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Al-Ahqaf
Wise.
them in Truth and for an appointed term.2 But those who disbelieve
have turned away from what they were warned against.3
beside Allah? Show me, which part of the earth they created? Or do they have
any share in creating the heavens? Bring to me any Scripture earlier than this
one, or any vestige of knowledge (in support of your belief) if you are truthful.4
others than Allah that cannot answer his call till the Day of Resurrection,5
the while they are not even conscious that callers are calling upon them?6
called upon will become the enemies to their votaries and will disown their
worship.7
about the Truth when it came to them: “This is plain sorcery.”8
(If so), tell them: “If I have fabricated it, then you have no power to protect
me from Allah's chastisement. He knows well the idle talk in which you indulge.
He suffices as a witness between me and you.0 He is Most Forgiving,
Most Merciful.”1
what shall be done with me or with you. I follow only what is revealed to me,
and I am nothing but a plain warner.”2
3 if this Qur'an were indeed from Allah and yet you rejected it?
And this even though a witness from the Children of Israel has testified to
the like of it. But he believed, while you waxed arrogant.4 Verily
Allah does not guide such wrong-doers to the Right Way.
Book, others would not have beaten us to its acceptance.”5 But since
they have not been guided to it, they will certainly say: “This is an old fabrication.”6
This Book, which confirms it, is in the Arabic tongue to warn the wrong-doers7
and to give good tidings to those who do good.
shall have nothing to fear nor to grieve.8
as a reward for their deeds.
bear him and in pain did she give birth to him. The carrying of the child to
his weaning is a period of thirty months.9 And when he is grown
to full maturity and reaches the age of forty, he prays: “My Lord, dispose me
that I may give thanks for the bounty that You have bestowed upon me and my
parents, and dispose me that I may do righteous deeds that would please You,0
and also make my descendants righteous. I repent to You, and I am one of those
who surrender themselves to You.”
deeds We overlook.1 They will be among the people of Paradise in
consonance with the true promise made to them.
I shall be resurrected, although myriad generations have passed away before
me (and not one of them was resurrected)?” The parents beseech Allah (and say
to their child): “Woe to you, have faith. Surely Allah's promise is true.” But
he says: “All this is nothing but fables of olden times.”
due. They will join the communities of humans and jinn that have preceded them.
Verily all of them will court utter loss.2
fully recompense them for their deeds. They shall not be wronged.3
they will be told: “You have exhausted your share of the bounties in the life
of the world, and you took your fill of enjoyments. So, degrading chastisement
shall be yours on this Day for you waxed arrogant in the earth without justification
and acted iniquitously.”4
'Ad. Hud warned his people beside the sand-dunes5 � and there have
been other warners before him and since his time � saying: “Serve none but Allah.
Verily I fear that the chastisement of an awesome day shall come upon you.”
bring upon us the scourge that you threaten us with. Do so if you are truthful.”
to you the Message that I have been sent with. But I see that you are an ignorant
people.”7
“This is a cloud that will bring much rain to us.” “By no means;8
it is what you had sought to hasten � a wind-storm bearing a grievous chastisement
nothing was left to be seen except their dwellings. Thus do We requite the wrong-doers.9
you.0 We had given them ears and eyes and hearts. But nothing availed
them � neither their ears, nor their eyes, nor their hearts, for they denied
the Signs of Allah.1 Then what they had mocked at encompassed them.
to them repeatedly and in diverse forms that they may eschew (their evil ways)
and return (to Allah).
that they would bring them nearer to Him, not come to their aid?2
Instead, they failed them. This was the end of the lie they had fabricated and
the false beliefs they had invented.
may listen to the Qur'an.3 When they reached the place (where you
were reciting the Qur'an), they said to one another: “Be silent (and listen).”
And when the recitation ended, they went back to their people as warners.
Moses, verifying the Scriptures revealed before it; it guides to the Truth and
to the Straight Way.4
believe in him. Allah will forgive your sins and will protect you from a grievous
chastisement.”5
Allah will not be able to frustrate Him on earth, nor will they have anyone
to protect them from Allah. Such people are in manifest error.
� and creating them did not wear Him out � has the power to bring the dead back
to life? Why not! He certainly has the power over everything.
Fire, they will be asked: “Is this not the Truth?” and they will answer “Yes,
by Our Lord (this is the Truth).” Allah will say: “Then suffer the chastisement
as a requital for your disbelieving.”
with firmness of resolve7 (before you) bore with patience, and do
not be hasty in their regard. The Day when they see what they had been warned
against they will feel as though they had remained in the world no more than
an hour of a day. (The Truth has been conveyed.) Will any, then, suffer perdition
except those who disobey?