Shadee Elmasry – Juz 7, The Quran An English Translation, Part 7 of 30
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Salam aleikum. This is the Quran, a new translation by m a s Abdul
Halim me learn
this begins Jews. Number seven.
You Prophet are sure to find that the most hostile to the believers
are the Jews and those who associate other deities with God.
You are sure to find that the closest and affection towards the
believers are those who say, we are Christians, for there are
among them people devoted to learning and ascetics.
These people are not given to arrogance. And when they listen to
what has been sent down to the messenger, you will see their eyes
overflowing with tears because they recognize the truth in it.
They say Our Lord we believe so count us amongst the witnesses.
Why should we not believe in God and then the truth that has come
down to us when we longed for our Lord to include us in the company
of the righteous. for saying this, God has rewarded them with gardens
grace with flowing streams, and there they will stay. That is the
reward of those who do good. Those who reject the truth and deny our
messages will be in the inhabitants of hellfire. You who
believe do not forbid the good things God has made lawful to you
do not exceed the limits. God does not love those who exceed the
limits, but eat the lawful and good things that God provides for
you. Be mindful of God in whom you believe God does not take you to
task for what is thoughtless in your oats only for your binding
oats. The atonement for breaking an oath is to feed 10 Poor people
with food equivalent to what you would normally give your own
families or to clothe them or to set free a slave. If a person
cannot find the means he should fast for three days. This is the
atonement for breaking your oath. Keep your oats. In this way God
makes clear his revelations to you so that you may be thankful you
who believe intoxicants and gambling, idolatrous practices,
and divining with arrows are repugnant acts. Satan's doing,
shun them so that you may prosper. With intoxicants and gambling.
Satan seeks only to incite enmity and hatred among you, and to stop
you remembering God and prayer. Will you not give them up? Obey
God obey the messenger and always be on your guard. If you pay no
heed, bear in mind that the sole duty of our messenger is to
deliver the message clearly. Those who believe and do good deeds will
not be blamed for what they may have consumed in the past. As long
as they are mindful of God, believe and do good deeds, then
are mindful of God and believe then are mindful of God and do
good deeds. God loves those who do good deeds. You who believe God is
sure to test you with game within reach of your hands and spears to
find out who fears him even though they cannot see him. From now on
anyone who transgressors will have a painful punishment. You who
believe do not kill game while you are in a state of consecration for
pilgrimage. If someone does so intentionally the penalty is an
offering of a domestic animal brought to the Kaaba equivalent,
as judged by to just men among you to the one he has killed.
Alternatively, he may atone by feeding the needy, or by fasting
an equivalent number of days, so that he may taste the full gravity
of his deed. God forgives what is passed, but if anyone reoffend,
God will exact a penalty from him. God is mighty incapable of
exacting the penalty. It is permitted for you to catch and eat
seafood and enjoyment for you and the traveler. But hunting game is
forbidden while you are in the state of consecration for
pilgrimage. Be mindful of God to whom you will be gathered. God has
made the kava the Sacred House a means of support for people and
the sacred months the sacrificial animals including the garland did
all this. Know that God has knowledge of all that is in the
heavens in the earth, and that he is fully aware of all things. No
to that God is severe and punishment yet most forgiving and
merciful. The messengers duty is only to deliver the message. God
knows what you reveal and what you conceal. Say profit bad cannot be
likened to good. Though you may be dazzled by how abundant the bad
is. Be mindful of God's people of understanding, so that you may
prosper you who believe do not ask about matters which if made known
to you might make things difficult for you. If you ask about them
while the Quran is being revealed, they will be made known to you for
God has kept silent about them. God is Most forgiving and
forbearing. Before you some people asked about things, then ignored
the answers. God did not Institute the deck
ation of such things as the hara say but why Silla or hum to idols.
But the disbelievers invent lies about God. Most of them do not use
reason, when it is said to them come to what God has sent down
into the messenger. They say, what we inherited from our forefathers
is good enough for us, even though their forefathers knew nothing and
we're not guided. You who believe you are responsible for your own
souls. If anyone else goes astray, it will not harm you for so long
as you follow the guidance, you will all return to God and He will
make you realize what you have done.
You who believe when death approaches any of you let to just
men from among you act as witnesses to the making of a
bequest or to men from another people if you are journey in the
land when death approaches. Keep the Two Witnesses back after
prayer. If you have any doubts, and make them both swear by God,
we will not sell our testimony for any price. Even if a close
relative is involved. We will not hide God's testimony for then we
should be doing wrong.
