{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq046.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq046.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq046.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 the Book\n Is from God\n The Exalted in Power,\n Full of Wisdom.\n3. We created not\n The heavens and the earth\n And all between them\n But for just ends, and\n For a term appointed:\n But those who reject Faith\n Turn away from that\n Whereof they are warned.\n4. Say: \"Do ye see\n What it is ye invoke\n Besides God? Show me\n What it is they\n Have created on earth,\n Or have they a share\n In the heavens?\n Bring me a Book\n(Revealed) before this,\n Or any remnant of knowledge\n (Ye may have), if ye\n Are telling the truth!\n5. And who is more astray\n Than one who invokes,\n Besides God, such as will\n Not answer him to the Day\n Of Judgment, and who\n (In fact) are unconscious\n Of their call (to them)?\n6. And when mankind\n Are gathered together\n (At the Resurrection),\n They will be hostile\n To them and reject\n Their worship (altogether)!\n7. When Our Clear Signs\n Are rehearsed to them,\n The Unbelievers say,\n Of the Truth\n When it comes to them:\n \"This is evident sorcery!\"\n8. Or do they say,\n \"He has forged it\"?\n Say: \"Had I forged it,\n Then can ye obtain\n No single (blessing) for me\n From God. He knows best\n Of that whereof ye talk\n (So glibly)! Enough is He\nFor a witness between me\n And you! And He is\n Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.\"\n9. Say: \"I am no bringer\n Of new-fangled doctrine\n Among the apostles, nor\n Do I know what will\n Be done with me or\n With you. I follow\n But that which is revealed\n To me by inspiration;\n I am but a Warner\n Open and clear.\"\n10. Say: \"See ye?\n If (this teaching) be\n From God, and ye reject it,\n And a witness from among\n The Children of Israel testifies\n To its similarity\n (With earlier scripture),\n And has believed\n While ye are arrogant,\n (How unjust ye are!)\n Truly, God guides not\n A people unjust.\"\n11. The Unbelievers say\n Of those who believe:\n\"If (this Message) were\n A good thing, (such men)\n Would not have gone\n To it first, before us!\"\n And seeing that they\n Guide not themselves thereby,\n They will say, \"This is\n An (old,) old falsehood!\"\n12. And before this, was\n The Book of Moses\n As a guide and a mercy:\n And this Book confirms (it)\n In the Arabic tongue;\n To admonish the unjust,\n And as Glad Tidings.\n To those who do right.\n13. Verily those who say,\n \"Our Lord is God,\"\n And remain firm\n (On that Path),\n On them shall be no fear,\n Nor shall they grieve.\n14. Such shall be Companions\n Of the Garden, dwelling\n Therein (for aye): a recompense\n For their (good) deeds.\n15. We have enjoined on man\n Kindness to his parents:\n In pain did his mother\n Bear him, and in pain\n Did she give him birth.\n The carrying of the (child)\n To his weaning is\n (A period of) thirty months.\n At length, when he reaches\n The age of full strength\n And attains forty years,\n He says, \"O my Lord!\n Grant me that I may be\n Grateful for Thy favour\n Which Thou hast bestowed\n Upon me, and upon both\n My parents, and that I\n May work righteousness\n Such as Thou mayest approve;\n And be gracious to me\n In my issue. Truly\n Have I turned to Thee\n And truly do I bow\n (To Thee) in Isl\u0101m.\"\n16. Such are they from whom\n We shall accept the best\n Of their deeds and pass by\n Their ill deeds: (they shall\nBe) among the Companions\n Of the Garden: a promise!\n Of truth, which was\n Made to them\n (In this life).\n17. But (there is one)\n Who says to his parents,\n \"Fie on you! Do ye\n Hold out the promise\n To me that I\n Shall be raised up,\n Even though generations\n Have passed before me\n (Without rising again)?\"\n And they two seek\n God's aid, (and rebuke\n The son): \"Woe to thee!\n Have Faith! For the promise\n Of God is true.\"\n But he says, \"This is\n Nothing but tales\n Of the ancients!\"\n18. Such are they against whom\n Is proved the Sentence\n Among the previous generations\n Of Jinns and men, that have\n Passed away; for they will\n Be (utterly) lost.