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Surah 7: The Heights - Overview
Surah 8: The Spoils of War - Overview
Surah 9: The Repentance, The Disavowal - Overview
Surah 10: Jonah - Overview
Surah 11: The Prophet Hud - Overview
Surah 12: The Prophet Joseph - Overview
Essential Koran
The Enlightenment of the Prophet Moses [7:142-146]
And We appointed
with Moses thirty nights and We completed them with ten, so the appointed time
of his Lord was forty nights; and Moses said to his brother Aaron, 'Be my
successor among my people, and put things right, and do not follow the way of
the workers of corruption.' And when Moses came to our appointed time and his
Lord spoke with him, he said, 'Oh my Lord, show me, that I may behold Thee!'
Said He, 'Thou shalt not see Me; but behold the mountain -- if it stays fast in
its place, then thou shalt see Me.' And when his Lord revealed Him to the
mountain He made it crumble to dust; and Moses fell down swooning. So when he
awoke, he said, 'Glory be to Thee! I repent to Thee; I am the first of the
believers.' Said He, 'Moses, I have chosen thee above all men for My Messages
and My Utterance; take what I have given thee, and be of the thankful.' And We
wrote for him on the Tablets of everything an admonition, and a distinguishing
of everything; 'So take it forcefully, and command thy people to take the
fairest of it. I shall show you the habitation of the ungodly. I shall turn from
My signs those who wax proud in the earth unjustly; though they see every sign,
they will not believe in it, and though they see the way of rectitude they will
not take it for a way, and though they see the way of error, they will take it
for a way. That, because they have cried lies to Our signs and heeded them not.'
Friends of Allah [8:2-4]
Those only are believers who, when God is
mentioned, their hearts quake, and when His signs are recited to them, it
increases them in faith, and in their Lord they put their trust, those who
perform the prayer, and expend of what We have provided them, those in truth are
the believers; they have degrees with their Lord, and forgiveness, and generous
provision.
Holy Warfare [9:38-39]
O believers, what is amiss with you, that when
it is said to you, 'Go forth in the way of God,' you sink down heavily to the
ground? Are you so content with this present life, rather than the world to
come? Yet the enjoyment of this present life, compared with the world to come,
is a little thing. If you go not forth, He will chastise you with a painful
chastisement, and instead of you He will substitute another people; and you will
not hurt Him anything, for God is powerful over everything.
The Marvelous Ship [10:22-23]
It is He who
conveys you on the land and the sea; and when you are in the ship -- and the
ships run with them with a fair breeze, and they rejoice in it, there comes upon
them a strong wind, and waves come on them from every side, and they think they
are encompassed; they call upon God, making their religion His sincerely: 'If
Thou deliverest us from these, surely we shall be among the thankful.'
Nevertheless when He has delivered them behold, they are insolent in the earth,
wrongfully. O men, your insolence is only against yourselves; the enjoyment of
this present life, then unto Us you shall return, then We shall tell you what
you were doing.
The Rain of Life [10:24-25]
The likeness of this present life is as
water that We send down out of heaven, and the plants of the earth mingle with
it whereof men and cattle eat, till, when the earth has taken on its glitter and
has decked itself fair, and its inhabitants think they have power over it, Our
command comes upon it by night or day, and We make it stubble, as though
yesterday it flourished not. Even so we distinguish the signs for a people who
reflect. And God summons to the Abode of Peace, and He guides whomsoever He will
to a straight path...
The Terrible Flood [10:71-73]
And recite to them the story of Noah
when he said to his people, 'My people, if my standing here is grievous to you
and my reminding you of the signs of God, in God have I put my trust; so resolve
on your affair, with your associates, then let not your affair be a worry to
you, but make decision unto me, and respite me not. Then if you turn your backs,
I have not asked you for any wage; my wage falls only on God, and I have been
commanded to be of those that surrender.' But they cried him lies; so We
delivered him, and those with him, in the Ark, and We appointed them as
viceroys, and We drowned those who cried lies to Our signs; then behold how was
the end of them that were warned!
The Arrogant Ones [11:7-11]
And it is He who created the heavens and
the earth in six days, and His Throne was upon the waters -- that He might try
you, which one of you is fairer in works. And if thou sayest, 'You shall surely
be raised up after death,' the unbelievers will say, 'This is naught but a
manifest sorcery.' And if We postpone the chastisement from them till a reckoned
moment they will say 'What is detaining it?' Surely, the day it shall come to
them, it shall not be turned aside from them, and they shall be encompassed by
that they mocked at. And if We let a man taste mercy from Us, and then We wrest
it from him, he is desperate, ungrateful. But if We let him taste prosperity
after hardship that has visited him, he will say, 'The evils have gone from me';
behold, he is joyous, boastful -- save such as are patient, and do deeds of
righteousness; for them awaits forgiveness and a mighty wage.
The Mystical Dream of the Prophet Joseph [12:1-6]
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Alif Lam Mim. Those are the signs of the Manifest Book. We have sent it down as
an Arabic Koran; haply you will understand. We will relate to thee the fairest
of stories in that We have revealed to thee this Koran, though before it thou
wast one of the heedless. When Joseph said to his father, 'Father, I saw eleven
stars, and the sun and the moon; I saw them bowing down before me.' He said, 'O
my son, relate not thy vision to thy brothers, lest they devise against thee
some guile. Surely Satan is to man a manifest enemy. So will thy Lord choose
thee, and teach thee the interpretation of the tales, and perfect His blessing
upon thee and upon the House of Jacob, as He perfected it formerly on thy
fathers Abraham and Isaac; surely thy Lord is All-knowing, All-wise.' |
