# Sura   7 - Al Araf

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> SURA VII (7) - AL ARAF [Mecca - 205 Verses]                 (LXXXVII - 293)    
>  
>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
>  
>        Elif. Lam. Mim. Sad.  A Book hath been sent down to thee:  therefore
> let there be no difficulty in thy breast concerning it:  to the intent that
> thou mayest warn thereby, and that it may be a monition to the faithful.
>  
>        Follow ye what hath been sent down to you from your Lord; and follow no
> masters beside Him.  How little will ye be monished!
>  
>        How many cities have we destroyed!  By night, or while they were in
> their midday slumber, did our wrath reach them!
>  
>        And what was their cry when our wrath reached them, but to say, "Verily,
> we have been impious."
>  
>        Surely, therefore, will we call those to account, to whom an Apostle
> hath been sent, and of the sent ones themselves will we certainly demand a
> reckoning.
>  
>        And with knowledge will we tell them of their deeds, for we were not
> absent from them.
>  
>        The weighing on that day, with justice! and they whose balances shall be
> heavy, these are they who shall be happy.
>  
>        And they whose balances shall be light, these are they who have lost
> their souls, for that to our signs they were unjust:
>  
>        And now have we stablished you on the earth, and given you therein the
> supports of life.  How little do ye give thanks!
>  
> 7:10   We created you; then fashioned you; then said we to the angels,
> "Prostrate yourselves unto Adam:  and they prostrated them all in worship, save
> Ebilis:  He was not among those who prostrated themselves.
>  
>        To him said God:  "What hath hindered thee from prostrating thyself in
> worship at my bidding?"  He said, "Nobler am I than he:  me hast thou created
> of fire; of clay hast thou created him."
>  
>        He said, "Get thee down hence:  Paradise is no place for thy pride:  Get
> thee gone then; one of the despised shalt thou be."
>  
>        He said, "Respite me till the day when mankind shall be raised from the
> dead."
>  
>        He said, "One of the respited shalt thou be."
>  
>        He said, "Now, for that thou hast caused me to err, surely in thy
> straight path will I lay wait for them:
>  
>        Then I will surely come upon them from before, and from behind, and from
> their right hand, and from their left, and thou shalt not find the greater part
> of them to be thankful."
>  
>        He said, "Go forth from it, a scorned, a banished one!  Whoever of them
> shall follow thee, I will surely fill hell with you, one and all.
>  
>        And, O Adam! dwell thou and thy wife in Paradise, and eat ye whence ye
> will, but to this tree approach not, lest ye become of the unjust doers."
>  
>        Then Satan whispered them to shew them their nakedness, which had been
> hidden from them both.  And he said, "This tree hath your Lord forbidden you,
> only lest ye should become angels, or lest ye should become immortals."
>  
> 7:20   And he sware to them both, "Verily I am unto you one who counselleth
> aright."
>  
>        So he beguiled them by deceits:  and when they had tasted of the tree,
> their nakedness appeared to them, and they began to sew together upon
> themselves the leaves of the garden.  And their Lord called to them, "Did I not
> forbid you this tree, and did I not say to you, 'Verily, Satan is your declared
> enemy.'"
>  
>        They said, "O our Lord!  With ourselves have we dealt unjustly:  if thou
> forgive us not and have pity on us, we shall surely be of those who perish."
>  
>        He said, "Get ye down, the one of you an enemy to the other; and on
> earth shall be your dwelling, and your provision for a season."
>  
>        He said, "On it shall ye live, and on it shall ye die, and from it shall
> ye be taken forth."
>  
>        O children of Adam! now have we sent down to you raiment to hide your
> nakedness, and splendid garments; but the raiment of piety - this is best.
> This is one of the signs of God, that man haply may reflect.
>  
>        O children of Adam! let not Satan bring you into trouble, as he drove
> forth your parents from the Garden, by despoiling them of their raiment, that
> he might cause them to see their nakedness:  He truly seeth you, he and his
> comrades, whence ye see not them.  Verily, we have made the Satans tutelars of
> those who believe not.
>  
>        And when the wicked commit some filthy deed, they say, "We found our
> fathers practising it, and to us hath God commanded it" - Say:  God enjoineth
> not filthy deeds.  Will ye speak of God ye know not what?
>  
>        Say:  My Lord hath enjoined what is right.  Turn your faces therefore
> towards every place where he is worshipped, and call upon him with sincere
> religion.  As he created you, to him shall ye return:  some hath he guided, and
> some hath he justly left in error, because they have taken the Satans as their
> tutelars beside god, and have deemed that they were guided aright.
