{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq014.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq014.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq014.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious\n Most Merciful.\n1. A. L. R. A Book\n Which We have revealed\n Unto thee, in order that\n Thou mightest lead mankind\n Out of the depths of darkness\n Into light\u2014by the leave\n Of their Lord\u2014to the Way\n Of (Him) the Exalted in Power,\n Worthy of all Praise!\u2014\n2. Of God, to Whom do belong\n All things in the heavens\n And on earth!\n But alas for the Unbelievers\n For a terrible Penalty\n (Their Unfaith will bring them)!\u2014\n3. Those who love the life\n Of this world more than\n The Hereafter, who hinder (men)\n From the Path of God\n And seek therein something crooked:\n They are astray\n By a long distance.\n4. We sent not an apostle\n Except (to teach) in the language\n Of his (own) people, in order\n To make (things) clear to them.\n Now God leaves straying\n Those whom He pleases\n And guides whom He pleases:\n And He is Exalted in Power,\n Full of Wisdom.\n5. We sent Moses with Our Signs\n (And the command). \"Bring out\n Thy people from the depths\n Of darkness into light,\n And teach them to remember\n The Days of God.\" Verily\n In this there are Signs\n For such as are firmly patient\n And constant,\u2014grateful and appreciative.\n6. Remember! Moses said\n To his people: \"Call to mind\n The favour of God to you\n When He delivered you\nFrom the people of Pharaoh:\n They set you hard tasks\n And punishments, slaughtered\n Your sons, and let your women-folk\n Live: therein was\n A tremendous trial from your Lord.\"\n7. And remember! your Lord\n Caused to be declared (publicly):\n \"If ye are grateful, I will\n Add more (favours) unto you;\n But if ye show ingratitude,\n Truly my punishment\n Is terrible indeed.\"\n8. And Moses said: \"If ye\n Show ingratitude, ye and all\n On earth together,\u2014yet\n Is God Free of all wants,\n Worthy of all praise.\n9. Has not the story\n Reached you, (O people!), of those\n Who (went) before you?\u2014\n Of the People of Noah,\n And \u2019\u0100d, and Tham\u016bd?\u2014\n And of those who (came)\n After them? None knows them\n But God. To them came\nApostles with Clear (Signs);\n But they put their hands\n Up to their mouths, and said:\n \"We do deny (the mission)\n On which ye have been sent,\n And we are really\n In suspicious (disquieting) doubt\n As to that to which\n Ye invite us.\"\n10. Their apostles said: \"Is there\n A doubt about God,\n The Creator of the heavens\n And the earth? It is He\n Who invites you, in order\n That He may forgive you\n Your sins and give you\n Respite for a term appointed!\"\n They said: \"Ah! ye are\n No more than human,\n Like ourselves! Ye wish\n To turn us away from\n The (gods) our fathers\n Used to worship: then\n Bring us some clear authority.\"\n11. Their apostles said to them:\n \"True, we are human\n Like yourselves, but God\n Doth grant His grace\nTo such of His servants\n As He pleases. It is not\n For us to bring you\n An authority except as God\n Permits. And on God\n Let all men of faith\n Put their trust.\n12. \"No reason have we why\n We should not put our trust\n On God. Indeed He\n Has guided us to the Ways\n We (follow). We shall certainly\n Bear with patience all\n The hurt you may cause us.\n For those who put their trust\n Should put their trust on God.\"\n13. And the Unbelievers said\n To their apostles: \"Be sure\n We shall drive you out\n Of our land, or ye shall\n Return to our religion.\"\n But their Lord inspired\n (This Message) to them:\n \"Verily We shall cause\n The wrong-doers to perish!\n14. \"And verily We shall\n Cause you to abide\n In the land, and succeed them.\n This for such as fear\n The Time when they shall stand\n Before My tribunal,\u2014such\n As fear the Punishment denounced.\"\n15. But they sought victory and decision\n (There and then), and frustration\n Was the lot of every\n Powerful obstinate transgressor.\n16. In front of such a one\n Is Hell, and he is given,\n For drink, boiling fetid water.\n17. In gulps will he sip it,\n But never will he be near\n Swallowing it down his throat:\n Death will come to him\n From every quarter, yet\n Will he not die: and\n In front of him will be\n A chastisement unrelenting.\n18. The parable of those who\n Reject their Lord is that\n Their works are as ashes,\n On which the wind blows\n Furiously on a tempestuous day:\n No power have they over\n Aught that they have earned:\n That is the straying\n Far, far (from the goal).\n19. Seest thou not that God\n Created the heavens and the earth\n In Truth? If He so will,\n He can remove you\n And put (in your place)\n A new Creation?\n20. Nor is that for God\n Any great matter.\n21. They will all be marshalled\n Before God together: then\n Will the weak say to those\n Who were arrogant, \"For us,\n We but followed you; can ye\n Then avail us at all\n Against the Wrath of God?\"\n They will reply, \"If we\n Had received the guidance\n Of God, we should have\n Given it to you: to us\n It makes no difference (now)\n Whether we rage, or bear\n (These torments) with patience:\n For ourselves there is no way\n Of escape.\"\n22. And Satan will say\n When the matter is decided:\n \"It was God Who gave you\n A promise of Truth: I too\n Promised, but I failed\n In my promise to you.\nI had no authority over you\n Except to call you, but ye\n Listened to me: then\n Reproach not me, but reproach\n Your own souls. I cannot listen\n To your cries, nor can ye\n Listen to mine. I reject\n Your former act in associating\n Me with God.