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41. "Revelations Well Expounded"
  
     
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 Ha. Mim.  
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 A revelation from the Beneficent, the Merciful,
 
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 A Scripture of which the verses are expounded, a Lecture in simple language that people may understand.
 
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 Good tidings and a warning. But most of them turn away so that they hear not.
 
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 And they say: Our hearts are protected from that unto which you O Messenger callest us, and in our ears there is a deafness, and between us and you there is a veil. Act, then. Behold! we also shall be acting.
 
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 Say unto them O Muhammad: I am only a mortal like you. It is inspired in me that your God is One God, Therefore take the straight path unto Him and seek forgiveness of Him. And woe unto the idolaters,
 
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 Who give not the poor-due, and who are disbelievers in the Hereafter.
 
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 Behold! as for those who believe and do good works, for them is a reward enduring.
 
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 Say O Muhammad, unto the idolaters: Disbelieve you truly in Him Who created the earth in two Days, and ascribe you unto Him rivals? He and none else is the Lord of the Worlds.
 
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 He placed therein firm hills rising above it, and blessed it and measured therein its sustenance in four Days, alike for all who ask;
 
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 Then turned He to the heaven when it was smoke, and said unto it and unto the earth: Come both of you, willingly or loth. They said: We come, obedient.
 
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 Then He ordained them several different heavens in mere moments of time and inspired in each heaven its mandate; and We decked the nether heaven with lamps, and rendered it inviolable. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Knower.
 
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 But if they turn away, then say: I warn you of a thunderbolt like the thunderbolt which fell of old upon the tribes of A'ad and Thamud;
 
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 When their messengers came unto them from before them and behind them, saying: Worship none but Allah! they said: If our Lord had willed, He surely would have sent down angels unto us, so Lo and Behold! we are disbelievers in that wherewith you have been sent.
 
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 As for A'ad, they were arrogant in the land without right, and they said: Who is mightier than us in power? Could they not see that Allah Who created them, He was mightier than them in power? And they denied Our revelations.
 
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 Therefore We let loose on them a raging wind in evil days, that We might make them taste the torment of disgrace in the life of the world. And truly the doom of the Hereafter will be more shameful, and they will not be helped.
 
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 And as for Thamud, We gave them guidance, but they preferred blindness to the guidance, so the bolt of the doom of humiliation overtook them because of what they used to earn.
 
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 And We delivered those who believed and used to keep their duty to Allah.
 
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 And make mention of the day when the enemies of Allah are gathered unto the Fire, they are driven on
 
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 Till, when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their skins testify against them as to what they used to do.
 
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 And they say unto their skins: Why testify you against us? They say: Allah has given us speech Who gives speech to all things, and Who created you at the first, and unto Whom you are returned.
 
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 Ye did not hide yourselves lest your ears and your eyes and your skins should testify against you, but you deemed that Allah knew not much of what you did.
 
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 That, your thought which you did think about your Lord, has ruined you; and you find yourselves this day among the lost.
 
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 And though they are resigned, yet the Fire is still their home; and if they ask for favour, yet they are not of those unto whom favour can be shown.
 
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 And We assigned them comrades in the world, who made their present and their past fairseeming unto them. And the Word concerning nations of the spirits and humanity who passed away before them has effect for them. Behold! they were ever losers.
 
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 Those who disbelieve say: Heed not this Qur'an, and drown the hearing of it; haply you may conquer.
 
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 But truly We shall cause those who disbelieve to taste an awful doom, and truly We shall requite them the worst of what they used to do.
 
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 That is the reward of Allah's enemies: the Fire. Therein is their immortal home, payment forasmuch as they denied Our revelations.
 
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 And those who disbelieve will say: Our Lord! Show us those who beguiled us of the spirits and humanity. We will place them underneath our feet that they may be among the nethermost.
 
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 Behold! those who say: Our Lord is Allah, and afterward are upright, the angels descend upon them, saying: Fear not nor grieve, but hear good tidings of the paradise which you are promised.
 
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 We are your protecting friends in the life of the world and in the Hereafter. There you will have all that your souls desire, and there you will have all for which you pray.
 
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 A gift of welcome from One Forgiving, Merciful.
 
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 And who is better in speech than him who prays unto his Lord and doeth right, and says: Behold! I am of those who are muslims surrender unto Him.
 
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 The good deed and the evil deed are not alike. Repel the evil deed with one which is better, then Lo and Behold! he, between whom and you there was enmity will become as though he was a bosom friend.
 
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 But none is granted it except those who are steadfast, and none is granted it except the owner of great happiness.
 
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 And if a whisper from the devil reach you O Messenger then seek refuge in Allah. Behold! He is the Hearer, the Knower.
 
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 And of His omens are the night and the day and the sun and the moon. Adore not the sun not the moon; but adore Allah Who created them, if it is in truth Him Whom you worship.
 
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 But if they are too proud - still those who are with thy Lord glorify Him night and day, and tire not.
 
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 And of His omens is this: that you seest the earth lowly, but when We send down water thereon it thrilleth and grows. Behold! He Who quickens it is truly the Quickener of the Dead. Behold! He is Able to do all things.
 
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 Behold! those who distort Our revelations are not hid from Us. Is he who is hurled into the Fire better, or he who comes secure on the Day of Resurrection? Do what you will. Behold! He is Seer of what you do.
 
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 Behold! those who disbelieve in the Reminder when it comes unto them are guilty, for Lo and Behold! it is an unassailable Scripture.
 
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 Falsehood cannot come at it from before it or from behind it. It is a revelation from the Wise, the Owner of Praise.
 
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 Nothing is said unto you Muhammad except what was said unto the messengers before you. Behold! thy Lord is owner of forgiveness, and owner also of dire judgment.
 
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 And if We had appointed it a Lecture in a foreign tongue they would assuredly have said: If only its verses were expounded so that we might understand? What! A foreign tongue and an Arab? - Say unto them O Messenger: For those who believe it is a guidance and a healing; and as for those who disbelieve, there is a deafness in their ears, and it is blindness for them. Such are called to from afar.
 
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 And We truly gave Moses the Scripture, but there has been dispute concerning it; and but for a Word that had already gone forth from thy Lord, it would ere now have been judged between them; but Lo and Behold! they are in hopeless doubt concerning it.
 
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 Whoso doeth right it is for his soul, and whoso doeth wrong it is against it. And thy Lord is not at all a tyrant to His slaves.
 
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 Unto Him is referred all knowledge of the Hour. And no fruits burst forth from their sheaths, and no female carrieth or brings forth but with His knowledge. And on the day when He calls unto them: Where are now My partners? they will say: We confess unto Thee, not one of us is a witness for them.
 
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 And those to whom they used to cry of old have failed them, and they perceive they have no place of refuge.
 
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 Man tireth not of praying for good, and if ill toucheth him, then he is disheartened, desperate.
 
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 And truly, if We cause him to taste mercy after some hurt that has touched him, he will say: This is my own; and I deem not that the Hour will ever rise, and if I am brought back to my Lord, I surely shall be better off with Him - But We truly shall tell those who disbelieve all that they did, and We truly shall make them taste hard judgment.
 
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 When We show favour unto man, he withdraweth and turns aside, but when ill toucheth him then he aboundeth in prayer.
 
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 Bethink you: If it is from Allah and you reject it - Who is further astray than one who is at open feud with Allah?
 
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 We shall show them Our omens on the horizons and within themselves until it will be manifest unto them that it is the Truth. Does not thy Lord suffice, since He is Witness over all things?
 
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 How! Are they still in doubt about the meeting with their Lord? Behold! Is not He surrounding all things?
 
   
 
 

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