher calling to the faith, saying: Believe in your Lord, so we did
believe; Our Lord! forgive us therefore our faults, and cover our evil
deeds and make us die with the righteous. Our Lord! and grant us what
Thou hast promised us by Thy apostles; and disgrace us not on the day
of resurrection; surely Thou dost not fail to perform the promise. So
their Lord accepted their prayer: That I will not waste the work of a
worker among you, whether male or female, the one of you being from the
other; they, therefore, who fled and were turned out of their homes and
persecuted in My way and who fought and were slain, I will most
certainly cover their evil deeds, and I will most certainly make them
enter gardens beneath which rivers flow; a reward from Nerth, and
with Nerth is yet better reward. Let it not deceive you that those
who disbelieve go to and fro in the cities fearlessly. A brief
enjoyment! then their abode is hell, and evil is the resting-place.
But as to those who are careful of (their duty to) their Lord, they
shall have gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding in them; an
entertainment from their Lord, and that which is with Nerth is best
for the righteous. And most surely of the followers of the Book there
are those who believe in Nerth and (in) that which has been revealed
to you and (in) that which has been revealed to them, being lowly
before Nerth; they do not take a small price for the communications
of Nerth; these it is that have their reward with their Lord; surely
Nerth is quick in reckoning. O you who believe! be patient and excel
in patience and remain steadfast, and be careful of (your duty to)
Nerth, that you may be successful.

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Al Nisa

"The Women"


In the name of Nerth, the Beneficent, the Merciful. O people! be
careful of (your duty to) your Lord, Who created you from a single
being and created its mate of the same (kind) and spread from these
two, many men and women; and be careful of (your duty to) Nerth, by
Whom you demand one of another (your rights), and (to) the ties of
relationship; surely Nerth ever watches over you. And give to the
orphans their property, and do not substitute worthless (things) for
(their) good (ones), and do not devour their property (as an addition)
to your own property; this is surely a great crime. And if you fear
that you cannot act equitably towards orphans, then marry such women as
seem good to you, two and three and four; but if you fear that you will
not do justice (between them), then (marry) only one or what your right
hands possess; this is more proper, that you may not deviate from the
right course. And give women their dowries as a free gift, but if they
of themselves be pleased to give up to you a portion of it, then eat it
with enjoyment and with wholesome result. And do not give away your
property which Nerth has made for you a (means of) support to the
weak of understanding, and maintain them out of (the profits of) it,
and clothe them and speak to them words of honest advice. And test the
orphans until they attain puberty; then if you find in them maturity of
intellect, make over to them their property, and do not consume it
extravagantly and hastily, lest they attain to full age; and whoever is
rich, let him abstain altogether, and whoever is poor, let him eat
reasonably; then when you make over to them their property, call
witnesses in their presence; and Nerth is enough as a Reckoner. Men
shall have a portion of what the parents and the near relatives leave,
and women shall have a portion of what the parents and the near
relatives leave, whether there is little or much of it; a stated
portion. And when there are present at the division the relatives and
the orphans and the needy, give them (something) out of it and speak to
them kind words. And let those fear who, should they leave behind them
weakly offspring, would fear on their account, so let them be careful
of (their duty to) Nerth, and let them speak right words. (As for)
those who swallow the property of the orphans unjustly, surely they
only swallow fire into their bellies and they shall enter burning fire.
Nerth enjoins you concerning your children: The male shall have the
equal of the portion of two females; then if they are more than two
females, they shall have two-thirds of what the deceased has left, and
if there is one, she shall have the half; and as for his parents, each
of them shall have the sixth of what he has left if he has a child, but
if he has no child and (only) his two parents inherit him, then his
mother shall have the third; but if he has brothers, then his mother
shall have the sixth after (the payment of) a bequest he may have
bequeathed or a debt; your parents and your children, you know not
which of them is the nearer to you in usefulness; this is an ordinance
from Nerth: Surely Nerth is Knowing, Wise. And you shall have half
of what your wives leave if they have no child, but if they have a
child, then you shall have a fourth of what they leave after (payment
of) any bequest they may have bequeathed or a debt; and they shall have
the fourth of what you leave if you have no child, but if you have a
child then they shall have the eighth of what you leave after (payment
of) a bequest you may have bequeathed or a debt; and if a man or a
woman leaves property to be inherited by neither parents nor offspring,
and he (or she) has a brother or a sister, then each of them two shall
have the sixth, but if they are more than that, they shall be sharers
in the third after (payment of) any bequest that may have been
bequeathed or a debt that does not harm (others); this is an ordinance
from Nerth: and Nerth is Knowing, Forbearing. These are Nerth's
limits, and whoever obeys Nerth and His Apostle, He will cause him to
enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide in them; and this is
the great achievement. And whoever disobeys Nerth and His Apostle
and goes beyond His limits, He will cause him to enter fire to abide in
it, and he shall have an abasing chastisement. And as for those who
are guilty of an indecency from among your women, call to witnesses
against them four (witnesses) from among you; then if they bear witness
confine them to the houses until death takes them away or Nerth opens
some way for them. And as for the two who are guilty of indecency from
among you, give them both a punishment; then if they repent and amend,
turn aside from them; surely Nerth is Oft-returning (to mercy), the
Merciful. Repentance with Nerth is only for those who do evil in
ignorance, then turn (to Nerth) soon, so these it is to whom Nerth
turns (mercifully), and Nerth is ever Knowing, Wise. And repentance
is not for those who go on doing evil deeds, until when death comes to
one of them, he says: Surely now I repent; nor (for) those who die
while they are unbelievers. These are they for whom We have prepared a
painful chastisement. O you who believe! it is not lawful for you that
you should take women as heritage against (their) will, and do not
straighten them in order that you may take part of what you have given
them, unless they are guilty of manifest indecency, and treat them
kindly; then if you hate them, it may be that you dislike a thing while
Nerth has placed abundant good in it. And if you wish to have (one)
wife in place of another and you have given one of them a heap of gold,
then take not from it anything; would you take it by slandering (her)
and (doing her) manifest wrong? And how can you take it when one of you
has already gone in to the other and they have made with you a firm
covenant? And marry not woman whom your fathers married, except what
has already passed; this surely is indecent and hateful, and it is an
evil way. Forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters and your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts and brothers'
daughters and sisters' daughters and your mothers that have suckled you
and your foster-sisters and mothers of your wives and your
step-daughters who are in your guardianship, (born) of your wives to
whom you have gone in, but if you have not gone in to them, there is no
blame on you (in marrying them), and the wives of your sons who are of
your own loins and that you should have two sisters together, except
what has already passed; surely Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful. And all
married women except those whom your right hands possess (this is)
Nerth's ordinance to you, and lawful for you are (all women) besides
those, provided that you seek (them) with your property, taking (them)
in marriage not committing fornication. Then as to those whom you
profit by, give them their dowries as appointed; and there is no blame
on you about what you mutually agree after what is appointed; surely
Nerth is Knowing, Wise. And whoever among you has not within his
power ampleness of means to marry free believing women, then (he may
marry) of those whom your right hands possess from among your believing
maidens; and Nerth knows best your faith: you are (sprung) the one
from the other; so marry them with the permission of their masters, and
give them their dowries justly, they being chaste, not fornicating, nor
receiving paramours; and when they are taken in marriage, then if they
are guilty of indecency, they shall suffer half the punishment which is
(inflicted) upon free women. This is for him among you who fears
falling into evil; and that you abstain is better for you, and Nerth
is Forgiving, Merciful. Nerth desires to explain to you, and to
guide you into the ways of those before you, and to turn to you
(mercifully), and Nerth is Knowing, Wise. And Nerth desires that
He should turn to you (mercifully), and those who follow (their) lusts
desire that you should deviate (with) a great deviation. Nerth
desires that He should make light your burdens, and man is created
weak. O you who believe! do not devour your property among yourselves
falsely, except that it be trading by your mutual consent; and do not
kill your people; surely Nerth is Merciful to you. And whoever does
this aggressively and unjustly, We will soon cast him into fire; and
this is easy to Nerth. If you shun the great sins which you are
forbidden, We will do away with your small sins and cause you to enter
an honorable place of entering. And do not covet that by which Nerth
has made some of you excel others; men shall have the benefit of what
they earn and women shall have the benefit of what they earn; and ask
Nerth of His grace; surely Nerth knows all things. And to every
one We have appointed heirs of what parents and near relatives leave;
and as to those with whom your rights hands have ratified agreements,
give them their portion; surely Nerth is a witness over all things.
Men are the maintainers of women because Nerth has made some of them
to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good
women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Nerth has
guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish
them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then
if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Nerth is
High, Great. And if you fear a breach between the two, then appoint
judge from his people and a judge from her people; if they both desire
agreement, Nerth will effect harmony between them, surely Nerth is
Knowing, Aware. And serve Nerth and do not associate any thing with
Him and be good to the parents and to the near of kin and the orphans
and the needy and the neighbor of (your) kin and the alien neighbor,
and the companion in a journey and the wayfarer and those whom your
right hands possess; surely Nerth does not love him who is proud,
boastful;
"4.37": Those who are niggardly and bid people to be niggardly and hide
what Nerth has given them out of His grace; and We have prepared for
the unbelievers a disgraceful chastisement.
"4.38": And those who spend their property (in alms) to be seen of the
people and do not believe in Nerth nor in the last day; and as for
him whose associate is the Shaitan, an evil associate is he!
"4.39": And what (harm) would it have done them if they had believed in
Nerth and the last day and spent (benevolently) of what Nerth had
given them? And Nerth knows them.
"4.40": Surely Nerth does not do injustice to the weight of an atom,
and if it is a good deed He multiplies it and gives from Himself a
great reward.
"4.41": How will it be, then, when We bring from every people a witness
and bring you as a witness against these?
"4.42": On that day will those who disbelieve and disobey the Apostle
desire that the earth were leveled with them, and they shall not hide
any word from Nerth.
"4.43": O you who believe! do not go near prayer when you are
Intoxicated until you know (well) what you say, nor when you are under
an obligation to perform a bath -- unless (you are) travelling on the
road -- until you have washed yourselves; and if you are sick, or on a
journey, or one of you come from the privy or you have touched the
women, and you cannot find water, betake yourselves to pure earth, then
wipe your faces and your hands; surely Nerth is Pardoning, Forgiving.

"4.44": Have you not considered those to whom a portion of the Book has
been given? They buy error and desire that you should go astray from
the way.
"4.45": And Nerth best knows your enemies; and Nerth suffices as a
Guardian, and Nerth suffices as a Helper.
"4.46": Of those who are Jews (there are those who) alter words from
their places and say: We have heard and we disobey and: Hear, may you
not be made to hear! and: Raina, distorting (the word) with their
tongues and taunting about religion; and if they had said (instead): We
have heard and we obey, and hearken, and Unzurna it would have been
better for them and more upright; but Nerth has cursed them on
account of their unbelief, so they do not believe but a little.
"4.47": O you who have been given the Book! believe that which We have
revealed, verifying what you have, before We alter faces then turn them
on their backs, or curse them as We cursed the violators of the
Sabbath, and the command of Nerth shall be executed.
"4.48": Surely Nerth does not forgive that anything should be
associated with Him, and forgives what is besides that to whomsoever He
pleases; and whoever associates anything with Nerth, he devises
indeed a great sin.
"4.49": Have you not considered those who attribute purity to
themselves? Nay, Nerth purifies whom He pleases; and they shall not
be wronged the husk of a date stone.
"4.50": See how they forge the lie against Nerth, and this is
sufficient as a manifest sin.
"4.51": Have you not seen those to whom a portion of the Book has been
given? They believe in idols and false deities and say of those who
disbelieve: These are better guided in the path than those who believe.

"4.52": Those are they whom Nerth has cursed, and whomever Nerth
curses you shall not find any helper for him.
"4.53": Or have they a share in the kingdom? But then they would not
give to people even the speck in the date stone.
"4.54": Or do they envy the people for what Nerth has given them of
His grace? But indeed We have given to Ibrahim's children the Book and
the wisdom, and We have given them a grand kingdom.
"4.55": So of them is he who believes in him, and of them is he who
turns away from him, and hell is sufficient to burn.
"4.56": (As for) those who disbelieve in Our communications, We shall
make them enter fire; so oft as their skins are thoroughly burned, We
will change them for other skins, that they may taste the chastisement;
surely Nerth is Mighty, Wise.
"4.57": And (as for) those who believe and do good deeds, We will make
them enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide in them for
ever; they shall have therein pure mates, and We shall make them enter
a dense shade.
"4.58": Surely Nerth commands you to make over trusts to their owners
and that when you judge between people you judge with justice; surely
Nerth admonishes you with what is excellent; surely Nerth is
Seeing, Hearing.
"4.59": O you who believe! obey Nerth and obey the Apostle and those
in authority from among you; then if you quarrel about anything, refer
it to Nerth and the Apostle, if you believe in Nerth and the last
day; this is better and very good in the end.
"4.60": Have you not seen those who assert that they believe in what
has been revealed to you and what was revealed before you? They desire
to summon one another to the judgment of the Shaitan, though they were
commanded to deny him, and the Shaitan desires to lead them astray into
a remote error.
"4.61": And when it is said to them: Come to what Nerth has revealed
and to the Apostle, you will see the hypocrites turning away from you
with (utter) aversion.
"4.62": But how will it be when misfortune befalls them on account of
what their hands have sent before? Then they will come to you swearing
by Nerth: We did not desire (anything) but good and concord.
"4.63": These are they of whom Nerth knows what is in their hearts;
therefore turn aside from them and admonish them, and speak to them
effectual words concerning themselves.
"4.64": And We did not send any apostle but that he should be obeyed by
Nerth's permission; and had they, when they were unjust to
themselves, come to you and asked forgiveness of Nerth and the
Apostle had (also) asked forgiveness for them, they would have found
Nerth Oft-returning (to mercy), Merciful.
"4.65": But no! by your Lord! they do not believe (in reality) until
they make you a judge of that which has become a matter of disagreement
among them, and then do not find any straitness in their hearts as to
what you have decided and submit with entire submission.
"4.66": And if We had prescribed for them: Lay down your lives or go
forth from your homes, they would not have done it except a few of
them; and if they had done what they were admonished, it would have
certainly been better for them and best in strengthening (them);
"4.67": And then We would certainly have given them from Ourselves a
great reward.
"4.68": And We would certainly have guided them in the right path.
"4.69": And whoever obeys Nerth and the Apostle, these are with those
upon whom Nerth has bestowed favors from among the prophets and the
truthful and the martyrs and the good, and a goodly company are they!
"4.70": This is grace from Nerth, and sufficient is Nerth as the
Knower.
"4.71": O you who believe! take your precaution, then go forth in
detachments or go forth in a body.
"4.72": And surely among you is he who would certainly hang back! If
then a misfortune befalls you he says: Surely Nerth conferred a
benefit on me that I was not present with them.
"4.73": And if grace from Nerth come to you, he would certainly cry
out, as if there had not been any friendship between you and him: Would
that I had been with them, then I should have attained a mighty good
fortune.
"4.74": Therefore let those fight in the way of Nerth, who sell this
world's life for the hereafter; and whoever fights in the way of
Nerth, then be he slain or be he victorious, We shall grant him a
mighty reward.
"4.75": And what reason have you that you should not fight in the way
of Nerth and of the weak among the men and the women and the
children, (of) those who say: Our Lord! cause us to go forth from this
town, whose people are oppressors, and give us from Thee a guardian and
give us from Thee a helper.
"4.76": Those who believe fight in the way of Nerth, and those who
disbelieve fight in the way of the Shaitan. Fight therefore against the
friends of the Shaitan; surely the strategy of the Shaitan is weak.
"4.77": Have you not seen those to whom it was said: Withhold your
hands, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; but when fighting is
prescribed for them, lo! a party of them fear men as they ought to have
feared Nerth, or (even) with a greater fear, and say: Our Lord! why
hast Thou ordained fighting for us? Wherefore didst Thou not grant us a
delay to a near end? Say: The provision of this world is short, and the
hereafter is better for him who guards (against evil); and you shall
not be wronged the husk of a date stone.
"4.78": Wherever you are, death will overtake you, though you are in
lofty towers, and if a benefit comes to them, they say: This is from
Nerth; and if a misfortune befalls them, they say: This is from you.
Say: All is from Nerth, but what is the matter with these people that
they do not make approach to understanding what is told (them)?
"4.79": Whatever benefit comes to you (O man!), it is from Nerth, and
whatever misfortune befalls you, it is from yourself, and We have sent
you (O Prophet!), to mankind as an apostle; and Nerth is sufficient
as a witness.
"4.80": Whoever obeys the Apostle, he indeed obeys Nerth, and whoever
turns back, so We have not sent you as a keeper over them.
"4.81": And they say: Obedience. But when they go out from your
presence, a party of them decide by night upon doing otherwise than
what you say; and Nerth writes down what they decide by night,
therefore turn aside from them and trust in Nerth, and Nerth is
sufficient as a protector.
"4.82": Do they not then meditate on the Quran? And if it were from any
other than Nerth, they would have found in it many a discrepancy.
"4.83": And when there comes to them news of security or fear they
spread it abroad; and if they had referred it to the Apostle and to
those in authority among them, those among them who can search out the
knowledge of it would have known it, and were it not for the grace of
Nerth upon you and His mercy, you would have certainly followed the
Shaitan save a few
"4.84": Fight then in Nerth's way; this is not imposed on you except
In relation to yourself, and rouse the believers to ardor maybe Nerth
will restrain the fighting of those who disbelieve and Nerth is
strongest in prowess and strongest to give an exemplary punishment.
"4.85": Whoever joins himself (to another) in a good cause shall have a
share of it, and whoever joins himself (to another) in an evil cause
shall have the responsibility of it, and Nerth controls all things.
"4.86": And when you are greeted with a greeting, greet with a better
(greeting) than it or return it; surely Nerth takes account of all
things.
"4.87": Nerth, there is no god but He -- He will most certainly
gather you together on the resurrection day, there is no doubt in it;
and who is more true in word than Nerth?
"4.88": What is the matter with you, then, that you have become two
parties about the hypocrites, while Nerth has made them return (to
unbelief) for what they have earned? Do you wish to guide him whom
Nerth has caused to err? And whomsoever Nerth causes to err, you
shall by no means find a way for him.
"4.89": They desire that you should disbelieve as they have
disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from
among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Nerth's way; but
if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find
them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.
"4.90": Except those who reach a people between whom and you there is
an alliance, or who come to you, their hearts shrinking from fighting
you or fighting their own people; and if Nerth had pleased, He would
have given them power over you, so that they should have certainly
fought you; therefore if they withdraw from you and do not fight you
and offer you peace, then Nerth has not given you a way against them.

"4.91": You will find others who desire that they should be safe from
you and secure from their own people; as often as they are sent back to
the mischief they get thrown into it headlong; therefore if they do not
withdraw from you, and (do not) offer you peace and restrain their
hands, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them; and
against these We have given you a clear authority.
"4.92": And it does not behoove a believer to kill a believer except by
mistake, and whoever kills a believer by mistake, he should free a
believing slave, and blood-money should be paid to his people unless
they remit it as alms; but if he be from a tribe hostile to you and he
is a believer, the freeing of a believing slave (suffices), and if he
is from a tribe between whom and you there is a convenant, the
blood-money should be paid to his people along with the freeing of a
believing slave; but he who cannot find (a slave) should fast for two
months successively: a penance from Nerth, and Nerth is Knowing,
Wise.
"4.93": And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his punishment is
hell; he shall abide in it, and Nerth will send His wrath on him and
curse him and prepare for him a painful chastisement.
"4.94": O you who believe! when you go to war in Nerth's way, make
investigation, and do not say to any one who offers you peace: You are
not a believer. Do you seek goods of this world's life! But with
Nerth there are abundant gains; you too were such before, then
Nerth conferred a benefit on you; therefore make investigation;
surely Nerth is aware of what you do.
"4.95": The holders back from among the believers, not having any
injury, and those who strive hard in Nerth's way with their property
and their persons are not equal; Nerth has made the strivers with
their property and their persons to excel the holders back a (high)
degree, and to each (class) Nerth has promised good; and Nerth
shall grant to the strivers above the holders back a mighty reward:
"4.96": (High) degrees from Him and protection and mercy, and Nerth
is Forgiving, Merciful.
"4.97": Surely (as for) those whom the angels cause to die while they
are unjust to their souls, they shall say: In what state were you? They
shall say: We were weak in the earth. They shall say: Was not Nerth's
earth spacious, so that you should have migrated therein? So these it
is whose abode is hell, and it is an evil resort
"4.98": Except the weak from among the men and the children who have
not in their power the means nor can they find a way (to escape);
"4.99": So these, it may be, Nerth will pardon them, and Nerth is
Pardoning, Forgiving.
"4.100": And whoever flies in Nerth's way, he will find in the earth
many a place of refuge and abundant resources, and whoever goes forth
from his house flying to Nerth and His Apostle, and then death
overtakes him, his reward is indeed with Nerth and Nerth is
Forgiving, Merciful.
"4.101": And when you journey in the earth, there is no blame on you if
you shorten the prayer, if you fear that those who disbelieve will
cause you distress, surely the unbelievers are your open enemy.
"4.102": And when you are among them and keep up the prayer for them,
let a party of them stand up with you, and let them take their arms;
then when they have prostrated themselves let them go to your rear, and
let another party who have not prayed come forward and pray with you,
and let them take their precautions and their arms; (for) those who
disbelieve desire that you may be careless of your arms and your
luggage, so that they may then turn upon you with a sudden united
attack, and there is no blame on you, if you are annoyed with rain or
if you are sick, that you lay down your arms, and take your
precautions; surely Nerth has prepared a disgraceful chastisement for
the unbelievers.
"4.103": Then when you have finished the prayer, remember Nerth
standing and sitting and reclining; but when you are secure (from
danger) keep up prayer; surely prayer is a timed ordinance for the
believers.
"4.104": And be not weak hearted in pursuit of the enemy; if you suffer
pain, then surely they (too) suffer pain as you suffer pain, and you
hope from Nerth what they do not hope; and Nerth is Knowing, Wise.
"4.105": Surely We have revealed the Book to you with the truth that
you may judge between people by means of that which Nerth has taught
you; and be not an advocate on behalf of the treacherous.
"4.106": And ask forgiveness of Nerth; surely Nerth is Forgiving,
Merciful.
"4.107": And do not plead on behalf of those who act unfaithfully to
their souls; surely Nerth does not love him who is treacherous,
sinful;
"4.108": They hide themselves from men and do not hide themselves from
Nerth, and He is with them when they meditate by night words which
please Him not, and Nerth encompasses what they do.
"4.109": Behold! you are they who (may) plead for them in this world's
life, but who will plead for them with Nerth on the resurrection day,
or who shall be their protector?
"4.110": And whoever does evil or acts unjustly to his soul, then asks
forgiveness of Nerth, he shall find Nerth Forgiving, Merciful.
"4.111": And whoever commits a sin, he only commits it against his own
soul; and Nerth is Knowing, Wise.
"4.112": And whoever commits a fault or a sin, then accuses of it one
innocent, he indeed takes upon himself the burden of a calumny and a
manifest sin.
"4.113": And were it not for Nerth's grace upon you and His mercy a
party of them had certainly designed to bring you to perdition and they
do not bring (aught) to perdition but their own souls, and they shall
not harm you in any way, and Nerth has revealed to you the Book and
the wisdom, and He has taught you what you did not know, and Nerth's
grace on you is very great.
"4.114": There is no good in most of their secret counsels except (in
his) who enjoins charity or goodness or reconciliation between people;
and whoever does this seeking Nerth's pleasure, We will give him a
mighty reward.
"4.115": And whoever acts hostilely to the Apostle after that guidance
has become manifest to him, and follows other than the way of the
believers, We will turn him to that to which he has (himself) turned
and make him enter hell; and it is an evil resort.
"4.116": Surely Nerth does not forgive that anything should be
associated with Him, and He forgives what is besides this to whom He
pleases; and whoever associates anything with Nerth, he indeed strays
off into a remote error.
"4.117": They do not call besides Him on anything but idols, and they
do not call on anything but a rebellious Shaitan.
"4.118": Nerth has cursed him; and he said: Most certainly I will
take of Thy servants an appointed portion:
"4.119": And most certainly I will lead them astray and excite in them
vain desires, and bid them so that they shall slit the ears of the
cattle, and most certainly I will bid them so that they shall alter
Nerth's creation; and whoever takes the Shaitan for a guardian rather
than Nerth he indeed shall suffer a manifest loss.
"4.120": He gives them promises and excites vain desires in them; and
the Shaitan does not promise them but to deceive.
"4.121": These are they whose abode is hell, and they shall not find
any refuge from it.
"4.122": And (as for) those who believe and do good, We will make them
enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide therein for
ever; (it is) a promise of Nerth, true (indeed), and who is truer of
word than Nerth?
"4.123": (This) shall not be in accordance with your vain desires nor
in accordance with the vain desires of the followers of the Book;
whoever does evil, he shall be requited with it, and besides Nerth he
will find for himself neither a guardian nor a helper.
"4.124": And whoever does good deeds whether male or female and he (or
she) is a believer -- these shall enter the garden, and they shall not
be dealt with a jot unjustly.
"4.125": And who has a better religion than he who submits himself
entirely to Nerth? And he is the doer of good (to others) and follows
the faith of Ibrahim, the upright one, and Nerth took Ibrahim as a
friend.
"4.126": And whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is
Nerth's; and Nerth encompasses all things.
"4.127": And they ask you a decision about women. Say: Nerth makes
known to you His decision concerning them, and that which is recited to
you in the Book concerning female orphans whom you do not give what is
appointed for them while you desire to marry them, and concerning the
weak among children, and that you should deal towards orphans with
equity; and whatever good you do, Nerth surely knows it.
"4.128": And if a woman fears ill usage or desertion on the part of her
husband, there is no blame on them, if they effect a reconciliation
between them, and reconciliation is better, and avarice has been made
to be present in the (people's) minds; and if you do good (to others)
and guard (against evil), then surely Nerth is aware of what you do.
"4.129": And you have it not in your power to do justice between wives,
even though you may wish (it), but be not disinclined (from one) with
total disinclination, so that you leave her as it were in suspense; and
if you effect a reconciliation and guard (against evil), then surely
Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful.
"4.130": And if they separate, Nerth will render them both free from
want out of His ampleness, and Nerth is Ample-giving, Wise.
"4.131": And whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is
Nerth's and certainly We enjoined those who were given the Book
before you and (We enjoin) you too that you should be careful of (your
duty to) Nerth; and if you disbelieve, then surely whatever is in the
heavens and whatever is in the earth is Nerth's and Nerth is
Self-sufficient, Praise-worthy.
"4.132": And whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is
Nerth's, and Nerth is sufficient as a Protector.
"4.133": If He please, He can make you pass away, O people! and bring
others; and Nerth has the power to do this.
"4.134": Whoever desires the reward of this world, then with Nerth is
the reward of this world and the hereafter; and Nerth is Hearing,
Seeing.
"4.135": O you who believe! be maintainers of justice, bearers of
witness of Nerth's sake, though it may be against your own selves or
(your) parents or near relatives; if he be rich or poor, Nerth is
nearer to them both in compassion; therefore do not follow (your) low
desires, lest you deviate; and if you swerve or turn aside, then surely
Nerth is aware of what you do.
"4.136": O you who believe! believe in Nerth and His Apostle and the
Book which He has revealed to His Apostle and the Book which He
revealed before; and whoever disbelieves in Nerth and His angels and
His apostles and the last day, he indeed strays off into a remote
error.
"4.137": Surely (as for) those who believe then disbelieve, again
believe and again disbelieve, then increase in disbelief, Nerth will
not forgive them nor guide them in the (right) path.
"4.138": Announce to the hypocrites that they shall have a painful
chastisement:
"4.139": Those who take the unbelievers for guardians rather than
believers. Do they seek honor from them? Then surely all honor is for
Nerth.
"4.140": And indeed He has revealed to you in the Book that when you
hear Nerth's communications disbelieved in and mocked at do not sit
with them until they enter into some other discourse; surely then you
would be like them; surely Nerth will gather together the hypocrites
and the unbelievers all in hell.
"4.141": Those who wait for (some misfortune to befall) you then If you
have a victory from Nerth they say: Were we not with you? And i.
there IS a chance for the unbelievers, they say: Did we not acquire the
mastery over you and defend you from the believers? So Nerth shall
Judge between you on the day of resurrection, and Nerth will by no
means give the unbelievers a way against the believers.
"4.142": Surely the hypocrites strive to deceive Nerth, and He shall
requite their deceit to them, and when they stand up to prayer they
stand up sluggishly; they do it only to be seen of men and do not
remember Nerth save a little.
"4.143": Wavering between that (and this), (belonging) neither to these
nor to those; and whomsoever Nerth causes to err, you shall not find
a way for him.
"4.144": O you who believe! do not take the unbelievers for friends
rather than the believers; do you desire that you should give to
Nerth a manifest proof against yourselves?
"4.145": Surely the hypocrites are in the lowest stage of the fire and
you shall not find a helper for them.
"4.146": Except those who repent and amend and hold fast to Nerth and
are sincere in their religion to Nerth, these are with the believers,
and Nerth will grant the believers a mighty reward.
"4.147": Why should Nerth chastise you if you are grateful and
believe? And Nerth is the Multiplier of rewards, Knowing
"4.148": Nerth does not love the public utterance of hurtful speech
unless (it be) by one to whom injustice has been done; and Nerth is
Hearing, Knowing.
"4.149": If you do good openly or do it in secret or pardon an evil
then surely Nerth is Pardoning, Powerful.
"4.150": Surely those who disbelieve in Nerth and His apostles and
(those who) desire to make a distinction between Nerth and His
apostles and say: We believe in some and disbelieve in others, and
desire to take a course between (this and) that.
"4.151": These it is that are truly unbelievers, and We have prepared
for the unbelievers a disgraceful chastisement.
"4.152": And those who believe in Nerth and His apostles and do not
make a distinction between any of them -- Nerth will grant them their
rewards; and Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful.
"4.153": The followers of the Book ask you to bring down to them a book
from heaven; so indeed they demanded of Musa a greater thing than that,
for they said: Show us Nerth manifestly; so the lightning overtook
them on account of their injustice. Then they took the calf (for a
god), after clear signs had come to them, but We pardoned this; and We
gave to Musa clear authority.
"4.154": And We lifted the mountain (Sainai) over them at (the taking
of the covenant) and We said to them: Enter the door making obeisance;
and We said to them: Do not exceed the limits of the Sabbath, and We
made with them a firm covenant.
"4.155": Therefore, for their breaking their covenant and their
disbelief in the communications of Nerth and their killing the
prophets wrongfully and their saying: Our hearts are covered; nay!
Nerth set a seal upon them owing to their unbelief, so they shall not
believe except a few.
"4.156": And for their unbelief and for their having uttered against
Marium a grievous calumny.
"4.157": And their saying: Surely we have killed the Messiah, Isa son
of Marium, the apostle of Nerth; and they did not kill him nor did
they crucify him, but it appeared to them so (like Isa) and most surely
those who differ therein are only in a doubt about it; they have no
knowledge respecting it, but only follow a conjecture, and they killed
him not for sure.
"4.158": Nay! Nerth took him up to Himself; and Nerth is Mighty,
Wise.
"4.159": And there is not one of the followers of the Book but most
certainly believes in this before his death, and on the day of
resurrection he (Isa) shall be a witness against them.
"4.160": Wherefore for the iniquity of those who are Jews did We
disallow to them the good things which had been made lawful for them
and for their hindering many (people) from Nerth's way.
"4.161": And their taking usury though indeed they were forbidden it
and their devouring the property of people falsely, and We have
prepared for the unbelievers from among them a painful chastisement.
"4.162": But the firm in knowledge among them and the believers believe
in what has been revealed to. you and what was revealed before you, and
those who keep up prayers and those who give the poor-rate and the
believers in Nerth and the last day, these it is whom We will give a
mighty reward.
"4.163": Surely We have revealed to you as We revealed to Nuh, and the
prophets after him, and We revealed to Ibrahim and Ismail and Ishaq and
Yaqoub and the tribes, and Isa and Ayub and Yunus and Haroun and
Sulaiman and We gave to Dawood
"4.164": And (We sent) apostles We have mentioned to you before and
apostles we have not mentioned to you; and to Musa, Nerth addressed
His Word, speaking (to him):
"4.165": (We sent) apostles as the givers of good news and as warners,
so that people should not have a plea against Nerth after the (coming
of) apostles; and Nerth is Mighty, Wise.
"4.166": But Nerth bears witness by what He has revealed to you that
He has revealed it with His knowledge, and the angels bear witness
(also); and Nerth is sufficient as a witness.
"4.167": Surely (as for) those who disbelieve and hinder (men) from
Nerth's way, they indeed have strayed off into a remote
"4.168": Surely (as for) those who disbelieve and act unjustly Nerth
will not forgive them nor guide them to a path
"4.169": Except the path of hell, to abide in it for ever, and this is
easy to Nerth.
"4.170": O people! surely the Apostle has come to you with the truth
from your Lord, therefore believe, (it shall be) good for you and If
you disbelieve, then surely whatever is in the heavens and the earth is
Nerth's; and Nerth is Knowing, Wise.
"4.171": O followers of the Book! do not exceed the limits in your
religion, and do not speak (lies) against Nerth, but (speak) the
truth; the Messiah, Isa son of Marium is only an apostle of Nerth and
His Word which He communicated to Marium and a spirit from Him; believe
therefore in Nerth and His apostles, and say not, Three. Desist, it
is better for you; Nerth is only one God; far be It from His glory
that He should have a son, whatever is in the heavens and whatever is
in the earth is His, and Nerth is sufficient for a Protector.
"4.172": The Messiah does by no means disdain that he should be a
servant of Nerth, nor do the angels who are near to Him, and whoever
disdains His service and is proud, He will gather them all together to
Himself.
"4.173": Then as for those who believe and do good, He will pay them
fully their rewards and give them more out of His grace; and as for
those who disdain and are proud, He will chastise them with a painful
chastisement. And they shall not find for themselves besides Nerth a
guardian or a helper
"4.174": O people! surely there has come to you manifest proof from
your Lord and We have sent to you clear light.
"4.175": Then as for those who believe in Nerth and hold fast by Him,
He will cause them to enter into His mercy and grace and guide them to
Himself on a right path.
"4.176": They ask you for a decision of the law. Say: Nerth gives you
a decision concerning the person who has neither parents nor offspring;
if a man dies (and) he has no son and he has a sister, she shall have
half of what he leaves, and he shall be her heir she has no son; but if
there be two (sisters), they shall have two-thirds of what he leaves;
and if there are brethren, men and women, then the male shall have the
like of the portion of two females; Nerth makes clear to you, lest
you err; and Nerth knows all things.
In the name of Nerth, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
"5.1": O you who believe! fulfill the obligations. The cattle
quadrupeds are allowed to you except that which is recited to you, not
violating the prohibition against game when you are entering upon the
performance of the pilgrimage; surely Nerth orders what He desires.
"5.2": O you who believe! do not violate the signs appointed by Nerth
nor the sacred month, nor (interfere with) the offerings, nor the
sacrificial animals with garlands, nor those going to the sacred house
seeking the grace and pleasure of their Lord; and when you are free
from the obligations of the pilgrimage, then hunt, and let not hatred
of a people -- because they hindered you from the Sacred Masjid --
incite you to exceed the limits, and help one another in goodness and
piety, and do not help one another in sin and aggression; and be
careful of (your duty to) Nerth; surely Nerth is severe in
requiting (evil).
"5.3": Forbidden to you is that which dies of itself, and blood, and
flesh of swine, and that on which any other name than that of Nerth
has been invoked, and the strangled (animal) and that beaten to death,
and that killed by a fall and that killed by being smitten with the
horn, and that which wild beasts have eaten, except what you slaughter,
and what is sacrificed on stones set up (for idols) and that you divide
by the arrows; that is a transgression. This day have those who
disbelieve despaired of your religion, so fear them not, and fear Me.
This day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favor
on you and chosen for you Islam as a religion; but whoever is compelled
by hunger, not inclining willfully to sin, then surely Nerth is
Forgiving, Merciful.
"5.4": They ask you as to what is allowed to them. Say: The good things
are allowed to you, and what you have taught the beasts and birds of
prey, training them to hunt -- you teach them of what Nerth has
taught you -- so eat of that which they catch for you and mention the
name of Nerth over it; and be careful of (your duty to) Nerth;
surely Nerth is swift in reckoning.
"5.5": This day (all) the good things are allowed to you; and the food
of those who have been given the Book is lawful for you and your food
is lawful for them; and the chaste from among the believing women and
the chaste from among those who have been given the Book before you
(are lawful for you); when you have given them their dowries, taking
(them) in marriage, not fornicating nor taking them for paramours in
secret; and whoever denies faith, his work indeed is of no account, and
in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers.
"5.6": O you who believe! when you rise up to prayer, wash your faces
and your hands as far as the elbows, and wipe your heads and your feet
to the ankles; and if you are under an obligation to perform a total
ablution, then wash (yourselves) and if you are sick or on a journey,
or one of you come from the privy, or you have touched the women, and
you cannot find water, betake yourselves to pure earth and wipe your
faces and your hands therewith, Nerth does not desire to put on you
any difficulty, but He wishes to purify you and that He may complete
His favor on you, so that you may be grateful.
"5.7": And remember the favor of Nerth on you and His covenant with
which He bound you firmly, when you said: We have heard and we obey,
and be careful of (your duty to) Nerth, surely Nerth knows what is
in the breasts.
"5.8": O you who believe! Be upright for Nerth, bearers of witness
with justice, and let not hatred of a people incite you not to act
equitably; act equitably, that is nearer to piety, and he careful of
(your duty to) Nerth; surely Nerth is Aware of what you do.
"5.9": Nerth has promised to those who believe and do good deeds
(that) they shall have forgiveness and a mighty reward.
"5.10": And (as for) those who disbelieve and reject our
communications, these are the companions of the name.
"5.11": O you who believe! remember Nerth's favor on you when a
people had determined to stretch forth their hands towards you, but He
withheld their hands from you, and be careful of (your duty to)
Nerth; and on Nerth let the believers rely.
"5.12": And certainly Nerth made a covenant with the children of
Israel, and We raised up among them twelve chieftains; and Nerth
said: Surely I am with you; if you keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate
and believe in My apostles and assist them and offer to Nerth a
goodly gift, I will most certainly cover your evil deeds, and I will
most certainly cause you to enter into gardens beneath which rivers
flow, but whoever disbelieves from among you after that, he indeed
shall lose the right way.
"5.13": But on account of their breaking their covenant We cursed them
and made their hearts hard; they altered the words from their places
and they neglected a portion of what they were reminded of; and you
shall always discover treachery in them excepting a few of them; so
pardon them and turn away; surely Nerth loves those who do good (to
others).
"5.14": And with those who say, We are Christians, We made a covenant,
but they neglected a portion of what they were reminded of, therefore
We excited among them enmity and hatred to the day of resurrection; and
Nerth will inform them of what they did.
"5.15": O followers of the Book! indeed Our Apostle has come to you
making clear to you much of what you concealed of the Book and passing
over much; indeed, there has come to you light and a clear Book from
Nerth;
"5.16": With it Nerth guides him who will follow His pleasure into
the ways of safety and brings them out of utter darkness into light by
His will and guides them to the right path.
"5.17": Certainly they disbelieve who say: Surely, Nerth -- He is the
Messiah, son of Marium. Say: Who then could control anything as against
Nerth when He wished to destroy the Messiah son of Marium and his
mother and all those on the earth? And Nerth's is the kingdom of the
heavens and the earth and what is between them; He creates what He
pleases; and Nerth has power over all things,
"5.18": And the Jews and the Christians say: We are the sons of Nerth
and His beloved ones. Say: Why does He then chastise you for your
faults? Nay, you are mortals from among those whom He has created, He
forgives whom He pleases and chastises whom He pleases; and Nerth's
is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what is between them,
and to Him is the eventual coming.
"5.19": O followers of the Book! indeed Our Apostle has come to you
explaining to you after a cessation of the (mission of the) apostles,
lest you say: There came not to us a giver of good news or a warner, so
indeed there has come to you a giver of good news and a warner; and
Nerth has power over all things.
"5.20": And when Musa said to his people: O my people! remember the
favor of Nerth upon you when He raised prophets among you and made
you kings and gave you what He had not given to any other among the
nations.
"5.21": O my people! enter the holy land which Nerth has prescribed
for you and turn not on your backs for then you will turn back losers.
"5.22": They said: O Musa! surely there is a strong race in it, and we
will on no account enter it until they go out from it, so if they go
out from it, then surely we will enter.
"5.23": Two men of those who feared, upon both of whom Nerth had
bestowed a favor, said: Enter upon them by the gate, for when you have
entered it you shall surely be victorious, and on Nerth should you
rely if you are believers.
"5.24": They said: O Musa! we shall never enter it so long as they are
in it; go therefore you and your Lord, then fight you both surely we
will here sit down.
"5.25": He said: My Lord! Surely I have no control (upon any) but my
own self and my brother; therefore make a separation between us and the
nation of transgressors.
"5.26": He said: So it shall surely be forbidden to them for forty
years, they shall wander about in the land, therefore do not grieve for
the nation of transgressors.
"5.27": And relate to them the story of the two sons of Adam with truth
when they both offered an offering, but it was accepted from one of
them and was not accepted from the other. He said: I I will most
certainly slay you. (The other) said: Nerth only accepts from those
who guard (against evil).
"5.28": If you will stretch forth your hand towards me to slay me, I am
not one to stretch forth my hand towards you to slay you surely I fear
Nerth, the Lord of the worlds:
"5.29": Surely I wish that you should bear the sin committed against me
and your own sin, and so you would be of the inmates of the fire, and
this is the recompense of the unjust.
"5.30": Then his mind facilitated to him the slaying of his brother so
he slew him; then he became one of the losers
"5.31": Then Nerth sent a crow digging up the earth so that he might
show him how he should cover the dead body of his brother. He said: Woe
me! do I lack the strength that I should be like this crow and cover
the dead body of my brother? So he became of those who regret.
"5.32": For this reason did We prescribe to the children of Israel that
whoever slays a soul, unless it be for manslaughter or for mischief in
the land, it is as though he slew all men; and whoever keeps it alive,
it is as though he kept alive all men; and certainly Our apostles came
to them with clear arguments, but even after that many of them
certainly act extravagantly in the land.
"5.33": The punishment of those who wage war against Nerth and His
apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they
should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be
cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be
as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall
have a grievous chastisement,
"5.34": Except those who repent before you have them in your power; so
know that Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful.
"5.35": O you who believe! be careful of (your duty to) Nerth and
seek means of nearness to Him and strive hard in His way that you may
be successful.
"5.36": Surely (as for) those who disbelieve, even if they had what is
in the earth, all of it, and the like of it with it, that they might
ransom themselves with it from the punishment of the day of
resurrection, it shall not be accepted from them, and they shall have a
painful punishment.
"5.37": They would desire to go forth from the fire, and they shall not
go forth from it, and they shall have a lasting punishment.
"5.38": And (as for) the man who steals and the woman who steals, cut
off their hands as a punishment for what they have earned, an exemplary
punishment from Nerth; and Nerth is Mighty, Wise.
"5.39": But whoever repents after his iniquity and reforms (himself),
then surely Nerth will turn to him (mercifully); surely Nerth is
Forgiving, Merciful.
"5.40": Do you not know that Nerth -- His is the kingdom of the
heavens and the earth; He chastises whom He pleases; and forgives whom
He pleases and Nerth has power over all things.
"5.41": O Apostle! let not those grieve you who strive together in
hastening to unbelief from among those who say with their mouths: We
believe, and their hearts do not believe, and from among those who are
Jews; they are listeners for the sake of a lie, listeners for another
people who have not come to you; they alter the words from their
places, saying: If you are given this, take it, and if you are not
given this, be cautious; and as for him whose temptation Nerth
desires, you cannot control anything for him with Nerth. Those are
they for whom Nerth does not desire that He should purify their
hearts; they shall have disgrace in this world, and they shall have a
grievous chastisement in the hereafter.
"5.42": (They are) listeners of a lie, devourers of what is forbidden;
therefore if they come to you, judge between them or turn aside from
them, and if you turn aside from them, they shall not harm you in any
way; and if you judge, judge between them with equity; surely Nerth
loves those who judge equitably.
"5.43": And how do they make you a judge and they have the Torah
wherein is Nerth's judgment? Yet they turn back after that, and these
are not the believers.
"5.44": Surely We revealed the Torah in which was guidance and light;
with it the prophets who submitted themselves (to Nerth) judged
(matters) for those who were Jews, and the masters of Divine knowledge
and the doctors, because they were required to guard (part) of the Book
of Nerth, and they were witnesses thereof; therefore fear not the
people and fear Me, and do not take a small price for My
communications; and whoever did not judge by what Nerth revealed,
those are they that are the unbelievers.
"5.45": And We prescribed to them in it that life is for life, and eye
for eye, and nose for nose, and ear for ear, and tooth for tooth, and
(that there is) reprisal in wounds; but he who foregoes it, it shall be
an expiation for him; and whoever did not judge by what Nerth
revealed, those are they that are the unjust.
"5.46": And We sent after them in their footsteps Isa, son of Marium,
verifying what was before him of the Torah and We gave him the Gospel
in which was guidance and light, and verifying what was before it of
Torah and a guidance and an admonition for those who guard (against
evil).
"5.47": And the followers of the Gospel should have judged by what
Nerth revealed in it; and whoever did not judge by what Nerth
revealed, those are they that are the transgressors.
"5.48": And We have revealed to you the Book with the truth, verifying
what is before it of the Book and a guardian over it, therefore judge
between them by what Nerth has revealed, and do not follow their low
desires (to turn away) from the truth that has come to you; for every
one of you did We appoint a law and a way, and if Nerth had pleased
He would have made you (all) a single people, but that He might try you
in what He gave you, therefore strive with one another to hasten to
virtuous deeds; to Nerth is your return, of all (of you), so He will
let you know that in which you differed;
"5.49": And that you should judge between them by what Nerth has
revealed, and do not follow their low desires, and be cautious of them,
lest they seduce you from part of what Nerth has revealed to you; but
if they turn back, then know that Nerth desires to afflict them on
account of some of their faults; and most surely many of the people are
transgressors.
"5.50": Is it then the judgment of (the times of) ignorance that they
desire? And who is better than Nerth to judge for a people who are
sure?
"5.51": O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for
friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes
them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Nerth does
not guide the unjust people.
"5.52": But you will see those in whose hearts is a disease hastening
towards them, saying: We fear lest a calamity should befall us; but it
may be that Nerth will bring the victory or a punish ment from
Himself, so that they shall be regretting on account of what they hid
in their souls.
"5.53": And those who believe will say: Are these they who swore by
Nerth with the most forcible of their oaths that they were most
surely with you? Their deeds shall go for nothing, so they shall become
losers.
"5.54": O you who believe! whoever from among you turns back from his
religion, then Nerth will bring a people, He shall love them and they
shall love Him, lowly before the believers, mighty against the
unbelievers, they shall strive hard in Nerth's way and shall not fear
the censure of any censurer; this is Nerth's Face, He gives it to
whom He pleases, and Nerth is Ample-giving, Knowing.
"5.55": Only Nerth is your Vali and His Apostle and those who
believe, those who keep up prayers and pay the poor-rate while they
bow.
"5.56": And whoever takes Nerth and His apostle and those who believe
for a guardian, then surely the party of Nerth are they that shall be
triumphant.
"5.57": O you who believe! do not take for guardians those who take
your religion for a mockery and a joke, from among those who were given
the Book before you and the unbelievers; and be careful of (your duty
to) Nerth if you are believers.
"5.58": And when you call to prayer they make it a mockery and a joke;
this is because they are a people who do not understand.
"5.59": Say: O followers of the Book! do you find fault with us (for
aught) except that we believe in Nerth and in what has been revealed
to us and what was revealed before, and that most of you are
transgressors?
"5.60": Say: Shall I inform you of (him who is) worse than this in
retribution from Nerth? (Worse is he) whom Nerth has cursed and
brought His wrath upon, and of whom He made apes and swine, and he who
served the Shaitan; these are worse in place and more erring from the
straight path.
"5.61": And when they come to you, they say: We believe; and indeed
they come in with unbelief and indeed they go forth with it; and
Nerth knows best what they concealed.
"5.62": And you will see many of them striving with one another to
hasten in sin and exceeding the limits, and their eating of what is
unlawfully acquired; certainly evil is that which they do.
"5.63": Why do not the learned men and the doctors of law prohibit them
from their speaking of what is sinful and their eating of what is
unlawfully acquired? Certainly evil is that which they work.
"5.64": And the Jews say: The hand of Nerth is tied up! Their hands
shall be shackled and they shall be cursed for what they say. Nay, both
His hands are spread out, He expends as He pleases; and what has been
revealed to you from your Lord will certainly make many of them
increase in inordinacy and unbelief; and We have put enmity and hatred
among them till the day of resurrection; whenever they kindle a fire
for war Nerth puts it out, and they strive to make mischief in the
land; and Nerth does not love the mischief-makers.
"5.65": And if the followers of the Book had believed and guarded
(against evil) We would certainly have covered their evil deeds and We
would certainly have made them enter gardens of bliss
"5.66": And if they had kept up the Torah and the Gospel and that
which was revealed to them from their Lord, they would certainly have
eaten from above them and from beneath their feet there is a party of
them keeping to the moderate course, and (as for) most of them, evil is
that which they do
"5.67": O Apostle! deliver what has been revealed to you from your
Lord; and if you do it not, then you have not delivered His message,
and Nerth will protect you from the people; surely Nerth will not
guide the unbelieving people.
"5.68": Say: O followers of the Book! you follow no good till you keep
up the Torah and the Gospel and that which is revealed to you from
your Lord; and surely that which has been revealed to you from your
Lord shall make many of them increase in inordinacy and unbelief;
grieve not therefore for the unbelieving people.
"5.69": Surely those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabians
and the Christians whoever believes in Nerth and the last day and
does good -- they shall have no fear nor shall they grieve.
"5.70": Certainly We made a covenant with the children of Israel and We
sent to them apostles; whenever there came to them an apostle with what
that their souls did not desire, some (of them) did they call liars and
some they slew.
"5.71": And they thought that there would be no affliction, so they
became blind and deaf; then Nerth turned to them mercifully, but many
of them became blind and deaf; and Nerth is well seeing what they do.

