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).

These are they who in their Lord believe not:  these! the collars shall be on their necks; and these shall be inmates of the fire, to abide therein for aye.

To hasten evil rather than good will they challenge thee:  but, before their time have been like examples.  Full, truly, of mercy is thy Lord unto men, despite their sins; but verily, thy Lord is right vehement to punish.

And they who believe not say:  “If a sign from his Lord be not sent down to him . . . !” Thou art a warner only.  And every people hath its guide.

God knoweth the burden of every female, and how much their wombs lessen and enlarge:  with Him everything is by measure: 

Knower of the Hidden and the Manifest! the Great! the Most High!

Alike to Him is that person among you who concealeth his words, and he that telleth them abroad:  he who hideth him in the night, and he who cometh forth in the day.

Each hath a succession of Angels before him and behind him, who watch over him by God’s behest.  Verily, God will not change his gifts to men, till they change what is in themselves:  and when God willeth evil unto men, there is none can turn it away, nor have they any protector beside Him.

He it is who maketh the lightning to shine unto you; for fear and hope:  and who bringeth up the laden clouds.

And the thunder uttereth his praise, and the Angels also, for awe of Him:  and he sendeth his bolts and smiteth with them whom he will2 while they are wrangling about God!  Mighty is he in prowess.

Prayer is His of right:  but these deities to whom they pray beside Him give them no answer, otherwise than as he is answered who stretcheth forth his hands to the water that it may reach his mouth, when it cannot reach it!  The prayer of the Infidels only wandereth, and is lost.

And unto God doth all in the Heavens and on the Earth bow down in worship, willingly or by constraint:  their very shadows also morn and even!

Say:  Who is Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth?  Say:  God.  Say:  Why then have ye taken beside Him protectors, who even for their own selves have no power for help or harm?  Say:  What! shall the blind and the seeing be held equal?  Shall the darkness and the light be held equal?  Or have they given associates to God who have created as He hath created, so that their creation appear to them like His?  Say:  God is the Creator of all things!  He is the One! the Conquering!

He sendeth down the rain from Heaven:  then flow the torrents in their due measure, and the flood beareth along a swelling foam.  And from the metals which are molten in the fire for the sake of ornaments or utensils, a like scum ariseth.  In this way doth God depict (set forth) truth and falsehood.  As to the foam, it is quickly gone:  and as to what is useful to man, it remaineth on the earth.  Thus doth God set forth comparisons!  To those who respond to their Lord shall be an excellent reward; but those who respond not to his call, had they all that the earth containeth twice over, they would surely give it for their ransom.  Evil their reckoning! and Hell their home!  And wretched the bed!

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