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English - Chapter 98 - Al-Bayyinah

Translation by Muhammad Asad — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah Al-Bayyinah 98:1

IT IS NOT [conceivable] that such as are bent on denying the truth - [be they] from among the followers of earlier revelation or from among those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God should ever be abandoned [by Him] ere there comes unto them the [full] evidence of the truth

Verse 2 — Surah Al-Bayyinah 98:2

an apostle from God, conveying [unto them] revelations blest with purity

Verse 3 — Surah Al-Bayyinah 98:3

wherein there are ordinances of ever-true soundness and clarity

Verse 4 — Surah Al-Bayyinah 98:4

Now those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime did break up their unity [of faith] after such an evidence of the truth had come to them

Verse 5 — Surah Al-Bayyinah 98:5

And withal, they were not enjoined aught but that they should worship God, sincere in their faith in Him alone, turning away from all that is false; and that they should be constant in prayer; and that they should spend in charity: for this is a moral law endowed with ever-true soundness and clarity

Verse 6 — Surah Al-Bayyinah 98:6

Verily, those who [despite all evidence] are bent on denying the truth - [be they] from among the followers of earlier revelation or from among those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God - will find themselves in the fire of hell, therein to abide: they are the worst of all creatures

Verse 7 — Surah Al-Bayyinah 98:7

[And,] verily, those who have attained to faith, and do righteous deeds - it is they, they who are the best of all creatures

Verse 8 — Surah Al-Bayyinah 98:8

Their reward [awaits them] with God: gardens of perpetual bliss, through which running waters flow, therein to abide beyond the count of time; well-pleased is God with them, and well-pleased are they with Him: all this awaits him who of his Sustainer stands in awe