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Books: The Koran (without footnotes)

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IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.

O THOU covered,
arise and preach,
and magnify thy LORD.
And cleanse thy garments:
and fly every abomination:
and be not liberal in hopes to receive more in return:
and patiently wait for thy LORD.
When the trumpet shall sound,
verily that day shall be a day of distress
10 and uneasiness unto the unbelievers.
Let me alone with him whom I have created,
on whom I have bestowed abundant riches,
and children dwelling in his presence,
and for whom I have disposed affairs in a smooth and easy manner,
and who desireth that I will yet add other blessings unto him.
By no means: because he is an adversary to our signs.
I will afflict him with grievous calamities:
for he hath devised and prepared contumelious expressions to ridicule the
Koran.
May he be cursed: how maliciously hath he prepared the same!
20 And again, may he be cursed: how maliciously hath he prepared the same!
Then he looked,
and frowned, and put on an austere countenance:
then he turned back, and was elated with pride;
and he said, This is no other than a piece of magic, borrowed from
others:
these are only the words of a man.
I will cast him to be burned in hell.
And what shall make thee to understand what hell is?
It leaveth not anything unconsumed, neither doth it suffer anything to
escape:
it scorcheth men's flesh:
30 over the same are nineteen angels appointed.
We have appointed none but angels to preside over hell fire: and we have
expressed the number of them only for an occasion of discord to the
unbelievers; that they to whom the scriptures have been given may be certain
of the veracity of this book, and the true believers may increase in faith;
and that those to whom the scriptures have been given, and the true
believers, may not doubt hereafter; and that those in whose hearts there is
an infirmity, and the unbelievers, may say, What mystery doth GOD intend
by this number? Thus doth GOD cause to err whom he pleaseth; and he
directeth whom he pleaseth. None knoweth the armies of thy LORD,
besides him; and this is no other than a memento unto mankind.
Assuredly. By the moon,
and the night when it retreateth,
and the morning when it reddeneth,
I swear that this is one of the most terrible calamities,
giving warning unto men,
as well as unto him among you who desireth to go forward, as unto him
who chooseth to remain behind.
Every soul is given in pledge for that which it shall have wrought:
except the companions of the right hand;
40 who shall dwell in gardens, and shall ask one another questions
concerning the wicked,
and shall also ask the wicked themselves, saying, What hath brought you
into hell?
They shall answer, We were not of those who were constant at prayer,
neither did we feed the poor;
and we waded in vain disputes with the fallacious reasoners;
and we denied the day of judgment,
until death overtook us:
and the intercession of the interceders shall not avail them.
What aileth them, therefore, that they turn aside from the admonition
of the Koran,
50 as though they were timorous asses
flying from a lion?
But every man among them desireth that he may have expanded scrolls
delivered to him from God.
By no means. They fear not the life to come.
By no means: verily this is a sufficient warning.
Whoso is willing to be warned, him shall it warn:
but they shall not be warned, unless GOD shall please. He is worthy to
be feared; and he is inclined to forgiveness.



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CHAPTER LXXV.

ENTITLED, THE RESURRECTION; REVEALED AT MECCA.

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.

VERILY I swear by the day of resurrection;
and I swear by the soul which accuseth itself:
doth man think that we will not gather his bones together?
Yea: we are able to put together the smallest bones of his fingers.
But man chooseth to be wicked, for the time which is before him.
He asketh, When will the day of resurrection be?
But when the sight shall be dazzled,
and the moon shall be eclipsed,
and the sun and the moon shall be in conjunction;
10 on that day man shall say, Where is a place of refuge?
By no means: there shall be no place to fly unto.
With thy LORD shall be the sure mansion of rest on that day:
on that day shall a man be told that which he hath done first and last.
Yea; a man shall be an evidence against himself:
and though he offer his excuses, they shall not be received.
Move not thy tongue, O Mohammed, in repeating the revelations brought
thee by Gabriel, before he shall have finished the same, that thou mayest
quickly commit them to memory:
for the collecting the Koran in thy mind, and the teaching thee the true
reading thereof, are incumbent on us.
But when we shall have read the same unto thee by the tongue of the
angel, do thou follow the reading thereof:
and afterwards it shall be our part to explain it unto thee.
20 By no means shalt thou be thus hasty for the future. But ye love that
which hasteneth away,
and neglect the life to come.
Some countenances on that day shall be bright,
looking towards their LORD:
and some countenances, on that day, shall be dismal:
they shall think that a crushing calamity shall be brought upon them.
Assuredly. When a man's soul shall come up to his throat, in his last
agony,
and the standers-by shall say, Who bringeth a charm to recover him?
and shall think it to be his departure out of this world;
and one leg shall be joined with the other leg:
30 on that day unto thy LORD shall he be driven.
For he believed not, neither did he pray;
but he accused GOD's apostle of imposture, and turned back from obeying
him:
then he departed unto his family, walking with a haughty mien.
Wherefore, woe be unto thee; woe!
And again, woe be unto thee; woe!
Doth man think that he shall be left at full liberty, without control?
Was he not a drop of seed, which was emitted?
Afterwards he became a little coagulated blood, and God formed him, and
fashioned him with just proportion;
and made of him two sexes, the male and the female.
40 Is not he who hath done this able to quicken the dead?



