<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 8[/INST]Have they not meditated within themselves that Allah has not created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between the two except with (a system of) Truth and for (a span of) fixed term? And surely most of the people do not believe in the meeting with their Lord.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 9[/INST]Have they not travelled in the earth and seen what was the end of those before them? They were more powerful than them. And they cultivated the earth and inhabited it far more than these people have done. Then their Messengers came to them with clear Signs. So Allah would not wrong them but they wronged their souls themselves.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 10[/INST]Then much evil came to be the end of those who did evil because they used to belie the Revelations of Allah and used to ridicule them.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 11[/INST]Allah generates creation the first time, then (He is the One Who) will create it the second time, then to Him you will be returned.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 12[/INST]And the Day when the Last Hour is established, the evildoers will lose hope.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 13[/INST]And none of their (self-made) partners will intercede for them, and (ultimately) they will deny their very same partners.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 14[/INST]And the Day when the Last Hour will be established, people will separate from one another (in personal agony).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 15[/INST]So those who believe and always do pious deeds will be pleased and delighted in the Gardens of Paradise.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 16[/INST]And those who disbelieve and belie Our Revelations and the Meeting of the Last Day, it is they who will be brought forth to the torment.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 17[/INST]So glorify Allah when you enter the evening (Maghrib and ‘Isha’ times) and when you enter the morning (Fajr time).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 18[/INST]And all praise in the heavens and the earth be to Him alone and (glorify Him) in the afternoon (‘Asr time) and at noon (Zuhr time) as well.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 19[/INST]He is the One Who brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living and enlivens and freshens the earth after its death and you (too) will be brought forth (from the graves) the same way.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 20[/INST]And of His Signs is that He created you from dust, then now you are human beings spread around (all over the globe).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 21[/INST]And (also) of His Signs is that He created for you mates of your own kind so that you acquire peace from them, and He created between you love and mercy. Verily in this (system of creation) there are Signs for those who meditate.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 22[/INST]And of His Signs (too) is the creation of the heavens and the earth and (also) the diversity of your tongues and colours. Verily in that are Signs for the men of knowledge (and research).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 23[/INST]And (also) of His Signs is your sleep by night and by day and your looking for His Bounty (sustenance). Verily there are Signs in it for the (active) listeners.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 24[/INST]And among His Signs (as well) is that He shows you lightning to make you fear and hope and pours (rain) water from the sky. Then with that He brings the earth back to life and liveliness after it dies. Verily there are Signs in it for those who put their mind to work.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 25[/INST]And (also) of His Signs is that the heavens and the earth stand firm by His (system of) Command. Then when He will give you one call to come (forth) from the earth, at once you will come (forth).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 26[/INST]And whatever is in the heavens and the earth (all) belongs to Him alone. All are obedient and submissive to Him alone .</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 27[/INST]And He is the One Who originates creation, then will regenerate it and this (recreation) is very easy for Him. His is the highest Glory in the heavens and the earth and He is Almighty, Most Wise.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 28[/INST](To bring home the point of the Oneness of God) He has illustrated an example for you from your personal lives: Are those (slaves/slave girls), whom you possess, your partners in the wealth which We have given you, that you (all) become equal sharers (owners? Moreover, do) you fear them as you fear one another? (No,) We explain the Signs expressly in the same way for those who possess wisdom (that there is no partner of Allah also in His Creation).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 29[/INST]But those who have done injustice follow the desires of their (ill-commanding) selves without any knowledge (and guidance). So who can guide him whom Allah has held astray? And there are no helpers for them.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 30[/INST]So set your face with absolute concentration (and single-minded devotion) to the obedience of Allah. The nature (made) by Allah is (Islam) on which He has created mankind; (Adopt it. The instinct) created by Allah will never be changed. This Din (Religion) is straight but most people do not know (these realities).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 31[/INST]Have your mind set in turning towards Him alone in repentance and remorse and fear Him and establish Prayer and be not of the polytheists.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 32[/INST](Be not also) of those (Jews and Christians) who disintegrated their religion and became sects and subsects—every sect rejoices over what is with them.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 33[/INST]And when suffering afflicts people they call upon their Lord turning towards Him, but when He delights them with the taste of Mercy from Him then some of them straight away start setting up partners with their Lord,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 34[/INST]To show ingratitude for the Bounty which We have given them. So enjoy benefits (of a few days’ life), then soon you will know (your end).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 35[/INST]Have We sent down to them any (such) authority that speaks as a witness in favour of these idols they associate as partners with Allah?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 36[/INST]And when We delight people with the taste of Mercy they cheer up with that, and when some suffering touches them due to the sins they have already perpetrated they lose hope at once.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 37[/INST]Have they not seen that Allah releases sustenance in abundance for whom He wills and restrains it (for whom He likes)? Surely there are Signs in it for those who believe.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 38[/INST]So keep giving to the close relative his due and to the needy and the wayfarers (their due). That is best for those who seek the pleasure of Allah and it is they who will achieve the goal.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 39[/INST]And the money that you lend at usury so that (your wealth) may increase through mingling with other people’s money will not increase with Allah, but the money that you give as Zakat ([the obligatory Alms-due] and charity donations), seeking (solely) Allah’s pleasure—so it is they who multiply (their money with Allah) manifold.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 40[/INST]Allah is the One Who created you, then granted you sustenance, then causes you to die and then will bring you back to life. Is there any of your (self-made) partners who may do any of these (works)? Holy is He (Allah) the Glorious, the Transcendent, far above these things which they associate as partners (with Him).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 41[/INST]Corruption and disorder has spread over land and sea on account of (the sins) which people have earned with their hands so that Allah may make them taste the outcome of some of their (evil) deeds that they have committed in order that they may desist.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 42[/INST]Say: ‘Travel in the land then see how (alarming) was the end of the people before you. Most of them were polytheists.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 43[/INST]So set your (radiant) face to the straight Din (Religion) before that Day comes from Allah which will not avert (at all). On that Day people will separate from one another.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 44[/INST]Whoever disbelieves will himself face the (evil consequences) of disbelief, while those who act piously are setting aright for themselves the places of rest (in Paradise),</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 45[/INST]So that Allah rewards out of His Bounty those who believe and do good deeds. Surely He does not take the disbelievers for friends.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 46[/INST]And (also) of His Signs it is that He sends winds that bring glad tidings (of rain), so that He may bless you with His Mercy (in the shape of the results of rain) and that the ships may (also) sail with His Command (by means of these winds). And (all this) is because you may seek His bounty (in the form of agriculture and business) and you may (thus) become thankful.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 47[/INST]And in fact We sent before you Prophets to their respective peoples and they came to them with clear Signs. Then We took revenge on the wicked (who belied and disbelieved), and to help the believers was (and is) a binding obligation upon Our Grace.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 48[/INST]Allah is the One Who sends the winds and they raise the clouds. Then He spreads this (cloud) in the atmosphere in the sky as He likes. Then He breaks it up into (various) pieces (layer upon layer). Then you see the rain pouring down from its midst. Then, when He sends it to those of His servants whom He pleases, they become instantly cheerful,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 49[/INST]Although they were in despair before the rainfall upon them.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 50[/INST]So see the effects of Allah’s Mercy how He gives life to the earth after its death. Surely He will bring the dead (also) back to life (in the same way) and He is All-Powerful over everything.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 51[/INST]And if We send a dry wind and they see (their) crops turning yellow, then after this they will start denying (all the earlier favours).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 52[/INST](O Beloved!) Surely you neither make the dead (i.e. the disbelievers deprived of the vitality of faith) hear your call nor the deaf (i.e. deprived of hearing the call of Truth) while they are getting away (from you) turning their backs.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 53[/INST]Nor can you turn (these) blind (wanting in insight) from misguidance to the path of guidance. You recite (with the essential understanding and competence of acceptability) only to those people who believe in Our Revelations. So it is they who are Muslims. (You recite to none except them.)</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 54[/INST]Allah is the One Who created you from a weak thing (i.e. a sperm drop). Then after weakness He generated strength (of youth). Then after strength He produced debility and senility. He creates what He wills; and He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 55[/INST]And the Day when the Last Hour is established, the evildoers will swear they did not stay (in the world) for more than an hour. They used to turn back (from Truth) in the same manner (in the world as well).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 56[/INST]And those blessed with knowledge and faith will say (to them): ‘Indeed, according to the Book of Allah, you have stayed till the Day of Resurrection (instead of one hour). So this is the Day of Resurrection but you did not know it.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 57[/INST]So on that Day the excuse of the wrongdoers will not be of any benefit to them, nor will they be asked to please (Allah).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 58[/INST]And in truth We have elucidated every type of example in this Qur’an for the people (to make them understand). And if you bring to them some (visible) Sign even then these disbelieving people will certainly say: ‘You are doing only falsehood and fraud.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 59[/INST]That is how Allah seals the hearts of the people who do not know (the Truth).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 30 verse 60[/INST]So be steadfast. Verily the Promise of Allah is true. Let not those who lack certitude of faith enfeeble you (on account of the grief over their straying and discomfort for their guidance. O life of the universe, let not their disbelief become a grief consuming your soul).