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1Hast thou not seen that God sends down from the heaven water, and conducts it into springs in the earth? then He brings forth therewith corn varied in kind, then it dries up, and ye see it grow yellow ; then He makes it grit ;—verily, in that is a reminder for those endowed with minds, Is he whose breast God has expanded for Isl4m, and who is in light from his Lord....? And woe to those whose hearts are hardened against a remembrance of God! those are in obvious error. God has sent down the best of legends, a book uniform and repeating; whereat the skins of those who fear their Lord do creep! then their skins and their hearts soften at the remembrance of God. That is the guidance of God! He guides therewith whom He will. But he whom God leads astray there is no guide for him. * See Part I, p. 40, note 2. XXXIX, 25-37. THE CHAPTER OF THE TROOPS, 185 [25] Shall he who must screen himself with his | { own face from the evil torment on the resurrection day....? And it shall be said of those who do wrong, taste what ye have earned. Those before them called the (prophets) liars, and the torment came to them from whence they perceived it not; and God made them taste disgrace in the life of this world. But surely the torment of the hereafter is greater, if they did but know. We have struck out for men in this Qur’4n every sort of parable, haply they may be mindful. An Arabic Qur’4n with no crookedness therein; haply they may fear! [30] God has struck out a parable, a man who has partners who oppose each other; and a man who is wholly given up to another ; shall they be deemed equal in similitude ? praise be to God! nay, but most of them know not! YT Verily, thou shalt die, and, verily, they shall die ; then, verily, on the resurrection day before your Lord shall ye dispute. And who is more unjust than he who lies against God, and calls the truth a lie when it comes to him? Is there not in hell a resort for those who misbelieve ? but whoso brings the truth and believes in it, these are they who fear. [35] For them is what they please with their Lord, that is the reward of those who do well; that God may cover for them their offences which they have done, and may reward them with their hire for the best of that which they have done. \ Is not God sufficient for His servants? and yet they would frighten thee with those beside Him}. 1 By their idols. 186 THE QUR'AN. XXXIX, 37-45. But he whom God leads astray there is no guide for him ; and he whom God guides there is none to lead him astray: is not God mighty, the Lord of vengeance ? And if thou shouldst ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely say, ‘God!’ Say, ‘Have ye considered what ye call on beside God? If God wished me harm?, could they remove His harm ? or did He wish me mercy, could they withhold His mercy?’ Say, ‘God is enough for me, and on Him rely those who rely.’
2If God wished me harm?, could they remove His harm ? or did He wish me mercy, could they withhold His mercy?’ Say, ‘God is enough for me, and on Him rely those who rely.’ [40] Say, ‘O my people! act according to your power; I too am going to act; and ye shall know.’ He to whom the torment comes it shall disgrace him, and there shall alight upon him lasting torment. Verily, we have sent down to thee the Book for men in truth; and whosoever is guided it is for his own soul: but whoso goes astray it is against them, and thou art not a guardian for them. God takes to Himself souls at the time of their death ; and those which do not die (He takes) in their sleep; and He holds back those on whom He. has decreed death, and sends others back till their appointed time ;—verily, in that are signs unto a people who reflect. Do they take besides God intercessors? Say, ‘What! though they have no control over anything and have no sense.’ [45] Say, ‘God’s is the intercession, all of it; His ! The pronoun in Arabic is feminine, and refers to the false gods, especially to the favourite goddesses of the Qurais. XXXIX, 45-54. THE CHAPTER OF THE TROOPS. 187 is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; then unto Him shall ye be sent back.’ And when God alone is mentioned the hearts of those who believe not in the hereafter quake, and when those beside Him are mentioned, lo, they are joyful ! Say, ‘O God! originator of the heavens and the earth, who knowest the unseen and the visible, thou wilt judge between thy servants concerning that whereon they do dispute!’ And had those who do wrong all that is in the earth, and the like thereof with it, they would ransom themselves therewith from the evil of the torment on the resurrection day! but there shall appear to them from God that which they had not reckoned on; and the evils of what they have earned shall appear to them ; but that shall close in on them at which they mocked! [50] And when harm touches man he alls on us; then, when we grant him favour from us, he says, ‘Verily, I am given it through knowledge!’ nay, it is a trial—but most of them do not know! Those before them said it too, but that availed them not which they had earned, and there befel them the evil deeds of what they had earned: and those who do wrong of these (Meccans), there shall befall them too the evil deeds of what they had earned, nor shall they frustrate Him. Have they not known that God extends His provision to whom He pleases, or doles it out? verily, in that are signs unto a people who believe. Say, ‘O my servants! who have been extravagant against their own souls!’ be not in despair of the 188 THE QUR'AN. XXXIX, 54-65. mercy of God; verily, God forgives sins, all of them ; verily, He is forgiving, merciful.
