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1THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. II9 shall bear their burdens on their backs, evil is what they bear. The life of this world is nothing but a game and a sport, and surely the next abode were better for those who fear. What! do they not understand ? Full well we know that verily that which they say grieves thee; but they do not call thee only a liar, for the unjust gainsay the signs of God. Called liars too were apostles before thee; but they were patient of being called liars and of being hurt until our help came to them; for there is none to change the words of God—now has there come to thee the story of those He sent. [35] And if their turning from thee be hard for thee, and if thou canst seek for a shaft down into the earth, or a ladder up into the sky, to bring them a sign—but if God pleased He would bring them all to guidance, be thou not then of the ignorant. He only answers the prayer of those who listen; but the dead will God raise up, then unto Him shall they return. They say, ‘Unless there be sent down some sign from his Lord’—say, ‘ Verily, God is able to send down a sign, but most of them do not know.’ There is not a beast upon the earth nor a bird that flies with both its wings, but is a nation like to you; we have omitted nothing from the Book; then to their Lord shall they be gathered. Those who say our signs are lies—deafness, dumbness, in the dark! whom He pleases does God lead astray, and whom He pleases He places on the right way. [40] Say, ‘Look you now! if there should come God’s torment, or there should come to you the hour, on other than God would ye call, if ye do tell the truth?’ Nay, it is on Him that ye would call, 120 THE QUR'AN. VI, 41-g0. and He will avert that which ye call upon Him for if He but please ; and ye shall forget that which ye did associate with Him. Ere this we sent unto nations before thee, and we caught them in distress and trouble that haply they might humble themselves. And do they not, when our violence falls upon them, humble themselves ?>— but their hearts were hard, and Satan made seemly to them that which they had done. And when they forgot what they were reminded of, we opened for them the gates of everything, until when they rejoiced at what they had, we caught them up suddenly, and lo! they were in despair. ~ [45] And the uttermost part of the people who did wrong were cut off; praise be to God, Lord of the worlds! Say, ‘Look you now! if God should catch your hearing and your sight, and should set a seal upon your hearts—who is god but God to bring you it again ?’ Say, ‘Look you now! if God’s torment should come upon you suddenly or openly, would any perish save the people who do wrong ?’ We do not send our messengers save as heralds of glad tidings and of warning, and whoso believes and acts aright, there is no fear for them, and they shall not be grieved, but those who say our signs are lies, torment shall touch them, for that they have done so wrong.
2[50] Say, ‘I do not say to you, mine are the treasuries of God, nor that I know the unseen; I do not say to you, I am an angel—if I follow aught but what I am inspired with—:’ say, ‘Is the blind equal to him who sees— ?’ what! do ye not reflect ? VI, 51-60. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 12f Admonish therewith those who fear that they shall be gathered unto their Lord; there is no patron for them but Him, and no intercessor; haply they may fear. Repulse not those who call upon their Lord in the morning and in the evening, desiring His face; they have no reckoning against thee at all, and thou hast no reckoning against them at all ;—repulse them and thou wilt be of the unjust. So have we tried some of them by others, that they may say, ‘Are these those unto whom God has been gracious amongst ourselves?’ Does not God know those who give thanks ? And when those who believe in our signs come to thee, say, ‘Peace be on you! God hath prescribed for Himself mercy; verily, he of you who does evil in ignorance, and then turns again and does right,— verily, He is forgiving and merciful.’ [55] Thus do we detail our signs, that the way of the sinners may be made plain. _ Say, ‘I am forbidden to worship those ye call upon beside God ;’ say, ‘I will not follow your lusts, for then should I err and not be of the guided.’ Say, ‘I stand on a manifestation from my Lord, which ye call a lie. I have not with me what ye fain would hasten on, that the matter might be settled between me and you; but God knows best who are the unjust.’ With Him are the keys! of the unseen. None knows them save He; He knows what is in the 1 Most of the Mohammedan commentators say this word means ‘treasuries.’ The allusion, however, is obviously to the Rabbinical tradition of the three keys, in the hands of God. 122 THE QUR'AN. VI, 60-66. land and in the sea; and there falls not a leaf save that He knows it; nor a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor aught that is moist, nor aught that is dry, save that is in His perspicuous Book. [60] He it is who takes. you to Himself at night', and knows what ye have gained in the day; then He raises you up again, that your appointed time may be fulfilled ; then unto Him is your return, and then will He inform you of what ye have done. He triumphs over His servants; He sends to them guardian angels, until, when death comes to any one of you, our messengers take him away; they pass not over any one, and then are they returned to God, their true sovereign. Is not His the rule? but He is very quick at reckoning up. Say, ‘Whe rescues you from the darkness of the land and of the sea?’ ye call upon Him in humility and in secret, ‘ Indeed, if He would rescue us from this, we will surely be of those who give Him thanks.’ Say, ‘God rescues from the darkness thereof, and from every trouble, yet ye associate others with Him.’