>  
>        O children of Adam!  wear your goodly apparel when ye repair to any
> mosque, and eat ye and drink; but exceed not, for He loveth not those who
> exceed.
>  
> 7:30   Say:  Who hath prohibited God's goodly raiment, and the healthful viands
> which He hath provided for his servants?  Say:  These are for the faithful in
> this present life, but above all on the day of the resurrection.  Thus make we
> our signs plain for people of knowledge.
>  
>        Say:  Truly my Lord hath forbidden filthy actions whether open or
> secret, and iniquity, and unjust violence, and to associate with God that for
> which He hath sent down no warranty, and to speak of God that ye know not.
>  
>        Every nation hath its set time.  And when their time is come, they shall
> not retard it an hour; and they shall not advance it.
>  
>        O children of Adam! there shall come to Apostles from among yourselves,
> rehearsing my signs to you; and whoso shall fear God and do good works, no fear
> shall be upon them, neither shall they be put to grief.
>  
>        But they who charge our signs with falsehood, and turn away from them in
> their pride, shall be inmates of the fire:  for ever shall they abide therein.
>  
>        And who is worse that he who deviseth a lie of God, or treateth our
> signs as lies?  To them shall a portion here below be assigned in accordance
> with the Book of our decrees, until the time when our messengers, as they
> receive their souls, shall say, "Where are they on whom ye called beside God?"
> They shall say, "Gone from us." And they shall witness against themselves that
> they were infidels.
>  
>        He shall say, "Enter ye into the Fire with the generations of Djinn and
> men who have preceded you.  So oft as a fresh generation entereth, it shall
> curse its sister, until when they have all reached it, the last comes shall say
> to the former, 'O our Lord! these are they who led us astray:  assign them
> therefore a double torment of the fire:'"  He will say, "Ye shall all have
> double."  But of this are ye ignorant.
>  
>        And the former of them shall say to the latter, "What advantage have ye
> over us?  Taste ye therefore the torment for that which ye have done."
>  
>        Verily, they who have charged our signs with falsehood and have turned
> away from them in their pride, Heaven's gates shall not be opened to them, nor
> shall they enter Paradise, until the camel passeth through the eye of the
> needle.  After this sort will we recompense the transgressors.
>  
>        They shall make their bed in Hell, and above them shall be coverings of
> fire!  After this sort will we recompense the evil doers.
>  
> 7:40   But as to those who have believed and done the things which are right
> (we will lay on no one a burden beyond his power) - These shall be inmates of
> Paradise:  for ever shall they abide therein;
>  
>        And we will remove whatever rancour was in their bosoms:  rivers shall
> roll at their feet:  and they shall say, "Praise be to God who hath guided us
> hither!  We had not been guided had not God guided us!  Of a surety the
> Apostles of our Lord came to us with truth."  And a voice shall cry to them,
> "This is Paradise, of which, as the meed of your works, ye are made heirs."
>  
>        And the inmates of Paradise shall cry to the inmates of the fire, "Now
> have we found what our Lord promised us to be true.  Have ye too found what
> your Lord promised you to be true?"  And they shall answer, "Yes."  And a
> Herald shall proclaim between them:  "The curse of God be upon the evil doers,
>  
>        Who turn men aside from the way of God, and seek to make it crooked, and
> who believe not in the life to come!"
>  
>        And between them shall be a partition; and on the wall Al Araf shall be
> men who will know all, by their tokens, and they shall cry to the inmates of
> Paradise, "Peace be on you!" but they shall not yet enter it, although they
> long to do so.
>  
>        And when their eyes are turned towards the inmates of the Fire, they
> shall say, "O our Lord! place us not with the offending people."
>  
>        And they who are upon Al Araf shall cry to those whom they shall know by
> their tokens, "Your amassings and your pride have availed you nothing.
>  
>        Are these they on whom ye sware God would not bestow mercy?  Enter ye
> into Paradise!  where no fear shall be upon you, neither shall ye be put to
> grief."
>  
>        And the inmates of the fire shall cry to the inmates of Paradise:  "Pour
> upon us some water, or of the refreshments God hath given you?"  They shall
> say, "Truly God hath forbidden both to unbelievers,
>  
>        Who made their religion a sport and pastime, and whom the life of the
> world hath deceived."  This day therefore will we forget them, as they forgot
> the meeting of this their day, and as they did deny our signs.
