1. Ha. Mim.

2. A revelation from the Beneficent, the Merciful,

3. A Scripture whereof the verses are expounded, a Lecture in native for people who have knowledge,

4. Good tidings and a warning. But most of them turn away so that they hear not.

5. And they say: Our hearts are protected from that unto which thou O Mohammed callest us, and in our ears there is a deafness, and between us and thee there is a veil. Act, then. Lo! we also shall be acting.

6. Say unto them O Mohammed: I am only a mortal like you. It is inspired in me that your God is One God, therefor take the straight path unto Him and seek forgiveness of Him. And woe unto the idolaters,

7. Who give not the poor-due, and who are disbelievers in the Hereafter.

8. Lo! as for those who believe and do good works, for them is a reward enduring.

9. Say O Mohammed, unto the idolaters: Disbelieve ye verily in Him Who created the earth in two Days, and ascribe ye unto Him rivals? He and none else is the Lord of the Worlds.

10. He placed therein firm hills rising above it, and blessed it and measured therein its sustenance in four Days, alike for all who ask;

11. Then turned He to the heaven when it was smoke, and said unto it and unto the earth: Come both of you, willingly or loth. They said: We come, obedient.

12. Then He ordained them seven heavens in two Days and inspired in each heaven its mandate; and We decked the nether heaven with lamps, and rendered it inviolable. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Knower.

13. But if they turn away, then say: I warn you of a thunderbolt like the thunderbolt which fell of old upon the tribes of Od and Shamod;

14. When their messengers came unto them from before them and behind them, saying: Worship none but God! they said: If our Lord had willed, He surely would have sent down angels unto us, so lo! we are disbelievers in that wherewith ye have been sent.

15. As for Od, they were arrogant in the land without right, and they said: Who is mightier than us in power? Could they not see that God Who created them, He was mightier than them in power? And they denied Our revelations.

16. Therefor We let loose on them a raging wind in evil days, that We might make them taste the torment of disgrace in the life of the world. And verily the doom of the Hereafter will be more shameful, and they will not be helped.

17. And as for Shamod, We gave them guidance, but they preferred blindness to the guidance, so the bolt of the doom of humiliation overtook them because of what they used to earn.

18. And We delivered those who believed and used to keep their duty to God.

19. And make mention of the day when the enemies of God are gathered unto the Fire, they are driven on

20. Till, when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their skins testify against them as to what they used to do.

21. And they say unto their skins: Why testify ye against us? They say: God hath given us speech Who giveth speech to all things, and Who created you at the first, and unto Whom ye are returned.

22. Ye did not hide yourselves lest your ears and your eyes and your skins should testify against you, but ye deemed that God knew not much of what ye did.

23. That, your thought which ye did think about your Lord, hath ruined you; and ye find yourselves this day among the lost.

24. And though they are resigned, yet the Fire is still their home; and if they ask for favour, yet they are not of those unto whom favour can be shown.

25. And We assigned them comrades in the world, who made their present and their past fairseeming unto them. And the Word concerning nations of the genies and humankind who passed away before them hath effect for them. Lo! they were ever losers.

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