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15:1  Alif. Lam. Ra´. These are the verses of the Book, and a Clear Qur´an
15:2  Soon will the time come when the unbelievers will wish they were Muslims
15:3  Leave them to eat and enjoy life and let false hopes amuse them. They will soon come to know
15:4  Whenever We destroyed a town, a definite term had previously been decreed for it
15:5  No people can outstrip the term for its destruction nor can it delay it
15:6  They say: "O you to whom the Admonition has been revealed, you are surely crazed
15:7  Why do you not bring down angels upon us if you are indeed truthful?"
15:8  We do not send down the angels (in frivolity); and when We do send them down, We do so with Truth; then people are granted no respite
15:9  As for the Admonition, indeed it is We Who have revealed it and it is indeed We Who are its guardians
15:10  (O Muhammad), certainly We did send Messengers before you among the nations which have gone by
15:11  And whenever a Messenger came to them, they never failed to mock him
15:12  Even so We make a way for it (that is, the Admonition) in the hearts of the culprits (like a hot rod)
15:13  they do not believe in it. This has been the wont of people of this kind from ancient times
15:14  If We were even to open for them a way to the heavens, and they could continually climb up to it in broad daylight
15:15  they would still have said: "Surely our eyes have been dazzled; rather, we have been enchanted."
15:16  We have indeed set constellations in the heavens and have beautified them for the beholders
15:17  and have protected them against every accursed sata
15:18  save him who may eavesdrop, and then a bright flame pursues him
15:19  As for the earth, We have stretched it out and have cast on it firm mountains, and have caused to grow in it everything well-measured
15:20  And We have provided sustenance for you on it and also for those of whom you are not the providers
15:21  There is nothing except that its treasuries are with Us and We do not send it down except in a known measure
15:22  We send fertilizing winds, and then cause rain to descend from the sky, providing you abundant water to drink even though you could not have stored it up for yourselves
15:23  It is indeed We Who grant life and cause death and it is We who shall be the sole Inheritors of all
15:24  Surely We know those of you who have passed before and those who will come later
15:25  Indeed your Lord will gather them all together. Surely He is All-Wise, All-Knowing
15:26  Surely We brought man into being out of dry ringing clay which was wrought from black mud
15:27  while We had brought the jinn into being before out of blazing fire
15:28  Recall when your Lord said to the angels: "I will indeed bring into being a human being out of dry ringing clay wrought from black mud
15:29  When I have completed shaping him and have breathed into him of My Spirit, then fall you down before him in prostration."
15:30  So, the angels - all of them - fell down in prostration
15:31  except Iblis; he refused to join those who prostrated
15:32  The Lord inquired: "Iblis! What is the matter with you that you did not join those who prostrated?"
15:33  He said: "It does not behove of me to prostrate myself before a human being whom You have created out of dry ringing clay wrought from black mud."
15:34  The Lord said: "Then get out of here; you are rejected
15:35  and there shall be a curse upon you till the Day of Recompense."
15:36  Iblis said: "My Lord! Grant me respite till the Day when they will be resurrected."
15:37  Allah said: "For sure you are granted respit
15:38  until the day of a known time."
15:39  Iblis said: "My Lord! In the manner You led me to error, I will make things on earth seem attractive to them and lead all of them to error
15:40  except those of Your servants whom You have singled out for Yourself."
15:41  Allah said: "Here is the path that leads straight to Me
15:42  Over My true servants you will be able to exercise no power, your power will be confined to the erring ones, those who choose to follow you
15:43  Surely Hell is the promised place for all of them."
15:44  There are seven gates in it, and to each gate a portion of them has been allotted
15:45  As for the God-fearing, they shall be amid gardens and springs
15:46  They will be told: "Enter it in peace and security."
15:47  And We shall purge their breasts of all traces of rancour; and they shall be seated on couches facing one another as brothers
15:48  They shall face no fatigue in it, nor shall they ever be driven out of it
15:49  (O Prophet), declare to My servants that I am indeed Ever Forgiving, Most Merciful
15:50  At the same time, My chastisement is highly painful
15:51  And tell them about Abraham´s guests
15:52  When they came to Abraham they said: "Peace be upon you!" He replied: "Indeed we feel afraid of you."
15:53  They said: "Do not feel afraid, for we give you the good news of a wise boy."
15:54  Abraham said: "What, do you give me this tiding though old age has smitten me? Just consider what tiding do you give me!"
15:55  They said: "The good tiding we give you is of truth. Do not, therefore, be of those who despair."
15:56  Abraham said: "Who despairs of the Mercy of his Lord except the misguided?"
15:57  He added: "What is your errand O sent ones?"
15:58  They said: "Verily we have been sent to a guilty peopl
15:59  excepting the household of Lot. We shall deliver all of them
15:60  except his wife (about whom Allah says that) We have decreed that she shall be among those who stay behind."
15:61  So when the envoys came to the household of Lot
15:62  he said: "Surely you are an unknown folk."
15:63  They said: "Nay, we have brought to you that concerning which they have been in doubt
15:64  We truly tell you that we have brought to you the Truth
15:65  So set out with your family in a watch of the night, and keep yourself behind them, and no one of you may turn around, and keep going ahead as you have been commanded."
15:66  And We communicated to him the decree that by the morning those people will be totally destroyed
15:67  In the meantime the people of the city came to Lot rejoicing
15:68  He said: "These are my guests, so do not disgrace me
15:69  Have fear of Allah, and do not humiliate me."
15:70  They replied: "Did we not forbid you again and again to extend hospitality to all and sundry?"
15:71  Lot exclaimed in exasperation: "If you are bent on doing something, then here are my daughters."
15:72  By your life, (O Prophet), they went about blindly stumbling in their intoxication
15:73  Then the mighty Blast caught them at sunrise
15:74  and turned the land upside down, and rained down stones of baked clay
15:75  There are great Signs in this for those endowed with intelligence
15:76  The place (where this occurred) lies along a known route
15:77  Verily there is a Sign in this for the believers
15:78  And the people of Aykah were also wrong-doers
15:79  So We chastised them. The desolate locations of both communities lie on a well-known highway
15:80  Surely the people of al-Hijr also rejected the Messengers, calling them liars
15:81  We also gave them Our Signs, yet they turned away from them
15:82  They used to hew out houses from the mountains and lived in security
15:83  Then the Blast caught them in the mornin
15:84  and whatever they had been earning proved of no avail
15:85  We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that is in between them except with Truth. Surely the Hour will come. So, (O Muhammad), do graciously overlook them (despite their misdeeds)
15:86  Your Lord is indeed the Creator of all, the All-Knowing
15:87  We have indeed bestowed on you the seven oft-repeated verses and the Great Qur´an
15:88  Do not even cast your eyes towards the worldly goods We have granted to different kinds of people, nor grieve over the state they are in, but turn your loving attention to the believers instead
15:89  and clearly tell the unbelievers: "I am most certainly a plain warner,"
15:90  even as We had sent warning to those who had divided their religion into fragments
15:91  those who had split up their Qur´an into pieces
15:92  By your Lord, We will question them al
15:93  concerning what they have been doing
15:94  (O Prophet), proclaim what you are commanded, and pay no heed to those who associate others with Allah in His Divinity
15:95  Surely We suffice to deal with those who scoff at you
15:96  those who set up another deity alongside Allah. They shall soon come to know
15:97  We certainly know that their statements sorely grieve you
15:98  When (you feel so) glorify your Lord with His praise and prostrate yourself before Him
15:99  and worship your Lord until the last moment (of your life) that will most certainly come