{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq036.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq036.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq036.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most Merciful.\n1. Y\u0101 S\u012bn.\n2. By the Qur-\u0101n\n Full of Wisdom,\u2014\n3. Thou art indeed\n One of the apostles,\n4. On a Straight Way.\n5. It is a Revelation\n Sent down by (Him),\n The Exalted in Might,\n Most Merciful,\n6. In order that thou mayest\n Admonish a people,\n Whose fathers had received\n No admonition, and who\n Therefore remain heedless\n (Of the Signs of God).\n7. The Word is proved true\n Against the greater part of them:\n For they do not believe.\n8. We have put yokes\n Round their necks\n Right up to their chins,\n So that their heads are\n Forced up (and they cannot see).\n9. And We have put\n A bar in front of them\n And a bar behind them,\n And further, We have\n Covered them up; so that\n They cannot see.\n10. The same is it to them\n Whether thou admonish them\n Or thou do not admonish\n Them: they will not believe.\n11. Thou canst but admonish\n Such a one as follows\n The Message and fears\n The (Lord) Most Gracious, unseen:\n Give such a one, therefore,\n Good tidings, of Forgiveness\n And a reward most generous.\n12. Verily We shall give life\n To the dead, and We record\n That which they send before\n And that which they leave\n Behind, and of all things\n Have We taken account\nIn a clear Book\n (Of evidence).\n13. Set forth to them,\n By way of a parable,\n The (story of) the Companions\n Of the City. Behold,\n There came apostles to it.\n14. When We (first) sent\n To them two apostles,\n They rejected them:\n But We strengthened them\n With a third: they said,\n \"Truly, we have been sent\n On a mission to you.\"\n15. The (people) said: \"Ye are\n Only men like ourselves\n And (God) Most Gracious\n Sends no sort of revelation:\n Ye do nothing but lie.\"\n16. They said: \"Our Lord doth\n Know that we have been sent\n On a mission to you:\n17. \"And our duty is only\n To proclaim the clear Message.\n18. The (people) said: \"For us,\n We augur an evil omen\nFrom you: if ye desist not,\n We will certainly stone you.\n And a grievous punishment\n Indeed will be inflicted\n On you by us.\"\n19. They said: \"Your evil omens\n Are with yourselves:\n (Deem ye this an evil omen).\n If ye are admonished?\n Nay, but ye are a people\n Transgressing all bounds!\n20. Then there came running,\n From the farthest part\n Of the City, a man,\n Saying, \"O my People!\n Obey the apostles:\n21. \"Obey those who ask\n No reward of you\n (For themselves), and who have\n Themselves received Guidance\n22, \"It would not be reasonable\n In me if I did not\n Serve Him Who created me,\n And to Whom ye shall\n (All) be brought back.\n23. \"Shall I take (other) gods\n Besides Him? If (God)\n Most Gracious should\n Intend some adversity for me,\n Of no use whatever\n Will be their intercession\n For me, nor can they\n Deliver me.\n24.\"I would indeed,\n If I were to do so,\n Be in manifest Error.\n25. \"For me, I have faith\n In the Lord of you (all):\n Listen, then, to me!\"\n26. It was said: \"Enter thou\n The Garden.\" He said:\n \"Ah me! Would that\n My People knew (what I know)!\u2014\n27. \"For that my Lord\n Has granted me Forgiveness\n And has enrolled me\n Among those held in honour!\"\n28. And We sent not down\n Against his People, after him,\n Any hosts from heaven,\n Nor was it needful\n For Us so to do.\n29. It was no more than\n A single mighty Blast,\n And behold! they were (like ashes)\n Quenched and silent.\n30. Ah! alas for (My) servants!\n There comes not an apostle\n To them but they mock him!\n31. See they not how many\n Generations before them\n We destroyed? Not to them\n Will they return:\n32. But each one of them\n All\u2014will be brought\n Before Us (for judgment).\n33. A Sign for them\n Is the earth that is dead:\n We do give it life,\n And produce grain therefrom,\n Of which ye do eat.\n34. And We produce therein\n Orchards with date-palms\n And vines, and We cause\n Springs to gush forth therein:\n35. That they may enjoy\n The fruits of this (artistry):\n It was not their hands\n That made this:\n Will they not then give thanks?\n36. Glory to God, Who created\n In pairs all things that\n The earth produces, as well as\n Their own (human) kind\n And (other) things of which\n They have no knowledge.\n37. And a Sign for them\n Is the Night: We withdraw\n Therefrom the Day, and behold\n They are plunged in darkness;\n38. And the Sun\n Runs his course\n For a period determined\n For him: that is\n The decree of (Him),\n The Exalted in Might,\n The All-Knowing.\n39. And the Moon,\n We have measured for her\n Mansions (to traverse)\n Till she returns\n Like the old (and withered)\n Lower part of a date-stalk.\n40. It is not permitted\n To the Sun to catch up\n The Moon, nor can\n The Night outstrip the Day:\n Each (just) swims along (its own) orbit\n (According to Law).\n41. And a Sign for them\n Is that We bore\n Their race (through the Flood)\n In the loaded Ark;\n42. And We have created\n For them similar (vessels)\n On which they ride.