16. Al-Nahl/The Honey Bee

I/We begin by the Blessed Name of Allah

The Immensely Merciful to all, The Infinitely Compassionate to everyone.

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Allah’s Judgment is coming.
So do not seek to hurry it – O the disbelievers.
All Glory be to HIM!
And HE is Exalted - far above what they ascribe to HIM in Divinity and Worship.

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Tell them, O The Prophet, that everyone does not deserve to get the angels descend on to him.
HE sends down the angels with the Spirit by HIS Command upon whoever HE
Pleases of HIS servants, saying:
‘Warn people that there is no entity of worship except ME alone.
So keep away from MY disobedience’ in reverence, awe, and piety!

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HE created the celestial realm and the terrestrial world in truth with a definite purpose.
HE is Exalted - far above what they ascribe to HIM.

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HE created the human being from a drop of semen,
yet the same human being openly becomes a fierce adversary.

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And the livestock - HE created them for you.
There is warmth in them - in clothing from their hides/wool - and other benefits,
and of them, you obtain meat to eat as well.

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And there is beauty in them for you too -
when you bring them home in the evening, and
when you take them out to pastures in the morning.

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And they carry your loads to distant far-off lands,
which you could not otherwise reach without hardship to yourselves.
In fact, your Rabb - The Lord is All-Gracious and All-Compassionate.

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And HE also created the horses and the mules and the donkeys for you to ride and put on show.
And HE creates and will continue to create many other things that you do not know as yet unknown means of transportation.

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And it is for Allah to set the direction of the Right Path,
but there are other paths that deviate from it.
But if HE had so willed, HE would surely have guided you all along HIS Path.

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It is HE WHO sends down rain water from the sky clouds for you.
From it some you drink, and with it grow the shrubs/vegetation on which you graze the
livestock.

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And with the same water, HE makes food crops to grow for you, and
also the olive trees, and
the date-palms, and
the grapevines, and
all other types of fruit.
Surely in this is an amazing Sign of HIS Creative Power and Providence for a people who
reflect.

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And HE has subjected to you:
the nighttime and the daytime, and
the sun and the moon, and
the stars.
These serve you by HIS Command.
Surely in this, there are amazing Signs of HIS Creative Power and Providence for a people who comprehend.

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And whatever HE has created for you on the earth with its numerous colors, diverse forms, appearances and qualities -
surely in all this is an amazing Sign of HIS Creative Power and Providence for a people who remember.

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And it is HE WHO
made the sea to benefit you so that you may eat fresh fish flesh from it, and
also, take out of it ornaments which you may wear, and
you see the ships cruising therein,
and it is so that you may also seek some of HIS Bounty,
and that you may be grateful to HIM for all that.

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And HE has cast upon earth towering mountains lest it should shake you violently,
and HE has made therein rivers and pathways so that you may find your way to your destinations,

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as well as other natural landmarks.
And even the stars by which people take guidance and find their way.

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So then, is HE WHO creates such things like the one who does not create?
Will you not, then, consider and become believers?

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And if you were ever to count Allah’s Blessings in their entirety,
you would never be able to enumerate them precisely, let alone be able to give thanks for it.
Surely, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful as HE bestows Grace upon you despite your disbelief and disobedience.

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And Allah Knows what you keep secret – inward thoughts and intentions - and
what you reveal.

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But those entities they call upon besides Allah do not create a single thing.
In fact, they themselves are created.

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They are, in fact, dead, and lifeless!
And they are not even aware when they will be resurrected to life.
So how can they be worshiped?

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Your Allah is the One and Only Allah.
But as for those who do not believe in the Hereafter - their hearts are defiant in denial,
and they are too arrogant/proud to believe in it.

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Undoubtedly, Allah Knows what they are doing both in secret and out in the open.
Surely HE – HE has no love for the proud/arrogant.

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And whenever they are asked:
‘What is it that your Rabb -The Lord - has sent down’ on to Muhammad?
They retort:
Fictitious ‘tales of the ancient!’

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Consequently, they may bear their sinful burdens fully at the Time of Resurrection,
together with some of the sinful burdens of those whom they misguided without their
realizing it.
How terrible will be what - the burdens - they will carry!

