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Every time they are provided therein with a fruit as provision, they say: "This is what we were provided with before";

and as for those who disown, they say: "What did God intend by this example?"

Woe, then, to those who write the Scripture with their hands, then say: "This is from God", to buy with it a paltry price!

And when Ibrahim said: "My Guardian, make of this a secure land, and provide its inhabitants with fruits, those among them who believe in God and the Last Day."

He said: "O Maryam! From where does this come to you?"

This is a straight path."

This is surely the true account,

Of mankind, those closest to Ibrahim are surely those who followed him, as well as this informant and those who have believed.

But yes: if you are patient and guard yourselves, and they come to you, right then, your Guardian will reinforce you with five thousand distinctly marked Agents.

This is a clear exposition for mankind, a guidance and an admonition for those who guard themselves.

How then, when misfortune strikes you, after you had caused double that to strike, do you say: "From where, then, does this come?"

"Our Guardian, You did not create this in vain. Glory be to You!

He said: "Woe to me! Am I unable to be like this raven, and to conceal my brother's nakedness?" And he then found himself among those who regret.

They garble words once set in their places, saying: "If you are given this, take it; and if you are not given it, beware."

and when I restrained from you the Sons of Israel, when you came to them with clear proofs, and those among them who disowned said: 'This is nothing but a manifest illusion.'"

God will say: "This is the day when veracity will benefit the veracious.

And had We sent down upon you a writing on parchment, and they had touched it with their hands, those who disown would certainly have said: "This is nothing but a manifest illusion."

And this Recitation was revealed to me so that I might warn you by it, and whoever it reaches.

to the point that, when they come to you to argue, those who disown say: "These are nothing but legends of the ancients."

And if you could see, when they will be halted before their Guardian! He will say: "Is this not the truth?"

When the night closed in on him, he saw a heavenly body; he said: "This is my guardian";

Then, when he saw the moon rising, he said: "This is my guardian";

Then, when he saw the sun rising, he said: "This is my guardian, this one is greater";

And here is a Scripture We have sent down, blessed, confirming what precedes it, so that you may warn the metropolis of cities and those around it.

And this is the path of your Guardian, straight.

"O assembly of the Occulted and humans! Did messengers from among you not come to you, relating My signs to you and warning you of the meeting of this day of yours?"

And they assigned to God, of what He scattered as tilth and cattle, a portion, saying: "This is for God" — according to their claim — "and this is for our associates";

Or were you witnesses, when God recommended this to you?"

Say: "Bring your witnesses, those who testify that God has prohibited this."

And: this is my path, straight; follow it, then,

And here is a Scripture We have sent down, blessed; follow it, then, and guard yourselves, perhaps benevolence will be shown to you — lest you say: "The Scripture was sent down only upon two groups before us, and we were indeed heedless of their study", or lest you say: "Had the Scripture been sent down upon us, we would have been better guided than they."

and they will say: "Praise be to God, who guided us to this;

Today, then, We forget them, as they forgot the meeting of this day of theirs, and because they used to stubbornly reject Our signs."

The court of Fir'awn's people said: "This is surely a knowledgeable worker of illusion, who wants to bring you out of your land."

Fir'awn said: "You have believed in him before I gave you permission! This is surely a plot you plotted in the Capital, so as to drive out its inhabitants; you will soon know.

Then a posterity succeeded them, who inherited the Scripture, taking the fleeting goods of this lower world, and saying: "It will be forgiven us"; and if a similar good comes to them again, they take it.

Lest they say, on the Day of Appearance: "We were indeed heedless of this", or that they say: "It was our ancestors who, before, associated, and we were only descendants after them.

these are insights from your Guardian, a guidance and a benevolence for a people who believe."

And when Our signs are recited to them, they say: "We have indeed heard; if we wanted, we would say the same;

these are nothing but legends of the ancients."

And when they said: "O God! If this is indeed the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky, or bring us a painful punishment."

O you who have believed! The associators are nothing but impurity: let them not approach the inviolable place of prostration, after this year of theirs.

on the day when it will be heated in the fire of Jahannam, and their foreheads, their sides, and their backs will be seared with it: "This is what you hoarded for yourselves; taste then what you used to hoard!"

