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1So give them the glad tidings of grievous woe! [25] save those who believe and act aright, for them is hire that is not grudged ! Tue CHAPTER OF THE ZODIACAL SIGNS. (LXXXV. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. By the heaven with its zodiacal signs?! And the promised day ! And the witness and the witnessed?! The fellows of the pit were slain ; [5] And the fire with its kindling, When they sat over it And witnessed the while what they were doing with those who believed ‘. 1 From life to death, and from death to the future life. ? Literally, ‘ towers.’ * Various interpretations are given of these words, the most probable perhaps being that ‘the witness’ is Mohammed, and ‘the witnessed’ the faith. . * Alluding to the persecution of the Christians at Negran by aa LXXXV,8-LXXXVI,2. CHAPTER OF THE NIGHT STAR. 327 And they took not vengeance on them save for their belief in God, The mighty, the praiseworthy, Whose is the kingdoms of the heavens and the earth ; . For God is witness over all! [10] Verily, those who make trial of the believers, men and women, and then do not repent, for them is the torment of hell, and for them is the torment of the burning ! Verily, those who believe and act aright, for them are gardens beneath which rivers flow,—that is the great bliss! Verily, the violence of thy Lord is keen! Verily, He produces and returns, and He is- the forgiving, the loving, [15] the Lord of the glorious throne; the doer of what He will! Has there come to thee the story of the hosts of Pharaoh and Thamfd? Nay, those who misbelieve do say it is a lie; [20] but God is behind them—encompassing ! Nay, it is a glorious Qur’4n in a preserved tablet’. Tue CyHapTer oF THE NIGHT STAR. (LXXXVI. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. By the heaven and by the night star! And what Duu ’n Navv4s, king of Yemen, who had embraced the Jewish religion, and who commanded all his subjects who would not do the same to be flung into a pit filled with fire, and burnt to death. 1 See Part I, p. 2, note 2. 328 THE QURAN. LXXXVI,2-LXXXVII,8. shall make thee know what the night star is ?>—The star of piercing brightness. Verily, every soul has a guardian over it. [5] Then let man look from what he is created : he is created from water poured forth, that comes out from between the loins and the breast bones?. Verily, He is able to send him back again, on the day when the secrets shall be tried, [10] and he shall have no strength nor helper. By the heaven that sends back the rain! And the earth with its sprouting ! Verily, it is indeed a distinguishing speech, and it is no frivolity ! [15] Verily, they do plot a plot! But I plot my plot too! let the misbelievers bide ; do thou then let them bide awhile ! Tue CuHaptTer oF THE Most Hicu. (LXXXVII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
2Verily, it is indeed a distinguishing speech, and it is no frivolity ! [15] Verily, they do plot a plot! But I plot my plot too! let the misbelievers bide ; do thou then let them bide awhile ! Tue CuHaptTer oF THE Most Hicu. (LXXXVII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Celebrated the name of thy Lord most High, who created and fashioned, and who decreed and guided, and who brings forth the pasture, [5] and then makes it dusky stubble! We will make thee recite, and thou shalt not forget®, save what God pleases. Verily, He knows the open and what is concealed ; and we will send 1 From the loins of the man and the breast bones of the woman.—Al Baidhavi. 2 See Chapter II, verse 100, Part I,.p. 14. LXXXVII,8-LXXXVIII,16. CHAPTER OF OVERWHELMING. 329 thee easily to ease; wherefore remind, for, verily, the reminder is useful. [10] But he who fears will be mindful; but the wretch will avoid it; he who will broil on the great fire, and then therein shall neither die nor live ! Prosperous is he who purifies himself, [15] and remembers the name of his Lord and prays! Nay! but ye prefer the life of this world, while the hereafter is better and more lasting. Verily, this was in the books of yore,—the books of Abraham and Moses. Tue CHAPTER OF THE OVERWHELMING), (LXXXVIII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Has there come to thee the story of the overwhelming ? . Faces on that day shall be humble, labouring, toiling,—shall broil upon a burning fire ; [5] shall be given to drink from a boiling spring! no food shall they have save from the foul thorn, which shall not fatten nor avail against hunger ! Faces on that day shall be comfortable, content with their past endeavours,—[10] in a lofty garden wherein they shall hear no foolish word; wherein is a flowing fountain ; wherein are couches raised on high, and goblets set down, [15] and cushions arranged, and carpets spread ! 