وَیاٰ قَوْمِ ماٰ لٖیٓ اَدْعُوكُمْ اِلَ
O my people! [Think,] what makes me invite you to deliverance, while you invite me toward the Fire? ﴾41﴿You invite me to defy Allah and to ascribe to Him partners of which I have no knowledge, while I call you to the All-mighty, the All-forgiver. ﴾42﴿Undoubtedly, that to which you invite me has no invitation in the world nor in the Hereafter, and indeed our return will be to Allah, and indeed it is the transgressors who will be inmates of the Fire. ﴾43﴿Soon you will remember what I tell you, and I entrust my affair to Allah. Indeed Allah watches His servants.’ ﴾44﴿Then Allah saved him from their evil schemes, while a terrible punishment besieged Pharaoh’s clan: ﴾45﴿the Fire, to which they are exposed morning and evening. On the day when the Hour sets in, Pharaoh’s clan will enter the severest punishment. ﴾46﴿When they argue in the Fire, the oppressed will say to the oppressors, ‘We used to follow you; will you avail us against any portion of the Fire?’ ﴾47﴿The oppressors will say, ‘We are all in it [together]; Allah has judged between [His] servants.’ ﴾48﴿Those who are in the Fire will say to the keepers of hell, ‘Invoke your Lord to lighten for us [at least] a day’s punishment.’ ﴾49﴿They will say, ‘Had not your apostles brought you manifest proofs?’ They will say, ‘Yes.’ They will say, ‘Then invoke [Him] yourselves.’ But the invocations of the faithless only go awry. ﴾50﴿Indeed We shall help Our apostles and those who have faith in the life of the world and on the day when the witnesses rise up, ﴾51﴿the day when the excuses of the wrongdoers will not benefit them, the curse will lie on them, and for them will be the ills of the [ultimate] abode. ﴾52﴿Certainly We gave guidance to Moses and We gave the Children of Israel the Book as a legacy, ﴾53﴿as guidance and admonition for those who possess intellect. ﴾54﴿So be patient! Allah’s promise is indeed true. Plead [Allah] for forgiveness of your sin, and celebrate the praise of your Lord morning and evening. ﴾55﴿Indeed those who dispute the signs of Allah without any authority that may have come to them—there is [an ambition for] greatness in their breasts, which they will never attain. So seek the protection of Allah; indeed, He is the All-hearing, the All-seeing. ﴾56﴿The creation of the heavens and the earth is surely more prodigious than the creation of mankind, but most people do not know. ﴾57﴿The blind one and the seer are not equal, neither are the evildoers and those who have faith and do righteous deeds. Little is the admonition that you take! ﴾58﴿Indeed the Hour is bound to come; there is no doubt in it. But most people do not believe. ﴾59﴿Your Lord has said, ‘Call Me, and I will hear you!’ Indeed those who are disdainful of My worship will enter hell in utter humiliation. ﴾60﴿It is Allah who made the night for you, that you may rest in it, and the day to provide visibility. Indeed Allah is gracious to mankind, but most people do not give thanks. ﴾61﴿That is Allah, your Lord, the creator of all things, there is no god except Him. Then where do you stray? ﴾62﴿Those who were used to impugning the signs of Allah are thus made to go astray. ﴾63﴿It is Allah who made for you the earth an abode and the sky a canopy. He formed you and perfected your forms, and provided you with all the good things. That is Allah, your Lord! Blessed is Allah, Lord of all the worlds! ﴾64﴿He is the Living One, there is no god except Him. So supplicate Him, putting exclusive faith in Him. All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of all the worlds. ﴾65﴿Say, ‘I have been forbidden to worship those whom you invoke besides Allah, as manifest proofs have come to me from my Lord, and I have been commanded to submit to the Lord of all the worlds.’ ﴾66﴿It is He who created you from dust, then from a drop of [seminal] fluid, then from a clinging mass, then He brings you forth as infants, then [He nurtures you] so that you may come of age, and then that you may become aged—though there are some of you who die earlier—and complete a specified term, and so that you may exercise your reason. ﴾67﴿It is He who gives life and brings death. When He decides on a matter, He just says to it, ‘Be!’ and it is. ﴾68﴿Have you not regarded those who dispute the signs of Allah, where they are being led away [from Allah’s way]? ﴾69﴿—Those who deny the Book and what we have sent with Our apostles. Soon they will know ﴾70﴿when they are dragged [with] iron collars and chains around their necks ﴾71﴿into scalding waters and then set aflame in the Fire. ﴾72﴿Then they will be told, ‘Where are they whom you used to worship as deities ﴾73﴿besides Allah?’ They will say, ‘They have forsaken us. No, we did not invoke anything before.’ That is how Allah leads the faithless astray. ﴾74﴿‘That [punishment] is because you used to boast unduly on the earth and because you used to strut. ﴾75﴿Enter the gates of hell, to remain in it [forever].’ Evil is the [final] abode of the arrogant. ﴾76﴿So be patient! Allah’s promise is indeed true. Whether We show you a part of what We promise them, or take you away [before that], [in any case] they will be brought back to Us. ﴾77﴿Certainly We have sent apostles before you. Of them are those We have recounted to you, and of them are those We have not recounted to you. An apostle may not bring any sign except by Allah’s permission. Hence, when Allah’s edict comes, judgment is made with justice, and it is thence that the falsifiers become losers. ﴾78﴿It is Allah who created the cattle for you that you may ride some of them, and some of them you eat; ﴾79﴿and there are [numerous] uses in them for you, and that over them you may satisfy any need that is in your breasts, and you are carried on them and on ships. ﴾80﴿He shows you His signs. So which of the signs of Allah do you deny? ﴾81﴿Have they not travelled over the land so that they may observe how was the fate of those who were before them? They were more numerous than them and were greater [than them] in power and with respect to the effects [they left] in the land. But what they used to earn did not avail them. ﴾82﴿When their apostles brought them manifest proofs, they boasted about the knowledge they possessed, but they were besieged by what they used to deride. ﴾83﴿Then, when they sighted Our punishment, they said, ‘We believe in Allah alone, and disavow what we used to take as His partners.’ ﴾84﴿But their faith was of no benefit to them when they sighted Our punishment—Allah’s precedent, which has passed among His servants, and it is thence that the faithless will be losers. ﴾85﴿Surah FussilatMakiha54In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.Ha, Meem. ﴾1﴿A [gradually] sent down [revelation] from the All-beneficent, the All-merciful, ﴾2﴿[this is] a Book whose signs have been elaborated for a people who have knowledge, an Arabic Quran, ﴾3﴿a bearer of good news and a warner. But most of them turn away [from it], [and] so they do not listen. ﴾4﴿They say, ‘Our hearts are in veils [which shut them off] from what you invite us to, and there is a deafness in our ears, and there is a curtain between us and you. So act [as your faith requires]; we too are acting [according to our own].’ ﴾5﴿Say, ‘I am just a human like you. It has been revealed to me that your God is the One God. So worship Him single-mindedly and plead to Him for forgiveness.’ And woe to the polytheists ﴾6﴿—those who do not pay the zakat and disbelieve in the Hereafter. ﴾7﴿As for those who have faith and do righteous deeds, there will be an everlasting reward for them. ﴾8﴿
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