3[65] Say, ‘He is able to send torment on you from above you and from beneath your feet, and to confuse you in sects, and to make some of you taste the violence of others.’ See how we turn about the signs, that haply they may discriminate. Thy people called it a lie, and yet it is the truth. Say, ‘I have not charge over you; to every prophecy is a set time, and in the end ye shall know.’ 1 In sleep. VI, 67-73. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 123 When thou dost see those who plunge deeply into the discussion of our signs, turn from them until they plunge deeply-into some other discourse ;. for it may be that Satan may make thee forget; but sit not, after thou hast remembered, with the unjust people. Those who fear are not bound to take account of _ them at all, but mind !—haply they may fear. Leave those who have taken their religion for a play and a sport, whom this world’s life hath deceived, and remind them thereby that a soul shall be given up for what it has earned; nor has it, beside God, patron or intercessor; and though it should compensate with the fullest compensation, it would not be accepted. Those who are given up for what’ they have gained, for them is a drink of boiling water, and grievous woe for that they have misbelieved. [70] Say, ‘Shall we call on what neither profits us nor harms us, and be thrown back upon our heels after God has guided us, like him whom Satan hath led away bewildered in the earth, who has companions who call him to guidance, “Come to us?”’ Say, ‘Verily, God’s guidance is the guidance, and we are bidden to resign ourselves unto the Lord of the worlds, and be ye steadfast in prayer and fear Him, for He it is to whom we shall be gathered.’ He it is who has created the heavens and the earth in truth; and on the day when He says, ‘BE,’ then it is. His word is truth; to Him is the kingdom on the day when the trumpets shall be blown; the knower of the unseen and of the evident ; He is wise and well aware. 124 THE QURAN. — VI, 74-82.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. II9 shall bear their burdens on their backs, evil is what they bear. The life of this world is nothing but a game and a sport, and surely the next abode were better for those who fear. What! do they not understand ? Full well we know that verily that which they say grieves thee; but they do not call thee only a liar, for the unjust gainsay the signs of God. Called liars too were apostles before thee; but they were patient of being called liars and of being hurt until our help came to them; for there is none to change the words of God—now has there come to thee the story of those He sent. [35] And if their turning from thee be hard for thee, and if thou canst seek for a shaft down into the earth, or a ladder up into the sky, to bring them a sign—but if God pleased He would bring them all to guidance, be thou not then of the ignorant. He only answers the prayer of those who listen; but the dead will God raise up, then unto Him shall they return. They say, ‘Unless there be sent down some sign from his Lord’—say, ‘ Verily, God is able to send down a sign, but most of them do not know.’ There is not a beast upon the earth nor a bird that flies with both its wings, but is a nation like to you; we have omitted nothing from the Book; then to their Lord shall they be gathered. Those who say our signs are lies—deafness, dumbness, in the dark! whom He pleases does God lead astray, and whom He pleases He places on the right way. [40] Say, ‘Look you now! if there should come God’s torment, or there should come to you the hour, on other than God would ye call, if ye do tell the truth?’ Nay, it is on Him that ye would call, 120 THE QUR'AN. VI, 41-g0. and He will avert that which ye call upon Him for if He but please ; and ye shall forget that which ye did associate with Him. Ere this we sent unto nations before thee, and we caught them in distress and trouble that haply they might humble themselves. And do they not, when our violence falls upon them, humble themselves ?>— but their hearts were hard, and Satan made seemly to them that which they had done. And when they forgot what they were reminded of, we opened for them the gates of everything, until when they rejoiced at what they had, we caught them up suddenly, and lo! they were in despair. ~ [45] And the uttermost part of the people who did wrong were cut off; praise be to God, Lord of the worlds! Say, ‘Look you now! if God should catch your hearing and your sight, and should set a seal upon your hearts—who is god but God to bring you it again ?’ Say, ‘Look you now! if God’s torment should come upon you suddenly or openly, would any perish save the people who do wrong ?’ We do not send our messengers save as heralds of glad tidings and of warning, and whoso believes and acts aright, there is no fear for them, and they shall not be grieved, but those who say our signs are lies, torment shall touch them, for that they have done so wrong.