Those who disown say: "This is surely a manifest illusion."

And when Our signs are recited to them, wholly explicit, those who do not hope for Our meeting say: "Bring a Recitation other than this one, or change it."

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

And they say: "When will this promise be, if you are veracious?"

You have no authority for this.

When the truth came to them from Us, they said: "This is surely a manifest illusion."

Is this illusion?

And if you say: "You will be raised after death," those who disown will surely say: "This is nothing but a manifest illusion."

you did not know them, neither you nor your people, before this.

They said: "O Salih, you were among us a hope before this; do you forbid us to obey what our ancestors obeyed? We are surely in a troubling doubt about what you call us to."

She said: "Woe is me! Shall I bear a child, when I am old, and here is my husband, an old man?

That is surely an astonishing thing!"

"O Ibrahim, turn away from this:

And when Our messengers came to Lut, their coming vexed him, and he felt helpless on their account, and said: "This is a hard day."

We relate to you the most beautiful of accounts, by revealing to you this Recitation, though you were surely, before it, among the heedless.

When they took him away and agreed to put him in the depths of the well — and We revealed to him: "You will surely inform them of this affair, while they do not sense it" —

And travelers arrived; they sent their water-drawer, who let down his bucket. He said: "Good news! Here is a boy!"

Youssof, turn away from this;

When they saw him, they found him so great that they cut their hands, saying: "Far be it from God! This is no human:

this is nothing but a noble Agent."

He said: "I am Youssof, and this is my brother.

Go with this shirt of mine, and cast it upon my father's face: he will regain his sight. Then bring me your whole family."

And he said: "O my father, this is the prediction of my vision of old: my Guardian has made it true.

And when Ibrahim said: "My Guardian, make this land secure, and keep me and my sons at a distance from obeying idols.

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.

He said: "This is a path incumbent upon Me, a straight path.

Yet the tongue of the one to whom they allude is garbled, whereas this tongue is flawless, explicit.

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:

This Recitation indeed guides to what is most upright, and gives the believers who do sound deeds the glad tidings that they will have a great reward, and that those who do not believe in the last life — We have made ready for them a painful punishment.

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

He said: "Do You see this one You have honored above me? If You adjourn me until the Day of Appearance, I shall surely seize his descendants, except a few."

Say: "If humans and the Occulted united to bring the equal of this Recitation, they would not bring its equal, even were they mutual support to one another."

We have indeed diversified for mankind, in this Recitation, every kind of example; but most men refused everything except disowning.

Perhaps you will consume yourself with bitterness, following after them, if they do not believe in this discourse.

and say: "It may be that my Guardian will guide me to a rectitude nearer than this."

and they will say: "Woe to us! What is it with this register that it omits nothing, small or great, without enumerating it!"

We have indeed diversified, in this Recitation, every kind of example for mankind;

When they had traversed it, he said to his young companion: "Bring us our meal; we have indeed met, on this journey, much fatigue."

He said: "This is the parting between you and me;

He said: "This is a benevolence from my Guardian;

The pangs of childbirth drove her to the trunk of the palm tree. She said: "Would that I had died before this, and been a thing forgotten, utterly forgotten!"

This is a straight path.

They said: "These two are indeed two workers of illusion who wish to drive you out of your land with their illusion and to carry off your exemplary course of conduct.

So he brought forth for them a calf, a body that lowed, and they said: "This is your deity, and the deity of Moussa" — but he had forgotten.

So We said: "O Adam! This is indeed an enemy to you and to your spouse; let him not drive you both out of the Garden, or you would toil.

And those who did wrong kept their secret talk hidden: "Is this anything but a human like yourselves?

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.

And they say: "When will this promise be, if you are veracious?"

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

They said: "Who has done this to our deities? He is surely one of the wrongdoers!"

They said: "Is it you who did this to our deities, Ibrahim?"

He said: "It was rather this one, the great one among them, who did it — ask them, if they can utter anything."

until Yajuj and Majuj are opened, and they come swarming down from every height, and the true promise draws near — then at once the sights of those who disowned are fixed: "Woe to us! We were heedless of this — we have rather been wrongdoers!"

and the Agents will receive them: "This is your day, the one you were promised."

In this there is surely a transmission for a people of obedient ones.

