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ḥā mīm

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The revelation of the Writ is from God, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

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We created not the heavens and the earth and what is between them but in truth and for a stated term; but those who ignore warning, from that whereof they are warned, turn away.

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Say thou: “Have you seen to what you call besides God? Show me what they have created of the earth. If they have a partnership in the heavens: bring me a Writ from before this, or some remnant of knowledge, if you be truthful.”

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And who is further astray than he who calls, besides God, to such as will not respond to him until the Day of Resurrection? And they of their call are unaware;

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And when mankind is gathered, they will be enemies to them and be deniers of their service.

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And when Our proofs are recited to them as clear signs, those who ignore warning say of the truth when it has come to them: “This is obvious sorcery.”

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If they say: “He has invented it,” say thou: “If I have invented it, then you will not possess for me anything against God. He best knows what you say concerning it; sufficient is He as witness between me and you”; and He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.

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Say thou: “I am no new thing among the messengers, and I know not what will be done with me or with you. I follow only what is revealed to me; and I am only a clear warner.”

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Say thou: “Have you considered: if it be from God and you deny it, and a witness bore witness among the children of Israel to the like thereof, and he believed when you have waxed proud[...]?” God guides not the wrongdoing people.

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And those who ignore warning say of those who heed warning: “Had it been good, they would not have preceded us to it.” And when they are not guided by it, then they will say: “This is an ancient falsehood.”

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But before it was the Writ of Moses a model and a mercy; and this is a confirming Writ, in an Arabic tongue, that it might warn those who do wrong, and bring glad tidings to the doers of good:

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Those who say: “Our Lord is God,” then keep to the path: — no fear will be upon them, nor will they grieve —

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Those are the companions of the Garden, they abiding eternally therein as reward for what they did.

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And We enjoined upon man: towards his parents, good conduct. His mother bore him with aversion, and brought him forth with aversion; and the bearing of him and the weaning of him is thirty months. When he has reached maturity, and reaches forty years, he says: “My Lord: direct Thou me to be grateful for Thy favour with which Thou hast favoured me and my parents, and to work righteousness pleasing to Thee; and make Thou me right in my progeny. I have turned to Thee repentant. And I am of those submitting.”

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Those are they from whom We will accept the best of what they did, and will overlook their evil deeds — among the companions of the Garden: the promise of truth which they were promised!

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And he who says to his parents: “Fie upon you! Do you promise me that I will be brought forth, when generations have already passed away before me?” while they seek aid of God: — “Woe to thee! Believe thou; the promise of God is true,” but he says: “This is only legends of the former peoples,” —

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Those are they upon whom the word concerning the communities of the domini and the servi which passed away before them became binding; they were losers.

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And for all are degrees for what they did, and that He might repay them in full for their deeds; and they will not be wronged.

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And the day those who ignore warning are exposed to the Fire: “You received your good things in the life of this world, and you took pleasure therein; so this day will you be rewarded with the punishment of humiliation because you waxed proud in the earth without right, and because you were perfidious.”

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And remember thou the brother of ʿĀd, when he warned his people of the wind-curved sandhills: — and warners have passed away before him and after him — “Serve not save God; I fear for you the punishment of a tremendous day,”

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They said: “Hast thou come to us to delude us away from our gods? Then bring thou us what thou promisest us, if thou be of the truthful.”

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He said: “The knowledge is but with God, and I convey to you that wherewith I have been sent; but I see you are a people in ignorance.”

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Then when they saw it as a wide cloud suddenly approaching their valleys they said: “This is a cloud bringing us rain!” — “Nay, it is that which you sought to hasten: a wind wherein is a painful punishment,

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“Destroying everything by the command of its Lord.” And morning found them — there was nothing to be seen save their dwellings. Thus reward We the lawbreaking people.

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And We had established them in that wherein We have not established you, and We gave them hearing and sight and hearts; but their hearing and sight and hearts availed them nothing when they rejected the proofs of God; and there surrounded them that whereat they mocked.

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And We have destroyed what surrounds you of cities; and We expounded the proofs, that they might return.

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Oh, that there had but helped them those whom they had taken as gods, besides God, as a means of approach! Nay, they strayed from them; and that was their falsehood, and what they invented.

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And when We turned towards thee a band of the domini, listening in to the Qur’an, and when they were in its presence they said: “Listen attentively”; then, when it was concluded, they turned back to their people, warning.

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They said: “O our people: we have heard a Writ sent down after Moses, confirming what was before it, guiding to the truth and to a straight road.

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“O our people: respond to the caller to God, and believe in Him; He will forgive you of your transgressions and protect you from a painful punishment.”

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And whoso responds not to the caller to God, he will not escape in the earth, and he has no allies besides Him; those are in manifest error.

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Have they not considered that God — who created the heavens and the earth and was not wearied by their creation — is able to give life to the dead? Verily, He is over all things powerful.

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And the day those who ignore warning are exposed to the Fire: “Is then this not the truth?” They will say: “Verily, by our Lord!” He will say: “Then taste the punishment for what you denied.”

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So be thou patient, as those of determination among the messengers were patient, and seek thou not to hasten for them. The day they see what they are promised, it will be as though they had not tarried an hour of a day. Notification! And will there be destroyed save the perfidious people?

Ahkaf Suresi