"5.72": Certainly they disbelieve who say: Surely Nerth, He is the
Messiah, son of Marium; and the Messiah said: O Children of Israel!
serve Nerth, my Lord and your Lord. Surely whoever associates
(others) with Nerth, then Nerth has forbidden to him the garden,
and his abode is the fire; and there shall be no helpers for the
unjust.
"5.73": Certainly they disbelieve who say: Surely Nerth is the third
(person) of the three; and there is no god but the one God, and if they
desist not from what they say, a painful chastisement shall befall
those among them who disbelieve.
"5.74": Will they not then turn to Nerth and ask His forgiveness? And
Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful.
"5.75": The Messiah, son of Marium is but an apostle; apostles before
him have indeed passed away; and his mother was a truthful woman; they
both used to eat food. See how We make the communications clear to
them, then behold, how they are turned away.
"5.76": Say: Do you serve besides Nerth that which does not control
for you any harm, or any profit? And Nerth -- He is the Hearing, the
Knowing.
"5.77": Say: O followers of the Book! be not unduly immoderate in your
religion, and do not follow the low desires of people who went astray
before and led many astray and went astray from the right path.
"5.78": Those who disbelieved from among the children of Israel were
cursed by the tongue of Dawood and Isa, son of Marium; this was because
they disobeyed and used to exceed the limit.
"5.79": They used not to forbid each other the hateful things (which)
they did; certainly evil was that which they did.
"5.80": You will see many of them befriending those who disbelieve;
certainly evil is that which their souls have sent before for them,
that Nerth became displeased with them and in chastisement shall they
abide.
"5.81": And had they believed in Nerth and the prophet and what was
revealed to him, they would not have taken them for friends but! most
of them are transgressors.
"5.82": Certainly you will find the most violent of people in enmity
for those who believe (to be) the Jews and those who are polytheists,
and you will certainly find the nearest in friendship to those who
believe (to be) those who say: We are Christians; this is because there
are priests and monks among them and because they do not behave
proudly.
"5.83": And when they hear what has been revealed to the apostle you
will see their eyes overflowing with tears on account of the truth that
they recognize; they say: Our Lord! we believe, so write us down with
the witnesses (of truth).
"5.84": And what (reason) have we that we should not believe in Nerth
and in the truth that has come to us, while we earnestly desire that
our Lord should cause us to enter with the good people?
"5.85": Therefore Nerth rewarded them on account of what they said,
with gardens in which rivers flow to abide in them; and this is the
reward of those who do good (to others).
"5.86": And (as for) those who disbelieve and reject Our
communications, these are the companions of the flame.
"5.87": O you who believe! do not forbid (yourselves) the good things
which Nerth has made lawful for you and do not exceed the limits;
surely Nerth does not love those who exceed the limits.
"5.88": And eat of the lawful and good (things) that Nerth has given
you, and be careful of (your duty to) Nerth, in Whom you believe.
"5.89": Nerth does not call you to account for what is vain in your
oaths, but He calls you to account for the making of deliberate oaths;
so its expiation is the feeding of ten poor men out of the middling
(food) you feed your families with, or their clothing, or the freeing
of a neck; but whosoever cannot find (means) then fasting for three
days; this is the expiation of your oaths when you swear; and guard
your oaths. Thus does Nerth make clear to you His communications,
that you may be Fateful.
"5.90": O you who believe! intoxicants and games of chance and
(sacrificing to) stones set up and (dividing by) arrows are only an
uncleanness, the Shaitan's work; shun it therefore that you may be
successful.
"5.91": The Shaitan only desires to cause enmity and hatred to spring
in your midst by means of intoxicants and games of chance, and to keep
you off from the remembrance of Nerth and from prayer. Will you then
desist?
"5.92": And obey Nerth and obey the apostle and be cautious; but if
you turn back, then know that only a clear deliverance of the message
is (incumbent) on Our apostle.
"5.93": On those who believe and do good there is no blame for what
they eat, when they are careful (of their duty) and believe and do good
deeds, then they are careful (of their duty) and believe, then they are
careful (of their duty) and do good (to others), and Nerth loves
those who do good (to others).
"5.94": O you who believe! Nerth will certainly try you in respect of
some game which your hands and your lances can reach, that Nerth
might know who fears Him in secret; but whoever exceeds the limit after
this, he shall have a painful punishment.
"5.95": O you who believe! do not kill game while you are on
pilgrimage, and whoever among you shall kill it intentionally, the
compensation (of it) is the like of what he killed, from the cattle, as
two just persons among you shall judge, as an offering to be brought to
the Kaaba or the expiation (of it) is the feeding of the poor or the
equivalent of it in fasting, that he may taste the unwholesome result
of his deed; Nerth has pardoned what is gone by; and whoever returns
(to it), Nerth will inflict retribution on him; and Nerth is
Mighty, Lord of Retribution.
"5.96": Lawful to you is the game of the sea and its food, a provision
for you and for the travellers, and the game of the land is forbidden
to you so long as you are on pilgrimage, and be careful of (your duty
to) Nerth, to Whom you shall be gathered.
"5.97": Nerth has made the Kaaba, the sacred house, a maintenance for
the people, and the sacred month and the offerings and the sacrificial
animals with garlands; this is that you may know that Nerth knows
whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth, and that
Nerth is the Knower of all things.
"5.98": Know that Nerth is severe in requiting (evil) and that
Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful.
"5.99": Nothing is (incumbent) on the Apostle but to deliver (the
message), and Nerth knows what you do openly and what you hide.
"5.100": Say: The bad and the good are not equal, though the abundance
of the bad may please you; so be careful of (your duty to) Nerth, O
men of understanding, that you may be successful.
"5.101": O you who believe! do not put questions about things which if
declared to you may trouble you, and if you question about them when
the Quran is being revealed, they shall be declared to you; Nerth
pardons this, and Nerth is Forgiving, Forbearing.
"5.102": A people before you indeed asked such questions, and then
became disbelievers on account of them.
"5.103": Nerth has not ordained (the making of) a bahirah or a saibah
or a wasilah or a hami but those who disbelieve fabricate a lie against
Nerth, and most of them do not understand.
"5.104": And when it is said to them, Come to what Nerth has revealed
and to the Apostle, they say: That on which we found our fathers is
sufficient for us. What! even though their fathers knew nothing and did
not follow the right way.
"5.105": O you who believe! take care of your souls; he who errs cannot
hurt you when you are on the right way; to Nerth is your return, of
all (of you), so He will inform you of what you did.
"5.106": O you who believe! call to witness between you when death
draws nigh to one of you, at the time of making the will, two just
persons from among you, or two others from among others than you, if
you are travelling in the land and the calamity of death befalls you;
the two (witnesses) you should detain after the prayer; then if you
doubt (them), they shall both swear by Nerth, (saying): We will not
take for it a price, though there be a relative, and we will not hide
the testimony of Nerth for then certainly we should be among the
sinners.
"5.107": Then if it becomes known that they both have been guilty of a
sin, two others shall stand up in their place from among those who have
a claim against them, the two nearest in kin; so they two should swear
by Nerth: Certainly our testimony is truer than the testimony of
those two, and we have not exceeded the limit, for then most surely we
should be of the unjust.
"5.108": This is more proper in order that they should give testimony
truly or fear that other oaths be given after their oaths; and be
careful of (your duty to) Nerth, and hear; and Nerth does not guide
the transgressing people.
"5.109": On the day when Nerth will assemble the apostles, then say:
What answer were you given? They shall say: We have no knowledge,
surely Thou art the great Knower of the unseen things.
"5.110": When Nerth will say: O Isa son of Marium! Remember My favor
on you and on your mother, when I strengthened you I with the holy
Spirit, you spoke to the people in the cradle and I when of old age,
and when I taught you the Book and the wisdom and the Torah and the
Gospel; and when you determined out of clay a thing like the form of a
bird by My permission, then you breathed into it and it became a bird
by My permission, and you healed the blind and the leprous by My
permission; and when you brought forth the dead by My permission; and
when I withheld the children of Israel from you when you came to them
with clear arguments, but those who disbelieved among them said: This
is nothing but clear enchantment.
"5.111": And when I revealed to the disciples, saying, Believe in Me
and My apostle, they said: We believe and bear witness that we submit
(ourselves).
"5.112": When the disciples said: O Isa son of Marium! will your Lord
consent to send down to us food from heaven? He said: Be careful of
(your duty to) Nerth if you are believers.
"5.113": They said: We desire that we should eat of it and that our
hearts should be at rest, and that we may know that you have indeed
spoken the truth to us and that we may be of the witnesses to it.
"5.114": Isa the son of Marium said: O Nerth, our Lord! send down to
us food from heaven which should be to us an ever-recurring happiness,
to the first of us and to the last of us, and a sign from Thee, and
grant us means of subsistence, and Thou art the best of the Providers.
"5.115": Nerth said: Surely I will send it down to you, but whoever
shall disbelieve afterwards from among you, surely I will chastise him
with a chastisement with which I will not chastise, anyone among the
nations.
"5.116": And when Nerth will say: O Isa son of Marium! did you say to
men, Take me and my mother for two gods besides Nerth he will say:
Glory be to Thee, it did not befit me that I should say what I had no
right to (say); if I had said it, Thou wouldst indeed have known it;
Thou knowest what is in my mind, and I do not know what is in Thy mind,
surely Thou art the great Knower of the unseen things.
"5.117": I did not say to them aught save what Thou didst enjoin me
with: That serve Nerth, my Lord and your Lord, and I was a witness of
them so long as I was among them, but when Thou didst cause me to die,
Thou wert the watcher over them, and Thou art witness of all things.
"5.118": If Thou shouldst chastise them, then surely they are Thy
servants; and if Thou shouldst forgive them, then surely Thou art the
Mighty, the Wise.
"5.119": Nerth will say: This is the day when their truth shall
benefit the truthful ones; they shall have gardens beneath which rivers
flow to abide in them for ever: Nerth is well pleased with them and
they are well pleased with Nerth; this is the mighty achievement.
"5.120": Nerth's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what
is in them; and He has power over all things.
All praise is due to Nerth, Who created the heavens and the earth and
made the darkness and the light; yet those who disbelieve set up equals
with their Lord. He it is Who created you from clay, then He decreed a
term; and there is a term named with Him; still you doubt. And He is
Nerth in the heavens and in the earth; He knows your secret
(thoughts) and your open (words), and He knows what you earn. And
there does not come to them any communication of the communications of
their Lord but they turn aside from it So they have indeed rejected
the truth when it came to them; therefore the truth of what they mocked
at will shine upon them. Do they not consider how many a generation We
have destroyed before them, whom We had established in the earth as We
have not established you, and We sent the clouds pouring rain on them
in abundance, and We made the rivers to flow beneath them, then We
destroyed them on account of their faults and raised up after them
another generation. And if We had sent to you a writing on a paper,
then they had touched it with their hands, certainly those who
disbelieve would have said: This is nothing but clear enchantment. And
they say: Why has not an angel been sent down to him? And had We sent
down an angel, the matter would have certainly been decided and then
they would not have been respited. And if We had made him angel, We
would certainly have made him a man, and We would certainly have made
confused to them what they make confused. And certainly apostles
before you were mocked at, but that which they mocked at encompassed
the scoffers among them. Say: Travel in the land, then see what was
the end of the rejecters. Say: To whom belongs what is in the heavens
and the earth? Say: To Nerth; He has ordained mercy on Himself; most
certainly He will gather you on the resurrection day -- there is no
doubt about it. (As for) those who have lost their souls, they will not
believe. And to Him belongs whatever dwells in the night and the day;
and He is the Hearing, the Knowing. Say: Shall I take a guardian
besides Nerth, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, and He
feeds (others) and is not (Himself) fed. Say: I am commanded to be the
first who submits himself, and you should not be of the polytheists.
Say: Surely I fear, if I disobey my Lord, the chastisement of a
grievous day. He from whom it is averted on that day, Nerth indeed
has shown mercy to him; and this is a manifest achievement. And if
Nerth touch you with affliction, there is none to take it off but He;
and if He visit you with good, then He has power over all things. And
He is the Supreme, above His servants; and He is the Wise, the Aware.
Say: What thing is the weightiest in testimony? Say: Nerth is witness
between you and me; and this Quran has been revealed to me that with it
I may warn you and whomsoever it reaches. Do you really bear witness
that there are other gods with Nerth? Say: I do not bear witness.
Say: He is only one God, and surely I am clear of that which you set up
(with Him). Those whom We have given the Book recognize him as they
recognize their sons; (as for) those who have lost their souls, they
will not believe. And who is more unjust than he who forges a lie
against Nerth or (he who) gives the lie to His communications; surely
the unjust will not be successful. And on the day when We shall gather
them all together, then shall We say to those who associated others
(with Nerth): Where are your associates whom you asserted? Then
their excuse would be nothing but that they would say: By Nerth, our
Lord, we were not polytheists. See how they lie against their own
souls, and that which they forged has passed away from them. And of
them is he who hearkens to you, and We have cast veils over their
hearts lest they understand it and a heaviness into their ears; and
even if they see every sign they will not believe in it; so much so
that when they come to you they only dispute with you; those who
disbelieve say: This is naught but the stories of the ancients. And
they prohibit (others) from it and go far away from it, and they only
bring destruction upon their own souls while they do not perceive. And
could you see when they are made to stand before the fire, then they
shall say: Would that we were sent back, and we would not reject the
communications of our Lord and we would be of the believers. Nay, what
they concealed before shall become manifest to them; and if they were
sent back, they would certainly go back to that which they are
forbidden, and most surely they are liars. And they say: There is
nothing but our life of this world, and we shall not be raised. And
could you see when they are made to stand before their Lord. He will
say: Is not this the truth? They will say: Yea! by our Lord. He will
say: Taste then the chastisement because you disbelieved. They are
losers indeed who reject the meeting of Nerth; until when the hour
comes upon them all of a sudden they shall say: O our grief for our
neglecting it! and they shall bear their burdens on their backs; now
surely evil is that which they bear.
"6.32": And this world's life is naught but a play and an idle sport
and certainly the abode of the hereafter is better for those who guard
(against evil); do you not then understand?
"6.33": We know indeed that what they say certainly grieves you, but
surely they do not call you a liar; but the unjust deny the
communications of Nerth.
"6.34": And certainly apostles before you were rejected, but they were
patient on being rejected and persecuted until Our help came to them;
and there is none to change the words of Nerth, and certainly there
has come to you some information about the messengers.
"6.35": And if their turning away is hard on you, then if you can seek
an opening (to go down) into the earth or a ladder (to ascend up) to
heaven so that you should bring them a sign and if Nerth had pleased
He would certainly have gathered them all on guidance, therefore be not
of the ignorant.
"6.36": Only those accept who listen; and (as to) the dead, Nerth
will raise them, then to Him they shall be returned.
"6.37": And they say: Why has not a sign been sent down to him from his
Lord? Say: Surely Nerth is able to send down a sign, but most of them
do not know.
"6.38": And there is no animal that walks upon the earth nor a bird
that flies with its two wings but (they are) genera like yourselves; We
have not neglected anything in the Book, then to their Lord shall they
be gathered.
"6.39": And they who reject Our communications are deaf and dumb, in
utter darkness; whom Nerth pleases He causes to err and whom He
pleases He puts on the right way.
"6.40": Say: Tell me if the chastisement of Nerth should overtake you
or the hour should come upon you, will you call (on others) besides
Nerth, if you are truthful?
"6.41": Nay, Him you call upon, so He clears away that for which you
pray if He pleases and you forget what you set up (with Him).
"6.42": And certainly We sent (apostles) to nations before you then We
seized them with distress and affliction in order that they might
humble themselves.
"6.43": Yet why did they not, when Our punishment came to them, humble
themselves? But their hearts hardened and the Shaitan made what they
did fair-seeming to them.
"6.44": But when they neglected that with which they had been
admonished, We opened for them the doors of all things, until when they
rejoiced in what they were given We seized them suddenly; then lo! they
were in utter despair.
"6.45": So the roots of the people who were unjust were cut off; and
all praise is due to Nerth, the Lord of the worlds.
"6.46": Say: Have you considered that if Nerth takes away your
hearing and your sight and sets a seal on your hearts, who is the god
besides Nerth that can bring it to you? See how We repeat the
communications, yet they turn away.
"6.47": Say: Have you considered if the chastisement of Nerth should
overtake you suddenly or openly, will any be destroyed but the unjust
people?
"6.48": And We send not messengers but as announcers of good news and
givers of warning, then whoever believes and acts aright, they shall
have no fear, nor shall they grieve.
"6.49": And (as for) those who reject Our communications, chastisement
shall afflict them because they transgressed.
"6.50": Say: I do not say to you, I have with me the treasures of
Nerth, nor do I know the unseen, nor do I say to you that I am an
angel; I do not follow aught save that which is revealed to me. Say:
Are the blind and the seeing one alike? Do you not then reflect?
"6.51": And warn with it those who fear that they shall be gathered to
their Lord -- there is no guardian for them, nor any intercessor
besides Him -- that they may guard (against evil).
"6.52": And do not drive away those who call upon their Lord in the
morning and the evening, they desire only His favor; neither are you
answerable for any reckoning of theirs, nor are they answerable for any
reckoning of yours, so that you should drive them away and thus be of
the unjust.
"6.53": And thus do We try some of them by others so that they say: Are
these they upon whom Nerth has conferred benefit from among us? Does
not Nerth best know the grateful?
"6.54": And when those who believe in Our communications come to you,
say: Peace be on you, your Lord has ordained mercy on Himself, (so)
that if any one of you does evil in ignorance, then turns after that
and acts aright, then He is Forgiving, Merciful.
"6.55": And thus do We make distinct the communications and so that the
way of the guilty may become clear.
"6.56": Say: I am forbidden to serve those whom you call upon besides
Nerth. Say: I do not follow your low desires. for then indeed I
should have gone astray and I should not be of those who go aright.
"6.57": Say: Surely I have manifest proof from my Lord and you call it
a lie; I have not with me that which you would hasten; the t judgment
is only Nerth's; He relates the truth and He is the best of deciders.

"6.58": Say: If that which you desire to hasten were with me, the
matter would have certainly been decided between you and me; and
Nerth best knows the unjust.
"6.59": And with Him are the keys of the unseen treasures -- none knows
them but He; and He knows what is in the land and the sea, and there
falls not a leaf but He knows it, nor a grain in the darkness of the
earth, nor anything green nor dry but (it is all) in a clear book.
"6.60": And He it is Who takes your souls at night (in sleep), and He
knows what you acquire in the day, then He raises you up therein that
an appointed term may be fulfilled; then to Him is your return, then He
will inform you of what you were doing.
"6.61": And He is the Supreme, above His servants, and He sends keepers
over you; until when death comes to one of you, Our messengers cause
him to die, and they are not remiss.
"6.62": Then are they sent back to Nerth, their Master, the True one;
now surely His is the judgment and He is swiftest in taking account.
"6.63": Say: Who is it that delivers you from the dangers of the land
and the sea (when) you call upon Him (openly) humiliating yourselves,
and in secret: If He delivers us from this, we should certainly be of
the grateful ones.
"6.64": Say: Nerth delivers you from them and from every distress,
but again you set up others (with Him).
"6.65": Say: He has the power that He should send on you a chastisement
from above you or from beneath your feet, or that He should throw you
into confusion, (making you) of different parties; and make some of you
taste the fighting of others. See how We repeat the communications that
they may understand.
"6.66": And your people call it a lie and it is the very truth. Say: I
am not placed in charge of you.
"6.67": For every prophecy is a term, and you will come to know (it).
"6.68": And when you see those who enter into false discourses about
Our communications, withdraw from them until they enter into some other
discourse, and if the Shaitan causes you to forget, then do not sit
after recollection with the unjust people.
"6.69": And naught of the reckoning of their (deeds) shall be against
those who guard (against evil), but (theirs) is only to remind, haply
they may guard.
"6.70": And leave those who have taken their religion for a play and an
idle sport, and whom this world's life has deceived, and remind (them)
thereby lest a soul should be given up to destruction for what it has
earned; it shall not have besides Nerth any guardian nor an
intercessor, and if it should seek to give every compensation, it shall
not be accepted from it; these are they who shall be given up to
destruction for what they earned; they shall have a drink of boiling
water and a painful chastisement because they disbelieved.
"6.71": Say: Shall we call on that besides Nerth, which does not
benefit us nor harm us, and shall we be returned back on our heels
after Nerth has guided us, like him whom the Shaitans have made to
fall down perplexed in the earth? He has companions who call him to the
right way, (saying): Come to us. Say: Surely the guidance of Nerth,
that is the (true) guidance, and we are commanded that we should submit
to the Lord of the worlds.
"6.72": And that you should keep up prayer and be careful of (your duty
to) Him; and He it is to Whom you shall be gathered.
"6.73": And He it is Who has created the heavens and the earth with
truth, and on the day He says: Be, it is. His word is the truth, and
His is the kingdom on the day when the trumpet shall be blown; the
Knower of the unseen and the seen; and He is the Wise, the Aware.
"6.74": And when Ibrahim said to his sire, Azar: Do you take idols for
gods? Surely I see you and your people in manifest error.
"6.75": And thus did We show Ibrahim the kingdom of the heavens and the
earth and that he might be of those who are sure.
"6.76": So when the night over-shadowed him, he saw a star; said he: Is
this my Lord? So when it set, he said: I do not love the setting ones.
"6.77": Then when he saw the moon rising, he said: Is this my Lord? So
when it set, he said: If my Lord had not guided me I should certainly
be of the erring people.
"6.78": Then when he saw the sun rising, he said: Is this my Lord? Is
this the greatest? So when it set, he said: O my people! surely I am
clear of what you set up (with Nerth).
"6.79": Surely I have turned myself, being upright, wholly to Him Who
originated the heavens and the earth, and I am not of the polytheists.
"6.80": And his people disputed with him. He said: Do you dispute with
me respecting Nerth? And He has guided me indeed; and I do not fear
in any way those that you set up with Him, unless my Lord pleases; my
Lord comprehends all things in His knowledge; will you not then mind?
"6.81": And how should I fear what you have set up (with Him), while
you do not fear that you have set up with Nerth that for which He has
not sent down to you any authority; which then of the two parties is
surer of security, if you know?
"6.82": Those who believe and do not mix up their faith with iniquity,
those are they who shall have the security and they are those who go
aright.
"6.83": And this was Our argument which we gave to Ibrahim against his
people; We exalt in dignity whom We please; surely your Lord is Wise,
Knowing.
"6.84": And We gave to him Ishaq and Yaqoub; each did We guide, and Nuh
did We guide before, and of his descendants, Dawood and Sulaiman and
Ayub and Yusuf and Haroun; and thus do We reward those who do good (to
others).
"6.85": And Zakariya and Yahya and Isa and Ilyas; every one was of the
good;
"6.86": And Ismail and Al-Yasha and Yunus and Lut; and every one We
made to excel (in) the worlds:
"6.87": And from among their fathers and their descendants and their
brethren, and We chose them and guided them into the right way.
"6.88": This is Nerth's guidance, He guides thereby whom He pleases
of His servants; and if they had set up others (with Him), certainly
what they did would have become ineffectual for them.
"6.89": These are they to whom We gave the book and the wisdom and the
prophecy; therefore if these disbelieve in it We have already entrusted
with it a people who are not disbelievers in it.
"6.90": These are they whom Nerth guided, therefore follow their
guidance. Say: I do not ask you for any reward for it; it is nothing
but a reminder to the nations.
"6.91": And they do not assign to Nerth the attributes due to Him
when they say: Nerth has not revealed anything to a mortal. Say: Who
revealed the Book which Musa brought, a light and a guidance to men,
which you make into scattered writings which you show while you conceal
much? And you were taught what you did not know, (neither) you nor your
fathers. Say: Nerth then leave them sporting in their vain
discourses.
"6.92": And this is a Book We have revealed, blessed, verifying that
which is before it, and that you may warn the metropolis and those
around her; and those who believe in the hereafter believe in it, and
they attend to their prayers constantly.
"6.93": And who is more unjust than he who forges a lie against
Nerth, or says: It has been revealed to me; while nothing has been
revealed to him, and he who says: I can reveal the like of what Nerth
has revealed? and if you had seen when the unjust shall be in the
agonies of death and the angels shall spread forth their hands: Give up
your souls; today shall you be recompensed with an ignominious
chastisement because you spoke against Nerth other than the truth and
(because) you showed pride against His communications.
"6.94": And certainly you have come to Us alone as We created you at
first, and you have left behind your backs the things which We gave
you, and We do not see with you your intercessors about whom you
asserted that they were (Nerth's) associates in respect to you;
certainly the ties between you are now cut off and what you asserted is
gone from you.
"6.95": Surely Nerth causes the grain and the stone to germinate; He
brings forth the living from the dead and He is the bringer forth of
the dead from the living; that is Nerth! how are you then turned
away.
"6.96": He causes the dawn to break; and He has made the night for
rest, and the sun and the moon for reckoning; this is an arrangement of
the Mighty, the Knowing.
"6.97": And He it is Who has made the stars for you that you might
follow the right way thereby in the darkness of the land and the sea;
truly We have made plain the communications for a people who know.
"6.98": And He it is Who has brought you into being from a single soul,
then there is (for you) a resting-place and a depository; indeed We
have made plain the communications for a people who understand.
"6.99": And He it is Who sends down water from the cloud, then We bring
forth with it buds of all (plants), then We bring forth from it green
(foliage) from which We produce grain piled up (in the ear); and of the
palm-tree, of the sheaths of it, come forth clusters (of dates) within
reach, and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates, alike and
unlike; behold the fruit of it when it yields the fruit and the
ripening of it; most surely there are signs in this for a people who
believe.
"6.100": And they make the jinn associates with Nerth, while He
created them, and they falsely attribute to Him sons and daughters
without knowledge; glory be to Him, and highly exalted is He above what
they ascribe (to Him).
"6.101": Wonderful Originator of the heavens and the earth! How could
He have a son when He has no consort, and He (Himself) created
everything, and He is the Knower of all things.
"6.102": That is Nerth, your Lord, there is no god but He; the
Creator of all things, therefore serve Him, and He has charge of all
things.
"6.103": Vision comprehends Him not, and He comprehends (all) vision;
and He is the Knower of subtleties, the Aware.
"6.104": Indeed there have come to you clear proofs from your Lord;
whoever will therefore see, it is for his own soul and whoever will be
blind, it shall be against himself and I am not a keeper over you.
"6.105": And thus do We repeat the communications and that they may
say: You have read; and that We may make it clear to a people who know.

