The suras

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At the heart of the sura, a believing man from the clan of Fir'awn defends Moussa… Read → 4154 verses Their Skins Will Testify The Recitation is made distinct and flawless; those who turn away stop their own ears. On the day of the gathering, their hearing, their sights and… Read → 4253 verses One Single Law Revelation is one single Law, given to Nuh, Ibrahim, Moussa, Issa and the messenger; people divide over it only out of aggression, after knowledge.… Read → 4389 verses In the Footsteps of the Ancestors Neither the ornaments of the present life nor the legacy of the ancestors prove anything. Ibrahim disavows what his people obey and leaves a lasting… Read → 4459 verses You Will Relapse The warning is a benevolence; those who take it as a game promise to believe when the punishment touches them, then relapse as soon as it is removed.… Read → 4537 verses Emotion Taken as a Deity The signs are everywhere: in creation, the rain, the winds, the subjected sea. Whoever hears them recited and then persists in arrogance has made his… Read → 4635 verses No Novelty Among the Messengers Truth need not be new to be true: the messenger follows what is revealed to him, and the Scripture confirms that of Moussa. Those who reject it… Read → 4738 verses Locks Upon the Cores Everything is played out between following falsehood and following the truth: God renders the deeds of some astray and sets right the condition of… Read → 4829 verses The Hand Above Their Hands Victory comes from God and is received in the core: tranquility descends on those who pledge allegiance, while those who stay behind say with their… Read → 4918 verses Distinguish Clearly A community of believers holds together through restraint, through verifying what is reported, through reconciliation and mutual respect. The most… Read → 5045 verses Closer Than the Jugular Vein They marvel at the return after death. The answer: the earth revived by water shows the coming forth, and the Creator was not exhausted. He is closer… Read → 5160 verses Flee to God The Retribution is as certain as the fact that you speak. The signs are on the earth and within yourselves; the peoples before all said the same… Read → 5249 verses Unanswered Questions The punishment of the Guardian will fall; nothing can repel it. Those who guard themselves remember their past apprehension. Then fifteen questions… Read → 5362 verses Vision and Conjecture The messenger does not speak from emotion: he saw, and his gaze did not swerve. His opponents follow nothing but conjecture and what their Selves… Read → 5455 verses The Recitation Made Easy Five peoples, each in a few verses, and two refrains. One says the warning came true: "So how were My punishment and My warnings?" The other, that it… Read → 5578 verses Which of the Blessings? Thirty-one times, the same question to humans and the Occulted: "Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?" It follows the… Read → 5696 verses Is It You, or Is It We? The Event sorts human beings into three groups: the foremost, the right, the left. For those who doubt being resurrected, four questions of the same… Read → 5729 verses What You Hold in Trust Wealth does not belong to the one who holds it: he is its trustee, and the inheritance of the heavens and the earth belongs to God. The present life… Read → 5822 verses God Has Heard A woman argues with the messenger and complains to God: God has heard. No word escapes Him, even spoken low: there is no secret talk among three but… Read → 5924 verses The Vain Strongholds They thought their strongholds would protect them from God; God came upon them from where they did not expect. What is restored to the messenger does… Read → 6013 verses The Boundary of Alliance The enemy is not the one who believes otherwise, but the one who fights and expels. Beneficence and equity are never forbidden; only alliance with… Read → 6114 verses Saying Without Doing "Why do you say what you do not do?" Moussa is troubled by a people who know he is a messenger; Issa announces a messenger to come, and is called an… Read → 6211 verses The Donkey Carrying Books A messenger is raised among people without Scripture, to purify and teach them. Those entrusted with the Tawrah who did not carry it are like a… Read → 6311 verses Oaths as a Shield The hypocrites testify that Muhammad is a messenger, and God testifies that they are liars. Their oaths are a shield, their appearance pleases, yet… Read → 6418 verses Who Was Deceived? The Day of Gathering is the Day of Mutual Deception: there it is seen who was deceived. Among spouses and children there may be an enemy; goods and… Read → 6512 verses Whoever Guards Himself The separation of a couple is set out step by step: the waiting period, housing, the recognized manner, two witnesses, taking charge of the child.