>  
> 7:50   And now have we brought them the Book:  with knowledge have we explained
> it; a guidance and a mercy to them that believe.
>  
>        What have they to wait for now but its interpretation?  When its
> interpretation shall come, they who aforetime were oblivious of it shall say,
> "The Prophets of our Lord did indeed bring the truth; shall we have any
> intercessor to intercede for us? or could we not be sent back?  Then would we
> act otherwise that we have acted."  But they have ruined themselves; and the
> deities of their own devising have fled from them!
>  
>        Your Lord is God, who in six days created the Heavens and the Earth, and
> then mounted the throne:  He throweth the veil of night over the day:  it
> pursueth it swiftly:  and he created the sun and the moon and the stars,
> subjected to laws by His behest:  Is not all creation and its empire HIs?
> Blessed be God the Lord of the Worlds!
>  
>        Call upon your Lord with lowliness and in secret, for He loveth not the
> transgressors.
>  
>        And commit not disorders on the earth after it hath been well ordered;
> and call on Him with fear and longing desire:  Verily the mercy of God is nigh
> unto the righteous.
>  
>        And He it is who sendeth forth the winds as the heralds of his
> compassion, until they bring up the laden clouds, which we drive along to some
> dead land and send down water thereon, by which we cause an upgrowth of all
> kinds of fruit.  - Thus will we bring forth the dead.  Haply ye will reflect.
>  
>        In a rich soil, its plants spring forth abundantly by the will of its
> Lord, and in that which is bad, they spring forth but scantily.  Thus do We
> diversify our signs for those who are thankful.
>  
>        Of old sent We Noah to his people, and he said, "O my people!  worship
> God.  Ye have no God but Him:  indeed I fear for you the chastisement of the
> great day."
>  
>        The chiefs of his people said, "We clearly see that thou art in a
> palpable error."
>  
>        He said, "There is no error in my, O my people! but I am a messenger
> from the Lord of the Worlds.
>  
> 7:60   I bring to you the messages of my Lord, and I give you friendly counsel;
> for I know from God what ye know not.
>  
>        Marvel ye that a Warning should come to you from your Lord through one
> of yourselves, that he may warn you, and that ye may fear for yourselves, and
> that haply ye may find mercy?"
>  
>        But they treated him as a liar:  so we delivered him and those who were
> with him in the ark, and we drowned those who charged our signs with falsehood;
> for they were a blind people.
>  
>        And to Ad we sent their brother Houd.  "O my people!" said he, "worship
> God:  ye have no other god than Him:  Will ye not then fear Him?"
>  
>        Said the unbelieving chiefs among his people, "We certainly perceive
> that thou art unsound of mind; and we surely deem thee an impostor."
>  
>        He said, "O my people! it is not unsoundness of mind in me, but I am an
> Apostle from the Lord of the Worlds.
>  
>        The messages of my Lord do I announce to you, and I am your faithful
> counsellor.
>  
>        Marvel ye that a warning hath come to you from your Lord through one of
> yourselves that He may warn you?  Remember how he hath made you the successors
> of the people of Noah, and increased you in tallness of stature.  Remember then
> the favours of God, that it may haply be well with you."
>  
>        They said, "Art thou come to us in order that we may worship one God
> alone, and leave what our fathers worshipped?  Then bring that upon us with
> which thou threatenest us, if thou be a man of truth."
>  
>        He said, "Vengeance and wrath shall suddenly light on you from your
> Lord.  Do ye dispute with me about names that you and your fathers have given
> your idols, and for which god hath sent you down to warranty?  Wait ye then,
> and I too will wait with you."
>  
> 7:70   And we delivered him, and those who were on his side, by our mercy, and
> we cut off, to the last man, those who had treated our signs as lies, and who
> were not believers.
>  
>        And to Themoud we sent their brother Saleh.  He said, O my people!
> worship God:  ye have no other god than Him:  now hath a clear proof of my
> mission come to you from your Lord, this she-camel of God being a sign to you:
> therefore let her go at large to pasture on God's earth:  and touch her not to
> harm her, lest a grievous chastisement seize you.
>  
>        And remember how he hath made you successors to the Adites, and given
> you dwellings on the earth, so that on its plains ye build castles, and hew out
> houses in the hills.  And bear in mind the benefits of god, and lay not the
> earth waste with deeds of license.
