# Sura  10 - Jonah, Peace be on Him!

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> SURA X - JONAH, PEACE BE ON HIM!     (MECCA - 109 VERSES)       (LXXXIV - 275) 
>  
>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
>  
>        Elif. Lam. Ra.  these are the signs of the wise Book!
>  
>        A matter of wonderment is it to the men of Mecca, that to a person among
> themselves We revealed, "Bear warnings to the people:  and, to those who
> believe, bear the good tidings that they shall have with their Lord the
> precedence merited by their sincerity."  The unbelievers say, "Verily this is a
> manifest sorcerer."
>  
>        Verily your Lord is God who hath made the Heavens and the Earth in six
> days - then mounted his throne to rule all things:  None can intercede with him
> till after his permission:  This is God, your Lord:  therefore serve him:  Will
> ye not reflect?
>  
>        Unto Him shall ye return, all together:  the promise of God is sure:  He
> produceth a creature, then causeth it to return again - that he may reward
> those who believe and do the things that are right, with equity:  but as for
> the infidels! - for them the draught that boileth and an afflictive torment -
> because they have not believed.
>  
>        It is He who hath appointed the sun for brightness, and the moon for a
> light, and hath ordained her stations that ye may learn the number of years and
> the reckoning of time.  God hath not created all this but for the truth.  He
> maketh his signs clear to those who understand.
>  
>        Verily, in the alternations of night and of day, and in all that God
> hath created in the Heavens and in the Earth are signs to those who fear Him.
>  
>        Verily, they who hope not to meet Us, and find their satisfaction in
> this world's life, and rest on it, and who of our signs are heedless; -
>  
>        These! their abode the fire, in recompense of their deeds!
>  
>        But they who believe and do the things that are right, shall their Lord
> direct aright because of their faith.  Rivers shall flow at their feet in
> gardens of delight:
>  
> 10:10  Their cry therein, "Glory be to thee, O God!" and their salutation
> therein, "Peace!"
>  
>        And the close of their cry, "Praise be to God, Lord of all creatures!"
>  
>        Should God hasten evil on men as they fain would hasten their good, then
> were their end decreed!  So leave we those who hope not to meet Us, bewildered
> in their error.
>  
>        When trouble toucheth a man, he crieth to us, on his side, or sitting,
> or standing; and we we withdraw his trouble from him, he passeth on as though
> he had not called on us against the trouble which touched him!  Thus are the
> deeds of transgressors pre-arranged for them.
>  
>        And of old destroyed we generations before you, when they had acted
> wickedly, and their Apostles had come to them with clear tokens of their
> mission, and they would not believe: - thus reward we the wicked.
>  
>        Then we caused you to succeed them on the earth, that we might see how
> ye would act.
>  
>        But when our clear signs are recited to them, they who look not forward
> to meet Us, say, "Bring a different Koran from this, or make some change in
> it." Say:  It is not for me to change it as mine own soul prompteth.  I follow
> only what is revealed to me:  verily, I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the
> 
> punishment of a great day.
>  
>        Say:  Had God so pleased, I had not recited it to you, neither had I
> taught it to you. Already have I dwelt among you for years, ere it was revealed
> to me.  Understand ye not?
>  
>        And who is more unjust than he who coineth a lie against God, or
> treateth his signs as lies?  Surely the wicked shall not prosper!
>  
>        And they worship beside God, what cannot hurt or help them; and say,
> "These are our advocates with God!"  Say:  Will ye inform God of aught in the
> Heavens and in the Earth which he knoweth not?  Praise be to Him!  High be He
> exalted above the deities they join with Him!
>  
> 10:20  Men were of one religion only:  then they fell to variance:  and had
> not a decree (of respite) previously gone forth from thy Lord, their
> differences had surely been decided between them!
>  
>        They say:  "Unless a sign be sent down to him from his Lord..." But Say:
> The hidden is only with God:  wait therefore:  I truly will be with you among
> those who wait.
>  
>        And when after a trouble which had befallen them, we caused this people
> to taste of mercy, lo!  a plot on their part against our signs!  Say:  Swifter
> to plot is God!  Verily, our messengers note down your plottings.
>  
>        He it is who enableth you to travel by land and sea, so that ye go on
> board of ships - which sail on with them, with favouring breeze in which they
> rejoice.  But if a tempestuous gale overtake them, and the billow come on them
> from every side, and they think that they are encompassed therewith, they call
> on God, professing sincere religion: - "Wouldst thou but rescue us from this,
> then will we indeed be of the thankful."
