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<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 84[/INST]And the Day when We shall raise from every people (their Messenger as) a witness (to their deeds), then the disbelievers will not be accorded permission (to put forward any excuse), nor will they be asked (then) to turn to Allah in repentance.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 85[/INST]And when the wrongdoers see the torment, neither will (this torment) be mitigated for them, nor will they be granted any respite.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 86[/INST]And when the idolaters see their (self-made) partners, they will say: ‘O our Lord, these are our partner-gods which we worshipped besides You.’ Thereupon those (partner-gods) will send them the message (in reply): ‘You are liars indeed.’</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 87[/INST]And that Day these (polytheists) will show humbleness and obedience to Allah, and all falsehood that they used to fabricate will vanish from them.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 88[/INST]Those who disbelieved and kept hindering (others) from the path of Allah, We shall add torment to their torment because they used to spread mischief and spoil peace.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 89[/INST]And (this) will be the Day (when) We shall raise in every people one witness against them from among themselves, and, (O Venerable Beloved,) We shall bring you as witness to all of them (communities and Messengers). And We have revealed to you that Glorious Book which is a clear exposition of everything and is guidance, mercy and glad tidings for the believers.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 90[/INST]Indeed Allah enjoins justice and benevolence (towards everyone), and giving away to the kindred and forbids indecency, evil deeds, defiance and disobedience. He admonishes you so that you may remember with concern.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 91[/INST]And always fulfil the promise of Allah when you promise, and do not break oaths after making them firm while you have already made Allah a surety over you. Surely Allah knows well whatever you do.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 92[/INST]And do not be like the woman who after spinning her yarn firm and strong breaks it into pieces. You employ your oaths as a means of deceiving among you so that (by this) one party may earn more profit than the other. The matter is that Allah (also) puts you to trial through the same, and on the Day of Resurrection He will certainly make clear those matters in which you used to disagree.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 93[/INST]And had Allah so willed He would have made (all) of you one Umma (Community) but He holds strayed whom He wills and leads to guidance whom He wills. And you will surely be asked about the deeds you used to do.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 94[/INST]And do not use your oaths as a means of deceiving among you lest your foot should quiver after it is set firmly (in Islam) and you will taste the evil result because you used to hinder (the people) from the path of Allah. And there is severe torment for you.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 95[/INST]And do not barter the promise made to Allah for a paltry price (i.e. worldly wealth and gains). Surely (the reward) that is with Allah is best for you if you know (this secret).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 96[/INST]The (riches) that you possess will be no more and what is with Allah will last. And those who remain steadfast We shall certainly pay their recompense for their righteous deeds which they used to do.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 97[/INST]Whoever performs pious works, man or woman provided he or she is a believer, We will surely let such a one live a life of purity and will indeed reward them (as well) their wage of the righteous works which they used to do.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 98[/INST]So when you undertake to recite the Qur’an, seek refuge with Allah against (the wiles of) Satan, the outcast.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 99[/INST]Surely he has no control (at all) over those who believe and put their trust in their Lord.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 100[/INST]He overpowers only those who make friends with him and who associate partners with Allah.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 101[/INST]And when We substitute some Verse in place of another Verse, and Allah (alone) knows best whatever He sends down, (then) the disbelievers say: ‘You are but a forger!’ But most of them do not know (the rationale of sending down and substituting the verses).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 102[/INST]Say: ‘The Holy Spirit (Gabriel) has brought it (the Qur’an) down from your Lord with truth so as to keep the believers firm-footed and (this) is guidance and good news for the believers.’</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 103[/INST]And indeed We know that they (the disbelievers and the polytheists) say: ‘It is but a human being who teaches him this (Qur’an).’ But the person they point to, turning the matter away from the truth, is the one whose language is non-Arabic and this Qur’an is (in) clear and unambiguous Arabic language.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 104[/INST]Surely those who do not believe in the Revelations of Allah, Allah does not provide them with guidance (i.e. does not also enable them with understanding and insight). And for them is grievous torment.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 105[/INST]Indeed they alone invent false fabrications who do not believe in the Revelations of Allah and they alone are liars.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 106[/INST]The one who disbelieves after having believed, except someone who is coercively forced to do so and at heart remains contented with belief (as before), but (of course) he who (adopts) disbelief (afresh) wholeheartedly with an open mind, on them is wrath from Allah and for them is fierce torment.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 107[/INST]That is because they loved and preferred the life of this world to the Hereafter and because Allah does not guide the disbelieving folk.