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guide him to the Penalty of the Fire.
022.005 O mankind! if ye have a doubt about the Resurrection, (consider) that We created you out of dust, then out
of sperm, then out of a leech-like clot, then out of a morsel of flesh, partly formed and partly unformed, in order that
We may manifest (our power) to you; and We cause whom We will to rest in the wombs for an appointed term, then
do We bring you out as babes, then (foster you) that ye may reach your age of full strength; and some of you are called
to die, and some are sent back to the feeblest old age, so that they know nothing after having known (much), and
(further), thou seest the earth barren and lifeless, but when We pour down rain on it, it is stirred (to life), it swells, and
it puts forth every kind of beautiful growth (in pairs).
022.006 This is so, because God is the Reality: it is He Who gives life to the dead, and it is He Who has power over
all things.
022.007 And verily the Hour will come: there can be no doubt about it, or about (the fact) that God will raise up all
who are in the graves.
022.008 Yet there is among men such a one as disputes about God, without Knowledge, without Guidance, and without
a Book of Enlightenment,-
022.009 (Disdainfully) bending his side, in order to lead (men) astray from the Path of God: for him there is disgrace
in this life, and on the Day of Judgment We shall make him taste the Penalty of burning (Fire).
022.010 (It will be said): "This is because of the deeds which thy hands sent forth, for verily God is not unjust to His
servants.
022.011 There are among men some who serve God, as it were, on the verge: if good befalls them, they are, therewith,
well content; but if a trial comes to them, they turn on their faces: they lose both this world and the Hereafter: that is
loss for all to see!
022.012 They call on such deities, besides God, as can neither hurt nor profit them: that is straying far indeed (from
the Way)!
022.013 (Perhaps) they call on one whose hurt is nearer than his profit: evil, indeed, is the patron, and evil the
companion (or help)!
022.014 Verily God will admit those who believe and work righteous deeds, to Gardens, beneath which rivers flow:
for God carries out all that He plans.
022.015 If any think that God will not help him (His Apostle) in this world and the Hereafter, let him stretch out a rope
to the ceiling and cut (himself) off: then let him see whether his plan will remove that which enrages (him)!
022.016 Thus have We sent down Clear Sings; and verily God doth guide whom He will!
022.017 Those who believe (in the Qur'an), those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Sabians, Christians,
Magians, and Polytheists,- God will judge between them on the Day of Judgment: for God is witness of all things.
022.018 Seest thou not that to God bow down in worship all things that are in the heavens and on earth,- the sun, the
moon, the stars; the hills, the trees, the animals; and a great number among mankind? But a great number are (also) such
as are fit for Punishment: and such as God shall disgrace,- None can raise to honour: for God carries out all that He
wills.
022.019 These two antagonists dispute with each other about their Lord: But those who deny (their Lord),- for them
will be cut out a garment of Fire: over their heads will be poured out boiling water.
022.020 With it will be scalded what is within their bodies, as well as (their) skins.
022.021 In addition there will be maces of iron (to punish) them.
022.022 Every time they wish to get away therefrom, from anguish, they will be forced back therein, and (it will be
said), "Taste ye the Penalty of Burning!"
022.023 God will admit those who believe and work righteous deeds, to Gardens beneath which rivers flow: they shall
be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls; and their garments there will be of silk.
022.024 For they have been guided (in this life) to the purest of speeches; they have been guided to the Path of Him
Who is Worthy of (all) Praise.
022.025 As to those who have rejected (God), and would keep back (men) from the Way of God, and from the Sacred
Mosque, which We have made (open) to (all) men - equal is the dweller there and the visitor from the country - and
any whose purpose therein is profanity or wrong-doing - them will We cause to taste of a most Grievous Penalty.