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1XL, 36-46. does God lead astray him who is extravagant, a doubter. ‘Those who wrangle concerning the signs of God without authority having come to them are greatly hated by God and by those who believe; thus does God set a stamp upon the heart of every tyrant too big with pride!’ And Pharaoh said, ‘O Haman! build for me a tower, haply I may reach the tracts,—the tracts of heaven, and may mount up to the God of Moses, for, verily, I think him a liar.’ [40] And thus was his evil deed made seemly to Pharaoh, and he was turned from the way; but Pharaoh’s stratagem ended only in ruin, and he who believed said, ‘O my people! follow me, I will guide you to the way of the right direction. O my people! verily, the life of this world is but a provision, but, verily, the hereafter, that is the abode of stability! Whoso does evil, he shall only be recompensed with the like thereof; and whoso does right, be it male or female and a believer, these shall enter into Paradise; they shall be provided therein without count. O my people! why should I call you to salvation, and you call me to the fire? [45] Ye call on me to disbelieve in God, and to join with Him what I have no knowledge of; but I call you to the mighty forgiving One! no doubt that what ye call me to, ought not to be called on in this world or in the hereafter, and that we shall be sent back to God, and that the extravagant, they are the fellows of the Fire! ‘But ye shall remember what I say to you; and I entrust my affair to Gad, verily, God looks upon His servants !’ XL, 47-57. THE CHAPTER OF THE BELIEVER. 195 And God guarded him from the evils of what they plotted, and there closed in upon Pharaoh evil woe. The fire—they shall be exposed to it morning and evening; and ‘on the day the Hour shall arise, enter, O people of Pharaoh! into the keenest torment. [50] And when they argue together in the fire, and the weak say to those who were big with pride, ‘Verily, we were followers of yours, can ye then avail us against a portion of the fire ?’ Those who were big with pride shall say, ‘ Verily, we are all in it; verily, God has judged between His servants.’ And those who are in the fire shall say unto the keepers of hell, ‘Call upon your Lord to lighten from us one day of the torment.’ They shall say, ‘ Did not your apostles come to you with manifest signs ?’ They shall say, ‘Yea!’ They shall say, ‘Then, call !’—-but the call of the misbelievers is only in error. Verily, we will help our apostles, and those who believe, in the life of this world and on the day when the witnesses shall stand up: [55] the day when their excuse shall not avail the unjust; but for them is the curse, and for them is an evil abode. And we did give Moses the guidance; and we made the children of Israel to inherit the Book, as a guidance and a reminder to those endowed with minds. Be thou patient, then; verily, God’s promise is true: and ask thou forgiveness for thy sins, and 02 196 THE QUR'AN. XL, 57-66.
2And we did give Moses the guidance; and we made the children of Israel to inherit the Book, as a guidance and a reminder to those endowed with minds. Be thou patient, then; verily, God’s promise is true: and ask thou forgiveness for thy sins, and 02 196 THE QUR'AN. XL, 57-66. celebrate the praise of thy Lord in the evening and in the morn. Verily, those who wrangle concerning the signs of God without authority having come to them, there is naught in their breasts but pride; but they shall not attain it: do thou then seek refuge in God; verily, He both hears and looks! Surely the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of man: but most men know it not. [60] The blind and the seeing shall not be deemed alike, nor those who believe and do right and the evildoer ; little is it that they remember. Verily, the Hour will surely come; there is no doubt therein; but most men do not believe! And your Lord said, ‘Call upon me, I will answer you; verily, those who are too big with pride to ~ worship shall enter into hell, shrinking up.’ God it is who has made for you the night to repose therein, and the day to see by; verily, God is Lord of grace to men, but most men give no thanks! There is God for you! your Lord! the creator of everything! there is no god but He, how then can ye lie? [65] Thus did those lie who gainsaid the signs of God. God it is who has made for you the earth as a resting-place, and a heaven as building, and has formed you and made excellent your forms; and has provided you with good things! there is God for you!—your Lord! then blessed be God, the Lord of the worlds! 1 Or ‘turn away.’ XL, 67-76. THE CHAPTER OF THE BELIEVER. 197 He is the living One, there is no god but He! then call on Him, being sincere in your religion to Him; praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds! Say, ‘ Verily, I am forbidden to serve those whom ye call on beside God, since there have come to me manifest signs from my Lord, and I am bidden to be resigned unto the Lord of the worlds.’ He it is who created you from the earth, then from a clot, then from congealed blood, then He brings you forth a child; then ye reach to puberty; then do ye become old men,—though of you there are some who are taken away before,—that ye may reach an appointed time, and haply ye may have some sense. [70] He it is who quickens and kills, and when He decrees a matter, then He only says to it, ‘BE,’ and it is. Hast thou not seen those who wrangle concerning the signs of God how they are turned away? Those who call the Book, and what we have sent our apostles with, a lie, soon shall they know—when the fetters are on their necks and the chains, as they are dragged into hell!—then in the fire shall they be baked. Then it shall be said to them, ‘Where is what ye did associate beside God?’ They shall say, ‘They have strayed away from us; nay, we did not call before upon anything !’—thus does God lead the misbelievers astray.
