| | John Medows Rodwell rendition of Surah The Letter Qaf(Qaf)
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| 50:1 | | Kaf. By the glorious Koran |
| 50:2 | | They marvel forsooth that one of themselves hath come to them charged with warnings. "This," say the infidels, "is a marvellous thing |
| 50:3 | | What! when dead and turned to dust shall we. . . .? Far off is such a return as this?" |
| 50:4 | | Now know we what the earth consumeth of them, and with us is a Book in which account is kept |
| 50:5 | | But they have treated the truth which hath come to them as falsehood; perplexed therefore is their state |
| 50:6 | | 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 |
| 50:7 | | 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 |
| 50:8 | | For insight and admonition to every servant who loveth to turn to God |
| 50:9 | | 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 othe |
| 50:11 | | For man's nourishment: And life give we thereby to a dead country. So also shall be the resurrection |
| 50:12 | | Ere the days of these (Meccans) the people of Noah, and the men of Rass and Themoud, treated their prophets as impostors |
| 50:13 | | And Ad and Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lo |
| 50:14 | | and the dwellers in the forest, and the people of Tobba, all gave the lie to their prophets: justly, therefore, were the menaces inflicted |
| 50:15 | | Are we wearied out with the first creation? Yet are they in doubt with regard to a new creation |
| 50:16 | | We created man: and we know what his soul whispereth to him, and we are closer to him than his neck-vein |
| 50:17 | | When the two angels charged with taking account shall take it, one sitting on the right hand, the other on the left |
| 50:18 | | Not a word doth he utter, but there is a watcher with him ready to note it down |
| 50:19 | | And the stupor of certain death cometh upon him: "This is what thou wouldst have shunned" |
| 50:20 | | And there shall be a blast on the trumpet, - it is the threatened day |
| 50:21 | | And every soul shall come, - an angel with it urging it along, and an angel to witness against it |
| 50:22 | | Saith he, "Of this day didst thou live in heedlessness: but we have taken off thy veil from thee, and thy sight is becoming sharp this day." |
| 50:23 | | And he who is at this side shall say, "This is what I am prepared with against thee." |
| 50:24 | | And God will say, "Cast into Hell, ye twain, every infidel, every hardened one |
| 50:25 | | The hinderer of the good, the transgressor, the doubter |
| 50:26 | | Who set up other gods with God. Cast ye him into the fierce torment." |
| 50:27 | | 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." |
| 50:28 | | He shall say, "Wrangle not in my presence. I had plied you beforehand with menaces |
| 50:29 | | My doom changeth not, and I am not unjust to man." |
| 50:30 | | On that day will we cry to Hell, "Art thou full?" And it shall say, "Are there more?" |
| 50:31 | | And not far from thence shall Paradise be brought near unto the Pious |
| 50:32 | | - "This is what ye have been promised: to every one who hath turned in penitence to God and kept his laws |
| 50:33 | | Who hath feared the God of Mercy in secret, and come to him with a contrite heart |
| 50:34 | | Enter it in peace: this is the day of Eternity." |
| 50:35 | | There shall they have all that they can desire: and our's will it be to augment their bliss |
| 50:36 | | And how many generations have we destroyed ere the days of these (Meccans), mightier than they in strength! Search ye then the land. Is there any escape |
| 50:37 | | Lo! herein is warning for him who hath a heart, or giveth ear, and is himself an eye-witness |
| 50:38 | | We created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six days, and no weariness touched us |
| 50:39 | | Wherefore put up with what they say, and celebrate the praise of thy Lord before sunrise and before sunset |
| 50:40 | | And praise Him in the night: and perform the two final prostrations |
| 50:41 | | And list for the day whereon the crier shall cry from a place near to every one alike |
| 50:42 | | The day on which men shall in truth hear that shout will be the day of their coming forth from the grave |
| 50:43 | | Verily, we cause to live, and we cause to die. To us shall all return |
| 50:44 | | On the day when the earth shall swiftly cleave asunder over the dead, will this gathering be easy to Us |
| 50:45 | | We know best what the infidels say: and thou art not to compel them. Warn then by the Koran those who fear my menace |
