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CHAPTER XXXV.

ENTITLED, THE CREATOR; REVEALED AT MECCA.

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.

PRAISE be unto GOD the Creator of heaven and earth; who maketh the angels
his messengers, furnished with two, and three, and four pair of wings: GOD
maketh what addition he pleaseth unto his creatures; for GOD is almighty.
The mercy which GOD shall freely bestow on mankind, there is none who can
withhold; and what he shall withhold, there is none who can bestow, besides
him; and he is the mighty, the wise.
O men, remember the favor of GOD towards you: is there any creator,
besides GOD, who provideth food for you from heaven and earth? There is no
GOD but he: how therefore are ye turned aside from acknowledging his unity?
If they accuse thee of imposture, apostles before thee have also been
accused of imposture: and unto GOD shall all things return.
O men, verily the promise of GOD is true: let not therefore the present
life deceive you, neither let the deceiver deceive you concerning GOD:
for Satan is an enemy unto you; wherefore hold him for an enemy: he only
inviteth his confederates to be the inhabitants of hell.
For those who believe not there is prepared a severe torment: but for
those who shall believe and do that which is right, is prepared mercy and a
great reward.
Shall he therefore for whom his evil work hath been prepared, and who
imagineth it to be good, be as he who is rightly disposed, and discerneth the
truth? Verily GOD will cause to err whom he pleaseth, and will direct whom he
pleaseth. Let not thy soul therefore be spent in sighs for their sakes, on
account of their obstinacy; for GOD well knoweth that which they do.
It is God who sendeth the winds, and raiseth a cloud; and we drive the
same unto a dead country, and thereby quicken the earth after it hath been
dead; so shall the resurrection be.
10 Whoever desireth excellence; unto GOD doth all excellence belong: unto
him ascendeth the good speech; and the righteous work will he exalt. But as
for them who devise wicked plots, they shall suffer a severe punishment; and
the device of those men shall be rendered vain.
GOD created you first of the dust, and afterwards of seed; and he hath
made you man and wife. No female conceiveth, or bringeth forth, but with his
knowledge. Nor is anything added unto the age of him whose life is prolonged,
neither is anything diminished from his age, but the same is written in the
book of GOD's decrees. Verily this is easy with GOD.
The two seas are not to be held in comparison: this is fresh and sweet,
pleasant to drink: but that is salt and bitter: yet out of each of them ye
eat fish, and take ornaments for you to wear. Thou seest the ships also
ploughing the waves thereof, that ye may seek to enrich yourselves by
commerce, of the abundance of God: peradventure ye will be thankful.
He causeth the night to succeed the day, and he causeth the day to
succeed the night; and he obligeth the sun and the moon to perform their
services: each of them runneth an appointed course. This is GOD, your LORD:
his is the kingdom. But the idols which ye invoke besides him have not the
power even over the skin of a date-stone:
if ye invoke them, they will not hear your calling; and although they
should hear, yet they would not answer you. On the day of resurrection they
shall disclaim your having associated them with God: and none shall declare
unto thee the truth, like one who is well acquainted therewith.
O men, ye have need of GOD; but GOD is self-sufficient, and to be
praised.
If he pleaseth, he can take you away, and produce a new creature in your
stead:
neither will this be difficult with GOD.
A burdened soul shall not bear the burden of another: and if a heavy-
burdened soul call on another to bear part of its burden, no part thereof
shall be borne by the person who shall be called on, although he be ever so
nearly related. Thou shalt admonish those who fear their LORD in secret and
are constant at prayer: and whoever cleanseth himself from the guilt of
disobedience, cleanseth himself to the advantage of his own soul; for all
shall be assembled before GOD at the last day.
The blind and the seeing shall not be held equal;
20 neither darkness and light;
nor the cool shade and the scorching wind:
neither shall the living and the dead be held equal. GOD shall cause
him to hear whom he pleaseth; but thou shalt not make those to hear who are in
their graves.
Thou art no other than a preacher:
verily we have sent thee with truth, a bearer of good tidings, and a
denouncer of threats. There hath been no nation, but a preacher hath in past
times been conversant among them:
if they charge thee with imposture, they who were before them likewise
charged their apostles with imposture. Their apostles came unto them with
evident miracles, and with divine writings, and with the enlightening book:
afterwards I chastised those who were unbelievers; and how severe was my
vengeance!
Dost thou not see that GOD sendeth down rain from heaven, and that we
thereby produce fruits of various colours? In the mountain also there are
some tracts white and red, of various colours; and others are of a deep
black:
and of men, and beasts, and cattle there are whose colours are in like
manner various. Such only of his servants fear GOD as are endued with
understanding: verily GOD is mighty and ready to forgive.
Verily they who read the book of GOD, and are constant at prayer, and
give alms out of what we have bestowed on them, both in secret and openly,
hope for a merchandise which shall not perish:
30 that God may fully pay them their wages, and make them a superabundant
addition of his liberality; for he is ready to forgive the faults of his
servants, and to requite their endeavours.
That which we have revealed unto thee of the book of the Koran is the
truth, confirming the scriptures which were revealed before it: for GOD
knoweth and regardeth his servants.
And we have given the book of the Koran in heritage unto such of our
servants as we have chosen: of them there is one who injureth his own soul;
and there is another of them who keepeth the middle way; and there is another
of them who outstrippeth others in good works, by the permission of GOD. This
is the great excellence.
They shall be introduced into gardens of perpetual abode; they shall be
adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls, and their clothing therein
shall be of silk:
and they shall say, Praise be unto GOD, who hath taken away sorrow from
us! verily our LORD is ready to forgive the sinners, and to reward the
obedient;
who hath caused us to take up our rest in a dwelling of eternal
stability, through his bounty, wherein no labor shall touch us, neither shall
any weariness affect us.
But for the unbelievers is prepared the fire of hell: it shall not be
decreed them to die a second time; neither shall any part of the punishment
thereof be made lighter unto them. Thus shall every infidel be rewarded.
And they shall cry out aloud in hell, saying, LORD, take us hence, and we
will work righteousness, and not what we have formerly wrought. But it shall
be answered them, Did we not grant you lives of length sufficient, that
whoever would be warned might be warned therein; and did not the preacher
come unto you? taste therefore the pains of hell. And the unjust shall have
no protector.
Verily GOD knoweth the secrets both of heaven and earth, for he knoweth
the innermost parts of the breasts of men.
It is he who hath made you to succeed in the earth. Whoever shall
disbelieve, on him be his unbelief; and their unbelief shall only gain the
unbelievers greater indignation in the sight of their LORD; and their unbelief
shall only increase the perdition of the unbelievers.
40 Say, What think ye of your deities which ye invoke besides GOD? Show me
what part of the earth they have created. Or had they any share in the
creation of the heavens? Have we given unto the idolaters any book of
revelations, so that they may rely on any proof therefrom to authorize their
practice? Nay; but the ungodly make unto one another only deceitful promises.
Verily GOD sustaineth the heavens and the earth, lest they fail: and if
they should fail, none could support the same besides him; he is gracious and
merciful.
The Koreish swore by GOD, with a most solemn oath, that if a preacher
had come unto them, they would surely have been more willingly directed than
any nation: but now a preacher is come unto them, it hath only increased in
them their aversion from the truth,
their arrogance in the earth, and their contriving of evil; but the
contrivance of evil shall only encompass the authors thereof. Do they expect
any other than the punishment awarded against the unbelievers of former times?
For thou shalt not find any change in the ordinance of GOD; neither shalt thou
find any variation in the ordinance of GOD.
Have they not gone through the earth, and seen what hath been the end of
those who were before them; although they were more mighty in strength than
they? GOD is not to be frustrated by anything either in heaven or on earth;
for he is wise and powerful.
If GOD should punish men according to what they deserve, he would not
leave on the back of the earth so much as a beast: but he respiteth them to a
determined time; and when their time shall come, verily GOD will regard his
servants.



