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67. Al-Mulk - The Kingdom
| 1 | Blessed be He in whose hand is the Kingdom -- He is powerful over everything -- |
| 2 | who created death and life, that He might try you which of you is fairest in works; and He is the All-mighty, the All-forgiving -- |
| 3 | who created seven heavens one upon another. Thou seest not in the creation of the All-merciful any imperfection. Return thy gaze; seest thou any fissure? |
| 4 | Then return thy gaze again, and again, and thy gaze comes back to thee dazzled, aweary. |
| 5 | And We adorned the lower heaven with lamps, and made them things to stone Satans; and We have prepared for them the chastisement of the Blaze. |
| 6 | And for those who disbelieve in their Lord there awaits the chastisement of Gehenna -- an evil homecoming! |
| 7 | When they are cast into it they will hear it sighing, the while it boils |
| 8 | and wellnigh bursts asunder with rage. As often as a troop is cast into it, its keepers ask them, 'Came there no warner to you?'; |
| 9 | They say, 'Yes indeed, a warner came to us; but we cried lies, saying, "God has not sent down anything; you are only in great error. |
| 10 | They also say, 'If we had only heard, or had understood, we would not have been of the inhabitants of the Blaze.' |
| 11 | So they confess their sins. Curse the inhabitants of the Blaze! |
| 12 | Surely those who fear their Lord in the Unseen -- there awaits them forgiveness and a great wage. |
| 13 | Be secret in your speech, or proclaim it, He knows the thoughts within the breasts. |
| 14 | Shall He not know, who created? And He is the All-subtle, the All-aware. |
| 15 | It is He who made the earth submissive to you; therefore walk in its tracts, and eat of His provision; to Him is the Uprising. |
| 16 | Do you feel secure that He who is in heaven will not cause the earth to swallow you, the while it rocks? |
| 17 | Do you feel secure that He who is in heaven will not loose against you a squall of pebbles, then you shall know how My warning is? |
| 18 | Those that were before them also cried lies; then how was My horror! |
| 19 | Have they not regarded the birds above them spreading their wings, and closing them? Naught holds them but the All-merciful. Surely He sees everything. |
| 20 | Or who is this that shall be a host for you to help you, apart from the All-merciful? The unbelievers are only in delusion. |
| 21 | Or who is this that shall provide for you if He withholds His provision? No, but they persist in disdain and aversion. |
| 22 | What, is he who walks prone upon his face better guided than he who walks upright on a straight path? |
| 23 | Say: 'It is He who produced you, and appointed for you hearing and sight and hearts; little thanks you show!' |
| 24 | Say: 'It is He who scattered you in the earth, and unto Him you shall be mustered.' |
| 25 | They say, 'When shall this promise come to pass, if you speak truly?' |
| 26 | Say: 'The knowledge is with God; I am only a clear warner.' |
| 27 | Then, when they see it nigh at hand, the faces of the unbelievers will be vexed, and it will be said, 'This is what you were promised.' |
| 28 | Say: 'What think you? If God destroys me and those with me, or has mercy on us, then who will protect the unbelievers from a painful chastisement?' |
| 29 | Say: 'He is the All-merciful. We believe in Him, and in Him we put all our trust. Assuredly, you will soon, know who is in manifest error. |
| 30 | Say: 'What think you? If in the morning your water should have vanished into the earth, then who would bring you running water?' |