Quran with English TranslationSurah Al A'rafTranslator Abdullah Yusuf Ali |
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
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Alif Lam Mim Sad. |
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A Book revealed unto thee, so let thy heart be oppressed no more by any difficulty on that account, that with it thou mightest warn (the erring) and teach the believers. |
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Follow (O men!) the revelation given unto you from your Lord, and follow not, as friends or protectors other than Him. Little it is ye remember of admonition. |
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How many towns have We destroyed
(for their sins)? |
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When (thus) our punishment took them, no cry did they utter but this: "Indeed we did wrong." |
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Then shall We question those to whom Our Message was sent and those by whom We sent it. |
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And verily We shall recount their whole story with knowledge, for We were never absent (at any time or place). |
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The balance that day will be true (to a nicety): those whose scale (of good) will be heavy, will prosper. |
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Those whose scale will be light, will find their souls in perdition, for that they wrongfully treated our signs. |
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It is We who have placed you with authority on earth, and provided you therein with means for the fulfillment of your life: small are the thanks that ye give! |
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It is We who created you and gave you shape; then We bade the angels bow down to Adam, and they bowed down; not so Iblis;
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(Allah) said: "What prevented thee from bowing down when I commanded thee?"
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(Allah) said: "Get thee down from this: it is not for thee to be arrogant here: get out, for thou art of the meanest (of creatures)." |
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He said: "Give me respite till the day they are raised up." |
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(Allah) said: "Be thou among those who have respite." |
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He said: |
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"Then will I assault them from before them and behind them from their right and their left: nor wilt Thou find, in most of them, gratitude (for Thy mercies). |
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(Allah) said:
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O Adam! dwell thou and thy wife in the garden, and enjoy (its good things) as ye wish: but approach not this tree, or ye run into harm and transgression." |
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Then began Satan to whisper suggestions to them, bringing openly before their minds all their shame that was hidden from them
(before): |
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And he swore to them both, that he was their sincere adviser. |
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So by deceit he brought about their fall: when they tasted of the tree, their shame became manifest to them, and they began to sew together the leaves of the garden over their bodies.
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They said: "Our Lord! we have wronged our own souls: if Thou forgive us not and bestow not upon us Thy mercy, we shall certainly be lost." |
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(Allah) said: "Get ye down, with enmity between yourselves. On earth will be your dwelling-place and your means of livelihood, for a time." |
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He said: "Therein shall ye live, and therein shall ye die; but from it shall ye be taken out
(at last)." |
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O ye children of Adam! |
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O ye children of Adam! |
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When they do aught that is shameful, they say: "We found our fathers doing so;"
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Say: |
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Some He hath guided: others have (by their choice) deserved the loss of their way: in that they took the evil ones, in preference to Allah, for their friends and protectors, and think that they receive guidance. |
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O children of Adam! |
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Say: Who hath forbidden the beautiful
(gifts) of Allah, which He hath produced for his servants, and the things, clean and pure,
(which He hath provided) for sustenance? |
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Say: The things that my Lord hath indeed forbidden are:
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To every people is a term appointed: when their term is reached, not an hour can they cause delay, nor (an hour) can they advance (it in anticipation). |
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O ye children of Adam! |
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But those who reject our signs and treat them with arrogance, they are companions of the fire, to dwell therein (for ever). |
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Who is more unjust than one who invents a lie against Allah or rejects his signs?
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He will say: "Enter ye in the company of the peoples who passed away before you, men and Jinns, into the fire. Every time a new people enters, it curses its sister-people
(that went before), until they follow each other, all into the fire.
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Then the first will say to the last: "See then! no advantage have ye over us; so taste ye of the penalty for all that ye did!" |
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To those who reject Our signs and treat them with arrogance, no opening will there be of the gates of heaven nor will they enter the garden, until the camel can pass through the eye of the needle: such is Our reward for those in sin. |
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For them there is hell, as a couch (below) and folds and folds of covering above: such is Our requital of those who do wrong. |
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But those who believe and work righteousness, no burden do We place on any soul, but that which it can bear, they will be companions of the garden, therein to dwell (for ever). |
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And We shall remove from their hearts any lurking sense of injury; beneath them will be rivers flowing; and they shall say:
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The companions of the garden will call out to the companions of the fire: "We have indeed found the promises of our Lord to us true: have you also found your Lord's promises true?"
