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018.087 He said: "Whoever doth wrong, him shall we punish; then shall he be sent back to his Lord; and He will punish
him with a punishment unheard-of (before).
018.088 "But whoever believes, and works righteousness,- he shall have a goodly reward, and easy will be his task as
We order it by our Command."
018.089 Then followed he (another) way,
018.090 Until, when he came to the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had provided no
covering protection against the sun.
018.091 (He left them) as they were: We completely understood what was before him.
018.092 Then followed he (another) way,
018.093 Until, when he reached (a tract) between two mountains, he found, beneath them, a people who scarcely
understood a word.
018.094 They said: "O Zul-qarnain! the Gog and Magog (People) do great mischief on earth: shall we then render thee
tribute in order that thou mightest erect a barrier between us and them?
018.095 He said: "(The power) in which my Lord has established me is better (than tribute): Help me therefore with
strength (and labour): I will erect a strong barrier between you and them:
018.096 "Bring me blocks of iron." At length, when he had filled up the space between the two steep mountain-sides,
He said, "Blow (with your bellows)" Then, when he had made it (red) as fire, he said: "Bring me, that I may pour over
it, molten lead."
018.097 Thus were they made powerless to scale it or to dig through it.
018.098 He said: "This is a mercy from my Lord: But when the promise of my Lord comes to pass, He will make it
into dust; and the promise of my Lord is true."
018.099 On that day We shall leave them to surge like waves on one another: the trumpet will be blown, and We shall
collect them all together.
018.100 And We shall present Hell that day for Unbelievers to see, all spread out,-
018.101 (Unbelievers) whose eyes had been under a veil from remembrance of Me, and who had been unable even to
hear.
018.102 Do the Unbelievers think that they can take My servants as protectors besides Me? Verily We have prepared
Hell for the Unbelievers for (their) entertainment.
018.103 Say: "Shall we tell you of those who lose most in respect of their deeds?-
018.104 "Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life, while they thought that they were acquiring good by their
works?"
018.105 They are those who deny the Signs of their Lord and the fact of their having to meet Him (in the Hereafter):
vain will be their works, nor shall We, on the Day of Judgment, give them any weight.
018.106 That is their reward, Hell, because they rejected Faith, and took My Signs and My Messengers by way of jest.
018.107 As to those who believe and work righteous deeds, they have, for their entertainment, the Gardens of Paradise,
018.108 Wherein they shall dwell (for aye): no change will they wish for from them.
018.109 Say: "If the ocean were ink (wherewith to write out) the words of my Lord, sooner would the ocean be
exhausted than would the words of my Lord, even if we added another ocean like it, for its aid."
018.110 Say: "I am but a man like yourselves, (but) the inspiration has come to me, that your God is one God: whoever
expects to meet his Lord, let him work righteousness, and, in the worship of his Lord, admit no one as partner.
MARY, CHAPTER NO. 019
019.001 Kaf. Ha. Ya. 'Ain. Sad.
019.002 (This is) a recital of the Mercy of thy Lord to His servant Zakariya.
019.003 Behold! he cried to his Lord in secret,
019.004 Praying: "O my Lord! infirm indeed are my bones, and the hair of my head doth glisten with grey: but never
am I unblest, O my Lord, in my prayer to Thee!
019.005 "Now I fear (what) my relatives (and colleagues) (will do) after me: but my wife is barren: so give me an heir
as from Thyself,-