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CHAPTER XXXVI.

ENTITLED, Y.S.; REVEALED AT MECCA.

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.

Y.S.
I SWEAR by the instructive Koran,
that thou art one of the messengers of God,
sent to show the right way.
This is a revelation of the most mighty, the merciful God:
that thou mayest warn a people whose fathers were not warned, and who
live in negligence.
Our sentence hath justly been pronounced against the greater part of
them; wherefore they shall not believe.
We have put yokes on their necks, which come up to their chins; and they
are forced to hold up their heads;
and we have set a bar before them, and a bar behind them; and we have
covered them with darkness; wherefore they shall not see.
10 It shall be equal unto them whether thou preach unto them, or do not
preach unto them; they shall not believe.
But thou shalt preach with effect unto him only who followeth the
admonition of the Koran, and feareth the Merciful in secret. Wherefore bear
good tidings unto him, of mercy, and an honourable reward.
Verily we will restore the dead to life, and will write down their works
which they shall have sent before them, and their footsteps which they shall
have left behind them: and everything do we set down in a plain register.
Propound unto them as an example the inhabitants of the city of Antioch,
when the apostles of Jesus came thereto:
when we sent unto them two of the said apostles; but they charged them
with imposture. Wherefore we strengthened them with a third. And they said,
Verily we are sent unto you by God.
The inhabitants answered, Ye are no other than men, as we are; ye only
publish a lie.
The apostles replied, Our LORD knoweth that we are really sent unto you:
and our duty is only public preaching.
Those of Antioch said, Verily we presage evil from you: if ye desist not
from preaching, we will surely stone you, and a painful punishment shall be
inflicted on you by us.
The apostles answered, Your evil presage is with yourselves: although ye
be warned, will ye persist in yours errors? Verily ye are a people who
transgress exceedingly.
20 And a certain man came hastily from the farther parts of the city, and
said, O my people, follow the messengers of God;
follow him who demandeth not any reward of you: for these are rightly
directed.
What reason have I that I should not worship him who hath created me? for
unto him shall ye return.
Shall I take other gods besides him? If the Merciful be pleased to
afflict me, their intercession will not avail me at all, neither can they
deliver me:
then should I be in a manifest error.
Verily I believe in your LORD; wherefore hearken unto me.
But they stoned him: and as he died, it was said unto him, Enter thou
into paradise. And he said, O that my people knew
how merciful GOD hath been unto me! for he hath highly honoured me.
And we sent not down against his people, after they had slain him, an
army from heaven, nor the other instruments of destruction which we sent down
on unbelievers in former days:
there was only one cry of Gabriel from heaven, and behold, they became
utterly extinct.
30 Oh the misery of men! No apostle cometh unto them, but they laugh him to
scorn.
Do they not consider how many generations we have destroyed before them?
Verily they shall not return unto them:
but all of them in general shall be assembled before us.
One sign of the resurrection unto them is the dead earth: we quicken the
same by the rain, and produce thereout various sorts of grain, of which they
eat.
And we make therein gardens of palm-trees, and vines; and we cause
springs to gush forth in the same:
that they may eat of the fruits thereof, and of the labor of their hands.
Will they not therefore give thanks?
Praise be unto him who hath created all the different kinds, both of
vegetables, which the earth bringeth forth, and of their own species, by
forming the two sexes, and also the various sorts of things which they know
not.
The night also is a sign unto them: we withdraw the day from the same,
and behold, they are covered with darkness:
and the sun hasteneth to his place of rest. This is the disposition of
the mighty, the wise God.
and for the moon have we appointed certain mansions, until she change
and return to be like the old branch of a palm-tree.
40 It is not expedient that the sun should overtake the moon in her course:
neither doth the night outstrip the day: but each of these luminaries moving
in a peculiar orbit.
It is a sign also unto them, that they carry their offspring in the ship
filled with merchandise;
and that we have made for them other conveniences like unto it, whereon