\n For wrong-doers there must be\n A grievous Penalty.\"\n23. But those who believe\n And work righteousness\n Will be admitted to Gardens\n Beneath which rivers flow,\u2014\n To dwell therein for aye\n With the leave of their Lord.\n Their greeting therein\n Will be: \"Peace!\"\n24. Seest thou not how\n God sets forth a parable?\u2014\n A goodly Word\n Like a goodly tree,\n Whose root is firmly fixed,\n And its branches (reach)\n To the heavens,\u2014\n25. It brings forth its fruit\n At all times, by the leave\nOf its Lord.\n So God sets forth parables\n For men, in order that\n They may receive admonition.\n26. And the parable\n Of an evil Word\n Is that of an evil tree:\n It is torn up by the root\n From the surface of the earth:\n It has no stability.\n27. God will establish in strength\n Those who believe, with the Word\n That stands firm, in this world\n And in the Hereafter; but God\n Will leave, to stray, those\n Who do wrong: God doeth\n What He willeth.\n28, Hast thou not turned\n Thy vision to those who\n Have changed the favour of God.\n Into blasphemy and caused\n Their people to descend\n To the House of Perdition?\u2014\n29. Into Hell? They will burn\n Therein,\u2014an evil place\n To stay in!\n30. And they set up (idols)\n As equal to God, to mislead\n (Men) from the Path! Say:\n \"Enjoy (your brief power)!\n But verily ye are making\n Straightway for Hell!\"\n31. Speak to my servants\n Who have believed,\n That they may establish\n Regular prayers, and spend\n (In charity) out of the Sustenance\nWe have given them,\n Secretly and openly, before\n The coming of a Day\n In which there will be\n Neither mutual bargaining\n Nor befriending.\n32. It is God Who hath created\n The heavens and the earth\n And sendeth down rain\n From the skies, and with it\n Bringeth out fruits wherewith\n To feed you; it is He\n Who hath made the ships subject\n To you, that they may sail\n Through the sea by His Command;\n And the rivers (also)\n Hath He made subject to you.\n33. And He hath made subject\n To you the sun and the moon,\n Both diligently pursuing\n Their courses; and the Night\n And the Day hath He (also)\n Made subject to you.\n34. And He giveth you\n Of all that ye ask for.\n But if ye count the favours\n Of God, never will ye\n Be able to number them.\n Verily, man is given up\n To injustice and ingratitude.\n35. Remember Abraham said:\n \"O my Lord! make this city\n One of peace and security:\n And preserve me and my sons\n From worshipping idols.\n36. \"O my Lord! they have indeed\n Led astray many among mankind;\n He then who follows my (ways)\n Is of me, and he that\n Disobeys me,\u2014but Thou\n Art indeed Oft-Forgiving,\n Most Merciful.\n37. \"O our Lord! I have made\n Some of my offspring to dwell\n In a valley without cultivation,\n By Thy Sacred House;\nIn order, O our Lord, that they\n May establish regular Prayer:\n So till the hearts of some\n Among men with love towards them,\n And feed them with Fruits:\n So that they may give thanks.\n38. \"O our Lord! truly Thou\n Dost know what we conceal\n And what we reveal:\n For nothing whatever is hidden\n From God, whether on earth\n Or in heaven.\n39. \"Praise be to God, Who hath\n Granted unto me in old age\n Ism\u0101\u2019\u012bl and Isaac: for truly\n My Lord is He, the Hearer\n Of Prayer!\n40. \"O my Lord! make me\n One who establishes regular Prayer,\n And also (raise such)\n Among my offspring\n O our Lord!\n And accept Thou my Prayer.\n41. \"O our Lord! cover (us)\n With Thy Forgiveness\u2014me,\nMy parents, and (all) Believers,\n On the Day that the Reckoning\n Will be established!\n42. Think not that God\n Doth not heed the deeds\n Of those who do wrong.\n He but giveth them respite\n Against a Day when\n The eyes will fixedly stare\n In horror,\u2014\n43. They running forward\n With necks outstretched,\n Their heads uplifted, their gaze\n Returning not towards them,\n And their hearts a (gaping) void!\n44. So warn mankind\n Of the Day when the Wrath\n Will reach them: then will\n The wrong-doers say: \"Our Lord!\n Respite us (if only)\n For a short Term: we will\n Answer Thy Call, and follow\n The apostles!\"\n \"What! were ye not wont\n To swear aforetime that ye\n Should suffer no decline?\n45. \"And ye dwelt in the dwellings\n Of men who wronged their own\n Souls; ye were clearly shown\n How We dealt with them;\n And We put forth (many) Parables\n In your behoof!\"\n46. Mighty indeed were the plots\n Which they made, but their plots\n Were (well) within the sight\n Of God, even though they were\n Such as to shake the hills!\n47. Never think that God would fail\n His apostles in His promise:\n For God is Exalted in Power,\u2014\n The Lord of Retribution.\n48. One day the Earth will be\n Changed to a different Earth,\n And so will be the Heavens,\n And (men) will be marshalled\n Forth, before God, the One,\n The Irresistible;\n49. And thou wilt see\n The Sinners that day\n Bound together in fetters;\u2014\n50. Their garments of liquid pitch,\n And their faces covered with Fire;\n51. That God may requite\n Each soul according\n To its deserts;\n And verily God is Swift\n In calling to account.\n52. Here is a Message for mankind:\n Let them take warning therefrom,\n And let them know that He\n Is (no other than) One God\n Let men of understanding\n Take heed.","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra XIV. Ibr\u0101h\u012bm, or Abraham","type":"page"}