# Sura  39 - The Troops

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> SURA XXXIX (39) - THE TROOPS     (Mecca - 75 Verses)              (LXXX - 255) 
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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> 39:1   The Book sent down from God, the Mighty, the Wise!
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>        We have sent down the Book to thee with the truth: serve thou God then,
> and be sincere in thy worship:
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>        Is not a sincere worship due to God?
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>        But they who take others beside him as lords saying, "We serve them only
> that they may bring us near to God." - God will judge between them and the
> faithful, concerning that wherein they are at variance.
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>        Verily God will not guide him who is a liar, an infidel.
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>        Had God desired to have had a son, he had surely chosen what he pleased
> out of his own creation,.  But praise be to Him!  He is God, the One, the
> Almighty.
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>        For truth hath he created the Heavens and the Earth:  It is of Him that
> the night returneth upon the day and that the day returneth upon the night:
> and He controlleth the sun and the moon so that each speedeth to an appointed
> goal.  Is He not the Mighty, the Gracious?
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>        He created you all of one man, from whom He afterwards formed his wife;
> and of cattle He hath sent down to you four pairs.  In the wombs of your
> mothers did He create you by creation upon creation in triple darkness.  it is
> He who is God your Lord: the kingdom is His:  There is no God but He.  How then
> are ye so turned aside from Him?
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>        Suppose ye render him no thanks! yet forsooth is God rich without you:
> but He is not pleased with thanklessness in His servants: yet if ye be
> thankful He will be pleased with you.  The soul burdened with its own works
> shall not be burdened with the burden of another: hereafter shall ye return to
> your Lord, and he will tell you of all your works,
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> 39:10  For he knoweth the very secrets of your breasts.
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>        When some trouble toucheth a man, he turneth to his Lord and calleth on
> him: yet no sooner hath He enriched him with his favour than he forgetteth Him
> on whom he before had called, and setteth up peers with God, that he may
> beguile others from His way.  Say:  Enjoy thou thyself yet a little in thine
> ingratitude! but thou shalt surely be one of the inmates of the fire.
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>        Shall he observeth the hours of the night, prostrate or standing in
> devotion, heedful of the life to come, and hoping for the mercy of his Lord...?
> Say: Shall they who have knowledge and they who have it not, be treated alike?
> In sooth, men of understanding only will take the warning.
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>        Say:  O my believing servants, fear your Lord.  For those who do good in
> this world there is good:L and broad is God's earth - verily those who endure
> with patience shall be repaid: their reward shall not be by measure.
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>        Say:  I am bidden to serve God with a sincere worship: and I am bidden
> to be the firsst of those who surrender themselves to him (Muslims).
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>        Say:  Verily I fear if I rebel against my Lord the punishment of a great
> day.
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>        Say:  God will I serve, presenting him with a sincere worship:
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>        And serve ye what ye choose beside Him.  Say:  The losers truly will
> they be who shall lose their own souls and their families on the day of
> resurrection:  Is not this the clear ruin?
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>        Canopies of fire shall be over them, and floors of fire beneath them.
> With this doth God alarm his servants:  Fear ye me, then, O my servants!
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>        But good tidings are there for those who shun the worship of Thagout and
> are tuxned to God.  Cheer them with good tidings those my servants who hearken
> to my word and follow its excellence.  These are they whom God guideth, and
> these are men of insight.
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> 39:20  Him then on whom the sentence of punishment hath justly lighted - him
> who is doomed to the fire canst thou rescue?
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>        But for those who fear their Lord are storied pavilions beneath which
> shall the rivers flow: it is the promise of God, and God will not fail in his
> promise.
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>        Seest thou not that God sendeth down water from heaven, and guideth it
> along so as to form springs in the earth - then bringeth forth by it corn of
> varied sorts - then causeth he it to wither, and thou seest it become yellow -
> then crumbleth it away?  Lo! herein is teaching for men of insight.
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>        Shall he then whose breast God hath opened to Islam, and who hath light
> from his Lord..."  But woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the
> remembrance of God!  They plainly err.