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Surely those who lived before them also schemed and plotted against their Messengers and the Divine Message.
But Allah struck at the very foundations of what they built,

and then its roof fell upon them from above them, and
the punishment seized them from where they never even expected!

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Then, at the Time of Final Judgment, HE will disgrace them.
And ask in rebuke:
So ‘where are MY alleged partners for whose sake you denied ME and used to argue?’
Those given the knowledge will remark:
‘Indeed – this time - disgrace and misery be upon the disbelievers.’

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‘They are those whom the angels will take in death while they are steeped in sinful life.’
Then they will offer submission, saying:
‘We did not do anything wrong’ intentionally!
However, they will be answered:
‘Yes, indeed, you did!
Surely, Allah Knows what you were doing!’

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So enter through the gates of Hell - to be therein forever’ - never to leave, never to die.
So awful indeed will be the dwelling of the proud/arrogant!

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Whereas - when the pious will be asked:
‘What was it that your Rabb - The Lord revealed?’
They would say:
Absolutely ‘the best!’
HE revealed all that is good.
For those who practice righteousness in this world, good reward is assured;
but even better will be their Home in the Hereafter - Paradise of Perpetual Bliss.
And wonderful will indeed be the Home of the pious.’

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They will enter the Paradise of Perpetual Bliss -
under which rivers/streams flow - wherein they will have whatever they desire.
Thus Allah will reward the pious.

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Those whom the angels take in death while they are in a state of goodness will say:
‘Peace be upon you!
Enter the Paradise!
A reward for what you used to do’ in the world.

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Are they - the disbelievers - awaiting anything but the angels to come to them, or the
Command of your Rabb - The Lord to come?
Even so, did those before them.
And Allah was not unfair to them, but they were unfair to themselves through disbelief and disobedience.

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Then, the evil consequences of what they had done, recoiled upon them, and
they were overtaken by the very thing they used to ridicule and mock.

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And those who ascribe entities to Allah say:
‘If Allah had willed it so, we would have never worshiped anything but HIM - neither we nor our forefathers,
and also we would have never forbidden anything without HIM/HIS Command.
Thus also behaved and said those before them.
But, then, are the Messengers assigned to do anything other than to convey the Divine Message clearly?

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And certainly, WE assigned a Messenger to every community who advocated:
‘Submit to Allah in awe and worship!
And keep away from the Power of Evil!’
And amongst them were some whom Allah guided aright,
just as there were some among them who deserved to be let astray.
So travel around the world, and observe the fate of those who belied the truth.

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O The Prophet!
If you eagerly desire their guidance,
it would not make any difference, for Allah does not guide those whom HE judges to have gone astray.
And they will have no helpers against Allah’s Judgment.

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And they swear by Allah - the most earnest of their oaths:
‘Allah will never resurrect anyone to a new dimension of existence who has died.’
Yes indeed – HE Will!
This is a promise binding on HIM in truth - that HE will fulfill,
even though most people do not know it out of their ignorance.

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They will be definitely resurrected after death so that HE will make clear to them their differences with believers,
so that those who disbelieved can finally know that indeed they were liars when they denied the Resurrection.

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Resurrecting the dead to a new dimension of existence is easy for US because:
Whenever WE intend a thing to happen,
WE simply need to Command it:
‘Be!’
Then it comes to be – it starts happening to completion with perfection.

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As for those who emigrated for the Cause of Allah after having been persecuted for their Faith.
WE will certainly re-settle them in the new lands and provide them with good benevolence in this life,
yet even better and greater will be their reward of the Hereafter if only they knew how great that reward will be!

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Such reward will be awarded to those,
who persevered patiently, and
put their trust in their Rabb - The Lord.

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And WE did not assign any Messengers before you - O The Prophet - except men like you, to whom WE revealed.
So just ask the learned of the Former Scriptures,
if you do not know about it.

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WE had assigned the earlier Messengers with clear Signs and the Scriptures,
just as WE are now sending it on to you, O The Prophet, the Reminder - the Qur’an,
so that you may explain clearly to the people what has been sent down to/for them,
and that they may think about it and follow.

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So do those who conceive evil schemes feel safe that Allah will not make the earth to cave in upon them,
or that the punishment will not seize them suddenly from where they would not even expect it?

