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O Sons of Israel! Remember My blessing, that with which I blessed you, and be faithful to My pact, I will be faithful to yours; and it is Me that you should revere.

O Sons of Israel! Remember My blessing, that with which I blessed you, and that I favored you above all beings.

"Take with strength what We have given you, and remember what is in it, perhaps you will guard yourselves."

And who then does more wrong than one who prevents God's name from being mentioned in God's places of prostration, and endeavours to dismantle them?

O Sons of Israel! Remember My blessing, that with which I blessed you, and that I favored you above all beings.

as We have sent, among you, a messenger from among yourselves, who recites Our signs to you, purifies you, teaches you the Scripture and the wisdom, and teaches you what you did not know. Remember Me, then, I will remember you; be grateful to Me, and do not disown Me.

And when you surge forth from Arafat, remember God near the Inviolable Perceptible Marker,

and remember Him, as He has guided you, though you were before among the astray.

And when you have completed your beneficent practices, remember God as you remember your ancestors, or with an even more intense remembrance.

And remember God during numbered days.

and He makes His signs clear for mankind, perhaps they will remember.

And remember God's blessing upon you, and what He has sent down upon you of the Scripture and the wisdom, by which He exhorts you.

God knows that you will think of them; but do not promise them anything in secret,

and once secure, remember God as He has taught you what you did not know.

And only the possessors of intelligence remember.

and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, from among those whose testimony you approve, so that if one of the two strays, the other may remind her.

and only the possessors of intelligence remember.

"and the male is not like the female;

And remember your Guardian abundantly, and glorify in the evening and the morning."

That is what We recite to you of the signs and the wise Reminder.

And remember God's blessing upon you, when you were enemies, and He reconciled your cores, so that you became, by His blessing, brothers;

And those who, when they commit an indecency or wrong themselves, remember God and ask forgiveness for their offenses —

There are surely, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, signs for the possessors of intelligence, those who remember God, standing, sitting, or lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth:

Their Guardian answered them, then: "I never let the deed of one of you who acts dissipate, male or female —

to the male, the equivalent of the share of two females.

And when you have concluded the Contact, remember God, standing, sitting, or lying on your sides.

And whoever does sound deeds, male or female, while being a believer, those will enter the Garden, and will not be wronged even by the groove of a date-stone.

And when they rise for the Contact, they rise lazily, acting out of ostentation before men, and remember God only a little, wavering between the two, neither on one side nor the other.

and if there are several, brothers and sisters, then to the male, the equivalent of the share of two females.

So eat of what they catch for you, and mention the name of God over it.

And remember God's blessing upon you, and His solemn engagement, by which He bound you, when you said: "We have heard and we have deferred."

O you who have believed! Remember God's blessing upon you, when a people was minded to stretch out their hands toward you, and He held their hands back from you.

For having broken their solemn engagement, We cursed them and made their cores hard: they displace words from their context, and have forgotten a share of what they had been reminded of.

And among those who said: "We are indeed the Helpers", We took their solemn engagement, but they forgot a share of what they had been reminded of; We then unleashed among them enmity and hatred, until the Day of Appearance;

And when Moussa said to his people: "O my people! Remember God's blessing upon you, when He placed among you informants, and made you kings,

The Diverter wants only to cast, among you, by wine and games of chance, enmity and hatred, and to bar you from the remembrance of God and from the Contact.

When God will say: "O Issa, son of Maryam! Remember My blessing upon you and upon your mother, when I fortified you with the sacred Influx, you spoke to men in the cradle and in your prime,

Then, when they forgot what they had been reminded of, We opened upon them the gates of everything,

And if the Diverter makes you forget, do not remain seated, after this reminder, with the wrongdoing people.

except a reminder, perhaps they will guard themselves.

And remind by it, lest a Self be delivered for what it has earned, having, besides God, neither protector nor intercessor;

Will you not then remember?

It is only a reminder for all beings."

Eat, then, of that over which the name of God has been mentioned, if you are believers in His signs.

And what is with you that you should not eat of that over which the name of God has been mentioned, when He has detailed for you what He has prohibited to you, except what you are compelled to?

And do not eat of that over which the name of God has not been mentioned: it is surely an overstepping.

We have indeed detailed the signs for a people who remember.

And they said: "This is cattle and tilth forbidden: none shall feed on them, except whom we will" — according to their claim — "and cattle whose backs are prohibited", and cattle over which they do not mention the name of God, in invention against Him.

Say: "Is it the two males He has prohibited, or the two females, or what the wombs of the two females contain?

that is what He has recommended to you, perhaps you will remember.