If it is discovered that these two are guilty of perjury, to have
those whose rights have been usurped, have a better right to
bear witness in their place. Let them swear by God, our testimony
is truer than theirs. We have not overstated our case for that would
make us wrong tourists. This will make it more likely they will give
true and proper testimony or fear that their oats might be refuted
by others afterwards. Be mindful of God and listen, God does not
guide those who break his laws. On the day when God assembles all the
messengers and asks, what response did you receive, they will say, we
do not have that knowledge, you alone know things that cannot be
seen. Then God will say Jesus, son of Mary, remember my favorite to
you and to your mother, how I strengthened you with the Holy
Spirit so that you spoke to people in your infancy and as a grown
man, how I taught you the Scripture and wisdom, the Torah
and the Gospel, how by my leave, you fashioned the shape of a bird
out of clay breathed into it and it became by my leave a bird. How
by my leave you healed the blind person and the leper, how by my
leaves, you brought the dead back to life, how I restrained the
children of Israel from harming you when you brought them clear
signs. And those of them who disbelief said this is clearly
nothing but sorcery and how I inspire the disciples to believe
in Me and My Messengers. They said, We believe and bear witness
that we devote ourselves to God.
When the disciples said, Jesus, son of Mary, can your Lord send
down a feast to us from heaven. He said, Beware of God, if you are
true believers, they said we wish to eat from it, to have our hearts
reassured to know that you have told us the truth, and to be
witnesses of
Jesus son of Mary said, Lord sent down to us a feast from heaven, so
that we can have a festival, the first and last of us and aside
from you provide for us, you are the best provider. God said I will
send it down to you but anyone who disbelieves after this will be
punished with a punishment that I will not inflict on anyone else in
the world.
When God says Jesus, son of Mary, did you say to people take me and
my mother as to God's alongside God, he will say, may you be
exalted. I will never say what I had no right to say. If I had said
any such thing you would have known it. You know all that is
within me. Though I do not know what is within you. You alone have
full knowledge of things unseen. I told them only what you commanded
me to worship God, my Lord and your Lord. I was a witness over
them during my time among them. Ever since you took my soul, you
alone have been the watcher over them. You are witness to all
things and if you punish them, they are Your servants. If you
forgive them, you are the almighty the wise. God will say this is a
day when the truthful will benefit from their truthfulness. They will
have gardens grace with flowing streams there to remain forever.
God is pleased with them and they with Him. That is the supreme
triumph. Control of the heavens and earth and everything in them
belongs to God. He has power over all things.
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in the name of God the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy. Praise
belongs to God who created the heavens and the earth and made
darkness and light. Yet the disbelievers set up equals to
their Lord. He's the One who created you from clay and
specified a term for you and another fixed time. known only to
him, yet still you doubt he is
God in the heavens and on earth, He knows your secrets and what you
reveal, and he knows what you do.
But every time revelation comes to them from their Lord, they turn
their backs on it. So they denied the truth when it came to them,
but the very thing they laughed at will be brought home to them.
Do they not realize how many generations we destroyed before
them? We establish them in the earth more firmly than you sent
down abundant rain on them from the sky and made running rivers
flow at their feet. Yet we destroyed them for their misdeeds
and raised other generations after them.
Even if we had sent down to you prophet, a book inscribed on
parchment, and they had touched it with their own hands, the
disbelievers would still say this is nothing but blatant sorcery.
They say why has no angel sent down to support him. But had we
sent down an angel their judgment would come at once with no respite
given? Indeed, if we had sent an angel as messenger, we would still
have sent him in the form of a man, so increasing their
confusion.
messengers have been mocked before you, Muhammad, and those who
mocked them were engulfed by the very punishment they had mocked,
say, travelled throughout the earth and see what fate befell
those who rejected the truth. Say, to whom belongs all that is in the
heavens and earth, say to God, he has taken it upon himself to be
merciful. He will certainly gather you on the Day of Resurrection
which is beyond all doubt. Those who have lost their souls will not
believe all that rest by night or day belongs to him. He is the All
Hearing the All Knowing, say, how could I take any other protector
besides God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, who feeds
but is not fed? Say I'm commanded to be the first of you to devote
myself to him. Do not be one of the idolaters say, I fear the
punishment of a dreadful day if I disobey my Lord, God will have
been truly merciful to whoever is spared on that day. That is the
clearest triumph. If God touches you profit with affliction, no one
can remove it except him. And if he touches you with good, he has
power over all things. He is the supreme master over his creatures,
the all wise the all aware, say what counts most as a witness, say
God is witnessed between you and me. This Quran was revealed for me
to warn you people and everyone it reaches, do you really bear
witness that there are other gods beside God? Say I myself do not
bear witness to any such thing. Say he is only one God and I
disowned whatever you join with him. Those to whom we have given
the Scripture know this as well as they know their own sons. Those
who have lost their souls will not believe who does greater wrong
than someone who fabricates a lie against God or denies his
revelation. Those who do such wrong will not prosper. When we
gather them all together and say to the poly theists, where are
those you claimed were partners with God, in their utter dismay,
they will only say by God, our Lord, we have not set up partners
beside him, see how they lie against themselves and how those
they invented have deserted them.