1 Another name of the last day. 330 THE QUR'AN. LXXXVIII,17-LXXXIX, 7. Do they not look then at the camel how she is created’ ? And at the heaven how it is reared ? And at the mountains how they are set up ? [20] And at the earth how it is spread out ? But remind: thou art only one to remind; thou art not in authority over them; except such as turns his back and misbelieves, for him will God torment with the greatest torment. [25] Verily, unto us is their return, and, verily, for us is their account ! Tue CHAPTER OF THE Dawn. (LXXXIX. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. By the dawn and ten nights?! And the single and the double ! And the night when it travels on! Is there in that an oath for a man of sense ? [5] Hast thou not seen how thy Lord did with ‘Ad ?—with Iram of the columns? ? the like of which has not been created in the land ? * So useful an animal as a camel being to an Arab a singular instance of divine wisdom. ? The first ten nights of the sacred months of Duu ’! Heggeh.
3[5] Hast thou not seen how thy Lord did with ‘Ad ?—with Iram of the columns? ? the like of which has not been created in the land ? * So useful an animal as a camel being to an Arab a singular instance of divine wisdom. ? The first ten nights of the sacred months of Duu ’! Heggeh. ® Shedd&d, the son of ‘Ad, is related to have ordered the construction of a terrestrial paradise in the desert of Aden, ostensibly in rivalry of the celestial one, and to have called it Irem, after the name of his great-grandfather Irem (Aram). On going to take possession of it, he and all his people were struck dead by a noise from heaven, and the paradise disappeared. Certain Arab travellers are declared to have come across this mysterious garden. LXXXIX, 8-30. THE CHAPTER OF THE DAWN. 331 And Thamiad when they hewed the stones in the valley ? And Pharaoh of the stakes1? [10] Who were outrageous in the land, and did multiply wickedness therein, and thy Lord poured out upon them the scourge of torment. Verily, thy Lord is on a watch tower! and as for man, whenever his Lord tries him and honours him and grants him favour, then [15] he says, ‘My Lord has honoured me;’ but whenever he tries him and doles out to him his subsistence, then he says, ‘My Lord despises me!’ Nay, but ye do not honour the orphan, nor do ye urge each other to feed the poor, [20] and ye devour the inheritance (of the weak) with a general devouring’, and ye love wealth with a complete love ! Nay, when the earth is crushed to pieces, and thy Lord comes with the angels, rank on rank, and hell is brought on that day,—on that day shall man be reminded! but how shall he have a reminder ? [25] He will say, ‘Would that I had sent something forward for my life!’ But on that day no one shall be tormented with a torment like his, and none shall be bound with bonds like his! O thou comforted soul! return unto thy Lord, well pleased and well pleased with! And enter amongst my servants, [30] and enter my Paradise! 1 Cf. p. 176, note 1. 2 Cf. Part I, p. 72, note 1. 332 THE QUR'AN. XC, 1-20. Tue CHAPTER OF THE Lanp. (XC. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. I need not swear by the Lord of this land}, and thou a dweller in this land?! Nor by the begetter and what he begets ! We have surely created man in trouble. [5] Does he think that none can do aught against him ? He says, ‘I have wasted wealth in plenty;’ does he think that no one sees him ? Have we not made for him two eyes and a tongue, and two lips? [10] and guided him in the two highways? but he will not attempt the steep! And what shall make thee know what the steep is? It is freeing captives, or feeding on the day of famine, [15] an orphan who is akin, or a poor man who lies in the dust ; and again (it is) to be of these who believe and encourage each other to patience, and encourage each other to mercy,—these are the fellows of the right®!
