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This is the Scripture: no doubt possible,

and there was in that an immense testing from your Guardian.

Then We overlooked it for you after that, perhaps you would be grateful.

that is better for you with your Giver of existence."

That is because they used to disown the signs of God, and kill the informants without right.

It is for having disobeyed and crossed the limits.

Then you turned your backs after that;

of middle age between the two;

thus does God bring the dead back to life, and show you His signs, perhaps you will reason.

Then your cores hardened after that, so that they are like stone, or harder still.

What, then, is the recompense of whoever among you acts thus, but disgrace in the present life?

Thus said those who do not know, in a saying like theirs.

Thus said those before them, in a saying like theirs;

And thus have We made you an exemplary community,

Thus does God show them their works, as desolations for them,

That is because God sent down the Scripture in truth,

That is a lightening from your Guardian, and a benevolence.

And whoever commits aggression after that will have a painful punishment.

Thus does God make His signs clear for mankind, perhaps they will guard themselves.

such is the recompense of those who disown.

That, for one whose family is not present at the inviolable place of prostration.

Thus does God make the signs clear to you, perhaps you will reflect on the present life and on the last life.

And their husbands have greater right to bring them back during this period, if they want a reconciliation.

And whoever does that has wronged himself.

That is what whoever among you believes in God and the Last Day is exhorted to.

That is purer for you, and cleaner.

And upon the heir falls the same thing.

Thus does God make His signs clear to you, perhaps you will reason.

There is surely in that a sign for you, if you are believers.

Thus does God make the signs clear to you, perhaps you will reflect.

That is because they said: "Selling is only ever like usury";

That is more equitable with God, more upright for testimony, and closer to not doubting — except if it is an immediate trade that you conduct among yourselves: no blame then upon you for not writing it down.

There is surely a lesson in that for the possessors of sight.

That is the enjoyment of the present life;

Say: "Shall I inform you of something better than that?

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.

and whoever does that has nothing more to do with God — except if you guard yourselves from them as a precaution.

He said: "Thus it is:

That is part of the information about what escapes the senses, which We reveal to you.

He said: "Thus it is:

There is surely in that a sign for you, if you are believers.

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

That is because they say: "We have, toward the people without a prior Scripture, no obligation",

He said: "Have you consented, and taken upon yourselves My yoke on this condition?"

Whoever turns his back after that — those are the oversteppers.

Those are the ones whose recompense is that upon them will weigh the curse of God, the Agents, and mankind, all together, wherein they will abide eternally; the punishment will not be lightened for them, and they will not be granted a delay — except those who turn back after that, and become sound: God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

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

Thus does God make His signs clear to you, perhaps you will let yourselves be guided.

That is because they used to disown the signs of God, and kill the informants without right.

It is for having disobeyed and crossed the limits.

O you who have believed! Do not be like those who disowned, and who say of their brothers, when they travel through the land or go off on an expedition: "Had they stayed with us, they would not have died, and would not have been killed" — so that God may make of it a desolation in their cores.

It is only that Diverter who makes you fear his allies; do not fear them, then,

That is for what your hands have prepared; and God is in no way one to wrong the constrained under compulsion."

But if you are patient and guard yourselves, that is indeed among the matters requiring resolve.

That is closest to sparing you from being overburdened by the weight of a family too large to bear.

but if they are more numerous than that, they share in the third, after a testament that may have been made, or a debt, without harm.

And that is the immense triumph.

And permitted to you are all beyond these categories, whom you seek with your goods, as men who commit to the marital bond, not in debauchery.

That, for whoever among you dreads being overwhelmed;

And whoever does that out of hostility and wrongdoing, We will burn him in a fire.

And that is, for God, an easy thing.

but He forgives what is short of that to whom He wills.

That is better, and of more beautiful interpretation.

That is the favor from God,

Thus were you before, and God graced you.

And whoever does that seeking the good pleasure of God, We will give him an immense reward.

but He forgives what is short of that to whom He wills.

God is capable of that.

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.

Those who disown God and His messengers, and want to separate God from His messengers, saying: "We believe in part, and we disown part", wanting to carve out a way between the two — those are the true disowners.

They indeed asked Moussa something greater than that, saying: "Show us God openly"; the thunderbolt then seized them for their wrongdoing.

Then they took the calf, after the clear proofs had come to them; but We overlooked that,

And that is, for God, an easy thing.

