سورة الأعراف
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
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المص
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كِتَابٌ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ فَلَا يَكُن فِي صَدْرِكَ حَرَجٌ مِّنْهُ
لِتُنذِرَ بِهِ وَذِكْرَى لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
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اتَّبِعُوا مَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكُم مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَلَا تَتَّبِعُوا
مِن دُونِهِ أَوْلِيَاءَ قَلِيلًا مَّا تَذَكَّرُونَ
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وَكَم مِّن قَرْيَةٍ أَهْلَكْنَاهَا فَجَاءَهَا بَأْسُنَا بَيَاتًا أَوْ
هُمْ قَائِلُونَ
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فَمَا كَانَ دَعْوَاهُمْ إِذْ جَاءَهُم بَأْسُنَا إِلَّا أَن قَالُوا
إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَالِمِينَ
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فَلَنَسْأَلَنَّ الَّذِينَ أُرْسِلَ إِلَيْهِمْ وَلَنَسْأَلَنَّ
الْمُرْسَلِينَ
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فَلَنَقُصَّنَّ عَلَيْهِم بِعِلْمٍ وَمَا كُنَّا غَائِبِينَ
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وَالْوَزْنُ يَوْمَئِذٍ الْحَقُّ فَمَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ
فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ
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وَمَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ فَأُولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ خَسِرُوا أَنفُسَهُم
بِمَا كَانُوا بِآيَاتِنَا يَظْلِمُونَ
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وَلَقَدْ مَكَّنَّاكُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَجَعَلْنَا لَكُمْ فِيهَا
مَعَايِشَ قَلِيلًا مَّا تَشْكُرُونَ
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وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَاكُمْ ثُمَّ صَوَّرْنَاكُمْ ثُمَّ قُلْنَا
لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ اسْجُدُوا لِآدَمَ فَسَجَدُوا إِلَّا إِبْلِيسَ لَمْ يَكُن مِّنَ
السَّاجِدِينَ
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قَالَ مَا مَنَعَكَ أَلَّا تَسْجُدَ إِذْ أَمَرْتُكَ قَالَ أَنَا
خَيْرٌ مِّنْهُ خَلَقْتَنِي مِن نَّارٍ وَخَلَقْتَهُ مِن طِينٍ
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قَالَ فَاهْبِطْ مِنْهَا فَمَا يَكُونُ لَكَ أَن تَتَكَبَّرَ فِيهَا
فَاخْرُجْ إِنَّكَ مِنَ الصَّاغِرِينَ
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قَالَ أَنظِرْنِي إِلَى يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ
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قَالَ إِنَّكَ مِنَ الْمُنظَرِينَ
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قَالَ فَبِمَا أَغْوَيْتَنِي لَأَقْعُدَنَّ لَهُمْ صِرَاطَكَ
الْمُسْتَقِيمَ
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ثُمَّ لَآتِيَنَّهُم مِّن بَيْنِ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ وَعَنْ
أَيْمَانِهِمْ وَعَن شَمَائِلِهِمْ وَلَا تَجِدُ أَكْثَرَهُمْ شَاكِرِينَ
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قَالَ اخْرُجْ مِنْهَا مَذْءُومًا مَّدْحُورًا لَّمَن تَبِعَكَ
مِنْهُمْ لَأَمْلَأَنَّ جَهَنَّمَ مِنكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ
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وَيَا آدَمُ اسْكُنْ أَنتَ وَزَوْجُكَ الْجَنَّةَ فَكُلَا مِنْ حَيْثُ
شِئْتُمَا وَلَا تَقْرَبَا هَذِهِ الشَّجَرَةَ فَتَكُونَا مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ
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فَوَسْوَسَ لَهُمَا الشَّيْطَانُ لِيُبْدِيَ لَهُمَا مَا وُورِيَ
عَنْهُمَا مِن سَوْآتِهِمَا وَقَالَ مَا نَهَاكُمَا رَبُّكُمَا عَنْ هَذِهِ الشَّجَرَةِ
إِلَّا أَن تَكُونَا مَلَكَيْنِ أَوْ تَكُونَا مِنَ الْخَالِدِينَ
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وَقَاسَمَهُمَا إِنِّي لَكُمَا لَمِنَ النَّاصِحِينَ
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فَدَلَّاهُمَا بِغُرُورٍ فَلَمَّا ذَاقَا الشَّجَرَةَ بَدَتْ لَهُمَا
سَوْآتُهُمَا وَطَفِقَا يَخْصِفَانِ عَلَيْهِمَا مِن وَرَقِ الْجَنَّةِ وَنَادَاهُمَا
رَبُّهُمَا أَلَمْ أَنْهَكُمَا عَن تِلْكُمَا الشَّجَرَةِ وَأَقُل لَّكُمَا إِنَّ
الشَّيْطَانَ لَكُمَا عَدُوٌّ مُّبِينٌ
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قَالَا رَبَّنَا ظَلَمْنَا أَنفُسَنَا وَإِن لَّمْ تَغْفِرْ لَنَا
وَتَرْحَمْنَا لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ
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قَالَ اهْبِطُوا بَعْضُكُمْ لِبَعْضٍ عَدُوٌّ وَلَكُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ
مُسْتَقَرٌّ وَمَتَاعٌ إِلَى حِينٍ
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قَالَ فِيهَا تَحْيَوْنَ وَفِيهَا تَمُوتُونَ وَمِنْهَا
تُخْرَجُونَ
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يَا بَنِي آدَمَ قَدْ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْكُمْ لِبَاسًا يُوَارِي
سَوْآتِكُمْ وَرِيشًا وَلِبَاسُ التَّقْوَى ذَلِكَ خَيْرٌ ذَلِكَ مِنْ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ
لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ
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يَا بَنِي آدَمَ لَا يَفْتِنَنَّكُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ كَمَا أَخْرَجَ
أَبَوَيْكُم مِّنَ الْجَنَّةِ يَنزِعُ عَنْهُمَا لِبَاسَهُمَا لِيُرِيَهُمَا
سَوْآتِهِمَا إِنَّهُ يَرَاكُمْ هُوَ وَقَبِيلُهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا تَرَوْنَهُمْ إِنَّا
جَعَلْنَا الشَّيَاطِينَ أَوْلِيَاءَ لِلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ
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وَإِذَا فَعَلُوا فَاحِشَةً قَالُوا وَجَدْنَا عَلَيْهَا آبَاءَنَا
وَاللَّهُ أَمَرَنَا بِهَا قُلْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَأْمُرُ بِالْفَحْشَاءِ أَتَقُولُونَ
عَلَى اللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
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قُلْ أَمَرَ رَبِّي بِالْقِسْطِ وَأَقِيمُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ عِندَ كُلِّ
مَسْجِدٍ وَادْعُوهُ مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ كَمَا بَدَأَكُمْ تَعُودُونَ
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فَرِيقًا هَدَى وَفَرِيقًا حَقَّ عَلَيْهِمُ الضَّلَالَةُ إِنَّهُمُ
اتَّخَذُوا الشَّيَاطِينَ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ وَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُم
مُّهْتَدُونَ
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يَا بَنِي آدَمَ خُذُوا زِينَتَكُمْ عِندَ كُلِّ مَسْجِدٍ وَكُلُوا
وَاشْرَبُوا وَلَا تُسْرِفُوا إِنَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُسْرِفِينَ
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قُلْ مَنْ حَرَّمَ زِينَةَ اللَّهِ الَّتِي أَخْرَجَ لِعِبَادِهِ
وَالطَّيِّبَاتِ مِنَ الرِّزْقِ قُلْ هِيَ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا
خَالِصَةً يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ كَذَلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ الْآيَاتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْلَمُونَ
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قُلْ إِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ رَبِّيَ الْفَوَاحِشَ مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا وَمَا
بَطَنَ وَالْإِثْمَ وَالْبَغْيَ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ وَأَن تُشْرِكُوا بِاللَّهِ مَا لَمْ
يُنَزِّلْ بِهِ سُلْطَانًا وَأَن تَقُولُوا عَلَى اللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
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وَلِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلٌ فَإِذَا جَاءَ أَجَلُهُمْ لَا
يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ سَاعَةً وَلَا يَسْتَقْدِمُونَ
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يَا بَنِي آدَمَ إِمَّا يَأْتِيَنَّكُمْ رُسُلٌ مِّنكُمْ يَقُصُّونَ
عَلَيْكُمْ آيَاتِي فَمَنِ اتَّقَى وَأَصْلَحَ فَلَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ
يَحْزَنُونَ
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وَالَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا وَاسْتَكْبَرُوا عَنْهَا أُولَئِكَ
أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ
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فَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَرَى عَلَى اللَّهِ كَذِبًا أَوْ كَذَّبَ
بِآيَاتِهِ أُولَئِكَ يَنَالُهُمْ نَصِيبُهُم مِّنَ الْكِتَابِ حَتَّى إِذَا جَاءَتْهُمْ
رُسُلُنَا يَتَوَفَّوْنَهُمْ قَالُوا أَيْنَ مَا كُنتُمْ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ
قَالُوا ضَلُّوا عَنَّا وَشَهِدُوا عَلَى أَنفُسِهِمْ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا كَافِرِينَ
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قَالَ ادْخُلُوا فِي أُمَمٍ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلِكُم مِّنَ الْجِنِّ
وَالْإِنسِ فِي النَّارِ كُلَّمَا دَخَلَتْ أُمَّةٌ لَّعَنَتْ أُخْتَهَا حَتَّى إِذَا
ادَّارَكُوا فِيهَا جَمِيعًا قَالَتْ أُخْرَاهُمْ لِأُولَاهُمْ رَبَّنَا هَؤُلَاءِ
أَضَلُّونَا فَآتِهِمْ عَذَابًا ضِعْفًا مِّنَ النَّارِ قَالَ لِكُلٍّ ضِعْفٌ وَلَكِن
لَّا تَعْلَمُونَ
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وَقَالَتْ أُولَاهُمْ لِأُخْرَاهُمْ فَمَا كَانَ لَكُمْ عَلَيْنَا مِن
فَضْلٍ فَذُوقُوا الْعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْسِبُونَ
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إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا وَاسْتَكْبَرُوا عَنْهَا لَا
تُفَتَّحُ لَهُمْ أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاءِ وَلَا يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ حَتَّى يَلِجَ
الْجَمَلُ فِي سَمِّ الْخِيَاطِ وَكَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُجْرِمِينَ
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لَهُم مِّن جَهَنَّمَ مِهَادٌ وَمِن فَوْقِهِمْ غَوَاشٍ وَكَذَلِكَ
نَجْزِي الظَّالِمِينَ
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وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَا نُكَلِّفُ نَفْسًا
إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا أُولَئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْجَنَّةِ هُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ
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وَنَزَعْنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِم مِّنْ غِلٍّ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهِمُ
الْأَنْهَارُ وَقَالُوا الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي هَدَانَا لِهَذَا وَمَا كُنَّا
لِنَهْتَدِيَ لَوْلَا أَنْ هَدَانَا اللَّهُ لَقَدْ جَاءَتْ رُسُلُ رَبِّنَا بِالْحَقِّ
وَنُودُوا أَن تِلْكُمُ الْجَنَّةُ أُورِثْتُمُوهَا بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ
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وَنَادَى أَصْحَابُ الْجَنَّةِ أَصْحَابَ النَّارِ أَن قَدْ وَجَدْنَا
مَا وَعَدَنَا رَبُّنَا حَقًّا فَهَلْ وَجَدتُّم مَّا وَعَدَ رَبُّكُمْ حَقًّا قَالُوا
نَعَمْ فَأَذَّنَ مُؤَذِّنٌ بَيْنَهُمْ أَن لَّعْنَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى الظَّالِمِينَ
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الَّذِينَ يَصُدُّونَ عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَيَبْغُونَهَا عِوَجًا
وَهُم بِالْآخِرَةِ كَافِرُونَ
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وَبَيْنَهُمَا حِجَابٌ وَعَلَى الْأَعْرَافِ رِجَالٌ يَعْرِفُونَ
كُلًّا بِسِيمَاهُمْ وَنَادَوْا أَصْحَابَ الْجَنَّةِ أَن سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ لَمْ
يَدْخُلُوهَا وَهُمْ يَطْمَعُونَ
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وَإِذَا صُرِفَتْ أَبْصَارُهُمْ تِلْقَاءَ أَصْحَابِ النَّارِ قَالُوا
رَبَّنَا لَا تَجْعَلْنَا مَعَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ
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وَنَادَى أَصْحَابُ الْأَعْرَافِ رِجَالًا يَعْرِفُونَهُم بِسِيمَاهُمْ
قَالُوا مَا أَغْنَى عَنكُمْ جَمْعُكُمْ وَمَا كُنتُمْ تَسْتَكْبِرُونَ
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أَهَؤُلَاءِ الَّذِينَ أَقْسَمْتُمْ لَا يَنَالُهُمُ اللَّهُ
بِرَحْمَةٍ ادْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ لَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْكُمْ وَلَا أَنتُمْ تَحْزَنُونَ
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وَنَادَى أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ أَصْحَابَ الْجَنَّةِ أَنْ أَفِيضُوا
عَلَيْنَا مِنَ الْمَاءِ أَوْ مِمَّا رَزَقَكُمُ اللَّهُ قَالُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ
حَرَّمَهُمَا عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ
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الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا دِينَهُمْ لَهْوًا وَلَعِبًا وَغَرَّتْهُمُ
الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا فَالْيَوْمَ نَنسَاهُمْ كَمَا نَسُوا لِقَاءَ يَوْمِهِمْ هَذَا
وَمَا كَانُوا بِآيَاتِنَا يَجْحَدُونَ
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وَلَقَدْ جِئْنَاهُم بِكِتَابٍ فَصَّلْنَاهُ عَلَى عِلْمٍ هُدًى
وَرَحْمَةً لِّقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ
53
هَلْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّا تَأْوِيلَهُ يَوْمَ يَأْتِي تَأْوِيلُهُ
يَقُولُ الَّذِينَ نَسُوهُ مِن قَبْلُ قَدْ جَاءَتْ رُسُلُ رَبِّنَا بِالْحَقِّ فَهَل
لَّنَا مِن شُفَعَاءَ فَيَشْفَعُوا لَنَا أَوْ نُرَدُّ فَنَعْمَلَ غَيْرَ الَّذِي كُنَّا
نَعْمَلُ قَدْ خَسِرُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ
54
إِنَّ رَبَّكُمُ اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ فِي
سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ ثُمَّ اسْتَوَى عَلَى الْعَرْشِ يُغْشِي اللَّيْلَ النَّهَارَ
يَطْلُبُهُ حَثِيثًا وَالشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ وَالنُّجُومَ مُسَخَّرَاتٍ بِأَمْرِهِ
أَلَا لَهُ الْخَلْقُ وَالْأَمْرُ تَبَارَكَ اللَّهُ رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينَ
55
ادْعُوا رَبَّكُمْ تَضَرُّعًا وَخُفْيَةً إِنَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ
الْمُعْتَدِينَ
56
وَلَا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ بَعْدَ إِصْلَاحِهَا وَادْعُوهُ
خَوْفًا وَطَمَعًا إِنَّ رَحْمَتَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ مِّنَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ
57
وَهُوَ الَّذِي يُرْسِلُ الرِّيَاحَ بُشْرًا بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَحْمَتِهِ
حَتَّى إِذَا أَقَلَّتْ سَحَابًا ثِقَالًا سُقْنَاهُ لِبَلَدٍ مَّيِّتٍ فَأَنزَلْنَا
بِهِ الْمَاءَ فَأَخْرَجْنَا بِهِ مِن كُلِّ الثَّمَرَاتِ كَذَلِكَ نُخْرِجُ الْمَوْتَى
لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ
58
وَالْبَلَدُ الطَّيِّبُ يَخْرُجُ نَبَاتُهُ بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِ وَالَّذِي
خَبُثَ لَا يَخْرُجُ إِلَّا نَكِدًا كَذَلِكَ نُصَرِّفُ الْآيَاتِ لِقَوْمٍ
يَشْكُرُونَ
59
لَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَى قَوْمِهِ فَقَالَ يَا قَوْمِ
اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَهٍ غَيْرُهُ إِنِّي أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ
يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ
60
قَالَ الْمَلَأُ مِن قَوْمِهِ إِنَّا لَنَرَاكَ فِي ضَلَالٍ
مُّبِينٍ
61
قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ لَيْسَ بِي ضَلَالَةٌ وَلَكِنِّي رَسُولٌ مِّن رَّبِّ
الْعَالَمِينَ
62
أُبَلِّغُكُمْ رِسَالَاتِ رَبِّي وَأَنصَحُ لَكُمْ وَأَعْلَمُ مِنَ
اللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
63
أَوَعَجِبْتُمْ أَن جَاءَكُمْ ذِكْرٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ عَلَى رَجُلٍ
مِّنكُمْ لِيُنذِرَكُمْ وَلِتَتَّقُوا وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ
64
فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَأَنجَيْنَاهُ وَالَّذِينَ مَعَهُ فِي الْفُلْكِ
وَأَغْرَقْنَا الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا قَوْمًا عَمِينَ
65
وَإِلَى عَادٍ أَخَاهُمْ هُودًا قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ
مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَهٍ غَيْرُهُ أَفَلَا تَتَّقُونَ
66
قَالَ الْمَلَأُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِن قَوْمِهِ إِنَّا لَنَرَاكَ فِي
سَفَاهَةٍ وَإِنَّا لَنَظُنُّكَ مِنَ الْكَاذِبِينَ
67
قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ لَيْسَ بِي سَفَاهَةٌ وَلَكِنِّي رَسُولٌ مِّن رَّبِّ
الْعَالَمِينَ
68
أُبَلِّغُكُمْ رِسَالَاتِ رَبِّي وَأَنَا لَكُمْ نَاصِحٌ أَمِينٌ
69
أَوَعَجِبْتُمْ أَن جَاءَكُمْ ذِكْرٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ عَلَى رَجُلٍ
مِّنكُمْ لِيُنذِرَكُمْ وَاذْكُرُوا إِذْ جَعَلَكُمْ خُلَفَاءَ مِن بَعْدِ قَوْمِ نُوحٍ
وَزَادَكُمْ فِي الْخَلْقِ بَسْطَةً فَاذْكُرُوا آلَاءَ اللَّهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ
تُفْلِحُونَ
70
قَالُوا أَجِئْتَنَا لِنَعْبُدَ اللَّهَ وَحْدَهُ وَنَذَرَ مَا كَانَ
يَعْبُدُ آبَاؤُنَا فَأْتِنَا بِمَا تَعِدُنَا إِن كُنتَ مِنَ الصَّادِقِينَ
71
قَالَ قَدْ وَقَعَ عَلَيْكُم مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ رِجْسٌ وَغَضَبٌ
أَتُجَادِلُونَنِي فِي أَسْمَاءٍ سَمَّيْتُمُوهَا أَنتُمْ وَآبَاؤُكُم مَّا نَزَّلَ
اللَّهُ بِهَا مِن سُلْطَانٍ فَانتَظِرُوا إِنِّي مَعَكُم مِّنَ الْمُنتَظِرِينَ
72
فَأَنجَيْنَاهُ وَالَّذِينَ مَعَهُ بِرَحْمَةٍ مِّنَّا وَقَطَعْنَا
دَابِرَ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا وَمَا كَانُوا مُؤْمِنِينَ
73
وَإِلَى ثَمُودَ أَخَاهُمْ صَالِحًا قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُوا
اللَّهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَهٍ غَيْرُهُ قَدْ جَاءَتْكُم بَيِّنَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ
هَذِهِ نَاقَةُ اللَّهِ لَكُمْ آيَةً فَذَرُوهَا تَأْكُلْ فِي أَرْضِ اللَّهِ وَلَا
تَمَسُّوهَا بِسُوءٍ فَيَأْخُذَكُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ
74
وَاذْكُرُوا إِذْ جَعَلَكُمْ خُلَفَاءَ مِن بَعْدِ عَادٍ وَبَوَّأَكُمْ
فِي الْأَرْضِ تَتَّخِذُونَ مِن سُهُولِهَا قُصُورًا وَتَنْحِتُونَ الْجِبَالَ بُيُوتًا
فَاذْكُرُوا آلَاءَ اللَّهِ وَلَا تَعْثَوْا فِي الْأَرْضِ مُفْسِدِينَ
75
قَالَ الْمَلَأُ الَّذِينَ اسْتَكْبَرُوا مِن قَوْمِهِ لِلَّذِينَ
اسْتُضْعِفُوا لِمَنْ آمَنَ مِنْهُمْ أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ صَالِحًا مُّرْسَلٌ مِّن
رَّبِّهِ قَالُوا إِنَّا بِمَا أُرْسِلَ بِهِ مُؤْمِنُونَ
76
قَالَ الَّذِينَ اسْتَكْبَرُوا إِنَّا بِالَّذِي آمَنتُم بِهِ
كَافِرُونَ
77
فَعَقَرُوا النَّاقَةَ وَعَتَوْا عَنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّهِمْ وَقَالُوا يَا
صَالِحُ ائْتِنَا بِمَا تَعِدُنَا إِن كُنتَ مِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ
78
فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الرَّجْفَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا فِي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِمِينَ
79
فَتَوَلَّى عَنْهُمْ وَقَالَ يَا قَوْمِ لَقَدْ أَبْلَغْتُكُمْ
رِسَالَةَ رَبِّي وَنَصَحْتُ لَكُمْ وَلَكِن لَّا تُحِبُّونَ النَّاصِحِينَ
80
وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِ أَتَأْتُونَ الْفَاحِشَةَ مَا
سَبَقَكُم بِهَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِّنَ الْعَالَمِينَ
81
إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الرِّجَالَ شَهْوَةً مِّن دُونِ النِّسَاءِ بَلْ
أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ مُّسْرِفُونَ
82