… Read → 6612 verses Four Women as Examples The Prophet forbids himself what God made lawful for him, and a confided secret is disclosed. Each must guard himself and his own. Four women serve… Read → 6730 verses Return Your Gaze The One in whose hand is the dominion created death and life to test who acts best. The sura asks us to look: heavens without a fissure, a manageable… Read → 6852 verses The Scorched Garden Those who think themselves capable because they have goods and sons: owners swear to harvest everything without exception and keep out the destitute… Read → 6952 verses Read My Record That which establishes the real was denied, and every denial met its seizure. At the single blast, each receives his record: in the right hand, one… Read → 7044 verses Created Anxious, and the Exception A petitioner asks for the punishment; it will come. On that Day no friend asks after his friend, and each would ransom himself with his own kin. The… Read → 7128 verses The More He Calls, the More They Flee Nuh calls his people night and day, openly then in secret, and promises them forgiveness, rain, goods and gardens. The more he calls, the more they… Read → 7228 verses An Amazing Recitation A group of the Occulted hear an amazing recitation once and believe at once. They acknowledge their errors and their divisions. The messenger, for… Read → 7320 verses The Night and the Heavy Word Standing at night to recite the Recitation with care and remember the Guardian's name: a heavy word is about to be cast. Then the lightening: God… Read → 7456 verses Arise and Warn Six commands: arise, warn, proclaim the Guardian's greatness, purify one's garments, avoid defilement, give without seeking more in return. Facing… Read → 7540 verses Clear-Sighted About Himself The human being thinks his bones will not be assembled, and desires to persist in depravity. Yet he is clear-sighted about himself, despite his… Read → 7631 verses Feeding Without Expecting The human being was nothing; created to be tested, he is guided along the way, grateful or disowning. The virtuous feed the destitute, the orphan and… Read → 7750 verses Ten Times the Same Verdict Ten times, the same verdict closes a proof: "Woe, that Day, to the deniers!" The former peoples annihilated, the lowly fluid measured, the earth… Read → 7840 verses The Appointed Time They ask one another about the great Information. The answer: the Day of Separation is an appointed time. To the blessings of the earth, sleep and… Read → 7946 verses The Usurped Title People doubt they will be brought back once they have become bones. Fir'awn, for his part, seizes the title "the Most High", and exemplary punishment… Read → 8042 verses The One Who Comes Striving A reproach: the messenger turned away from the blind man who came striving, to go toward the one who considers himself self-sufficient. The reminder… Read → 8129 verses A Self Will Know Twelve "when"s undo the world, and all lead to a single finding: a Self will know what it has brought forward. The messenger kept nothing for… Read → 8219 verses What Deceived You? When the world comes apart, every Self will know what it has put forward and kept back. A question to the human being: what has deceived you… Read → 8336 verses The Rigged Measure Those who cheat on the measure do not think of the Day when they themselves will be measured. Two records answer each other, and the mockers'… Read → 8425 verses Toiling Toward the Guardian The sky and the earth listen to their Guardian. The human being labors toward his Guardian and will meet Him. The one who was joyful among his people… Read → 8522 verses Their Only Fault: Belief Persecutors seated around a fire, witnesses to what they inflict on the believers. They reproached them for one thing only: having believed. God… Read → 8617 verses Able to Bring Back Every Self has a guardian. The One who created the human being from a gushing fluid is able to bring him back; on that Day, secrets will be tested.