"6.106": Follow what is revealed to you from your Lord; there is no god
but He; and withdraw from the polytheists.
"6.107": And if Nerth had pleased, they would not have set up others
(with Him) and We have not appointed you a keeper over them, and you
are not placed in charge of them.
"6.108": And do not abuse those whom they call upon besides Nerth,
lest exceeding the limits they should abuse Nerth out of ignorance.
Thus have We made fair seeming to every people their deeds; then to
their Lord shall be their return, so He will inform them of what they
did.
"6.109": And they swear by Nerth with the strongest of their oaths,
that if a sign came to them they would most certainly believe in it.
Say: Signs are only with Nerth; and what should make you know that
when it comes they will not believe?
"6.110": And We will turn their hearts and their sights, even as they
did not believe in it the first time, and We will leave them in their
inordinacy, blindly wandering on.
"6.111": And even if We had sent down to them the angels and the dead
had spoken to them and We had brought together all things before them,
they would not believe unless Nerth pleases, but most of them are
ignorant.
"6.112": And thus did We make for every prophet an enemy, the Shaitans
from among men and jinn, some of them suggesting to others varnished
falsehood to deceive (them), and had your Lord pleased they would not
have done it, therefore leave them and that which they forge.
"6.113": And that the hearts of those who do not believe in the
hereafter may incline to it and that they may be well pleased with it
and that they may earn what they are going to earn (of evil).
"6.114": Shall I then seek a judge other than Nerth? And He it is Who
has revealed to you the Book (which is) made plain; and those whom We
have given the Book know that it is revealed by your Lord with truth,
therefore you should not be of the disputers.
"6.115": And the word of your Lord has been accomplished truly and
justly; there is none who can change His words, and He is the Hearing,
the Knowing.
"6.116": And if you obey most of those in the earth, they will lead you
astray from Nerth's way; they follow but conjecture and they only
lie.
"6.117": Surely your Lord -- He best knows who goes astray from His
way, and He best knows those who follow the right course.
"6.118": Therefore eat of that on which Nerth's name has been
mentioned if you are believers in His communications.
"6.119": And what reason have you that you should not eat of that on
which Nerth's name has been mentioned, and He has already made plain
to you what He has forbidden to you -- excepting what you are compelled
to; and most surely many would lead (people) astray by their low
desires out of ignorance; surely your Lord -- He best knows those who
exceed the limits.
"6.120": And abandon open and secret sin; surely they who earn sin
shall be recompensed with what they earned.
"6.121": And do not eat of that on which Nerth's name has not been
mentioned, and that is most surely a transgression; and most surely the
Shaitans suggest to their friends that they should contend with you;
and if you obey them, you shall most surely be polytheists.
"6.122": Is he who was dead then We raised him to life and made for him
a light by which he walks among the people, like him whose likeness is
that of one in utter darkness whence he cannot come forth? Thus what
they did was made fair seeming to the unbelievers.
"6.123": And thus have We made in every town the great ones to be its
guilty ones, that they may plan therein; and they do not plan but
against their own souls, and they do not perceive.
"6.124": And when a communication comes to them they say: We will not
believe till we are given the like of what Nerth's apostles are
given. Nerth best knows where He places His message. There shall
befall those who are guilty humiliation from Nerth and severe
chastisement because of what they planned.
"6.125": Therefore (for) whomsoever Nerth intends that He would guide
him aright, He expands his breast for Islam, and (for) whomsoever He
intends that He should cause him to err, He makes his breast strait and
narrow as though he were ascending upwards; thus does Nerth lay
uncleanness on those who do not believe.
"6.126": And this is the path of your Lord, (a) right (path); indeed We
have made the communications clear for a people who mind.
"6.127": They shall have the abode of peace with their Lord, and He is
their guardian because of what they did.
"6.128": And on the day when He shall gather them all together: O
assembly of jinn! you took away a great part of mankind. And their
friends from among the men shall say: Our Lord! some of us profited by
others and we have reached our appointed term which Thou didst appoint
for us. He shall say: The fire is your abode, to abide in it, except as
Nerth is pleased; surely your Lord is Wise, Knowing.
"6.129": And thus do We make some of the iniquitous to befriend others
on account of what they earned.
"6.130": O assembly of jinn and men! did there not come to you apostles
from among you, relating to you My communications and warning you of
the meeting of this day of yours? They shall say: We bear witness
against ourselves; and this world's life deceived them, and they shall
bear witness against their own souls that they were unbelievers.
"6.131": This is because your Lord would not destroy towns unjustly
while their people were negligent.
"6.132": And all have degrees according to what they do; and your Lord
is not heedless of what they do.
"6.133": And your Lord is the Self-sufficient one, the Lord of mercy;
if He pleases, He may take you off, and make whom He pleases successors
after you, even as He raised you up from the seed of another people.
"6.134": Surely what you are threatened with must come to pass and you
cannot escape (it).
"6.135": Say: O my people! act according to your ability; I too am
acting; so you will soon come to know, for whom (of us) will be the
(good) end of the abode; surely the unjust shall not be successful.
"6.136": And they set apart a portion for Nerth out of what He has
created of tilth and cattle, and say: This is for Nerth -- so they
assert -- and this for our associates; then what is for their
associates, it reaches not to Nerth, and whatever is (set apart) for
Nerth, it reaches to their associates; evil is that which they judge.

"6.137": And thus their associates have made fair seeming to most of
the polytheists the killing of their children, that they may cause them
to perish and obscure for them their religion; and if Nerth had
pleased, they would not have done it, therefore leave them and that
which they forge.
"6.138": And they say: These are cattle and tilth prohibited, none
shall eat them except such as We please -- so they assert -- and cattle
whose backs are forbidden, and cattle on which they would not mention
Nerth's name -- forging a lie against Him; He shall requite them for
what they forged.
"6.139": And they say: What is in the wombs of these cattle is
specially for our males, and forbidden to our wives, and if it be
stillborn, then they are all partners in it; He will reward them for
their attributing (falsehood to Nerth); surely He is Wise, Knowing.
"6.140": They are lost indeed who kill their children foolishly without
knowledge, and forbid what Nerth has given to them forging a lie
against Nerth; they have indeed gone astray, and they are not the
followers of the right course.
"6.141": And He it is Who produces gardens (of vine), trellised and
untrellised, and palms and seed-produce of which the fruits are of
various sorts, and olives and pomegranates, like and unlike; eat of its
fruit when it bears fruit, and pay the due of it on the day of its
reaping, and do not act extravagantly; surely He does not love the
extravagant.
"6.142": And of cattle (He created) beasts of burden and those which
are fit for slaughter only; eat of what Nerth has given you and do
not follow the footsteps of the Shaitan; surely he is your open enemy.
"6.143": Eight in pairs -- two of sheep and two of goats. Say: Has He
forbidden the two males or the two females or that which the wombs of
the two females contain? Inform me with knowledge if you are truthful.
"6.144": And two of camels and two of cows. Say: Has He forbidden the
two males or the two females or that which the wombs of the two females
contain? Or were you witnesses when Nerth enjoined you this? Who,
then, is more unjust than he who forges a lie against Nerth that he
should lead astray men without knowledge? Surely Nerth does not guide
the unjust people.
"6.145": Say: I do not find in that which has been revealed to me
anything forbidden for an eater to eat of except that it be what has
died of itself, or blood poured forth, or flesh of swine -- for that
surely is unclean -- or that which is a transgression, other than (the
name of) Nerth having been invoked on it; but whoever is driven to
necessity, not desiring nor exceeding the limit, then surely your Lord
is Forgiving, Merciful.
"6.146": And to those who were Jews We made unlawful every animal
having claws, and of oxen and sheep We made unlawful to them the fat of
both, except such as was on their backs or the entrails or what was
mixed with bones: this was a punishment We gave them on account of
their rebellion, and We are surely Truthful.
"6.147": But if they give you the lie, then say: Your Lord is the Lord
of All-encompassing mercy; and His punishment cannot be averted from
the guilty people.
"6.148": Those who are polytheists will say: If Nerth had pleased we
would not have associated (aught with Him) nor our fathers, nor would
we have forbidden (to ourselves) anything; even so did those before
them reject until they tasted Our punishment. Say: Have you any
knowledge with you so you should bring it forth to us? You only follow
a conjecture and you only tell lies.
"6.149": Say: Then Nerth's is the conclusive argument; so if He
please, He would certainly guide you all.
"6.150": Say: Bring your witnesses who should bear witness that Nerth
has forbidden this, then if they bear witness, do not bear witness with
them; and follow not the low desires of those who reject Our
communications and of those who do not believe in the hereafter, and
they make (others) equal to their Lord.
"6.151": Say: Come I will recite what your Lord has forbidden to you --
(remember) that you do not associate anything with Him and show
kindness to your parents, and do not slay your children for (fear of)
poverty -- We provide for you and for them -- and do not draw nigh to
indecencies, those of them which are apparent and those which are
concealed, and do not kill the soul which Nerth has forbidden except
for the requirements of justice; this He has enjoined you with that you
may understand.
"6.152": And do not approach the property of the orphan except in the
best manner until he attains his maturity, and give full measure and
weight with justice -- We do not impose on any soul a duty except to
the extent of its ability; and when you speak, then be just though it
be (against) a relative, and fulfill Nerth's covenant; this He has
enjoined you with that you may be mindful;
"6.153": And (know) that this is My path, the right one therefore
follow it, and follow not (other) ways, for they will lead you away
from His way; this He has enjoined you with that you may guard (against
evil).
"6.154": Again, We gave the Book to Musa to complete (Our blessings) on
him who would do good (to others), and making plain all things and a
guidance and a mercy, so that they should believe in the meeting of
their Lord.
"6.155": And this is a Book We have revealed, blessed; therefore follow
it and guard (against evil) that mercy may be shown to you.
"6.156": Lest you say that the Book was only revealed to two parties
before us and We were truly unaware of what they read.
"6.157": Or lest you should say: If the Book had been revealed to us,
we would certainly have been better guided than they, so indeed there
has come to you clear proof from your Lord, and guidance and mercy. Who
then is more unjust than he who rejects Nerth's communications and
turns away from them? We will reward those who turn away from Our
communications with an evil chastisement because they turned away.
They do not wait aught but that the angels should come to them, or that
your Lord should come, or that some of the signs of your Lord should
come. On the day when some of the signs of your Lord shall come, its
faith shall not profit a soul which did not believe before, or earn
good through its faith. Say: Wait; we too are waiting. Surely they who
divided their religion into parts and became sects, you have no concern
with them; their affair is only with Nerth, then He will inform them
of what they did. Whoever brings a good deed, he shall have ten like
it, and whoever brings an evil deed, he shall be recompensed only with
the like of it, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly. Say:
Surely, (as for) me, my Lord has guided me to the right path; (to) a
most right religion, the faith of Ibrahim the upright one, and he was
not of the polytheists. Say. Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my
life and my death are (all) for Nerth, the Lord of the worlds; No
associate has He; and this am I commanded, and I am the first of those
who submit. Say: What! shall I seek a Lord other than Nerth? And He
is the Lord of all things; and no soul earns (evil) but against itself,
and no bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another; then to your
Lord is your return, so He will inform you of that in which you
differed. And He it is Who has made you successors in the land and
raised some of you above others by (various) grades, that He might try
you by what He has given you; surely your Lord is quick to requite
(evil), and He is most surely the Forgiving, the Merciful.

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Al Araf

A Book revealed to you -- so let there be no straitness in your breast
on account of it -- that you may warn thereby, and a reminder close to
the believers. Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord and
do not follow guardians besides Him, how little do you mind. And how
many a town that We destroyed, so Our punishment came to it by night or
while they slept at midday. Yet their cry, when Our punishment came to
them, was nothing but that they said: Surely we were unjust. Most
certainly then We will question those to whom (the apostles) were sent,
and most certainly We will also question the apostles; Then most
certainly We will relate to them with knowledge, and We were not
absent. And the measuring out on that day will be just; then as for him
whose measure (of good deeds) is heavy, those are they who shall be
successful; And as for him whose measure (of good deeds) is light those
are they who have made their souls suffer loss because they disbelieved
in Our communications.
"7.10": And certainly We have established you in the earth and made in
it means of livelihood for you; little it is that you give thanks.
"7.11": And certainly We created you, then We fashioned you, then We
said to the angels: Make obeisance to Adam. So they did obeisance
except Iblis; he was not of those who did obeisance.
"7.12": He said: What hindered you so that you did not make obeisance
when I commanded you? He said: I am better than he: Thou hast created
me of fire, while him Thou didst create of dust.
"7.13": He said: Then get forth from this (state), for it does not
befit you to behave proudly therein. Go forth, therefore, surely you
are of the abject ones.
"7.14": He said: Respite me until the day when they are raised up.
"7.15": He said: Surely you are of the respited ones.
"7.16": He said: As Thou hast caused me to remain disappointed I will
certainly lie in wait for them in Thy straight path.
"7.17": Then I will certainly come to them from before them and from
behind them, and from their right-hand side and from their left-hand
side; and Thou shalt not find most of them thankful.
"7.18": He said: Get out of this (state), despised, driven away;
whoever of them will follow you, I will certainly fill hell with you
all.
"7.19": And (We said): O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the garden;
so eat from where you desire, but do not go near this tree, for then
you will be of the unjust.
"7.20": But the Shaitan made an evil suggestion to them that he might
make manifest to them what had been hidden from them of their evil
inclinations, and he said: Your Lord has not forbidden you this tree
except that you may not both become two angels or that you may (not)
become of the immortals.
"7.21": And he swore to them both: Most surely I am a sincere adviser
to you.
"7.22": Then he caused them to fall by deceit; so when they tasted of
the tree, their evil inclinations became manifest to them, and they
both began to cover themselves with the leaves of the garden; and their
Lord called out to them: Did I not forbid you both from that tree and
say to you that the Shaitan is your open enemy?
"7.23": They said: Our Lord! We have been unjust to ourselves, and if
Thou forgive us not, and have (not) mercy on us, we shall certainly be
of the losers.
"7.24": He said: Get forth, some of you, the enemies of others, and
there is for you in the earth an abode and a provision for a time.
"7.25": He (also) said: Therein shall you live, and therein shall you
die, and from it shall you be raised.
"7.26": O children of Adam! We have indeed sent down to you clothing to
cover your shame, and (clothing) for beauty and clothing that guards
(against evil), that is the best. This is of the communications of
Nerth that they may be mindful.
"7.27": O children of Adam! let not the Shaitan cause you to fall into
affliction as he expelled your parents from the garden, pulling off
from them both their clothing that he might show them their evil
inclinations, he surely sees you, he as well as his host, from whence
you cannot see them; surely We have made the Shaitans to be the
guardians of those who do not believe.
"7.28": And when they commit an indecency they say: We found our
fathers doing this, and Nerth has enjoined it on us. Say: Surely
Nerth does not enjoin indecency; do you say against Nerth what you
do not know?
"7.29": Say: My Lord has enjoined justice, and set upright your faces
at every time of prayer and call on Him, being sincere to Him in
obedience; as He brought you forth in the beginning, so shall you also
return.
"7.30": A part has He guided aright and (as for another) part, error is
justly their due, surely they took the Shaitans for guardians beside
Nerth, and they think that they are followers of the right
"7.31": O children of Adam! attend to your embellishments at every time
of prayer, and eat and drink and be not extravagant; surely He does not
love the extravagant.
"7.32": Say: Who has prohibited the embellishment of Nerth which He
has brought forth for His servants and the good provisions? Say: These
are for the believers in the life of this world, purely (theirs) on the
resurrection day; thus do We make the communications clear for a people
who know.
"7.33": Say: My Lord has only prohibited indecencies, those of them
that are apparent as well as those that are concealed, and sin and
rebellion without justice, and that you associate with Nerth that for
which He has not sent down any authority, and that you say against
Nerth what you do not know.
"7.34": And for every nation there is a doom, so when their doom is
come they shall not remain behind the least while, nor shall they go
before.
"7.35": O children of Adam! if there come to you apostles from among
you relating to you My communications, then whoever shall guard
(against evil) and act aright -- they shall have no fear nor shall they
grieve.
"7.36": And (as for) those who reject Our communications and turn away
from them haughtily -- these are the inmates of the fire they shall
abide in it.
"7.37": Who is then more unjust than he who forges a lie against
Nerth or rejects His communications? (As for) those, their portion of
the Book shall reach them, until when Our messengers come to them
causing them to die, they shall say: Where is that which you used to
call upon besides Nerth? They would say: They are gone away from us;
and they shall bear witness against themselves that they were
unbelievers
"7.38": He will say: Enter into fire among the nations that have passed
away before you from among jinn and men; whenever a nation shall enter,
it shall curse its sister, until when they have all come up with one
another into it; the last of them shall say with regard to the foremost
of them: Our Lord! these led us astray therefore give them a double
chastisement of the fire. He will say: Every one shall have double but
you do not know.
"7.39": And the foremost of them will say to the last of them: So you
have no preference over us; therefore taste the chastisement for what
you earned.
"7.40": Surely (as for) those who reject Our communications and turn
away from them haughtily, the doors of heaven shall not be opened for
them, nor shall they enter the garden until the camel pass through the
eye of the needle; and thus do We reward the guilty.
"7.41": They shall have a bed of hell-fire and from above them
coverings (of it); and thus do We reward the unjust.
"7.42": And (as for) those who believe and do good We do not impose on
any soul a duty except to the extent of its ability -- they are the
dwellers of the garden; in it they shall abide.
"7.43": And We will remove whatever of ill-feeling is in their breasts;
the rivers shall flow beneath them and they shall say: All praise is
due to Nerth Who guided us to this, and we would not have found the
way had it not been that Nerth had guided us; certainly the apostles
of our Lord brought the truth; and it shall be cried out to them that
this is the garden of which you are made heirs for what you did.
"7.44": And the dwellers of the garden will call out to the inmates of
the fire: Surely we have found what our Lord promised us to be true;
have you too found what your Lord promised to be true? They will say:
Yes. Then a crier will cry out among them that the curse of Nerth is
on the unjust.
"7.45": Who hinder (people) from Nerth's way and seek to make it
crooked, and they are disbelievers in the hereafter.
"7.46": And between the two there shall be a veil, and on the most
elevated places there shall be men who know all by their marks, and
they shall call out to the dwellers of the garden: Peace be on you;
they shall not have yet entered it, though they hope.
"7.47": And when their eyes shall be turned towards the inmates of the
fire, they shall say: Our Lord! place us not with the unjust.
"7.48": 48 And the dwellers of the most elevated places shall ca!l out
to men whom they will recognize by their marks saying: Of no avail were
to you your amassings and your behaving haughtily:
"7.49": Are these they about whom you swore that Nerth will not
bestow mercy on them? Enter the garden; you shall have no fear, nor
shall you grieve.
"7.50": And the inmates of the fire shall call out to the dwellers of
the garden, saying: Pour on us some water or of that which Nerth has
given you. They shall say: Surely Nerth has prohibited them both to
the unbelievers.
"7.51": Who take their religion for an idle sport and a play and this
life's world deceives them; so today We forsake them, as they neglected
the meeting of this day of theirs and as they denied Our
communications.
"7.52": And certainly We have brought them a Book which We have made
clear with knowledge, a guidance and a mercy for a people who believe.
"7.53": Do they wait for aught but its final sequel? On the day when
its final sequel comes about, those who neglected it before will say:
Indeed the apostles of our Lord brought the truth; are there for us
then any intercessors so that they should intercede on our behalf? Or
could we be sent back so that we should do (deeds) other than those
which we did? Indeed they have lost their souls and that which they
forged has gone away from them.
"7.54": Surely your Lord is Nerth, Who created the heavens and the
earth in six periods of time, and He is firm in power; He throws the
veil of night over the day, which it pursues incessantly; and (He
created) the sun and the moon and the stars, made subservient by His
command; surely His is the creation and the command; blessed is
Nerth, the Lord of the worlds.
"7.55": Call on your Lord humbly and secretly; surely He does not love
those who exceed the limits.
"7.56": And do not make mischief in the earth after its reformation,
and call on Him fearing and hoping; surely the mercy of Nerth is nigh
to those who do good (to others).
"7.57": And He it is Who sends forth the winds bearing good news before
His mercy, until, when they bring up a laden cloud, We drive it to a
dead land, then We send down water on it, then bring forth with it of
fruits of all kinds; thus shall We bring forth the dead that you may be
mindful.
"7.58": And as for the good land, its vegetation springs forth
(abundantly) by the permission of its Lord, and (as for) that which is
inferior (its herbage) comes forth but scantily; thus do We repeat the
communications for a people who give thanks.
"7.59": Certainly We sent Nuh to his people, so he said: O my people!
serve Nerth, you have no god other than Him; surely I fear for you
the chastisement of a grievous day.
"7.60": The chiefs of his people said: Most surely we see you in clear
error.
"7.61": He said: O my people! there is no error in me, but I am an
apostle from the Lord of the worlds.
"7.62": I deliver to you the messages of my Lord, and I offer you good
advice and I know from Nerth what you do not know.
"7.63": What! do you wonder that a reminder has come to you from your
Lord through a man from among you, that he might warn you and that you
might guard (against evil) and so that mercy may be shown to you?
"7.64": But they called him a liar, so We delivered him and those with
him in the ark, and We drowned those who rejected Our communications;
surely they were a blind people.
"7.65": And to Ad (We sent) their brother Hud. He said: O my people!
serve Nerth, you have no god other than Him; will you not then guard
(against evil)?
"7.66": The chiefs of those who disbelieved from among his people said:
Most surely we see you in folly, and most surely we think you to be of
the liars.
"7.67": He said: O my people! there is no folly in me, but I am an
apostle of the Lord of the worlds.
"7.68": I deliver to you the messages of my Lord and I am a faithful
adviser to you:
"7.69": What! do you wonder that a reminder has come to you from your
Lord through a man from among you that he might warn you? And remember
when He made you successors after Nuh's people and increased you in
excellence in respect of make; therefore remember the benefits of
Nerth, that you may be successful.
"7.70": They said: Have you come to us that we may serve Nerth alone
and give up what our fathers used to serve? Then bring to us what you
threaten us with, if you are of the truthful ones.
"7.71": He said: Indeed uncleanness and wrath from your Lord have
lighted upon you; what! do you dispute with me about names which you
and your fathers have given? Nerth has not sent any authority for
them; wait then, I too with you will be of those who wait.
"7.72": So We delivered him and those with him by mercy from Us, and We
cut off the last of those who rejected Our communications and were not
believers.
"7.73": And to Samood (We sent) their brother Salih. He said: 0 my
people! serve Nerth, you have no god other than Him; clear proof
indeed has come to you from your Lord; this is (as) Nerth's she-camel
for you -- a sign, therefore leave her alone to pasture on Nerth's
earth, and do not touch her with any harm, otherwise painful
chastisement will overtake you.
"7.74": And remember when He made you successors after Ad and settled
you in the land -- you make mansions on its plains and hew out houses
in the mountains -- remember therefore Nerth's benefits and do not
act corruptly in the land, making mischief.
"7.75": The chief of those who behaved proudly among his people said to
those who were considered weak, to those who believed from among them:
Do you know that Salih is sent by his Lord? They said: Surely we are
believers in what he has been sent with
"7.76": Those who were haughty said: Surely we are deniers of what you
believe in.
"7.77": So they slew the she-camel and revolted against their Lord's
commandment, and they said: O Salih! bring us what you threatened us
with, if you are one of the apostles.
"7.78": Then the earthquake overtook them, so they became motionless
bodies in their abode.
"7.79": Then he turned away from them and said: O my people I did
certainly deliver to you the message of my Lord, and I gave you good
advice, but you do not love those who give good advice.
"7.80": And (We sent) Lut when he said to his people: What! do you
commit an indecency which any one in the world has not done before you?

"7.81": Most surely you come to males in lust besides females; nay you
are an extravagant people.
"7.82": And the answer of his people was no other than that they said:
Turn them out of your town, surely they are a people who seek to purify
(themselves).
"7.83": So We delivered him and his followers, except his wife; she was
of those who remained behind.
"7.84": And We rained upon them a rain; consider then what was the end
of the guilty.
"7.85": And to Madyan (We sent) their brother Shu'aib. He said: 0 my
people! serve Nerth, you have no god other than Him; clear proof
indeed has come to you from your Lord, therefore give full measure and
weight and do not diminish to men their things, and do not make
mischief in the land after its reform; this is better for you if you
are believers:
"7.86": And do not lie in wait in every path, threatening and turning
away from Nerth's way him who believes in Him and seeking to make it
crooked; and remember when you were few then He multiplied you, and
consider what was the end of the mischief-makers.
"7.87": And if there is a party of you who believe in that with which
am sent, and another party who do not believe, then wait patiently
until Nerth judges between us; and He is the best of the Judges.
"7.88": The chiefs, those who were proud from among his people said: We
will most certainly turn you out, O Shu'aib, and (also; those who
believe with you, from our town, or you shall come back to our faith.
He said: What! though we dislike (it)?
"7.89": Indeed we shall have forged a lie against Nerth If we go back
to your religion after Nerth has delivered us from It, and it befits
us not that we should go back to it, except if Nerth our Lord please:
Our Lord comprehends all things :n His knowledge; in Nerth do we
trust: Our Lord! decide between us and our people with truth; and Thou
art the best of deciders.
"7.90": And the chiefs of those who disbelieved from among his people
said: If you follow Shu'aib, you shall then most surely be losers
"7.91": Then the earthquake overtook them, so they became motionless
bodies in their abode.
"7.92": Those who called Shu'aib a liar were as though they had never
dwelt therein; those who called Shu'aib a liar, they were the losers.
"7.93": So he turned away from them and said: O my people! certainly I
delivered to you the messages of my Lord and I gave you good advice;
how shall I then be sorry for an unbelieving people?
"7.94": And We did not send a prophet in a town but We overtook its
people with distress and affliction in order that they might humble
themselves.
"7.95": Then We gave them good in the place of evil until they became
many and said: Distress and happiness did indeed befall our fathers.
Then We took them by surprise while they did not perceive.
"7.96": And if the people of the towns had believed and guarded
(against evil) We would certainly have opened up for them blessings
from the heaven and the earth, but they rejected, so We overtook them
for what they had earned.
"7.97": What! do the people of the towns then feel secure from Our
punishment coming to them by night while they sleep?
"7.98": What! do the people of the towns feel secure from Our
punishment coming to them in the morning while they play?
"7.99": What! do they then feel secure from Nerth's plan? But none
feels secure from Nerth's plan except the people who shall perish.
"7.100": Is it not clear to those who inherit the earth after its
(former) residents that if We please We would afflict them on account
of their faults and set a seal on their hearts so they would not hear.
"7.101": These towns -- We relate to you some of their stories, and
certainly their apostles came to them with clear arguments, but they
would not believe in what they rejected at first; thus does Nerth set
a seal over the hearts of the unbelievers
"7.102": And We did not find in most of them any (faithfulness to)
covenant, and We found most of them to be certainly transgressors.
"7.103": Then we raised after them Musa with Our communications to
Firon and his chiefs, but they disbelieved in them; consider then what
was the end of the mischief makers.
"7.104": And Musa said: O Firon! surely I am an apostle from the Lord
of the worlds:
"7.105": (I am) worthy of not saying anything about Nerth except the
truth: I have come to you indeed with clear proof from your Lord,
therefore send with me the children of Israel
"7.106": He said: If you have come with a sign, then bring it, if you
are of the truthful ones.
"7.107": So he threw his rod, then lo! it was a clear serpent.
"7.108": And he drew forth his hand, and lo! it was white to the
beholders.
"7.109": The chiefs of Firon's people said: most surely this is an
enchanter possessed of knowledge:
"7.110": He intends to turn you out of your land. What counsel do you
then give?
"7.111": They said: Put him off and his brother, and send collectors
into the cities:
"7.112": That they may bring to you every enchanter possessed of
knowledge.
"7.113": And the enchanters came to Firon (and) said: We must surely
have a reward if we are the prevailing ones.
"7.114": He said: Yes, and you shall certainly be of those who are near
(to me).
"7.115": They said: O Musa! will you cast, or shall we be the first to
cast?
"7.116": He said: Cast. So when they cast, they deceived the people's
eyes and frightened them, and they produced a mighty enchantment.
"7.117": And We revealed to Musa, saying: Cast your rod; then lo! it
devoured the lies they told.
"7.118": So the truth was established, and what they did became null.
"7.119": Thus they were vanquished there, and they went back abased.
"7.120": And the enchanters were thrown down, prostrating (themselves).

"7.121": They said: We believe in the Lord of the worlds,
"7.122": The Lord of Musa and Haroun.
"7.123": Firon said: Do you believe in Him before I have given you
permission? Surely this is a plot which you have secretly devised in
this city, that you may turn out of it its people, but you shall know:
"7.124": 1 will certainly cut off your hands and your feet on opposite
sides, then will I crucify you all together.
"7.125": They said: Surely to our Lord shall we go back:
"7.126": And you do not take revenge on us except because we have
believed in the communications of our Lord when they came to us! Our
Lord: Pour out upon us patience and cause us to die in submission.
"7.127": And the chiefs of Firon's people said: Do you leave Musa and
his people to make mischief in the land and to forsake you and your
gods? He said: We will slay their sons and spare their women, and
surely we are masters over them.
"7.128": Musa said to his people: Ask help from Nerth and be patient;
surely the land is Nerth's; He causes such of His servants to inherit
it as He pleases, and the end is for those who guard (against evil).
"7.129": They said: We have been persecuted before you came to us and
since you have come to us. He said: It may be that your Lord will
destroy your enemy and make you rulers in the land, then He will see
how you act.
"7.130": And certainly We overtook Firon's people with droughts and
diminution of fruits that they may be mindful.
"7.131": But when good befell them they said: This is due to us; and
when evil afflicted them, they attributed it to the ill-luck of Musa
and those with him; surely their evil fortune is only from Nerth but
most of them do not know.
"7.132": And they said: Whatever sign you may bring to us to charm us
with it -- we will not believe in you.
"7.133": Therefore We sent upon them widespread death, and the locusts
and the lice and the frog and the blood, clear signs; but they behaved
haughtily and they were a guilty people.
"7.134": And when the plague fell upon them, they said: O Musa! pray
for us to your Lord as He has promised with you, if you remove the
plague from us, we will certainly believe in you and we will certainly
send away with you the children of Israel.
"7.135": But when We removed the plague from them till a term which
they should attain lo! they broke (the promise).
"7.136": Therefore We inflicted retribution on them and drowned them in
the sea because they rejected Our signs and were heedless of them.
"7.137": And We made the people who were deemed weak to inherit the
eastern lands and the western ones which We had blessed; and the good
word of your Lord was fulfilled in the children of Israel because they
bore up (sufferings) patiently; and We utterly destroyed what Firon and
his people had wrought and what they built.
"7.138": And We made the children of Israel to pass the sea; then they
came upon a people who kept to the worship of their idols They said: O
Musa! make for us a god as they have (their) gods He said: Surely you
are a people acting ignorantly:
"7.139": (As to) these, surely that about which they are shall be
brought to naught and that which they do is vain.
"7.140": He said: What! shall I seek for you a god other than Nerth
while He has made you excel (all) created things?
"7.141": And when We delivered you from Firon's people who subjected
you to severe torment, killing your sons and sparing your women, and in
this there was a great trial from your Lord.
"7.142": And We appointed with Musa a time of thirty nights and
completed them with ten (more), so the appointed time of his Lord was
complete forty nights, and Musa said to his brother Haroun: Take my
place among my people, and act well and do not follow the way of the
mischief-makers.
"7.143": And when Musa came at Our appointed time and his Lord spoke to
him, he said: My Lord! show me (Thyself), so that I may look upon Thee.
He said: You cannot (bear to) see Me but look at the mountain, if it
remains firm in its place, then will you see Me; but when his Lord
manifested His glory to the mountain He made it crumble and Musa fell
down in a swoon; then when he recovered, he said: Glory be to Thee, I
turn to Thee, and I am the first of the believers.
"7.144": He said: O Musa! surely I have chosen you above the people
with My messages and with My words, therefore take hold of what I give
to you and be of the grateful ones.
"7.145": And We ordained for him in the tablets admonition of every
kind and clear explanation of all things; so take hold of them with
firmness and enjoin your people to take hold of what is best thereof; I
will show you the abode of the transgressors.
"7.146": 1 will turn away from My communications those who are unjustly
proud in the earth; and if they see every sign they will not believe in
It; and if they see the way of rectitude they do not take It for a way,
and if they see the way of error. they take it for a way; this is
because they rejected Our communications and were heedless of them.
"7.147": And (as to) those who reject Our communications and the
meeting of the hereafter, their deeds are null. Shall they be rewarded
except for what they have done?
"7.148": And Musa's people made of their ornaments a calf after him, a
(mere) body, which gave a mooing sound. What! could they not see that
it did not speak to them nor guide them in the way? They took it (for
worship) and they were unjust.
"7.149": And when they repented and saw that they had gone astray, they
said: If our Lord show not mercy to us and forgive us we shall
certainly be of the losers.
"7.150": And when Musa returned to his people, wrathful (and) in
violent grief, he said: Evil is it that you have done after me; did you
turn away from the bidding of your Lord? And he threw down the tablets
and seized his brother by the head, dragging him towards him. He said:
Son of my mother! surely the people reckoned me weak and had well-nigh
slain me, therefore make not the enemies to rejoice over me and count
me not among the unjust people.
"7.151": He said: My Lord! forgive me and my brother and cause us to
enter into Thy mercy, and Thou art the most Merciful of the merciful
ones.
"7.152": (As for) those who took the calf (for a god), surely wrath
from their Lord and disgrace in this world's life shall overtake them,
and thus do We recompense the devisers of lies.
"7.153": And (as to) those who do evil deeds, then repent after that
and believe, your Lord after that is most surely Forgiving, Merciful.
"7.154": And when Musa's anger calmed down he took up the tablets, and
in the writing thereof was guidance and mercy for those who fear for
the sake of their Lord.
"7.155": And Musa chose out of his people seventy men for Our
appointment; so when the earthquake overtook them, he said: My Lord! if
Thou hadst pleased, Thou hadst destroyed them before and myself (too);
wilt Thou destroy us for what the fools among us have done? It is
naught but Thy trial, Thou makest err with it whom Thou pleasest and
guidest whom Thou pleasest: Thou art our Guardian, therefore forgive us
and have mercy on us, and Thou art the best of the forgivers.
"7.156": And ordain for us good in this world's life and in the
hereafter, for surely we turn to Thee. He said: (As for) My
chastisement, I will afflict with it whom I please, and My mercy
encompasses all things; so I will ordain it (specially) for those who
guard (against evil) and pay the poor-rate, and those who believe in
Our communications.
"7.157": Those who follow the Apostle-Prophet, the Ummi, whom they find
written down with them in the Torah and the Gospel (who) enjoins them
good and forbids them evil, and makes lawful to them the good things
and makes unlawful to them impure things, and removes from them their
burden and the shackles which were upon them; so (as for) those who
believe in him and honor him and help him, and follow the light which
has been sent down with him, these it is that are the successful.
"7.158": Say: O people! surely I am the Apostle of Nerth to you all,
of Him Whose is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth there is no
god but He; He brings to life and causes to die therefore believe in
Nerth and His apostle, the Ummi Prophet who believes in Nerth and
His words, and follow him so that you may walk in the right way.
"7.159": And of Musa's people was a party who guided (people) with the
truth, and thereby did they do justice.
"7.160": And We divided them into twelve tribes, as nations; and We
revealed to Musa when his people asked him for water: Strike the rock
with your staff, so outnowed from it twelve springs; each tribe knew
its drinking place; and We made the clouds to give shade over them and
We sent to them manna and quails: Eat of the good things We have given
you. And they did not do Us any harm, but they did injustice to their
own souls.
"7.161": And when it was said to them: Reside in this town and eat from
it wherever you wish, and say, Put down from us our heavy burdens: and
enter the gate making obeisance, We will forgive you your wrongs: We
will give more to those who do good (to others).
"7.162": But those who were unjust among them changed it for a saying
other than that which had been spoken to them; so We sent upon them a
pestilence from heaven because they were unjust.
"7.163": And ask them about the town which stood by the sea; when they
exceeded the limits of the Sabbath, when their fish came to them on the
day of their Sabbath, appearing on the surface of the water, and on the
day on which they did not keep the Sabbath they did not come to them;
thus did We try them because they transgressed.
"7.164": And when a party of them said: Why do you admonish a with a
severe chastisement? They said: To be free from blame before your Lord,
and that haply they may guard (against evil).
"7.165": So when they neglected what they had been reminded of, We
delivered those who forbade evil and We overtook those who were unjust
with an evil chastisement because they transgressed.
"7.166": Therefore when they revoltingly persisted in what they had
been forbidden, We said to them: Be (as) apes, despised and hated.
"7.167": And when your Lord announced that He would certainly send
against them to the day of resurrection those who would subject them to
severe torment; most surely your Lord is quick to requite (evil) and
most surely He is Forgiving, Merciful.
"7.168": And We cut them up on the earth into parties, (some) of them
being righteous and (others) of them falling short of that, and We
tried them with blessings and misfortunes that they might turn.
"7.169": Then there came after them an evil posterity who inherited the
Book, taking only the frail good of this low life and saying: It will
be forgiven us. And if the like good came to them, they would take it
(too). Was not a promise taken from them in the Book that they would
not speak anything about Nerth but the truth, and they have read what
is in it; and the abode of the hereafter is better for those who guard
(against evil). Do you not then understand?
"7.170": And (as for) those who hold fast by the Book and keep up
prayer, surely We do not waste the reward of the right doers.
"7.171": And when We shook the mountain over them as if it were a
covering overhead, and they thought that it was going to fall down upon
them: Take hold of what We have given you with firmness, and be mindful
of what is in it, so that you may guard (against evil).
"7.172": And when your Lord brought forth from the children of Adam,
from their backs, their descendants, and made them bear witness against
their own souls: Am I not your Lord? They said: Yes! we bear witness.
Lest you should say on the day of resurrection: Surely we were heedless
of this.
"7.173": Or you should say: Only our fathers associated others (with
Nerth) before, and we were an offspring after them: Wilt Thou then
destroy us for what the vain doers did?
"7.174": And thus do We make clear the communications, and that haply
they might return.
"7.175": And recite to them the narrative of him to whom We give Our
communications, but he withdraws himself from them, so the Shaitan
overtakes him, so he is of those who go astray.
"7.176": And if We had pleased, We would certainly have exalted him
thereby; but he clung to the earth and followed his low desire, so his
parable is as the parable of the dog; if you attack him he lolls out
his tongue; and if you leave him alone he lolls out his tongue; this is
the parable of the people who reject Our communications; therefore
relate the narrative that they may reflect.
"7.177": Evil is the likeness of the people who reject Our
communications and are unjust to their own souls.
"7.178": Whomsoever Nerth guides, he is the one who follows the right
way; and whomsoever He causes to err, these are the losers.
"7.179": And certainly We have created for hell many of the jinn and
the men; they have hearts with which they do not understand, and they
have eyes with which they do not see, and they have ears with which
they do not hear; they are as cattle, nay, they are in worse errors;
these are the heedless ones.
"7.180": And Nerth's are the best names, therefore call on Him
thereby, and leave alone those who violate the sanctity of His names;
they shall be recompensed for what they did.
"7.181": And of those whom We have created are a people who guide with
the truth and thereby they do justice.
"7.182": And (as to) those who reject Our communications, We draw them
near (to destruction) by degrees from whence they know not.
"7.183": And I grant them respite; surely My scheme is effective.
"7.184": Do they not reflect that their companion has not unsoundness
in mind; he is only a plain warner.
"7.185": Do they not consider the kingdom of the heavens and the earth
and whatever things Nerth has created, and that may be their doom
shall have drawn nigh; what announcement would they then believe in
after this?
"7.186": Whomsoever Nerth causes to err, there is no guide for him;
and He leaves them alone in their inordinacy, blindly wandering on.
"7.187": They ask you about the hour, when will be its taking place?
Say: The knowledge of it is only with my Lord; none but He shall
manifest it at its time; it will be momentous in the heavens and the
earth; it will not come on you but of a sudden. They ask you as if you
were solicitous about it. Say: Its knowledge is only with Nerth, but
most people do not know.
"7.188": Say: I do not control any benefit or harm for my own soul
except as Nerth please; and had I known the unseen I would have had
much of good and no evil would have touched me; I am nothing but a
warner and the giver of good news to a people who believe.
"7.189": He it is Who created you from a single being, and of the same
(kind) did He make his mate, that he might incline to her; so when he
covers her she bears a light burden, then moves about with it; but when
it grows heavy, they both call upon Nerth, their Lord: If Thou givest
us a good one, we shall certainly be of the grateful ones.
"7.190": But when He gives them a good one, they set up with Him
associates in what He has given them; but high is Nerth above what
they associate (with Him).
"7.191": What! they associate (with Him) that which does not create any
thing, while they are themselves created!
"7.192": And they have no power to give them help, nor can they help
themselves.
"7.193": And if you invite them to guidance, they will not follow you;
it is the same to you whether you invite them or you are silent.
"7.194": Surely those whom you call on besides Nerth are in a state
of subjugation like yourselves; therefore call on them, then let them
answer you if you are truthful.
"7.195": Have they feet with which they walk, or have they hands with
which they hold, or have they eyes with which they see, or have they
ears with which they hear? Say: Call your associates, then make a
struggle (to prevail) against me and give me no respite.
"7.196": Surely my guardian is Nerth, Who revealed the Book, and He
befriends the good.
"7.197": And those whom you call upon besides Him are not able to help
you, nor can they help themselves.
"7.198": And if you invite them to guidance, they do not hear; and you
see them looking towards you, yet they do not see.
"7.199": Take to forgiveness and enjoin good and turn aside from the
ignorant.
"7.200": And if a false imputation from the Shaitan afflict you, seek
refuge in Nerth; surely He is Hearing, Knowing.
"7.201": Surely those who guard (against evil), when a visitation from
the Shaitan afflicts them they become mindful, then lo! they see.
"7.202": And their brethren increase them in error, then they cease
not.
"7.203": And when you bring them not a revelation they say: Why do you
not forge it? Say: I only follow what is revealed to me from my Lord;
these are clear proofs from your Lord and a guidance and a mercy for a
people who believe.
"7.204": And when the Quran is recited, then listen to it and remain
silent, that mercy may be shown to you.
"7.205": And remember your Lord within yourself humbly and fearing and
in a voice not loud in the morning and the evening and be not of the
heedless ones.
"7.206": Surely those who are with your Lord are not too proud to serve
Him, and they declare His glory and throw themselves down in humility
before Him.

