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119! a good work being written down to them; verily, God wastes not the hire of those who do well. Nor do they expend in alms a small or great expense, nor do they cross a wady' without it being written down to them; that God may reward them with better than that which they have done. The believers should not march forth altogether ; and if a troop of every division of them march not forth, it is only that they may study their religion and warn their people when they return to them, that haply they may beware. O ye who believe! fight those who are near to you of the misbelievers, and let them find in you sternness; and know that God is with those who fear. [125] And whenever a sfrah is sent down, there are some of them who say, ‘ Which of you has this increased in faith?’ But as for those who believe, it does increase them in faith, and they shall rejoice: but as for those in whose hearts is sickness, it only adds a plague to their plague, and they die misbelievers. Do they not see that they are tried in every year once or twice? Yet they do not turn again, nor do they mind! And whenever a sfirah is sent down, some of them look at the others—‘ Does any one see you ?’— Then they turn away! God has turned their hearts, for that they are a people who do not discern. There has come to you an apostle from amongst 1 A wady is the bed of a torrent, which in Arabia is generally dry, but occasionally after a storm is filled with the torrent. 192 THE QUR'AN. IX, 129-X, 4. yourselves; hard for him to bear is it that ye commit iniquity; he is anxious over you after the believers, pitiful, compassionate. [130] But if they turn their backs, then say, ‘God is enough for me! there is no god but He! upon Him do I rely, for He is Lord of the mighty throne!’ THE CuHaAPTER OF JONAH, (PEACE BE ON HIM!) (X. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. A. L. R. Those are the signs of the wise Book ! was it a wonder to the folk! that we inspired a man from amongst themselves, ‘Warn thou the folk; and give glad tidings to those who believe, that for them there is an advance of sincerity? gone before them with their Lord?’ The misbelievers say, ‘ Verily, this is an obvious sorcerer !’ Verily, your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days; then He made for the throne, to govern the affair; there is no intercessor, except after His permission. That is God for you —your Lord! Then worship Him—do ye not mind ? To Him is your return all of you—God’s promise in truth ; verily, He produces the creature, then He makes it return again, that He may recompense 1 Of Mecca. * Ie. a reward awaiting them for their sincerity, X, 4-13. THE CHAPTER OF JONAH. 193 those who believe and do what is right with justice ; but those who misbelieve, for them is a drink of boiling water, and grievous woe, for that they did misbelieve.
2* Ie. a reward awaiting them for their sincerity, X, 4-13. THE CHAPTER OF JONAH. 193 those who believe and do what is right with justice ; but those who misbelieve, for them is a drink of boiling water, and grievous woe, for that they did misbelieve. [5] He it is who made the sun for a brightness, and the moon for a light, and decreed for it mansions, that ye may know the number of the years and the reckoning.—God only created that in truth. He details the signs unto a people who do know. Verily, in the alternation of night and day, and in what God has created of the heavens and the earth, are signs unto a people who do fear. Verily, those who hope not for our meeting, and are content with the life of this world, and are comforted thereby, and those who are neglectful of our signs,—these, their resort is fire for that which they have earned ! Verily, those who believe and do what is right, their Lord guides them by their faith ; beneath them shall rivers flow in the gardens of pleasure. [10] Their cry therein shall be, ‘Celebrated be Thy praises, O God!’ and their salutation therein shall be, ‘Peace!’ and the end of their cry shall be, ‘Praise (belongs) to God, the Lord of the worlds !’ And if God should hasten on the bad to men as they would hasten on the good, their appointed time would surely be fulfilled. But we will let those who hope not for our meeting go on in their rebellion, blindly wandering on. When distress touches man, he calls us to his side, whether sitting or standing; but when we have removed from him his distress, he passes on [6] to) 194 THE Qur’AN. X, 13-20. as though he had not called on us in a distress that touched him. Thus unto the extravagant is made seemly that which they have done. We have already destroyed generations before you when they did wrong, and there came to them their apostles with manifest signs, but they would not believe. Thus do we reward the sinful people. [15] Then we made you their successors in the earth after them, that we may see how ye will act. But when our evident signs are recited to them, those who hope not for our meeting say, ‘ Bring a Qur’an other than this; or change it.’ Say, ‘It is not for me to. change it of my own accord; I do not follow aught but what I am inspired with ; verily, I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the torment of a mighty day!’ Say, ‘Had God pleased, I should not have recited it to you, nor taught you therewith. I have tarried a lifetime amongst you before it ;—have ye not then any sense?’ Who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie, or says His signs are lies? verily, the sinners shall not prosper. They worship beside God what can neither harm them nor profit them, and they say, ‘ These are our intercessors with God!’ Say, ‘ Will ye inform God of aught in the heavens or the earth, that He knows not of ?’ Celebrated be His praise! and exalted be He, above what they associate with Him!
