# Sura  14 - Abraham, on Whom be Peace

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> SURA XIV  (14) - ABRAHAM, ON WHOM BE PEACE (MECCA -52 VERSES)  (LXXXVI - 225)
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
>  
>        Elif. Lam. Ra.  This Book have we sent down to thee that by their Lord's
> permission thou mayest bring men out of darkness into light, into the path of
> the Mighty, the Glorious -
>  
>        Of God; to whom belongeth whatever is in the Heavens and whatever is on
> the Earth:  and woe! for their terrible punishment, to the infidels,
>  
>        Who love the life that now is, above that which is to come, and mislead
> from the way of God, and seek to make it crooked.  These are in a far-gone
> error.
>  
>        And in order that He might speak plainly to them, we have not sent any
> Apostle, save with the speech of his own people; but God misleadeth whom He
> will, and whom He will he guideth:  and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
>  
>        Of old did we sent Moses with our signs:  and said to him, "Bring forth
> thy people from the darkness into the light, and remind them of the days of
> God."  Verily, in this are signs for every patient, grateful person:
>  
>        When Moses said to his people, "Remember the kindness of God to you,
> when he rescued you from the family of Pharaoh who laid on you a cruel
> affliction, slaughtering your male children, and suffering only your females to
> live." In this was a sore trial from your Lord -
>  
>        And when your Lord caused it to be heard that, "If we render thanks then
> will I surely increase you more and more:  but if ye be thankless. . . .
> Verily, right terrible my chastisement."
>  
>        And Moses said, "If ye and all who are on the Earth be thankless, yet
> truly God is passing Rich, and worthy of all praise."
>  
>        Hath not the story reached you of those who were before you, the people
> of Noah, and Ad, and Themoud,
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> 14:10  And of those who lived after them?  None knoweth them but God.  When
> their prophets came to them with proofs of their mission, they put their hands
> on their mouths and said, "In sooth, we believe not your message; and in sooth,
> of that to which you bid us, we are in doubt, as of a thing suspicious."
>  
>        Their prophets said:  "Is there any doubt concerning God, maker of the
> Heavens and of the Earth, who calleth you that He may pardon your sin, and
> respite you until an appointed time?"
>  
>        They said, "Ye are but men like us:  fain would ye turn us from our
> fathers' worship.  Bring us therefore some clear proof."
>  
>        Their Apostles said to them, "We are indeed but men like you.  But God
> bestoweth favours on such of his servants as he pleaseth, and it is not in our
> power to bring you any special proof,
>  
>        But by the leave of God.  In God therefore let the faithful trust.
>  
>        And why should we not put our trust in God, since He hath already guided
> us in our ways.  We will certainly bear with constancy the harm you would do to
> us.  In God let the trustful trust."
>  
>        And they who believed not said to their Apostles, "Forth from our land
> will we surely drive you, or, to our religion shall ye return."  Then their
> Lord revealed to them, "We will certainly destroy the wicked doers,
>  
>        And we shall certainly cause you to dwell in the land after them.  This
> for him who dreadeth the appearance at my judgment-seat and who dreadeth my
> menace!"
>  
>        Then sought they help from God, and every proud rebellious one perished:
>  
>        Hell is before him:  and of tainted water shall he be made to drink:
>  
> 14:20  He shall sup it and scarce swallow it for loathing; and Death shall
> assail him on every side, but he shall not die:  and before him shall be seen a
> grievous torment.
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>        A likeness of those who believe not in their Lord.  Their works are like
> ashes which the wind scattereth on a stormy day:  no advantage shall they gain
> from their works.  This is the far-gone wandering.
>  
>        Seest thou not that in truth hath God created the Heavens and the Earth?
> Were such his pleasure He could make you pass away, and cause a new creation to
> arise.
>  
>        And this would not be hard for God.
>  
>        All mankind shall come forth before God; and the weak shall say to the
> men of might, "Verily, we were your followers:  will ye not then relieve us of
> some part of the vengeance of God?"
>  
>        They shall say, "If God had guided us, we surely had guided you.  It is
> now all one whether we be impatient, or endure with patience.  We have no
> escape."
>  
>        And after doom hath been given, Satan shall say, "Verily, God promised
> you a promise of truth:  I, too, made you a promise, but I deceived you.  Yet I
> had not power over you:
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>         But I only called you and ye answered me.  Blame not me then, but blame
> yourselves:  I cannot aid you, neither can ye aid me.  I never believed that I
> was His equal with whom ye joined me."  As for the evil doers, a grievous
> torment doth await them.