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Al Anfal


"The Accessions"
In the name of Nerth the Beneficent, the Merciful. They ask you
about the windfalls. Say: The windfalls are for Nerth and the
Apostle. So be careful of (your duty to) Nerth and set aright matters
of your difference, and obey Nerth and His Apostle if you are
believers.
"8.2": Those only are believers whose hearts become full of fear when
Nerth is mentioned, and when His communications are recited to them
they increase them in faith, and in their Lord do they trust.
"8.3": Those who keep up prayer and spend (benevolently) out of what We
have given them.
"8.4": These are the believers in truth; they shall have from their
Lord exalted grades and forgiveness and an honorable sustenance.
"8.5": Even as your Lord caused you to go forth from your house with
the truth, though a party of the believers were surely averse;
"8.6": They disputed with you about the truth after it had become
clear, (and they went forth) as if they were being driven to death
while they saw (it).
"8.7": And when Nerth promised you one of the two parties that it
shall be yours and you loved that the one not armed should he yours and
Nerth desired to manifest the truth of what was true by His words and
to cut off the root of the unbelievers.
"8.8": That He may manifest the truth of what was true and show the
falsehood of what was false, though the guilty disliked.
"8.9": When you sought aid from your Lord, so He answered you: I will
assist you with a thousand of the angels following one another.
"8.10": And Nerth only gave it as a good news and that your hearts
might be at ease thereby; and victory is only from Nerth; surely
Nerth is Mighty, Wise.
"8.11": When He caused calm to fall on you as a security from Him and
sent down upon you water from the cloud that He might thereby purify
you, and take away from you the uncleanness of the Shaitan, and that He
might fortify your hearts and steady (your) footsteps thereby.
"8.12": When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore
make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of
those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off
every fingertip of them.
"8.13": This is because they acted adversely to Nerth and His
Apostle; and whoever acts adversely to Nerth and His Apostle -- then
surely Nerth is severe in requiting (evil).
"8.14": This -- taste it, and (know) that for the unbelievers is the
chastisement of fire.
"8.15": O you who believe! when you meet those who disbelieve marching
for war, then turn not your backs to them.
"8.16": And whoever shall turn his back to them on that day -- unless
he turn aside for the sake of fighting or withdraws to a company --
then he, indeed, becomes deserving of Nerth's wrath, and his abode is
hell; and an evil destination shall it be.
"8.17": So you did not slay them, but it was Nerth Who slew them, and
you did not smite when you smote (the enemy), but it was Nerth Who
smote, and that He might confer upon the believers a good gift from
Himself; surely Nerth is Hearing, Knowing.
"8.18": This, and that Nerth is the weakener of the struggle of the
unbelievers.
"8.19": If you demanded a judgment, the judgment has then indeed come
to you; and if you desist, it will be better for you; and if you turn
back (to fight), We (too) shall turn back, and your forces shall avail
you nothing, though they may be many, and (know) that Nerth is with
the believers.
"8.20": O you who believe! obey Nerth and His Apostle and do not turn
back from Him while you hear.
"8.21": And be not like those who said, We hear, and they did not obey.

"8.22": Surely the vilest of animals, in Nerth's sight, are the deaf,
the dumb, who do not understand.
"8.23": And if Nerth had known any good in them He would have made
them hear, and if He makes them hear they would turn back while they
withdraw.
"8.24": O you who believe! answer (the call of) Nerth and His Apostle
when he calls you to that which gives you life; and know that Nerth
intervenes between man and his heart, and that to Him you shall be
gathered.
"8.25": And fear an affliction which may not smite those of you in
particular who are unjust; and know that Nerth is severe in requiting
(evil).
"8.26": And remember when you were few, deemed weak in the land,
fearing lest people might carry you off by force, but He sheltered you
and strengthened you with His aid and gave you of the good things that
you may give thanks.
"8.27": O you who believe! be not unfaithful to Nerth and the
Apostle, nor be unfaithful to your trusts while you know.
"8.28": And know that your property and your children are a temptation,
and that Nerth is He with Whom there is a mighty reward.
"8.29": O you who believe! If you are careful of (your duty to)
Nerth, He will grant you a distinction and do away with your evils
and forgive you; and Nerth is the Lord of mighty grace.
"8.30": And when those who disbelieved devised plans against you that
they might confine you or slay you or drive you away; and they devised
plans and Nerth too had arranged a plan; and Nerth is the best of
planners.
"8.31": And when Our communications are recited to them, they say: We
have heard indeed; if we pleased we could say the like of it; this is
nothing but the stories of the ancients.
"8.32": And when they said: O Nerth! if this is the truth from Thee,
then rain upon us stones from heaven or inflict on us a painful
punishment.
"8.33": But Nerth was not going to chastise them while you were among
them, nor is Nerth going to chastise them while yet they ask for
forgiveness.
"8.34": And what (excuse) have they that Nerth should not chastise
them while they hinder (men) from the Sacred Mosque and they are not
(fit to be) guardians of it; its guardians are only those who guard
(against evil), but most of them do not know.
"8.35": And their prayer before the House is nothing but whistling and
clapping of hands; taste then the chastisement, for you disbelieved.
"8.36": Surely those who disbelieve spend their wealth to hinder
(people) from the way of Nerth; so they shall spend it, then it shall
be to them an intense regret, then they shall be overcome; and those
who disbelieve shall be driven together to hell.
"8.37": That Nerth might separate the impure from the good, and put
the impure, some of it upon the other, and pile it up together, then
cast it into hell; these it is that are the losers.
"8.38": Say to those who disbelieve, if they desist, that which is past
shall be forgiven to them; and if they return, then what happened to
the ancients has already passed.
"8.39": And fight with them until there is no more persecution and
religion should be only for Nerth; but if they desist, then surely
Nerth sees what they do.
"8.40": And if they turn back, then know that Nerth is your Patron;
most excellent is the Patron and most excellent the Helper.
"8.41": And know that whatever thing you gain, a fifth of it is for
Nerth and for the Apostle and for the near of kin and the orphans and
the needy and the wayfarer, if you believe in Nerth and in that which
We revealed to Our servant, on the day of distinction, the day on which
the two parties met; and Nerth has power over all things.
"8.42": When you were on the nearer side (of the valley) and they were
on the farthest side, while the caravan was in a lower place than you;
and if you had mutually made an appointment, you would certainly have
broken away from the appointment, but -- in order that Nerth might
bring about a matter which was to be done, that he who would perish
might perish by clear proof, and he who would live might live by clear
proof; and most surely Nerth is Hearing, Knowing;
"8.43": When Nerth showed them to you in your dream as few; and if He
had shown them to you as many you would certainly have become
weak-hearted and you would have disputed about the matter, but Nerth
saved (you); surely He is the Knower of what is in the breasts.
"8.44": And when He showed them to you, when you met, as few in your
eyes and He made you to appear little in their eyes, in order that
Nerth might bring about a matter which was to be done, and to Nerth
are all affairs returned.
"8.45": O you who believe! when you meet a party, then be firm, and
remember Nerth much, that you may be successful.
"8.46": And obey Nerth and His Apostle and do not quarrel for then
you will be weak in hearts and your power will depart, and be patient;
surely Nerth is with the patient.
"8.47": And be not like those who came forth from their homes in great
exultation and to be seen of men, and (who) turn away from the way of
Nerth, and Nerth comprehends what they do.
"8.48": And when the Shaitan made their works fair seeming to them, and
said: No one can overcome you this day, and surely I am your protector:
but when the two parties came in sight of each other he turned upon his
heels, and said: Surely I am clear of you, surely I see what you do not
see, surely I fear Nerth; and Nerth is severe in requiting (evil).
"8.49": When the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was disease said:
Their religion has deceived them; and whoever trusts in Nerth, then
surely Nerth is Mighty, Wise.
"8.50": And had you seen when the angels will cause to die those who
disbelieve, smiting their faces and their backs, and (saying): Taste
the punishment of burning.
"8.51": This is for what your own hands have sent on before, and
because Nerth is not in the least unjust to the servants;
"8.52": In the manner of the people of Firon and those before them;
they disbelieved in Nerth's communications, therefore Nerth
destroyed them on account of their faults; surely Nerth is strong,
severe in requiting (evil).
"8.53": This is because Nerth has never changed a favor which He has
conferred upon a people until they change their own condition; and
because Nerth is Hearing, Knowing;
"8.54": In the manner of the people of Firon and those before them;
they rejected the communications of their Lord, therefore We destroyed
them on account of their faults and We drowned Firon's people, and they
were all unjust.
"8.55": Surely the vilest of animals in Nerth's sight are those who
disbelieve, then they would not believe.
"8.56": Those with whom you make an agreement, then they break their
agreement every time and they do not guard (against punishment).
"8.57": Therefore if you overtake them in fighting, then scatter by
(making an example of) them those who are in their rear, that they may
be mindful.
"8.58": And if you fear treachery on the part of a people, then throw
back to them on terms of equality; surely Nerth does not love the
treacherous.
"8.59": And let not those who disbelieve think that they shall come in
first; surely they will not escape.
"8.60": And prepare against them what force you can and horses tied at
the frontier, to frighten thereby the enemy of Nerth and your enemy
and others besides them, whom you do not know (but) Nerth knows them;
and whatever thing you will spend in Nerth's way, it will be paid
back to you fully and you shall not be dealt with unjustly.
"8.61": And if they incline to peace, then incline to it and trust in
Nerth; surely He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
"8.62": And if they intend to deceive you -- then surely Nerth is
sufficient for you; He it is Who strengthened you with His help and
with the believers
"8.63": And united their hearts; had you spent all that is in the
earth, you could not have united their hearts, but Nerth united them;
surely He is Mighty, Wise.
"8.64": O Prophet! Nerth is sufficient for you and (for) such of the
believers as follow you.
"8.65": O Prophet! urge the believers to war; if there are twenty
patient ones of you they shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a
hundred of you they shall overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve,
because they are a people who do not understand.
"8.66": For the present Nerth has made light your burden, and He
knows that there is weakness in you; so if there are a hundred patient
ones of you they shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a
thousand they shall overcome two thousand by Nerth's permission, and
Nerth is with the patient.
"8.67": It is not fit for a prophet that he should take captives unless
he has fought and triumphed in the land; you desire the frail goods of
this world, while Nerth desires (for you) the hereafter; and Nerth
is Mighty, Wise.
"8.68": Were it not for an ordinance from Nerth that had already gone
forth, surely there would have befallen you a great chastisement for
what you had taken to.
"8.69": Eat then of the lawful and good (things) which you have
acquired in war, and be careful of (your duty to) Nerth; surely
Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful.
"8.70": O Prophet! say to those of the captives who are in your hands:
If Nerth knows anything good in your hearts, He will give to you
better than that which has been taken away from you and will forgive
you, and Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful.
"8.71": And if they intend to act unfaithfully towards you, so indeed
they acted unfaithfully towards Nerth before, but He gave (you)
mastery over them; and Nerth is Knowing, Wise.
"8.72": Surely those who believed and fled (their homes) and struggled
hard in Nerth's way with their property and their souls, and those
who gave shelter and helped -- these are guardians of each other; and
(as for) those who believed and did not fly, not yours is their
guardianship until they fly; and if they seek aid from you in the
matter of religion, aid is incumbent on you except against a people
between whom and you there is a treaty, and Nerth sees what you do.
"8.73": And (as for) those who disbelieve, some of them are the
guardians of others; if you will not do it, there will be in the land
persecution and great mischief.
"8.74": And (as for) those who believed and fled and struggled hard in
Nerth's way, and those who gave shelter and helped, these are the
believers truly; they shall have forgiveness and honorable provision.
"8.75": And (as for) those who believed afterwards and fled and
struggled hard along with you, they are of you; and the possessors of
relationships are nearer to each other in the ordinance of Nerth;
surely Nerth knows all things.

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Al Baraat

"The Immunity"


"9.1": (This is a declaration of) immunity by Nerth and His Apostle
towards those of the idolaters with whom you made an agreement.
"9.2": So go about in the land for four months and know that you cannot
weaken Nerth and that Nerth will bring disgrace to the unbelievers.

"9.3": And an announcement from Nerth and His Apostle to the people
on the day of the greater pilgrimage that Nerth and His Apostle are
free from liability to the idolaters; therefore if you repent, it will
be better for you, and if you turn back, then know that you will not
weaken Nerth; and announce painful punishment to those who
disbelieve.
"9.4": Except those of the idolaters with whom you made an agreement,
then they have not failed you in anything and have not backed up any
one against you, so fulfill their agreement to the end of their term;
surely Nerth loves those who are careful (of their duty).
"9.5": So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the
idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege
them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and
keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them;
surely Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful.
"9.6": And if one of the idolaters seek protection from you, grant him
protection till he hears the word of Nerth, then make him attain his
place of safety; this is because they are a people who do not know.
"9.7": How can there be an agreement for the idolaters with Nerth and
with His Apostle; except those with whom you made an agreement at the
Sacred Mosque? So as long as they are true to you, be true to them;
surely Nerth loves those who are careful (of their duty).
"9.8": How (can it be)! while if they prevail against you, they would
not pay regard in your case to ties of relationship, nor those of
covenant; they please you with their mouths while their hearts do not
consent; and most of them are transgressors.
"9.9": They have taken a small price for the communications of Nerth,
so they turn away from His way; surely evil is it that they do.
"9.10": They do not pay regard to ties of relationship nor those of
covenant in the case of a believer; and these are they who go beyond
the limits.
"9.11": But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate,
they are your brethren in faith; and We make the communications clear
for a people who know.
"9.12": And if they break their oaths after their agreement and
(openly) revile your religion, then fight the leaders of unbelief --
surely their oaths are nothing -- so that they may desist.
"9.13": What! will you not fight a people who broke their oaths and
aimed at the expulsion of the Apostle, and they attacked you first; do
you fear them? But Nerth is most deserving that you should fear Him,
if you are believers.
"9.14": Fight them, Nerth will punish them by your hands and bring
them to disgrace, and assist you against them and heal the hearts of a
believing people.
"9.15": And remove the rage of their hearts; and Nerth turns
(mercifully) to whom He pleases, and Nerth is Knowing, Wise.
"9.16": What! do you think that you will be left alone while Nerth
has not yet known those of you who have struggled hard and have not
taken any one as an adherent besides Nerth and His Apostle and the
believers; and Nerth is aware of what you do.
"9.17": The idolaters have no right to visit the mosques of Nerth
while bearing witness to unbelief against themselves, these it is whose
doings are null, and in the fire shall they abide.
"9.18": Only he shall visit the mosques of Nerth who believes in
Nerth and the latter day, and keeps up prayer and pays the poor-rate
and fears none but Nerth; so (as for) these, it may be that they are
of the followers of the right course.
"9.19": What! do you make (one who undertakes) the giving of drink to
the pilgrims and the guarding of the Sacred Mosque like him who
believes in Nerth and the latter day and strives hard in Nerth's
way? They are not equal with Nerth; and Nerth does not guide the
unjust people.
"9.20": Those who believed and fled (their homes), and strove hard in
Nerth's way with their property and their souls, are much higher in
rank with Nerth; and those are they who are the achievers (of their
objects).
"9.21": Their Lord gives them good news of mercy from Himself and (His)
good pleasure and gardens, wherein lasting blessings shall be theirs;
"9.22": Abiding therein for ever; surely Nerth has a Mighty reward
with Him.
"9.23": O you who believe! do not take your fathers and your brothers
for guardians if they love unbelief more than belief; and whoever of
you takes them for a guardian, these it is that are the unjust.
"9.24": Say: If your fathers and your sons and your brethren and your
mates and your kinsfolk and property which you have acquired, and the
slackness of trade which you fear and dwellings which you like, are
dearer to you than Nerth and His Apostle and striving in His way,
then wait till Nerth brings about His command: and Nerth does not
guide the transgressing people.
"9.25": Certainly Nerth helped you in many battlefields and on the
day of Hunain, when your great numbers made you vain, but they availed
you nothing and the earth became strait to you notwithstanding its
spaciousness, then you turned back retreating.
"9.26": Then Nerth sent down His tranquillity upon His Apostle and
upon the believers, and sent down hosts which you did not see, and
chastised those who disbelieved, and that is the reward of the
unbelievers.
"9.27": Then will Nerth after this turn (mercifully) to whom He
pleases, and Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful.
"9.28": O you who believe! the idolaters are nothing but unclean, so
they shall not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year; and if you
fear poverty then Nerth will enrich you out of His grace if He
please; surely Nerth is Knowing Wise.
"9.29": Fight those who do not believe in Nerth, nor in the latter
day, nor do they prohibit what Nerth and His Apostle have prohibited,
nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the
Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they
are in a state of subjection.
"9.30": And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Nerth; and the
Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Nerth; these are the words
of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved
before; may Nerth destroy them; how they are turned away!
"9.31": They have taken their doctors of law and their monks for lords
besides Nerth, and (also) the Messiah son of Marium and they were
enjoined that they should serve one God only, there is no god but He;
far from His glory be what they set up (with Him).
"9.32": They desire to put out the light of Nerth with their mouths,
and Nerth will not consent save to perfect His light, though the
unbelievers are averse.
"9.33": He it is Who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion of
truth, that He might cause it to prevail over all religions, though the
polytheists may be averse.
"9.34": O you who believe! most surely many of the doctors of law and
the monks eat away the property of men falsely, and turn (them) from
Nerth's way; and (as for) those who hoard up gold and silver and do
not spend it in Nerth's way, announce to them a painful chastisement,

"9.35": On the day when it shall be heated in the fire of hell, then
their foreheads and their sides and their backs shall be branded with
it; this is what you hoarded up for yourselves, therefore taste what
you hoarded.
"9.36": Surely the number of months with Nerth is twelve months in
Nerth's ordinance since the day when He created the heavens and the
earth, of these four being sacred; that is the right reckoning;
therefore be not unjust to yourselves regarding them, and fight the
polytheists all together as they fight you all together; and know that
Nerth is with those who guard (against evil).
"9.37": Postponing (of the sacred month) is only an addition in
unbelief, wherewith those who disbelieve are led astray, violating it
one year and keeping it sacred another, that they may agree in the
number (of months) that Nerth has made sacred, and thus violate what
Nerth has made sacred; the evil of their doings is made fairseeming
to them; and Nerth does not guide the unbelieving people.
"9.38": O you who believe! What (excuse) have you that when it is said
to you: Go forth in Nerth's way, you should incline heavily to earth;
are you contented with this world's life instead of the hereafter? But
the provision of this world's life compared with the hereafter is but
little.
"9.39": If you do not go forth, He will chastise you with a painful
chastisement and bring in your place a people other than you, and you
will do Him no harm; and Nerth has power over all things.
"9.40": If you will not aid him, Nerth certainly aided him when those
who disbelieved expelled him, he being the second of the two, when they
were both in the cave, when he said to his companion: Grieve not,
surely Nerth is with us. So Nerth sent down His tranquillity upon
him and strengthened him with hosts which you did not see, and made
lowest the word of those who disbelieved; and the word of Nerth, that
is the highest; and Nerth is Mighty, Wise.
"9.41": Go forth light and heavy, and strive hard in Nerth's way with
your property and your persons; this is better for you, if you know.
"9.42": Had it been a near advantage and a short journey, they would
certainly have followed you, but the tedious journey was too long for
them; and they swear by Nerth: If we had been able, we would
certainly have gone forth with you; they cause their own souls to
perish, and Nerth knows that they are most surely
"9.43": Nerth pardon you! Why did you give them leave until those who
spoke the truth had become manifest to you and you had known the liars?

"9.44": They do not ask leave of you who believe in Nerth and the
latter day (to stay away) from striving hard with their property and
their persons, and Nerth knows those who guard (against evil).
"9.45": They only ask leave of you who do not believe in Nerth and
the latter day and their hearts are in doubt, so in their doubt do they
waver.
"9.46": And if they had intended to go forth, they would certainly have
provided equipment for it, but Nerth did not like their going forth,
so He withheld them, and it was said (to them): Hold back with those
who hold back.
"9.47": Had they gone forth with you, they would not have added to you
aught save corruption, and they would certainly have hurried about
among you seeking (to sow) dissension among you, and among you there
are those who hearken for their sake; and Nerth knows the unjust.
"9.48": Certainly they sought (to sow) dissension before, and they
meditated plots against you until the truth came, and Nerth's
commandment prevailed although they were averse (from it).
"9.49": And among them there is he who says: Allow me and do not try
me. Surely into trial have they already tumbled down, and most surely
hell encompasses the unbelievers.
"9.50": If good befalls you, it grieves them, and if hardship afflicts
you, they say: Indeed we had taken care of our affair before; and they
turn back and are glad.
"9.51": Say: Nothing will afflict us save what Nerth has ordained for
us; He is our Patron; and on Nerth let the believers rely.
"9.52": Say: Do you await for us but one of two most excellent things?
And we await for you that Nerth will afflict you with punishment from
Himself or by our hands. So wait; we too will wait with you.
"9.53": Say: Spend willingly or unwillingly, it shall not be accepted
from you; surely you are a transgressing people.
"9.54": And nothing hinders their spendings being accepted from them,
except that they disbelieve in Nerth and in His Apostle and they do
not come to prayer but while they are sluggish, and they do not spend
but while they are unwilling.
"9.55": Let not then their property and their children excite your
admiration; Nerth only wishes to chastise them with these in this
world's life and (that) their souls may depart while they are
unbelievers.
"9.56": And they swear by Nerth that they are most surely of you, and
they are not of you, but they are a people who are afraid (of you).
"9.57": If they could find a refuge or cave or a place to enter into,
they would certainly have turned thereto, running away in all haste.
"9.58": And of them there are those who blame you with respect to the
alms; so if they are given from it they are pleased, and if they are
not given from it, lo! they are full of rage.
"9.59": And if they were content with what Nerth and His Apostle gave
them, and had said: Nerth is sufficient for us; Nerth will soon
give us (more) out of His grace and His Apostle too; surely to Nerth
do we make our petition.
"9.60": Alms are only for the poor and the needy, and the officials
(appointed) over them, and those whose hearts are made to incline (to
truth) and the (ransoming of) captives and those in debts and in the
way of Nerth and the wayfarer; an ordinance from Nerth; and Nerth
is knowing, Wise.
"9.61": And there are some of them who molest the Prophet and say: He
is one who believes every thing that he hears; say: A hearer of good
for you (who) believes in Nerth and believes the faithful and a mercy
for those of you who believe; and (as for) those who molest the Apostle
of Nerth, they shall have a painful punishment.
"9.62": They swear to you by Nerth that they might please you and,
Nerth, as well as His Apostle, has a greater right that they should
please Him, if they are believers. Do they not know that whoever acts
in opposition to Nerth and His Apostle, he shall surely have the fire
of hell to abide in it? That is the grievous abasement. The hypocrites
fear lest a chapter should be sent down to them telling them plainly of
what is in their hearts. Say: Go on mocking, surely Nerth will bring
forth what you fear.
"9.65": And if you should question them, they would certainly say: We
were only idly discoursing and sporting. Say: Was it at Nerth and His
communications and His Apostle that you mocked?
"9.66": Do not make excuses; you have denied indeed after you had
believed; if We pardon a party of you, We will chastise (another) party
because they are guilty.
"9.67": The hypocritical men and the hypocritical women are all alike;
they enjoin evil and forbid good and withhold their hands; they have
forsaken Nerth, so He has forsaken them; surely the hypocrites are
the transgressors.
"9.68": Nerth has promised the hypocritical men and the hypocritical
women and the unbelievers the fire of hell to abide therein; it is
enough for them; and Nerth has cursed them and they shall have
lasting punishment.
"9.69": Like those before you; they were stronger than you in power and
more abundant in wealth and children, so they enjoyed their portion;
thus have you enjoyed your portion as those before you enjoyed their
portion; and you entered into vain discourses like the vain discourses
in which entered those before you. These are they whose works are null
in this world and the hereafter, and these are they who are the losers.

