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67. Al-Mulk - The Kingdom
| 1 | BLESSED BE HE who holds the (reins of) Kingship in His hand, who has power over everything, |
| 2 | Who created death and life in order to try you to see who of you are best of deed. He is all-mighty and forgiving, |
| 3 | Who created the seven skies one above the other. Do you see any disproportion in the creations of Ar-Rahman? Turn your eyes again. Do you see any fissures? |
| 4 | Turn your eyes again and again. Your gaze turns back dazed and tired. |
| 5 | We have adorned the lowest sky with lamps, and made them missiles against the devils, for whom We have prepared a torment of most intense fire. |
| 6 | For those who believe not in their Lord there is the punishment of Hell; and what a wretched destination |
| 7 | When they are cast into it, they will hear it roar and raging |
| 8 | As though it would burst with fury. Every time a crowd is thrown into it, its wardens will ask: "Did no warner come to you?" |
| 9 | And they will answer: "Surely; a warner came to us, but we denied him, and said: 'God did not send down any thing; you are greatly deluded, in fact.'" |
| 10 | They will say: "If we had listened and been wise, we would not have been among the inmates of Hell." |
| 11 | So will they confess their guilt. Deprived (of all joys) will be the inmates of Hell. |
| 12 | For those who fear their Lord in secret is forgiveness and a great reward. |
| 13 | Whether you say a thing secretly or openly, He knows the innermost secrets of your hearts. |
| 14 | Can He who has created not know (His creation)? He is all-penetrating, all-aware. |
| 15 | It is He who made the earth subservient to you that you may travel all around it, and eat of things He has provided; and to Him will be your resurrection. |
| 16 | Are you so unafraid that He who is in Heaven will not open up the earth to swallow you, when it will begin to tremble? |
| 17 | Or have you become so unafraid that He who is in Heaven will not send a violent wind to shower stones at you? Then you will know the import of My commination! |
| 18 | Those before them had also denied. And how was My punishment then! |
| 19 | Do they not see the birds above them flying wings spread out or folded? Nothing holds them aloft but God. All things are within His purview. |
| 20 | What other army do you have to help you apart from Ar-Rahman? The unbelievers are surely lost in delusion. |
| 21 | Who is there to give you food in case He withholds His bounty? Yet they persist in rebellion and aversion. |
| 22 | Will he find the way who grovels flat on his face, or he who walks straight on the right path? |
| 23 | Say: "It is He who raised you and gave you ears and eyes and hearts. How little are the thanks you offer!" |
| 24 | Say: "It is He who dispersed you all over the earth, and to Him you will be gathered." |
| 25 | But they say: "When will this promise come to pass, if what you say is true?" |
| 26 | Say: "God alone has knowledge. My duty is only to warn you clearly." |
| 27 | When they realise it has come upon them, distraught will be the faces of unbelievers. They will be told: "This is what you asked for." |
| 28 | Say: "Just think: If God destroys me and those with me, or is benevolent to us, who will then protect the unbelievers from a painful doom?" |
| 29 | Say: "He is the benevolent; in Him do we believe, and in Him do we place our trust. You will now realise who is in manifest error." |
| 30 | Say: "Just think: If your water were to dry up in the morning who will bring you water from a fresh, flowing stream?" |