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43. "The Embellishment"
  
     
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 Ha. Mim.  
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 By the Scripture which maketh plain,
 
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 Behold! We have appointed it a Lecture, in Arabic that haply you may understand.
 
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 And Behold! in the Source of Decrees, which We possess, it is indeed sublime, decisive.
 
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 Shall We utterly ignore you because you are a wanton people?
 
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 How many a prophet did We send among the men of old!
 
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 And never came there unto them a prophet but they used to mock him.
 
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 Then We destroyed men mightier than these in prowess; and the example of the men of old has gone before them.
 
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 And if you Muhammad ask them: Who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely answer: The Mighty, the Knower created them;
 
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 Who made the earth a resting-place for you, and placed roads for you therein, that haply you may find your way;
 
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 And Who sends down water from the sky in due measure, and We revive a dead land therewith. Even so will you be brought forth;
 
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 He Who created all the pairs, and appointed for you ships and cattle whereupon you ride.
 
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 That you may mount upon their backs, and may remember your Lord's favour when you mount thereon, and may say: Glorified be He Who has subdued these unto us, and we were not capable of subduing them;
 
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 And Lo and Behold! unto our Lord we surely are returning.
 
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 And they allot to Him a portion of His servants! Behold! man is truly a mere ingrate.
 
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 Or chooses He children that He has created, and honoureth He you with progeny?
 
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 And if one of them has tidings of that which he likeneth to the Beneficent One, his countenance becomes black and he is full of inward rage.
 
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 Liken they then to Allah that which is bred up in outward show, and in dispute cannot make itself plain?
 
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 And they make the angels, who are the servants of the Beneficent, less than they are. Did they witness their creation? Their testimony will be recorded and they will be questioned.
 
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 And they say: If the Beneficent One had so willed, we should not have worshipped them. They have no knowledge whatsoever of that. They do but guess.
 
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 Or have We given them any scripture before this Qur'an so that they are holding fast thereto?
 
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 No, for they say only: Behold! we found our fathers following a religion, and we are guided by their footprints.
 
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 And even so We sent not a warner before you Muhammad into any township but its luxurious ones said: Behold! we found our fathers following a religion, and we are following their footprints.
 
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 And the warner said: What! Even though I bring you better guidance than that you found your fathers following? They answered: Behold! in what you bring we are disbelievers.
 
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 So We requited them. Then see the nature of the consequence for the rejecters!
 
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 And when King AB-RA-MU (Abraham) of Ebla said unto his father and his people: Behold! I am innocent of what you worship
 
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 Save Him Who did create me, for He will surely guide me.
 
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 And he made it a word enduring among his seed, that haply they might return.
 
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 No, but I let these and their fathers enjoy life only till there should come unto them the Truth and a messenger making plain.
 
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 And now that the Truth has come unto them they say: This is mere magic, and Lo and Behold! we are disbelievers therein.
 
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 And they say: If only this Qur'an had been revealed to some great man of the two towns?
 
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 Is it they who apportion thy Lord's mercy? We have apportioned among them their livelihood in the life of the world, and raised some of them above others in rank that some of them may take labour from others; and the mercy of thy Lord is better than the wealth that they amass.
 
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 And were it not that humanity would have become one community, We might well have appointed, for those who disbelieve in the Beneficent, roofs of silver for their houses and stairs of silver whereby to mount,
 
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 And for their houses doors of silver and couches of silver whereon to recline,
 
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 And ornaments of gold. Yet all that would have been but a provision of the life of the world. And the Hereafter with your Lord would have been for those who keep from evil.
 
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 And he whose sight is dim to the remembrance of the Beneficent, We assign unto him a devil who becomes his comrade;
 
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 And Lo and Behold! they surely turn them from the way of Allah, and yet they deem that they are rightly guided;
 
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 Till, when he comes unto Us, he says unto his comrade: Ah, would that between me and you there were the distance of the two horizons - an evil comrade!
 
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 And it profits you not this day, because you did wrong, that you will be sharers in the doom.
 
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 Canst you Muhammad make the deaf to hear, or cannot you guide the blind or him who is in error manifest?
 
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 And if We take you away, We surely shall take vengeance on them,
 
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 Or if We show you that wherewith We threaten them; for Lo and Behold! We have complete command of them.
 
