# Sura  50 - Kaf

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> SURA L (50) - KAF           (Mecca - 45 Verses)                 (LIV - 91)     
>  
>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
>  
>        Kaf.  By the glorious Koran:
>  
>        They marvel forsooth that one of themselves hath come to them charged
> with warnings.  "This," say the infidels, "is a marvellous thing:
>  
>        What! when dead and turned to dust shall we. . . . ?  Far off is such a
> return as this?"
>  
>        Now know we what the earth consumeth of them, and with us is a Book in
> which account is kept.
>  
>        But they have treated the truth which hath come to them as falsehood;
> perplexed therefore is their state.
>  
>        Will they not look up to the heaven above them, and consider how we have
> reared it and decked it forth, and that there are no flaws therein?
>  
>        And as to the earth, we have spread it out, and have thrown the
> mountains upon it, and have caused an upgrowth in it of all beauteous kinds of
> plants,
>  
>        For insight and admonition to every servant who loveth to turn to God:
>  
>        And we send down the rain from Heaven with its blessings, by which we
> cause gardens to spring forth and the grain of harvest,
>  
> 50:10  And the tall palm trees with date-bearing branches one above the other
>  
>        For man's nourishment:  And life give we thereby to a dead country.  So
> also shall be the resurrection.
>  
>        Ere the days of these (Meccans) the people of Noah, and the men of Rass
> and Themoud, treated their prophets as impostors:
>  
>        And Ad and Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lot and the dwellers in the
> forest, and the people of Tobba, all gave the lie to their prophets: justly,
> therefore, were the menaces inflicted.
>  
>        Are we wearied out with the first creation?  Yet are they in doubt with
> regard to a new creation!
>  
>        We created man: and we know what his soul whispereth to him, and we are
> closer to him than his neck-vein.
>  
>        When the two angels charged with taking account shall take it, one
> sitting on the right hand,
>  
>        Not a word doth he utter, but there is a watcher with him ready to note
> it down:
>  
>        And the stupor of certain death cometh upon him: - "This is what thou
> wouldst have shunned" -
>  
>        And there shall be a blast on the trumpet, - it is the threatened day!
>  
> 50:20  And every soul shall come, - an angel with it urging it along, and an
> angel to witness against it -
>  
>        Saith he, "Of this day didst thou live in heedlessness: but we have
> taken off they veil from thee, and thy sight is becoming sharp this day."
>  
>        And he who is at this side shall say, "This is what I am prepared with
> against thee."
>  
>        And God will say, "Cast into Hell, ye twain, every infidel, every
> hardened one,
>  
>        The hinderer of the good, the transgressor, the doubter,
>  
>        Who set up other gods with God.  Cast ye him into the fierce torment."
>  
>        He who is at his side shall say, "O our Lord! I led him not astray, yet
> was he in an error wide of truth."
>  
>        He shall say, "Wrangle not in my presence.  I had plied you beforehand
> with menaces:
>  
>        My doom changeth not, and I am not unjust to man."
>  
>        On that day will we cry to Hell, "Art thou full?"  And it shall say,
> "Are there more?"
>  
> 50:30  And not far from thence shall Paradise be brought near unto the Pious:
>  
>        - "This is what ye have been promised: to every one who hath turned in
> penitence to God and kept his laws;
>  
>        Who hath feared the God of Mercy in secret, and come to him with a
> contrite heart:
>  
>        Enter it in peace: this is the day of Eternity."
>  
>        There shall they have all that they can desire: and our's will it be to
> augment their bliss:
>  
>        And how many generations have we destroyed ere the days of these
> (Meccans), mightier than they in strength!  Search ye then the land.  Is there
> any escape?
>  
>        Lo! herein is warning for him who hath a heat, or giveth ear, and is
> himself an eye-witness.
>  
>        We created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six
> days, and no weariness touched us.
>  
>        Wherefore put up with what they say, and celebrate the praise of thy
> Lord before sunrise and before sunset:
>  
>        And praise Him in the night: and perform the two final prostrations.
>  
> 50:40  And list for the day whereon the crier shall cry from a place near to
> every one alike:
>  
>        The day on which men shall in truth hear that shout will be the day of
> their coming forth from the grave.
>  
>        Verily, we cause to live, and we cause to die.  To us shall all return.
>  
>        On the day when the earth shall swiftly cleave asunder over the dead,
> will this gathering be easy to Us.
>  
>        We know best what the infidels say: and thou art not to compel them.
>  
>        Warn then by the Koran those who fear my menace.
>
> — *Sura  50 - Kaf*