Sura XLI (41)
The Made Plain
(
________________________________________
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Ha.
Mim. A Revelation from the Compassionate, the Merciful!
A Book
whose verses (signs) are made plain -- an Arabic Koran, for men of knowledge;
Announcer
of glad tidings and charged with warnings! But most of them withdraw and
hearken not:
And
they say, "Our hearts are under shelter from thy teachings, and in our
ears is a deafness, and between us and thee there is a veil. Act as thou
thinkest right: we verily shall act as we
think right."
Say: I am only aman like you. It is revealed to me that
your God is one God: go straight then to Him,
and implore his pardon. And woe to those who join gods with God;
Who
pay not the alms of obligation, and in the life to come believe not!
But
they who believe and do the things that are right shall receive a perfect
recompense.
Say: Do you indeed disbelieve in Him who in two days
created the earth? and do you assign Him peers? The Lord of the worlds is He!
And he
hath placed on the earth the firm mountains which tower above it; and He hath
blessed it, and distributed food throughout it, for the cravings of all are
alike, in four days:
41:10 Then He applied himself to the Heaven,
which then was but smoke: and to it and to the
Earth He said, "Come you, whether in obedience or against your will?"
and they both said, "We come obedient."
And He
made them seven heavens in two days, and in each heaven made known its office: And we furnished the lower heaven with lights and
guardian angels. This, the disposition of the Almighty, the All-knowing.
If
they turn away, then say: I warn you of a
tempest, like the tempest of Ad and Themoud!
When
the apostles came to them, on every side, saying, "Worship none but
God," they said, "Had our Lord been pleased to send down, He had
surely sent down angels; and in sooth, your message we do not believe."
As to
Ad, they bore them proudly and unjustly in the land, and said, "Who more
mighty than we in prowess?" Saw they not that God their creator was
mightier than they in prowess? And they rejected our signs.
Therefore
on ill-omened days did we send against them an impetuous blast that we mighty
make them taste the chastisement of shame in this world:
-- but more shameful shall be the chastisement of the life to come; and they
shall not be protected.
And as
to Themoud, we had vouchsafed them guidance; but to guidance did they prefer
blindness; wherefore the tempest of a shameful punishment overtook them for
their doings:
But we
rescued the believing and the God-fearing:
And
warn of the day when the enemies of God shall be gathered unto the fire urged
on in bands:
Until
when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their skins shall bear
witness against them of their deeds:
41:20 And they shall say to their skins,
"Why witness you against us?" They shall say, "God, who giveth a
voice to all things, hath given us a voice: He
created you at first, and to Him are you brought back.
And
you did not hide yourselves so that neither your ears nor your eyes nor your
skins should witness against you: but you
thought that God knew not many a thing that you did!
And
this your thought which you did think of your Lord hath ruined you, so that you
are become of those who perish."
And be
they patient, still the fire shall be their abode:
or if they beg for favour, yet shall they not be of the favoured.
And we
will appoint Satans as their fast companions; for it was they who made their
present and future state seem fair and right to them; and the sentence passed
on the peoples of Djinn and men who flourished before them hath become their
due, and they shall perish.
Yet
the unbelievers say, "Hearken not to this Koran, but keep up a talking,
that you may overpower the voice of the reader."
Surely
therefore will we cause the unbelievers to taste a terrible punishment;
And
recompense them according to the worst of their actions.
This
the reward of the enemies of God, -- the Fire! it shall be their eternal abode,
in requital for their gainsaying our signs.
And
they who believed not shall say, "O our Lord! shew us those of the Djinn
and men who led us astray: both of them will
we put under our feet, that they may be of the humbled."
41:30 But as for those who say, "Our
Lord is God;" and who go straight to Him, the angels shall descend to them
and say, "Fear you not, neither be you grieved, but rejoice you in the
paradise which you have been promised.
We are
your guardians in this life and in the next:
your's therein shall be your soul's desire, and your's therein whatever you
shall ask for,
The
hospitality of a Gracious, a Merciful One."
And
who speaketh fairer than he who biddeth to God and doth the thing that is
right, and saith, "I for my part am of the Muslims"?
Moreover,
good and evil are not to treated as the same thing. Turn away evil by what is
better, and lo! he between whom and thyself was enmity, shall be as though he
were a warm friend.
But
none attain to this save men steadfast in patience, and none attain to it
except the most highly favoured.
And if
an enticement from Satan entice thee, then take refuge in God, for He is the
Hearing, the Knowing.
And
among his signs are the night, and the day, and the sun, and the moon. Bend not
in adoration to the sun or the moon, but bend in adoration before God who
created them both, if you would serve Him.
But if
they are too proud for this, yet they who are with thy Lord do celebrate His
praises night and day, and cease not.
And
among His signs is this, that thou seest the earth drooping: but, when we send down the rain upon it, it is
stirred and swelleth; verily He who giveth it life, will surely give life to
the dead; for His might extendeth over all things.
41:40 They truly who with obloquy disown our
signs are not hidden from us. Is he then who shall be cast into the fire, or he
who shall come forth secure on the day of resurrection, in the better position?
Do what you will: but His eye is on all your
doings.
Verily,
they who believe not in "the warning," after it hath come to them...
and yet the Koran is a glorious book!
Falsehood,
from whatever side it cometh, shall not come nigh it; it is a missive down from
the Wise, the Praiseworthy.
Nothing
hath been said to thee what hath not been said of old to apostles before thee.
Verily with thy Lord is forgiveness, and with Him is terrible retribution.
Had we
made it a Koran in a Persian tongue, they had surely said, "Unless its
signs be made clear...! What! A book in a Persian and Arabic?" Say: It is to those who believe a guide and a medicine;
but as to those who believe not, there is a thickness in their ears, and to
them it is a blindness: they are like those
who are called to from afar.
Of old
we gave the Book to Moses, and disputes rose about it:
and if a decree of respite from thy Lord had gone before, there would surely
have been a decision between them: for great
were their doubts and questionings about it.
He who
doth right -- it is for himself: and he who
doth evil -- it is for himself: and thy Lord
will not deal unfairly with his servants.
With
Him alone is the knowledge of "the Hour." No fruit cometh forth from
its coverings, neither doth any female conceive, nor is she delivered, but with
His knowledge. And on that day He shall call men to Him, saying, "{Where
are the companions you gave me?" They shall say, "We own to thee,
there is no one of us can witness for them."
And
what erst called on shall pass away from them, and they shall perceive that
there will be no escape for them.
Man
ceaseth not to pray for good: but if evil
betide him he despondeth, despairing.
41:50 And if we cause him to taste our mercy
after affliction hath touched him, he is sure to say, "This is my due: and I take no thought of the Hour of Resurrection: and if I be brought back to my Lord, I shall
indeed attain with Him my highest good." But we will then certainly
declare their doings to the Infidels, and cause them to taste a stern punishment.
When
we are gracious to man, he withdraweth and turneth him aside: but when evil toucheth him, he is a man of long
prayers.
Say: What think you? If this Book be from God and you
believe it not, who will have gone further astray than he who is at a distance
from it?
We
will shew them our signs in different countries and among themselves, until it
become plain to them that it is the truth. Is it not enough for thee that thy
Lord is witness of all things?
Are
they not in doubt as to the meeting with their Lord? But doth he not encompass
all things?