Sura XXXII (32)
Adoration
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
Elif.
Lam. Mim. This Book is without a doubt a Revelation sent down from the Lord of
the Worlds.
Will
they say, He hath forged it? Nay, it is the truth from thy Lord that thou
mayest warn a people to whom no warner hath come before thee, that haply they
may be guided.
God it
is who hath created the Heavens and the Earth and all that is between them in
six days; then ascended his throne. Save Him you have no patron, and none to
plead for you. Will you not then reflect?
From
the Heaven to the Earth He governeth all things:
in the end shall they come up to him on a day whose length shall be a thousand
of such years as you reckon.
This
is He who knoweth the unseen and the seen; the Mighty, the Merciful,
Who
hath made everything which he hath created most good; and began the creation of
man with clay;
Then
ordained his progeny from germs of life, from sorry water:
Then
shaped him, and breathed of His Spirit into him, and gave you hearing and
seeing and hearts: what little thanks do you
return!
And
they say, "What! when we shall have laid hidden in the earth, shall we
become a new creation?"
32:10 Yea, they deny that they shall meet
their Lord.
Say: The angel of death who is charged with you shall
cause you to die: then shall you be returned
to your Lord.
Couldst
thou but see when the guilty shall droop their heads before their Lord, and
cry, "O our Lord! we have seen and we have heard:
return us then to life: we will do that which
is right. Verily we believe firmly!"
(Had
we pleased we had certainly given to every soul its guidance. But true shall be
the word which hath gone forth from me -- I will surely fill hell with Djinn
and men together.)
"Taste
then the recompense of your having forgotten the meeting with this your day.
We, too, we have forgotten you: taste then an
eternal punishment for that which you have wrought."
They
only believe in our signs, who, when mention is made of them, fall down in
adoration, and celebrate the praise of their Lord, and are not puffed up with
disdain:
Who,
as they raise them from their couches, call on their Lord with fear and desire,
and give alms of that with which we have supplied them.
No
soul knoweth what joy of the eye is reserved for the good in recompense of
their works.
Shall
he then who is a believer be as he who sinneth grossly? they shall not be held
alike.
As to
those who believe and do that which is right, they shall have gardens of
eternal abode as the meed of their works:
32:20 But at for those who grossly sin,
their abode shall be the fire: so oft as they
shall desire to escape out of it, back shall they be turned into it. And it
shall be said to them, Taste you the torment of the fire, which he treated as a
lie.
And we
will surely cause them to taste a punishment yet nearer at hand, beside the
greater punishment, that haply they may turn to us in penitence.
Who
acteth worse than he who is warned by the signs of his Lord, then turneth away
from them? We will surely take vengeance on the guilty ones.
We
heretofore gave the Book of the law to Moses:
have thou no doubt as to our meeting with him:
and we appointed it for the guidance of the children of Israel.
And we
appointed Imams from among them who should guide after our command when they
had themselves endured with constancy, and had firmly believed in our signs.
Now
thy Lord! He will decide between them on the day of resurrection as to the
subject of their disputes.
Is it
not notorious to them how many generations, through whose abodes they walk, we
have destroyed before them? Truly herein are signs:
will they not then hear?
See
they not how we drive the rain to some parched land and thereby bring forth
corn of which their cattle and themselves do not eat? Will they not then
behold?
They
say, "When will this decision take place? Tell us, if you are men of truth?"
Say: On the day of that decision, the faith of infidels
shall not avail them, and they shall have no further respite.
32:30 Stand aloof from them then, and wait
thou, for they too wait.