That is an overstepping.

But whoever among you disowns after that has strayed from the straight way."

that is the recompense of the wrongdoers."

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.

Our messengers indeed came to them with clear proofs; then many of them, after that, are surely excessive on the earth.

That is for them a disgrace in the present life,

And how would they take you as judge, when they have the Tawrah, wherein is the judgment of God, and then they turn their backs after that?

That is the favor of God, which He grants to whom He wills.

that is because they are a people who do not reason.

Say: "Shall I inform you of a requital worse than that, with God? He whom God has cursed, with whom He was angered, and of whom He made apes and swine, and he who obeyed the Overreacher —

It is for having disobeyed and crossed the limits.

That is because there are, among them, priests and monks, and they do not grow proud.

And that is the recompense of those who do good.

That is the expiation of your oaths, when you take oaths.

Thus does God make His signs clear to you, perhaps you will be grateful.

Whoever crosses the limits after that will have a painful punishment.

And whoever among you kills it intentionally, an equivalent recompense in cattle, as two just ones among you shall decide, as an offering reaching the Ka'ba, or an expiation consisting of feeding the destitute, or the equivalent of that in abstention, so that he may taste the baleful consequences of his conduct.

That, so that you may know that God knows what is in the heavens and what is on the earth, and that God is All-Knowing of all things.

That is closer to the testimony brought in its proper form, or to their fear that other oaths might be turned back after their oaths.

That is the immense triumph.

and that is the manifest triumph.

And thus have We tried some of them by others, that they might say: "Are these the ones whom God has graced among us?"

Thus do We detail the signs, so that the way of the severed may become clear.

Thus did We show Ibrahim the sovereign dominion of the heavens and the earth, that he might be among those who possess certainty.

Thus do We recompense those who do good.

That is the guidance of God, by which He guides whom He wills among His obedient ones.

That is God.

That is the measure set by the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing.

There are surely signs in that for a people who believe.

That is God, your Guardian.

And thus do We diversify the signs; and so that they say: "You have studied", and so that We may make it clear for a people who know.

Thus have We embellished, for every community, its work;

And thus have We assigned to every informant an enemy: the diverters among humans and the Occulted, who inspire one another with gilded saying, to delude.

Thus were embellished, for those who disown, the deeds they used to do.

And thus have We placed, in every city, the greatest of its severed, so that they might plot there;

Thus does God place filth upon those who do not believe.

And thus do We make the wrongdoers allies to one another, for what they used to earn.

That is because it is not in the nature of your Guardian to annihilate cities wrongfully, while their inhabitants were heedless.

And thus have their associates embellished, for many of the associators, the killing of their children, so as to cause their fall and blur their Law for them.

Thus did We recompense them for their iniquity,

Thus did those before them deny, until they tasted Our rigor.

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

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

that is what He has recommended to you, perhaps you will guard yourselves."

And that is what I have been commanded,

that is better.

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

Thus do We detail the signs for a people who know.

Thus do We recompense the severed.

Thus do We recompense the wrongdoers.

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

Thus do We diversify the signs for a people who are grateful.

That is better for you, if you are believers.

Thus does God stamp the cores of those who disown.

and there was in that an immense testing from your Guardian.

That is because they denied Our signs and remained heedless of them.

Thus do We recompense the inventors of lies.

Thus did We test them, for having overstepped.

there are among them those who are sound, and among them those who are less so.

Thus do We detail the signs, and perhaps they will return.

That is the example of the people who denied Our signs.

That is because they set themselves in breach against God and His messenger.

That is for you: taste it, then!

That is for you! And God makes frail the scheming of those who disown.

That is for what your hands have prepared; and God is in no way one to wrong the constrained under compulsion.

That is because God never changes a blessing He has granted a people, until they change what is in themselves; and God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

That is because they are a people who do not know.

And such is the recompense of those who disown.

Then God turns with clemency, after that, toward whom He wills.

That is their saying with their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who, before them, disowned.

That is the upright Law.

That is better for you, if you knew.

That is the immense disgrace.

That is the immense triumph.

That is because they disowned God and His messenger.

That is the immense triumph.

and that is the immense triumph.

That is because no thirst, no fatigue, no dearth strikes them in the way of God, no step they tread irritates those who disown, and no gain from an enemy accrues to them, without a sound deed being inscribed for them because of it.

That is God, your Guardian.

God created that only in truth.

