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39. "The Companies"
  
     
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 The revelation of the Scripture is from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise.
 
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 Behold! We have revealed the Scripture unto you Muhammad with truth; so worship Allah, making religion pure for Him only.
 
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 Surely pure religion is for Allah only. And those who choose protecting friends beside Him say: We worship them only that they may bring us near unto Allah. Behold! Allah will judge between them concerning that wherein they differ. Behold! Allah guides not him who is a liar, an ingrate.
 
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 If Allah had willed to choose a son, He could have chosen what He would of that which He has created. Be He Glorified! He is Allah, the One, the Absolute.
 
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 He has created the heavens and the earth with truth. He maketh night to succeed day, and He maketh day to succeed night, and He constraineth the sun and the moon to give service, each running on for an appointed term. Is not He the Mighty, the Forgiver?
 
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 He created you from one being, then from that being He made its mate; and He has provided for you of cattle eight kinds. He created you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, in a threefold gloom. Such is Allah, your Lord. His is the Sovereignty. There is no God except Him. How then are you turned away?
 
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 If you are thankless, yet Allah is Independent of you, though He is not pleased with thanklessness for His servants; and if you are thankful He is pleased therewith for you. No laden soul will bear another's load. Then unto your Lord is your return; and He will tell you what you used to do. Behold! He knows what is in the hearts of men.
 
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 And when some hurt toucheth man, he crieth unto his Lord, turning unto Him repentant. Then, when He granteth him a boon from Him he forgetteth that for which he cried unto Him before, and setteth up rivals to Allah that he may beguile men from his way. Say O Muhammad, unto such an one: Take pleasure in thy disbelief a while. Behold! you are of the owners of the Fire of regret and errored ways.
 
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 Is he who payeth adoration in the watches of the night, prostrate and standing, bewaring of the Hereafter and hoping for the mercy of his Lord, to be accounted equal with a disbeliever? Say unto them, O Muhammad: Are those who know equal with those who know not? But only men of understanding will pay heed.
 
10.
 Let it be said: O My servants who believe! Observe your duty to your Lord. For those who do good in this world there is good, and Allah's earth is spacious. Verily the steadfast will be paid their wages without stint.
 
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 Say O Messenger: Behold! I am commanded to worship Allah, making religion pure for Him only.
 
12.
 And I am commanded to be the first of those who are muslims surrender unto Him.
 
13.
 Let it be said: Behold! if I should disobey my Lord, I fear the doom of a tremendous Day.
 
14.
 Let it be said: Allah I worship, making my religion pure for Him only.
 
15.
 Then worship what you will beside Him. Let it be said: The losers will be those who lose themselves and their housepeople on the Day of Resurrection. Ah, that will be the manifest loss!
 
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 They have a frightful afterlife of regret and anguish of their own making. With this vision does Allah appeal His faithful. O My servants, Therefore respect Me!
 
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 And those who put away false gods lest they should worship them and turn to Allah in repentance, for them there are glad tidings. Therefore give good tidings O Messenger to My servants
 
18.
 Who hear advice and follow the best thereof. Such are those whom Allah guides, and such are men of understanding.
 
19.
 Is he on whom the word of doom is fulfilled to be helped, and cannot you O Messenger rescue him who is in the Fire of regret and anguish?
 
20.
 But those who keep their duty to their Lord, for them are lofty halls with lofty halls above them, built for them in One Heaven, beneath which rivers flow. It is a promise of Allah. Allah disturbs not His promise.
 
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 Have you not seen how Allah has sent down water from the sky and has caused it to penetrate the earth as watersprings, and afterward thereby produceth crops of diverse hues; and afterward they wither and you seest them turn yellow; then He maketh them chaff. Behold! herein truly is a reminder for men of understanding.
 
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 Is he whose bosom Allah has expanded for Al-Islam, so that he follows a light from his Lord, as he who disbelieve? Then woe unto those whose hearts are hardened against remembrance of Allah. Such are in plain error.
 