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>        The best of recitals hath God sent down - a book in unison with itself,
> and teaching by iteration.  The very skins of those who fear their Lord do
> creep at it!  Then do their skins and their hearts soften at the remembrance of
> their Lord!  This is God's guidance: by it will He guide whom He pleaseth; and,
> whom God shall mislead, no guide shall there be for him.
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>        Shall he who shall have nought but his own face to shelter him with from
> the torment of the punishment on the day of the resurrection...?  Aye, to the
> evil doers it shall be said, "Taste ye what ye have earned."
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>        They who were before them said it was a lie; but a punishment came upon
> them whence they looked not for it:
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>        And God made them taste humiliation in this present life: but greater
> surely will be the punishment of the life to come.  Did they but know it!
>  
>        Now have we set before man in this Koran every kind of parable for their
> warning:
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>        An Arabic Koran, free from tortuous wording, to the intent that they may
> fear God.
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> 39:30  God setteth forth the compasison of a man with associates at variance
> among themselves, and of a man devoted wholly to a man.  Are these to be held
> alike?  No, praise be to God!  But the greater part of them understand not.
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>        Thou truly shall die, O Muhammad, and they too shall die:
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>        Then, at the day of resurrection, ye shall wrangle with one another in
> the presence of your Lord.
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>        And who acteth more unjustly than he who lieth of God, and treateth the
> truth when it cometh to him as a lie?  Is there not a dwelling-place in Hell
> for the infidels?
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>        But he who bringeth the truth, and he who believeth it to be the truth:
> these are the God-fearing.
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>        Whatever they shall desire, awaiteth them with their Lord!  This is the
> reward of the righteous;
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>        Tht God may do away the guilt of their worst actions, and for their best
> actions render them their reward.
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>        Is not God all-sufficient for his servant?  Yet would they scare thee
> by their idols.  But no guide shall there be for him whom God misleadeth:
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>        And he whom God guideth shall have none to mislead him.  Is not God,
> all-mighty, able to revenge?
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>        And if thou ask them who hath created the Heavens and the Earth, they
> will surely answer, God.  Say:  This ye, then, that they on whom ye call beside
> God, if God choose to afflict me, could remove his affliction? or if he choose
> to show me mercy, could they withhold His mercy?  Say:  God sufficeth me: in
> Him let the trusting trust.
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> 39:40  Say:  O my people, act your part as best ye can, I too will act mine;
> and in the end ye shall know
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>        On whom shall light a punishment that shall shame him, and on whom a
> lasting punishment shall fall.
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>        Assuredly we have sent down the Book to thee for man and for the ends of
> truth.  Whoso shall be guided by it - it will be for his own advantage, and
> whoso shall err, shall only err to his own loss.  But not to thy keeping are
> they entrusted.
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>        God taketh souls unto Himself at death; and during their sleep those who
> do not die: and he retaineth those on which he hath passed a decree of death,
> but sendeth the others back till a time that is fixed.  Herein are signs for
> the reflecting.
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>        Have they taken aught beside God as intercessors?  Say: What! though
> they have no power over anything, neither do they understand?
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>        Say:  Intercession is wholly with God:  His the kingdom of the Heavens
> and of the Earth!  To him shall ye be brought back hereafter!
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>        But when the One God is named, the hearts of those who believe not in
> the life to come, shrivel up: but when the deities who are adored beside Him
> are named, lo! they are filled with joy.
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>        Say:  O God, creator of the Heaven and of the Earth, who knowest the
> hidden and the manifest, thou shalt judge between thy servants as to the
> subject of their disputes.
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>        If the wicked possessed all that is in the earth and as much against
> therewith, verily they would ransom themselves with it from the pain of the
> punishment on the day of the resurrection; and there shall appear to them, from
> God, things they had never reckoned on:
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>        And their own ill deeds shall be clearly perceived by them, and that
> fire at which they mocked shall encircle them on every side.
