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30. They said: O our people! Lo! we have heard a Scripture which hath been revealed after Moses, confirming that

which was before it, guiding unto the truth and a right road.

31. O our people! respond to Allah's summoner and believe in Him. He will forgive you some of your sins and guard

you from a painful doom.

32. And whoso respondeth not to Allah's summoner he can nowise escape in the earth, and ye (can find) no protecting

friends instead of Him. Such are in error manifest.

33. Have they not seen that Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth and was not wearied by their creation, is Able

to give life to the dead? Aye, He verily is Able to do all things.

34. And on the day when those who disbelieve are exposed to the Fire (they will be asked): Is not this real? They will

say: Yea, by our Lord. He will say: Then taste the doom for that ye disbelieved. .

35. Then have patience (O Muhammad) even as the stout of heart among the messengers (of old) had patience, and seek

not to hasten on the doom for them. On the day when they see that which they are promised (it will seem to them) as

though they had tarried but an hour of daylight. A clear message. Shall any be destroyed save evil living folk?

Surah 47. Muhammad

1. Those who disbelieve and turn (men) from the way of Allah, He rendereth their actions vain.

2. And those who believe and do good works and believe in that which is revealed unto Muhammad and it is the truth

from their Lord. He riddeth them of their ill deeds and improveth their state.

3. That is because those who disbelieve follow falsehood and because those who believe follow the truth from their

Lord. Thus Allah coineth their similitudes for mankind.

4. Now when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve, then it is smiting of the necks until, when ye have routed them,

then making fast of bonds; and afterward either grace or ransom till the war lay down its burdens. That (is the

ordinance). And if Allah willed He could have punished them (without you) but (thus it is ordained) that He may try

some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He rendereth not their actions vain.

5. He will guide them and improve their state,

6. And bring them in unto the Garden which He hath made known to them.

7. O ye who believe! If ye help Allah, He will help you and will make your foothold firm.

8. And those who disbelieve, perdition is for them, and He will make their actions vain.

9. That is because they are averse to that which Allah hath revealed, therefor maketh He their action fruitless.

10. Have they not travelled in the land to see the nature of the consequence for those who were before them? Allah

wiped them out. And for the disbelievers there will be the like thereof.

11. That is because Allah is patron of those who believe, and because the disbelievers have no patron.

12. Lo! Allah will cause those who believe and do good works to enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow; while

those who disbelieve take their comfort in this life and eat even as the cattle eat, and the Fire is their habitation.

13. And how many a township stronger than thy township (O Muhammad) which hath cast thee out, have We destroyed,

and they had no helper!

14. Is he who relieth on a clear proof from his Lord like those for whom the evil that they do is beautified while they

follow their own lusts?

15. A similitude of the Garden which those who keep their duty (to Allah) are promised: Therein are rivers of water

unpolluted, and rivers of milk whereof the flavour changeth not, and rivers of wine delicious to the drinkers, and rivers

of clear run honey; therein for them is every kind of fruit, with pardon from their Lord. (Are those who enjoy all this)

like those who are immortal in the Fire and are given boiling water to drink so that it teareth their bowels?

16. Among them are some who give ear unto thee (Muhammad) till, when they go forth from thy presence, they say

unto those who have been given knowledge: What was that he said just now? Those are they whose hearts Allah hath

sealed, and they follow their own lusts.

17. While as for those who walk aright, He addeth to their guidance, and giveth them their protection (against evil).

18. Await they aught save the Hour, that it should come upon them unawares? And the beginnings thereof have already

come. But how, when it hath come upon them, can they take their warning?

19. So know (O Muhammad) that there is no God save Allah, and ask forgiveness for thy sin and for believing men and

believing women. Allah knoweth (both) your place of turmoil and your place of rest.