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 108[/INST]They are those whose hearts and whose ears and whose eyes Allah has sealed and they are the ones who are neglectful (of their end in the Hereafter).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 109[/INST]It is a fact that these are certainly those who are the losers in the Hereafter.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 110[/INST]Then your Lord, for those who emigrated (i.e. left their homes and towns for the cause of Allah) after they had been made to suffer from trials (and adversities), then fought in the way of Allah and remained steadfast (in the face of worries); after that, (O Glorious Beloved,) your Lord is Most Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 111[/INST]And (recall the time) that Day when every person will appear pleading for himself (in his defence), and every soul will be given full recompense for whatever it will have done, and they will not be wronged in the least.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 112[/INST]And Allah has described the example of a township which was (living) in peace and contentment. The means of sustenance came to (its residents) in abundance from all quarters. Then the (dwellers) of this town disregarded Allah’s blessings and showed ingratitude. Thereupon Allah clothed them in the torment of hunger and fear due to the activities that they used to carry out.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 113[/INST]And indeed there came to them from among themselves a Messenger but they denied him. So the torment seized them and they were certainly the wrongdoers.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 114[/INST]So always eat of that clean and lawful sustenance which Allah has given you and thank for the favour of Allah if you worship but Him alone.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 115[/INST]He has forbidden you only carrion, blood, the flesh of swine and (the animal) on which the name of other than Allah is invoked at the time of slaughter. But he who is faced with survival condition (forced by necessity), neither defying (against Allah’s injunctions seeking taste of lust), nor transgressing (the limit of necessity), then Allah is surely Most Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 116[/INST]And do not tell a lie which your tongues utter: ‘This is lawful and that is forbidden,’ thus fabricating a lie against Allah. Indeed those who fabricate lies against Allah will (never) be delivered.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 117[/INST]There is only a little profit but the torment for them is painful (beyond proportion).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 118[/INST]And We made unlawful for the Jews the same things that We have mentioned to you before and We did not wrong them but they used to wrong their souls themselves.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 119[/INST]Indeed your Lord, for those who committed wrongs out of ignorance, then turned to Him in repentance and amended (their) state, then surely after that your Lord is Most Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 120[/INST]Surely Ibrahim (Abraham) was an Umma ([Community] in himself), exclusively obedient to Allah, turning away from all falsehood (ever inclined and given to Him alone) and was not of those who associate partners with Allah,</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 121[/INST]Grateful to (Allah) for His blessings. Allah chose him (and exalted him to a high office in His Presence) and guided him to the straight path.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 122[/INST]And We bestowed upon him good in this world, and he will surely be of the upright in the Hereafter (as well).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 123[/INST]Then, (O Glorious Beloved,) We sent down Revelation to you: ‘Follow Din (Religion) of Ibrahim (Abraham), who was at variance with every falsehood and was not of those who associate partners with Allah.’</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 124[/INST]Saturday (the Sabbath) was ordained only for those who differed about it, and indeed your Lord will judge among them on the Day of Resurrection (in the matters) in which they used to differ.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 125[/INST](O Glorious Messenger!) Invite towards the path of your Lord with strategic wisdom and refined exhortation and (also) argue with them in a most decent manner. Surely your Lord knows him well who strayed away from His path and He also knows well the rightly guided.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 126[/INST]And if you want to punish, then punish only (as severely) as you were afflicted, but if you remain patient then certainly that is better for those who keep patience.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 127[/INST]And, (O Glorious Beloved,) be patient and your patience is by Allah alone. And you should not grieve over their (defiance), nor distress (your gracious and benevolent heart) on account of their deceptive plots.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 16 verse 128[/INST]Surely Allah blesses them with His (special) companionship who live with Godwariness and who (also) live with spiritual excellence.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17[/INST]The Night Journey</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 1[/INST]Holy (free of any imperfection, weakness and insufficiency) is He Who took His (most beloved and intimate) Servant in a small portion of a night from the Sacred Mosque to the al-Aqsa Mosque, whose surroundings We have blessed, in order that We might show him (the Perfect Servant) Our Signs. Surely He is the One Who is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 2[/INST]And We gave Musa (Moses) the Book (the Torah) and made it guidance for the Children of Israel (and enjoined them:) ‘Do not take anyone other than Me as Guardian.’</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 3[/INST](O) children of those whom We carried (in the Ark) with Nuh (Noah)! Indeed Nuh (Noah) was a highly grateful servant.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 4[/INST]And We categorically conveyed to the Children of Israel in the Book: ‘You shall make mischief twice in the land and employ a violent defiance (against obedience to Allah).’