3Then it shall be said to them, ‘Where is what ye did associate beside God?’ They shall say, ‘They have strayed away from us; nay, we did not call before upon anything !’—thus does God lead the misbelievers astray. [75] There! for that ye did rejoice in the land without right; and for that ye did exult; enter ye the gates of hell, to dwell therein for aye; for evil is the resort of those who are too big with pride! 198 THE QUR'AN. XL, 77-85. But be thou patient ; verily, the promise of God is true; and whether we show thee a part of what we promised them, or whether we surely take thee to ourself, unto us shall they be returned. And we did send apostles before thee: of them are some whose stories we have related to thee, and of them are some:whose stories we have not related to thee; and no apostle might ever bring a sign except by the permission of God; but when God’s bidding came it was decided with truth, and there were those lost who deemed it vain! God it is who has made for you cattle, that ye may ride on some of them ;—and of them ye eat, [80] and ye have in them advantages ;—and that ye may attain thereon a want which is in your breasts ; upon them and upon ships are ye borne. He shows you His signs; which sign then of your Lord do ye deny? Have they not journeyed on in the land and seen how was the end of those before them, who were more numerous than they and stronger in might, and in their vestiges which are still in the land? but of no avail to them was that which they had earned. And when there came to them their apostles with manifest signs they rejoiced in what knowledge they had; but there closed in upon them that whereat they had mocked. And when they saw our violence they said, ‘We believe in God alone, and we disbelieve in what we once associated with Him.’ [85] But their faith was of no avail to them when they saw our violence—the course of God with His servants in time past, and there the misbelievers lose ! XLI, 1-11. THE CHAPTER ‘DETAILED.’ 199 Tue Cuapter ‘ DETAILED.’ (XLI. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. ‘H. M. A revelation from the ‘merciful, the compassionate; a book whose signs are detailed; an Arabic Qur’An for a people who do know; a-herald of glad tidings and a'warning. But most of them turn aside and do not hear, and say, ‘ Our hearts are veiled from what thou dost call us to, and in our ears is dulness, and between us and thee there is a veil. Act thou; verily, we are ‘acting too!’ [5] Say,. ‘I am but a mortal like yourselves, I am inspired that your God is one God; then go straight to Him, and ask forgiveness of Him; and woe to the idolaters, who give not alms, and in the hereafter disbelieve !’ Verily, those who believe and do right, for them is a hire that is not grudged. Say, ‘What! do ye really misbelieve in Him who created the earth in two days, and-do ye make peers for Him ?—that is the Lord ‘of the worlds!’
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.
1XL, 36-46. does God lead astray him who is extravagant, a doubter. ‘Those who wrangle concerning the signs of God without authority having come to them are greatly hated by God and by those who believe; thus does God set a stamp upon the heart of every tyrant too big with pride!’ And Pharaoh said, ‘O Haman! build for me a tower, haply I may reach the tracts,—the tracts of heaven, and may mount up to the God of Moses, for, verily, I think him a liar.’ [40] And thus was his evil deed made seemly to Pharaoh, and he was turned from the way; but Pharaoh’s stratagem ended only in ruin, and he who believed said, ‘O my people! follow me, I will guide you to the way of the right direction. O my people! verily, the life of this world is but a provision, but, verily, the hereafter, that is the abode of stability! Whoso does evil, he shall only be recompensed with the like thereof; and whoso does right, be it male or female and a believer, these shall enter into Paradise; they shall be provided therein without count. O my people! why should I call you to salvation, and you call me to the fire? [45] Ye call on me to disbelieve in God, and to join with Him what I have no knowledge of; but I call you to the mighty forgiving One! no doubt that what ye call me to, ought not to be called on in this world or in the hereafter, and that we shall be sent back to God, and that the extravagant, they are the fellows of the Fire! ‘But ye shall remember what I say to you; and I entrust my affair to Gad, verily, God looks upon His servants !’ XL, 47-57. THE CHAPTER OF THE BELIEVER. 195 And God guarded him from the evils of what they plotted, and there closed in upon Pharaoh evil woe. The fire—they shall be exposed to it morning and evening; and ‘on the day the Hour shall arise, enter, O people of Pharaoh! into the keenest torment. [50] And when they argue together in the fire, and the weak say to those who were big with pride, ‘Verily, we were followers of yours, can ye then avail us against a portion of the fire ?’ Those who were big with pride shall say, ‘ Verily, we are all in it; verily, God has judged between His servants.’ And those who are in the fire shall say unto the keepers of hell, ‘Call upon your Lord to lighten from us one day of the torment.’ They shall say, ‘ Did not your apostles come to you with manifest signs ?’ They shall say, ‘Yea!’ They shall say, ‘Then, call !’—-but the call of the misbelievers is only in error. Verily, we will help our apostles, and those who believe, in the life of this world and on the day when the witnesses shall stand up: [55] the day when their excuse shall not avail the unjust; but for them is the curse, and for them is an evil abode. And we did give Moses the guidance; and we made the children of Israel to inherit the Book, as a guidance and a reminder to those endowed with minds. Be thou patient, then; verily, God’s promise is true: and ask thou forgiveness for thy sins, and 02 196 THE QUR'AN. XL, 57-66.
