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Sura Lxvii. Mulk, Or Dominion

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"The Holy Quran", tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934],

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Sra Lxvii.

\"MULK," Or Dominion.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,

Most Merciful.

1.
Blessed be He

In Whose hands

Is Dominion;

And He over all things

Hath Power;--

2.
He Who created Death

And Life, that He

May try which of you

Is best in deed:


And He is the Exalted

In Might, Oft-Forgiving;--

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3.
He Who created

The seven heavens

One above another:


No want of proportion

Wilt thou see

In the Creation

Of (God) Most Gracious.

So turn thy vision again:


Seest thou any flaw?

4.
Again turn thy vision

A second time: (thy) vision

Will come back to thee

Dull and discomfited,

In a state worn out.

5.
And We have,

(From of old),

Adorned the lowest heaven

With Lamps, and We

Have made such (Lamps)

(As) missiles to drive

Away the Evil Ones,

And have prepared for them

The Penalty

Of the Blazing Fire.

6.
For those who reject

Their Lord (and Cherisher)

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Is the Penalty of Hell:

And evil is (such) destination.

7.
When they are cast therein,

They will hear

The (terrible) drawing in

Of its breath

Even as it blazes forth,

8. Almost bursting with fury:


Every time a Group

Is cast therein, its Keepers

Will ask, "Did no Warner

Come to you?
"

9. They will say: "Yes indeed;

A Warner did come to us,

But we rejected him

And said, "God never

Sent down any (Message):


Ye are innothing but

An egregious delusion!"

10. They will further say:


"Had we but listened

Or used our intelligence,

We should not (now)

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Be among the Companions

Of the Blazing Fire!"

11.
They will then confess

Their sins: but far

Will be (Forgiveness)

From the Companions

Of the Blazing Fire!

12.
As for those who

Fear their Lord unseen,

For them is Forgiveness

And a great Reward.

13.
And whether ye hide

Your word or publish it,

He certainly has (full) knowledge,

Of the secrets of (all) hearts.

14.
Should He not know,--

He that created?

And He is the One

That understands the finest

Mysteries (and) is

Well-acquainted (with them).

Section 2.

15.
It is He Who has

Made the earth manageable

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For you, so traverse

Ye through its tracts

And enjoy of the Sustenance

Which He furnishes: but

Unto Him is the Resurrection.

16.
Do ye feel secure that

He Who is in Heaven

Will not cause you

To be swallowed up

By the earth when it

Shakes (as in an earthquake)?

17.
Or do ye feel secure

That He Who is in Heaven

Will not send against you

A violent tornado

(With showers of stones),

So that ye shall

Know how (terrible)

Was My warning?

18.
But indeed men before them

Rejected (My warning):

Then how (terrible) was

My rejection (of them)?

19.
Do they not observe

The birds above them,

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Spreading their wings

And folding them in?

None can uphold them

Except (God) Most Gracious:


Truly it is He

That watches over all things.

20.
Nay, who is there

That can help you,

(Even as) an army,

Besides (God) Most Merciful?

In nothing but delusion

Are the Unbelievers.

21.
Or who is there

That can provide you

With Sustenance if He

Were to withhold His provision?

Nay, they obstinately persist

In insolent impiety

And flight (from the Truth).

22.
Is then one who

Walks headlong, with his face

Grovelling, better guided,--

Or one who walks

Evenly on a Straight Way?

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23.
Say: "It is He Who

Has created you (and made

You grow
), and made

For you the faculties

Of hearing, seeing,

Feeling and understanding:


Little thanks it is ye give.

24.
Say: "It is He Who

Has multiplied you

Through the earth,

And to Him shall ye

Be gathered together."

25.
They ask: When will

This promise be (fulfilled)?--

If ye are telling

The truth.

26.
Say: "As to the knowledge

Of the time, it is

With God alone:


I am (sent) only

To warn plainly in public."

27.
At length, when they

See it close at hand,

Grieved will be the faces

Of the Unbelievers,

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And it will be said

(To them): "This is

(The promise fulfilled),

Which ye were calling for!"

28.
Say: "See ye?--

If God were

To destroy me,

And those with me,

Or if He bestows

His Mercy on us,--

Yet who can deliver

The Unbelievers from

A grievous Penalty?"

29.
Say: "He is (God)

Most Gracious: we have

Believed in Him,

And on Him have we

Put our trust:


So, soon will ye know

Which (of us) it is

That is in manifest error."

30.
Say: "See ye?--

If your stream be

Some morning lost

(In the underground earth),

Who then can supply you

With clear-flowing water?"

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