3They worship beside God what can neither harm them nor profit them, and they say, ‘ These are our intercessors with God!’ Say, ‘ Will ye inform God of aught in the heavens or the earth, that He knows not of ?’ Celebrated be His praise! and exalted be He, above what they associate with Him! [20] People were but one nation once, then they disagreed; and had it not been for thy Lord’s word already passed, there would have been decided between them that concerning which they disagreed. X, 21-25. THE CHAPTER OF JONAH. 195 They say, ‘Why is not a sign sent down upon him from his Lord ?’ Say, ‘The unseen is only God’s ; but wait ye for a while, verily, I with you am one of those who wait!’ When we have let men taste of mercy after distress which has touched them, lo! they use a stratagem against our signs! Say, ‘God is quicker at stratagem.’ Verily, our messengers! write down what stratagem ye use. He it is who makes you travel in the land and sea, until when ye are in the ships—and these carry them? afloat with a favouring wind, and they rejoice therein, there comes to them a violent wind, and there comes to them the wave from every place, and they think that they are encompassed about ; then they call on God, sincere in religion towards Him, ‘If thou dost save from this we will surely be of those who thank.’ But when He has saved them, lo! they are wilful in the earth unjustly;— O ye folk! your wilfulness against yourselves is but a provision of this world’s life; then unto us is your return, and we will inform you of that which ye have done! [25] Verily, the likeness of this world’s life is like water which we send down from the sky, and the plants of the earth, from which men and cattle eat, are mingled therewith; until when the earth puts on its gilding and is adorned, the people thereof think that they have power over it. Our order comes to it by night or day, and we make it as it 1 The recording angels. * An instance of the frequent abrupt changes of persons with which the Qur’4n abounds. O02 196 THE QuR’AN, X, 25-33. were mown down—as though it had not yesterday been rich!—Thus do we detail the signs unto a people who reflect. God calls unto the abode of peace, and guides whom He will into the right path. To those who do what is good, goodness and increase! nor shall blackness or abasement cover their faces! these are the fellows of Paradise, they shall dwell therein for aye. But, as for those who have earned ill, the reward ‘of evil is the like thereof; abasement shall cover them! they shall have none to defend them against God ;—as though their faces were veiled with the deep darkness of the night ; these are the fellows of the Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye.
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.
119! a good work being written down to them; verily, God wastes not the hire of those who do well. Nor do they expend in alms a small or great expense, nor do they cross a wady' without it being written down to them; that God may reward them with better than that which they have done. The believers should not march forth altogether ; and if a troop of every division of them march not forth, it is only that they may study their religion and warn their people when they return to them, that haply they may beware. O ye who believe! fight those who are near to you of the misbelievers, and let them find in you sternness; and know that God is with those who fear. [125] And whenever a sfrah is sent down, there are some of them who say, ‘ Which of you has this increased in faith?’ But as for those who believe, it does increase them in faith, and they shall rejoice: but as for those in whose hearts is sickness, it only adds a plague to their plague, and they die misbelievers. Do they not see that they are tried in every year once or twice? Yet they do not turn again, nor do they mind! And whenever a sfirah is sent down, some of them look at the others—‘ Does any one see you ?’— Then they turn away! God has turned their hearts, for that they are a people who do not discern. There has come to you an apostle from amongst 1 A wady is the bed of a torrent, which in Arabia is generally dry, but occasionally after a storm is filled with the torrent. 192 THE QUR'AN. IX, 129-X, 4. yourselves; hard for him to bear is it that ye commit iniquity; he is anxious over you after the believers, pitiful, compassionate. [130] But if they turn their backs, then say, ‘God is enough for me! there is no god but He! upon Him do I rely, for He is Lord of the mighty throne!’ THE CuHaAPTER OF JONAH, (PEACE BE ON HIM!) (X. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. A. L. R. Those are the signs of the wise Book ! was it a wonder to the folk! that we inspired a man from amongst themselves, ‘Warn thou the folk; and give glad tidings to those who believe, that for them there is an advance of sincerity? gone before them with their Lord?’ The misbelievers say, ‘ Verily, this is an obvious sorcerer !’ Verily, your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days; then He made for the throne, to govern the affair; there is no intercessor, except after His permission. That is God for you —your Lord! Then worship Him—do ye not mind ? To Him is your return all of you—God’s promise in truth ; verily, He produces the creature, then He makes it return again, that He may recompense 1 Of Mecca. * Ie. a reward awaiting them for their sincerity, X, 4-13. THE CHAPTER OF JONAH. 193 those who believe and do what is right with justice ; but those who misbelieve, for them is a drink of boiling water, and grievous woe, for that they did misbelieve.