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CHAPTER LXXVI.

ENTITLED, MAN; REVEALED AT MECCA.

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.

DID there not pass over man a long space of time; during which he was a
thing not worthy of remembrance?
Verily we have created man of the mingled seed of both sexes, that we
might prove him: and we have made him to hear and to see.
We have surely directed him in the way; whether he be grateful, or
ungrateful.
Verily we have prepared for the unbelievers chains, and collars, and
burning fire.
But the just shall drink of a cup of wine, mixed with the water of
Cafur,
a fountain whereof the servants of GOD shall drink; they shall convey the
same by channels whithersoever they please.
These fulfil their vow, and dread the day, the evil whereof will disperse
itself far abroad;
and give food unto the poor, and the orphan, and the bondman, for his
sake,
saying, We feed you for GOD'S sake only: we desire no recompense from
you, nor any thanks:
10 verily we dread, from our LORD, a dismal and calamitous day.
Wherefore GOD shall deliver them from the evil of that day, and shall
cast on them brightness of countenance, and joy;
and shall reward them, for their patient persevering, with a garden and
silk garments:
therein shall they repose themselves on couches; they shall see therein
neither sun nor moon;
and the shades thereof shall be near spreading above them, and the fruits
thereof shall hang low, so as to be easily gathered.
And their attendants shall go round about unto them, with vessels of
silver, and goblets:
the bottles shall be bottles of silver shining like glass; they shall
determine the measure thereof by their wish.
And therein shall they be given to drink of a cup of wine, mixed with the
water of Zenjebil,
a fountain in paradise named Salsabil:
and youths, which shall continue forever in their bloom, shall go round
to attend them; when thou seest them, thou shalt think them to be scattered
pearls:
20 and when thou lookest, there shalt thou behold delights, and a great
kingdom.
Upon them shall be garments of fine green silk, and of brocades, and they
shall be adorned with bracelets of silver: and their LORD shall give them to
drink of a most pure liquor;
and shall say unto them, Verily this is your reward: and your endeavour is
gratefully accepted.
Verily we have sent down unto thee the Koran, by a gradual revelation.
Wherefore patiently wait the judgment of thy LORD; and obey not any
wicked person or unbeliever among them.
And commemorate the name of thy LORD, in the morning, and in the evening:
and during some part of the night worship him, and praise him a long part
of the night.
Verily these men love the transitory life, and leave behind them the
heavy day of judgment.
We have created them, and have strengthened their joints; and when we
please, we will substitute others like unto them, in their stead.
Verily this is an admonition: and whoso willeth, taketh the way unto his
LORD:
30 but ye shall not will, unless GOD willeth; for GOD is knowing and wise.
He leadeth whom he pleaseth into his mercy; but for the unjust hath he
prepared a grievous punishment.



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CHAPTER LXXVII.

ENTITLED, THOSE WHICH ARE SENT; REVEALED AT MECCA.

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.