Thus were embellished, for the excessive ones, the deeds they used to do.

Thus do We recompense the severed people.

Thus do We detail the signs for a people who reflect.

That is God, your true Guardian.

Thus did the word of your Guardian prove true concerning the oversteppers: they do not believe.

Thus did those before them deny.

Say: "It is by God's favor and by His benevolence — let them rejoice in that!

nothing smaller or greater that is not in an explicit register.

That is the immense triumph.

There are surely in that signs for a people who hear.

Thus do We stamp the cores of those who cross the limits.

Then We save Our messengers, and those who believed — thus;

that is a promise that will not be belied."

Those are pieces of information about the cities which We relate to you: some of them remain standing, and others are mown down.

Such is the seizure of your Guardian, when He seizes the cities while they are doing wrong:

There is surely in that a sign for whoever fears the punishment of the last life:

that is a day on which mankind will be brought together,

and that is a witnessed day.

that is a reminder for those who remember.

and it is for this that He created them.

And it is thus that your Guardian will elect you and teach you the prediction of events,

And thus We established Youssof on that land, and so as to teach him the prediction of events —

thus do We recompense those who do good.

thus it was, so that We might turn away from him evil and indecency:

She said: "This is the one about whom you censured me.

That is part of God's favor upon us and upon mankind,

that is the upright Law,

Then there will come, after that, seven severe years, which will consume what you had prepared for them, except the little you protect.

Then there will come, after that, a year in which mankind will receive the saving rain, and in which they will press."

This, so that he may know that I did not betray him in his absence, and that God does not guide the scheme of traitors.

And thus We established Youssof on that land, settling there wherever he willed:

that is an easy measure."

Thus do we recompense the wrongdoers."

thus did We scheme for Youssof:

That is part of the information about what escapes the senses, which We reveal to you:

There are surely in that signs for a people who reflect.

There are surely in that signs for a people who reason.

Thus does God multiply truth and falsehood:

Thus God multiplies the examples.

Thus We have sent you within a community before which other communities have already passed, so that you may recite to them what We have revealed to you, while they disown the All-Benevolent.

And thus We have sent it down, as a flawless judgment:

There are surely in that signs for every very patient, very grateful one.

and there was in that an immense testing from your Guardian."

That is for whoever fears standing before Me, and fears My threat."

That is the far error.

and that is not at all out of God's grasp.

Thus We insert it into the cores of the severed: they do not believe in it, though the norm of the ancients has already passed.

And We decreed to him this command: the last remnant of those people would be cut off, by morning.

There are surely in that signs for those who can read the marks.

There is surely in that a sign for the believers.

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

There are surely in that signs for a people who reason.

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

Thus God recompenses those who guard themselves, those the Agents keep faithfully while they are wholesome,

Thus did those before them act.

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

There is surely in that a sign for a people who reason.

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

There are surely in that signs for a people who believe.

thus He completes His blessing upon you, perhaps you will be true to Him alone.

That, because they loved the present life more than the last life, and because God does not guide the people who disown.

Then, your Guardian, toward those who did evil out of ignorance, then repented after that and became sound — your Guardian, after that, is surely Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

that is better, and of more beautiful interpretation.

All that, its evil is, with your Guardian, detestable.

That is what your Guardian has revealed to you of wisdom.

that is recorded in the register.

That is their recompense, for having disowned Our signs and said: "When we are bones and crumbled remains, shall we really be raised in a new creation?"

And do not speak too loudly in your Contact, nor say it in an undertone either: seek, between the two, a way.

That is among the signs of God.

Thus We raised them up, so that they might question one another.

Thus We made people stumble upon them, so that they might know that God's promise is true and that the Hour is not in doubt,

And never say, of a thing: "I will do that tomorrow," unless God wills.

He said: "That is what we were seeking."

That is the prediction of what you could not bear with patience."

Then he followed a link, until, having reached the rising-place of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had made, on the near side of it, no shelter. So it was.

Such: their recompense will be Jahannam, for having disowned and having taken My signs and My messengers in mockery.

He said: "So it will be. Your Guardian has said: That is easy for Me, and I created you before, when you were nothing."

He said: "So it will be. Your Guardian has said: That is easy for Me.

Such is Issa, son of Maryam —

To Him belongs what is before us, what is behind us, and what is between the two.

There are surely in that signs for those endowed with sagacity.

And such is the recompense of whoever purifies himself.