>  
>        Said the chiefs of his people puffed up with pride, to those who were
> esteemed weak, even to those of them who believed, "What! know ye for certain
> that Saleh is sent by his Lord?"  They said, "Truly we believe in that with
> which he hath been sent."
>  
>        Then said those proud men, "Verily, we reject that in which ye believe."
>  
>        And they ham-strung the she-camel, and rebelled against their Lord's
> command, and said, "O Saleh, let thy menaces be accomplished upon us if thou
> art one of the Sent Ones."
>  
>        Then the earthquake surprised them; and in the morning they were found
> dead on their faces in their dwellings.
>  
>        So he turned away from them, and said, "O my people!  I did indeed
> announce to you the message of my Lord:  and I gave you faithful counsel, but
> ye love not faithful counsellors.
>  
>        We also sent Lot, when he said to his people, commit ye this filthy deed
> in which no creature hath gone before you?
>  
>        Come ye to men, instead of women, lustfully?  Ye are indeed a people
> given up to excess.
>  
> 7:80   But the only answer of his people was to say, "Turn them out of your
> city, for they are men who vaunt them pure."
>  
>        And we delivered him and his family, except his wife; she was of those
> who lingered:
>  
>        And we rained a rain upon them:  and see what was the end of the wicked!
>  
>        And we sent to Madian their brother Shoaib.  He said, "O my people!
> worship God; ye have no other God than Him:  now hath a clear sign come to you
> from your Lord:  give therefore the full in measures and weights; take from no
> man his chattels, and commit no disorder on the earth after it has been made so
> good.  This will be better for you, if you will believe it.
>  
>        And lay not in ambush by every road in menacing sorts; nor mislead him
> who believeth in God, from His way, nor seek to make it crooked; and remember
> when ye were few and that he multiplied you, and behold what hath been the end
> of the authors of disorder!
>  
>        And if a part of you believe in that with which I am sent, and a part of
> you believe not, then wait steadfastly until God shall judge between us, for He
> is the best of judges."
>  
>        Said the chiefs of his people puffed up with pride, "We will surely
> banish thee, O Shoaib, and thy fellow-believers from our cities, unless indeed
> ye shall back to our religion." "What!" said he, "though we abhor it?
>  
>        Now shall we have devised a lie concerning God, if after he hath
> delivered us from your religion we shall return to it; nor can we return to it,
> unless by the will of God our Lord:  our Lord embraceth all things in his ken.
> In God have we put our trust:  O our Lord! decide between us and between our
> people, with truth; for the best to decide art Thou."
>  
>        And the chiefs of his people who believed not, said, "If ye follow
> Shoaib, ye shall then surely perish."
>  
>        An earthquake therefore surprised them, and they were found in the
> morning dead on their faces, in their dwellings.
>  
> 7:90   Those who had treat Shoaib as an impostor, became as though they had
> never dwelt in them:  they who treated Shoaib as an impostor, were they that
> perished.
>  
>        So he turned away from them and said, O my people!  I proclaimed to you
> the messages of my Lord, and I counselled you aright; but how should I be
> grieved for a people who do not believe?
>  
>        Nor did we ever send a prophet to any city without afflicting its people
> with adversity and trouble, that haply they might humble them.
>  
>        Then changed we their ill for good, until they waxed wealthy, and said,
> "Of old did troubles and blessings befall our fathers:" therefore did we seize
> upon them suddenly when they were unaware.
>  
>        But if that the people of these cities had believed and feared us, we
> would surely have laid open to them blessings out of the Heaven and the Earth:
> but they treated our signs as lies, and we took vengeance on them for their
> deeds.
>  
>        Were the people, therefore, of those cities secure that our wrath would
> not light on them by night, while they were slumbering?
>  
>        Were the people of those cities secure that our wrath would not light on
> them in broad day, while they were disporting themselves?
>  
>        Did they, therefore, deem themselves secure from the deep counsel of
> God?  But none deem themselves secure from the deep counsel of God, save those
> who perish.
>  
>        Is it not proved to those who inherit this land after its ancient
> occupants, that if we please we can smite them for their sins, and put a seal
> upon their hearts, that they hearken not?
>  
>        We will tell thee the stories of these cities.  Their apostles came to
> them with clear proofs of their mission; but they would not believe in what
> they had before treated as imposture. - Thus doth God seal up the hearts of the
> unbelievers -
>  
> 7:100  And we found not of their covenant in most of them; but we found most of
> them to be perverse.
