# Sura  46 - Al Ahkaf

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> SURA XLVI (46) - AL AHKAF   (Mecca - 35 Verses)           (LXXXVII - 313)     
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
>  
>        Ha. Mim.  The Revelation (sending down) of this Book is from the Mighty,
> the Wise!
>  
>        We have not created the Heavens and the Earth and all that is between
> them otherwise than in truth and for a settled term.  But they who believe not,
> turn away from their warning.
>  
>        Say:  What think ye?  As for those whom ye invoke beside God, shew me
> what part of the earth it is which they have created?  Had they a share in the
> Heavens?  Bring me a Book sent down by them before this Koran, or traces of
> their knowledge; - if ye are men of truth.
>  
>        And who erreth more than he who, beside God, calleth upon that which
> shall not answer him until the day of Resurrection?  Yes, they regard not their
> invocations;
>  
>        And when mankind shall be assembled together, they will become their
> enemies, and ungratefully disown their worship.
>  
>        And when our clear signs are recited to them, they who believe not say
> of the truth when it cometh to them, "This is plain sorcery."
>  
>        Will they say, "he hath devised It?"  Say:  If I have devised the Koran,
> then not one single thing shall ye ever obtain for me from God!  He best
> knoweth what ye utter in its regard!  Witness enough is He between me and you!
> And He is the Gracious, the Merciful.
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>        Say:  I am no apostle of new doctrines: neither know I what will be done
> with me or you.  Only what is revealed to me do I follow, and I am only charged
> to warn openly.
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>        Say:  What think ye?  If this Book be from God, and ye believe it not,
> and a witness of the children of Israel witness to its conformity with the Law,
> and believe, while ye proudly disdain it. . .?  Ah! God guideth not the people
> guilty of such a wrong!
>  
> 46:10  But the infidels say of the believers, "If it were a good Book they
> would not have been before us in believing it:"  And not having submitted to
> guidance, they proceed to say, "It is an old lying legend!"
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>        But before the Koran was the Book of Moses, a rule and a mercy; and this
> Book confirmeth it (the Pentateuch) - in the Arabic tongue - that those who are
> guilty of that wrong may be warned, and as glad tidings to the doers of good.
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>        Assuredly they who say, "Our Lord is God," and take the straight way to
> Him - no fear shall come on them, neither shall they be put to grief:
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>        These shall be the inmates of Paradise to remain therein for ever, - the
> recompense of their deeds!
>  
>        Moreover, we have enjoined on man to shew kindness to his parents.  With
> pain his mother beareth him; with pain she bringeth him forth: and his bearing
> and his weaning is thirty months; until when he attaineth his strength, and
> attaineth to forty years, he saith, "O my Lord! stir me up to be grateful for
> thy favours wherewith thou hast favoured me and my parents, and to do good
> works which shall please thee: and prosper me in my offspring: for to thee am I
> turned, and am resigned to thy will" (am a Muslim).
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>        These are they from whom we will accept their best works, and whose
> evil works we will pass by; among the inmates shall they be of Paradise: - a
> true promise which they are promised.
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>        But he who saith to his parents, "Fie on you both!  Promise ye me that I
> shall be taken forth from the grave alive, when whole generations have already
> passed away before me?"  But they both will implore the help of God, and say,
> "Alas for thee!  Believe: for the promise of God is true."  But he saith, "It
> is no more than a fable of the ancients."
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>        These are they in whom the sentence passed on the nations, djinn and
> men, who flourished before them, is made good.  They shall surely perish.
>  
>        And there are grades for all, according to their works, that God may
> repay them for their works; and they shall not be dealt with unfairly.
>  
>        And they who believe not shall one day be set before the fire.  "Ye made
> away your precious gifts during your life on earth; and ye took your fill of
> pleasure in them:  This day, therefore, with punishment of shame shall ye be
> rewarded, for that ye behaved you proudly and unjustly on the earth, and for
> that ye were given to excesses."
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> 46:20  Remember, too, the brother of Ad when he warned his people in Al Ahkaf -
> and before and since his time there have been warners - "Worship none but God:
> verily I fear for you the punishment of the great day."
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>        They said, "Art thou come to us to turn us away from our Gods?  Bring on
> us now the woes which thou threatenest if thou speakest truth."
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>        "That knowledge," said he, "is with God alone:  I only proclaim to you
> the message with which I am sent.  But I perceive that ye are a people sunk in
> ignorance."
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>        So when they saw a cloud coming straight for their valleys, they said,
> "It is a passing cloud that shall give us rain."  "Nay, it is that whose speedy
> coming ye challenged - a blast wherein is an afflictive punishment: -
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>        It will destroy everything at the bidding of its Lord!"  And at morn
> nought was to be seen but their empty dwellings!  Thus repay we a wicked
> people.
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>        With power had we endued them, even as with power have we endued you;
> and we had given them ears and eyes and hearts: yet neither their eyes, nor
> their ears, nor their hearts aided them at all, when once they gainsaid the
> signs of God; but that punishment which they had mocked at enveloped them on
> all sides.
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>        Of old, too, did we destroy the cities which were round about you; and
> in order that they might return to us, we varied our signs before them.
>  
>        But did those whom they took for gods beside God as his kindred deities,
> help them?  Nay, they withdrew from them.  Such was their delusion, and their
> device!
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>        And remember when we turned aside a company of the djinn to thee, that
> they might hearken to the Koran: and no sooner were they present at its reading
> than they said to each other, "Hist;" and when it was ended, they returned to
> their people with warnings.
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>        They said, "O our people! verily we have been listening to a book sent
> down since the days of Moses, affirming the previous scriptures; it guideth to
> the truth, and to the right way.
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> 46:30  O our people!  Obey the Summoner of God, and believe in him, that He may
> forgive your sins, and rescue from an afflictive punishment.
>  
>        And he who shall not respond to God's preacher, yet cannot weaken God's
> power on earth, nor shall he have protectors beside Him.  These are in obvious
> error."
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>        See they not that God who created the Heavens and the Earth, and was not
> wearied with their creation, is of power to quicken the dead?  Yea, he is for
> all things Potent.
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>        And a day is coming when the infidels shall be set before the fire.  "Is
> not this it in truth?"  They shall say, "Aye, by our Lord."  He said, "Taste
> then the punishment for that ye would not believe."
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>        Bear thou up, then, with patience, as did the Apostles endued with
> firmness, and seek not to accelerate their doom.  For, on the day when they
> shall see that with which they have been menaced,
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>        It shall be as though they had waited but an hour of the day.  Enough!
> shall any perish save they who transgress?
>
> — *Sura  46 - Al Ahkaf*