Sura XXXVI (36)
Ya. Sin.
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
36:1 Ya. Sin. By the wise Koran!
Surely
of the Sent Ones, Thou,
Upon a
right path!
A revelation
of the Mighty, the Merciful,
That
thou shouldest warn a people whose fathers were not warned and therefore lived
in heedlessness!
Just,
now, is our sentence against most of them; therefore they shall not believe.
On
their necks have we placed chains which reach the chin, and forced up are their
heads:
Before
them have we set a barrier and behind them a barrier, and we have shrouded them
in a veil, so that they shall not see.
Alike
is it to them if thou warn them or warn them not:
they will not believe.
36:10 Him only shalt thou really warn, who
followeth the monition and feareth the God of mercy in secret: him cheer with tidings of pardon, and of a noble
recompense.
Verily,
it is We who will quicken the dead, and write down the works which they have
sent on before them, and the traces which they shall have left behind them: and everything have we set down in the clear Book
of our decrees.
Set
forth to them the instance of the people of the city when the Sent Ones came to
it.
When
we sent two unto them and they charged them both with imposture -- therefore
with a third we strengthened them: and they
said, "Verily we are the Sent unto you of God."
They
said, "You are only men like us: Nought
hath the God of Mercy sent down. You do nothing but lie."
They
said, "our Lord knoweth that we are surely sent unto you;
To
proclaim a clear message is our only duty."
They
said, "Of a truth we augur ill from you:
if you desist not we will surely stone you, and a grievous punishment will
surely befall you from us."
They
said, "Your augury of ill is with yourselves. Will you be warned? Nay, we
are an erring people."
Then
from the end of the city a man came running:
He said, "O my people! follow the Sent Ones;
36:20 Follow those who ask not of you a
recompense, and who are rightly guided.
And
why should I not worship Him who made me, and to whom you shall be brought
back?
Shall
I take gods beside Him? If the God of Mercy be pleased to afflict me, their
intercession will not avert from me aught, nor will they deliver:
Truly
then should I be in a manifest error.
Verily,
in your Lord have I believed; therefore hear me."
- It
was said to him, "Enter thou into Paradise:"
And he said, "Oh that my people knew
How
gracious God hath been to me, and that He hath made me one of His honoured
ones."
But no
army sent we down out of heaven after his death, nor were we then sending down
our angels --
There
was but one shout from Gabriel, and lo! they were extinct.
Oh!
the misery that rests upon my servants! No apostle cometh to them but they
laugh him to scorn.
36:30 See they not how many generations we
have destroyed before them?
Not to
false gods is it that they shall be brought back,
But
all, gathered together, shall be set before Us.
Moreover,
the dead earth is a sign to them: we quicken
it and bring forth the grain from it, and they eat thereof:
And we
make in it gardens of the date and vine; and we cause springs to gush forth in
it;
That
they may eat of its fruits and of the labour of their hands. Will they not
therefore be thankful?
Glory
be to Him, who hath created all the sexual pairs of such things as Earth
produceth, and of mankind themselves; and of things beyond their ken!
A sign
to them also is the Night. We withdraw the day from it, and lo! they are
plunged in darkness;
And
the Sun hasteneth to her place of rest,. This, the ordinance of the Mighty, the
Knowing!
And as
for the Moon, We have decreed stations for it, till it change like an old and
crooked palm branch.
36:40 To the Sun it is not given to overtake
the Moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day; but each in its own sphere doth
journey one.
It is
also a sign to them that we bare their posterity in the full-laden Ark;
And
that we have made for them vessels like it on which they embark;
And if
we please, we drown them, and there is none to help them, and they are not
rescued,
Unless
through our mercy, and that they may enjoy themselves for yet awhile.
And
when it is said to them, Fear what is before you and what is behind you, that
you may obtain mercy. . . .
Aye,
not one sign from among the signs of their Lord dost thou bring them, but they
turn away from it!
And
when it is said to them, Give alms of what God hath bestowed on you, they who
believe not say to the believers, "Shall we feed him whom God can feed if
He will? Truly you are in no other than a plain error."
And
they said, "When will this promise be fulfilled, if what you say be
true?"
They
await but a single blast: as they are
wrangling shall it assail them:
36:50 And not a bequest shall they be able
to make, nor to their families shall they return.
And
the trumpet shall be blown, and, lo! they shall speed out of their sepulchres
to their Lord:
They
shall say, "Oh! woe is us! who hath roused us from our sleeping place? 'Tis
what the God of Mercy promised; and the Apostles spake the truth."
But
one blast shall there be, and, lo! they shall be assembled before us, all
together.
And on
that day shall no soul be wronged in the least:
neither shall you be rewarded but as you shall have wrought.
But
joyous on that day shall be the inmates of Paradise, in their employ;
In
shades, on bridal couches reclining, they and their spouses:
Therein
shall they have fruits, and shall have whatever they require --
"Peace!"
shall be the word on the part of a merciful Lord.
"But
be you separated this day, O you sinners!
36:60 Did I not enjoin on you, O sons of
Adam, 'Worship not Satan, for that he is your declared foe.'
But
'Worship Me: this is a right path'?
But
now hath he led a vast host of you astray. Did you not then comprehend?
This
is Hell with which you were threatened:
Endure
its heat this day, for that you believed not."
On
that day will we set a seal upon their mouths; yet shall their hands speak unto
us, and their feet shall bear witness of that which they shall have done.
And,
if we pleased, we would surely put out their eyes:
yet even then would they speed on with rivalry in their path: but how should they see?
And,
if we pleased, we would surely transform them as they stand, and they would not
be able to move onward, or to return.
Him
cause we to stoop through age whose days we lengthen. Will they not understand?
We
have not taught him (Muhammad) poetry, nor would it beseem him. This Book is no
other than a warning and a clear Koran.
36:70 To warn whosoever liveth; and, that
against the Infidels sentence may be justly given.
See
they not that we have created for them among the things which our hands have
wrought, the animals of which they are masters?
And
that we have subjected them unto them? And on some they ride, and of others
they eat;
And
they find in them profitable uses and beverages:
Yet
have they taken other gods beside God that they might be helpful to them.
No
power have they to succour them: yet are their
votaries an army at their service.
Let
not their speech grieve thee: We know what
they hide and what they bring to light.
Doth
not man perceive that we have created him of the moist germs of life? Yet lot!
is he an open caviller.
And he
meeteth us with arguments, and forgetteth his creation:
"Who," saith he, "shall give life to bones when they are
rotten?"
Say: He shall given life to them who gave them being at
the first, for in all creation is he skilled:
36:80 Who even out of the green tree hath
given you fire, and lo! you kindle flame from it.
What!
must not He who hath created the Heavens and the Earth be mighty enough to
create your likes? Yes! and He is the skilful creator.
His
command when He willeth aught, is but to say to it, BE, and IT IS.
So
glory be to Him in whose hand is sway over all things! And to Him shall you be
brought back.