>  
>        Then after them we sent Moses with our signs to Pharaoh and his nobles,
> who acted unjustly in their regard.  But see wht was the end of the corrupt
> doers!
>  
>        And Moses said, "O Pharaoh! verily I am an apostle from the Lord of the
> Worlds.
>  
>        Nothing but truth is it right for me to speak of God.  Now am I come to
> you from your Lord with a proof of my mission; send away, therefore, the
> children of Israel with me."  He said, "If thou comest with a sign, shew it if
> thou art a man of truth."
>  
>        So he threw down his rod, and lo! it distinctly became a serpent.
>  
>        Then drew he forth his hand, and lo! it was white to the beholders.
>  
>        The nobles of Pharaoh's people said, "Verily, this is an expert
> enchanter:
>  
>        Fain would he expel you from your land:  what then do ye order to be
> done?"
>  
>        They said, "Put him and his brother off awhle, and send round men to
> your cities who shall muster
>  
>        And bring to thee every skilled enchanter."
>  
> 7:110  And the enchanters came to Pharaoh.  Said they, "Shall we surely be
> rewarded if we prevail?"
>  
>        He said, "Yes; and ye certainly shall be near my person."
>  
>        They said, "O Moses! either cast thou down thy rod first, or we will
> cast down ours."
>  
>        He said, "Cast ye down." And when they had cast them down they enchanted
> the people's eyes, and made them afraid; for they had displayed a great
> enchantment.
>  
>        Then spake we unto Moses, "Throw down thy rod;" and lo! it devoured
> their lying wonders.
>  
>        So the truth was made strong, and that which they had wrought proved
> vain:
>  
>        And they were vanquished on the spot, and drew back humiliated.
>  
>        But the other enchanters prostrated themselves adoring:
>  
>        Said they, "We believe on the Lord of the World,
>  
>        The Lord of Moses and Aaron."
>  
> 7:120  Said Pharoah, "Have ye believed on him, ere I have given you leave?
> This truly is a plot which ye have plotted in this my city, in order to drive
> out its people.  But ye shall see in the end what shall happen.
>  
>        I will surely cut off your hands and feet on opposite sides; then will I
> have you all crucified."
>  
>        They said, "Verily, to our Lord do we return;
>  
>        And thou takest vengeance on us only because we have believed on the
> signs of our Lord when they came to us.  Lord!  pour out constancy upon us, and
> cause us to die Muslims."
>  
>        Then said the chiefs of Pharaoh's people - "Wilt thou let Moses and his
> people go to spread disorders in our land, and desert thee and thy gods?"  He
> said, "We will cause their male children to be slain and preserve their females
> alive:  and verily we shall be masters over them."
>  
>        Said Moses to his people, "Cry unto God for help, and bear up patiently,
> for the earth is God's:  to such of His servants as He pleaseth doth He give it
> as a heritage; and for those that fear Him is a happy issue."
>  
>        "We have been oppressed," they said, "before thou camest to us, and
> since thou hast been with us:" "Perhaps," said he, "your Lord will destroy your
> enemy, and will make you his successors in the land, and He will see how ye
> will act therein."
>  
>        Already had we chastised the people of Pharaoh with dearth and scarcity
> of fruits, that haply they might take warning:
>  
>        And when good fell to their lot they said, "This is our due." But if ill
> befel them, they regarded Moses and his partisans as (the birds) of evil omen.
> Yet, was not their evil omen from God?  But most of them knew it not.
>  
>        And they said, "Whatever sign thou bring us for our enchantment, we will
> not believe on thee."
>  
> 7:130  And we sent upon them the flood and the locusts and the kummal (lice)
> and the frogs and the blood, - clear signs - but they behaved proudly, and were
> a sinful people.
>  
>        And when any plague fell upon them, they said, "O Moses! pray for us to
> thy Lord, according to that which he hath covenanted with thee:  Truly if thou
> take off the plague from us, we will surely believe thee, and will surely send
> the children of Israel with thee."  But when we had taken off the plague from
> them, and the time which God had granted them had expired, behold! they broke
> their promise.
>  
>        Therefore we took vengeance on them and drowned them in the sea, because
> they treated our signs as falsehoods and were heedless of them.
