# Sura  35 - The Creator, or the Angels

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> SURA XXXV (35) - THE CREATOR, OR THE ANGELS (Mecca - 45 verses) (LXXXVI - (289)
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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> 35:1   Praise be to God, Maker of the Heavens and of the Earth!  Who employeth
> the angels as envoys, with pairs of wings, two, three and four:  He addeth to
> his creature what He will!  Truly God hath power for all things.
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>        The mercy which God layeth open for man, no one can keep back; and what
> He shall keep back, none can afterwards send forth.  And He is the Mighty, the
> Wise.
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>        O men! bear in mind the favour of God towards you.  Is there a creator
> other than God, who nourisheth you with the gifts of heaven and earth?  There
> is no God but He!  How then are ye turned aside from Him?
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>        If they treat thee as an impostor, then before thee have apostles been
> treated as impostors.  But to God shall all things return.
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>        O men! assuredly the promise of God is true: let not then the present
> life deceive you: and let not the Deceiver deceive you as to God.
>  
>        Yes, Satan is your foe.  For a foe then hold him.  He calleth his
> followers to him that they may become inmates of the flame.
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>        The unbelievers - for them a terrible punishment!
>  
>        But believers and doers of good works, for them is mercy, and a great
> reward!
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>        Shall he, the evil of whose deeds are so tricked out to him that he
> deemeth them good, be treated like him who seeth things aright?  Verily God
> misleadeth whom He will, and guideth whom He will.  Spend not thy soul in
> sights for them:  God knoweth their doings
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> 35:10  It is God who sendeth forth the winds which raise the clouds aloft:
> then drive we them on to some land dead from drought, and give life thereby to
> the earth after its death.  So shall be the resurrection.
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>        If any one desireth greatness, all greatness is in God.  The good word
> riseth up to Him, and the righteous deed will He exalt.  But a severe
> punishment awaiteth the plotters of evil things; and the plots of such will He
> render vain.
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>        Moreover, God created you of dust - then of the germs of life - then
> made you two sexes: and no female conceiveth or bringeth forth without his
> knowledge; and the aged ageth not, nor is aught minished from man's age, but in
> accordance with the Book.  An easy thing truly is this to God.
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>        Nor are the two seas alike: the one fresh, sweet, pleasant for drink,
> and the other salt, bitter; yet from both ye eat fresh fish, and take forth for
> you ornaments to wear, and thou seest the ships cleaving their waters that ye
> may go in quest of his bounties, and that ye may be thankful.
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>        He causeth the night to enter in upon the day, and the day to enter in
> upon the night; and He hath given laws to the sun and to the moon, so that each
> journeyeth to its appointed goal:  This is God your Lord:  All power is His:
> But the gods whom ye call on beside Him have no power over the husk of a date
> stone!
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>        If ye cry to them they will not hear your cry; and if they heard they
> would not answer you, and in the day of resurrection they will disown your
> joining them with God:  and none can instruct thee like Him who is informed of
> all.
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>        O men! ye are but paupers in need of God; but God is the Rich, the
> Praiseworthy!
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>        If He please, He could sweep you away, and bring forth a new creation!
>  
>        Nor will this be hard for God.
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>        And the burdened soul shall not bear the burden of another:  and if the
> heavy laden soul cry out for its burden to be carried, yet shall not aught of
> it be carried, even by the near of kin!  Thou shalt warn those who fear their
> Lord in secret, and observe prayer.  And whosoever shall keep himself pure, he
> purifieth himself to his own behoof:P for unto God shall be the final
> gathering.
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> 35:20  And the blind and the seeing are not alike; neither darkness and light;
> nor the shade and the hot wind;
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>        Nor are the living and the dead the same thing!  God indeed shall make
> whom He will to hearken, but thou shalt not make those who are in their graves
> to hearken; for only with warning are thou charged.
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>        Verily we have sent thee with the truth; a bearer of good tidings and a
> warner; nor hath there been a people unvisited by its warner.