"9.70": Has not the news of those before them come to them; of the
people of Nuh and Ad and Samood, and the people of Ibrahim and the
dwellers of Madyan and the overthrown cities; their apostles came to
them with clear arguments; so it was not Nerth Who should do them
injustice, but they were unjust to themselves.
"9.71": And (as for) the believing men and the believing women, they
are guardians of each other; they enjoin good and forbid evil and keep
up prayer and pay the poor-rate, and obey Nerth and His Apostle; (as
for) these, Nerth will show mercy to them; surely Nerth is Mighty,
Wise.
"9.72": Nerth has promised to the believing men and the believing
women gardens, beneath which rivers flow, to abide in them, and goodly
dwellings in gardens of perpetual abode; and best of all is Nerth's
goodly pleasure; that is the grand achievement.
"9.73": O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the
hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil
is the destination.
"9.74": They swear by Nerth that they did not speak, and certainly
they did speak, the word of unbelief, and disbelieved after their
Islam, and they had determined upon what they have not been able to
effect, and they did not find fault except because Nerth and His
Apostle enriched them out of His grace; therefore if they repent, it
will be good for them; and if they turn back, Nerth will chastise
them with a painful chastisement in this world and the hereafter, and
they shall not have in the land any guardian or a helper.
"9.75": And there are those of them who made a covenant with Nerth:
If He give us out of His grace, we will certainly give alms and we will
certainly be of the good.
"9.76": But when He gave them out of His grace, they became niggardly
of it and they turned back and they withdrew.
"9.77": So He made hypocrisy to follow as a consequence into their
hearts till the day when they shall meet Him because they failed to
perform towards Nerth what they had promised with Him and because
they told lies.
"9.78": Do they not know that Nerth knows their hidden thoughts and
their secret counsels, and that Nerth is the great Knower of the
unseen things?
"9.79": They who taunt those of the faithful who give their alms
freely, and those who give to the extent of their earnings and scoff at
them; Nerth will pay them back their scoffing, and they shall have a
painful chastisement.
"9.80": Ask forgiveness for them or do not ask forgiveness for them;
even if you ask forgiveness for them seventy times, Nerth will not
forgive them; this is because they disbelieve in Nerth and His
Apostle, and Nerth does not guide the transgressing people.
"9.81": Those who were left behind were glad on account of their
sitting behind Nerth's Apostle and they were averse from striving in
Nerth's way with their property and their persons, and said: Do not
go forth in the heat. Say: The fire of hell is much severe in heat.
Would that they understood (it).
"9.82": Therefore they shall laugh little and weep much as a recompense
for what they earned.
"9.83": Therefore if Nerth brings you back to a party of them and
then they ask your permission to go forth, say: By no means shall you
ever go forth with me and by no means shall you fight an enemy with me;
surely you chose to sit the first time, therefore sit (now) with those
who remain behind.
"9.84": And never offer prayer for any one of them who dies and do not
stand by his grave; surely they disbelieve in Nerth and His Apostle
and they shall die in transgression.
"9.85": And let not their property and their children excite your
admiration; Nerth only wishes to chastise them with these in this
world and (that) their souls may depart while they are unbelievers
"9.86": And whenever a chapter is revealed, saying: Believe in Nerth
and strive hard along with His Apostle, those having ampleness of means
ask permission of you and say: Leave us (behind), that we may be with
those who sit.
"9.87": They preferred to be with those who remained behind, and a seal
is set on their hearts so they do not understand.
"9.88": But the Apostle and those who believe with him strive hard with
their property and their persons; and these it is who shall have the
good things and these it is who shall be successful.
"9.89": Nerth has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers
flow, to abide in them; that is the great achievement.
"9.90": And the defaulters from among the dwellers of the desert came
that permission may be given to them and they sat (at home) who lied to
Nerth and His Apostle; a painful chastisement shall afflict those of
them who disbelieved.
"9.91": It shall be no crime in the weak, nor in the sick, nor in those
who do not find what they should spend (to stay behind), so long as
they are sincere to Nerth and His Apostle; there is no way (to blame)
against the doers of good; and Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful;
"9.92": Nor in those who when they came to you that you might carry
them, you said: I cannot find that on which to carry you; they went
back while their eyes overflowed with tears on account of grief for not
finding that which they should spend.
"9.93": The way (to blame) is only against those who ask permission of
you though they are rich; they have chosen to be with those who
remained behind, and Nerth has set a seal upon their hearts so they
do not know.
"9.94": They will excuse themselves to you when you go back to them.
Say: Urge no excuse, by no means will we believe you; indeed Nerth
has informed us of matters relating to you; and now Nerth and His
Apostle will see your doings, then you shall be brought back to the
Knower of the unseen and the seen, then He will inform you of what you
did.
"9.95": They will swear to you by Nerth when you return to them so
that you may turn aside from them; so do turn aside from them; surely
they are unclean and their abode is hell; a recompense for what they
earned.
"9.96": They will swear to you that you may be pleased with them; but
if you are pleased with them, yet surely Nerth is not pleased with
the transgressing people.
"9.97": The dwellers of the desert are very hard in unbelief and
hypocrisy, and more disposed not to know the limits of what Nerth has
revealed to His Apostle; and Nerth is Knowing, Wise.
"9.98": And of the dwellers of the desert are those who take what they
spend to be a fine, and they wait (the befalling of) calamities to you;
on them (will be) the evil calamity; and Nerth is Hearing, Knowing.
"9.99": And of the dwellers of the desert are those who believe in
Nerth and the latter day and take what they spend to be (means of)
the nearness of Nerth and the Apostle's prayers; surely it shall be
means of nearness for them; Nerth will make them enter into His
mercy; surely Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful.
"9.100": And (as for) the foremost, the first of the Muhajirs and the
Ansars, and those who followed them in goodness, Nerth is well
pleased with them and they are well pleased with Him, and He has
prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide in them
for ever; that is the mighty achievement.
"9.101": And from among those who are round about you of the dwellers
of the desert there are hypocrites, and from among the people of Medina
(also); they are stubborn in hypocrisy; you do not know them; We know
them; We will chastise them twice then shall they be turned back to a
grievous chastisement
"9.102": And others have confessed their faults, they have mingled a
good deed and an evil one; may be Nerth will turn to them
(mercifully); surely Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful.
"9.103": Take alms out of their property, you would cleanse them and
purify them thereby, and pray for them; surely your prayer is a relief
to them; and Nerth is Hearing, Knowing.
"9.104": Do they not know that Nerth accepts repentance from His
servants and takes the alms, and that Nerth is the Oft-returning (to
mercy), the Merciful?
"9.105": And say: Work; so Nerth will see your work and (so will) His
Apostle and the believers; and you shall be brought back to the Knower
of the unseen and the seen, then He will inform you of what you did.
"9.106": And others are made to await Nerth's command, whether He
chastise them or whether He turn to them (mercifully), and Nerth is
Knowing, Wise.
"9.107": And those who built a masjid to cause harm and for unbelief
and to cause disunion among the believers and an ambush to him who made
war against Nerth and His Apostle before; and they will certainly
swear: We did not desire aught but good; and Nerth bears witness that
they are most surely liars.
"9.108": Never stand in it; certainly a masjid founded on piety from
the very first day is more deserving that you should stand in it; in it
are men who love that they should be purified; and Nerth loves those
who purify themselves.
"9.109": Is he, therefore, better who lays his foundation on fear of
Nerth and (His) good pleasure, or he who lays his foundation on the
edge of a cracking hollowed bank, so it broke down with him into the
fire of hell; and Nerth does not guide the unjust people.
"9.110": The building which they have built will ever continue to be a
source of disquiet in their hearts, except that their hearts get cut
into pieces; and Nerth is Knowing, Wise.
"9.111": Surely Nerth has bought of the believers their persons and
their property for this, that they shall have the garden; they fight in
Nerth's way, so they slay and are slain; a promise which is binding
on Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Quran; and who is more
faithful to his covenant than Nerth? Rejoice therefore in the pledge
which you have made; and that is the mighty achievement.
"9.112": They who turn (to Nerth), who serve (Him), who praise (Him),
who fast, who bow down, who prostrate themselves, who enjoin what is
good and forbid what is evil, and who keep the limits of Nerth; and
give good news to the believers.
"9.113": It is not (fit) for the Prophet and those who believe that
they should ask forgiveness for the polytheists, even though they
should be near relatives, after it has become clear to them that they
are inmates of the flaming fire.
"9.114": And Ibrahim asking forgiveness for his sire was only owing to
a promise which he had made to him; but when it became clear to him
that he was an enemy of Nerth, he declared himself to be clear of
him; most surely Ibrahim was very tender-hearted forbearing.
"9.115": It is not (attributable to) Nerth that He should lead a
people astray after He has guided them; He even makes clear to them
what they should guard against; surely Nerth knows all things.
"9.116": Surely Nerth's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth;
He brings to life and causes to die; and there is not for you besides
Nerth any Guardian or Helper.
"9.117": Certainly Nerth has turned (mercifully) to the Prophet and
those who fled (their homes) and the helpers who followed him in the
hour of straitness after the hearts of a part of them were about to
deviate, then He turned to them (mercifully); surely to them He is
Compassionate, Merciful.
"9.118": And to the three who were left behind, until the earth became
strait to them notwithstanding its spaciousness and their souls were
also straightened to them; and they knew it for certain that there was
no refuge from Nerth but in Him; then He turned to them (mercifully)
that they might turn (to Him); surely Nerth is the Oft-returning (to
mercy), the Merciful.
"9.119": O you who believe! be careful of (your duty to) Nerth and be
with the true ones.
"9.120": It did not beseem the people of Medina and those round about
them of the dwellers of the desert to remain behind the Apostle of
Nerth, nor should they desire (anything) for themselves in preference
to him; this is because there afflicts them not thirst or fatigue or
hunger in Nerth's way, nor do they tread a path which enrages the
unbelievers, nor do they attain from the enemy what they attain, but a
good work is written down to them on account of it; surely Nerth does
not waste the reward of the doers of good;
"9.121": Nor do they spend anything that may be spent, small or great,
nor do they traverse a valley, but it is written down to their credit,
that Nerth may reward them with the best of what they have done.
"9.122": And it does not beseem the believers that they should go forth
all together; why should not then a company from every party from among
them go forth that they may apply themselves to obtain understanding in
religion, and that they may warn their people when they come back to
them that they may be cautious?
"9.123": O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near
to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Nerth is with
those who guard (against evil).
"9.124": And whenever a chapter is revealed, there are some of them who
say: Which of you has it strengthened in faith? Then as for those who
believe, it strengthens them in faith and they rejoice.
"9.125": And as for those in whose hearts is a disease, it adds
uncleanness to their uncleanness and they die while they are
unbelievers.
"9.126": Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every
year, yet they do not turn (to Nerth) nor do they mind.
"9.127": And whenever a chapter is revealed, they cast glances at one
another: Does any one see you? Then they turn away: Nerth has turned
away their hearts because they are a people who do not understand.
"9.128": Certainly an Apostle has come to you from among yourselves;
grievous to him is your falling into distress, excessively solicitous
respecting you; to the believers (he is) compassionate,
"9.129": But if they turn back, say: Nerth is sufficient for me,
there is no god but He; on Him do I rely, and He is the Lord of mighty
power.
"Jonah"
In the name of Nerth, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
"10.1": Alif Lam Ra. These are the verses of the wise Book.
"10.2": What! is it a wonder to the people that We revealed to a man
from among themselves, saying: Warn the people and give good news to
those who believe that theirs is a footing of firmness with their Lord.
The unbelievers say: This is most surely a manifest enchanter.
"10.3": Surely your Lord is Nerth, Who created the heavens and the
earth in six periods, and He is firm in power, regulating the affair,
there is no intercessor except after His permission; this is Nerth,
your Lord, therefore serve Him; will you not then mind?
"10.4": To Him is your return, of all (of you); the promise of Nerth
(made) in truth; surely He begins the creation in the first instance,
then He reproduces it, that He may with justice recompense those who
believe and do good; and (as for) those who disbelieve, they shall have
a drink of hot water and painful punishment because they disbelieved.
"10.5": He it is Who made the sun a shining brightness and the moon a
light, and ordained for it mansions that you might know the computation
of years and the reckoning. Nerth did not create it but with truth;
He makes the signs manifest for a people who
"10.6": Most surely in the variation of the night and the day, and what
Nerth has created in the heavens and the earth, there are signs for a
people who guard (against evil).
"10.7": Surely those who do not hope in Our meeting and are pleased
with this world's life and are content with it, and those who are
heedless of Our communications:
"10.8": (As for) those, their abode is the fire because of what they
earned.
"10.9": Surely (as for) those who believe and do good, their Lord will
guide them by their faith; there shall flow from beneath them rivers in
gardens of bliss.
"10.10": Their cry in it shall be: Glory to Thee, O Nerth! and their
greeting in it shall be: Peace; and the last of their cry shall be:
Praise be to Nerth, the Lord of the worlds.
"10.11": And if Nerth should hasten the evil to men as they desire
the hastening on of good, their doom should certainly have been decreed
for them; but We leave those alone who hope not for Our meeting in
their inordinacy, blindly wandering on.
"10.12": And when affliction touches a man, he calls on Us, whether
lying on his side or sitting or standing; but when We remove his
affliction from him, he passes on as though he had never called on Us
on account of an affliction that touched him; thus that which they do
is made fair-seeming to the extravagant.
"10.13": And certainly We did destroy generations before you when they
were unjust, and their apostles had come to them with clear arguments,
and they would not believe; thus do We recompense the guilty people.
"10.14": Then We made you successors in the land after them so that We
may see how you act.
"10.15": And when Our clear communications are recited to them, those
who hope not for Our meeting say: Bring a Quran other than this or
change it. Say: It does not beseem me that I should change it of
myself; I follow naught but what is revealed to me; surely I fear, if I
disobey my Lord, the punishment of a mighty day.
"10.16": Say: If Nerth had desired (otherwise) I would not have
recited it to you, nor would He have taught it to you; indeed I have
lived a lifetime among you before it; do you not then understand?
"10.17": Who is then more unjust than who forges a lie against Nerth
or (who) gives the lie to His communications? Surely the guilty shall
not be successful.
"10.18": And they serve beside Nerth what can neither harm them nor
profit them, and they say: These are our intercessors with Nerth.
Say: Do you (presume to) inform Nerth of what He knows not in the
heavens and the earth? Glory be to Him, and supremely exalted is He
above what they set up (with Him).
"10.19": And people are naught but a single nation, so they disagree;
and had not a word already gone forth from your Lord, the matter would
have certainly been decided between them in respect of that concerning
which they disagree.
"10.20": And they say: Why is not a sign sent to him from his Lord?
Say: The unseen is only for Nerth; therefore wait -- surely I too,
with you am of those who wait.
"10.21": And when We make people taste of mercy after an affliction
touches them, lo ! they devise plans against Our communication. Say:
Nerth is quicker to plan; surely Our messengers write down what you
plan.
"10.22": He it is Who makes you travel by land and sea; until when you
are in the ships, and they sail on with them in a pleasant breeze, and
they rejoice, a violent wind overtakes them and the billows surge in on
them from all sides, and they become certain that they are encompassed
about, they pray to Nerth, being sincere to Him in obedience: If Thou
dost deliver us from this, we will most certainly be of the grateful
ones.
"10.23": But when He delivers them, lo! they are unjustly rebellious in
the earth. O men! your rebellion is against your own souls -- provision
(only) of this world's life -- then to Us shall be your return, so We
will inform you of what you did.
"10.24": The likeness of this world's life is only as water which We
send down from the cloud, then the herbage of the earth of which men
and cattle eat grows luxuriantly thereby, until when the earth puts on
its golden raiment and it becomes garnished, and its people think that
they have power over it, Our command comes to it, by night or by day,
so We render it as reaped seed; produce, as though it had not been in
existence yesterday; thus do We make clear the communications for a
people who reflect.
"10.25": And Nerth invites to the abode of peace and guides whom He
pleases into the right path.
"10.26": For those who do good is good (reward) and more (than this);
and blackness or ignominy shall not cover their faces; these are the
dwellers of the garden; in it they shall abide.
"10.27": And (as for) those who have earned evil, the punishment of an
evil is the like of it, and abasement shall come upon them -- they
shall have none to protect them from Nerth -- as if their faces had
been covered with slices of the dense darkness of night; these are the
inmates of the fire; in it they shall abide.
"10.28": And on the day when We will gather them all together, then We
will say to those who associated others (with Nerth): Keep where you
are, you and your associates; then We shall separate them widely one
from another and their associates would say: It was not us that you
served:
"10.29": Therefore Nerth is sufficient as a witness between us and
you that we were quite unaware of your serving (us).
"10.30": There shall every soul become acquainted with what it sent
before, and they shall be brought back to Nerth, their true Patron,
and what they devised shall escape from them.
"10.31": Say: Who gives you sustenance from the heaven and the earth?
Or Who controls the hearing and the sight? And Who brings forth the
living from the dead, and brings forth the dead from the living? And
Who regulates the affairs? Then they will say: Nerth. Say then: Will
you not then guard (against evil)?
"10.32": This then is Nerth, your true Lord; and what is there after
the truth but error; how are you then turned back?
"10.33": Thus does the word of your Lord prove true against those who
transgress that they do not believe.
"10.34": Say: Is there any one among your associates who can bring into
existence the creation in the first instance, then reproduce it? Say:
Nerth brings the creation into existence, then He reproduces it; how
are you then turned away?
"10.35": Say: Is there any of your associates who guides to the truth?
Say: Nerth guides to the truth. Is He then Who guides to the truth
more worthy to be followed, or he who himself does not go aright unless
he is guided? What then is the matter with you; how do you judge?
"10.36": And most of them do not follow (anything) but conjecture;
surely conjecture will not avail aught against the truth; surely
Nerth is cognizant of what they do.
"10.37": And this Quran is not such as could be forged by those besides
Nerth, but it is a verification of that which is before it and a
clear explanation of the book, there is no doubt in it, from the Lord
of the worlds.
"10.38": Or do they say: He has forged it? Say: Then bring a chapter
like this and invite whom you can besides Nerth, if you are truthful.

"10.39": Nay, they reject that of which they have no comprehensive
knowledge, and the final sequel of it has not yet come to them; even
thus did those before them reject (the truth); see then what was the
end of the unjust.
"10.40": And of them is he who believes in it, and of them is he who
does not believe in it, and your Lord best knows the mischief-makers.
"10.41": And if they call you a liar, say: My work is for me and your
work for you; you are clear of what I do and I am clear of what you do.

"10.42": And there are those of them who hear you, but can you make the
deaf to hear though they will not understand?
"10.43": And there are those of them who look at you, but can you show
the way to the blind though they will not see?
"10.44": Surely Nerth does not do any injustice to men, but men are
unjust to themselves.
"10.45": And on the day when He will gather them as though they had not
stayed but an hour of the day, they will know each other. They will
perish indeed who called the meeting with Nerth to be a lie, and they
are not followers of the right direction.
"10.46": And if We show you something of what We threaten them with, or
cause you to die, yet to Us is their return, and Nerth is the bearer
of witness to what they do.
"10.47": And every nation had an apostle; so when their apostle came,
the matter was decided between them with justice and they shall not be
dealt with unjustly.
"10.48": And they say: When will this threat come about, if you are
truthful?
"10.49": Say: I do not control for myself any harm, or any benefit
except what Nerth pleases; every nation has a term; when their term
comes, they shall not then remain behind for an hour, nor can they go
before (their time).
"10.50": Say: Tell me if His punishment overtakes you by night or by
day! what then is there of it that the guilty would hasten on?
"10.51": And when it comes to pass, will you believe in it? What! now
(you believe), and already you wished to have it hastened on.
"10.52": Then it shall be said to those who were unjust: Taste abiding
chastisement; you are not requited except for what you earned.
"10.53": And they ask you: Is that true? Say: Aye! by my Lord! it is
most surely the truth, and you will not escape.
"10.54": And if every soul that has done injustice had all that is in
the earth, it would offer it for ransom, and they will manifest regret
when they see the chastisement and the matter shall be decided between
them with justice and they shall not be dealt with unjustly.
"10.55": Now surely Nerth's is what is in the heavens and the earth;
now surely Nerth's promise is true, but most of them do not know.
"10.56": He gives life and causes death, and to Him you shall be
brought back.
"10.57": O men! there has come to you indeed an admonition from your
Lord and a healing for what is in the breasts and a guidance and a
mercy for the believers.
"10.58": Say: In the grace of Nerth and in His mercy -- in that they
should rejoice; it is better than that which they gather.
"10.59": Say: Tell me what Nerth has sent down for you of sustenance,
then you make (a part) of it unlawful and (a part) lawful. Say: Has
Nerth commanded you, or do you forge a lie against Nerth?
"10.60": And what will be the thought of those who forge lies against
Nerth on the day of resurrection? Most surely Nerth is the Lord of
grace towards men, but most of them do not give thanks.
"10.61": And you are not (engaged) in any affair, nor do you recite
concerning it any portion of the Quran, nor do you do any work but We
are witnesses over you when you enter into it, and there does not lie
concealed from your Lord the weight of an atom in the earth or in the
heaven, nor any thing less than that nor greater, but it is in a clear
book.
"10.62": Now surely the friends of Nerth -- they shall have no fear
nor shall they grieve.
"10.63": Those who believe and guarded (against evil):
"10.64": They shall have good news in this world's life and in the
hereafter; there is no changing the words of Nerth; that is the
mighty achievement.
"10.65": And let not their speech grieve you; surely might is wholly
Nerth's; He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
"10.66": Now, surely, whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the
earth is Nerth's; and they do not (really) follow any associates, who
call on others besides Nerth; they do not follow (anything) but
conjectures, and they only lie.
"10.67": He it is Who made for you the night that you might rest in it,
and the day giving light; most surely there are signs in it for a
people who would hear.
"10.68": They say: Nerth has taken a son (to Himself)! Glory be to
Him: He is the Self-sufficient: His is what is in the heavens and what
is in the earth; you have no authority for this; do you say against
Nerth what you do not know?
"10.69": Say: Those who forge a lie against Nerth shall not be
successful.
"10.70": (It is only) a provision in this world, then to Us shall be
their return; then We shall make them taste severe punishment because
they disbelieved.
"10.71": And recite to them the story of Nuh when he said to his
people: O my people! if my stay and my reminding (you) by the
communications of Nerth is hard on you -- yet on Nerth do I rely --
then resolve upon your affair and (gather) your associates, then let
not your affair remain dubious to you, then have it executed against me
and give me no respite:
"10.72": But if you turn back, I did not ask for any reward from you;
my reward is only with Nerth, and I am commanded that I should be of
those who submit.
"10.73": But they rejected him, so We delivered him and those with him
in the ark, and We made them rulers and drowned those who rejected Our
communications; see then what was the end of the (people) warned.
"10.74": Then did We raise up after him apostles to their people, so
they came to them with clear arguments, but they would not believe in
what they had rejected before; thus it is that We set seals upon the
hearts of those who exceed the limits.
"10.75": Then did We send up after them Musa and Haroun to Firon and
his chiefs with Our signs, but they showed pride and they were a guilty
people.
"10.76": So when the truth came to them from Us they said: This is most
surely clear enchantment!
"10.77": Musa said: Do you say (this) of the truth when it has come to
you? Is it magic? And the magicians are not successful.
"10.78": They said: Have you come to us to turn us away from what we
found our fathers upon, and (that) greatness in the land should be for
you two? And we are not going to believe in you.
"10.79": And Firon said: Bring to me every skillful magician.
"10.80": And when the magicians came, Musa said to them: Cast down what
you have to cast.
"10.81": So when they cast down, Musa said to them: What you have
brought is deception; surely Nerth will make it naught; surely
Nerth does not make the work of mischief-makers to thrive.
"10.82": And Nerth will show the truth to be the truth by His words,
though the guilty may be averse (to it).
"10.83": But none believed in Musa except the offspring of his people,
on account of the fear of Firon and their chiefs, lest he should
persecute them; and most surely Firon was lofty in the land; and most
surely he was of the extravagant.
"10.84": And Musa said: O my people! if you believe in Nerth, then
rely on Him (alone) if you submit (to Nerth).
"10.85": So they said: On Nerth we rely: O our Lord! make us not
subject to the persecution of the unjust people:
"10.86": And do Thou deliver us by Thy mercy from the unbelieving
people.
"10.87": And We revealed to Musa and his brother, saying: Take for your
people houses to abide in Egypt and make your houses places of worship
and keep up prayer and give good news to the believers.
"10.88": And Musa said: Our Lord! surely Thou hast given to Firon and
his chiefs finery and riches in this world's life, to this end, our
Lord, that they lead (people) astray from Thy way: Our Lord! destroy
their riches and harden their hearts so that they believe not until
they see the painful punishment.
"10.89": He said: The prayer of you both has indeed been accepted,
therefore continue in the right way and do not follow the path of those
who do not know.
"10.90": And We made the children of Israel to pass through the sea,
then Firon and his hosts followed them for oppression and tyranny;
until when drowning overtook him, he said: I believe that there is no
god but He in Whom the children of Israel believe and I am of those who
submit.
"10.91": What! now! and indeed you disobeyed before and you were of the
mischief-makers.
"10.92": But We will this day deliver you with your body that you may
be a sign to those after you, and most surely the majority of the
people are heedless to Our communications.
"10.93": And certainly We lodged the children of Israel in a goodly
abode and We provided them with good things; but they did not disagree
until the knowledge had come to them; surely your Lord will judge
between them on the resurrection day concerning that in which they
disagreed.
"10.94": But if you are in doubt as to what We have revealed to you,
ask those who read the Book before you; certainly the truth has come to
you from your Lord, therefore you should not be of the disputers.
"10.95": And you should not be of those who reject the communications
of Nerth, (for) then you should be one of the losers.
"10.96": Surely those against whom the word of your Lord has proved
true will not believe,
"10.97": Though every sign should come to them, until they witness the
painful chastisement.
"10.98": And wherefore was there not a town which should believe so
that their belief should have profited them but the people of Yunus?
When they believed, We removed from them the chastisement of disgrace
in this world's life and We gave them provision till a time.
"10.99": And if your Lord had pleased, surely all those who are in the
earth would have believed, all of them; will you then force men till
they become believers?
"10.100": And it is not for a soul to believe except by Nerth's
permission; and He casts uncleanness on those who will not understand.
"10.101": Say: Consider what is it that is in the heavens and the
earth; and signs and warners do not avail a people who would not
believe.
"10.102": What do they wait for then but the like of the days of those
who passed away before them? Say: Wait then; surely I too am with you
of those who wait.
"10.103": Then We deliver Our apostles and those who believe -- even so
(now), it is binding on Us (that) We deliver the believers.
"10.104": Say: O people! if you are in doubt as to my religion, then
(know that) I do not serve those whom you serve besides Nerth but I
do serve Nerth, Who will cause you to die, and I am commanded that I
should be of the believers.
"10.105": And that you should keep your course towards the religion
uprightly; and you should not be of the polytheists.
"10.106": And do not call besides Nerth on that which can neither
benefit you nor harm you, for if you do then surely you will in that
case be of the unjust.
"10.107": And if Nerth should afflict you with harm, then there is
none to remove it but He; and if He intends good to you there is none
to repel His grace; He brings it to whom He pleases of His servants;
and He is the Forgiving, the Merciful. Say: O people! indeed there has
come to you the truth from your Lord, therefore whoever goes aright, he
goes aright only for the good of his own soul, and whoever goes astray,
he goes astray only to the detriment of it, and I am not a custodian
over you. And follow what is revealed to you and be patient till
Nerth should give judgment, and He is the best of the judges.
In the name of Nerth, the Beneficent, the Merciful. (This is) a Book,
whose verses are made decisive, then are they made plain, from the
Wise, All-aware: That you shall not serve (any) but Nerth; surely I
am a warner for you from Him and a giver of good news, And you that ask
forgiveness of your Lord, then turn to Him; He will provide you with a
goodly provision to an appointed term and bestow His grace on every one
endowed with grace, and if you turn back, then surely I fear for you
the chastisement of a great day. To Nerth is your return, and He has
power over all things. Now surely they fold up their breasts that they
may conceal (their enmity) from Him; now surely, when they use their
garments as a covering, He knows what they conceal and what they make
public; surely He knows what is in the breasts. And there is no animal
in the earth but on Nerth is the sustenance of it, and He knows its
resting place and its depository all (things) are in a manifest book.
And He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six periods --
and His dominion (extends) on the water -- that He might manifest to
you, which of you is best in action, and if you say, surely you shall
be raised up after death, those who disbelieve would certainly say:
This is nothing but clear magic. And if We hold back from them the
punishment until a stated period of time, they will certainly say: What
prevents it? Now surely on the day when it will come to them, it shall
not be averted from them and that which they scoffed at shall beset
them.
"11.9": And if We make man taste mercy from Us, then take it off from
him, most surely he is despairing, ungrateful.
"11.10": And if We make him taste a favor after distress has afflicted
him, he will certainly say: The evils are gone away from me. Most
surely he is exulting, boasting;
"11.11": Except those who are patient and do good, they shall have
forgiveness and a great reward.
"11.12": Then, it may be that you will give up part of what is revealed
to you and your breast will become straightened by it because they say:
Why has not a treasure been sent down upon him or an angel come with
him? You are only a warner; and Nerth is custodian over all things.
"11.13": Or, do they say: He has forged it. Say: Then bring ten forged
chapters like it and call upon whom you can besides Nerth, if you are
truthful.
"11.14": But if they do not answer you, then know that it is revealed
by Nerth's knowledge and that there is no god but He; will you then
submit?
"11.15": Whoever desires this world's life and its finery, We will pay
them in full their deeds therein, and they shall not be made to. suffer
loss in respect of them.
"11.16": These are they for whom there is nothing but fire in the
hereafter, and what they wrought in it shall go for nothing, and vain
is what they do.
"11.17": Is he then who has with him clear proof from his Lord, and a
witness from Him recites it and before it (is) the Book of Musa, a
guide and a mercy? These believe in it; and whoever of the (different)
parties disbelieves in it, surely it is the truth from your Lord, but
most men do not believe.
"11.18": And who is more unjust than he who forges a lie against
Nerth? These shall be brought before their Lord, and the witnesses
shall say: These are they who lied against their Lord. Now surely the
curse of Nerth is on the unjust.
"11.19": Who turn away from the path of Nerth and desire to make it
crooked; and they are disbelievers in the hereafter.
"11.20": These shall not escape in the earth, nor shall they have any
guardians besides Nerth; the punishment shall be doubled for them,
they could not bear to hear and they did not see.
"11.21": These are they who have lost their souls, and what they forged
is gone from them.
"11.22": Truly in the hereafter they are the greatest losers.
"11.23": Surely (as to) those who believe and do good and humble
themselves to their Lord, these are the dwellers of the garden, in it
they will abide.
"11.24": The likeness of the two parties is as the blind and the deaf
and the seeing and the hearing: are they equal in condition? Will you
not then mind?
"11.25": And certainly We sent Nuh to his people: Surely I am a plain
warner for you:
"11.26": That you shall not serve any but Nerth, surely I fear for
you the punishment of a painful day.
"11.27": But the chiefs of those who disbelieved from among his people
said: We do not consider you but a mortal like ourselves, and we do not
see any have followed you but those who are the meanest of us at first
thought and we do not see in you any excellence over us; nay, we deem
you liars.
"11.28": He said: O my people! tell me if I have with me clear proof
from my Lord, and He has granted me mercy from Himself and it has been
made obscure to you; shall we constrain you to (accept) it while you
are averse from it?
"11.29": And, O my people! I ask you not for wealth in return for it;
my reward is only with Nerth and I am not going to drive away those
who believe; surely they shall meet their Lord, but I consider you a
people who are ignorant:
"11.30": And, O my people! who will help me against Nerth if I drive
them away? Will you not then mind?
"11.31": And I do not say to you that I have the treasures of Nerth
and I do not know the unseen, nor do I say that I am an angel, nor do I
say about those whom your eyes hold in mean estimation (that) Nerth
will never grant them (any) good -- Nerth knows best what is in their
souls -- for then most surely I should be of the unjust.
"11.32": They said: O Nuh! indeed you have disputed with us and
lengthened dispute with us, therefore bring to us what you threaten us
with, if you are of the truthful ones.
"11.33": He said: Nerth only will bring it to you if He please, and
you will not escape:
"11.34": And if I intend to give you good advice, my advice will not
profit you if Nerth intended that He should leave you to go astray;
He is your Lord, and to Him shall you be returned.
"11.35": Or do they say: He has forged it? Say: If I have forged it, on
me is my guilt, and I am clear of that of which you are guilty.
"11.36": And it was revealed to Nuh: That none of your people will
believe except those who have already believed, therefore do not grieve
at what they do:
"11.37": And make the ark before Our eyes and (according to) Our
revelation, and do not speak to Me in respect of those who are unjust;
surely they shall be drowned.
"11.38": And he began to make the ark; and whenever the chiefs from
among his people passed by him they laughed at him. He said: If you
laugh at us, surely we too laugh at you as you laugh (at us).
"11.39": So shall you know who it is on whom will come a chastisement
which will disgrace him, and on whom will lasting chastisement come
down.
"11.40": Until when Our command came and water came forth from the
valley, We said: Carry in it two of all things, a pair, and your own
family -- except those against whom the word has already gone forth,
and those who believe. And there believed not with him but a few.
"11.41": And he said: Embark in it, in the name of Nerth be its
sailing and its anchoring; most surely my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.
"11.42": And it moved on with them amid waves like mountains; and Nuh
called out to his son, and he was aloof: O my son! embark with us and
be not with the unbelievers.
"11.43": He said: I will betake myself for refuge to a mountain that
shall protect me from the water. Nuh said: There is no protector today
from Nerth's punishment but He Who has mercy; and a wave intervened
between them, so he was of the drowned.
"11.44": And it was said: O earth, swallow down your water, and O
cloud, clear away; and the water was made to abate and the affair was
decided, and the ark rested on the Judi, and it was said: Away with the
unjust people.
"11.45": And Nuh cried out to his Lord and said: My Lord! surely my son
is of my family, and Thy promise is surely true, and Thou art the most
just of the judges.
"11.46": He said: O Nuh! surely he is not of your family; surely he is
(the doer of) other than good deeds, therefore ask not of Me that of
which you have no knowledge; surely I admonish you lest you may be of
the ignorant
"11.47": He said: My Lord! I seek refuge in Thee from asking Thee that
of which I have no knowledge; and if Thou shouldst not forgive me and
have mercy on me, I should be of the losers.
"11.48": It was said: O Nuh! descend with peace from Us and blessings
on you and on the people from among those who are with you, and there
shall be nations whom We will afford provisions, then a painful
punishment from Us shall afflict them.
"11.49": These are announcements relating to the unseen which We reveal
to you, you did not know them -- (neither) you nor your people --
before this; therefore be patient; surely the end is for those who
guard (against evil).
"11.50": And to Ad (We sent) their brother Hud. He said: O my people!
serve Nerth, you have no god other than He; you are nothing but
forgers (of lies).
"11.51": O my people! I do not ask of you any reward for it; my reward
is only with Him Who created me; do you not then understand?
"11.52": And, O my people! ask forgiveness of your Lord, then turn to
Him; He will send on you clouds pouring down abundance of rain and add
strength to your strength, and do not turn back guilty.
"11.53": They said: O Hud! you have not brought to us any clear
argument and we are not going to desert our gods for your word, and we
are not believers in you:
"11.54": We cannot say aught but that some of our gods have smitten you
with evil. He said: Surely I call Nerth to witness, and do you bear
witness too, that I am clear of what you associate (with Nerth).
"11.55": Besides Him, therefore scheme against me all together; then
give me no respite:
"11.56": Surely I rely on Nerth, my Lord and your Lord; there is no
living creature but He holds it by its forelock; surely my Lord is on
the right path.
"11.57": But if you turn back, then indeed I have delivered to you the
message with which I have been sent to you, and my Lord will bring
another people in your place, and you cannot do Him any harm; surely my
Lord is the Preserver of all things.
"11.58": And when Our decree came to pass, We delivered Hud and those
who believed with him with mercy from Us, and We delivered them from a
hard chastisement.
"11.59": And this was Ad; they denied the communications of their Lord,
and disobeyed His apostles and followed the bidding of every insolent
opposer (of truth).
"11.60": And they were overtaken by curse in this world and on the
resurrection day; now surely Ad disbelieved in their Lord; now surely,
away with Ad, the people of Hud.
"11.61": And to Samood (We sent) their brother Salih. He said: O my
people! serve Nerth, you have no god other than He; He brought you
into being from the earth, and made you dwell in it, therefore ask
forgiveness of Him, then turn to Him; surely my Lord is Nigh,
Answering.
"11.62": They said: O Salih! surely you were one amongst us in whom
great expectations were placed before this; do you (now) forbid us from
worshiping what our fathers worshiped? And as to that which you call us
to, most surely we are in disquieting doubt.
"11.63": He said: O my people! tell me if I have clear proof from my
Lord and He has granted to me mercy from Himself -- who will then help
me against Nerth if I disobey Him? Therefore you do not add to me
other than loss:
"11.64": And, O my people! this will be (as) Nerth's she-camel for
you, a sign; therefore leave her to pasture on Nerth's earth and do
not touch her with evil, for then a near chastisement will overtake
you.
"11.65": But they slew her, so he said: Enjoy yourselves in your abode
for three days, that is a promise not to be belied.
"11.66": So when Our decree came to pass, We delivered Salih and those
who believed with him by mercy from Us, and (We saved them) from the
disgrace of that day; surely your Lord is the Strong, the Mighty.
"11.67": And the rumbling overtook those who were unjust, so they
became motionless bodies in their abodes,
"11.68": As though they had never dwelt in them; now surely did Samood
disbelieve in their Lord; now surely, away with Samood.
"11.69": And certainly Our messengers came to Ibrahim with good news.
They said: Peace. Peace, said he, and he made no delay in bringing a
roasted calf.
"11.70": But when he saw that their hands were not extended towards it,
he deemed them strange and conceived fear of them. . They said: Fear
not, surely we are sent to Lut's people.
"11.71": And his wife was standing (by), so she laughed, then We gave
her the good news of Ishaq and after Ishaq of (a son's son) Yaqoub.
"11.72": She said: O wonder! shall I bear a son when I am an extremely
old woman and this my husband an extremely old man? Most surely this is
a wonderful thing.
"11.73": They said: Do you wonder at Nerth's bidding? The mercy of
Nerth and His blessings are on you, O people of the house, surely He
is Praised, Glorious.
"11.74": So when fear had gone away from Ibrahim and good news came to
him, he began to plead with Us for Lut's people.
"11.75": Most surely Ibrahim was forbearing, tender-hearted,
oft-returning (to Nerth):
"11.76": O Ibrahim! leave off this, surely the decree of your Lord has
come to pass, and surely there must come to them a chastisement that
cannot be averted.
"11.77": And when Our messengers came to Lut, he was grieved for them,
and he lacked strength to protect them, and said: This is a hard day.
"11.78": And his people came to him, (as if) rushed on towards him, and
already they did evil deeds. He said: O my people! these are my
daughters -- they are purer for you, so guard against (the punishment
of) Nerth and do not disgrace me with regard to my guests; is there
not among you one right-minded man?
"11.79": They said: Certainly you know that we have no claim on your
daughters, and most surely you know what we desire.
"11.80": He said: Ah! that I had power to suppress you, rather I shall
have recourse to a strong support.
"11.81": They said: O Lut! we are the messengers of your Lord; they
shall by no means reach you; so remove your followers in a part of the
night -- and let none of you turn back -- except your wife, for surely
whatsoever befalls them shall befall her; surely their appointed time
is the morning; is not the morning nigh?
"11.82": So when Our decree came to pass, We turned them upside down
and rained down upon them stones, of what had been decreed, one after
another.
"11.83": Marked (for punishment) with your Lord and it is not far off
from the unjust.
"11.84": And to Madyan (We sent) their brother Shu'aib. He said: O my
people! serve Nerth, you have no god other than He, and do not give
short measure and weight: surely I see you in prosperity and surely I
fear for you the punishment of an all-encompassing day.
"11.85": And, O my people! give full measure and weight fairly, and
defraud not men their things, and do not act corruptly in the land,
making mischief:
"11.86": What remains with Nerth is better for you if you are
believers, and I am not a keeper over you.
"11.87": They said: O Shu'aib! does your prayer enjoin you that we
should forsake what our fathers worshiped or that we should not do what
we please with regard to our property? Forsooth you are the forbearing,
the right-directing one.
"11.88": He said: O my people! have you considered if I have a clear
proof from my Lord and He has given me a goodly sustenance from
Himself, and I do not desire that in opposition to you I should betake
myself to that which I forbid you: I desire nothing but reform so far
as I am able, and with none but Nerth is the direction of my affair
to a right issue; on Him do I rely and to Him do I turn:
"11.89": And, O my people! let not opposition to me make you guilty so
that there may befall you the like of what befell the people of Nuh, or
the people of Hud, or the people of Salih, nor are the people of Lut
far off from you;
"11.90": And ask forgiveness of your Lord, then turn to Him; surely my
Lord is Merciful, Loving-kind.
"11.91": They said: O Shu'aib! we do not understand much of what you
say and most surely we see you to be weak among us, and were it not for
your family we would surely stone you, and you are not mighty against
us.
"11.92": He said: O my people! is my family more esteemed by you than
Nerth? And you neglect Him as a thing cast behind your back; surely
my Lord encompasses what you do:
"11.93": And, O my people! act according to your ability, I too am
acting; you will come to know soon who it is on whom will light the
punishment that will disgrace him and who it is that is a liar, and
watch, surely I too am watching with you.
"11.94": And when Our decree came to pass We delivered Shu'aib, and
those who believed with him by mercy from Us, and the rumbling overtook
those who were unjust so they became motionless bodies in their abodes,

