# Sura  22 - The Pilgrimage

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> SURA XXII (22) - THE PILGRIMAGE - (Medina - 78 Verses)         (CVII - 453)
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
>  
>        O Men of Mecca, fear your Lord.  Verily, the earthquake of the last Hour
> will be a tremendous thing!
>  
>        On the day when ye shall behold it, every suckling woman shall forsake
> her sucking babe; and every woman that hath a burden in her womb shall cast her
> burden; and thou shalt see men drunken, yet are they not drunken:  but it is
> the mighty chastisement of God!
>  
>        There is a man who, without knowledge, wrangleth about God, and
> followeth every rebellious Satan;
>  
>        Concerning whom it is decreed, that he shall surely beguile and guide
> into the torment of the Flame, whoever shall take him for his Lord.
>  
>        O men!  if ye doubt as to the resurrection, yet, of a truth, have We
> created you of dust, then of the moist germs of life, then of clots of blood,
> then of pieces of flesh shapen and unshapen, that We might give you proofs of
> our power!  And We cause one sex or the other, at our pleasure, to abide in the
> womb until the appointed time; then We bring you forth infants; then permit you
> to reach your age of strength; and one of you dieth, and another of you liveth
> on to an age so abject that all his former knowledge is clean forgotten!  And
> thou hast seen the earth dried up and barren:  but when We send down the rain
> upon it, it stirreth and swelleth, and groweth every kind of luxuriant herb.
>  
>        This, for that God is the Truth, and that it is He who quickeneth the
> dead, and that He hath power over everything:
>  
>        And that "the Hour" will indeed come - there is no doubt of it - and
> that God will wake up to life those who are in the tombs.
>  
>        A man there is who disputeth about God without knowledge or guidance or
> enlightening Book,
>  
>        Turning aside in scorn to mislead others from the way of God!  Disgrace
> shall be his in this world; and on the day of the resurrection, We will make
> him taste the torment of the burning: -
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> 22:10  "This, for thy handywork of old! for God is not unjust to His
> servants."
>  
>        There are some who serve God in a single point.  If good come upon one
> of them, he resteth in it; but if trial come upon him, he turneth him round (to
> infidelity) with the loss both of this world and of the next!  This same is the
> clear ruin!
>  
>        He calleth upon that beside God which can neither hurt him nor profit
> him.   This same is the far-gone error!
>  
>        He calleth on him who would sooner hurt than profit him.  Surely, bad
> the lord, and, surely, bad the vassal!
>  
>        But God will bring in those who shall believe and do the things that are
> right, into gardens 'neath which the rivers flow:  for God doth that which He
> pleaseth.
>  
>        Let him who thinketh that God will not help His Apostle in this world
> and in the next, stretch a cord aloft as if to destroy himself; then let him
> cut it, and see whether his devices can bring that to nought at which he was
> angry!
>  
>        Thus send we down the Koran with its clear signs (verses):  and
> because God guideth whom He pleaseth.
>  
>        As to those who believe, and the Jews, and the Sabeites, and the
> Christians, and the Magians, and those who join other gods with God, of a
> truth, God shall decide between them on the day of resurrection:  for God is
> witness of all things.
>  
>        Seest thou not that all in the Heavens and all on the Earth adoreth God?
> the sun and the moon and the stars, and the mountains, and the trees, and the
> beasts, and many men?  But of many is chastisement due due:
>  
>        And whom God shall disgrace there shall be none to honour:  God doth
> that which pleaseth Him.
>  
> 22:20  These, the Faithful and the Infidels, are the two disputants who
> dispute concerning their Lord:  but for those who have disbelieved, garments of
> fire shall be cut out; the boiling water shall be poured down upon their heads:
>  
>        All that is in their bowels, and their skins, shall be dissolved:  and
> there are maces of iron for them!
>  
>        So oft as they, for very anguish, would fain come forth thence, back
> shall they be turned into it:  and - "Taste ye the torment of the burning."
>  
>        But God will bring in those who shall have believed, and done the things
> that are right, into gardens 'neath which the rivers flow.  Adorned shall they
> be therein with golden bracelets and with pearls, and their raiment therein
> shall be of silk;
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>        For they were guided to the best of words; guided to the glorious path!
>  
>        But those who believe not, and seduce others from the way of God, and
> from the Holy Mosque which we have appointed to all men, alike for those who
> abide therein, and for the stranger;
>  
>        And those who seek impiously to profane it, we will cause to taste a
> grievous punishment.