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>        And if they treat thee as a liar, so did those who were before them
> threat their Apostles who came to them with the proofs of their mission, and
> with the Scriptures and with the enlightening Book:
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>        Then chastised I the unbelievers: and how great was my vengeance!
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>        Seest thou not how that God sendeth down water from the Heaven, and that
> by it we cause the up-growth of fruits of varied hues, and that on the
> mountains are tracks of varied hues, white and red, and others are of a raven
> black?  And of men, and reptiles and animals, various likewise are the hues.
> Such only of his servants as are possessed of knowledge fear God.  Lo! God is
> Mighty, Gracious!
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>        Verily they who recite the Book of God, and observe prayer, and give
> alms in public and in private from what we have bestowed upon them, may hope
> for a merchandise that shall not perish:
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>        God will certainly pay them their due wages, and of his bounty increase
> them: for He is Gracious, Grateful.
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>        And that which we have revealed to thee of the Book is the very Truth,
> confirmatory of previous Scriptures:  for God knoweth and beholdeth his
> servants.
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>        Moreover, we have made the Book an heritage to those of our servants
> whom we have chosen.  Some of them injure themselves by evil deeds; others keep
> the midway between good and evil; and others, by the permission of God,
> outstrip in goodness; this is the great merit!
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> 35:30  Into the gardens of Eden shall they enter: with bracelets of gold and
> pearl shall they be decked therein, and therein shall their raiment be of silk:
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>        And they shall say, "Praise be to God who hath put away sorrow from us.
> Verily our Lord is Gracious, Grateful.
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>        Who of His bounty hath placed us in a mansion that shall abide for ever:
> therein no toil shall reach us, and therein no weariness shall touch us."
>  
>        But for infidels is the fire of Hell; to die shall never be decreed
> them, nor shall aught of its torment be made light to them.  Thus reward we
> every infidel!
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>        And therein shall they cry aloud, "Take us hence, O our Lord!
> righteousness will we work, and not what we wrought of old." - "Prolonged we
> not your days that whoever would be warned might be warned therein?  And the
> preacher came to you -
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>        Taste it then." - There is no protector for the unjust.
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>        God truly knoweth the hidden things both of the Heavens and of the
> Earth:  for He knoweth the very secrets of the breast.
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>        He hath appointed you his vicegerents in the earth:  And whoever
> believeth not, on him shall be his unbelief; and their unbelief shall only
> increase for the unbelievers, hatred at the hands of their Lord:  - and their
> unbelief shall only increase for the unbelievers their own perdition!
>  
>        Say:  What think ye of the gods whom ye invoke beside God?  Shew me what
> part of the earth they have created?  Had they a share in the creation of the
> Heavens?  Have we given them a Book in which they can find proofs that they are
> to be called on?  Nay, the wicked promise one another only deceits.
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>        Verily God holdeth fast the Heavens and the Earth that they pass not
> away:  and if they were passing away one could hold them back but He:  for He
> is Kind, Gracious.
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> 35:40  They swore by God with their mightiest oath that should a preacher come
> to them they would yield to guidance more than any people:  but when the
> preacher came to them it only increased in them their estrangement,
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>        Their haughtiness on earth and their plotting of evil!  But the plotting
> of evil shall only enmesh those who make use of it.  Look they then for aught
> but God's way of dealing with the peoples of old?  Thou shalt not find any
> change in the way of God, -
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>        Yea, thou shalt not find any variableness in the way of God.
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>        Have they never journeyed in the land and seen what hath been the end of
> those who flourished before them, though mightier in strength than they?  God
> is not to be frustrated by aught in the Heavens or in the Earth; for He is the
> All-knowing, the All-mighty.
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>        If, moreover, God should chastise men according to their deserts, He
> would not leave even a reptile on the back of the earth!  But to an appointed
> time doth He respite them.
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>        And when their time shall come, then verily God's eye is on his
> servants.
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> — *Sura  35 - The Creator, or the Angels*