| 1. Blessed is He who 
												sent down the criterion to His 
												servant, that it may be an 
												admonition to all creatures;-
 2. He to whom belongs the 
												dominion of the heavens and the 
												earth: no son has He begotten, 
												nor has He a partner in His 
												dominion: it is He who created 
												all things, and ordered them in 
												due proportions.
 
 3. Yet have they taken, besides 
												him, gods that can create 
												nothing but are themselves 
												created; that have no control of 
												hurt or good to themselves; nor 
												can they control death nor life 
												nor resurrection.
 
 4. But the misbelievers say: 
												"Naught is this but a lie which 
												he has forged, and others have 
												helped him at it." In truth it 
												is they who have put forward an 
												iniquity and a falsehood.
 
 5. And they say: "Tales of the 
												ancients, which he has caused to 
												be written: and they are 
												dictated before him morning and 
												evening."
 
 6. Say: "The (Qur'an) was sent 
												down by Him who knows the 
												mystery (that is) in the heavens 
												and the earth: verily He is 
												Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
 
 7. And they say: "What sort of 
												an apostle is this, who eats 
												food, and walks through the 
												streets? Why has not an angel 
												been sent down to him to give 
												admonition with him?
 
 8. "Or (Why) has not a treasure 
												been bestowed on him, or why has 
												he (not) a garden for 
												enjoyment?" The wicked say: "Ye 
												follow none other than a man 
												bewitched."
 
 9. See what kinds of comparisons 
												they make for thee! But they 
												have gone astray, and never a 
												way will they be able to find!
 
 10. Blessed is He who, if that 
												were His will, could give thee 
												better (things) than those,- 
												Gardens beneath which rivers 
												flow; and He could give thee 
												palaces (secure to dwell in).
 
 11. Nay they deny the hour (of 
												the judgment to come): but We 
												have prepared a blazing fire for 
												such as deny the hour:
 
 12. When it sees them from a 
												place fAr off, they will hear 
												its fury and its ranging sigh.
 
 13. And when they are cast, 
												bound together into a 
												constricted place therein, they 
												will pLead for destruction there 
												and then!
 
 14. "This day plead not for a 
												single destruction: plead for 
												destruction oft- repeated!"
 
 15. Say: "Is that best, or the 
												eternal garden, promised to the 
												righteous? for them, that is a 
												reward as well as a goal (of 
												attainment).
 
 16. "For them there will be 
												therein all that they wish for: 
												they will dwell (there) for aye: 
												A promise to be prayed for from 
												thy Lord."
 
 17. The day He will gather them 
												together as well as those whom 
												they worship besides Allah, He 
												will ask: "Was it ye who let 
												these My servants astray, or did 
												they stray from the Path 
												themselves?"
 
 18. They will say: "Glory to 
												Thee! not meet was it for us 
												that we should take for 
												protectors others besides Thee: 
												But Thou didst bestow, on them 
												and their fathers, good things 
												(in life), until they forgot the 
												Message: for they were a people 
												(worthless and) lost."
 
 19. ((Allah) will say): "Now 
												have they proved you liars in 
												what ye say: so ye cannot avert 
												(your penalty) nor (get) help." 
												And whoever among you does 
												wrong, him shall We cause to 
												taste of a grievous Penalty.
 
 20. And the apostles whom We 
												sent before thee were all (men) 
												who ate food and walked through 
												the streets: We have made some 
												of you as a trial for others: 
												will ye have patience? for Allah 
												is One Who sees (all things).
 
 21. Such as fear not the meeting 
												with Us (for Judgment) say: "Why 
												are not the angels sent down to 
												us, or (why) do we not see our 
												Lord?" Indeed they have an 
												arrogant conceit of themselves, 
												and mighty is the insolence of 
												their impiety!
 
 22. The Day they see the 
												angels,- no joy will there be to 
												the sinners that Day: The 
												(angels) will say: "There is a 
												barrier forbidden (to you) 
												altogether!"
 
 23. And We shall turn to 
												whatever deeds they did (in this 
												life), and We shall make such 
												deeds as floating dust scattered 
												about.
 
