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36:1 Ya Sa«n

36:2 By the Wise Qur’an

36:3 you are indeed one of the apostles

36:4 on a straight path

36:5 [It is a scripture] sent down gradually from the All-mighty, the All-merciful

36:6 that you may warn a people whose fathers were not warned, so they are oblivious

36:7 The word has certainly become due against most of them, so they will not have faith

36:8 Indeed We have put iron collars around their necks, which are up to the chins, so their heads are upturned

36:9 And We have put a barrier before them and a barrier behind them, then We have blind-folded them, so they do not see

36:10 It is the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them, they will not have faith

36:11 You can only warn someone who follows the Reminder and fears the All-beneficent in secret; so give him the good news of forgiveness and a noble reward

36:12 Indeed it is We who revive the dead and write what they have sent ahead and their effects [which they left behind], and We have figured everything in a manifest Imam

36:13 Cite for them the example of the inhabitants of the town when the apostles came to it

36:14 When We sent to them two [apostles], they impugned both of them. Then We reinforced them with a third, and they said, ‘We have indeed been sent to you.’

36:15 They said, ‘You are nothing but humans like us, and the All-beneficent has not sent down anything, and you are only lying.’

36:16 They said, ‘Our Lord knows that we have indeed been sent to you

36:17 and our duty is only to communicate in clear terms.’

36:18 They said, ‘Indeed we take you for a bad omen. If you do not relinquish we will stone you, and surely a painful punishment will visit you from us.’

36:19 They said, ‘Your bad omens attend you. What! If you are admonished . . . . Rather you are a profligate lot.’

36:20 There came a man from the city outskirts, hurrying. He said, ‘O my people! Follow the apostles

36:21 Follow them who do not ask you any reward and they are rightly guided

36:22 Why should I not worship Him who has originated me, and to whom you shall be brought back

36:23 Shall I take gods besides Him? If the All-beneficent desired to cause me any distress their intercession will not avail me in any way, nor will they rescue me

36:24 Indeed then I would be in manifest error

36:25 Indeed I have faith in your Lord, so listen to me.’

36:26 He was told, ‘Enter paradise!’ He said, ‘Alas! Had my people only know

36:27 for what my Lord forgave me and made me one of the honoured ones!’

36:28 After him We did not send down on his people a host from the sky, nor We would have sent down

36:29 It was but a single Cry, and, behold, they were stilled [like burnt ashes]

36:30 How regrettable of the servants! There did not come to them any apostle but that they used to deride him

36:31 Have they not regarded how many generations We have destroyed before them who will not come back to them

36:32 And all of them will indeed be presented before Us

36:33 A sign for them is the dead earth, which We revive and out of it bring forth grain, so they eat of it

36:34 And We make in it orchards of date palms and vines, and We cause springs to gush forth in it

36:35 so that they may eat of its fruit and what their hands have cultivated. Will they not then give thanks

36:36 Immaculate is He who has created all the kinds of what the earth grows, and of themselves, and of what they do not know

36:37 And a sign for them is the night, which We strip of daylight, and, behold, they find themselves in the dark

36:38 And the sun runs on to its place of rest: That is the ordaining of the All-mighty, the All-knowing

36:39 As for the moon, We have ordained its phases, until it becomes like an old palm leaf

36:40 Neither it behooves the sun to overtake the moon, nor may the night outrun the day, and each swims in an orbit

36:41 A sign for them is that We carried their progeny in the laden ship

36:42 and We have created for them what is similar to it, which they ride

36:43 And if We like We drown them, whereat they have no one to call for help, nor are they rescue

36:44 ⎯except by a mercy from Us and for an enjoyment until some time

36:45 And when they are told, ‘Beware of that which is before you and that which is behind you, so that you may receive [His] mercy.’

36:46 There did not come to them any sign from among the signs of their Lord but that they used to disregard it

36:47 When they are told, ‘Spend out of what Allah has provided you,’ the faithless say to the faithful, ‘Shall we feed [someone] whom Allah would have fed, had He wished? You are only in manifest error.’

36:48 And they say, ‘When will this promise be fulfilled, should you be truthful?’

36:49 They do not await but a single Cry that would seize them as they wrangle

36:50 Then they will not be able to make any will, nor will they return to their folks

36:51 And when the Trumpet is blown, behold, there they will be, scrambling from their graves towards their Lord

36:52 They will say, ‘Woe to us! Who raised us from our place of sleep?’ ‘This is what the All-beneficent had promised, and the apostles had spoken the truth!’

36:53 It will be but a single Cry, and, behold, they will all be presented before Us

36:54 ‘Today no soul will be wronged in the least, nor will you be requited except for what you used to do.’

36:55 Indeed today the inhabitants of paradise rejoice in their engagement

36:56 —they and their mates, reclining on couches in the shades

36:57 There they have fruits and they have whatever they want

36:58 ‘Peace!’—a watchword from the all-merciful Lord

36:59 And ‘Get apart today, you guilty ones!’

36:60 ‘Did I not exhort you, O children of Adam, saying, “Do not worship Satan. He is indeed your manifest enemy

36:61 Worship Me. That is a straight path”

36:62 Certainly he has led astray many of your generations. Did you not use to apply reason

36:63 This is the hell you had been promised

36:64 Enter it today, because of what you used to defy

36:65 Today We shall seal their mouths, and their hands shall speak to Us, and their feet shall bear witness concerning what they used to earn.’

36:66 Had We wished We would have blotted out their eyes: then, were they to advance towards the path, how would have they seen

36:67 And had We wished We would have deformed them in their place; then they would have neither been able to go ahead nor to go back

36:68 And whomever We give a long life, We cause him to regress in creation. Then will they not apply reason

36:69 We did not teach him poetry, nor does it behoove him. This is just a reminder and a manifest Qur’an

36:70 so that anyone who is alive may be warned, and that the word may come due against the faithless

36:71 Have they not seen that We have created for them —of what Our hands have worked— cattle, so they have become their masters

36:72 And We made them tractable for them, so some of them make their mounts and some of them they eat

36:73 There are other benefits for them therein, and drinks. Will they not then give thanks

36:74 They have taken gods besides Allah [hoping] that they might be helped

36:75 [Yet] they cannot help them, while they [themselves] are ready warriors for them

36:76 So do not let their remarks grieve you. We indeed know whatever they hide and whatever they disclose

36:77 Does not man see that We created him from a drop of [seminal] fluid, and, behold, he is an open contender!

36:78 He draws comparisons for Us, and forgets his own creation. He says, ‘Who shall revive the bones when they have decayed?’

36:79 Say, ‘He will revive them who produced them the first time, and He has knowledge of all creation

36:80 —He, who made for you fire out of the green tree, and, behold, you light fire from it

36:81 Is not He who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them? Yes indeed! He is the All-creator, the All-knowing

36:82 All His command, when He wills something, is to say to it ‘Be,’ and it is

36:83 So immaculate is He in whose hand is the dominion of all things and to whom you shall be brought back