{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq031.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq031.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq031.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most Merciful.\n1. A. L. M.\n2. These are Verses\n Of the Wise Book,\u2014\n3. A Guide and a Mercy\n To the Doers of Good,\u2014\n4. Those who establish regular Prayer,\n And give regular Charity,\n And have (in their hearts)\n The assurance of the Hereafter.\n5. These are on (true) guidance\n From their Lord; and these\n Are the ones who will prosper.\n6. But there are, among men,\n Those who purchase idle tales,'\nWithout knowledge (or meaning),\n To mislead (men) from the Path\n Of God and throw ridicule\n (On the Path): for such\n There will be a humiliating\n Penalty.\n7. When Our Signs are rehearsed\n To such a one, he turns\n Away in arrogance, as if\n He heard them not, as if\n There were deafness in both\n His ears: announce to him\n A grievous Penalty.\n8. For those who believe\n And work righteous deeds,\n There will be Gardens\n Of Bliss,\u2014\n9. To dwell therein. The promise\n Of God is true: and He\n Is Exalted in power, Wise.\n10. He created the heavens\n Without any pillars that ye\n Can see; He set\n On the earth mountains\n Standing firm, lest it\n Should shake with you;\n And He scattered through it\n Beasts of all kinds.\n We send down rain\n From the sky, and produce\nOn the earth every kind.\n Of noble creature, in pairs.\n11. Such is the Creation of God:\n Now show Me what is there\n That others besides Him\n Have created: nay, but\n The Transgressors are\n In manifest error.\n12. We bestowed (in the past)\n Wisdom on Luqm\u0101n:\n \"Show (thy) gratitude to God.\"\n Any who is (so) grateful\n Does so to the profit\n Of his own soul: but if\n Any is ungrateful, verily\n God is free of all wants,\n Worthy of all praise.\n13. Behold, Luqm\u0101n said\n To his son by way of\nInstruction: \"O my son!\n Join not in worship\n (Others) with God: for\n False worship is indeed\n The highest wrong-doing.\"\n14. And We have enjoined on man\n (To be good) to his parents:\n In travail upon travail\n Did his mother bear him,\n And in years twain\n Was his weaning: (hear\n The command), \"Show gratitude\n To Me and to thy parents:\n To Me is (thy final) Goal.\n15. \"But if they strive\n To make thee join\n In worship with Me\n Things of which thou hast\n No knowledge, obey them not;\n Yet bear them company\n In this life with justice\n (And consideration), and follow\n The way of those who\n Turn to Me (in love):\n In the End the return\n Of you all is to Me,\n And I will tell you\n The truth (and meaning)\n Of all that ye did.\"\n16. \"O my son!\" (said Luqm\u0101n),\n \"If there be (but) the weight\n Of a mustard-seed and\n It were (hidden) in a rock,'\n Or (anywhere) in the heavens or\n On earth, God will bring it\n Forth: for God understands'\n The finest mysteries, (and)\n Is well-acquainted (with them).\n17. \"O my son! establish\n Regular prayer, enjoin what is\n Just, and forbid what is wrong:\n And bear with patient constancy\n Whate\u2019er betide thee; for this\n Is firmness (of purpose)\n In (the conduct of) affairs.\n18. \"And swell not thy cheek\n (For pride) at men,\n Nor walk in insolence\n Through the earth;\n For God loveth not\n Any arrogant boaster.\n19. \"And be moderate\n In thy pace, and lower\nThy voice; for the harshest\n Of sounds without doubt\n Is the braying of the ass.\"\n20. Do ye not see\n That God has subjected\n To your (use) all things\n In the heavens and on earth,\n And has made His bounties\n Flow to you in exceeding\n Measure, (both) seen and unseen?\n Yet there are among men\n Those who dispute about God,\n Without knowledge and without\n Guidance, and without a Book\n To enlighten them!\n21. When they are told to follow\n The (Revelation) that God\n Has sent down, they say:\n \"Nay, we shall follow\n The ways that we found\n Our fathers (following).\"\nWhat! even if it is\n Satan beckoning them\n To the Penalty\n Of the (Blazing) Fire?\n22. Whoever submits\n His whole self to God,\n And is a doer of good,\n Has grasped indeed\n The most trustworthy hand-hold\n And with God rests the End\n And Decision of (all) affairs.\n23. But if any reject Faith,\n Let not his rejection\n Grieve thee: to Us\n Is their Return, and We\n Shall tell them the truth\n Of their deeds: for God\n Knows well all that is\n In (men's) hearts.\n24. We grant them their pleasure\n For a little while\n In the end shall We\n Drive them to\n A chastisement unrelenting.\n25. If thou ask them,\n Who it is that created\n The heavens and the earth.\n They will certainly say,\n\"God\". Say: \"Praise be to God!\"\n But most of them\n Understand not.\n26. To God belong all things\n In heaven and earth: verily\n God is He (that is)\n Free of all wants,\n Worthy of all praise.\n27. And if all the trees\n On earth were pens\n And the Ocean (were ink),\n With seven Oceans behind it\n To add to its (supply),\n Yet would not the Words\n Of God be exhausted\n (In the writing): for God\n Is Exalted in power,\n Full of Wisdom.\n28. And your creation\n Or your resurrection\n Is in no wise but\n As an individual soul:\n For God is He Who\n Hears and sees (all things).\n29. Seest thou not that\n God merges Night into Day\n And He merges Day into Night;\n That He has subjected the sun,\n And the moon (to His Law),\n Each running its course\n For a term appointed; and\n That God is well acquainted\n With all that ye do?\n30. That is because God is\n The (only) Reality, and because\n Whatever else they invoke\n Besides Him is Falsehood;\n And because God,\u2014He is\n The Most High, Most Great.\n31. Seest thou not that\n The ships sail through\n The Ocean by the grace\n Of God?\u2014that He may\n Show you of His Signs?\n Verily in this are Signs\n For all who constantly persevere\n And give thanks.\n32. When a wave covers them\n Like the canopy (of clouds),\n They call to God\n Offering Him sincere devotion.\nBut when He has delivered them\n Safely to land, there are\n Among them those that halt\n Between (right and wrong).\n But none reject Our Signs\n Except only a perfidious\n Ungrateful (wretch)!\n33. O mankind! do your duty\n To your Lord, and fear\n (The coming of) a Day\n When no father can avail\n Aught for his son, nor\n A son avail aught\n For his father.\n Verily, the promise of God\n Is true: let not then\n This present life deceive you,\n Nor let the Chief Deceiver\n Deceive you about God.\n34, Verily the knowledge\n Of the Hour is\n With God (alone).\n It is He Who sends down\n Rain, and He Who knows\n What is in the wombs.\nNor does any one know\n What it is that he will\n Earn on the morrow:\n Nor does any one know\n In what land he is\n To die. Verily with God\n Is full knowledge and He\n Is acquainted (with all things)","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra XXXI. Luqm\u0101n (the Wise).","type":"page"}