 24. The Companions of the Garden 
												will be well, that Day, in their 
												abode, and have the fairest of 
												places for repose.
 
 25. The Day the heaven shall be 
												rent asunder with clouds, and 
												angels shall be sent down, 
												descending (in ranks),-
 
 26. That Day, the dominion as of 
												right and truth, shall be 
												(wholly) for ((Allah)) Most 
												Merciful: it will be a Day of 
												dire difficulty for the 
												Misbelievers.
 
 27. The Day that the wrong-doer 
												will bite at his hands, he will 
												say, "Oh! would that I had taken 
												a (straight) path with the 
												Messenger.
 
 28. "Ah! woe is me! Would that I 
												had never taken such a one for a 
												friend!
 
 29. "He did lead me astray from 
												the Message (of Allah. after it 
												had come to me! Ah! the Evil One 
												is but a traitor to man!" Then 
												the Messenger will say:
 
 30. "O my Lord! Truly my people 
												took this Qur'an for just 
												foolish nonsense."
 
 31. Thus have We made for every 
												prophet an enemy among the 
												sinners: but enough is thy Lord 
												to guide and to help.
 
 32. Those who reject Faith say: 
												"Why is not the Qur'an revealed 
												to him all at once? Thus (is it 
												revealed), that We may 
												strengthen thy heart thereby, 
												and We have rehearsed it to thee 
												in slow, well-arranged stages, 
												gradually.
 
 33. And no question do they 
												bring to thee but We reveal to 
												thee the truth and the best 
												explanation (thereof).
 
 34. Those who will be gathered 
												to Hell (prone) on their faces,- 
												they will be in an evil plight, 
												and, as to Path, most astray.
 
 35. (Before this,) We sent Moses 
												The Book, and appointed his 
												brother Aaron with him as 
												minister;
 
 36. And We command: "Go ye both, 
												to the people who have rejected 
												our Signs:" And those (people) 
												We destroyed with utter 
												destruction.
 
 37. And the people of Noah,- 
												when they rejected the apostles, 
												We drowned them, and We made 
												them as a Sign for mankind; and 
												We have prepared for (all) 
												wrong-doers a grievous Penalty;-
 
 38. As also 'Ad and Thamud, and 
												the Companions of the Rass, and 
												many a generation between them.
 
 39. To each one We set forth 
												Parables and examples; and each 
												one We broke to utter 
												annihilation (for their sins).
 
 40. And the (Unbelievers) must 
												indeed have passed by the town 
												on which was rained a shower of 
												evil: did they not then see it 
												(with their own eyes)? But they 
												fear not the Resurrection.
 
 41. When they see thee, they 
												treat thee no otherwise than in 
												mockery: "Is this the one whom 
												Allah has sent as an apostle?"
 
 42. "He indeed would well-nigh 
												have misled us from our gods, 
												had it not been that we were 
												constant to them!" - Soon will 
												they know, when they see the 
												Penalty, who it is that is most 
												misled in Path!
 
 43. Seest thou such a one as 
												taketh for his god his own 
												passion (or impulse)? Couldst 
												thou be a disposer of affairs 
												for him?
 
 44. Or thinkest thou that most 
												of them listen or understand? 
												They are only like cattle;- nay, 
												they are worse astray in Path.
 
 45. Hast thou not turned thy 
												vision to thy Lord?- How He doth 
												prolong the shadow! If He 
												willed, He could make it 
												stationary! then do We make the 
												sun its guide;
 
 46. Then We draw it in towards 
												Ourselves,- a contraction by 
												easy stages.
 
 47. And He it is Who makes the 
												Night as a Robe for you, and 
												Sleep as Repose, and makes the 
												Day (as it were) a Resurrection.
 
 48. And He it is Who sends the 
												winds as heralds of glad 
												tidings, going before His mercy, 
												and We send down pure water from 
												the sky,-
 
 49. That with it We may give 
												life to a dead land, and slake 
												the thirst of things We have 
												created,- cattle and men in 
												great numbers.
 
 50. And We have distributed the 
												(water) amongst them, in order 
												that they may celebrate (our) 
												praises, but most men are averse 
												(to aught) but (rank) 
												ingratitude.
 