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.
1So give them the glad tidings of grievous woe! [25] save those who believe and act aright, for them is hire that is not grudged ! Tue CHAPTER OF THE ZODIACAL SIGNS. (LXXXV. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. By the heaven with its zodiacal signs?! And the promised day ! And the witness and the witnessed?! The fellows of the pit were slain ; [5] And the fire with its kindling, When they sat over it And witnessed the while what they were doing with those who believed ‘. 1 From life to death, and from death to the future life. ? Literally, ‘ towers.’ * Various interpretations are given of these words, the most probable perhaps being that ‘the witness’ is Mohammed, and ‘the witnessed’ the faith. . * Alluding to the persecution of the Christians at Negran by aa LXXXV,8-LXXXVI,2. CHAPTER OF THE NIGHT STAR. 327 And they took not vengeance on them save for their belief in God, The mighty, the praiseworthy, Whose is the kingdoms of the heavens and the earth ; . For God is witness over all! [10] Verily, those who make trial of the believers, men and women, and then do not repent, for them is the torment of hell, and for them is the torment of the burning ! Verily, those who believe and act aright, for them are gardens beneath which rivers flow,—that is the great bliss! Verily, the violence of thy Lord is keen! Verily, He produces and returns, and He is- the forgiving, the loving, [15] the Lord of the glorious throne; the doer of what He will! Has there come to thee the story of the hosts of Pharaoh and Thamfd? Nay, those who misbelieve do say it is a lie; [20] but God is behind them—encompassing ! Nay, it is a glorious Qur’4n in a preserved tablet’. Tue CyHapTer oF THE NIGHT STAR. (LXXXVI. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. By the heaven and by the night star! And what Duu ’n Navv4s, king of Yemen, who had embraced the Jewish religion, and who commanded all his subjects who would not do the same to be flung into a pit filled with fire, and burnt to death. 1 See Part I, p. 2, note 2. 328 THE QURAN. LXXXVI,2-LXXXVII,8. shall make thee know what the night star is ?>—The star of piercing brightness. Verily, every soul has a guardian over it. [5] Then let man look from what he is created : he is created from water poured forth, that comes out from between the loins and the breast bones?. Verily, He is able to send him back again, on the day when the secrets shall be tried, [10] and he shall have no strength nor helper. By the heaven that sends back the rain! And the earth with its sprouting ! Verily, it is indeed a distinguishing speech, and it is no frivolity ! [15] Verily, they do plot a plot! But I plot my plot too! let the misbelievers bide ; do thou then let them bide awhile ! Tue CuHaptTer oF THE Most Hicu. (LXXXVII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
2Verily, it is indeed a distinguishing speech, and it is no frivolity ! [15] Verily, they do plot a plot! But I plot my plot too! let the misbelievers bide ; do thou then let them bide awhile ! Tue CuHaptTer oF THE Most Hicu. (LXXXVII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Celebrated the name of thy Lord most High, who created and fashioned, and who decreed and guided, and who brings forth the pasture, [5] and then makes it dusky stubble! We will make thee recite, and thou shalt not forget®, save what God pleases. Verily, He knows the open and what is concealed ; and we will send 1 From the loins of the man and the breast bones of the woman.—Al Baidhavi. 2 See Chapter II, verse 100, Part I,.p. 14. LXXXVII,8-LXXXVIII,16. CHAPTER OF OVERWHELMING. 329 thee easily to ease; wherefore remind, for, verily, the reminder is useful. [10] But he who fears will be mindful; but the wretch will avoid it; he who will broil on the great fire, and then therein shall neither die nor live ! Prosperous is he who purifies himself, [15] and remembers the name of his Lord and prays! Nay! but ye prefer the life of this world, while the hereafter is better and more lasting. Verily, this was in the books of yore,—the books of Abraham and Moses. Tue CHAPTER OF THE OVERWHELMING), (LXXXVIII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Has there come to thee the story of the overwhelming ? . Faces on that day shall be humble, labouring, toiling,—shall broil upon a burning fire ; [5] shall be given to drink from a boiling spring! no food shall they have save from the foul thorn, which shall not fatten nor avail against hunger ! Faces on that day shall be comfortable, content with their past endeavours,—[10] in a lofty garden wherein they shall hear no foolish word; wherein is a flowing fountain ; wherein are couches raised on high, and goblets set down, [15] and cushions arranged, and carpets spread ! 