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31[/INST]Luqman</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 1[/INST]Alif, Lam, Mim. (Only Allah and the Messenger [blessings and peace be upon him] know the real meaning.)</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 2[/INST]These are verses of the Book of Wisdom,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 3[/INST]Guidance and mercy for the pious,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 4[/INST]Who establish Prayer and pay Zakat (the Alms-due) and those who believe in the Hereafter.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 5[/INST]It is they who are following guidance from their Lord and it is they who will prosper.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 6[/INST]And of people there are those who buy absurd narrations to make the people lacking in knowledge lose the path of Allah and to mock this (path). It is they for whom there is painful torment.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 7[/INST]And when Our Revelations are recited to such a one, he turns his face away showing arrogance as though he had not heard it at all, as if there were weight (of deafness) in his ears. So give him the news of an agonizing torment.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 8[/INST]Undoubtedly those who believe and keep doing good deeds, for them are Gardens of Bliss.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 9[/INST](They) will live in them forever. The Promise of Allah is true. And He is Almighty, Most Wise.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 10[/INST]He created the heavens without pillars (as) you see them and He placed firm mountains in the earth so that it might not quake carrying you (during rotation) and He spread in it all kinds of animals. And We sent down water from the heaven and We caused to grow in it all kinds of fine and useful vegetation.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 11[/INST]This is Allah’s Creation. So, (O polytheists,) show Me what others, apart from Allah, have created. In truth, the wrongdoers are in open error.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 12[/INST]And surely We blessed Luqman with wisdom and sound judgment (and said to him:) ‘Be grateful to Allah. And whoever gives thanks, thanks for his own good and whoever attempts ingratitude then surely Allah is Self-Sufficient, (Himself) Worthy of all praise.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 13[/INST]And (recall) when Luqman said to his son, and he was advising him: ‘O my son, do not set up partners with Allah. Verily associating partners with Allah is a very grave injustice.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 14[/INST]And We enjoined upon man emphatically (to do good) in relation to his parents — whose mother bore him (in her reproductive system) in pain after pain, and whose weaning also takes two years (and commanded him:) ‘Give thanks to Me and to your parents. (You) have to return to Me alone.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 15[/INST]And if both of them struggle with you to make you associate with Me as partner something whose (reality) you simply do not know, then do not obey them. And cooperate with them in worldly affairs in a decent manner. But (in the matter of faith and the Last Hour and the related affairs) follow someone who adopts the path of turning to Me in repentance and submitting to My injunctions. Then you are to return to Me alone. So I will inform you about the works that you used to do.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 16[/INST](Luqman said:) ‘O my son, if there is a thing equal to the grain of a mustard seed (hidden) inside a rock or in the heavens or in the earth, (even then) Allah will bring it forth (for reckoning on the Day of Judgment). Surely Allah is the Subtle Knower of the minutest matters, All-Aware and Most Vigilant (as well).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 17[/INST]O my son! Establish Prayer and enjoin good and forbid evil, and patiently endure every suffering that touches you. Verily, these are matters of great courage and high resolve.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 18[/INST]And do not turn your face away from the people (in arrogance) nor walk haughtily on earth. Surely Allah does not love anyone arrogant walking gloatingly in self-conceit.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 19[/INST]And adopt moderation while walking and keep your voice low. Surely the worst voice is the bray of a donkey.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 20[/INST](O people!) Have you not seen that Allah has subjected to you whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth, and He has completed upon you His blessings outwardly as well as inwardly? And among people there are (also) those who dispute about Allah without knowledge and without guidance and without (any evidence from) the enlightening Book.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 21[/INST]And when it is said to them: ‘Follow this Book which Allah has revealed,’ they say: ‘Nay, we shall follow (that) way which we found our fathers following,’ even though Satan should be inviting them to the torment of Hell.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 22[/INST]And whoever bows his face in obedience to Allah and is also a man of spiritual excellence (in action and state of mind), has firmly grasped a strong handhold. And the end of all deeds returns to Allah alone.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 23[/INST]And whoever disbelieves, (O Esteemed Beloved,) let not his disbelief grieve you. They (too) are to return to Us. We shall inform them of the deeds which they used to do. Surely Allah knows best the (hidden) contents of the breasts.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 24[/INST]We shall provide them a little benefit (in the world) then, making them helpless, We shall drive them towards the severe torment.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 25[/INST]And if you ask them: ‘Who created the heavens and the earth?’ they shall answer: ‘Allah.’ Say: ‘All praise belongs to Allah alone.’ But most of them do not know.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 26[/INST]Whatever is in the heavens and the earth (all) belongs to Allah alone. Surely Allah is Self-Sufficient, Worthy of all praise (by Himself).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 27[/INST]If (all) the trees on earth were pens and the ocean reinforced by seven more oceans was ink, even then the Words of Allah would never be exhausted. Surely Allah is Almighty, Most Wise.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 28[/INST]Creating you all and raising you all (after death) is (for Allah’s Power) like (creating and raising) a single person. Surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 29[/INST]Have you not seen that Allah makes the night pass into the day and makes the day pass into the night; And (He is the One Who) has made the sun and the moon subservient, each rotating for an appointed term and that Allah is Aware of (all) the deeds that you do?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 30[/INST]That is because Allah alone is the Truth and those whom these people worship besides Allah are false and that Allah is Most High, the Supreme.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 31[/INST]Have you not seen that vessels sail on the sea by Allah’s Bounty so that He shows you some of His Signs? Surely there are Signs in it for every greatly steadfast and grateful person.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 32[/INST]And when the sea wave engulfs them like (clouds or towering mountains or) canopies they (the disbelievers and polytheists) start calling upon Allah, dedicating their most sincere devotion to Him alone. But when rescuing them He brings them back to land, then only a few of them remain on the moderate path (i.e. the path of guidance). And none but every deceptive and ungrateful person denies Our Signs.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 33[/INST]O people! Fear your Lord and fear that Day when no father will be able to expiate for his son, nor will a son be able to atone for his father. Surely true is the Promise of Allah. So let not the worldly life deceive you nor let the Arch-Deceiver (Satan) deceive you concerning Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 31 verse 34[/INST]Surely Allah is the One with Whom is the knowledge of the Last Hour. And He is the One Who sends down rain and knows whatever is in the wombs. And no one knows what (deed) he will earn the next day nor does any one know in what land he will die. Surely Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware (i.e. Self-Knowing and fully Aware of everything besides Him. He Himself Knows everything and also informs him whom He likes).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32[/INST]The Prostration</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 1[/INST]Alif, Lam, Mim. (Only Allah and the Messenger [blessings and peace be upon him] know the real meaning.)</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 2[/INST]There is not even an iota of doubt in it that sending down of this Book is from the Lord of all the worlds.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 3[/INST]Do the disbelievers and the polytheists say this: ‘He (the Holy Prophet) has fabricated it?’ Nay, it is the Truth from your Lord so that you may warn those to whom no Warner has come before you that they may receive guidance.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 4[/INST]Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days (i.e. six phases). He then settled Himself on the Throne (the Command and Control System of universe). You have no helper or intercessor apart from Him. So do you not accept direction and guidance?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 5[/INST]He plans and executes (the Command and Control System) from the heavens to the earth. Then His Command ascends (and will ascend to completion) towards Him in one Day which measures one thousand years according to (the number) that you count.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 6[/INST]He is the One Who knows the unseen and the visible, Almighty and Ever-Merciful.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 7[/INST]He is the One Who endowed everything He created with perfection and virtue. And He initiated the genesis of man from clay (i.e. inorganic matter);</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 8[/INST]Then He linked up lineage of his kind from the extract of a lowly fluid (a sperm drop);</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 9[/INST]Then He perfected (organs and limbs in) him and breathed into him of His spirit (i.e. life) and made for you (also in the mother’s womb) ears and (then) eyes and (then) hearts and brains. You give thanks but little.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 10[/INST]And the disbelievers say: ‘When we are lost in the earth, shall we then be created anew?’ In fact they deny the meeting with their Lord.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 11[/INST]Say: ‘The angel of death that is appointed over you will terminate your life. Then you will be sent back to your Lord.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 12[/INST]And (you will wonder at them) if you see the sinners hanging down their heads before the Presence of their Lord (and saying:) ‘O our Lord, we have seen and heard, so send us back (to the world now) so that we do pious deeds. Surely we believe with certitude.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 13[/INST]And had We intended We would have given guidance to every soul (Ourselves), but this Command from Me has been confirmed: I will certainly fill Hell with all the (disbelieving) jinn and mankind.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 14[/INST]So (now) savour the taste that you had forgotten your meeting of this Day. Surely We have forgotten you. And enjoy the flavour of everlasting torment, a reward of your deeds which you continued to do.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 15[/INST]So only those who believe in Our Revelations, when directed and guided by means of these (Verses), fall down prostrating themselves and glorify their Lord with praise. And they do not attempt arrogance.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 16[/INST]Their sides stay away from their beds and they call out to their Lord in a (mingled state) of fear and hope and spend (in Our Way) out of the sustenance We have provided them.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 17[/INST]So no one knows what coolness of eyes is kept hidden for them. This will be a reward for those (pious deeds) which they used to do.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 18[/INST]How can a person who is a believer be like him who is disobedient? (Nay,) they (both) cannot be equal.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 19[/INST]So those who believe and keep doing good deeds, for them are Gardens of eternal repose as an entertainment and honour (from their Lord) in reward for those (works) which they used to do.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 20[/INST]But as for those who disobeyed, their abode is Hell. Every time they will intend to get out of it and escape, they will be turned back into it and it will be said to them: ‘Keep enjoying the taste of this Fire of Hell which you used to belie.