Among them are some who appear to listen to you. But we have placed
covers over their hearts. So they do not understand the Quran, and
deafness in their ears. Even if they saw every side they would not
believe in them. So when they come to you, they argue with you, the
disbelievers say, these are nothing but ancient fables, and
tell others not to listen to the Quran, while they themselves keep
away from it. But they ruin no one but themselves, though they fail
to realize this. If you could only see when they are made to stand
before the fire, how they will say if only we could be set back. We
would not reject the revelations of Our Lord, but be among the
believers know, the truth they used to hide will become all too
clear to them. Even if they were brought back they would only
return to the very thing that was forbidden to them. They are such
liars. They say there is nothing beyond our life in this world. We
shall not be raised from the dead. If you could only see when they
are made to stand before their Lord. How he will say is this not
real? They will say yes indeed by our Lord, He will say then tastes
a torment for having disbelieved.
Last, indeed are those who deny the meeting with their Lord until
when the hour suddenly arrives. They say Alas for us that we paid
no regard to this. They will bear the burdens on their backs. How
terrible those burdens will be. The life of this world is nothing
but a game and a distraction. The home in the hereafter is best for
those who are aware of God. Why will you people not understand. We
know well
that what they say grieves you prophet. It is not you they
disbelieve that you will do is reject God's revelation. Other
messengers were disbelieved before you, and they bought their
rejection and persecution steadfastly until our aid arrived.
No one can alter God's promises. You have already received accounts
of those messengers. If you find rejection by the disbelievers so
hard to bear, then seek a tunnel into the ground or ladder into the
sky, if you can, and bring them assign. God could bring them all
to guidance, if it were his will. So do not join the ignorant. Only
those who can hear will respond as for the dead, God will raise them
up and to him they will all be returned. They also say, why has
no sign been sent down to him from his Lord, say God certainly has
the power to send down a sign, though most of them do not know.
All the creatures that crawl on the earth and those that fly with
their wings are communities like yourselves, we have missed nothing
out of the record. In the end, they will be gathered to their
Lord, those who reject our signs are deaf, dumb, and in total
darkness. God leaves whoever He will to stray and sets whoever He
will on the straight path, say think is the punishment of God or
the hours should come to you. Would you call an anyone other
than God, if you are being truthful? No, indeed, it is on him
that you would call. If it were his will, he would remove whatever
harm made you call on him, and then you would forget what you now
associate with him.
We sent messengers before you prophet to many communities and
afflicted their people with suffering and hardships, so that
they could learn humility, if only they had learned humility when
suffering came from us. But know their hearts became hard and Satan
made their foul deeds alluring to them. So when they had forgotten
the warning they had received we opened the gates to everything for
them. Then as they reveled in what they had been given, we struck
them suddenly, and they were dumbfounded. The evildoers were
wiped out. Praise be to God, the Lord of the Worlds. Say, Prophet
think. If God were to take away your hearing, and your sight and
seal up your hearts, what God other than he could restore them.
See how we explain our revelation in various ways, yet still, they
turn away, say, think if the punishment of God should come to
you suddenly or foreseeably. Would anyone but the evildoers be
destroyed, we send messengers only to give good news and to warn. So
for those who believe and do good deeds, there will be no fear, nor
will they grieve. As for those who rejected our signs, torment will
afflict them as a result of their defiance, say, I do not have the
treasures of God, nor do I know the unseen. Nor do I tell you that
I'm an angel. I only follow what is revealed to me, say is a blind
person like one who can see, why will you not reflect?
