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25. "The Criterion"
  
     
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 Blessed is He Who has revealed unto His servant the Criterion of right and wrong, that he may be a warner to the peoples.
 
2.
 He unto Whom belongs the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth, He has chosen no son nor has He any partner in the Sovereignty. He has created everything and has meted out for it a measure.
 
3.
 Yet they choose beside Him other gods who create nothing but are themselves created, and possess not hurt nor profit for themselves, and possess not death nor life, nor power to raise the dead.
 
4.
 Those who disbelieve say: This is nothing but a lie that he has invented, and other people have helped him with it, so that they have produced a slander and a lie.
 
5.
 And they say: Fables of the men of old which he has had written down so that they are dictated to him morn and evening.
 
6.
 Say unto them, O Muhammad: He who knows the secret of the heavens and the earth has revealed it. Behold! He ever is Forgiving, Merciful.
 
7.
 And they say: What disturbs this messenger of Allah that he eateth food and walketh in the markets? Why is not an angel sent down unto him, to be a warner with him.
 
8.
 Or why is not treasure thrown down unto him, or why has he not a paradise from whence to eat? And the evil-doers say: Ye are but following a man bewitched.
 
9.
 See how they make likenesses for thee, so that they are all astray and cannot find a road!
 
10.
 Blessed is He Who, if He will, will assign you better than all that - Gardens of One Heaven within which rivers flow - and will assign you mansions.
 
11.
 No, but they deny the coming of the Hour, and for those who deny the coming of the Hour We have prepared a flame.
 
12.
 When it seeth them from afar, they hear the crackling and the roar thereof.
 
13.
 And when they are flung into a narrow place thereof, chained together, they pray for destruction there.
 
14.
 Pray not that day for one destruction, but pray for many destructions!
 
15.
 Let it be said: Is that doom better or the Garden of Immortality which is promised unto those who ward off evil? It will be their reward and journey's end.
 
16.
 Therein abiding, they have all that they desire. It is for thy Lord a promise that must be fulfilled.
 
17.
 And on the day when He will assemble them and that which they worship instead of Allah and will say: Was it you who misled these my slaves or did they themselves wander from the way?
 
18.
 They will say: Be You Glorified! it was not for us to choose any protecting friends beside thee; but You didst give them and their fathers ease till they forgot the warning and became lost people.
 
19.
 Thus they will give you the lie regarding what you say, then you can neither avert the doom nor obtain help. And whoso among you doeth wrong, We shall make him taste great torment.
 
20.
 We never sent before you any messengers but Lo and Behold! they truly ate food and walked in the markets. And We have appointed some of you a test for others: Will you be steadfast? And thy Lord is ever Seer.
 
21.
 And those who look not for a meeting with Us say: Why are angels not sent down unto us and Why do we not see our Lord! Assuredly they think too highly of themselves and are scornful with great pride.
 
22.
 On the day when they behold the angels, on that day there will be no good tidings for the guilty; and they will cry: A forbidding ban!
 
23.
 And We shall turn unto the work they did and make it scattered motes.
 
24.
 Those who have earned the Garden on that day will be better in their home and happier in their place of noonday rest;
 
25.
 A day when the heaven with the clouds will be rent asunder and the angels will be sent down, a grand descent.
 
26.
 The Sovereignty on that day will be the True Sovereignty belonging to the Beneficent One, and it will be a hard day for disbelievers.
 
27.
 On the day when the wrong-doer gnaweth his hands, he will say: Ah, would that I had chosen a way together with the messenger of Allah!
 
28.
 Alas for me! Ah, would that I had never taken such an one for friend!
 
29.
 He truly led me astray from the Reminder after it had reached me. Satan was ever man's deserter in the hour of need.
 
30.
 And the messenger says: O my Lord! Behold! mine own people make this Qur'an of no account.
 
31.
 Even so have We appointed unto every prophet an opponent from among the guilty; but Allah sufficeth for a Guide and Helper.
 
32.
 And those who disbelieve say: Why is the Qur'an not revealed unto him all at once? It is revealed thus that We may strengthen thy heart therewith; and We have arranged it in right order.
 
33.
 And they bring you no likeness but We bring you the Truth as against it, and better than their likeness as argument.
 
34.
 Those who will be gathered on their faces unto hell: such are worse in plight and further from the right road.
 
35.
 We truly gave Moses the Scripture and placed with him his brother Aaron as henchman.
 
36.
 Then We said: Go together unto the people who have denied Our revelations. Then We destroyed them, a complete destruction.
 
