{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq040.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq040.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq040.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most Merciful.\n1. H\u0101-M\u012bm.\n2. The revelation\n Of this Book\n Is from God,\n Exalted in Power,\n Full of Knowledge,\u2014\n3. Who forgiveth Sin,\n Accepteth Repentance,\n Is Strict in Punishment,\n And hath a Long Reach\n (In all things).\n There is no god\n But He: to Him\n Is the Final Goal.\n4. None can dispute\n About the Signs of God\n But the Unbelievers.\n Let not, then,\n Their strutting about\n Through the land\n Deceive thee!\n5. But (there were people) before them,\n Who denied (the Signs),\u2014\n The People of Noah,\n And the Confederates\n (Of Evil) after them;\n And every People plotted\n Against their prophet,\n To seize him, and disputed\n By means of vanities,\n Therewith to condemn\n The Truth: but it was I\n That seized them!\n And how (terrible)\n Was My Requital!\n6. Thus was the Decree\n Of thy Lord proved true\n Against the Unbelievers\n That truly they are\n Companions of the Fire!\n7. Those who sustain\n The Throne (of God)\n And those around it\n Sing Glory and Praise\n To their Lord; believe\n In Him; and implore Forgiveness\n For those who believe:\n \"Our Lord! Thy Reach\nIs over all things,\n In Mercy and Knowledge.\n Forgive, then, those who\n Turn in Repentance, and follow\n Thy Path; and preserve them\n From the Penalty\n Of the Blazing Fire!\n8. \"And grant, our Lord!\n That they enter\n The Gardens of Eternity,\n Which Thou hast promised\n To them, and to the righteous\n Among their fathers,\n Their wives, and their posterity!\n For Thou art (He),\n The Exalted in Might,\n Full of Wisdom.\n9. \"And preserve them\n From (all) ills;\n And any whom Thou\n Dost preserve from ills\n That Day,\u2014on them\n Wilt Thou have bestowed\n Mercy indeed: and that\n Will be truly (for them)\n The highest Achievement\".\n10. The Unbelievers will be\n Addressed: \"Greater was\n The aversion of God to you\n Than (is), your aversion\nTo yourselves, seeing that ye\n Were called to the Faith\n And ye used to refuse.\"\n11. They will say: \"Our Lord!\n Twice hast Thou made us\n Without life, and twice\n Hast Thou given us Life!\n Now have we recognised\n Our sins: is there\n Any way out (of this)?\"\n12. (The answer will be:)\n \"This is because, when\n God was invoked as\n The Only (object of worship),\n Ye did reject Faith,\n But when partners were\n Joined to Him, ye believed!\n The Command is with God,\n Most High, Most Great!\"\n13. He it is Who showeth\n You His Signs, and sendeth\n Down Sustenance for you\n From the sky: but only\n Those receive admonition\n Who turn (to God).\n14. Call ye, then, upon God\n With sincere devotion to Him,\nEven though the Unbelievers\n May detest it.\n15. Raised high above ranks\n (Or degrees),\n (He is) the Lord\n Of the Throne (of authority):\n By His Command doth He\n Send the spirit (of inspiration)\n To any of His servants\n He pleases, that it may\n Warn (men) of the Day\n Of Mutual Meeting,\u2014\n16. The Day whereon\n They will (all) come forth:\n Not a single thing\n Concerning them is hidden\n From God. Whose will be\n The Dominion that Day?\n That of God, the One,\n The Irresistible!\n17. That Day will every soul\n Be requited for what\n It earned; no injustice\n Will there be that Day,\n For God is Swift\n In taking account.\n18. Warn them of the Day\n That is (ever) drawing near,\n When the Hearts will\n (Come) right up to the Throats\n To choke (them);\n No intimate friend\n Nor intercessor will the\n wrong-doers\n Have, who could be\n Listened to.\n19. (God) knows of (the tricks)\n That deceive with the eyes,\n And all that the hearts\n (Of men) conceal.\n20. And God will judge\n With (Justice and) Truth:\n But those whom (men)\n Invoke besides Him, will\n Not (be in a position)\n To judge at all.\n Verily it is God (alone)\n Who hears and sees\n (All things).