They said: "We did not fail your appointment of our own will; but we were made to carry burdens of the people's adornments, and we hurled them away, and thus did as-Samiri also throw."

He said: "I saw clearly what they did not see; so I seized a handful from the track of the messenger, then I cast it away — thus did my Self suggest it to me."

Thus do We relate to you certain pieces of information about what has gone before,

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.

He will say: "Thus it is: Our signs came to you, and you forgot them;

and thus, today, you are forgotten."

Thus do We recompense whoever has been excessive and has not believed in the signs of his Guardian;

There are surely in that signs for those endowed with sagacity.

Whoever among them were to say, "I am a deity besides Him" — that one We would recompense with Jahannam:

thus do We recompense the wrongdoers.

and of that, I am among the witnesses."

And among the Diverters were some who dived for him and performed other tasks besides that;

and thus do We save the believers.

That is because God is the Truth, He brings the dead back to life, He is capable of all things, the Hour is coming — no doubt about it — and God will raise up those who are in the graves.

That is for what your hands have prepared; and God is in no way one to wrong the constrained under compulsion.

That is the manifest loss.

That is indeed the far error — he calls upon

Thus have We sent it down as clear signs,

That is so.

Thus have We subjected them to you, perhaps you will be grateful.

Thus has He subjected them to you, that you may proclaim the greatness of God for having guided you.

That is so.

That is because God makes the night penetrate into the day and the day penetrate into the night, and because God is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.

That is because God is the Truth, and what you invoke besides Him is falsehood, and because God is the Most High, the Great.

That is in a record:

that is indeed easy for God.

Say, "Shall I inform you of something worse than that?

but whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the ones who cross the limits.

Then, after that, you are surely destined to die,

There are surely in that signs,

and they have, apart from that, works

and that is prohibited to the believers.

and never accept their testimony again — those are the oversteppers, except those who turned back after that and became sound, for God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

that is better for you, perhaps you will remember.

Say to the believing men to cast down their sights and preserve their private parts — that is purer for them.

There is surely a lesson in that for the possessors of sight.

And they say: "We believe in God and in the messenger, and we defer" — then a fraction among them turns its back after that;

And whoever disowns after that — those are the oversteppers.

Thus does God make the signs clear to you,

Thus does God make His signs clear to you,

Thus does God make the signs clear to you, perhaps you will reason.

Blessed is He who, if He willed, would make for you better than that: gardens beneath which rivers flow, and He would make for you palaces.

Say: "Is that better, or the garden of eternity promised to those who guard themselves?

Thus have We assigned to every informant an enemy from among the severed.

Thus, so that We may make your Conscience firm through it —

And the Aad, and the Thamud, and the companions of ar-Rass, and many generations between those times,

and those who, when they spend, neither waste nor withhold excessively, standing between the two with just measure,

and whoever does that will meet with grave transgression: the punishment will be doubled for him on the Day of Appearance, and he will abide therein eternally, degraded, except him who repents, believes, and does sound work — those, God will change their bad deeds into good deeds,

There is surely in that a sign.

Thus.

There is surely in that a sign.

They said: "No, but we found our ancestors acting thus."

There is surely in that a sign.

Thus We have inserted it into the cores of the severed; they will not believe in it until they see the painful punishment, which will come to them unexpectedly, without their sensing it, and they will say then: "Will we be granted a delay?"

and thus they act.

There is surely in that a sign for a people who know.

There are surely in that signs for a people who believe.

thus do We recompense those who do good.

He said: "That is understood between you and me;

that is better for you, if you knew.

That is indeed easy for God.

there are surely in that signs for a people who believe.

there is surely in that a sign for the believers.

Thus have We sent down the Scripture to you;

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

and thus will you be brought forth.

there are surely in that signs for a people who reflect.

there are surely in that signs for those who know.

there are surely in that signs for a people who hear.

there are surely in that signs for a people who reason.

Thus do We detail the signs for a people who reason.

Maintain your direction toward the Law, wholly turned toward God — the original nature God gave mankind, as He originated them. There is no changing God's creation: that is the upright Law, but most men do not know — ever having recourse to Him, guard yourselves toward Him, maintain the Contact, and do not be among those who associate, among those who divided their Law and became factions,

There are surely in that signs for a people who believe.

that is better for those who want the direction of God,

Is there among your associates one who does any of that?

that is He who will surely bring the dead back to life,

thus were they turned away.