وَمَا كَانَ جَوَابَ قَوْمِهِ إِلَّا أَن قَالُوا أَخْرِجُوهُم مِّن
قَرْيَتِكُمْ إِنَّهُمْ أُنَاسٌ يَتَطَهَّرُونَ
83
فَأَنجَيْنَاهُ وَأَهْلَهُ إِلَّا امْرَأَتَهُ كَانَتْ مِنَ
الْغَابِرِينَ
84
وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِم مَّطَرًا فَانظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ
الْمُجْرِمِينَ
85
وَإِلَى مَدْيَنَ أَخَاهُمْ شُعَيْبًا قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُوا
اللَّهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَهٍ غَيْرُهُ قَدْ جَاءَتْكُم بَيِّنَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ
فَأَوْفُوا الْكَيْلَ وَالْمِيزَانَ وَلَا تَبْخَسُوا النَّاسَ أَشْيَاءَهُمْ وَلَا
تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ بَعْدَ إِصْلَاحِهَا ذَلِكُمْ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ إِن كُنتُم
مُّؤْمِنِينَ
86
وَلَا تَقْعُدُوا بِكُلِّ صِرَاطٍ تُوعِدُونَ وَتَصُدُّونَ عَن سَبِيلِ
اللَّهِ مَنْ آمَنَ بِهِ وَتَبْغُونَهَا عِوَجًا وَاذْكُرُوا إِذْ كُنتُمْ قَلِيلًا
فَكَثَّرَكُمْ وَانظُرُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الْمُفْسِدِينَ
87
وَإِن كَانَ طَائِفَةٌ مِّنكُمْ آمَنُوا بِالَّذِي أُرْسِلْتُ بِهِ
وَطَائِفَةٌ لَّمْ يُؤْمِنُوا فَاصْبِرُوا حَتَّى يَحْكُمَ اللَّهُ بَيْنَنَا وَهُوَ
خَيْرُ الْحَاكِمِينَ
88
قَالَ الْمَلَأُ الَّذِينَ اسْتَكْبَرُوا مِن قَوْمِهِ لَنُخْرِجَنَّكَ
يَا شُعَيْبُ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَكَ مِن قَرْيَتِنَا أَوْ لَتَعُودُنَّ فِي
مِلَّتِنَا قَالَ أَوَلَوْ كُنَّا كَارِهِينَ
89
قَدِ افْتَرَيْنَا عَلَى اللَّهِ كَذِبًا إِنْ عُدْنَا فِي مِلَّتِكُم
بَعْدَ إِذْ نَجَّانَا اللَّهُ مِنْهَا وَمَا يَكُونُ لَنَا أَن نَّعُودَ فِيهَا إِلَّا
أَن يَشَاءَ اللَّهُ رَبُّنَا وَسِعَ رَبُّنَا كُلَّ شَيْءٍ عِلْمًا عَلَى اللَّهِ
تَوَكَّلْنَا رَبَّنَا افْتَحْ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ قَوْمِنَا بِالْحَقِّ وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ
الْفَاتِحِينَ
90
وَقَالَ الْمَلَأُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِن قَوْمِهِ لَئِنِ
اتَّبَعْتُمْ شُعَيْبًا إِنَّكُمْ إِذًا لَّخَاسِرُونَ
91
فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الرَّجْفَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا فِي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِمِينَ
92
الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا شُعَيْبًا كَأَن لَّمْ يَغْنَوْا فِيهَا الَّذِينَ
كَذَّبُوا شُعَيْبًا كَانُوا هُمُ الْخَاسِرِينَ
93
فَتَوَلَّى عَنْهُمْ وَقَالَ يَا قَوْمِ لَقَدْ أَبْلَغْتُكُمْ
رِسَالَاتِ رَبِّي وَنَصَحْتُ لَكُمْ فَكَيْفَ آسَى عَلَى قَوْمٍ كَافِرِينَ
94
وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا فِي قَرْيَةٍ مِّن نَّبِيٍّ إِلَّا أَخَذْنَا
أَهْلَهَا بِالْبَأْسَاءِ وَالضَّرَّاءِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَضَّرَّعُونَ
95
ثُمَّ بَدَّلْنَا مَكَانَ السَّيِّئَةِ الْحَسَنَةَ حَتَّى عَفَوا
وَّقَالُوا قَدْ مَسَّ آبَاءَنَا الضَّرَّاءُ وَالسَّرَّاءُ فَأَخَذْنَاهُم بَغْتَةً
وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ
96
وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْقُرَى آمَنُوا وَاتَّقَوْا لَفَتَحْنَا
عَلَيْهِم بَرَكَاتٍ مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَلَكِن كَذَّبُوا فَأَخَذْنَاهُم
بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ
97
أَفَأَمِنَ أَهْلُ الْقُرَى أَن يَأْتِيَهُم بَأْسُنَا بَيَاتًا وَهُمْ
نَائِمُونَ
98
أَوَأَمِنَ أَهْلُ الْقُرَى أَن يَأْتِيَهُم بَأْسُنَا ضُحًى وَهُمْ
يَلْعَبُونَ
99
أَفَأَمِنُوا مَكْرَ اللَّهِ فَلَا يَأْمَنُ مَكْرَ اللَّهِ إِلَّا
الْقَوْمُ الْخَاسِرُونَ
100
أَوَلَمْ يَهْدِ لِلَّذِينَ يَرِثُونَ الْأَرْضَ مِن بَعْدِ أَهْلِهَا
أَن لَّوْ نَشَاءُ أَصَبْنَاهُم بِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَنَطْبَعُ عَلَى قُلُوبِهِمْ فَهُمْ لَا
يَسْمَعُونَ
101
تِلْكَ الْقُرَى نَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ مِنْ أَنبَائِهَا وَلَقَدْ
جَاءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُم بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ فَمَا كَانُوا لِيُؤْمِنُوا بِمَا كَذَّبُوا مِن
قَبْلُ كَذَلِكَ يَطْبَعُ اللَّهُ عَلَى قُلُوبِ الْكَافِرِينَ
102
وَمَا وَجَدْنَا لِأَكْثَرِهِم مِّنْ عَهْدٍ وَإِن وَجَدْنَا
أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَفَاسِقِينَ
103
ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَا مِن بَعْدِهِم مُّوسَى بِآيَاتِنَا إِلَى فِرْعَوْنَ
وَمَلَئِهِ فَظَلَمُوا بِهَا فَانظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الْمُفْسِدِينَ
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وَقَالَ مُوسَى يَا فِرْعَوْنُ إِنِّي رَسُولٌ مِّن رَّبِّ
الْعَالَمِينَ
105
حَقِيقٌ عَلَى أَن لَّا أَقُولَ عَلَى اللَّهِ إِلَّا الْحَقَّ قَدْ
جِئْتُكُم بِبَيِّنَةٍ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ فَأَرْسِلْ مَعِيَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ
106
قَالَ إِن كُنتَ جِئْتَ بِآيَةٍ فَأْتِ بِهَا إِن كُنتَ مِنَ
الصَّادِقِينَ
107
فَأَلْقَى عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِيَ ثُعْبَانٌ مُّبِينٌ
108
وَنَزَعَ يَدَهُ فَإِذَا هِيَ بَيْضَاءُ لِلنَّاظِرِينَ
109
قَالَ الْمَلَأُ مِن قَوْمِ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّ هَذَا لَسَاحِرٌ
عَلِيمٌ
110
يُرِيدُ أَن يُخْرِجَكُم مِّنْ أَرْضِكُمْ فَمَاذَا تَأْمُرُونَ
111
قَالُوا أَرْجِهْ وَأَخَاهُ وَأَرْسِلْ فِي الْمَدَائِنِ
حَاشِرِينَ
112
يَأْتُوكَ بِكُلِّ سَاحِرٍ عَلِيمٍ
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وَجَاءَ السَّحَرَةُ فِرْعَوْنَ قَالُوا إِنَّ لَنَا لَأَجْرًا إِن
كُنَّا نَحْنُ الْغَالِبِينَ
114
قَالَ نَعَمْ وَإِنَّكُمْ لَمِنَ الْمُقَرَّبِينَ
115
قَالُوا يَا مُوسَى إِمَّا أَن تُلْقِيَ وَإِمَّا أَن نَّكُونَ نَحْنُ
الْمُلْقِينَ
116
قَالَ أَلْقُوا فَلَمَّا أَلْقَوْا سَحَرُوا أَعْيُنَ النَّاسِ
وَاسْتَرْهَبُوهُمْ وَجَاءُوا بِسِحْرٍ عَظِيمٍ
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وَأَوْحَيْنَا إِلَى مُوسَى أَنْ أَلْقِ عَصَاكَ فَإِذَا هِيَ
تَلْقَفُ مَا يَأْفِكُونَ
118
فَوَقَعَ الْحَقُّ وَبَطَلَ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
119
فَغُلِبُوا هُنَالِكَ وَانقَلَبُوا صَاغِرِينَ
120
وَأُلْقِيَ السَّحَرَةُ سَاجِدِينَ
121
قَالُوا آمَنَّا بِرَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
122
رَبِّ مُوسَى وَهَارُونَ
123
قَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ آمَنتُم بِهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ آذَنَ لَكُمْ إِنَّ هَذَا
لَمَكْرٌ مَّكَرْتُمُوهُ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ لِتُخْرِجُوا مِنْهَا أَهْلَهَا فَسَوْفَ
تَعْلَمُونَ
124
لَأُقَطِّعَنَّ أَيْدِيَكُمْ وَأَرْجُلَكُم مِّنْ خِلَافٍ ثُمَّ
لَأُصَلِّبَنَّكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ
125
قَالُوا إِنَّا إِلَى رَبِّنَا مُنقَلِبُونَ
126
وَمَا تَنقِمُ مِنَّا إِلَّا أَنْ آمَنَّا بِآيَاتِ رَبِّنَا لَمَّا
جَاءَتْنَا رَبَّنَا أَفْرِغْ عَلَيْنَا صَبْرًا وَتَوَفَّنَا مُسْلِمِينَ
127
وَقَالَ الْمَلَأُ مِن قَوْمِ فِرْعَوْنَ أَتَذَرُ مُوسَى وَقَوْمَهُ
لِيُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَيَذَرَكَ وَآلِهَتَكَ قَالَ سَنُقَتِّلُ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ
وَنَسْتَحْيِي نِسَاءَهُمْ وَإِنَّا فَوْقَهُمْ قَاهِرُونَ
128
قَالَ مُوسَى لِقَوْمِهِ اسْتَعِينُوا بِاللَّهِ وَاصْبِرُوا إِنَّ
الْأَرْضَ لِلَّهِ يُورِثُهَا مَن يَشَاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ وَالْعَاقِبَةُ
لِلْمُتَّقِينَ
129
قَالُوا أُوذِينَا مِن قَبْلِ أَن تَأْتِيَنَا وَمِن بَعْدِ مَا
جِئْتَنَا قَالَ عَسَى رَبُّكُمْ أَن يُهْلِكَ عَدُوَّكُمْ وَيَسْتَخْلِفَكُمْ فِي
الْأَرْضِ فَيَنظُرَ كَيْفَ تَعْمَلُونَ
130
وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَا آلَ فِرْعَوْنَ بِالسِّنِينَ وَنَقْصٍ مِّنَ
الثَّمَرَاتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ
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فَإِذَا جَاءَتْهُمُ الْحَسَنَةُ قَالُوا لَنَا هَذِهِ وَإِن
تُصِبْهُمْ سَيِّئَةٌ يَطَّيَّرُوا بِمُوسَى وَمَن مَّعَهُ أَلَا إِنَّمَا طَائِرُهُمْ
عِندَ اللَّهِ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
132
وَقَالُوا مَهْمَا تَأْتِنَا بِهِ مِنْ آيَةٍ لِّتَسْحَرَنَا بِهَا
فَمَا نَحْنُ لَكَ بِمُؤْمِنِينَ
133
فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ الطُّوفَانَ وَالْجَرَادَ وَالْقُمَّلَ
وَالضَّفَادِعَ وَالدَّمَ آيَاتٍ مُّفَصَّلَاتٍ فَاسْتَكْبَرُوا وَكَانُوا قَوْمًا
مُّجْرِمِينَ
134
وَلَمَّا وَقَعَ عَلَيْهِمُ الرِّجْزُ قَالُوا يَا مُوسَى ادْعُ لَنَا
رَبَّكَ بِمَا عَهِدَ عِندَكَ لَئِن كَشَفْتَ عَنَّا الرِّجْزَ لَنُؤْمِنَنَّ لَكَ
وَلَنُرْسِلَنَّ مَعَكَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ
135
فَلَمَّا كَشَفْنَا عَنْهُمُ الرِّجْزَ إِلَى أَجَلٍ هُم بَالِغُوهُ
إِذَا هُمْ يَنكُثُونَ
136
فَانتَقَمْنَا مِنْهُمْ فَأَغْرَقْنَاهُمْ فِي الْيَمِّ بِأَنَّهُمْ
كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا وَكَانُوا عَنْهَا غَافِلِينَ
137
وَأَوْرَثْنَا الْقَوْمَ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا يُسْتَضْعَفُونَ مَشَارِقَ
الْأَرْضِ وَمَغَارِبَهَا الَّتِي بَارَكْنَا فِيهَا وَتَمَّتْ كَلِمَتُ رَبِّكَ
الْحُسْنَى عَلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ بِمَا صَبَرُوا وَدَمَّرْنَا مَا كَانَ يَصْنَعُ
فِرْعَوْنُ وَقَوْمُهُ وَمَا كَانُوا يَعْرِشُونَ
138
وَجَاوَزْنَا بِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ الْبَحْرَ فَأَتَوْا عَلَى قَوْمٍ
يَعْكُفُونَ عَلَى أَصْنَامٍ لَّهُمْ قَالُوا يَا مُوسَى اجْعَل لَّنَا إِلَهًا كَمَا
لَهُمْ آلِهَةٌ قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ قَوْمٌ تَجْهَلُونَ
139
إِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ مُتَبَّرٌ مَّا هُمْ فِيهِ وَبَاطِلٌ مَّا كَانُوا
يَعْمَلُونَ
140
قَالَ أَغَيْرَ اللَّهِ أَبْغِيكُمْ إِلَهًا وَهُوَ فَضَّلَكُمْ عَلَى
الْعَالَمِينَ
141
وَإِذْ أَنجَيْنَاكُم مِّنْ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ يَسُومُونَكُمْ سُوءَ
الْعَذَابِ يُقَتِّلُونَ أَبْنَاءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَاءَكُمْ وَفِي ذَلِكُم
بَلَاءٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ
142
وَوَاعَدْنَا مُوسَى ثَلَاثِينَ لَيْلَةً وَأَتْمَمْنَاهَا بِعَشْرٍ
فَتَمَّ مِيقَاتُ رَبِّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً وَقَالَ مُوسَى لِأَخِيهِ هَارُونَ
اخْلُفْنِي فِي قَوْمِي وَأَصْلِحْ وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ سَبِيلَ الْمُفْسِدِينَ
143
وَلَمَّا جَاءَ مُوسَى لِمِيقَاتِنَا وَكَلَّمَهُ رَبُّهُ قَالَ رَبِّ
أَرِنِي أَنظُرْ إِلَيْكَ قَالَ لَن تَرَانِي وَلَكِنِ انظُرْ إِلَى الْجَبَلِ فَإِنِ
اسْتَقَرَّ مَكَانَهُ فَسَوْفَ تَرَانِي فَلَمَّا تَجَلَّى رَبُّهُ لِلْجَبَلِ جَعَلَهُ
دَكًّا وَخَرَّ مُوسَى صَعِقًا فَلَمَّا أَفَاقَ قَالَ سُبْحَانَكَ تُبْتُ إِلَيْكَ
وَأَنَا أَوَّلُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
144
قَالَ يَا مُوسَى إِنِّي اصْطَفَيْتُكَ عَلَى النَّاسِ بِرِسَالَاتِي
وَبِكَلَامِي فَخُذْ مَا آتَيْتُكَ وَكُن مِّنَ الشَّاكِرِينَ
145
وَكَتَبْنَا لَهُ فِي الْأَلْوَاحِ مِن كُلِّ شَيْءٍ مَّوْعِظَةً
وَتَفْصِيلًا لِّكُلِّ شَيْءٍ فَخُذْهَا بِقُوَّةٍ وَأْمُرْ قَوْمَكَ يَأْخُذُوا
بِأَحْسَنِهَا سَأُرِيكُمْ دَارَ الْفَاسِقِينَ
146
سَأَصْرِفُ عَنْ آيَاتِيَ الَّذِينَ يَتَكَبَّرُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ
بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ وَإِن يَرَوْا كُلَّ آيَةٍ لَّا يُؤْمِنُوا بِهَا وَإِن يَرَوْا
سَبِيلَ الرُّشْدِ لَا يَتَّخِذُوهُ سَبِيلًا وَإِن يَرَوْا سَبِيلَ الْغَيِّ
يَتَّخِذُوهُ سَبِيلًا ذَلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا وَكَانُوا عَنْهَا
غَافِلِينَ
147
وَالَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا وَلِقَاءِ الْآخِرَةِ حَبِطَتْ
أَعْمَالُهُمْ هَلْ يُجْزَوْنَ إِلَّا مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
148
وَاتَّخَذَ قَوْمُ مُوسَى مِن بَعْدِهِ مِنْ حُلِيِّهِمْ عِجْلًا
جَسَدًا لَّهُ خُوَارٌ أَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّهُ لَا يُكَلِّمُهُمْ وَلَا يَهْدِيهِمْ
سَبِيلًا اتَّخَذُوهُ وَكَانُوا ظَالِمِينَ
149
وَلَمَّا سُقِطَ فِي أَيْدِيهِمْ وَرَأَوْا أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ ضَلُّوا
قَالُوا لَئِن لَّمْ يَرْحَمْنَا رَبُّنَا وَيَغْفِرْ لَنَا لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ
الْخَاسِرِينَ
150
وَلَمَّا رَجَعَ مُوسَى إِلَى قَوْمِهِ غَضْبَانَ أَسِفًا قَالَ
بِئْسَمَا خَلَفْتُمُونِي مِن بَعْدِي أَعَجِلْتُمْ أَمْرَ رَبِّكُمْ وَأَلْقَى
الْأَلْوَاحَ وَأَخَذَ بِرَأْسِ أَخِيهِ يَجُرُّهُ إِلَيْهِ قَالَ ابْنَ أُمَّ إِنَّ
الْقَوْمَ اسْتَضْعَفُونِي وَكَادُوا يَقْتُلُونَنِي فَلَا تُشْمِتْ بِيَ الْأَعْدَاءَ
وَلَا تَجْعَلْنِي مَعَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ
151
قَالَ رَبِّ اغْفِرْ لِي وَلِأَخِي وَأَدْخِلْنَا فِي رَحْمَتِكَ
وَأَنتَ أَرْحَمُ الرَّاحِمِينَ
152
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا الْعِجْلَ سَيَنَالُهُمْ غَضَبٌ مِّن
رَّبِّهِمْ وَذِلَّةٌ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَكَذَلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُفْتَرِينَ
153
وَالَّذِينَ عَمِلُوا السَّيِّئَاتِ ثُمَّ تَابُوا مِن بَعْدِهَا
وَآمَنُوا إِنَّ رَبَّكَ مِن بَعْدِهَا لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
154
وَلَمَّا سَكَتَ عَن مُّوسَى الْغَضَبُ أَخَذَ الْأَلْوَاحَ وَفِي
نُسْخَتِهَا هُدًى وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِرَبِّهِمْ يَرْهَبُونَ
155
وَاخْتَارَ مُوسَى قَوْمَهُ سَبْعِينَ رَجُلًا لِّمِيقَاتِنَا
فَلَمَّا أَخَذَتْهُمُ الرَّجْفَةُ قَالَ رَبِّ لَوْ شِئْتَ أَهْلَكْتَهُم مِّن قَبْلُ
وَإِيَّايَ أَتُهْلِكُنَا بِمَا فَعَلَ السُّفَهَاءُ مِنَّا إِنْ هِيَ إِلَّا فِتْنَتُكَ
تُضِلُّ بِهَا مَن تَشَاءُ وَتَهْدِي مَن تَشَاءُ أَنتَ وَلِيُّنَا فَاغْفِرْ لَنَا
وَارْحَمْنَا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ الْغَافِرِينَ
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وَاكْتُبْ لَنَا فِي هَذِهِ الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ
إِنَّا هُدْنَا إِلَيْكَ قَالَ عَذَابِي أُصِيبُ بِهِ مَنْ أَشَاءُ وَرَحْمَتِي وَسِعَتْ
كُلَّ شَيْءٍ فَسَأَكْتُبُهَا لِلَّذِينَ يَتَّقُونَ وَيُؤْتُونَ الزَّكَاةَ وَالَّذِينَ
هُم بِآيَاتِنَا يُؤْمِنُونَ
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الَّذِينَ يَتَّبِعُونَ الرَّسُولَ النَّبِيَّ الْأُمِّيَّ الَّذِي
يَجِدُونَهُ مَكْتُوبًا عِندَهُمْ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ وَالْإِنجِيلِ يَأْمُرُهُم
بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَاهُمْ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَيُحِلُّ لَهُمُ الطَّيِّبَاتِ
وَيُحَرِّمُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْخَبَائِثَ وَيَضَعُ عَنْهُمْ إِصْرَهُمْ وَالْأَغْلَالَ
الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ فَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِهِ وَعَزَّرُوهُ وَنَصَرُوهُ
وَاتَّبَعُوا النُّورَ الَّذِي أُنزِلَ مَعَهُ أُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ
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قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ إِلَيْكُمْ
جَمِيعًا الَّذِي لَهُ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ يُحْيِي
وَيُمِيتُ فَآمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ النَّبِيِّ الْأُمِّيِّ الَّذِي يُؤْمِنُ
بِاللَّهِ وَكَلِمَاتِهِ وَاتَّبِعُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ
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وَمِن قَوْمِ مُوسَى أُمَّةٌ يَهْدُونَ بِالْحَقِّ وَبِهِ
يَعْدِلُونَ
160
وَقَطَّعْنَاهُمُ اثْنَتَيْ عَشْرَةَ أَسْبَاطًا أُمَمًا
وَأَوْحَيْنَا إِلَى مُوسَى إِذِ اسْتَسْقَاهُ قَوْمُهُ أَنِ اضْرِب بِّعَصَاكَ
الْحَجَرَ فَانبَجَسَتْ مِنْهُ اثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ عَيْنًا قَدْ عَلِمَ كُلُّ أُنَاسٍ
مَّشْرَبَهُمْ وَظَلَّلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ الْغَمَامَ وَأَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ الْمَنَّ
وَالسَّلْوَى كُلُوا مِن طَيِّبَاتِ مَا رَزَقْنَاكُمْ وَمَا ظَلَمُونَا وَلَكِن كَانُوا
أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ
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وَإِذْ قِيلَ لَهُمُ اسْكُنُوا هَذِهِ الْقَرْيَةَ وَكُلُوا مِنْهَا
حَيْثُ شِئْتُمْ وَقُولُوا حِطَّةٌ وَادْخُلُوا الْبَابَ سُجَّدًا نَّغْفِرْ لَكُمْ
خَطِيئَاتِكُمْ سَنَزِيدُ الْمُحْسِنِينَ
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فَبَدَّلَ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مِنْهُمْ قَوْلًا غَيْرَ الَّذِي قِيلَ
لَهُمْ فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِجْزًا مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ بِمَا كَانُوا
يَظْلِمُونَ
163
وَاسْأَلْهُمْ عَنِ الْقَرْيَةِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ حَاضِرَةَ الْبَحْرِ
إِذْ يَعْدُونَ فِي السَّبْتِ إِذْ تَأْتِيهِمْ حِيتَانُهُمْ يَوْمَ سَبْتِهِمْ شُرَّعًا
وَيَوْمَ لَا يَسْبِتُونَ لَا تَأْتِيهِمْ كَذَلِكَ نَبْلُوهُم بِمَا كَانُوا
يَفْسُقُونَ
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وَإِذْ قَالَتْ أُمَّةٌ مِّنْهُمْ لِمَ تَعِظُونَ قَوْمًا اللَّهُ
مُهْلِكُهُمْ أَوْ مُعَذِّبُهُمْ عَذَابًا شَدِيدًا قَالُوا مَعْذِرَةً إِلَى رَبِّكُمْ
وَلَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَّقُونَ
165
فَلَمَّا نَسُوا مَا ذُكِّرُوا بِهِ أَنجَيْنَا الَّذِينَ يَنْهَوْنَ
عَنِ السُّوءِ وَأَخَذْنَا الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا بِعَذَابٍ بَئِيسٍ بِمَا كَانُوا
يَفْسُقُونَ
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فَلَمَّا عَتَوْا عَن مَّا نُهُوا عَنْهُ قُلْنَا لَهُمْ كُونُوا
قِرَدَةً خَاسِئِينَ
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وَإِذْ تَأَذَّنَ رَبُّكَ لَيَبْعَثَنَّ عَلَيْهِمْ إِلَى يَوْمِ
الْقِيَامَةِ مَن يَسُومُهُمْ سُوءَ الْعَذَابِ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَسَرِيعُ الْعِقَابِ
وَإِنَّهُ لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
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وَقَطَّعْنَاهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ أُمَمًا مِّنْهُمُ الصَّالِحُونَ
وَمِنْهُمْ دُونَ ذَلِكَ وَبَلَوْنَاهُم بِالْحَسَنَاتِ وَالسَّيِّئَاتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ
يَرْجِعُونَ
169
فَخَلَفَ مِن بَعْدِهِمْ خَلْفٌ وَرِثُوا الْكِتَابَ يَأْخُذُونَ
عَرَضَ هَذَا الْأَدْنَى وَيَقُولُونَ سَيُغْفَرُ لَنَا وَإِن يَأْتِهِمْ عَرَضٌ
مِّثْلُهُ يَأْخُذُوهُ أَلَمْ يُؤْخَذْ عَلَيْهِم مِّيثَاقُ الْكِتَابِ أَن لَّا
يَقُولُوا عَلَى اللَّهِ إِلَّا الْحَقَّ وَدَرَسُوا مَا فِيهِ وَالدَّارُ الْآخِرَةُ
خَيْرٌ لِّلَّذِينَ يَتَّقُونَ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ
170
وَالَّذِينَ يُمَسِّكُونَ بِالْكِتَابِ وَأَقَامُوا الصَّلَاةَ إِنَّا
لَا نُضِيعُ أَجْرَ الْمُصْلِحِينَ
171
وَإِذْ نَتَقْنَا الْجَبَلَ فَوْقَهُمْ كَأَنَّهُ ظُلَّةٌ وَظَنُّوا
أَنَّهُ وَاقِعٌ بِهِمْ خُذُوا مَا آتَيْنَاكُم بِقُوَّةٍ وَاذْكُرُوا مَا فِيهِ
لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ
172
وَإِذْ أَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِن بَنِي آدَمَ مِن ظُهُورِهِمْ
ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ وَأَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلَى أَنفُسِهِمْ أَلَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ قَالُوا بَلَى
شَهِدْنَا أَن تَقُولُوا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِنَّا كُنَّا عَنْ هَذَا غَافِلِينَ
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أَوْ تَقُولُوا إِنَّمَا أَشْرَكَ آبَاؤُنَا مِن قَبْلُ وَكُنَّا
ذُرِّيَّةً مِّن بَعْدِهِمْ أَفَتُهْلِكُنَا بِمَا فَعَلَ الْمُبْطِلُونَ
