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29. "The Spider"
  
     
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 Alif. Lam. Mim.  
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 Do men imagine that they will be left at ease because they say, We believe, and will not be tested with affliction?
 
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 Behold! We tested those who were before you. Thus Allah knows those who are sincere, and knows those who feign.
 
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 Or do those who do ill-deeds imagine that they can outstrip Us? Evil for them is that which they decide.
 
5.
 Whoso looketh forward to the meeting with Allah let him know that Allah's reckoning is surely nigh, and He is the Hearer, the Knower.
 
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 And whosoever strives, strives only for himself, for Lo and Behold! Allah is altogether Independent of His creatures.
 
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 And as for those who believe and do good works, We shall remit from them their evil deeds and shall repay them the best that they did.
 
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 We have enjoined on man kindness to parents; but if they strive to make you join with Me that of which you have no knowledge, then obey them not. Unto Me is your return and I shall tell you what you used to do.
 
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 And as for those who believe and do good works, We truly shall make them enter in among the righteous.
 
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 Of humanity is he who says: We believe in Allah, but, if he be made to suffer for the sake of Allah, he mistakes the persecution of humanity for Allah's judgment; and then, if victory comes from thy Lord, will say: Behold! we were with you all the while. Is not Allah Best Aware of what is in the bosoms of His creatures?
 
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 Verily Allah knows those who believe, and truly He knows the hypocrites.
 
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 Those who disbelieve say unto those who believe: Follow our way of religion and we truly will bear your sins for you. They cannot bear anyway can of their sins. Behold! they truly are liars.
 
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 But they truly will bear their own loads and other loads beside their own, and they truly will be questioned on the Day of Resurrection concerning that which they invented.
 
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 And truly we sent Noah as Our messenger unto his people, and he continued with them for a thousand years except fifty years; and the flood engulfed them, for they were wrong-doers.
 
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 And We rescued him and those with him in the ship, and made of it an omen for the peoples.
 
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 And Abraham! Remember when he said unto his people of Ebla: Serve Allah, and keep your duty unto Him; that is better for you if you did but know.
 
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 Ye serve instead of Allah only idols, and you only invent a lie. Behold! those whom you serve instead of Allah own no provision for you. So seek your provision from Allah, and serve Him, and give thanks unto Him, for unto Him you will be brought back.
 
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 But if you deny, then nations have denied before you. The messenger is only to convey the message plainly.
 
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 See they not how Allah produceth creation, then reproduceth it? Behold! for Allah that is easy.
 
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 Say O Messenger: Travel in the land and see how He originated creation, then Allah brings forth the later growth. Behold! Allah is Able to do all things.
 
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 He judges whom He will and showeth mercy unto whom He will, and unto Him you will be turned.
 
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 Ye cannot escape from Him in the earth or in the sky, and beside Allah there is for you no friend or helper.
 
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 Those who disbelieve in the revelations of Allah and in their Meeting with Him, such have no hope of My mercy. For such there is a painful doom of their own choosing.
 
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 But the answer of his people was only that they said: "Kill him" or "Burn him." Then Allah saved him from the Fire. Behold! herein truly are omens for people who believe.
 
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 He said: Ye have chosen only idols instead of Allah. The love between you is only in the life of the world. Then on the Day of Resurrection you will deny each other and curse each other, and your abode will be the Fire, and you will have no helpers.
 
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 And Lot believed him, and said: Behold! I am a fugitive unto my Lord. Behold! He, only He, is the Mighty, the Wise.
 
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 And We bestowed on him Isaac and Jacob, and We established the prophethood and the Scripture among his seed, and We gave him his reward in the world, and Lo and Behold! in the Hereafter he truly is among the righteous.
 
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 And Lot! Remember when he said unto his people: Behold! you commit lewdness such as no creature did before you.
 
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 For come you not in unto males, and cut you not the road for travellers, and commit you not abomination in your meetings? But the answer of his people was only that they said: Bring Allah's doom upon us if you are a truthteller!
 
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 He said: My Lord! Give me victory over people who work corruption.
 
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 And when Our messengers brought Abraham the good news, they said: Behold! we are about to destroy the people of that township, for its people are wrong-doers.
 
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 He said: Behold! Lot is there. They said: We are best aware of who is there. We are to deliver him and his household, all except his wife, who is of those who stay behind.
 
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 And when Our messengers came unto Lot, he was troubled upon their account, for he could not protect them; but they said: Fear not, nor grieve! Behold! we are to deliver you and thy household, all except thy wife, who is of those who stay behind.
 
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 Behold! We are about to bring down upon the people of this township a fury from the sky because they are evil-livers.
 
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 And truly of that We have left a clear sign for people who have sense.
 
