# Sura  25 - Al Furkan

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> SURA XXV (25) - AL FURKAN      (Mecca - 77 Verses)          (LXVI -  159     
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        Blessed be He who hath sent down Al Furkan (the illumination) on his
> servant, that to all creatures he may be a warner.
>  
>        His the Kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth!  No son hath He
> begotten!  No partner hath He in his Empire!  All things hath He created, and
> decreeing hath decreed their destinies.
>  
>        Yet have they adopted gods beside Him which have created nothing, but
> were themselves created:
>  
>        And no power have they over themselves for evil or for good, nor have
> they power of death, or of life, or of raising the dead.
>  
>        And the infidels say, "This Koran is a mere fraud of his own devising,
> and others have helped him with it, who had come hither by outrage and life."
>  
>        And they say, "Tales of the ancients that he hath put in writing! and
> they were dictated to him morn and even."
>  
>        Say:  He hath sent it down who knoweth the secrets of the Heavens and of
> the Earth.  He truly is the Gracious, the Merciful.
>  
>        And they say, "What sort of apostle is this?  He eateth food and he
> walketh the streets!  Unless an angel be sent down and take part in his
> warnings,
>  
>        Or a treasure be thrown down to him, or he have a garden that supplieth
> him with food..." and those unjust persons say, "Ye follow but a man
> enchanted."
>  
> 25:10  See what likenesses they strike out for thee!  But they err, and cannot
> find their way.
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>        Blessed be He who if he please can give thee better than that of which
> they speak - Gardens, 'neath which the rivers flow:  and pavilions will He
> assign thee.
>  
>        Aye, they have treated the coming of "the Hour" as a lie.  But a flaming
> fire have we got ready for those who treat the coming of the Hour as a lie.
>  
>        When it shall see them from afar, they shall hear its raging and
> roaring, -
>  
>        And when they shall be flung into a narrow space thereof bound together,
> they shall invoke destruction on the spot:
>  
>        - "Call not this day for one destruction, but call for destructions
> many."
>  
>        Say:  Is this, or the Paradise of Eternity which was promised to the
> God-fearing, best?  Their recompense shall it be and their retreat;
>  
>        Abiding therein for ever, they shall have it in all that they desire!
> It is a promise to be claimed of thy Lord.
>  
>        And on the day when he shall gather them together, and those whom they
> worshipped beside God, he will say, "Was it ye who led these my servants
> astray, or of themselves strayed they from the path?"
>  
>        They will say, "Glory be to thee!  It beseemed not us to take other
> lords than thee.  But thou gavest them and their fathers their fill of good
> things, till they forgat the remembrance of thee, and became a lost people."
>  
> 25:20  Then will God say to the Idolaters, "Now have they made you liars in
> what ye say, and they have no power to avert your doom, or to succour you."
>  
>        And whosoever of you thus offendeth, we will make him taste a great
> punishment.
>  
>        Never have we sent Apostles before thee who ate not common food, and
> walked not the streets.  And we test you by means of each other.  Will ye be
> steadfast?  Thy Lord is looking on!
>  
>        They who look not forward to meet Us say, "If the angels be not sent
> down to us, or unless we behold our Lord...."  Ah! they are proud of heart, and
> exceed with great excess!
>  
>        On the day when they shall see the angels, no good news shall there be
> for the guilty ones, and they shall cry6 out, "A barrier than cannot be
> passed!"
>  
>        Then will we proceed to the works which they have wrought, and make them
> as scattered dust.
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>        Happier, on that day, the inmates of the Garden as to abode, and better
> off as to place of noontide slumber!
>  
>        On that day shall the heaven with its clouds be cleft, and the angels
> shall be sent down, descending:
>  
>        On that day shall all empire be in very deed with the God of Mercy, and
> hard day shall it be for the Infidels.
>  
>        And on that day shall the wicked one bite his hands, and say, "Oh! would
> that I had taken the same path with the Apostle!
>  
> 25:30  "Oh! woe is me! would that I had not taken such an one for my friend!
>  
>        It was he who led me astray from the Warning which had reached me! and
> Satan is man's betrayer."
>  
>        Then said the Apostle, "O my Lord! truly my people have esteemed this
> Koran to be vain babbling."
>  
>        Thus have we given to every Prophet an enemy from among the wicked ones
> - But thy Lord is a sufficient guide and helper.
>  
>        And the infidels say, "Unless the Koran be sent down to him all at
> once...."  But in this say would we stablish thy heart by it; in parcels have
> we parcelled it out to thee;
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>        Nor shall they come to thee with puzzling questions, but we will come to
> thee with the truth, and their best solution.
>  
>        They who shall be gathered upon their faces into hell, shall have the
> worst place, and be farthest from the path of happiness.
>  
>        Heretofore we gave the law to Moses, and appointed his brother Aaron to
> be his counsellor:
>  
>        And we said, "Go ye to the people who treat our signs as lies."  And
> them destroyed we with utter destruction.
