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Sura Xlv. Jathiya, Or Bowing The Knee

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

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Sra Xlv.

\"JATHIYA", Or Bowing The Knee.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,

Most Merciful.

1.
\"-Mm".

2.
The revelation

Of the Book

Is from God

The Exalted in Power,

Full of Wisdom.

3.
Verily in the heavens

And the earth, are Signs

For those who believe.

4.
And in the creation

Of yourselves and the fact

That animals are scattered

(Through the earth), are Signs

For those of assured Faith.

5.
And in the alternation

Of Night and Day,

And the fact that God

Sends down Sustenance from

The sky, and revives therewith

The earth after its death,

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And in the change

Of the winds,--are Signs

For those that are wise.

6.
Such are the Signs

Of God, which We rehearse to thee

In truth: then in what

Exposition will they believe

After (rejecting) God

And His Signs?

7.
Woe to each sinful

Dealer in Falsehoods:

8.
He hears the Signs

Of God rehearsed to him,

Yet is obstinate and lofty,

As if he had not

Heard them: then announce

To him a Penalty Grievous!

9.
And when he learns

Something of Our Signs,

He takes them in jest:


For such there will be

A humiliating Penalty.

10.
In front of them is

Hell: and of no profit

To them is anything

They may have earned,

Nor any protectors they

May have taken to themselves

Besides God: for them

Is a tremendous Penalty.

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11. This is (true) Guidance:


And for those who reject

The Signs of their Lord,

Is a grievous Penalty

Of abomination.

Section 2.

12.
It is God Who has

Subjected the sea to you,

That ships may sail

Through it by His command,

That ye may seek

Of His Bounty, and that

Ye may be grateful.

13.
And He has subjected

To you, as from Him,

All that is in the heavens

And on earth: behold,

In that are Signs indeed

For those who reflect.

14.
Tell those who believe,

To forgive those who

Do not look forward

To the Days of God:

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It is for Him to recompense

(For good or ill) each People

According to what

They have earned.

15.
If any one does

A righteous deed,

It enures to the benefit

Of his own soul;

If he does evil,

It works against

(His own soul).

In the end will ye

(All) be brought back

To your Lord.

16.
We did aforetime

Grant to the Children

Of Israel the Book,

The Power of Command,

And Prophethood; We gave

Them, for Sustenance, things

Good and pure; and We

Favoured them above the nations.

17.
And We granted them

Clear Signs in affairs

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(Of Religion): it was only

After knowledge had been

Granted to them that they

Fell into schisms, through

Insolent envy among themselves

Verily thy Lord will judge

Between them on the Day

Of Judgment as to those

Matters in which they

Set up differences.

18.
Then we put thee

On the (right) Way

Of Religion: so follow

Thou that (Way),

And follow not the desires

Of those who know not.

19.
They will be of no

Use to thee in the sight

Of God: it is only

Wrong-doers (that stand as)

Protectors, one to another:

But God is the Protector

Of the Righteous.

20.
These are clear evidences

To men, and a Guidance

And Mercy to those

Of assured Faith.

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21.
What! do those who

Seek after evil ways

Think that We shall

Hold them equal with

Those who believe and

Do righteous deeds,--that

Equal will be their

Life and their death?

Ill is the judgment

That they make.

Section 3.

22.
God created the heavens

And the earth for

Just ends, and in order

That each soul may find

The recompense of what

It has earned, and none

Of them be wronged.

23.
Then seest thou such

A one as takes

As his god his own

Vain desire? God has,

Knowing (him as such),

Left him astray, and sealed

His hearing and his heart

(And understanding), and put

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A
cover on his sight.

Who, then, will guide him

After God (has withdrawn

Guidance)? Will ye not

Then receive admonition?

24.
And they say: "What is

There but our life

In this world?

We shall die and we live,

And nothing but Time

Can destroy us.
" But

Of that they have no

Knowledge: they merely conjecture:

25.
And when Our Clear

Signs are rehearsed to them,

Their argument is nothing

But this: they say, "Bring

(Back) our forefathers, if

What ye say is true!"

26.
Say: "It is God Who

Gives you life, then

Gives you death; then

He will gather you together

For the Day of Judgment

About which there is

No doubt
": but most

Men do not understand.

Section 4.

27.
To God belongs

The dominion of the heavens

And the earth, and

The Day that the Hour

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Of Judgment is established,--

That Day will the dealers

In Falsehood perish!

28. And thou wilt see

Every sect bowing the knee:


Every sect will be called

To its Record: "This Day

Shall ye be recompensed

For all that ye did!

29. \"This Our Record speaks

About you with truth:


For We were wont

To put on record

All that ye did."

30.
Then, as to those who

Believed and did righteous

Deeds, their Lord will

Admit them to His Mercy:


That will be the Achievement's

For all to see.

31.
But as to those who

Rejected God, (to them

Will be said
): "Were not

Our Signs rehearsed to you?

But ye were arrogant,

And were a people

Given to sin!

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32.
\"And when it was said

That the promise of God

Was true, and that the Hour--

There was no doubt

About its (coming), ye

Used to say, "We

Know not what is

The Hour: we only think

It is an idea, and we

Have no firm assurance."

33.
Then will appear to them

The evil (fruits) of what

They did, and they will be

Completely encircled by that

Which they used to mock at!

34. It will also be said:


"This Day We will forget

You as ye forgot

The meeting of this Day

Of yours! And your

Abode is the Fire, and

No helpers have ye!

35.
\"This, because ye used

To take the Signs of God

In jest, and the life

Of the world deceived you:


(From) that Day, therefore,

They shall not be taken out

Thence, nor shall they be

Received into Grace.

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36.
Then Praise be to God,

Lord of the heavens

And Lord of the earth,--

Lord and Cherisher

Of all the worlds!

37.
To Him be Glory

Throughout the heavens

And the earth: and He

Is Exalted in Power,

Full of Wisdom!

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