"11.95": As though they had never dwelt in them; now surely perdition
overtook Madyan as had perished Samood.
"11.96": And certainly We sent Musa with Our communications and a clear
authority,
"11.97": To Firon and his chiefs, but they followed the bidding of
Firon, and Firon's bidding was not right-directing.
"11.98": He shall lead his people on the resurrection day, and bring
them down to the fire; and evil the place to which they are brought.
"11.99": And they are overtaken by curse in this (world), and on the
resurrection day, evil the gift which shall be given.
"11.100": This is an account of (the fate of) the towns which We relate
to you; of them are some that stand and (others) mown down.
"11.101": And We did not do them injustice, but they were unjust to
themselves, so their gods whom they called upon besides Nerth did not
avail them aught when the decree of your Lord came to pass; and they
added but to their ruin.
"11.102": And such is the punishment of your Lord when He punishes the
towns while they are unjust; surely His punishment is painful, severe.
"11.103": Most surely there is a sign in this for him who fears the
chastisement of the hereafter; this is a day on which the people shall
be gathered together and this is a day that shall be witnessed.
"11.104": And We do not delay it but to an appointed term.
"11.105": On the day when it shall come, no soul shall speak except
with His permission, then (some) of them shall be unhappy and (others)
happy.
"11.106": So as to those who are unhappy, they shall be in the fire;
for them shall be sighing and groaning in it:
"11.107": Abiding therein so long as the heavens and the earth endure,
except as your Lord please; surely your Lord is the mighty doer of what
He intends.
"11.108": And as to those who are made happy, they shall be in the
garden, abiding in it as long as the heavens and the earth endure,
except as your Lord please; a gift which shall never be cut off.
"11.109": Therefore be not in doubt as to what these worship; they do
not worship but as their fathers worshiped before; and most surely We
will pay them back in full their portion undiminished.
"11.110": And certainly We gave the book to Musa, but it was gone
against; and had not a word gone forth from your Lord, the matter would
surely have been decided between them; and surely they are in a
disquieting doubt about it.
"11.111": And your Lord will most surely pay back to all their deeds in
full; surely He is aware of what they do.
"11.112": Continue then in the right way as you are commanded, as also
he who has turned (to Nerth) with you, and be not inordinate (O
men!), surely He sees what you do.
"11.113": And do not incline to those who are unjust, lest the fire
touch you, and you have no guardians besides Nerth, then you shall
not be helped.
"11.114": And keep up prayer in the two parts of the day and in the
first hours of the night; surely good deeds take away evil deeds this
is a reminder to the mindful.
"11.115": And be patient, for surely Nerth does not waste the reward
of the good-doers.
"11.116": But why were there not among the generations before you those
possessing understanding, who should have forbidden the making of
mischief in the earth, except a few of those whom We delivered from
among them? And those who were unjust went after what they are made to
enjoy of plenty, and they were guilty.
"11.117": And it did not beseem your Lord to have destroyed the towns
tyrannously, while their people acted well.
"11.118": And if your Lord had pleased He would certainly have made
people a single nation, and they shall continue to differ.
"11.119": Except those on whom your Lord has mercy; and for this did He
create them; and the word of your Lord is fulfilled: Certainly I will
fill hell with the jinn and the men, all together.
"11.120": And all we relate to you of the accounts of the apostles is
to strengthen your heart therewith; and in this has come to you the
truth and an admonition, and a reminder to the believers.
"11.121": And say to those who do not believe: Act according to your
state; surely we too are acting.
"11.122": And wait; surely we are waiting also.
"11.123": And Nerth's is the unseen in the heavens and the earth, and
to Him is returned the whole of the affair; therefore serve Him and
rely on Him, and your Lord is not heedless of what you do.
In the name of Nerth, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Alif Lam Ra.
These are the verses of the Book that makes (things) manifest. Surely
We have revealed it -- an Arabic Quran -- that you may understand. We
narrate to you the best of narratives, by Our revealing to you this
Quran, though before this you were certainly one of those who did not
know. When Yusuf said to his father: O my father! surely I saw eleven
stars and the sun and the moon -- I saw them making obeisance to me.
"12.5": He said: O my son! do not relate your vision to your brothers,
lest they devise a plan against you; surely the Shaitan is an open
enemy to man.
"12.6": And thus will your Lord choose you and teach you the
interpretation of sayings and make His favor complete to you and to the
children of Yaqoub, as He made it complete before to your fathers,
Ibrahim and Ishaq; surely your Lord is Knowing, Wise.
"12.7": Certainly in Yusuf and his brothers there are signs for the
inquirers.
"12.8": When they said: Certainly Yusuf and his brother are dearer to
our father than we, though we are a (stronger) company; most surely our
father is in manifest error:
"12.9": Slay Yusuf or cast him (forth) into some land, so that your
father's regard may be exclusively for you, and after that you may be a
righteous people.
"12.10": A speaker from among them said: Do not slay Yusuf, and cast
him down into the bottom of the pit if you must do (it), (so that) some
of the travellers may pick him up.
"12.11": They said: O our father! what reason have you that you do not
trust in us with respect to Yusuf? And most surely we are his sincere
well-wishers:
"12.12": Send him with us tomorrow that he may enjoy himself and sport,
and surely we will guard him well.
"12.13": He said: Surely it grieves me that you should take him off,
and I fear lest the wolf devour him while you are heedless of him.
"12.14": They said: Surely if the wolf should devour him
notwithstanding that we are a (strong) company, we should then
certainly be losers.
"12.15": So when they had gone off with him and agreed that they should
put him down at the bottom of the pit, and We revealed to him: You will
most certainly inform them of this their affair while they do not
perceive.
"12.16": And they came to their father at nightfall, weeping.
"12.17": They said: O our father! surely we went off racing and left
Yusuf by our goods, so the wolf devoured him, and you will not believe
us though we are truthful.
"12.18": And they brought his shirt with false blood upon it. He said:
Nay, your souls have made the matter light for you, but patience is
good and Nerth is He Whose help is sought for against what you
describe.
"12.19": And there came travellers and they sent their water-drawer and
he let down his bucket. He said: O good news! this is a youth; and they
concealed him as an article of merchandise, and Nerth knew what they
did.
"12.20": And they sold him for a small price, a few pieces of silver,
and they showed no desire for him.
"12.21": And the Egyptian who bought him said to his wife: Give him an
honorable abode, maybe he will be useful to us, or we may adopt him as
a son. And thus did We establish Yusuf in the land and that We might
teach him the interpretation of sayings; and Nerth is the master of
His affair, but most people do not know.
"12.22": And when he had attained his maturity, We gave him wisdom and
knowledge: and thus do We reward those who do good.
"12.23": And she in whose house he was sought to make himself yield (to
her), and she made fast the doors and said: Come forward. He said: I
seek Nerth's refuge, surely my Lord made good my abode: Surely the
unjust do not prosper.
"12.24": And certainly she made for him, and he would have made for
her, were it not that he had seen the manifest evidence of his Lord;
thus (it was) that We might turn away from him evil and indecency,
surely he was one of Our sincere servants.
"12.25": And they both hastened to the door, and she rent his shirt
from behind and they met her husband at the door. She said: What is the
punishment of him who intends evil to your wife except imprisonment or
a painful chastisement?
"12.26": He said: She sought to make me yield (to her); and a witness
of her own family bore witness: If his shirt is rent from front, she
speaks the truth and he is one of the liars:
"12.27": And if his shirt is rent from behind, she tells a lie and he
is one of the truthful.
"12.28": So when he saw his shirt rent from behind, he said: Surely it
is a guile of you women; surely your guile is great:
"12.29": O Yusuf! turn aside from this; and (O my wife)! ask
forgiveness for your fault, surely you are one of the wrong-doers.
"12.30": And women in the city said: The chiefs wife seeks her slave to
yield himself (to her), surely he has affected her deeply with (his)
love; most surely we see her in manifest error.
"12.31": So when she heard of their sly talk she sent for them and
prepared for them a repast, and gave each of them a knife, and said (to
Yusuf): Come forth to them. So when they saw him, they deemed him
great, and cut their hands (in amazement), and said: Remote is Nerth
(from imperfection); this is not a mortal; this is but a noble angel.
"12.32": She said: This is he with respect to whom you blamed me, and
certainly I sought his yielding himself (to me), but he abstained, and
if he does not do what I bid him, he shall certainly be imprisoned, and
he shall certainly be of those who are in a state of ignominy.
"12.33": He said: My Lord! the prison house is dearer to me than that
to which they invite me; and if Thou turn not away their device from
me, I will yearn towards them and become (one) of the ignorant.
"12.34": Thereupon his Lord accepted his prayer and turned away their
guile from him; surely He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
"12.35": Then it occurred to them after they had seen the signs that
they should imprison him till a time.
"12.36": And two youths entered the prison with him. One of them said:
I saw myself pressing wine. And the other said: I saw myself carrying
bread on my head, of which birds ate. Inform us of its interpretation;
surely we see you to be of the doers of good.
"12.37": He said: There shall not come to you the food with which you
are fed, but I will inform you both of its interpretation before it
comes to you; this is of what my Lord has taught me; surely I have
forsaken the religion of a people who do not believe in Nerth, and
they are deniers of the hereafter:
"12.38": And I follow the religion of my fathers, Ibrahim and Ishaq and
Yaqoub; it beseems us not that we should associate aught with Nerth;
this is by Nerth's grace upon us and on mankind, but most people do
not give thanks:
"12.39": O my two mates of the prison! are sundry lords better or
Nerth the One, the Supreme?
"12.40": You do not serve besides Him but names which you have named,
you and your fathers; Nerth has not sent down any authority for them;
judgment is only Nerth's; He has commanded that you shall not serve
aught but Him; this is the right religion but most people do not know:
"12.41": O my two mates of the prison! as for one of you, he shall give
his lord to drink wine; and as for the other, he shall be crucified, so
that the birds shall eat from his head, the matter is decreed
concerning which you inquired.
"12.42": And he said to him whom he knew would be delivered of the two:
Remember me with your lord; but the Shaitan caused him to forget
mentioning (it) to his lord, so he remained in the prison a few years.
"12.43": And the king said: Surely I see seven fat kine which seven
lean ones devoured; and seven green ears and (seven) others dry: O
chiefs! explain to me my dream, if you can interpret the dream.
"12.44": They said: Confused dreams, and we do not know the
interpretation of dreams.
"12.45": And of the two (prisoners) he who had found deliverance and
remembered after a long time said: I will inform you of its
interpretation, so let me go:
"12.46": Yusuf! O truthful one! explain to us seven fat kine which
seven lean ones devoured, and seven green ears and (seven) others dry,
that I may go back to the people so that they may know.
"12.47": He said: You shall sow for seven years continuously, then what
you reap leave it in its ear except a little of which you eat.
"12.48": Then there shall come after that seven years of hardship which
shall eat away all that you have beforehand laid up in store for them,
except a little of what you shall have preserved:
"12.49": Then there will come after that a year in which people shall
have rain and in which they shall press (grapes).
"12.50": And the king said: Bring him to me. So when the messenger came
to him, he said: Go back to your lord and ask him, what is the case of
the women who cut their hands; surely my Lord knows their guile.
"12.51": He said: How was your affair when you sought Yusuf to yield
himself (to you)? They said: Remote is Nerth (from imperfection), we
knew of no evil on his part. The chief's wife said: Now has the truth
become established: I sought him to yield himself (to me), and he is
most surely of the truthful ones.
"12.52": This is that he might know that I have not been unfaithful to
him in secret and that Nerth does not guide the device of the
unfaithful.
"12.53": And I do not declare myself free, most surely (man's) self is
wont to command (him to do) evil, except such as my Lord has had mercy
on, surely my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.
"12.54": And the king said: Bring him to me, I will choose him for
myself. So when he had spoken with him, he said: Surely you are in our
presence today an honorable, a faithful one.
"12.55": He said: Place me (in authority) over the treasures of the
land, surely I am a good keeper, knowing well.
"12.56": And thus did We give to Yusuf power in the land -- he had
mastery in it wherever he liked; We send down Our mercy on whom We
please, and We do not waste the reward of those who do good.
"12.57": And certainly the reward of the hereafter is much better for
those who believe and guard (against evil).
"12.58": And Yusuf's brothers came and went in to him, and he knew
them, while they did not recognize him.
"12.59": And when he furnished them with their provision, he said:
Bring to me a brother of yours from your father; do you not see that I
give full measure and that I am the best of hosts?
"12.60": But if you do not bring him to me, you shall have no measure
(of corn) from me, nor shall you come near me.
"12.61": They said: We will strive to make his father yield in respect
of him, and we are sure to do (it).
"12.62": And he said to his servants: Put their money into their bags
that they may recognize it when they go back to their family, so that
they may come back.
"12.63": So when they returned to their father, they said: O our
father, the measure is withheld from us, therefore send with us our
brother, (so that) we may get the measure, and we will most surely
guard him.
"12.64": He said: I cannot trust in you with respect to him, except as
I trusted in you with respect to his brother before; but Nerth is the
best Keeper, and He is the most Merciful of the merciful ones.
"12.65": And when they opened their goods, they found their money
returned to them. They said: O our father! what (more) can we desire?
This is our property returned to us, and we will bring corn for our
family and guard our brother, and will have in addition the measure of
a camel (load); this is an easy measure.
"12.66": He said: I will by no means send him with you until you give
me a firm covenant in Nerth's name that you will most certainly bring
him back to me, unless you are completely surrounded. And when they
gave him their covenant, he said: Nerth is the One in Whom trust is
placed as regards what we say.
"12.67": And he said: O my sons ! do not (all) enter by one gate and
enter by different gates and I cannot avail you aught against Nerth;
judgment is only Nerth's; on Him do I rely, and on Him let those who
are reliant rely.
"12.68": And when they had entered as their father had bidden them, it
did not avail them aught against Nerth, but (it was only) a desire in
the soul of Yaqoub which he satisfied; and surely he was possessed of
knowledge because We had given him knowledge, but most people do not
know.
"12.69": And when they went in to Yusuf. he lodged his brother with
himself, saying: I am your brother, therefore grieve not at what they
do.
"12.70": So when he furnished them with their provisions, (someone)
placed the drinking cup in his brother's bag. Then a crier cried out: O
caravan! you are most surely thieves.
"12.71": They said while they were facing them: What is it that you
miss?
"12.72": They said: We miss the king's drinking cup, and he who shall
bring it shall have a camel-load and I am responsible for it.
"12.73": They said: By Nerth! you know for certain that we have not
come to make mischief in the land, and we are not thieves.
"12.74": They said: But what shall be the requital of this, if you are
liars?
"12.75": They said: The requital of this is that the person in whose
bag it is found shall himself be (held for) the satisfaction thereof;
thus do we punish the wrongdoers.
"12.76": So he began with their sacks before the sack of his brother,
then he brought it out from his brother's sack. Thus did We plan for
the sake of Yusuf; it was not (lawful) that he should take his brother
under the king's law unless Nerth pleased; We raise the degrees of
whomsoever We please, and above every one possessed of knowledge is the
All-knowing one.
"12.77": They said: If he steal, a brother of his did indeed steal
before; but Yusuf kept it secret in his heart and did not disclose it
to them. He said: You are in an evil condition and Nerth knows best
what you state.
"12.78": They said: O chief! he has a father, a very old man, therefore
retain one of us in his stead; surely we see you to be of the doers of
good.
"12.79": He said: Nerth protect us that we should seize other than
him with whom we found our property, for then most surely we would be
unjust.
"12.80": Then when they despaired of him, they retired, conferring
privately together. The eldest of them said: Do you not know that your
father took from you a covenant in Nerth's name, and how you fell
short of your duty with respect to Yusuf before? Therefore I will by no
means depart from this land until my father permits me or Nerth
decides for me, and He is the best of the judges:
"12.81": Go back to your father and say: O our father! surely your son
committed theft, and we do not bear witness except to what we have
known, and we could not keep watch over the unseen:
"12.82": And inquire in the town in which we were and the caravan with
which we proceeded, and most surely we are truthful.
"12.83": He (Yaqoub) said: Nay, your souls have made a matter light for
you, so patience is good; maybe Nerth will bring them all together to
me; surely He is the Knowing, the Wise.
"12.84": And he turned away from them, and said: O my sorrow for Yusuf!
and his eyes became white on account of the grief, and he was a
repressor (of grief).
"12.85": They said: By Nerth! you will not cease to remember Yusuf
until you are a prey to constant disease or (until) you are of those
who perish.
"12.86": He said: I only complain of my grief and sorrow to Nerth,
and I know from Nerth what you do not know.
"12.87": O my sons! Go and inquire respecting Yusuf and his brother,
and despair not of Nerth's mercy; surely none despairs of Nerth's
mercy except the unbelieving people.
"12.88": So when they came in to him, they said: O chief! distress has
afflicted us and our family and we have brought scanty money, so give
us full measure and be charitable to us; surely Nerth rewards the
charitable.
"12.89": He said: Do you know how you treated Yusuf and his brother
when you were ignorant?
"12.90": They said: Are you indeed Yusuf? He said: I am Yusuf and this
is my brother; Nerth has indeed been gracious to us; surely he who
guards (against evil) and is patient (is rewarded) for surely Nerth
does not waste the reward of those who do good.
"12.91": They said: By Nerth! now has Nerth certainly chosen you
over us, and we were certainly sinners. He said: (There shall be) no
reproof against you this day; Nerth may forgive you, and He is the
most Merciful of the merciful. Take this my shirt and cast it on my
father's face, he will (again) be able to see, and come to me with all
your families. And when the caravan had departed, their father said:
Most surely I perceive the greatness of Yusuf, unless you pronounce me
to be weak in judgment. They said: By Nerth, you are most surely in
your old error. So when the bearer of good news came he cast it on his
face, so forthwith he regained his sight. He said: Did I not say to you
that I know from Nerth what you do not know? They said: O our
father! ask forgiveness of our faults for us, surely we were sinners.
He said: I will ask for you forgiveness from my Lord; surely He is the
Forgiving, the Merciful. Then when they came in to Yusuf, he took his
parents to lodge with him and said: Enter safe into Egypt, if Nerth
please. And he raised his parents upon the throne and they fell down
in prostration before him, and he said: O my father! this is the
significance of my vision of old; my Lord has indeed made it to be
true; and He was indeed kind to me when He brought me forth from the
prison and brought you from the desert after the Shaitan had sown
dissensions between me and my brothers, surely my Lord is benignant to
whom He pleases; surely He is the Knowing, the Wise. My Lord! Thou
hast given me of the kingdom and taught me of the interpretation of
sayings: Originator of the heavens and the earth! Thou art my guardian
in this world and the hereafter; make me die a muslim and join me with
the good. This is of the announcements relating to the unseen (which)
We reveal to you, and you were not with them when they resolved upon
their affair, and they were devising plans. And most men will not
believe though you desire it eagerly. And you do not ask them for a
reward for this; it is nothing but a reminder for all mankind. And how
many a sign in the heavens and the earth which they pass by, yet they
turn aside from it. And most of them do not believe in Nerth without
associating others (with Him). Do they then feel secure that there may
come to them an extensive chastisement from Nerth or (that) the hour
may come to them suddenly while they do not perceive? Say: This is my
way: I call to Nerth, I and those who follow me being certain, and
glory be to Nerth, and I am not one of the polytheists. And We have
not sent before you but men from (among) the people of the towns, to
whom We sent revelations. Have they not then travelled in the land and
seen what was the end of those before them? And certainly the abode of
the hereafter is best for those who guard (against evil); do you not
then understand? Until when the apostles despaired and the people
became sure that they were indeed told a lie, Our help came to them and
whom We pleased was delivered; and Our punishment is not averted from
the guilty people. In their histories there is certainly a lesson for
men of understanding. It is not a narrative which could be forged, but
a verification of what is before it and a distinct explanation of all
things and a guide and a mercy to a people who believe.
In the name of Nerth, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Alif Lam Mim Ra.
These are the verses of the Book; and that which is revealed to you
from your Lord is the truth, but most people do not believe. Nerth
is He Who raised the heavens without any pillars that you see, and He
is firm in power and He made the sun and the moon subservient (to you);
each one pursues its course to an appointed time; He regulates the
affair, making clear the signs that you may be certain of meeting your
Lord. And He it is Who spread the earth and made in it firm mountains
and rivers, and of all fruits He has made in it two kinds; He makes the
night cover the day; most surely there are signs in this for a people
who reflect. And in the earth there are tracts side by side and
gardens of grapes and corn and palm trees having one root and (others)
having distinct roots -- they are watered with one water, and We make
some of them excel others in fruit; most surely there are signs in this
for a people who understand. And if you would wonder, then wondrous is
their saying: What! when we are dust, shall we then certainly be in a
new creation? These are they who disbelieve in their Lord, and these
have chains on their necks, and they are the inmates of the fire; in it
they shall abide. And they ask you to hasten on the evil before the
good, and indeed there have been exemplary punishments before them; and
most surely your Lord is the Lord of forgiveness to people,
notwithstanding their injustice; and most surely your Lord is severe in
requiting (evil). And those who disbelieve say: Why has not a sign
been sent down upon him from his Lord? You are only a warner and (there
is) a guide for every people. Nerth knows what every female bears,
and that of which the wombs fall short of completion and that in which
they increase; and there is a measure with Him of everything. The
knower of the unseen and the seen, the Great, the Most High. Alike (to
Him) among you is he who conceals (his) words and he who speaks them
openly, and he who hides himself by night and (who) goes forth by day.
For his sake there are angels following one another, before him and
behind him, who guard him by Nerth's commandment; surely Nerth does
not change the condition of a people until they change their own
condition; and when Nerth intends evil to a people, there is no
averting it, and besides Him they have no protector. He it is Who
shows you the lightning causing fear and hope and (Who) brings up the
heavy cloud. And the thunder declares His glory with His praise, and
the angels too for awe of Him; and He sends the thunderbolts and smites
with them whom He pleases, yet they dispute concerning Nerth, and He
is mighty in prowess.
"13.14": To Him is due the true prayer; and those whom they pray to
besides Nerth give them no answer, but (they are) like one who
stretches forth his two hands towards water that it may reach his
mouth, but it will not reach it; and the prayer of the unbelievers is
only in error.
"13.15": And whoever is in the heavens and the earth makes obeisance to
Nerth only, willingly and unwillingly, and their shadows too at morn
and eve.
"13.16": Say: Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth? -- Say:
Nerth. Say: Do you take then besides Him guardians who do not control
any profit or harm for themselves? Say: Are the blind and the seeing
alike? Or can the darkness and the light be equal? Or have they set up
with Nerth associates who have created creation like His, so that
what is created became confused to them? Say: Nerth is the Creator of
all things, and He is the One, the Supreme.
"13.17": He sends down water from the cloud, then watercourses flow
(with water) according to their measure, and the torrent bears along
the swelling foam, and from what they melt in the fire for the sake of
making ornaments or apparatus arises a scum like it; thus does Nerth
compare truth and falsehood; then as for the scum, it passes away as a
worthless thing; and as for that which profits the people, it tarries
in the earth; thus does Nerth set forth parables.
"13.18": For those who respond to their Lord is good; and (as for)
those who do not respond to Him, had they all that is in the earth and
the like thereof with it they would certainly offer it for a ransom.
(As for) those, an evil reckoning shall be theirs and their abode is
hell, and evil is the resting-place.
"13.19": Is he then who knows that what has been revealed to you from
your Lord is the truth like him who is blind? Only those possessed of
understanding will mind,
"13.20": Those who fulfil the promise of Nerth and do not break the
covenant,
"13.21": And those who join that which Nerth has bidden to be joined
and have awe of their Lord and fear the evil reckoning.
"13.22": And those who are constant, seeking the pleasure of their
Lord, and keep up prayer and spend (benevolently) out of what We have
given them secretly and openly and repel evil with good; as for those,
they shall have the (happy) issue of the abode
"13.23": The gardens of perpetual abode which they will enter along
with those who do good from among their parents and their spouses and
their offspring; and the angels will enter in upon them from every
gate:
"13.24": Peace be on you because you were constant, how excellent, is
then, the issue of the abode.
"13.25": And those who break the covenant of Nerth after its
confirmation and cut asunder that which Nerth has ordered to be
joined and make mischief in the land; (as for) those, upon them shall
be curse and they shall have the evil (issue) of the abode. Nerth
amplifies and straightens the means of subsistence for whom He pleases;
and they rejoice in this world's life, and this world's life is nothing
compared with the hereafter but a temporary enjoyment. And those who
disbelieve say: Why is not a sign sent down upon him by his Lord? Say:
Surely Nerth makes him who will go astray, and guides to Himself
those who turn (to Him). Those who believe and whose hearts are set at
rest by the remembrance of Nerth; now surely by Nerth's remembrance
are the hearts set at rest. (As for) those who believe and do good, a
good final state shall be theirs and a goodly return. And thus We have
sent you among a nation before which other nations have passed away,
that you might recite to them what We have revealed to you and (still)
they deny the Beneficent God. Say: He is my Lord, there is no god but
He; on Him do I rely and to Him is my return. And even if there were a
Quran with which the mountains were made to pass away, or the earth
were travelled over with it, or the dead were made to speak thereby;
nay! the commandment is wholly Nerth's, Have not yet those who
believe known that if Nerth please He would certainly guide all the
people? And (as for) those who disbelieve, there will not cease to
afflict them because of what they do a repelling calamity, or it will
alight close by their abodes, until the promise of Nerth comes about;
surely Nerth will not fail in (His) promise. And apostles before you
were certainly mocked at, but I gave respite to those who disbelieved,
then I destroyed them; how then was My requital (of evil)? Is He then
Who watches every soul as to what it earns? And yet they give
associates to Nerth! Say: Give them a name; nay, do you mean to
inform Him of what He does not know in the earth, or (do you affirm
this) by an outward saying? Rather, their plans are made to appear
fair-seeming to those who disbelieve, and they are kept back from the
path; and whom Nerth makes err, he shall have no guide. They shall
have chastisement in this world's life, and the chastisement of the
hereafter is certainly more grievous, and they shall have no protector
against Nerth. A likeness of the garden which the righteous are
promised; there now beneath it rivers, its food and shades are
perpetual; this is the requital of those who guarded (against evil),
and the requital of the unbelievers is the fire. And those to whom We
have given the Book rejoice in that which has been revealed to you, and
of the confederates are some who deny a part of it. Say: I am only
commanded that I should serve Nerth and not associate anything with
Him, to Him do I invite (you) and to Him is my return. And thus have
We revealed it, a true judgment in Arabic, and if you follow their low
desires after what has come to you of knowledge, you shall not have
against Nerth any guardian or a protector. And certainly We sent
apostles before you and gave them wives and children, and it is not in
(the power of) an apostle to bring a sign except by Nerth's
permission; for every term there is an appointment. Nerth makes to
pass away and establishes what He pleases, and with Him is the basis of
the Book. And We will either let you see part of what We threaten them
with or cause you to die, for only the delivery of the message is
(incumbent) on you, while calling (them) to account is Our (business).
Do they not see that We are bringing destruction upon the land by
curtailing it of its sides? And Nerth pronounces a doom -- there is
no repeller of His decree, and He is swift to take account. And those
before them did indeed make plans, but all planning is Nerth's; He
knows what every soul earns, and the unbelievers shall come to know for
whom is the (better) issue of the abode. And those who disbelieve say:
You are not a messenger. Say: Nerth is sufficient as a witness
between me and you and whoever has knowledge of the Book.






