English - Chapter 26 - Ash-Shuara

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That are the signs of the clear Book

Perhaps thou wouldst be one who consumes thyself in grief because they become not ones who believe

If We will, We send down to them from heaven a sign so that perhaps their necks would stay to it, ones that are bent in humility

And there approaches them not any renewed Remembrance from The Merciful but that they had been ones who turn aside from it

Surely, they denied it. So soon the tiding will approach them about what they had been ridiculing

Consider they the earth, how much We caused to develop in and on it of every generous pair

Truly, in that is a sign. Yet most of them had not been ones who believe

Truly, thy Lord, He is, certainly, The Almighty, The Compassionate

And when thy Lord proclaimed to Moses saying that: Approach the unjust folk

a folk of Pharaoh saying: Will they not be Godfearing

He said: My Lord! Truly, I fear that they will deny me

and my breast be narrowed and my tongue will not be loosened. So send for Aaron

And they charge an impiety against me. I fear that they will kill me

He said: No indeed! Both of you go with Our signs. Truly, We will be with you, ones who are listening

And both of you approach Pharaoh and say: We are the Messengers of the Lord of the worlds

so send the Children of Israel with us

Pharaoh said: Raise not we thee up among us as a child? Hadst thou not lingered in expectation with us for many years of thy lifetime

And thou hadst accomplished thy accomplishment that thou hadst accomplished and thou art among the ones who are ungrateful

Moses said: I accomplished it when I was of the ones who go astray

Beyond this past favor with which thou hast reproached me, thou hadst enslaved the Children of Israel

Pharaoh said: And what is the Lord of the worlds

Moses said: The Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between the two of them if you had been ones who are certain

Pharaoh said to whoever was around him: Listen you not

Moses said: Your Lord and the Lord of your fathers, the ancient ones

Pharaoh said: Truly, your Messenger who was sent to you is one who is possessed

Moses said: The Lord of the East and the West and whatever is between the two of them if you had been reasonable

Pharaoh said: If thou hadst taken to thyself a god other than me. I will, certainly, assign thee to be imprisoned

Moses said: What if I drew near thee with something that makes it clear

Pharaoh said: Bring it, if thou hast been among the ones who are sincere

So he cast his staff; that is when it was a clear serpent

And he drew out his hand and that is when it was shimmering white to the ones who look

He said to the Council around him: Truly, this is one who is a knowing sorcerer

He wants to drive you out from your region by his sorcery. What is it, then, that you suggest

They said: Put him and his brother off and raise up ones who summon in the cities

They will bring every knowing witch to thee

So the ones who were sorcerers were gathered at a time appointed on a known day

and it was said to humanity: Will you, you be ones who gather together

so that perhaps we follow the ones who are sorcerers if they had been the ones who are victors

So when the ones who are sorcerers drew near, they said to Pharaoh: Is there a compensation for us if we had been the ones who are victors

Pharaoh said: Yes! Truly, you will be the ones who are brought near to me

Moses said to them: Cast what you will as ones who cast

So they cast their ropes and their staffs and said: By the vainglory of Pharaoh, we, we will, surely, be the ones who are victors

Then, Moses cast down his staff. That is when it swallows what they faked

The ones who are sorcerers were cast down, ones who prostrate themselves

They said: We believed in the Lord of the worlds

the Lord of Moses and Aaron

Pharaoh said: You believed in him before I give permission to you? He is, truly, your foremost master who taught you sorcery. Then, you will know. I will, certainly, cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will cause you to be crucified one and all

They said: No grievance. Truly, to our Lord we are ones who are turning

Truly, we are desirous that Our Lord forgive us our transgressions that we had been the first of the ones who believe

And We revealed to Moses saying that: Set thou forth by night with My servants. Truly, you are ones who will be followed

Then, Pharaoh sent to the cities, ones who summon

They said: These are, truly, a small crowd

and, truly, they are ones who enrage us

We are altogether, truly, ones who are cautious

So We drove them out from the gardens and springs

and treasures and a generous station

And We, thus, gave them as inheritance to the Children of Israel

So they pursued them at sunrise

Then, when the two multitudes sighted each other, the Companions of Moses said: Truly, we are ones who are to be overtaken

Moses said: No indeed. Truly, my Lord is with me and He will guide me

Then, We revealed to Moses saying that: Strike the sea with thy staff and it divided and each had been a separate part like a high, tremendous mountain

