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1And what ye expend in alms at all, He will repay it; for He is the best of providers. And on the day He will gather them all together, then He will say:to the angels, ‘Are these those who used to worship you ?’ [40] They shall say, ‘Celebrated be thy praises! thou art our patron instead of them. Nay, they used to worship the ginns, most of them believe in them* But to-day they cannot control for each other, either profit or harm;’ and we will say to those who have done wrong, ‘ Taste ye the torment of the fire wherein ye did disbelieve!’ And when our signs are recited to them they say, ‘This is only a man who wishes to turn you from what your fathers served ;’ and they say, ‘This is only a lie forged,’ and those who misbelieve will say of the truth when it comes to them, ‘It is only obvious sorcery !’ But we have not brought them any book which they may study, and we have not sent to them before thee a warner. Those before them said it was a lie, and these ® have not reached a tithe of what we had given them. In Paradise. ? See Part I, p. 127, note 2, 8 That is, the Meccans. 156 THE QUR'AN. XXXIV, 44-54. And they said my apostles were liars, and how great a change was then! [45] Say, ‘I only admonish you of one thing, that ye should stand up before God in twos or singly, and then that ye reflect that there is no ginn in your companion’, He is only a warner to you before the keen torment.’ Say, ‘I do not ask you for it a hire; that is for yourselves; my hire is only from God, and He is witness over all.’ Say, ‘Verily, my Lord hurls forth the truth; and He well knows the unseen.’ Say, ‘The truth has come, and falsehood shall vanish and shall not come back.’ Say, ‘If I err I only err against myself; and if I am guided it is all what my Lord inspires me; verily, He is the hearing, the nigh!’ [50] And couldst thou see when they are scared, and there shall be no escape, and they shall be taken from a place that is nigh. And they say, ‘We believe in it’ But how can they partake of it from a distant place? They misbelieved before, and conjectured about the unseen from a distant place. And there shall be a barrier between them and that | which they lust after; as we did with their fellow sectaries before; verily, they were in hesitating doubt. 1 That he, Mohammed, is not possessed by a ginn. XXXV, 1-9. THE CHAPTER OF THE ANGELS. 157 Tue CHAPTER OF THE ANGELS}. (XX XV. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Praise belongs to God, the originator of the heavens and the earth; who makes the angels His messengers, endued with wings in pairs, or threes or fours; He adds to creation what He pleases; verily, God is mighty over all! What God opens to men of His mercy there is none to withhold; and what He withholds, there is none can send it forth after Him; for He is the mighty, the wise.
2What God opens to men of His mercy there is none to withhold; and what He withholds, there is none can send it forth after Him; for He is the mighty, the wise. O ye folk! remember the favours of God towards you; is there a creator beside God, who provides you from the heavens and from the earth? There is no god but He; how then can ye lie? And if they call thee liar, apostles were called liars before thee, and unto God affairs return. [5] O ye folk! verily, God’s promise is true; then let not the life of this world beguile you, and let not the beguiler beguile you concerning God. Verily, the devil is to you a foe, so take him as a foe; he only calls his crew to be the fellows of the blaze. Those who misbelieve, for them is keen torment. But those who believe and do right, for them is forgiveness and a great hire. What! is he whose evil act is made seemly for him, so that he looks upon it as good, — ? 1 Also called ‘of the Originator.’ 158 THE Qur’AN. XXXV, 9-15. Verily, God leads astray whom He pleases and guides whom He pleases; let not thy soul then be wasted in sighing for them; verily, God knows what they do! [10] It is God who sends the winds, and they stir up a cloud, and we irrigate therewith a dead country, and we quicken therewith the earth after its death; so shall the resurrection be! Whosoever desires honour—honour belongs wholely to God; to Him good words ascend, and a righteous deed He takes up; and those who plot evil deeds, for them is keen torment, and their plotting is in vain. God created you from earth, then from a clot; then He made you pairs; and no female bears or is delivered, except by His knowledge; nor does he who is aged reach old age, or is aught diminished from his life, without it is in the Book; verily, that is easy unto God. The two seas are not equal: one is sweet and fresh and pleasant to drink, and the other is salt and pungent; but from each do ye eat fresh flesh, and bring forth ornaments which ye wear; and thou mayest see the ships cleave through it, that ye may search after His grace, and haply ye may give thanks. He turns the night into day, and He turns the day into night; and He subjects the sun and the moon, each of them runs on to an appointed goal; that is God, your Lord! His is the kingdom; but those ye call on beside Him possess not a straw}. [15] If you call upon them they cannot hear your ' Literally, the husk of a date stone. ' XXXV, 15-25. THE CHAPTER OF THE ANGELS. 159 call, and if they hear they cannot answer you; and on the resurrection day they will deny your associating them with God; but none can inform thee like the One who is aware. O ye folk! ye are in need of God; but God, He is independent, praiseworthy. If He please He will take you off, and will bring a fresh creation; for that is no hard matter unto God.