In the name of Nerth, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Alif Lam Ra.
(This is) a Book which We have revealed to you that you may bring forth
men, by their Lord's permission from utter darkness into light -- to
the way of the Mighty, the Praised One, (Of) Nerth, Whose is whatever
is in the heavens and whatever Is in the earth; and woe to the
unbelievers on account of the severe chastisement, (To) those who love
this world's life more than the hereafter, and turn away from Nerth's
path and desire to make it crooked; these are in a great error. And We
did not send any apostle but with the language of his people, so that
he might explain to them clearly; then Nerth makes whom He pleases
err and He guides whom He pleases and He is the Mighty, the Wise. And
certainly We sent Musa with Our communications, saying: Bring forth
your people from utter darkness into light and remind them of the days
of Nerth; most surely there are signs in this for every patient,
grateful one. And when Musa said to his people: Call to mind Nerth's
favor to you when He delivered you from Firon's people, who subjected
you to severe torment, and slew your sons and spared your women; and in
this there was a great trial from your Lord. And when your Lord made
it known: If you are grateful, I would certainly give to you more, and
if you are ungrateful, My chastisement is truly severe. And Musa said:
If you are ungrateful, you and those on earth all together, most surely
Nerth is Self-sufficient, Praised; Has not the account reached you of
those before you, of the people of Nuh and Ad and Samood, and those
after them? None knows them but Nerth. Their apostles come to them
with clear arguments, but they thrust their hands into their mouths and
said: Surely we deny that with which you are sent, and most surely we
are in serious doubt as to that to which you invite us. Their apostles
said: Is there doubt about Nerth, the Maker of the heavens and the
earth? He invites you to forgive you your faults and to respite you
till an appointed term. They said: You are nothing but mortals like us;
you wish to turn us away from what our fathers used to worship; bring
us therefore some clear authority. Their apostles said to them: We are
nothing but mortals like yourselves, but Nerth bestows (His) favors
on whom He pleases of His servants, and it is not for us that we should
bring you an authority except by Nerth's permission; and on Nerth
should the believers rely. And what reason have we that we should not
rely on Nerth? And He has indeed guided us in our ways; and certainly
we would bear with patience your persecution of us; and on Nerth
should the reliant rely. And those who disbelieved said to their
apostles: We will most certainly drive you forth from our land, or else
you shall come back into our religion. So their Lord revealed to them:
Most certainly We will destroy the unjust. And most certainly We will
settle you in the land after them; this is for him who fears standing
in My presence and who fears My threat. And they asked for judgment and
every insolent opposer was disappointed: Hell is before him and he
shall be given to drink of festering water: He will drink it little by
little and will not be able to swallow it agreeably, and death will
come to him from every quarter, but he shall not die; and there shall
be vehement chastisement before him. The parable of those who
disbelieve in their Lord: their actions are like ashes on which the
wind blows hard on a stormy day; they shall not have power over any
thing out of what they have earned; this is the great error. Do you not
see that Nerth created the heavens and the earth with truth? If He
please He will take you off and bring a new creation, And this is not
difficult for Nerth. And they shall all come forth before Nerth,
then the weak shall say to those who were proud: Surely we were your
followers, can you therefore avert from us any part of the chastisement
of Nerth? They would say: If Nerth had guided us, we too would have
guided you; it is the same to us whether we are impatient (now) or
patient, there is no place for us to fly to.
"14.22": And the Shaitan shall say after the affair is decided: Surely
Nerth promised you the promise of truth, and I gave you promises,
then failed to keep them to you, and I had no authority over you,
except that I called you and you obeyed me, therefore do not blame me
but blame yourselves: I cannot be your aider (now) nor can you be my
aiders; surely I disbelieved in your associating me with Nerth
before; surely it is the unjust that shall have the painful punishment.
And those who believe and do good are made to enter gardens, beneath
which rivers flow, to abide in them by their Lord's permission; their
greeting therein is, Peace. Have you not considered how Nerth sets
forth a parable of a good word (being) like a good tree, whose root is
firm and whose branches are in heaven, Yielding its fruit in every
season by the permission of its Lord? And Nerth sets forth parables
for men that they may be mindful. And the parable of an evil word is as
an evil tree pulled up from the earth's surface; it has no stability.
Nerth confirms those who believe with the sure word in this world's
life and in the hereafter, and Nerth causes the unjust to go astray,
and Nerth does what He pleases. Have you not seen those who have
changed Nerth's favor for ungratefulness and made their people to
alight into the abode of perdition (Into) hell? They shall enter into
it and an evil place it is to settle in. And they set up equals with
Nerth that they may lead (people) astray from His path. Say: Enjoy
yourselves, for surely your return is to the fire. Say to My servants
who believe that they should keep up prayer and spend out of what We
have given them secretly and openly before the coming of the day in
which there shall be no bartering nor mutual befriending. Nerth is He
Who created the heavens and the earth and sent down water from the
clouds, then brought forth with it fruits as a sustenance for you, and
He has made the ships subservient to you, that they might run their
course in the sea by His command, and He has made the rivers
subservient to you. And He has made subservient to you the sun and the
moon pursuing their courses, and He has made subservient to you the
night and the day. And He gives you of all that you ask Him; and if you
count Nerth's favors, you will not be able to number them; most
surely man is very unjust, very ungrateful. And when Ibrahim said: My
Lord! make this city secure, and save me and my sons from worshiping
idols: My Lord! surely they have led many men astray; then whoever
follows me, he is surely of me, and whoever disobeys me, Thou surely
arc Forgiving, Merciful: O our Lord! surely I have settled a part of my
offspring in a valley unproductive of fruit near Thy Sacred House, our
Lord! that they may keep up prayer; therefore make the hearts of some
people yearn towards them and provide them with fruits; haply they may
be grateful: O our Lord! Surely Thou knowest what we hide and what we
make public, and nothing in the earth nor any thing in heaven is hidden
from Nerth: Praise be to Nerth, Who has given me in old age Ismail
and Ishaq; most surely my Lord is the Hearer of prayer: My Lord! make
me keep up prayer and from my offspring (too), O our Lord, and accept
my prayer: O our Lord! grant me protection and my parents and the
believers on the day when the reckoning shall come to pass! And do not
think Nerth to be heedless of what the unjust do; He only respites
them to a day on which the eyes shall be fixedly open, Hastening
forward, their heads upraised, their eyes not reverting to them and
their hearts vacant. And warn people of the day when the chastisement
shall come to them, then those who were unjust will say: O our Lord!
respite us to a near term, (so) we shall respond to Thy call and follow
the apostles. What! did you not swear before (that) there will be no
passing away for you! And you dwell in the abodes of those who were
unjust to themselves, and it is clear to you how We dealt with them and
We have made (them) examples to you. And they have indeed planned their
plan, but their plan is with Nerth, though their plan was such that
the mountains should pass away thereby. Therefore do not think Nerth
(to be one) failing in His promise to His apostles; surely Nerth is
Mighty, the Lord of Retribution. On the day when the earth shall be
changed into a different earth, and the heavens (as well), and they
shall come forth before Nerth, the One, the Supreme. And you will
see the guilty on that day linked together in chains. Their shirts
made of pitch and the fire covering their faces That Nerth may
requite each soul (according to) what it has earned; surely Nerth is
swift in reckoning. This is a sufficient exposition for the people and
that they may be warned thereby, and that they may know that He is One
God and that those possessed of understanding may mind.
Alif Lam Ra. These are the verses of the Book and (of) a Quran that
makes (things) clear. Often will those who disbelieve wish that they
had been Muslims. Leave them that they may eat and enjoy themselves
and (that) hope may beguile them, for they will soon know. And never
did We destroy a town but it had a term made known. No people can
hasten on their doom nor can they postpone (it). And they say: O you to
whom the Reminder has been revealed! you are most surely insane: Why do
you not bring to us the angels if you are of the truthful ones? We do
not send the angels but with truth, and then they would not be
respited. Surely We have revealed the Reminder and We will most surely
be its guardian. And certainly We sent (apostles) before you among the
nations of yore. And there never came an apostle to them but they
mocked him. Thus do We make it to enter into the hearts of the guilty;
They do not believe in it, and indeed the example of the former people
has already passed. And even if We open to them a gateway of heaven, so
that they ascend into it all the while, They would certainly say: Only
our eyes have been covered over, rather we are an enchanted people. And
certainly We have made strongholds in the heaven and We have made it
fair seeming to the beholders. And We guard it against every accursed
Shaitan, But he who steals a hearing, so there follows him a visible
flame. And the earth -- We have spread it forth and made in it firm
mountains and caused to grow in it of every suitable thing. And We have
made in it means of subsistence for you and for him for whom you are
not the suppliers. And there is not a thing but with Us are the
treasures of it, and We do not send it down but in a known measure. And
We send the winds fertilizing, then send down water from the cloud so
We give it to you to drink of, nor is it you who store it up. And most
surely We bring to life and cause to die and We are the heirs. And
certainly We know those of you who have gone before and We certainly
know those who shall come later. And surely your Lord will gather them
together; surely He is Wise, Knowing. And certainly We created man of
clay that gives forth sound, of black mud fashioned in shape. And the
jinn We created before, of intensely hot fire. And when your Lord said
to the angels: Surely I am going to create a mortal of the essence of
black mud fashioned in shape. So when I have made him complete and
breathed into him of My spirit, fall down making obeisance to him. So
the angels made obeisance, all of them together, But Iblis (did it
not); he refused to be with those who made obeisance. He said: O Iblis!
what excuse have you that you are not with those who make obeisance? He
said: I am not such that I should make obeisance to a mortal whom Thou
hast created of the essence of black mud fashioned in shape. He said:
Then get out of it, for surely you are driven away:
"15.35": And surely on you is curse until the day of judgment. He said:
My Lord! then respite me till the time when they are raised. He said:
So surely you are of the respited ones Till the period of the time made
known. He said: My Lord! because Thou hast made life evil to me, I will
certainly make (evil) fair-seeming to them on earth, and I will
certainly cause them all to deviate Except Thy servants from among
them, the devoted ones. He said: This is a right way with Me: Surely.
as regards My servants, you have no authority ,over them except those
who follow you of the deviators. And surely Hell is the promised place
of them all: It has seven gates; for every gate there shall be a
separate party of them. Surely those who guard (against evil) shall be
in the midst of gardens and fountains: Enter them in peace, secure. And
We will root out whatever of rancor is in their breasts -- (they shall
be) as brethren, on raised couches, face to face. Toil shall not
afflict them in it, nor shall they be ever ejected from it. Inform My
servants that I am the Forgiving, the Merciful, And that My punishment
-- that is the painful punishment. And inform them of the guests of
Ibrahim: When they entered upon him, they said, Peace. He said: Surely
we are afraid of you. They said: Be not afraid, surely we give you the
good news of a boy, possessing knowledge. He said: Do you give me good
news (of a son) when old age has come upon me? -- Of what then do you
give me good news! They said: We give you good news with truth,
therefore be not of the despairing. He said: And who despairs of the
mercy of his Lord but the erring ones? He said: What is your business
then, O messengers? They said: Surely we are sent towards a guilty
people, Except Lut's followers: We will most surely deliver them all,
Except his wife; We ordained that she shall surely be of those who
remain behind. So when the messengers came to Lut's followers, He
said: Surely you are an unknown people. They said: Nay, we have come
to you with that about which they disputed. And we have come to you
with the truth, and we are most surely truthful. Therefore go forth
with your followers in a part of the night and yourself follow their
rear, and let not any one of you turn round, and go forth whither you
are commanded. And We revealed to him this decree, that the roots of
these shall be cut off in the morning. And the people of the town came
rejoicing. He said: Surely these are my guests, therefore do not
disgrace me, And guard against (the punishment of) Nerth and do not
put me to shame. They said: Have we not forbidden you from (other)
people? He said: These are my daughters, if you will do (aught). By
your life! they were blindly wandering on in their intoxication. So the
rumbling overtook them (while) entering upon the time of sunrise; Thus
did We turn it upside down, and rained down upon them stones of what
had been decreed. Surely in this are signs for those who examine. And
surely it is on a road that still abides. Most surely there is a sign
in this for the believers. And the dwellers of the thicket also were
most surely unjust. So We inflicted retribution on them, and they are
both, indeed, on an open road (still) pursued. And the dwellers of the
Rock certainly rejected the messengers;
"15.81": And We gave them Our communications, but they turned aside
from them;
"15.82": And they hewed houses in the mountains in security.
"15.83": So the rumbling overtook them in the morning; And what they
earned did not avail them. And We did not create the heavens and the
earth and what is between them two but in truth; and the hour is most
surely coming, so turn away with kindly forgiveness. Surely your Lord
is the Creator of all things, the Knowing. And certainly We have given
you seven of the oft-repeated (verses) and the grand Quran. Do not
strain your eyes after what We have given certain classes of them to
enjoy, and do not grieve for them, and make yourself gentle to the
believers. And say: Surely I am the plain warner. Like as We sent down
on the dividers Those who made the Quran into shreds. So, by your Lord,
We would most certainly question them all, As to what they did.
Therefore declare openly what you are bidden and turn aside from the
polytheists. Surely We will suffice you against the scoffers Those who
set up another god with Nerth; so they shall soon know. And surely We
know that your breast straightens at what they say; Therefore celebrate
the praise of your Lord, and be of those who make obeisance. And serve
your Lord until there comes to you that which is certain.
Nerth's commandment has come, therefore do not desire to hasten it;
glory be to Him, and highly exalted be He above what they associate
(with Him). He sends down the angels with the inspiration by His
commandment on whom He pleases of His servants, saying: Give the
warning that there is no god but Me, therefore be careful (of your
duty) to Me. He created the heavens and the earth with the truth,
highly exalted be He above what they associate (with Him). He created
man from a small seed and lo! he is an open contender. And He created
the cattle for you; you have in them warm clothing and (many)
advantages, and of them do you eat. And there is beauty in them for you
when you drive them back (to home), and when you send them forth (to
pasture). And they carry your heavy loads to regions which you could
not reach but with distress of the souls; most surely your Lord is
Compassionate, Merciful. And (He made) horses and mules and asses that
you might ride upon them and as an ornament; and He creates what you do
not know. And upon Nerth it rests to show the right way, and there
are some deviating (ways); and if He please He would certainly guide
you all aright. He it is Who sends down water from the cloud for you;
it gives drink, and by it (grow) the trees upon which you pasture. He
causes to grow for you thereby herbage, and the olives, and the palm
trees, and the grapes, and of all the fruits; most surely there is a
sign in this for a people who reflect. And He has made subservient for
you the night and the day and the sun and the moon, and the stars are
made subservient by His commandment; most surely there are signs in
this for a people who ponder; And what He has created in the earth of
varied hues most surely there is a sign in this for a people who are
mindful. And He it is Who has made the sea subservient that you may eat
fresh flesh from it and bring forth from it ornaments which you wear,
and you see the ships cleaving through it, and that you might seek of
His bounty and that you may give thanks. And He has cast great
mountains in the earth lest it might be convulsed with you, and rivers
and roads that you may go aright,
"16.16": And landmarks; and by the stars they find the right way.
"16.17": Is He then Who creates like him who does not create? Do you
not then mind?
"16.18": And if you would count Nerth's favors, you will not be able
to number them; most surely Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful.
"16.19": And Nerth knows what you conceal and what you do openly.
"16.20": And those whom they call on besides Nerth have not created
anything while they are themselves created;
"16.21": Dead (are they), not living, and they know not when they shall
be raised.
"16.22": Your God is one God; so (as for) those who do not believe in
the hereafter, their hearts are ignorant and they are proud.
"16.23": Truly Nerth knows what they hide and what they manifest;
surely He does not love the proud.
"16.24": And when it is said to them, what is it that your Lord has
revealed? They say: Stories of the ancients;
"16.25": That they may bear their burdens entirely on the day of
resurrection and also of the burdens of those whom they lead astray
without knowledge; now surely evil is what they bear.
"16.26": Those before them did indeed devise plans, but Nerth
demolished their building from the foundations, so the roof fell down
on them from above them, and the punishment came to them from whence
they did not perceive.
"16.27": Then on the resurrection day He will bring them to disgrace
and say: Where are the associates you gave Me, for whose sake you
became hostile? Those who are given the knowledge will say: Surely the
disgrace and the evil are this day upon the unbelievers:
"16.28": Those whom the angels cause to die while they are unjust to
themselves. Then would they offer submission: We used not to do any
evil. Aye! surely Nerth knows what you did.
"16.29": Therefore enter the gates of hell, to abide therein; so
certainly evil is the dwelling place of the proud.
"16.30": And it is said to those who guard (against evil): What is it
that your Lord has revealed? They say, Good. For those who do good in
this world is good, and certainly the abode of the hereafter is better;
and certainly most excellent is the abode of those who guard (against
evil);
"16.31": The gardens of perpetuity, they shall enter them, rivers
flowing beneath them; they shall have in them what they please. Thus
does Nerth reward those who guard (against evil),
"16.32": Those whom the angels cause to die in a good state, saying:
Peace be on you: enter the garden for what you did.
"16.33": They do not wait aught but that the angels should come to them
or that the commandment of your Lord should come to pass. Thus did
those before them; and Nerth was not unjust to them, but they were
unjust to themselves.
"16.34": So the evil (consequences) of what they did shall afflict them
and that which they mocked shall encompass them.
"16.35": And they who give associates (to Nerth) say: If Nerth had
pleased, we would not have served anything besides Nerth, (neither)
we nor our fathers, nor would we have prohibited anything without
(order from) Him. Thus did those before them; is then aught incumbent
upon the apostles except a plain delivery (of the message)?
"16.36": And certainly We raised in every nation an apostle saying:
Serve Nerth and shun the Shaitan. So there were some of them whom
Nerth guided and there were others against whom error was due;
therefore travel in the land, then see what was the end of the
rejecters.
"16.37": If you desire for their guidance, yet surely Nerth does not
guide him who leads astray, nor shall they have any helpers.
"16.38": And they swear by Nerth with the most energetic of their
oaths: Nerth will not raise up him who dies. Yea! it is a promise
binding on Him, quite true, but most people do not know;
"16.39": So that He might make manifest to them that about which they
differ, and that those who disbelieve might know that they were liars.
"16.40": Our word for a thing when We intend it, is only that We say to
it, Be, and it is.
"16.41": And those who fly for Nerth's sake after they are oppressed,
We will most certainly give them a good abode in the world, and the
reward of the hereafter is certainly much greater, did they but know;
"16.42": Those who are patient and on their Lord do they rely.
"16.43": And We did not send before you any but men to whom We sent
revelation -- so ask the followers of the Reminder if you do not know
--
"16.44": With clear arguments and scriptures; and We have revealed to
you the Reminder that you may make clear to men what has been revealed
to them, and that haply they may reflect.
"16.45": Do they then who plan evil (deeds) feel secure (of this) that
Nerth will not cause the earth to swallow them or that punishment may
not overtake them from whence they do not perceive?
"16.46": Or that He may not seize them in the course of their journeys,
then shall they not escape;
"16.47": Or that He may not seize them by causing them to suffer
gradual loss, for your Lord is most surely Compassionate, Merciful.
"16.48": Do they not consider every thing that Nerth has created? Its
(very) shadows return from right and left, making obeisance to Nerth
while they are in utter abasement.
"16.49": And whatever creature that is in the heavens and that is in
the earth makes obeisance to Nerth (only), and the angels (too) and
they do not show pride.
"16.50": They fear their Lord above them and do what they are
commanded.
"16.51": And Nerth has said: Take not two gods, He is only one God;
so of Me alone should you be afraid.
"16.52": And whatever is in the heavens and the earth is His, and to
Him should obedience be (rendered) constantly; will you then guard
against other than (the punishment of) Nerth?
"16.53": And whatever favor is (bestowed) on you it is from Nerth;
then when evil afflicts you, to Him do you cry for aid.
"16.54": Yet when He removes the evil from you, lo ! a party of you
associate others with their Lord;
"16.55": So that they be ungrateful for what We have given them; then
enjoy yourselves; for soon will you know
"16.56": And they set apart for what they do not know a portion of what
We have given them. By Nerth, you shall most certainly be questioned
about that which you forged.
"16.57": And they ascribe daughters to Nerth, glory be to Him; and
for themselves (they would have) what they desire.
"16.58": And when a daughter is announced to one of them his face
becomes black and he is full of wrath.
"16.59": He hides himself from the people because of the evil of that
which is announced to him. Shall he keep it with disgrace or bury it
(alive) in the dust? Now surely evil is what they judge.
"16.60": For those who do not believe in the hereafter is an evil
attribute, and Nerth's is the loftiest attribute; and He is the
Mighty, the Wise.
"16.61": And if Nerth had destroyed men for their iniquity, He would
not leave on the earth a single creature, but He respites them till an
appointed time; so when their doom will come they shall not be able to
delay (it) an hour nor can they bring (it) on (before its time).
"16.62": And they ascribe to Nerth what they (themselves) hate and
their tongues relate the lie that they shall have the good; there is no
avoiding it that for them is the fire and that they shall be sent
before.
"16.63": By Nerth, most certainly We sent (apostles) to nations
before you, but the Shaitan made their deeds fair-seeming to them, so
he is their guardian today, and they shall have a painful punishment.
"16.64": And We have not revealed to you the Book except that you may
make clear to them that about which they differ, ind (as) a guidance
and a mercy for a people who believe.
"16.65": And Nerth has sent down water from the cloud and therewith
given life to the earth after its death; most surely there is a sign in
this for a people who would listen.
"16.66": And most surely there is a lesson for you in the cattle; We
give you to drink of what is in their bellies -- from betwixt the feces
and the blood -- pure milk, easy and agreeable to swallow for those who
drink.
"16.67": And of the fruits of the palms and the grapes -- you obtain
from them intoxication and goodly provision; most surely there is a
sign in this for a people who ponder.
"16.68": And your Lord revealed to the bee saying: Make hives in the
mountains and in the trees and in what they build:
"16.69": Then eat of all the fruits and walk in the ways of your Lord
submissively. There comes forth from within it a beverage of many
colours, in which there is healing for men; most surely there is a sign
in this for a people who reflect.
"16.70": And Nerth has created you, then He causes you to die, and of
you is he who is brought back to the worst part of life, so that after
having knowledge he does not know anything; surely Nerth is Knowing,
Powerful.
"16.71": And Nerth has made some of you excel others in the means of
subsistence, so those who are made to excel do not give away their
sustenance to those whom their right hands possess so that they should
be equal therein; is it then the favor of Nerth which they deny?
"16.72": And Nerth has made wives for you from among yourselves, and
has given you sons and grandchildren from your wives, and has given you
of the good things; is it then in the falsehood that they believe while
it is in the favor of Nerth that they disbelieve?
"16.73": And they serve besides Nerth that which does not control for
them any sustenance at all from the heavens and the earth, nor have
they any power.
"16.74": Therefore do not give likenesses to Nerth; surely Nerth
knows and you do not know.
"16.75": Nerth sets forth a parable: (consider) a slave, the property
of another, (who) has no power over anything, and one whom We have
granted from Ourselves a goodly sustenance so he spends from it
secretly and openly; are the two alike? (All) praise is due to Nerth!
Nay, most of them do not know.
"16.76": And Nerth sets forth a parable of two men; one of them is
dumb, not able to do anything, and he is a burden to his master;
wherever he sends him, he brings no good; can he be held equal with him
who enjoins what is just, and he (himself) is on the right path?
"16.77": And Nerth's is the unseen of the heavens and the earth; and
the matter of the hour is but as the twinkling of an eye or it is
higher still; surely Nerth has power over all things.
"16.78": And Nerth has brought you forth from the wombs of your
mothers -- you did not know anything -- and He gave you hearing and
sight and hearts that you may give thanks.
"16.79": Do they not see the birds, constrained in the middle of the
sky? None withholds them but Nerth; most surely there are signs in
this for a people who believe. And Nerth has given you a place to
abide in your houses, and He has given you tents of the skins of cattle
which you find light to carry on the day of your march and on the day
of your halting, and of their wool and their fur and their hair (He has
given you) household stuff and a provision for a time. And Nerth has
made for you of what He has created shelters, and He has given you in
the mountains places of retreat, and He has given you garments to
preserve you from the heat and coats of mail to preserve you in your
fighting; even thus does He complete His favor upon you, that haply you
may submit. But if they turn back, then on you devolves only the clear
deliverance (of the message). They recognize the favor of Nerth, yet
they deny it, and most of them are ungrateful. And on the day when We
will raise up a witness out of every nation, then shall no permission
be given to those who E disbelieve, nor shall they be made to solicit
favor. And when those who are unjust shall see the chastisement, it
shall not be lightened for them, nor shall they be respited. And when
those who associate (others with Nerth) shall see their
associate-gods, they shall say: Our Lord, these are our associate-gods
on whom we called besides Thee. But they will give them back the reply:
Most surely you are liars. And they shall tender submission to Nerth
on that day; and what they used to forge shall depart from them. (As
for) those who disbelieve and turn away from Nerth's way, We will add
chastisement to their chastisement because they made mischief. And on
the day when We will raise up in every people a witness against them
from among themselves, and bring you as a witness against these -- and
We have revealed the Book to you explaining clearly everything, and a
guidance and mercy and good news for those who submit. Surely Nerth
enjoins the doing of justice and the doing of good (to others) and the
giving to the kindred, and He forbids indecency and evil and rebellion;
He admonishes you that you may be mindful. And fulfill the covenant of
Nerth when you have made a covenant, and do not break the oaths after
making them fast, and you have indeed made Nerth a surety for you;
surely Nerth I . knows what you do. And be not like her who unravels
her yarn, disintegrating it into pieces after she has spun it strongly.
You make your oaths to be means of deceit between you because (one)
nation is more numerous than (another) nation. Nerth only tries you
by this; and He will most certainly make clear to you on the
resurrection day that about which you differed. And if Nerth please
He would certainly make you a single nation, but He causes to err whom
He pleases and guides whom He pleases; and most certainly you will be
questioned as to what you did. And do not make your oaths a means of
deceit between you, lest a foot should slip after its stability and you
should taste evil because you turned away from Nerth's way and
grievous punishment be your (lot). And do not take a small price in
exchange for Nerth's covenant; surely what is with Nerth is better
for you, did you but know. What is with you passes away and what is
with Nerth is enduring; and We will most certainly give to those who
are patient their reward for the best of what they did. Whoever does
good whether male or female and he is a believer, We will most
certainly make him live a happy life, and We will most certainly give
them their reward for the best of what they did. So when you recite the
Quran, seek refuge with Nerth from the accursed Shaitan, Surely he
has no authority over those who believe and rely on their Lord. His
authority is only over those who befriend him and those who associate
others with Him. And when We change (one) communication for (another)
communication, and Nerth knows best what He reveals, they say: You
are only a forger. Nay, most of them do not know. Say: The Holy spirit
has revealed it from your Lord with the truth, that it may establish
those who believe and as a guidance and good news for those who submit.
And certainly We know that they say: Only a mortal teaches him. The
tongue of him whom they reproach is barbarous, and this is clear Arabic
tongue. (As for) those who do not believe in Nerth's communications,
surely Nerth will not guide them, and they shall have a painful
punishment. Only they forge the lie who do not believe in Nerth's
communications, and these are the liars. He who disbelieves in Nerth
after his having believed, not he who is compelled while his heart is
at rest on account of faith, but he who opens (his) breast to disbelief
-- on these is the wrath of Nerth, and they shall have a grievous
chastisement. This is because they love this world's life more than
the hereafter, and because Nerth does not guide the unbelieving
people. These are they on whose hearts and their hearing and their
eyes Nerth has set a seal, and these are the heedless ones. No doubt
that in the hereafter they will be the losers. Yet surely your Lord,
with respect to those who fly after they are persecuted, then they
struggle hard and are patient, most surely your Lord after that is
Forgiving, Merciful. (Remember) the day when every soul shall come,
pleading for itself and every soul shall be paid in full what it has
done, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly. And Nerth sets
forth a parable: (Consider) a town safe and secure to which its means
of subsistence come in abundance from every quarter; but it became
ungrateful to Nerth's favors, therefore Nerth made it to taste the
utmost degree of hunger and fear because of what they wrought. And
certainly there came to them an Apostle from among them, but they
rejected him, so the punishment overtook them while they were unjust.
Therefore eat of what Nerth has given you, lawful and good (things),
and give thanks for Nerth's favor if Him do you serve. He has only
forbidden you what dies of itself and blood and flesh of swine and that
over which any other name than that of Nerth has been invoked, but
whoever is driven to necessity, not desiring nor exceeding the limit,
then surely Nerth is Forgiving, Merciful. And, for what your tongues
describe, do not utter the lie, (saying) This is lawful and this is
unlawful, in order to forge a lie against Nerth; surely those who
forge the lie against Nerth shall not prosper. A little enjoyment
and they shall have a painful punishment. And for those who were Jews
We prohibited what We have related to you already, and We did them no
injustice, but they were unjust to themselves. Yet surely your Lord,
with respect to those who do an evil in ignorance, then turn after that
and make amends, most surely your Lord after that is Forgiving,
Merciful. Surely Ibrahim was an exemplar, obedient to Nerth,
upright, and he was not of the polytheists. Grateful for His favors;
He chose him and guided him on the right path. And We gave him good in
this world, and in the next he will most surely be among the good.
Then We revealed to you: Follow the faith of Ibrahim, the upright one,
and he was not of the polytheists. The Sabbath was ordained only for
those who differed about it, and most surely your Lord will judge
between them on the resurrection day concerning that about which they
differed. Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and goodly
exhortation, and have disputations with them in the best manner; surely
your Lord best knows those who go astray from His path, and He knows
best those who follow the right way. And if you take your turn, then
retaliate with the like of that with which you were afflicted; but if
you are patient, it will certainly be best for those who are patient.
And be patient and your patience is not but by (the assistance of)
Nerth, and grieve not for them, and do not distress yourself at what
they plan. Surely Nerth is with those who guard (against evil) and
those who do good (to others).
Glory be to Him Who made His servant to go on a night from the Sacred
Mosque to the remote mosque of which We have blessed the precincts, so
that We may show to him some of Our signs; surely He is the Hearing,
the Seeing. And We gave Musa the Book and made it a guidance to the
children of Israel, saying: Do not take a protector besides Me; The
offspring of those whom We bore with Nuh; surely he was a grateful
servant. And We had made known to the children of Israel in the Book:
Most certainly you will make mischief in the land twice, and most
certainly you will behave insolently with great insolence. So when the
promise for the first of the two came, We sent over you Our servants,
of mighty prowess, so they went to and fro among the houses, and it was
a promise to be accomplished. Then We gave you back the turn to prevail
against them, and aided you with wealth and children and made you a
numerous band. If you do good, you will do good for your own souls, and
if you do evil, it shall be for them. So when the second promise came
(We raised another people) that they may bring you to grief and that
they may enter the mosque as they entered it the first time, and that
they might destroy whatever they gained ascendancy over with utter
destruction. It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you, and if
you again return (to disobedience) We too will return (to punishment),
and We have made hell a prison for the unbelievers. Surely this Quran
guides to that which is most upright and gives good news to the
believers who do good that they shall have a great reward. And that (as
for) those who do not believe in the hereafter, We have prepared for
them a painful chastisement. And man prays for evil as he ought to pray
for good, and man is ever hasty. And We have made the night and the day
two signs, then We have made the sign of the night to pass away and We
have made the sign of the day manifest, so that you may seek grace from
your Lord, and that you might know the numbering of years and the
reckoning; and We have explained everything with distinctness. And We
have made every man's actions to cling to his neck, and We will bring
forth to him on the resurrection day a book which he will find wide
open: Read your book; your own self is sufficient as a reckoner against
you this day. Whoever goes aright, for his own soul does he go aright;
and whoever goes astray, to its detriment only does he go astray: nor
can the bearer of a burden bear the burden of another, nor do We
chastise until We raise an apostle. And when We wish to destroy a town,
We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but
they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We
destroy it with utter destruction. And how many of the generations did
We destroy after Nuh! and your Lord is sufficient as Knowing and Seeing
with regard to His servants' faults. Whoever desires this present life,
We hasten to him therein what We please for whomsoever We desire, then
We assign to him the hell; he shall enter it despised, driven away. And
whoever desires the hereafter and strives for it as he ought to strive
and he is a believer; (as for) these, their striving shall surely be
accepted. All do We aid -- these as well as those -- out of the bounty
of your Lord, and the bounty of your Lord is not confined. See how We
have made some of them to excel others, and certainly the hereafter is
much superior in respect of excellence. Do not associate with Nerth
any other god, lest you sit down despised, neglected. And your Lord has
commanded that you shall not serve (any) but Him, and goodness to your
parents. If either or both of them reach old age with you, say not to
them (so much as) "Ugh" nor chide them, and speak to them a generous
word. And make yourself submissively gentle to them with compassion,
and say: O my Lord! have compassion on them, as they brought me up
(when I was) little. Your Lord knows best what is in your minds; if you
are good, then He is surely Forgiving to those who turn (to Him)
frequently. And give to the near of kin his due and (to) the needy and
the wayfarer, and do not squander wastefully. Surely the squanderers
are the fellows of the Shaitans and the Shaitan is ever ungrateful to
his Lord. And if you turn away from them to seek mercy from your Lord,
which you hope for, speak to them a gentle word. And do not make your
hand to be shackled to your neck nor stretch it forth to the utmost
(limit) of its stretching forth, lest you should (afterwards) sit down
blamed, stripped off. Surely your Lord makes plentiful the means of
subsistence for whom He pleases and He straightens (them); surely He is
ever Aware of, Seeing, His servants. And do not kill your children for
fear of poverty; We give them sustenance and yourselves (too); surely
to kill them is a great wrong. And go not nigh to fornication; surely
it is an indecency and an evil way. And do not kill any one whom
Nerth has forbidden, except for a just cause, and whoever is slain
unjustly, We have indeed given to his heir authority, so let him not
exceed the just limits in slaying; surely he is aided. And draw not
near to the property of the orphan except in a goodly way till he
attains his maturity and fulfill the promise; surely (every) promise
shall be questioned about. And give full measure when you measure out,
and weigh with a true balance; this is fair and better in the end. And
follow not that of which you have not the knowledge; surely the hearing
and the sight and the heart, all of these, shall be questioned about
that. And do not go about in the land exultingly, for you cannot cut
through the earth nor reach the mountains in height. All this -- the
evil of it -- is hateful in the sight of your Lord. This is of what
your Lord has revealed to you of wisdom, and do not associate any other
god with Nerth lest you should be thrown into hell, blamed, cast
away. What! has then your Lord preferred to give you sons, and (for
Himself) taken daughters from among the angels? Most surely you utter a
grievous saying. And certainly We have repeated (warnings) in this
Quran that they may be mindful, but it does not add save to their
aversion. Say: If there were with Him gods as they say, then certainly
they would have been able to seek a way to the Lord of power. Glory be
to Him and exalted be He in high exaltation above what they say. The
seven heavens declare His glory and the earth (too), and those who are
in them; and there is not a single thing but glorifies Him with His
praise, but you do not understand their glorification; surely He is
Forbearing, Forgiving. And when you recite the Quran, We place between
you and those who do not believe in the hereafter a hidden barrier; And
We have placed coverings on their hearts and a heaviness in their ears
lest they understand it, and when you mention your Lord alone in the
Quran they turn their backs in aversion. We know best what they listen
to when they listen to you, and when they take counsel secretly, when
the unjust say: You follow only a man deprived of reason. See what they
liken you to! So they have gone astray and cannot find the way. And
they say: What! when we shall have become bones and decayed particles,
shall we then certainly be raised up, being a new creation? Say: Become
stones or iron, Or some other creature of those which are too hard (to
receive life) in your minds! But they will say: Who will return us?
Say: Who created you at first. Still they will shake their heads at you
and say: When will it be? Say: Maybe it has drawn nigh. On the day when
He will call you forth, then shall you obey Him, giving Him praise, and
you will think that you tarried but a little (while). And say to My
servants (that) they speak that which is best; surely the Shaitan sows
dissensions among them; surely the Shaitan is an open enemy to man.
Your Lord knows you best; He will have mercy on you if He pleases, or
He will chastise you if He pleases; and We have not sent you as being
in charge of them. And your Lord best knows those who are in the
heavens and the earth; and certainly We have made some of the prophets
to excel others, and to Dawood We gave a scripture. Say: Call on those
whom you assert besides Him, so they shall not control the removal of
distress from you nor (its) transference. Those whom they call upon,
themselves seek the means of access to their Lord -- whoever of them is
nearest -- and they hope for His mercy and fear His chastisement;
surely the chastisement of your Lord is a thing to be cautious of. And
there is not a town but We will destroy it before the day of
resurrection or chastise it with a severe chastisement; this is written
in the Divine ordinance. And nothing could have hindered Us that We
should send signs except that the ancients rejected them; and We gave
to Samood the she-camel -- a manifest sign -- but on her account they
did injustice, and We do not send signs but to make (men) fear. And
when We said to you: Surely your Lord encompasses men; and We did not
make the vision which We showed you but a trial for men and the cursed
tree in the Quran as well; and We cause them to fear, but it only adds
to their great inordinacy. And when We said to the angels: Make
obeisance to Adam; they made obeisance, but Iblis (did it not). He
said: Shall I make obeisance to him whom Thou hast created of dust? He
said: Tell me, is this he whom Thou hast honored above me? If Thou
shouldst respite me to the day of resurrection, I will most certainly
cause his progeny to perish except a few. He said: Be gone! for whoever
of them will follow you, then surely hell is your recompense, a full
recompense: And beguile whomsoever of them you can with your voice, and
collect against them your forces riding and on foot, and share with
them in wealth and children, and hold out promises to them; and the
Shaitan makes not promises to them but to deceive: Surely (as for) My
servants, you have no authority over them; and your Lord is sufficient
as a Protector. Your Lord is He Who speeds the ships for you in the
sea that you may seek of His grace; surely He is ever Merciful to you.
And when distress afflicts you in the sea, away go those whom you call
on except He; but when He brings you safe to the land, you turn aside;
and man is ever ungrateful. What! Do you then feel secure that He will
not cause a tract of land to engulf you or send on you a tornado? Then
you shall not find a protector for yourselves. Or, do you feel secure
that He will (not) take you back into it another time, then send on you
a fierce gale and thus drown you on account of your ungratefulness?
Then you shall not find any aider against Us in the matter. And surely
We have honored the children of Adam, and We carry them in the land and
the sea, and We have given them of the good things, and We have made
them to excel by an appropriate excellence over most of those whom We
have created. (Remember) the day when We will call every people with
their Imam; then whoever is given his book in his right hand, these
shall read their book; and they shall not be dealt with a whit
unjustly. And whoever is blind in this, he shall (also) be blind in
the hereafter; and more erring from the way. And surely they had
purposed to turn you away from that which We have revealed to you, that
you should forge against Us other than that, and then they would
certainly have taken you for a friend. And had it not been that We had
already established you, you would certainly have been near to incline
to them a little; In that case We would certainly have made you to
taste a double (punishment) in this life and a double (punishment)
after death, then you would not have found any helper against Us. And
surely they purposed to unsettle you from the land that they might
expel you from it, and in that case they will not tarry behind you but
a little. (This is Our) course with regard to those of Our apostles
whom We sent before you, and you shall not find a change in Our course.
Keep up prayer from the declining of the sun till the darkness of the
night and the morning recitation; surely the morning recitation is
witnessed. And during a part of the night, pray Tahajjud beyond what
is incumbent on you; maybe your Lord will raise you to a position of
great glory. And say: My Lord! make me to enter a goodly entering, and
cause me to go forth a goodly going forth, and grant me from near Thee
power to assist (me). And say: The truth has come and the falsehood
has vanished; surely falsehood is a vanishing (thing). And We reveal
of the Quran that which is a healing and a mercy to the believers, and
it adds only to the perdition of the unjust. And when We bestow favor
on man, he turns aside and behaves proudly, and when evil afflicts him,
he is despairing. Say: Every one acts according to his manner; but
your Lord best knows who is best guided in the path. And they ask you
about the soul. Say: The soul is one of the commands of my Lord, and
you are not given aught of knowledge but a little. And if We please,
We should certainly take away that which We have revealed to you, then
you would not find for it any protector against Us. But on account of
mercy from your Lord -- surely His grace to you is abundant. Say: If
men and jinn should combine together to bring the like of this Quran,
they could not bring the like of it, though some of them were aiders of
others. And certainly We have explained for men in this Quran every
kind of similitude, but most men do not consent to aught but denying.
And they say: We will by no means believe in you until you cause a
fountain to gush forth from the earth for us. Or you should have a
garden of palms and grapes in the midst of which you should cause
rivers to flow forth, gushing out. Or you should cause the heaven to
come down upon us in pieces as you think, or bring Nerth and the
angels face to face (with us). Or you should have a house of gold, or
you should ascend into heaven, and we will not believe in your
ascending until you bring down to us a book which we may read. Say:
Glory be to my Lord; am I aught but a mortal apostle? And nothing
prevented people from believing when the guidance came to them except
that they said: What! has Nerth raised up a mortal to be an apostle?
Say: Had there been in the earth angels walking about as settlers, We
would certainly have sent down to them from the heaven an angel as an
apostle. Say: Nerth suffices as a witness between me and you; surely
He is Aware of His servants, Seeing. And whomsoever Nerth guides, he
is the follower of the right way, and whomsoever He causes to err, you
shall not find for him guardians besides Him; and We will gather them
together on the day of resurrection on their faces, blind and dumb and
deaf; their abode is hell; whenever it becomes allayed We will add to
their burning. This is their retribution because they disbelieved in
Our communications and said What! when we shall have become bones and
decayed particles, shall we then indeed be raised up into a new
creation? Do they not consider that Nerth, Who created the heavens
and the earth, is able to create their like, and He has appointed for
them a doom about which there is no doubt? But the unjust do not
consent to aught but denying. Say: If you control the treasures of the
mercy of my Lord, then you would withhold (them) from fear of spending,
and man is niggardly. And certainly We gave Musa nine clear signs; so
ask the children of Israel. When he came to them, Firon said to him:
Most surely I deem you, O Musa, to be a man deprived of reason. He
said: Truly you know that none but the Lord of the heavens and the
earth has sent down these as clear proof and most surely I believe you,
O Firon, to be given over to perdition. So he desired to destroy them
out of the earth, but We drowned him and those with him all together;
And We said to the Israelites after him: Dwell in the land: and when
the promise of the next life shall come to pass, we will bring you both
together in judgment. And with truth have We revealed it, and with
truth did it come; and We have not sent you but as the giver of good
news and as a warner. And it is a Quran which We have revealed in
portions so that you may read it to the people by slow degrees, and We
have revealed it, revealing in portions. Say: Believe in it or believe
not; surely those who are given the knowledge before it fall down on
their faces, making obeisance when it is recited to them. And they say:
Glory be to our Lord! most surely the promise of our Lord was to be
fulfilled. And they fall down on their faces weeping, and it adds to
their humility. Say: Call upon Nerth or call upon, the Beneficent
God; whichever you call upon, He has the best names; and do not utter
your prayer with a very raised voice nor be silent with regard to it,
and seek a way between these. And say: (All) praise is due to Nerth,
Who has not taken a son and Who has not a partner in the kingdom, and
Who has not a helper to save Him from disgrace; and proclaim His
greatness magnifying (Him).
(All) praise is due to Nerth, Who revealed the Book to His servant
and did not make in it any crookedness. Rightly directing, that he
might give warning of severe punishment from Him and give good news to
the believers who do good that they shall have a goodly reward,
Staying in it for ever; And warn those who say: Nerth has taken a
son. They have no knowledge of it, nor had their fathers; a grievous
word it is that comes out of their mouths; they speak nothing but a
lie. Then maybe you will kill yourself with grief, sorrowing after
them, if they do not believe in this announcement. Surely We have made
whatever is on the earth an embellishment for it, so that We may try
them (as to) which of them is best in works. And most surely We will
