The Koran (Al-Qur'an) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 711 pages of information about The Koran (Al-Qur'an).

The Koran (Al-Qur'an) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 711 pages of information about The Koran (Al-Qur'an).

Then after this ye shall surely die: 

Then shall ye be waked up on the day of resurrection.

And we have created over you seven heavens:6-and we are not careless of the creation.

And we send down water from the Heaven in its due degree, and we cause it to settle on the earth;-and we have power for its withdrawal:-

And by it we cause gardens of palm trees, and vineyards to spring forth for you, in which ye have plenteous fruits, and whereof ye eat;

And the tree that groweth up on Mount Sinai; which yieldeth oil and a juice for those who eat.

And there is a lesson for you in the cattle:  We give you to drink of what is in their bellies, and many advantages do ye derive from them, and for food they serve you;

And on them and on ships are ye borne.

We sent Noah heretofore unto his people, and he said, “O my people! serve
God:  ye have no other God than He:  will ye not therefore fear Him?

But the chiefs of the people who believed not said, “This is but a man like yourselves:  he fain would raise himself above you:  but had it pleased God to send, He would have sent angels:  We heard not of this with our sires of old;-

Verily he is but a man possessed; leave him alone therefore for a time.”

He said, “O my Lord! help me against their charge of imposture.”

So we revealed unto him, “Make the ark under our eye, and as we have taught, and when our doom shall come on, and the earth’s surface shall boil up,7

Carry into it of every kind a pair, and thy family, save him on whom sentence hath already passed:  and plead not with me for the wicked, for they shall be drowned.

And when thou, and they who shall be with thee, shall go up into the ark; say, ‘Praise be unto God, who hath rescued us from the wicked folk.’

And say, ’O my Lord! disembark me with a blessed disembarking:  for thou art the best to disembark."’

Verily in this were signs, and verily we made proof of man.

We then raised up other generations after them;

And we sent among them an apostle from out themselves, with, “Worship ye God! ye have no other God than He:  will ye not therefore fear Him?”

And the chiefs of His people who believed not, and who deemed the meeting with us in the life to come to be a lie, and whom we had richly supplied in this present life, said, “This is but a man like yourselves; he eateth of what ye eat,

And he drinketh of what ye drink: 

And if ye obey a man like yourselves, then ye will surely be undone.

What! doth he foretell you, that after ye shall be dead and become dust and bones, ye shall be brought forth?

Away, away with his predictions!

There is no life beyond our present life; we die, and we live, and we shall not be quickened again!

This is merely a man who forgeth a lie about God:  and we will not believe him.”

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