they ride.
If we please, we drown them, and there is none to help them; neither are
they delivered,
unless through our mercy, and that they may enjoy life for a season.
When it is said unto them, Fear that which is before you, and that which
is behind you, that ye may obtain mercy: they withdraw from thee:
and thou dost not bring them one sign, of the signs of their LORD, but
they turn aside from the same.
And when it is said unto them, Give alms of that which GOD hath bestowed
on you; the unbelievers say unto those who believe, by way of mockery, Shall
we feed him whom GOD can feed, if he pleaseth? Verily ye are in no other
than a manifest error.
And they say, When will this promise of the resurrection be fulfilled, if
ye speak truth?
They only wait for one sounding of the trumpet, which shall overtake
them while they are disputing together;
50 and they shall not have time to make any disposition of their effects,
neither shall they return to their family.
And the trumpet shall be sounded again; and behold they shall come forth
from their graves, and hasten unto their LORD.
They shall say, Alas for us! who hath awakened us from our bed? This is
what the Merciful promised us; and his apostles spoke the truth.
It shall be but one sound of the trumpet, and behold, they shall be all
assembled before us.
On this day no soul shall be unjustly treated in the least; neither shall
ye be rewarded, but according to what ye shall have wrought.
On this day the inhabitants of paradise shall be wholly taken up with
joy:
they and their wives shall rest in shady groves, leaning on magnificent
couches.
There shall they have fruit, and they shall obtain whatever they shall
desire.
Peace shall be the word spoken unto the righteous, by a merciful LORD:
but he shall say unto the wicked, Be ye separated this day, O ye wicked,
from the righteous.
60 Did I not command you, O sons of Adam, that ye should not worship Satan;
because he was an open enemy unto you?
And did I not say, Worship me; this is the right way?
But now hath he seduced a great multitude of you: did ye not therefore
understand?
This is hell, with which ye were threatened:
be ye cast into the same this day to be burned; for that ye have been
unbelievers.
On this day we will seal up their mouths, that they shall not open them
in their own defence; and their hands shall speak unto us, and their feet
shall bear witness of that which they have committed.
If we pleased we could put out their eyes, and they might run with
emulation in the way they use to take; and how should they see their error?
And if we pleased we could transform them into other shapes, in their
places when they should be found; and they should not be able to depart;
neither should they repent.
Unto whomsoever we grant a long life, him do we cause to bow down his
body through age. Will they not therefore understand?
We have not taught Mohammed the art of poetry; nor is it expedient for
him to be a poet. This book is no other than an admonition from God, and a
perspicuous Koran;
70 that he may warn him who is living: and the sentence of condemnation
will be justly executed on the unbelievers.
Do they not consider that we have created for them, among the things
which our hands have wrought, cattle of several kinds, of which they are
possessors;
and that we have put the same in subjection under them? Some of them are
for their riding; and on some of them do they feed:
and they receive other advantages therefrom; and of their milk do they
drink. Will they not, therefore, be thankful?
They have taken other gods, besides GOD, in hopes that they may be
assisted by them;
but they are not able to give them any assistance: yet are they a party
of troops ready to defend them.
Let not their speech, therefore, grieve thee: we know that which they
privately conceal, and that which they publicly discover.
Doth not man know that we have created him of seed? yet behold, he is an
open disputer against the resurrection;
and he propoundeth unto us a comparison, and forgetteth his creation. He
saith, Who shall restore bones to life, when they are rotten?
Answer, He shall restore them to life, who produced them the first time:
for he is skilled in every kind of creation:
80 who giveth you fire out of the green tree, and behold, ye kindle your
fuel from thence.
Is not he who hath created the heavens and the earth able to create new
creatures like unto them? Yea certainly: for he is the wise Creator.
His command, when he willeth a thing, is only that he saith unto it, Be;
and it is.
Wherefore praise be unto him, in whose hand is the kingdom of all things,
and unto whom ye shall return at the last day.



