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Qur'an, Sura 39
In the name of Allah, the
Beneficent, the Merciful.
[39.1] The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Mighty, the
Wise.
[39.2] Surely We have revealed to you the Book with the truth,
therefore serve Allah, being sincere to Him in obedience.
[39.3] Now, surely, sincere obedience is due to Allah (alone)
and (as for) those who take guardians besides Him, (saying), We
do not serve them save that they may make us nearer to Allah,
surely Allah will judge between them in that in which they
differ; surely Allah does not guide him aright who is a liar,
ungrateful.
[39.4] If Allah desire to take a son to Himself, He will surely
choose those He pleases from what He has created. Glory be to
Him: He is Allah, the One, the Subduer (of all).
[39.5] He has created the heavens and the earth with the truth;
He makes the night cover the day and makes the day overtake the
night, and He has made the sun and the moon subservient; each
one runs on to an assigned term; now surely He is the Mighty,
the great Forgiver.
[39.6] He has created you from a single being, then made its
mate of the same (kind), and He has made for you eight of the
cattle in pairs. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers-- a
creation after a creation-- in triple darkness; that is Allah
your Lord, His is the kingdom; there is no god but He; whence
are you then turned away?
[39.7] If you are ungrateful, then surely Allah is
Self-sufficient above all need of you; and He does not like
ungratefulness in His servants; and if you are grateful, He
likes it in you; and no bearer of burden shall bear the burden
of another; then to your Lord is your return, then will He
inform you of what you did; surely He is Cognizant of what is in
the breasts.
[39.8] And when distress afflicts a man he calls upon his Lord
turning to Him frequently; then when He makes him possess a
favor from Him, he forgets that for which he called upon Him
before, and sets up rivals to Allah that he may cause (men) to
stray off from His path. Say: Enjoy yourself in your
ungratefulness a little, surely you are of the inmates of the
fire.
[39.9] What! he who is obedient during hours of the night,
prostrating himself and standing, takes care of the hereafter
and hopes for the mercy of his Lord! Say: Are those who know and
those who do not know alike? Only the men of understanding are
mindful.
[39.10] Say: O my servants who believe! be careful of (your duty
to) your Lord; for those who do good in this world is good, and
Allah's earth is spacious; only the patient will be paid back
their reward in full without measure.
[39.11] Say: I am commanded that I should serve Allah, being
sincere to Him in obedience.
[39.12] And I am commanded that I shall be the first of those
who submit.
[39.13] Say: I fear, if I disobey my Lord, the chastisement of a
grievous day.
[39.14] Say: Allah (it is Whom) I serve, being sincere to Him in
my obedience:
[39.15] Serve then what you like besides Him. Say: The losers
surely are those who shall have lost themselves and their
families on the day of resurrection; now surely that is the
clear loss.
[39.16] They shall have coverings of fire above them and
coverings beneath them; with that Allah makes His servants to
fear, so be careful of (your duty to) Me, O My servants!
[39.17] And (as for) those who keep off from the worship of the
idols and turn to Allah, they shall have good news, therefore
give good news to My servants,
[39.18] Those who listen to the word, then follow the best of
it; those are they whom Allah has guided, and those it is who
are the men of understanding.
[39.19] What! as for him then against whom the sentence of
chastisement is due: What! can you save him who is in the fire?
[39.20] But (as for) those who are careful of (their duty to)
their Lord, they shall have high places, above them higher
places, built (for them), beneath which flow rivers; (this is)
the promise of Allah: Allah will not fail in (His) promise.
[39.21] Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the
cloud, then makes it go along in the earth in springs, then
brings forth therewith herbage of various colors, then it
withers so that you see it becoming yellow, then He makes it a
thing crushed and broken into pieces? Most surely there is a
reminder in this for the men of understanding.
[39.22] What! is he whose heart Allah has opened for Islam so
that he is in a light from his Lord (like the hard-hearted)?
