# Sura  41 - The Made Plain

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> SURA XLI (41) - THE MADE PLAIN - (Mecca - 54 Verses)            (LXXI - 192)  
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
>  
>        Ha. Mim.  A Revelation from the Compassionate, the Merciful!
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>        A Book whose verses (signs) are made plain - an Arabic Koran, for men of
> knowledge;
>  
>        Announcer of glad tidings and charged with warnings!  But most of them
> withdraw and hearken not:
>  
>        And they say, "Our hearts are under shelter from thy teachings, and in
> our ears is a deafness, and between us and thee there is a veil.  Act as thou
> thinkest right: we verily shall act as we think right."
>  
>        Say:  I am only aman like you.  It is revealed to me that your God is
> one God: go straight then to Him, and implore his pardon.  And woe to those who
> join gods with God;
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>        Who pay not the alms of obligation, and in the life to come believe not!
>  
>        But they who believe and do the things that are right shall receive a
> perfect recompense.
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>        Say:  Do ye indeed disbelieve in Him who in two days created the earth?
> and do ye assign Him peers?  The Lord of the worlds is He!
>  
>        And he hath placed on the earth the firm mountains which tower above it;
> and He hath blessed it, and distributed food throughout it, for the cravings of
> all are alike, in four days:
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> 41:10  Then He applied himself to the Heaven, which then was but smoke: and to
> it and to the Earth He said, "Come ye, whether in obedience or against your
> will?" and they both said, "We come obedient."
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>        And He made them seven heavens in two days, and in each heaven made
> known its office:  And we furnished the lower heaven with lights and guardian
> angels.  This, the disposition of the Almighty, the All-knowing.
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>        If they turn away, then say:  I warn you of a tempest, like the tempest
> of Ad and Themoud!
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>        When the apostles came to them, on every side, saying, "Worship none but
> God," they said, "Had our Lord been pleased to send down, He had surely sent
> down angels; and in sooth, your message we do not believe."
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>        As to Ad, they bore them proudly and unjustly in the land, and said,
> "Who more mighty than we in prowess?"  Saw they not that God their creator was
> mightier than they in prowess?  And they rejected our signs.
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>        Therefore on ill-omened days did we send against them an impetuous blast
> that we mighty  make them taste the chastisement of shame in this world: - but
> more shameful shall be the chastisement of the life to come; and they shall not
> be protected.
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>        And as to Themoud, we had vouchsafed them guidance; but to guidance did
> they prefer blindness; wherefore the tempest of a shameful punishment overtook
> them for their doings:
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>        But we rescued the believing and the God-fearing:
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>        And warn of the day when the enemies of God shall be gathered unto the
> fire urged on in bands:
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>        Until when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their skins
> shall bear witness against them of their deeds:
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> 41:20  And they shall say to their skins, "Why witness ye against us?"  They
> shall say, "God, who giveth a voice to all things, hath given us a voice:  He
> created you at first, and to Him are ye brought back.
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>        And ye did not hide yourselves so that neither your ears nor your eyes
> nor your skins should witness against you: but ye thought that God knew not
> many a thing that ye did!
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>        And this your thought which ye did think of your Lord hath ruined you,
> so that ye are become of those who perish."
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>        And be they patient, still the fire shall be their abode: or if they beg
> for favour, yet shall they not be of the favoured.
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>        And we will appoint Satans as their fast companions; for it was they who
> made their present and future state seem fair and right to them; and the
> sentence passed on the peoples of Djinn and men who flourished before them hath
> become their due, and they shall perish.
>  
>        Yet the unbelievers say, "Hearken not to this Koran, but keep up a
> talking, that ye may overpower the voice of the reader."
>  
>        Surely therefore will we cause the unbelievers to taste a terrible
> punishment;
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>        And recompense them according to the worst of their actions.
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>        This the reward of the enemies of God, - the Fire! it shall be their
> eternal abode, in requital for their gainsaying our signs.
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>        And they who believed not shall say, "O our Lord! shew us those of the
> Djinn and men who led us astray: both of them will we put under our feet, that
> they may be of the humbled."