174
وَكَذَلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ الْآيَاتِ وَلَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ
175
وَاتْلُ عَلَيْهِمْ نَبَأَ الَّذِي آتَيْنَاهُ آيَاتِنَا فَانسَلَخَ
مِنْهَا فَأَتْبَعَهُ الشَّيْطَانُ فَكَانَ مِنَ الْغَاوِينَ
176
وَلَوْ شِئْنَا لَرَفَعْنَاهُ بِهَا وَلَكِنَّهُ أَخْلَدَ إِلَى
الْأَرْضِ وَاتَّبَعَ هَوَاهُ فَمَثَلُهُ كَمَثَلِ الْكَلْبِ إِن تَحْمِلْ عَلَيْهِ
يَلْهَثْ أَوْ تَتْرُكْهُ يَلْهَث ذَّلِكَ مَثَلُ الْقَوْمِ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا
بِآيَاتِنَا فَاقْصُصِ الْقَصَصَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
177
سَاءَ مَثَلًا الْقَوْمُ الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا
وَأَنفُسَهُمْ كَانُوا يَظْلِمُونَ
178
مَن يَهْدِ اللَّهُ فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِي وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَأُولَئِكَ
هُمُ الْخَاسِرُونَ
179
وَلَقَدْ ذَرَأْنَا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنسِ
لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لَّا يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لَّا يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا
وَلَهُمْ آذَانٌ لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا أُولَئِكَ كَالْأَنْعَامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ
أُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْغَافِلُونَ
180
وَلِلَّهِ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَى فَادْعُوهُ بِهَا وَذَرُوا
الَّذِينَ يُلْحِدُونَ فِي أَسْمَائِهِ سَيُجْزَوْنَ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
181
وَمِمَّنْ خَلَقْنَا أُمَّةٌ يَهْدُونَ بِالْحَقِّ وَبِهِ
يَعْدِلُونَ
182
وَالَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا سَنَسْتَدْرِجُهُم مِّنْ حَيْثُ
لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
183
وَأُمْلِي لَهُمْ إِنَّ كَيْدِي مَتِينٌ
184
أَوَلَمْ يَتَفَكَّرُوا مَا بِصَاحِبِهِم مِّن جِنَّةٍ إِنْ هُوَ
إِلَّا نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ
185
أَوَلَمْ يَنظُرُوا فِي مَلَكُوتِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا
خَلَقَ اللَّهُ مِن شَيْءٍ وَأَنْ عَسَى أَن يَكُونَ قَدِ اقْتَرَبَ أَجَلُهُمْ
فَبِأَيِّ حَدِيثٍ بَعْدَهُ يُؤْمِنُونَ
186
مَن يُضْلِلِ اللَّهُ فَلَا هَادِيَ لَهُ وَيَذَرُهُمْ فِي
طُغْيَانِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ
187
يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ السَّاعَةِ أَيَّانَ مُرْسَاهَا قُلْ إِنَّمَا
عِلْمُهَا عِندَ رَبِّي لَا يُجَلِّيهَا لِوَقْتِهَا إِلَّا هُوَ ثَقُلَتْ فِي
السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ لَا تَأْتِيكُمْ إِلَّا بَغْتَةً يَسْأَلُونَكَ كَأَنَّكَ
حَفِيٌّ عَنْهَا قُلْ إِنَّمَا عِلْمُهَا عِندَ اللَّهِ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا
يَعْلَمُونَ
188
قُل لَّا أَمْلِكُ لِنَفْسِي نَفْعًا وَلَا ضَرًّا إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ
اللَّهُ وَلَوْ كُنتُ أَعْلَمُ الْغَيْبَ لَاسْتَكْثَرْتُ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ وَمَا
مَسَّنِيَ السُّوءُ إِنْ أَنَا إِلَّا نَذِيرٌ وَبَشِيرٌ لِّقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ
189
هُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَجَعَلَ مِنْهَا
زَوْجَهَا لِيَسْكُنَ إِلَيْهَا فَلَمَّا تَغَشَّاهَا حَمَلَتْ حَمْلًا خَفِيفًا
فَمَرَّتْ بِهِ فَلَمَّا أَثْقَلَت دَّعَوَا اللَّهَ رَبَّهُمَا لَئِنْ آتَيْتَنَا
صَالِحًا لَّنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الشَّاكِرِينَ
190
فَلَمَّا آتَاهُمَا صَالِحًا جَعَلَا لَهُ شُرَكَاءَ فِيمَا آتَاهُمَا
فَتَعَالَى اللَّهُ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ
191
أَيُشْرِكُونَ مَا لَا يَخْلُقُ شَيْئًا وَهُمْ يُخْلَقُونَ
192
وَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ لَهُمْ نَصْرًا وَلَا أَنفُسَهُمْ
يَنصُرُونَ
193
وَإِن تَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى الْهُدَى لَا يَتَّبِعُوكُمْ سَوَاءٌ
عَلَيْكُمْ أَدَعَوْتُمُوهُمْ أَمْ أَنتُمْ صَامِتُونَ
194
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ عِبَادٌ أَمْثَالُكُمْ
فَادْعُوهُمْ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُوا لَكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ
195
أَلَهُمْ أَرْجُلٌ يَمْشُونَ بِهَا أَمْ لَهُمْ أَيْدٍ يَبْطِشُونَ
بِهَا أَمْ لَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا أَمْ لَهُمْ آذَانٌ يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا
قُلِ ادْعُوا شُرَكَاءَكُمْ ثُمَّ كِيدُونِ فَلَا تُنظِرُونِ
196
إِنَّ وَلِيِّيَ اللَّهُ الَّذِي نَزَّلَ الْكِتَابَ وَهُوَ
يَتَوَلَّى الصَّالِحِينَ
197
وَالَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِهِ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ نَصْرَكُمْ
وَلَا أَنفُسَهُمْ يَنصُرُونَ
198
وَإِن تَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى الْهُدَى لَا يَسْمَعُوا وَتَرَاهُمْ
يَنظُرُونَ إِلَيْكَ وَهُمْ لَا يُبْصِرُونَ
199
خُذِ الْعَفْوَ وَأْمُرْ بِالْعُرْفِ وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ
الْجَاهِلِينَ
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وَإِمَّا يَنزَغَنَّكَ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ نَزْغٌ فَاسْتَعِذْ
بِاللَّهِ إِنَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ
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إِنَّ الَّذِينَ اتَّقَوْا إِذَا مَسَّهُمْ طَائِفٌ مِّنَ
الشَّيْطَانِ تَذَكَّرُوا فَإِذَا هُم مُّبْصِرُونَ
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وَإِخْوَانُهُمْ يَمُدُّونَهُمْ فِي الْغَيِّ ثُمَّ لَا
يُقْصِرُونَ
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وَإِذَا لَمْ تَأْتِهِم بِآيَةٍ قَالُوا لَوْلَا اجْتَبَيْتَهَا قُلْ
إِنَّمَا أَتَّبِعُ مَا يُوحَى إِلَيَّ مِن رَّبِّي هَذَا بَصَائِرُ مِن رَّبِّكُمْ
وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ
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وَإِذَا قُرِئَ الْقُرْآنُ فَاسْتَمِعُوا لَهُ وَأَنصِتُوا
لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ
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وَاذْكُر رَّبَّكَ فِي نَفْسِكَ تَضَرُّعًا وَخِيفَةً وَدُونَ
الْجَهْرِ مِنَ الْقَوْلِ بِالْغُدُوِّ وَالْآصَالِ وَلَا تَكُن مِّنَ الْغَافِلِينَ
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إِنَّ الَّذِينَ عِندَ رَبِّكَ لَا يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ عَنْ عِبَادَتِهِ
وَيُسَبِّحُونَهُ وَلَهُ يَسْجُدُونَ
Al-Araf
1
Alif, Lâm, Mîm, Sâd.
2
C’est un Livre qui t’a été descendu ; qu’il n’y ait, à son sujet,
nulle gêne dans ton cœur ; afin que par cela tu avertisses, et (qu’il soit) un
Rappel aux croyants.
3
Suivez ce qui vous a été descendu venant de votre Seigneur et ne
suivez pas d’autres alliés que Lui. Mais vous vous souvenez peu.
4
Que de cités Nous avons détruites ! Or, Notre rigueur les atteignit
au cours du repos nocturne ou durant leur sieste.
5
Leur invocation, lorsque leur survint notre rigueur, se limita à
ces paroles : « Certes nous étions injustes ».
6
Nous interrogerons ceux vers qui furent envoyés des messagers et
Nous interrogerons aussi les envoyés.
7
Nous leur raconterons en toute connaissance (ce qu’ils faisaient)
car Nous n’étions pas absent !
8
Et la pesée, ce jour-là, sera équitable. Donc, celui dont les
bonnes actions pèseront lourd... voilà ceux qui réussiront !
9
Et quant à celui dont les bonnes actions pèseront léger... voilà
ceux qui auront causé la perte de leurs âmes parce qu’ils étaient injustes
envers Nos enseignements.
10
Certes, Nous vous avons donné du pouvoir sur terre et Nous vous y
avons assigné subsistance. (Mais) vous êtes très peu reconnaissants !
11
Nous vous avons créés, puis Nous vous avons donné une forme,
ensuite Nous avons dit aux Anges : « Prosternez-vous devant Adam. » Ils se
prosternèrent, à l’exception de Iblis qui ne fut point de ceux qui se
prosternèrent.
12
[Allah] dit : « Qu’est-ce qui t’empêche de te prosterner quand Je
te l’ai commandé ? » Il répondit : « Je suis meilleur que lui : Tu m’as créé de feu,
alors que Tu l’as créé d’argile ».
13
[Allah] dit : « Descends d’ici, Tu n’as pas à t’enfler d’orgueil
ici. Sors, te voilà parmi les méprisés. »
14
« Accorde-moi un délai, dit (Satan,) jusqu’au jour où ils seront
ressuscités. »
15
[Allah] dit : « Tu es de ceux à qui délai est accordé. »
16
« Puisque Tu m’as mis en erreur, dit [Satan], je m’assoirai pour
eux sur Ton droit chemin,
17
puis je les assaillerai de devant, de derrière, de leur droite et
de leur gauche. Et, pour la plupart, Tu ne les trouveras pas
reconnaissants. »
18
« Sors de là », dit (Allah,) banni et rejeté. Quiconque te suit
parmi eux... de vous tous, J’emplirai l’Enfer ».
19
« O Adam, habite le Paradis, toi et ton épouse ; et mangez en vous
deux, à votre guise ; et n’approchez pas l’arbre que voici ; sinon, vous seriez du
nombre des injustes. »
20
Puis le Diable, afin de leur rendre visible ce qui leur était
caché - leurs nudités - leur chuchota, disant : « Votre Seigneur ne vous a
interdit cet arbre que pour vous empêcher de devenir des Anges ou d’être
immortels ».
21
Et il leur jura : « Vraiment, je suis pour vous deux un bon
conseiller ».
22
Alors il les fit tomber par tromperie. Puis, lorsqu’ils eurent
goûté de l’arbre, leurs nudités leur devinrent visibles ; et ils commencèrent
tous deux à y attacher des feuilles du Paradis. Et leur Seigneur les appela : « Ne
vous avais-Je pas interdit cet arbre ? Et ne vous avais-Je pas dit que le Diable
était pour vous un ennemi déclaré ? »
23
Tous deux dirent : « O notre Seigneur, nous avons fait du tort à
nous-mêmes. Et si Tu ne nous pardonnes pas et ne nous fais pas miséricorde, nous
serons très certainement du nombre des perdants ».
24
« Descendez, dit [Allah], vous serez ennemis les uns des autres.
Et il y aura pour vous sur terre séjour et jouissance, pour un temps. »
25
« Là, dit (Allah), vous vivrez, là vous mourrez, et de là on vous
fera sortir. »
26
O enfants d’Adam ! Nous avons fait descendre sur vous un vêtement
pour cacher vos nudités, ainsi que des parures. - Mais le vêtement de la piété
voilà qui est meilleur - C’est un des signes (de la puissance) d’Allah. Afin
qu’ils se rappellent.
27
O enfants d’Adam ! Que le Diable ne vous tente point, comme il a
fait sortir du Paradis vos père et mère, leur arrachant leur vêtement pour leur
rendre visibles leurs nudités. Il vous voit, lui et ses suppôts, d’où vous ne
les voyez pas. Nous avons désigné les diables pour alliés à ceux qui ne croient
point,
28
et quand ceux-ci commettent une turpitude, ils disent : « C’est une
coutume léguée par nos ancêtres et prescrite par Allah. » Dis : « [Non,] Allah ne
commande point la turpitude. Direz-vous contre Allah ce que vous ne savez
pas ? »
29
Dis : « Mon Seigneur a commandé l’équité. Que votre prosternation
soit exclusivement pour Lui. Et invoquez-Le, sincères dans votre culte. De même
qu’Il vous a créés, vous retournerez à Lui ».
30
Il guide une partie, tandis qu’une autre partie a mérité
l’égarement parce qu’ils ont pris, au lieu d’Allah, les diables pour alliés, et
ils pensent qu’ils sont bien-guidés !
31
O enfants d’Adam, dans chaque lieu de Salât portez votre parure
(vos habits). Et mangez et buvez ; et ne commettez pas d’excès, car Il [Allah]
n’aime pas ceux qui commettent des excès.
32
Dis : « Qui a interdit la parure d’Allah, qu’Il a produite pour Ses
serviteurs, ainsi que les bonnes nourritures ? » Dis : « Elles sont destinées à ceux
qui ont la foi, dans cette vie, et exclusivement à eux au Jour de la
Résurrection. » Ainsi exposons-Nous clairement les versets pour les gens qui
savent.
33
Dis : « Mon Seigneur n’a interdit que les turpitudes (les grands
péchés), tant apparentes que secrètes, de même que le péché, l’agression sans
droit et d’associer à Allah ce dont Il n’a fait descendre aucune preuve, et de
dire sur Allah ce que vous ne savez pas ».
34
Pour chaque communauté il y a un terme. Quand leur terme vient,
ils ne peuvent le retarder d’une heure et ils ne peuvent le hâter non plus.
35
O enfants d’Adam ! Si des messagers [choisis] parmi vous viennent
pour vous exposer Mes signes, alors ceux qui acquièrent la piété et se
réforment, n’auront aucune crainte et ne seront point affligés.
36
Et ceux qui traitent de mensonges Nos signes et s’en écartent
avec orgueil, sont les gens du Feu et ils y demeureront éternellement.
37
Quel pire injuste, que celui qui invente un mensonge contre
Allah, ou qui traite de mensonges Ses signes ? Ceux là auront la part qui leur a
été prescrite ; jusqu’au moment où Nos Envoyés [Nos Anges] viennent à eux pour
leur enlever l’âme, en leur disant : « Où sont ceux que vous invoquiez en dehors
d’Allah ? » - Ils répondront : « Nous ne les trouvons plus ». Et ils témoigneront
contre eux-mêmes qu’ils étaient mécréants.
38
« Entrez dans le Feu », dira [Allah,] « parmi les djinns et les
hommes des communautés qui vous ont précédés. » Chaque fois qu’une communauté
entrera, elle maudira celle qui l’aura précédée. Puis, lorsque tous s’y
retrouveront, la dernière fournée dira de la première : « O notre Seigneur ! Voilà
ceux qui nous ont égarés : donne-leur donc double châtiment du feu. » Il dira : « A
chacun le double, mais vous ne savez pas ».
39
Et la première fournée dira à la dernière : « Mais vous n’avez sur
nous aucun avantage. Goûtez donc au châtiment, pour ce que vous avez
acquis ».
40
Pour ceux qui traitent de mensonges Nos enseignements et qui s’en
écartent par orgueil, les portes du ciel ne leur seront pas ouvertes, et ils
n’entreront au Paradis que quand le chameau pénètre dans le chas de l’aiguille.
Ainsi rétribuons-Nous les criminels.
41
L’Enfer leur servira de lit et, comme couverture, ils auront des
voiles de ténèbres. Ainsi rétribuons-Nous les injustes.
42
Et ceux qui croient et font de bonnes œuvres - Nous n’imposons
aucune charge à personne que selon sa capacité - ceux-là seront les gens du
Paradis : ils y demeureront éternellement.
43
Et Nous enlèverons toute la rancune de leurs poitrines, sous eux
couleront les ruisseaux, et ils diront : « Louange à Allah qui nous a guidés à
ceci. Nous n’aurions pas été guidés, si Allah ne nous avait pas guidés. Les
messagers de notre Seigneur sont venus avec la vérité. » Et on leur proclamera :
« Voilà le Paradis qui vous a été donné en héritage pour ce que vous
faisiez ».
44
Les gens du Paradis crieront aux gens du Feu : « Certes, nous avons
trouvé vrai ce que notre Seigneur nous avait promis. Avez-vous aussi trouvé vrai
ce que votre Seigneur avait promis ? » « Oui », diront-ils. Un héraut annoncera
alors au milieu d’eux : Que la malédiction d’Allah soit sur les injustes,
45
qui obstruaient le sentier d’Allah, qui voulaient le rendre
tortueux, et qui ne croyaient pas à l’au-delà. »
46
Et entre les deux, il y aura un mur, et, sur al-A’râf seront des
gens qui reconnaîtront tout le monde par leurs traits caractéristiques. Et ils
crieront aux gens du Paradis : « Paix sur vous ! » Ils n’y sont pas entrés bien
qu’ils le souhaitent.
47
Et quand leurs regards seront tournés vers les gens du Feu, ils
diront ; « O notre Seigneur ! Ne nous mets pas avec le peuple injuste ».
48
Et les gens d’al-A’râf, appelant certains hommes qu’ils
reconnaîtront par leurs traits caractéristiques, diront : « Vous n’avez tiré aucun
profit de tout ce que vous aviez amassé et de l’orgueil dont vous étiez
enflés !
49
Est-ce donc ceux-là au sujet desquels vous juriez qu’ils
n’obtiendront de la part d’Allah aucune miséricorde... ? - Entrez au Paradis !
Vous serez à l’abri de toute crainte et vous ne serez point affligés.
50
Et les gens du Feu crieront aux gens du Paradis : « Déversez sur
nous de l’eau, ou de ce qu’Allah vous a attribué. » « Ils répondront : Allah les a
interdits aux mécréants ».
51
Ceux-ci prenaient leur religion comme distraction et jeu, et la
vie d’ici-bas les trompait. Aujourd’hui, Nous les oublierons comme ils ont
oublié la rencontre de leur jour que voici, et parce qu’ils reniaient Nos
enseignements.
52
Nous leur avons, certes, apporté un Livre que Nous avons
détaillé, en toute connaissance, à titre de guide et de miséricorde pour les
gens qui croient.
53
Attendent-ils uniquement la réalisation (de Sa menace et de Ses
promesses ?). Le jour où sa (véritable) réalisation viendra, ceux qui auparavant
l’oubliaient diront : « Les messagers de notre Seigneur sont venus avec la vérité.
Y a-t-il pour nous des intercesseurs qui puissent intercéder en notre faveur ? Ou
pourrons-nous être renvoyés [sur terre], afin que nous œuvrions autrement que ce
que nous faisions auparavant ? » Ils ont certes créé leur propre perte ; et ce
qu’ils inventaient les a délaissés.
54
Votre Seigneur, c’est Allah, qui a créé les cieux et la terre en
six jours, puis S’est établi « ’istawâ » sur le Trône. Il couvre le jour de la
nuit qui poursuit celui-ci sans arrêt. (Il a créé) le soleil, la lune et les
étoiles, soumis à Son commandement. La création et le commandement
n’appartiennent qu’à Lui. Toute gloire à Allah, Seigneur de l’Univers !
55
Invoquez votre Seigneur en toute humilité et recueillement et
avec discrétion. Certes, Il n’aime pas les transgresseurs.
56
Et ne semez pas la corruption sur la terre après qu’elle ait été
réformée. Et invoquez-Le avec crainte et espoir, car la miséricorde d’Allah est
proche des bienfaisants.
57
C’est Lui qui envoie les vents comme une annonce de Sa
Miséricorde. Puis, lorsqu’ils transportent une nuée lourde, Nous la dirigeons
vers un pays mort [de sécheresse], puis Nous en faisons descendre l’eau, ensuite
Nous en faisons sortir toutes espèces de fruits. Ainsi ferons-Nous sortir les
morts. Peut-être vous rappellerez-vous.
58
Le bon pays, sa végétation pousse avec la grâce de son Seigneur ;
quant au mauvais pays, (sa végétation) ne sort qu’insuffisamment et
difficilement. Ainsi déployons-Nous les enseignements pour des gens
reconnaissants.
59
Nous avons envoyé Noé vers son peuple. Il dit : « O mon peuple,
adorez Allah. Pour vous, pas d’autre divinité que Lui. Je crains pour vous le
châtiment d’un jour terrible ».
60
Les notables de son peuple dirent : « Nous te voyons dans un
égarement manifeste ».
61
Il dit : « O mon peuple, il n’y a pas d’égarement en moi ; mais je
suis un Messager de la part du Seigneur de l’Univers.
62
Je vous communique les messages de mon Seigneur, et je vous donne
conseil sincère, et je sais d’Allah ce que vous ne savez pas.
63
Est-ce que vous vous étonnez qu’un rappel vous vienne de votre
Seigneur à travers un homme issu de vous, pour qu’il vous avertisse et que vous
deveniez pieux et que la miséricorde vous soit accordée ? »
64
Et ils le traitèrent de menteur. Or, Nous le sauvâmes, lui et
ceux qui étaient avec lui dans l’arche, et noyâmes ceux qui traitaient de
mensonges Nos miracles. C’étaient des gens aveugles, vraiment.
