{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/055.htm","path":"isl/055.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/055.htm","text":"THE CHAPTER OF THE MERCIFUL\n(LV. Mecca.)\nIN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.\nThe Merciful taught the Koran;\nHe created man, taught him plain speech.\nThe sun and the moon have their appointed time;\nThe herbs and the trees adore;\nAnd the heavens, He raised them and set the balance, that ye should not be outrageous in the balance;\nBut weigh ye aright, and stint not the balance.\nAnd the earth He has set it for living creatures therein are fruits and palms, with sheaths; and grain with chaff and frequent shoots;\nThen which of your Lords bounties will ye twain deny?\nHe created men of crackling clay like the potters.\nAnd He created the ginn from smokeless fire.\nThe Lord of the two easts and the Lord of the two wests!\nHe has let loose the two seas that meet together; between them is a barrier they cannot pass!\nHe brings forth from each pearls both large and small!\nHis are the ships which rear aloft in the sea like mountains.\nEvery one upon it is transient, but the face of thy Lord endowed with majesty and honour shall endure.\nOf Him whosoever is in the heaven and the earth does beg; every day He is in (some fresh) business!\nWe shall be at leisure for you, O ye two weighty ones!\nO assembly of ginns and mankind! if ye are able to pass through the confines of heaven and earth then pass through them!-ye cannot pass through save by authority!\nThere shall be sent against you a flash of fire,\nand molten copper, and ye shall not be helped!\nAnd when the heaven is rent asunder and become rosy red - (melting) like grease!\nOn that day neither man nor ginn shall be asked about his crime!\nThe sinners shall be known by their marks, and shall be seized by the forelock and the feet!\nThis is hell, which the sinners did call it lie! They shall circulate between it and water boiling quite!\nBut for him who fears the station of his Lord are gardens twain!\nBoth furnished with branching trees.\nIn each are flowing springs.\nIn each are, of every fruit, two kinds.\nReclining on beds the linings of which are of brocade, and the fruit of the two gardens within reach to cull.\nTherein are maids of modest glances whom no man nor ginn has deflowered before.\nAs though they were rubies and pearls.\nIs the reward of goodness aught but goodness?\nAnd besides these, are gardens twain,\nThen which of your Lords bounties will be twain deny?\nWith dark green foliage.\nIn each two gushing springs.\nIn each fruit and palms and pomegranates.\nIn them maidens best and fairest!\nBright and large-eyed maids kept in their tents.\nWhom no man nor ginn has deflowered before them.\nReclining on green cushions and beautiful carpets.\nBlessed be the name of thy Lord possessed of majesty and honour!","title":"055","type":"page"}