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> 39:50  When trouble befalleth a man he crieth to Us; afterwards, when we have
> vouchsafed favour to him, he saith, "God knew that I deserved it."  Nay, it is
> a trial.  But the greater part of them knew it not.
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>        The same said those who flourished before them; but their deeds profited
> them not.
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>        And their own ill deeds recoiled upon them.  And whoso among these
> (Meccans) shall do wrong, on them likewise their own misdeeds shall light,
> neither shall they invalidate God.
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>        Know they not that God giveth supplies with open hand, and that He is
> sparing to whom He will?  Of a truth herein are signs to those who believe.
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>        Say:  O my servants who have transgressed to your own hurt, despair not
> of God's mercy, for all sins doth God forgive.  Gracious, Merciful is He!
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>        And return ye to your Lord, and to Him resign yourselves, ere the
> punishment come on you, for then ye shall not be helped:
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>        And follow that most excellent thing which hath been sent down to you
> from your Lord,e re the punishment come on you suddenly, and when ye look not
> for it:
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>        So that a soul say, "Oh misery! for my failures in duty towards God! and
> verily I was of those who scoffed:"
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>        Or say, "Had God guided me, I had surely been of those who feared Him:"
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>        Or say, when it seeth the punishment, "Could I but return, then I would
> be of the righteous."
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> 39:60  Nay! my signs had already come to thee, and thou didst treat them as
> untruths, and wast arrogant, and becamest of those who believed not.
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>        And on the resurrection day, thou shalt see those who have lied of God,
> with their faces black.  Is there not an abode in Hell for the arrogant?
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>        But God shall rescue those who fear him into their safe retreat: no ill
> shall touch them, neither shall they be put to grief.
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>        God is the creator of all things, and of all things is He the guardian!
> His the keys of the Heaven and of the Earth! and - who believe not in the signs
> of God - these! they shall perish!
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>        Say:  What! do ye then bid me worship other than God, O ye ignorant
> ones?
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>        But now hath it been revealed to thee and to those who flourished
> before thee, - "Verily, if thou join partners with God, vain shall be all thy
> work, and thyself shalt be of those who perish.
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>        Nay, rather worship God! and be of those who render thanks."
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>        But they have not deemed of God as is He due; for on the resurrection
> day the whole Earth shall be but his handful, and in his right hand shall the
> Heavens be folded together.  Praise be to Him! and high be He uplifted above
> the partners they join with Him!
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>        And there shall be a blast on the trumpet, and all who are in the
> Heavens and all who are in the Earth shall expire, save those whom God shall
> vouchsafe to live.  Then shall there be another blast on it, and lo! arising
> they shall gaze around them:
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>        And the earth shall shine with the light of her lord, and the Book shall
> be set, and the prophets shall be brought up, and the witnesses; and judgment
> shall be given between them with equity; and none shall be wronged:
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> 39:70  And every soul shall receive as it shall have wrought, for well knoweth
> He men's actions.
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>        And by troops shall the unbelievers be driven towards Hell, until when
> they reach it, its gates shall be opened, and its keepers shall say to them,
> "Came not apostles from among yourselves to you, reciting to you the signs of
> the Lord, and warning you of the meeting with Him on this your day?"  They
> shall say, "Yes."  But just is the sentence of punishment on the unbelievers.
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>        It shall be said to them, "Enter ye the gates of Hell, therein to dwell
> for ever;" and wretched the abode of the arrogant!
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>        But those who feared their Lord shall be driven on by troops to
> Paradise, until when they reach it, its gates shall be opened, and its keepers
> shall say to them, "All hail! virtuous have ye been: enter therein, to abide
> herein for ever."
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>        And they shall say, "Praise be to God, who hath made good to us His
> promise, and hath given to us the earth as our heritage, that we may dwell in
> Paradise wherever we please!"  And goodly is the reward of those who travailed
> virtuously.
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>        And thou shalt see the Angels circling around the Throne with praises of
> their Lord: and judgment shall be pronounced between them with equity: and it
> shall be said, "Glory be to God the Lord of the Worlds."
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> — *Sura  39 - The Troops*