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The Qur'an
(Koran) - M. H. Shakir |
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In the name of
Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
[18.1] (All)
praise is due to Allah, Who revealed
the Book to His servant and did not
make in it any crookedness.
[18.2] 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,
[18.3] Staying in it for
ever;
[18.4] And warn those who
say: Allah has taken a son.
[18.5] 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.
[18.6] Then maybe you will
kill yourself with grief, sorrowing
after them, if they do not believe
in this announcement.
[18.7] 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.
[18.8] And most surely We
will make what is on it bare ground
without herbage.
[18.9] Or, do you think that
the Fellows of the Cave and the
Inscription were of Our wonderful
signs?
[18.10] 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.
[18.11] So We prevented them
from hearing in the cave for a
number of years.
[18.12] 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.
[18.13] We relate to you
their story with the truth; surely
they were youths who believed in
their Lord and We increased them in
guidance.
[18.14] 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.
[18.15] 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 Allah?
[18.16] And when you forsake
them and what they worship save
Allah, 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.
[18.17] 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 Allah; whomsoever Allah 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.
[18.18] 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.
[18.19] 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:
[18.20] 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.
[18.21] And thus did We make
(men) to get knowledge of them that
they might know that Allah'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.
[18.22] (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.
[18.23] And do not say of
anything: Surely I will do it
tomorrow,
[18.24] Unless Allah 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.
[18.25] And they remained in
their cave three hundred years and
(some) add (another) nine.
[18.26] Say: Allah 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.
[18.27] 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.
[18.28] 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.
[18.29] 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.
[18.30] Surely (as for) those
who believe and do good, We do not
waste the reward of him who does a
good work.
[18.31] 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.
[18.32] 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.
[18.33] . Both these gardens
yielded their fruits, and failed not
aught thereof, and We caused a river
to gush forth in their midst,
[18.34] 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.
[18.35] And he entered his
garden while he was unjust to
himself. He said: I do not think
that this will ever perish
[18.36] 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.
[18.37] 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?
[18.38] But as for me, He,
Allah, is my Lord, and I do not
associate anyone with my Lord.
[18.39] And wherefore did you
not say when you entered your
garden: It is as Allah has pleased,
there is no power save in Allah? If
you consider me to be inferior to
you in wealth and children,
[18.40] 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,
[18.41] Or its waters should
sink down into the ground so that
you are unable to find it.
[18.42] 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.
[18.43] And he had no host to
help him besides Allah nor could he
defend himself.
[18.44] Here is protection
only Allah's, the True One; He is
best in (the giving of) reward and
best in requiting.
[18.45] 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
Allah is the holder of power over
all things.
[18.46] 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.
[18.47] 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.
[18.48] 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.
[18.49] 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.
[18.50] 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.
[18.51] 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.
[18.52] 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.
[18.53] 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.
[18.54] And certainly We have
explained in this Quran every kind
of example, and man is most of all
given to contention.
[18.55] 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.
[18.56] 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.
[18.57] 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.
[18.58] 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.
[18.59] And (as for) these
towns, We destroyed them when they
acted unjustly, and We have
appointed a time for their
destruction.
[18.60] 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.
[18.61] 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.
[18.62] 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.
[18.63] 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!
[18.64] He said: This is what
we sought for; so they returned
retracing their footsteps.
[18.65] Then they found one
from among Our servants whom We had
granted mercy from Us and whom We
had taught knowledge from Ourselves.
[18.66] Musa said to him:
Shall I follow you on condition that
you should teach me right knowledge
of what you have been taught?
[18.67] He said: Surely you
cannot have patience with me
[18.68] And how can you have
patience in that of which you have
not got a comprehensive knowledge?
[18.69] He said: If Allah
pleases, you will find me patient
and I shall not disobey you in any
matter.
[18.70] He said: If you would
follow me, then do not question me
about any thing until I myself speak
to you about it
[18.71] 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.
[18.72] He said: Did I not
say that you will not be able to
have patience with me?
[18.73] He said: Blame me not
for what I forgot, and do not
constrain me to a difficult thing in
my affair.
[18.74] 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.
[18.75] He said: Did I not
say to you that you will not be able
to have patience with me?
[18.76] 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.
[18.77] 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.
[18.78] 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.
[18.79] 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.
[18.80] And as for the boy,
his parents were believers and we
feared lest he should make
disobedience and ingratitude to come
upon them:
[18.81] So we desired that
their Lord might give them in his
place one better than him in purity
and nearer to having compassion.
[18.82] 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.
[18.83] And they ask you
about Zulqarnain. Say: I will recite
to you an account of him.
[18.84] Surely We established
him in the land and granted him
means of access to every thing.
[18.85] So he followed a
course.
[18.86] 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.
[18.87] He said: As to him
who is unjust, 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.
[18.89] Then he followed
(another) course.
[18.90] 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;
[18.91] Even so! and We had a
full knowledge of what he had.
[18.92] Then he followed
(another) course.
[18.93] 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.
[18.94] 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
[18.95] 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;
[18.96] 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.
[18.97] So they were not able
to scale it nor could they make a
hole in it.
[18.98] 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.
[18.99] 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;
[18.100] And We will bring
forth hell, exposed to view, on that
day before the unbelievers.
[18.101] They whose eyes were
under a cover from My reminder and
they could not even hear.
[18.102] What! do then those
who disbelieve think that they can
take My servants to be guardians
besides Me? Surely We have prepared
hell for the entertainment of the
unbelievers.
[18.103] Say: Shall We inform
you of the greatest losers in
(their) deeds?
[18.104] (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.
[18.105] 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.
[18.106] Thus it is that
their recompense is hell, because
they disbelieved and held My
communications and My apostles in
mockery.
[18.107] Surely (as for)
those who believe and do good deeds,
their place of entertainment shall
be the gardens of paradise,
[18.108] Abiding therein;
they shall not desire removal from
them.
[18.109] 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
[18.110] 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
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