>  
>        And as to the people of Noah! when they treated their Apostles as
> impostors, we drowned them; and we made them a sign to mankind: - A grievous
> chastisement have we prepared for the wicked!
>  
> 25:40  And Ad and Themoud, and the men of Rass, and divers generations between
> them:
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>        Unto each of them did we set forth parables for warnings, and each of
> them did we utterly exterminate.
>  
>        Oft there this have the unbelieving Meccans passed by the city on which
> we rained a fatal rain.  What!  Have they not seen it?  Yet have they no hope
> of a resurrection!
>  
>        And when they see thee, they do but take thee as the subject of their
> railleries.  "What!  Is this he whom God has sent as an Apostle?
>  
>        Indeed he had well nigh led us astray from our gods, had we not
> persevered steadfastly in their service." But in the end they shall know, when
> they shall see the punishment, who hath most strayed from the path.
>  
>        What thinkest thou?  He who hath taken his passion as a god - wilt thou
> be a guardian over him?
>  
>        Thinkest thou that the greater part of them hear or understand?  They
> are just like the brutes!  Yes! they stray even further from the right way.
>  
>        Hast thou not seen how thy Lord lengthened out the shadow?  Had He
> pleased he had made it motionless.  But we made the sun to be its guide;
>  
>        Then draw it in unto Us with easy indrawing.
>  
>        He it is who ordaineth the night as a garment, and sleep for rest, and
> ordaineth the day for waking up to life:
>  
> 25:50  He it is who sendeth the winds as the forerunner of his mercy (rain);
> and pure water send we down from Heaven,
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>        That we may revive by it a dead land:  and we give it for drink to our
> creation, beasts and men in numbers;
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>        And we distribute it among them on all sides, that they may reflect:
> but most men refuse to be aught but thankless.
>  
>        Had we pleased, we had raised up a warner in every city.
>  
>        Give not way therefore to the Infidels, but by means of this Koran
> strive against them with a mighty strife.
>  
>        And He it is who hath let loose the two seas, the one sweet, fresh; and
> the other salt, bitter; and hath put an interspace between them, and a barrier
> that cannot be passed.
>  
>        And it is He who hath created man of water, and established between them
> the ties of kindred and affinity:  and potent is thy Lord.
>  
>        Yet beside God do they worship what can neither help nor hurt them:  and
> the Infidel is Satan's helper against his Lord:
>  
>        Still we have sent thee only as a herald and a warner.
>  
>        Say:  I ask of you no recompense for it, except from him who is willing
> to take the way to his Lord.
>  
> 25:60  And put thou thy trust in Him that liveth and dieth not, and celebrate
> his praise; (He fully knoweth the faults of his servants) who in six days
> created the Heavens and the Earth, and whatever is between them, then mounted
> his Throne:  the God of Mercy!  Ask now of the Wise concerning Him.
>  
>        But when it is said to them, "Bow down before the God of Mercy," they
> say, "Who is the God of Mercy?  Shall we bow down to what thou biddest?" And
> they fly from thee the more.
>  
>        Blessed be He who hath placed in the Heaven the sign of the Zodiac! who
> hath placed in it the Lamp of the Sun, and the light-giving Moon!
>  
>        And it is He who hath ordained the night and the day to succeed one
> another for those who desire to think on God or desire to be thankful.
>  
>        And the servants of the God of Mercy are thy who walk upon the Earth
> softly; and when the ignorant address them, they reply, "Peace!"
>  
>        They that pass the night in the worship of their lord prostrate and
> standing: -
>  
>        And that say, "O our Lord! turn away from us the torment of Hell, for
> its torment is endless:  it is indeed an ill abode and resting place!
>  
>        Those who when they spend are neither lavish nor niggard, but keep the
> mean: -
>  
>        Those who call on no other gods with God, nor slay whom God hath
> forbidden to be slain, except for a just cause, and who commit not fornication
> (for he who doth this shall meet the reward of his wickedness:
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>        Doubt to him shall be the torment on the day of Resurrection; and in it
> shall he remain, disgraced, for ever: -
>  
> 25:70  Save those who shall repent and believe and do righteous works - for
> them God will change their evil things into good things, for God is Gracious,
> Merciful -
>  
>        And whoso turneth to God and doeth what is right, he verily will concert
> with a true conversion):
>  
>        And they who bear not witness to that which is false, and when they pass
> by frivolous sport, pass on with dignity: -
>  
>        And they who, when monished by the signs of their Lord, fall not down
> thereat, as if deaf and blind: -
>  
>        And who say, "O our Lord! give us in our wives and offspring the joy of
> our eyes, and make us examples to those who fear thee:"
>  
>        These shall be rewarded with the High Places of Paradise for their
> steadfast endurance, and they shall meet therein with - Welcome and Salutation:
> -
>        For ever shall they remain therein:  a fair abode and resting-place!
>  
>        Say:  Not on your account doth my Lord care if ye call not on Him!  ye
> have treated his Apostle as an impostor:  but bye and bye a punishment shall
> cleave to them.
>
> — *Sura  25 - Al Furkan*