A Scripture has been sent down to you — let there be no discomfort in your chest because of it — so that you may warn by it, and a reminder for the believers.

How little you remember!

That is one of the signs of God — perhaps they will remember.

Thus will We bring forth the dead — perhaps you will remember.

Do you marvel that a reminder from your Guardian should come to you through a man from among yourselves, that he might warn you, that you might guard yourselves, and that, perhaps, benevolence might be shown to you?"

Do you marvel that a reminder from your Guardian should come to you through a man from among yourselves, that he might warn you?

Remember that He made you successors after the people of Nuh, and increased you in breadth in creation.

Remember, then, the blessings of God, perhaps you will succeed."

And remember that He made you successors after the Aad, and settled you on the earth: in its plains you take palaces, and you carve the mountains into houses.

Remember, then, the blessings of God,

And remember that you were few, and He made you many.

And We indeed seized the clan of Fir'awn with years and a diminution of fruits, perhaps they would remember.

When they forgot what they had been reminded of, We saved those who forbade evil, and We seized the wrongdoers with a harsh punishment, for having overstepped.

"Take with strength what We have given you, and remember what is in it, perhaps you will guard yourselves."

Indeed, those who guard themselves, when a procession from the Diverter touches them, remember, and there they are, clear-sighted;

And remember your Guardian, within yourself, beseechingly and with fear, without saying it aloud, in the morning and in the evening, and do not be among the heedless.

The believers are only those whose cores tremble when God is remembered, whose faith increases when His signs are recited to them, and who entrust themselves to their Guardian,

And remember when you were few, reduced to weakness on the earth, fearing that men would snatch you away; He then granted you refuge, fortified you with His help, and provided you with wholesome things — perhaps you will be grateful.

O you who have believed! When you meet a battalion, stand firm, and remember God abundantly — perhaps you will succeed.

So if you surprise them in war, scatter through them those who follow them, perhaps they will remember.

Do they not see that they are tried every year, once or twice? Yet they do not turn back, and they do not remember.

Will you not then remember?

that is a reminder for those who remember.

and there has come to you, in this, the truth, an admonition, and a reminder for the believers.

And he said to the one of the two he presumed would be saved: "Remember me to your master."

But the Diverter made him forget to mention this to his master, and he remained in prison for some years.

They said: "By God, you will not cease to remember Youssof, until you are worn out or until you perish."

it is only a reminder for all beings.

Only the possessors of intelligence remember, those who are faithful to God's pact and do not break the solemn engagement, those who join what God has commanded to be joined, dread their Guardian and fear the worst of reckonings, those who were patient seeking the direction of their Guardian, maintained the Contact, spent from what We provided them, secretly and openly, and push back evil with good.

those who believe and whose cores are calmed by the remembrance of God.

Is it not by the remembrance of God that the cores are calmed?"

We have indeed sent Moussa with Our signs: "Bring your people out of the darknesses into the light, and remind them of the days of God."

And when Moussa said to his people: "Remember God's blessing upon you, when He saved you from the clan of Fir'awn, who inflicted upon you the worst of punishments, slaughtering your sons and violating the modesty of your women:

And God multiplies the examples for mankind, perhaps they will remember.

This is a transmission for mankind, so that they may be warned by it, know that He is but a single deity, and that the possessors of intelligence may remember.

And they said: "O you upon whom the Reminder has been sent down, you are surely deranged! Why do you not bring us the Agents, if you are among the veracious?"

It is We who have sent down the Reminder,

there is surely in that a sign for a people who remember.

Will you not then remember?

And We sent, before you, none but men to whom We revealed: so ask the keepers of the Reminder, if you do not know — with the clear proofs and the Formularies.

And We have sent down to you the Reminder, so that you may make clear to mankind what has been sent down to them, and perhaps they will reflect.

He exhorts you, perhaps you will remember.

Whoever does a sound deed, male or female, while being a believer, We shall surely make him live a wholesome life, and We shall surely recompense them with their reward, according to the best of their deeds.

We have indeed diversified the examples in this Recitation, so that they might remember; but it only increases their recoil.

And when you mention your Guardian in the Recitation, Him alone, they turn their backs in recoil.

And remember your Guardian when you forget,

and do not defer to one whose core We have made heedless of Our remembrance, who has followed his emotion, and whose affair is excess.

And who does more wrong than one who, reminded of the signs of his Guardian, turns away from them, forgetting what his hands have prepared?

and only the Diverter made me forget it, so that I did not think to mention it —

He said: "If then you follow me, do not question me about anything, until I make mention of it to you."

Say: "I will recite to you a remembrance of him."

And We shall present, that Day, Jahannam to those who disown, in full view — those whose eyes were under a veil, away from My remembrance, and who could not hear at all.

