Sura XXXV (35)
The Creator, Or The Angels
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
35:1 Praise be to God, Maker of the Heavens
and of the Earth! Who employeth the angels as envoys, with pairs of wings, two,
three and four: He addeth to his creature what
He will! Truly God hath power for all things.
The
mercy which God layeth open for man, no one can keep back; and what He shall
keep back, none can afterwards send forth. And He is the Mighty, the Wise.
O men!
bear in mind the favour of God towards you. Is there a creator other than God,
who nourisheth you with the gifts of heaven and earth? There is no God but He!
How then are you turned aside from Him?
If
they treat thee as an impostor, then before thee have apostles been treated as
impostors. But to God shall all things return.
O men!
assuredly the promise of God is true: let not
then the present life deceive you: and let not
the Deceiver deceive you as to God.
Yes,
Satan is your foe. For a foe then hold him. He calleth his followers to him
that they may become inmates of the flame.
The
unbelievers -- for them a terrible punishment!
But
believers and doers of good works, for them is mercy, and a great reward!
Shall
he, the evil of whose deeds are so tricked out to him that he deemeth them
good, be treated like him who seeth things aright? Verily God misleadeth whom
He will, and guideth whom He will. Spend not thy soul in sights for them: God knoweth their doings
35:10 It is God who sendeth forth the winds
which raise the clouds aloft: then drive we
them on to some land dead from drought, and give life thereby to the earth
after its death. So shall be the resurrection.
If any
one desireth greatness, all greatness is in God. The good word riseth up to
Him, and the righteous deed will He exalt. But a severe punishment awaiteth the
plotters of evil things; and the plots of such will He render vain.
Moreover,
God created you of dust -- then of the germs of life -- then made you two sexes: and no female conceiveth or bringeth forth without
his knowledge; and the aged ageth not, nor is aught minished from man's age,
but in accordance with the Book. An easy thing truly is this to God.
Nor
are the two seas alike: the one fresh, sweet,
pleasant for drink, and the other salt, bitter; yet from both you eat fresh
fish, and take forth for you ornaments to wear, and thou seest the ships
cleaving their waters that you may go in quest of his bounties, and that you
may be thankful.
He
causeth the night to enter in upon the day, and the day to enter in upon the
night; and He hath given laws to the sun and to the moon, so that each
journeyeth to its appointed goal: This is God
your Lord: All power is His: But the gods whom you call on beside Him have no
power over the husk of a date stone!
If you
cry to them they will not hear your cry; and if they heard they would not
answer you, and in the day of resurrection they will disown your joining them
with God: and none can instruct thee like Him
who is informed of all.
O men!
you are but paupers in need of God; but God is the Rich, the Praiseworthy!
If He
please, He could sweep you away, and bring forth a new creation!
Nor
will this be hard for God.
And
the burdened soul shall not bear the burden of another:
and if the heavy laden soul cry out for its burden to be carried, yet shall not
aught of it be carried, even by the near of kin! Thou shalt warn those who fear
their Lord in secret, and observe prayer. And whosoever shall keep himself
pure, he purifieth himself to his own behoof:
for unto God shall be the final gathering.
35:20 And the blind and the seeing are not
alike; neither darkness and light; nor the shade and the hot wind;
Nor
are the living and the dead the same thing! God indeed shall make whom He will
to hearken, but thou shalt not make those who are in their graves to hearken;
for only with warning are thou charged.
Verily
we have sent thee with the truth; a bearer of good tidings and a warner; nor
hath there been a people unvisited by its warner.
And if
they treat thee as a liar, so did those who were before them threat their
Apostles who came to them with the proofs of their mission, and with the
Scriptures and with the enlightening Book:
Then
chastised I the unbelievers: and how great was
my vengeance!
Seest
thou not how that God sendeth down water from the Heaven, and that by it we
cause the up-growth of fruits of varied hues, and that on the mountains are
tracks of varied hues, white and red, and others are of a raven black? And of
men, and reptiles and animals, various likewise are the hues. Such only of his
servants as are possessed of knowledge fear God. Lo! God is Mighty, Gracious!
Verily
they who recite the Book of God, and observe prayer, and give alms in public
and in private from what we have bestowed upon them, may hope for a merchandise
that shall not perish:
God
will certainly pay them their due wages, and of his bounty increase them: for He is Gracious, Grateful.
And
that which we have revealed to thee of the Book is the very Truth, confirmatory
of previous Scriptures: for God knoweth and
beholdeth his servants.
Moreover,
we have made the Book an heritage to those of our servants whom we have chosen.
Some of them injure themselves by evil deeds; others keep the midway between
good and evil; and others, by the permission of God, outstrip in goodness; this
is the great merit!
35:30 Into the gardens of Eden shall they
enter: with bracelets of gold and pearl shall
they be decked therein, and therein shall their raiment be of silk:
And
they shall say, "Praise be to God who hath put away sorrow from us. Verily
our Lord is Gracious, Grateful.
Who of
His bounty hath placed us in a mansion that shall abide for ever: therein no toil shall reach us, and therein no
weariness shall touch us."
But
for infidels is the fire of Hell; to die shall never be decreed them, nor shall
aught of its torment be made light to them. Thus reward we every infidel!
And
therein shall they cry aloud, "Take us hence, O our Lord! righteousness
will we work, and not what we wrought of old." -- "Prolonged we not
your days that whoever would be warned might be warned therein? And the
preacher came to you --
Taste
it then." -- There is no protector for the unjust.
God
truly knoweth the hidden things both of the Heavens and of the Earth: for He knoweth the very secrets of the breast.
He
hath appointed you his vicegerents in the earth:
And whoever believeth not, on him shall be his unbelief; and their unbelief
shall only increase for the unbelievers, hatred at the hands of their Lord: -- and their unbelief shall only increase for the
unbelievers their own perdition!
Say: What think you of the gods whom you invoke beside
God? Shew me what part of the earth they have created? Had they a share in the
creation of the Heavens? Have we given them a Book in which they can find
proofs that they are to be called on? Nay, the wicked promise one another only
deceits.
Verily
God holdeth fast the Heavens and the Earth that they pass not away: and if they were passing away one could hold them
back but He: for He is Kind, Gracious.
35:40 They swore by God with their mightiest
oath that should a preacher come to them they would yield to guidance more than
any people: but when the preacher came to them
it only increased in them their estrangement,
Their
haughtiness on earth and their plotting of evil! But the plotting of evil shall
only enmesh those who make use of it. Look they then for aught but God's way of
dealing with the peoples of old? Thou shalt not find any change in the way of
God, --
Yea,
thou shalt not find any variableness in the way of God.
Have
they never journeyed in the land and seen what hath been the end of those who
flourished before them, though mightier in strength than they? God is not to be
frustrated by aught in the Heavens or in the Earth; for He is the All-knowing,
the All-mighty.
If,
moreover, God should chastise men according to their deserts, He would not
leave even a reptile on the back of the earth! But to an appointed time doth He
respite them.
And
when their time shall come, then verily God's eye is on his servants.