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Surah 18.  Al-Kahf

In the name of ALLAH, the Benevolent, the Merciful

1.  Praise be to ALLAH Who has sent down The Book to His slave, and has not placed therein any crookedness,

2.  Straight, to give warning of stem punishment from Him, and to bring to the faithful who do good works the news that theirs will be a fair reward.

3.  Wherein they will abide for ever;

4.  And to warn those who say:  ALLAH has chosen a son,

5.  Whereof they have no knowledge, nor you fathers.  Dreadful is the word that comes out of their mouths.  They speak nothing but a lie.

6.  Yet it may be, if they deny this statement, that you will torment your soul with grief over their footsteps.

7.  Lo!  We have placed all that is in the earth as an ornament thereof that we may try them:  which of them is best in conduct.

8.  And lo!  We shall make all that is therein a barren mound.

9.  Or deem you that the People of the Cave and the Inscription are a wonder among Our Signs?

10.  When the young men fled for refuge to the Cave and said:  Our Lord!  Give us mercy from Your presence and shape for us right conduct in our plight

11.  Then We sealed up their hearing in the Cave for a number of years.

12.  And afterward We raised them up that We might know which of the two parties would best calculate the time that they had tarried.

 


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