37.
 And Noah's people, when they denied the messengers, We drowned them and made of them an omen for humanity. We have prepared a painful doom for evil-doers.
 
38.
 And the tribes of A'ad and Thamud, and the dwellers in Ar-Rass, and many generations in between.
 
39.
 Each of them We warned by examples, and each of them We brought to utter ruin.
 
40.
 And indeed they have passed by the township whereon was rained the fatal rain. Can it be that they have not seen it? No, but they hope for no resurrection.
 
41.
 And when they see you O Messenger they treat you only as a jest saying: Is this he whom Allah sends as a messenger?
 
42.
 He would have led us far away from our gods if we had not been staunch to them. They will know, when they behold the doom of their own making, who is more astray as to the road.
 
43.
 Have you seen him who chooses for his god his own lust? would you then be guardian over him?
 
44.
 Or deemest you that most of them hear or understand? They are but as the cattle - nay, but they are farther astray?
 
45.
 Have you not seen how thy Lord has spread the shade - And if He willed He could have made it still - then We have made the sun its pilot;
 
46.
 Then We withdraw it unto Us, a gradual withdrawal?
 
47.
 And it is He who maketh night a covering for you, and sleep repose, and maketh day a resurrection.
 
48.
 And it is He who sends the winds, glad tidings heralding His mercy, and We send down purifying water from the sky,
 
49.
 That We may give life thereby to a dead land, and We give many beasts and men that We have created to drink thereof.
 
50.
 And truly The Lord have repeated it among them that they may remember, but most of humanity begrudge anyway can except ingratitude.
 
51.
 If We willed, We could raise up a warner in every village.
 
52.
 So obey not the disbelievers, but strive against them herewith with a great endeavour.
 
53.
 And it is He who has given independence to the two seas though they meet; one palatable, sweet, and the other saltish, bitter; and has set a bar and a forbidding ban between them.
 
54.
 And it is He who has created man from water, and has appointed for him kindred by blood and kindred by marriage; for thy Lord is ever Powerful.
 
55.
 Yet they worship instead of Allah that which can neither benefit them nor hurt them. The disbeliever was ever a partisan against his Lord.
 
56.
 And We have sent you O Messenger only as a bearer of good tidings and a warner.
 
57.
 Let it be said: I ask of you no reward for this, except that whoso will may choose a way unto his Lord.
 
58.
 And trust you in the Living One Who dieth not, and hymn His praise. He sufficeth as the Knower of His servants's sins,
 
59.
 Who created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in moments of time, then He mounted the Throne. The Beneficent! Ask anyone informed concerning Him!
 
60.
 And when it is said unto them: Adore the Beneficent! they say: And what is the Beneficent? Are we to adore whatever you Muhammad biddest us? And it increases aversion in them.
 
61.
 Blessed be He Who has placed in the heaven mansions of the stars, and has placed therein a great lamp and a moon giving light!
 
62.
 And it is He who has appointed night and day in succession, for him who desires to remember, or desires thankfulness.
 
63.
 The faithful slaves of the Beneficent are they who walk upon the earth modestly, and when the foolish ones address them answer: Peace;
 
64.
 And who spend the night before their Lord, prostrate and standing,
 
65.
 And who say: Our Lord! Avert from us the doom of hell; Lo and Behold! the doom thereof is anguish;
 
66.
 Behold! it is wretched as abode and station;
 
67.
 And those who, when they spend, are neither prodigal nor grudging; and there is ever a firm station between the two;
 
68.
 And those who cry not unto any other god along with Allah, nor take the life which Allah has forbidden except in course of justice, nor commit adultery - and whoso doeth this shall pay the penalty;
 
69.
 The doom will be doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein disdained for ever;
 
70.
 Save him who repenteth and believeth and does righteous work; as for such, Allah will change their evil deeds to good deeds. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.
 
71.
 And whosoever repenteth and doeth good, he truly repenteth toward Allah with true repentance -
 
72.
 And those who will not witness vanity, but when they pass near senseless play, pass by with dignity.
 
73.
 And those who, when they are reminded of the revelations of their Lord, fall not deaf and blind thereat.
 
74.
 And who say: Our Lord! Promise us comfort of our wives and of our offspring, and make us patterns for all those who ward off evil.
 
75.
 They will be awarded the high place forasmuch as they were steadfast, and they will meet therein with welcome and the ward of peace,
 
76.
 Abiding there for ever. Happy is it as abode and station!
 
77.
 Say O Muhammad, unto the disbelievers: My Lord would not concern Himself with you but for your prayer. But now you have denied the Truth, Therefore there will be judgment.
 
   
 
 

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