2[50] Say, ‘I do not say to you, mine are the treasuries of God, nor that I know the unseen; I do not say to you, I am an angel—if I follow aught but what I am inspired with—:’ say, ‘Is the blind equal to him who sees— ?’ what! do ye not reflect ? VI, 51-60. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 12f Admonish therewith those who fear that they shall be gathered unto their Lord; there is no patron for them but Him, and no intercessor; haply they may fear. Repulse not those who call upon their Lord in the morning and in the evening, desiring His face; they have no reckoning against thee at all, and thou hast no reckoning against them at all ;—repulse them and thou wilt be of the unjust. So have we tried some of them by others, that they may say, ‘Are these those unto whom God has been gracious amongst ourselves?’ Does not God know those who give thanks ? And when those who believe in our signs come to thee, say, ‘Peace be on you! God hath prescribed for Himself mercy; verily, he of you who does evil in ignorance, and then turns again and does right,— verily, He is forgiving and merciful.’ [55] Thus do we detail our signs, that the way of the sinners may be made plain. _ Say, ‘I am forbidden to worship those ye call upon beside God ;’ say, ‘I will not follow your lusts, for then should I err and not be of the guided.’ Say, ‘I stand on a manifestation from my Lord, which ye call a lie. I have not with me what ye fain would hasten on, that the matter might be settled between me and you; but God knows best who are the unjust.’ With Him are the keys! of the unseen. None knows them save He; He knows what is in the 1 Most of the Mohammedan commentators say this word means ‘treasuries.’ The allusion, however, is obviously to the Rabbinical tradition of the three keys, in the hands of God. 122 THE QUR'AN. VI, 60-66. land and in the sea; and there falls not a leaf save that He knows it; nor a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor aught that is moist, nor aught that is dry, save that is in His perspicuous Book. [60] He it is who takes. you to Himself at night', and knows what ye have gained in the day; then He raises you up again, that your appointed time may be fulfilled ; then unto Him is your return, and then will He inform you of what ye have done. He triumphs over His servants; He sends to them guardian angels, until, when death comes to any one of you, our messengers take him away; they pass not over any one, and then are they returned to God, their true sovereign. Is not His the rule? but He is very quick at reckoning up. Say, ‘Whe rescues you from the darkness of the land and of the sea?’ ye call upon Him in humility and in secret, ‘ Indeed, if He would rescue us from this, we will surely be of those who give Him thanks.’ Say, ‘God rescues from the darkness thereof, and from every trouble, yet ye associate others with Him.’
3[65] Say, ‘He is able to send torment on you from above you and from beneath your feet, and to confuse you in sects, and to make some of you taste the violence of others.’ See how we turn about the signs, that haply they may discriminate. Thy people called it a lie, and yet it is the truth. Say, ‘I have not charge over you; to every prophecy is a set time, and in the end ye shall know.’ 1 In sleep. VI, 67-73. THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE. 123 When thou dost see those who plunge deeply into the discussion of our signs, turn from them until they plunge deeply-into some other discourse ;. for it may be that Satan may make thee forget; but sit not, after thou hast remembered, with the unjust people. Those who fear are not bound to take account of _ them at all, but mind !—haply they may fear. Leave those who have taken their religion for a play and a sport, whom this world’s life hath deceived, and remind them thereby that a soul shall be given up for what it has earned; nor has it, beside God, patron or intercessor; and though it should compensate with the fullest compensation, it would not be accepted. Those who are given up for what’ they have gained, for them is a drink of boiling water, and grievous woe for that they have misbelieved. [70] Say, ‘Shall we call on what neither profits us nor harms us, and be thrown back upon our heels after God has guided us, like him whom Satan hath led away bewildered in the earth, who has companions who call him to guidance, “Come to us?”’ Say, ‘Verily, God’s guidance is the guidance, and we are bidden to resign ourselves unto the Lord of the worlds, and be ye steadfast in prayer and fear Him, for He it is to whom we shall be gathered.’ He it is who has created the heavens and the earth in truth; and on the day when He says, ‘BE,’ then it is. His word is truth; to Him is the kingdom on the day when the trumpets shall be blown; the knower of the unseen and of the evident ; He is wise and well aware. 124 THE QURAN. — VI, 74-82.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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