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018.038 "But (I think) for my part that He is God, My Lord, and none shall I associate with my Lord.
018.039 "Why didst thou not, as thou wentest into thy garden, say: 'God's will (be done)! There is no power but with
God!' If thou dost see me less than thee in wealth and sons,
018.040 "It may be that my Lord will give me something better than thy garden, and that He will send on thy garden
thunderbolts (by way of reckoning) from heaven, making it (but) slippery sand!-
018.041 "Or the water of the garden will run off underground so that thou wilt never be able to find it."
018.042 So his fruits (and enjoyment) were encompassed (with ruin), and he remained twisting and turning his hands
over what he had spent on his property, which had (now) tumbled to pieces to its very foundations, and he could only
say, "Woe is me! Would I had never ascribed partners to my Lord and Cherisher!"
018.043 Nor had he numbers to help him against God, nor was he able to deliver himself.
018.044 There, the (only) protection comes from God, the True One. He is the Best to reward, and the Best to give
success.
018.045 Set forth to them the similitude of the life of this world: It is like the rain which we send down from the skies:
the earth's vegetation absorbs it, but soon it becomes dry stubble, which the winds do scatter: it is (only) God who
prevails over all things.
018.046 Wealth and sons are allurements of the life of this world: But the things that endure, good deeds, are best in
the sight of thy Lord, as rewards, and best as (the foundation for) hopes.
018.047 One Day We shall remove the mountains, and thou wilt see the earth as a level stretch, and We shall gather
them, all together, nor shall We leave out any one of them.
018.048 And they will be marshalled before thy Lord in ranks, (with the announcement), "Now have ye come to Us
(bare) as We created you first: aye, ye thought We shall not fulfil the appointment made to you to meet (Us)!":
018.049 And the Book (of Deeds) will be placed (before you); and thou wilt see the sinful in great terror because of
what is (recorded) therein; they will say, "Ah! woe to us! what a Book is this! It leaves out nothing small or great, but
takes account thereof!" They will find all that they did, placed before them: And not one will thy Lord treat with
injustice.
018.050 Behold! We said to the angels, "Bow down to Adam": They bowed down except Iblis. He was one of the Jinns,
and he broke the Command of his Lord. Will ye then take him and his progeny as protectors rather than Me? And they
are enemies to you! Evil would be the exchange for the wrong-doers!
018.051 I called them not to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor (even) their own creation: nor is
it for helpers such as Me to take as lead (men) astray!
018.052 One Day He will say, "Call on those whom ye thought to be My partners," and they will call on them, but they
will not listen to them; and We shall make for them a place of common perdition.
018.053 And the Sinful shall see the fire and apprehend that they have to fall therein: no means will they find to turn
away therefrom.
018.054 We have explained in detail in this Qur'an, for the benefit of mankind, every kind of similitude: but man is,
in most things, contentious.
018.055 And what is there to keep back men from believing, now that Guidance has come to them, nor from praying
for forgiveness from their Lord, but that (they ask that) the ways of the ancients be repeated with them, or the Wrath
be brought to them face to face?
018.056 We only send the apostles to give Glad Tidings and to give warnings: But the unbelievers dispute with vain
argument, in order therewith to weaken the truth, and they treat My Signs as a jest, as also the fact that they are warned!
018.057 And who doth more wrong than one who is reminded of the Signs of his Lord, but turns away from them,
forgetting the (deeds) which his hands have sent forth? Verily We have set veils over their hearts lest they should
understand this, and over their ears, deafness, if thou callest them to guidance, even then will they never accept
guidance.
018.058 But your Lord is Most forgiving, full of Mercy. If He were to call them (at once) to account for what they
have earned, then surely He would have earned, then surely He would have hastened their punishment: but they have
their appointed time, beyond which they will find no refuge.
018.059 Such were the populations we destroyed when they committed iniquities; but we fixed an appointed time for