\n21. Do they not travel\n Through the earth and see\n What was the End\n Of those before them\n They were even superior\n To them in strength,\n And in the traces (they\n Have left) in the land:\n But God did call them\n To account for their sins,\n And none had they\n To defend them against God.\n22. That was because there came\n To them their apostles\n With Clear (Signs),\n But they rejected them:\n So God called them\n To account: for He is\n Full of Strength,\n Strict in Punishment.\n23. Of old We sent Moses,\n With Our Signs\n And an Authority manifest,\n24. To Pharaoh, H\u0101m\u0101n,\n And Q\u0101r\u016bn; but they\n Called (him) \"a sorcerer\n Telling lies!\"\u2026\n25. Now, when he came to them\n In Truth, from Us,\n They said, \"Slay the sons\n Of those who believe a\n With him, and keep alive\n Their females,\" but the plots\n Of Unbelievers (end) in nothing\n But errors (and delusions)!\u2026\n26. Said Pharaoh: \"Leave me\n To slay Moses; and let him\n Call on his Lord!\n What I fear is lest\n He should change your religion,\n Or lest he should cause\n Mischief to appear\n In the land!\"\n27. Moses said: \"I have indeed\n Called upon my Lord\n And your Lord\n (For protection) from every\n Arrogant one who believes not\n In the Day of Account!\"\n28. A Believer, a man\n From among the people\n Of Pharaoh, who had concealed\n His faith, said: \"Will ye\n Slay a man because he\n Says, \"My Lord is God\"?\u2014\n When he has indeed come\n To you with Clear (Signs)\n From your Lord? And if\n He be a liar, on him\n Is (the sin of) his lie;\n But, if he is telling\n The Truth, then will\n Fall on you something\n Of the (calamity) of which\n He warns you: truly\n God guides not one\n Who transgresses and lies!\n29. \"O my People! yours\n Is the dominion this day:\nYe have the upper hand\n In the land: but who\n Will help us from\n The Punishment of God,\n Should it befall us?\"\n Pharaoh said: \"I but\n Point out to you that\n Which I see (myself);\n Nor do I guide you\n But to the Path of Right!\"\n30. Then said the man\n Who believed: \"O my People!\n Truly I do fear \n For you something like\n The Day (of disaster)\n Of the Confederates (in sin)!\u2014\n31. \"Something like the fate\n Of the People of Noah,\n The \u2018\u0100d, and the Tham\u016bd,\n And those who came\n After them: but God\n Never wishes injustice\n To His Servants.\n32. \"And O my People!\n I fear for you a Day\n When there will be\n Mutual calling (and wailing),\u2014\n33. \"A Day when ye\n Shall turn your backs\n And flee: no defender\n Shall ye have from God:\n Any whom God leaves\n To stray, there is none\n To guide\u2026\n34. \"And to you there came\n Joseph in times gone by,\n With Clear Signs, but\n Ye ceased not to doubt\n Of the (mission) for which\n He had come: at length,\n When he died, ye said:\n \"No apostle will God send\n After him.\" Thus doth God\n Leave to stray such as\n Transgress and live in doubt,\u2014\n35. \"(Such) as dispute about\n The Signs of God,\n Without any authority\n That hath reached them.\n Grievous and odious\n (Is such conduct)\n In the sight of God\n And of the Believers.\n Thus doth God seal up\n Every heart\u2014of arrogant\n And obstinate transgressors.\"\n36. Pharaoh said: \"O H\u0101m\u0101n!\n Build me a lofty palace,\n That I may attain\n The ways and means\u2014\n37. \"The ways and means\n Of (reaching) the heavens,\n And that I may mount up\n To the God of Moses:\n But as far as I am concerned,\n I think (Moses) is a liar!\"\n Thus was made alluring,\n In Pharaoh's eyes,\n The evil of his deeds,\n And he was hindered\n From the Path; and the plot\n Of Pharaoh led to nothing\n But perdition (for him).\n38. The man who believed said\n Further: \"O my People!\n Follow me: I will lead\n You to the Path of Right.\n39. \"O my People! This life\n Of the present is nothing\n But (temporary) convenience:\n It is the Hereafter\nThat is the Home\n That will last.\n40. \"He that works evil\n Will not be requited\n But by the like thereof:\n And he that works\n A righteous deed\u2014whether\n Man or woman\u2014and is\n A Believer\u2014such will enter\n The Garden (of Bliss): therein\n Will they have abundance\n Without measure.