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 And unto Midian We sent Shu'eyb, their brother. He said: O my people! Serve Allah, and look forward to the Last Day, and do not evil, making mischief, in the earth.
 
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 But they denied him, and the dreadful earthquake took them, and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling place.
 
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 And the tribes of A'ad and Thamud! Their fate is manifest unto you from their ruined and deserted dwellings. Satan made their deeds seem fair unto them and so debarred them from the Way, though they were keen observers.
 
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 And Korah, Pharaoh and Haman! Moses came unto them with clear proofs of Allah's Sovereignty, but they were boastful in the land. And they were not winners in the race.
 
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 So We took each one in his sin; of them was he on whom We sent a hurricane, and of them was he who was overtaken by the Awful Cry, and of them was he whom We caused the earth to swallow, and of them was he whom We drowned. It was not for Allah to wrong them, but they wronged themselves.
 
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 The likeness of those who choose other patrons than Allah is as the likeness of the spider when she takes unto herself a house, and Lo and Behold! the frailest of all houses is the spider's house, if they but knew.
 
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 Behold! Allah knows what thing they invoke instead of Him. He is the Mighty, the Wise.
 
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 As for these likenesss, We make them for humanity, but none will grasp their meaning except the wise.
 
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 Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth. Behold! therein is indeed an omen for believers.
 
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 Recite that which has been inspired in you of the Scripture, and establish worship. Behold! worship preserveth from lewdness and iniquity, but truly remembrance of Allah is more important. And Allah knows what you do.
 
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 And argue not with the People of the Scripture unless it be in a way that is better, except with such of them as do wrong; and say: We believe in that which has been revealed unto us and revealed unto you; our God and your God is One, and unto Him we surrender.
 
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 In like manner We have revealed unto you the Scripture, and those unto whom We gave the Scripture aforetime will believe therein; and of these also there are some who believe therein. And none deny Our revelations except the disbelievers.
 
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 And you O Messenger wast not a reader of any scripture before it, nor didst you write it with thy right hand, for then might those have doubted, who follow falsehood.
 
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 But it is clear revelations in the hearts of those who have been given knowledge, and none deny Our revelations except wrong-doers.
 
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 And they say: Why are not omens sent down upon him from his Lord? Let it be said: omens are with Allah only, and I am but a plain warner.
 
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 Is it not enough for them that We have sent down unto you the Scripture which is read unto them? Behold! herein truly is mercy, and a reminder for people who believe.  
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 Say unto them, O Muhammad: Allah sufficeth for witness between me and you. He knows whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth. And those who believe in vanity and disbelieve in Allah, they it is who are the losers.
 
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 They bid you hasten on the doom of Allah. And if a term had not been appointed, the doom would assuredly have come unto them ere now. And truly it will come upon them suddenly when they perceive not.
 
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 They bid you hasten on the doom, when Lo and Behold! hell truly will encompass the disbelievers
 
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 On the day when the doom will overwhelm them from above them and from underneath their feet, and He will say: Taste what you used to do!
 
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 O my servants who believe! Behold! My earth is spacious. Therefore serve Me only.
 
57.
 Every soul will taste of death. Then unto Us you will be returned.
 
58.
 Those who believe and do good works, them truly We shall house in lofty dwellings of the Garden underneath which rivers flow. There they will dwell secure. How sweet the reward of the toilers,
 
59.
 Who persevere, and put their trust in their Lord!
 
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 And how many an animal there is that beareth not its own provision! Allah provideth for it and for you. He is the Hearer, the Knower.
 
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 And if you were to ask them: Who created the heavens and the earth, and constrained the sun and the moon to their appointed work? they would say: Allah. How then are they turned away?
 
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 Allah maketh the provision wide for whom He will of His servants, and straiteneth it for whom He will. Behold! Allah is Aware of all things.
 
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 And if you were to ask them: Who causes water to come down from the sky, and therewith reviveth the earth after its death? they truly would say: Allah. Let it be said: Praise be to Allah! But most of them have no sense.
 
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 This life of the world is but a pastime and a game. Behold! the home of the Hereafter - that is Life, if they but knew.
 
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 And when they mount upon the ships they pray to Allah, making their faith pure for Him only, but when He brings them safe to land, behold! they ascribe partners unto Him,
 
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 That they may disbelieve in that which We have given them, and that they may take their ease. But they will come to know.
 
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 Have they not seen that We have appointed a sanctuary immune from violence, while humanity are ravaged all around them? Do they then believe in falsehood and disbelieve in the bounty of Allah?
 
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 Who doeth greater wrong than he who inventeth a lie concerning Allah, or denies the truth when it comes unto him? Is not there a home in hell for disbelievers?
 
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 As for those who strive in Us, We surely guide them to Our paths, and Lo and Behold! Allah is with the good.
  
   
 
 

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