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The Qur'an
(Koran) - M. H. Shakir |
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In the name of
Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
[13.1] 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.
[13.2] Allah 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.
[13.3] 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.
[13.4] 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.
[13.5] 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.
[13.6] 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).
[13.7] 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.
[13.8] Allah 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.
[13.9] The knower of the
unseen and the seen, the Great, the
Most High.
[13.10] 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.
[13.11] For his sake there
are angels following one another,
before him and behind him, who guard
him by Allah's commandment; surely
Allah does not change the condition
of a people until they change their
own condition; and when Allah
intends evil to a people, there is
no averting it, and besides Him they
have no protector.
[13.12] He it is Who shows
you the lightning causing fear and
hope and (Who) brings up the heavy
cloud.
[13.13] 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 Allah,
and He is mighty in prowess.
[13.14] To Him is due the
true prayer; and those whom they
pray to besides Allah 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 Allah 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:
Allah. 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
Allah associates who have created
creation like His, so that what is
created became confused to them?
Say: Allah 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
Allah 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
Allah 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 fulfill the
promise of Allah and do not break
the covenant,
[13.21] And those who join
that which Allah 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 Allah after its
confirmation and cut asunder that
which Allah 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.
[13.26] Allah amplifies and
straitens 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.
[13.27] And those who
disbelieve say: Why is not a sign
sent down upon him by his Lord? Say:
Surely Allah makes him who will go
astray, and guides to Himself those
who turn (to Him).
[13.28] Those who believe and
whose hearts are set at rest by the
remembrance of Allah; now surely by
Allah's remembrance are the hearts
set at rest.
[13.29] (As for) those who
believe and do good, a good final
state shall be theirs and a goodly
return.
[13.30] 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.
[13.31] And even if there
were a Quran with which the
mountains were made to pass away, or
the earth were traveled over with
it, or the dead were made to speak
thereby; nay! the commandment is
wholly Allah's, Have not yet those
who believe known that if Allah
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 Allah comes about;
surely Allah will not fail in (His)
promise.
[13.32] 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)?
[13.33] Is He then Who
watches every soul as to what it
earns? And yet they give associates
to Allah! 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
Allah makes err, he shall have no
guide.
[13.34] 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 Allah.
[13.35] 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.
[13.36] 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 Allah
and not associate anything with Him,
to Him do I invite (you) and to Him
is my return.
[13.37] 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 Allah any guardian or a
protector.
[13.38] 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 Allah's permission;
for every term there is an
appointment.
[13.39] Allah makes to pass
away and establishes what He
pleases, and with Him is the basis
of the Book.
[13.40] 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).
[13.41] Do they not see that
We are bringing destruction upon the
land by curtailing it of its sides?
And Allah pronounces a doom-- there
is no repeller of His decree, and He
is swift to take account.
[13.42] And those before them
did indeed make plans, but all
planning is Allah's; He knows what
every soul earns, and the
unbelievers shall come to know for
whom is the (better) issue of the
abode.
[13.43] And those who
disbelieve say: You are not a
messenger. Say: Allah is sufficient
as a witness between me and you and
whoever has knowledge of the Book. |
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