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 21[/INST]And surely before the major torment (of the Hereafter), We shall make them savour the (taste of) nearby torment (in this world) so that they abstain (from disbelief).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 22[/INST]And who is a greater wrongdoer than someone who is admonished by means of Revelations of His Lord, and then he turns away from them? Surely We take revenge on the evildoers.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 23[/INST]And verily We gave Musa (Moses) the Book (Torah). So do not have any doubt with regard to his meeting. (That meeting is about to take place during the Night of the Ascension.) And We made it a guidance for the Children of Israel.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 24[/INST]And We made from among them authorities and leaders who kept disseminating guidance by Our Command when they persevered with patience. And they believed in Our Revelations with certitude.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 25[/INST]Surely your Lord alone will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning matters in which they used to disagree.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 26[/INST]And have they not taken any guidance (from this proclamation) that how many generations We have destroyed before them in whose dwellings these people (now) move about? Surely there are Signs in it. So do they not hear?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 27[/INST]And have they not seen that We stream water towards the dry land, then with that We produce crops of which their cattle as well as they themselves eat? Do they not observe?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 28[/INST]And they say: ‘When will this (Day of) Judgment take place if you are truthful?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 29[/INST]Say: ‘On the Day of Judgment the belief of disbelievers will bring them no benefit, nor will they be given any respite.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 32 verse 30[/INST]So turn your face away from them and wait and they (too) are waiting.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33[/INST]The Clans</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 1[/INST]O Prophet! Remain firm in fearing Allah (with perseverance as before) and do not agree at all to what the disbelievers and the hypocrites say (: conclude with us religious agreement). Surely Allah is All-Knowing, Most Wise.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 2[/INST]And continue following this (Command) which is revealed to you from your Lord. Surely Allah is Well Aware of the works that you do.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 3[/INST]And maintain your trust in Allah and Sufficient is Allah as a Guardian.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 4[/INST]Allah has not made for any man two hearts inside his breast chamber; nor has He made your wives your mothers whom you call mothers by way of Zihar (a form of divorce). Nor He has made your adopted sons your (real) sons. These are merely the utterances of your mouth. And Allah says the Truth and He alone shows the (straight) path.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 5[/INST]Call them (the adopted sons) after their fathers’ (names). That is most just in the sight of Allah. So if you do not know their fathers, then they are your brothers (in Din [Religion]) and your friends. And there is no sin on you for what you said by mistake but (that will be a sure sin) which your hearts intend. And Allah is Most Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 6[/INST]This (Esteemed) Prophet is nearer to and has a greater claim on the believers than their own souls and his (pure) wives are their mothers. And blood relations have a greater claim one to another (in the distribution of inheritance) in the Book of Allah than (the rest of) the believers and the emigrants except that you desire to do favour to your friends. This Command is written in the Book of Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 7[/INST]And, (O Beloved, recall) when We took a covenant from the Prophets (to preach faith in their Prophethood) and (specially) from you and from Nuh (Noah) and from Ibrahim (Abraham) and Musa (Moses) and ‘Isa (Jesus) son of Mayam (Mary) and We took from them a solemn covenant,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 8[/INST]So that (Allah) may ask the Truthful about their truth. And He has prepared an agonizing torment for the disbelievers.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 9[/INST]O believers! Recall Allah’s favour to you when the forces (of disbelievers) came upon you. Then We sent wind and troops (of angels) against them whom you did not see. And Allah sees best what you do.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 10[/INST]When they (the disbelievers) invaded you from above (the eastern side of the valley) and from below (the western side of the valley), and when (your) eyes were distracted (with terror), and (your) hearts rose up to your throats (with horror), and you began to think various uncertainties about Allah (in a state of fear and hope),</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 11[/INST]At that stage the believers were put to trial and were shaken with mighty jolts.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 12[/INST]And when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was a disease (of instability of faith and doubt and suspicion) said: ‘Allah and His Messenger [blessings and peae be upon him] gave us a promise (of victory) just to deceive and betray.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 13[/INST]And when a party of them said: ‘O people of Yathrib! There is no position left for you to stay (safely), so go back (home),’and a party of them began to seek permission from the Holy Prophet (to go back), saying: ‘Our houses are lying exposed,’ whereas their houses were not exposed; they only wanted to escape (on this pretext).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 14[/INST]And if the armies had entered upon them from all the sides of Madina and they (the hypocrites) had been asked pertaining to the subversion (of disbelief and polytheism), they would have accepted (the demand) and would not have delayed it except for a little pause.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 15[/INST]And certainly before this they had made a covenant with Allah that they would not turn their backs and run away. And the covenant made with Allah will (certainly) be asked about.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 16[/INST]Say: ‘Escape will not benefit you at all. If you seek to flee (fearing) death or slaughter you will gain little (from life) except a brief time out.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 17[/INST]Say: ‘Who is the one that can protect you from Allah if He intends to afflict you with suffering or to bestow upon you His Mercy?’And they will not find for themselves any protector or helper apart from Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 18[/INST]Surely Allah knows those among you who hinder (from the Holy Prophet and from fighting in his holy companionship) and who say to their brothers: ‘Come to us.’ And they themselves come to fight but little.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 19[/INST](They do so) being miserly in your case. But when a fear (situation) arises, you will see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like those of someone fainting into death. But when fear departs, they offend you with sharp tongues (injuring heart). They are (in a state of feeling) too greedy for booty. (In fact) they have not yet believed. So Allah has annulled all their deeds. And that is easy for Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 20[/INST]They (still) imagine that the disbelievers’ troops have not yet gone (back), and if those troops should come (again) they would wish them join villagers settling as nomads and (conduct surveillance to) collect news about you. And even if they were among you they would not fight except a very few.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 21[/INST]In truth in (the holy being of) Allah’s Messenger [blessings and peae be upon him] there is for you a most perfect and beautiful model (of life) for every such person that expects and aspires to (meeting) Allah and the Last Day and remembers Allah abundantly.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 22[/INST]And when the believers saw the armies (of disbelievers) they said: ‘This is what Allah and His Messenger promised us and Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth.’ So this (spectacle) increased their faith and their commitment to submission to Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 23[/INST]Among the believers (a great number of) men proved true what covenant they made with Allah. Of them is someone who has fulfilled his vow (by attaining to martyrdom), and of them is someone who is waiting (for his turn). But they have not changed (their covenant) in the least,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 24[/INST]That Allah may reward the Truthful for their truth and may torment the hypocrites if He wills or may accept their repentance. Surely Allah is Most Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 25[/INST]And Allah repulsed the disbelievers (from Madina, defeated,) with the burning of their rage, for they badly failed to achieve any success. And Allah was Sufficient for the believers in the battle (of Ahzab [the Confederates]). And Allah is Ever-Strong, All-Powerful.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 26[/INST]And the People of the Book (among the Banu Quraiza tribe) who helped those (disbelievers), Allah brought them (also) down from their fortresses and filled their hearts with the fear (of Islam). You kill a party of them (for their war crimes) and make the other party the prisoners of war.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 27[/INST]And He made you the owners of the land, the houses and the wealth and properties of these (war enemies) and the (captured) territory where you had not even stepped in (before). And Allah has Absolute Power over everything.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 28[/INST]O (Esteemed) Prophet! Say to your wives: ‘If you long for the world and its glitter, then come! I shall make a provision for you and set you free in a handsome manner.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 29[/INST]But if you long for Allah and His Messenger and the House of the Hereafter then surely Allah has prepared for the pious among you a tremendous reward.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 30[/INST]O Wives of the (Esteemed) Prophet! Whoever of you commits an obvious indecency, the torment for her will be doubled and that is very easy for Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 31[/INST]And those of you who remain obedient to Allah and His Messenger (blessings and peace be upon him) and persist in pious works, We shall give them double of their reward and We have prepared for them honourable sustenance (in Paradise).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 32[/INST]O Wives of the Messenger! You are not the like of any of the womenfolk. If you want to remain pious and Godfearing, then be not soft in your speech (while talking to men as and when required) lest someone whose heart is diseased (with hypocrisy) should feel inclined with desire. And (always) say words which are pure of any taint of doubt and flexibility.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 33[/INST]And remain in your houses with calm and peace and do not display adornment like that of the days of ignorance and establish Prayer and pay Zakat (the Alms-due) and keep obeying Allah and His Messenger (blessings and peace be upon him). Allah intends only to remove all impurity of sins from you, O People of the House (of the Prophet, [even a doubt or trace of shortfall,]) and make you absolutely pure and clean by blessing you with (perfect) purity and wholesomeness.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 34[/INST]And always remember the Revelations of Allah and the tradition and wisdom (of the Holy Prophet [blessings and peace be upon him]) which are recited in your homes. Surely Allah is the Master of subtleties (for His favourite servants - Awliya’) and Well Aware (of all His Creation).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 35[/INST]Surely the submissive men and the submissive women, and the believing men and the believing women, and the obedient men and the obedient women, and the truthful men and the truthful women, and the steadfast men and the steadfast women, and the humble men and the humble women, and the men who give alms and the women who give alms, and the men who fast and the women who fast, and the men who guard their chastity and the women who guard their chastity, and the men who remember Allah excessively and the women who remember Allah very much — Allah has prepared for all of them forgiveness and a mighty reward.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 36[/INST]And neither a believing man nor a believing woman has (this) right that, when Allah and His Messenger (blessings and peace be upon him) have once given judgment (or command) on an affair, they should exercise their own choice in (doing or not doing that) work of theirs. And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger (blessings and peace be upon him) certainly loses his way into open error.