65
Et aux ’Aad, leur frère Hûd : « O mon peuple, dit-il, adorez Allah.
Pour vous, pas d’autre divinité que Lui. Ne [Le] craignez-vous donc pas ? »
66
Les notables de son peuple qui ne croyaient pas dirent : « Certes,
nous te voyons en pleine sottise, et nous pensons que tu es du nombre des
menteurs ».
67
Il dit : « O mon peuple, il n’y a point de sottise en moi ; mais je
suis un Messager de la part du Seigneur de l’Univers.
68
Je vous communique les messages de mon Seigneur, et je suis pour
vous un conseiller digne de confiance.
69
Quoi ! Vous vous étonnez qu’un rappel vous vienne de votre
Seigneur à travers un homme issu de vous, pour qu’il vous avertisse ? Et
rappelez-vous quand Il vous a fait succéder au peuple de Noé, et qu’Il accrut
votre corps en hauteur (et puissance). Eh bien, rappelez-vous les bienfaits
d’Allah afin que vous réussissiez.
70
Ils dirent : « Es-tu venu à nous pour que nous adorions Allah seul,
et que nous délaissions ce que nos ancêtres adoraient ? Fais donc venir ce dont
tu nous menaces, si tu es du nombre des véridiques ».
71
Il dit : « Vous voilà, frappés de la part de votre Seigneur d’un
supplice et d’une colère. Allez vous vous disputer avec moi au sujet de noms que
vous et vos ancêtres avez donnés, sans qu’Allah n’y fasse descendre la moindre
preuve ? Attendez donc ! Moi aussi j’attends avec vous.
72
Or, Nous l’avons sauvé, (lui) et ceux qui étaient avec lui par
miséricorde, de Notre part, et Nous avons exterminé ceux qui traitaient de
mensonges Nos enseignements et qui n’étaient pas croyants.
73
Et aux Thamûd, leur frère Sâlih : « O mon peuple, dit-il, adorez
Allah. Pour vous, pas d’autre divinité que Lui. Certes, une preuve vous est
venue de votre Seigneur : voici la chamelle d’Allah, un signe pour vous.
Laissez-la donc manger sur la terre d’Allah et ne lui faites aucun mal ; sinon un
châtiment douloureux vous saisira.
74
Et rappelez-vous quand Il vous fit succéder aux Aad et vous
installa sur la terre. Vous avez édifié des palais dans ses plaines, et taillé
en maisons les montagnes. Rappelez-vous donc les bienfaits d’Allah et ne
répandez pas la corruption sur la terre « comme des fauteurs de trouble ».
75
Les notables de son peuple qui s’enflaient d’orgueil dirent aux
opprimés, à ceux d’entre eux qui avaient la foi : « Savez-vous si Sâlih est envoyé
de la part de son Seigneur ? » Ils dirent : « Oui, nous sommes croyants à son
message ».
76
Ceux qui s’enflaient d’orgueil dirent : « Nous, nous ne croyons
certainement pas en ce que vous avez cru ».
77
Ils tuèrent la chamelle, désobéirent au commandement de leur
Seigneur et dirent : « O Sâlih, fais nous venir ce dont tu nous menaces, si tu es
du nombre des Envoyés ».
78
Le cataclysme les saisit ; et les voilà étendus gisant dans leurs
demeures.
79
Alors il se détourna d’eux et dit : « O mon peuple, je vous avais
communiqué le message de mon Seigneur et vous avais conseillé sincèrement. Mais
vous n’aimez pas les conseillers sincères ! »
80
Et Lot, quand il dit à son peuple : « Vous livrez vous à cette
turpitude que nul, parmi les mondes, n’a commise avant vous ?
81
Certes, vous assouvissez vos désirs charnels avec les hommes au
lieu des femmes ! Vous êtes bien un peuple outrancier. »
82
Et pour toute réponse, son peuple ne fit que dire : « Expulsez-les
de votre cité. Ce sont des gens qui veulent se garder purs ! »
83
Or, Nous l’avons sauvé, lui et sa famille, sauf sa femme qui fut
parmi les exterminés.
84
Et Nous avons fait pleuvoir sur eux une pluie. Regarde donc ce
que fut la fin des criminels !
85
Et aux Madyan, leur frère Chu’aïb : « O mon peuple, dit-il, adorez
Allah. Pour vous, pas d’autre divinité que Lui. Une preuve vous est venue de
votre Seigneur. Donnez donc la pleine mesure et le poids et ne donnez pas aux
gens moins que ce qui leur est dû. Et ne commettez pas de la corruption sur la
terre après sa réforme. Ce sera mieux pour vous si vous êtes croyants.
86
Et ne vous placez pas sur tout chemin, menaçant, empêchant du
sentier d’Allah celui qui croit en Lui et cherchant à rendre ce sentier
tortueux. Rappelez-vous quand vous étiez peu nombreux et qu’Il vous a multipliés
en grand nombre. Et regardez ce qui est advenu aux fauteurs de désordre.
87
Si une partie d’entre vous a cru au message avec lequel j’ai été
envoyé, et qu’une partie n’a pas cru, patientez donc jusqu’à ce qu’Allah juge
parmi nous car Il est le Meilleur des juges. »
88
Les notables de son peuple qui s’enflaient d’orgueil, dirent :
« Nous t’expulserons certes de notre cité, ô Chu’aïb, toi et ceux qui ont cru
avec toi. Ou que vous reveniez à notre religion. » - Il dit : « Est-ce même quand
cela nous répugne ? »
89
Certes, nous aurions forgé un mensonge contre Allah si nous
revenions à votre religion après qu’Allah nous en a sauvés. Il ne nous
appartient pas d’y retourner à moins qu’Allah notre Seigneur ne le veuille.
Notre Seigneur embrasse toute chose de Sa science. C’est en Allah que nous
plaçons notre confiance. O notre Seigneur, tranche par la vérité, entre nous et
notre peuple car Tu es le meilleur des juges. »
90
Et les notables de son peuple qui ne croyaient pas, dirent : « Si
vous suivez Chu’aïb, vous serez assurément perdants ».
91
Alors le tremblement (de terre) les saisit ; et les voilà étendus,
gisant dans leurs demeures.
92
Ceux qui traitaient Chu’aïb de menteur (disparurent) comme s’ils
n’y avaient jamais vécu. Ceux qui traitaient Chu’aïb de menteur furent eux les
perdants.
93
Il se détourna d’eux et dit : « O mon peuple, je vous ai bien
communiqué les messages de mon Seigneur et donné des conseils. Comment donc
m’attristerais-je sur des gens mécréants ? »
94
Nous n’avons envoyé aucun prophète dans une cité, sans que Nous
n’ayons pris ses habitants ensuite par l’adversité et la détresse afin qu’ils
implorent (le pardon).
95
Puis Nous avons changé leur mauvaise condition en y substituant
le bien, au point qu’ayant grandi en nombre et en richesse, ils dirent : « La
détresse et l’aisance ont touché nos ancêtres aussi. » Eh bien, Nous les avons
saisis soudain, sans qu’ils s’en rendent compte.
96
Si les habitants des cités avaient cru et avaient été pieux, Nous
leur aurions certainement accordé des bénédictions du ciel et de la terre. Mais
ils ont démenti et Nous les avons donc saisis, pour ce qu’ils avaient
acquis.
97
Les gens des cités sont-ils sûrs que Notre châtiment rigoureux ne
les atteindra pas la nuit, pendant qu’ils sont endormis ?
98
Les gens des cités sont-ils sûrs que Notre châtiment rigoureux ne
les atteindra pas le jour, pendant qu’ils s’amusent ?
99
Sont-ils à l’abri du stratagème d’Allah ? Seuls les gens perdus se
sentent à l’abri du stratagème d’Allah.
100
N’est-il pas prouvé à ceux qui reçoivent la terre en héritage
des peuples précédents que, si Nous voulions, Nous les frapperions pour leurs
péchés et scellerions leurs cœurs, et ils n’entendraient plus rien ?
101
Voilà les cités dont Nous te racontons certaines de leurs
nouvelles. [A ceux-là,] en vérité, leurs messagers leur avaient apporté les
preuves, mais ils n’étaient pas prêts à accepter ce qu’auparavant ils avaient
traité de mensonge. C’est ainsi qu’Allah scelle les cœurs des mécréants.
102
Et Nous n’avons trouvé chez la plupart d’entre eux aucun respect
de l’engagement ; mais Nous avons trouvé la plupart d’entre eux pervers.
103
Puis, après [ces messagers,] Nous avons envoyé Moïse avec Nos
miracles vers Pharaon et ses notables. Mais ils se montrèrent injustes envers
Nos signes. Considère donc quelle fut la fin des corrupteurs.
104
Et Moïse dit : « O Pharaon, je suis un Messager de la part du
Seigneur de l’Univers,
105
je ne dois dire sur Allah que la vérité. Je suis venu à vous
avec une preuve de la part de votre Seigneur. Laisse donc partir avec moi les
Enfants d’Israël. »
106
« Si tu es venu avec un miracle, dit (Pharaon,) apporte-le donc,
si tu es du nombre des véridiques. »
107
Il jeta son bâton et voilà que c’était un serpent évident.
108
Et il sortit sa main et voilà qu’elle était blanche (éclatante),
pour ceux qui regardaient.
109
Les notables du peuple de Pharaon dirent : « Voilà, certes, un
magicien chevronné.
110
Il veut vous expulser de votre pays. » - « Alors, que
commandez-vous ? »
111
Ils dirent : « Fais-le attendre, lui et son frère, et envoie des
rassembleurs dans les villes,
112
qui t’amèneront tout magicien averti.
113
Et les magiciens vinrent à Pharaon en disant : « Y aura-t-il
vraiment une récompense pour nous, si nous sommes les vainqueurs ? »
114
Il dit : « Oui, et vous serez certainement du nombre de mes
rapprochés ».
115
Ils dirent : « O Moïse, ou bien tu jetteras (le premier), ou bien
nous serons les premiers à jeter ».
116
« Jetez » dit-il. Puis lorsqu’ils eurent jeté, ils ensorcelèrent
les yeux des gens et les épouvantèrent, et vinrent avec une puissante magie.
117
Et Nous révélâmes à Moïse : « Jette ton bâton ». Et voilà que
celui-ci se mit à engloutir ce qu’ils avaient fabriqué.
118
Ainsi la vérité se manifesta et ce qu’ils firent fût vain.
119
Ainsi ils furent battus et se trouvèrent humiliés.
120
Et les magiciens se jetèrent prosternés.
121
Ils dirent : « Nous croyons au Seigneur de l’Univers,
122
au Seigneur de Moïse et d’Aaron. »
123
« Y avez-vous cru avant que je ne vous (le) permette ? dit
Pharaon. C’est bien un stratagème que vous avez manigancé dans la ville, afin
d’en faire partir ses habitants. Vous saurez bientôt...
124
Je vais vous couper la main et la jambe opposées, et puis, je
vous crucifierai tous. »
125
Ils dirent : « En vérité, c’est vers notre Seigneur que nous
retournerons.
126
Tu ne te venges de nous que parce que nous avons cru aux preuves
de notre Seigneur, lorsqu’elles nous sont venues. O notre Seigneur ! Déverse sur
nous l’endurance et fais nous mourir entièrement soumis. »
127
Et les notables du peuple de Pharaon dirent : « Laisseras-tu Moïse
et son peuple commettre du désordre sur la terre, et lui-même te délaisser, toi
et tes divinités ? » Il dit : « Nous allons massacrer leurs fils et laisser vivre
leurs femmes. Nous aurons le dessus sur eux et les dominerons. »
128
Moïse dit à son peuple : « Demandez aide auprès d’Allah et soyez
patients, car la terre appartient à Allah. Il en fait héritier qui Il veut parmi
Ses serviteurs. Et la fin (heureuse) sera aux pieux ».
129
Ils dirent : « Nous avons été persécutés avant que tu ne viennes à
nous, et après ton arrivée. » Il dit : « Il se peut que votre Seigneur détruise
votre ennemi et vous donne la lieutenance sur terre, et Il verra ensuite comment
vous agirez ».
130
Nous avons éprouvé les gens de Pharaon par des années de disette
et par une diminution des fruits afin qu’ils se rappellent.
131
Et quand le bien-être leur vint, ils dirent : « Cela nous est dû »
et si un mal les atteignait, ils voyaient en Moïse et ceux qui étaient avec lui
un mauvais augure. En vérité leur sort dépend uniquement d’Allah ? Mais la
plupart d’entre eux ne savent pas.
132
Et ils dirent : « Quel que soit le miracle que tu nous apportes
pour nous fasciner, nous ne croirons pas en toi ».
133
Et Nous avons alors envoyé sur eux l’inondation, les
sauterelles, les poux (ou la calandre), les grenouilles et le sang, comme signes
explicites. Mais ils s’enflèrent d’orgueil et demeurèrent un peuple
criminel.
134
Et quand le châtiment les frappa, ils dirent : « O Moïse, invoque
pour nous ton Seigneur en vertu de l’engagement qu’Il t’a donné. Si tu éloignes
de nous le châtiment, nous croirons certes en toi et laisserons partir avec toi
les enfants d’Israël ».
135
Et quand Nous eûmes éloigné d’eux le châtiment jusqu’au terme
fixé qu’ils devaient atteindre, voilà qu’ils violèrent l’engagement.
136
Alors Nous Nous sommes vengés d’eux ; Nous les avons noyés dans
les flots, parce qu’ils traitaient de mensonges Nos signes et n’y prêtaient
aucune attention.
137
Et les gens qui étaient opprimés, Nous les avons fait hériter
les contrées orientales et occidentales de la terre que Nous avons bénies. Et la
très belle promesse de ton Seigneur sur les enfants d’Israël s’accomplit pour
prix de leur endurance. Et Nous avons détruit ce que faisaient Pharaon et son
peuple, ainsi que ce qu’ils construisaient.
138
Et Nous avons fait traverser la Mer aux Enfants d’Israël. Ils
passèrent auprès d’un peuple attaché à ses idoles et dirent : « O Moïse,
désigne-nous une divinité semblable à leurs dieux. » Il dit : « Vous êtes certes
des gens ignorants.
139
Le culte, auquel ceux-là s’adonnent, est caduc ; et tout ce
qu’ils font est nul et sans valeur. »
140
Il dit : « Chercherai-je pour vous une autre divinité qu’Allah,
alors que c’est Lui qui vous a préférés à toutes les créatures [de leur
époque] ? »
141
(Rappelez-vous) le moment où Nous vous sauvâmes des gens de
Pharaon qui vous infligeaient le pire châtiment. Ils massacraient vos fils et
laissaient vivre vos femmes. C’était là une terrible épreuve de la part de votre
Seigneur.
142
Et Nous donnâmes à Moïse rendez-vous pendant trente nuits, et
Nous les complétâmes par dix, de sorte que le temps fixé par son Seigneur se
termina au bout de quarante nuits. Et Moïse dit à Aaron son frère : « Remplace-moi
auprès de mon peuple, et agis en bien, et ne suis pas le sentier des
corrupteurs ».
143
Et lorsque Moïse vint à Notre rendez-vous et que son Seigneur
lui eut parlé, il dit : « O mon Seigneur, montre Toi à moi pour que je Te voie ! »
Il dit : « Tu ne Me verras pas ; mais regarde le Mont : s’il tient en sa place,
alors tu Me verras. » Mais lorsque son Seigneur Se manifesta au Mont, Il le
pulvérisa, et Moïse s’effondra foudroyé. Lorsqu’il se fut remis, il dit : « Gloire
à Toi ! A Toi je me repens ; et je suis le premier des croyants ».
144
Et (Allah) dit : « O Moïse, Je t’ai préféré à tous les hommes, par
Mes messages et par Ma parole. Prends donc ce que Je te donne, et sois du nombre
des reconnaissants ».
145
Et Nous écrivîmes pour lui, sur les tablettes, une exhortation
concernant toute chose, et un exposé détaillé de toute chose. « Prends-les donc
fermement et commande à ton peuple d’en adopter le meilleur. Bientôt Je vous
ferai voir la demeure des pervers.
146
J’écarterai de Mes signes ceux qui, sans raison, s’enflent
d’orgueil sur terre. Même s’ils voyaient tous les miracles, ils n’y croiraient
pas. Et s’ils voient le bon sentier, ils ne le prennent pas comme sentier. Mais
s’ils voient le sentier de l’erreur, ils le prennent comme sentier. C’est qu’en
vérité ils traitent de mensonges Nos preuves et ils ne leur accordaient aucune
attention.
147
Et ceux qui traitent de mensonges Nos preuves ainsi que la
rencontre de l’au-delà, leurs œuvres sont vaines. Seraient-ils rétribués
autrement que selon leurs œuvres ? »
148
Et le peuple de Moïse adopta après lui un veau, fait de leurs
parures : un corps qui semblait mugir. N’ont-ils pas vu qu’il ne leur parlait
point et qu’il ne les guidait sur aucun chemin ? Ils l’adoptèrent [comme
divinité], et ils étaient des injustes.
149
Et quand ils éprouvèrent des regrets, et qu’ils virent qu’ils
étaient bel et bien égarés, ils dirent : « Si notre Seigneur ne nous fait pas
miséricorde et ne nous pardonne pas, nous serons très certainement du nombre des
perdants ».
150
Et lorsque Moïse retourna à son peuple, fâché, attristé, il dit :
« Vous avez très mal agi pendant mon absence ! Avez-vous voulu hâter le
commandement de votre Seigneur ? » Il jeta les tablettes et prit la tête de son
frère, en la tirant à lui : « O fils de ma mère, dit (Aaron), le peuple m’a traité
en faible, et peu s’en est fallu qu’ils ne me tuent. Ne fais donc pas que les
ennemis se réjouissent à mes dépens, et ne m’assigne pas la compagnie des gens
injustes ».
151
Et (Moïse) dit : « O mon Seigneur, pardonne à moi et à mon frère
et fais-nous entrer en Ta miséricorde, car Tu es Le plus Miséricordieux des
miséricordieux ».
152
Ceux qui prenaient le veau (comme divinité), bientôt tombera sur
eux de la part de leur Seigneur, une colère, et un avilissement dans la vie
présente. Ainsi, Nous rétribuons les inventeurs (d’idoles).
153
Ceux qui ont fait de mauvaises actions et qui ensuite se sont
repentis et ont cru... ton Seigneur, après cela est sûrement Pardonneur et
Miséricordieux.
154
Et quand la colère de Moïse se fut calmée, il prit les
tablettes. Il y avait dans leur texte guide et miséricorde à l’intention de ceux
qui craignent leur Seigneur.
155
Et Moïse choisit de son peuple soixante-dix hommes pour un
rendez-vous avec Nous. Puis lorsqu’ils furent saisis par le tremblement (de
terre), il dit : « Mon Seigneur, si Tu avais voulu, Tu les aurais détruits avant,
et moi avec. Vas-Tu nous détruire pour ce que des sots d’entre nous ont fait ? Ce
n’est là qu’une épreuve de Toi, par laquelle Tu égares qui Tu veux, et guides
qui Tu veux. Tu es notre Maître. Pardonne-nous et fais-nous miséricorde, car Tu
es le Meilleur des pardonneurs.
156
Et prescris pour nous le bien ici-bas ainsi que dans l’au-delà.
Nous voilà revenus vers Toi, repentis. » Et (Allah) dit : « Je ferai que Mon
châtiment atteigne qui Je veux. Et Ma miséricorde embrasse toute chose. Je la
prescrirai à ceux qui (Me) craignent, acquittent la Zakât, et ont foi en Nos
signes,
157
Ceux qui suivent le Messager, le Prophète illettré qu’ils
trouvent écrit (mentionné) chez eux dans la Thora et l’Evangile. Il leur ordonne
le convenable, leur défend le blâmable, leur rend licites les bonnes choses,
leur interdit les mauvaises, et leur ôte le fardeau et les jougs qui étaient sur
eux. Ceux qui croiront en lui, le soutiendront, lui porteront secours et
suivront la lumière descendue avec lui ; ceux-là seront les gagnants.
158
Dis : « O hommes ! Je suis pour vous tous le Messager d’Allah, à
Qui appartient la royauté des cieux et de la terre. Pas de divinité à part Lui.
Il donne la vie et Il donne la mort. Croyez donc en Allah, en Son messager, le
Prophète illettré qui croit en Allah et en Ses paroles. Et suivez-le afin que
vous soyez bien guidés ».
159
Parmi le peuple de Moïse, il est une communauté qui guide (les
autres) avec la vérité, et qui, par là, exerce la justice.
160
Nous les répartîmes en douze tribus, (en douze) communautés. Et
Nous révélâmes à Moïse, lorsque son peuple lui demanda de l’eau : « Frappe le
rocher avec ton bâton. » Et voilà qu’en jaillirent douze sources. Chaque tribu
sut son abreuvoir. Nous les couvrîmes de l’ombre du nuage, et fîmes descendre
sur eux la manne et les cailles : « Mangez des bonnes choses que Nous vous avons
attribuées. » Et ce n’est pas à Nous qu’ils ont fait du tort, mais c’est à
eux-mêmes qu’ils en faisaient.
161
Et lorsqu’il leur fut dit : « Habitez cette cité et mangez [de ses
produits] à votre guise, mais dites : rémission [à nos péchés] et entrez par la
porte en vous prosternant. Nous vous pardonnerons vos fautes ; et aux
bienfaisants (d’entre vous,) Nous accorderons davantage ».
162
Puis, les injustes parmi eux changèrent en une autre, la parole
qui leur était dite. Alors, Nous envoyâmes du ciel un châtiment sur eux, pour le
méfait qu’ils avaient commis.
163
Et interroge-les au sujet de la cité qui donnait sur la mer,
lorsqu’on y transgressait le Sabbat ! Que leurs poissons venaient à eux faisant
surface, au jour de leur Sabbat, et ne venaient pas à eux le jour où ce n’était
pas Sabbat ! Ainsi les éprouvions-Nous pour la perversité qu’ils
commettaient.
164
Et quand parmi eux une communauté dit : « Pourquoi exhortez-vous
un peuple qu’Allah va anéantir ou châtier d’un châtiment sévère ? » Ils
répondirent : « Pour dégager notre responsabilité vis-à-vis de votre Seigneur ; et
que peut-être ils deviendront pieux ! »
165
Puis, lorsqu’ils oublièrent ce qu’on leur avait rappelé, Nous
sauvâmes ceux qui (leur) avaient interdit le mal et saisîmes par un châtiment
rigoureux les injustes pour leurs actes pervers.
166
Puis, lorsqu’ils refusèrent (par orgueil) d’abandonner ce qui
leur avait été interdit, Nous leur dîmes : « Soyez des singes abjects ».
167
Et lorsque ton Seigneur annonça qu’Il enverra certes contre eux
quelqu’un qui leur imposera le pire châtiment jusqu’au Jour de la Résurrection.
En vérité ton Seigneur est prompt à punir mais Il est aussi Pardonneur et
Miséricordieux.
168
Et Nous les avons répartis en communautés sur la terre. Il y a
parmi eux des gens de bien, mais il y en a qui le sont moins. Nous les avons
éprouvés par des biens et par des maux, peut-être reviendraient-ils (au droit
chemin).
169
Puis les suivirent des successeurs qui héritèrent le Livre, mais
qui préférèrent ce qu’offre la vie d’ici-bas en disant : « Nous aurons le pardon. »
Et si des choses semblables s’offrent à eux, ils les acceptent. N’avait-on pas
pris d’eux l’engagement du Livre, qu’ils ne diraient sur Allah que la vérité ?