>  
>        But when we have rescued them, lo!  they commit unrighteous excesses on
> the earth!  O men!  assuredly your self-injuring excess is only an enjoyment of
> this life present:  soon ye return to us:  and we will let you know what ye
> have done!
>  
>        Verily, this present life is like the water which we send down from
> Heaven, and the produce of the earth, of which men and cattle eat, is mingled
> with it, till the earth hath received its golden raiment, and is decked out:
> and they who dwell on it deem that they have power over it! but, Our behest
> cometh to it by night or by day, and we make it as if it had been mown, as if
> it had not teemed only yesterday!  Thus make we our signs clear to those who
> consider.
>  
>        And God calleth to the abode of peace; and He guideth whom He will into
> the right way.
>  
>        Goodness itself and an increase of it for those who do good! neither
> blackness nor shame shall cover their faces!  These shall be the inmates of
> Paradise, therein shall they abide for ever.
>  
>        And as for those who have wrought out evil, their recompense shall be
> evil of like degree, and shame shall cover them - no protector shall they have
> against God:  as though their faces were darkened with deep murk of night!
> These shall be inmates of the fire:  therein they shall abide for ever.
>  
>        And on that day will we gather them all together:  then will we say to
> those who added gods to God, "To your place, ye and those added gods of yours!"
> Then we will separate between them:  and those their gods shall say, "Ye served
> us not:
>  
> 10:30  And God is a sufficient witness between us and you:  we cared not
> aught for your worship."
>  
>        There shall every soul make proof of what itself shall have sent on
> before, and they shall be brought back to God, their true lord, and the deities
> of their own devising shall vanish from them.
>  
>        Say:  Who supplieth you from the Heaven and the Earth?  Who hath pwoer
> over hearing and sight?  And who bringeth forth the living from the dead, and
> bringeth forth the dead from the living?  And who ruleth all things?  They will
> surely say, "God:" then Say:  "What! will ye not therefore fear him?
>  
>        This God then is your truth Lord:  and when the truth is gone, what
> remaineth but error?  How then are ye so peverted?
>  
>        Thus is the word of thy Lord made good on the wicked, that they shall
> not believe.
>  
>        Say:  Is there any of the gods whom ye add to God who produceth a
> creature, then causeth it to return to him?  Say:  God produceth a creature,
> then causeth it to return to Him:  How therefore are ye turned aside?
>  
>        Say:  Is there any of the gods ye add to God who guideth into the turth?
> Say:  God guideth into the truth.  Is He then who guideth into the truth the
> more worthy to be followed, or he who guideth not unless he be himself guided?
> What then hath befallen you that ye so judge?
>  
>        And most of them follow only a conceit: - But a conceit attaineth to
> nought of truth!  Verily God knoweth what they say.
>  
>        Moreover this Koran could not have been devised by any but God:  but it
> confirmeth what was revealed before it, and is a clearing up of the Scriptures
> - there is no doubt thereof - from the Lord of all creatures.
>  
>        Do they say, "He hath devised it himself?"  Say:  Then bring a Sura like
> it; and call on whom ye can beside God, if ye speak truth.
>  
> 10:40  But that which they embrace not in their knowledge have they charged
> with falsehood, though the explanation of it had not yet been given them.  So
> those who were before them brought charges of imposture:  But see what was the
> end of the unjust!
>  
>        And some of them believe in it, and some of them believe not in it.  But
> thy Lord well knoweth the transgressors.
>  
>        And if they charge thee with imposture, then Say:  My work for me, and
> your work for you!  Ye are clear of that which I do, and I am clear of that
> which ye do.
>  
>        And some of them lend a ready ear to thee:  But wilt thou make the deaf
> to hear even though they understand not?
>  
>        And some of them look at thee:  But wilt thou guide the blind even
> though they see not?
>  
>        Verily, God will not wrong men in aught, but men will wrong themselves.
>  
>        Moreover, on that day, He will gather them all together; They shall seem
> as though they had waiting but an hour of the day!  They shall recognise one
> another!  Now perish they who denied the meeting with God, and were not guided
> aright!
>  
>        Whether we cause thee to see some of our menaces against them fulfilled,
> or whether we first take thee to Ourself, to us do they return.  Then shall God
> bear witness of what they do.
>  
>        And every people hath had its apostle.  And when their apostle came, a
> rightful decision took place between them, and they were not wronged.
>  
>        Yet they say, "When will this menace be made good?  Tell us if ye speak
> truly."
>  
> 10:50  Say:  I have no power over my own weal or woe, but as God pleaseth.
> Every people hath its time:  when their time is come, they shall neither retard
> nor advance it an hour.