3O ye folk! ye are in need of God; but God, He is independent, praiseworthy. If He please He will take you off, and will bring a fresh creation; for that is no hard matter unto God. And no burdened soul shall bear the burden of another; and if a heavily laden one shall call for its load (to be carried) it shall not be carried for it at all, even though it be a kinsman !—thou canst only warn those who fear their Lord in the unseen and who are steadfast in prayer; and he who is pure is only pure for himself ; and unto God the journey is. [20] The blind is not equal with him who sees, nor the darkness with the night, nor the shade with the hot blast ; nor are the living equal with the dead ; verily, God causes whom He pleases to hear, and thou canst not make those who are in their graves hear; thou’art but a warner! Verily, we have sent thee in truth a herald of glad tidings and a warner; and there is no nation but its warner has passed away with it. And if they called thee liar, those before thee called: their apostles liars too, who came to them with manifest signs, and the Scriptures, and the illuminating Book. Then I seized those who misbelieved, and what a change it was! [25] Dost thou not see that God has sent down from the heaven water, and has brought forth therewith fruits varied in hue, and on the mountains 160 THE QUR'AN, XXXV, 25-33. dykes!, white and red, various in hue, and some intensely black, and men and beasts and cattle, various in hue? thus! none fear God but the wise among His servants; but, verily, God is mighty, forgiving. Verily, those who recite the Book of God, and are steadfast in prayer, and give alms of what we have bestowed in secret and in public, hope for the merchandise that shall not come to naught; that He may pay them their hire, and give them increase of His grace; verily, He is forgiving, grateful. What we have inspired thee with of the Book is true, verifying what was before it; verily, God of His servants is well aware and sees. Then we gave the Book for an inheritance to those whom we chose of our servants, and of them are some who wrong themselves, and of them are some who take a middle course, and of them are some who vie in good works by the permission of their Lord; that is great grace. [30] Gardens of Eden shall they enter, adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls; and their garments therein shall be silk; and they shall say, ‘Praise belongs to God, who has removed from us our grief; verily, our Lord is forgiving, grateful! who has made us alight in an enduring abode of His grace, wherein no toil shall touch us, and there shall touch us no fatigue.’ But those who misbelieve, for them is the fire of 1 The word is here used in its geological sense, and is applied to the various coloured streaks which are so plainly to be seen in the bare mountain sides of Arabia. The Arabs of the desert to this day call them by the same name as is here used in the Qur’an,
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.
1And what ye expend in alms at all, He will repay it; for He is the best of providers. And on the day He will gather them all together, then He will say:to the angels, ‘Are these those who used to worship you ?’ [40] They shall say, ‘Celebrated be thy praises! thou art our patron instead of them. Nay, they used to worship the ginns, most of them believe in them* But to-day they cannot control for each other, either profit or harm;’ and we will say to those who have done wrong, ‘ Taste ye the torment of the fire wherein ye did disbelieve!’ And when our signs are recited to them they say, ‘This is only a man who wishes to turn you from what your fathers served ;’ and they say, ‘This is only a lie forged,’ and those who misbelieve will say of the truth when it comes to them, ‘It is only obvious sorcery !’ But we have not brought them any book which they may study, and we have not sent to them before thee a warner. Those before them said it was a lie, and these ® have not reached a tithe of what we had given them. In Paradise. ? See Part I, p. 127, note 2, 8 That is, the Meccans. 156 THE QUR'AN. XXXIV, 44-54. And they said my apostles were liars, and how great a change was then! [45] Say, ‘I only admonish you of one thing, that ye should stand up before God in twos or singly, and then that ye reflect that there is no ginn in your companion’, He is only a warner to you before the keen torment.’ Say, ‘I do not ask you for it a hire; that is for yourselves; my hire is only from God, and He is witness over all.’ Say, ‘Verily, my Lord hurls forth the truth; and He well knows the unseen.’ Say, ‘The truth has come, and falsehood shall vanish and shall not come back.’ Say, ‘If I err I only err against myself; and if I am guided it is all what my Lord inspires me; verily, He is the hearing, the nigh!’ [50] And couldst thou see when they are scared, and there shall be no escape, and they shall be taken from a place that is nigh. And they say, ‘We believe in it’ But how can they partake of it from a distant place? They misbelieved before, and conjectured about the unseen from a distant place. And there shall be a barrier between them and that | which they lust after; as we did with their fellow sectaries before; verily, they were in hesitating doubt. 1 That he, Mohammed, is not possessed by a ginn. XXXV, 1-9. THE CHAPTER OF THE ANGELS. 157 Tue CHAPTER OF THE ANGELS}. (XX XV. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Praise belongs to God, the originator of the heavens and the earth; who makes the angels His messengers, endued with wings in pairs, or threes or fours; He adds to creation what He pleases; verily, God is mighty over all! What God opens to men of His mercy there is none to withhold; and what He withholds, there is none can send it forth after Him; for He is the mighty, the wise.
