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71. He will adjust your works for you and will forgive you your sins. Whosoever obeyeth Allah and His messenger,

he verily hath gained a signal victory.

72. Lo! We offered the trust unto the heavens and the earth and the hills, but they shrank from bearing it and were afraid

of it. And man assumed it. Lo! he hath proved a tyrant and a fool.

73. Allah punisheth hypocritical men and hypocritical women, and idolatrous men and idolatrous women. But Allah

pardoneth believing men and believing women, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Surah 34. Saba

1. Praise be to Allah, unto Whom belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. His is the

praise in the Hereafter, and He is the Wise, the Aware.

2. He knoweth that which goeth down into the earth and that which cometh forth from it, and that which descendeth

from the heaven and that which ascendeth into it. He is the Merciful, the Forgiving.

3. Those who disbelieve say: The Hour will never come unto us. Say : Nay, by my Lord, but it is coming unto you

surely. (He is) the Knower of the Unseen. Not an atom's weight, or less than that or greater, escapeth Him in the

heavens or in the earth, but it is in a clear Record,

4. That He may reward those who believe and do good works. For them is pardon and a rich provision.

5. But those who strive against Our revelations, challenging (Us), theirs will be a painful doom of wrath.

6. Those who have been given knowledge see that what is revealed unto thee from thy Lord is the truth and leadeth unto

the path of the Mighty, the Owner of Praise.

7. Those who disbelieve say: Shall we show you a man who will tell you (that) when ye have become dispersed in dust

with most complete dispersal, still, even then, ye will be created anew?

8. Hath he invented a lie concerning Allah, or is there in him a madness? Nay, but those who disbelieve in the Hereafter

are in torment and far error.

9. Have they not observed what is before them and what is behind them of the sky and the earth? If We will, We can

make the earth swallow them, or cause obliteration from the sky to fall on them. Lo ! herein surely is a portent for

every slave who turneth (to Allah ) repentant.

10. And assuredly We gave David grace from Us, (saying): O ye hills and birds, echo his psalms of praise! And We

made the iron supple unto him,

11. Saying: Make thou long coats of mail and measure the links (thereof). And do ye right. Lo! I am Seer of what ye

do.

12. And unto Solomon (We gave) the wind, whereof the morning course was a month's journey and the evening course

a month's journey, and We caused the fount of copper to gush forth for him, and (We gave him) certain of the jinn who

worked before him by permission of his Lord. And such of them as deviated from Our command, them We caused to

taste the punishment of flaming fire.

13. They made for him what he willed: synagogues and statues, basins like wells and boilers built into the ground. Give

thanks, O House of David! Few of My bondmen are thankful.

14. And when We decreed death for him, nothing showed his death to them save a creeping creature of the earth which

gnawed away his staff. And when he fell the jinn saw clearly how, if they had known the unseen, they would not have

continued in despised toil.

15. There was indeed a sign for Sheba in their dwelling place: Two gardens on the right hand and the left (as who should

say): Eat of the provision of your Lord and render thanks to Him. A fair land and an indulgent Lord!

16. But they were froward, so We sent on them the flood of Iram, and in exchange for their two gardens gave them two

gardens bearing bitter fruit, the tamarisk and here and there a lote tree.

17. This We awarded them because of their ingratitude. Punish We ever any save the ingrates?

18. And We set, between them and the towns which We had blessed, towns easy to be seen, and We made the stage

between them easy, (saying): Travel in them safely both by night and day.

19. But they said: Our Lord! Make the stage between our journeys longer. And they wronged themselves, therefore

We made them bywords (in the land) and scattered them abroad, a total scattering. Lo! herein verily are portents for

each steadfast, grateful (heart).

20. And Satan indeed found his calculation true concerning them, for they follow him, all save a group of true believers.