13:9-18
The Knower of the Unseen and the Seen, the Great, the Exalted:
It is the same who among you conceals his speech, and who makes it public; and who hides by night, and goes forth by day;
He has successive angels before him and after him, keeping him by the command of God. God changes not what is in a people until they change what is in themselves. And when God intends evil for a people, there is no repelling it; and they have besides Him no ally.
He it is that shows you the lightning as fear and hope, and produces the heavy clouds.
And the thunder gives glory with His praise, as do the angels, in fear of Him. And He sends the thunderbolts, and strikes therewith whom He wills. And they dispute concerning God; and He is strong in assault.
**To Him belongs the call of truth; and those to whom they call, besides Him, answer them nothing save it be as one stretching forth his hands to water, that it might reach his mouth, but it reaches it not; and the supplication of the false claimers of guidance is only in error.**
And to God submits whoso is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, as do their shadows in the mornings and the evenings.
Say thou: “Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?” Say thou: “God.” Say thou: “Have you then taken, besides Him, allies which have not power to do themselves benefit or harm?” Say thou: “Is the blind equal to the seeing? Or is darkness equal to the light?” If they have ascribed to God partners that created the like of His creation, then the creation appears the same to them. Say thou: “God is creator of all things, and He is the One, the Vanquishing.”
He sends down from the sky water, and the valleys flow according to their measure, then the flood carries a swelling froth; and from what they burn in the fire seeking ornaments or tools there is a froth like it. Thus does God present truth and vanity: as for the froth, it departs as dross; and as for what is of benefit to men, it remains in the earth. Thus does God strike similitudes.
For those who respond to their Lord is the best; and those who respond not to Him: had they all that is in the earth altogether, and the like thereof with it, they would seek to ransom themselves thereby. Those have an evil reckoning, and their shelter is Gehenna; and evil is the resting-place.
27:1-14
ṭā sīn Those are the proofs of the Qur’an, and of a Clear Writ
As guidance and glad tidings for the believers,
Those who uphold the duty, and render the purity, and of the Hereafter they are certain.
Those who believe not in the Hereafter, We have made their deeds fair to them, so they wander blindly.
Those are they for whom is the evil of punishment, and in the Hereafter are they the greatest losers.
And thou receivest the Qur’an from one wise and knowing.
When Moses said to his people: “I perceive a fire. I will bring you news from it, or bring you a flaming brand, that you might warm yourselves.”
Then when he came to it, he was called: — blessed is He who is in the fire and who is round about it, and glory be to God, the Lord of All Creation! —
“O Moses: it is I, God, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.
“And cast thou thy staff.” And when he saw it stirring as if it were a dominus, he turned away, and did not return. “O Moses: fear thou not; the emissaries fear not in My presence,
“Save whoso did wrong; then he changed to good after evil, so am I forgiving and merciful.
“And enter thou thy hand into thy bosom; it will come forth white, without evil — among nine proofs to Pharaoh and his people; they are a perfidious people.”
**And when Our visible proofs came to them, they said: “This is obvious sorcery”;**
And they rejected them, though their souls were convinced thereof, in injustice and arrogance. So see thou how was the final outcome of the workers of corruption.
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