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25:1 Blessed is He who has sent down the Criterion to His worshiper (Prophet Muhammad), that he is a warner to all mankind

25:2 to whom the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth belongs, who has not taken a son, nor does He have an associate in the Kingdom, and He created everything, then He ordained it very precisely

25:3 Yet they worship, other than Him, gods which cannot create anything and were themselves created. They own neither harm nor benefit for themselves, neither do they own death nor life, nor a resurrection

25:4 The unbelievers say: 'This is but a falsehood he has forged ? another nation has helped him. ' So they have come with wrong and falsehood

25:5 They say: 'He has written tales of the ancients, they are recited to him at dawn and at the evening.

25:6 Say: 'It was sent down by Him who knows the secrets of heavens and earth. He is Forgiving, the Most Merciful

25:7 They also say: 'How is it that this Messenger eats food and walks about the markets? Why has no angel been sent down with him to warn us

25:8 Or, why has no treasure been thrown to him, or a garden for him to eat from? ' And the harmdoers say: 'The man you follow is surely bewitched.

25:9 See how they strike examples for you, surely they have gone astray and are unable to find a way

25:10 Blessed be He who, if He wills, can assign you better things than these; gardens underneath which rivers flow, and He shall assign for you palaces

25:11 No, they belied the Hour. We have prepared for him who belied the Hour a Blaze

25:12 When it sees them from a far off place, they shall hear it raging and sighing

25:13 And when, chained in (iron) fetters, they are cast into some narrow space of the Fire, they will call out for destruction

25:14 'Do not call out today for one destruction; call out for many destructions.

25:15 Say: 'Is that better, or the Garden of Eternity which the cautious have been promised? It is their recompense and their arrival!

25:16 Living there for ever, they shall find in it all that they desire. That is a promise binding upon your Lord, and to be asked of Him

25:17 On the Day when He gathers them with all that they worship, other than Allah, He will say: 'Was it you who misled My worshipers, or did they themselves go astray?

25:18 They will answer: 'Exaltations to You. We should not have taken others for a guardian, but You gave them and their fathers enjoyment until they forgot Your Remembrance and they were a destroyed nation.

25:19 So they belie what you say, and you can neither turn it aside, nor find any help. Those of you who have done evil, We let them taste a great punishment

25:20 We did not send Messengers before you but that they ate food and walked about in the markets, We have appointed some of you to be a trial for others. Will you endure? Your Lord is the Seer

25:21 Those who do not hope to meet Us ask: 'Why have no angels been sent to us? Why can we not see our Lord? ' How proud they are within themselves, and have become greatly disdainful

25:22 On the Day when they behold the angels, there will be no glad tidings for the sinners. They will say: 'A refuge which is forbidden!

25:23 Then We shall advance upon the work which they have done and render it as scattered dust

25:24 On that Day, the companions of Paradise (will have) a better abode and a finer restingplace

25:25 On that Day, the heaven is split asunder with clouds and the angels are sent down in majesty

25:26 the true Kingdom on that Day shall belong to the Merciful a harsh day for the unbelievers

25:27 Upon that Day the harmdoer shall bite his hands, and say: 'Would that I had taken a Path with the Messenger

25:28 Would that I had never chosen soandso for my companion

25:29 He led me astray from the Remembrance after it had reached me, satan is ever the foresaker of humans.

25:30 The Messenger says: 'O my Lord, my people have taken this Koran while deserting it.

25:31 To every Prophet We have appointed an enemy among the harmdoers; your Lord is Sufficient for you, a Guide and a Helper

25:32 The unbelievers ask: 'Why was the Koran not sent down to him all at once? ' As such We strengthen your heart thereby, and We have recited it very distinctly

25:33 They do not bring to you any parable but that which We bring to you is the truth and better in explanation

25:34 Those who will be gathered into Gehenna (Hell) upon their faces shall be in the worst in place, and have gone further astray from the Path

25:35 We gave the Book to Moses and gave him his brother Aaron as a minister

25:36 (Then) We said: 'Go to the nation who have belied Our signs. ' And We utterly destroyed them

