Sura LXVII (67)
The Kingdom
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Blessed
be He in whose hand is the Kingdom! and over all things is He potent:
Who
hath created death and life to prove which of you will be most righteous in
deed; and He is the Mighty, the Forgiving!
Who
hath created seven Heavens one above another:
No defect canst thou see in the creation of the God of Mercy: Repeat the gaze:
seest thou a single flaw?
Then
twice more repeat the gaze: thy gaze shall
return to thee dulled and weary.
Moreover
we have decked the lowest heaven with lights, and have placed them there to be
hurled at the Satans, for whom we have prepared the torment of the flaming
fire.
And
for those who believe not in their Lord is the torment of Hell; and horrid the
journey thither!
When
they shall be thrown into it, they shall hear it braying: and it shall boil --
Almost
shall it burst for fury. So oft as a crowd shall be thrown into it, its keepers
shall ask them, "Came not the warner to you?"
They
shall say, Yes! there came to us one charged with warnings; but we treated him
as a liar, and said, "Nothing hath God sent down:
you are in nothing but a vast delusion."
67:10 And they shall say, "Had we but
hearkened or understood, we had not been among the dwellers in the
flames;"
And
their sin shall they acknowledge: but,
"Avaunt, you dwellers in the flame."
But
pardon and a great reward for those who fear their Lord in secret!
Be your
converse hidden or open, He truly knoweth the inmost recess of your breasts!
What!
shall He not know who hath created? for He is the Subtil, the Cognizant.
It is
He who hath made the earth level for you:
traverse then its broad sides, and eat of what He hath provided. -- Unto Him
shall be the resurrection.
What!
are you sure that He who is in Heaven will not cleave the Earth beneath you?
And lo, it shall quake.
Or are
you sure that He who is in Heaven will not send against you a stone-charged
whirlwind? Then shall you know what my warning meant!
And
verily, those who flourish before you treated their prophets as liars: and how grievous my wrath!
Behold
they not the birds over their heads, outstretching and drawing in their wings?
None, save the God of Mercy, upholdeth them:
for he regardeth all things.
67:20 Who is he that can be as an army to
you, to succour you, except the God of Mercy? Truly, the infidels are in the
merest delusion.
Or who
is he that will furnish you supplies, if He withhold His supplies? Yet do they
persist in pride and in fleeing from Him!
Is he
who goeth along grovelling on his face, better guided than he who goeth upright
on a straight path?
Say: It is He who hath brought you forth, and gifted
you with hearing and sight and heart: yet how
few are grateful!
Say: It is He who hath sown you in the earth, and to
Him shall you be gathered.
And
they say, "When shall this threat be put in force, if you speak the
truth?"
Say: Nay truly, this knowledge is with God alone: and I am only an open warner.
But
when they shall see it nigh, said shall wax the countenances of the infidels: and it shall be said, "This is what you have
been calling for."
Say: What think you? Whether God destroy me or not, and
those who follow me, or whether he have mercy on us, yet who will protect the
infidels from a woeful torment?
Say: He is the God of Mercy:
in Him do we believe, and in Him put we our trust; and you shall know hereafter
who is in a manifest error.
67:30 Say:
What think you? If at early morn your waters shall have sunk away, who then
will give you clear running water?