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066.007 (They will say), "O ye Unbelievers! Make no excuses this Day! Ye are being but requited for all that ye did!"
066.008 O ye who believe! Turn to God with sincere repentance: In the hope that your Lord will remove from you your
ills and admit you to Gardens beneath which Rivers flow,- the Day that God will not permit to be humiliated the
Prophet and those who believe with him. Their Light will run forward before them and by their right hands, while they
say, "Our Lord! Perfect our Light for us, and grant us Forgiveness: for Thou hast power over all things."
066.009 O Prophet! Strive hard against the Unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be firm against them. Their abode is
Hell,- an evil refuge (indeed).
066.010 God sets forth, for an example to the Unbelievers, the wife of Noah and the wife of Lut: they were
(respectively) under two of our righteous servants, but they were false to their (husbands), and they profited nothing
before God on their account, but were told: "Enter ye the Fire along with (others) that enter!"
066.011 And God sets forth, as an example to those who believe the wife of Pharaoh: Behold she said: "O my Lord!
Build for me, in nearness to Thee, a mansion in the Garden, and save me from Pharaoh and his doings, and save me from
those that do wrong";
066.012 And Mary the daughter of 'Imran, who guarded her chastity; and We breathed into (her body) of Our spirit;
and she testified to the truth of the words of her Lord and of His Revelations, and was one of the devout (servants).
THE SOVEREIGNTY, CONTROL, CHAPTER NO. 067
067.001 Blessed be He in Whose hands is Dominion; and He over all things hath Power;-
067.002 He Who created Death and Life, that He may try which of you is best in deed: and He is the Exalted in Might,
Oft-Forgiving;-
067.003 He Who created the seven heavens one above another: No want of proportion wilt thou see in the Creation
of (God) Most Gracious. So turn thy vision again: seest thou any flaw?
067.004 Again turn thy vision a second time: (thy) vision will come back to thee dull and discomfited, in a state worn
out.
067.005 And we have, (from of old), adorned the lowest heaven with Lamps, and We have made such (Lamps) (as)
missiles to drive away the Evil Ones, and have prepared for them the Penalty of the Blazing Fire.
067.006 For those who reject their Lord (and Cherisher) is the Penalty of Hell: and evil is (such), Destination.
067.007 When they are cast therein, they will hear the (terrible) drawing in of its breath even as it blazes forth,
067.008 Almost bursting with fury: Every time a Group is cast therein, its Keepers will ask, "Did no Warner come to
you?"
067.009 They will say: "Yes indeed; a Warner did come to us, but we rejected him and said, 'God never sent down any
(Message): ye are nothing but an egregious delusion!'"
067.010 They will further say: "Had we but listened or used our intelligence, we should not (now) be among the
Companions of the Blazing Fire!"
067.011 They will then confess their sins: but far will be (Forgiveness) from the Companions of the Blazing Fire!
067.012 As for those who fear their Lord unseen, for them is Forgiveness and a great Reward.
067.013 And whether ye hide your word or publish it, He certainly has (full) knowledge, of the secrets of (all) hearts.
067.014 Should He not know,- He that created? and He is the One that understands the finest mysteries (and) is
well-acquainted (with them).
067.015 It is He Who has made the earth manageable for you, so traverse ye through its tracts and enjoy of the
Sustenance which He furnishes: but unto Him is the Resurrection.
067.016 Do ye feel secure that He Who is in heaven will not cause you to be swallowed up by the earth when it shakes
(as in an earthquake)?
067.017 Or do ye feel secure that He Who is in Heaven will not send against you a violent tornado (with showers of
stones), so that ye shall know how (terrible) was My warning?
067.018 But indeed men before them rejected (My warning): then how (terrible) was My rejection (of them)?
067.019 Do they not observe the birds above them, spreading their wings and folding them in? None can uphold them
except (God) Most Gracious: Truly (God) Most Gracious: Truly it is He that watches over all things.
067.020 Nay, who is there that can help you, (even as) an army, besides (God) Most Merciful? In nothing but delusion