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dire difficulty for the Misbelievers.
025.027 The Day that the wrong-doer will bite at his hands, he will say, "Oh! would that I had taken a (straight) path with
the Apostle!
025.028 "Ah! woe is me! Would that I had never taken such a one for a friend!
025.029 "He did lead me astray from the Message (of God) after it had come to me! Ah! the Evil One is but a traitor
to man!" Then the Apostle will say:
025.030 "O my Lord! Truly my people took this Qur'an for just foolish nonsense."
025.031 Thus have We made for every prophet an enemy among the sinners: but enough is thy Lord to guide and to
help.
025.032 Those who reject Faith say: "Why is not the Qur'an revealed to him all at once? Thus (is it revealed), that We
may strengthen thy heart thereby, and We have rehearsed it to thee in slow, well-arranged stages, gradually.
025.033 And no question do they bring to thee but We reveal to thee the truth and the best explanation (thereof).
025.034 Those who will be gathered to Hell (prone) on their faces,- they will be in an evil plight, and, as to Path, most
astray.
025.035 (Before this,) We sent Moses The Book, and appointed his brother Aaron with him as minister;
025.036 And We command: "Go ye both, to the people who have rejected our Signs:" And those (people) We destroyed
with utter destruction.
025.037 And the people of Noah,- when they rejected the apostles, We drowned them, and We made them as a Sign
for mankind; and We have prepared for (all) wrong-doers a grievous Penalty;-
025.038 As also 'Ad and Thamud, and the Companions of the Rass, and many a generation between them.
025.039 To each one We set forth Parables and examples; and each one We broke to utter annihilation (for their sins).
025.040 And the (Unbelievers) must indeed have passed by the town on which was rained a shower of evil: did they
not then see it (with their own eyes)? But they fear not the Resurrection.
025.041 When they see thee, they treat thee no otherwise than in mockery: "Is this the one whom God has sent as an
apostle?"
025.042 "He indeed would well-nigh have misled us from our gods, had it not been that we were constant to them!" -
Soon will they know, when they see the Penalty, who it is that is most misled in Path!
025.043 Seest thou such a one as taketh for his god his own passion (or impulse)? Couldst thou be a disposer of affairs
for him?
025.044 Or thinkest thou that most of them listen or understand? They are only like cattle;- nay, they are worse astray
in Path.
025.045 Hast thou not turned thy vision to thy Lord?- How He doth prolong the shadow! If He willed, He could make
it stationary! then do We make the sun its guide;
025.046 Then We draw it in towards Ourselves,- a contraction by easy stages.
025.047 And He it is Who makes the Night as a Robe for you, and Sleep as Repose, and makes the Day (as it were)
a Resurrection.
025.048 And He it is Who sends the winds as heralds of glad tidings, going before His mercy, and We send down pure
water from the sky,-
025.049 That with it We may give life to a dead land, and slake the thirst of things We have created,- cattle and men
in great numbers.
025.050 And We have distributed the (water) amongst them, in order that they may celebrate (our) praises, but most
men are averse (to aught) but (rank) ingratitude.
025.051 Had it been Our Will, We could have sent a warner to every centre of population.
025.052 Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but strive against them with the utmost strenuousness, with the
(Qur'an).
025.053 It is He Who has let free the two bodies of flowing water: One palatable and sweet, and the other salt and
bitter; yet has He made a barrier between them, a partition that is forbidden to be passed.
025.054 It is He Who has created man from water: then has He established relationships of lineage and marriage: for
thy Lord has power (over all things).