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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
- "Such as took their religion to be mere amusement and play, and were deceived by the life of the world." That day shall We forget them as they forgot the meeting of this day of theirs, and as they were wont to reject Our signs.
- For We had certainly sent unto them a Book, based on knowledge, which We explained in detail, a guide and a mercy to all who believe.
- Do they just wait for the final fulfillment of the event? On the day the event is finally fulfilled those who disregarded it before will say: "The apostles of our Lord did indeed bring true (tidings). Have we no intercessors now to intercede on our behalf? Or could we be sent back? Then should we behave differently from our behavior in the past." In fact they will have lost their souls, and the things they invented will leave them in the lurch.
- Your guardian-Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, and is firmly established on the throne (of authority): He draweth the night as a veil O'er the day, each seeking the other in rapid succession: He created the sun, the moon, and the stars, (all) governed by laws under His command. Is it not His to create and to govern? Blessed be Allah the cherisher and sustainer of the worlds!
- Call on your Lord with humility and in private: For Allah loveth not those who trespass beyond bounds.
- Do no mischief on the earth, after it hath been set in order, but call on Him with fear and longing (in your hearts): For the mercy of Allah is (always) near to those who do good.
- It is He who sendeth the winds like heralds of glad tidings, going before His mercy: When they have carried the heavy-laden clouds, We drive them to a land that is dead, make rain to descend thereon, and produce every kind of harvest therewith: Thus shall We raise up the dead: Perchance ye may remember.
- From the land that is clean and good, by the will of its cherisher, springs up produce, (rich) after its kind: But from the land that is bad, spring up nothing but that which is niggardly: Thus do We explain the signs by various (symbols) to those who are grateful.
- We sent Noah to his people. He said: "O my people! worship Allah! ye have no other god but Him. I fear for you the punishment of a dreadful day!"
- The leaders of his people said: "Ah! we see thee evidently wandering (in mind)."
- He said: "O my people! no wandering is there in my (mind): On the contrary I am an apostle from the Lord and Cherisher of the worlds!
- "I but fulfil towards you the duties of my Lord's mission: Sincere is my advice to you, and I know from Allah something that ye know not.
- "Do ye wonder that there hath come to you a message from your Lord, through a man of your own people, to warn you, so that ye may fear Allah and haply receive his mercy?"
- But they rejected him, and We delivered him, and those with him, in the ark: But We overwhelmed in the flood those who rejected our signs. They were indeed a blind people!
- To the Ad people, (We sent) Hud, one of their (own) brethren: He said: "O my people! worship Allah! ye have no other god but Him. Will yet not fear (Allah)?"
- The leaders of the unbelievers among his people said: "Ah! we see thou art an imbecile!" and "we think thou art a liar!"
- He said: "O my people! I am not imbecile, but (I am) an apostle from the Lord and Cherisher of the worlds!
- "I but fulfil towards you the duties of my Lord's mission: I am to you a sincere and trustworthy adviser.
- "Do ye wonder that there hath come to you a message from your Lord through a man of your own people, to warn you? Call in remembrance that he made you inheritors after the people of Noah, and gave you a stature tall among the nations. Call in remembrance the benefits (ye have received) from Allah: That so Ye may prosper."
- They said: "Comest thou to us, that we may worship Allah alone, and give up the cult of our fathers? Bring us what thou threatenest us with, if so be that thou tellest the truth!"
- He said: "punishment and wrath have already come upon you from your Lord: Dispute ye with me over names which ye have devised ye and your fathers, without authority from Allah? Then wait: I am amongst you, also waiting."
- We saved him and those who adhered to him, by our mercy, and We cut off the roots of those who rejected our signs and did not believe.
- To the Thamud people (We sent) Saleh, one of their own brethren: He said: "O my people! worship Allah; ye have no other god but Him. Now hath come unto you a clear (sign) from your Lord! This she-camel of Allah is a sign unto you: So leave her to graze in Allah's earth, and let her come to no harm, or ye shall be seized with a grievous punishment.
- "And remember how He made you inheritors after the ad people and gave you habitations in the land: ye build for yourselves palaces and castles in (open) plains, and carve out homes in the mountains; so bring to remembrance the benefits (ye have received) from Allah, and refrain from evil and mischief on the earth."
- The leaders of the arrogant party among his people said to those who were reckoned powerless those among them who believe: "know ye indeed that Saleh is an apostle from his Lord?" They said: "We do indeed believe in the revelation which hath been sent through him."
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