These are two opposing parties who have quarreled concerning their Guardian.

It is He who named you those true to Him, before and in this, so that the messenger may be a witness over you, and that you may be witnesses over mankind.

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 surely 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."

But their core is in a gulf about this,

We have indeed been promised this, we and our ancestors, before;

these are nothing but legends of the ancients."

If only, upon hearing it, the believing men and women had presumed good of themselves, and had said: "This is a manifest distortion!"

And if only, upon hearing it, you had said: "It is not for us to speak of this — glory be to You, this is an immense slander!"

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

And they say: "What is with this messenger, that he eats food and walks in the marketplaces? Why has not an Agent been sent down to him to be a warner with him, or why is a treasure not thrown down to him, or why does he not have a garden to eat from!"

And the messenger said: "O my Guardian, my people have indeed deserted this Recitation."

"Is this the one God has raised up as a messenger? He nearly led us astray from our deities, had we not remained firmly attached to them!"

It is He who made the two seas meet: this one sweet, fresh, and that one salty, bitter.

He said to the court around him: "This one is surely a knowing worker of illusion, who wants to drive you out of your land by his illusion. What then do you advise?"

They said: "It is the same to us whether you exhort or are not among those who exhort; this is only the character of the ancients, and we shall not be punished."

When Our signs came to them, plainly visible, they said: "This is a manifest illusion."

this is surely the explicit favor."

Go with this letter of mine, cast it to them, then move away from them, and see what they return."

When he saw it placed beside him, he said: "This is from the favor of my Guardian, to test me: will I acknowledge, or will I disown?

We have indeed been promised this, we and our ancestors, before;

these are nothing but legends of the ancients."

And they say: "When will this promise be, if you are veracious?"

This Recitation relates to the Sons of Israel most of what they differ about.

And he entered the Capital at a moment of its people's inattention, and found there two men fighting: one from his own camp, the other from his enemies.

He said: "This is the work of the Diverter;

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."

so this is the Day of Raising — but you did not know."

And We have certainly multiplied for men, in this Recitation, every kind of example;

This is God's creation:

So taste, for having forgotten the meeting of this Day of yours — We have indeed forgotten you —

And they say, "When is this opening, if you are veracious?"

And when the believers saw the parties, they said, "This is what God and His messenger promised us, and God and His messenger spoke truly,"

And they say: "When will this promise be, if you are veracious?"

And those who disown have said, "We will never believe in this Recitation, nor in what came before it."

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."

And those who disown say of the truth when it comes to them, "This is nothing but a manifest illusion."

this one is sweet, fresh, pleasant to drink, and that one is salty, bitter.

And they say: "When will this promise be, if you are veracious?"

This is what the All-Benevolent promised, and the envoys were veracious."

This is a straight path.

and say: "This is nothing but a manifest illusion. When we are dead, earth and bones, shall we really be raised? And our earliest forefathers too?"

and they will say: "Woe to us, this is the Day of the Due!"

"This is the Day of Separation, which you used to deny."

This is surely the immense triumph!

It is for the like of this that those who act should act.

This was surely the manifest testing.

and those who disown said: "This is a worker of illusion, a great liar. Has he made the deities a single deity? This is surely an astonishing thing!"

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?"

"This is my brother; he has ninety-nine ewes, and I have but one ewe. He said: 'Entrust her to me,' and he overpowered me in address."

"This is Our endowment: grace others with it or retain it, without account to render."

here is cool water for washing and for drinking."

This is a reminder.

This is what they are promised for the Day of Reckoning.

This is surely Our provision, which knows no end.

So it is. And those who exceed all measure shall surely have the worst place of resort: Jahannam, wherein they will burn,

This — let them taste it: boiling water, and a foul, dark fluid, and others of the same kind, in pairs.

"Here is a crowd rushing in with you."

They will say: "Our Guardian, whoever prepared this for us, give him double punishment in the Fire."

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.

until, when they reach it, its gates will open, and its custodians will say to them: "Did messengers from among you not come to you, reciting to you the signs of your Guardian and warning you of the meeting of this your day?"

And those who disown said: "Do not listen to this Recitation, and talk idly over it, perhaps you will win out."

