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.
15:1-18
alif lām rā Those are the proofs of the Writ and of a clear recitation.
Perchance those who ignore warning will wish they were submitting;
Leave thou them to eat and enjoy themselves while hope diverts them; and they will come to know.
And We destroyed no city save it had a known writ;
No community outstrips its term, nor will they defer.
And they say: “O thou upon whom the remembrance has been sent down: thou art possessed.
“Why bringest thou not the angels to us, if thou be of the truthful?”
We send down the angels only with justice, and then are they not granted respite.
We sent down the remembrance, and We are its custodian.
And We sent before thee, among the sects of the former peoples,
And there came not to them any messenger but they mocked him;
Thus do We insert it in the hearts of the lawbreakers:
**They believe not in it; and the practice of the former peoples has passed away.**
And had We opened above them a gate of the sky and they continued ascending therein
They would say: “Our sight is but intoxicated; nay, we are a people taken by sorcery.”
And We have set in the sky constellations, and made them fair for the beholders,
And guarded them from every accursed satan
Save such as steals a hearing; and a clear flame follows him.
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