>  
>        And we gave to the people who had been brought so low, the eastern and
> the western lands, which we had blessed as an heritage:  and the good word of
> thy Lord was fulfilled on the children of Israel because they had borne up with
> patience:  and we destroyed the works and the structures of Pharaoh and his
> people:
>  
>        And we brought the children of Israel across the sea, and they came to a
> people who gave themselves up to their idols.  They said, "O Moses! make us a
> god, as they have gods."  He said, "Verily, ye are an ignorant people:
>  
>        For the worship they practise will be destroyed, and that which they do,
> is vain."
>  
>        He said, "Shall I seek any other god for you than God, when it is He who
> hath preferred you above all other peoples?"
>  
>        And remember when we rescued you from the people of Pharaoh they had
> laid on you a cruel affliction; they slew your sons, and let only your
> daughters live, and in this was a great trial from your Lord.
>  
>        And we appointed a meeting with Moses for thirty nights, which we
> completed with then other nights, so that his whole time with his Lord amounted
> to forty nights.  Then said Moses to his brother Aaron, "Take thou my place
> among my people, and act rightly, and follow not the way of the corrupt doers."
>  
>        And when Moses came at our set time and his Lord spake with him, he
> said, "O Lord, shew thyself to me, that I may look upon thee." He said, "Thou
> shalt not see Me; but look towards the mount, and if it abide firm in its
> place, then shalt thou see Me." And when God manifested Himself to the mountain
> he turned it to dust!  and Moses fell in a swoon.
>  
> 7:140  And when he came to himself, he said, "Glory be to thee!  To thee do I
> turn in penitence, and I am the first of them that believe."
>  
>        He said, "O Moses!  thee above all men have I chosen by my commissions,
> and by my speaking to thee.  Take therefore what I have brought thee, and be
> one of those who render thanks.
>  
>        And we wrote for him upon the tables a monition concerning every
> matters, and said, "Receive them thyself with steadfastness, and command thy
> people to receive them for the observance of its most goodly precepts:  - I
> will shew you the abode of the wicked."
>  
>        The unjustly proud ones of the earth will I turn aside from my signs,
> for even if they see every sign they will n ot believe them; and if they see
> the path of uprightness, they will not take it for their path, but if they see
> the path of error, for their pasty will they take it.
>  
>        This, - for that they treated our signs as lies, and were heedless of
> them.
>  
>        Vain will be the works of those who treated our signs, and the meeting
> of the life to come, as lies!  Shall they be rewarded but as they have wrought?
>  
>        And the people of Moses took during his absence a calf made of their
> ornaments, and ruddy like gold, and lowing.  Saw they not that it could not
> speak to them, nor guide them in the way?
>  
>        Yet they took it for God and became offenders!
>  
>        But when they repented, and saw that they had erred, they said, Truly if
> our Lord have no mercy on us, and forgive us, we shall surely be of those who
> perish.
>  
>        And when Moses returned to his people, wrathful, angered, he said, "Evil
> is it that ye have done next upon my departure.  Would ye hasten on the
> judgments of your Lord?"  And he threw down the tables, and seized his brother
> by the head and dragged him unto him.  Said he, "Son of my mother! the people
> thought me weak, and had well nigh slain me.  Make not mine enemies to rejoice
> over me, and place me not among the wrong doers."
>  
> 7:150  He said, "O Lord, forgive me and my brother, and bring us into thy
> mercy' for of those who shew mercy thou art the most merciful."
>  
>        Verily as to those who took the calf as a god, wrath from their Lord
> shall overtake them, and shame in this present life:  for thus recompense we
> the devisers of a lie.
>  
>        But to those who have done evil, then afterwards repent and believe, thy
> Lord will thereafter be Lenient, Merciful.
>  
>        And when the anger of Moses was stilled, he took up the tables; and in
> their writing was guidance and mercy for those who dread their Lord.
>  
>        And Moses chose seventy men of his people for a meeting appointed by us.
> And when the earthquake overtook them, he said, "O my Lord! if it had been thy
> pleasure, thou hadst destroyed them and me ere this! wilt thou destroy us for
> what our foolish ones have done?  It is nought by thy trial:  thou wilt mislead
> by it whom thou wilt, and guide whom thou wilt.  Our guardian, thou!  Forgive
> us then and have mercy on us; for of those who forgive art thou the best:
>  
>        And write down for us what is good in this world, as well as in the
> world to come, for to thee are we guided." He said, "My chastisement shall fall
> on whom I will, and my mercy embraceth all things, and I write it down for
> those who shall fear me, and pay the alms, and believe in our signs,
>  
>        Who shall follow the Apostle, the unlettered Prophet - whom they shall
> find described with them in the Law and Evangel.  What is right will he enjoin
> them, and forbid them what is wrong, and will allow them healthful viands and
> prohibit the impure, and will ease them of their burden, and of the yokes which
> were upon them; and those who shall believe in him, and strengthen him, and
> help him, and follow the light which hath been sent down with him, - these are
> they with whom it shall be well."
