English - Chapter 41 - Fussilat

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[It is] a revelation from the Mercy-giving, the Merciful

a Book whose verses have been spelled out, as an Arabic reading for folk who know

[sent down] as good news and a warning. Yet most of them avoid it and will not listen

They say: "Our hearts are [covered] with wrappers against what you invite us to; in our ears there [rings] a dullness while a curtain [hangs] between us and you. So act, for we (too) are acting

SAY: "I am only human like yourselves. It has been revealed to me that your god is God Alone. So go straight towards Him and seek His forgiveness; how awful will it be for associators

who pay no welfare tax while they disbelieve in the Hereafter

The ones who believe and perform honorable deeds will have payment which will never be withheld from them

SAY: "How can you disbelieve in Someone Who created the earth in two days? You even set up rivals to Him!" Yet such is the Lord of the Universe

He has placed headlands towering above it and blessed [whatever is] on it, and measured out its types of nourishment for it in four seasons, equally [within reach] for those who ask for it

Then He soared up to Heaven while it was still a haze, and told both it and the earth: "Come, either obediently or reluctantly." They both said: "We shall come willingly

He determined there should be seven heavens [constructed] within two days, and inspired its own order in each heaven. We have beautified the lowest heaven with lamps and a safeguard. Such is the design of the Powerful, the Aware

If they avoid it, then say: "I have warned you of a thunderbolt like Ad´s and Thamud´s thunderbolt

When messengers came at them from both before and behind them [saying]: "Serve no one except God!"; they said: ´If our Lord had so wished, He would have sent angels down, so we are disbelievers concerning whatever you have been sent with

As for [the people of] Ad, they acted proudly on earth without any right [to do so], and they said: "Who is stronger than we are?" Did they not see that God, Who created them, is much Stronger than they were? They had disregarded Our signs

We sent a howling gale against them during some disastrous days, so We might let them taste the torment of humiliation during worldly life. Yet torment in the Hereafter will be even more humiliating, and they will never be supported

As for Thamud, We guided them too, yet they preferred blindness to guidance. [Another] thunderbolt seized them with shameful punishment because of what they had been earning

Yet We saved the ones who believed and had been doing their duty

On the day when God´s enemies are summoned to the Fire, they will be paraded forth

so that when they come up to it, their hearing, eyesight and their skins will testify against them concerning anything they have been doing

They will say to their skins: "Why have you testified against us?´ They will say: "God, Who grants speech to everything, has given us speech. He created you in the first place, and to Him are you returning

Even though you tried to disguise yourselves, lest your hearing, eyesight or your skins would still testify against you, did you suppose that God does not know so much about whatever you are doing

That supposition of yours which you conceived about your Lord has ruined you, so you have awakened among the losers

Even if they are patient, the Fire will still be a lodging for them, while if they want their case to be reviewed, they will not be granted any review

We have assigned them soulmates who have made anything that lies before them and anything behind them seem attractive to The Sentence has been confirmed against them just as it was with t nations of sprites and humankind who passed away before them. They have been the losers

Those who disbelieve will say: "Do not listen to this Reading, and chatter away while it is [being recited), so you will drown it out

We will let those who disbelieve taste severe torment; We will reward them for the worst which they have done

Such will he the reward for God´ enemies: the Fire! They will find a home there forever as a reward because they have repudiated Our signs

The ones who disbelieve will say: "Our Lord, show us which sprites and humans have misled us; we shall trample on both [types] of them with our feet so they will become underdogs

The ones who say: ´Our Lord is God [Alone];" then keep straight on ahead, will have angels alight on them [saying]: "Do not fear nor fee saddened, and rejoice in word about the Garden which you have been promised

We are your sponsors during worldly life and in the Hereafter; during it you shall have whatever your souls may crave, You will have whatever you request in it

as hospitality from Someone [Who is] Forgiving, Merciful

Who speaks in a finer way than someone who appeals to God, acts honorably and says: "I am a Muslim

A good deed and an evil deed are not alike: repel [evil] with something (that is) finer, and notice how someone who is separated from you because of enmity will become a bosom friend

Yet only those who discipline themselves will attain it; only very luckiest will achieve it

Nevertheless if some impulse from Satan should prompt you, then seek refuge with God; He is the Alert, Aware

Among His signs are night and daylight, and the sun and moon, Do not bow down on your knees to the sun nor the moon: bow down on knees before God [Alone], Who created them, if you have been worshipping Him

Even though they may act proud, those who are with your Lord still glorify Him night and day; they never weary of it

Among His signs, you see how desolate the earth is; yet whenever We send water down upon it, it stirs and sprouts. The One Who revives it is the Reviver of the dead; He is Capable of everything

Such are those who disbelieve in the Reminder when it has come to them; it is such a splendid Book

No falsehood shall approach it from either in front of it or behind it, since it is a Revelation from Someone [Who is] Wise, Praiseworthy

Anything that has been told you is merely what was told [other] messengers before you. Your Lord is the Master of Forgiveness as well as the Wielder of Painful Punishment

If We had set it up as some foreign Reading, they would still say: "If its verses were only spelled out in details!" Must it be foreign while [he speaks] Arabic? SAY: "It means guidance and healing for such people as believe, while the ones who do not believe are merely hard of hearing and it [implies] blindness on their part as well. Those people [act as if they] are being called to from a long distance off

We gave Moses the Book, yet differences have arisen over it. If word had not gone on ahead from your Lord, things would have already been settled concerning them. They are in such disgusting doubt about it

Whoever acts honorably, does so for his own soul´s sake; while anyone who commits evil, merely does so against his own interests. Your Lord is never unjust towards His servants

To Him should knowledge about the Hour be referred: no fruit comes forth from its blossom and no female conceives nor gives birth without His knowledge. The day when He calls out to them: "Where are My associates?", they will say: "We assure You there is not a witness [for them] among us

Whatever they were appealing to previously will leave them in the lurch; they will think they have no way to escape

Man never tires of appealing for good, while if some evil ever afflicts him, he becomes desperate, disheartened

If We let him taste some mercy from Ourself after some hardship has afflicted him, he is sure to say: "This is mine! I do not think the Hour is at hand. Even if I were sent back to my Lord, I would still [receive] the finest [treatment] from Him!" We shall notify those who disbelieve about whatever they have done; We will let them taste fierce torment

Whenever We show man some favor, he spurns it and drifts off to one side. Then when any evil afflicts him, he appeals [to Us] both loud and long

SAY: "Have you considered whether it [came] from God? Yet even then you (all) disbelieved in Him!" Who wanders further off the track than someone who is in extreme disagreement? The Macrocosm and Microcosm

We will show them Our signs on [all] the horizons as well as within themselves, until it becomes clear to them that it is the Truth. Does your Lord not suffice as a Witness for everything

Still they [remain] in a quandary about meeting their Lord! Yet He is the One Who embraces everything