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 37[/INST]And, (O Beloved, recall the time) when you said to him whom Allah had favoured and you (too) had done him a favour: ‘Keep your wife (Zainab) with you in the bond of marriage and fear Allah.’ And you were keeping that secret in your heart which Allah was about to reveal. And you had (for decency) the fear of (scoffs of) people (in your heart. O Beloved! You were not required to care for people.) And Allah alone has a greater right that you should fear Him (and who is more Godfearing than you!) So when (your adopted) Zaid fulfilled his desire to divorce her, We married her to you so that there is no blame on the believers for (marrying) the wives of their adopted sons, while they have no desire for them (after divorce). And Allah’s Command had got to be carried out.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 38[/INST]And there is no blame on the Prophet in (accomplishing) that duty which Allah has made obligatory for him. And certainly the same has been the way and practice of Allah with those (as well) who have passed away before. And the Command of Allah is a decree which has been fulfilled.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 39[/INST]And those (bygone) people used to communicate the messages of Allah, and feared Him, and were afraid of none but Allah. And Allah is Sufficient as a Reckoner.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 40[/INST]Muhammad (blessings and peace be upon him) is not the father of any of your men, but he is the Messenger of Allah and the Last of the Prophets (ending the chain of the Prophets). And Allah is the Perfect Knower of everything.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 41[/INST]O Believers! Keep remembering Allah abundantly.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 42[/INST]And glorify Him morning and evening.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 43[/INST]He is the One Who sends peace and blessings on you and His angels as well, so that He may take you out of the layers of darkness into the light. And He is Ever-Merciful to the believers.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 44[/INST]On the Day when they (the believers) will meet Him, their gift (of the meeting — greeting) will be: ‘Peace!’ And He has kept ready for them most honourable reward.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 45[/INST]O (Esteemed) Prophet! Surely We have sent you as a Witness (to the Truth and the Creation), a Bearer of glad tidings (of the Beauty of the Hereafter) and a Warner (of the Torment in the Hereafter),</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 46[/INST]And (as) an Inviter towards Allah by His Command and as a Sun spreading Light.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 47[/INST]And give good news to the believers that there is for them Allah’s great Bounty (that they are cloaked in the affinity of slavery to this Final Messenger of Allah).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 48[/INST]And never (ever) agree to what the disbelievers and hypocrites say: (conclude with us a religious agreement). And disregard their hurtful misbehaviour, and maintain your trust in Allah (with persistence). And Allah alone is Sufficient as a Guardian (in the conflict between the Truth and falsehood).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 49[/INST]O Believers! When you marry the believing women and then divorce them before you have touched them (i.e. had sexual intercourse with them), then no waiting period is (obligatory) on them for you which you may start counting. So give them some provision and send them off nicely extending to them excellent morality.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 50[/INST]O Prophet! Surely We have made lawful for you those of your wives whom you have paid their dower and those who are in your possession (according to Allah’s Commandments) whom Allah has given you as spoils of war, and the daughters of your paternal uncles, and the daughters of your paternal aunts, and the daughters of your maternal uncles, and the daughters of your maternal aunts who have emigrated with you, and any other believing woman who dedicates herself to the Holy Prophet (for marriage) provided the Holy Prophet (too) has the intention to marry her (so all these are lawful for you. This Command is) exclusively for you alone, not for other believers (of the Umma [Community]). Indeed We know best what We have prescribed for them (the Muslims) concerning their wives and the slave girls they possess. (But this exclusive Command for lawfulness of number of wives in your respect has been given) so that there remains for you no bottleneck (in making elaborate arrangements for the education and training of the women of the Muslim Umma [Community]). And Allah is Most Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 51[/INST](O Prophet! You have free choice) to postpone (the turn of) any (wife) whom you may please from among your wives and keep with you (any of them on priority) whom you may please. And there is no blame on you if you desire her (to be with you) from whom you kept distance (for a while). This makes possible for them cooling their eyes (by seeing you) and they will not remain grieved and they all will feel pleased and delighted for what you have blessed them with. And Allah knows best what is in your hearts and Allah is All-Knowing, Forbearing.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 52[/INST]After that (they have preferred your pleasure and your service to the worldly benefits), it is not lawful for you also (to marry) more women (so that these wives alone may enjoy the distinction of their glory). Nor is it lawful that (in case of divorce to some and regarding it Our Command to maintain the present number of wives) you take (into marriage) other wives in their place, even though their beauty (of behaviour, moral conduct and style of preaching Din [Religion]) may seem to you pleasingly excellent. But the slave girl that is in your possession (by Our Command is lawful). And Allah is Ever Watchful over everything.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 53[/INST]O Believers! Do not enter the houses of the Holy Prophet [blessings and peace be upon him] unless permission is granted to you for a meal. Nor (reach so early as to) wait for the cooking of the meal. But when you are invited then enter (at that time). Then when you have eaten the meal, (get up from there and) disperse without delay and do not linger on in eagerness for talk. Surely your (sitting for long in this) manner discomforts the Holy Prophet[blessings and peace be upon him]; and he feels reluctant to (ask) you (to leave) but Allah does not hesitate in (saying) the Truth. And when you ask them (the pure wives) for something, ask them from behind a curtain. This (regard and nice manner) causes great purity for your hearts and for their hearts. And it is not (at all lawful) for you that you cause inconvenience to the Holy Messenger of Allah [blessings and peace be upon him], nor is this (lawful) that you marry his (pure) wives after him, till the end of time. Surely it is the most grievous sin in the sight of Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 54[/INST]Whether you disclose something or conceal it, Allah is certainly the Most Perfect Knower of everything.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 55[/INST]There is no sin on them (if they do not veil themselves) from their (real) fathers, and their sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their own (Muslim) women and from those slave girls whom they possess. Keep fearing Allah. Surely Allah is Witness to and Ever-Watchful over everything.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 56[/INST]Surely Allah and (all) His angels invoke blessings and greetings on the Holy Prophet [blessings and peace be upon him]. O Believers! You (also) invoke blessings on him and salute him with a worthy salutation of peace abundantly (and fervently).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 57[/INST]Surely those who offend Allah and His Prophet, Allah curses them in the world and in the Hereafter and He has prepared for them a disgraceful torment.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 58[/INST]And those who hurt the believing men and the believing women without their doing anything (wrong), surely they bear (on themselves) the burden of a false allegation and an open sin.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 59[/INST]O Prophet! Say to your wives, your daughters and the women of believers that (while going out) they should draw their veils as coverings over them. It is more likely that this way they may be recognized (as pious, free women) and may not be hurt (considered by mistake as roving slave girls). And Allah is Most Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 60[/INST]If the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is the disease (of malice and insolence against the Holy Prophet [blessings and peace be upon him]) and (likewise) those who spread false rumours in Madina do not desist, then We shall certainly make you overmaster them. Then they will not be able to stay in the neighbourhood of Madina but for a few (days).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 61[/INST](These) accursed people (who spread false rumours, promote hatred, strife and terrorism and denigrate the Holy Messenger and his family), wherever found, are to be seized and mercilessly killed by way of target killing.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 62[/INST]This practice of Allah has (continued) through generations that have passed before, and you will never find any amendment in the way practised by Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 63[/INST]The people ask you about (the Hour of) Resurrection. Say: ‘Its knowledge is with Allah alone. And who has made you aware—it may be that the Last Hour has drawn near?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 64[/INST]Surely Allah has cursed the disbelievers and has kept ready for them the Blazing Fire (of Hell).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 65[/INST]They will live in it forever. They will find neither any caring friend nor any supporting helper.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 66[/INST]On the Day when their faces will be (repeatedly) turned over in the Fire of Hell, they will say: ‘Alas! Would that we had obeyed Allah and we had obeyed the Holy Messenger (blessings and peace be upon him)!’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 67[/INST]And they will say: ‘O our Lord, surely we abided by what our chiefs and the influential ones directed, so they turned us away from the (straight) path.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 68[/INST]O our Lord! Afflict them with double torment and lay on them a mighty curse.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 69[/INST]O Believers! Do not be like those who hurt Musa ([Moses] by means of their denigrating words). So Allah proved him clear of the blames which they levelled against him. And he (Musa [Moses]) had great honour and high standing in the sight of Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 70[/INST]O Believers! Always fear Allah and say what is correct and straight.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 71[/INST]He will set (all) your deeds right for you and will forgive you your sins. And whoever obeys Allah and His Holy Messenger [blessings and peace be upon him] will surely achieve a great success.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 72[/INST]Indeed We offered the Trust (of Obedience) to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they declined to bear this (burden) and felt scared of it but man took it on. Verily he is ever so wrongdoing (against his own soul), unwise and extremely ignorant (of the consequence of lapse in paying back the trust).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 33 verse 73[/INST](This is) so because Allah may torment the hypocrites, men and women, and the polytheists, men and women, and Allah may accept repentance of the believers, men and women. And Allah is Most Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34[/INST]Sheba</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 1[/INST]All praise be to Allah alone to Whom belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth, and to Him belongs praise in the Hereafter (as well). And He is All-Wise, Well Aware.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 2[/INST]He knows (all) the things that go into the earth and that come out from it and those that descend from heaven and that ascend to it. And He is Ever-Merciful, Most Forgiving.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 3[/INST]And the disbelievers say: ‘The Last Hour will not come upon us.’ Say: ‘Why not? By my Lord Who is the Knower of the Unseen that is bound to come upon you. Nothing can be out of His sight, not even a dust particle in the heavens or in the earth. Nor is there anything smaller or bigger than an atom but is (recorded) in the light-giving Book (i.e. al-Lawh al-Mahfuz),</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 4[/INST]In order that Allah may recompense in full those who believe and continue doing good deeds. It is they for whom there is forgiveness and honourable sustenance (for the Last Day).