>  
>        And all to mind when we assigned the site of the House to Abraham and
> said:  "Unite not aught with Me in worship, and cleanse My House for those who
> go in procession round it, and who stand or bow in worship:"
>  
>        And proclaim to the peoples a pilgrimage:  Let them come to thee on foot
> and on every fleet camel, arriving by every deep defile:
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>        That they may bear witness of its benefits to them, and may make mention
> of God's name on the appointed days, over the brute beasts with which He hath
> supplied them for sustenance:  Therefore eat thereof yourselves, and feed the
> needy, the poor:
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> 22:30  Then let them bring the neglect of their persons to a close, and let
> them pay their vows, and circuit the ancient House.
>  
>        This do.  And he that respecteth the sacred ordinances of God, this will
> be best for him with his Lord.  The flesh of cattle is allowed you, save of
> those already specified to you.  Shun ye, therefore, the pollutions of idols;
> and shun ye the word of falsehood;
>  
>        Sound in faith Godward, uniting no god with Him; for whoever uniteth
> gods with God, is like that which falleth from on high, and the birds snatch it
> away, or the wind wafteth it to a distant place.
>  
>        This do.  And they who respect the rites of God, perform an action which
> proceedeth from piety of heart.
>  
>        Ye may obtain advantages from the cattle up to the set time for slaying
> them:  then, the place for sacrificing them is at the ancient House.
>  
>        And to every people have we appointed rites, that they may commemorate
> the name of God over the brute beasts which He hath provided for them.  And
> your God is the one God.  To Him, therefore, surrender yourselves:  and bear
> thou good tidings to those who humble them, -
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>        Whose hearts, when mention is made of God, thrill with awe; and to those
> who remain steadfast under all that befalleth them, and observe prayer, and
> give alms of that with which we have supplied them.
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>        And the camels have we appointed you for the sacrifice to God:  much
> good have ye in them.  Make mention, therefore, of the name of God over them
> when ye slay them, as they stand in a row; and when they are fallen over on
> their sides, eat of them, and feed him who is content and asketh not, and him
> who asketh.  Thus have We subjected them to you, to the intent ye should be
> thankful.
>  
>        By no means can their flesh reach unto God, neither their blood; but
> piety on your part reacheth Him.  Thus hath He subjected them to you, that ye
> might magnify God for His guidance:  moreover, announce to those who do good
> deeds -
>  
>        That God will ward off mischief from believers:  for God loveth not the
> false, the Infidel.
>  
> 22:40  A sanction is given to those who, because they have suffered outrages,
> have taken up arms; and verily, God is well able to succour them:
>  
>        Those who have been driven forth from their homes wrongfully, only
> because they say "Our Lord is the God." And if God had not repelled some men by
> others, cloisters, and churches, and oratories, and mosques, wherein the name
> of God is ever commemorated, would surely have been destroyed.  And him who
> helpeth God will God surely help:  for God is right Strong, Mighty:  -
>  
>        Those who, if we establish them in this land, will observe prayer, and
> pay the alms of obligation, and enjoin what is right, and forbid what is evil.
> And the final issue of all things is unto God.
>  
>        Moreover, if they charge thee with imposture, then already, before them,
> the people of Noah, and Ad and Themoud, and the people of Abraham, and the
> people of Lot, and the dwellers in Madian, have charged their prophets with
> imposture!  Moses, too, was charged with imposture!  And I bore long with the
> unbelievers; then seize upon them:  and how great was the change I wrought!
>  
>        And how many cities which had been ungodly, and whose roofs are now laid
> low in ruin, have We destroyed!  And wells have been abandoned and lofty
> castles!
>  
>        Have they not journeyed through the land?  Have they not hearts to
> understand with, or ears to hear with?  It is not that to these sights their
> eyes are blind, but the hearts in their breasts are blind!
>  
>        And they will bid thee to hasten the chastisement.  But God cannot fail
> His threat.  And verily, a day with thy Lord is as a thousand years, as ye
> reckon them!
>  
>        How many cities have I long borne with, wicked though they were, yet
> then laid hold on them to chastise them!  Unto Me shall all return.
>  
>        Say:  O men!  I am only your open warner:
>  
>        And they who believe and do the things that are right, shall have
> forgiveness and an honourable provision;
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> 22:50  But those who strive to invalidate our signs shall be inmates of Hell.
>  
>        We have not sent any apostle or prophet before thee, among whose desires
> Satan injected not some wrong desire, but God shall bring to nought that which
> Satan had suggested.  Thus shall God affirm His revelations for God is Knowing,
> Wise!
