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Sura Xxxii. Sajda, Or Adoration

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

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Sra Xxxii

\"SAJDA", Or Adoration.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,

Most Merciful.

1. A. L. M.

2.
(This is) the revelation

Of the Book in which

There is no doubt,--

From the Lord of the Worlds.

3.
Or do they say,

"He has forged it"?

Nay, it is the Truth

From thy Lord, that thou

Mayest admonish a people

To whom no warner

Has come before thee:


In order that they

May receive guidance.

4.
It is God Who has

Created the heavens

And the earth, and all

Between them, in six Days,

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And is firmly established

On the Throne (of authority):

Ye have none, besides Him,

To protect or intercede (for you):

Will ye not then

Receive admonition?

5.
He rules (all) affairs

From the heavens

To the earth: in the end

Will (all affairs) go up

To Him, on a Day,

The space wher will be

(As) a thousand years

Of your reckoning.

6.
Such is He, the Knower

Of all things, hidden

And open, the Exalted

(In power), the Merciful;--

7.
He Who has made

Everything which He has created

Most Good: He began

The creation of man

With (nothing more than) clay,

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8.
And made his progeny

From a quintessence

Of the nature of

A fluid despised:

9.
But He fashioned him

In due proportion, and breathed

Into him something of

His spirit. And He gave

You (the faculties of) hearing

And sight and feeling

(And understanding):


Little thanks do ye give!

10.
And they say: "What!

When we lie, hidden

And lost, in the earth,

Shall we indeed be

In a Creation renewed?

Nay, they deny the Meeting

With their Lord!"

11.
Say: "The Angel of Death,

Put in charge of you,

Will (duly) take your souls:


Then shall ye be brought

Back to your Lord.
"

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Section 2.

12.
If only thou couldst see

When the guilty ones

Will bend low their heads

Before their Lord, (saying:)

"Our Lord! We have seen

And we have heard:

Now then send us back

(To the world): we will

Work righteousness: for we

Do indeed (now) believe."

13.
If We had so willed,

We could certainly have brought

Every soul its true guidance:

But the Word from Me

Will come true, "I will

Fill Hell with Jinns

And men all together."

14.
\"Taste ye then--for ye

Forgot the Meeting

Of this Day of yours,

And We too will

Forget you--taste ye

The Penalty of Eternity

For your (evil) deeds!"

15.
Only those believe

In Our Signs, who, when

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They are recited to them,

Fall down in adoration,

And celebrate the praises

Of their Lord, nor are they

(Ever) puffed up with pride.

16.
Their limbs do forsake

Their beds of sleep, the while

They call on their Lord,

In Fear and Hope:


And they spend (in charity)

Out of the sustenance which

We have bestowed on them.

17.
Now no person knows

What delights of the eye

Are kept hidden (in reserve)

For them--as a reward

For their (good) Deeds.

18.
Is then the man

Who believes no better

Than the man who is

Rebellious and wicked?

Not equal are they.

19.
For those who believe

And do righteous deeds,

Are Gardens as hospitable

Homes, for their (good) deeds.

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20.
As to those who are

Rebellious and wicked, their abode

Will be the Fire: every time

They wish to get away

Therefrom, they will be forced

Thereinto, and it will be said

To them: "Taste ye

The Penalty of the Fire,

The which ye were wont

To reject as false."

21.
And indeed We will make

Them taste of the Penalty

Of this (life) prior to

The supreme Penalty, in order

That they may (repent and) return.

22.
And who does more wrong

Than one to whom are recited

The Signs of his Lord,

And who then turns away

Therefrom? Verily from those

Who transgress We shall exact

(Due) Retribution.

Section 3.

23.
We did indeed aforetime

Give the Book to Moses:

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Be not then in doubt

Of its reaching (thee):

And We made it

A guide to the Children

Of Israel.

24.
And We appointed, from among

Them, Leaders, giving guidance

Under Our command, so long

As they persevered with patience

And continued to have faith

In Our Signs.

25.
Verily thy Lord will judge

Between them on the Day

Of Judgment, in the matters

Wherein they differ

(among themselves)

26.
Does it not teach them

A lesson, how many generations

We destroyed before them,

In whose dwellings they

(Now) go to and fro?

Verily in that are Signs:

Do they not then listen?

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27.
And do they not see

That We do drive Rain

To parched soil (bare

Of herbage
), and produce therewith

Crops, providing food

For their cattle and themselves?

Have they not the vision?

28.
They say: "When will

This Decision be, if ye

Are telling the truth?"

29.
Say: "On the Day

Of Decision, no profit

Will it he to Unbelievers

If they (then) believe!

Nor Will they he granted

A respite."

30.
So turn away from them,

And wait: they too

Are waiting.

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