| 1. A. L. R. These are 
												the Ayats of Revelation,- of a 
												Qur'an that makes things clear.
 2. Again and again will those 
												who disbelieve, wish that they 
												had bowed (to Allah.s will) in 
												Islam.
 
 3. Leave them alone, to enjoy 
												(the good things of this life) 
												and to please themselves: let 
												(false) hope amuse them: soon 
												will knowledge (undeceive them).
 
 4. Never did We destroy a 
												population that had not a term 
												decreed and assigned beforehand.
 
 5. Neither can a people 
												anticipate its term, nor delay 
												it.
 
 6. They say: "O thou to whom the 
												Message is being revealed! truly 
												thou art mad (or possessed)!
 
 7. "Why bringest thou not angels 
												to us if it be that thou hast 
												the Truth?"
 
 8. We send not the angels down 
												except for just cause: if they 
												came (to the ungodly), behold! 
												no respite would they have!
 
 9. We have, without doubt, sent 
												down the Message; and We will 
												assuredly guard it (from 
												corruption).
 
 10. We did send apostles before 
												thee amongst the religious sects 
												of old:
 
 11. But never came an apostle to 
												them but they mocked him.
 
 12. Even so do we let it creep 
												into the hearts of the sinners -
 
 13. That they should not believe 
												in the (Message); but the ways 
												of the ancients have passed 
												away.
 
 14. Even if We opened out to 
												them a gate from heaven, and 
												they were to continue (all day) 
												ascending therein,
 
 15. They would only say: "Our 
												eyes have been intoxicated: Nay, 
												we have been bewitched by 
												sorcery."
 
 16. It is We Who have set out 
												the zodiacal signs in the 
												heavens, and made them 
												fair-seeming to (all) beholders;
 
 17. And (moreover) We have 
												guarded them from every evil 
												spirit accursed:
 
 18. But any that gains a hearing 
												by stealth, is pursued by a 
												flaming fire, bright (to see).
 
 19. And the earth We have spread 
												out (like a carpet); set thereon 
												mountains firm and immovable; 
												and produced therein all kinds 
												of things in due balance.
 
 20. And We have provided therein 
												means of subsistence,- for you 
												and for those for whose 
												sustenance ye are not 
												responsible.
 
 21. And there is not a thing but 
												its (sources and) treasures 
												(inexhaustible) are with Us; but 
												We only send down thereof in due 
												and ascertainable measures.
 
 22. And We send the fecundating 
												winds, then cause the rain to 
												descend from the sky, therewith 
												providing you with water (in 
												abundance), though ye are not 
												the guardians of its stores.
 
 23. And verily, it is We Who 
												give life, and Who give death: 
												it is We Who remain inheritors 
												(after all else passes away).
 
 24. To Us are known those of you 
												who hasten forward, and those 
												who lag behind.
 
 25. Assuredly it is thy Lord Who 
												will gather them together: for 
												He is perfect in Wisdom and 
												Knowledge.
 
 26. We created man from sounding 
												clay, from mud moulded into 
												shape;
 
 27. And the Jinn race, We had 
												created before, from the fire of 
												a scorching wind.
 
 28. Behold! thy Lord said to the 
												angels: "I am about to create 
												man, from sounding clay from mud 
												moulded into shape;
 
 29. "When I have fashioned him 
												(in due proportion) and breathed 
												into him of My spirit, fall ye 
												down in obeisance unto him."
 
 30. So the angels prostrated 
												themselves, all of them 
												together:
 
 31. Not so Iblis: he refused to 
												be among those who prostrated 
												themselves.
 
 32. ((Allah)) said: "O Iblis! 
												what is your reason for not 
												being among those who prostrated 
												themselves?"
 
 33. (Iblis) said: "I am not one 
												to prostrate myself to man, whom 
												Thou didst create from sounding 
												clay, from mud moulded into 
												shape."
 
 34. ((Allah)) said: "Then get 
												thee out from here; for thou art 
												rejected, accursed.
 
 35. "And the curse shall be on 
												thee till the day of Judgment."
 
 36. (Iblis) said: "O my Lord! 
												give me then respite till the 
												Day the (dead) are raised."
 
 37. ((Allah)) said: "Respite is 
												granted thee
 
 38. "Till the Day of the Time 
												appointed."
 
 39. (Iblis) said: "O my Lord! 
												because Thou hast put me in the 
												wrong, I will make (wrong) 
												fair-seeming to them on the 
												earth, and I will put them all 
												in the wrong,-
 
 40. "Except Thy servants among 
												them, sincere and purified (by 
												Thy Grace)."
 
 41. ((Allah)) said: "This (way 
												of My sincere servants) is 
												indeed a way that leads straight 
												to Me.
 
 42. "For over My servants no 
												authority shalt thou have, 
												except such as put themselves in 
												the wrong and follow thee."
 
 43. And verily, Hell is the 
												promised abode for them all!
 
 44. To it are seven gates: for 
												each of those gates is a 
												(special) class (of sinners) 
												assigned.
 
 45. The righteous (will be) amid 
												gardens and fountains (of 
												clear-flowing water).
 
 46. (Their greeting will be): 
												"Enter ye here in peace and 
												security."
 
