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THE CRITERION, THE STANDARD, CHAPTER NO. 025
025.001 Blessed is He who sent down the criterion to His servant, that it may be an admonition to all creatures;-
025.002 He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth: no son has He begotten, nor has He a partner
in His dominion: it is He who created all things, and ordered them in due proportions.
025.003 Yet have they taken, besides him, gods that can create nothing but are themselves created; that have no control
of hurt or good to themselves; nor can they control death nor life nor resurrection.
025.004 But the misbelievers say: "Naught is this but a lie which he has forged, and others have helped him at it." In
truth it is they who have put forward an iniquity and a falsehood.
025.005 And they say: "Tales of the ancients, which he has caused to be written: and they are dictated before him
morning and evening."
025.006 Say: "The (Qur'an) was sent down by Him who knows the mystery (that is) in the heavens and the earth: verily
He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
025.007 And they say: "What sort of an apostle is this, who eats food, and walks through the streets? Why has not an
angel been sent down to him to give admonition with him?
025.008 "Or (Why) has not a treasure been bestowed on him, or why has he (not) a garden for enjoyment?" The wicked
say: "Ye follow none other than a man bewitched."
025.009 See what kinds of comparisons they make for thee! But they have gone astray, and never a way will they be
able to find!
025.010 Blessed is He who, if that were His will, could give thee better (things) than those,- Gardens beneath which
rivers flow; and He could give thee palaces (secure to dwell in).
025.011 Nay they deny the hour (of the judgment to come): but We have prepared a blazing fire for such as deny the
hour:
025.012 When it sees them from a place far off, they will hear its fury and its ranging sigh.
025.013 And when they are cast, bound together into a constricted place therein, they will pLead for destruction there
and then!
025.014 "This day plead not for a single destruction: plead for destruction oft- repeated!"
025.015 Say: "Is that best, or the eternal garden, promised to the righteous? for them, that is a reward as well as a goal
(of attainment).
025.016 "For them there will be therein all that they wish for: they will dwell (there) for aye: A promise to be prayed
for from thy Lord."
025.017 The day He will gather them together as well as those whom they worship besides God, He will ask: "Was it
ye who let these My servants astray, or did they stray from the Path themselves?"
025.018 They will say: "Glory to Thee! not meet was it for us that we should take for protectors others besides Thee:
But Thou didst bestow, on them and their fathers, good things (in life), until they forgot the Message: for they were
a people (worthless and) lost."
025.019 (God will say): "Now have they proved you liars in what ye say: so ye cannot avert (your penalty) nor (get)
help." And whoever among you does wrong, him shall We cause to taste of a grievous Penalty.
025.020 And the apostles whom We sent before thee were all (men) who ate food and walked through the streets: We
have made some of you as a trial for others: will ye have patience? for God is One Who sees (all things).
025.021 Such as fear not the meeting with Us (for Judgment) say: "Why are not the angels sent down to us, or (why)
do we not see our Lord?" Indeed they have an arrogant conceit of themselves, and mighty is the insolence of their
impiety!
025.022 The Day they see the angels,- no joy will there be to the sinners that Day: The (angels) will say: "There is a
barrier forbidden (to you) altogether!"
025.023 And We shall turn to whatever deeds they did (in this life), and We shall make such deeds as floating dust
scattered about.
025.024 The Companions of the Garden will be well, that Day, in their abode, and have the fairest of places for repose.
025.025 The Day the heaven shall be rent asunder with clouds, and angels shall be sent down, descending (in ranks),-
025.026 That Day, the dominion as of right and truth, shall be (wholly) for (God) Most Merciful: it will be a Day of