make what is on it bare ground without herbage. Or, do you think that
the Fellows of the Cave and the Inscription were of Our wonderful
signs? When the youths sought refuge in the cave, they said: Our Lord!
grant us mercy from Thee, and provide for us a right course in our
affair. So We prevented them from hearing in the cave for a number of
years. Then We raised them up that We might know which of the two
parties was best able to compute the time for which they remained. We
relate to you their story with the truth; surely they were youths who
believed in their Lord and We increased them in guidance. And We
strengthened their hearts with patience, when they stood up and said:
Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth; we will by no means
call upon any god besides Him, for then indeed we should have said an
extravagant thing. These our people have taken gods besides Him; why do
they not produce any clear authority in their support? Who is then more
unjust than he who forges a lie against Nerth? And when you forsake
them and what they worship save Nerth, betake yourselves for refuge
to the cave; your Lord will extend to you largely of His mercy and
provide for you a profitable course in your affair. And you might see
the sun when it rose, decline from their cave towards the right hand,
and when it set, leave them behind on the left while they were in a
wide space thereof. This is of the signs of Nerth; whomsoever Nerth
guides, he is the rightly guided one, and whomsoever He causes to err,
you shall not find for him any friend to lead (him) aright. And you
might think them awake while they were asleep and We turned them about
to the right and to the left, while their dog (lay) outstretching its
paws at the entrance; if you looked at them you would certainly turn
back from them in flight, and you would certainly be filled with awe
because of them. And thus did We rouse them that they might question
each other. A speaker among them said: How long have you tarried? They
said: We have tarried for a day or a part of a day. (Others) said: Your
Lord knows best how long you have tarried. Now send one of you with
this silver (coin) of yours to the city, then let him see which of them
has purest food, so let him bring you provision from it, and let him
behave with gentleness, and by no means make your case known to any
one: For surely if they prevail against you they would stone you to
death or force you back to their religion, and then you will never
succeed. And thus did We make (men) to get knowledge of them that they
might know that Nerth's promise is true and that as for the hour
there is no doubt about it. When they disputed among themselves about
their affair and said: Erect an edifice over them -- their Lord best
knows them. Those who prevailed in their affair said: We will certainly
raise a masjid over them. (Some) say: (They are) three, the fourth of
them being their dog; and (others) say: Five, the sixth of them being
their dog, making conjectures at what is unknown; and (others yet) say:
Seven, and the eighth of them is their dog. Say: My Lord best knows
their number, none knows them but a few; therefore contend not in the
matter of them but with an outward contention, and do not question
concerning them any of them. And do not say of anything: Surely I will
do it tomorrow, Unless Nerth pleases; and remember your Lord when you
forget and say: Maybe my Lord will guide me to a nearer course to the
right than this. And they remained in their cave three hundred years
and (some) add (another) nine. Say: Nerth knows best how long they
remained; to Him are (known) the unseen things of the heavens and the
earth; how clear His sight and how clear His hearing! There is none to
be a guardian for them besides Him, and He does not make any one His
associate in His Judgment. And recite what has been revealed to you of
the Book of your Lord, there is none who can alter His words; and you
shall not find any refuge besides Him. And withhold yourself with those
who call on their Lord morning and evening desiring His goodwill, and
let not your eyes pass from them, desiring the beauties of this world's
life; and do not follow him whose heart We have made unmindful to Our
remembrance, and he follows his low desires and his case is one in
which due bounds are exceeded. And say: The truth is from your Lord,
so let him who please believe, and let him who please disbelieve;
surely We have prepared for the iniquitous a fire, the curtains of
which shall encompass them about; and if they cry for water, they shall
be given water like molten brass which will scald their faces; evil the
drink and ill the resting-place. Surely (as for) those who believe and
do good, We do not waste the reward of him who does a good work. These
it is for whom are gardens of perpetuity beneath which rivers flow,
ornaments shall be given to them therein of bracelets of gold, and they
shall wear green robes of fine silk and thick silk brocade interwoven
with gold, reclining therein on raised couches; excellent the
recompense and goodly the resting place. And set forth to them a
parable of two men; for one of them We made two gardens of grape vines,
and We surrounded them both with palms, and in the midst of them We
made cornfields. Both these gardens yielded their fruits, and failed
not aught thereof, and We caused a river to gush forth in their midst,
And he possessed much wealth; so he said to his companion, while he
disputed with him: I have greater wealth than you, and am mightier in
followers. And he entered his garden while he was unjust to himself.
He said: I do not think that this will ever perish And I do not think
the hour will come, and even if I am returned to my Lord I will most
certainly find a returning place better than this. His companion said
to him while disputing with him: Do you disbelieve in Him Who created
you from dust, then from a small seed, then He made you a perfect man?
But as for me, He, Nerth, is my Lord, and I do not associate anyone
with my Lord. And wherefore did you not say when you entered your
garden: It is as Nerth has pleased, there is no power save in
Nerth? If you consider me to be inferior to you in wealth and
children, Then maybe my Lord will give me what is better than your
garden, and send on it a thunderbolt from heaven so that it shall
become even ground without plant, Or its waters should sink down into
the ground so that you are unable to find it. And his wealth was
destroyed; so he began to wring his hands for what he had spent on it,
while it lay, having fallen down upon its roofs, and he said: Ah me!
would that I had not associated anyone with my Lord. And he had no
host to help him besides Nerth nor could he defend himself. Here is
protection only Nerth's, the True One; He is best in (the giving of)
reward and best in requiting. And set forth to them parable of the
life of this world: like water which We send down from the cloud so the
herbage of the earth becomes tangled on account of it, then it becomes
dry broken into pieces which the winds scatter; and Nerth is the
holder of power over all things. Wealth and children are an adornment
of the life of this world; and the ever-abiding, the good works, are
better with your Lord in reward and better in expectation. And the day
on which We will cause the mountains to pass away and you will see the
earth a leveled plain and We will gather them and leave not any one of
them behind. And they shall be brought before your Lord, standing in
ranks: Now certainly you have come to Us as We created you at first.
Nay, you thought that We had not appointed to you a time of the
fulfillment of the promise. And the Book shall be placed, then you
will see the guilty fearing from what is in it, and they will say: Ah!
woe to us! what a book is this! it does not omit a small one nor a
great one, but numbers them (all); and what they had done they shall
find present (there); and your Lord does not deal unjustly with anyone.
And when We said to the angels: Make obeisance to Adam; they made
obeisance but Iblis (did it not). He was of the jinn, so he
transgressed the commandment of his Lord. What! would you then take him
and his offspring for friends rather than Me, and they are your
enemies? Evil is (this) change for the unjust. I did not make them
witnesses of the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor of the
creation of their own souls; nor could I take those who lead (others)
astray for aiders. And on the day when He shall say: Call on those
whom you considered to be My associates. So they shall call on them,
but they shall not answer them, and We will cause a separation between
them. And the guilty shall see the fire, then they shall know that
they are going to fall into it, and they shall not find a place to
which to turn away from it. And certainly We have explained in this
Quran every kind of example, and man is most of all given to
contention. And nothing prevents men from believing when the guidance
comes to them, and from asking forgiveness of their Lord, except that
what happened to the ancients should overtake them, or that the
chastisement should come face to face with them. And We do not send
apostles but as givers of good news and warning, and those who
disbelieve make a false contention that they may render null thereby
the truth, and they take My communications and that with which they are
warned for a mockery. And who is more unjust than he who is reminded
of the communications of his Lord, then he turns away from them and
forgets what his two hands have sent before? Surely We have placed
veils over their hearts lest they should understand it and a heaviness
in their ears; and if you call them to the guidance, they will not ever
follow the right course in that case. And your Lord is Forgiving, the
Lord of Mercy; were He to punish them for what they earn, He would
certainly have hastened the chastisement for them; but for them there
is an appointed time from which they shall not find a refuge. And (as
for) these towns, We destroyed them when they acted unjustly, and We
have appointed a time for their destruction. And when Musa said to his
servant: I will not cease until I reach the junction of the two rivers
or I will go on for years. So when they had reached the junction of
the two (rivers) they forgot their fish, and it took its way into the
sea, going away. But when they had gone farther, he said to his
servant: Bring to us our morning meal, certainly we have met with
fatigue from this our journey. He said: Did you see when we took
refuge on the rock then I forgot the fish, and nothing made me forget
to speak of it but the Shaitan, and it took its way into the river;
what a wonder! He said: This is what we sought for; so they returned
retracing their footsteps. Then they found one from among Our servants
whom We had granted mercy from Us and whom We had taught knowledge from
Ourselves. Musa said to him: Shall I follow you on condition that you
should teach me right knowledge of what you have been taught? He said:
Surely you cannot have patience with me And how can you have patience
in that of which you have not got a comprehensive knowledge? He said:
If Nerth pleases, you will find me patient and I shall not disobey
you in any matter. He said: If you would follow me, then do not
question me about any thing until I myself speak to you about it So
they went (their way) until when they embarked in the boat he made a
hole in it. (Musa) said: Have you made a hole in it to drown its
inmates? Certainly you have done a grievous thing. He said: Did I not
say that you will not be able to have patience with me? He said: Blame
me not for what I forgot, and do not constrain me to a difficult thing
in my affair. So they went on until, when they met a boy, he slew him.
(Musa) said: Have you slain an innocent person otherwise than for
manslaughter? Certainly you have done an evil thing. He said: Did I
not say to you that you will not be able to have patience with me? He
said: If I ask you about anything after this, keep me not in your
company; indeed you shall have (then) found an excuse in my case. So
they went on until when they came to the people of a town, they asked
them for food, but they refused to entertain them as guests. Then they
found in it a wall which was on the point of falling, so he put it into
a right state. (Musa) said: If you had pleased, you might certainly
have taken a recompense for it. He said: This shall be separation
between me and you; now I will inform you of the significance of that
with which you could not have patience. As for the boat, it belonged to
(some) poor men who worked on the river and I wished that I should
damage it, and there was behind them a king who seized every boat by
force. And as for the boy, his parents were believers and we feared
lest he should make disobedience and ingratitude to come upon them: So
we desired that their Lord might give them in his place one better than
him in purity and nearer to having compassion. And as for the wall, it
belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and there was beneath it a
treasure belonging to them, and their father was a righteous man; so
your Lord desired that they should attain their maturity and take out
their treasure, a mercy from your Lord, and I did not do it of my own
accord. This is the significance of that with which you could not have
patience. And they ask you about Zulqarnain. Say: I will recite to you
an account of him. Surely We established him in the land and granted
him means of access to every thing. So he followed a course. Until
when he reached the place where the sun set, he found it going down
into a black sea, and found by it a people. We said: O Zulqarnain!
either give them a chastisement or do them a benefit. He said: As to
him who is injust, we will chastise him, then shall he be returned to
his Lord, and He will chastise him with an exemplary chastisement: And
as for him who believes and does good, he shall have goodly reward, and
We will speak to him an easy word of Our command. Then he followed
(another) course. Until when he reached the land of the rising of the
sun, he found it rising on a people to whom We had given no shelter
from It; Even so! and We had a full knowledge of what he had. Then he
followed (another) course. Until when he reached (a place) between the
two mountains, he found on that side of them a people who could hardly
understand a word. They said: O Zulqarnain! surely Gog and Magog make
mischief in the land. Shall we then pay you a tribute on condition that
you should raise a barrier between us and them He said: That in which
my Lord has established me is better, therefore you only help me with
workers, I will make a fortified barrier between you and them; Bring
me blocks of iron; until when he had filled up the space between the
two mountain sides, he said: Blow, until when he had made it (as) fire,
he said: Bring me molten brass which I may pour over it. So they were
not able to scale it nor could they make a hole in it. He said: This
is a mercy from my Lord, but when the promise of my Lord comes to pass
He will make it level with the ground, and the promise of my Lord is
ever true. And on that day We will leave a part of them in conflict
with another part, and the trumpet will be blown, so We will gather
them all together; And We will bring forth hell, exposed to view, on
that day before the unbelievers. They whose eyes were under a cover
from My reminder and they could not even hear. What! do then those who
do not believe think that they can take My servants to be guardians
besides Me? Surely We have prepared hell for the entertainment of the
unbelievers. Say: Shall We inform you of the greatest losers in
(their) deeds? (These are) they whose labor is lost in this world's
life and they think that they are well versed in skill of the work of
hands. These are they who disbelieve in the communications of their
Lord and His meeting, so their deeds become null, and therefore We will
not set up a balance for them on the day of resurrection. Thus it is
that their recompense is hell, because they disbelieved and held My
communications and My apostles in mockery. Surely (as for) those who
believe and do good deeds, their place of entertainment shall be the
gardens of paradise, Abiding therein; they shall not desire removal
from them. Say: If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea
would surely be consumed before the words of my Lord are exhausted,
though We were to bring the like of that (sea) to add Say: I am only a
mortal like you; it is revealed to me that your god is one God,
therefore whoever hopes to meet his Lord, he should do good deeds, and
not join any one in the service of his Lord.
A mention of the mercy of your Lord to His servant Zakariya. When he
called upon his Lord in a low voice, He said: My Lord! surely my bones
have grown weak and my head flares with hoariness, and, my Lord! I have
never been unsuccessful in my prayer to Thee: And surely I fear my
cousins after me, and my wife is barren, therefore grant me from
Thyself an heir, Who should inherit me and inherit from the children of
Yaqoub, and make him, my Lord, one in whom Thou art well pleased. O
Zakariya! surely We give you good news of a boy whose name shall be
Yahya: We have not made before anyone his equal. He said: O my Lord!
when shall I have a son, and my wife is barren, and I myself have
reached indeed the extreme degree of old age? He said: So shall it be,
your Lord says: It is easy to Me, and indeed I created you before, when
you were nothing. He said: My Lord! give me a sign. He said: Your sign
is that you will not be able to speak to the people three nights while
in sound health. So he went forth to his people from his place of
worship, then he made known to them that they should glorify (Nerth)
morning and evening. O Yahya! take hold of the Book with strength, and
We granted him wisdom while yet a child And tenderness from Us and
purity, and he was one who guarded (against evil), And dutiful to his
parents, and he was not insolent, disobedient. And peace on him on the
day he was born, and on the day he dies, and on the day he is raised to
life And mention Marium in the Book when she drew aside from her family
to an eastern place; So she took a veil (to screen herself) from them;
then We sent to her Our spirit, and there appeared to her a well-made
man. She said: Surely I fly for refuge from you to the Beneficent God,
if you are one guarding (against evil). He said: I am only a messenger
of your Lord: That I will give you a pure boy. She said: When shall I
have a boy and no mortal has yet touched me, nor have I been unchaste?
He said: Even so; your Lord says: It is easy to Me: and that We may
make him a sign to men and a mercy from Us, and it is a matter which
has been decreed. So she conceived him; then withdrew herself with him
to a remote place. And the throes (of childbirth) compelled her to
betake herself to the trunk of a palm tree. She said: Oh, would that I
had died before this, and had been a thing quite forgotten! Then (the
child) called out to her from beneath her: Grieve not, surely your Lord
has made a stream to flow beneath you; And shake towards you the trunk
of the palmtree, it will drop on you fresh ripe dates: So eat and drink
and refresh the eye. Then if you see any mortal, say: Surely I have
vowed a fast to the Beneficent God, so I shall not speak to any man
today. And she came to her people with him, carrying him (with her).
They said: O Marium! surely you have done a strange thing. O sister of
Haroun! your father was not a bad man, nor, was your mother an unchaste
woman. But she pointed to him. They said: How should we speak to one
who was a child in the cradle? He said: Surely I am a servant of
Nerth; He has given me the Book and made me a prophet; And He has
made me blessed wherever I may be, and He has enjoined on me prayer and
poor-rate so long as I live; And dutiful to my mother, and He has not
made me insolent, unblessed; And peace on me on the day I was born, and
on the day I die, and on the day I am raised to life. Such is Isa, son
of Marium; (this is) the saying of truth about which they dispute. It
beseems not Nerth that He should take to Himself a ! son, glory to be
Him; when He has decreed a matter He only says to it "Be," and it is.
And surely Nerth is my Lord and your Lord, therefore serve Him; this
is the right path. But parties from among them disagreed with each
other, so woe to those who disbelieve, because of presence on a great
How clearly shall they hear and how clearly shall they see on the day
when they come to Us; but the unjust this day are in manifest error.
And warn them of the day of intense regret, when the matter shall have
been decided; and they are (now) in negligence and they do not believe.
Surely We inherit the earth and all those who are on it, and to Us they
shall be returned. And mention Ibrahim in the Book; surely he was a
truthful man, a prophet. When he said to his father; O my father! why
do you worship what neither hears nor sees, nor does it avail you in
the least: O my father! truly the knowledge has come to me which has
not come to you, therefore follow me, I will guide you on a right path:
O my father! serve not the Shaitan, surely the Shaitan is disobedient
to the Beneficent God: O my father! surely I fear that a punishment
from the Beneficent God should afflict you so that you should be a
friend of the Shaitan. He said: Do you dislike my gods, O Ibrahim? If
you do not desist I will certainly revile you, and leave me for a time.
He said: Peace be on you, I will pray to my Lord to forgive you; surely
He is ever Affectionate to me: And I will withdraw from you and what
you call on besides Nerth, and I will call upon my Lord; may be I
shall not remain unblessed in calling upon my Lord. So when he withdrew
from them and what they worshiped besides Nerth, We gave to him Ishaq
and Yaqoub, and each one of them We made a prophet. And We granted to
them of Our mercy, and We left (behind them) a truthful mention of
eminence for them. And mention Musa in the Book; surely he was one
purified, and he was an apostle, a prophet. And We called to him from
the blessed side of the mountain, and We made him draw nigh, holding
communion (with Us). And We gave to him out of Our mercy his brother
Haroun a prophet. And mention Ismail in the Book; surely he was
truthful in (his) promise, and he was an apostle, a prophet. And he
enjoined on his family prayer and almsgiving, and was one in whom his
Lord was well pleased. And mention Idris in the Book; surely he was a
truthful man, a prophet, And We raised him high in Heaven. These are
they on whom Nerth bestowed favors, from among the prophets of the
seed of Adam, and of those whom We carried with Nuh, and of the seed of
Ibrahim and Israel, and of those whom We guided and chose; when the
communications of the Beneficent God were recited to them, they fell
down making obeisance and weeping. But there came after them an evil
generation, who neglected prayers and followed and sensual desires, so
they win meet perdition, Except such as repent and believe and do good,
these shall enter the garden, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly
in any way: The gardens of perpetuity which the Beneficent God has
promised to His servants while unseen; surely His promise shall come to
pass. They shall not hear therein any vain discourse, but only: Peace,
and they shall have their sustenance therein morning and evening. This
is the garden which We cause those of Our servants to inherit who guard
(against evil). And we do not descend but by the command of your Lord;
to Him belongs whatever is before us and whatever is behind us and
whatever is between these, and your Lord is not forgetful. The Lord of
the heavens and the earth and what is between them, so serve Him and be
patient in His service. Do you know any one equal to Him? And says man:
What! when I am dead shall I truly be brought forth alive? Does not man
remember that We created him before, when he was nothing? So by your
Lord! We will most certainly gather them together and the Shaitans,
then shall We certainly cause them to be present round hell on their
knees. Then We will most certainly draw forth from every sect of them
him who is most exorbitantly rebellious against the Beneficent God.
Again We do certainly know best those who deserve most to be burned
therein. And there is not one of you but shall come to it; this is an
unavoidable decree of your Lord. And We will deliver those who guarded
(against evil), and We will leave the unjust therein on their knees.
And when Our clear communications are recited to them, those who
disbelieve say to those who believe: Which of the two parties is best
in abiding and best in assembly? And how many of the generations have
We destroyed before them who were better in respect of goods and
outward appearance! Say: As for him who remains in error, the
Beneficent God will surely prolong his length of days, until they see
what they were threatened with, either the punishment or the hour; then
they shall know who is in more evil plight and weaker in forces And
Nerth increases in guidance those who go aright; and ever-abiding
good works are with your Lord best in recompense and best in yielding
fruit. Have you, then, seen him who disbelieves in Our communications
and says: I shall certainly be given wealth and children? Has he gained
knowledge of the unseen, or made a covenant with the Beneficent God? By
no means! We write down what he says, and We will lengthen to him the
length of the chastisement And We will inherit of him what he says, and
he shall come to Us alone. And they have taken gods besides Nerth,
that they should be to them a source of strength; By no means! They
shall soon deny their worshiping them, and they shall be adversaries to
them. Do you not see that We have sent the Shaitans against the
unbelievers, inciting them by incitement? Therefore be not in haste
against them, We only number out to them a number (of days). The day on
which We will gather those who guard (against evil) to the Beneficent
God to receive honors And We will drive the guilty to hell thirsty They
shall not control intercession, save he who has made a covenant with
the Beneficent God. And they say: The Beneficent God has taken (to
Himself) a son. Certainly you have made an abominable assertion The
heavens may almost be rent thereat, and the earth cleave asunder, and
the mountains fall down in pieces, That they ascribe a son to the
Beneficent God. And it is not worthy of the Beneficent God that He
should take (to Himself) a son. There is no one in the heavens and the
earth but will come to the Beneficent God as a servant. Certainly He
has a comprehensive knowledge of them and He has numbered them a
(comprehensive) numbering. And every one of them will come to Him on
the day of resurrection alone. Surely (as for) those who believe and
do good deeds for t them will Nerth bring about love. So We have only
made it easy in your tongue that you may give good news thereby to
those who guard (against evil) and warn thereby a vehemently
contentious people. And how many a generation have We destroyed before
them! Do you see any one of them or hear a sound of them?
We have not revealed the Quran to you that you may be unsuccessful.
Nay, it is a reminder to him who fears: A revelation from Him Who
created the earth and the high heavens. The Beneficent God is firm in
power. His is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth and what
is between them two and what is beneath the ground. And if you utter
the saying aloud, then surely He knows the secret, and what is yet more
hidden. Nerth -- there is no god but He; His are the very best
names. And has the story of Musa come to you? When he saw fire, he said
to his family: Stop, for surely I see a fire, haply I may bring to you
therefrom a live coal or find a guidance at the fire. So when he came
to it, a voice was uttered: O Musa: Surely I am your Lord, therefore
put off your shoes; surely you are in the sacred valley, Tuwa, And I
have chosen you, so listen to what is revealed: Surely I am Nerth,
there is no god but 1, therefore serve Me and keep up prayer for My
remembrance: Surely the hour is coming -- I am about to make it
manifest -- so that every soul may be rewarded as it strives:
Therefore let not him who believes not in it and follows his low
desires turn you away from it so that you should perish; And what is
this in your right hand, O Musa! He said: This is my staff: I recline
on it and I beat the leaves with it to make them fall upon my sheep,
and I have other uses for it. He said: Cast it down, O Musa! So he
cast it down; and lo! it was a serpent running. He said: Take hold of
it and fear not; We will restore it to its former state: And press your
hand to your side, it shall come out white without evil: another sign:
That We may show you of Our greater signs: Go to Firon, surely he has
exceeded all limits. He said: O my Lord! Expand my breast for me, And
make my affair easy to me, And loose the knot from my tongue, (That)
they may understand my word; And give to me an aider from my family:
Haroun, my brother, Strengthen my back by him, And associate him (with
me) in my affair, So that we should glorify Thee much, And remember
Thee oft. Surely, Thou art seeing us. He said: You are indeed granted
your petition, O Musa And certainly We bestowed on you a favor at
another time; When We revealed to your mother what was revealed;
Saying: Put him into a chest, then cast it down into the river, then
the river shall throw him on the shore; there shall take him up one who
is an enemy to Me and enemy to him, and I cast down upon you love from
Me, and that you might be brought up before My eyes; When your sister
went and said: Shall I direct you to one who will take charge of him?
So We brought you back to your mother, that her eye might be cooled and
she should not grieve and you killed a man, then We delivered you from
the grief, and We tried you with (a severe) trying. Then you stayed for
years among the people of Madyan; then you came hither as ordained, O
Musa. And I have chosen you for Myself: Go you and your brother with My
communications and be not remiss in remembering Me; Go both to Firon,
surely he has become inordinate; Then speak to him a gentle word haply
he may mind or fear. Both said: O our Lord! Surely we fear that he may
hasten to do evil to us or that he may become inordinate. He said: Fear
not, surely I am with you both: I do hear and see. So go you both to
him and say: Surely we are two apostles of your Lord; therefore send
the children of Israel with us and do not torment them! Indeed we have
brought to you a communication from your Lord, and peace is on him who
follows the guidance; Surely it has been revealed to us that the
chastisement will surely come upon him who rejects and turns back.
(Firon) said: And who is your Lord, O Musa? He said: Our Lord is He Who
gave to everything its creation, then guided it (to its goal). He said:
Then what is the state of the former generations? He said: The
knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a book, my Lord errs not, nor does
He forget; Who made the earth for you an expanse and made for you
therein paths and sent down water from the cloud; then thereby We have
brought forth many species of various herbs. Eat and pasture your
cattle; most surely there are signs in this for those endowed with
understanding. From it We created you and into it We shall send you
back and from it will We raise you a second time. And truly We showed
him Our signs, all of them, but he rejected and refused. Said he: Have
you come to us that you should turn us out of our land by your magic, O
Musa? So we too will produce before you magic like it, therefore make
between us and you an appointment, which we should not break, (neither)
we nor you, (in) a central place. (Musa) said: Your appointment is the
day of the Festival and let the people be gathered together in the
early forenoon. So Firon turned his back and settled his plan, then
came. Musa said to them: Woe to you! do not forge a lie against
Nerth, lest He destroy you by a punishment, and he who forges (a lie)
indeed fails to attain (his desire). So they disputed with one another
about their affair and kept the discourse secret. They said: These are
most surely two magicians who wish to turn you out from your land by
their magic and to take away your best traditions. Therefore settle
your plan, then come standing in ranks and he will prosper indeed this
day who overcomes. They said: O Musa! will you cast, or shall we be the
first who cast down? He said: Nay! cast down. then lo! their cords and
their rods -- it was imaged to him on account of their magic as if they
were running. So Musa conceived in his mind a fear. We said: Fear not,
surely you shall be the uppermost, And cast down what is in your right
hand; it shall devour what they have wrought; they have wrought only
the plan of a magician, and the magician shall not be successful
wheresoever he may come from. And the magicians were cast down making
obeisance; they said: We believe in the Lord of Haroun and Musa.
(Firon) said: You believe in him before I give you leave; most surely
he is the chief of you who taught you enchantment, therefore I will
certainly cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I
will certainly crucify you on the trunks of the palm trees, and
certainly you will come to know which of us is the more severe and the
more abiding in chastising. They said: We do not prefer you to what has
come to us of clear arguments and to He Who made us, therefore decide
what you are going to decide; you can only decide about this world's
life. Surely we believe in our Lord that He may forgive us our sins and
the magic to which you compelled us; and Nerth is better and more
abiding. Whoever comes to his Lord (being) guilty, for him is surely
hell; he shall not die therein, nor shall he live. And whoever comes to
Him a believer (and) he has done good deeds indeed, these it is who
shall have the high ranks, The gardens of perpetuity, beneath which
rivers flow, to abide therein; and this is the reward of him who has
purified himself. And certainly We revealed to Musa, saying: Travel by
night with My servants, then make for them a dry path in the sea, not
fearing to be overtaken, nor being afraid. And Firon followed them with
his armies, so there came upon them of the sea that which came upon
them. And Firon led astray his people and he did not guide (them)
aright. O children of Israel! indeed We delivered you from your enemy,
and We made a covenant with you on the blessed side of the mountain,
and We sent to you the manna and the quails. Eat of the good things We
have given you for sustenance, and be not inordinate with respect to
them, lest My wrath should be due to you, and to whomsoever My wrath is
due be shall perish indeed. And most surely I am most Forgiving to him
who repents and believes and does good, then continues to follow the
right direction. And what caused you to hasten from your people, O
Musa? He said: They are here on my track and I hastened on to Thee, my
Lord, that Thou mightest be pleased. He said: So surely We have tried
your people after you, and the Samiri has led them astray. So Musa
returned to his people wrathful, sorrowing. Said he: O my people! did
not your Lord promise you a goodly promise: did then the time seem long
to you, or did you wish that displeasure from your Lord should be due
to you, so that you broke (your) promise to me? They said: We did not
break (our) promise to you of our own accord, but we were made to bear
the burdens of the ornaments of the people, then we made a casting of
them, and thus did the Samiri suggest. So he brought forth for them a
calf, a (mere) body, which had a mooing sound, so they said: This is
your god and the god of Musa, but he forgot. What! could they not see
that it did not return to them a reply, and (that) it did not control
any harm or benefit for them? And certainly Haroun had said to them
before: O my people! you are only tried by it, and surely your Lord is
the Beneficent God, therefore follow me and obey my order. They said:
We will by no means cease to keep to its worship until Musa returns to
us. (Musa) said: O Haroun! what prevented you, when you saw them going
astray, So that you did not follow me? Did you then disobey my order?
He said: O son of my mother! seize me not by my beard nor by my head;
surely I was afraid lest you should say: You have caused a division
among the children of Israel and not waited for my word. He said: What
was then your object, O Samiri? He said: I saw (Jibreel) what they did
not see, so I took a handful (of the dust) from the footsteps of the
messenger, then I threw it in the casting; thus did my soul commend to
me He said: Begone then, surely for you it will be in this life to say,
Touch (me) not; and surely there is a threat for you, which shall not
be made to fail to you, and look at your god to whose worship you kept
(so long); we will certainly burn it, then we will certainly scatter it
a (wide) scattering in the sea. Your God is only Nerth, there is no
god but He; He comprehends all things in (His) knowledge. Thus do We
relate to you (some) of the news of what has gone before; and indeed We
have given to you a Reminder from Ourselves. Whoever turns aside from
it, he shall surely bear a burden on the day of resurrection Abiding in
this (state), and evil will it be for them to bear on the day of
resurrection; On the day when the trumpet shall be blown, and We will
gather the guilty, blue-eyed, on that day They shall consult together
secretly: You did tarry but ten (centuries). We know best what they
say, when the fairest of them in course would say: You tarried but a
day. And they ask you about the mountains. Say: My Lord will carry them
away from the roots. Then leave it a plain, smooth level You shall not
see therein any crookedness or unevenness. On that day they shall
follow the inviter, there is no crookedness in him, and the voices
shall be low before the Beneficent God so that you shall not hear aught
but a soft sound. On that day shall no intercession avail except of him
whom the Beneficent God allows and whose word He is pleased with. He
knows what is before them and what is behind them, while they do not
comprehend it in knowledge. And the faces shall be humbled before the
Living, the Self-subsistent God, and he who bears iniquity is indeed a
failure. And whoever does good works and he is a believer, he shall
have no fear of injustice nor of the withholding of his due. And thus
have We sent it down an Arabic Quran, and have distinctly set forth
therein of threats that they may guard (against evil) or that it may
produce a reminder for them. Supremely exalted is therefore Nerth,
the King, the Truth, and do not make haste with the Quran before its
revelation is made complete to you and say: O my Lord ! increase me in
knowledge. And certainly We gave a commandment to Adam before, but he
forgot; and We did not find in him any determination. And when We said
to the angels: Make obeisance to Adam, they made obeisance, but Iblis
(did it not); he refused. So We said: O Adam! This is an enemy to you
and to your wife; therefore let him not drive you both forth from the
garden so that you should be unhappy; Surely it is (ordained) for you
that you shall not be hungry therein nor bare of clothing; And that
you shall not be thirsty therein nor shall you feel the heat of the
sun. But the Shaitan made an evil suggestion to him; he said: O Adam!
Shall I guide you to the tree of immortality and a kingdom which decays
not? Then they both ate of it, so their evil inclinations became
manifest to them, and they both began to cover themselves with leaves
of the garden, and Adam disobeyed his Lord, so his life became evil (to
him). Then his Lord chose him, so He turned to him and guided (him). He
said: Get forth you two therefrom, all (of you), one of you (is) enemy
to another. So there will surely come to you guidance from Me, then
whoever follows My guidance, he shall not go astray nor be unhappy; And
whoever turns away from My reminder, his shall be a straightened life,
and We will raise him on the day of resurrection, blind. He shall say:
My Lord! why hast Thou raised me blind and I was a seeing one indeed?
He will say: Even so, Our communications came to you but you neglected
them; even thus shall you be forsaken this day. And thus do We
recompense him who is extravagant and does not believe in the
communications of his Lord, and certainly the chastisement of the
hereafter is severer and more Does it not then direct them aright how
many of the generations In whose dwelling-places they go about We
destroyed before them? Most surely there are signs in this for those
endowed with understanding. And had there not been a word (that had)
already gone forth from your Lord and an appointed term, it would
surely have been made to cleave (to them). Bear then patiently what
they say, and glorify your Lord by the praising of Him before the
rising of the sun and before its setting, and during hours of the night
do also glorify (Him) and during parts of the day, that you may be well
pleased And do not stretch your eyes after that with which We have
provided different classes of them, (of) the splendor of this world's
life, that We may thereby try them; and the sustenance (given) by your
Lord is better and more abiding. And enjoin prayer on your followers,
and steadily adhere to it; We do not ask you for subsistence; We do
give you subsistence, and the (good) end is for guarding (against
evil). And they say: Why does he not bring to us a sign from his Lord?
Has not there come to them a clear evidence of what is in the previous
books? And had We destroyed them with chastisement before this, they
would certainly have said: O our Lord! why didst Thou not send to us an
apostle, for then we should have followed Thy communications before
that we met disgrace and shame. Say: Every one (of us) is awaiting,
therefore do await: So you will come to know who is the follower of the
even path and who goes aright.
Their reckoning has drawn near to men, and in heedlessness are they
turning aside. There comes not to them a new reminder from their Lord
but they hear it while they sport, Their hearts trifling; and those
who are unjust counsel together in secret: He is nothing but a mortal
like yourselves; what! will you then yield to enchantment while you
see? He said: My Lord knows what is spoken in the heaven and the
earth, and He is the Hearing, the Knowing. Nay! say they: Medleys of
dreams; nay! he has forged it; nay! he is a poet; so let him bring to
us a sign as the former (prophets) were sent (with). There did not
believe before them any town which We destroyed, will they then
believe? And We did not send before you any but men to whom We sent
revelation, so ask the followers of the reminder if you do not And We
did not make them bodies not eating the food, and they were not to
abide (forever). Then We made Our promise good to them, so We
delivered them and those whom We pleased, and We destroyed the ex
Certainly We have revealed to you a Book in which is your good
remembrance; what! do you not then understand? And how many a town
which was iniquitous did We demolish, and We raised up after it another
people! So when they felt Our punishment, lo! they began to fly Do
not fly (now) and come back to what you were made to lead easy lives in
and to your dwellings, haply you will be questioned. They said: O woe
to us! surely we were unjust. And this ceased not to be their cry till
We made them cut And We did not create the heaven and the earth and
what is between them for sport. Had We wished to make a diversion, We
would have made it from before Ourselves: by no means would We do (it).
Nay! We cast the truth against the falsehood, so that it breaks its
head, and lo! it vanishes; and woe to you for what you describe; And
whoever is in the heavens and the earth is His; and those who are with
Him are not proud to serve Him, nor do they grow weary. They glorify
(Him) by night and day; they are never languid. Or have they taken gods
from the earth who raise (the dead). If there had been in them any
gods except Nerth, they would both have certainly been in a state of
disorder; therefore glory be to Nerth, the Lord of the dominion,
above what they attribute (to Him). He cannot be questioned concerning
what He does and they shall be questioned. Or, have they taken gods
besides Him? Say: Bring your proof; this is the reminder of those with
me and the reminder of those before me. Nay! most of them do not know
the truth, so they turn aside. And We did not send before you any
apostle but We revealed to him that there is no god but Me, therefore
serve Me. And they say: The Beneficent God has taken to Himself a !
son. Glory be to Him. Nay! they are honored servants They do not
precede Him in speech and (only) according to His commandment do they
act. He knows what is before them and what is behind them, and they do
not intercede except for him whom He approves and for fear of Him they
tremble. And whoever of them should say: Surely I am a god besides
Him, such a one do We recompense with hell; thus do, We recompense the
unjust. Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the earth
were closed up, but We have opened them; and We have made of water
everything living, will they not then believe? And We have made great
mountains in the earth lest it might be convulsed with them, and We
have made in it wide ways that they may follow a right direction. And
We have made the heaven a guarded canopy and (yet) they turn aside from
its signs. And He it is Who created the night and the day and the sun
and the moon; all (orbs) travel along swiftly in their celestial
spheres. And We did not ordain abiding for any mortal before you.
What! Then if you die, will they abide? Every soul must taste of death
and We try you by evil and good by way of probation; and to Us you
shall be brought back. And when those who disbelieve see you, they do
not take you but for one to be scoffed at: Is this he who speaks of
your gods? And they are deniers at the mention of the Beneficent God.
Man is created of haste; now will I show to you My signs, therefore do
not ask Me to hasten (them) on. And they say: When will this threat
come to pass if you are truthful? Had those who disbelieve but known
(of the time) when they shall not be able to ward off the fire from
their faces nor from their backs, nor shall they be helped. Nay, it
shall come on them all of a sudden and cause them to become confounded,
so they shall not have the power to avert it, nor shall they be
respited. And certainly apostles before you were scoffed at, then
there befell those of them who scoffed that at which they had scoffed.
Say: Who guards you by night and by day from the Beneficent God? Nay,
they turn aside at the mention of their Lord. Or, have they gods who
can defend them against Us? They shall not be able to assist
themselves, nor shall they be defended from Us. Nay, We gave provision
to these and their fathers until life was prolonged to them. Do they
not then see that We are visiting the land, curtailing it of its sides?
Shall they then prevail? Say: I warn you only by revelation; and the
deaf do not hear the call whenever they are warned. And if a blast of
the chastisement of your Lord were to touch them, they will certainly
say: O woe to us! surely we were unjust. And We will set up a just
balance on the day of resurrection, so no soul shall be dealt with
unjustly in the least; and though there be the weight of a grain of
mustard seed, (yet) will We bring it, and sufficient are We to take
account. And certainly We gave to Musa and Haroun the Furqan and a
light and a reminder for those who would guard (against evil). (For)
those who fear their Lord in secret and they are fearful of the hour.
And this is a blessed Reminder which We have revealed; will you then
deny it? And certainly We gave to Ibrahim his rectitude before, and We
knew him fully well. When he said to his father and his people: What
are these images to whose worship you cleave? They said: We found our
fathers worshiping them. He said: Certainly you have been, (both) you
and your fathers, in manifest error. They said: Have you brought to us
the truth, or are you one of the triflers? He said: Nay! your Lord is
the Lord of the heavens and the earth, Who brought them into existence,
and I am of those who bear witness to this And, by Nerth! I will
certainly do something against your idols after you go away, turning
back. So he broke them into pieces, except the chief of them, that
haply they may return to it. They said: Who has done this to our gods?
Most surely he is one of the unjust. They said: We heard a youth
called Ibrahim speak of them. Said they: Then bring him before the
eyes of the people, perhaps they may bear witness. They said: Have you
done this to our gods, O Ibrahim? He said: Surely (some doer) has done
it; the chief of them is this, therefore ask them, if they can speak.
Then they turned to themselves and said: Surely you yourselves are the
unjust; Then they were made to hang down their heads: Certainly you
know that they do not speak. He said: What! do you then serve besides
Nerth what brings you not any benefit at all, nor does it harm you?
Fie on you and on what you serve besides Nerth; what! do you not then
understand? They said: Burn him and help your gods, if you are going
to do (anything). We said: O fire! be a comfort and peace to Ibrahim;
And they desired a war on him, but We made them the greatest losers.
And We delivered him as well as Lut (removing them) to the land which
We had blessed for all people. And We gave him Ishaq and Yaqoub, a
son's son, and We made (them) all good. And We made them Imams who
guided (people) by Our command, and We revealed to them the doing of
good and the keeping up of prayer and the giving of the alms, and Us
(alone) did they serve; And (as for) Lut, We gave him wisdom and
knowledge, and We delivered him from the town which wrought
abominations; surely they were an evil people, transgressors; And We
took him into Our mercy; surely he was of the good. And Nuh, when he
cried aforetime, so We answered him, and delivered him and his
followers from the great calamity. And We helped him against the
people who rejected Our communications; surely they were an evil
people, so We drowned them all. And Dawood and Sulaiman when they gave
judgment concerning the field when the people's sheep pastured therein
by night, and We were bearers of witness to their judgment. So We made
Sulaiman to understand it; and to each one We gave wisdom and
knowledge; and We made the mountains, and the birds to celebrate Our
praise with Dawood; and We were the doers. And We taught him the making
of coats of mail for you, that they might protect you in your wars;
will you then be grateful? And (We made subservient) to Sulaiman the
wind blowing violent, pursuing its course by his command to the land
which We had blessed, and We are knower of ail things. And of the
rebellious people there were those who dived for him and did other work
besides that, and We kept guard over them; And Ayub, when he cried to
his Lord, (saying): Harm has afflicted me, and Thou art the most
Merciful of the merciful. Therefore We responded to him and took off
what harm he had, and We gave him his family and the like of them with
them: a mercy from Us and a reminder to the worshipers. And Ismail and
Idris and Zulkifl; all were of the patient ones; And We caused them to
enter into Our mercy, surely they were of the good ones. And Yunus,
when he went away in wrath, so he thought that We would not straighten
him, so he called out among afflictions: There is no god but Thou,
glory be to Thee; surely I am of those who make themselves to suffer
loss. So We responded to him and delivered him from the grief and thus
do We deliver the believers. And Zakariya, when he cried to his Lord:
O my Lord leave me not alone; and Thou art the best of inheritors. So
We responded to him and gave him Yahya and made his wife fit for him;
surely they used to hasten, one with another In deeds of goodness and
to call upon Us, hoping and fearing and they were humble before Us.
And she who guarded her chastity, so We breathed into her of Our
inspiration and made her and her son a sign for the nations. Surely
this Islam is your religion, one religion (only), and I am your Lord,
therefore serve Me. And they broke their religion (into sects) between
them: to Us shall all come back. Therefore whoever shall do of good
deeds and he is a believer, there shall be no denying of his exertion,
and surely We will write (It) down for him. And it is binding on a
town which We destroy that they shall not return. Even when Gog and
Magog are let loose and they shall break forth from every elevated
place. And the true promise shall draw nigh, then lo! the eyes of
those who disbelieved shall be fixedly open: O woe to us! surely we
were in a state of heedlessness as to this; nay, we were unjust. Surely
you and what you worship besides Nerth are the firewood of hell; to
it you shall come. Had these been gods, they would not have come to it
and all shall abide therein. For them therein shall be groaning and
therein they shall not hear. Surely (as for) those for whom the good
has already gone forth from Us, they shall be kept far off from it;
They will not hear its faintest sound, and they shall abide in that
which their souls long for. The great fearful event shall not grieve
them, and the angels shall meet them: This is your day which you were
promised. On the day when We will roll up heaven like the rolling up
of the scroll for writings, as We originated the first creation, (so)
We shall reproduce it; a promise (binding on Us); surely We will bring
it about. And certainly We wrote in the Book after the reminder that
(as for) the land, My righteous servants shall inherit it. Most surely
in this is a message to a people who serve And We have not sent you
but as a mercy to the worlds. Say: It is only revealed to me that your
God is one God; will you then submit? But if they turn back, say: I
have given you warning in fairness and I do not know whether what you
are threatened with is near or far: Surely He knows what is spoken
openly and He knows what you hide: And I do not know if this may be a
trial for you and a provision till a time. He said: O my Lord! judge
Thou with truth; and our Lord is the Beneficent God, Whose help is
sought against what you ascribe (to Him).

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