13:9-25
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.
Is then he who knows that what is sent down to thee from thy Lord is the truth like him who is blind? There take heed but those of insight:
Those who fulfil the covenant of God, and break not the agreement,
And who join what God commanded to be joined, and fear their Lord, and dread the evil of the reckoning,
And who are patient seeking the face of their Lord, and uphold the duty, and spend of what We have provided them, secretly and openly, and they avert evil with good: those have the good final abode:
Gardens of perpetual abode which they enter, and whoso was righteous among their fathers, and their wives, and their progeny. And the angels will enter upon them from every gate:
“Peace be upon you, because you were patient!” And excellent is the final abode.
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