3verily, in that are signs unto a people who believe. Say, ‘O my servants! who have been extravagant against their own souls!’ be not in despair of the 188 THE QUR'AN. XXXIX, 54-65. mercy of God; verily, God forgives sins, all of them ; verily, He is forgiving, merciful. [55] But turn repentant unto your Lord, and resign yourselves to Him, before there comes on you torment! then ye shall not be helped: and follow the best of what has been sent down to you from your Lord, before there come on you the torment suddenly, ere ye can perceive! Lest a soul should say, ‘O my sighing! for what I have neglected towards God! for, verily, I was amongst those who did jest!’ or lest it should say, ‘If God had but guided me, I should surely have been of those who fear!’ or lest it should say, when it sees the torment, ‘ Had I another turn I should be of those who do well!’ [60] ‘Yea! there came to thee my signs and thou didst call them lies, and wert too big with pride, and wert of those who misbelieved!’ And on the resurrection day thou shalt see those who lied against God, with their faces blackened. Is there not in hell a resort for those who are too big with pride ? And God shall rescue those who fear Him, into their safe place ; no evil shall touch them, nor shall they be grieved. God is the creator of everything, and He is guardian over everything; His are the keys of the heavens and the earth; and those who misbelieve in the signs of God, they it is who lose! Say, ‘What! other than God would you bid me serve, O ye ignorant ones? [65] When He has inspired thee and those before thee that, “If thou dost associate aught with Him, thy work will surely be in vain, and thou shalt surely be of those who -XXXIX, 65-73. THE CHAPTER OF THE TROOPS. 189 lose!” N ay, but God do thou serve, and be of those who do give thanks!’
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.
1Hast thou not seen that God sends down from the heaven water, and conducts it into springs in the earth? then He brings forth therewith corn varied in kind, then it dries up, and ye see it grow yellow ; then He makes it grit ;—verily, in that is a reminder for those endowed with minds, Is he whose breast God has expanded for Isl4m, and who is in light from his Lord....? And woe to those whose hearts are hardened against a remembrance of God! those are in obvious error. God has sent down the best of legends, a book uniform and repeating; whereat the skins of those who fear their Lord do creep! then their skins and their hearts soften at the remembrance of God. That is the guidance of God! He guides therewith whom He will. But he whom God leads astray there is no guide for him. * See Part I, p. 40, note 2. XXXIX, 25-37. THE CHAPTER OF THE TROOPS, 185 [25] Shall he who must screen himself with his | { own face from the evil torment on the resurrection day....? And it shall be said of those who do wrong, taste what ye have earned. Those before them called the (prophets) liars, and the torment came to them from whence they perceived it not; and God made them taste disgrace in the life of this world. But surely the torment of the hereafter is greater, if they did but know. We have struck out for men in this Qur’4n every sort of parable, haply they may be mindful. An Arabic Qur’4n with no crookedness therein; haply they may fear! [30] God has struck out a parable, a man who has partners who oppose each other; and a man who is wholly given up to another ; shall they be deemed equal in similitude ? praise be to God! nay, but most of them know not! YT Verily, thou shalt die, and, verily, they shall die ; then, verily, on the resurrection day before your Lord shall ye dispute. And who is more unjust than he who lies against God, and calls the truth a lie when it comes to him? Is there not in hell a resort for those who misbelieve ? but whoso brings the truth and believes in it, these are they who fear. [35] For them is what they please with their Lord, that is the reward of those who do well; that God may cover for them their offences which they have done, and may reward them with their hire for the best of that which they have done. \ Is not God sufficient for His servants? and yet they would frighten thee with those beside Him}. 1 By their idols. 186 THE QUR'AN. XXXIX, 37-45. But he whom God leads astray there is no guide for him ; and he whom God guides there is none to lead him astray: is not God mighty, the Lord of vengeance ? And if thou shouldst ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely say, ‘God!’ Say, ‘Have ye considered what ye call on beside God? If God wished me harm?, could they remove His harm ? or did He wish me mercy, could they withhold His mercy?’ Say, ‘God is enough for me, and on Him rely those who rely.’