A remembrance of your Guardian's benevolence toward His obedient one Zakariya, when he called upon his Guardian with a hidden call,

And mention, in the Scripture, Maryam, when she secluded herself from her people in a place toward the east and took, apart from them, a veil.

And mention, in the Scripture, Ibrahim: he was a veracious man, an informant, when he said to his father: "O my father, why do you obey what neither hears nor sees clearly and avails you nothing?

And mention, in the Scripture, Moussa: he was devoted exclusively to God, and he was a messenger, an informant.

And mention, in the Scripture, Isma'il: he was true to his promise, and he was a messenger, an informant. He would enjoin upon his people the Contact and pure liberality,

And mention, in the Scripture, Idris: he was a veracious man, an informant.

Does the human being not remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?

but as a reminder for whoever dreads,

And I have opted for you: so listen to what is revealed. Indeed it is I, God — there is no deity but Me. Obey Me, then, and maintain the Contact for My remembrance.

Strengthen through him my resolve, and associate him with my task, so that we may glorify You abundantly and remember You abundantly; You are All-Seeing of us."

Go, you and your brother, with My signs, and do not slow down in My remembrance.

Go, both of you, to Fir'awn: he has exceeded all measure. Speak to him gently; perhaps he will remember, or feel dread."

and We have given you, from Ourselves, a reminder.

Thus have We sent it down, a flawless Recitation, and We have diversified therein the threat, perhaps they will guard themselves, or it will give rise in them to a remembrance.

and whoever turns away from My remembrance shall indeed have a straitened existence, and We shall gather him blind on the Day of Appearance."

No recent reminder comes to them from their Guardian without their listening to it while playing, their core distracted.

And We sent, before you, none but men to whom We revealed: so ask the keepers of the Reminder, if you do not know.

We have sent down to you a Writ in which is your remembrance —

This is the remembrance of those with me, and the remembrance of those before me."

"Is this the one who mentions your deities?" — while they themselves disown the remembrance of the All-Benevolent.

Rather, they turn away from the remembrance of their Guardian.

We certainly gave Moussa and Harun the Discernment, a brightness, and a remembrance for those who guard themselves, who dread their Guardian even though He escapes their senses, and are apprehensive of the Hour.

And this is a blessed remembrance that We have sent down —

They said: "We heard a young man mention them; he is called Ibrahim."

and We restored his family to him, and as many again with them, as a benevolence from Us, and a remembrance for the obedient ones.

We have certainly written in the Formulary, after the Remembrance, that the earth will be inherited by My sound obedient ones.

And proclaim to mankind the Hajj: they will come to you on foot and on every lean mount, coming from every distant, deep-cut path, to witness the benefits for them and to remember the name of God on known days over the livestock beasts He has provided them.

And for every community We have assigned a beneficent practice, that they may remember the name of God over the livestock beasts He has provided them.

And give good news to those who lower themselves, whose cores tremble when God is remembered, who are patient with what strikes them, who maintain the Contact, and who spend from what We have provided them.

So remember the name of God over them, while they are lined up in rows;

And were it not for God repelling men, some by others, there would have been demolished hermitages, synagogues, places of Contact, and places of prostration wherein the name of God is much remembered.

No, We have come to them with their own Reminder,

but they turn away from their Reminder.

Say: "Will you not then remember?"

There was a fraction among My obedient ones who said: "Our Guardian, we believe; forgive us and have benevolence on us, for You are the best of those who show benevolence" — but you made them the object of your scoffing, until they made you forget My Reminder, and you used to laugh at them.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. This is a surah which We have sent down and which We have made obligatory, and in which We have sent down clear signs, perhaps you will remember.

that is better for you, perhaps you will remember.

In houses whose elevation God has authorized, and in which His name is remembered — He is glorified therein, morning and evening, by men whom neither trade nor selling distracts from the remembrance of God, the maintaining of the Contact, and the giving of pure liberality,

but You granted them enjoyment, them and their ancestors, until they forgot the Reminder and became a blighted people."

And the day the wrongdoer bites his hands, he will say: "Ah, if only I had taken a way with the messenger! Woe to me! If only I had not taken so-and-so as an intimate friend! He led me astray from the Reminder after it had reached me."

We diversified it among them so that they might remember; but most men refused everything except disowning.

It is He who made the night and the day a succession, for whoever wants to remember or wants to be grateful.

and those who, when reminded by the signs of their Guardian, do not fall upon them deaf and blind,

And no recent reminder comes to them from the All-Benevolent without their turning away from it.

Do you come to males, among all beings, and forsake what your Guardian has created for you as spouses?