2What God opens to men of His mercy there is none to withhold; and what He withholds, there is none can send it forth after Him; for He is the mighty, the wise. O ye folk! remember the favours of God towards you; is there a creator beside God, who provides you from the heavens and from the earth? There is no god but He; how then can ye lie? And if they call thee liar, apostles were called liars before thee, and unto God affairs return. [5] O ye folk! verily, God’s promise is true; then let not the life of this world beguile you, and let not the beguiler beguile you concerning God. Verily, the devil is to you a foe, so take him as a foe; he only calls his crew to be the fellows of the blaze. Those who misbelieve, for them is keen torment. But those who believe and do right, for them is forgiveness and a great hire. What! is he whose evil act is made seemly for him, so that he looks upon it as good, — ? 1 Also called ‘of the Originator.’ 158 THE Qur’AN. XXXV, 9-15. Verily, God leads astray whom He pleases and guides whom He pleases; let not thy soul then be wasted in sighing for them; verily, God knows what they do! [10] It is God who sends the winds, and they stir up a cloud, and we irrigate therewith a dead country, and we quicken therewith the earth after its death; so shall the resurrection be! Whosoever desires honour—honour belongs wholely to God; to Him good words ascend, and a righteous deed He takes up; and those who plot evil deeds, for them is keen torment, and their plotting is in vain. God created you from earth, then from a clot; then He made you pairs; and no female bears or is delivered, except by His knowledge; nor does he who is aged reach old age, or is aught diminished from his life, without it is in the Book; verily, that is easy unto God. The two seas are not equal: one is sweet and fresh and pleasant to drink, and the other is salt and pungent; but from each do ye eat fresh flesh, and bring forth ornaments which ye wear; and thou mayest see the ships cleave through it, that ye may search after His grace, and haply ye may give thanks. He turns the night into day, and He turns the day into night; and He subjects the sun and the moon, each of them runs on to an appointed goal; that is God, your Lord! His is the kingdom; but those ye call on beside Him possess not a straw}. [15] If you call upon them they cannot hear your ' Literally, the husk of a date stone. ' XXXV, 15-25. THE CHAPTER OF THE ANGELS. 159 call, and if they hear they cannot answer you; and on the resurrection day they will deny your associating them with God; but none can inform thee like the One who is aware. O ye folk! ye are in need of God; but God, He is independent, praiseworthy. If He please He will take you off, and will bring a fresh creation; for that is no hard matter unto God.
3O ye folk! ye are in need of God; but God, He is independent, praiseworthy. If He please He will take you off, and will bring a fresh creation; for that is no hard matter unto God. And no burdened soul shall bear the burden of another; and if a heavily laden one shall call for its load (to be carried) it shall not be carried for it at all, even though it be a kinsman !—thou canst only warn those who fear their Lord in the unseen and who are steadfast in prayer; and he who is pure is only pure for himself ; and unto God the journey is. [20] The blind is not equal with him who sees, nor the darkness with the night, nor the shade with the hot blast ; nor are the living equal with the dead ; verily, God causes whom He pleases to hear, and thou canst not make those who are in their graves hear; thou’art but a warner! Verily, we have sent thee in truth a herald of glad tidings and a warner; and there is no nation but its warner has passed away with it. And if they called thee liar, those before thee called: their apostles liars too, who came to them with manifest signs, and the Scriptures, and the illuminating Book. Then I seized those who misbelieved, and what a change it was! [25] Dost thou not see that God has sent down from the heaven water, and has brought forth therewith fruits varied in hue, and on the mountains 160 THE QUR'AN, XXXV, 25-33. dykes!, white and red, various in hue, and some intensely black, and men and beasts and cattle, various in hue? thus! none fear God but the wise among His servants; but, verily, God is mighty, forgiving. Verily, those who recite the Book of God, and are steadfast in prayer, and give alms of what we have bestowed in secret and in public, hope for the merchandise that shall not come to naught; that He may pay them their hire, and give them increase of His grace; verily, He is forgiving, grateful. What we have inspired thee with of the Book is true, verifying what was before it; verily, God of His servants is well aware and sees. Then we gave the Book for an inheritance to those whom we chose of our servants, and of them are some who wrong themselves, and of them are some who take a middle course, and of them are some who vie in good works by the permission of their Lord; that is great grace. [30] Gardens of Eden shall they enter, adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls; and their garments therein shall be silk; and they shall say, ‘Praise belongs to God, who has removed from us our grief; verily, our Lord is forgiving, grateful! who has made us alight in an enduring abode of His grace, wherein no toil shall touch us, and there shall touch us no fatigue.’ But those who misbelieve, for them is the fire of 1 The word is here used in its geological sense, and is applied to the various coloured streaks which are so plainly to be seen in the bare mountain sides of Arabia. The Arabs of the desert to this day call them by the same name as is here used in the Qur’an,
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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