1 Another name of the last day. 330 THE QUR'AN. LXXXVIII,17-LXXXIX, 7. Do they not look then at the camel how she is created’ ? And at the heaven how it is reared ? And at the mountains how they are set up ? [20] And at the earth how it is spread out ? But remind: thou art only one to remind; thou art not in authority over them; except such as turns his back and misbelieves, for him will God torment with the greatest torment. [25] Verily, unto us is their return, and, verily, for us is their account ! Tue CHAPTER OF THE Dawn. (LXXXIX. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. By the dawn and ten nights?! And the single and the double ! And the night when it travels on! Is there in that an oath for a man of sense ? [5] Hast thou not seen how thy Lord did with ‘Ad ?—with Iram of the columns? ? the like of which has not been created in the land ? * So useful an animal as a camel being to an Arab a singular instance of divine wisdom. ? The first ten nights of the sacred months of Duu ’! Heggeh.
3[5] Hast thou not seen how thy Lord did with ‘Ad ?—with Iram of the columns? ? the like of which has not been created in the land ? * So useful an animal as a camel being to an Arab a singular instance of divine wisdom. ? The first ten nights of the sacred months of Duu ’! Heggeh. ® Shedd&d, the son of ‘Ad, is related to have ordered the construction of a terrestrial paradise in the desert of Aden, ostensibly in rivalry of the celestial one, and to have called it Irem, after the name of his great-grandfather Irem (Aram). On going to take possession of it, he and all his people were struck dead by a noise from heaven, and the paradise disappeared. Certain Arab travellers are declared to have come across this mysterious garden. LXXXIX, 8-30. THE CHAPTER OF THE DAWN. 331 And Thamiad when they hewed the stones in the valley ? And Pharaoh of the stakes1? [10] Who were outrageous in the land, and did multiply wickedness therein, and thy Lord poured out upon them the scourge of torment. Verily, thy Lord is on a watch tower! and as for man, whenever his Lord tries him and honours him and grants him favour, then [15] he says, ‘My Lord has honoured me;’ but whenever he tries him and doles out to him his subsistence, then he says, ‘My Lord despises me!’ Nay, but ye do not honour the orphan, nor do ye urge each other to feed the poor, [20] and ye devour the inheritance (of the weak) with a general devouring’, and ye love wealth with a complete love ! Nay, when the earth is crushed to pieces, and thy Lord comes with the angels, rank on rank, and hell is brought on that day,—on that day shall man be reminded! but how shall he have a reminder ? [25] He will say, ‘Would that I had sent something forward for my life!’ But on that day no one shall be tormented with a torment like his, and none shall be bound with bonds like his! O thou comforted soul! return unto thy Lord, well pleased and well pleased with! And enter amongst my servants, [30] and enter my Paradise! 1 Cf. p. 176, note 1. 2 Cf. Part I, p. 72, note 1. 332 THE QUR'AN. XC, 1-20. Tue CHAPTER OF THE Lanp. (XC. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. I need not swear by the Lord of this land}, and thou a dweller in this land?! Nor by the begetter and what he begets ! We have surely created man in trouble. [5] Does he think that none can do aught against him ? He says, ‘I have wasted wealth in plenty;’ does he think that no one sees him ? Have we not made for him two eyes and a tongue, and two lips? [10] and guided him in the two highways? but he will not attempt the steep! And what shall make thee know what the steep is? It is freeing captives, or feeding on the day of famine, [15] an orphan who is akin, or a poor man who lies in the dust ; and again (it is) to be of these who believe and encourage each other to patience, and encourage each other to mercy,—these are the fellows of the right®!
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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