Ils avaient pourtant étudié ce qui s’y trouve. Et l’ultime demeure est meilleure
pour ceux qui pratiquent la piété, - Ne comprendrez-vous donc pas ? -
170
Et ceux qui se conforment au Livre et accomplissent laSalât, [en
vérité], Nous ne laissons pas perdre la récompense de ceux qui s’amendent.
171
Et lorsque Nous avons brandi au-dessus d’eux le Mont, comme si
c’eût été une ombrelle. Ils pensaient qu’il allait tomber sur eux. « Tenez
fermement à ce que Nous vous donnons et rappelez-vous son contenu. Peut-être
craindrez vous Allah ».
172
Et quand ton Seigneur tira une descendance des reins des fils
d’Adam et les fit témoigner sur eux-mêmes : « Ne suis-Je pas votre Seigneur ? » Ils
répondirent : « Mais si, nous en témoignons... » - afin que vous ne disiez point,
au Jour de la Résurrection : « Vraiment, nous n’y avons pas fait attention »,
173
ou que vous auriez dit (tout simplement): « Nos ancêtres
autrefois donnaient des associés à Allah, et nous sommes leurs descendants,
après eux. Vas-Tu nous détruire pour ce qu’ont fait les imposteurs ? »
174
Et c’est ainsi que Nous expliquons intelligemment les signes.
Peut-être reviendront-ils !
175
Et raconte-leur l’histoire de celui à qui Nous avions donné Nos
signes et qui s’en écarta. Le Diable, donc, l’entraîna dans sa suite et il
devint ainsi du nombre des égarés.
176
Et si Nous avions voulu, Nous l’aurions élevé par ces mêmes
enseignements, mais il s’inclina vers la terre et suivit sa propre passion. Il
est semblable à un chien qui halète si tu l’attaques, et qui halète aussi si tu
le laisses. Tel est l’exemple des gens qui traitent de mensonges Nos signes. Eh
bien, raconte le récit. Peut-être réfléchiront-ils !
177
Quel mauvais exemple que ces gens qui traitent de mensonges Nos
signes, cependant que c’est à eux-mêmes qu’ils font du tort.
178
Quiconque Allah guide, voilà le bien guidé. Et quiconque Il
égare, voilà les perdants.
179
Nous avons destiné beaucoup de djinns et d’hommes pour l’Enfer.
Ils ont des cœurs, mais ne comprennent pas. Ils ont des yeux, mais ne voient
pas. Ils ont des oreilles, mais n’entendent pas. Ceux-là sont comme les
bestiaux, même plus égarés encore. Tels sont les insouciants.
180
C’est à Allah qu’appartiennent les noms les plus beaux.
Invoquez-Le par ces noms et laissez ceux qui profanent Ses noms : ils seront
rétribués pour ce qu’ils ont fait.
181
Parmi ceux que Nous avons créés, il y a une communauté qui guide
(les autres) selon la vérité et par celle-ci exerce la justice.
182
Ceux qui traitent de mensonges Nos enseignements, Nous allons
les conduire graduellement vers leur perte par des voies qu’ils ignorent.
183
Et Je leur accorderai un délai, car Mon stratagème est
solide !
184
Est-ce qu’ils n’ont pas réfléchi ? Il n’y a point de folie en
leur compagnon (Muhammad): il n’est qu’un avertisseur explicite !
185
N’ont-ils pas médité sur le royaume des cieux et de la terre, et
toute chose qu’Allah a créée, et que leur terme est peut-être déjà proche ? En
quelle parole croiront-ils après cela ?
186
Quiconque Allah égare, pas de guide pour lui. Et Il les laisse
dans leur transgression confus et hésitants.
187
Ils t’interrogent sur l’Heure : « Quand arrivera-t-elle ? » Dis :
« Seul mon Seigneur en a connaissance. Lui seul la manifestera en son temps.
Lourde elle sera dans les cieux et (sur) la terre et elle ne viendra à vous que
soudainement. » Ils t’interrogent comme si tu en étais averti. Dis : « Seul Allah
en a connaissance. » Mais beaucoup de gens ne savent pas.
188
Dis : « Je ne détiens pour moi-même ni profit ni dommage, sauf ce
qu’Allah veut. Et si je connaissais l’Inconnaissable, j’aurais eu des biens en
abondance et aucun mal ne m’aurait touché. Je ne suis, pour les gens qui
croient, qu’un avertisseur et un annonciateur ».
189
C’est Lui qui vous a créés d’un seul être dont il a tiré son
épouse, pour qu’il trouve de la tranquillité auprès d’elle ; et lorsque celui-ci
eut cohabité avec elle, elle conçut une légère grossesse, avec quoi elle se
déplaçait (facilement). Puis lorsqu’elle se trouva alourdie, tous deux
invoquèrent leur Seigneur : « Si Tu nous donnes un (enfant) sain, nous serons
certainement du nombre des reconnaissants ».
190
Puis, lorsqu’Il leur eût donné un (enfant) sain, tous deux
assignèrent à Allah des associés en ce qu’Il leur avait donné. Mais Allah est
bien au-dessus des associés qu’on Lui assigne.
191
Est-ce qu’ils assignent comme associés ce qui ne crée rien et
qui eux-mêmes sont créés,
192
et qui ne peuvent ni les secourir ni se secourir eux-mêmes ?
193
Si vous les appelez vers le chemin droit, ils ne vous suivront
pas. Le résultat pour vous est le même, que vous les appeliez ou que vous
gardiez le silence.
194
Ceux que vous invoquez en dehors d’Allah sont des serviteurs
comme vous. Invoquez-les donc et qu’ils vous répondent, si vous êtes
véridiques.
195
Ont-ils des jambes pour marcher ? Ont-ils de mains pour frapper ?
Ont-ils des yeux pour observer ? Ont-ils des oreilles pour entendre ? Dis :
« Invoquez vos associés, et puis, rusez contre moi ; et ne me donnez pas de
répit.
196
Certes mon Maître, c’est Allah qui a fait descendre le Livre (le
Coran). C’est Lui qui se charge (de la protection) des vertueux.
197
Et ceux que vous invoquez en dehors de Lui ne sont capables ni
de vous secourir, ni de se secourir eux-mêmes. »
198
Et si tu les appelles vers le chemin droit, ils n’entendent pas.
Tu les vois qui te regardent, (mais) ils ne voient pas.
199
Accepte ce qu’on t’offre de raisonnable, commande ce qui est
convenable et éloigne-toi des ignorants.
200
Et si jamais le Diable t’incite à faire le mal, cherche refuge
auprès d’Allah. Car Il entend, et sait tout.
201
Ceux qui pratiquent la piété, lorsqu’une suggestion du Diable
les touche se rappellent [du châtiment d’Allah]: et les voilà devenus
clairvoyants.
202
(Quant aux méchants), leurs partenaires diaboliques les
enfoncent dans l’aberration, puis ils ne cessent (de s’enfoncer).
203
Quand tu ne leur apportes pas de miracle, ils disent : « Pourquoi
ne l’inventes-tu pas ? » Dis : « Je ne fais que suivre ce qui m’est révélé de mon
Seigneur. Ces [versets coraniques] sont des preuves illuminantes venant de votre
Seigneur, un guide et une grâce pour des gens qui croient.
204
Et quand on récite le Coran, prêtez-lui l’oreille attentivement
et observez le silence, afin que vous obteniez la miséricorde (d’Allah).
205
Et invoque ton Seigneur en toi-même, en humilité et crainte, à
mi-voix, le matin et le soir, et ne sois pas du nombre des insouciants.
206
Ceux qui sont auprès de ton Seigneur [les anges] ne dédaignent
pas de L’adorer. Ils Le glorifient et se prosternent devant Lui.
Sourate VII.
Les ’A‛râf.
(Al-’A‛râf.)
Translator's introductory remarks
Titre tiré du vt. 44 ; v. la note.
L’exégèse considère cette sourate comme mekkoise et immédiatement
postérieure à la sourate XXXVIII ; elle admet que les vt. 163 à 169/170
sont médinois. En fait, les problèmes posés par cette sourate sont des
plus complexes qui soient. Nöldeke et Schwally ont proposé de diviser cet ensemble en cinq parties, mais
les idées centrales retenues comme rubriques, pour chacune d’elles, ne
recouvrent pas la multiplicité des thèmes qu’elles renferment. Pour plus
de simplicité, on distinguera quatre séries de révélations.
Au nom d’Allah, le Bienfaiteur miséricordieux.
1
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Note [original edition] : Sur ces sigles, v. Introd., 144.
2
[Menaces aux Impies. Rétribution selon les œuvres.]
3
4
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Note [original edition] :
De jour. Text. : alors qu’ils (= les habitants de ces
cités) sont à la méridienne.
5
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Note [original edition] : Text. : Et leur appel n’a été, quand Notre
rigueur s’est abattue sur eux, que de dire etc.
6
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Note [original edition] : Le verbe
sa’ala paraît bien avoir ici son sens primitif,
« interroger », et non celui de « demander compte ». Les commt. précisent
que les Impies sont interrogés ainsi que les Prophètes pour savoir si le
message divin a été ou non entendu.
7
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Note [original edition] : Alors que Nous étions à leurs côtés. Text. : alors que
Nous n’étions pas absents.
8
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Note [original edition] : Autre sens possible : La pesée, ce jour-là, sera juste. Mais le sens de alḥaqqu « juste » est très discutable.
9
10
[Rébellion d’Iblis ; chute d’Adam et d’Ève. Rôle du Démon
parmi les Fils d’Adam.]
11
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Note [original edition] : Nous vous
avons créés etc. Sans doute faut-il suppléer ici à l’ambiguïté du
passage en se reportant aux divers textes où l’on a : Nous
vous avons créés à partir d’une seule personne (nafs), comme dans cette même sourate vt. 189 et dans la sourate IV, 1.
C’est aussi l’interprétation des commt.
12
13
14
15
16
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Note [original edition] : Épiant les
Hommes. Text. : pour eux.
17
18
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Note [original edition] : Le texte porte min-kum
« de vous tous ».
19
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Note [original edition] : suiv.
Passage correspondant parfois textuellement à la sourate II, 32 sqq. — Mangez de [ses fruits] etc. Le
texte porte kulâ min ḥayṯu ši’tumâ « mangez d’où vous
voulez ». On a pensé préférable de lire kulâ min-hâ
ḥayṯu etc., comme dans la sourate II, 33.
20
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Note [original edition] : su’ati-himâ « leur nudité ». Text. :
leurs parties honteuses.
21
22
23
24
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Note [original edition] : Les
uns pour les autres etc. Ce pluriel, dans les commt., est justifié par
le ait que le texte évoque l’idée des descendants d’Ève et d’Adam. ǁ Jusqu’à un terme. Text. : jusqu’à un moment.
25
26
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Note [original edition] : O fils d’Adam ! Cette locution revient plusieurs fois
dans la présente sourate et ne se rencontre que deux ou trois fois ailleurs.
Il est visible qu’elle remplace ’ayyahâ n-nâsu « ô
hommes ! » d’un emploi usuel à partir de la troisième période mekkoise.
Est-il permis de conclure que la locution Fils d’Adam
— si usitée aujourd’hui en arabe — ne l’était point à l’époque de Mahomet et
qu’elle est, en cette langue, une création coranique parallèle à
l’expression biblique bèn Adam ? Ce n’est pas
impossible et l’on aurait alors un nouvel indice que ce vt. et les suiv.
sont une révélation de peu postérieure à l’Émigration à Médine, c.-à-d. :
proche du temps où Mahomet conserve l’espoir de rallier les Juifs à sa
prédication.
27
28
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Note [original edition] : fâḥišatan « une turpitude ». Selon Tab., il s’agirait de
l’accomplissement, absolument nu, du rite circumambulatoire autour de la
Kaaba.
29
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Note [original edition] : ’aqîmû
wujûha-kum « acquittez-vous [du Culte] ». Text. : dressez vos visages.
Il n’est pas possible, comme le proposent les commt., de prendre
l’expression ’aqîmû wujûha-kum avec le sens de
« tournez vos visages vers » ; cette interprétation résulte d’un passage de
la sourate II, 139, 144, où il est parlé de la direction vers laquelle
l’orant doit se tourner, lors de la Prière. ǁ ‛inda kulli
masjidin « dans tout lieu de prière ». C’eût été dangereusement
restreindre et fausser le sens que de rendre ici le terme arabe masjid par son correspondant français « mosquée ». Les
commt. ont senti la difficulté du passage et proposé trois interprétations :
1° le thème masjid équivaudrait à sujûd « prosternation », par extension « prière », et la préposition
‛inda serait temporelle « lors de » ; le sens serait
donc : Acquittez-vous du Culte lors de la prière ou dans
la prière. — 2° le thème masjid indiquerait ici
le « moment de la prosternation » : le sens serait alors : Acquittez-vous du Culte à chaque moment [fixé]
de la prosternation ; — 3° le terme masjid désignerait un sanctuaire, un lieu de dévotion ; il n’est pas
douteux que seul ce sens convient ici, étant bien entendu qu’il s’agit d’un
lieu sacralisé, en général, où le Croyant converti à l’Islam peut célébrer
le culte d’Allah. Si cette interprétation est correcte, le passage est très
important, car il montre qu’à l’époque où il est transmis à Mahomet, la
Mosquée Sacrée de la Mekke n’est pas l’unique sanctuaire de la nouvelle
religion, mais que la Mosquée de Médine est mise sur le même pied
qu’elle.
30
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Note [original edition] : Devra être. Text. : sur eux se
réalisera l’Égarement.
[Admonestation aux Hommes. Jugement Dernier et rétribution
selon les œuvres.]
31
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Note [original edition] : ḫuḏû
zînata-kum « prenez votre parure » etc., a été rendu textuellement.
Tab., nous apprend que ce vt. vise les Pèlerins qui, à la Mekke, à l’époque
du Paganisme, accomplissaient, nus, le rite circumambulatoire autour de la
Kaaba. Ce texte prescrirait donc d’accomplir, vêtu, ce rite du Pèlerinage et
le mot masjid équivaudrait ici, selon Tab., à al-Masjid al-ḥarâm « la Mosquée Sacrée » (= celle de la
Mekke). Mais, dans cette hypothèse, on ne voit pas du tout pourquoi le texte
arabe porte ‛inda kulli masjid « en tout masjid ». D’autre part si l’expression zînata-kum, comme le dit Tab., signifie libâsa-kum « vos vêtements », il ne pourrait s’agir que de vêtements
d’apparat ou de fête. Or nous savons parfaitement que le vêtement du Pèlerin
n’est rien moins qu’un vêtement de ce genre. Faut-il prendre le mot zîna(t) dans un sens
métaphorique : vêtement sacralisé ? Nulle part la
langue coranique n’autorise à le faire, car partout elle offre zîna(t) = parure (des femmes, de
la terre, du monde). Il reste donc à conclure que les interprétations de
Tab. sont fort peu recevables. Peut-être l’expression : Prenez votre parure etc., signifie-t-elle, tout simplement, que le
Croyant ne doit pas fréquenter les lieux du culte dans une tenue négligée ou
trop austère.
32
33
34
35
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Note [original edition] : ’immâ
ya’tiyanna-kum « assurément viennent à vous ». On suit ici le sens qui,
seul, peut s’offrir à l’esprit des commt. : Mahomet étant le dernier des
Prophètes, le trait vise donc ici l’ensemble des Prophètes qui, depuis les
origines, sont venus apporter la vérité aux Hommes.
36
37
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Note [original edition] : Ceux-là auront la part. Text. : ceux-là les touchera leur
part. ǁ [De bonheur]. L’addition provient des commt.
et se confirme dans la suite du vt. ǁ al-kitâbi « qui
leur est assignée ». Text. : de l’écriture. Ce terme doit désigner le livre
du Destin. ǁ Nos émissaires = Nos Archanges. ǁ Où sont [les Faux Dieux] etc.
Text. : où est ce que vous priez.
38
39
40
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Note [original edition] : Les portes du ciel.
L’expression est très insolite dans le Coran qui n’utilise que deux fois
cette périphrase pour désigner le Paradis. ǁ [Avant]
qu’un chameau pénètre dans le trou d’une aiguille. Le
verbe yaliju signifie bien « pénétrer dans » et non
point « passer par ». Il est évident que le trait coranique découle de l’Évangile de Matthieu, XIX, 24 : Il
est plus aisé qu’un chameau passe par le trou d’une aiguille qu’il ne l’est
à un riche d’entrer dans le royaume de Dieu.
41
42
43
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Note [original edition] : Ici. Text. : à ceci. Un autre sens est donc possible : Louange à Allah qui nous a dirigés vers des œuvres qui nous
ont conduits à cette béatitude-ci.
44
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Note [original edition] : Ce vt. introduit un développement qui s’achève
avec le vt. 49. Toutefois, comme on va le voir, l’ordre des idées du texte
primitif semble avoir été troublé par l’introduction des vt. 44 et
47.
45
46
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Note [original edition] : Ce vt. et les
deux suiv. constituent un tout dont les obscurités ne peuvent être élucidées
que si on les prend en bloc. L’expression : entre les
deux = entre le Paradis et l’Enfer ǁ ḥijâbun
« un voile ». C’est le seul sens qu’autorisent le Coran et l’arabe en
général. Mais il gêne les commt. qui glosent par ḥâjiz « barrière » ou par sûr « muraille ». Il
est toutefois hasardeux d’accepter cette dernière interprétation. ǁ ‛alā l-’A‛râfi « sur les ’A‛râf ».
On a préféré ne point traduire ce mot pour ne pas en fausser le sens. Une
étymologie populaire le fait dériver de ‛arafa
« connaître », verbe qui, précisément, est employé aussitôt après. Mais le
problème est plus complexe. Le thème ’a‛râf doit en
effet être rapproché du nom sing. ‛urf « crinière »,
« crête du coq », « crête, élévation du sol » et enfin « frange, bordure
d’un vêtement ». On peut donc se demander si ’A‛râf
« frange » ne recouvre point l’idée du latin limbus
« bordure d’un vêtement » et, dans la langue de l’Église « les bords du
Paradis », les « Limbes ». L’exégèse islamique fournit, sur ce point, des
données intéressantes. Le terme ’A‛râf y évoque la
notion d’un obstacle ou d’un espace formant barrière entre le séjour des
Élus et celui des Damnés. Ici, le royaume des morts nous apparaît donc
divisé en trois régions, comme dans la conception chrétienne, et non plus
seulement en deux, comme partout ailleurs dans le Coran. Le second point qui
arrête les commt. est relatif aux occupants des ’A‛râf. Tab. fournit quatre réponses. Les « Hôtes des ’A‛râf » sont soit des Musulmans morts à la Guerre Sainte
mais partis sans le consentement des leurs ; — soit de saints Docteurs ; —
soit des Anges du sexe masculin ; — soit « des hommes dont les bonnes
actions et les mauvaises actions se contrebalancent en sorte qu’ils ont été
placés là jusqu’à ce qu’Allah décide pour eux ce qu’Il voudra et les fasse
entrer au Paradis ». De ces quatre interprétations, seule la dernière s’est
imposée en Islam. Il saute aux yeux qu’elle force cependant le texte
coranique. Celui-ci, en effet, met simplement en scène des hommes qui, après
avoir vu le châtiment des Damnés et les délices des Élus, implorent le
Seigneur de leur accorder leur place au Paradis. Il convient toutefois de
noter qu’elle ne dépasse point la donnée coranique qui nous montre seulement
dans les ’A‛râf un lieu intermédiaire entre le
Paradis et l’Enfer où quelques défunts se tiennent, incertains de leur sort
final. Les ’A‛râf sont donc un lieu
d’attente.
47
48
49
50
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Note [original edition] : Et
les Hôtes du Feu crieront etc. Ce passage rétablit le parallélisme avec
le vt. 42 dont il semble avoir été séparé lors de l’insertion des
vt. 44 sqq.
51
52
53
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Note [original edition] : Par les Faux Dieux etc. Text. : par ce qu’ils
forgeaient.
[Omnipotence divine et humilité humaine.]
54
55
56
57
58
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Note [original edition] : nakidan « clairsemées ». Autre sens
possible : chétives. Cf. Évangile de Matthieu, XIII, 1 sqq. (parabole du semeur).
[Rappel des missions de Noé, de Houd, de Salih, de Loth et de
Cho‛aïb.]
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
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Note [original edition] :
Et qu’il a accru votre expansion etc. Le mot bas ṭatan « expansion » est cependant pris par les commt.
dans un sens purement matériel, ce qui amène, par conséquence, à donner au
nom al-ḫalqi « les créatures » le sens d’« être
physique ». Il faudrait alors traduire : Il a accru votre
être physique en ampleur. C’est en partant de cette interprétation que
l’exégèse populaire, reproduite par Tab., dit que les ‛Ad avaient une taille
gigantesque. Il est naturellement très possible que la génération de Mahomet
ait eu une conception identique.
70
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Note [original edition] : Ce que
tu nous promets. Autre sens possible : Ce dont tu
nous menaces.
71
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Note [original edition] : Courroux. Le texte porte ici aussi rijs « souillure ». Cf. sourate VI, 125 et la note. ǁ Dont vous et vos pères… [vos Faux
Dieux]. Text. : dont vous les avez nommés.
72
73
74
75
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Note [original edition] : Nous croyons etc. Text. : à ce avec quoi il a été envoyé,
nous [sommes] croyants. La tournure arabe, avec phrase sans verbe « être »,
exclut toute incertitude chez les convertis et est symétrique à la
déclaration des Incrédules, dans le vt. suivant.
76
77
78
79
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Note [original edition] : Ce vt., à première vue,
semble devoir venir avant le vt. 76. Mais, plus loin, vt. 89 à 91, on a
exactement la même séquence. Ce vt. 77 contient donc l’énoncé d’actions
postérieures à la destruction des Impies. Il est une allusion à ce que sera
l’attitude qu’aura Mahomet vis-à-vis des Mekkois quand, eux aussi, auront
été anéantis pour leur incrédulité.
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
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Note [original edition] : V. ci-dessus vt. 77 et la note.
[Rappel de l’attitude du Seigneur envers les peuples
impies.]
94
95
▶
Note [original edition] : L’idée est la
suivante : Nous avons frappé d’abord les hommes d’un malheur, pour les
avertir. Ensuite nous leur avons redonné le bonheur pour les amener à être
reconnaissants envers Dieu. Or, loin de se convertir à la suite de ce
changement de fortune, les Impies déclarèrent : « Nos aïeux aussi ont connu
ces deux aspects du sort. Pourtant ils ne se sont pas convertis. Pourquoi
ferions-nous autrement qu’eux ? »
96
97
98
99
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Note [original edition] : Seul le
peuple des Perdants etc. Text. : n’échappera au stratagème d’Allah que
le peuple des Perdants. La locution lâ… ’illâ « ne…
que » fait difficulté et oblige à voir dans cette phrase une interrogation.
Peut-être faut-il supprimer ’illâ et comprendre : Le peuple des Perdants n’est pas à l’abri du stratagème
d’Allah.
100
101
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Note [original edition] : [Aux habitants de ces cités]. Text. : à eux. ǁ al-kâfirîna « des Infidèles ». Mais il peut s’agir aussi,
rappelons-le, des Incrédules ou de ceux qui sont ingrats envers
Dieu.
102
103
[Moïse, Pharaon et les magiciens. Persécution des Hébreux ;
les cinq plaies d’Égypte.]
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
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Note [original edition] : fa-yanẓura « en sorte qu’Il attend ». Autre sens possible : En sorte qu’Il observe. Razi pose que seule cette
dernière interprétation est compatible avec l’omniscience divine. De toute
façon, le trait est fort important pour la définition du libre
arbitre.
