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Surah 55: The Most Gracious - Overview Surah 56: The Inevitable - Overview Surah 57: Iron - Overview Surah 58: The Woman Who Pleads - Overview Surah 59: The Mustering - Overview Surah 60: That Which Examines - Overview
Essential Koran
Most Precious Allah [55:46-61]
But such as fears the Station of his
Lord, for them shall be two gardens -- O which of your Lord's bounties will you
and you deny? abounding in branches -- O which of your Lord's bounties will you
and you deny? therein two fountains of running water -- O which of your Lord's
bounties will you and you deny? therein of every fruit two kinds -- O
which of your Lord's bounties will you and you deny? reclining upon
couches lined with brocade, the fruits of the gardens nigh to gather -- O which
of your Lord's bounties will you and you deny? therein maidens restraining their
glances, untouched before them by any man or jinn -- O which of your Lord's
bounties will you and you deny? lovely as rubies, beautiful as coral -- O which
of your Lord's bounties will you and you deny? Shall the recompense of goodness
be other than goodness? O which of your Lord's bounties will you and you deny?
Inquire Inwardly [56:63-80]
Have you considered the water you drink?
Did you send it down from the clouds, or did We send it? Did We will, We would
make it bitter; so why are you not thankful? Have you considered the fire you
kindle? Did you make its timber to grow, or did We make it? We Ourselves made it
for a reminder, and a boon to the desert-dwellers. Then magnify the Name of thy
Lord, the All-mighty. No! I swear by the fallings of the stars (and that is
indeed a mighty oath, did you but know it) it is surely a noble Koran in a
hidden Book none but the purified shall touch, a sending down from the Lord of
all Being.
All is Written [57:20-24]
Race to forgiveness from your Lord, and a
Garden the breadth thereof is as the breadth of the heaven and earth, made ready
for those who believe in God and His Messengers. That is the bounty of God; He
gives it unto whomsoever He will; and God is of bounty abounding. No affliction
befalls in the earth or in yourselves, but it is in a Book, before We create it;
that is easy for God; that you may not grieve for what escapes you, nor rejoice
in what has come to you; God loves not any man proud and boastful, such as are
niggardly, and bid men to be niggardly. And whosoever turns away, God is the
All-sufficient, the All-laudable.
All-Encompassing Knowledge [58:7]
Hast thou not seen that God knows
whatsoever is in the heavens, and whatsoever is in the earth? Three men conspire
not secretly together, but He is the fourth of them, neither five men, but He is
the sixth of them, neither fewer than that, neither more, but He is with them,
wherever they may be; then He shall tell them what they have done, on the Day of
Resurrection. Surely God has knowledge of everything.
Allah is Allah [59:21-24]
If We had sent down this Koran upon a
mountain, thou wouldst have seen it humbled, split asunder out of the fear of
God. And those similitudes -- We strike them for men; haply they will reflect.
He is God; there is no god but He. He is the knower of the Unseen and the
Visible; He is the All-merciful, the All-compassionate. He is God; there is no
god but He. He is the King, the All-holy, the All-peaceable, the All-faithful,
the All-preserver, the All-mighty, the All-compeller, the All-sublime. Glory be
to God, above that they associate! He is God, the Creator, the Maker, the
Shaper. To Him belong the Names Most Beautiful. All that is in the heavens and
the earth magnifies Him; He is the All-mighty, the All-wise.
The Sacred Lineage of the Prophet Abraham [60:4-7]
You had a good
example in Abraham, and those with him, when they said to their people, 'We are
quit of you and that you serve, apart from God. We disbelieve in you, and
between us and you enmity has shown itself, and hatred for ever, until you
believe in God alone.' (Except that Abraham said unto his father, 'Certainly I
shall ask pardon for thee; but I have no power to do aught for thee against
God.') 'Our Lord, make us not a temptation to those who disbelieve; and forgive
us. Our Lord, Thou art the All-mighty, the All-wise.' You have had a good
example in them for whoever hopes for God and the Last Day. And whosoever turns
away, surely God is the All-sufficient, the All-laudable. It may be God will yet
establish between you and those of them with whom you are at enmity love. God is
All-powerful; God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate. |