# Sura  36 - Ya. Sin

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> SURA XXXVI (36) - YA. SIN.        (Mecca - 83 Verses)         (LX - 130)     
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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> 36:1   Ya. Sin.  By the wise Koran!
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>        Surely of the Sent Ones, Thou,
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>        Upon a right path!
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>        A revelation of the Mighty, the Merciful,
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>        That thou shouldest warn a people whose fathers were not warned and
> therefore lived in heedlessness!
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>        Just, now, is our sentence against most of them; therefore they shall
> not believe.
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>        On their necks have we placed chains which reach the chin, and forced up
> are their heads:
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>        Before them have we set a barrier and behind them a barrier, and we have
> shrouded them in a veil, so that they shall not see.
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>        Alike is it to them if thou warn them or warn them not:  they will not
> believe.
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> 36:10  Him only shalt thou really warn, who followeth the monition and
> feareth the God of mercy in secret:  him cheer with tidings of pardon, and of a
> noble recompense.
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>        Verily, it is We who will quicken the dead, and write down the works
> which they have sent on before them, and the traces which they shall have left
> behind them:  and everything have we set down in the clear Book of our decrees.
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>        Set forth to them the instance of the people of the city when the Sent
> Ones came to it.
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>        When we sent two unto them and they charged them both with imposture -
> therefore with a third we strengthened them: and they said, "Verily we are the
> Sent unto you of God."
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>        They said, "Ye are only men like us:  Nought hath the God of Mercy sent
> down.  Ye do nothing but lie."
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>        They said, "our Lord knoweth that we are surely sent unto you;
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>        To proclaim a clear message is our only duty."
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>        They said, "Of a truth we augur ill from you:  if ye desist not we will
> surely stone you, and a grievous punishment will surely befall you from us."
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>        They said, "Your augury of ill is with yourselves.  Will ye be warned?
> Nay, we are an erring people."
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>        Then from the end of the city a man came running:  He said, "O my
> people!  follow the Sent Ones;
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> 36:20  Follow those who ask not of you a recompense, and who are rightly
> guided.
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>        And why should I not worship Him who made me, and to whom ye shall be
> brought back?
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>        Shall I take gods beside Him?  If the God of Mercy be pleased to afflict
> me, their intercession will not avert from me aught, nor will they deliver:
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>        Truly then should I be in a manifest error.
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>        Verily, in your Lord have I believed; therefore hear me."
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>        - It was said to him, "Enter thou into Paradise:"  And he said, "Oh
> that my people knew
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>        How gracious God hath been to me, and that He hath made me one of His
> honoured ones."
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>        But no army sent we down out of heaven after his death, nor were we then
> sending down our angels -
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>        There was but one shout from Gabriel, and lo! they were extinct.
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>        Oh! the misery that rests upon my servants!  No apostle cometh to them
> but they laugh him to scorn.
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> 36:30  See they not how many generations we have destroyed before them?
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>        Not to false gods is it that they shall be brought back,
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>        But all, gathered together, shall be set before Us.
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>        Moreover, the dead earth is a sign to them: we quicken it and bring
> forth the grain from it, and they eat thereof:
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>        And we make in it gardens of the date and vine; and we cause springs to
> gush forth in it;
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>        That they may eat of its fruits and of the labour of their hands.  Will
> they not therefore be thankful?
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>        Glory be to Him, who hath created all the sexual pairs of such things as
> Earth produceth, and of mankind themselves; and of things beyond their ken!
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>        A sign to them also is the Night.  We withdraw the day from it, and lo!
> they are plunged in darkness;
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>        And the Sun hasteneth to her place of rest,.  This, the ordinance of the
> Mighty, the Knowing!
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>        And as for the Moon, We have decreed stations for it, till it change
> like an old and crooked palm branch.
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> 36:40  To the Sun it is not given to overtake the Moon, nor doth the night
> outstrip the day; but each in its own sphere doth journey one.
