{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/quran/04603.htm","path":"isl/quran/04603.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/quran/04603.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\n21. Waothkur akha AAadin ith anthara qawmahu bial-ahqafi waqad khalati alnnuthuru min bayni yadayhi wamin khalfihi alla taAAbudoo illa Allaha innee akhafu AAalaykum AAathaba yawmin AAatheemin\n21. Mention (H\u016bd)\n One of \u2018\u0100d's (own) brethren:\n Behold, he warned his people\n About the winding Sand-tracts:\n But there have been Warners\n Before him and after him:\n \"Worship ye none other\n Than God: truly I fear\n For you the Penalty\n Of a Mighty Day.\"\n22. Qaloo aji/tana lita/fikana AAan alihatina fa/tina bima taAAiduna in kunta mina alssadiqeena\n22. They said: \"Hast thou come\n In order to turn us aside\nFrom our gods? Then bring\n Upon us the (calamity)\n With which thou dost\n Threaten us, if thou\n Art telling the truth!\"\n23. Qala innama alAAilmu AAinda Allahi waoballighukum ma orsiltu bihi walakinnee arakum qawman tajhaloona\n23. He said: \"The Knowledge\n (Of when it will come)\n Is only with God: I\n Proclaim to you the mission\n On which I have been sent:\n But I see that ye\n Are a people in ignorance!\"\u2026\n24. Falamma raawhu AAaridan mustaqbila awdiyatihim qaloo hatha AAaridun mumtiruna bal huwa ma istaAAjaltum bihi reehun feeha AAathabun aleemun\n24. Then, when they saw\n The (Penalty in the shape of)\n A cloud traversing the sky,\n Corning to meet their valleys,\n They said, \"This cloud\n Will give us rain!\"\n \"Nay, it is the (calamity)\n Ye were asking to be\n Hastened!\u2014a wind\n Wherein is a Grievous Penalty!\n25. Tudammiru kulla shay-in bi-amri rabbiha faasbahoo la yura illa masakinuhum kathalika najzee alqawma almujrimeena\n25. \"Everything will it destroy\n By the command of its Lord!\"\n Then by the morning they\u2014\n Nothing was to be seen\n But (the ruins of) their houses!\n Thus do We recompense\n Those given to sin!\n26. Walaqad makkannahum feema in makkannakum feehi wajaAAalna lahum samAAan waabsaran waaf-idatan fama aghna AAanhum samAAuhum wala absaruhum wala af-idatuhum min shay-in ith kanoo yajhadoona bi-ayati Allahi wahaqa bihim ma kanoo bihi yastahzi-oona\n26. And We had firmly established\n Them in a (prosperity and) power\n Which We have not given\n To you (ye Quraish!)\n And We had endowed them\n With (faculties of)\n Hearing, seeing, heart and intellect\n But of no profit to them\n Were their (faculties of)\n Hearing, sight, and heart\n And intellect, when they\n Went on rejecting the Signs\n Of God; and they were\n (Completely) encircled\n By that which they\n Used to mock at!","title":"The Quran: S\u016bra XLVI.: A\u1e25q\u0101f, or Winding Sand-tracts.: Section 3 (21-26)","type":"page"}