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Or that HE will not seize them while they are coming and going about the land in pomp and show -
If HE decides to punish them they will not be able to frustrate HIS decision.

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Or that HE will not seize them with gradual erosion of their wealth, health, and power?
Yet, indeed, your Rabb - The Lord is Ever-Compassionate as well as Ever-Merciful in so far as HE does not hasten their punishment and gives them an opportunity to repent.

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Do they never observe the things that Allah has created?
How even their shadows revolve from the right and the left
as if prostrating themselves before Allah in all humility and submission?

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Whatever is within the celestial realm and whatever is within the terrestrial world - prostrates itself before Allah in submission –
and every living creature and the angels and the non-corporeal likewise -
for they are not proud to submit to HIM in worship, awe, and piety.

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And Allah Commands:
‘Do not take two or more entities in worship.

In reality, HE is the One and Only Allah.
So be awed of no one but ME!’

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And to HIM belongs whatever is within the celestial realm and the terrestrial world,
and to HIM alone belongs absolute obedience - always due.
Why then, should you be awed of anyone apart from Allah?

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And whatever of blessings you have, it is all from Allah.
And whenever hardship befalls you - it is to HIM alone you scream in desperation for help
with pleas.

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Then no sooner does HE relieve the hardship from you,
some of you begin to ascribe entities to their Rabb - The Lord in divinity and worship,

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as if to show their ingratitude for all that WE have granted them.
So let them enjoy their life as they may!
But eventually, they will know their fate!

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And yet they dedicate a share from the sustenance WE provide them - to what they know nothing of.
By Allah - you are certainly going to be questioned about what you had been fabricating
against Allah.

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And they also ascribe daughters as offspring to Allah – may HE be Exalted in HIS Glory! -
whereas for themselves they assign what they desire the most: the sons.

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And whenever any of them is given the good news of a baby girl’s birth,
his face would darken, and he is chocked with anguish.
So how is it that daughters are ascribed to HIM?

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Ashamed - he would avoid people because of the evil of what he was given as the good news,
debating within himself:
should he keep it - the newborn - in humiliation,
or bury her alive in the dust?
It is unfortunate!
How evil indeed is their decision in which they ascribe daughters to their Rabb – The Lord
- who have such a lowly status in their eyes.

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The worst example is fitting for those who bury their newborn girls alive as they do not believe in the Hereafter,
whereas the best example is fitting for Allah as there is no entity worthy of worship, and can never be, apart from HIM.
And HE is the Almighty and All-Wise in HIS creation of the feminine gender.

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And if Allah were to take the people to task immediately for their injustice, wrongdoing and sin,
then HE would not leave on it - the earth - a single creature alive.
However, HE gives them relief until an appointed time.
So when their time approaches, they can neither delay it by a single moment,
nor can they hasten it by a single moment.

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And they ascribe to Allah what they hate for themselves, i.e., baby girls/daughters.
And despite this, their tongues utter the falsehood that the better things in the future will be theirs.
But let them be in no doubt that it is only the Fire that would be best reward for them
and that they are going to be abandoned into it.

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By Allah!
WE assigned the Messengers to various communities before you - O The Prophet,
but Satan made their evil actions appear pleasing to the disbelievers among them.
So they considered them to be good deeds and therefore denied the Messengers.
So he is their best friend now,
and for them is going to be a grievous punishment.

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And WE have not sent down to you, O The Prophet, this Book - The Qur’an,
except for you to explain and clarify to them those things about which they have been differing, and
also, it would be a source of guidance and a mercy for a people who want to believe in it.

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And Allah sends down rain water from the sky clouds giving life to the earth with
vegetation, fruits, and flowers even after it had been lifeless.
Truly in this is a wondrous sign of the Resurrection for a people who listen and then reflect.

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And truly in the livestock too you have a valuable lesson:
WE give you milk to drink from what is within their bellies,
– between the waste/filth and blood:
pure milk - uncontaminated by either their filth or blood,
palatable and pleasant tasting to anyone who drinks it.

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And from the fruits of the date-palms and the grapevines you obtain intoxicating drink as well as good provision/food.
Surely in this too is a wondrous sign for a people who can understand.

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And consider how your Rabb - The Lord inspired the honey-bee, saying:
‘ Prepare for yourself hives/habitations
in the hillsides, and
on the trees, and
in the trellises/what people erect.