Nay, woe to those whose hearts are hard against the remembrance
of Allah; those are in clear error.
[39.23] Allah has revealed the best announcement, a book
conformable in its various parts, repeating, whereat do shudder
the skins of those who fear their Lord, then their skins and
their hearts become pliant to the remembrance of Allah; this is
Allah's guidance, He guides with it whom He pleases; and (as
for) him whom Allah makes err, there is no guide for him.
[39.24] Is he then who has to guard himself with his own person
against the evil chastisement on the resurrection day? And it
will be said to the unjust: Taste what you earned.
[39.25] Those before them rejected (prophets), therefore there
came to them the chastisement from whence they perceived not.
[39.26] So Allah made them taste the disgrace in this world's
life, and certainly the punishment of the hereafter is greater;
did they but know!
[39.27] And certainly We have set forth to men in this Quran
similitudes of every sort that they may mind.
[39.28] An Arabic Quran without any crookedness, that they may
guard (against evil).
[39.29] Allah sets forth an example: There is a slave in whom
are (several) partners differing with one another, and there is
another slave wholly owned by one man. Are the two alike in
condition? (All) praise is due to Allah. Nay! most of them do
not know.
[39.30] Surely you shall die and they (too) shall surely die.
[39.31] Then surely on the day of resurrection you will contend
one with another before. your Lord.
[39.32] Who is then more unjust than he who utters a lie against
Allah and (he who) gives the lie to the truth when it comes to
him; is there not in hell an abode for the unbelievers?
[39.33] And he who brings the truth and (he who) accepts it as
the truth-- these are they that guard (against evil).
[39.34] They shall have with their Lord what they please; that
is the reward of the doers of good;
[39.35] So that Allah will do away with the worst of what they
did and give them their reward for the best of what they do.
[39.36] Is not Allah sufficient for His servant? And they seek
to frighten you with those besides Him; and whomsoever Allah
makes err, there is no guide for him.
[39.37] And whom Allah guides, there is none that can lead him
astray; is not Allah Mighty, the Lord of retribution?
[39.38] And should you ask them, Who created the heavens and the
earth? They would most certainly say: Allah. Say: Have you then
considered that what you call upon besides Allah, would they, if
Allah desire to afflict me with harm, be the removers of His
harm, or (would they), if Allah desire to show me mercy, be the
withholders of His mercy? Say: Allah is sufficient for me; on
Him do the reliant rely.
[39.39] Say: O my people! work in your place, surely I am a
worker, so you will come to know.
[39.40] Who it is to whom there shall come a punishment which
will disgrace him and to whom will be due a lasting punishment.
[39.41] Surely We have revealed to you the Book with the truth
for the sake of men; so whoever follows the right way, it is for
his own soul and whoever errs, he errs only to its detriment;
and you are not a custodian over them.
[39.42] Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and
those that die not during their sleep; then He withholds those
on whom He has passed the decree of death and sends the others
back till an appointed term; most surely there are signs in this
for a people who reflect.
[39.43] Or have they taken intercessors besides Allah? Say:
what! even though they did not ever have control over anything,
nor do they understand.
[39.44] Say: Allah's is the intercession altogether; His is the
kingdom of the heavens and the earth, then to Him you shall be
brought back.
[39.45] And when Allah alone is mentioned, the hearts of those
who do not believe in the hereafter shrink, and when those
besides Him are mentioned, lo! they are joyful.
[39.46] Say: O Allah! Originator of the heavens and the earth,
Knower of the unseen and the seen! Thou (only) judgest between
Thy servants as to that wherein they differ.
[39.47] And had those who are unjust all that is in the earth
and the like of it with it, they would certainly offer it as
ransom (to be saved) from the evil of the punishment on the day
of resurrection; and what they never thought of shall become
plain to them from Allah.
[39.48] And the evil (consequences) of what they wrought shall
become plain to them, and the very thing they mocked at shall
beset them.
