Surah 39. Az-Zumar

In the name of ALLAH, the Benevolent, the Merciful

1. The Revelation of The Book is from ALLAH, the Mighty, the Wise.
2. Lo! We have sent down The Book to you with truth; so worship ALLAH, making religion pure for Him.
3. Surely Pure religion is for ALLAH only. And those who choose protecting friends beside Him: We worship them only that they may bring us near to ALLAH. Lo! ALLAH will judge between them concerning that wherein they differ. Lo! ALLAH Guides not him who is a liar, an ingrate.
4. If ALLAH had willed to choose a son, he could have chosen what he would of that which He has created. Be He glorified! He is ALLAH, the One, the Absolute.
5. He has created the heavens and the earth with truth. He makes night to succeed day, and He makes day to succeed night, and He constrains the sun and the moon to give service, each running on for an appointed term. Is not He the Mighty, the Forgiver?
6. He created you from one being, then from that He made its mate; and He has provided for you of cattle eight kinds. He created you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, in a threefold gloom. Such is ALLAH, your Lord. His is the Sovereignty. There is no God save Him. How then are you turned away?
7. If you are thankless, yet ALLAH is Independent of you, though He is not pleased with thanklessness for His bondmen; and if you are thankful He is pleased therewith for you. No laden soul will bear another's load. Then to your Lord is your return; and He will tell you what you used to do. Lo! He knows what is in the breasts.
8. And then some hurt touches man, he cries to his Lord, turning to Him. Then, when He grants him a boon from Him he forgets that for which he cried to Him before, and sets up rivals to ALLAH that he may fool from His way. Say: Take pleasure in your denial a while. Lo! you are of the owners of the Fire.
9. Is he who pays adoration in the watches of the night, prostrate and standing, bewaring of the Hereafter and hoping for the mercy of his Lord? Say: Are those who know equal with those who know not? But only men of understanding will pay heed.

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