2If God wished me harm?, could they remove His harm ? or did He wish me mercy, could they withhold His mercy?’ Say, ‘God is enough for me, and on Him rely those who rely.’ [40] Say, ‘O my people! act according to your power; I too am going to act; and ye shall know.’ He to whom the torment comes it shall disgrace him, and there shall alight upon him lasting torment. Verily, we have sent down to thee the Book for men in truth; and whosoever is guided it is for his own soul: but whoso goes astray it is against them, and thou art not a guardian for them. God takes to Himself souls at the time of their death ; and those which do not die (He takes) in their sleep; and He holds back those on whom He. has decreed death, and sends others back till their appointed time ;—verily, in that are signs unto a people who reflect. Do they take besides God intercessors? Say, ‘What! though they have no control over anything and have no sense.’ [45] Say, ‘God’s is the intercession, all of it; His ! The pronoun in Arabic is feminine, and refers to the false gods, especially to the favourite goddesses of the Qurais. XXXIX, 45-54. THE CHAPTER OF THE TROOPS. 187 is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; then unto Him shall ye be sent back.’ And when God alone is mentioned the hearts of those who believe not in the hereafter quake, and when those beside Him are mentioned, lo, they are joyful ! Say, ‘O God! originator of the heavens and the earth, who knowest the unseen and the visible, thou wilt judge between thy servants concerning that whereon they do dispute!’ And had those who do wrong all that is in the earth, and the like thereof with it, they would ransom themselves therewith from the evil of the torment on the resurrection day! but there shall appear to them from God that which they had not reckoned on; and the evils of what they have earned shall appear to them ; but that shall close in on them at which they mocked! [50] And when harm touches man he alls on us; then, when we grant him favour from us, he says, ‘Verily, I am given it through knowledge!’ nay, it is a trial—but most of them do not know! Those before them said it too, but that availed them not which they had earned, and there befel them the evil deeds of what they had earned: and those who do wrong of these (Meccans), there shall befall them too the evil deeds of what they had earned, nor shall they frustrate Him. Have they not known that God extends His provision to whom He pleases, or doles it out? verily, in that are signs unto a people who believe. Say, ‘O my servants! who have been extravagant against their own souls!’ be not in despair of the 188 THE QUR'AN. XXXIX, 54-65. mercy of God; verily, God forgives sins, all of them ; verily, He is forgiving, merciful.
3verily, in that are signs unto a people who believe. Say, ‘O my servants! who have been extravagant against their own souls!’ be not in despair of the 188 THE QUR'AN. XXXIX, 54-65. mercy of God; verily, God forgives sins, all of them ; verily, He is forgiving, merciful. [55] But turn repentant unto your Lord, and resign yourselves to Him, before there comes on you torment! then ye shall not be helped: and follow the best of what has been sent down to you from your Lord, before there come on you the torment suddenly, ere ye can perceive! Lest a soul should say, ‘O my sighing! for what I have neglected towards God! for, verily, I was amongst those who did jest!’ or lest it should say, ‘If God had but guided me, I should surely have been of those who fear!’ or lest it should say, when it sees the torment, ‘ Had I another turn I should be of those who do well!’ [60] ‘Yea! there came to thee my signs and thou didst call them lies, and wert too big with pride, and wert of those who misbelieved!’ And on the resurrection day thou shalt see those who lied against God, with their faces blackened. Is there not in hell a resort for those who are too big with pride ? And God shall rescue those who fear Him, into their safe place ; no evil shall touch them, nor shall they be grieved. God is the creator of everything, and He is guardian over everything; His are the keys of the heavens and the earth; and those who misbelieve in the signs of God, they it is who lose! Say, ‘What! other than God would you bid me serve, O ye ignorant ones? [65] When He has inspired thee and those before thee that, “If thou dost associate aught with Him, thy work will surely be in vain, and thou shalt surely be of those who -XXXIX, 65-73. THE CHAPTER OF THE TROOPS. 189 lose!” N ay, but God do thou serve, and be of those who do give thanks!’
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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