 51. Had it been Our Will, We 
												could have sent a warner to 
												every centre of population.
 
 52. Therefore listen not to the 
												Unbelievers, but strive against 
												them with the utmost 
												strenuousness, with the 
												(Qur'an).
 
 53. It is He Who has let free 
												the two bodies of flowing water: 
												One palatable and sweet, and the 
												other salt and bitter; yet has 
												He made a barrier between them, 
												a partition that is forbidden to 
												be passed.
 
 54. It is He Who has created man 
												from water: then has He 
												established relationships of 
												lineage and marriage: for thy 
												Lord has power (over all 
												things).
 
 55. Yet do they worship, besides 
												Allah, things that can neither 
												profit them nor harm them: and 
												the Misbeliever is a helper (of 
												Evil), against his own Lord!
 
 56. But thee We only sent to 
												give glad tidings and 
												admonition.
 
 57. Say: "No reward do I ask of 
												you for it but this: that each 
												one who will may take a 
												(straight) Path to his Lord."
 
 58. And put thy trust in Him Who 
												lives and dies not; and 
												celebrate his praise; and enough 
												is He to be acquainted with the 
												faults of His servants;-
 
 59. He Who created the heavens 
												and the earth and all that is 
												between, in six days, and is 
												firmly established on the Throne 
												(of Authority): Allah Most 
												Gracious: ask thou, then, about 
												Him of any acquainted (with such 
												things).
 
 60. When it is said to them, 
												"Adore ye ((Allah)) Most 
												Gracious!", they say, "And what 
												is ((Allah)) Most Gracious? 
												Shall we adore that which thou 
												commandest us?" And it increases 
												their flight (from the Truth).
 
 61. Blessed is He Who made 
												constellations in the skies, and 
												placed therein a Lamp and a Moon 
												giving light;
 
 62. And it is He Who made the 
												Night and the Day to follow each 
												other: for such as have the will 
												to celebrate His praises or to 
												show their gratitude.
 
 63. And the servants of 
												((Allah)) Most Gracious are 
												those who walk on the earth in 
												humility, and when the ignorant 
												address them, they say, 
												"Peace!";
 
 64. Those who spend the night in 
												adoration of their Lord 
												prostrate and standing;
 
 65. Those who say, "Our Lord! 
												avert from us the Wrath of Hell, 
												for its Wrath is indeed an 
												affliction grievous,-
 
 66. "Evil indeed is it as an 
												abode, and as a place to rest 
												in";
 
 67. Those who, when they spend, 
												are not extravagant and not 
												niggardly, but hold a just 
												(balance) between those 
												(extremes);
 
 68. Those who invoke not, with 
												Allah, any other god, nor slay 
												such life as Allah has made 
												sacred except for just cause, 
												nor commit fornication; - and 
												any that does this (not only) 
												meets punishment.
 
 69. (But) the Penalty on the Day 
												of Judgment will be doubled to 
												him, and he will dwell therein 
												in ignominy,-
 
 70. Unless he repents, believes, 
												and works righteous deeds, for 
												Allah will change the evil of 
												such persons into good, and 
												Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most 
												Merciful,
 
 71. And whoever repents and does 
												good has truly turned to Allah 
												with an (acceptable) 
												conversion;-
 
 72. Those who witness no 
												falsehood, and, if they pass by 
												futility, they pass by it with 
												honourable (avoidance);
 
 73. Those who, when they are 
												admonished with the Signs of 
												their Lord, droop not down at 
												them as if they were deaf or 
												blind;
 
 74. And those who pray, "Our 
												Lord! Grant unto us wives and 
												offspring who will be the 
												comfort of our eyes, and give us 
												(the grace) to lead the 
												righteous."
 
 75. Those are the ones who will 
												be rewarded with the highest 
												place in heaven, because of 
												their patient constancy: therein 
												shall they be met with 
												salutations and peace,
 
 76. Dwelling therein;- how 
												beautiful an abode and place of 
												rest!
 
 77. Say (to the Rejecters): "My 
												Lord is not uneasy because of 
												you if ye call not on Him: But 
												ye have indeed rejected (Him), 
												and soon will come the 
												inevitable (punishment)!"
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