130
131
132
133
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Note [original edition] : aṭ-ṭûfâna « le Déluge ». Il est possible que ce terme
résume Exode, IX, 22 sq. : L’Éternel dit à Moïse : « Étends ta main vers le ciel ; et qu’il tombe de
la grêle dans tout le pays d’Égypte sur les hommes, sur les animaux, et sur
toutes les herbes des champs, dans le pays d’Égypte. » Moïse étendit sa
verge vers le ciel ; et l’Éternel envoya des tonnerres et de la grêle, et le
feu se promenait sur la terre. — On remarquera que le Coran énumère
cinq et non « dix Plaies d’Égypte ».
134
135
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Note [original edition] : De même dans Exode, VIII, 4 sqq.,
Pharaon prie Moïse d’intercéder auprès de Dieu pour que cesse l’invasion des
grenouilles. Mais il se parjure une fois le fléau écarté.
136
137
▶
Note [original edition] : Il faut comprendre : Aux Hébreux, nous
donnâmes la possession de toute la Terre Promise.
[Passage de la Mer Rouge.]
138
139
140
141
[Moïse au Sinaï. Les Tables de la Loi. Épisode du Veau
d’Or.]
142
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Note [original edition] : Trente jours. Text. :
trente nuits.
143
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Note [original edition] : Donne-moi possibilité etc. Text. :
fais-moi voir [que] je te regarde. ǁ Si elle s’immobilise en sa place signifie : Tu ne pourras
me voir que si le Sinaï n’est pas ébranlé par ma présence. Or le Sinaï sera
ébranlé par ma venue. Donc tu ne pourras jamais me voir. ǁ Moïse tomba foudroyé. A en croire les commt., l’expression doit être
prise littéralement, car Allah dut redonner la vie à Moïse
effectivement.
143
144
145
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Note [original edition] : Vt. traduit littéralement, pour ne point en fausser le sens.
Ḫuḏ-hâ-biquwwatin « prends [ces Tables] avec force ».
L’expression doit être prise au figuré et semble signifier : Attache-toi à
observer le contenu de ces Tables.
146
146
147
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Note [original edition] : La venue. Text. : la rencontre.
148
148
149
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Note [original edition] : lammâ suqiṭa fi- ’aydî-him « quand ils se trouvèrent sans
excuse ». Text. : quand il fut tombé dans leurs mains. L’image n’est pas
sûrement comprise des commt.
150
151
152
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Note [original edition] : Au lieu de
najzî « Nous récompensons », on serait tenté de lire
yajzî « il (= Dieu) récompense. » Le discours serait
alors à mettre dans la bouche de Moïse. Mais aucun commt. ne donne la var.
yajzî.
153
154
155
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Note [original edition] : Tab. relie le
développement qui suit à ce qui précède, en sous-entendant que Moïse choisit
soixante-dix Hébreux, parmi les plus purs de son peuple, pour aller demander
pardon au Seigneur, du culte rendu au Veau d’Or. Toutefois ces soixante-dix
hommes voulurent, eux aussi, voir la face du Seigneur et se rapprochèrent de
Moïse qui, lui, avait été admis à la contempler. C’est alors que Dieu les
foudroya pour les punir de leur témérité. Cf. Trad.
Cor., p. 641, note.
156
▶
Note [original edition] : Ce vt., grammaticalement, continue le
discours de Moïse au Seigneur. Mais on a très certainement ici une addition
ou une retouche postérieure à l’Émigration à Médine.
157
▶
Note [original edition] : Ce vt. et les trois suiv. sont incontestablement une
addition ultérieure, car ils dénoncent une attitude pressante pour amener
les Juifs et les Chrétiens à se rallier à l’Islam. ǁ al-ummiyya « des Gentils ». Sur cette interprétation, v. sourate III,
69. ǁ al-ḫabâ’iṯa « les immondes ». Ce sens est
confirmé par Tab. qui comprend que ce mot vise le sang des victimes, la
chair du porc et le vin ; le même ajoute toutefois que ce terme vise aussi
l’usure et le jeu de maysir. Razi est plus imprécis
et voit dans al-ḫabâ’iṯa un terme désignant « tout ce
que la nature humaine trouve ignoble ». ǁ Qui leur ôte le
lien etc. Tab. propose deux interprétations : 1° Mahomet est venu pour
remplacer par l’Islam l’alliance conclue antérieurement par Dieu avec les
Juifs et les Chrétiens ; — 2° Mahomet est venu pour alléger les rigueurs de
la Loi mosaïque. En fait, les deux interprétations ne s’excluent
nullement.
158
158
159
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Note [original edition] : Ce vt. semble
dépendre du développement précédent, mais ce n’est peut-être qu’un vt.
« flottant » car il se retrouve, avec une var., plus bas vt. 180.
160
161
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Note [original edition] : Grammaticalement ce vt. ne se relie ici à
rien. C’est une reprise de la sourate II, 55. — Il leur
fut dit = il fut dit aux Fils d’Israël ǁ Cette
Cité = Jérusalem, selon les commt. ǁ ḥiṭṭatan
« pardon ! » Cette exclamation ne se trouve que deux fois et est si insolite
que des exégètes musulmans ont admis d’y voir un emprunt ; cf. l’hébreu ḫeṭṭa « péché ».
162
163
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Note [original edition] : Cette cité
riveraine de la mer serait Aïla, sur le Golfe d’Aqaba, ou Tibériade,
selon les commt. Sur cette double interprétation, voir Trad. Cor. p. 646, note. ǁ Les poissons
[nécessaires à leur nourriture]. Text. : leurs
poissons. ǁ yawma lâ yasbitûna « le jour où ils
ne faisaient pas sabbat ». Tab. glose : « Les jours autres que celui du
sabbat, les six autres jours de la semaine. » Mais cette interprétation
contredit la dernière phrase du vt. qui fait mention d’une
transgression, sans doute celle du sabbat.
164
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Note [original edition] : [A des serviteurs de
Dieu]. Ce membre de phrase est restitué en s’appuyant sur Tab. ǁ Un peuple. Ce mot désigne les gens mêmes de cette
communauté qu’interrogent les justes préoccupés de les ramener à
Dieu.
165
166
167
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Note [original edition] : Soyez des singes. La littérature rabbinique mentionne des
métamorphoses d’impies en singes ou en pourceaux. ǁ Qu’il
enverrait certes contre eux etc. Des Traditions rassemblées par Tab.
posent que ce passage annonce la domination des Arabes sur les Juifs qui
seront astreints à payer la jizya ou
capitation.
168
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Note [original edition] : Nous les avons partagés. Le pronom les représenterait les Fils d’Israël. ǁ Ne le sont
point. Text. : sont en deçà (ou en dessous) d’eux [en
sainteté].
169
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Note [original edition] : Après
eux = après ces premières générations de Fils d’Israël. Selon les
commt., ce vt., vise les Juifs de Médine. ǁ Ils ont
étudié etc. L’idée semble être : Ces fils d’Israël ont sans doute une
connaissance de l’Écriture, mais le souci de la vie future qui leur est
prescrit par la nouvelle Prédication leur serait plus profitable.
170
171
▶
Note [original edition] : Prenez avec force. V. ci-dessus
vt. 142 et la note. Il s’agit naturellement ici des Tables de la
Loi.
172
▶
Note [original edition] : Une série de
Traditions disent qu’Allah fit surgir des reins d’Adam, après sa chute,
toutes les générations humaines, jusqu’au Jour de la Résurrection, et qu’il
détermina le destin de toutes, sans exception.
173
174
175
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Note [original edition] : Communique-leur. Selon les commt. le pronom leur désigne les Fils d’Israël = les Juifs de Médine. Ce n’est rien
moins que sûr. Si en effet certaines données découvrent une allusion à
Balaam, dans ce vt., d’autres données posent que l’impie ici visé est le
poète Umayya, contemporain de Mahomet.
176
[Allah directeur des Hommes.]
177
178
179
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Note [original edition] : Le passage coranique est
identique à Évangile de Matthieu, XIII, 13 : Je leur parle en paraboles, parce qu’en regardant, ils ne
voient pas, et qu’en écoutant, ils n’entendent ni ne comprennent, et que
pour eux s’accomplit cette prophétie d’Esaïe : Vous entendrez de vos
oreilles et vous ne comprendrez pas ; vous regarderez de vos yeux, et vous
ne verrez pas.
180
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Note [original edition] : Les noms les plus beaux c.-à-d. : les appellatifs comme
le Bienfaiteur, l’Audient, l’Omniscient, etc., dans lesquels, plus tard, la
théologie islamique trouvera l’origine des attributs divins ; leur nombre
s’élève à plus de 500. ǁ yulḥidûna « qui
blasphèment ». Le verbe exprime seulement l’idée que ces impies s’écartent
de ce qui est vrai à propos de ces noms. ǁ De ce qu’ils
font. Text. : de ce qu’ils faisaient.
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Note [original edition] : Ce vt. reprend presque textuellement le vt. 159. Est-il
mieux à sa place ici ? Est-ce une simple incidente ?
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[Réponse aux Infidèles au sujet de l’Heure.]
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[Allah, créateur du Couple Primitif. Chute de ce Couple.]
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[Folie des Infidèles.]
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Note [original edition] : Trait parallèle au Psaume cxv, 5 sqq. : [Leurs idoles] ont une bouche et ne
parlent point ; elles ont des yeux et ne voient point ; elles ont des
oreilles et n’entendent point ; elles ont un nez et ne sentent point ; elles
ont des mains et ne touchent point, des pieds et ne marchent
point.
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[Commandements a Mahomet ou aux Croyants.]
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Note [original edition] : ḫuḏi l-‛afwa « pratique le pardon ».
On garde cette traduction textuelle. Mais peut-être l’expression
signifie-t-elle : Sois indulgent ! Ne t’opiniâtre
point.
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Note [original edition] :
law lâ jtabayta-hâ « ne l’aurais-tu etc. » Le sens du
verbe est incertain pour les commt. et j’ai traduit par
intuition.
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Note [original edition] : Trait important : la récitation à haute voix
de la parole révélée a une influence miraculeuse sur les
assistants.
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The Battlements
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
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Alif Lam Mim Sad
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A Book sent down to thee -- so let there be no impediment in thy breast because of it -- to warn thereby, and as a reminder to believers:
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Follow what has been sent down to you from your Lord, and follow no friends other than He; little do you remember.
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How many a city We have destroyed! Our might came upon it at night, or while they took their ease in the noontide,
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and they but cried, when Our might came upon there, ‘We were evildoers.’
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So We shall question those unto whom a Message was sent, and We shall question the Envoys,
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and We shall relate to them with knowledge; assuredly We were not absent.
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The weighing that day is true; he whose scales are heavy -- they are the prosperers,
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and he whose scales are light -- they have lost their soul for wronging Our signs.
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We have established you in the earth and there appointed for you livelihood; little thanks you show.
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We created you, then We shaped you, then We said to the angels: ‘Bow yourselves to Adam’ so they bowed themselves, save Iblis -- he was not of those that bowed themselves.
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Said He, ‘What prevented thee to bow thyself, when I commanded thee?’ Said he, ‘I am better than he; Thou createdst me of fire, and him Thou createdst of clay.’
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Said He, ‘Get thee down out of it; it is not for thee to wax proud here, so go thou forth; surely thou art among the humbled.’
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Said he, ‘Respite me till the day they shall be raised.’
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Said He, ‘Thou art among the ones that are respited.’
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Said he, ‘Now, for Thy perverting me, I shall surely sit in ambush for them on Thy straight path;
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then I shall come on them from before them and from behind them, from their right hands and their left hands; Thou wilt not find most of them thankful.’
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Said He, ‘Go thou forth from it, despised and banished. Those of them that follow thee -- I shall assuredly fill Gehenna with all of you.’
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‘O Adam, inherit, thou and thy wife, the Garden, and eat of where you will, but come not nigh this tree, lest you be of the evildoers.’
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Then Satan whispered to them, to reveal to them that which was hidden from them of their shameful parts. He said, ‘Your Lord has only prohibited you from this tree lest you become angels, or lest you become immortals.’
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And he swore to them, ‘Truly, I am for you a sincere adviser.’
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So he led them on by delusion; and when they tasted the tree, their shameful parts revealed to them, so they took to stitching upon themselves leaves of the Garden. And their Lord called to them, ‘Did not I prohibit you from this tree, and say to you, "Verily Satan is for you a manifest foe"?’
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They said, ‘Lord, we have wronged ourselves, and if Thou dost not forgive us, and have mercy upon us, we shall surely be among the lost.’
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Said He, ‘Get you down, each of you an enemy to each. In the earth a sojourn shall be yours, and enjoyment for a time.’
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Said He, ‘Therein you shall live, and therein you shall die, and from there you shall be brought forth.’
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Children of Adam! We have sent down on you a garment to cover your shameful parts, and feathers; and the garment of godfearing -- that is better; that is one of God’s signs; haply they will remember.
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Children of Adam! Let not Satan tempt you as he brought your parents out of the Garden, stripping them of their garments to show them their shameful parts. Surely he sees you, he and his tribe, from where you see them not. We have made the Satans the friends of those who do not believe.
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And whenever they commit an indecency they say, ‘We found our fathers practising it, and God has commanded us to do it.’ Say: ‘God does not command indecency; what, do you say concerning God such things as you know not?’
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Say: ‘My Lord has commanded justice. Set your faces in every place of worship and call on Him, making your religion sincerely His. As He originated you so you will return;
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a part He guided, and a part justly disposed to error -- they have taken Satans for friends instead of God, and think them guided.’
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Children of Adam! Take your adornment at every place of worship; and eat and drink, but be you not prodigal; He loves not the prodigal.
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Say: ‘Who has forbidden the ornament of God which He brought forth for His servants, and the good things of His providing?’ Say: ‘These, on the Day of Resurrection, shall be exclusively for those who believed in this present life. So We distinguish the signs for a people who know.’
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Say: ‘My Lord has only forbidden indecencies, the inward and the outward, and sin, and unjust insolence, and that you associate with God that for which He sent down never authority, and that you say concerning God such as you know not.
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To every nation a term; when their term comes they shall not put it back by a single hour nor put it forward.
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Children of Adam! If there should come to you Messengers from among you, relating to you My signs, then whosoever is godfearing and makes amends -- no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow.
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And those that cry lies to Our signs, and wax proud against them -- those shall be the inhabitants of the Fire, therein dwelling forever.
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And who does greater evil than he who forges against God a lie, or cries lies to His signs? Those - their portion of the Book shall reach them; till, when Our messengers come to them, to take them away, they say, ‘Where is that you were calling on, beside God?’ They will say, ‘They have gone astray from us, and they will bear witness against themselves that they were unbelievers.
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He will say, ‘Enter among nations that passed away before you, jinn and mankind, into the Fire.’ Whenever any nation enters, it curses its sister-nation; till, when they have all successively come there, the last of them shall say to the first of them, ‘O our Lord, these led us astray; so give them a double chastisement of the Fire.’ He will say, ‘Unto each a double, but you know not.
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The first of them shall say to the last of them, ‘You have no superiority over us, then; so taste the chastisement for what you have been earning.’
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Those that cry lies to Our signs and wax proud against them the gates of heaven shall not be opened to them, nor shall they enter Paradise until the camel passes through the eye of the needle. Even so We recompense the sinners;
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Gehenna shall be their cradle, above them coverings. Even so We recompense the evildoers.
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And those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness -- We charge not any soul, save according to its capacity; those are the inhabitants of Paradise, therein dwelling forever;
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We shall strip away all rancour that is in their breasts; and underneath them rivers flowing; and they will say, ‘Praise belongs to God, who guided us unto this; had God not guided us, we had surely never been guided. Indeed, our Lord’s Messengers came with the truth.’ And it will be proclaimed: ‘This is your Paradise; you have been given it as your inheritance for what you did.’
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The inhabitants of Paradise will call to the inhabitants of the Fire: ‘We have found that. which our Lord promised us true; have you found what your Lord promised you true?’‘Yes,’ they will say. And then a herald shall proclaim between them: ‘God’s curse is on the evildoers
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who bar from God’s way, desiring to make it crooked, disbelieving in the world to come.
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And between them is a veil, and on the Ramparts are men knowing each by their mark, who shall call to the inhabitants of Paradise: ‘Peace be upon you! They have not entered it, for all their eagerness.’
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And when their eyes are turned towards the inhabitants of the Fire they shall say, ‘Our Lord, do not Thou assign us with the people of the evildoers.’
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And the dwellers on the Battlements shall call to certain men they know by their sign: ‘Your amassing has not availed you, neither your waxing proud.
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Are these the ones that you swore God would never reach with mercy?’‘Enter Paradise; no fear upon you, nor shall you sorrow.
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The inhabitants of the Fire shall call to the inhabitants of Paradise: ‘Pour on us water, or of that God has provided you!’ They will say: ‘God has forbidden them to the unbelievers
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who have taken their religion as a diversion and a sport, and whom the present life has deluded.’-- Therefore today We forget them as they forgot the encounter of this their day, and that they denied Our signs.
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And We have brought to them a Book that We have well distinguished, resting on knowledge, a guidance and a mercy unto a people that believe.
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Do they look for aught else but its interpretation? The day its interpretation comes, those who before forgot it shall say, ‘Indeed, our Lord’s Messengers came with the truth. Have we then any intercessors to intercede for us, or shall we be returned, to do other than that we have done?’ They have indeed lost their souls, and that which they were forging has gone astray from them.
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Surely your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days -- then sat Himself upon the Throne, covering the day with the night it pursues urgently -- and the sun, and the moon, and the stars subservient, by His command. Verily, His are the creation and the command. Blessed be God, the Lord of all Being.
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Call on your Lord, humbly and secretly; He loves not transgressors.
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Do not corruption in the land, after it has been set, right; and call on Him fearfully, eagerly -- surely the mercy of God is nigh to the good-doers;
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It is He who looses the winds, bearing good tidings before His mercy, till, when they are charged with heavy clouds, We drive it to a dead land and therewith send down water, and bring forth, therewith all the fruits. Even so We shall bring forth the dead; haply you will remember.
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And the good land -- its vegetation comes forth by the leave of its Lord, and the corrupt -- it comes forth but scantily. Even so We turn about the signs for a people that are thankful.
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And We sent Noah to his people; and he said, ‘O my people, serve God! You have no god other’ than He; truly, I fear for you the chastisement of a dreadful day.’
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Said the Council of his people, ‘We see thee in manifest error.’
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Said he, ‘My people, there is no error in me; but I am a Messenger from the Lord of all Being.’
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I deliver to you the Messages of my Lord, and I advise you sincerely; for I know from God that you know not.
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What, do you wonder that a reminder from your Lord should come to you by the lips of a man from among you? That he may warn you, and you be godfearing, haply to find mercy.’
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But they cried him lies; so We delivered him, and those with him, in the Ark, and We drowned those who cried lies to Our signs; assuredly they were a blind people.
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And to Ad their brother Hood; he said, ‘O my people, serve God! You have no god other than He; will you not be godfearing?’
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Said the Council of the unbelievers of his people, ‘We see thee in folly, and we think that thou art one of the liars.’
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Said he, ‘My people, there is no folly in me; but I am a Messenger from the Lord of all Being.’
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I deliver to you the Messages of my Lord; I am your adviser sincere, faithful.
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What, do you wonder that a reminder from your Lord should come to you by the lips of a man from among you? That he may warn you; and remember when He appointed you as successors after the people of Noah, and increased you in stature broadly; remember God’s bounties; haply you will prosper.’
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They said, ‘Why, hast thou come to us that we may serve God alone, and forsake that our fathers served? Then bring us that thou promisest us, if thou speakest truly.’
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Said he, ‘Anger and wrath from your Lord have fallen upon you. What, do you dispute with me regarding names you have named, you and your fathers, touching which God has sent down never authority? Then watch and wait; I shall be with you watching and waiting.’
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So We delivered him, and those with him, by a mercy from Us; and We cut off the last remnant of those who cried lies to Our signs and were not believers.
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And to Thamood their brother Salih; he said, ‘O my people, serve God! You have no god other than He; there has now come to you a clear sign from your Lord -- this is the She-camel of God, to be a sign for you. Leave her that she may eat in God’s earth, and do not touch her with evil, lest you be seized by a painful chastisement.
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And remember when He appointed you successors after Ad, and lodged you in the land, taking to yourselves castles of its plains, and hewing its mountains into houses. Remember God’s bounties, and do not mischief in the earth, working corruption.’
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Said the Council of those of his people who waxed proud to those that were abased, to those of them who believed, ‘Do you know that Salih is an Envoy from his Lord?’ They said, ‘In the Message he has been sent with we are believers.’
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Said the ones who waxed proud, ‘As for us, we are unbelievers in the thing in which you believe.’
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So they hamstrung the She-camel and turned in disdain from the commandment of their Lord, saying, ‘O Salih, bring us that thou promisest us, if thou art an Envoy.’
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So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them in their habitation fallen prostrate.
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So he turned his back on them, and said, ‘O my people, I have delivered to you the Message of my Lord, and advised you sincerely; but you do not love sincere advisers.’
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And Lot, when he said to his people, ‘What, do you commit such indecency as never any being in all the world committed before you?
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See, you approach men lustfully instead of women; no, you are a people that do exceed.’
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And the only answer of his people was that they said, ‘Expel them from your city; surely they are folk that keep themselves clean!’
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So We delivered him and his family, except his wife; she was one of those that tarried.
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And We rained down upon them a rain; so behold thou, how was the end of the sinners!
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And to Midian their brother Shuaib; he said, ‘O my people, serve God! You have no god other than He; there has now come to you a clear sign from your Lord. So fill up the measure and the balance, and diminish not the goods of the people; and do not corruption in the land, after it has been set right; that is better for you, if you are believers.
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And do not sit in every path, threatening and barring from God’s way those who believe in Him, desiring to make it crooked. And remember when you were few, and He multiplied you; and behold, how was the end of the workers of corruption.
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And if there is a party of you who believe in the Message I have been sent with, and a party who believe not, be patient till God shall judge between us; He is the best of judges.’
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Said the Council of those of his people who waxed proud, ‘We will surely expel thee, O Shuaib, and those who believe with thee, from our city, unless you return into our creed.’ He said, ‘What, even though we detest it?
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We should have forged against God a lie if we returned into your creed; after God delivered us from it. It is not for us to return into it, unless God our Lord so will. Our Lord embraces all things in His knowledge. In God we have put our trust. Our Lord, give true deliverance between us and our people; Thou art the best of deliverers.’
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Said the Council of those of his people who disbelieved, ‘Now, if you follow Shuaib, assuredly in that case you will be losers.’
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So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them in their habitation fallen prostrate,
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those who cried lies to Shuaib, as if never they dwelt there; those who cried lies to Shuaib, they were the losers.
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So he turned his back on them, and said, ‘O my people, I have delivered to you the Messages of my Lord, and advised you sincerely; how should I grieve for a people of unbelievers?’
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We have sent no Prophet to any city but that We seized its people with misery and hardship, that haply they might be humble;
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then We gave them in the place of evil good, till they multiplied, and said, ‘Hardship and happiness visited our fathers.’ So We seized them suddenly, unawares.
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Yet had the peoples of the cities believed and been godfearing, We would have opened upon them blessings from heaven and earth; but they cried lies, and so We seized them for what they earned.
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Do the people of the cities feel secure Our might shall not come upon them at night while they are sleeping?
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Do the people of the cities feel secure Our might shall not come upon them in daylight while they are playing?
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Do they feel secure against God’s devising? None feels secure against God’s devising but the people of the lost.
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Is it not a guidance to those who inherit the earth after those who inhabited it that, did We will, We would smite them because of their sins, sealing their hearts so they do not hear?
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Those cities We relate to thee tidings of; their Messengers came to them with the clear signs, but they were not the ones to believe in that they had cried lies before; so God seals the hearts of the unbelievers.
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We found no covenant in the most part of them; indeed, We found the most part of them ungodly.
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Then We sent, after them, Moses with Our signs to Pharaoh and his Council, but they did them wrong; so behold thou, how was the end of the workers of corruption!