 47. And We shall remove from 
												their hearts any lurking sense 
												of injury: (they will be) 
												brothers (joyfully) facing each 
												other on thrones (of dignity).
 
 48. There no sense of fatigue 
												shall touch them, nor shall they 
												(ever) be asked to leave.
 
 49. Tell My servants that I am 
												indeed the Oft-forgiving, Most 
												Merciful;
 
 50. And that My Penalty will be 
												indeed the most grievous 
												Penalty.
 
 51. Tell them about the guests 
												of Abraham.
 
 52. When they entered his 
												presence and said, "Peace!" He 
												said, "We feel afraid of you!"
 
 53. They said: "Fear not! We 
												give thee glad tidings of a son 
												endowed with wisdom."
 
 54. He said: "Do ye give me glad 
												tidings that old age has seized 
												me? Of what, then, is your good 
												news?"
 
 55. They said: "We give thee 
												glad tidings in truth: be not 
												then in despair!"
 
 56. He said: "And who despairs 
												of the mercy of his Lord, but 
												such as go astray?"
 
 57. Abraham said: "What then is 
												the business on which ye (have 
												come), O ye messengers (of 
												Allah.?"
 
 58. They said: "We have been 
												sent to a people (deep) in sin,
 
 59. "Excepting the adherents of 
												Lut: them we are certainly 
												(charged) to save (from harm),- 
												All -
 
 60. "Except his wife, who, We 
												have ascertained, will be among 
												those who will lag behind."
 
 61. At length when the 
												messengers arrived among the 
												adherents of Lut,
 
 62. He said: "Ye appear to be 
												uncommon folk."
 
 63. They said: "Yea, we have 
												come to thee to accomplish that 
												of which they doubt.
 
 64. "We have brought to thee 
												that which is inevitably due, 
												and assuredly we tell the truth.
 
 65. "Then travel by night with 
												thy household, when a portion of 
												the night (yet remains), and do 
												thou bring up the rear: let no 
												one amongst you look back, but 
												pass on whither ye are ordered."
 
 66. And We made known this 
												decree to him, that the last 
												remnants of those (sinners) 
												should be cut off by the 
												morning.
 
 67. The inhabitants of the city 
												came in (mad) joy (at news of 
												the young men).
 
 68. Lut said: "These are my 
												guests: disgrace me not:
 
 69. "But fear Allah, and shame 
												me not."
 
 70. They said: "Did we not 
												forbid thee (to speak) for all 
												and sundry?"
 
 71. He said: "There are my 
												daughters (to marry), if ye must 
												act (so)."
 
 72. Verily, by thy life (O 
												Prophet), in their wild 
												intoxication, they wander in 
												distraction, to and fro.
 
 73. But the (mighty) Blast 
												overtook them before morning,
 
 74. And We turned (the cities) 
												upside down, and rained down on 
												them brimstones hard as baked 
												clay.
 
 75. Behold! in this are Signs 
												for those who by tokens do 
												understand.
 
 76. And the (cities were) right 
												on the high-road.
 
 77. Behold! in this is a sign 
												for those who believed.
 
 78. And the Companions of the 
												Wood were also wrong-doers;
 
 79. So We exacted retribution 
												from them. They were both on an 
												open highway, plain to see.
 
 80. The Companions of the Rocky 
												Tract also rejected the 
												apostles:
 
 81. We sent them Our Sings, but 
												they persisted in turning away 
												from them.
 
 82. Out of the mountains did 
												they hew (their) edifices, 
												(feeling themselves) secure.
 
 83. But the (mighty) Blast 
												seized them of a morning,
 
 84. And of no avail to them was 
												all that they did (with such art 
												and care)!
 
 85. We created not the heavens, 
												the earth, and all between them, 
												but for just ends. And the Hour 
												is surely coming (when this will 
												be manifest). So overlook (any 
												human faults) with gracious 
												forgiveness.
 
 86. For verily it is thy Lord 
												who is the Master-Creator, 
												knowing all things.
 
 87. And We have bestowed upon 
												thee the Seven Oft-repeated 
												(verses) and the Grand Qur'an.
 
 88. Strain not thine eyes. 
												(Wistfully) at what We have 
												bestowed on certain classes of 
												them, nor grieve over them: but 
												lower thy wing (in gentleness) 
												to the believers.
 
 89. And say: "I am indeed he 
												that warneth openly and without 
												ambiguity,"-
 
 90. (Of just such wrath) as We 
												sent down on those who divided 
												(Scripture into arbitrary 
												parts),-
 
 91. (So also on such) as have 
												made Qur'an into shreds (as they 
												please).
 
 92. Therefore, by the Lord, We 
												will, of a surety, call them to 
												account,
 
 93. For all their deeds.
 
 94. Therefore expound openly 
												what thou art commanded, and 
												turn away from those who join 
												false gods with Allah.
 
 95. For sufficient are We unto 
												thee against those who scoff,-
 
 96. Those who adopt, with Allah, 
												another god: but soon will they 
												come to know.
 
 97. We do indeed know how thy 
												heart is distressed at what they 
												say.
 
 98. But celebrate the praises of 
												thy Lord, and be of those who 
												prostrate themselves in 
												adoration.
 
 99. And serve thy Lord until 
												there come unto thee the Hour 
												that is Certain.
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