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good things in the life of the world, and ye took your pleasure out of them: but today shall ye be recompensed with a
Penalty of humiliation: for that ye were arrogant on earth without just cause, and that ye (ever) transgressed."
046.021 Mention (Hud) one of 'Ad's (own) brethren: Behold, he warned his people about the winding Sand-tracts: but
there have been warners before him and after him: "Worship ye none other than God: Truly I fear for you the Penalty
of a Mighty Day."
046.022 They said: "Hast thou come in order to turn us aside from our gods? Then bring upon us the (calamity) with
which thou dost threaten us, if thou art telling the truth?"
046.023 He said: "The Knowledge (of when it will come) is only with God: I proclaim to you the mission on which
I have been sent: But I see that ye are a people in ignorance!"..
046.024 Then, when they saw the (Penalty in the shape of) a cloud traversing the sky, coming to meet their valleys,
they said, "This cloud will give us rain!" "Nay, it is the (Calamity) ye were asking to be hastened!- A wind wherein is
a Grievous Penalty!
046.025 "Everything will it destroy by the command of its Lord!" Then by the morning they - nothing was to be seen
but (the ruins of) their houses! thus do We recompense those given to sin!
046.026 And We had firmly established them in a (prosperity and) power which We have not given to you (ye Quraish!)
and We had endowed them with (faculties of) hearing, seeing, heart and intellect: but of no profit to them were their
(faculties of) hearing, sight, and heart and intellect, when they went on rejecting the Signs of God; and they were
(completely) encircled by that which they used to mock at!
046.027 We destroyed aforetime populations round about you; and We have shown the Signs in various ways, that they
may turn (to Us).
046.028 Why then was no help forthcoming to them from those whom they worshipped as gods, besides God, as a
means of access (to God)? Nay, they left them in the lurch: but that was their falsehood and their invention.
046.029 Behold, We turned towards thee a company of Jinns (quietly) listening to the Qur'an: when they stood in the
presence thereof, they said, "Listen in silence!" When the (reading) was finished, they returned to their people, to warn
(them of their sins).
046.030 They said, "O our people! We have heard a Book revealed after Moses, confirming what came before it: it
guides (men) to the Truth and to a Straight Path.
046.031 "O our people, hearken to the one who invites (you) to God, and believe in him: He will forgive you your
faults, and deliver you from a Penalty Grievous.
046.032 "If any does not hearken to the one who invites (us) to God, he cannot frustrate (God's Plan) on earth, and no
protectors can he have besides God: such men (wander) in manifest error."
046.033 See they not that God, Who created the heavens and the earth, and never wearied with their creation, is able
to give life to the dead? Yea, verily He has power over all things.
046.034 And on the Day that the Unbelievers will be placed before the Fire, (they will be asked,) "Is this not the Truth?"
they will say, "Yea, by our Lord!" (One will say:) "Then taste ye the Penalty, for that ye were wont to deny (Truth)!"
046.035 Therefore patiently persevere, as did (all) apostles of inflexible purpose; and be in no haste about the
(Unbelievers). On the Day that they see the (Punishment) promised them, (it will be) as if they had not tarried more
than an hour in a single day. (Thine but) to proclaim the Message: but shall any be destroyed except those who
transgress?
MUHAMMAD, CHAPTER NO. 047
047.001 Those who reject God and hinder (men) from the Path of God,- their deeds will God render astray (from their
mark).
047.002 But those who believe and work deeds of righteousness, and believe in the (Revelation) sent down to
Muhammad - for it is the Truth from their Lord,- He will remove from them their ills and improve their condition.
047.003 This because those who reject God follow vanities, while those who believe follow the Truth from their Lord:
Thus does God set forth for men their lessons by similitudes.
047.004 Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly
subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays