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023.092 He knows what is hidden and what is open: too high is He for the partners they attribute to Him!
023.093 Say: "O my Lord! if Thou wilt show me (in my lifetime) that which they are warned against,-
023.094 "Then, O my Lord! put me not amongst the people who do wrong!"
023.095 And We are certainly able to show thee (in fulfilment) that against which they are warned.
023.096 Repel evil with that which is best: We are well acquainted with the things they say.
023.097 And say "O my Lord! I seek refuge with Thee from the suggestions of the Evil Ones.
023.098 "And I seek refuge with Thee O my Lord! lest they should come near me."
023.099 (In Falsehood will they be) Until, when death comes to one of them, he says: "O my Lord! send me back (to
life),-
023.100 "In order that I may work righteousness in the things I neglected." - "By no means! It is but a word he says."-
Before them is a Partition till the Day they are raised up.
023.101 Then when the Trumpet is blown, there will be no more relationships between them that Day, nor will one ask
after another!
023.102 Then those whose balance (of good deeds) is heavy,- they will attain salvation:
023.103 But those whose balance is light, will be those who have lost their souls, in Hell will they abide.
023.104 The Fire will burn their faces, and they will therein grin, with their lips displaced.
023.105 "Were not My Signs rehearsed to you, and ye did but treat them as falsehood?"
023.106 They will say: "our Lord! Our misfortune overwhelmed us, and we became a people astray!
023.107 "Our Lord! bring us out of this: if ever we return (to Evil), then shall we be wrong-doers indeed!"
023.108 He will say: "Be ye driven into it (with ignominy)! And speak ye not to Me!
023.109 "A part of My servants there was, who used to pray 'our Lord! we believe; then do Thou forgive us, and have
mercy upon us: For Thou art the Best of those who show mercy!"
023.110 "But ye treated them with ridicule, so much so that (ridicule of) them made you forget My Message while
ye were laughing at them!
023.111 "I have rewarded them this Day for their patience and constancy: they are indeed the ones that have achieved
Bliss..."
023.112 He will say: "What number of years did ye stay on earth?"
023.113 They will say: "We stayed a day or part of a day: but ask those who keep account."
023.114 He will say: "Ye stayed not but a little,- if ye had only known!
023.115 "Did ye then think that We had created you in jest, and that ye would not be brought back to Us (for account)?"
023.116 Therefore exalted be God, the King, the Reality: there is no god but He, the Lord of the Throne of Honour!
023.117 If anyone invokes, besides God, Any other god, he has no authority therefor; and his reckoning will be only
with his Lord! and verily the Unbelievers will fail to win through!
023.118 So say: "O my Lord! grant Thou forgiveness and mercy for Thou art the Best of those who show mercy!"
LIGHT, CHAPTER NO. 024
024.001 A sura which We have sent down and which We have ordained in it have We sent down Clear Signs, in order
that ye may receive admonition.
024.002 The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not
compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by God, if ye believe in God and the Last Day: and let a party
of the Believers witness their punishment.
024.003 Let no man guilty of adultery or fornication marry and but a woman similarly guilty, or an Unbeliever: nor
let any but such a man or an Unbeliever marry such a woman: to the Believers such a thing is forbidden.
024.004 And those who launch a charge against chaste women, and produce not four witnesses (to support their
allegations),- flog them with eighty stripes; and reject their evidence ever after: for such men are wicked
transgressors;-
024.005 Unless they repent thereafter and mend (their conduct); for God is Oft- Forgiving, Most Merciful.
024.006 And for those who launch a charge against their spouses, and have (in support) no evidence but their own,-