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CHAPTER XXXVII.

ENTITLED, THOSE WHO RANK THEMSELVES IN ORDER;
REVEALED AT MECCA.

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.

BY the angels who rank themselves in order;
and by those who drive forward and dispel the clouds;
and by those who read the Koran for an admonition;
verily your GOD is one:
the LORD of heaven and earth, and of whatever is between them, and the
LORD of the east.
We have adorned the lower heaven with the ornament of the stars:
and we have placed therein a guard against every rebellious devil;
that they may not listen to the discourse of the exalted princes (for
they are darted at from every side,
to repel them, and a lasting torment is prepared for them);
10 except him who catcheth a word by stealth, and is pursued by a shining
flame.
Ask the Meccans, therefore, whether they be stronger by nature, or the
angels, whom we have created? We have surely created them of stiff clay.
Thou wonderest at GOD's power and their obstinacy; but they mock at the
arguments urged to convince them:
when they are warned, they do not take warning;
and when they see any sign, they scoff thereat,
and say, This is no other than manifest sorcery:
after we shall be dead, and become dust and bones, shall we really be
raised to life,
and our forefathers also?
Answer, Yea: and ye shall then be despicable.
There shall be but one blast of the trumpet, and they shall see
themselves raised:
20 and they shall say, Alas for us! this is the day of judgment,
this is the day of distinction between the righteous and the wicked,
which ye rejected as a falsehood.
Gather together those who have acted unjustly, and their comrades, and
the idols which they worshipped
besides GOD, and direct them in the way to hell;
and set them before GOD's tribunal; for they shall be called to account.
What aileth you that ye defend not one another?
But on this day they shall submit themselves to the judgment of God:
and they shall draw nigh unto one another, and shall dispute among
themselves.
And the seduced shall say unto those who seduced them, Verily ye came
unto us with presages of prosperity;
and the seducers shall answer, Nay, rather ye were not true believers:
30 for we had no power over you to compel you; but ye were people who
voluntarily transgressed:
wherefore the sentence of our LORD hath been justly pronounced against
us, and we shall surely taste his vengeance.
We seduced you; but we also erred ourselves.
They shall both therefore be made partakers of the same punishment on
that day.
Thus will we deal with the wicked:
because, when it is said unto them, There is no god besides the true GOD,
they swell with arrogance,
and say, Shall we abandon our gods for a distracted poet?
Nay: he cometh with the truth, and beareth witness to the former
apostles.
Ye shall surely taste the painful torment of hell;
and ye shall not be rewarded, but according to your works.
40 But as for the sincere servants of GOD,
they shall have a certain provision in paradise,
namely, delicious fruits: and they shall be honoured:
they shall be placed in gardens of pleasure,
leaning on couches, opposite to one another:
a cup shall be carried round unto them, filled from a limpid fountain,
for the delight of those who drink:
it shall not oppress the understanding, neither shall they be inebriated
therewith.
And near them shall lie the virgins of paradise, refraining their looks from
beholding any besides their spouses, having large black eyes,
and resembling the eggs of an ostrich covered with feathers from the dust.
50 And they shall turn the one unto the other, and shall ask one another
questions.
And one of them shall say, Verily I had an intimate friend while I lived
in the world,
who said unto me, Art thou one of those who assertest the truth of the
resurrection?
After we shall be dead, and reduced to dust and bones, shall we surely be
judged?
Then he shall say to his companions, Will ye look down?
And he shall look down, and shall see him in the midst of hell:
and he shall say unto him, By GOD, it wanted little but thou hadst drawn
me into ruin:
and had it not been for the grace of my LORD, I had surely been one of
those who have been delivered up to eternal torment.
Shall we die
any other than our first death; or do we suffer any punishment?
60 Verily this is great felicity:
for the obtaining a felicity like this let the laborers labor.
Is this a better entertainment, or the tree of al Zakkum?
Verily we have designed the same for an occasion of dispute unto the
unjust.
It is a tree which issueth from the bottom of hell:
the fruit thereof resembleth the heads of devils;
and the damned shall eat of the same, and shall fill their bellies
therewith;
and there shall be given them thereon a mixture of filthy and boiling
water to drink:
afterwards shall they return into hell.
They found their fathers going astray,
70 and they trod hastily in their footsteps:
for the greater part of the ancients erred before them.
And we sent warners unto them heretofore:
and see how miserable was the end of those who were warned;
except the sincere servants of GOD.
Noah called on us in former days: and we heard him graciously:
and we delivered him and his family out of the great distress;
and we caused his offspring to be those who survived to people the earth:
and we left the following salutation to be bestowed on him by the latest
posterity,
namely, Peace be on Noah among all creatures!
80 Thus do we reward the righteous;
for he was one of our servants the true believers.
Afterwards we drowned the others.
Abraham also was of his religion:
when he came unto his LORD with a perfect heart.
When he said unto his father and his people, What do ye worship?
Do ye choose false gods preferably to the true GOD?
What therefore is your opinion of the LORD of all creatures?
And he looked and observed the stars,