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Moses said, ‘Pharaoh, I am a Messenger from the Lord of all Being,
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worthy to say nothing regarding God except the truth. I have brought a clear sign to you from your Lord; so send forth with me the Children of Israel.’
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Said he, ‘If thou hast brought a sign, produce it, if thou speakest truly.’
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So he cast his staff; and behold, it was a serpent manifest.
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And he drew forth his hand, and lo, it was white to the beholders.
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Said the Council of the people of Pharaoh, ‘Surely this man is a cunning sorcerer
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who desires to expel you from your land; what do you command?’
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They said, ‘Put him and his brother off a while, and send among the cities musterers,
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to bring thee every cunning sorcerer.’
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And the sorcerers came to Pharaoh, saying, ‘We shall surely have a wage, if we should be the victors?’
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He said, ‘Yes, indeed; and you shall be among the near-stationed.’
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They said, ‘Moses, wilt thou cast, or shall we be the casters?’
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He said, ‘You cast.’ And when they cast they put a Spell upon the people’s eyes, and called forth fear of them, and produced a mighty sorcery.
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And We revealed to Moses: ‘Cast thy staff!’ And lo, it forthwith swallowed up their lying invention.
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So the truth came to pass, and false was proved what they were doing.
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So they were vanquished there, and they turned about, humbled.
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And the sorcerers were cast down, bowing themselves.
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They said, ‘We believe in the Lord of all Being,
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the Lord of Moses and Aaron.
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Said Pharaoh, ‘You have believed in Him before I gave you leave. Surely this is a device you have devised in the city that you may expel its people from it. Now you shall know!
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I shall assuredly cut off alternately your hands and feet, then I shall crucify you all together.’
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They said, ‘Surely unto our Lord we are turning.
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Thou takest vengeance upon us only because we have believed in the signs of our Lord when they came to us. Our Lord, pour out upon us patience, and gather us unto Thee surrendering.’
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Then said the Council of the people of Pharaoh, ‘Wilt thou leave Moses and his people to work corruption in the land, and leave thee and thy gods?’ Said he, ‘We shall slaughter their sons and spare their women; surely we are triumphant over them!’
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Said Moses to his people, ‘Pray for succour to God, and be patient; surely the earth is God’s and He bequeaths it to whom He will among His servants. The issue ultimate is to the godfearing.’
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They said, ‘We have been hurt before thou camest to us, and after thou camest to us.’ He said, ‘Perchance your Lord will destroy your enemy, and will make you successors in the land, so that He may behold how you shall do.’
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Then seized We Pharaoh’s people with years of dearth, and scarcity of fruits, that haply they might remember.
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So, when good came to them, they said, ‘This belongs to us’ but if any evil smote them, they would augur ill by Moses and those with him. Why, surely their ill augury was with God; but the most of them knew not.
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And they said, ‘Whatsoever sign thou bringest to us, to cast a spell upon us, we will not believe thee.’
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So We let loose upon them the flood and the locusts, the lice and the frogs, the blood, distinct signs; but they waxed proud and were a sinful people.
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And when the wrath fell upon them, they said, ‘Moses, pray to thy Lord for us by the covenant He has made with thee. If thou removest from us the wrath, surely we will believe thee, and send forth with thee the Children of Israel.’
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But when We removed from them the wrath unto a term that they should come to, lo, they broke their troth.
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So We took vengeance on them, and drowned them in the sea, for that they cried lies to Our signs and heeded them not.
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And We bequeathed upon the people that were abased all the east and the west of the land We had blessed; and perfectly was fulfilled the most fair word of thy Lord upon the Children of Israel, for that they endured patiently; and We destroyed utterly the works of Pharaoh and his people, and what they had been building.
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And We brought the Children of Israel over the sea, and they came upon a people cleaving to idols they had. They said, ‘Moses, make for us a god, as they have gods.’ Said he, ‘You are surely a people who are ignorant.
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Surely this they are engaged upon shall be shattered, and void is what they have been doing.’
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He said, ‘What, shall I seek a god for you other than God, who has preferred you above all beings?’
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And when We delivered you from the folk of Pharaoh who were visiting you with evil chastisement, slaying your sons, and sparing your women -- and in that was a grievous trial from your Lord.
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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.’
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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.’
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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.’
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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.
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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.’
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Those who cry lies to Our signs, and the encounter in the world to come -- their works have failed; shall they be recompensed, except according to the things they have done?
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And the people of Moses took to them, after him, of their ornaments a Calf -- a mere body that lowed. Did they not see it spoke not to them, neither guided them upon any way? Yet they took it to them, and were evildoers.
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And when they smote their hands, and saw that they had gone astray, they said, ‘If our Lord has not mercy on us, and forgives us not, surely we shall be of the lost.’
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And when Moses returned to his people, angry and sorrowful, he said, ‘Evilly have you done in my place, after me; what, have you outstripped your Lord’s commandment?’ And he cast down the Tablets, and laid hold of his brother’s head, dragging him to him. He said, ‘Son of my mother, surely the people have abased me, and well nigh slain me. Make not my enemies to gloat over me, and put me not among the people of the evildoers.
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He said, ‘O my Lord, forgive me and my brother and enter us into Thy mercy; Thou art the most merciful of the merciful.’
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‘Surely those who took to themselves the Calf -- anger shall overtake them from their Lord, and abasement in this present life; so We recompense those who are forgers.
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And those who do evil deeds, then repent thereafter and believe, surely thereafter thy Lord is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.’
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And when Moses’ anger abated in him, he took the Tablets and in the inscription of them was guidance, and mercy unto all those who hold their Lord in awe.
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And Moses chose of his people seventy men for Our appointed time; and when the earthquake seized them, he said, ‘My Lord, hadst Thou willed Thou wouldst have destroyed them before, and me. Wilt Thou destroy us for what the foolish ones of us have done? It is only Thy trial, whereby Thou leadest astray whom Thou wilt, and guidest whom Thou wilt. Thou art our Protector; so forgive us, and have mercy on us, for Thou art the best of forgivers.
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And prescribe for us in this world good, and in the world to come; we have repented unto Thee.’ Said He, ‘My chastisement -- I smite with it whom I will; and My mercy embraces all things, and I shall prescribe it for those who are godfearing and pay the alms, and those who indeed believe in Our signs,
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those who follow the Messenger, ‘the Prophet of the common folk, whom they find written down with them in the Torah and the Gospel, bidding them to honour, and forbidding them dishonour, making lawful for them the good things and making unlawful for them the corrupt things, and relieving them of their loads, and the fetters that were upon them. Those who believe in him and succour him and help him, and follow the light that has been sent down with him -- they are the prosperers.’
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Say: ‘O mankind, I am the Messenger of God to you all, of Him to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and of the earth. There is no god but He. He gives life, and makes to die. Believe then in God, and in His Messenger, the Prophet of the common folk, who believes in God and His words, and follow him; haply so you will be guided.’
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Of the people of Moses there is a nation who guide by the truth, and by it act with justice.
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And We cut them up into twelve tribes, nations. And We revealed to Moses, when his people asked him for water: ‘Strike with thy staff the rock’ and there gushed forth from it twelve fountains all the people knew now their drinking-place. And We outspread the cloud to overshadow them, and We sent down manna and quails upon them: ‘Eat of the good things wherewith We have supplied you.’ And they worked no wrong upon Us, but themselves they wronged.
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And when it was said to them, ‘Dwell in this township and eat of it wherever you will; and say, Unburdening; and enter in at the gate, prostrating; We will forgive you your transgressions, and increase the good-doers.’
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Then the evildoers of them substituted a saying other than that which had been said to them; so We sent down upon them wrath out of heaven for their evildoing.
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And question them concerning the township which was bordering the sea, when they transgressed the Sabbath, when their fish came to them on the day of their Sabbath, swimming shorewards, but on the day they kept not Sabbath, they came not unto them. Even so We were trying them for their ungodliness.
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And when a certain nation of them said, ‘Why do you admonish a people God is about to destroy or to chastise with a terrible chastisement?’ They said, ‘As an excuse to your Lord; and haply they will be godfearing.’
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So, when they forgot that they were reminded of; We delivered those who were forbidding wickedness, and We seized the evildoers with evil chastisement for their ungodliness.
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And when they turned in disdain from that forbidding We said to them, ‘Be you apes, miserably slinking!’
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And when Thy Lord proclaimed He would send forth against them, unto the Day of Resurrection, those who should visit them with evil chastisement. Surely thy Lord is swift in retribution; surely He is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.
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And We cut them up into nations in the earth, some of them righteous, and some of them otherwise; and We tried them with good things and evil, that haply they should return.
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And there succeeded after them a succession who inherited the Book, taking the chance goods of this lower world, and saying, ‘It will be forgiven us’ and if chance goods the like of them come to them, they will take them. Has not the compact of the Book been taken touching them, that they should say concerning God nothing but the truth? And they have studied what is in it; and the Last Abode is better for those who are godfearing. Do you not understand?
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And those who hold fast to the Book, and perform the prayer -- surely We leave not to waste the wage of those who set aright.
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And when We shook the mountain above them as if it were a canopy, and they supposed it was about to fall on them: ‘Take forcefully what We have given you, and remember what is in it; haply you will be godfearing.’
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And when thy Lord took from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed, and made them testify touching themselves, ‘Am I not your Lord?’ They said, ‘Yes, we testify’-- lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection, ‘As for us, we were heedless of this,’
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or lest you say, ‘Our fathers were idolaters aforetime, and we were seed after them. What, wilt Thou then destroy us for the deeds of the vain-doers?’
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So We distinguish the signs; and haply they will return.
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And recite to them the tiding of him to whom We gave Our signs, but he cast them off; and Satan followed after him, and he became one of the perverts.
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And had We willed, We would have raised him up thereby; but he inclined towards the earth and followed his lust. So the likeness of him is as the likeness of a dog; if thou attackest it it lolls its tongue out, or if thou leavest it, it lolls its tongue out. That is that people’s likeness who cried lies to Our signs. So relate the story; haply they will reflect.
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An evil likeness is the likeness of the people who cried lies to Our signs, and themselves were wronging.
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Whomsoever God guides, he is rightly guided; and whom He leads astray -- they are the losers.
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We have created for Gehenna many jinn and men: they have hearts, but understand not with them; they have eyes, but perceive not with them; they have ears, but they hear not with them. They are like cattle; nay, rather they are further astray. Those -- they are the heedless.
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To God belong the Names Most Beautiful; so call Him by them, and leave those who blaspheme His Names -- they shall assuredly be recompensed for the things they did.
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Of those We created are a nation who guide by the truth, and by it act with justice.
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And those who cry lies to Our signs We will draw them on little by little whence they know not;
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and I respite them -- assuredly My guile is sure.
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Have they not reflected? No madness is in their comrade; he is naught but a plain warner.
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Or have they not considered the dominion of the heaven and of the earth, and what things God has created, and that it may be their term is already nigh? In what manner of discourse then will they after this believe?
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Whomsoever God leads astray, no guide he has; He leaves them in their insolence blindly wandering.
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They will question thee concerning the Hour, when it shall berth. Say: ‘The knowledge of it is only with my Lord; none shall reveal it at its proper time, but He. Heavy is it in the heavens and the earth; it will not come on you but suddenly!’ They will question thee, as though thou art well-informed of it. Say: ‘The knowledge of it is only with God, but most men know not.’
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Say: ‘I have no power to profit for myself; or hurt, but as God will. Had I knowledge of the Unseen I would have acquired much good, and evil would not have touched me. I am only a warner, and a bearer of good tidings, to a people believing.’
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It is He who created you out of one living soul, and made of him his spouse that he might rest in her. Then, when he covered her, she bore a light burden and passed by with it; but when it became heavy they cried to God their Lord, ‘If Thou givest us a righteous son, we indeed shall be of the thankful.’
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Thereafter, when He gave them a righteous son, they assigned Him associates in that He had given them; but God is high exalted above that they associate.
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What, do they associate that which creates nothing and themselves are created,
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and that have no power to help them, neither they help themselves?
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If you call them to guidance they will not follow you; equal it is to you whether you call them, or whether you are silent.
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Those on whom you call apart from God, are servants the likes of you; call them and let them answer you, if you speak truly.
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What, have they feet wherewith they walk, or have they hands wherewith they lay hold, or have they eyes wherewith they see, or have they ears wherewith they give ear? Say: ‘Call you then to your associates; then try your guile on me, and give me no respite.
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My Protector is God who sent down the Book, and He takes into His protection the righteous.
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And those on whom you call, apart from God, have no power to help you, neither they help themselves.’
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If you call them to the guidance they do not hear; and thou seest them looking at thee, unperceiving.
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Take the abundance, and bid to what is honourable, and turn away from the ignorant.
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If a provocation from Satan should provoke thee, seek refuge in God; He is All-hearing, All-seeing.
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The godfearing, when a visitation of Satan troubles them, remember, and then see clearly;
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and their brothers they lead on into error, then they stop not short.
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And when thou bringest them not a sign, they say, ‘Why hast thou not chosen one?’ Say: ‘I follow only what is revealed to me from my Lord; this is clear testimony from your Lord, guidance, and mercy for a people of believers.’
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And when the Koran is recited, give you ear to it and be silent; haply so you will find mercy.
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Remember thy Lord in thy soul, humbly and fearfully, not loud of voice, at morn and eventide. Be not thou among the heedless.
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Surely those who are with thy Lord wax not too proud to serve Him; they chant His praise, and to Him they bow."
The Heights
Revealed at Mecca
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
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Alif. Lâm. Mîm. Ṣad.
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(It is) a Scripture that is revealed unto thee (Muḥammad) - so let there be no heaviness in thy heart therefrom - that thou mayst warn thereby, and (it is) a Reminder unto believers.
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(Saying): Follow that which is sent down unto you from your Lord, and follow no protecting friends beside Him. Little do ye recollect!
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How many a township have We destroyed! As a raid by night, or while they slept at noon, Our terror came unto them.
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No plea had they, when Our terror came unto them, save that they said: Lo! We were wrong-doers.
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Then verily We shall question those unto whom (Our message) hath been sent, and verily We shall question the messengers.
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Then verily We shall narrate unto them (the event) with knowledge, for We were not absent (when it came to pass).
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The weighing on that day is the true (weighing). As for those whose scale is heavy, they are the successful.
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And as for those whose scale is light: those are they who lose their souls because they used to wrong Our revelations.
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And We have given you (mankind) power in the earth, and appointed for you therein livelihoods. Little give ye thanks!
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And We created you, then fashioned you, then told the angels: Fall ye prostrate before Adam! And they fell prostrate, all save Iblis, who was not of those who make prostration.
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He said: What hindered thee that thou didst not fall prostrate when I bade thee? (Iblis) said: I am better than him. Thou createdst me of fire while him Thou didst create of mud.
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He said: Then go down hence! It is not for thee to show pride here, so go forth! Lo! thou art of those degraded.
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He said: Reprieve me till the day when they are raised (from the dead).
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He said: Lo! thou art of those reprieved.
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He said: Now, because Thou hast sent me astray, verily I shall lurk in ambush for them on Thy Right Path.
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Then I shall come upon them from before them and from behind them and from their right hands and from their left hands, and Thou wilt not find most of them beholden (unto Thee).
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He said: Go forth from hence, degraded, banished. As for such of them as follow thee, surely I will fill hell with all of you.
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And (unto man): O Adam! Dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden and eat from whence ye will, but come not nigh this tree lest ye become wrong-doers.
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Then Satan whispered to them that he might manifest unto them that which was hidden from them of their shame, and he said: Your Lord forbade you from this tree only lest ye should become angels or become of the immortals.
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And he swore unto them (saying): Lo! I am a sincere adviser unto you.
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Thus did he lead them on with guile. And when they tasted of the tree their shame was manifest to them and they began to hide (by heaping) on themselves some of the leaves of the Garden. And their Lord called them, (saying): Did I not forbid you from that tree and tell you: Lo! Satan is an open enemy to you?
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They said: Our Lord! We have wronged ourselves. If thou forgive us not and have not mercy on us, surely we are of the lost!
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He said: Go down (from hence), one of you a foe unto the other. There will be for you on earth a habitation and provision for a while.
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He said: There shall ye live, and there shall ye die, and thence shall ye be brought forth.
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O Children of Adam! We have revealed unto you raiment to conceal your shame, and splendid vesture, but the raiment of restraint from evil, that is best. This is of the revelations of Allah, that they may remember.
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O Children of Adam! Let not Satan seduce you as he caused your (first) parents to go forth from the Garden and tore off from them their robe (of innocence) that he might manifest their shame to them. Lo! he seeth you, he and his tribe, from whence ye see him not. Lo! We have made the devils protecting friends for those who believe not.
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And when they do some lewdness they say: We found our fathers doing it and Allah hath enjoined it on us. Say: Allah, verily, enjoineth not lewdness. Tell ye concerning Allah that which ye know not?
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Say: My Lord enjoineth justice. And set your faces upright (toward Him) at every place of worship and call upon Him, making religion pure for Him (only). As He brought you into being, so return ye (unto Him).
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A party hath He led aright, while error hath just hold over (another) party, for lo! they choose the devils for protecting supporters instead of Allah and deem that they are rightly guided.
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O Children of Adam! Look to your adornment at every place of worship, and eat and drink, but be not prodigal. Lo! He loveth not the prodigals.
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Say: Who hath forbidden the adornment of Allah which He hath brought forth for His bondmen, and the good things of His providing? Say: Such, on the Day of Resurrection, will be only for those who believed during the life of the world. Thus do we detail Our revelations for people who have knowledge.
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Say: My Lord forbiddeth only indecencies, such of them as are apparent and such as are within, and sin and wrongful oppression, and that ye associate with Allah that for which no warrant hath been revealed, and that ye tell concerning Allah that which ye know not.
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And every nation hath its term, and when its term cometh, they cannot put it off an hour nor yet advance (it).
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O Children of Adam! When messengers of your own come unto you who narrate unto you My revelations, then whosoever refraineth from evil and amendeth - there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve.
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But they who deny Our revelations and scorn them - each are rightful owners of the Fire; they will abide therein.
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Who doeth greater wrong than he who inventeth a lie concerning Allah or denieth Our tokens. (For such) their appointed portion of the Book (of destiny) reacheth them till, when Our messengers come to gather them, they say: Where (now) is that to which ye cried beside Allah? They say: They have departed from us. And they testify against themselves that they were disbelievers.
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He saith: Enter into the Fire among nations of the jinn and humankind who passed away before you. Every time a nation entereth, it curseth its sister (nation) till, when they have all been made to follow one another thither, the last of them saith unto the first of them: Our Lord! These led us astray, so give them double torment of the Fire. He saith: For each one there is double (torment), but ye know not.
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And the first of them saith unto the last of them: Ye were no whit better than us, so taste the doom for what ye used to earn.
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Lo! they who deny Our revelations and scorn them, for them the gates of heaven will nor be opened not will they enter the Garden until the camel goeth through the needle’s eye. Thus do We requite the guilty.
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Theirs will be a bed of hell, and over them coverings (of hell). Thus do We requite wrong-doers.
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But (as for) those who believe and do good works - We tax not any soul beyond its scope - Such are rightful owners of the Garden. They abide therein.
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And We remove whatever rancour may be in their hearts. Rivers flow beneath them. And they say: The praise to Allah, Who hath guided us to this. We could not truly have been led aright if Allah had not guided us. Verily the messengers of our Lord did bring the Truth. And it is cried unto them: This is the Garden. Ye inherit it for what ye used to do.
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And the dwellers of the Garden cry unto the dwellers of the Fire: We have found that which our Lord promised us (to be) the Truth. Have ye (too) found that which your Lord promised the Truth? They say: Yea, verily. And a crier in between them crieth: The curse of Allah is on evil-doers,
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Who debar (men) from the path of Allah and would have it crooked, and who are disbelievers in the Last Day.
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Between them is a veil. And on the Heights are men who know them all by their marks. And they call unto the dwellers of the Garden: Peace be unto you! They enter it not although they hope (to enter).
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And when their eyes are turned toward the dwellers of the Fire, they say: Our Lord! Place us not with the wrong-doing folk.
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And the dwellers on the Heights call unto men whom they know by their marks, (saying): What did your multitude and that in which ye took your pride avail you?
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Are these they of whom ye swore that Allah would not show them mercy? (Unto them it hath been said): Enter the Garden. No fear shall come upon you nor is it ye who will grieve.
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And the dwellers of the Fire cry out unto the dwellers of the Garden: Pour on us some water or some wherewith Allah hath provided you. They say: Lo! Allah hath forbidden both to disbelievers (in His guidance),
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Who took their religion for a sport and pastime, and whom the life of the world beguiled. So this day We have forgotten them even as they forgot the meeting of this their Day and as they used to deny Our tokens.
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Verily We have brought them a Scripture which We expounded with knowledge, a guidance and a mercy for a people who believe.
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Await they aught save the fulfilment thereof? On the day when the fulfilment thereof cometh, those who were before forgetful thereof will say: The messengers of our Lord did bring the Truth! Have we any intercessors, that they may intercede for us? Or can we be returned (to life on earth), that we may act otherwise than we used to act? They have lost their souls, and that which they devised hath failed them.
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Lo! your Lord is Allah Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days, then mounted He the Throne. He covereth the night with the day, which is in haste to follow it, and hath made the sun and the moon and the stars subservient by His command. His verily is all creation and commandment. Blessed be Allah, the Lord of the Worlds!
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(O mankind!) Call upon your Lord humbly and in secret. Lo! He loveth not aggressors.
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Work not confusion in the earth after the fair ordering (thereof). and call on Him in fear and hope. Lo! the mercy of Allah is nigh unto the good.
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And He it is Who sendeth the winds as tidings heralding His mercy, till, when they bear a cloud heavy (with rain), We lead it to a dead land, and then cause water to descend thereon and thereby bring forth fruits of every kind. Thus bring We forth the dead. Haply ye may remember.
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As for the good land, its vegetation cometh forth by permission of its Lord; while as for that which is bad, only the useless cometh forth (from it). Thus do We recount the tokens for people who give thanks.
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We sent Noah (of old) unto his people, and he said: O my people! Serve Allah. Ye have no other Allah save Him. Lo! I fear for you the retribution of an Awful Day.
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The chieftains of his people said: Lo! we see thee surely in plain error.
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He said: O my people! There is no error in me, but I am a messenger from the Lord of the Worlds.
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I convey unto you the messages of my Lord and give good counsel unto you, and know from Allah that which ye know not.
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Marvel ye that there should come unto you a Reminder from your Lord by means of a man among you, that he may warn you, and that ye may keep from evil, and that haply ye may find mercy.
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But they denied him, so We saved him and those with him in the ship, and We drowned those who denied Our tokens. Lo! they were blind folk.
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And unto (the tribe of) A’ad (We sent) their brother, Hud. He said: O my people! Serve Allah. Ye have no other Allah save Him. Will ye not ward off (evil)?
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The chieftains of his people, who were disbelieving, said: Lo! we surely see thee in foolishness, and lo! we deem thee of the liars.
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He said: O my people! There is no foolishness in me, but I am a messenger from the Lord of the Worlds.
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I convey unto you the messages of my Lord and am for you a true adviser.
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Marvel ye that there should come unto you a Reminder from your Lord by means of a man among you, that he may warn you? Remember how He made you viceroys after Noah’s folk, and gave you growth of stature. Remember (all) the bounties of your Lord, that haply ye may be successful.
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They said: Hast come unto us that we should serve Allah alone, and forsake what our fathers worshipped? Then bring upon us that wherewith thou threatenest us if thou art of the truthful!
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He said: Terror and wrath from your Lord have already fallen on you. Would ye wrangle with me over names which ye have named, ye and your fathers, for which no warrant from Allah hath been revealed? Then await (the consequence), lo! I (also) am of those awaiting (it).
