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25:1 Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion to His servant that he may be a warner to all the nations

25:2 He, to whom belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth, and who did not take a son, nor has He any partner in sovereignty, and He created everything and determined it in a precise measure

25:3 Yet they have taken gods besides Him who create nothing and have themselves been created, and who have no control over their own harm or benefit and have no control over [their own] death, or life, or resurrection

25:4 The faithless say, ‘This is nothing but a lie that he has fabricated, and other people have abetted him in it.’ Thus they have certainly come out with wrongdoing and falsehood

25:5 They say, ‘He has taken down myths of the ancients, and they are dictated to him morning and evening.’

25:6 Say, ‘It has been sent down by Him who knows the hidden in the heavens and the earth. Indeed He is all-forgiving, all-merciful.’

25:7 And they say, ‘What sort of apostle is this who eats food and walks in the marketplaces? Why has not an angel been sent down to him so as to be a warner along with him?’

25:8 Or, ‘[Why is not] a treasure thrown to him, or [why does] he [not] have a garden from which he may eat?’ And the wrongdoers say, ‘You are just following a bewitched man.’

25:9 Look, how they draw comparisons for you; so they go astray, and cannot find the way

25:10 Blessed is He who will grant you better than that if He wishes —gardens with streams running in them, and He will make for you palaces

25:11 Rather they deny the Hour, and We have prepared a Blaze for those who deny the Hour

25:12 When it sights them from a distant place, they will hear it raging and roaring

25:13 And when they are cast into a narrow place in it, bound together [in chains], they will pray for [their own] annihilation

25:14 [They will be told:] ‘Do not pray for a single annihilation today, but pray for many annihilations!’

25:15 Say, ‘Is that better, or the everlasting paradise promised to the Godwary, which will be their reward and destination?’

25:16 There they will have whatever they wish, abiding [forever], a promise [much] besought, [binding] on your Lord

25:17 On the day that He will muster them and those whom they worship besides Allah, He will say, ‘Was it you who led astray these servants of Mine, or did they themselves stray from the way?’

25:18 They will say, ‘Immaculate are You! It does not behoove us to take any guardians in Your stead! But You provided for them and their fathers until they forgot the Reminder, and they were a ruined lot.’

25:19 So they will certainly impugn you in what you say, and you will neither be able to circumvent [punishment] nor find help, and whoever of you does wrong, We shall make him taste a terrible punishment

25:20 We did not send any apostles before you but that they indeed ate food and walked in marketplaces. We have made you a trial for one another, [to see] if you will be patient, and your Lord is all-seeing

25:21 Those who do not expect to encounter Us say, ‘Why have angels not been sent down to us, or why do we not see our Lord?’ Certainly they are full of arrogance within their souls and have become terribly defiant

25:22 The day when they see the angels, there will be no good news for the guilty that day, and they will say, ‘Keep off [from paradise]!&rsquo

25:23 Then We shall attend to the works they have done and then turn them into scattered dust

25:24 On that day the inhabitants of paradise will be in the best abode and an excellent resting place

25:25 The day when the sky with its clouds will split open, and the angels will be sent down [in a majestic] descent

25:26 on that day true sovereignty will belong to the All-beneficent, and it will be a hard day for the faithless

25:27 A day when the wrongdoer will bite his hands, saying, ‘I wish I had followed the Apostle’s way

25:28 Woe to me! I wish I had not taken so and so as a friend

25:29 Certainly he led me astray from the Reminder after it had come to me, and Satan is a deserter of man.’

25:30 And the Apostle will say, ‘O my Lord! Indeed my people consigned this Qur’an to oblivion.’

25:31 That is how for every prophet We assigned an enemy from among the guilty, and your Lord suffices as helper and guide

25:32 The faithless say, ‘Why has not the Qur’an been sent down to him all at once?’ So it is, that We may strengthen your heart with it, and We have recited it [to you] in a measured tone

25:33 They do not bring you any poser but that We bring you the truth [in reply to them] and the best exposition

25:34 Those who will be mustered on their faces toward hell, they are the worse situated and further astray from the [right] way

25:35 Certainly We gave Moses the Book and We made Aaron, his brother, accompany him as a minister

25:36 Then We said, ‘Let the two of you go to the people who have denied Our signs.’ Then We destroyed them utterly

25:37 And Noah’s people, We drowned them when they impugned the apostles, and We made them a sign for mankind, and We have prepared for the wrongdoers a painful punishment

25:38 And ‘a€d and Thamud, and the inhabitants of Rass, and many generations between them

25:39 For each of them We drew examples, and each We destroyed utterly

25:40 Certainly they must have passed the town on which an evil shower was rained. Have they not seen it? Rather they did not expect resurrection

25:41 When they see you they just take you in derision: ‘Is this the one whom Allah has sent as an apostle!

