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Sura Xlvi. Aqaf, Or Winding Sand Tracts. Section 3

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

Sra Xlvi.: Aqf, Or Winding Sand-tracts.

Section 3

21.
WaOthkur akha AAadin ith anthara qawmahu biAl-ahqafi waqad khalati aLnnuthuru min bayni yadayhi wamin khalfihi alla taAAbudoo illa Allaha innee akhafu AAalaykum AAathaba yawmin AAa"th"eemIn

21. Mention (Hd)

One of 'd's (own) brethren:


Behold, he warned his people

About the winding Sand-tracts:

But there have been Warners

Before him and after him:

"Worship ye none other

Than God: truly I fear

For you the Penalty

Of a Mighty Day.
"

22. Qaloo aji/tana lita/fikana AAan alihatina fa/tina bima taAAiduna in kunta mina aLssadiqeenA

22.
They said: "Hast thou come

In order to turn us aside

From our gods? Then bring

Upon us the (calamity)

With which thou dost

Threaten us, if thou

Art telling the truth!
"

23. Qala innama alAAilmu AAinda Allahi waoballighukum ma orsiltu bihi walakinnee arakum qawman tajhaloonA

23.
He said: "The Knowledge

(Of when it will come)

Is only with God: I

Proclaim to you the mission

On which I have been sent:

But I see that ye

Are a people in ignorance!
"

24. Falamma raawhu AAaridan mustaqbila awdiyatihim qaloo hatha AAaridun mumtiruna bal huwa ma istaAAjaltum bihi reehun feeha AAathabun aleemUn

24.
Then, when they saw

The (Penalty in the shape of)

A cloud traversing the sky,

Corning to meet their valleys,

They said, "This cloud

Will give us rain!"

"Nay, it is the (calamity)

Ye were asking to be

Hastened!--a wind

Wherein is a Grievous Penalty!

25.
Tudammiru kulla shay-in bi-amri rabbiha faasbahoo la yura illa masakinuhum kathalika najzee alqawma almujrimeenA

25.
\"Everything will it destroy

By the command of its Lord!"

Then by the morning they--

Nothing was to be seen

But (the ruins of) their houses!

Thus do We recompense

Those given to sin!

26.
Walaqad makkannahum feema in makkannakum feehi wajaAAalna lahum samAAan waabsaran waaf-idatan fama aghna AAanhum samAAuhum wala absaruhum wala af-idatuhum min shay-in ith kanoo yajhadoona bi-ayati Allahi wahaqa bihim ma kanoo bihi yastahzi-oonA

26.
And We had firmly established

Them in a (prosperity and) power

Which We have not given

To you (ye Quraish!)

And We had endowed them

With (faculties of)

Hearing, seeing, heart and intellect

But of no profit to them

Were their (faculties of)

Hearing, sight, and heart

And intellect, when they

Went on rejecting the Signs

Of God; and they were

(Completely) encircled

By that which they

Used to mock at!

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