BY the angels which are sent by God, following one another in a continual
series;
and those which move swiftly, with a rapid motion;
and by those which disperse his commands, by divulging them through the
earth;
and by those which separate truth from falsehood, by distinguishing the
same;
and by those which communicate the divine admonitions,
to excuse, or to threaten:
verily that which ye are promised is inevitable.
When the stars, therefore, shall be put out,
and when the heaven shall be cloven in sunder,
10 and when the mountains shall be winnowed,
and when the apostles shall have a time assigned to them to appear and
bear testimony against their respective people;
to what a day shall that appointment be deferred!
to the day of separation:
and what shall cause thee to understand what the day of separation is?
On that day, woe be unto them who accused the prophets of imposture!
Have we not destroyed the obstinate unbelievers of old?
We will also cause those of the latter times to follow them.
Thus do we deal with the wicked.
Woe be, on that day, unto them who accused the prophets of imposture!
20 Have we not created you of a contemptible drop of seed,
which we placed in a sure repository,
until the fixed term of delivery?
And we were able to do this: for we are most powerful.
On that day, woe be unto those who accused the prophets of imposture:
Have we not made the earth to contain
the living and the dead,
and placed therein stable and lofty mountains, and given you fresh water
to drink?
Woe be, on that day, unto those who accused the prophets of imposture!
It shall be said unto them, Go ye to the punishment which ye denied as a
falsehood:
30 go ye into the shadow of the smoke of hell, which shall ascend in three
columns,
and shall not shade you from the heat, neither shall it be of service
against the flame;
but it shall cast forth sparks as big as towers,
resembling yellow camels in colour.
Woe be, on that day, unto those who accused the prophets of imposture!
This shall be a day whereon they shall not speak to any purpose;
neither shall they be permitted to excuse themselves.
Woe be, on that day, unto those who accused the prophets of imposture!
This shall be the day of separation: we will assemble both you and your
predecessors.
Wherefore, if ye have any cunning stratagem, employ stratagems against
me.
40 Woe be, on that day, unto those who accused the prophets of imposture!
But the pious shall dwell amidst shades and fountains,
and fruits of the kinds which they shall desire:
and it shall be said unto them, Eat and drink with easy digestion, in
recompense for that which ye have wrought;
for thus do we reward the righteous doers.
Woe be, on that day, unto those who accused the prophets of imposture!
Eat, O unbelievers, and enjoy the pleasures of this life, for a little
while: verily ye are wicked men.
Woe be, on that day, unto those who accused the prophets of imposture!
And when it is said unto them, Bow down; they do not bow down.
Woe be, on that day, unto those who accused the prophets of imposture!
50 In what new revelation will they believe, after this.



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CHAPTER LXXVIII.

ENTITLED, THE NEWS; REVEALED AT MECCA.

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.

CONCERNING what do the unbelievers ask questions of one another?
Concerning the great news of the resurrection,
about which they disagree.
Assuredly they shall hereafter know the truth thereof.
Again, Assuredly they shall hereafter know the truth thereof.
Have we not made the earth for a bed,
and the mountains for stakes to fix the same?
And have we not created you of two sexes;
and appointed your sleep for rest;
10 and made the night a garment to cover you;
and destined the day to the gaining your livelihood;
and built over you seven solid heavens;
and placed therein a burning lamp?
And do we not send down from the clouds pressing forth rain, water
pouring down in abundance,
that we may thereby produce corn, and herbs,
and gardens planted thick with trees?
Verily the day of separation is a fixed period:
the day whereon the trumpet shall sound, and ye shall come in troops to
judgment;
and the heaven shall be opened, and shall be full of gates for the angels
to pass through;
20 and the mountains shall pass away, and become as a vapor;
verily hell shall be a place of ambush,
a receptacle for the transgressors,
who shall remain therein for ages:
they shall not taste any refreshment therein, or any drink,
except boiling water, and filthy corruption:
a fit recompense for their deeds!
For they hope that they should not be brought to an account,
and they disbelieved our signs, accusing them of falsehood.
But everything have we computed, and written down.
30 Taste, therefore: we will not add unto you any other than torment.
But for the pious is prepared a place of bliss:
gardens planted with trees, and vineyards,
and damsels with swelling breasts, of equal age with themselves,
and a full cup.
They shall hear no vain discourse there, nor any falsehood.
This shall be their recompense from thy LORD; a gift fully sufficient:
from the LORD of heaven and earth, and of whatever is between them; the
Merciful. The inhabitants of heaven or of earth shall not dare to demand
audience of him:
the day whereon the spirit Gabriel and the other angels shall stand in
order, they shall not speak in behalf of themselves or others, except he only
to whom the Merciful shall grant permission, and who shall say that which is
right.
This is the infallible day. Whoso, therefore, willeth, let him return
unto his LORD.
40 Verily we threaten you with a punishment nigh at hand:
the day whereon a man shall behold the good or evil deeds which his hands
have sent before him; and the unbeliever shall say, Would to GOD I were dust!



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CHAPTER LXXIX.

