Al-Ma'arij
( 1 )
A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
( 2 )
To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.
( 3 )
[It is] from Allah, owner of the ways of ascent.
( 4 )
The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which
is fifty thousand years.
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So be patient with gracious patience.
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Indeed, they see it [as] distant,
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But We see it [as] near.
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On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,
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And the mountains will be like wool,
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And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,
( 11 )
They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be
ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children
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And his wife and his brother
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And his nearest kindred who shelter him
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And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.
( 15 )
No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],
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A remover of exteriors.
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It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from
obedience]
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And collected [wealth] and hoarded.
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Indeed, mankind was created anxious:
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When evil touches him, impatient,
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And when good touches him, withholding [of it],
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Except the observers of prayer -
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Those who are constant in their prayer
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And those within whose wealth is a known right
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For the petitioner and the deprived -
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And those who believe in the Day of Recompense
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And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -
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Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe
-
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And those who guard their private parts
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Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed,
they are not to be blamed -
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But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors -
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And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive
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And those who are in their testimonies upright
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And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:
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They will be in gardens, honored.
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So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from]
before you, [O Muhammad],
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[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?
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Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?
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No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
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So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are
able
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To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.
( 42 )
So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet
their Day which they are promised -
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The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward
an erected idol, hastening.
( 44 )
Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which
they had been promised.
Nuh
( 1 )
Indeed, We sent Noah to his people, [saying], "Warn your people before
there comes to them a painful punishment."
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He said, "O my people, indeed I am to you a clear warner,
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[Saying], 'Worship Allah, fear Him and obey me.
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Allah will forgive you of your sins and delay you for a specified term. Indeed,
the time [set by] Allah, when it comes, will not be delayed, if you only knew.'
"
( 5 )
He said, "My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to truth] night and day.
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But my invitation increased them not except in flight.
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And indeed, every time I invited them that You may forgive them, they put their
fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments, persisted, and
were arrogant with [great] arrogance.
( 8 )
Then I invited them publicly.
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Then I announced to them and [also] confided to them secretly
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And said, 'Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual
Forgiver.
( 11 )
He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers
( 12 )
And give you increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens
and provide for you rivers.
( 13 )
What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allah [due]
grandeur
( 14 )
While He has created you in stages?
( 15 )
Do you not consider how Allah has created seven heavens in layers
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And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning
lamp?
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And Allah has caused you to grow from the earth a [progressive] growth.
( 18 )
Then He will return you into it and extract you [another] extraction.
( 19 )
And Allah has made for you the earth an expanse
( 20 )
That you may follow therein roads of passage.' "
( 21 )
Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him
whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss.
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And they conspired an immense conspiracy.
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And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa' or
Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.
( 24 )
And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the
wrongdoers except in error."
( 25 )
Because of their sins they were drowned and put into the Fire, and they
found not for themselves besides Allah [any] helpers.
( 26 )
And Noah said, "My Lord, do not leave upon the earth from among the
disbelievers an inhabitant.
( 27 )
Indeed, if You leave them, they will mislead Your servants and not beget
except [every] wicked one and [confirmed] disbeliever.
( 28 )
My Lord, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house a
believer and the believing men and believing women. And do not increase the
wrongdoers except in destruction."
Al-Jinn
( 1 )
Say, [O Muhammad], "It has been revealed to me that a group of the jinn
listened and said, 'Indeed, we have heard an amazing Qur'an.
( 2 )
It guides to the right course, and we have believed in it. And we will never
associate with our Lord anyone.
( 3 )
And [it teaches] that exalted is the nobleness of our Lord; He has not taken a
wife or a son
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And that our foolish one has been saying about Allah an excessive
transgression.
( 5 )
And we had thought that mankind and the jinn would never speak about Allah a
lie.
( 6 )
And there were men from mankind who sought refuge in men from the jinn, so they
[only] increased them in burden.
( 7 )
And they had thought, as you thought, that Allah would never send anyone [as a
messenger].
( 8 )
And we have sought [to reach] the heaven but found it filled with powerful
guards and burning flames.
( 9 )
And we used to sit therein in positions for hearing, but whoever listens now
will find a burning flame lying in wait for him.
( 10 )
And we do not know [therefore] whether evil is intended for those on
earth or whether their Lord intends for them a right course.
( 11 )
And among us are the righteous, and among us are [others] not so; we
were [of] divided ways.
( 12 )
And we have become certain that we will never cause failure to Allah
upon earth, nor can we escape Him by flight.
( 13 )
And when we heard the guidance, we believed in it. And whoever believes
in his Lord will not fear deprivation or burden.
( 14 )
And among us are Muslims [in submission to Allah], and among us are the
unjust. And whoever has become Muslim - those have sought out the right course.
( 15 )
But as for the unjust, they will be, for Hell, firewood.'
( 16 )
And [Allah revealed] that if they had remained straight on the way, We
would have given them abundant provision
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So We might test them therein. And whoever turns away from the
remembrance of his Lord He will put into arduous punishment.
( 18 )
And [He revealed] that the masjids are for Allah, so do not invoke with
Allah anyone.
( 19 )
And that when the Servant of Allah stood up supplicating Him, they
almost became about him a compacted mass."
( 20 )
Say, [O Muhammad], "I only invoke my Lord and do not associate with
Him anyone."
( 21 )
Say, "Indeed, I do not possess for you [the power of] harm or right
direction."
( 22 )
Say, "Indeed, there will never protect me from Allah anyone [if I
should disobey], nor will I find in other than Him a refuge.
( 23 )
But [I have for you] only notification from Allah, and His
messages." And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger - then indeed, for
him is the fire of Hell; they will abide therein forever.
( 24 )
[The disbelievers continue] until, when they see that which they are
promised, then they will know who is weaker in helpers and less in number.
( 25 )
Say, "I do not know if what you are promised is near or if my Lord
will grant for it a [long] period."
( 26 )
[He is] Knower of the unseen, and He does not disclose His [knowledge of
the] unseen to anyone
( 27 )
Except whom He has approved of messengers, and indeed, He sends before
each messenger and behind him observers
( 28 )
That he may know that they have conveyed the messages of their Lord; and
He has encompassed whatever is with them and has enumerated all things in
number.
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