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The Qur'an
(Koran) - M. H. Shakir |
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| Surah 25
- The Distinction |
In the name of
Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
[25.1] Blessed
is He Who sent down the Furqan upon
His servant that he may be a warner
to the nations;
[25.2] He, Whose is the
kingdom of the heavens and the
earth, and Who did not take to
Himself a son, and Who has no
associate in the kingdom, and Who
created everything, then ordained
for it a measure.
[25.3] And they have taken
besides Him gods, who do not create
anything while they are themselves
created, and they control not for
themselves any harm or profit, and
they control not death nor life, nor
raising (the dead) to life.
[25.4] And those who
disbelieve say: This is nothing but
a lie which he has forged, and other
people have helped him at it; so
indeed they have done injustice and
(uttered) a falsehood.
[25.5] And they say: The
stories of the ancients-- he has got
them written-- so these are read out
to him morning and evening.
[25.6] Say: He has revealed
it Who knows the secret in the
heavens and the earth; surely He is
ever Forgiving, Merciful.
[25.7] And they say: What is
the matter with this Apostle that he
eats food and goes about in the
markets; why has not an angel been
sent down to him, so that he should
have been a warner with him?
[25.8] Or (why is not) a
treasure sent down to him, or he is
made to have a garden from which he
should eat? And the unjust say: You
do not follow any but a man deprived
of reason.
[25.9] See what likenesses do
they apply to you, so they have gone
astray, therefore they shall not be
able to find a way.
[25.10] Blessed is He Who, if
He please, will give you what is
better than this, gardens beneath
which rivers flow, and He will give
you palaces.
[25.11] But they reject the
hour, and We have prepared a burning
fire for him who rejects the hour.
[25.12] When it shall come
into their sight from a distant
place, they shall hear its vehement
raging and roaring.
[25.13] And when they are
cast into a narrow place in it,
bound, they shall there call out for
destruction.
[25.14] Call not this day for
one destruction, but call for
destructions many.
[25.15] Say: Is this better
or the abiding garden which those
who guard (against evil) are
promised? That shall be a reward and
a resort for them.
[25.16] They shall have
therein what they desire abiding (in
it); it is a promise which it is
proper to be prayed for from your
Lord.
[25.17] And on the day when
He shall gather them, and whatever
they served besides Allah, He shall
say: Was it you who led astray these
My servants, or did they themselves
go astray from the path?
[25.18] They shall say: Glory
be to Thee; it was not beseeming for
us that we should take any guardians
besides Thee, but Thou didst make
them and their fathers to enjoy
until they forsook the reminder, and
they were a people in perdition,
[25.19] So they shall indeed
give you the lie in what you say,
then you shall not be able to ward
off or help, and whoever among you
is unjust, We will make him taste a
great chastisement.
[25.20] And We have not sent
before you any messengers but they
most surely ate food and went about
in the markets; and We have made
some of you a trial for others; will
you bear patiently? And your Lord is
ever Seeing.
[25.21] And those who do not
hope for Our meeting, say: Why have
not angels been sent down upon us,
or (why) do we not see our Lord? Now
certainly they are too proud of
themselves and have revolted in
great revolt.
[25.22] On the day when they
shall see the angels, there shall be
no joy on that day for the guilty,
and they shall say: It is a
forbidden thing totally prohibited.
[25.23] And We will proceed
to what they have done of deeds, so
We shall render them as scattered
floating dust.
[25.24] The dwellers of the
garden shall on that day be in a
better abiding-place and a better
resting-place.
[25.25] And on the day when
the heaven shall burst asunder with
the clouds, and the angels shall be
sent down descending (in ranks).
[25.26] The kingdom on that
day shall rightly belong to the
Beneficent God, and a hard day shall
it be for the unbelievers.
[25.27] And the day when the
unjust one shall bite his hands
saying: O! would that I had taken a
way with the Apostle
[25.28] O woe is me! would
that I had not taken such a one for
a friend !
[25.29] Certainly he led me
astray from the reminder after it
had come to me; and the Shaitan
fails to aid man.
[25.30] And the Apostle cried
out: O my Lord! surely my people
have treated this Quran as a
forsaken thing.
[25.31] And thus have We made
for every prophet an enemy from
among the sinners and sufficient is
your Lord as a Guide and a Helper.
[25.32] And those who
disbelieve say: Why has not the
Quran been revealed to him all at
once? Thus, that We may strengthen
your heart by it and We have
arranged it well in arranging.
[25.33] And they shall not
bring to you any argument, but We
have brought to you (one) with truth
and best in significance.
[25.34] (As for) those who
shall be gathered upon their faces
to hell, they are in a worse plight
and straying farther away from the
path.
[25.35] And certainly We gave
Musa the Book and We appointed with
him his brother Haroun an aider.
[25.36] Then We said: Go you
both to the people who rejected Our
communications; so We destroyed them
with utter destruction.
