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36. "Ya Sin"
  
     
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 Ya Sin.  
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 By the wise Qur'an,
 
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 Behold! you are of those sent
 
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 On a straight path,
 
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 A revelation of the Mighty, the Merciful,
 
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 That you mayst warn a people whose fathers were not warned, so they are thoughtless.
 
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 Already has the judgment, for their infidelity proved true of most of them, for they believe not.
 
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 Behold! They have created their own chains, their own prison of discomfort in the afterlife.
  
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 And We have set a bar before them and a bar behind them, and thus have covered them so that they see not.
 
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 Whether you warn them or you warn them not, it is alike for them, for they believe not.
 
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 You warnest only him who follows the Reminder and fears the Beneficent in secret. To him bear tidings of forgiveness and a rich reward.
 
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 Behold! We it is Who bring the dead to life. We record that which they send before them, and their footprints. And all things We have kept in a clear Register.
 
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 make for them a likeness: The people of the city when those sent from Allah came unto them;
 
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 When We sent unto them two, and they denied them both, so We reinforced them with a third, and they said: Behold! we have been sent unto you.
 
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 They said: Ye are but mortals like unto us. The Beneficent has nothing revealed. Ye do but lie!
 
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 They answered: Our Lord knows that we are indeed sent unto you,
 
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 And our duty is but plain conveyance of the message.
 
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 The people of the city said: We augur ill of you. If you desist not, we shall surely stone you, and grievous torture will befall you at our hands.
 
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 They said: Your evil augury be with you! Is it because you are reminded of the truth? No, but you are forward people!
 
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 And there came from the uttermost part of the city a man running. He cried: O my people! Follow those who have been sent!
 
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 Follow those who ask of you no fee, and who are rightly guided.
 
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 For what cause should I not serve Him Who has created me, and unto Whom you will be brought back?
 
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 Shall I take other gods in place of Him when, if the Beneficent should wish me any harm, their intercession will avail me nothing, nor can they save?
 
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 Then truly I should be in error manifest.
 
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 Behold! I have believed in your Lord, so hear me!
 
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 It was said unto him: Enter paradise. He said: Would that my people knew
 
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 With what munificence my Lord has pardoned me and made me of the honoured ones!
 
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 We sent not down against his people after him a host from heaven, nor do We ever send.
 
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 It was but one Shout, and Lo and Behold! they were extinct.
 
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 Ah, the anguish for the servants! Never came there unto them a messenger but they did mock him!
 
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 Have they not seen how many generations We destroyed before them, which indeed returned not unto them;
 
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 But all, without exception, will be brought before Us.
 
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 A token unto them is the dead earth. We revive it, and We bring forth from it grain so that they eat thereof;
 
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 And We have placed therein gardens of the date-palm and grapes, and We have caused springs of water to gush forth therein,
 
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 That they may eat of the fruit thereof, and their hands made it not. Will they not, then, give thanks?
 
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 Glory be to Him Who created all the sexual pairs, of that which the earth grows, and of themselves, and of that which they know not!
 
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 A token unto them is night. We strip it of the day, and Lo and Behold! they are in darkness.
 
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 And the sun runneth on unto a resting-place for him. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise.
 
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 And for the moon We have appointed mansions till she return like an old shrivelled palm-leaf.
 
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 It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit.
 
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 And a token unto them is that We bear their offspring in the laden ship,
 
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 And have created for them of the like thereof whereon they ride.
 
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 And if We will, We drown them, and there is no help for them, neither can they be saved;
 
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 Unless by mercy from Us and as comfort for a while.
 
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 When it is said unto them: Beware of that which is before you and that which is behind you, that haply you may find mercy they are thoughtless.
 
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 Never came a token of the tokens of their Lord to them, but they did turn away from it!
 
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 And when it is said unto them: Spend of that wherewith Allah has provided you, those who disbelieve say unto those who believe: Shall we feed those whom Allah, if He willed, would feed? Ye are in nothing else than error manifest.
 
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 And they say: When will this promise be fulfilled, if you are truthful?
 
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 They await but one Shout, which will surprise them while they are disputing.
 
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 Then they cannot make bequest, nor can they return to their own people.
 
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 And the trumpet is blown and Lo and Behold! from the graves they hie unto their Lord,
 
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 Crying: Woe upon us! Who has raised us from our place of sleep? This is that which the Beneficent did promise, and the messengers spoke truth.
 
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 It is but one Shout, and behold them brought together before Us!
 
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 This day no soul is wronged in anyway can; nor are you requited anyway can except what you used to do.
 
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 Behold! those who merit paradise this day are happily employed,
 
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 They and their wives, in pleasant shade, on thrones reclining;
 
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 Theirs the fruit of their good deeds and theirs all that they ask;
 
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 The word from a Merciful Lord for them is: Peace!
 
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 But avaunt you, O you guilty, this day!
 
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 Did I not charge you, O you sons of Adam, that you worship not the devil - Behold! he is your open foe! -
 
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 But that you worship Me? That was the right path.
 
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 Yet he has led astray of you a great multitude. Had you then no sense?
 
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 This is hell which you were promised if you followed him.
 
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 Burn therein this day for that you disbelieved.
 
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 This day We seal up their mouths, and their hands speak out to Us and their feet bear witness as to what they used to earn.
 
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 And had We willed, We truly could have quenched their eyesight so that they should struggle for the way. Then how could they have seen?
 
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 And had We willed, We truly could have fixed them in their place, making them powerless to go forward or turn back.
 
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 He whom we bring unto old age, We reverse him in creation making him go back to weakness after strength. Have you then no sense?
 
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 And We have not taught him Muhammad poetry, nor is it meet for him. This is nothing else than a Reminder and a Lecture making plain,
 
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 To warn whosoever liveth, and that the word may be fulfilled against the disbelievers.
 
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 Have they not seen how We have created for them of Our handiwork the cattle, so that they are their owners,
 
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 And have subdued them unto them, so that some of them they have for riding, some for food?
 
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 Benefits and diverse drinks have they from them. Will they not then give thanks?
 
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 And they have taken other gods beside Allah, in order that they may be helped.
 
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 It is not in their power to help them; but they the worshippers are unto them a host in arms.
 
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 So let not their speech grieve you O Messenger. Behold! We know what they conceal and what proclaim.
 
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 Has not man seen that We have created him from a drop of seed? Yet Lo and Behold! he is an open opponent.
 
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 And he has makeed for Us a likeness, and has forgotten the fact of his creation, saying: Who will revive these bones when they have rotted away?
 
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 Let it be said: He will revive them Who produced them at the first, for He is Knower of every creation,
 
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 Who has appointed for you fire from the green tree, and behold! you kindle from it.
 
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 Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the like of them? Aye, that He is! for He is the All-Wise Creator,
 
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 But His command, when He intendeth a thing, is only that He says unto it: Be! and it is.
 
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 Therefore Glory be to Him in Whose hand is the dominion over all things! Unto Him you will be brought back.
 
     
   
 
 

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