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>        It is also a sign to them that we bare their posterity in the full-laden
> Ark;
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>        And that we have made for them vessels like it on which they embark;
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>        And if we please, we drown them, and there is none to help them, and
> they are not rescued,
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>        Unless through our mercy, and that they may enjoy themselves for yet
> awhile.
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>        And when it is said to them, Fear what is before you and what is behind
> you, that ye may obtain mercy. . . .
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>        Aye, not one sign from among the signs of their Lord dost thou bring
> them, but they turn away from it!
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>        And when it is said to them, Give alms of what God hath bestowed on you,
> they who believe not say to the believers, "Shall we feed him whom God can feed
> if He will?  Truly ye are in no other than a plain error."
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>        And they said, "When will this promise be fulfilled, if what ye say be
> true?"
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>        They await but a single blast: as they are wrangling shall it assail
> them:
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> 36:50  And not a bequest shall they be able to make, nor to their families
> shall they return.
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>        And the trumpet shall be blown, and, lo! they shall speed out of their
> sepulchres to their Lord:
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>        They shall say, "Oh! woe is us! who hath roused us from our sleeping
> place?  'Tis what the God of Mercy promised; and the Apostles spake the
> truth."
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>        But one blast shall there be, and, lo! they shall be assembled before
> us, all together.
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>        And on that day shall no soul be wronged in the least: neither shall ye
> be rewarded but as ye shall have wrought.
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>        But joyous on that day shall be the inmates of Paradise, in their
> employ;
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>        In shades, on bridal couches reclining, they and their spouses:
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>        Therein shall they have fruits, and shall have whatever they require -
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>        "Peace!" shall be the word on the part of a merciful Lord.
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>        "But be ye separated this day, O ye sinners!
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> 36:60  Did I not enjoin on you, O sons of Adam, 'Worship not Satan, for that
> he is your declared foe.'
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>        But 'Worship Me: this is a right path'?
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>        But now hath he led a vast host of you astray.  Did ye not then
> comprehend?
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>        This is Hell with which ye were threatened:
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>        Endure its heat this day, for that ye believed not."
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>        On that day will we set a seal upon their mouths; yet shall their hands
> speak unto us, and their feet shall bear witness of that which they shall have
> done.
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>        And, if we pleased, we would surely put out their eyes: yet even then
> would they speed on with rivalry in their path: but how should they see?
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>        And, if we pleased, we would surely transform them as they stand, and
> they would not be able to move onward, or to return.
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>        Him cause we to stoop through age whose days we lengthen.  Will they not
> understand?
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> 
>        We have not taught him (Muhammad) poetry, nor would it beseem him.  This
> Book is no other than a warning and a clear Koran.
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> 36:70  To warn whosoever liveth; and, that against the Infidels sentence may
> be justly given.
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>        See they not that we have created for them among the things which our
> hands have wrought, the animals of which they are masters?
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>        And that we have subjected them unto them?  And on some they ride, and
> of others they eat;
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>        And they find in them profitable uses and beverages:
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>        Yet have they taken other gods beside God that they might be helpful to
> them.
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>        No power have they to succour them: yet are their votaries an army at
> their service.
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>        Let not their speech grieve thee:  We know what they hide and what they
> bring to light.
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>        Doth not man perceive that we have created him of the moist germs of
> life?   Yet lot! is he an open caviller.
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>        And he meeteth us with arguments, and forgetteth his creation:  "Who,"
> saith he, "shall give life to bones when they are rotten?"
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>        Say:  He shall given life to them who gave them being at the first, for
> in all creation is he skilled:
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> 36:80  Who even out of the green tree hath given you fire, and lo! ye
> kindle flame from it.
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>        What! must not He who hath created the Heavens and the Earth be mighty
> enough to create your likes?  Yes! and He is the skilful creator.
>  
>        His command when He willeth aught, is but to say to it, BE, and IT IS.
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>        So glory be to Him in whose hand is sway over all things!  And to Him
> shall ye be brought back.
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> — *Sura  36 - Ya. Sin*