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017.005 When the first of the warnings came to pass, We sent against you Our servants given to terrible warfare: They
entered the very inmost parts of your homes; and it was a warning (completely) fulfilled.
017.006 Then did We grant you the Return as against them: We gave you increase in resources and sons, and made you
the more numerous in man-power.
017.007 If ye did well, ye did well for yourselves; if ye did evil, (ye did it) against yourselves. So when the second of
the warnings came to pass, (We permitted your enemies) to disfigure your faces, and to enter your Temple as they had
entered it before, and to visit with destruction all that fell into their power.
017.008 It may be that your Lord may (yet) show Mercy unto you; but if ye revert (to your sins), We shall revert (to
Our punishments): And we have made Hell a prison for those who reject (all Faith).
017.009 Verily this Qur'an doth guide to that which is most right (or stable), and giveth the Glad Tidings to the
Believers who work deeds of righteousness, that they shall have a magnificent reward;
017.010 And to those who believe not in the Hereafter, (it announceth) that We have prepared for them a Penalty
Grievous (indeed).
017.011 The prayer that man should make for good, he maketh for evil; for man is given to hasty (deeds).
017.012 We have made the Night and the Day as two (of Our) Signs: the Sign of the Night have We obscured, while
the Sign of the Day We have made to enlighten you; that ye may seek bounty from your Lord, and that ye may know
the number and count of the years: all things have We explained in detail.
017.013 Every man's fate We have fastened on his own neck: On the Day of Judgment We shall bring out for him a
scroll, which he will see spread open.
017.014 (It will be said to him:) "Read thine (own) record: Sufficient is thy soul this day to make out an account against
thee."
017.015 Who receiveth guidance, receiveth it for his own benefit: who goeth astray doth so to his own loss: No bearer
of burdens can bear the burden of another: nor would We visit with Our Wrath until We had sent an apostle (to give
warning).
017.016 When We decide to destroy a population, We (first) send a definite order to those among them who are given
the good things of this life and yet transgress; so that the word is proved true against them: then (it is) We destroy them
utterly.
017.017 How many generations have We destroyed after Noah? and enough is thy Lord to note and see the sins of His
servants.
017.018 If any do wish for the transitory things (of this life), We readily grant them - such things as We will, to such
person as We will: in the end have We provided Hell for them: they will burn therein, disgraced and rejected.
017.019 Those who do wish for the (things of) the Hereafter, and strive therefor with all due striving, and have Faith,-
they are the ones whose striving is acceptable (to God).
017.020 Of the bounties of thy Lord We bestow freely on all- These as well as those: The bounties of thy Lord are
not closed (to anyone).
017.021 See how We have bestowed more on some than on others; but verily the Hereafter is more in rank and
gradation and more in excellence.
017.022 Take not with God another object of worship; or thou (O man!) wilt sit in disgrace and destitution.
017.023 Thy Lord hath decreed that ye worship none but Him, and that ye be kind to parents. Whether one or both of
them attain old age in thy life, say not to them a word of contempt, nor repel them, but address them in terms of
honour.
017.024 And, out of kindness, lower to them the wing of humility, and say: "My Lord! bestow on them thy Mercy even
as they cherished me in childhood."
017.025 Your Lord knoweth best what is in your hearts: If ye do deeds of righteousness, verily He is Most Forgiving
to those who turn to Him again and again (in true penitence).
017.026 And render to the kindred their due rights, as (also) to those in want, and to the wayfarer: But squander not
(your wealth) in the manner of a spendthrift.
017.027 Verily spendthrifts are brothers of the Evil Ones; and the Evil One is to his Lord (himself) ungrateful.
017.028 And even if thou hast to turn away from them in pursuit of the Mercy from thy Lord which thou dost expect,