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process of creation, and repeateth it, that He may reward with justice those who believe and work righteousness; but
those who reject Him will have draughts of boiling fluids, and a penalty grievous, because they did reject Him.
010.005 It is He Who made the sun to be a shining glory and the moon to be a light (of beauty), and measured out
stages for her; that ye might know the number of years and the count (of time). Nowise did God create this but in truth
and righteousness. (Thus) doth He explain His Signs in detail, for those who understand.
010.006 Verily, in the alternation of the night and the day, and in all that God hath created, in the heavens and the earth,
are signs for those who fear Him.
010.007 Those who rest not their hope on their meeting with Us, but are pleased and satisfied with the life of the
present, and those who heed not Our Signs,-
010.008 Their abode is the Fire, because of the (evil) they earned.
010.009 Those who believe, and work righteousness,- their Lord will guide them because of their faith: beneath them
will flow rivers in gardens of bliss.
010.010 (This will be) their cry therein: "Glory to Thee, O God!" And "Peace" will be their greeting therein! and the
close of their cry will be: "Praise be to God, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds!"
010.011 If God were to hasten for men the ill (they have earned) as they would fain hasten on the good,- then would
their respite be settled at once. But We leave those who rest not their hope on their meeting with Us, in their
trespasses, wandering in distraction to and fro.
010.012 When trouble toucheth a man, He crieth unto Us (in all postures)- lying down on his side, or sitting, or
standing. But when We have solved his trouble, he passeth on his way as if he had never cried to Us for a trouble that
touched him! thus do the deeds of transgressors seem fair in their eyes!
010.013 Generations before you We destroyed when they did wrong: their apostles came to them with clear-signs,
but they would not believe! thus do We requite those who sin!
010.014 Then We made you heirs in the land after them, to see how ye would behave!
010.015 But when Our Clear Signs are rehearsed unto them, those who rest not their hope on their meeting with Us,
Say: "Bring us a reading other than this, or change this," Say: "It is not for me, of my own accord, to change it: I follow
naught but what is revealed unto me: if I were to disobey my Lord, I should myself fear the penalty of a Great Day (to
come)."
010.016 Say: "If God had so willed, I should not have rehearsed it to you, nor would He have made it known to you.
A whole life-time before this have I tarried amongst you: will ye not then understand?"
010.017 Who doth more wrong than such as forge a lie against God, or deny His Signs? But never will prosper those
who sin.
010.018 They serve, besides God, things that hurt them not nor profit them, and they say: "These are our intercessors
with God." Say: "Do ye indeed inform God of something He knows not, in the heavens or on earth?- Glory to Him! and
far is He above the partners they ascribe (to Him)!"
010.019 Mankind was but one nation, but differed (later). Had it not been for a word that went forth before from thy
Lord, their differences would have been settled between them.
010.020 They say: "Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord?" Say: "The Unseen is only for God (to know),
then wait ye: I too will wait with you."
010.021 When We make mankind taste of some mercy after adversity hath touched them, behold! they take to plotting
against Our Signs! Say: "Swifter to plan is God!" Verily, Our messengers record all the plots that ye make!
010.022 He it is Who enableth you to traverse through land and sea; so that ye even board ships;- they sail with them
with a favourable wind, and they rejoice thereat; then comes a stormy wind and the waves come to them from all sides,
and they think they are being overwhelmed: they cry unto God, sincerely offering (their) duty unto Him saying, "If thou
dost deliver us from this, we shall truly show our gratitude!"
010.023 But when he delivereth them, behold! they transgress insolently through the earth in defiance of right! O
mankind! your insolence is against your own souls,- an enjoyment of the life of the present: in the end, to Us is your
return, and We shall show you the truth of all that ye did.
010.024 The likeness of the life of the present is as the rain which We send down from the skies: by its mingling arises
the produce of the earth- which provides food for men and animals: (It grows) till the earth is clad with its golden