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 5[/INST]And those who strived in (opposition to) Our Revelations presuming to frustrate (Us), it is they for whom there is punishment of a highly agonizing torment.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 6[/INST]And those who have been given knowledge know that (the Book) which has been revealed to you from your Lord is alone the Truth. And that (Book) guides to the path of Most Exalted in Might, All-Praiseworthy (Lord).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 7[/INST]And the disbelievers say (with the intention to wonder and mock): ‘Shall we tell you of a person who informs you that when you have decomposed completely into dust particles (after death), you will certainly be composed into a new creation?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 8[/INST](Either) he has invented a lie against Allah or he is insane.’ (Nothing of the sort!) The truth is that those who do not believe in the Hereafter are undergoing a torment and are in farthest error.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 9[/INST]So have they not seen those (Signs) in the heaven and the earth (which have beset them) from their front and from their rear? If We so intend We would sink them into the earth or let a part of the sky fall upon them. Verily there is in it a Sign for every servant of Allah who turns to Him.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 10[/INST]And indeed We bestowed on Dawud (David) a tremendous favour from Our Presence (and ordained:) ‘O mountains, join him in chanting melodious tunes (of Our glory and praise).’ And (We gave the same command) to the birds as well (making them subservient). And We made iron soft for him.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 11[/INST](And commanded:) ‘Make wide and full-length coats of mail and care for the measure while joining (their) links (rings). And, (O Family of Dawud [David],) continue doing pious deeds. I am watching minutely the works that you do.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 12[/INST]And to Sulaiman ([Solomon] We made subservient) the wind whose morning course was a month’s journey and the evening course (too) was a month’s journey. And We caused a spring of molten copper to flow for him and (made subservient to him) some jinn who worked in front of him by the Command of his Lord. (And We had warned that) whoever of them turned away from Our Command We would make him taste the Blazing Fire of Hell.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 13[/INST]They (the jinn) used to make for him whatever he desired of lofty and strong fortresses and statues and basins large as reservoirs looking like huge cauldrons fixed in their places. O Family of Dawud (David)! Keep giving thanks (to Allah). And very few of My servants have been grateful!</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 14[/INST]And when We decreed Sulaiman’s (Solomon’s) death, nothing made them (the jinn) aware of his death except a termite of the earth which kept eating his staff. Then when his body came to the ground it became known to the jinn that if they had known the Unseen, they would not have been in that humiliating torment.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 15[/INST]In fact for (the people of) Saba (Sheba) a sign did exist in their homeland itself. (They) were two gardens, one on the right hand and the other on the left. (They were commanded:) ‘Eat of the provision from your Lord and keep giving Him thanks. (How) pure is (your) city and a Lord, Most Forgiving!’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 16[/INST]Then they turned away (from obedience). So We let loose against them a devastating flood, and We converted both their gardens into (such) gardens as bearing sour and bitter fruit and tamarisks and a few lote-trees.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 17[/INST]So We paid them back for their disbelief and ingratitude. And We award (such) punishment to none except the highly ungrateful.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 18[/INST]And We set up prominent (and) adjacent settlements between the dwellers and those towns that We had blessed (on the Yemen-Syria highway), and We had placed between them stopover motels (for rest) while travelling up and down, that you may move between them by night and by day in peace and security.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 19[/INST]Then they said: ‘O our Lord, place between our break-journey points longer distances.’ And they wronged their souls. So We made them tales (for a lesson of warning). And We disintegrated them into pieces and scattered them. Surely there are signs in it for a greatly patient and highly thankful person.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 20[/INST]No doubt Iblis translated his idea about them into reality. So they followed him except a group comprising (the true) believers.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 21[/INST]And Satan had no power over them but for the reason that We might distinguish those who believe in the Hereafter from those who are in doubt about it. And your Lord is Watchful over everything.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 22[/INST]Say: ‘Call upon those you consider (gods) apart from Allah. They do not possess even the smallest particle either in the heavens or in the earth. They have no share in either of them (the heavens and the earth). Nor is anyone of them a helper to Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 23[/INST]And no intercession with His Holy Presence will be of any benefit except from someone He has granted permission, until when fright is removed from their hearts and they will say, (inquiring): ‘What has your Lord said?’ They will say (in reply): ‘He has said the Truth,’ (i.e. has granted the permission). And He alone is Most High, Most Great.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 24[/INST]Say: ‘Who provides you sustenance from the heavens and the earth?’ Say (yourself): ‘Allah (provides). And no doubt either we or you are guided aright or lost in open error.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 25[/INST]Say: ‘You will not be asked about the sin that (you presume) we have perpetrated. Nor shall we be asked about what you do.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 26[/INST]Say: ‘Our Lord will assemble all of us (on the Day of Rising), then will judge among us with the Truth. And He is the Best Judge, All-Knowing.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 27[/INST]Say: ‘Show me the partners you have associated with Allah. There is no (partner) at all. Truly He is the One Who is Almighty, Most Wise.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 28[/INST]And, (O Esteemed Prophet,) We have not sent you but as a Bearer of the glad tidings and as a Warner to the entire mankind, but most people do not know.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 29[/INST]And they say: ‘When will this promise (of the Last Hour) come true if you are truthful?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 30[/INST]Say: ‘The Day of Promise is appointed for you. You will not be able to either put it back for a moment or put it forward.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 31[/INST]And the disbelievers say: ‘We shall not believe in this Qur’an or in that (Revelation) at all which came before it.’ And if you could see when the wrongdoers shall be made to stand before their Lord, (what a spectacle would that be!) Everyone of them will be putting the blame back on others. The humble will say to the conceited: ‘Had you not been there we would certainly have believed.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 32[/INST]The conceited will say to the humble: ‘Did we hinder you from guidance after it had come to you? The truth is that you were evildoers yourselves.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 33[/INST]The humble will then say to the conceited: ‘Nay, it was (your) deceptive scheming night and day (that hindered us) when you used to order us to disbelieve in Allah and assign equals to Him.’ And they will hide their pang of guilt (from one another) when they will see the torment. And We will put iron collars round the necks of the disbelievers and they will be recompensed only for their doings.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 34[/INST]And never did We send a Warner to any town but its wealthy ones would (always) say: ‘We deny (the guidance) you have been sent with.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 35[/INST]And they said: ‘We are super respecting wealth and children and we are not going to be tormented.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 36[/INST]Say: ‘Surely my Lord releases sustenance in abundance for whom He wills and restrains (for whom He likes) but most people do not know.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 37[/INST]And it is not your wealth or your children that can bring you nearness and intimacy in Our Presence. But whoever believes and does good works, it is they for whom the reward is twofold for their works. And they will live in peace in lofty mansions (of Paradise).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 38[/INST]And those who strive (in opposition) to Our Revelations presuming to frustrate (Us), it is they who will be brought to the torment.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 39[/INST]Say: ‘Surely my Lord releases sustenance in abundance for whom He wills and restrains for whom (He likes). And whatever you spend (in the way of Allah), He will increase it with more in recompense. And He is the Best Sustainer.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 40[/INST]And the Day when He will gather all together, then He will say to the angels: ‘Is it they who used to worship you?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 41[/INST]They will submit: ‘Glory be to You;
 You alone are our Protector, not they! In fact they used to worship the jinn. It was in them that most of them believed.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 42[/INST]So Today you have no authority over profit or loss of one another. And We shall say to the wrongdoers: ‘Savour the taste of the torment of Hell that you used to belie.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 43[/INST]And when Our illumining Verses are recited to them, they say: ‘This (Messenger [blessings and peace be upon him]) is only a man who wants to hinder you from those (idols) your fathers used to worship.’ And they (also) say: ‘This (Qur’an) is merely a fabricated lie.’ And the disbelievers (also) say about this Truth (the Qur’an) while it has come to them: ‘It is nothing but obvious magic.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 44[/INST]And neither did We give them (i.e. the residents of Makka) the revealed Books which they would recite, nor did We send to them any Warner before you.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 45[/INST]And the preceding communities also denied (the Truth). And they have not yet attained to even one tenth of what We granted them (i.e. the bygone people). But they too denied My Messengers. So how (awful) did My denial (proved) to be!</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 46[/INST]Say: ‘I advise you but only one thing: stand up for Allah in twos or singly (warned and spiritually awake). Then meditate (i.e. inspect the reality and introspect;
 the Truth will dawn on you) that he (the Holy Messenger [blessings and peace be upon him]) who has honoured you with his companionship is not even touched by any mania. He is but a Warner giving you (timely) warning before the severe torment (comes, so that you may wake up from neglectfulness and unawareness).’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 47[/INST]Say: ‘Any reward that I might have sought from you (for this favour), I have given that back to you. My reward is with Allah alone. And He keeps watch over everything.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 48[/INST]Say: ‘My Lord reveals the Truth (to the Prophets. He) is the All-Knower of all the Unseen.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 49[/INST]Say: ‘The Truth has come and falsehood can neither originate (anything) nor can it regenerate.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 50[/INST]Say: ‘If I were to lose the straight path, the sin (or harm) of losing the straight path would afflict only my soul, and if I am rightly guided it is so because my Lord sends His Revelation to me. Surely He is All-Hearing, Ever-Near.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 51[/INST]And if you visualize (their plight) when they will be most upset, they will not then be able to escape and will be seized from a nearby place.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 52[/INST]And they will say: ‘We have believed in it.’ But how can they now attain to (faith) from (such) a far-off place?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 53[/INST]In fact they had disbelieved before this. And they have been throwing arrows of falsehood and doubt without seeing from a distant place.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 34 verse 54[/INST]And a barrier was placed between them and their desires, as was done before with the people of their kind. Surely they were suffering from a deceiving doubt.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35[/INST]The Originator</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 1[/INST]All praise belongs to Allah alone Who is the Creator of (all the infinities of) the heavens and the earth, and Who makes the angels messengers having two or three or four wings, and adds to (and expands) the Creation as He wills. Surely Allah is All-Powerful over everything.