\n19. And to all\n Are (assigned) degrees\nAccording to the deeds\n Which they (have done),\n And in order that (God)\n May recompense their deeds,\n And no injustice be done\n To them.\n20. And on the Day that\n The Unbelievers will be\n Placed before the Fire,\n (It will be said to them):\n \"Ye received your good things\n In the life of the world,\n And ye took your pleasure\n Out of them: but to-day\n Shall ye be recompensed\n With a Penalty of humiliation:\n For that ye were arrogant\n On earth without just cause,\n And that ye (ever) transgressed.\"\n21. Mention (H\u016bd)\n One of \u2018\u0100d's (own) brethren:\n Behold, he warned his people\n About the winding Sand-tracts:\n But there have been Warners\n Before him and after him:\n \"Worship ye none other\n Than God: truly I fear\n For you the Penalty\n Of a Mighty Day.\"\n22. They said: \"Hast thou come\n In order to turn us aside\nFrom our gods? Then bring\n Upon us the (calamity)\n With which thou dost\n Threaten us, if thou\n Art telling the truth!\"\n23. He said: \"The Knowledge\n (Of when it will come)\n Is only with God: I\n Proclaim to you the mission\n On which I have been sent:\n But I see that ye\n Are a people in ignorance!\"\u2026\n24. Then, when they saw\n The (Penalty in the shape of)\n A cloud traversing the sky,\n Corning to meet their valleys,\n They said, \"This cloud\n Will give us rain!\"\n \"Nay, it is the (calamity)\n Ye were asking to be\n Hastened!\u2014a wind\n Wherein is a Grievous Penalty!\n25. \"Everything will it destroy\n By the command of its Lord!\"\n Then by the morning they\u2014\n Nothing was to be seen\n But (the ruins of) their houses!\n Thus do We recompense\n Those given to sin!\n26. And We had firmly established\n Them in a (prosperity and) power\n Which We have not given\n To you (ye Quraish!)\n And We had endowed them\n With (faculties of)\n Hearing, seeing, heart and intellect\n But of no profit to them\n Were their (faculties of)\n Hearing, sight, and heart\n And intellect, when they\n Went on rejecting the Signs\n Of God; and they were\n (Completely) encircled\n By that which they\n Used to mock at!\n27. We destroyed aforetime\n Populations round about you;\n And We have shown\n The Signs in various ways,\n That they may turn (to Us).\n28. Why then was no help\n Forthcoming to them from those\n Whom they worshipped as gods,\n Besides God, as a means\n Of access (to God)? Nay,\n They left them in the lurch:\n But that was their\n Falsehood and their invention.\n29, Behold, We turned\n Towards thee a company\n Of Jinns (quietly) listening\n To the Qur-\u0101n: when they\n Stood in the presence\n Thereof, they said, \"Listen\n In silence!\" When the (reading)\n Was finished, they returned\n To their people, to warn\n (Them of their sins).\n30. They said, \"O our people!\n We have heard a Book\n Revealed after Moses,\n Confirming what came\n Before it: it guides (men)\n To the Truth and\n To a Straight Path.\n31. \"O our people, hearken\n To the one who invites\n (You) to God, and believe\n In him: He will forgive\n You your faults,\n And deliver you from\n A Penalty Grievous.\n32. \"If any does not hearken\n To the one who invites\n (Us) to God, he cannot\n Frustrate (God's Plan) on earth,\n And no protectors can he have\n Besides God: such men\n (Wander) in manifest error.\"\n33. See they not that\n God, Who created the heavens\n And the earth, and never\n Wearied with their creation,\n Is able to give life\n To the dead? Yea, verily\n He has power over all things.\n34. And on the Day that\n The Unbelievers will be\n Placed before the Fire,\n (They will be asked,)\n Is this not the Truth?\"\n They will say, \"Yea,\n By our Lord!\"\n (One will say:)\n \"Then taste ye\n The Penalty, for that ye\n Were wont to deny (Truth)!\"\n35. Therefore patiently persevere,\n As did (all) apostles\n Of inflexible purpose;\n And be in no haste\n About the (Unbelievers). On the Day\n That they see the (Punishment)\n Promised them, (it will be)\n As if they had not\n Tarried more than an hour\n In a single day. (Thine\n But) to proclaim the Message:\n But shall any be destroyed\n Except those who transgress?","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra XLVI.: A\u1e25q\u0101f, or Win...","type":"page"}