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Then – HE – inspired the honey-bee to eat from all kinds of flowering fruits, and
follow obediently the paths determined for you by your Rabb - The Lord.’
There comes from within their bellies, a fluid of diverse shades of color - honey,
wherein is healing and cure for the people from ailments.
Indeed, in all this is certainly a wondrous sign for a people who reflect on Allah’s Unique Creative Powers.

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And Allah created you when you were nothing,
and then - in due course - HE will take you back in death.
And some of you are left to the degrading old age,
so much so that, once having known, he comes to know nothing – forgetfulness overtakes.
Surely Allah is All-Knowing, All-Powerful.

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And Allah has favored some of you in abundance of worldly provisions over others.
Yet those so favored do not share their provisions with those whom their right-hand holds -
such that they might be equal in this one aspect.
How then do they renounce Allah’s Blessings and ascribe entities/partners to HIM?

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And Allah has made for you spouses from among yourselves – of your own species,
and through your spouses, HE has given you children and grandchildren,
and provided you with good sustenance.
Will they, then, continue to believe in falsehood, and show ingratitude for Allah’s Blessings
when they ascribe entities/partners to Him?

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And will they then continue worshiping entities apart from Allah -
that have no power to provide them any sustenance neither from the heavens nor from the earth,
nor are they able to get any such powers from anywhere?

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Therefore, do not compare the likenesses of anything, any entity – metaphorically or proverbially - with Allah.
Indeed, Allah Knows what HE is really like, whereas you do not know.

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Allah sets forth a comparison between two persons:
a powerless servant - who has no power to do anything of his own will,
a free person whom WE have provided with good provision from OURSELVES, so that he spends from it generously both in secret and in public.
The first similitude is for a disbeliever, while the second is for a believer.
Can these two be considered equal?
Not indeed!
Then all Praise and Gratitude be to Allah alone!
Yet most of them do not understand it and keep ascribing entities to Allah in divinity and worship.

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And Allah makes for you another comparison between two persons:
One of them cannot speak – he has no power over anything, and he is burdensome to his master,
whatever task he is directed to do, he does not bring any good.
Can he be considered equal to the one who enjoins justice and is set on a straight path?

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And to Allah alone belongs whatever is beyond human perception within the celestial realm and the terrestrial world.
And the advent of the Last Hour will not be, but only like a blink of the eye, or even quicker.
Surely, Allah Manifests Sovereignty over all existence.

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And it is Allah WHO brought you out of the bellies/wombs of your mothers - while you did not know a single thing.
Then HE made for you
the ability to hearing, and
the eyesight, and
the hearts/minds for reflection,
so that you may learn to be grateful to HIM for these gifts and become believers.

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Do they not see towards the birds, how they are enabled by Allah to fly in the midst of the
sky - midair?
No one holds them aloft but Allah.
Surely in this is a wondrous sign for a people who contemplate and are true believers.

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And Allah has given you the ability to build/made houses as places of rest for you,
and HE has provided for you with the knowledge and technology of making another kind of
houses/tents from hides of livestock -
light for you to handle when you travel,
as well as easy to pitch when you camp.
And out of their wool, and their fur, and their hair HE has given you knowledge and technology of making furnishings and articles of convenience that you can enjoy for a while for your comfort.

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And Allah has provided for you places of shades from what HE has created - like trees as a means of protection from the heat of sun and rain,
and provided places of refuge for you in the mountains,
and produced clothing for you to protect you from the heat and the cold,
as well as garments - coats of armor - to protect you in battles.
In this way HE perfects HIS Blessings upon you, so that you may submit to HIM.

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Yet if they turn away from you - O The Prophet,
remember - your mission is only to convey the Message clearly.

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They - who turn away from you - recognize Allah’s Blessings,
yet they deny them because they are used to ascribing entities of worship to HIM.
And, most of them are disbelievers and ungrateful.

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And the Time of Resurrection will come when WE will raise a witness from every community.
Then no permission will be granted to make pleas for mercy to those who have been denying and belying,
and they will also not be allowed to repent or offer appeasement.

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And when those who have done evil actually see the intensity of suffering that awaits them
– the Hellfire,
it will neither be lessened for them, nor will they be granted any relief.

