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guided all of you.
016.010 It is He who sends down rain from the sky: from it ye drink, and out of it (grows) the vegetation on which ye
feed your cattle. 016.
011 With it He produces for you corn, olives, date-palms, grapes and every kind of fruit: verily in this is a sign for
those who give thought.
016.012 He has made subject to you the Night and the Day; the sun and the moon; and the stars are in subjection by
His Command: verily in this are Signs for men who are wise.
016.013 And the things on this earth which He has multiplied in varying colours (and qualities): verily in this is a sign
for men who celebrate the praises of God (in gratitude).
016.014 It is He Who has made the sea subject, that ye may eat thereof flesh that is fresh and tender, and that ye may
extract therefrom ornaments to wear; and thou seest the ships therein that plough the waves, that ye may seek (thus)
of the bounty of God and that ye may be grateful.
016.015 And He has set up on the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake with you; and rivers and roads;
that ye may guide yourselves;
016.016 And marks and sign-posts; and by the stars (men) guide themselves.
016.017 Is then He Who creates like one that creates not? Will ye not receive admonition?
016.018 If ye would count up the favours of God, never would ye be able to number them: for God is Oft-Forgiving,
Most Merciful.
016.019 And God doth know what ye conceal, and what ye reveal. 016.020 Those whom they invoke besides God
create nothing and are themselves created.
016.021 (They are things) dead,
lifeless: nor do they know when they will be raised up.
016.022 Your God is one God: as to those who believe not in the Hereafter, their hearts refuse to know, and they are
arrogant.
016.023 Undoubtedly God doth know what they conceal, and what they reveal: verily He loveth not the arrogant.
016.024 When it is said to them, "What is it that your Lord has revealed?" they say, "Tales of the ancients!"
016.025 Let them bear, on the Day of Judgment, their own burdens in full, and also (something) of the burdens of those
without knowledge, whom they misled. Alas, how grievous the burdens they will bear!
016.026 Those before them did also plot (against God's Way): but God took their structures from their foundations,
and the roof fell down on them from above; and the Wrath seized them from directions they did not perceive.
016.027 Then, on the Day of Judgment, He will cover them with shame, and say: "Where are My 'partners' concerning
whom ye used to dispute (with the godly)?" Those endued with knowledge will say: "This Day, indeed, are the
Unbelievers covered with shame and misery,-
016.028 "(Namely) those whose lives the angels take in a state of wrong-doing to their own souls." Then would they
offer submission (with the pretence), "We did no evil (knowingly)." (The angels will reply), "Nay, but verily God
knoweth all that ye did;
016.029 "So enter the gates of Hell, to dwell therein. Thus evil indeed is the abode of the arrogant."
016.030 To the righteous (when) it is said, "What is it that your Lord has revealed?" they say, "All that is good." To
those who do good, there is good in this world, and the Home of the Hereafter is even better and excellent indeed is
the Home of the righteous,-
016.031 Gardens of Eternity which they will enter: beneath them flow (pleasant) rivers: they will have therein all that
they wish: thus doth God reward the righteous,-
016.032 (Namely) those whose lives the angels take in a state of purity, saying (to them), "Peace be on you; enter ye
the Garden, because of (the good) which ye did (in the world)."
016.033 Do the (ungodly) wait until the angels come to them, or there comes the Command of thy Lord (for their
doom)? So did those who went before them. But God wronged them not: nay, they wronged their own souls.
016.034 But the evil results of their deeds overtook them, and that very (Wrath) at which they had scoffed hemmed
them in.
016.035 The worshippers of false gods say: "If God had so willed, we should not have worshipped aught but Him -