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"Those who would hinder (men) from the path of Allah and would seek in it something crooked: they were those who Denied the Hereafter." |
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Between them shall be a veil, and on the heights will be men who would know everyone by his marks: they will call out to the companions of the garden, "Peace on you" they will not have entered, but they will have an assurance (thereof). |
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When their eyes shall be turned towards the companions of the fire, they will say: "Our Lord! send us not to the company of the wrongdoers." |
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The men on the heights will call to certain men whom they will know from their marks, saying: "Of what profit to you were you hoards and your arrogant ways? |
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"Behold! are these not the men whom you swore that Allah with His mercy would never bless? Enter ye the garden: no fear shall be on you, nor shall ye grieve." |
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The companions of the fire will call to the companions of the garden; "Pour down to us water or anything that Allah doth provide for your sustenance."
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"Such as took their religion to be mere amusement and play, and were deceived by the life of the world."
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For We had certainly sent unto them a Book, based on knowledge, which We explained in detail, a guide and a mercy to all who believe. |
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Do they just wait for the final fulfillment of the event?
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Your Guardian-Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, and is firmly established on the throne
(of authority): |
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Call on your Lord with humility and in private: for Allah loveth not those who trespass beyond bounds. |
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Do no mischief on the earth, after it hath been set in order, but call on Him with fear and longing (in your hearts): for the mercy of Allah is (always) near to those who do good. |
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It is He who sendeth the winds like heralds of glad tidings, going before His mercy:
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From the land that is clean and good, by the will of its Cherisher, springs up produce,
(rich) after its kind: but from the land that is bad, spring up nothing but that which is niggardly:
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We sent Noah to his people. He said: |
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The leaders of his people said: "Ah! we see thee evidently wandering (in mind)." |
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He said: |
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"I but fulfil towards you the duties of my Lord's mission: sincere is my advice to you, and I know from Allah something that ye know not. |
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"Do ye wonder that there hath come to you a message from your Lord, through a man of your own people, to warn you, so that ye may fear Allah and haply receive his mercy?" |
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But they rejected him and We delivered him, and those with him, in the ark: But We overwhelmed in the flood those who rejected our signs.
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To the Ad people,
(We sent) Hud, one of their
(own) brethren: |
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The leaders of the unbelievers among his people said: "Ah! we see thou art an imbecile!" and "We think thou art a liar!" |
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He said: |
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"I but fulfil towards your the duties of my Lord's mission: I am to you a sincere and trustworthy adviser. |
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"Do ye wonder that there hath come to you a message from your Lord through a man of your own people, to warn you?
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They said: |
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He said: |
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We saved him and those who adhered to him, by our mercy, and We cut off the roots of those who rejected our signs and did not believe. |
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To the Thamud people
(We sent) Salih, one of their own brethren: he said:
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"And remember how He made you inheritors after the ad people and gave you habitations in the land:
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The leaders of the arrogant party among his people said to those who were reckoned powerless -- those among them who believe: "Know ye indeed that Salih is a messenger from his Lord?"
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The arrogant party said: "For our part, we reject what ye believe in." |
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Then they ham-strung the she-camel, and insolently defied the order of their Lord, saying: "O Salih! bring about thy threats, if thou art a messenger (of Allah)!" |
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So the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes in the morning! |
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So Salih left them, saying: "O my people! I did indeed convey to you the message for which I was sent by my Lord: I gave you good counsel, but ye love not good counsellors!" |
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We also (sent) Lut: he said to his people:
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"For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds." |
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And his people gave no answer but this: they said, "Drive them out of your city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!" |
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But We saved him and his family, except his wife: she was of those who lagged behind. |
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And We rained down on them a shower
(of brimstone): then see what was the end of those who indulged in sin and crime! |
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To the Madyan people We sent Shu'aib, one of their own brethren: he said:
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"And squat not on every road, breathing threats, hindering from the path of Allah those who believe in Him, and seeking in it something crooked;
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"And if there is a party among you who believes in the message with which I have been sent, and a party which does not believe, hold yourselves in patience until Allah doth decide between us: or He is the best to decide." |
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The leaders, the arrogant party among his people, said: "O Shu'aib! we shall certainly drive thee out of our city,
(thee) and those who believe with thee: or else ye
(thou and they) shall have to return to our ways and religion."
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"We should indeed invent a lie against Allah, if we returned to your ways after Allah hath rescued us therefrom:
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The leaders, the unbelievers among his people, said, "If ye follow Shu'aib, be sure then ye are ruined!" |
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But the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes before the morning! |
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The men who rejected Shu'aib became as if they had never been in the homes where they had flourished: the men who rejected Shu'aib -- it was they who were ruined! |
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So Shu'aib left them, saying: "O my people! I did indeed convey to you the messages for which I was sent by my Lord: I gave you good counsel, but how shall I lament over a people who refuse to believe!" |
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Whenever We sent a prophet to a town, We took up its people in suffering and adversity, in order that they might learn humility. |
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Then We changed their suffering into prosperity, until they grew and multiplied, and began to say: "Our fathers
(too) were touched by suffering and affluence."... |
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If the people of the towns had but believed and feared Allah, We should indeed have opened out to them
(all kinds of) blessings from heaven and earth; |
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Did the people of the towns feel secure against the coming of our wrath by night while they were asleep? |
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Or else did they feel secure against its coming in broad daylight while they played about (carefree)? |
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Did they then fell secure against the plan of Allah?
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To those who inherit the earth in succession to its (previous) possessors, is it not a guiding (lesson) that, if We so willed, We could punish them (too) for their sins, and seal up their hearts so that they could not hear? |
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Such were the towns whose story We
(thus) relate unto thee: there came indeed to them their Messengers with clear
(signs): |
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Most of them We found not men
(true) to their covenant: but most of them We found rebellious and disobedient. |
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Then after them We sent Moses with Our signs to Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they wrongfully rejected them: so see what was the end of those who made mischief. |
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Moses said: |
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"One for whom it is right to say nothing but truth about Allah.
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(Pharaoh) said: "If indeed thou hast come with a sign, show it forth, if thou tellest the truth." |
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Then (Moses) threw his rod, and behold! it was a serpent, plain (for all to see)! |
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And he drew out his hand and behold! it was white to all beholders! |
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Said the Chiefs of the people of Pharaoh: "This is indeed a sorcerer well-versed. |
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"His plan is to get you out of your land then what is it ye counsel?" |
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They said: "Keep him and his brother in suspense (for a while); and send to the cities men to collect |
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and bring up to thee all (our) sorcerers well-versed." |
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So there came the sorcerers to Pharaoh: they said, "Of course we shall have a (suitable) reward if we win!" |
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He said: "Yea, (and more), for ye shall in that case be (raised to posts) nearest (to my person)." |
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They said: "O Moses! wilt thou throw (first), or shall we have the (first) throw?" |
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Said Moses: "Throw ye
(first)." |
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We put it into Moses's mind by inspiration: "Throw (now) thy rod": and behold! it swallows up straightway all the falsehoods which they fake! |
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Thus truth was confirmed, and all that they did was made of no effect. |
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So the (great ones ) were vanquished there and then, and were made to look small. |
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But the sorcerers fell down prostrate in adoration. |
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Saying: "We believe in the Lord of the worlds. |
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"The Lord of Moses and Aaron." |
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Said Pharaoh: |
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"Be sure I will cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will cause you all to die on the cross." |
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They said: |
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"But thou dost wreak thy vengeance on us simply because we believed in the signs of our Lord when they reached us!
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Said the chiefs of Pharaoh's people: "Wilt thou leave Moses and his people, to spread mischief in the land, and to abandon thee and thy gods?"