And if We let him taste benevolence from Us after hardship that touched him, he will surely say: "This is mine by right, and I do not presume the Hour will rise; and if I am returned to my Guardian, I will surely have the most beautiful with Him."

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 turn."

And when the truth came to them, they said: "This is an illusion, and we indeed disown it."

And they said: "Why was this Recitation not sent down upon an important man from one of the two cities!"

Or am I better than this one, who is contemptible and can hardly express himself clearly?

and follow me: this is a straight path.

this is a straight path."

this is a painful punishment.

This is indeed what you used to contend about.

This is guidance,

These are insights for mankind, and guidance and benevolence for a people who have certainty.

"This is Our record; it utters about you the truth.

And it will be said: "Today We forget you, as you forgot the meeting of this your day; your resort is the Fire, and you will have no help."

Bring me a Scripture prior to this one, or a remnant of knowledge, if you are veracious."

And when Our clear signs are recited to them, those who disown say of the truth once it reaches them: "This is a manifest illusion."

And since they have not let themselves be guided by it, they will say: "This is an old distortion."

And this is a confirming Scripture, in a flawless tongue, so that you may warn those who have done wrong, and as good tidings for those who do good.

And he who says to his two parents: "Fie on you both! Do you promise me that I will be brought forth, when generations have already passed before me?" — while they both call on God for rescue: "Woe to you, believe! Indeed the promise of God is true" — and he says: "These are nothing but legends of the ancients."

Then, when they saw it as a cloud approaching their valleys, they said: "This is a cloud bringing us rain."

And the Day those who disown are exposed to the Fire: "Is this not the truth?"

By the glorious Recitation! They marveled instead that a warner, one of their own, had come to them. Those who disown said: "This is an astonishing thing. When we are dead and become earth...? That return is far-fetched."

You were indeed heedless of this; so We removed your veil, and your sight today is sharp.

And his acolyte will say: "Here is what I have, ready."

This is what you are promised, for everyone ever-returning, preserving.

This is what you used to seek to hasten."

Is this, then, an illusion, or do you not see clearly?

Or is it their composure that commands them to this, or are they a people who exceed all measure?

This is a warner among the warners of old.

Is it then this discourse that you marvel at, laughing, not weeping, while you remain heedless?

those who disown will say: "This is a difficult day."

This is their welcome on the Day of the Due.

Is it this discourse that you treat with complaisance, and do you make your provision consist in denying?

Surely, this is the truth of certainty.

Had We sent down this Recitation upon a mountain, you would have seen it become humble and split apart out of dread of God.

But when he brought them clear proofs, they said: "This is a manifest illusion."

Then, when he informed her of it, she said: "Who informed you of this?" He said: "The All-Knowing, the Intimately Acquainted informed me."

Or who is it that would be an army for you and help you, besides the All-Benevolent?

Or who is it that would provide for you, if He held back His provision?

And they say: "When will this promise be, if you are veracious?"

Then, when they see it near, vexation will be stamped upon the faces of those who disowned, and it will be said: "This is what you used to call for."

So leave Me with whoever denies this discourse.

He thought and determined. So may he perish, how he determined! Again, may he perish, how he determined! Then he looked; then he frowned and scowled; then he turned back and grew proud, and said, "This is nothing but illusion passed down; this is nothing but the saying of a human."

and We have not made their number except as a trial for those who disown — that those given the Scripture may be certain, and those who believe may increase in faith, and those given the Scripture and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose cores is a sickness and the disowners may say, "What did God intend by this example?"

This has been for you a recompense, and your effort has been met with gratitude.

This is the Day they will utter nothing, nor will they be given permission to make excuses.

This is the Day of Separation; We have brought together you and the former peoples. So if you have a scheme, then scheme against Me!

Then it will be said, "This is what you used to deny."

Surely, this is in the former chronicles, the chronicles of Ibrahim and Moussa.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. No! I swear by this land, and you are a resident in it, and by a begetter and what he begot! We have certainly created the human being in hardship.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the fig and the olive! And by Mount Sinai! And by this secure land! We have certainly created the human being in the most beautiful of stature, then We brought him back to the lowest of the low, except those who have believed and done sound deeds: theirs is a reward never held over them.

let them obey the Guardian of this House, who fed them against hunger and secured them against fear.