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yet speak to them a word of easy kindness.
017.029 Make not thy hand tied (like a niggard's) to thy neck, nor stretch it forth to its utmost reach, so that thou
become blameworthy and destitute.
017.030 Verily thy Lord doth provide sustenance in abundance for whom He pleaseth, and He provideth in a just
measure. For He doth know and regard all His servants.
017.031 Kill not your children for fear of want: We shall provide sustenance for them as well as for you. Verily the
killing of them is a great sin.
017.032 Nor come nigh to adultery: for it is a shameful (deed) and an evil, opening the road (to other evils).
017.033 Nor take life - which God has made sacred - except for just cause. And if anyone is slain wrongfully, we have
given his heir authority (to demand qisas or to forgive): but let him nor exceed bounds in the matter of taking life; for
he is helped (by the Law).
017.034 Come not nigh to the orphan's property except to improve it, until he attains the age of full strength; and fulfil
(every) engagement, for (every) engagement will be enquired into (on the Day of Reckoning).
017.035 Give full measure when ye measure, and weigh with a balance that is straight: that is the most fitting and the
most advantageous in the final determination.
017.036 And pursue not that of which thou hast no knowledge; for every act of hearing, or of seeing or of (feeling in)
the heart will be enquired into (on the Day of Reckoning).
017.037 Nor walk on the earth with insolence: for thou canst not rend the earth asunder, nor reach the mountains in
height.
017.038 Of all such things the evil is hateful in the sight of thy Lord.
017.039 These are among the (precepts of) wisdom, which thy Lord has revealed to thee. Take not, with God, another
object of worship, lest thou shouldst be thrown into Hell, blameworthy and rejected.
017.040 Has then your Lord (O Pagans!) preferred for you sons, and taken for Himself daughters among the angels?
Truly ye utter a most dreadful saying!
017.041 We have explained (things) in various (ways) in this Qur'an, in order that they may receive admonition, but
it only increases their flight (from the Truth)!
017.042 Say: If there had been (other) gods with Him, as they say,- behold, they would certainly have sought out a way
to the Lord of the Throne!
017.043 Glory to Him! He is high above all that they say!- Exalted and Great (beyond measure)!
017.044 The seven heavens and the earth, and all beings therein, declare His glory: there is not a thing but celebrates
His praise; And yet ye understand not how they declare His glory! Verily He is Oft-Forbear, Most Forgiving!
017.045 When thou dost recite the Qur'an, We put, between thee and those who believe not in the Hereafter, a veil
invisible:
017.046 And We put coverings over their hearts (and minds) lest they should understand the Qur'an, and deafness into
their ears: when thou dost commemorate thy Lord and Him alone in the Qur'an, they turn on their backs, fleeing (from
the Truth).
017.047 We know best why it is they listen, when they listen to thee; and when they meet in private conference, behold,
the wicked say, "Ye follow none other than a man bewitched!"
017.048 See what similes they strike for thee: but they have gone astray, and never can they find a way.
017.049 They say: "What! when we are reduced to bones and dust, should we really be raised up (to be) a new creation?"
017.050 Say: "(Nay!) be ye stones or iron,
017.051 "Or created matter which, in your minds, is hardest (to be raised up),- (Yet shall ye be raised up)!" then will
they say: "Who will cause us to return?" Say: "He who created you first!" Then will they wag their heads towards thee,
and say, "When will that be?" Say, "May be it will be quite soon!
017.052 "It will be on a Day when He will call you, and ye will answer (His call) with (words of) His praise, and ye will
think that ye tarried but a little while!"
017.053 Say to My servants that they should (only) say those things that are best: for Satan doth sow dissensions
among them: For Satan is to man an avowed enemy.
017.054 It is your Lord that knoweth you best: If He please, He granteth you mercy, or if He please, punishment: We