{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sbe09/051.htm","path":"isl/sbe09/051.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/sbe09/051.htm","text":"The Qur'\u00e2n, part II (Sacred Books of the East volume 9), Palmer edition [1880];\nIN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.\nBy the scatterers 1 who scatter! and by those pregnant 2 with their burden! and by those running on 3 easily! and by the distributors 4 of affairs!--[5] verily, what ye are threatened with is surely true!\nAnd, verily, the judgment will surely take place!\nBy the heaven possessed of paths; verily, ye are at variance in what ye say!\nHe is turned from it who is turned.\n[10] Slain be the liars, who are heedless in a flood (of ignorance).\nThey will ask, 'When is the day of judgment?' The day when at the fire they shall be tried.--'Taste your trial! this is what ye wished to hasten on!'\n[15] Verily, the pious are in gardens and springs, taking what their Lord brings them. Verily, they before that did well. But little of the night they slept; and at the dawn they asked forgiveness.\n[paragraph continues] And in their wealth was what was due to him who asked, and him who was kept back from asking.\n[20] And in the earth are signs to those who are sure, and in yourselves,--what! do ye not then see?\nAnd in the heaven is your provision and that which ye are promised 1.\nBut by the Lord of the heaven and the earth! verily, it is the truth,--like that which ye do utter 2!\nHas the tale of Abraham's honoured guests reached thee 3? [25] When they entered in unto him and said, 'Peace!' he said, Peace!--a people unrecognised.'\nAnd he went aside unto his people and fetched a fat calf, and brought it nigh unto them; said he, 'Will ye then not eat?'\nAnd he felt a secret fear of them: said they, 'Fear not.' And they gave him glad tidings of a knowing boy.\nAnd his wife approached with a noise, and smote her face, and said, 'An old woman, barren!'\n[30] Said they, 'Thus says thy Lord, He is knowing, wise.' Said he, 'And about what is your errand, O ye messengers?'\nThey said, 'Verily, we are sent unto a sinful people, to send upon them stones of clay, marked from thy Lord for the extravagant 4.'\n[35] And we sent out therefrom such as were in it of the believers; but we only found therein one house of Muslims.\nAnd we left therein a sign to those who fear the grievous woe.\nAnd in Moses; when we sent him to Pharaoh with obvious authority.\nBut he turned his back towards his column 1, and said, 'A sorcerer or mad!'\n[40] And we seized him and his hosts and hurled them into the sea; for he was to be blamed.\nAnd in \u2018\u00c2d, when we sent against them a desolating wind, that left naught on which it came without making it ashes!\nAnd in Tham\u00fbd, when it was said to them, 'Enjoy yourselves for a season.' But they revolted against the bidding of their Lord; and the noise caught them as they looked on. [45] And they could not stand upright, and they were not helped!\nAnd the people of Noah of yore; verily, they were an abominable people.\nAnd the heaven--we have built it with might, and, verily, we do surely give it ample space!\nAnd the earth--we have spread it out; and how well we lay it out!\nAnd of everything have we created pairs, haply ye may be mindful.\n[50] Flee then to God; verily, I am a plain warner from Him to you!\nAnd do not set with God another god; verily, I am a plain warner from Him to you!\nThus there came no apostle to those before them, but they said, 'A sorcerer, mad!'\nDo they bequeath it 1 to each other?\nYea, they are an outrageous people!\nSo turn thy back upon them, so thou wilt not be to blame.\n[55] And remind; for, verily, the reminder shall profit the believers.\nAnd I have not created the ginn and mankind save that they may worship me.\nI do not desire any provision from them, and I do not wish them to feed me.\nVerily, God, He is the provider, endowed with steady might.\nVerily, for those who injure (the Apostle) shall be a portion like the portion of their fellows 2, but let them not hurry Me!\n[60] Then woe to those who misbelieve from their day which they are threatened.\n245:1 The winds.\n245:2 The clouds.\n245:3 The ships.\n245:4 Angels or winds.\n246:1 I.e. rain, which produces material sustenance, and there too is the promise of the future life.\n246:2 I.e. unreserved and plain as ye yourselves affirm truths to each other.\n246:3 See Part I, pp. 212-214.\n246:4 See Part I, p. 214, note 1.\n247:1 Either Pharaoh's forces, or one of his nobles, or something else on which he relied. See Part I, p. 214, first line, and note 1.\n248:1 I.e. this taunt.\n248:2 I.e. like the fate of those who wronged the apostles of old.","title":"The Qur'\u00e2n, ed. Palmer (SBE9): LI. The Chapter of t...","type":"page"}