ENTITLED, THOSE WHO TEAR FORTH; REVEALED AT MECCA.

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.

BY the angels who tear forth the souls of some with violence;
and by those who draw forth the souls of others with gentleness;
by those who glide swimmingly through the air with the commands of God;
and those who precede and usher the righteous to paradise;
and those who subordinately govern the affairs of this world:
on a certain day, the disturbing blast of the trumpet shall disturb the
universe;
and the subsequent blast shall follow it.
On that day men's hearts shall tremble:
their looks shall be cast down.
10 The infidels say, Shall we surely be made to return whence we came?
After we shall have become rotten bones, shall we be again raised to
life?
They say, This then will be a return to loss.
Verily it will be but one sounding of the trumpet,
and, behold, they shall appear alive on the face of the earth.
Hath not the story of Moses reached thee?
When his LORD called unto him in the holy valley Towa,
saying, Go unto Pharaoh; for he is insolently wicked:
and say, Hast thou a desire to become just and holy;
and I will direct thee unto thy LORD, that thou mayest fear to
transgress.
20 And he showed him the very great sign of the rod turned into a serpent:
but he charged Moses with imposture, and rebelled against God.
Then he turned back hastily;
and he assembled the magicians, and cried aloud,
saying, I am your supreme LORD.
Wherefore GOD chastised him with the punishment of the life to come, and
also of this present life.
Verily herein is an example unto him who feareth to rebel.
Are ye more difficult to create, or the heaven which God hath built?
He hath raised the height thereof, and hath perfectly formed the same:
and he hath made the night thereof dark, and hath produced the light
thereof.
30 After this, he stretched out the earth,
whence he caused to spring forth the water thereof, and the pasture
thereof;
and he established the mountains,
for the use of yourselves, and of your cattle.
When the prevailing, the great day shall come,
on that day shall a man call to remembrance what he hath purposely done:
and hell shall be exposed to the view of the spectator.
And whoso shall have transgressed,
and shall have chosen this present life;
verily hell shall be his abode;
40 but whoso shall have dreaded the appearing before his LORD, and shall
have refrained his soul from lust,
verily paradise shall be his abode.
They will ask thee concerning the last hour, when will be the fixed time
thereof?
By what means canst thou give any information of the same?
Unto thy LORD belongeth the knowledge of the period thereof:
and thou art only a warner, who fearest the same.
The day whereon they shall see the same, it shall seem to them as though
they had not tarried in the world longer than an evening, or a morning
thereof.



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CHAPTER LXXX.

ENTITLED, HE FROWNED; REVEALED AT MECCA.

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.

THE prophet frowned, and turned aside,
because the blind man came unto him:
and how dost thou know whether he shall peradventure be cleansed from his sins,
or whether he shall be admonished, and the admonition shall profit him?
The man who is wealthy,
thou receivest respectfully;
whereas it is not to be charged on thee, that he is not cleansed:
but him who cometh unto thee earnestly, seeking his salvation,
and who feareth God,
10 dost thou neglect.
By no means shouldst thou act thus. Verily the Koran is an admonition
(and he who is willing retaineth the same;)
written in volumes honourable,
exalted, and pure;
by the hands of scribes
honoured, and just.
May man be cursed! What hath seduced him to infidelity?
Of what thing doth God create him?
Of a drop of seed doth he create him; and he formeth him with proportion;
20 and then facilitateth his passage out of the womb:
afterwards he causeth him to die, and layeth him in the grave;
hereafter, when it shall please him, he shall raise him to life.
Assuredly, He hath not hitherto fully performed what God hath commanded
him.
Let man consider his food; in what manner it is provided.
We pour down water by showers;
afterwards we cleave the earth in clefts,
and we cause corn to spring forth therein,
and grapes, and clover,
and the olive, and the palm,
30 and gardens planted thick with trees,
and fruits, and grass,
for the use of yourselves and of your cattle.
When the stunning sound of the trumpet shall be heard;
on that day shall a man fly from his brother,
and his mother, and his father,
and his wife, and his children.
Every man of them, on that day, shall have business of his own sufficient
to employ his thoughts.
On that day the faces of some shall be bright,
laughing, and joyful:
40 and upon the faces of others, on that day, shall there be dust;
darkness shall cover them.
These are the unbelievers, the wicked.



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CHAPTER LXXXI.

ENTITLED, THE FOLDING UP; REVEALED AT MECCA.

