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The day Allah will call you, and all will answer by praising Him, then you’ll realise you only stayed a short while
in the world .
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Tell My servants: “Always be courteous
when speaking”, or else Satan will stir disagreement among you; surely Satan is the sworn enemy of humanity.
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Your Lord knows you best; He will be kind to you or punish you if He wants.
Anyway, We haven’t sent you as a guardian over them.
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Your Lord knows who is in the Heavens and the Earth. We favoured some prophets over others, and We gave blessed Dawud the book
of Psalms
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Say: “Call those you think are your gods besides Him; they cannot remove harm from you or turn it away.”
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Those who they call are themselves looking for the means to be nearer to Him; they long for His kindness and dread His punishment. Your Lord’s punishment is dreadful.
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Any town We destroy before Judgement Day or punish sternly is recorded in the
eternal document.
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What stopped Us from sending miracles is people’s denial in the past,
for example, We gave Thamud
the miracle of the she-camel; it was self-evident but they hamstrung her. So, We now send miracles only as a warning.
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And remember when We said to you, “Your Lord knows all about the people. The dream We showed you and the cursed tree mentioned in the Quran were for testing people. We warned them, but that made them bolder in their disobedience
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Remember, We told the angels, “Prostrate before Adam!” They all prostrated, except Satan. He said, “Why should I prostrate to one You created from clay?”
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He continued, “Do you see this
human being who You have honoured over me, if You give me time till Judgement Day then I will have
all his children under my control, except a few.
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Allah said, “Go away! Anyone who follows you will be punished in Hell, a fitting reward.”
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Persuade them with your
enchanting voice; try winning them over with all the might you can muster; be a shareholder in their wealth and children and make promises to them; Satan’s promises are mere deceptions.
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But you will have no power and influence over My servants; Your Lord is their Guardian
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Your Lord makes the ships sail across the sea for you to seek His bounty; He is most Kind to you.
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When you are distressed at sea, those you worship besides Allah desert you, but He brings you safely to the land yet you turn away. Man, is unthankful.
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Are you sure that He won’t sink you in the ground or send a sandstorm? You won’t find any protector.
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Are you sure when you return to the sea He will not send a violent storm to drown you for your unthankfulness? You will not find any helper in opposition to Us
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We honoured the children of Adam and enabled them to travel across land and sea, to seek healthy sustenance and favoured them above all Our creation.
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The Day We call the communities along with their leaders, some will be given their book in the right hand, and will
happily read it; they will not be treated unjustly in the least.
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The blind in this world will also be blind in the Hereafter, and far away from the path
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Messenger , they tempt you away from Our revelation so you might produce something different, then they would befriend you.
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Had We not made you steadfast then you might have inclined a little bit towards them.
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In that case We would have made you taste double
punishment in this life and after death; moreover, you will not find a helper against Us.
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They tried hard to scare you, so you would leave the city, they too wouldn’t have stayed there for long either.
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Such was our practice with messengers We sent before you. You will find no change in our practice
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Pray regularly from midday until the darkness of the night, and the Morning Prayer, since the recitation of the Quran in the Morning Prayer is witnessed
by the Angels.
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At night, wake up to offer a voluntary prayer that is
compulsory only for you. Soon your Lord will raise you to a glorious station of praise.
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Say: “My Lord, wherever you take me, let me enter truthfully and let me leave truthfully, and give me power and authority from Yourself.
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Say: “The truth has come and falsehood vanished; falsehood is bound to vanish.”
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We revealed the Quran it is a healing and benefits the believers, but for the disbelievers it adds to their loss.
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Often, when We give gifts to people, they turn away unthankfully, remain indifferent, and despair in hard times.
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Say: “Everyone behaves according to their character,” Your Lord knows best who follows the best-guided path
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They ask you about the soul; say: “The soul is my Lord’s command, and you have been given little knowledge about it.”
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If We wanted, We could have withdrawn what We have revealed to you. Then you would not find an advocate against us,
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except for your Lord’s kindness; He has indeed been very gracious to you.
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Say: “If all humanity and jinn got together to bring a book like this Quran, they wouldn’t be able to bring it, no matter how much they helped each other.”
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In this Quran We explained every kind of example for people’s
benefit, but most refuse to acknowledge
the truth
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They said, “We won’t believe you until you bring for us a gushing spring from the Earth.
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Or until you have a garden of date trees and grapes with a river flowing through it,
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or
you cause a piece of the sky to fall on us as you claim, or bring Allah and the angels before us,
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or have a house decorated with gold, or bring a ladder that goes up to the sky. No, we will not believe your
miracle of Ascension;
we will believe if you can bring a book we can read” Say: “Glory to My Lord, I am only a human being, a messenger.
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An argument that stops some people from accepting the guidance is, “How could Allah have sent a messenger who is a mortal?”
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Say: “If angels walked and lived on Earth then
naturally We would have sent from the Heavens a messenger who was an angel.”
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Say: “Allah is sufficient witness for me and you.” He is aware and sees His servants.
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The one who Allah guides is guided, and the one who He lets go astray, you won’t find a protector for him beside Allah. We will gather them on Judgement Day with their faces down, blind, dumb and deaf. Hell, will be their dwelling; when the flames die down We will intensify the blazing flames once again.
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That will be
their reward, they rejected Our signs and said, “When we become bones and dust will we be resurrected as a brand-new creation?
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Do they not realise Allah created the Heavens and the Earth, can’t he produce the likes of them
again? He has fixed their lifespan. The wrongdoers refuse everything except disbelief.
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Say: “If you controlled the treasures of My Lord’s kindness, you would hold them tightly for fear of spending them. People are tight-fisted, miserly.
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We gave Musa nine miracles; ask the Israelites, when he came to them, the Pharaoh said, “Musa, I believe you’re under a spell.”
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Musa said, “You know, no one except the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth could have sent these clear signs. Pharaoh! I believe you’re doomed.”
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The Pharaoh wanted to wipe them off from the land
of Egypt, so We drowned him and those with him.
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Afterwards, We told the Israelites: “Live in the land, and when the promise of the Hereafter comes to pass, We will bring you all together as a mixed crowd.
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We revealed the Quran with truth, so it came down with truth. We sent you to proclaim good news and to warn.
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This is a reading, revealed in separate sections so that you may slowly read it to the people; We revealed it gradually
over a period.
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Say: “
It is up to you to believe it or not. Those who were given knowledge before this
certainly acknowledge it when it is read to them; they fall on their faces in prostration.”
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Say: “Glory to Our Lord; Our Lord’s promise is fulfilled.”
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They fall on their faces in prostration, weeping as their humility grows
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Say: “Call Allah or Rahman by whichever names you call, He has most beautiful names.” So, when you pray don’t call
Him too loudly or too quietly; instead seek a middle way.
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Say: “All Praises are for Allah. He has no son and no partner in His Kingdom; He needs no such petty protectors – to proclaim His absolute greatness.