And, again, We brought the others close

and We rescued Moses and whoever was with him, one and all

Again, We drowned the others

Truly, in this is a sign and yet most of them had not been ones who believe

And, truly, thy Lord, He is The Almighty, The Compassionate

And recount to them the tidings of Abraham

when he said to his father and his folk: What is it you worship

They said: We worship idols. We will stay ones who give ourselves up to them

He said: Hear they when you call them

Or are they profiting you or hurting you

They said: Nay! But we found our fathers acting likewise

He said: Then, considered what you had been worshipping

you and your fathers, the elders

Truly, they are an enemy to me, but not so the Lord of the worlds

Who created me. And it is He Who guides me

And that He Who feeds me and gives me drink

And when I was sick, it is He Who heals me

and Who causes me to die, again, will give me life

and from Whom I am desirous that He will forgive me my transgressions on the Day of Judgment

My Lord! Bestow on me critical judgment and cause me to join with the ones in accord with morality

And assign me a good name of good repute with the later ones

and make me one who inherits the Garden of Bliss

And forgive my father. Truly, he had been among the ones who go astray

And cover me not with shame on a Day they will be raised up

on a Day neither wealth will profit nor children

but he who approached God with a pure-hearted heart

And the Garden will be brought close for the ones who are Godfearing

and hellfire will be advanced for the ones who are in error

And it will be said to them: Where is what you had been worshipping

instead of God? Are you helped by them? Or help they themselves

Then, they were thrown down into it, they and the ones who are in error

and the army of Iblis, one and all

And they said while they are in it striving against one another

By God! Truly, we had been clearly wandering astray

when we made you equal with the Lord of the worlds

And no one caused us to go astray but the ones who sin

Now we have not ones who are intercessors

nor an ardent friend, a loyal friend

Would that there were for us a return again. Then, we would be among the ones who believe

Truly, in this is a sign; yet most of them had not been ones who believe

And, truly, thy Lord, He is The Almighty, The Compassionate

The folk of Noah denied the ones who are sent

when their brother, Noah, said to them: Will you not be Godfearing

Truly, I am a trustworthy Messenger to you

so be Godfearing of God and obey me

And I ask you not for any compensation for it. My compensation is only from the Lord of the worlds

So be Godfearing of God and obey you me

They said: Will we believe in thee when it is the most wretched that followed thee

He said: And what knowledge have I of what they had been doing

Truly, their reckoning is but with my Lord if you be aware

I am not one who drives away the ones who believe

I am not but a clear warner

They said: If thou hast not refrained thyself, O Noah, thou wilt, certainly, be among the ones who are stoned

He said: My Lord! My folk denied me

so give Thou deliverance between me and them and victory and deliver me and whoever is with me among the ones who believe

And We rescued him and whoever was with him in the laden boat

Again, We drowned after that the ones who remained

In this is, truly, a sign, yet most of them had not been ones who believe

Thy Lord, He, truly, is The Almighty, The Compassionate

Ad denied the ones who are sent

when their brother Hud said to them: Will you not be Godfearing

Truly, I am a trustworthy Messenger to you

so be Godfearing of God and obey me

And I ask you not for any compensation for it. My compensation is only from the Lord of the worlds

Build you a sign on every high hill to amuse

And take you for yourselves castles so that perhaps you will dwell in them forever

And when you seized by force, seized you by force haughtily

So be Godfearing of God and obey me

Be Godfearing of Him Who furnished relief to you with all that you know

He furnished relief to you with flocks and children

and gardens and springs

Truly, I fear for you the punishment of a tremendous Day

They said: It is equal to us whether thou wert to admonish or thou hast not been among the ones who admonish

Truly, this is nothing but morals of the ancient ones

and we are not ones who are punished

So they denied him and We caused them to perish. Truly, in this is a sign yet most of them had not been ones who believe

And, truly, thy Lord, He is, certainly, The Almighty, The Compassionate

And Thamud denied the ones who are sent

when their brother Salih said to them: Will you not be Godfearing

Truly, I am a trustworthy Messenger to you

so be Godfearing of God and obey me

And I ask you not for any compensation for it. My compensation is only from the Lord of the worlds