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> 41:30  But as for those who say, "Our Lord is God;" and who go straight to Him,
> the angels shall descend to them and say, "Fear ye not, neither be ye grieved,
> but rejoice ye in the paradise which ye have been promised.
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>        We are your guardians in this life and in the next: your's therein shall
> be your soul's desire, and your's therein whatever ye shall ask for,
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>        The hospitality of a Gracious, a Merciful One."
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>        And who speaketh fairer than he who biddeth to God and doth the thing
> that is right, and saith, "I for my part am of the Muslims"?
>  
>        Moreover, good and evil are not to treated as the same thing.  Turn away
> evil by what is better, and lo! he between whom and thyself was enmity, shall
> be as though he were a warm friend.
>  
>        But none attain to this save men steadfast in patience, and none attain
> to it except the most highly favoured.
>  
>        And if an enticement from Satan entice thee, then take refuge in God,
> for He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
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>        And among his signs are the night, and the day, and the sun, and the
> moon.  Bend not in adoration to the sun or the moon, but bend in adoration
> before God who created them both, if ye would serve Him.
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>        But if they are too proud for this, yet they who are with thy Lord do
> celebrate His praises night and day, and cease not.
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>        And among His signs is this, that thou seest the earth drooping: but,
> when we send down the rain upon it, it is stirred and swelleth; verily He who
> giveth it life, will surely give life to the dead; for His might extendeth over
> all things.
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> 41:40  They truly who with obloquy disown our signs are not hidden from us.  Is
> he then who shall be cast into the fire, or he who shall come forth secure on
> the day of resurrection, in the better position?  Do what ye will: but His eye
> is on all your doings.
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>        Verily, they who believe not in "the warning," after it hath come to
> them... and yet the Koran is a glorious book!
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>        Falsehood, from whatever side it cometh, shall not come nigh it; it is a
> missive down from the Wise, the Praiseworthy.
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>        Nothing hath been said to thee what hath not been said of old to
> apostles before thee.  Verily with thy Lord is forgiveness, and with Him is
> terrible retribution.
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>        Had we made it a Koran in a foreign tongue, they had surely said,
> "Unless its signs be made clear...!  What! in a foreign tongue? and the people
> Arabian?"  Say:  It is to those who believe a guide and a medicine; but as to
> those who believe not, there is a thickness in their ears, and to them it is a
> blindness: they are like those who are called to from afar.
>  
>        Of old we gave the Book to Moses, and disputes rose about it: and if a
> decree of respite from thy Lord had gone before, there would surely have been a
> decision between them: for great were their doubts and questionings about it.
>  
>        He who doth right - it is for himself: and he who doth evil - it is for
> himself: and thy Lord will not deal unfairly with his servants.
>  
>        With Him alone is the knowledge of "the Hour."  No fruit cometh forth
> from its coverings, neither doth any female conceive, nor is she delivered, but
> with His knowledge.  And on that day He shall call men to Him, saying, "{Where
> are the companions ye gave me?"  They shall say, "We own to thee, there is no
> one of us can witness for them."
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>        And what erst called on shall pass away from them, and they shall
> perceive that there will be no escape for them.
>  
>        Man ceaseth not to pray for good: but if evil betide him he despondeth,
> despairing.
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> 41:50  And if we cause him to taste our mercy after affliction hath touched
> him, he is sure to say, "This is my due: and I take no thought of the Hour of
> Resurrection: and if I be brought back to my Lord, I shall indeed attain with
> Him my highest good."  But we will then certainly declare their doings to the
> Infidels, and cause them to taste a stern punishment.
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>        When we are gracious to man, he withdraweth and turneth him aside: but
> when evil toucheth him, he is a man of long prayers.
>  
>        Say:  What think ye?  If this Book be from God and ye believe it not,
> who will have gone further astray than he who is at a distance from it?
>  
>        We will shew them our signs in different countries and among themselves,
> until it become plain to them that it is the truth.  Is it not enough for thee
> that thy Lord is witness of all things?
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>        Are they not in doubt as to the meeting with their Lord?  But doth he
> not encompass all things?
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> — *Sura  41 - The Made Plain*