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And when those who were ascribing entities to Allah see the entities whom they ascribed to Allah in divinity and worship,
they will exclaim:
O OUR ‘Rabb - The Lord!
These are the ones whom we used to call on beside YOU.’
However, they will throw their word back at them, retorting:
‘Surely - you are all lier!’

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And at The Time they are going to submit to Allah,
and all what they used to fabricate will have left them to languish.

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As for those who disbelieve and keep others away from the Path of Allah,
WE will heap punishment on top of punishment on them for they used to spread religious
corruption.

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And they should not forget the Time when WE are going to raise a witness out of every community from among themselves to testify for/against them,
and WE will bring you - O The Prophet - as a witness for/against these people who ridiculed you in person and mocked your Divine Mission.
And WE have sent down the Book - The Qur’an – to you that explains everything clearly.
Furthermore, it is a source of guidance, and a mercy, and a source of good news of Paradise
for all those who submit themselves to Allah.

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Indeed, Allah commands:
justice to be done, and
kindness to be extended, and
generosity to be shown to relatives.
And HE forbids:
all shades of immorality, and
defiance of Allah, and

- transgression in faith.
HE warns you repeatedly so that you will keep all this in mind.

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And fulfill any pledge you make in Allah’s Blessed Name when you have pledged,
and do not break your oaths after their confirmation - for by swearing in Allah’s Blessed Name you have made Allah your guarantor.
Surely, Allah is All-Aware of everything you do.

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And do not be like her who unravels the strands of yarn, after it was firmly spun with hard labor, into broken strands -
by making your oaths a means of deception among yourselves,
so that one group may not have an advantage over the other group, and false promises are made out of fear.
In such a situation, Allah is testing you whether you fulfill your obligations or not.
And at the Time of Final Judgment HE is going to make clear for you the matters about which you differed with regard to your oaths: by punishing the one who reneged, and rewarding the one who remained faithful.

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And if Allah had so willed, HE could surely have made you all one single religious
community.
However, HE lets go astray those who wish to go astray,
and HE guides aright those who wish to be guided aright.
And you will all be questioned about what you used to do so that you may be rewarded.

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So do not use your oaths a means of trickery/deceit among you -
lest your footing might begin to stumble after having been firmly set upon it – the guidance,
and lest you experience the evil consequences of your obstructing and having turned away from the Path of Allah,
and for that you would incur incredible suffering.

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And do not sell the Covenant of Allah for a small gain.
Surely, what is of the reward with Allah is far better for you - only if you were knowing.

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All that is with you of the worldly things will end/deplete,
but all that is with Allah will remain/last forever.
And WE are certainly going to reward those who have been steadfast in fulfilling their
Covenants - their reward for the best of what they had been doing.

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Whoever practices righteousness, whether a male or a female, and is a true believer -
WE are definitely going to make him live a decent life in this world.
And WE are going to award them their rewards - for the best of what they had been doing.

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So whenever you recite/read the Qur’an,
then seek refuge with Allah against the Satan, ever to be accursed.

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a. He - Satan - certainly has no power over those who believe and put their trust in their Rabb
- The Lord.

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He - Satan - has power only over those who ally themselves with him and are willing to follow him,
and who - because of him – ascribe entities of worship to Allah.

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And when WE replace one Message by another Message,
and Allah knows best what HE is sending down -
they object by alleging against you – O The Prophet:
‘You are just a fabricator!’
Certainly not!
Rather most of them are naïve and do not understand the rationale in its broader perspective.

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Say O The Prophet:
The ‘Spirit of Holiness brings it - the Qur’an - down to me from your Rabb - The Lord with all truth,
in order to reassure those who believe, and
as a source of guidance and good news to all those who submit’ themselves to Allah.

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And indeed WE Know well that they are saying:
‘It is only a man who is teaching him’ all this.
They make this allegation even though the language of the one to whom they falsely all due to is a non-Arab,
whereas this language of The Qur’an is eloquent Arabic.
So how can a non-Arab be teaching him Arabic?

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Truly, as for those who do not believe in Allah’s Messages in the Qur’an,
Allah will never guide them aright.
And for them is going to be a painful suffering.

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In fact, only those fabricate falsehood who do not believe in Allah’s Messages in the Qur’an.
And it is they - they are lier!