>  
>        But they who shall have believed and done the things that be right,
> shall be brought into gardens beneath which the rivers flow:  therein shall
> they abide for ever by the permission of their Lord:  their greeting therein
> shall be, "Peace."
>  
>        Seest thou not to what God likeneth a good word?  To a good true:  its
> root firmly fixed, and its branches in the Heaven:
>  
> 14:30  Yielding its fruit in all seasons by the will of its Lord.  God setteth
> forth these similitudes to men that haply they may reflect.
>  
>        And an evil word is like an evil tree torn up from the face of the
> earth, and without strength to stand.
>  
>        Those who believe shall God stablish by his steadfast word both in this
> life and in that which is to come:  but the wicked shall He cause to err:  God
> doth his pleasure.
>  
>        Hast thou not beholden those who repay the goodness of God with
> infidelity, and sink their people into the abode of perdition -
>  
>        Hell?  Therein shall they be burned; and wretched the dwelling!
>  
>        They set up compeers with God in order to mislead man from his way.
> Say:  Enjoy your pleasures yet awhile, but assuredly, your going hence shall be
> into the fire.
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>        Speak to my servants who have believed, that they observe prayer, and
> give alms of that with which we have supplied them, both privately and openly,
> ere the day come when there shall be neither traffic nor friendship.
>  
>        It is God who hath created the Heavens and the Earth, and sendeth down
> water from the Heaven, and so bringeth forth the fruits for your food:L  And He
> hath subjected to you the ships, so that by His command, they pass through the
> sea; and He hath subjected the rivers to you:  and He hath subjected to you the
> sun and the moon in their constant courses:  and He hath subjected the day and
> the night to you:  of everything which ye ask Him, giveth He to you; and if ye
> would reckon up the favours of God, ye cannot count them!  Surely man is
> unjust, ungrateful!
>  
>        Abraham said: "O Lord make this land secure, and turn aside me and my
> children from serving idols:
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>        For many men, O my Lord, have they led astray.  But whosoever shall
> follow me, he truly shall be of me; and whosoever shall disobey me. . . . Thou
> truly art Gracious, Merciful.
>  
> 14:40  O our Lord! verily I have settled some of my offspring in an unfruitful
> valley, nigh to thy holy house;  O our Lord, that they may strictly observe
> prayer!  Make thou therefore the hearts of men to yearn toward them, and
> supply them with fruits that they may be thankful.
>  
>        O our Lord! thou truly knowest what we hide and what we bring to light;
> nought on earth or in heaven is hidden from God.  Praise be to God who hath
> given me, in my old age, Ismael and Isaac!  My Lord is the hearer of prayer.
>  
>        Lord! grant that I and my posterity may observe prayer.  O our Lord! and
> grant this my petition.  O our Lord! forgive me and my parents and the
> faithful, on the day wherein account shall be taken."
>  
>        Think thou not that God is regardless of the deeds of the wicked.  He
> only respiteth them to the day on which all eyes shall stare up with terror:
>  
>        They hasten forward in fear; their heads upraised in supplication; their
> looks riveted; and their hearts a blank.  Warn men therefore of the day when
> the punishment shall overtake them,
>  
>        And when the evil doers shall say, "O our Lord! respite us yet a little
> while:
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>        To thy call will we make answer; thine Apostles will be follow."  "Did
> ye not once swear that no change should befal you?
>  
>        Yet ye dwelt in the dwellings of those who were the authors of their
> undoing and it was made plain to you how we had dealt with them; and we held
> them up to you as examples.  They plotted their plots:  but God could master
> their plots, even though their plots had been so powerful as to move the
> mountains."
>  
>        Think not then that God will fail his promise to his Apostles;  aye! God
> is mighty, and Vengeance is His.
>  
>        On the day when the Earth shall be changed into another Earth, and the
> Heavens also, men shall come forth unto God, the Only, the Victorious.
>  
> 14:50  And thou shalt see the wicked on that day linked together in chains -
>  
>        Their garments of pitch, and fire shall enwrap their faces - that God
> may reward every soul as it deserveth; verily God is prompt to reckon.
>  
>        This is a message for mankind, that they may thereby warned:  and that
> they may know that there is but one God; and that men of understanding may
> ponder it.
>
> — *Sura  14 - Abraham, on Whom be Peace*