And We did not annihilate any city without it having had warners, as a reminder;

except those who have believed, done sound deeds, remembered God much, and helped themselves after being wronged;

How little you remember!

We certainly gave Moussa the Scripture, after having annihilated the first generations, as insights for mankind, guidance, and benevolence, perhaps they would remember.

but it is a benevolence from your Guardian, so that you may warn a people to whom no warner had come before you, in the hope that they will remember.

We made the saying reach them without a break, perhaps they will remember.

and the remembrance of God is greater still;

There is surely a benevolence and a reminder in that for a people who believe.

Will you not then remember?

Only those believe in Our signs who, when they are reminded of them, fall down in prostration and glorify their Guardian with praise, and do not grow proud.

And who does more wrong than he who is reminded of the signs of his Guardian, and then turns away from them?

O you who have believed! Remember God's blessing upon you, when armies came against you, and We sent upon them a wind and armies you did not see.

You have certainly had, in the messenger of God, a fine paragon for whoever hopes for God and the Last Day, and remembers God much.

And remember what is recited in your houses of God's signs and wisdom.

O you who have believed! Remember God much, and glorify Him morning and evening.

O mankind, remember God's blessing upon you.

Did We not grant you a life long enough that whoever wished to remember could remember? And the warner had come to you.

You only warn one who follows the Reminder and dreads the All-Benevolent even though He escapes his senses: give him good news of forgiveness and a generous reward.

They said: "Your omen lies with yourselves. Is it because you are reminded?

It is nothing but a Reminder and a clear Recitation, so as to warn whoever is alive, and so that the saying may prove true against those who disown.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By those that range themselves in ranks, by those who rumble with force, by those who recite the Reminder: your deity is surely one,

and when they are reminded, they do not remember;

Will you not then remember?

And they indeed used to say: "If only we had a reminder from the earlier peoples, we would have been the refined obedient ones of God."

By the Recitation charged with the Reminder,

And the court, among them, set out, saying: "Go, and remain firm toward your deities! This is surely something intended. We have not heard of this in the last doctrine; this is nothing but a creation out of whole cloth. Was the Reminder sent down upon him, out of all of us?"

No, they are in doubt about My Reminder; no, they have not yet tasted My punishment.

and remember Our obedient one Dawud, endowed with strength,

Here is a blessed Scripture that We sent down to you, so that they may ponder its signs, and so that the possessors of intelligence may remember.

When there were displayed to him, in the evening, the standing, well-bred horses, he said: "I have indeed loved the love of the good more than the remembrance of my Guardian," until they were concealed behind the veil.

And remember Our obedient one Ayyub, when he called upon his Guardian: "The Diverter has touched me with fatigue and suffering."

And We bestowed on him his family, and as many again with them, as a benevolence from Us, and as a reminder for the possessors of intelligence.

And remember Our obedient ones Ibrahim, Ishaq, and Yaacoub, endowed with strength and insight.

We refined them with something refined: the remembrance of the Abode.

And remember Isma'il, Al-Yasa', and Dhul-Kifl,

This is a reminder.

It is only a reminder for all beings,

Only the possessors of intelligence remember.

There is surely in that a reminder for the possessors of intelligence.

so woe to those whose cores are hardened against the remembrance of God!

at which the skins of those who dread their Guardian shiver; then their skins and their cores soften toward the remembrance of God;

And We have certainly multiplied for men, in this Recitation, every kind of example, perhaps they will remember — a flawless Recitation, without any crookedness, perhaps they will guard themselves.

And when God alone is remembered, the cores of those who do not believe in the last life shrink with revulsion;

but when those besides Him are remembered, at once they exult.

but only he who has recourse to Him remembers.

and whoever does a sound deed, male or female, while being a believer, those will enter the Garden, provided for therein without account.

You will soon remember what I say to you;

We certainly gave Moussa the guidance, and made the Sons of Israel inherit the Scripture, a guidance and a reminder for the possessors of intelligence.

little do they remember.

Those who disown the Reminder when it has come to them… And it is surely an impregnable Scripture, which falsehood cannot reach from before it or from behind it,

He bestows, on whom He wills, daughters, and He bestows, on whom He wills, sons, or He pairs them, males and females, and He renders barren whom He wills.

Shall We cease to multiply for you the pages of the Reminder, because you are an excessive people?

and who created all the pairs, and made for you, among vessels and cattle, that which you ride, that you may establish yourselves upon their backs, then remember the blessing of your Guardian once established upon them, and say: "Glory be to the One who has subjected this to us, for we were not capable of it by ourselves; and to our Guardian we shall surely return."