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 2[/INST]Whatever of (the treasure of) His Mercy Allah opens to mankind there is none who can withhold it. And whatever He withholds then after this there is none who may release it. And He alone is Almighty, Most Wise.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 3[/INST]O people! Remember persistently the favour that Allah has bestowed on you. Is there any Creator other than Allah who may provide you sustenance from the heaven and the earth? There is no God but He. So where are you wandering disorientated?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 4[/INST]And if they reject you, many Messengers have been rejected before you. And all matters will be returned to Allah alone.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 5[/INST]O people! Certainly the Promise of Allah is true. So let not the worldly life deceive you at all. Nor let the Arch-Deceiver Satan deceive you (in the Name) of Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 6[/INST]Assuredly Satan is your enemy, so you too keep treating him as an enemy (being his adversary). He calls his party only to make them join the inmates of Hell.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 7[/INST]There is a severe torment for those who disbelieve and there is forgiveness and a mighty reward for those who believe and keep doing pious deeds.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 8[/INST]So what about him whose evil action has been made attractive to him but he starts considering it good (actually? Can he be like a virtuous believer?) Surely Allah holds astray whoever He wills and guides to the straight path whoever He wills. (O life of the universe!) Let not your soul waste away in grief for them. Surely Allah is Best Aware of whatever they do.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 9[/INST]And Allah alone sends winds that raise and build up clouds. Then We drive it (the cloud) towards some dry and dead land to water it. Then with that We give life to the earth after its death. Similar will be the process of rising (of the dead alive).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 10[/INST]Whoever desires honour then to Allah belongs all honour. The pure words ascend to Him alone and He is the One Who elevates (the grades of) a pious deed. And those who keep engaged in evil maneuvers, for them is severe punishment and their deceiving schemes will go void.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 11[/INST]And Allah alone created you from clay (i.e. inorganic matter), then from a sperm drop, then He made you pairs. And no female conceives nor gives birth but with His knowledge. And no aged man’s life is increased nor is his age decreased but (all this) is recorded in a Book (al-Lawh al-Mahfuz). That surely is quite easy for Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 12[/INST]And two seas (or rivers) cannot be the same: this (one) is sweet, thirst-quenching and pleasant to drink and that (other) is salty and very bitter. And you eat fresh meat from each and bring forth ornaments (including pearls and corals) that you wear. And you see in them boats (and ships) that chop through (the water), so that you may seek His bounty (through marine trade routes) and that you may become grateful.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 13[/INST]He causes the night to pass into the day and the day to pass into the night. And He has subjected the sun and the moon (to a system), each rotating for an appointed term. Such is Allah your Lord. His is all the Sovereignty. And the idols that you worship apart from Him do not own (even) the thin membrane of a date stone.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 14[/INST](O polytheists!) If you call upon them, they (are idols;) they cannot hear your call. But if (supposing) they hear they cannot give you an answer. And on the Day of Resurrection they will downright deny your setting up partners with Allah. And none will make you aware like Allah, Well Aware.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 15[/INST]O mankind! You all are dependent upon Allah and Allah is the One Who is Independent, Most Praiseworthy.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 16[/INST]If He wills, He will destroy you and bring in a new creation.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 17[/INST]And that is not at all difficult for Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 18[/INST]And no bearer of burden will bear another’s burden (of sins). And if someone heavily loaded calls (another) to share his load, nothing of his burden will be carried by him even though he be a close relative. (O Beloved!) You warn but those who fear their Lord unseen and establish Prayer. And whoever acquires purity does so to his own benefit. And to Allah is the return.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 19[/INST]And the blind and the seeing cannot be alike;</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 20[/INST]Nor (can) the darkness and the light (be alike);</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 21[/INST]And nor the shade and the hot sun;</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 22[/INST]And nor the living and the dead can be alike. Surely Allah makes him hear whom He wills, and it is not your responsibility to make those hear who are (buried) in the graves (i.e. you are not responsible to make the disbelievers accept what you say).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 23[/INST]You are only a Warner.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 24[/INST]Surely We have sent you with the Truth and Guidance as a Bearer of good news and a Warner (for the Hereafter). And there is not a single Umma (Community) but among whom did pass (some) Warner.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 25[/INST]And if they deny you then surely the people before you have (also) denied. Their Messengers came to them (also) with clear Signs and Scriptures and the illumining Book.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 26[/INST]Then I seized those disbelievers (with the torment). So how (awful) proved to be (their) denying Me!</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 27[/INST]Have you not seen that Allah sent down water from the sky? Then We brought forth with that the fruits which have different colours. And similarly in the mountains there are white and red streaks with a variety of shades and there are deep black (streaks) as well.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 28[/INST]And likewise there are various colours among men and beasts and animals. So only those of His servants who have knowledge (of these realities with a vision and outlook) fear Him. Surely Allah is Almighty, Most Forgiving.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 29[/INST]Surely those who recite the Book of Allah and establish Prayer and spend secretly and openly in Our Way out of what We have given them look forward to a trade (in the Hereafter) which will never run into loss,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 30[/INST]So that Allah may pay them their reward in full and may bless them more out of His bounty. Surely Allah is Most Forgiving, Most Appreciative of thanks.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 31[/INST]And the Book (the Qur’an) that We have revealed to you is the Truth and confirms the former Books. Surely Allah is Well Aware of His servants, All-Seeing.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 32[/INST]Then We made those We chose from among Our servants (i.e. the Muslim Umma [Community]) the inheritors of the Book (the Qur’an). So of them are those who wrong their own souls, and of them are also those who are moderate following the middle course, and of them are still those who excel in doing pious deeds by Allah’s Command. This (excelling and becoming perfect) is but great Bounty (of Allah).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 33[/INST]They shall enter the Gardens of ‘Adn (Eden Paradise for eternal stay). Therein they will be adorned with bracelets of gold and pearls and their dress will be made of silk.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 34[/INST]And they will say: ‘All gratitude and praise belong to Allah Who has removed from us all grief. Surely our Lord is Most Forgiving, Most Appreciative of gratitude,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 35[/INST]Who has, out of His Bounty, admitted us to a timeless abode wherein will touch us neither labour nor fatigue.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 36[/INST]And those who disbelieved, for them is the Fire of Hell. Neither will (death) be decreed for them that they should die; nor will anything of their torment be lessened. We pay back every disobedient the same way.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 37[/INST]And they will howl in Hell: ‘O our Lord, take us out (from here). We shall (now) do righteous works different from those (works) we used to do (before).’ (Allah will say:) ‘Did We not grant you long enough life during which whoever wanted to seek advice might reflect? And (moreover) a Warner too had come to you. So savour now the taste (of the torment), and there will be no helper for the wrongdoers.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 38[/INST]Surely Allah knows the unseen of the heavens and the earth. He is undoubtedly Well Aware of things (hidden) in breasts.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 39[/INST]He is the One Who made you successors (of former communities) in the earth. So the one who disbelieves, is to face the suffering of disbelief. And the denial of the disbelievers increases for them nothing in the sight of their Lord except His displeasure. And the infidels’ disbelief adds to them nothing but loss.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 40[/INST]Say: ‘Have you seen your partner-gods you worship apart from Allah? Show me what they have created of the earth. Or do they have any share in (the creation of) the heavens? Or have We given them any Book so that they stick to its evidence? (Nothing at all!) In fact the wrongdoers promise one another nothing but deception.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 41[/INST]Surely Allah is holding the heavens and the earth (through His Control System) lest they should move away (from their respective locations and orbits/routes). And if they both start deviating, then none can hold them both after Him. Surely He is Most Forbearing, Most Forgiving.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 42[/INST]And they used to swear solemn oaths by Allah that if a Warner came to them, they would certainly be far more on the straight path than any other community. But when the Warner (the Final Messenger of Allah [blessings and peace be upon him]) came to them it only increased their aversion to the Truth.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 43[/INST](They opted) to consider themselves the greatest in the earth and to maneuver evil schemes. And the evil schemes encompass only the schemer. So they are waiting (for nothing) but the pattern of (torment that seized) the bygone people. And you will not find any amendment in the Commandments given by Allah. Nor will you find any divergence (and digression) in the charter of Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 44[/INST]Have they not travelled in the land and seen what was the end of people who have passed before them? They were far more powerful than these people are. And Allah is not such as anything in the heavens or (anything) in the earth can make Him helpless. Indeed He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 35 verse 45[/INST]And if Allah were to seize people (by torment) for the (evil) deeds which they have earned, He would not spare any moving creature on the surface of the earth. But He is giving them respite till an appointed time. Then when their appointed time comes, Allah is Ever-Vigilant of His servants.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36[/INST]Yaseen</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 1[/INST]Ya-Sin. (Only Allah and the Messenger [blessings and peace be upon him] know the real meaning.)</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 2[/INST]By the Qur’an, full of Wisdom,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 3[/INST]You are indeed one of the Messengers,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 4[/INST]On the Straight Path.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 5[/INST]This is revealed by Almighty, Ever-Merciful,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 6[/INST]That you may warn the people whose fathers were (also) not warned. So they are careless and neglectful.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 7[/INST]In fact Our Command has proved true against most of them. So they will not believe.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 8[/INST]Surely We have put iron collars round their necks reaching their chins. So they have raised their heads up.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 9[/INST]And We have set a wall before them and a wall behind them, and We have cast a veil over their eyes so they do not see anything.