[25.37] And the people of
Nuh, when they rejected the
apostles, We drowned them, and made
them a sign for men, and We have
prepared a painful punishment for
the unjust;
[25.38] And Ad and Samood and
the dwellers of the Rass and many
generations between them.
[25.39] And to every one We
gave examples and every one did We
destroy with utter destruction.
[25.40] And certainly they
have (often) passed by the town on
which was rained an evil rain; did
they not then see it? Nay! they did
not hope to be raised again.
[25.41] And when they see
you, they do not take you for aught
but a mockery: Is this he whom Allah
has raised to be an apostle?
[25.42] He had well-nigh led
us astray from our gods had we not
adhered to them patiently! And they
will know, when they see the
punishment, who is straying farther
off from the path.
[25.43] Have you seen him who
takes his low desires for his god?
Will you then be a protector over
him?
[25.44] Or do you think that
most of them do hear or understand?
They are nothing but as cattle; nay,
they are straying farther off from
the path.
[25.45] Have you not
considered (the work of) your Lord,
how He extends the shade? And if He
had pleased He would certainly have
made it stationary; then We have
made the sun an indication of it
[25.46] Then We take it to
Ourselves, taking little by little.
[25.47] And He it is Who made
the night a covering for you, and
the sleep a rest, and He made the
day to rise up again.
[25.48] And He it is Who
sends the winds as good news before
His mercy; and We send down pure
water from the cloud,
[25.49] That We may give life
thereby to a dead land and give it
for drink, out of what We have
created, to cattle and many people.
[25.50] And certainly We have
repeated this to them that they may
be mindful, but the greater number
of men do not consent to aught
except denying.
[25.51] And if We had pleased
We would certainly have raised a
warner in every town.
[25.52] So do not follow the
unbelievers, and strive against them
a mighty striving with it.
[25.53] And He it is Who has
made two seas to flow freely, the
one sweet that subdues thirst by its
sweetness, and the other salt that
burns by its saltiness; and between
the two He has made a barrier and
inviolable obstruction.
[25.54] And He it is Who has
created man from the water, then He
has made for him blood relationship
and marriage relationship, and your
Lord is powerful.
[25.55] And they serve
besides Allah that which neither
profits them nor causes them harm;
and the unbeliever is a partisan
against his Lord.
[25.56] And We have not sent
you but as a giver of good news and
as a warner.
[25.57] Say: I do not ask you
aught in return except that he who
will, may take the way to his Lord.
[25.58] And rely on the
Ever-living Who dies not, and
celebrate His praise; and Sufficient
is He as being aware of the faults
of His servants,
[25.59] Who created the
heavens and the earth and what is
between them in six periods, and He
is firmly established on the throne
of authority; the Beneficent God, so
ask respecting it one aware.
[25.60] And when it is said
to them: Make obeisance to the
Beneficent God, they say: And what
is the God of beneficence? Shall we
make obeisance to what you bid us?
And it adds to their aversion.
[25.61] Blessed is He Who
made the constellations in the
heavens and made therein a lamp and
a shining moon.
[25.62] And He it is Who made
the night and the day to follow each
other for him who desires to be
mindful or desires to be thankful.
[25.63] And the servants of
the Beneficent God are they who walk
on the earth in humbleness, and when
the ignorant address them, they say:
Peace.
[25.64] And they who pass the
night prostrating themselves before
their Lord and standing.
[25.65] And they who say: O
our Lord! turn away from us the
punishment of hell, surely the
punishment thereof is a lasting
[25.66] Surely it is an evil
abode and (evil) place to stay.
[25.67] And they who when
they spend, are neither extravagant
nor parsimonious, and (keep) between
these the just mean.
[25.68] And they who do not
call upon another god with Allah and
do not slay the soul, which Allah
has forbidden except in the
requirements of justice, and (who)
do not commit fornication and he who
does this shall find a requital of
sin;
[25.69] The punishment shall
be doubled to him on the day of
resurrection, and he shall abide
therein in abasement;
[25.70] Except him who
repents and believes and does a good
deed; so these are they of whom
Allah changes the evil deeds to good
ones; and Allah is Forgiving,
Merciful.
[25.71] And whoever repents
and does good, he surely turns to
Allah a (goodly) turning.
[25.72] And they who do not
bear witness to what is false, and
when they pass by what is vain, they
pass by nobly.
[25.73] And they who, when
reminded of the communications of
their Lord, do not fall down thereat
deaf and blind.
[25.74] And they who say: O
our Lord! grant us in our wives and
our offspring the joy of our eyes,
and make us guides to those who
guard (against evil).
[25.75] These shall be
rewarded with high places because
they were patient, and shall be met
therein with greetings and
salutations.
[25.76] Abiding therein;
goodly the abode and the
resting-place.
[25.77] Say: My Lord would
not care for you were it not for
your prayer; but you have indeed
rejected (the truth), so that which
shall cleave shall come. |
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