and said, Verily I shall be sick, and shall not assist at your
sacrifices:
90 and they turned their backs and departed from him.
And Abraham went privately to their gods, and said, scoffingly unto them,
Do ye not eat of the meat which is set before you?
What aileth you that ye speak not?
And he turned upon them, and struck them with his right hand, and
demolished them.
And the people came hastily unto him:
and he said, Do ye worship the images which ye carve?
whereas GOD hath created you, and also that which ye make.
They said, Build a pile for him, and cast him into the glowing fire.
And they devised a plot against him; but we made them the inferior, and
delivered him.
And Abraham said, Verily I am going unto my LORD, who will direct me.
100 O LORD, grant me a righteous issue.
Wherefore we acquainted him that he should have a son, who should be a
meek youth.
And when he had attained to years of discretion, and could join in acts
of religion with him, Abraham said unto him, O my son, verily I saw in a dream
that I should offer thee in sacrifice: consider therefore what thou art of
opinion I should do. He answered, O my father, do what thou art commanded:
thou shalt find me, if GOD please, a patient person.
And when they had submitted themselves to the divine will, and Abraham
had laid his son prostrate on his face,
we cried unto him, O Abraham,
now hast thou verified the vision. Thus do we reward the righteous.
Verily this was a manifest trial.
And we ransomed him with a noble victim.
And we left the following salutation to be bestowed on him by the latest
posterity,
namely, Peace be on Abraham!
110 Thus do we reward the righteous:
for he was one of our faithful servants.
And we rejoiced him with the promise of Isaac:
and of their offspring were some righteous doers, and others who
manifestly injured their own souls.
We were also gracious unto Moses and Aaron, heretofore:
and we delivered them and their people from a great distress.
And we assisted them against the Egyptians; and they became the
conquerors.
And we gave them the perspicuous book of the law,
and we directed them into the right way,
and we left the following salutation to be bestowed on them by the latest
posterity,
120 namely, Peace be on Moses and Aaron!
Thus do we reward the righteous;
for they were two of our faithful servants.
And Elias was also one of those who were sent by us.
When he said unto his people, Do ye not fear God?
Do ye invoke Baal, and forsake the most excellent Creator?
GOD is your LORD, and the LORD of your forefathers.
But they accused him of imposture: wherefore they shall be delivered up
to eternal punishment;
except the sincere servants of GOD.
And we left the following salutation to be bestowed on him by the latest
posterity,
130 namely, Peace be on Ilyâsin!
Thus do we reward the righteous:
for he was one of our faithful servants.
And Lot was also one of those who were sent by us.
When we delivered him and his whole family,
except an old woman, his wife, who perished, among those that remained
behind:
afterwards we destroyed the others.
And ye, O people of Mecca, pass by the places where they once dwelt, as
ye journey in the morning,
and by night; will ye not therefore understand?
Jonas was also one of those who were sent by us.
140 When he fled into the loaded ship;
and those who were on board cast lots among themselves, and he was
condemned:
and the fish swallowed him; for he was worthy of reprehension.
And if he had not been one those who praised GOD,
verily he had remained in the belly thereof until the day of
resurrection.
And we cast him on the naked shore, and he was sick:
and we caused a plant of a gourd to grow up over him;
and we went him to an hundred thousand persons, or they were a greater
number,
and they believed: wherefore we granted them to enjoy this life for a
season.
Inquire of the Meccans whether thy LORD hath daughters, and they sons?
150 Have we created the angels of the female sex? and were they witnesses
thereof?
Do they not say of their own false invention,
GOD hath begotten issue? and are they not really liars?
Hath he chosen daughters preferably to sons?
Ye have no reason to judge thus.
Will ye therefore not be admonished?
Or have ye a manifest proof of what ye say?
Produce now your book of revelations, if ye speak truth.
And they make him to be of kin unto the genii; whereas the genii know
that they who affirm such things shall be delivered up to eternal punishment;
(far be that from GOD, which they affirm of him!)
160 except the sincere servants of GOD.
Moreover ye and that which ye worship
shall not seduce any concerning God,
except him who is destined to be burned in hell.
There is none of us but hath an appointed place:
we range ourselves in order, attending the commands of God;
and we celebrate the divine praise.
The infidels said,
If we had been favored with a book of divine revelations, of those which
were delivered to the ancients,
we had surely been sincere servants of GOD:
170 yet now the Koran is revealed, they believe not therein; but hereafter
shall they know the consequence of their unbelief.
Our word hath formerly been given unto our servants the apostles;
that they shall certainly be assisted against the infidels,
and that our armies should surely be the conquerors.
Turn aside therefore from them, for a season:
and see the calamities which shall afflict them; for they shall see thy
future success and prosperity.
Do they therefore seek to hasten our vengeance?
Verily when it shall descend into their courts, an evil morning shall it
be unto those who were warned in vain.
Turn aside from them therefore for a season,
and see: hereafter shall they see thy success and their punishment.
180 Praise be unto thy LORD, the LORD who is far exalted above what they
affirm of him!
And peace be on his apostles!
And praise be unto GOD, the LORD of all creatures!