# Sura  13 - Thunder

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> SURA XIII - (13) THUNDER       (Mecca - 43 Verses)              (XC -  333)    
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
>  
>        Elif. Lam. Mim. Ra.  These, the signs of the Book!  And that which hath
> been sent down to thee from thy Lord is the very truth:  But the greater part
> of men will not believe.
>  
>        It is God who hath reared the Heavens without pillars thou canst behold;
> then mounted his throne, and imposed laws on the sun and moon:  each travelleth
> to its appointed goal.  He ordereth all things.  He maketh his signs clear,
> that ye may have firm faith in a meeting with your Lord.
>  
>        And He it is who hath outstretched the earth, and placed on it the firm
> mountains, and rivers:  and of every fruit He hath placed on it tow kinds:  He
> causeth the night to enshroud the day.  Verily in this are signs for those who
> reflect.
>  
>        And on the earth hard by each other are its various portions:  gardens
> of grapes and corn, and palm trees single or clustered.  Though watered by the
> same water, yet some make we more excellent as food than other:  Verily in all
> this are signs for those who understand.
>  
>        If ever thou dost marvel, marvellous surely is their saying, "What! when
> we have become dust, shall we be restored in a new creation?"
>  
>        These are they who in their Lord believe not:  these! the collars shall
> be on their necks; and these shall be inmates of the fire, to abide therein for
> aye.
>  
>        To hasten evil rather than good will they challenge thee:  but, before
> their time have been like examples.  Full, truly, of mercy is thy Lord unto
> men, despite their sins; but verily, thy Lord is right vehement to punish.
>  
>        And they who believe not say:  ":If a sign from his Lord be not sent
> down to him . . .!"  Thou art a warner only.  And every people hath its guide.
>  
>        God knoweth the burden of every female, and how much their wombs lessen
> and enlarge:  with Him everything is by measure:
>  
> 13:10  Knower of the Hidden and the Manifest!  the Great!  the Most High!
>  
>        Alike to Him is that person among you who concealeth his words, and he
> that telleth them abroad:  he who hideth him in the night, and he who cometh
> forth in the day.
>  
>        Each hath a succession of Angels before him and behind him, who watch
> over him by God's behest.  Verily, God will not change his gifts to men, till
> they change what is in themselves:  and when God willeth evil unto men, there
> is none can turn it away, nor have they any protector beside Him.
>  
>        He it is who maketh the lightning to shine unto you; for fear and hope:
> and who bringeth up the laden clouds.
>  
>        And the Thunder uttereth his praise, and the Angels also, for awe of
> Him:  and he sendeth his bolts and smiteth with them whom he will while they
> are wrangling about God!  Mighty is he is prowess.
>  
>        Prayer is His of right:  but these deities to whom they pray beside Him
> give them no answer, otherwise than as he is answered who stretcheth forth his
> hands to the water that it may reach his mouth, when it cannot reach it!  The
> prayer of the Infidels only wandereth, and is lost.
>  
>        And unto God doth all in the Heavens and on the Earth bow down in
> worship, willingly or by constraint:  their very shadows also morn and even!
>  
>        Say:  Who is Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth?  Say:  God.  Say:
> Why then have ye taken beside Him protectors, who even for their own selves
> have no power for help or harm?  Say:  What!  shall the blind and the seeing be
> held equal?  Shall the darkness and the light be held equal?  Or have they
> given associates to God who have created as He hath created, so that their
> creation appear to them like His?  Say:  God is the Creator of all things!  He
> is the One!  the Conquering!
>  
>        He sendeth down the rain from Heaven:  then flow the torrents in their
> due measure, and the flood beareth along a swelling foam.  And from the metals
> which are molten in the fire for the sake of ornaments or utensils, a like scum
> ariseth.  In this way doth God depict (set forth) truth and falsehood.  As to
> the foam, it is quickly gone:  and as to what is useful to man, it remaineth
> on the earth,.  Thus doth God set forth comparisons!  To those who respond to
> their Lord shall be an excellent reward; but those who respond not to his call,
> had they all that the earth containeth twice over, they would surely give it
> for their ransom.  Evil their reckoning! and Hell their home!  And wretched the
> bed!