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 Allah has now revealed the fairest of statements, a Scripture consistent, wherein promises of reward are paired with threats of judgment, whereat does creep the flesh of those who fear their Lord, so that their flesh and their hearts soften to Allah's reminder. Such is Allah's guidance, wherewith He guides whom He will. And him whom Allah sends astray, for him there is no guide.
 
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 Is he then, who will strike his face against the awful doom upon the Day of Resurrection as he who doeth right? And it will be said unto the wrong-doers: Taste what you used to earn.
 
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 Those before them denied, and so the doom came on them whence they knew not.
 
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 Thus Allah made them taste humiliation in the life of the world, and truly the doom of the Hereafter will be greater if they did but know.
 
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 And truly The Lord have makeed for humanity in this Qur'an all kinds of likenesss, that haply they may reflect;
 
28.
 A Lecture in simple words that you may understand, containing no crookedness, that haply they may ward off evil.
 
29.
 Allah makeeth a likeness: A man in relation to whom are several part- owners, quarrelling, and a man belonging wholly to one man. Are the two equal in likeness? Praise be to Allah! But most of them know not.
 
30.
 Behold! you will die, and Lo and Behold! they will die;
 
31.
 Then Lo and Behold! on the Day of Resurrection, before your Lord you will dispute.
 
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 And who does greater wrong than he who telleth a lie against Allah, and denies the truth when it reacheth him? Will not the home of disbelievers be in hell?
 
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 And whoso brings the truth and believeth therein - Such are the dutiful.
 
34.
 They shall have what they will of their Lord's bounty. That is the reward of the good:
 
35.
 That Allah will remit from them the worst of what they did, and will pay them for reward the best they used to do.
 
36.
 Will not Allah defend His faithful? Yet they would frighten you with those beside Him. He whom Allah sends astray, for him there is no guide.
 
37.
 And he whom Allah guides, for him there can be no misleader. Is not Allah Mighty, Able to resolve the wrong?
 
38.
 And truly, if you should ask them: Who created the heavens and the earth? they will say: Allah. Let it be said: Bethink you then of those you worship beside Allah, if Allah willed some hurt for me, could they remove from me His hurt; or if He willed some mercy for me, could they restrain His mercy? Let it be said: Allah is my all. In Him do all the trusting put their trust.
 
39.
 Let it be said: O my people! Act in your manner. Behold! I too am acting. Thus you will come to know
 
40.
 Who it is unto whom comes a doom that will abase him, and on whom there falleth everlasting doom.
 
41.
 Behold! We have revealed unto you Muhammad the Scripture for humanity with truth. Then whosoever goes right it is for his soul, and whosoever strayeth, strayeth only to its hurt. And you are not a warder over them.
 
42.
 Allah receiveth men's souls at the time of their death, and that soul which dieth not yet in its sleep. He keepeth that soul for which He has ordained death and dismisseth the rest till an appointed term. Behold! herein truly are omens for people who take thought.
 
43.
 Or choose they intercessors other than Allah? Let it be said: What! Even though they have power over nothing and have no intelligence?
 
44.
 Let it be said: Unto Allah belongs all intercession. His is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth. And afterward unto Him you will be brought back.
 
45.
 And when Allah alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who believe not in the Hereafter are repelled, and when those whom they worship beside Him are mentioned, behold! they are glad.
 
46.
 Let it be said: O Allah! Creator of the heavens and the earth! Knower of the Invisible and the Visible! You will judge between Thy slaves concerning that wherein they used to differ.
 
47.
 And though those who do wrong possess all that is in the earth, and therewith as much again, they truly will seek to ransom themselves therewith on the Day of Resurrection from the awful doom; and there will appear unto them, from their Lord, that wherewith they never reckoned.
 