</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 5[/INST]So when the promised first time of the two came to pass We brought upon you those of Our servants who were great warriors. Then, in (your) search they penetrated up to your dwellings. And (this) promise was sure to be fulfilled.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 6[/INST]Then We turned the victory over them to your favour and helped you with (affluence in) wealth and children and increased your numerical strength (as well).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 7[/INST]If you do good, you do it (only) for your own benefit but if you do evil, you will sin against your own souls. Then, when the hour of second promise came (We sent against you other tyrants) so that, (lashing and whipping,) they should deform your faces and enter the al-Aqsa Mosque (the same way) as (the invaders) had entered it the first time and so that they completely destroy whatever (place) they overpower.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 8[/INST]It may well be that (after this) your Lord will have mercy on you, but if you revert to the same (rebellious and defiant behaviour), then We too will get back to the same (tormenting once again). And We have made Hell a prison for the disbelievers.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 9[/INST]Indeed this Qur’an leads to that (destination) which is most right, and gives this good news to those believers who do righteous works, that for them is a mighty reward,</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 10[/INST]And that those who do not believe in the Hereafter, We have prepared for them painful punishment.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 11[/INST]And (intolerant and anguished) man prays (sometimes) for evil as he prays for good (for himself). And man has happened to be very impulsive indeed.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 12[/INST]And We have made the night and the day two Signs (of Our Might). Then We made the Sign of the night dark and We made the Sign of the day bright so that you may look for your Lord’s bounty (provision) and that you may work out the number of years and do reckoning and We have made everything clear in detail.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 13[/INST]And We have slung every man’s record of deeds around his neck, and on the Day of Resurrection We shall bring forth (this) record which he will find spread out (before him).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 14[/INST](It will be said to him:) ‘Read your book (of deeds). Today you yourself are enough for examining your own account.’</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 15[/INST]Whoever adopts the path of guidance follows it to his own benefit and whoever goes astray, then evil consequences of his error also fall back on him alone. And no bearer of burden will bear the burden (of the sins) of any other. And We do not torment (any people) at all until We send a Messenger (to them).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 16[/INST]And when We resolve to destroy a town, We send (some) command to the rich and the affluent among them (so that the common man and the poor too may make amends) but they act disobediently in (the town). Thus Our decree (of torment) becomes due against it. Then We totally smash that town.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 17[/INST]And how many a community have We destroyed after Nuh (Noah)! And your Lord is Sufficient. (He) is Well Aware of the sins of His servants, All-Seeing.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 18[/INST]Whoever longs for (quick recompense for his labour in the form of) worldly riches alone, We readily grant whatever We like to whoever We please, here in this world. Thereafter, We have set up Hell for him which he will enter hearing condemnation and contempt, rejected (from the mercy of his Lord).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 19[/INST]And whoever longs for the Hereafter and toils for it befittingly and he is a believer (as well), it is they whose struggle will earn recognition.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 20[/INST]We extend help to all: those (ambitious of this world) as well as those (aspiring to the Hereafter. O Glorious Beloved, all this) is of your Lord’s Bestowal. And the Bestowal of your Lord is not forbidden (to) and restricted (to anyone).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 21[/INST]See how We have exalted some of them above the others! And surely the Hereafter (as compared to this world) is far greater in terms of degrees and in terms of superiority (as well).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 22[/INST](O listener!) Do not set up another god along with Allah (lest) you should sit back condemned (and) forsaken.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 23[/INST]And your Lord has commanded you not to worship anyone other than Allah and treat the parents with benevolence. If either or both of them attain to old age in your presence, then do not say even ‘Ugh!’ to them nor reproach them. And always speak to both of them submissively, observing polite manners.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 24[/INST]And always lower your arms of submissiveness and humility out of soft-heartedness for both of them and keep supplicating (Allah): ‘O my Lord, have mercy on both of them as they brought me up in (my) childhood (with mercy and clemency).’</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 25[/INST]Your Lord is well aware of the (matters and intentions) that are in your hearts. If you acquire righteous conduct then surely He (Allah) is Most Forgiving to those who turn (towards Him).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 26[/INST]And give to the kindred their rightful due and also (give) to the needy and the wayfarer and do not exhaust (your wealth) by expending wastefully.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 27[/INST]Surely the spendthrifts are the brothers of Satan, and Satan is most ungrateful to his Lord.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 28[/INST]And if, in waiting for your Lord’s mercy (i.e. prosperity) which you look forward to, you seek to avoid these (deserving ones due to scarcity of means), then say to them kind words.