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017.079 And pray in the small watches of the morning: (it would be) an additional prayer (or spiritual profit) for thee:
soon will thy Lord raise thee to a Station of Praise and Glory!
017.080 Say: "O my Lord! Let my entry be by the Gate of Truth and Honour, and likewise my exit by the Gate of Truth
and Honour; and grant me from Thy Presence an authority to aid (me)."
017.081 And say: "Truth has (now) arrived, and Falsehood perished: for Falsehood is (by its nature) bound to perish."
017.082 We send down (stage by stage) in the Qur'an that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe: to the
unjust it causes nothing but loss after loss.
017.083 Yet when We bestow Our favours on man, he turns away and becomes remote on his side (instead of coming
to Us), and when evil seizes him he gives himself up to despair!
017.084 Say: "Everyone acts according to his own disposition: But your Lord knows best who it is that is best guided
on the Way."
017.085 They ask thee concerning the Spirit (of inspiration). Say: "The Spirit (cometh) by command of my Lord: of
knowledge it is only a little that is communicated to you, (O men!)"
017.086 If it were Our Will, We could take away that which We have sent thee by inspiration:then wouldst thou find
none to plead thy affair in that matter as against Us,-
017.087 Except for Mercy from thy Lord: for his bounty is to thee (indeed) great.
017.088 Say: "If the whole of mankind and Jinns were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could
not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support.
017.089 And We have explained to man, in this Qur'an, every kind of similitude: yet the greater part of men refuse (to
receive it) except with ingratitude!
017.090 They say: "We shall not believe in thee, until thou cause a spring to gush forth for us from the earth,
017.091 "Or (until) thou have a garden of date trees and vines, and cause rivers to gush forth in their midst, carrying
abundant water;
017.092 "Or thou cause the sky to fall in pieces, as thou sayest (will happen), against us; or thou bring God and the
angels before (us) face to face:
017.093 "Or thou have a house adorned with gold, or thou mount a ladder right into the skies. No, we shall not even
believe in thy mounting until thou send down to us a book that we could read." Say: "Glory to my Lord! Am I aught but
a man,- an apostle?"
017.094 What kept men back from belief when Guidance came to them, was nothing but this: they said, "Has God sent
a man (like us) to be (His) Apostle?"
017.095 Say, "If there were settled, on earth, angels walking about in peace and quiet, We should certainly have sent
them down from the heavens an angel for an apostle."
017.096 Say: "Enough is God for a witness between me and you: for He is well acquainted with His servants, and He
sees (all things).
017.097 It is he whom God guides, that is on true Guidance; but he whom He leaves astray - for such wilt thou find no
protector besides Him. On the Day of Judgment We shall gather, them together, prone on their faces, blind, dumb, and
deaf: their abode will be Hell: every time it shows abatement, We shall increase from them the fierceness of the Fire.
017.098 That is their recompense, because they rejected Our signs, and said, "When we are reduced to bones and
broken dust, should we really be raised up (to be) a new Creation?"
017.099 See they not that God, Who created the heavens and the earth, has power to create the like of them (anew)?
Only He has decreed a term appointed, of which there is no doubt. But the unjust refuse (to receive it) except with
ingratitude.
017.100 Say: "If ye had control of the Treasures of the Mercy of my Lord, behold, ye would keep them back, for fear
of spending them: for man is (every) niggardly!"
017.101 To Moses We did give Nine Clear Sings: As the Children of Israel: when he came to them, Pharaoh said to
him: "O Moses! I consider thee, indeed, to have been worked upon by sorcery!
017.102 Moses said, "Thou knowest well that these things have been sent down by none but the Lord of the heavens
and the earth as eye-opening evidence: and I consider thee indeed, O Pharaoh, to be one doomed to destruction!"
017.103 So he resolved to remove them from the face of the earth: but We did drown him and all who were with him.