# Sura  67 - The Kingdom

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> SURA LXVII (67) - The Kingdom    (Mecca - 30 verses)        (LXIII - 142)    
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        Blessed be He in whose hand is the Kingdom! and over all things is He
> potent:
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>        Who hath created death and life to prove which of you will be most
> righteous in deed; and He is the Mighty, the Forgiving!
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>        Who hath created seven Heavens one above another:  No defect canst thou
> see in the creation of the God of Mercy:  Repeat the gaze:  seest thou a single
> flaw?
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>        Then twice more repeat the gaze:  thy gaze shall return to thee dulled
> and weary.
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>        Moreover we have decked the lowest heaven with lights, and have placed
> them there to be hurled at the Satans, for whom we have prepared the torment of
> the flaming fire.
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>        And for those who believe not in their Lord is the torment of Hell; and
> horrid the journey thither!
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>        When they shall be thrown into it, they shall hear it braying: and it
> shall boil -
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>        Almost shall it burst for fury.  So oft as a crowd shall be thrown into
> it, its keepers shall ask them, "Came not the warner to you?"
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>        They shall say, Yes! there came to us one charged with warnings; but we
> treated him as a liar, and said, "Nothing hath God sent down: ye are in nothing
> but a vast delusion."
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> 67:10  And they shall say, "Had we but hearkened or understood, we had not been
> among the dwellers in the flames;"
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>        And their sin shall they acknowledge: but, "Avaunt, ye dwellers in the
> flame."
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>        But pardon and a great reward for those who fear their Lord in secret!
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>        Be your converse hidden or open, He truly knoweth the inmost recess of
> your breasts!
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>        What! shall He not know who hath created?  for He is the Subtil, the
> Cognizant.
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>        It is He who hath made the earth level for you: traverse then its broad
> sides, and eat of what He hath provided. - Unto Him shall be the resurrection.
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>        What! are ye sure that He who is in Heaven will not cleave the Earth
> beneath you?  And lo, it shall quake.
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>        Or are ye sure that He who is in Heaven will not send against you a
> stone-charged whirlwind?  Then shall ye know what my warning meant!
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>        And verily, those who flourish before you treated their prophets as
> liars: and how grievous my wrath!
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>        Behold they not the birds over their heads, outstretching and drawing in
> their wings?  None, save the God of Mercy, upholdeth them: for he regardeth all
> things.
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> 67:20  Who is he that can be as an army to you, to succour you, except the God
> of Mercy?  Truly, the infidels are in the merest delusion.
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>        Or who is he that will furnish you supplies, if He withhold His
> supplies?  Yet do they persist in pride and in fleeing from Him!
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>        Is he who goeth along grovelling on his face, better guided than he who
> goeth upright on a straight path?
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>        Say:  It is He who hath brought you forth, and gifted you with hearing
> and sight and heart:  yet how few are grateful!
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>        Say:  It is He who hath sown you in the earth, and to Him shall ye be
> gathered.
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>        And they say, "When shall this threat be put in force, if ye speak the
> truth?"
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>        Say:  Nay truly, this knowledge is with God alone:  and I am only an
> open warner.
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>        But when they shall see it nigh, said shall wax the countenances of
> the infidels:  and it shall be said, "This is what ye have been calling for."
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>        Say:  What think ye?  Whether God destroy me or not, and those who
> follow me, or whether he have mercy on us, yet who will protect the infidels
> from a woeful torment?
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>        Say:  He is the God of Mercy:  in Him do we believe, and in Him put we
> our trust; and ye shall know hereafter who is in a manifest error.
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> 67:30  Say:  What think ye?  If at early morn your waters shall have sunk away,
> who then will give you clear running water?
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> — *Sura  67 - The Kingdom*