Sura L (50)
Kaf
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Kaf.
By the glorious Koran:
They
marvel forsooth that one of themselves hath come to them charged with warnings.
"This," say the infidels, "is a marvellous thing:
What!
when dead and turned to dust shall we. . . . ? Far off is such a return as
this?"
Now
know we what the earth consumeth of them, and with us is a Book in which
account is kept.
But
they have treated the truth which hath come to them as falsehood; perplexed
therefore is their state.
Will
they not look up to the heaven above them, and consider how we have reared it
and decked it forth, and that there are no flaws therein?
And as
to the earth, we have spread it out, and have thrown the mountains upon it, and
have caused an upgrowth in it of all beauteous kinds of plants,
For
insight and admonition to every servant who loveth to turn to God:
And we
send down the rain from Heaven with its blessings, by which we cause gardens to
spring forth and the grain of harvest,
50:10 And the tall palm trees with
date-bearing branches one above the other
For
man's nourishment: And life give we thereby to
a dead land. So also shall be the resurrection.
Ere
the days of these (Meccans) the people of Noah, and the men of Rass and
Themoud, treated their prophets as impostors:
And Ad
and Pharaoh, and the brethren of
Are we
wearied out with the first creation? Yet are they in doubt with regard to a new
creation!
We
created man: and we know what his soul
whispereth to him, and we are closer to him than his neck-vein.
When
the two angels charged with taking account shall take it, one sitting on the
right hand,
Not a
word doth he utter, but there is a watcher with him ready to note it down:
And
the stupor of certain death cometh upon him:
-- "This is what thou wouldst have shunned" --
And
there was a blast on the trumpet, -- it was the threatened day!
50:20 And every soul came, -- an angel with
it urging it along, and an angel to witness against it --
Saith
he, "Of this day didst thou live in heedlessness:
but we have taken off they veil from thee, and thy sight is becoming sharp this
day."
And he
who is at this side shall say, "This is what I am prepared with against
thee."
And
God will say, "Cast into Hell, you twain, every infidel, every hardened
one,
The
hinderer of the good, the transgressor, the doubter,
Who
set up other gods with God. Cast you him into the fierce torment."
He who
is at his side shall say, "O our Lord! I led him not astray, yet was he in
an error wide of truth."
He
shall say, "Wrangle not in my presence. I had plied you beforehand with
menaces:
My
doom changeth not, and I am not unjust to man."
On
that day will we cry to Hell, "Art thou full?" And it shall say,
"Are there more?"
50:30 And not far from thence shall Paradise
be brought near unto the Pious:
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"This is what you have been promised: to
every one who hath turned in penitence to God and kept his laws;
Who
hath feared the God of Mercy in secret, and come to him with a contrite heart:
Enter
it in peace: this is the day of
Eternity."
There
shall they have all that they can desire: and
our's will it be to augment their bliss:
And
how many generations have we destroyed ere the days of these (Meccans),
mightier than they in strength! Search you then the land. Is there any escape?
Lo!
herein is warning for him who hath a heat, or giveth ear, and is himself an
eye-witness.
We
created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six days, and
no weariness touched us.
Wherefore
put up with what they say, and celebrate the praise of thy Lord before sunrise
and before sunset:
And
praise Him in the night: and perform the two
final prostrations.
50:40 And list for the day whereon the crier
shall cry from a place near to every one alike:
The
day on which men shall in truth hear that shout will be the day of their coming
forth from the grave.
Verily,
we cause to live, and we cause to die. To us shall all return.
On the
day when the earth shall swiftly cleave asunder over the dead, will this
gathering be easy to Us.
We
know best what the infidels say: and thou art
not to compel them.
Warn
then by the Koran those who fear my menace.