25:37 The nation of Noah, We drowned them when they belied their Messenger, and made of them a sign to the nation. For the harmdoers We have prepared a painful punishmen

25:38 also to Aad and Thamood and the nation of ErRass and many generations in between

25:39 to each of them We gave examples, and each of them We utterly ruined

25:40 They have surely passed by the village which was rained upon by evil rain (of stones); what, have they never seen it? No, they look for no resurrection

25:41 Whenever they see you, they mock you (saying): 'Is this whom Allah has sent as a Messenger

25:42 He would have mislead us from our gods, if we had not been steadfast to them. ' But they shall know who is further astray from the Path when they see the punishment

25:43 Have you seen him who has made gods of his own desires? Would you be a guardian over him

25:44 Do you think that most of them can hear or understand? They are like cattle, no, they are further astray from the Path

25:45 Do you not see how your Lord stretches the shadow? Had it been His will, He could have made it constant. Then He appointed the sun to be a guide to it

25:46 thereafter We seize it to Us withdrawing it gently

25:47 It is He who has appointed the night a mantle for you and sleep for a rest. The day He has appointed for rising

25:48 It is He who loosens the winds, bearing glad tidings before the Hands of His Mercy, and We have sent down pure water from the heaven

25:49 so, that with it We revive dead lands and provide drink for the cattle and the human We created

25:50 We have indeed turned it about them, so that they remember; yet most people refuse all except disbelief

25:51 Had it been Our will, We could have raised a warner in every village

25:52 So do not obey the unbelievers, but struggle mightily with it (the Koran)

25:53 It was He who let forth the two seas, this one is palatably sweet and this salt, a bitter taste, and He set a barrier between them, and a refuge which is forbidden

25:54 And it is He who created the human from water and gave him kindred of blood and of marriage. Your Lord is the Powerful

25:55 Yet they (the unbelievers) worship, other than Allah, that which can neither benefit nor harm them. Surely, the unbeliever is ever a partisan against his Lord

25:56 We did not send you but as a bearer of glad tidings and as a warner

25:57 Say: 'I demand of you no wage for this except for he who wishes to take the Path to his Lord.

25:58 Put your trust in the All Living who never dies, and exalt with His praise, He is sufficiently aware of His worshipers' sins

25:59 (It is) He who, in six days created the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them, and then He willed to the Throne. The Merciful; ask about Him from he who knows Him

25:60 When it is said to them: 'Prostrate yourselves before the Merciful', they ask: 'And what is the Merciful? Shall we prostrate ourselves to whatever you bid us? ' And it increases their aversion

25:61 Blessed be He who has set the constellations in the heaven, and set amongst them a sun, and an illuminating moon

25:62 It is He who has made the night and day follow each other for those whom He desires to remember or He desires to be thankful

25:63 The worshipers of the Merciful are those who walk humbly on the earth, and when the ignorant address them say: 'Peace,

25:64 who pass the night prostrating and standing to their Lord

25:65 Who say: 'Our Lord, turn from us the punishment of Gehenna, for its punishment is the most terrible

25:66 it is an evil settling, and an evil residence,

25:67 who when they spend are neither wasteful nor miserly, between that is a just stand

25:68 who do not call upon another god with Allah, nor slay the soul which Allah has forbidden except by right; who do not fornicate, for he who does this shall face punishmen

25:69 doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection is his punishment, and therein he shall live, humbled

25:70 except he who repents and believes and does good works those, Allah will change their evil deeds into good deeds; Allah is ever Forgiving and Merciful

25:71 He who repents and does good works truly turns to Allah in repentance

25:72 and those who do not bear false witness, and when they pass by idle talk, pass by with hono

25:73 and who when they are reminded of the verses of their Lord, they do not fall down deaf and blind

25:74 Those who say: 'Lord give us of our wives and children what pleases our eyes and make us leaders to the fearful.

25:75 Those shall be recompensed with the highest rank for their patience. There they shall receive a greeting, and peace

25:76 There they shall live for ever; a fine dwelling place, and residence

25:77 Say: 'My Lord cares little for you if it was not for your supplication, indeed you have belied (the Messenger and the Koran) so it (the punishment) will be fastened.