{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq067.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq067.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq067.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most Merciful.\n1. Blessed be He\n In Whose hands\n Is Dominion;\n And He over all things\n Hath Power;\u2014\n2. He Who created Death\n And Life, that He\n May try which of you\n Is best in deed:\n And He is the Exalted\n In Might, Oft-Forgiving;\u2014\n3. He Who created\n The seven heavens\n One above another:\n No want of proportion\n Wilt thou see\n In the Creation\n Of (God) Most Gracious.\n So turn thy vision again:\n Seest thou any flaw?\n4. Again turn thy vision\n A second time: (thy) vision\n Will come back to thee\n Dull and discomfited,\n In a state worn out.\n5. And We have,\n (From of old),\n Adorned the lowest heaven\n With Lamps, and We\n Have made such (Lamps)\n (As) missiles to drive\n Away the Evil Ones,\n And have prepared for them\n The Penalty\n Of the Blazing Fire.\n6. For those who reject\n Their Lord (and Cherisher)\nIs the Penalty of Hell:\n And evil is (such) destination.\n7. When they are cast therein,\n They will hear\n The (terrible) drawing in\n Of its breath\n Even as it blazes forth,\n8. Almost bursting with fury:\n Every time a Group\n Is cast therein, its Keepers\n Will ask, \"Did no Warner\n Come to you?\"\n9. They will say: \"Yes indeed;\n A Warner did come to us,\n But we rejected him\n And said, \"God never\n Sent down any (Message):\n Ye are innothing but\n An egregious delusion!\"\n10. They will further say:\n \"Had we but listened\n Or used our intelligence,\n We should not (now)\nBe among the Companions\n Of the Blazing Fire!\"\n11. They will then confess\n Their sins: but far\n Will be (Forgiveness)\n From the Companions\n Of the Blazing Fire!\n12. As for those who\n Fear their Lord unseen,\n For them is Forgiveness\n And a great Reward.\n13. And whether ye hide\n Your word or publish it,\n He certainly has (full) knowledge,\n Of the secrets of (all) hearts.\n14. Should He not know,\u2014\n He that created?\n And He is the One\n That understands the finest\n Mysteries (and) is\n Well-acquainted (with them).\n15. It is He Who has\n Made the earth manageable\nFor you, so traverse\n Ye through its tracts\n And enjoy of the Sustenance\n Which He furnishes: but\n Unto Him is the Resurrection.\n16. Do ye feel secure that\n He Who is in Heaven\n Will not cause you\n To be swallowed up\n By the earth when it\n Shakes (as in an earthquake)?\n17. Or do ye feel secure\n That He Who is in Heaven\n Will not send against you\n A violent tornado\n (With showers of stones),\n So that ye shall\n Know how (terrible)\n Was My warning?\n18. But indeed men before them\n Rejected (My warning):\n Then how (terrible) was\n My rejection (of them)?\n19. Do they not observe\n The birds above them,\nSpreading their wings\n And folding them in?\n None can uphold them\n Except (God) Most Gracious:\n Truly it is He\n That watches over all things.\n20. Nay, who is there\n That can help you,\n (Even as) an army,\n Besides (God) Most Merciful?\n In nothing but delusion\n Are the Unbelievers.\n21. Or who is there\n That can provide you\n With Sustenance if He\n Were to withhold His provision?\n Nay, they obstinately persist\n In insolent impiety\n And flight (from the Truth).\n22. Is then one who\n Walks headlong, with his face\n Grovelling, better guided,\u2014\n Or one who walks\n Evenly on a Straight Way?\n23. Say: \"It is He Who\n Has created you (and made\n You grow), and made\n For you the faculties\n Of hearing, seeing,\n Feeling and understanding:\n Little thanks it is ye give.\n24. Say: \"It is He Who\n Has multiplied you\n Through the earth,\n And to Him shall ye\n Be gathered together.\"\n25. They ask: When will\n This promise be (fulfilled)?\u2014\n If ye are telling\n The truth.\n26. Say: \"As to the knowledge\n Of the time, it is\n With God alone:\n I am (sent) only\n To warn plainly in public.\"\n27. At length, when they\n See it close at hand,\n Grieved will be the faces\n Of the Unbelievers,\nAnd it will be said\n (To them): \"This is\n (The promise fulfilled),\n Which ye were calling for!\"\n28. Say: \"See ye?\u2014\n If God were\n To destroy me,\n And those with me,\n Or if He bestows\n His Mercy on us,\u2014\n Yet who can deliver\n The Unbelievers from\n A grievous Penalty?\"\n29. Say: \"He is (God)\n Most Gracious: we have\n Believed in Him,\n And on Him have we\n Put our trust:\n So, soon will ye know\n Which (of us) it is\n That is in manifest error.\"\n30. Say: \"See ye?\u2014\n If your stream be\n Some morning lost\n (In the underground earth),\n Who then can supply you\n With clear-flowing water?\"","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra LXVII. Mulk, or Dominion.","type":"page"}