\n41. \"And O my People!\n How (strange) it is\n For me to call you\n To Salvation while ye\n Call me to the Fire!\n42. \"Ye do call upon me\n To blaspheme against God,\n And to join with Him\n Partners of whom I have\n No knowledge; and I\n Call you to the Exalted\n In Power, Who forgives\n Again and again!\"\n43. \"Without doubt ye do call\n Me to one who is not\n Fit to be called to,\n Whether in this world,\nOr in the Hereafter;\n Our Return will be\n To God; and the Transgressors\n Will be Companions\n Of the Fire!\n44. \"Soon will ye remember\n What I say to you (now).\n My (own) affair I commit\n To God: for God (ever)\n Watches over His Servants.\"\n45. Then God saved him\n From (every) ill that they\n Plotted (against him),\n But the brunt of the Penalty\n Encompassed on all sides\n The People of Pharaoh.\n46. In front of the Fire\n Will they be brought,\n Morning and evening:\n And (the Sentence will be)\n On the Day that\n Judgment will be established:\n \"Cast ye the People\n Of Pharaoh into\n The severest Penalty!\"\n47. Behold, they will dispute\n With each other in the Fire!\n The weak ones (who followed)\n Will say to those who\n Had been arrogant, \"We but\n Followed you: can ye then\nTake (on yourselves) from us\n Some share of the Fire?\"\n48. Those who had been arrogant\n Will say: \"We are all\n In this (Fire)! Truly,\n God has judged\n Between (His) Servants!\"\n49. Those in the Fire will say\n To the Keepers of Hell:\n \"Pray to your Lord\n To lighten us the Penalty\n For a Day (at least)!\"\n50. They will say: \"Did there\n Not come to you\n Your apostles with Clear Signs?\"\n They will say, \"Yes\".\n They will reply, \"Then\n Pray (as ye like)! But\n The Prayer of those\n Without Faith is nothing\n But (futile wandering)\n In (mazes of) error!\"\n51. We will, without doubt,\n Help Our apostles and those\n Who believe, (both)\n In this world's life\n And on the Day\n When the Witnesses\n Will stand forth,\u2014\n52. The Day when no profit\n Will it be to Wrong-doers\n To present their excuses,\n But they will (only) have\n The Curse and the Home\n Of Misery.\n53. We did aforetime give Moses\n The (Book of) Guidance,\n And We gave the Book\n In inheritance to the Children\n Of Israel,\u2014\n54. A Guide and a Message\n To men of understanding.\n55. Patiently, then, persevere:\n For the Promise of God\n Is true: and ask forgiveness\n For thy fault, and celebrate\nThe Praises of thy Lord\n In the evening\n And in the morning.\n56. Those who dispute\n About the Signs of God\n Without any authority\n Bestowed on them,\u2014there is\n Nothing in their breasts\n But (the quest of) greatness,\n Which they shall never\n Attain to: seek refuge,\n Then, in God: it is He\n Who hears and sees (all things).\n57. Assuredly the creation\n Of the heavens\n And the earth\n Is a greater (matter)\n Than the creation of men:\n Yet most men understand not.\n58. Not equal are the blind\n And those who (clearly) see:\n Nor are (equal) those\n Who believe and work\n Deeds of righteousness, and\n Those who do evil.\n Little do ye learn\n By admonition!\n59. The Hour will certainly come:\n Therein is no doubt:\n Yet most men believe not.\n60. And your Lord says:\n \"Call on Me; I\n Will answer your (Prayer):\n But those who are\n Too arrogant to serve Me\n Will surely find themselves\n In Hell\u2014in humiliation!\"\n61. It is God Who has\n Made the Night for you,\n That ye may rest therein,\n And the Day, as that\n Which helps (you) to see.\n Verily God is Full of\n Grace and Bounty to men:\n Yet most men give\n No thanks.\n62. Such is God, your Lord,\n The Creator of all things.\n There is no god but He:\n Then how ye are delude\n Away from the Truth!\n63. Thus are deluded those\n Who are wont to reject\n The Signs of God.\n64. It is God Who has\n Made for you the earth\nAs a resting place,\n And the sky as a canopy,\n And has given you shape\u2014\n And made your shapes\n Beautiful,\u2014and has provided\n For you Sustenance,\n Of things pure and good;\u2014\n Such is God your Lord.