2* Ie. a reward awaiting them for their sincerity, X, 4-13. THE CHAPTER OF JONAH. 193 those who believe and do what is right with justice ; but those who misbelieve, for them is a drink of boiling water, and grievous woe, for that they did misbelieve. [5] He it is who made the sun for a brightness, and the moon for a light, and decreed for it mansions, that ye may know the number of the years and the reckoning.—God only created that in truth. He details the signs unto a people who do know. Verily, in the alternation of night and day, and in what God has created of the heavens and the earth, are signs unto a people who do fear. Verily, those who hope not for our meeting, and are content with the life of this world, and are comforted thereby, and those who are neglectful of our signs,—these, their resort is fire for that which they have earned ! Verily, those who believe and do what is right, their Lord guides them by their faith ; beneath them shall rivers flow in the gardens of pleasure. [10] Their cry therein shall be, ‘Celebrated be Thy praises, O God!’ and their salutation therein shall be, ‘Peace!’ and the end of their cry shall be, ‘Praise (belongs) to God, the Lord of the worlds !’ And if God should hasten on the bad to men as they would hasten on the good, their appointed time would surely be fulfilled. But we will let those who hope not for our meeting go on in their rebellion, blindly wandering on. When distress touches man, he calls us to his side, whether sitting or standing; but when we have removed from him his distress, he passes on [6] to) 194 THE Qur’AN. X, 13-20. as though he had not called on us in a distress that touched him. Thus unto the extravagant is made seemly that which they have done. We have already destroyed generations before you when they did wrong, and there came to them their apostles with manifest signs, but they would not believe. Thus do we reward the sinful people. [15] Then we made you their successors in the earth after them, that we may see how ye will act. But when our evident signs are recited to them, those who hope not for our meeting say, ‘ Bring a Qur’an other than this; or change it.’ Say, ‘It is not for me to. change it of my own accord; I do not follow aught but what I am inspired with ; verily, I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the torment of a mighty day!’ Say, ‘Had God pleased, I should not have recited it to you, nor taught you therewith. I have tarried a lifetime amongst you before it ;—have ye not then any sense?’ Who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie, or says His signs are lies? verily, the sinners shall not prosper. They worship beside God what can neither harm them nor profit them, and they say, ‘ These are our intercessors with God!’ Say, ‘ Will ye inform God of aught in the heavens or the earth, that He knows not of ?’ Celebrated be His praise! and exalted be He, above what they associate with Him!
3They worship beside God what can neither harm them nor profit them, and they say, ‘ These are our intercessors with God!’ Say, ‘ Will ye inform God of aught in the heavens or the earth, that He knows not of ?’ Celebrated be His praise! and exalted be He, above what they associate with Him! [20] People were but one nation once, then they disagreed; and had it not been for thy Lord’s word already passed, there would have been decided between them that concerning which they disagreed. X, 21-25. THE CHAPTER OF JONAH. 195 They say, ‘Why is not a sign sent down upon him from his Lord ?’ Say, ‘The unseen is only God’s ; but wait ye for a while, verily, I with you am one of those who wait!’ When we have let men taste of mercy after distress which has touched them, lo! they use a stratagem against our signs! Say, ‘God is quicker at stratagem.’ Verily, our messengers! write down what stratagem ye use. He it is who makes you travel in the land and sea, until when ye are in the ships—and these carry them? afloat with a favouring wind, and they rejoice therein, there comes to them a violent wind, and there comes to them the wave from every place, and they think that they are encompassed about ; then they call on God, sincere in religion towards Him, ‘If thou dost save from this we will surely be of those who thank.’ But when He has saved them, lo! they are wilful in the earth unjustly;— O ye folk! your wilfulness against yourselves is but a provision of this world’s life; then unto us is your return, and we will inform you of that which ye have done! [25] Verily, the likeness of this world’s life is like water which we send down from the sky, and the plants of the earth, from which men and cattle eat, are mingled therewith; until when the earth puts on its gilding and is adorned, the people thereof think that they have power over it. Our order comes to it by night or day, and we make it as it 1 The recording angels. * An instance of the frequent abrupt changes of persons with which the Qur’4n abounds. O02 196 THE QuR’AN, X, 25-33. were mown down—as though it had not yesterday been rich!—Thus do we detail the signs unto a people who reflect. God calls unto the abode of peace, and guides whom He will into the right path. To those who do what is good, goodness and increase! nor shall blackness or abasement cover their faces! these are the fellows of Paradise, they shall dwell therein for aye. But, as for those who have earned ill, the reward ‘of evil is the like thereof; abasement shall cover them! they shall have none to defend them against God ;—as though their faces were veiled with the deep darkness of the night ; these are the fellows of the Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye.
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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