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ornaments and is decked out (in beauty): the people to whom it belongs think they have all powers of disposal over it:
There reaches it Our command by night or by day, and We make it like a harvest clean-mown, as if it had not flourished
only the day before! thus do We explain the Signs in detail for those who reflect.
010.025 But God doth call to the Home of Peace: He doth guide whom He pleaseth to a way that is straight.
010.026 To those who do right is a goodly (reward)- Yea, more (than in measure)! No darkness nor shame shall cover
their faces! they are companions of the garden; they will abide therein (for aye)!
010.027 But those who have earned evil will have a reward of like evil: ignominy will cover their (faces): No defender
will they have from (the wrath of) God: Their faces will be covered, as it were, with pieces from the depth of the
darkness of night: they are companions of the Fire: they will abide therein (for aye)!
010.028 One day shall We gather them all together. Then shall We say to those who joined gods (with Us): "To your
place! ye and those ye joined as 'partners' We shall separate them, and their "Partners" shall say: "It was not us that ye
worshipped!
010.029 "Enough is God for a witness between us and you: we certainly knew nothing of your worship of us!"
010.030 There will every soul prove (the fruits of) the deeds it sent before: they will be brought back to God their
rightful Lord, and their invented falsehoods will leave them in the lurch.
010.031 Say: "Who is it that sustains you (in life) from the sky and from the earth? or who is it that has power over
hearing and sight? And who is it that brings out the living from the dead and the dead from the living? and who is it that
rules and regulates all affairs?" They will soon say, "God". Say, "will ye not then show piety (to Him)?"
010.032 Such is God, your real Cherisher and Sustainer: apart from truth, what (remains) but error? How then are ye
turned away?
010.033 Thus is the word of thy Lord proved true against those who rebel: Verily they will not believe.
010.034 Say: "Of your 'partners', can any originate creation and repeat it?" Say: "It is God Who originates creation and
repeats it: then how are ye deluded away (from the truth)?"
010.035 Say: "Of your 'partners' is there any that can give any guidance towards truth?" Say: "It is God Who gives
guidance towards truth, is then He Who gives guidance to truth more worthy to be followed, or he who finds not
guidance (himself) unless he is guided? what then is the matter with you? How judge ye?"
010.036 But most of them follow nothing but fancy: truly fancy can be of no avail against truth. Verily God is well
aware of all that they do.
010.037 This Qur'an is not such as can be produced by other than God; on the contrary it is a confirmation of
(revelations) that went before it, and a fuller explanation of the Book - wherein there is no doubt - from the Lord of
the worlds.
010.038 Or do they say, "He forged it"? say: "Bring then a Sura like unto it, and call (to your aid) anyone you can
besides God, if it be ye speak the truth!"
010.039 Nay, they charge with falsehood that whose knowledge they cannot compass, even before the elucidation
thereof hath reached them: thus did those before them make charges of falsehood: but see what was the end of those
who did wrong!
010.040 Of them there are some who believe therein, and some who do not: and thy Lord knoweth best those who are
out for mischief.
010.041 If they charge thee with falsehood, say: "My work to me, and yours to you! ye are free from responsibility
for what I do, and I for what ye do!"
010.042 Among them are some who (pretend to) listen to thee: But canst thou make the deaf to hear,- even though they
are without understanding?
010.043 And among them are some who look at thee: but canst thou guide the blind,- even though they will not see?
010.044 Verily God will not deal unjustly with man in aught: It is man that wrongs his own soul.
010.045 One day He will gather them together: (It will be) as if they had tarried but an hour of a day: they will
recognise each other: assuredly those will be lost who denied the meeting with God and refused to receive true
guidance.
010.046 Whether We show thee (realised in thy life-time) some part of what We promise them,- or We take thy soul
(to Our Mercy) (Before that),- in any case, to Us is their return: ultimately God is witness, to all that they do.