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Said Moses to his people: "Pray for help from Allah, and (wait) in patience and constancy: for the earth is Allah's to give as a heritage to such of his servants as He pleaseth; and the end is (best) for the righteous." |
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They said: "We have had
(nothing but) trouble, both before and after thou comest to us."
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We punished the people of Pharaoh with years (of drought) and shortness of crops; that they might receive admonition. |
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But when good
(times) came, they said, "This is due to us;" when gripped by calamity, they ascribed it to evil omens connected with Moses and those with him!
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They said (to Moses): "Whatever be the signs thou bringest, to work therewith the sorcery on us, we shall never believe in thee." |
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So We sent (plagues) on them, wholesale death, Locusts, Lice, Frogs, and Blood: signs openly Self-explained; but they were steeped in arrogance, a people given to sin. |
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Every time the penalty fell on them, they said: "O Moses! on our behalf call on thy Lord in virtue of his promise to thee: if thou wilt remove the penalty from us we shall truly believe in thee, and we shall send away the children of Israel with thee." |
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But every time We removed the penalty from them according to a fixed term which they had to fulfil, Behold! they broke their word! |
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So We exacted retribution from them: We drowned them in the sea, because they rejected Our signs, and failed to take warning from them. |
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And We made a people, considered weak
(and of no account), inheritors of lands in both east and west, lands whereon We sent down our blessings.
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We took the children of Israel
(with safety) across the sea. |
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"As to these folk, the cult they are in is (but) a fragment of a ruin, and vain is the (worship) which they practice." |
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He said: "Shall I seek for you a god other than the (true) Allah, when it is Allah who hath endowed you with gifts above the nations?" |
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And remember, We rescued you from Pharaoh's people, who afflicted you with the worst of penalties, who slew your male children and saved alive your females: in that was a momentous trial from your Lord. |
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We appointed for Moses thirty nights, and completed
(the period) with ten (more): thus was completed the term
(of communion) with his Lord, forty nights. |
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When Moses came to the place appointed by Us, and his Lord addressed him, He said: "O my Lord! show
(Thyself) to me, that I may look upon thee." |
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(Allah) said:
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And We ordained laws for him in the tablets in all matters, both commanding and explaining all things,
(and said): |
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Those who behave arrogantly on the earth in defiance of right, them will I turn away from My signs, they will not believe in them;
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Those who reject Our signs and the meeting in the hereafter, vain are their deeds: can they expect to be rewarded except as they have wrought? |
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The people of Moses made in his absence, out of their ornaments, the image of a calf,
(for worship): it seemed to low: did they not see that it could neither speak to them nor show them the way?
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When they repented, and saw that they had erred, they said: "If our Lord have not mercy upon us and forgive us, we shall indeed be of those who perish." |
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When Moses came back to his people, angry and grieved, he said: "Evil it is that ye have done in my place in my absence: did ye make haste to bring on the judgment of your Lord?"
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Moses prayed: "O my Lord! forgive me and my brother! admit us to Thy mercy! for Thou art the Most Merciful of those who sow mercy!" |
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Those who took the calf (for worship) will indeed be overwhelmed with wrath from their Lord, and with shame in this life: thus do We recompense those who invent (falsehoods). |
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But those who do wrong but repent thereafter and (truly) believe, verily Thy Lord is thereafter Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. |
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When the anger of Moses was appeased, he took up the tablets: in the writing thereon was guidance and mercy for such as fear their Lord. |
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And Moses chose seventy of his people for Our place of meeting: when they were seized with violent quaking, he prayed:
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"And ordain for us that which is good, in this life and in the hereafter: for we have turned unto Thee."
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"Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered Prophet, whom they find mentioned in their own
(Scriptures); |
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Say: "O men! |
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Of the people of Moses there is a section who guide and do justice in the light of truth. |
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We divided them into twelve tribes or nations.
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And remember it was said to them: |
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But the transgressors among them changed the word from that which had been given them; so We sent on them a plague from heaven, for that they repeatedly transgressed. |
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Ask them concerning the town standing close by the sea.
