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Surah 6.  Al-An'am

In the name of ALLAH, the Benevolent, the Merciful

1.  Praise be to ALLAH, Who has created the heavens and the earth, and has appointed darkness and light.  Yet those who deny ascribe rivals to their Lord.

2.  He it is Who has created you from clay, and has decreed a term for you.  A term is fixed with Him.  Yet still you doubt!

3.  He is ALLAH in the heavens and in the earth.  He knows both your secret and your utterance, and He knows what you earn.

4.  Never came there to them a Revelation of the Revelations of ALLAH but they did turn away from it.

5.  And they denied the truth when it came to them.  But there will come to them the tidings of that which they used to deride.

6.  See they not how many a generation We destroyed before them, whom We had established in the earth more firmly than We have established you, and We shed on them abundant showers from the sky, and made the rivers flow beneath them.  Yet We destroyed them for their sins, and created after them another generation

7.  Had we sent down to you (actual) writing upon parchment, so that they could feel it with their hands, those who deny would have said:  This is nothing else than mere magic.

8.  They say:  Why has not an angel been sent down to him?  If We sent down an angel, then the matter would be judged; no further time would be allowed them (for reflection).

9.  Had We appointed an angel (Our messenger), We assuredly had made him (as) a man (that he might speak to men); and (thus) obscured for them (the truth) they (now) obscure.

10.  Messengers (of ALLAH) have been derided before you, but that whereat they scoffed surrounded such of them as did deride.

 


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