2And we did give Moses the guidance; and we made the children of Israel to inherit the Book, as a guidance and a reminder to those endowed with minds. Be thou patient, then; verily, God’s promise is true: and ask thou forgiveness for thy sins, and 02 196 THE QUR'AN. XL, 57-66. celebrate the praise of thy Lord in the evening and in the morn. Verily, those who wrangle concerning the signs of God without authority having come to them, there is naught in their breasts but pride; but they shall not attain it: do thou then seek refuge in God; verily, He both hears and looks! Surely the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of man: but most men know it not. [60] The blind and the seeing shall not be deemed alike, nor those who believe and do right and the evildoer ; little is it that they remember. Verily, the Hour will surely come; there is no doubt therein; but most men do not believe! And your Lord said, ‘Call upon me, I will answer you; verily, those who are too big with pride to ~ worship shall enter into hell, shrinking up.’ God it is who has made for you the night to repose therein, and the day to see by; verily, God is Lord of grace to men, but most men give no thanks! There is God for you! your Lord! the creator of everything! there is no god but He, how then can ye lie? [65] Thus did those lie who gainsaid the signs of God. God it is who has made for you the earth as a resting-place, and a heaven as building, and has formed you and made excellent your forms; and has provided you with good things! there is God for you!—your Lord! then blessed be God, the Lord of the worlds! 1 Or ‘turn away.’ XL, 67-76. THE CHAPTER OF THE BELIEVER. 197 He is the living One, there is no god but He! then call on Him, being sincere in your religion to Him; praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds! Say, ‘ Verily, I am forbidden to serve those whom ye call on beside God, since there have come to me manifest signs from my Lord, and I am bidden to be resigned unto the Lord of the worlds.’ He it is who created you from the earth, then from a clot, then from congealed blood, then He brings you forth a child; then ye reach to puberty; then do ye become old men,—though of you there are some who are taken away before,—that ye may reach an appointed time, and haply ye may have some sense. [70] He it is who quickens and kills, and when He decrees a matter, then He only says to it, ‘BE,’ and it is. Hast thou not seen those who wrangle concerning the signs of God how they are turned away? Those who call the Book, and what we have sent our apostles with, a lie, soon shall they know—when the fetters are on their necks and the chains, as they are dragged into hell!—then in the fire shall they be baked. Then it shall be said to them, ‘Where is what ye did associate beside God?’ They shall say, ‘They have strayed away from us; nay, we did not call before upon anything !’—thus does God lead the misbelievers astray.
3Then it shall be said to them, ‘Where is what ye did associate beside God?’ They shall say, ‘They have strayed away from us; nay, we did not call before upon anything !’—thus does God lead the misbelievers astray. [75] There! for that ye did rejoice in the land without right; and for that ye did exult; enter ye the gates of hell, to dwell therein for aye; for evil is the resort of those who are too big with pride! 198 THE QUR'AN. XL, 77-85. But be thou patient ; verily, the promise of God is true; and whether we show thee a part of what we promised them, or whether we surely take thee to ourself, unto us shall they be returned. And we did send apostles before thee: of them are some whose stories we have related to thee, and of them are some:whose stories we have not related to thee; and no apostle might ever bring a sign except by the permission of God; but when God’s bidding came it was decided with truth, and there were those lost who deemed it vain! God it is who has made for you cattle, that ye may ride on some of them ;—and of them ye eat, [80] and ye have in them advantages ;—and that ye may attain thereon a want which is in your breasts ; upon them and upon ships are ye borne. He shows you His signs; which sign then of your Lord do ye deny? Have they not journeyed on in the land and seen how was the end of those before them, who were more numerous than they and stronger in might, and in their vestiges which are still in the land? but of no avail to them was that which they had earned. And when there came to them their apostles with manifest signs they rejoiced in what knowledge they had; but there closed in upon them that whereat they had mocked. And when they saw our violence they said, ‘We believe in God alone, and we disbelieve in what we once associated with Him.’ [85] But their faith was of no avail to them when they saw our violence—the course of God with His servants in time past, and there the misbelievers lose ! XLI, 1-11. THE CHAPTER ‘DETAILED.’ 199 Tue Cuapter ‘ DETAILED.’ (XLI. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. ‘H. M. A revelation from the ‘merciful, the compassionate; a book whose signs are detailed; an Arabic Qur’An for a people who do know; a-herald of glad tidings and a'warning. But most of them turn aside and do not hear, and say, ‘ Our hearts are veiled from what thou dost call us to, and in our ears is dulness, and between us and thee there is a veil. Act thou; verily, we are ‘acting too!’ [5] Say,. ‘I am but a mortal like yourselves, I am inspired that your God is one God; then go straight to Him, and ask forgiveness of Him; and woe to the idolaters, who give not alms, and in the hereafter disbelieve !’ Verily, those who believe and do right, for them is a hire that is not grudged. Say, ‘What! do ye really misbelieve in Him who created the earth in two days, and-do ye make peers for Him ?—that is the Lord ‘of the worlds!’
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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