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.

WHEN the sun shall be folded up;
and when the stars shall fall;
and when the mountains shall be made to pass away;
and when the camels ten months gone with young shall be neglected;
and when the wild beasts shall be gathered together;
and when the seas shall boil;
and when the souls shall be joined again to their bodies;
and when the girl who hath been buried alive shall be asked
for what crime she was put to death;
10 and when the books shall be laid open;
and when the heaven shall be removed;
and when hell shall burn fiercely;
and when paradise shall be brought near;
every soul shall know what it hath wrought.
Verily I swear by the stars which are retrograde,
which move swiftly, and which hide themselves;
and by the night, when it cometh on;
and by the morning, when it appeareth;
these these are the words of an honourable messenger,
20 endued with strength, of established dignity in the sight of the
possessor of the throne,
obeyed by the angels under his authority, and faithful:
and your companion Mohammed is not distracted.
He had already seen him in the clear horizon:
and he suspected not the secrets revealed unto him.
Neither are these the words of an accursed devil.
Whither, therefore, are you going?
This is no other than an admonition unto all creatures;
unto him among you who shall be willing to walk uprightly:
but ye shall not will, unless GOD willeth, the LORD of all creatures.



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CHAPTER LXXXII.

ENTITLED, THE CLEAVING IN SUNDER; REVEALED AT MECCA.

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.

WHEN the heaven shall be cloven in sunder;
and when the stars shall be scattered;
and when the seas shall be suffered to join their waters;
and when the graves shall be turned upside down:
every soul shall know what it hath committed, and what it hath omitted.
O man, what hath seduced thee against thy gracious LORD,
who hath created thee, and put thee together, and rightly disposed thee?
In what form he pleased hath he fashioned thee.
Assuredly. But ye deny the last judgment as a falsehood.
10 Verily there are appointed over you guardian angels,
honourable in the sight of God, writing down your actions;
who know that which ye do.
The just shall surely be in a place of delight:
but the wicked shall surely be in hell;
they shall be cast therein to be turned, on the day of judgment,
and they shall not be absent therefrom forever.
What shall cause thee to understand what the day of judgment is?
Again, What shall cause thee to understand what the day of judgment is?
It is a day whereon one soul shall not be able to obtain anything in
behalf of another soul: and the command, on that day, shall be GOD'S.



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CHAPTER LXXXIII.

ENTITLED, THOSE WHO GIVE SHORT MEASURE OR WEIGHT; REVEALED AT MECCA.

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.

WOE be unto those who give short measure or weight:
who, when they receive by measure from other men, take the full;
but when they measure unto them, or weigh unto them, defraud!
Do not these think they shall be raised again,
at the great day,
the day whereon mankind shall stand before the LORD of all creatures?
By no means. Verily the register of the actions of the wicked is surely
in Sejjin.
And what shall make thee to understand what Sejjin is?
It is a book distinctly written.
10 Woe be on that day, unto those who accused the prophets of imposture;
who denied the day of judgment as a falsehood!
And none denieth the same as a falsehood, except every unjust and
flagitious person:
who, when our signs are rehearsed unto him, saith, They are fables of the
ancients.
By no means: but rather their lusts have cast a veil over their hearts.
By no means. Verily they shall be shut out from their LORD on that day;
and they shall be sent into hell to be burned:
then shall it be said unto them by the infernal guards, This is what ye
denied as a falsehood.
Assuredly. But the register of the actions of the righteous is Illiyyun:
and what shall cause thee to understand what Illiyyun is?
20 It is a book distinctly written:
those who approach near unto God are witnesses thereto.
Verily the righteous shall dwell among delights:
seated on couches they shall behold objects of pleasure;
thou shalt see in their faces the brightness of joy.
They shall be given to drink of pure wine, sealed;
the seal whereof shall be musk: and to this let those aspire, who aspire
to happiness:
and the water mixed therewith shall be of Tasnim,
a fountain whereof those shall drink who approach near unto the divine
presence.
They who act wickedly laugh the true believers to scorn:
30 and when they pass by them, they wink at one another:
and when they turn aside to their people, they turn aside making
scurrilous jests;
and when they see them, they say, Verily these are mistaken men.
But they are not sent to be keepers over them.
Wherefore one day the true believers, in their turn, shall laugh the
infidels to scorn:
lying on couches they shall look down upon them in hell.
Shall not the infidels be rewarded for that which they have done?