>  
>        Say:  How think ye? if God's punishment came on you by night or by day,
> what portion of it would the wicked desire to hasten on?
>  
>        When it falleth on you, will ye believe it then?  Yes! ye will believe
> it then.  Yet did ye challenge its speedy coming.
>  
>        Then shall it be said to the transgressors, "Taste ye the punishment of
> eternity!  Shall ye be rewarded but as ye have wrought?
>  
>        They will desire thee to inform them whether this be true?  Say:  Yes!
> by my Lord it is the truth:  and it is not ye who can weaken Him.
>  
>        And every soul that hath sinned, if it possessed all that is on earth,
> would assuredly ransom itself therewith; and they will proclaim their
> repentance when they have seen the punishment:  and there shall be rightful
> decision between them, and they shall not be unjustly dealt with.
>  
>        Is not whatever is in the Heavens and the Earth God's?  Is not then the
> promise of God true?  Yet most of them know it not.
>  
>        He maketh alive and He causeth to die, and to Him shall ye return.
>  
>        O men! now hath a warning come to you from your Lord, and a medicine for
> what is in your breasts, and a guidance and a mercy to believers.
>  
>        Say:  Through the grace of God and his mercy! and in this therefore let
> them rejoice:  better is this than all ye amass.
>  
> 10:60  Say:  What think ye? of what God hath sent down to you for food, have
> ye made unlawful and lawful?  Say:  Hath God permitteth you?  or invent ye on
> the part of God?
>  
>        But what on the day of Resurrection will be the thought of those who
> invent a lie on the part of God?  Truly God is full of bounties to man; but
> most of them give not thanks.
>  
>        Thou shalt not be employed in affairs, nor shalt thou read a text out of
> the Koran, nor shall ye work any work, but we will be witnesses over you when
> ye are engaged therein:  and not the weight of an atom on Eath or in Heaven
> escapeth thy Lord; nor is there aught that is less than this or greater, but it
> is in the perspicuous Book.
>  
>        Are not the friends of God, those on whom no fear shall come, nor shall
> they be put to grief?
>  
>        They who believe and fear God -
>  
>        For them are good tidings in this life, and in the next!  There is no
> change in the words of God!  This, the great felicity!
>  
>        And let not their discourse grieve thee:  for all might is God's:  the
> Hearer, the Knower, He!
>  
>        Is not whoever is in the Heavens and the Earth subject to God?  What
> then do they follow who, beside God, call upon deities they have joined with
> Him?  They follow but a conceit, and they are but liars!
>  
>        It is He who hath ordained for you the night wherein to rest, and the
> lightsome day.  Verily in this are signs for those who hearken.
>  
>        They say, "God hath begotten children."  No! by this glory!  He is the
> self-sufficient.  All that is in the Heavens and all that is in the Earth is
> His!  Have ye warranty for that assertion?  What! speak ye of God that which ye
> know not?
>  
> 10:70  Say:  Verily, they who devise this lie concerning God shall fare ill.
>  
>        A portion have they in this world!  Then to us they return!  Then make
> we them to taste the vehement torment, for that they were unbelievers.
>  
>        Recite to them the history of Noah, when he said to his people - If, O
> my people! my abode with you, and my reminding you of the signs of God, be
> grievous to you, yet in God is my trust:  Muster, therefore, your designs and
> your false gods, and let not your design be carried on by you in the dark:
> then come to some decision about me, and delay not.
>  
>        And if ye turn your backs on me, yet ask I no reward from you:  my
> reward is with God alone, and I am commanded to be of the Muslims.
>  
>        But they treated him as a liar:  therefore we rescued him and those who
> were with him in the ark, and we made them to survive the others; and we
> drowned those who charged our signs with falsehood.  See, then, what was the
> end of these warned ones!
>  
>        Then after him, we sent Apostles to their peoples, and they come to them
> with credentials; but they would not believe in what they had denied aforetime:
> Thus seal we up the hearts of the transgressors!
>  
>        Then sent we, after them, Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh and his nobles with
> our signs; but they acted proudly and were a wicked people:
>  
>        And when the truth came to them from us, they said, "Verily, this is
> clear sorcery."
>  
>        Moses said, "What! say ye of a truth after it hath come to you, 'Is this
> sorcery?'  But sorcerers shall not prosper."
>  
>        They said, "Art thou come to us to pervert us from the faith in which we
> found our fathers, and that you twain shall bear rule in this land?  But we
> believe you not."