… Read → 8719 verses Create, Measure, Guide Glorifying the Guardian, who creates, harmonizes, measures and guides; He will make His messenger read and ease his way. The reminder benefits the… Read → 8826 verses Effort and Its Fruit On that Day, two groups of faces: some exhausted by their toil, others pleased with their effort. All have toiled; only effort rightly directed… Read → 8930 verses The Trial Read Backwards The human being reads the trial backwards: honored, he thinks himself chosen; restricted, he thinks himself humiliated. The text judges him on what… Read → 9020 verses The Steep Path The human being, created in hardship and given the means to discern, has not plunged into the steep path. The text says what it is: freeing, feeding… Read → 9115 verses Purify or Bury Eleven oaths lead to the Self: it has received both ways; to succeed is to purify it, to fail is to bury it. The people of Thamud are the example. Read → 9221 verses Diverging Efforts Two mirrored portraits: the one who gives and the one who withholds. Each is eased along the way he has chosen; and the one who gives seeks nothing… Read → 9311 verses What He Did for You The Guardian has not forsaken His messenger: He sheltered him, guided him, enriched him. What He did for him becomes what he must do for others. Read → 948 verses With Hardship, Ease Three things done for the Prophet ground a promise said twice: with hardship comes ease. Hence two commands: direct your effort, and turn your… Read → 958 verses From the Best to the Lowest Created in the best of stature, the human being is reduced to the lowest of the low; only an exception brings him out, and it is made of deeds. Read → 9619 verses Read and Draw Near The sura begins with "Read" and ends with "draw near". Between the two, the human being who believes himself self-sufficient, and the one who… Read → 975 verses Better Than a Thousand Months A night in which the Recitation came down, more precious than a thousand months, in which the Agents and the Influx descend; and peace until dawn. Read → 988 verses Divided After the Proof Those given the Scripture did not divide for lack of knowledge, but after the Proof came to them. And what they had been commanded was simple. Read → 998 verses A Grain's Weight On the Day the earth quakes, it brings forth what it carries and recounts what it knows, inspired by its Guardian. Each will then see his deeds, down… Read → 10011 verses The Ungrateful, Witness Against Himself An oath on chargers launched at the assault, then a finding about the human being: ungrateful toward his Guardian, witness to his own ingratitude… Read → 10111 verses What Weighs On the Day of the Crash, people are scattered like moths, the mountains like wool, and only the weight of deeds counts: a satisfying life, or the… Read → 1028 verses Distracted Until the Grave Rivalry in accumulation distracts until the grave. Certainty will come, first through knowledge, then through sight, and finally the question about… Read → 1033 verses Out of Loss A single sentence: an oath, a finding about the human being, and an exception made of four deeds, two of which are done only with others. Read → 1049 verses The Illusion of Eternity The one who disparages others and counts his goods believes his goods have already made him eternal. The answer reaches him to the depths of himself. Read → 1055 verses The People Without Reason A question about what the Guardian did to people deprived of reason: their scheme led astray, stones of hardened clay, and they themselves reduced to… Read → 1064 verses Fed and Secured A single sentence: what the Guardian did for the Quraysh, feeding them and making them secure, is the reason to obey Him. Read → 1077 verses Denial in Deeds Who denies the Retribution? The text answers with deeds: repelling the orphan, not urging the feeding of the destitute, making contact without being… Read → 1083 verses The Gift and the Cutting-Off A gift without limit, two commands, and a reversal: the cutting-off falls back on the one who hates. Read → 1096 verses To Each His Law An answer to those who disown: a refusal that holds for the present and the past, an opposing position that does not move, and a conclusion without… Read → 1103 verses The Crowd That Enters The promised help comes: a crowd enters the Law of God, and the victory is received with praise and a plea for forgiveness. Read → 1115 verses The Man Who Perishes A man and his wife oppose the message. The text does not address them: it states. The man's means perish, his goods avail him nothing, and his own… Read → 1124 verses The One Without Equal Four short sentences that say who God is, above all by what He is not: the One, without origin, without offspring, without counterpart. Read → 1135 verses The Evils Without Seeking refuge in the Guardian of the Breakthrough against the evils of the outside world: not against things themselves, but against the moment they… Read → 1146 verses The Evil Within A single sentence seeking refuge in the Guardian, the Sovereign and the Deity of mankind, against an evil that does not come from outside: the one… Read →