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Sura Xviii. Kahf, Or The Cave. Section 8

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

Sra Xviii.: Kahf, Or The Cave.

Section 8

54.
Walaqad sarrafna fee hatha alqur-ani liLnnasi min kulli mathalin wakana al-insanu akthara shay-in jadalaN

54.
We have explained

In detail in this Qur-n,

For the benefit of mankind,

Every kind of similitude:


But man is, in most things,

Contentious.

55.
Wama manaAAa aLnnasa an yu/minoo ith jaahumu alhuda wayastaghfiroo rabbahum illa an ta/tiyahum sunnatu al-awwaleena aw ya/tiyahumu alAAathabu qubulaN

55.
And what is there

To keep back men

From believing, now that

Guidance has come to them,

Nor from praying for forgiveness

From their Lord, but that

(They ask that) the ways

Of the ancients be repeated

With them, or the Wrath

Be brought to them

Face to face?

56.
Wama nursilu almursaleena illa mubashshireena wamunthireena wayujadilu allatheena kafaroo biAlbatili liyudhidoo bihi alhaqqa waIttakhathoo ayatee wama onthiroo huzuwaN

56.
We only send the apostles

To give glad tidings

And to give warnings

But the Unbelievers dispute

With vain argument, in order

Therewith to weaken the truth,

And they treat My Signs

As a jest, as also the fact

That they are warned!

57.
Waman a"th"lamu mimman thukkira bi-ayati rabbihi faaAArada AAanha wanasiya ma qaddamat yadahu inna jaAAalna AAala quloobihim akinnatan an yafqahoohu wafee athanihim waqran wa-in tadAAuhum ila alhuda falan yahtadoo ithan abadaN

57.
And who doth more wrong

Than one who is reminded

Of the Signs of his Lord,

But turns away from them,

Forgetting the (deeds) which his hands

Have sent forth? Verily We

Have set veils over their hearts

Lest they should understand this,

and over their ears, deafness.

If thou callest them

To guidance, even then

Will they never accept guidance.

58.
Warabbuka alghafooru thoo aLrrahmati law yu-akhithuhum bima kasaboo laAAajjala lahumu alAAathaba bal lahum mawAAidun lan yajidoo min doonihi maw-ilaN

58.
But your Lord is most forgiving,

Full of Mercy. If he were

To call them (at once) to account

For what they have earned,

then surely He would

Have hastened their Punishment:

But they have their appointed

Time, beyond which they

Will find no refuge.

59.
Watilka alqura ahlaknahum lamma "th"alamoo wajaAAalna limahlikihim mawAAidaN

59.
Such were the populations

We destroyed when they

Committed iniquities; but

We fixed an appointed time

For their destruction.

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