And whoever lets his sight grow dim before the Reminder of the All-Benevolent, We assign him a Diverter who becomes an inseparable acolyte to him;

And it is surely a Reminder for you and for your people;

How would the reminder benefit them, when a clear messenger had come to them, then they turned their backs on him and said: "One taught, deranged"?

We have made it easy on your tongue only in the hope that they will remember.

Will you not then remember?

And remember the brother of the Aad, when he warned his people at the Ahqaf — warners had already passed before him and after him: "Obey none but God.

So how will they have their reminder, once it has come upon them?

But when a univocal surah is sent down and fighting is mentioned therein, you see those in whose core is a sickness looking at you with the look of one whom death makes swoon.

O mankind! We created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, so that you may recognize one another.

And the earth, We spread it out, cast firm anchors in it, and caused every splendid pair to grow in it — a source of insight and a reminder for every obedient one ever having recourse to Him.

There is surely a reminder in that for whoever has a core, or lends an ear while being a witness.

So remind, by the Recitation, whoever fears My threat.

And of every thing, We created a pair, perhaps you will remember.

So turn your back on them — you will not be censured at all — and remind,

for the reminder benefits the believers.

So remind: by the blessing of your Guardian, you are neither a soothsayer nor deranged.

Do you then see Al-Lat, and Al-Uzza, and Manat, the third, the other? Would the male be for you, and for Him the female?

So turn away from whoever has turned his back on Our Reminder and wanted nothing but the present life.

and that He created the two mates, the male and the female, from a drop when it is emitted,

We have indeed made the Recitation easy for remembrance: is there then anyone to remember?

They said: "Shall we follow a single human from among us? We would then surely be in error and madness. Has the Reminder been cast upon him, out of all of us? Rather, he is a boastful liar."

We have indeed made the Recitation easy for remembrance: is there then anyone to remember?

So why do you not remember?

We made it a reminder and a use for those who halt in the wilderness.

Has the time not come for those who believe that their cores should become humble at the remembrance of God and what has descended of truth?

The Diverter has taken hold of them and made them forget the remembrance of God.

O you who have believed! When the call is made for the Contact, on this day of reunion, hurry to the remembrance of God and forsake selling.

Then when the Contact is concluded, deploy within the land and seek from the favor of God, and remember God often, perhaps you will succeed.

O you who have believed! Let not your goods or your children distract you from the remembrance of God.

you who believe; God has sent down to you a Reminder,

And those who disown would almost trip you up with their sights when they hear the Reminder, and they say: "He is surely deranged."

Yet it is nothing but a reminder for all beings.

When the water overflowed, We carried you on the ark, so as to make it a reminder for you, and so that a heeding ear might heed it.

How little you remember!

And this is surely a reminder for those who guard themselves.

And whoever turns away from the remembrance of his Guardian, He will insert him into an ever-mounting punishment.

And remember the name of your Guardian and give yourself over to Him, fully.

This is a reminder.

And it is not but a reminder to humans.

So what is with them that they turn away from the reminder, as if they were terrified donkeys, fleeing from a lion?

By no means! This is a reminder;

so whoever wants may remember it.

And they will not remember it unless God wills.

Was he not a drop of emitted semen? Then he was a clinging form; then He created and proportioned him, and made of him two mates, the male and the female.

And remember the name of your Guardian morning and evening.

This is a reminder.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By those sent forth in succession, and those scattering violently, and those deploying far and wide, and those separating distinctly, and those addressing a reminder, as justification or as warning: indeed, what you are promised will surely befall.

Then, when the great Cataclysm comes — the Day the human being will remember what he endeavoured, and the Blaze will be shown to whoever sees,

What have you to do with mentioning it?

Perhaps he might purify himself, or remember, and the reminder would benefit him.

It is a reminder,

— so whoever wants, let him remember it —, in honored chronicles, elevated and purified, in the hands of envoys, noble and virtuous.

It is only a reminder for all beings, for whoever among you wills to stand straight.

So remind, if the reminder should benefit.

He who dreads will remember, and the most wretched will keep at a distance from it, who will burn in the greatest Fire, then he will neither die therein nor live.

He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself, and remembers the name of his Guardian, and makes contact.

So remind; you are only one who reminds.

When the earth is flattened blow after blow, and your Guardian comes, and the Agent, rank upon rank, and Jahannam is brought, that Day — that Day the human being will remember, but what good will remembrance be to him then?

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the night when it covers all! By the day when it unveils itself! By what created the male and the female! Your efforts are surely dispersed.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Did We not open your chest for you? Did We not lift your burden from you, which weighed upon your back? And did We not elevate your renown for you?