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 10[/INST]And it is all the same for them whether you warn or do not warn them, they will not believe.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 11[/INST]You can only warn him who follows the direction and guidance and fears the Most Kind Lord unseen. So give him the good news of forgiveness and a reward of great honour.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 12[/INST]Surely We alone raise the dead alive. And We are writing down (the deeds) which they have sent forward and their effects (that are left behind). And We have encompassed everything in the illumining Book (al-Lawh al-Mahfuz).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 13[/INST]And (in story-telling style) narrate to them the example of the people of a city (Antioch - an ancient city in North Syria), when there came to them some Messengers.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 14[/INST]When (at first) We sent to them two Messengers, they rejected them both. Then We reinforced (them) with a third (Messenger). Then the three of them said: ‘Surely we have been sent to you.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 15[/INST](The people of the city) said: ‘You are but human beings like us, and the Most Kind Lord has not sent down anything. You are only lying.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 16[/INST](The Messengers) said: ‘Our Lord knows that assuredly we have been sent to you.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 17[/INST]And there is no binding upon us except to communicate the message expressly.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 18[/INST](The people of the city) said: ‘An evil omen has reached us from you. If you do not desist, we shall certainly stone you and you will definitely suffer an agonizing punishment at our hands.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 19[/INST](The Messengers) said: ‘Your evil omen is with you. Is it an evil omen that you are admonished? Nay, but you are a people who exceed limits.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 20[/INST]And a person came running from the farthest end of the city. He said: ‘O my people, follow the Messengers.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 21[/INST]Follow those who do not ask from you any compensation and who are rightly guided.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 22[/INST]And what is the matter with me that I should not worship Him Who has created me and to Him (all of) you will be returned?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 23[/INST]Should I take such gods apart from Him (Allah) that if the Most Kind Lord intends to do me any harm, their intercession would not bring me any benefit, nor would they be able to rescue me?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 24[/INST]Then, certainly I would be in open error.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 25[/INST]Surely, I have believed in your Lord, so listen to me (attentively).’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 26[/INST](The disbelievers martyred him; then it) was said (to him): ‘(Come,) enter Paradise.’ He said: ‘Alas! Would that my people knew,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 27[/INST]That my Lord has forgiven me and put me among the honoured and near ones.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 28[/INST]And, after him, We did not send any army (of angels) from the heaven to his people, nor were We to send down (angels to destroy them).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 29[/INST](Their torment) was nothing but a Mighty Blast, and there were they put out (dead like charred coal).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 30[/INST]Ah! Woe to (these) servants! Never did a Messenger come to them but they used to mock him.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 31[/INST]Have they not seen how many communities We destroyed before them, and that now they will not return to them,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 32[/INST]But that all of them will be brought before Our Presence?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 33[/INST]And a sign for them is the dead earth to which We gave life, and We brought forth from it (grain); then they eat of it.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 34[/INST]And We produced in it gardens of date-palms and grapes, and also caused some springs as well to gush forth in it,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 35[/INST]So that they may eat of its fruits. And it is not their hands that made it. Do they not thank (even) then?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 36[/INST]Glory be to Him Who created everything in pairs of those the earth grows and of themselves as well and, (moreover,) of the things they do not know.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 37[/INST]And (also) a sign for them is the night: (how) We draw the day out from it! So then they are left in darkness!</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 38[/INST]And the sun is always rotating (non-stop) for its appointed destination. It is a measure fixed by Almighty, All-Knowing (Lord).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 39[/INST]And We have also appointed stages (of motion and rotation) of the moon till (its appearance to the dwellers of the earth wanes to) the semblance of an old dry branch of a palm-tree.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 40[/INST]Neither can the sun (deviate from its orbit and) overtake the moon nor can the night precede the day and all (the stars and planets) are moving in their respective orbits.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 41[/INST]And a Sign for them is (also) that We boarded their fathers (the Children of Adam) into the laden Ark of (Nuh [Noah] and saved them).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 42[/INST]And like this (Ark) We made for them (many other means of transport) which they ride.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 43[/INST]And if We intend We drown them. Then, there will not be any to respond to their cry, nor will they be saved anyway,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 44[/INST]Except for Our Mercy and (this) provision is for an appointed term.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 45[/INST]And when it is said to them: ‘Fear that (torment) which is before you and which is behind you so that you may be shown Mercy.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 46[/INST]And not a Sign of the Signs of their Lord comes to them but they turn away from it.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 47[/INST]And when it is said to them: ‘Spend (in the way of Allah) of what Allah has given you,’ the disbelievers say to the believers: ‘Shall we feed that (poor) man whom, if Allah so willed, He would feed (Himself)?’ You are but (caught) in clear error.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 48[/INST]And they say: ‘When will this promise (of the Last Hour) be fulfilled if you are truthful?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 49[/INST]They are simply waiting for a Mighty Blast which will seize them (all of sudden), and they will be disputing among themselves.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 50[/INST]Then they will not be able to make a will or to return to their families.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 51[/INST]And (when) the Trumpet will be blown (again) they will come out of the graves at once and run towards their Lord.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 52[/INST](Seeing the horrors of the Hour of Resurrection,) they will say: ‘Ah, woe to us! Who has raised us from our sleeping apartments? This (coming back to life) is the same that the Most Kind Lord promised and the Messengers spoke the Truth.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 53[/INST]This will only be a Mighty Blast. Then all of them will be brought to Our Presence straight away.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 54[/INST]So today no soul will be wronged in the least. Nor will you be rewarded except for the deeds you used to do.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 55[/INST]Surely the residents of Paradise will be rejoicing today (in their) favourite pastime pursuits (like spiritual visits, entertainments, sessions of hymns and spiritual musical performance and other favours).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 56[/INST]They and their wives will be reclining on raised couches under the deep calming shades.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 57[/INST]There they will be provided with fruits (of every kind) and will find (available) everything they will solicit.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 58[/INST]‘Peace (be upon you)!’ (This) greeting will be conveyed (to them) from the Ever-Merciful Lord.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 59[/INST]‘And, O evildoers, get aside (from the righteous) this Day.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 60[/INST]O Children of Adam! Did I not take this covenant from you not to worship Satan; no doubt he is your open enemy;</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 61[/INST]And that you keep worshipping Me alone? That is the straight path.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 62[/INST]And surely he led great many of you astray, so had you not any wisdom?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 63[/INST]This is the same Hell that was being promised to you.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 64[/INST]Enter this Hell today, for you kept disbelieving.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 65[/INST]Today We shall seal their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will bear witness to the deeds which they used to earn.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 66[/INST]And if We had so willed, We would have obliterated the very marks of their eyes. Then if they would have run on the path, how could they have seen?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 67[/INST]And if We had so intended, We would have defaced them in their places. Then they would have power neither to go forward nor to turn back.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 68[/INST]And someone whom We give long life, We cause him to degenerate (towards childhood and debility) in strength and disposition. So, do they not have sense?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 69[/INST]And We have not taught him (the Holy Messenger [blessings and peace be upon him]) composing poetry, nor does it befit his dignity. This (Book) is but direction and guidance and the illumining Qur’an,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 70[/INST]So that it may warn the one who is alive and the word of judgment may be proved against the disbelievers.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 71[/INST]Have they not seen that We created for them cattle out of the (Creation) We made with Our Mighty Hand; so they are their owners?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 72[/INST]And We subjected those (cattle) to them. So some of them are their riding animals, and they eat some of them.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 73[/INST]And there are other benefits and drinks in them as well for them. Then why they do not give thanks?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 74[/INST]And they have made idols their gods other than Allah with the hope that they will be helped.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 75[/INST]These idols are incapable of helping them. And these (disbelievers and polytheists) will be an army of these (idols) that will be brought (into Hell together).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 76[/INST]So let not what they utter hurt you. Surely We know whatever they hide and whatever they make public.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 77[/INST]Has man not seen that We have created him from a sperm drop? Even then, he has become an open adversary.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 78[/INST]And he (himself) puts forth examples for Us and has forgotten (the truth of) his creation. He says: ‘Who will give life to bones when they will have been decomposed?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 79[/INST]Say: ‘He Who created them the first time will give them life. And He knows best every Creation,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 80[/INST]He Who produces fire for you out of the green tree so now you kindle fire with the same!</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 81[/INST]And has He Who created the heavens and the earth not the power to create the like of them (again)?’ Yes indeed! And He is the Supreme Creator, All-Knowing.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 82[/INST]His Command (of creation) is only that when He intends (to create) something, He says to it: ‘Be,’ so it instantly becomes (existent or visible and continues becoming).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 36 verse 83[/INST]So, Glory be to Him in Whose Hand (Power and Control) is the Sovereignty over everything and to Him you will be returned.