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grievous, full of concern for you, for the believers full of pity, merciful.

129. Now, if they turn away (O Muhammad) say: Allah sufficeth me. There is no God save Him. In Him have I put my

trust, and He is Lord of the Tremendous Throne.

Surah 10. Yunus

1. Alif. Lam. Ra. These are verses of the wise Scripture.

2. Is it a wonder for mankind that We have inspired a man among them, saying : Warn mankind and bring unto those

who believe the good tidings that they have a sure footing with their Lord? The disbelievers say : Lo! this is a mere

wizard.

3. Lo! your Lord is Allah Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then He established Himself upon the

Throne, directing all things. There is no intercessor (with Him) save after His permission. That is Allah, your Lord,

so worship Him. Oh, will ye not remind?

4. Unto Him is the return of all of you; it is a promise of Allah in truth. Lo! He produceth creation, then reproduceth

it, that He may reward those who believe and do good works with equity; while, as for those who disbelieve, theirs will

be a boiling drink and painful doom because they disbelieved.

5. He it is who appointed the sun a splendour and the moon a light, and measured for her stages, that ye might know

the number of the years, and the reckoning. Allah created not (all) that save in truth. He detaileth the revelations for

people who have knowledge.

6. Lo! in the difference of day and night and all that Allah hath created in the heavens and the earth are portents, verily,

for folk who ward off (evil).

7. Lo! those who expect not the meeting with Us but desire the life of the world and feel secure therein, and those who

are neglectful of Our revelations,

8. Their home will be the Fire because of what they used to earn.

9. Lo! those who believe and do good works, their Lord guideth them by their faith. Rivers will flow beneath them in

the Gardens of Delight,

10. Their prayer therein will be: Glory be to Thee, O Allah! and their greeting therein will be : Peace. And the

conclusion of their prayer will be : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds!

11. If Allah were to hasten on for men the ill (that they have earned ) as they would hasten on the good, their respite

would already have expired. But We suffer those who look not for the meeting with Us to wander blindly on in their

contumacy.

12. And if misfortune touch a man he crieth unto Us, (while reclining) on his side, or sitting or standing, but when We

have relieved him of the misfortune he goeth his way as though he had not cried unto Us because of a misfortune that

afflicted him. Thus is what they do made (seeming) fair unto the prodigal.

13. We destroyed the generations before you when they did wrong; and their messengers (from Allah) came unto them

with clear proofs (of His Sovereignty) but they would not believe. Thus do We reward the guilty folk:

14. Then We appointed you viceroys in the earth after them, that We might see how ye behave.

15. And when Our clear revelations are recited unto them they who look not for the meeting with Us say: Bring a

Lecture other than this, or change it. Say (O Muhammad): It is not for me to change it of my own accord. I only follow

that which is inspired in me. Lo! If I disobey my Lord I fear the retribution of an awful Day.

16. Say: If Allah had so willed I should not have recited it to you nor would He have made it known to you. I dwelt

among you a whole lifetime before it (came to me). Have ye then no sense?

17. Who doeth greater wrong than he who inventeth a lie concerning Allah and denieth His revelations? Lo! the guilty

never are successful.

18. They worship beside Allah that which neither hurteth them nor profiteth them, and they say: These are our

intercessors with Allah. Say: Would ye inform Allah of (something) that He knoweth not in the heavens or in the earth?

Praised be He and high exalted above all that ye associate (with Him)!

19. Mankind were but one community; then they differed; and had it not been for a word that had already gone forth

from thy Lord it had been judged between them in respect of that wherein they differ.

20. And they will say: If only a portent were sent down upon him from his Lord! Then say (O Muhammad): The Unseen