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When some of them said: "Why do ye preach to a people whom Allah will destroy or visit with a terrible punishment?"
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When they disregarded the warnings that had been given them, We rescued those who forbade evil; but We visited the wrongdoers with a grievous punishment, because they were given to transgression. |
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When in their insolence they transgressed (all) prohibition, We said to them: "Be ye apes, despised and rejected." |
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Behold! thy Lord did declare that He would send against them, to the Day of Judgment, those who would afflict them with grievous penalty.
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We broke them up into sections on this earth.
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After them succeeded an
(evil) generation: |
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As to those who hold fast by the Book and establish regular prayer; never shall We suffer the reward of the righteous to perish. |
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When We shook the mount over them, as if it had been a canopy, and they thought it was going to fall on them
(We said): |
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When thy Lord drew forth from the children of Adam, from their loins, their descendants, and made them testify concerning themselves,
(saying): "Am I not your Lord
(who cherishes and sustains you)?" |
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Or lest ye should say: |
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Thus do We explain the signs in detail! and perchance they may turn
(unto Us). |
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Relate to them the story of the man to whom We sent our signs, but he passed them by: so Satan followed him up, and he went astray. |
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If it had been Our will We should have elevated him with our signs; but he inclined to the earth, and followed his own vain desires.
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Evil as an example are people who reject Our signs and wrong their own souls. |
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Whom Allah doth guide, he is on the right path: whom He rejects from His guidance, such are the persons who perish. |
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Many are the Jinns and men, We have made for Hell:
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The most beautiful names belong to Allah: so call on Him by them; but shun such men as use profanity in His names: for what they do, they will soon be requited. |
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Of those We have created are people who direct (others) with truth, and dispense justice therewith. |
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Those who reject Our signs, We shall gradually visit with punishment, in ways they perceive not. |
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Respite will I grant unto them: for My scheme is strong
(and unfailing). |
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Do they not reflect? |
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Do they see nothing in the government of the heavens and the earth and all that Allah hath created?
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To such as Allah rejects from His guidance, there can be no guide; He will leave them in their trespasses, wandering in distraction. |
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They ask thee about the
(final) hour, when will be its appointed time? |
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Say: |
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It is He who created you from a single person, and made his mate of like nature, in order that he might dwell with her
(in love). |
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But when He giveth them a goodly child, they ascribe to others a share in the gift they have received: but Allah is exalted, high above the partners they ascribe to Him. |
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Do they indeed ascribe to Him as partners things that can create nothing, but are themselves created? |
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No aid can they give them, nor can they aid themselves! |
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If ye call them to guidance, they will not obey: for you it is the same whether ye call them or ye hold your peace! |
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Verily those whom ye call upon besides Allah are servants like unto you: call upon them, and let them listen to your prayer, if ye are (indeed) truthful! |
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Have they feet to walk with? |
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"For my protector is Allah, Who revealed the Book (from time to time), and He will choose and befriend the righteous. |
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"But those ye call upon besides Him, are unable to help you, and indeed to help themselves." |
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If thou callest them to guidance, they hear not. Thou wilt see them looking at thee, but they see not. |
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Hold to forgiveness; command what is right; but turn away from the ignorant. |
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If a suggestion from satan assail thy (mind), seek refuge with Allah; for He heareth and knoweth (all things). |
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Those who fear Allah, when a thought of evil from Satan assaults them, bring Allah to remembrance when lo! they see (aright)! |
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But their brethren (the evil ones) plunge them deeper into error, and never relax (their efforts). |
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If thou bring them not a revelation, they say: "Why hast thou not got it together?"
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When the Qur'án is read, listen to it with attention, and hold your peace: that ye may receive Mercy. |
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And do thou (O reader!) bring thy Lord to remembrance in thy (very) soul, with humility and in reverence, without loudness in words, in the mornings and evenings; and be not thou of those who are unheedful. |
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Those who are near to thy Lord, disdain not to do him worship: they celebrate His praises, and bow down before Him. ۩ |
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