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37[/INST]Those drawn up in Ranks</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 1[/INST]By the parties ranged in close ranks,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 2[/INST]And by those who drive away the clouds or by those parties who severely reprimand evils,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 3[/INST]Then by those parties that remember Allah (or) recite (the Holy Qur’an),</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 4[/INST]Surely your God is One,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 5[/INST]The Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever (Creation) is between them, and the Lord of every point of sunrise.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 6[/INST]Surely We have decorated the world’s heaven (the first heavenly sphere) with the adornment of stars and planets,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 7[/INST]And made (them) secure from every rebellious Satan.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 8[/INST]They (satans) cannot listen to the celestial world. And (burning brands) are thrown on them from every side,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 9[/INST]To repulse them. And for them is eternal torment.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 10[/INST]But that (Satan) who snatches away (something from angels) a burning brand follows it in chase.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 11[/INST]Ask them: ‘Are they harder (and more difficult) to create or those things which We have created (in the heavenly universe)? Surely We have created them from a sticky clay.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 12[/INST]But you express your wonder while they make fun.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 13[/INST]And when they are given advice, they do not accept it.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 14[/INST]And when they see some Sign, they mock it,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 15[/INST]And say: ‘This is but obvious magic.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 16[/INST]What! When we are dead and turned to dust and bones, shall we be certainly raised (alive again)?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 17[/INST]And shall our forefathers too (be raised)?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 18[/INST]Say: ‘Yes, (of course,) and you will be disgraced and humiliated (as well).’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 19[/INST]So, it shall be merely a single Dreadful Shout (of a stern call). So all will suddenly (rise and) start staring.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 20[/INST]And they will say: ‘Woe to us! This is the Day of Requital.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 21[/INST](It will be said: ‘Yes,) this is the same Day of Judgment which you used to reject.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 22[/INST]Assemble all those who committed injustice and their companions and followers and those (false gods as well) that they used to worship,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 23[/INST]Besides Allah. Then take them to the path of Hell.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 24[/INST]And halt them (near the Passage); they will be interrogated.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 25[/INST](It will be said to them:) ‘What has happened to you that you do not help one another?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 26[/INST](What help can they provide?) For, in truth, they will be standing bending their necks Today.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 27[/INST]And turning to one another, they will mutually question.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 28[/INST]They will say: ‘Surely it is you who used to come to us from the right side (i.e. asserting on oath of being right).’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 29[/INST](Their misleading leaders) will say: ‘The truth is that it was you yourselves who did not believe.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 30[/INST]Nor did we have any authority (and control) over you. But you yourselves were a rebellious people.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 31[/INST]So the Command of our Lord has been proved against us. (Now) we are about to taste (the torment).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 32[/INST]So we led you astray. Surely we ourselves had gone astray.’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 33[/INST]So on that Day they (all) will share the torment.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 34[/INST]No doubt this is how We deal with the sinners.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 35[/INST]Surely, they were such people that when it was said to them: ‘There is no worthy of worship except Allah,’ they used to show arrogance,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 36[/INST]And used to say: ‘Are we going to forsake our gods for the sake of an insane poet?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 37[/INST](He is neither an insane person nor a poet.) He has rather brought the Truth (Din [Religion]) and confirmed the Messengers (of Allah).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 38[/INST]Verily, you are about to taste the painful torment.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 39[/INST]And you will not be given (any) reward but for what you used to do.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 40[/INST](Yes,) but those (exalted and chosen) servants of Allah who have divested themselves of (their ill-commanding selves and its pursuits),</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 41[/INST]It is they for whom a special provision is appointed (morning and evening),</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 42[/INST]Fruits (of every kind). And they will be honoured and venerated,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 43[/INST](Abiding) in Gardens of Bliss and Bounty,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 44[/INST](Making spiritual disclosures) face to face on raised couches.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 45[/INST]Round them will be passed cups of (sacred) over-flowing drink.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 46[/INST]It will be sparkling white and superbly delicious, a treat for those who drink.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 47[/INST]It will neither cause any vertigo nor do any harm, nor will they lose balance (after drinking it).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 48[/INST]And beside them will be (sitting chaste women) with downcast looks and wide beautiful eyes,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 49[/INST](Fair, white charming complexion, they will look) as if they were eggs protected from dust.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 50[/INST]Then those (residents of Paradise) will turn to one another and mutually inquire (about well-being).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 51[/INST]One (of the participants in conversation) will say (to the other): ‘There was an acquaintance of mine (who disbelieved in the Hereafter).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 52[/INST]He used to say (to me): Are you (also) of those who confirm and firmly believe (in these things)?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 53[/INST](That) when we are dead and have become dust and bones, so shall we be requited (in that condition)?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 54[/INST]Then he (the inmate of Paradise) will say: ‘Will you peep down to see (him in which plight he is)?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 55[/INST]Then on peeping down he will find him (right) in the middle of Hell.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 56[/INST](He) will say (to him): ‘By my Lord, you had nearly ruined me.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 57[/INST]And had it not been the favour of my Lord I (too) would have joined those who are brought (for torment with you).’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 58[/INST]So (the inmates of Paradise will gladly ask:) ‘Shall we not die now?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 59[/INST]Except for the first death (which we have passed through and have reached here) and shall we not be ever tormented?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 60[/INST]This is surely the supreme success.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 61[/INST]For such (a success) the doers should do work.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 62[/INST]Well! Is the hospitality (of Paradise) better or the tree of Zaqqum?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 63[/INST]Undoubtedly We have made this (tree) a torment for the wrongdoers.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 64[/INST]Truly this is a tree that springs out from the bottom of Hell.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 65[/INST]The spikes of its fruit are as if heads of (ugly) satans.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 66[/INST]So the inmates of Hell have to eat of it alone and have to fill their bellies with the same.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 67[/INST]Then for sure there will be scalding water mixed (with pus) for them after (eating, which will cut through the gut).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 68[/INST]Then (after eating) surely they will return to Hell (again).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 69[/INST]Surely they found their ancestors misguided.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 70[/INST]So they are made to rush on in their footsteps.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 71[/INST]And in fact most of the former people (also) lost the straight path.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 72[/INST]And surely We sent the Warners among them as well.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 73[/INST]So see how was the end of those who were warned,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 74[/INST]Except for the chosen and exalted servants of Allah.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 75[/INST]And verily Nuh (Noah) cried to Us. So how excellent We are to respond to the prayers!</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 76[/INST]And We delivered him and his family from the ordeal.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 77[/INST]And We made his offspring the only survivors.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 78[/INST]And We made his virtuous remembrance endure among the successors (i.e. the Messengers and their people).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 79[/INST]Peace be on Nuh (Noah) in all the worlds.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 80[/INST]Surely We requite the pious the same way.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 81[/INST]He was indeed of Our servants blessed with (perfect) faith.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 82[/INST]Then We drowned the others.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 83[/INST]And verily of his party was Ibrahim ([Abraham] as well, on him be peace).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 84[/INST]When he appeared before his Lord with a purified and submissive heart,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 85[/INST]He said to his father (who was in fact his uncle and he used to call him father for he had brought him up) and his people: ‘What is it that you worship?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 86[/INST]Do you go for false gods besides Allah, inventing a false allegation?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 87[/INST]Well! What do you think of the Lord of all the worlds?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 88[/INST]Then Ibrahim (Abraham) cast a look at the stars (to put them in doubt),</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 89[/INST]And said: ‘I am not well (so cannot accompany you to the festival).’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 90[/INST]At that they turned their backs on him and left (for the festival).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 91[/INST]Then Ibrahim (Abraham) went up to their gods (idols) quietly and said to them: ‘Do you not eat?</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 92[/INST]What is the matter with you that you do not speak?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 93[/INST]Then Ibrahim (Abraham) began striking (and breaking) them with full force.</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 94[/INST]Then the people came to him running (on returning from the festival).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 95[/INST]Ibrahim (Abraham) said (to them): ‘Do you worship these (non-living stones) which you carve out yourselves,</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 96[/INST]While Allah has created you and (all) your works?’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 97[/INST]They said: ‘Raise for him a building (to burn him), then cast him into the blazing fire (in it).’</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 98[/INST]So they attempted to play a trick against Ibrahim (Abraham) but We humiliated them (when the fire eventually turned into a flower garden).</s>


<s>[INST]Chapter 37 verse 99[/INST]Then Ibrahim (Abraham) said: ‘(Emigrating,) I am going to my Lord. He will certainly guide me.’ (He immigrated to Syria).</s>