25:42 Indeed he was about to lead us astray from our gods, had we not stood by them.’ Soon they will know, when they sight the punishment, who is further astray from the [right] way

25:43 Have you seen him who has taken his desire to be his god? Is it your duty to watch over him

25:44 Do you suppose that most of them listen or apply reason? They are just like cattle; rather they are further astray from the way

25:45 Have you not regarded how your Lord spreads the twilight? (Had He wished He would have made it still.) Then We made the sun a beacon for it

25:46 Then We retract it toward Ourselves, with a gentle retracting

25:47 It is He who made for you the night as a covering and sleep for rest and He made the day a recall to life

25:48 And it is He who sends the winds as harbingers of His mercy, and We send down from the sky purifying water

25:49 with which We revive a dead country and provide water to many of the cattle and humans We have created

25:50 Certainly We distribute it among them so that they may take admonition. But most people are only intent on ingratitude

25:51 Had We wished, We would have sent a warner to every town

25:52 So do not obey the faithless, but wage against them a great jihad with it

25:53 It is He who merged the two seas: this one sweet and agreeable, and that one briny and bitter, and between the two He set a barrier and a forbidding hindrance

25:54 It is He who created the human being from water, then invested him with ties of blood and marriage, and your Lord is all-powerful

25:55 They worship besides Allah that which neither brings them any benefit nor causes them any harm, and the faithless one is ever an abettor against his Lord

25:56 We did not send you except as a bearer of good news and as a warner

25:57 Say, ‘I do not ask you any reward for it, except that anyone who wishes should take the way to his Lord.’

25:58 Put your trust in the Living One who does not die, and celebrate His praise. He suffices as one all-aware of the sins of His servants

25:59 He, who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days, and then settled on the Throne, the All-beneficent; so ask someone who is well aware about Him

25:60 When they are told: ‘Prostrate yourselves before the All-beneficent,’ they say, ‘What is ‘‘the All-beneficent’’? Shall we prostrate ourselves before whatever you bid us?’ And it increases their aversion

25:61 Blessed is He who appointed houses in the sky and set in it a lamp and a shining moon

25:62 It is He who made the night and the day alternate for one who desires to take admonition, or desires to give thanks

25:63 The servants of the All-beneficent are those who walk humbly on the earth, and when the ignorant address them, say, ‘Peace!&rsquo

25:64 Those who spend the night for their Lord, prostrating and standing [in worship]

25:65 Those who say, ‘Our Lord! Turn away from us the punishment of hell. Indeed its punishment is enduring

25:66 Indeed it is an evil abode and place.’

25:67 Those who, when spending, are neither wasteful nor tightfisted, and moderation lies between these [extremes]

25:68 Those who do not invoke another god besides Allah, and do not kill a soul [whose life] Allah has made inviolable, except with due cause, and do not commit fornication. (Whoever does that shall encounter its retribution

25:69 the punishment being doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection. In it he will abide in humiliation forever

25:70 excepting those who repent, attain faith, and act righteously. For such, Allah will replace their misdeeds with good deeds, and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful

25:71 And whoever repents and acts righteously indeed turns to Allah with due penitence)

25:72 Those who do not give false testimony, and when they come upon vain talk, pass by nobly

25:73 Those who, when reminded of the signs of their Lord, do not turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to them

25:74 And those who say, ‘Our Lord! Grant us comfort in our spouses and descendants, and make us imams of the Godwary.’

25:75 Those shall be rewarded with sublime abodes for their patience, and they shall be met there with greetings and ‘Peace,&rsquo

25:76 to abide in them [forever], an excellent abode and place

25:77 Say, ‘What store my Lord would set by you were it not for your supplication? But you impugned [me and my advice], so that will continue to haunt you.’