Use Quran to warn those who fear being gathered before their Lord,
they will have no one but him to protect them, and no one to
intercede, so that they may be aware, do not drive away those who
call upon their Lord morning and evening seeking nothing but his
face, you are in no way accountable for them nor day for
you. If you drove the believers away, you would become one of the
evildoers. We have made some of them a test for others to make the
disbelievers say, is it these men that God has favorite among us?
Does God not know best who are the grateful ones? When those who
believe in our revelations come to you, Prophet say Peace be upon
you, your Lord has taken on himself to be merciful. If any of
you has foolishly done a bad deed, and afterwards repented and mended
his ways, God is Most Forgiving and most Merciful. In this way we
explain the revelations so that the way for sinners may be made
clear. Say I am forbidden to worship those who call on other
than God, say, I will not follow your vain desires. For if I did, I
would stray from the path and cease to be rightly guided. Say I
stand and clear proof from my Lord, though you deny it. What you
seek to hasten is not within my power. Judgment is for God alone.
He tells the truth and He is the best of judges say if what you
seek to hasten, were within my power, the matter would be settled
between you and me. But God knows best who does wrong. He has the
keys to the unseen, no one knows them but him. He knows all that is
in the land and see, no leaf falls without his knowledge, nor is
there a single grain in the darkness of the earth or anything
fresh or weathered, that is not written in a clear record. It is
He Who calls your souls back by night, knowing that what you have
done by day, then raises you up again in the daytime until your
fixed term is fulfilled. It is to him that you will return in the
end and he will tell you what you have done. He
He is the supreme master over his subjects. He sends out recorders
to watch over you, until when death overtakes any of you, those
sent by us take his soul, they never fail in their duty,
then they will all be returned to God their true Lord, that judgment
truly belongs to Him. And He is the swiftest of Reckoners. Say
prophet
who is it that saves you from the dark depths of land and sea, when
you humbly and secretly call to him and say, if he rescues us from
this, we shall truly be thankful. Say God rescues you from this and
every distress, yet still, you worship others beside him. Say He
has power to send punishment on you from above or from under your
very feet, or to divide you into discord and factions and make some
taste of violence of others. See how we explain our revelation in
various ways so that they may understand, yet your people still
reject it, even though it is a truth. Say I have not been put in
charge of you. Every prophecy has its fixed time to be fulfilled,
you will come to realize this.
When you come across people who speak with scorn about our
revelations, turn away from them until they move on to another
topic. If Satan should make you forget, then, when you have
remembered, do not sit with those who are doing wrong. The righteous
are not in any way held accountable for the wrongdoers.
Their only duty is to remind them so that they may be mindful of
God, leave to themselves those who take their religion for a mere
game and distraction and are deceived by the life of this
world, but continue to remind them with the Quran, lest any soul be
dammed by what it has done. It will have no one to protect it
from God and no one to intercede. Whatever ransom it may offer will
not be accepted. Such are those who are damned by their own
actions. They will have boiling water to drink and a painful
punishment because they used to defy God.
Say instead of God are we to call on what neither profits nor harms
us, are we to turn on our heels after God has guided us like
someone bewildered.
Having been tempted by devils into a desert land, though his
companions call Him to guide and saying, Come to us say God's
guidance is a true guidance. We are commanded to devote ourselves
to the Lord of the worlds to establish regular prayers and be
mindful of him. It is to him that you will all be gathered. It is He
Who created the heavens and the earth for true purpose. On the Day
when He says be it will be his word is the truth, all control on
the day that trumpet is blown belongs to Him.
He knows the scene in the unseen he was all wise, the all aware.
Remember when Abraham said to his father as our How can you take
idols as God, I see that you and your people have gone clearly
astray. In this way. We showed Abraham God's mighty dominion over
the heavens and the earth, so that he might be a firm believer. When
the night grew dark over him, he saw a star and said, This is my
Lord. But when it set he said, I do not like things that set. And
when he saw the moon rising, he said this is my Lord. But when it
to set, he said, if my Lord does not guide me, I shall be one of
those who go astray. Then he saw the sun rising and cried, this is
my Lord, this is greater. But when the sunset he said, My people, I
disown all that you worship beside God, I have turned my face as a
true believer towards him, Who created the heavens and the earth.
I am not one of the polytheists his people argued with him. And he
said, How can you argue with me about God when He has guided me? I
do not fear anything you associated with him. Unless my
Lord wills, nothing can happen. My lord encompasses everything in his
knowledge. How can you not take heat? Why should I fear what you
associate with him? Why do you not fear it to associate with him
things for which he has sent you no authority? Tell me if you know
the answer, which side has more right to feel secure. It is those
who have faith and do not mix their faith with idolatry, who
will be secure, and in this day, who are rightly guided, such as
the argument we gave to Abraham against his people, we raised in
rank whoever we will, your Lord is all wise, all knowing.