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Whoever disbelieves in Allah after having once believed -
except for someone who has been forced to do so, while his heart remains true to his faith,
but whoever willingly opens up his heart to disbelief and his soul is content with it –
Allah’s Wrath and Condemnation will fall upon them.
And for them is going to be a severe punishment.

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This is because they love the life of this world more than the Hereafter.
And Allah will never guide such people who disbelieve.

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They are those – Allah has set a seal on
their hearts, and
their hearing, and
their sight;
and those - they are the heedless of the punishment awaiting them.

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a. Without any doubt, in the Hereafter - they are going to be the losers.

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Then indeed your Rabb - The Lord - as for those who emigrated from their homes after being persecuted for the sake of their Faith,
and then struggled and endured patiently in consequential adversities,
to them, your Rabb - The Lord – after that trial – will be so very Forgiving and very Merciful.

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The Time of Final Judgment when everyone will come pleading for mercy for oneself.
And everyone will be awarded in full for all one has done - good for good and bad for bad in their worldly life, and
they will not be treated unfairly at all.

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And Allah sets out an example:
A town that was once secure from any insurgency and was at peace,
its provisions coming to it abundantly from all places.
Yet its - inhabitants - were ungrateful for Allah’s Favors.
Thereupon, Allah made its - inhabitants - to wear the garment of impoverishment and fear as a result of what its inhabitants had been indulging.

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And then a Messenger came to them from among themselves –
but they belied and denied him.
Thereupon, the suffering of impoverishment and fear seized them as they were unfair to themselves.

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So consume of all the lawful and good things Allah has provided for you.
And be grateful to Allah for HIS Favors, if it is only HIM you stand in submission, awe, and worship.

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Indeed, HE has only forbidden you to consume:
the meat of dead cattle, and
the blood, and
the flesh of swine/pork, and
the meat which is slaughtered as a sacrifice for others than Allah.
Yet whoever is forced to consume by sheer necessity and avoid starvation,

and neither craving nor feeding to excess,
then, he will incur no sin, and
Allah will certainly be Forgiving and Merciful.

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O The People!
And do not pronounce the following for what your tongues falsely utter:
‘This is lawful,
but that is unlawful’ –
arbitrarily determining so as to attribute your falsehood against Allah.
Indeed, those who attribute such falsehood against Allah - they will never succeed.

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For them will be a brief enjoyment of this life,
but then for them is going to be painful suffering.

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And WE made unlawful for the Followers of Judaism such things as WE recounted to you earlier, and,
WE were never unfair to them.
Rather they were unfair to themselves.

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Then truly your Rabb - The Lord - for those who do evil in ignorance,
and then repent and reform themselves by their speech, deeds, and dealings -
surely - after all that - your Rabb - The Lord will indeed be Forgiving of them and Merciful
too.

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In fact, Abraham was a community by himself;
he was devoutly obedient to Allah,
and he was never of the polytheists.

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Abraham - he was always grateful for HIS Blessings -
WHO Chose him for the Prophethood, and
guided him along the Straight Path.

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And WE granted him good in this world,
and, surely, in the Hereafter he is going to be among the righteous.

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And now WE have revealed on to you O The Prophet, saying:
‘Follow the religion of Abraham!
He was never of the polytheists.’

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The observance of the Sabbath was merely prescribed for those Jews who differed about it
in its objective and details -
your Rabb - The Lord will judge between them regarding their differences when they meet HIM
during the Time of Resurrection.

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O The Prophet!
Call people to the Path of your Rabb - The Lord with wisdom and good advocacy, and
argue with them in a decent manner in all religious interactions.
Truly your Rabb - The Lord – HE Knows Best who is straying from HIS Path, and
HE also Knows Best who are guided aright.

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And if you want to respond, then respond with the like of what you have been made to suffer.
But if you refrain from revenge and be patient,
it is always better for those who are patient.

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O The Prophet!
Therefore be patient!
And your patience is not but only from Allah.
And do not grieve over them,
and do not be distressed by their scheming -
for Allah will make you prevail over them.

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Indeed, Allah is always with those who remain reverently Allah-conscious,
and HE is also with those who seek excellence in virtue – seek the best in deeds, speech, and dealings.