[39.49] So when harm afflicts a man he calls upon Us; then, when
We give him a favor from Us, he says: I have been given it only
by means of knowledge. Nay, it is a trial, but most of them do
not know.
[39.50] Those before them did say it indeed, but what they
earned availed them not.
[39.51] So there befell them the evil (consequences) of what
they earned; and (as for) those who are unjust from among these,
there shall befall them the evil (consequences) of what they
earn, and they shall not escape.
[39.52] Do they not know that Allah makes ample the means of
subsistence to whom He pleases, and He straitens; most surely
there are signs in this for a people who believe.
[39.53] Say: O my servants! who have acted extravagantly against
their own souls, do not despair of the mercy of Allah; surely
Allah forgives the faults altogether; surely He is the Forgiving
the Merciful.
[39.54] And return to your Lord time after time and submit to
Him before there comes to you the punishment, then you shall not
be helped.
[39.55] And follow the best that has been revealed to you from
your Lord before there comes to you the punishment all of a
sudden while you do not even perceive;
[39.56] Lest a soul should say: O woe to me! for what I fell
short of my duty to Allah, and most surely I was of those who
laughed to scorn;
[39.57] Or it should say: Had Allah guided me, I would certainly
have been of those who guard (against evil);
[39.58] Or it should say when it sees the punishment: Were there
only a returning for me, I should be of the doers of good.
[39.59] Aye! My communications came to you, but you rejected
them, and you were proud and you were one of the unbelievers.
[39.60] And on the day of resurrection you shall see those who
lied against Allah; their faces shall be blackened. Is there not
in hell an abode for the proud?
[39.61] And Allah shall deliver those who guard (against evil)
with their achievement; evil shall not touch them, nor shall
they grieve.
[39.62] Allah is the Creator of every thing and He has charge
over every thing.
[39.63] His are the treasures of the heavens and the earth; and
(as for) those who disbelieve in the communications of Allah,
these it is that are the losers.
[39.64] Say: What! Do you then bid me serve others than Allah, O
ignorant men?
[39.65] And certainly, it has been revealed to you and to those
before you: Surely if you associate (with Allah), your work
would certainly come to naught and you would certainly be of the
losers.
[39.66] Nay! but serve Allah alone and be of the thankful.
[39.67] And they have not honored Allah with the honor that is
due to Him; and the whole earth shall be in His grip on the day
of resurrection and the heavens rolled up in His right hand;
glory be to Him, and may He be exalted above what they associate
(with Him).
[39.68] And the trumpet shall be blown, so all those that are in
the heavens and all those that are in the earth shall swoon,
except such as Allah please; then it shall be blown again, then
lo! they shall stand up awaiting.
[39.69] And the earth shall beam with the light of its Lord, and
the Book shall be laid down, and the prophets and the witnesses
shall be brought up, and judgment shall be given between them
with justice, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly.
[39.70] And every soul shall be paid back fully what it has
done, and He knows best what they do.
[39.71] And those who disbelieve shall be driven to hell in
companies; until, when they come to it, its doors shall be
opened, and the keepers of it shall say to them: Did not there
come to you apostles from among you reciting to you the
communications of your Lord and warning you of the meeting of
this day of yours? They shall say: Yea! But the sentence of
punishment was due against the unbelievers.
[39.72] It shall be said: Enter the gates of hell to abide
therein; so evil is the abode of the proud.
[39.73] And those who are careful of (their duty to) their Lord
shall be conveyed to the garden in companies; until when they
come to it, and its doors shall be opened, and the keepers of it
shall say to them: Peace be on you, you shall be happy;
therefore enter it to abide.
[39.74] And they shall say: (All) praise is due to Allah, Who
has made good to us His promise, and He has made us inherit the
land; we may abide in the garden where we please; so goodly is
the reward of the workers.
[39.75] And you shall see the angels going round about the
throne glorifying the praise of their Lord; and judgment shall
be given between them with justice, and it shall be said: All
praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
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