>  
>        Say to them:  O men!  Verily I am God's apostle to you all;
>  
>        Whose is the kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth!  There is no God
> but He!  He maketh alive and killeth!  Therefore believe on God, and his
> Apostle - the unlettered Prophet - who believeth in God and his word.  And
> follow him that ye may be guided aright.
>  
>        And among the people of Moses there is a certain number who guide others
> with truth, and practise what is right according to it.
>  
> 7:160  And we divided the Israelites into twelve tribes, as nations; and we
> revealed unto Moses when the people asked drink of him - "Strike the rock with
> thy staff:" and there gushed forth from it twelve fountains - the men all knew
> their drinking places.  And we caused clouds to overshadow them, and send down
> upon them the manna and the quails.... "Eat of the good things with which we
> have supplied you."  But it was not us whom they injured, but they injured
> their own selves:
>  
>        And when it was said to them, "Dwell in this city, and eat therefrom
> what ye will, and say 'Hittat" (forgiveness), and enter the gate with
> prostrations; then will we pardon your offences - we will give increase to the
> doers of good:"
>  
>        But the ungodly ones among them changed that word into another than that
> which had been told me:  therefore sent we forth wrath out of Heaven upon them
> for their wrong doings.
>  
>        And ask them about the city that stood by the sea, when its inhabitants
> broke the Sabbath; when their fish came to them on their Sabbath day appearing
> openly, but came not to them on the day when they kept no Sabbath.  Thus did we
> make trial of them, for that they were evildoers.
>  
>        And when some of them said, why warn ye those whom God would destroy or
> chastise with terrible chastisement? they said, For our own excuse with your
> Lord; and that they may fear Him.
>  
>        And when they forgot their warnings, we delivered those who had
> forbidden evil; and we inflicted a severe chastisement on those who had done
> wrong, for that they were evil doers.
>  
>        But when they proudly persisted in that which we forbidden, we said to
> them, "Become scouted apes;" and then thy Lord declared that until the day of
> the resurrection, he would surely send against them (the Jews) those who should
> evil entreat and chastise them:  for prompt is thy Lord to punish; and He is
> Forgiving, Merciful.
>  
>        And we have divided them upon the Earth as peoples:  some of them are
> upright and some are otherwise; and by good things and by evil things have we
> proved them, to the intent that they might return to us.
>  
>        And they have had successors to succeed them:  they have inherited the
> Book:  they have received the passing good things of this lower world, and say,
> "It will be forgiven us."  Yet if the like good things came to them again, they
> would against receive them.  But hath there not been received on their part a
> covenant through the Scripture that they should speak nought of God but the
> truth?  And yet they study its contents.  But the mansion of the next world
> hath more value for those who fear God - Do ye not then comprehend? -
>  
>        And who hold fast the Book, and observe prayer:  verily, we will not
> suffer the reward of the righteous to perish.
>  
> 7:170  And when we shook the mount over them as if it had been a shadow, and
> they thought it falling upon them... "Received, said we, with steadfastness
> what we have brought you, and remember what is therein, to the end that ye may
> fear God."
>  
>        And when thy Lord brought forth their descendants from the reins of the
> sons of Adam and took them to witness against themselves, "Am I not," said He,
> "your Lord?"  They said, "Yes, we witness it."  This we did, lest ye should say
> on the day of Resurrection, "Truly, of this were we heedless, because
> uninformed;"
>  
>        Or lest ye should say, "Our fathers, indeed, aforetime joined other gods
> with our God, and we are their seed after them:  wilt thou destroy us for the
> doings of vain men?"
>  
>        Thus make we our signs clear:  that haply they may return to God.
>  
>        Receite to them the history of him to whom we vouchsafed our signs, and
> who departed from the, so that Satan followed him, and he became one of the
> seduced.
>  
>        Had we pleased, we had certainly thereby exalted him; but he crouched to
> the earth and followed his own list:  his likeness, hterefore, is as that of
> the dog which lolls out his tongue, whether thou chase him away, or leave him
> alone!  Such is the likeness of those who treat our signs as lies.  Tell them
> this tale then, that they may consider.
