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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
- "Or created matter which, in your minds, is hardest (to be raised up), -- (yet shall ye be raised up)!" Then will they say: "Who will cause us to return?" Say: "He Who created you first!" Then will they wag their heads towards thee, and say, "When will that be?" Say, "Maybe it will be quite soon!
- "It will be on a Day when He will call you, and ye will answer (His call) with (words of) His praise, and ye will think that ye tarried but a little while!"
- Say to My servants that they should (only) say those things that are best: For Satan doth sow dissensions among them: For Satan is to man an avowed enemy.
- It is your Lord that knoweth you best: If He please, He granteth you mercy, or if He please, punishment: We have not sent thee to be a disposer of their affairs for them.
- And it is your Lord that knoweth best all beings that are in the heavens and on earth: We did bestow on some Prophets more (and other) gifts than on others: And We gave to David (the gift of) the Psalms.
- Say: "Call on those -- besides Him -- whom ye fancy: They have neither the power to remove your troubles from you nor to change them."
- Those whom they call upon do desire (for themselves) means of access to their Lord, -- even those who are nearest: They hope for His Mercy and fear His Wrath: For the Wrath of thy Lord is something to take heed of.
- There is not a population but We shall destroy it before the Day of Judgment or punish it with a dreadful Penalty: That is written in the (eternal) Record.
- And We refrain from sending the Signs, only because the men of former generations treated them as false: We sent the She-camel; To the Thamud to open their eyes, but they treated her wrongfully: We only send the Signs by way of terror (and warning from evil).
- Behold! We told thee that thy Lord doth encompass mankind round about: We granted the Vision which We showed thee, but as a trial for men, -- as also the Cursed Tree (mentioned) in the Qur'an: We put terror (and warning) into them, but it only increases their inordinate transgression!
- Behold! We said to the angels: "Bow down unto Adam": They bowed down except Iblis: he said "Shall I bow down to one whom Thou didst create from clay?"
- He said, "Seest Thou? This is the one whom thou hast honored above me! If Thou wilt but respite me to the Day of Judgment, I will surely bring his descendants under my sway -- all but a few!"
- Allah said: "Go thy way; if any of them follow thee verily Hell will be the recompense of you (all) -- an ample recompense.
- "Lead to destruction those whom thou canst among them, with thy (seductive) voice; make assaults on them with thy cavalry and thy infantry; mutually share with them wealth and children; and make promises to them." But Satan promises them nothing but deceit.
- "As for My servants, no authority shalt thou have over them." Enough is thy Lord for a Disposer of affairs.
- Your Lord is He that maketh the Ship go smoothly for you through the sea, in order that ye may seek of His Bounty: For He is unto you Most Merciful.
- When distress seizes you at sea, those that ye call upon -- besides Himself -- leave you in the lurch! But when He brings you back safe to land, ye turn away (from Him). Most ungrateful is man!
- Do ye then feel secure that He will not cause you to be swallowed up beneath the earth when ye are on land, or that He will not send against you a violent tornado (with showers of stones) so that ye shall find no one to carry out your affairs for you?
- Or do ye feel secure that He will not send you back a second time to sea and send against you a heavy gale to drown you because of your ingratitude, so that ye find no helper therein against Us?
- We have honored the sons of Adam; provided them with transport on land and sea; given them for sustenance things good and pure; and conferred on them special favors, above a great part of Our Creation.
- One day We shall call together all human beings with their (respective) Imams: Those who are given their record in their right hand will read it (with pleasure), and they will not be dealt with unjustly in the least.
- But those who were blind in this world will be blind in the Hereafter, and most astray from the Path.
- And their purpose was to tempt thee away from that which We had revealed unto thee, to substitute in Our name something quite different: (In that case), behold! they would certainly have made thee (their) friend!
- And had We not given thee strength, thou wouldst nearly have inclined to them a little.
- In that case We should have made thee taste an equal portion (of punishment) in this life, and an equal portion in death: And moreover thou wouldst have found none to help thee against Us!
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