>  
>        Shall he then who knoweth that what hath been sent down to thee from thy
> Lord is the truth, act like him who is blind?  Men of insight only will bear
> this in mind,
>  
> 13:20  Who fulfil their pledge to God, and break not their compact:
>  
>        And who join together what God hath bidden to be joined, and who fear
> their Lord, and dread an ill reckoning;
>  
>        And who, from desire to see the face of their Lord, are constant amid
> trials, and observe prayer and give alms, in secret and openly, out of what we
> have bestowed upon them, and turn aside evil by good:  for these is the
> recompense of that abode.
>  
>        Gardens of Eden - into which they shall enter together with the just of
> their fathers, and their wives, and their descendants:  and the angels shall go
> in unto them at every portal:
>  
>        "Peace be with you!" say they, "because ye have endured all things!"
> charming the recompense of their abode!
>  
>        But those who, after having contracted it, break their covenant with
> God, and cut asunder what God hath bidden to be united, and commit misdeeds on
> the earth, these, a curse awaiteth them, and an ill abode!
>  
>        God is open-handed with supplies to whom he will, or is sparing.  They
> rejoice in the life that now is, but this present life is but a passing good,
> in respect of the life to come!
>  
>        And they who believe not say, "Unless a sign be sent down to him from
> his Lord.  . . ." Say:  God truly will mislead whom he will; and He will guide
> to Himself him who turneth to Him,
>  
>        Those who believe, and whose hearts rest securely on the thought of God.
> What!  Shall not men's hearts repose in the thought of God?  They who believe
> and do the things that be right - blessedness awaiteth them, and a goodly home.
>  
>        Thus have we sent thee to a people whom other peoples have preceded,
> that thou mightest rehearse to them our revelations to thee.  Yet they believe
> not on the God of Mercy.  Say:  He is my Lord.  There is no God but He.  In Him
> do I put my trust.  To Him must I return.
>  
> 13:30  If there were a Koran by which the mountains could be set in mortion,
> or the earth cleft, or the dead be made to speak.  . .!  But all sovereignty is
> in the hands of God.  Do then believers doubt that had He pleased God would
> certainly have guided all men aright?
>  
>        Misfortune shall not cease to light on the unbelievers for what they
> have done, or to take up its abode hard by their dwellings, until the threat of
> God come to pass.  Verily, God will not fail his plighted word.
>  
>        Before thee indeed have apostles been mocked at; but though I bore long
> with the unbelievers, at last I seized upon them; - and how severe was my
> punishment!
>  
>        Who is it then that is standing over every soul to mark its actions?
> Yet have they set up associates with God.  Say:  Name them.  What! Would ye
> inform God of that which He knoweth not on the Earth?  Or are they not a mere
> empty name?  But prepared of old for the infidels was this fraud of theirs; and
> they are turned aside from the path; and whom God causeth to err, no guide
> shall there be for him!
>  
>        Chastisement awaiteth them in this present life, and more grievous shall
> be the chastisement of the next:  and one shall screen them from God.
>  
>        A picture of the Paradise which God hath promised to them that fear Him.
> The rivers flow beneath its bowers:  its food and its shades are perpetual.
> This is the reward of those who fear God; but the reward of the unbelievers is
> the Fire.
>  
>        They to whom we have given the Book rejoice in what hath been sent down
> to thee; yet some are banded together who deny a part of it.  Say:  I am
> commanded to worship God, and not to associate any creature with Him.  On Him
> do I call, and to Him shall I return.
>  
>        Thus, then, as a code in the Arabic tongue have we sent down the Koran;
> and truly, if after the knowledge that hath reached thee thou follow their
> desires, thou shalt have no guardian or protector against God.
>  
>        Apostles truly have we already sent before thee, and wives and offspring
> have we given them.  Yet no apostle had come with miracles unless by leave of
> God.  To each age its Book.
>  
>        What He pleaseth will God abrogate or confirm:  for with Him is the
> source of revelation.
>  
> 13:40  Moreover, whether we cause thee to see the fulfilment of part of our
> menaces, or whether we take thee hence, verily, thy work is preaching only,
> and ours to take account.
>  
>        See they not that we come into their land and cut short its borders?
> God pronounceth a doom, and there is none to reverse his doom.  And swift is He
> to take account.
>  
>        Those who lived before them made plots:  but all plotting is controlled
> by God:  He knoweth the works of every one, and the infidels shall know whose
> will be the recompense of the abode.
>  
>        The infidels, moreover, will say; Thou art not sent of God.  Say:  God
> is witness enough betwixt me and you, and, whoever hath knowledge of the Book.
>
> — *Sura  13 - Thunder*