>  
>        Evil the likeness of those who treat our signs as lies! and it is
> themselves they injure.
>  
>        He whom God guideth is the guided, and they whom he misleadeth shall be
> the lost.
>  
>        Many, moreover, fo the Djinn and men ahve we created for Hell.  Hearts
> have they with which they understand not, and eyes have they with which they
> see not, and ears have they with which they hearken not.  They are like the
> brutes:  Yea, they go more astray:  these are the heedless.
>  
>        Most excellent titles hath God:  by these call ye on Him, and stand
> aloof from those who pervert his titles  For what they have done shall they be
> repaid!
>  
> 7:180  And among those whom we have created are a people who guide others with
> truth, and in accordance therewith act justly.
>  
>        But as for those who treat our signs as lies, we will gradually bring
> 
> them down by means of which they know not:
>  
>        And though I lengthen their days, verily, my stratagem shall prove
> effectual.
>  
>        Will they not bethink them that their companion Muhammad is not
> djinn-possessed?  Yes, his office is only that of plain warner.
>  
>        Will they not look forth on thr realms of the Heaven and of the Earth,
> and on all things which God hath made, to see whether haply their end by not
> drawing on?  And in what other book will they believe who reject the Koran?
>  
>        No other guide for him whom God shall mislead!  He will leave them
> distraught in their wanderings.
>  
>        They will ask thee of the Hour - for what time is its coming fixed?
> Say:  The knowledge of it is only with my Lord:  none shall manifest it in its
> time but He:  it is the burden of the Heavens and of the Earth:  not otherwise
> than on a sudden will it come on you.
>  
>        They will ask thee as if thou wast privy to it.  Say:  The knowledge of
> ti is with none but God.  But most men know not this.
>  
>        Say:  I have no control over what may be helpful or hurtful to me, but
> as God willeth.  Had I the knowledge of this secrets, I should revel in the
> good, and evil should not touch me.  But I am only a warner, and an announcer
> of good tidings to those who believe.
>  
>        He it is who hath created you from a single person, and from him brought
> forth his wife that he might dwell with her:  and when he had known her, she
> bore a light burden, and went about with it; and when it became heavy, they
> both cried to God their Lord, "If thou give us a perfect child we will surely
> be of the thankful."
>  
> 7:190  Yet when God had given them a perfect child, they joined partners with
> Him in return for what he had given them.  But high is God above the partners
> they joined with Him!
>  
>        What!  Will they join those with Him who cannot create anything, and are
> themselves created, and have no power to help them, or to help themselves?
>  
>        And if ye summon them to "the guidance," they will not follow you!  It
> is the same to them whether y summon them or whether ye hold your peace!
>  
>        Truly they whom ye call on beside God, are, like yourselves, His
> servants!  Call on them then, and let them answer you, if what ye say of them
> be true!
>  
>        Have they feet to walk with?  Have they hands to hold with?  Have they
> eyes to see with?  Have they ears to hear with?  Say:  Call on this joint gods
> of yours; then make your plot against me, and delay it not.
>  
>        Verily, my Lord is God, who hath send down "the Book;" and He is the
> protector of the righteous.
>  
>        But they whom ye call on beside Him, can lend you no help, nor can they
> help themselves:
>  
>        And if ye summon them to "the guidance," they hear you not:  thou seest
> them look towards thee, but they do not see!
>  
>        Make the best of things; and enjoin what is just, and withdraw from the
> ignorant:
>  
>        And if stirrings to evil from Satan stir thee, fly thou for refuge to
> God:   He verily heareth, knoweth!
>  
> 7:200  Verily, they who fear God, when some phantom from Satan toucheth them,
> remember Him, and lo! they see clearly.
>  
>        Their Brethren will only continue them in error, and cannot preserve
> themselves from it.
>  
>        And when thou bringest not a verse (sign) of the Koran to them, they
> say, "hast thou not yet patched it up?  Say:  I only follow my Lord's
> utterances to me.  This is a clear proof on the part of your Lord, and a
> guidance and a mercy for those who believe.
>  
>        And when the Koran is read, then listen ye to it and keep silence, that
> haply ye may obtain mercy.
>  
>        And think within thine own self on God, with lowliness and with fear and
> without loud spoken words, at even and at morn; and be not one of the heedless.
>  
>        Verily they who are round about thy Lord disdain not His service.  They
> praise Him and prostrate themselves before Him.
>
> — *Sura   7 - Al Araf*