\n So Glory to God,\n The Lord of the Worlds!\n65. He is the Living (One):\n There is no god but He:\n Call upon Him, giving Him\n Sincere devotion. Praise he\n To God, Lord of the Worlds!\n66. Say: \"I have been forbidden\n To invoke those whom ye\n Invoke besides God,\u2014seeing that\n The Clear Signs have come\n To me from my Lord;\n And I have been commanded\n To bow (in Isl\u0101m)\n To the Lord of the Worlds.\"\n67. It is He Who has\n Created you from dust,\nThen from a sperm-drop,\n Then from a leech-like clot;\n Then does He get you\n Out (into the light)\n As a child: then lets you\n (Grow and) reach your age\n Of full strength; then\n Lets you become old,\u2014\n Though of you there are\n Some who die before;\u2014\n And lets you reach\n A Term appointed;\n In order that ye\n May learn wisdom.\n68. It is He Who gives Life\n And Death; and when He\n Decides upon an affair,\n He says to it, \"Be\",\n And it is.\n69. Seest thou not those\n That dispute concerning\n The Signs of God?\n How are they turned away\n (From Reality)?\u2014\n70. Those who reject the Book\n And the (revelations) with which\n We sent Our apostles:\n But soon shall they know,\u2014\n71. When the yokes (shall be)\n Round their necks,\n And the chains;\n They shall be dragged along\u2014\n72. In the boiling fetid fluid\n Then in the Fire\n Shall they be burned;\n73. Then shall it be said\n To them: \"Where are\n The (deities) to which\n Ye gave part-worship\u2014\n74. \"In derogation of God?\"\n They will reply: \"They have\n Left us in the lurch:\n Nay, we invoked not,\n Of old, anything (that had\n Real existence).\" Thus\n Does God leave\n The Unbelievers to stray.\n75. \"That was because\n Ye were wont to rejoice\n On the earth in things\n Other than the Truth,\n And that ye were wont\n To be insolent.\n76. \"Enter ye the gates\n Of Hell, to dwell therein:\n And evil is (this) abode\n Of the arrogant!\"\n77. So persevere in patience;\n For the Promise of God\n Is true: and whether\n We show thee (in this life)\n Some part of what We\n Promise them,\u2014or We\n Take thy soul (to Our Mercy)\n (Before that),\u2014(in any case)\n It is to Us that\n They shall (all) return.\n78. We did aforetime send\n Apostles before thee: of them\n There are some whose story\n We have related to thee,\n And some whose story\n We have not related\n To thee. It was not\n (Possible) for any apostle\n To bring a Sign except\n By the leave of God:\n But when the Command\n Of God issued,\n The matter was decided\n In truth and justice,\n And there perished,\n There and then, those\n Who stood on Falsehoods.\n79. It is God who made\n Cattle for you, that ye\nMay use some for riding\n And some for food;\n80. And there are (other) advantages\n In them for you (besides);\n That ye may through them\n Attain to any need\n (There may be) in your hearts;\n And on them and on ships\n Ye are carried.\n81. And He shows you (always)\n His Signs: then which\n Of the Signs of God\n Will ye deny?\n82. Do they not travel through\n The earth and see what\n Was the End of those\n Before them? They were\n More numerous than these\n And superior in strength\n And in the traces\n (They have left) in the land:\n Yet all that they accomplished\n Was of no profit to them.\n83. For when their apostles\n Came to them\n With Clear Signs, they exulted\n In such knowledge (and skill)\nAs they had; but\n That very (Wrath) at which\n They were wont to scoff\n Hemmed them in.\n84. But when they saw\n Our Punishment, they said:\n \"We believe in God,\u2014\n The One God\u2014and we\n Reject the partners we used\n To join with Him.\"\n85. But their professing the Faith\n When they (actually) saw\n Our Punishment was not going\n To profit them.\n (Such has been) God's way\n Of dealing with His servants\n (From the most ancient times).\n And even thus did\n The rejecters of God\n Perish (utterly)!","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra XL. M\u016b-min, or The Believer","type":"page"}