We gave him Isaac and Jacob each of whom we guided, as we had
guided Noah before. And among His descendants were David, Solomon,
John, Joseph, Moses and Aaron. In this way we reward those who do
good Zechariah John, Jesus and Elijah, every one of them was
righteous, Ishmael, Elijah, Jonah and Lotte.
We favored each one of them over other people, and also some of
their forefathers their offspring and their brothers. We chose them
and guided them on a straight
Path, such as God's guidance with it, He guides whichever of His
servants he will. If they had associated other gods with him,
all their deeds would have come to nothing. Those are the ones to
whom We gave the Scripture, wisdom and prophethood. Even if these
people now disbelieving them, we have entrusted them to others who
do not disbelieve. Those were the people God guided Prophet, follow
the guidance they received, say, I asked no reward for it from you.
It is a lesson for all people. They have no grasp of God's true
measure when they say God has sent nothing down to a mere mortal.
Say, who was it who sent down the scripture which Moses brought as a
light and a guide to people, which you made into separate sheets
showing some but hiding many, you were taught things that neither
you nor your forefathers had known, say God sent it down, then
leave them engrossed in their vein talk. This is a blessed scripture
that we have sent down to confirm what came before it and for you,
Prophet, to warn the mother of cities and all around it. Those
who believe in the hereafter believe in the scripture, and do
not neglect their prayers.
Who could be more wicked than someone who invents a lie against
God, or claims a revelation has come to me when no revelation has
been sent to him or says, I too can reveal something equal to
God's revelation. If you prophet could only see the wicked in their
depth agonies, as the angels stretch out their hands to them,
saying, Let out your souls today you will be repaid with a
humiliating punishment for saying false things about God, and for
arrogantly rejecting his revelations. God will say, now you
returned to us alone. As we first created you, you have left behind
everything we gave you, nor do we see those intercessors of yours
that you claimed are partners of God, all the bonds between you
have been severed, and those about whom you made such claims have
deserted you. It is God who splits open the seed and the fruit alone.
He brings out the living from the dead and the dead from the living,
that is God. So how can you turn away from the truth, he makes the
dawn break he makes the night for rest, and he made the sun in the
moon to a precise measure. That is the design of the Almighty the All
Knowing it is He who made the stars so that you can be guided by
them in the dark on land or sea. We have made the science clear for
those who have knowledge. It is he who first produced you from a
single soul then gave you a place to stay in life and a resting
place after death. We have made our revelations clear to those who
understand it is He Who sends down water from the sky. With it we
produce the shoots of each plant, then bring greenery from it. And
from that we bring out grains, one writing on the other in close
packed rows. From the date palm comes clusters of low hanging
dates. And there are Gardens of vines, olives and pomegranate
alike yet different. Watch their fruits as they grow and ripen. In
all this, there are Signs for those who would believe
yet they made the gin partners with God, though he created them.
And without any true knowledge they attribute sons and daughters
to him. Glory be to Him. He is far higher than what would they
ascribe to him?
The Creator of the heavens and earth? How could he have children
when he has no spouse? When he created all things and has full
knowledge of all things? This is God your Lord, there is no god but
him, the Creator of all things. So worship Him. He is in charge of
everything. No vision can take him in. But he takes in all vision. He
is the all subtle, the all aware. Now clear proof has come to you
from your Lord. If anyone sees it, that will be to his advantage. If
anyone is blind to it, that will be to his loss. Say I am not your
guardian. This is how we explain our revelations in various ways.
So they will say you Muhammad have been studying to make them clear
for those who know follow what has been revealed to you from your
Lord. There is no god but him. Turn away from those who join
other gods with him. If it had been God's will, they would not
have done so. But we have not made you their guardian nor are you
there keeper. Believers. Do not revile those they call on beside
God in case they in their hostility and arrogance. reviled
God. To each community, we make their own action seem alluring,
but in the end, they will return to their Lord and He will inform
them of all day did they swear by God with their most solid oats
that if a miraculous sign came to them, they would believe in it.
Say Prophet signs are in the power of God alone. What will make you
believers realize that even if a sound came to them, they would
still not believe and we wouldn't make their hearts and their eyes
turn away just as they did not believe the first time
and leave them to flounder in their obstinacy. This is the end
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