\n43. If it were Our Will,\n We could drown them:\n Then would there be\n No helper (to hear\n Their cry), nor could\n They be delivered,\n44. Except by way of Mercy\n From Us, and by way\n Of (worldly) convenience\n (To serve them) for a time.\n45. When they are told,\n \"Fear ye that which is\n Before you and that which\n Will be after you, in order\n That ye may receive Mercy,\"\n (They turn back).\n46. Not a Sign comes to them\n From among the Signs\n Of their Lord, but they\n Turn away therefrom.\n47. And when they are told,\n \"Spend ye of (the bounties)\n With which God\n Has provided you,\" the Unbelievers\n Say to those who believe:\n \"Shall we then feed those\n Whom, if God had so willed,\n He would have fed, (Himself)?\u2014\nYe are in nothing\n But manifest error.\"\n48. Further, they say, \"When\n Will this promise (come to pass),\n If what ye say is true?\"\n49. They will not (have\n To) wait for aught\n But a single Blast:\n It will seize them while\n They are yet disputing\n Among themselves!\n50. No (chance) will they then\n Have, by will, to dispose\n (Of their affairs), nor\n To return to their own people!\n51. The trumpet shall be\n Sounded, when behold!\n From the sepulchres (men)\n Will rush forth\n To their Lord!\n52. They will say: \"Ah!\n Woe unto us! Who\n Hath raised us up\n From our beds of repose?\"\n (A voice will say:)\n \"This is what (God)\n Most Gracious had promised.\n And true was the word\n Of the apostles!\"\n53. It will be no more\n Than a single Blast,\n When to! they will all\n Be brought up before Us!\n54. Then, on that Day,\n Not a soul will be\n Wronged in the least,\n And ye shall but\n Be repaid the meeds\n Of your past Deeds.\n55. Verily the Companions\n Of the Garden shall\n That Day have joy\n In all that they do:\n56. They and their associates\n Will be in groves\n Of (cool) shade, reclining\n On Thrones (of dignity);\n57. (Every) fruit (enjoyment)\n Will be there for them;\n They shall have whatever\n They call for;\n58. \"Peace!\"\u2014a Word\n (Of salutation) from a Lord\n Most Merciful!\n59. \"And O ye in sin!\n Get ye apart this Day!\n60. \"Did I not enjoin\n On you, O ye children\nOf Adam, that ye\n Should not worship Satan;\n For that he was to you\n An enemy avowed?\u2014\n61. \"And that ye should\n Worship Me, (for that) this\n Was the Straight Way?\n62. \"But he did lead astray\n A great multitude of you.\n Did ye not, then, understand?\n63. \"This is the Hell\n Of which ye were\n (Repeatedly) warned!\n64. \"Embrace ye the (Fire)\n This Day, for that ye\n (Persistently) rejected (Truth).\"\n65. That Day shall We set\n A seal on their mouths.\n But their hands will speak\n To Us, and their feet\n Bear witness, to all\n That they did.\n66. If it had been Our Will,\n We could surely have\n Blotted out their eyes;\n Then should they have\n Run about groping for the Path,\n But how could they have seen?\n67. And if it had been\n Our Will, We could\n Have transformed them\n (To remain) in their places;\n Then should they have been\n Unable to move about,\n Nor could they have returned\n (After error).\n68. If We grant long life\n To any, We cause him\n To be reversed in nature:\n Will they not then understand?\n69. We have not instructed\n The (Prophet) in Poetry,\n Nor is it meet for him:\n This is no less than\nA Message and a Qur-\u0101n\n Making things clear:\n70. That it may give admonition\n To any (who are) alive,\n And that the charge\n May be proved against those\n Who reject (Truth).\n71. See they not that it is\n We Who have created\n For them\u2014among the things\n Which our hands have fashioned\u2014\n Cattle, which are under\n Their dominion?\u2014\n72. And that We have\n Subjected them to their (use)?\n Of them some do carry them\n And some they eat:\n73. And they have (other) profits\n From them (besides), and they\n Get (milk) to drink.\n Will they not then\n Be grateful?\n74. Yet they take (for worship)\n Gods other than God,\n(Hoping) that they might\n Be helped!\n75. They have not the power\n To help them: but they\n Will be brought up\n (Before Our Judgment-seat)\n As a troop (to be condemned).\n76. Let not their speech, then,\n Grieve thee. Verily We know\n What they hide as well as\n What they disclose.\n77. Doth not man see\n That it is We Who\n Created him from sperm?\n Yet behold! he (stands forth)\n As an open adversary!\n78. And he makes comparisons\n For Us, and forgets his own\n (Origin and) Creation:\n He says, \"Who can give\n Life to (dry) bones\n And decomposed ones (at that)?\"\n79. Say, \"He will give them\n Life Who created them\n For the first time!\n For He is well-versed\n In every kind of creation!\n80. \"The same Who produces\n For you fire out of\n The green tree, when behold!\n Ye kindle therewith\n (Your own fires)!\n81. \"Is not He Who created\n The heavens and the earth\n Able to create the like\n Thereof?\"\u2014Yea, indeed!\n For he is the Creator Supreme,\n Of skill and knowledge (infinite)!\n82. Verily, when He intends\n A thing, His Command is,\n \"Be\", and it is!\n83. So glory to Him\n In Whose hands is\n The dominion of all things:\n And to Him will\n Be all brought back.","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra XXXVI. Y\u0101-S\u012bn (being ...","type":"page"}