48.
 And the evils that they earned will appear unto them, and that whereat they used to scoff will surround them.
 
49.
 Now when hurt toucheth a man he crieth unto Us, and afterward when We have granted him a boon from Us, he says: Only by force of knowledge I obtained it. No, but it is a test. But most of them know not.
 
50.
 Those before them said it, yet all that they had earned availed them not;
 
51.
 But the evils that they earned smote them; and such of these as do wrong, the evils that they earn will strike them; they cannot escape.
 
52.
 Know they not that Allah enlargeth providence for whom He will, and straiteneth it for whom He will. Behold! herein truly are omens for people who believe.
 
53.
 Let it be said: O My faithful who have been prodigal to their own hurt! Despair not of the mercy of Allah, Who forgives all sins. Behold! He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.
 
54.
 Turn unto your Lord repentant, and surrender unto Him, before there come unto you the doom, when you cannot be helped.
 
55.
 And follow the better guidance of that which is revealed unto you from your Lord, before the doom comes on you suddenly when you know not,
 
56.
 Lest any soul should say: Alas, my grief that I was unmindful of Allah, and I was indeed among the scoffers!
 
57.
 Or should say: If Allah had but guided me I should have been among the dutiful!
 
58.
 Or should say, when it seeth the doom: Oh, that I had but a second chance that I might be among the righteous!
 
59.
 But now the answer will be: No, for My revelations came unto you, but you didst deny them and wast scornful and wast among the disbelievers.
 
60.
 And on the Day of Resurrection you Muhammad seest those who lied concerning Allah with their faces blackened. Is not the home of the scorners in hell of their own making?
 
61.
 And Allah delivereth those who ward off evil because of their deserts. Evil toucheth them not, nor do they grieve.
 
62.
 Allah is Creator of all things, and He is Guardian over all things.
 
63.
 His are the keys of the heavens and the earth, and they who disbelieve the revelations of Allah - such are they who are the losers.
 
64.
 Say O Muhammad, to the disbelievers: Do you bid me serve other than Allah? O you fools!
 
65.
 And truly it has been revealed unto you as unto those before you saying: If you ascribe a partner to Allah thy work will fail and you indeed will be among the losers.
 
66.
 No, but Allah must you serve, and be among the thankful!
 
67.
 And they esteem not Allah as He has the right to be esteemed, when the whole earth is His handful on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens are rolled in His right hand. Glorified is He and High Exalted from all that they ascribe as partner unto Him.
 
68.
 And the trumpet is blown, and all who are in the heavens and all who are in the earth swoon away, except him whom Allah willeth. Then it is blown a second time, and behold them standing waiting!
 
69.
 And the earth shineth with the light of her Lord, and the Book is set up, and the prophets and the witnesses are brought, and it is judged between them with truth, and they are not wronged.
 
70.
 And each soul is paid in full for what it did. And He is Best Aware of what they do.
 
71.
 And those who disbelieve are driven unto their own hell in troops till, when they reach it and the gates thereof are opened, and the warders thereof say unto them: Came there not unto you messengers of your own, reciting unto you the revelations of your Lord and warning you of the meeting of this your Day? they say: Yea, truly. But the word of doom of disbelievers is fulfilled.
 
72.
 It is said unto them: Enter you the gates of your hell to dwell therein. Thus hapless is the journey's end of the scorners.
 
73.
 And those who keep their duty to their Lord are driven unto the Garden in troops till, when they reach it, and the gates thereof are opened, and the warders thereof say unto them: Peace be unto you! Ye are good, so enter you the Garden of One Heaven of delight, to dwell therein;
 
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 They say: Praise be to Allah, Who has fulfilled His promise unto us and has made us inherit the land, sojourning in the Garden of One Heaven where we will! So bounteous is the wage of workers.
 
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 And you O Messenger seest the angels thronging round the Throne, hymning the praises of their Lord. And they are judged aright. And it is said: Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds!
 
   
 
 

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