Thus does God stamp the cores of those who do not know.

that is among the matters requiring resolve.

That is because God is the Truth, and what you invoke besides Him is falsehood, and because God is the Most High, the Great.

There are surely in that signs for every very patient, very grateful one.

That is the Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is witnessed, the All-Powerful, the Benevolent,

There are surely in that signs.

That is your saying with your mouths;

That was recorded in the Scripture.

and that is, for God, an easy thing.

That is nearer so that their gaze may rest, and they not grieve, and they be satisfied, all of them, with what you give them.

That indeed used to trouble the Informant, though he felt shy toward you,

that is cleaner for your cores and their cores.

that is, with God, immense.

that is nearer so that they will be recognized and not be troubled.

nor anything smaller or greater than that, without it being in an explicit register — so that He may recompense those who believed and did sound deeds."

There is surely in that a sign for every obedient one ever having recourse to Him.

That is how We recompensed them for what they disowned —

There are surely in that signs for every very patient, very grateful one.

So will be the Deployment.

That is indeed easy for God.

That is God, your Guardian; to Him belongs the dominion.

And that is not at all out of God's grasp.

And among mankind, and living beings, and cattle, there is likewise a variety of colors.

That is the great favor.

Thus do We recompense every great disowner.

That is the measure set by the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing.

Thus do We deal with the severed.

Is that a better welcome, or the tree of Zaqqoum?

Thus do We recompense those who do good.

Thus do We recompense those who do good.

Thus do We recompense those who do good.

So We forgave him that;

Such is the presumption of those who disown;

This is surely true: such is the quarrel of the people of the Fire.

that is God, your Guardian; to Him belongs the dominion;

is it not so: that is the manifest loss."

it is by this that God frightens His obedient ones:

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

that is the guidance of God, by which He guides whom He wills;

such is the recompense of those who do good, so that God may cover for them the worst of what they did, and recompense them with their reward, according to the most beautiful of what they used to do.

there are surely in that signs for a people who reflect.

There are surely in that signs for a people who believe.

Thus did the word of your Guardian prove true against those who disown: they are the companions of the Fire.

and that is the immense triumph."

That is because, when God alone was invoked, you disowned, and when something was associated with Him, you believed;

That was because their messengers used to bring them clear proofs, but they disowned; so God seized them:

thus does God send astray whoever is excessive, full of doubt —

Thus does God stamp the core of every proud tyrant."

Thus was the evil of his deed made appealing to Fir'awn, and he was barred from the way;

That is God, your Guardian,

Thus are turned away those who used to stubbornly reject the signs of God.

that is God, your Guardian;

Thus does God send astray those who disown.

That is for having rejoiced on the earth without right, and for having strutted;

That is the Guardian of all beings.

That is the measure set by the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing.

And that is the presumption you formed about your Guardian; it has caused your fall, and you have found yourselves among the losers.

That is the recompense of the enemies of God: the Fire;

Thus God, the All-Powerful, the Wise, reveals to you — as He did to those before you.

Thus have We revealed to you a flawless Recitation, that you may warn the metropolis of cities and those around it, and warn of the Day of Reunion, about which there is no doubt:

That is God, my Guardian;

For this, then, call and stand straight as you have been commanded, and do not follow their emotions.

that is the great favor.

That is the good news God gives to His obedient ones who have believed and done sound deeds.

If He wills, He stills the wind, and they stay becalmed upon its surface — surely in that are signs for every very patient, very grateful one — or He delivers them to disaster because of what they have earned, while overlooking much,

And whoever is patient and forgives, that is surely among the matters requiring resolve.

Thus have We revealed to you an Influx emanating from Our command;

thus will you be brought forth;

They have no knowledge of that;

Thus We never sent, before you, a warner into a city, without its affluent ones saying: "We indeed found our ancestors upon a way, and it is on their footsteps that we model ourselves."

And all that is nothing but the enjoyment of the present life;

Thus.

That is the immense triumph.

There are surely in that signs for a people who reflect.

They have no knowledge of that,

that is the manifest triumph.

"That is because you took the signs of God in mockery, and the present life deluded you."

Thus do We recompense the severed people.

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

That is because those who disown follow falsehood, while those who believe follow the truth from their Guardian.

Thus does God multiply for mankind their examples.

That is so. And had God willed, He would have helped Himself against them,

That is because they detested what God sent down, so He voided their works.

