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His example is that of a smooth rock covered with earth: a torrential rain strikes it, and leaves it bare.

That is because they said: "The Fire will touch us only for numbered days"; and what they used to invent deluded them in their Law.

Whoever, after that, invents the lie against God — those are the wrongdoers.

And whoever associates with God invents an immense transgression.

Look how they invent the lie against God: that suffices as a manifest transgression.

O people of the Scripture! Our messenger has indeed come to you, making clear to you after a break in messengers, lest you say: "No bearer of good tidings nor warner has come to us" — a bearer of good tidings and a warner has thus indeed come to you.

You see those in whose cores is a sickness speeding among them, saying: "We dread that a setback may strike us";

but those who disown invent the lie against God, and most of them do not reason.

And who then does more wrong than one who invents a lie against God, or denies His signs?

Look how they lie against themselves! And what they used to invent will have strayed away from them.

And who then does more wrong than one who invents a lie against God, or says: "It has been revealed to me", when nothing has been revealed to him, and one who says: "I will send down the like of what God has sent down"?

forsake them, then, and what they invent.

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.

He will recompense them for what they used to invent.

They are indeed losers, those who killed their children out of foolishness, without knowledge, and who held as prohibited what God had provided them, in invention against God.

Who then does more wrong than one who invents a lie against God, to lead men astray without knowledge?

Who then does more wrong than one who invents a lie against God, or denies His signs?

They will have caused the loss of their Selves, and what they used to invent will have strayed away from them.

We would indeed have invented a lie against God, if we returned to your doctrine after God has saved us from it.

Thus do We recompense the inventors of lies.

Say: "If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your spouses, your kinsmen, the goods you have acquired, a trade whose decline you dread, and dwellings with which you are satisfied, are dearer to you than God, His messenger, and striving in His way, then bide your time, until God brings His command."

So bide your time,

Who then does more wrong than one who invents a lie against God, or denies His signs?

and what they used to invent will have strayed away from them.

This Recitation was not something that could have been invented besides God;

Or will they say: "He has invented it"?

say: "Is it God who authorized you, or is it against God that you invent?"

What will they presume, on the Day of Appearance, those who invent the lie against God?

Say: "Those who invent the lie against God indeed do not succeed."

Or will they say: "He has invented it"?

Say: "Then bring ten invented surahs like it, and call upon whomever you can, besides God, if you are veracious."

And who does more wrong than one who invents a lie against God?

Those are the ones who have caused the loss of their Selves, and what they invented has strayed away from them.

Or will they say: "He has invented it"?

Say: "If I have invented it, then my own severance falls upon me, and I am quit of your severance."

you are only inventors.

it was not an invented discourse,

By God, you will surely be questioned about what you used to invent.

and what they used to invent will stray away from them.

And when We substitute one sign for another sign — God knows best what He sends down — they say: "You are but an inventor."

Those who invent the lie are those who do not believe in God's signs,

And do not say, for what your tongues falsely describe: "This is permitted and this is prohibited," so as to invent the lie against God:

those who invent the lie against God will indeed not succeed.

And they have indeed nearly turned you away, through trial, from what We revealed to you, so that you might invent against Us something else;

Who then does more wrong than one who invents a lie against God?

And the register will be set down, and you will see the severed apprehensive of what is in it,

Let not him who does not believe in it and follows his emotion bar you from it, or it would be your fall.

Moussa said to them: "Woe to you! Do not invent a lie against God, lest He extirpate you with a punishment.

And whoever invents has already failed."

Say: "Each one is biding his time; so bide your time, then:

They said instead: "A jumble of confused dreams! He has rather invented it! He is rather a seductive orator!

they glorify Him night and day, never flagging.

The court of his people, those who disowned, then said: "This is nothing but a human like you, who wants to gain superiority over you; had God willed, He would have sent down Agents; we have not heard this among our first ancestors. He is nothing but a man afflicted with derangement — so bide your time concerning him, for a time."

And the court of his people, those who disowned and denied the meeting of the last life, and to whom We had given affluence in the present life, said: "This is nothing but a human like you, who eats of what you eat and drinks of what you drink; and if you defer to a human like you, you will then indeed be losers. Does he promise you that, once dead and become earth and bones, you will be brought out? Far, far indeed is what you are promised! There is nothing but our present life, we die and we live, and we will not be raised up! He is nothing but a man who has invented a lie against God, and we will not give him credit."

Have you not seen that God makes the clouds glide, then joins them together, then makes them into a mass, and you see the shower come out from within it?

And those who disown say: "This is nothing but a distortion he invented, and another group helped him with it."

When Moussa brought them Our clear signs, they said: "This is nothing but an invented illusion; we never heard of this among our earliest forefathers."

And We will draw out from every community a witness, and We will say: "Bring your demonstration." Then they will know that the truth belongs to God, and what they used to invent will stray away from them.

and they will surely be questioned, on the Day of Appearance, about what they used to invent.

And who does more wrong than one who invents a lie against God, or denies the truth once it has come to him?

God is He who sends the winds; they stir up clouds, which He spreads in the sky as He wills, and breaks into fragments; then you see the shower come forth from their midst.

Or will they say: "He has invented it"?

Has he invented a lie against God, or is he afflicted with some derangement?"

And when Our clear signs are recited to them, they say, "This is nothing but a man who wants to bar you from what your ancestors used to obey"; and they say, "This is nothing but an invented distortion."

Have you not seen that God sends down water from the sky, and channels it as springs in the earth, then brings forth with it crops of varying colors; then they wither, and you see them yellowed; then He turns them to debris?

Or will they say that he has invented a lie against God?

it will not abate for them, and they will be therein in despair.

Or will they say: "He has invented it"?

Say: "If I have invented it, you possess nothing for me against God.

and that is their distortion and what they used to invent.

Know that the present life is but play, distraction, adornment, mutual boasting among you, and rivalry in accumulation of goods and children — like the example of a saving rain whose vegetation dazzles the sowers, then it dries up, and you see it turn yellow, then it becomes debris.

O Informant! When believing women come to you to pledge allegiance to you that they will not associate anything with God, not steal, not commit fornication, not kill their children, not bring forth slander they have invented between their hands and feet, and not disobey you in what is recognized, accept their pledge and ask God's forgiveness for them.

And who does more wrong than one who invents the lie against God while he is being called to being true to God alone?

so that you would have seen the people felled to the ground, as if they were empty trunks of palm trees.

And your Guardian will surely endow you, and you will be satisfied.