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 29[/INST]And neither keep your hand tied to your neck (giving nothing to anyone) nor stretch it wide open (giving away all) lest you should sit back blamed (and) consumed.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 30[/INST]Truly your Lord opens up sustenance for whom He pleases and folds up (for whom He wills). Verily, He is All-Knowing of His servants’ (works and affairs), All-Seeing.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 31[/INST]And do not kill your children due to fear of poverty. We alone provide for them and for you (as well). Indeed killing them is a major sin.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 32[/INST]And do not even go near unlawful sex (adultery). Verily it is an act of lewdness and is the most evil way.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 33[/INST]Do not kill any soul whose (killing) Allah has declared unlawful unless (killing him) is just (according to the law of Shari‘a). But whoever is killed unjustly, We have indeed given to his heir the right (of retribution), but he too has not to exceed limits in killing (by way of retribution). He is indeed helped (by Allah. The responsibility of his help and support will be on the government.)</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 34[/INST]And do not (also) go near the orphan’s property but in a way that is beneficial (to the orphan) until he reaches his maturity. And do fulfil the promise. No doubt the promise will be questioned about.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 35[/INST]And measure in full whenever you measure out (anything), and (when you weigh anything) weigh with a straight balance. This (honesty) is better and much better with regard to its consequence (as well).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 36[/INST]And, (O man,) do not follow that of which you have no (authentic) knowledge. Indeed the ear, the eye and the heart — each of them will be questioned.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 37[/INST]And do not walk arrogantly on earth. Certainly you cannot cleave the earth (with the force of your arrogance), nor can you reach the mountains in height. (You will remain what you are.)</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 38[/INST]The evil of all these (mentioned) acts is most despicable to your Lord.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 39[/INST]This is of those wisdom-loaded values which your Lord has revealed to you and, (O man,) do not set up another god with Allah (lest) you should be cast into Hell cursed (and) rejected (from Allah’s Mercy).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 40[/INST](O idolaters! Think for yourselves!) Has your Lord picked you for sons and taken (for Himself) angels as daughters? Indeed you utter a most awful saying (in the framework of your own fabricated ideas).</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 41[/INST]And surely We have explained (facts and admonitions) in this Qur’an repeatedly and alternating styles so that people may take direction and guidance, but (the disbelievers’ state of mind is such that) this only increases their hatred.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 42[/INST]Say: ‘Had there been some other gods with Him, as they (the idolaters and the disbelievers) say, then they would certainly have (jointly) found some passage to reach the Lord of the Throne (to interfere in His Command and Control System).’</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 43[/INST]Holy is He and Most Exalted and Most High, far above all that they keep saying.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 44[/INST]The seven heavens and the earth and all that exists in them persistently extol the Glory of Allah and there is not a single object (in the entire universe) but it glorifies Him with His Praise. Yet you cannot appreciate their (state of) glorification. He is surely Most Forbearing, Most Forgiving.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 45[/INST]And when you recite the Qur’an, (then) We place an imperceptible veil between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 46[/INST]And We (also) cover their hearts in wrappers so that they may (not) get to its meaning and plug their ears with a sensation of heaviness (so that they may not listen to it). And when you mention your Lord alone in the Qur’an (and the names of their idols are not mentioned) then, in extreme dislike, they turn their backs and flee away.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 47[/INST]We know best the motive with which they listen to with active attention when they give you ears, and when they whisper and when these wrongdoers say (to the Muslims): ‘You are following only a person that is bewitched (i.e. a spell has been cast on him. And We see and hear all this).’</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 48[/INST](O Beloved!) See what similes (these people) find for you! So they have gone astray. Now they are unable to find a way to the right path.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 49[/INST]And they say: ‘When we shall become (decomposed) bones and dust particles (after dying), shall we be raised up alive anew?’</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 50[/INST]Say: ‘(Yes, even though) be you stones or iron,</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 51[/INST]Or any other created matter which you deem even harder (than these things and which is not susceptible to becoming a living thing). Then (in this condition) they will say: ‘Who will bring us back to life?’ Say: ‘He Who created you the first time.’ They will then shake their heads at you (by way of wonder and ridicule) and will say: ‘When will it happen?’ Say: ‘It is expected to occur soon.’</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 52[/INST]The Day when He will call you, you will respond praising Him, deeming that you tarried (in the world) for only a short while.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 53[/INST]And tell My servants that they should say things that are most balanced. Surely Satan causes contention among people. Indeed Satan is man’s declared enemy.</s> |
<s>[INST]Chapter 17 verse 54[/INST]Your Lord is well aware of your state of affairs. If He wills, He may have mercy on you or if He likes, He may torment you. And We have not sent you as a guardian over them (to care for all their matters).</s> |