43.
 So hold you fast to that which is inspired in you. Behold! you are on a right path.
 
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 And Lo and Behold! it is in truth a Reminder for you and for thy people; and you will be questioned.
 
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 And ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before thee: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped beside the Beneficent?
 
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 And truly The Lord sent Moses with Our revelations unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, and he said: I am a messenger of the Lord of the Worlds.
 
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 But when he brought them Our tokens, behold! they laughed at them.
 
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 And every token that We showed them was greater than its sister token, and We grasped them with the torment, that haply they might turn again.
 
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 And they said: O wizard! Entreat thy Lord for us by the pact that He has made with you. Behold! we truly will walk aright.
 
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 But when We eased them of the torment, behold! they broke their word.
 
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 And Pharaoh caused a proclamation to be made among his people saying: O my people! Is not mine the sovereignty of Egypt and these rivers flowing under me? Can you not then discern?
 
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 I am surely better than this fellow, who is despicable and can hardly make his meaning plain!
 
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 Why, then, have armlets of gold not been set upon him, or angels sent along with him?
 
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 Thus he persuaded his people to make light of Moses, and they obeyed him. Behold! they were a wanton people.
 
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 So, when they angered Us, We punished them and drowned them every one.
 
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 And We made them a thing past, and an example for those after them.
 
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 And when the son of Mary is quoted as an example, behold! the people laugh out,
 
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 And say: Are our gods better, or is he? They raise not the objection except for argument. No! but they are a contentious people.
 
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 He is nothing but a slave on whom We bestowed favour, and We made him a pattern for the Children of Israel.
 
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 And had We willed We could have set among you angels to be viceroys in the earth.
 
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 And Lo and Behold! truly there is knowledge of the Hour. So doubt you not concerning it, but follow Me. This is the right path.
 
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 And let not Satan turn you aside. Behold! he is an open enemy for you.
 
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 When Jesus came with clear proofs of Allah's Sovereignty, he said: I have come unto you with wisdom, and to make plain some of that concerning which you differ. So keep your duty to Allah, and obey me.
 
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 Behold! Allah, He is my Lord and your Lord. So worship Him. This is a right path.
 
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 But the factions among them differed. Then woe unto those who do wrong from the doom of a painful day.
 
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 Await they anyway can except the Hour, that it shall come upon them suddenly, when they know not?
 
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 Friends on that day will be foes one to another, except those who kept their duty to Allah.
 
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 O My faithful! For you there is no fear this day, nor is it you who grieve;
 
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 Ye who believed Our revelations and were self-surrendered,
 
70.
 Enter the Garden, you and your wives, to be made glad.
 
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 Therein are brought round for them trays of gold and goblets, and therein is all that souls desire and eyes find sweet. And you are immortal therein.
 
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 This is the Garden which you are made to inherit because of what you used to do.
 
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 Therein for you is fruit in plenty whence to eat.
 
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 Behold! the guilty are immortal a torment of their own creation.
 
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 It is not relaxed for them, and they despair therein.
 
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 We wronged them not, but they it was who did the wrong.
 
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 And they cry: O master! Let thy Lord make an end of us. He says: Behold! here you must remain until you are free of regret and self-abuse.
 
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 We truly brought the Truth unto you, but you were, most of you, averse to the Truth.
 
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 Or do they determine any thing against the Prophet? Behold! We also are determining.
 
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 Or deem they that We cannot hear their secret thoughts and private confidences? No, but Our envoys, present with them, do record.
 
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 Say O Messenger: If the Beneficent One has a son, then, I shall be first among the worshippers. But there is no son.
 
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 Glorified be the Lord of the heavens and the earth, the Lord of the Throne, from that which they ascribe unto Him!
 
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 So let them flounder in their talk and play until they meet the Day which they are promised.
 
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 And it is He who in the heaven is God, and in the earth God. He is the Wise, the Knower.
 
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 And blessed be He unto Whom belongs the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, and with Whom is knowledge of the Hour, and unto Whom you will be returned.
 
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 And those unto whom they cry instead of Him possess no power of intercession, saving him who beareth witness unto the Truth knowingly.
 
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 And if you ask them who created them, they will surely say: Allah. How then are they turned away?
 
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 And he says: O my Lord! Behold! these are a people who believe not.
 
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 Then bear with them O Messenger and say: Peace. But they will come to know.
 

 
 
 

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