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25: The Criterion, the Standard
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Blessed is He who sent down the criterion to His servant, that it may
be an admonition to all creatures;-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And they say: "Tales of the ancients, which he has caused to be
written: and they are dictated before him morning and evening."
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Say: "The (Qur'án) was sent down by Him who knows the mystery (that
is) in the heavens and the earth: verily He is Oft-Forgiving, Most
Merciful."
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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?
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"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."
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See what kinds of comparisons they make for thee! But they have gone
astray, and never a way will they be able to find!
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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).
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Nay they deny the hour (of the judgment to come): but We have prepared
a blazing fire for such as deny the hour:
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When it sees them from a place fAr off, they will hear its fury and
its ranging sigh.
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And when they are cast, bound together into a constricted place
therein, they will pLead for destruction there and then!
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"This day plead not for a single destruction: plead for destruction
oft-repeated!"
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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).
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"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."
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The day He will gather them together as well as those whom they
worship besides God, He will ask: "Was it ye who let these My servants
astray, or did they stray from the Path themselves?"
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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."
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(God 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.
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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 God is One Who sees (all
things).
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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!
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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!"
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And We shall turn to whatever deeds they did (in this life), and We
shall make such deeds as floating dust scattered about.
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The Companions of the Garden will be well, that Day, in their abode,
and have the fairest of places for repose.
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The Day the heaven shall be rent asunder with clouds, and angels shall
be sent down, descending (in ranks),-
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That Day, the dominion as of right and truth, shall be (wholly) for
(God) Most Merciful: it will be a Day of dire difficulty for the
Misbelievers.
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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 Apostle!
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"Ah! woe is me! Would that I had never taken such a one for a friend!
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"He did lead me astray from the Message (of God) after it had come to
me! Ah! the Evil One is but a traitor to man!" Then the Apostle will
say:
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"O my Lord! Truly my people took this Qur'án for just foolish
nonsense."
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Thus have We made for every prophet an enemy among the sinners: but
enough is thy Lord to guide and to help.
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Those who reject Faith say: "Why is not the Qur'án 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.
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And no question do they bring to thee but We reveal to thee the truth
and the best explanation (thereof).
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Those who will be gathered to Hell (prone) on their faces,- they will
be in an evil plight, and, as to Path, most astray.
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(Before this,) We sent Moses The Book, and appointed his brother Aaron
with him as minister;
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And We command: "Go ye both, to the people who have rejected our
Signs:" And those (people) We destroyed with utter destruction.
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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;-
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As also 'Ad and Thamud, and the Companions of the Rass, and many a
generation between them.
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To each one We set forth Parables and examples; and each one We broke
to utter annihilation (for their sins).
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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.
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When they see thee, they treat thee no otherwise than in mockery: "Is
this the one whom God has sent as an apostle?"
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"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!
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Seest thou such a one as taketh for his god his own passion (or
impulse)? Couldst thou be a disposer of affairs for him?
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Or thinkest thou that most of them listen or understand? They are
only like cattle;- nay, they are worse astray in Path.
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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;
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Then We draw it in towards Ourselves,- a contraction by easy stages.
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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.
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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,-
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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.
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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.
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Had it been Our Will, We could have sent a warner to every centre of
population.
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Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but strive against them with
the utmost strenuousness, with the (Qur'án).
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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.
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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).
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Yet do they worship, besides God, things that can neither profit them
nor harm them: and the Misbeliever is a helper (of Evil), against his
own Lord!
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But thee We only sent to give glad tidings and admonition.
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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."
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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;-
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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): God
Most Gracious: ask thou, then, about Him of any acquainted (with such
things).
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When it is said to them, "Adore ye (God) Most Gracious!", they say,
"And what is (God) Most Gracious? Shall we adore that which thou
commandest us?" And it increases their flight (from the Truth).
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Blessed is He Who made constellations in the skies, and placed therein
a Lamp and a Moon giving light;
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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.
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And the servants of (God) Most Gracious are those who walk on the
earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say,
"Peace!";
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Those who spend the night in adoration of their Lord prostrate and
standing;
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Those who say, "Our Lord! avert from us the Wrath of Hell, for its
Wrath is indeed an affliction grievous,-
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"Evil indeed is it as an abode, and as a place to rest in";
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Those who, when they spend, are not extravagant and not niggardly, but
hold a just (balance) between those (extremes);
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Those who invoke not, with God, any other god, nor slay such life as
God has made sacred except for just cause, nor commit fornication; -
and any that does this (not only) meets punishment.
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(But) the Penalty on the Day of Judgment will be doubled to him, and
he will dwell therein in ignominy,-
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Unless he repents, believes, and works righteous deeds, for God will
change the evil of such persons into good, and God is Oft-Forgiving,
Most Merciful,
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And whoever repents and does good has truly turned to God with an
(acceptable) conversion;-
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Those who witness no falsehood, and, if they pass by futility, they
pass by it with honourable (avoidance);
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Those who, when they are admonished with the Signs of their Lord,
droop not down at them as if they were deaf or blind;
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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."
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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,
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Dwelling therein;- how beautiful an abode and place of rest!
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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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