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And We saved him and those with him by a mercy from Us, and We cut the root of those who denied Our revelations and were not believers.
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And to (the tribe of) Thamud (We sent) their brother Salih. He said: O my people! Serve Allah. Ye have no other Allah save Him. A wonder from your Lord hath come unto you. Lo! this is the camel of Allah, a token unto you; so let her feed in Allah’s earth, and touch her not with hurt lest painful torment seize you.
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And remember how He made you viceroys after A’ad and gave you station in the earth. Ye choose castles in the plains and hew the mountains into dwellings. So remember (all) the bounties of Allah and do not evil, making mischief in the earth.
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The chieftains of his people, who were scornful, said unto those whom they despised, unto such of them as believed: Know ye that Salih is one sent from his Lord? They said: Lo! In that wherewith he hath been sent we are believers.
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Those who were scornful said: Lo! in that which ye believe we are disbelievers.
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So they hamstrung the she-camel, and they flouted the commandment of their Lord, and they said: O Salih! Bring upon us that thou threatenest if thou art indeed of those sent (from Allah).
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So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling-place.
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And (Salih) turned from them and said: O my people! I delivered my Lord’s message unto you and gave you good advice, but ye love not good advisers.
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And Lot! (Remember) when he said unto his folk: Will ye commit abomination such as no creature ever did before you?
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Lo! ye come with lust unto men instead of women. Nay, but ye are wanton folk.
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And the answer of his people was only that they said (one to another): Turn them out of your township. They are folk, forsooth, who keep pure.
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And We rescued him and his household, save his wife, who was of those who stayed behind.
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And We rained a rain upon them. See now the nature of the consequence of evil-doers!
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And unto Midian (We sent) their brother, Shu’eyb. He said: O my people! Serve Allah. Ye have no other Allah save Him. Lo! a clear proof hath come unto you from your Lord; so give full measure and full weight and wrong not mankind in their goods, and work not confusion in the earth after the fair ordering thereof. That will be better for you, if ye are believers.
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Lurk not on every road to threaten (wayfarers), and to turn away from Allah’s path him who believeth in Him, and to seek to make it crooked. And remember, when ye were but few, how He did multiply you. And see the nature of the consequence for the corrupters!
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And if there is a party of you which believeth in that wherewith I have been sent, and there is a party which believeth not, then have patience until Allah judge between us. He is the Best of all who deal in judgment.
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The chieftains of his people, who were scornful, said: Surely we will drive thee out, O Shu’eyb, and those who believe with thee, from our township, unless ye return to our religion. He said: Even though we hate it?
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We should have invented a lie against Allah if we returned to your religion after Allah hath rescued us from it. It is not for us to return to it unless Allah our Lord should (so) will. Our Lord comprehendeth all things in knowledge. In Allah do we put our trust. Our Lord! Decide with truth between us and our folk, for Thou art the best of those who make decision.
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But the chieftains of his people, who were disbelieving, said: If ye follow Shu’eyb, then truly ye shall be the losers.
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So the earthquake seized them and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling-place.
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Those who denied Shu’eyb became as though they had not dwelt there. Those who denied Shu’eyb, they were the losers.
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So he turned from them and said: O my people! I delivered my Lord’s messages unto you and gave you good advice; then how can I sorrow for a people that rejected (truth)?
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And We sent no prophet unto any township but We did afflict its folk with tribulation and adversity that haply they might grow humble.
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Then changed We the evil plight for good till they grew affluent and said: Tribulation and distress did touch our fathers. Then We seized them unawares, when they perceived not.
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And if the people of the townships had believed and kept from evil, surely We should have opened for them blessings from the sky and from the earth. But (unto every messenger) they gave the lie, and so We seized them on account of what they used to earn.
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Are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them as a night-raid while they sleep?
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Or are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them in the daytime while they play?
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Are they then secure from Allah’s scheme? None deemeth himself secure from Allah’s scheme save folk that perish.
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Is it not an indication to those who inherit the land after its people (who thus reaped the consequence of evil-doing) that, if We will, We can smite them for their sins and print upon their hearts so that they hear not?
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Such were the townships. We relate some tidings of them unto thee (Muḥammad). Their messengers verily came unto them with clear proofs (of Allah’s Sovereignty), but they could not believe because they had before denied. Thus doth Allah print upon the hearts of disbelievers (that they hear not).
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We found no (loyalty to any) covenant in most of them. Nay, most of them We found wrong-doers.
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Then, after them, We sent Moses with our tokens unto Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they repelled them. Now, see the nature of the consequence for the corrupters!
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Moses said: O Pharaoh! Lo! I am a messenger from the Lord of the Worlds,
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Approved upon condition that I speak concerning Allah nothing but the truth. I come unto you (lords of Egypt) with a clear proof from your Lord. So let the Children of Israel go with me.
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(Pharaoh) said: If thou comest with a token, then produce it, if thou art of those who speak the truth.
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Then he flung down his staff and lo! it was a serpent manifest;
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And he drew forth his hand (from his bosom), and lo! it was white for the beholders.
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The chiefs of Pharaoh’s people said: Lo! this is some knowing wizard,
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Who would expel you from your land. Now what do ye advise?
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They said (unto Pharaoh): Put him off (a while) - him and his brother - and send into the cities summoners,
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To bring each knowing wizard unto thee.
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And the wizards came to Pharaoh, saying: Surely there will be a reward for us if we are victors.
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He answered: Yes, and surely ye shall be of those brought near (to me).
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They said: O Moses! Either throw (first) or let us be the first throwers?
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He said: Throw! And when they threw they cast a spell upon the people’s eyes, and overawed them, and produced a mighty spell.
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And We inspired Moses (saying): Throw thy staff! And lo! it swallowed up their lying show.
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Thus was the Truth vindicated and that which they were doing was made vain.
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Thus were they there defeated and brought low.
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And the wizards fell down prostrate,
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Crying: We believe in the Lord of the Worlds,
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The Lord of Moses and Aaron.
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Pharaoh said: Ye believe in Him before I give you leave! Lo! this is the plot that ye have plotted in the city that ye may drive its people hence. But ye shall come to know!
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Surely I shall have your hands and feet cut off upon alternate sides. Then I shall crucify you every one.
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They said: Lo! We are about to return unto our Lord!
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Thou takest vengeance on us only forasmuch as we believed the tokens of our Lord when they came unto us. Our Lord! Vouchsafe unto us steadfastness and make us die as men who have surrendered (unto Thee).
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The chiefs of Pharaoh’s people said: (O King), wilt thou suffer Moses and his people to make mischief in the land, and flout thee and thy gods? He said: We will slay their sons and spare their women, for lo! we are in power over them.
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And Moses said unto his people: Seek help in Allah and endure. Lo! the earth is Allah’s. He giveth it for an inheritance to whom He will. And lo! the sequel is for those who keep their duty (unto Him).
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They said: We suffered hurt before thou camest unto us, and since thou hast come unto us. He said: It may be that your Lord is going to destroy your adversary and make you viceroys in the earth, that He may see how ye behave.
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And we straitened Pharaoh’s folk with famine and dearth of fruits, that peradventure they might heed.
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But whenever good befell them, they said: This is ours; and whenever evil smote them they ascribed it to the evil auspices of Moses and those with him. Surely their evil auspice was only with Allah. But most of them knew not.
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And they said: Whatever portent thou bringest wherewith to bewitch us, we shall not put faith in thee.
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So We sent against them the flood and the locusts and the vermin and the frogs and the blood - a succession of clear signs. But they were arrogant and became a guilty folk.
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And when the terror fell on them they cried: O Moses! Pray for us unto thy Lord, because He hath a covenant with thee. If thou removest the terror from us we verily will trust thee and will let the Children of Israel go with thee.
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But when We did remove from them the terror for a term which they must reach, behold! they broke their covenant.
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Therefore We took retribution from them; therefore We drowned them in the sea: because they denied Our revelations and were heedless of them.
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And We caused the folk who were despised to inherit the eastern parts of the land and the western parts thereof which We had blessed. And the fair word of thy Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel because of their endurance; and We annihilated (all) that Pharaoh and his folk had done and that they had contrived.
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And We brought the Children of Israel across the sea, and they came unto a people who were given up to idols which they had. They said: O Moses! Make for us a god even as they have gods. He said: Lo! ye are a folk who know not.
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Lo! as for these, their way will be destroyed and all that they are doing is in vain.
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He said: Shall I seek for you a god other than Allah when He hath favoured you above (all) creatures?
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And (remember) when We did deliver you from Pharaoh’s folk who were afflicting you with dreadful torment, slaughtering your sons and sparing your women. That was a tremendous trial from your Lord.
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And when We did appoint for Moses thirty nights (of solitude), and added to them ten, and he completed the whole time appointed by his Lord of forty nights; and Moses said unto his brother, Aaron: Take my place among the people. Do right, and follow not the way of mischief-makers.
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And when Moses came to Our appointed tryst and his Lord had spoken unto him, he said: My Lord! Show me (Thy Self), that I may gaze upon Thee. He said: Thou wilt not see Me, but gaze upon the mountain! If it stand still in its place, then thou wilt see Me. And when his Lord revealed (His) glory to the mountain He sent it crashing down. And Moses fell down senseless. And when he woke he said: Glory unto Thee! I turn unto Thee repentant, and I am the first of (true) believers.
144
He said: O Moses! I have preferred thee above mankind by My messages and by My speaking (unto thee). So hold that which I have given thee, and be among the thankful.
145
And We wrote for him, upon the tablets, the lesson to be drawn from all things and the explanation of all things, then (bade him): Hold it fast; and command thy people (saying): Take the better (course made clear) therein. I shall show thee the abode of evil-livers.
146
I shall turn away from My revelations those who magnify themselves wrongfully in the earth, and if they see each token believe it not, and if they see the way of righteousness choose it nor for (their) way, and if they see the way of error choose if for (their) way. That is because they deny Our revelations and are used to disregard them.
147
Those who deny Our revelations and the meeting of the Hereafter, their works are fruitless. Are they requited aught save what they used to do?
148
And the folk of Moses, after (he left them), chose a calf (for worship), (made) out of their ornaments, of saffron hue, which gave a lowing sound. Saw they not that it spake not unto them nor guided them to any way? They chose it, and became wrong-doers.
149
And when they feared the consequences thereof and saw that they had gone astray, they said: Unless our Lord have mercy on us and forgive us, we verily are of the lost.
150
And when Moses returned unto his people, angry and grieved, he said: Evil is that (course) which ye took after I had left you. Would ye hasten on the judgment of your Lord? And he cast down the tablets, and he seized his brother by the head, dragging him toward him. He said: Son of my mother! Lo! the folk did judge me weak and almost killed me. Oh, make not mine enemies to triumph over me and place me not among the evil-doers.
151
He said: My Lord! Have mercy on me and on my brother; bring us into Thy mercy, Thou the Most Merciful of all who show mercy.
152
Lo! Those who chose the calf (for worship), terror from their Lord and humiliation will come upon them in the life of the world. Thus do We requite those who invent a lie.
153
But those who do ill-deeds and afterward repent and believe - lo! for them, afterward, Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
154
Then, when the anger of Moses abated, he took up the tablets, and in their inscription there was guidance and mercy for all those who fear their Lord.
155
And Moses chose of his people seventy men for Our appointed tryst and, when the trembling came on them, he said: My Lord! If Thou hadst willed Thou hadst destroyed them long before, and me with them. Wilt thou destroy us for that which the ignorant among us did? It is but Thy trial (of us). Thou sendest whom Thou wilt astray and guidest whom Thou wilt: Thou art our Protecting Friend, therefore forgive us and have mercy on us, Thou, the Best of all who show forgiveness.
156
And ordain for us in this world that which is good, and in the Hereafter (that which is good), Lo! We have turned unto Thee. He said: I smite with My punishment whom I will, and My mercy embraceth all things, therefore I shall ordain it for those who ward off (evil) and pay the poor-due, and those who believe Our revelations;
157
Those who follow the messenger, the Prophet who can neither read nor write, whom they will find described in the Torah and the Gospel (which are) with them. He will enjoin on them that which is right and forbid them that which is wrong. He will make lawful for them all good things and prohibit for them only the foul; and he will relieve them of their burden and the fetters that they used to wear. Then those who believe in him, and honour him, and help him, and follow the light which is sent down with him: they are the successful.
158
Say (O Muḥammad): O mankind! Lo! I am the messenger of Allah to you all - (the messenger of) Him unto Whom belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth. There is no Allah save Him. He quickeneth and He giveth death. So believe in Allah and His messenger, the Prophet who can neither read nor write, who believeth in Allah and in His Words, and follow him that haply ye may be led aright.
159
And of Moses’ folk there is a community who lead with truth and establish justice therewith.
160
We divided them into twelve tribes, nations; and We inspired Moses, when his people asked him for water, saying: Smite with thy staff the rock! And there gushed forth therefrom twelve springs, so that each tribe knew their drinking-place. And we caused the white cloud to overshadow them and sent down for them the manna and the quails (saying): Eat of the good things wherewith we have provided you. They wronged Us not, but they were wont to wrong themselves.
161
And when it was said unto them: Dwell in this township and eat therefrom whence ye will, and say "Repentance," and enter the gate prostrate; We shall forgive you your sins; We shall increase (reward) for the right-doers.
162
But those of them who did wrong changed the word which had been told them for another saying, and We sent down upon them wrath from heaven for their wrongdoing.
163
Ask them (O Muḥammad) of the township that was by the sea, how they did break the Sabbath, how their big fish came unto them visibly upon their Sabbath day and on a day when they did not keep Sabbath came they not unto them. Thus did We try them for that they were evil-livers.
164
And when a community among them said: Why preach ye to a folk whom Allah is about to destroy or punish with an awful doom, they said: In order to be free from guilt before your Lord, and that haply they may ward off (evil).
165
And when they forgot that whereof they had been reminded, We rescued those who forbade wrong, and visited those who did wrong with dreadful punishment because they were evil-livers.
166
So when they took pride in that which they had been forbidden, We said unto them: Be ye apes despised and loathed!
167
And (remember) when thy Lord proclaimed that He would raise against them till the Day of Resurrection those who would lay on them a cruel torment. Lo! verily thy Lord is swift in prosecution and lo! verily He is Forgiving, Merciful.
168
And We have sundered them in the earth as (separate) nations. Some of them are righteous, and some far from that. And We have tried them with good things and evil things that haply they might return.
169
And a generation hath succeeded them who inherited the scriptures. They grasp the goods of this low life (as the price of evil-doing) and say: It will be forgiven us. And if there came to them (again) the offer of the like, they would accept it (and would sin again). Hath not the covenant of the Scripture been taken on their behalf that they should not speak aught concerning Allah save the truth? And they have studied that which is therein. And the abode of the Hereafter is better, for those who ward off (evil). Have ye then no sense?
170
And as for those who make (men) keep the Scripture, and establish worship - lo! We squander not the wages of reformers.
171
And when We shook the Mount above them as it were a covering, and they supposed that it was going to fall upon them (and We said): Hold fast that which We have given you, and remember that which is therein, that ye may ward off (evil).
172
And (remember) when thy Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their reins, their seed, and made them testify of themselves, (saying): Am I not your Lord? They said: Yea, verily. We testify. (That was) lest ye should say at the Day of Resurrection: Lo! of this we were unaware;
173
Or lest ye should say: (It is) only (that) our fathers ascribed partners to Allah of old and we were (their) seed after them. Wilt Thou destroy us on account of that which those who follow falsehood did?
174
Thus we detail the revelations, that haply they may return.
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Recite unto them the tale of him to whom We gave Our revelations, but he sloughed them off, so Satan overtook him and he became of those who lead astray.
176
And had We willed We could have raised him by their means, but he clung to the earth and followed his own lust. Therefor his likeness is as the likeness of a dog: if thou attackest him he panteth with his tongue out, and if thou leavest him he panteth with his tongue out. Such is the likeness of the people who deny Our revelations. Narrate unto them the history (of the men of old), that haply they may take thought.
177
Evil as an example are the folk who denied Our revelations, and were wont to wrong themselves.
178
He whom Allah leadeth, he indeed is led aright, while he whom Allah sendeth astray - they indeed are losers.
179
Already have We urged unto hell many of the jinn and humankind, having hearts wherewith they understand not, and having eyes wherewith they see not, and having ears wherewith they hear not. These are as the cattle - nay, but they are worse! These are the neglectful.
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Allah’s are the fairest names. Invoke Him by them. And leave the company of those who blaspheme His names. They will be requited what they do.
181
And of those whom We created there is a nation who guide with the Truth and establish justice therewith.
182
And those who deny Our revelations - step by step We lead them on from whence they know not.
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I give them rein (for) lo! My scheme is strong.
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Have they not bethought them (that) there is no madness in their comrade? He is but a plain warner.
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Have they not considered the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and what things Allah hath created, and that it may be that their own term draweth nigh? In what fact after this will they believe?
186
Those whom Allah sendeth astray, there is no guide for them. He leaveth them to wander blindly on in their contumacy.
187
They ask thee of the (destined) Hour, when will it come to port. Say: Knowledge thereof is with my Lord only. He alone will manifest it at its proper time. It is heavy in the heavens and the earth. It cometh not to you save unawares. They question thee as if thou couldst be well informed thereof. Say: Knowledge thereof is with Allah only, but most of mankind know not.
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Say: For myself I have no power to benefit, nor power to hurt, save that which Allah willeth. Had I knowledge of the Unseen, I should have abundance of wealth, and adversity would not touch me. I am but a warner, and a bearer of good tidings unto folk who believe.
189
He it is Who did create you from a single soul, and therefrom did make his mate that he might take rest in her. And when he covered her she bore a light burden, and she passed (unnoticed) with it, but when it became heavy they cried unto Allah, their Lord, saying: If thou givest unto us aright we shall be of the thankful.
190
But when He gave unto them aright, they ascribed unto Him partners in respect of that which He had given them. High is He Exalted above all that they associate (with Him).
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Attribute they as partners to Allah those who created naught, but are themselves created,
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And cannot give them help, nor can they help themselves?
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And if ye call them to the Guidance, they follow you not. Whether ye call them or are silent is all one for you.
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Lo! those on whom ye call beside Allah are slaves like unto you. Call on them now, and let them answer you, if ye are truthful!
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Have they feet wherewith they walk, or have they hands wherewith they hold, or have they eyes wherewith they see, or have they ears wherewith they hear? Say: Call upon your (so-called) partners (of Allah), and then contrive against me, spare me not!
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Lo! my Protecting Friend is Allah Who revealeth the Scripture. He befriendeth the righteous.
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They on whom ye call beside Him have no power to help you, nor can they help you, nor can they help themselves.
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And if ye (Muslims) call them to the guidance they hear not; and thou (Muḥammad) seest them looking toward thee, but they see not.
199
Keep to forgiveness (O Muḥammad), and enjoin kindness, and turn away from the ignorant.
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And if a slander from the devil wound thee, then seek refuge in Allah. Lo! He is Hearer, Knower.
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Lo! those who ward off (evil), when a glamour from the devil troubleth them, they do but remember (Allah’s Guidance) and behold them seers!
202
Their brethren plunge them further into error and cease not.
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And when thou bringest not a verse for them they say: Why hast thou not chosen it? Say: I follow only that which is inspired in me from my Lord. This (Qur’an) is insight from your Lord, and a guidance and a mercy for a people that believe.
204
And when the Qur’an is recited, give ear to it and pay heed, that ye may obtain mercy.
205
And do thou (O Muḥammad) remember thy Lord within thyself humbly and with awe, below thy breath, at morn and evening. And be not thou of the neglectful.
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Lo! those who are with thy Lord are not too proud to do Him service, but they praise Him and prostrate before Him.
CHAP. VII.
Intitled, Al Araf
In the name of the most merciful God.
a
; revealed at Mecca
Note [original edition] : Al Arâf signifies the partition between paradise and hell, which is
mentioned in this chapter1.
- 1 See the Prel. Disc. §. IV. p. 94.
b
.
Note [original edition] : Some however except five or eight verses, begin at these words, And
ask them concerning the city, &c.
1
c
Note [original edition] : The signification of those letters the more sober Mohammedans confess
God alone knows. Some, however, imagine they stand for Allah, Gabriel,
Mohammed, on whom be peace.
2
3
4
d
, or while they were reposing themselves at noon-day
Note [original edition] : Which our vengeance overtook by
night;] As it did the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, to whom Lot was
sent.
e
!
Note [original edition] : Or while they were reposing themselves at noon;] As happened to the Midianites, to whom Shoaib preached.
5
6
7
8
f
; and they whose
balances laden with their good works shall be heavy, are those who shall be
happy;
Note [original edition] : See the Prelim. Disc. Sect. IV. p. 89.
9
10
11
g
.
Note [original edition] : See chap. 2. p. 4, &c.
12
13
14
15
h
.
Note [original edition] : Verily thou shalt be one of those who are respited;] As the time till which the devil is reprieved is not particularly
expressed, the commentators suppose his request was not wholly granted; but
agree that he shall die, as well as other creatures, at the second sound of
the trumpet2.
- 2 Al Beidawi, See the Prelim. Disc. §. IV. p 83, and D’Herbel. Bibl. Orient. Eblis
16
17
a
; and thou shalt not find the greater part of
them thankful.
Note [original edition] : I will come upon them from before, and from behind, and from their
right hands, and from their left, &c.] i.e. I will attack them on every side that I shall be able. The
other two ways, viz. from above and from under their feet, are omitted, say
the commentators, to shew that the devil’s power is limited1.
- 1 Al Beidawi.
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19
20
21
22
b
. And when they had tasted of
the tree, their nakedness appeared unto them
Note [original edition] : The Mohammedan gospel of Barnabas tells us that the sentence which
God pronounced on the serpent for introducing the devil into paradise
2
was,
that he should not only be turned out of paradise, but that he should have his
legs cut off by the angel Michael, with the sword of God; and that the devil
himself, since he had rendered our first parents unclean, was condemned to eat
the excrements of them and all their posterity; which two last circumstances I
do not remember to have read elsewhere. The words of the manuscript are
these: Y llamó [Dios] a la serpiente, y a Michael, aquel que tiene la espada
de Dios, y le dixo; Aquesta sierpe es acelerada, echala la primera del
parayso, y cortale las piernas, y si quisiere caminar, arrastrara la vida por
tierra. Y llamó à Satanas, el qual vino riendo, y dixole; Porque tu reprobo
has engañado a aquestos, y los has hecho immundos? Yo quiero que toda
immundicia suya, y de todos sus hijos, en saliendo de sus cuerpos entre por tu
boca, porque en verdad ellos haran penitencia, y tu quedaras harto de
immundicia.
- 2 See the notes to chap. II. p. 5.
c
; and they began to join together
the leaves of paradise
Note [original edition] : Their nakedness appeared unto them;] Which they had not perceived before; being clothed, as some say, with
light, or garments of paradise, which fell from them on their disobedience.
Yahya imagines their nakedness was hidden by their hair.
d
, to cover themselves. And their Lord called to them,
saying, Did I not forbid you this tree: and did I not say unto you, Verily
Satan is your declared enemy?
Note [original edition] : The leaves of paradise;] Which it is said were fig-leaves3.
- 3 Idem.
23
24
25
26
e
, to conceal your
nakedness, and fair garments; but the clothing of piety is better. This is one
of the signs of God; that peradventure ye may consider.
Note [original edition] : We have sent down unto you apparel;] Not only proper materials, but also ingenuity of mind and dexterity
of hand to make use of them4.
- 4 Idem.
27
f
. We have appointed the devils to be
Note [original edition] : Whereas ye
see not them;] Because of the subtlety of their bodies, and their being void of all
colour5.
- 5 Jallalo’ddin.