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>        That He may make that which Satan hath injected, a trial to those in
> whose hearts is a disease, and whose hearts are hardened.  - Verily, the wicked
> are in a far-gone severance from the truth!  -
>  
>        And that they to whom "the Knowledge" hath been given, may know that the
> Koran is the truth from thy Lord and may believe in it, and their hearts may
> acquiesce in it:  for God is surely the guider of those who believe, into the
> straight path.
>  
>        But the Infidels will not cease to doubt concerning it, until "the Hour"
> come suddenly upon them, or until the chastisement of the day of desolation
> come upon them.
>  
>        On that day the Kingdom shall be God's:  He shall judge between them:
> and they who shall have believed and done the things that are right, shall be
> in gardens of delight:
>  
>        But they who were Infidels and treated our signs as lies - these then -
> their's a shameful chastisement!
>  
>        And as to those who fled their country for the cause of God, and were
> afterwards slain, or died, surely with goodly provision will God provide for
> them! for verily, God!  He, surely, is the best of providers!
>  
>        He will assuredly bring them in with an in-bringing that shall please
> them well:  for verily, God is right Knowing, Gracious.
>  
>        So shall it be.  And whosoever in making exact reprisal for injury done
> him, shall again be wronged, God will assuredly aid him:  for God is most
> Merciful, Gracious.
>  
> 22:60  So shall it be; for that God causeth the night to enter in upon the
> day, and He causeth the day to enter in upon the night:  and for that God
> Heareth, Seeth.
>  
>        So shall it be, for that God is the truth; and because what they call on
> beside Him is vanity:  and because God is the Lofty, the Might!
>  
>        Seest thou not that God sendeth down water from Heaven, and that on the
> morrow the earth is clad with verdure? for God is benignant, cognisant of all.
>  
>        His, all in the Heavens and all on Earth:  and verily, God! He assuredly
> is the Rich, the Praiseworthy!
>  
>        Seest thou not that God hath put under you whatever is in the earth; and
> the ships which traverse the sea at His bidding?  And He holdeth back the
> heaven that it fall not on the earth, unless He permit it! for God is right
> Gracious to mankind, Merciful.
>  
>        And He it is who hath given you life, then will cauae you to die, then
> will give you life - of a truth man is all ungrateful.
>  
>        To every people have we appointed observances which they observe.
> Therefore, let them not dispute this matter with thee, but bid them to thy
> Lord, for thou art on the right way:
>  
>        But if they debate with thee, then say:  God best knoweth what ye do!
>  
>        God will judge between you on the day of resurrection, as to the matters
> wherein ye differ.
>  
>        Knowest thou not that God knoweth whatever is in the Heaven and on the
> Earth?  This truly is written in the Book:  this truly is easy for God.
>  
> 22:70  They worshjip beside God, that for which He hath sent down no warranty,
> and that of which they have no knowledge:  but for those who commit this wrong,
> no helper!
>  
>        And when our clear signs are rehearsed to them, thou mayst perceive
> disdain in the countenances of the Infidels.  Scarce can they refrain from
> rushing to attack those who rehearse our signs to them!  Say:  Shall I tell you
> of worse than this?  The fire which God hath threatened to those who believer
> not!  Wrteched the passage thither!
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>        O men! a parable is set forth to you, wherefore hearken to it.  Verily,
> they on whom ye call beside God, cannot create a fly, though they assemble for
> it; and if the fly carry off aught from them, they cannot take it away from it!
>  Weak the suppliant and the supplicated!
>  
>        Unworthy the estimate they form of God! for God is right Powerful,
> Mighty!
>  
>        God chooseth messengers from among the angels and from among men:
> verily, God Heareth, Seeth.
>  
>        He knoweth what is before them and what is behind them; and unto God
> shall all things return.
>  
>        Believers! bow down and prostrate yourselves and worship your Lord, and
> work righteousness that you may fare well.
>  
>        And do valiantly in the cause of God as it behoveth you to do for Him.
> He hath elected you, and hath not laid on you any hardship in religion, the
> Faith of your father Abraham.  He hath named you the Muslims
>  
>        Heretofore and in this Book, that the Apostles may be a witness against
> you, and that ye may be witnesses against the rest of mankind.  Therefore
> observe prayer, and pay the legal impost, and cleave fast to God.  He is your
> liege Lord - a goodly Lord, and goodly Helper!
>
> — *Sura  22 - The Pilgrimage*