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031.027 And if all the trees on earth were pens and the ocean (were ink), with seven oceans behind it to add to its
(supply), yet would not the words of God be exhausted (in the writing): for God is Exalted in Power, full of Wisdom.
031.028 And your creation or your resurrection is in no wise but as an individual soul: for God is He Who hears and
sees (all things).
031.029 Seest thou not that God merges Night into Day and he merges Day into Night; that He has subjected the sun,
and the moon (to his Law), each running its course for a term appointed; and that God is well-acquainted with all that
ye do?
031.030 That is because God is the (only) Reality, and because whatever else they invoke besides Him is Falsehood;
and because God,- He is the Most High, Most Great.
031.031 Seest thou not that the ships sail through the ocean by the Grace of God?- that He may show you of His Signs?
Verily in this are Signs for all who constantly persevere and give thanks.
031.032 When a wave covers them like the canopy (of clouds), they call to God, offering Him sincere devotion. But
when He has delivered them safely to land, there are among them those that halt between (right and wrong). But none
reject Our Signs except only a perfidious ungrateful (wretch)!
031.033 O mankind! do your duty to your Lord, and fear (the coming of) a Day when no father can avail aught for his
son, nor a son avail aught for his father. Verily, the promise of God is true: let not then this present life deceive you,
nor let the chief Deceiver deceive you about God.
031.034 Verily the knowledge of the Hour is with God (alone). It is He Who sends down rain, and He Who knows what
is in the wombs. Nor does any one know what it is that he will earn on the morrow: Nor does any one know in what land
he is to die. Verily with God is full knowledge and He is acquainted (with all things).
THE PROSTRATION, WORSHIP, ADORATION, CHAPTER NO. 032
032.001 A. L. M.
032.002 (This is) the Revelation of the Book in which there is no doubt,- from the Lord of the Worlds.
032.003 Or do they say, "He has forged it"? Nay, it is the Truth from thy Lord, that thou mayest admonish a people to
whom no warner has come before thee: in order that they may receive guidance.
032.004 It is God Who has created the heavens and the earth, and all between them, in six Days, and is firmly
established on the Throne (of Authority): ye have none, besides Him, to protect or intercede (for you): will ye not then
receive admonition?
032.005 He rules (all) affairs from the heavens to the earth: in the end will (all affairs) go up to Him, on a Day, the
space whereof will be (as) a thousand years of your reckoning.
032.006 Such is He, the Knower of all things, hidden and open, the Exalted (in power), the Merciful;-
032.007 He Who has made everything which He has created most good: He began the creation of man with (nothing
more than) clay,
032.008 And made his progeny from a quintessence of the nature of a fluid despised:
032.009 But He fashioned him in due proportion, and breathed into him something of His spirit. And He gave you (the
faculties of) hearing and sight and feeling (and understanding): little thanks do ye give!
032.010 And they say: "What! when we lie, hidden and lost, in the earth, shall we indeed be in a Creation renewed? Nay,
they deny the Meeting with their Lord.
032.011 Say: "The Angel of Death, put in charge of you, will (duly) take your souls: then shall ye be brought back to
your Lord."
032.012 If only thou couldst see when the guilty ones will bend low their heads before their Lord, (saying:) "Our Lord!
We have seen and we have heard: Now then send us back (to the world): we will work righteousness: for we do indeed
(now) believe."
032.013 If We had so willed, We could certainly have brought every soul its true guidance: but the Word from Me will
come true, "I will fill Hell with Jinns and men all together."
032.014 "Taste ye then - for ye forgot the Meeting of this Day of yours, and We too will forget you - taste ye the
Penalty of Eternity for your (evil) deeds!"
032.015 Only those believe in Our Signs, who, when they are recited to them, fall down in adoration, and celebrate the