That is because God is the nearest Guarantor of those who believe, while those who disown have no nearest guarantor.

That is because they have said to those who detest what God has sent down: "We will defer to you in part of the matter."

That is because they followed what displeased God and detested His good pleasure, so He voided their works.

God is All-Knowing, Wise — so that He may admit the believing men and the believing women into gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally, and cover their bad deeds; that is, with God, an immense triumph — and so that He may punish the hypocrites, men and women, and the associators, men and women, who form an evil presumption about God.

You rather presumed that the messenger and the believers would never return to their own people, and this was embellished in your cores; you formed an evil presumption, and you were a blighted people.

Thus has God said before."

He knew what you did not know, and He appointed, before that, a near opening.

That is their example in the Tawrah.

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."

Such will be the coming forth.

this is what you used to shun.

this is the Day of the Threat.

This is the Day of eternity.

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

this is the Day of the coming forth.

that is a gathering easy for Us.

They were, before that, among those who do good.

They said: "Thus has your Guardian said.

So it was:

And there is indeed, for those who did wrong, a punishment short of that,

That is the extent of their knowledge.

Thus do We recompense whoever is grateful.

They were before that among the affluent.

That is the immense triumph.

That is the favor of God, which He grants to whom He wills.

That is indeed easy for God — so that you do not lament for what you have missed, nor rejoice in what has come to you.

This is what you are exhorted by.

This, so that you may believe in God and His messenger.

There is no secret talk among three but He is their fourth, nor among five but He is their sixth, nor fewer nor more than that but He is with them wherever they are.

That is better for you, and cleaner.

That is because they set themselves in breach against God and His messenger.

That is because they are a people who do not understand.

That is because they are a people who do not reason.

And that is the recompense of the wrongdoers.

That is the judgment of God; He judges between you.

O you who have believed! Shall I point you to a trade that will save you from a painful punishment? You believe in God and His messenger, and strive in the way of God with your goods and your Selves — that is better for you, if you knew. He will forgive you your offenses and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow, and wholesome dwellings in Gardens of permanence.

That is the immense triumph.

That is the favor of God, which He grants to whom He wills.

That is better for you, if you knew.

That is because they believed, then disowned; so their cores were stamped, and they do not understand.

And whoever does that — those are the losers.

That is because their messengers used to come to them with clear proofs, but they said: "Shall humans guide us?"

And that is easy for God."

The Day He will bring you together for the Day of Reunion — that is the Day of Mutual Deception.

That is the immense triumph.

You have no idea: perhaps God will give rise, after that, to something.

This is what whoever believes in God and the Last Day is exhorted by.

That is God's command, which He has sent down to you.

and the Agents, moreover, are his support.

And do not defer to every contemptible oath-monger, stinging slanderer, spreader of slander, hinderer of good, crosser of limits, transgressor, coarse and, moreover, a social parasite — because he has goods and sons. When Our signs are recited to him, he says: "Legends of the ancients!"

Such is the punishment.

Ask them which of them stands guarantor for that.

but whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the ones who cross the limits;

That is the Day which they had been promised.

And among us are those who are sound, and among us those who are less so:

Then, when the trumpet is sounded, that Day will be a difficult day, not easy for the disowners.

Thus does God send astray whom He wills and guide whom He wills.

Is that One not able to bring the dead back to life?

So God has protected them from the ill of that Day and has made them meet radiance and elation.

Thus do We deal with the severed.

Thus do We recompense those who do good.

That is the True Day.

Surely, in that is a lesson for whoever dreads.

And the earth, after that, He made it hatch forth: He brought forth from it its water and its pasture, and the mountains, He anchored them — as enjoyment for you and your cattle.

And for this let the competitors compete.

That is the great triumph.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the dawn! By ten nights! By the even, and the odd! By the night when it ebbs away! Is there in that a swearing for one who has restraint?

And that is the Law of uprightness.

That is for whoever dreads his Guardian.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By those that cross the limits, panting, that strike the spark through their clashes, that launch the assault in the morning, stirring up the dust, and plunging thereby into the heart of a host! The human being is surely, toward his Guardian, rebelliously ungrateful, and he is surely himself a witness to that, and for the love of the good he is surely vehement.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Have you seen the one who denies the Due? He is the one who roughly pushes away the orphan, and does not urge the feeding of the destitute.