>  
> 10:80  And Pharaoh said:  "Fetch me every skilled magician."  And when the
> magicians arrives, Moses said to them, "Cast down what ye have to cast."
>  
>        And when they had cast them down, Moses said, "Verily, God will render
> vain the sorceries which ye have brought to pass:  God prospereth not the work
> of the evildoers.
>  
>        And by his words will God verify the Truth, though the impious be averse
> to it.
>  
>        And none believed on Moses but a race among his own people, through fear
> of Pharaoh and his nobles, lest he should afflict them:  For of a truth mighty
> was Pharaoh in the land, and one who committed excesses.
>  
>        And Moses said:  "O my people! if ye believe in God, then put your trust
> in Him - if ye be Muslims."
>  
>         And they said:  "In God put we our trust.  O our Lord! abandon us not
> to trial from that unjust people,
>  
>        And deliver us by thy mercy from the unbelieving people."
>  
>        Then thus revealed we to Moses and his brother:  "Provide houses for
> your people in Egypt, and in your houses make a Kebla, and observe prayer and
> proclaim good tidings to the believers."
>  
>        And Moses said:  "O our Lord! thou hast indeed given to Pharaoh and his
> nobles splendour and riches in this present life:  O our Lord! that they may
> err from thy way!  O our Lord! confound their riches, and harden their hearts
> that they may not believe till they see the dolorous torment."
>  
>        He said, "The prayer of you both is heard:  pursue ye both therefore the
> straight path, and follow not the path of those who have no knowledge.
>  
> 10:90  And we led the children of Israel through the sea; and Pharaoh and his
> hosts followed them in eager and hostile sort until, when the downing overtook
> him, he said, "I believe that there is no God but he on whom the children of
> Israel believe, and I am one of the Muslims."
>  
>        "Yes, now," said God:  "but thou hast been rebellious hitherto, and wast
> one of the wicked doers.
>  
>        But this day will we rescue thee with thy body that thou mayest be a
> sign to those who shall be after thee:  but truly, most men are of our signs
> regardless!"
>  
>        Moreover we prepared a settled abode for the children of Israel, and
> provided them with good things:  nor did they fall into variance till the
> knowledge (the Law) came to them:  Truly thy Lord will decide between them on
> the day of Resurrection concerning that in which they differed.
>  
>        And if thou art in doubt as to what we have sent down to thee, inquire
> at those who have read the Scriptures before thee.  Now hath the truth come
> unto thee from they Lord:  be not therefore of those who doubt.
>  
>        Neither be of those who charge the signs of God with falsehood, lest
> thou be of those who perish.
>  
>        Verily they against whom the decree of thy Lord is pronounced, shall not
> believe.
>  
>        Even though every kind of sign come unto them, till they behold the
> dolorous torment!
>  
>        Were it otherwise, any city, had it believed, might have found its
> safety in its faith.  But it was so, only with the people of Jonas.  When they
> believed, we delivered them from the penalty of shame in this world, and
> provided for them for a time.
>  
>        But if thy Lord had pleased, verily all who are in the earth would have
> believed together.  What! wilt thou compel men to become believers?
>  
> 10:100 No soul can believe but by the permission of God:   and he shall lay
> his wrath on those who will not understand.
>  
>        Say:  Consider ye whatever is in the Heavens and on the Earth:  but
> neither signs, nor warners, avail those who will not believe!
>  
>        What then can they expect but the like of such days of wrath as befel
> those who flourish before them?  Say:  Wait; I too will wait with you:
>  
>        Then will we deliver our apostles and those who believe.  Thus it is
> binding on us to deliver the faithful.
>  
>        Say:  O men! if ye are in doubt as to my religion, verily I worship not
> what ye worship beside God; but I worship God who will cause you to die:  and I
> am commanded to be a believer.
>  
>        And set thy face toward true religion, sound in faith, and be not of
> those who join other gods with God:
>  
>        Neither invoke beside God that which can neither help nor hurt thee:
> for it thou do, thou wilt certainly then be one of those who act unjustly.
>  
>        And if God lay the touch of trouble on thee, none can deliver thee from
> it but He:  and if He will thee any good, none can keep back his boons.  He
> will confer them on such of his servants as he chooseth:  and He is the
> Gracious, the Merciful!
>  
>        Say:  O men! now hath the truth come unto you from your Lord.  He
> therefore who will be guided, will be guided only for his own behoof:  but he
> who shall err will err only against it; and I am not your guardian!
>  
>        And follow what is revealed to thee:  and persevere steadfastly till God
> shall judge, for He is the best of Judges.
>
> — *Sura  10 - Jonah, Peace be on Him!*