Will you be left ones who are safe in what you have here

in gardens and springs

and crops of slender spathes of date palm trees

Will you carve houses out of the mountains as ones who are skillful

So be Godfearing of God and obey me

Obey not the command of the ones who are excessive

who make corruption in and on the earth and make not things right

They said: Truly, thou art only of the ones against whom a spell is cast

Thou art not but a mortal like us. So bring us a sign if thou hadst been of the ones who are sincere

He said: This is a she camel. She has a right to drink and you have a right to drink on a known day

And afflict her not with evil so that you should take the punishment of a tremendous Day

But they crippled her and, then, it came to be in the morning that they are ones who are remorseful

So the punishment took them. Truly, in this is a sign yet most of them had not been ones who believe

And, truly, thy Lord! He is, certainly, The Almighty, The Compassionate

The folk of Lot denied the ones who are sent

when their brother, Lot, said to them: Will you not be Godfearing

Truly, I am a trustworthy Messenger to you

so be Godfearing of God and obey me

And I ask you not for any compensation for it. My compensation is only from the Lord of the worlds

You approach males among worldly beings

forsaking spouses whom your Lord created for you? Nay! You are a folk ones who turn away

They said: If thou hast not refrained thyself, O Lot, thou wilt, certainly, be among ones who are driven out

He said: I am of the ones with hatred for your actions

My Lord! Deliver me and my people from what they do

So We delivered him and his people one and all

but an old woman of the ones who stay behind

Again, We destroyed the others

and We rained down on them a rain. And how evil was the rain for the ones who are warned

Truly, in this is a sign. Yet most of them had not been ones who believe

And, truly, thy Lord, He is, certainly, The Almighty, The Compassionate

The Companions of the Thicket denied the ones who are sent

When Shuayb said to them: Will you not be Godfearing

Truly, I am a trustworthy Messenger to you

so be Godfearing of God and obey me

And I ask you not for any compensation for it. My compensation is only from the Lord of the worlds

Live up to the full measure and be not of the ones who cause loss to others by fraud

And weigh with a straight scale

and diminish not to humanity their things nor do mischief in or on the earth as ones who make corruption

And be Godfearing of Him Who created you and the array of the ancient ones

They said: Thou art only ones against whom a spell is cast

And thou art nothing but a mortal like us. And, truly, we think thee to be among the ones who lie

So cause pieces of heaven to drop on us, if you had been among the ones who are sincere

He said: My Lord is greater in knowledge of what you do

But they denied him. So took them the punishment on the overshadowing day. Truly, that had been the punishment of a tremendous Day

Truly, in this is a sign. Yet most of them had not been ones who believe

And, truly, thy Lord, He is, certainly, The Almighty, The Compassionate

And this, truly, is the sending down successively of the Lord of the worlds

that the Trustworthy Spirit brought down

on thy heart that thou be among the one who warn

in a clear Arabic tongue

And, truly, it is in the ancient scrolls of the ancient ones

Would it not be a sign for them that is known to the knowing among the Children of Israel

And if We sent it down to some of the non-Arabs

and he recited it to them, they had not been ones who believe in it

Thus, We thrust it into the hearts of the ones who sin

They will not believe in it until they see the painful punishment

Then, it will approach them suddenly while they are not aware

Then, they will say: Are we ones who are given respite

Seek they to hasten Our punishment

Hadst thou considered that if We gave them enjoyment for years

and, again, there drew near them what they had been promised

they would not be availed by what they had been given of enjoyment

We caused no town to perish but that it had ones who warn

as a reminder. And We had not been ones who are unjust

It came not forth by the satans

and neither is it fit and proper for them nor are they able

Truly, they, from having the ability to hear, are the ones who are set aside

So call thou not to any god with God so that thou be among the ones who are punished

And warn thy nearest kin, the kinspeople

And make low thy wing to whoever followed thee among the ones who believe

Then, if they rebelled against thee, then, say: Truly, I am free of what you do

And put thy trust in The Almighty, The Compassionate

Who sees thee at the time thou hast stood up

and thy going to and fro of the ones who prostrate themselves

Truly, He is The Hearing, The Knowing

Will I tell you in whom the satans come forth

They come forth in every sinful false one who gives listen

but most of them are ones who lie

As for the poets, the ones who are in error follow them

Hast thou not considered that they wander in every valley

and that they say what they accomplish not

But those who believed and did as the ones in accord with morality remembered God frequently and helped themselves after they were wronged. And those who did wrong will know by which overturning they will be turned about