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Asad, Surah 36: Yaseen (Yaseen)

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[1] O THOU human being!

[2] Consider this Qur’an full of wisdom:

[3] verily, thou art indeed one of God’s message-bearers,

[4] pursuing a straight way

[5] by [virtue of] what is being bestowed from on high by the Almighty, the Dispenser of Grace,

[6] [bestowed upon thee] so that thou mayest warn people whose forefathers had not been warned, and who therefore are unaware [of the meaning of right and wrong].

[7] Indeed, the word [of God’s condemnation] is bound to come true against most of them: for they will not believe.

[8] Behold, around their necks We have put shack­les, reaching up to their chins, so that their heads are forced up;

[9] and We have set a barrier before them and a barrier behind them, and We have enshrouded them in veils so that they cannot see:

[10] thus, it is all one to them whether thou warnest them or dost not warn them: they will not believe.

[11] Thou canst [truly] warn only him who is willing to take the reminder to heart, and who stands in awe of the Most Gracious although He is beyond the reach of human perception: unto such, then, give the glad tiding of [God’s] forgiveness and of a most excellent reward!

[12] Verily, We shall indeed bring the dead back to life; and We shall record whatever [deeds] they have sent ahead, and the traces [of good and evil] which they have left behind: for of all things do We take account in a record clear.

[13] AND SET FORTH unto them a parable - [the story of how] the people of a township [behaved] when [Our] message-bearers came unto them.

[14] Lo! We sent unto them two [apostles], and. they gave the lie to both; and so We strengthened [the two] with a third; and thereupon they said: “Behold, we have been sent unto you [by God]!”

[15] [The others] answered: “You are nothing but mortal men like ourselves; moreover, the Most Gracious has never bestowed aught [of revelation] from on high. You do nothing but lie!”

[16] Said [the apostles]: “Our Sustainer knows that we have indeed been sent unto you;

[17] but we are not bound to do more than clearly deliver the mes­sage [entrusted to us].”

[18] Said [the others]: “Truly, we augur evil from you! Indeed, if you desist not, we will surely stone you, and grievous suffering is bound to befall you at our hands!”

[19] [The apostles] replied: “Your destiny, good or evil, is [bound up] with yourselves! [Does it seem evil to you] if you are told to take [the truth] to heart? Nay, but you are people who have wasted their own selves!”

[20] At that, a man came running from the farthest end of the city, [and] exclaimed: “O my people! Follow these message-bearers!

[21] Follow those who ask no reward of you, and themselves are rightly guided!

[22] “[As for me,] why should I not worship Him who has brought me into being, and to whom you all will be brought back?

[23] Should I take to worship­ping [other] deities beside Him? [But then,] if the Most Gracious should will that harm befall me, their intercession could not in the least avail me, nor could they save me:

[24] and so, behold, I would have indeed, most obviously, lost myself in error!

[25] “Verily, [O my people,] in the Sustainer of you all have I come to believe: listen, then, to me!”

[26] [And] he was told, “[Thou shalt] enter paradise!” - [whereupon] he exclaimed: “Would that my people knew

[27] how my Sustainer has forgiven me [the sins of my past], and has placed me among the honoured ones!”

[28] And after that, no host out of heaven did We send down against his people, nor did We need to send down any:

[29] nothing was [needed] but one single blast [of Our punishment] - and lo! they became as still and silent as ashes.

[30] OH, THE REGRETS that [most] human beings will have to bear! Never has an apostle come to them without their deriding him!

[31] Are they not aware of how many a generation We have destroyed before their time, [and] that those [that have perished] will never return to them,

[32] and [that] all of them, all together, will [in the end] before Us be arraigned?

[33] And [yet,] they have a sign [of Our power to create and to resurrect] in the lifeless earth which We make alive, and out of which We bring forth grain, whereof they may eat;

[34] and [how] We make gardens of date-palms and vines [grow] thereon, and cause springs to gush [forth] within it,

[35] so that they may eat of the fruit thereof, though it was not their hands that made it. Will they not, then, be grateful?

[36] Limitless in His glory is He who has created opposites in whatever the earth produces, and in men’s own selves, and in that of which [as yet] they have no knowledge.

[37] And [of Our sway over all that exists] they have a sign in the night: We withdraw from it the [light of] day - and lo! they are in darkness.

[38] And [they have a sign in] the sun: it runs in an orbit of its own [and] that is laid down by the will of the Almighty, the All-Knowing;

[39] and [in] the moon, for which We have determined phases [which it must traverse] till it becomes like an old date-stalk, dried-up and curved:

[40] [and] neither may the sun overtake the moon, nor can the night usurp the time of day, since all of them float through space [in accordance with Our laws].

[41] And [it ought to be] a sign for them that We bear their offspring [over the seas] in laden ships,

[42] and [that] We create for them things of a similar kind, on which they may embark [in their travels];

[43] and [that,] if such be Our will, We may cause them to drown, with none to respond to their cry for help: and [then] they cannot be saved,

[44] unless it be by an act of mercy from Us and a grant of life for a [further span of] time.

[45] And [yet,] when they are told, “Beware of [God’s insight into] all that lies open before you and all that is hidden from you, so that you might be graced with His mercy,” [most men choose to remain deaf;]

[46] and no message of their Sustainer s messages ever reaches them without their turning away from it.

[47] Thus, when they are told, “Spend on others out of what God has provided for you as sus­tenance,” those who are bent on denying the truth say unto those who believe, “Shall we feed anyone whom, if [your] God had so willed, He could have fed [Himself]? Clearly, you are but lost in error!”

[48] And they add, “When is this promise [of resurrection] to be fulfilled? [Answer this] if you are men of truth!”

[49] [And they are unaware that] nothing awaits them beyond a single blast [of God’s punishment], which will overtake them while they are still arguing - [against resurrection]:

[50] and so [sudden will be their end that] no testament will they be able to make, - nor to their own people will they return!

[51] And [then] the trumpet [of resurrection] will be blown - and lo! out of their graves towards their Sustainer will they all rush forth!

[52] They will say: “Oh, woe unto us! Who has roused us from our sleep [of death]?” [Whereupon they will be told:] “This is what the Most Gracious has promised! And His message-bearers spoke the truth!”

[53] Nothing will there have been but one single blast - and lo! before Us will all of them be arraigned [and be told]:

[54] “Today, then, no human being shall be wronged in the least, nor shalt you be requited for aught but what you were doing [on earth].

[55] “Behold, those who are destined for paradise shall today have joy in whatever they do:

[56] in happiness will they and their spouses on couches recline;

[57] [only] delight will there be for them, and theirs shall be all that they could ask for:

[58] peace and fulfillment through the word of a Sustainer who dispenses all grace.

[59] “But stand aside today, O you who were lost in sin!

[60] Did I not enjoin on you, O you children of Adam, that you should not worship Satan – since, verily, he is your open foe

[61] and that you should worship Me [alone]? This would have been a straight way!

[62] And [as for Satan -] he had already led astray a great many of you: could you not, then, use your reason?

[63] “This, then, is the hell of which you were warned again and again:

[64] endure it today as an outcome of your persistent denial of the truth!”

[65] On that Day We shall set a seal on their mouths but their hands will speak unto Us, and their feet will bear witness to whatever they have earned [in life].

[66] NOW HAD IT BEEN Our will [that men should not be able to discern between right and wrong], We could surely have deprived them of their sight, so that they would stray forever from the [right] way: for how could they have had insight [into what is true]?

[67] And had it been Our will [that they should not be free to choose between right and wrong], We could surely have given them a different nature [and created them as beings rooted] in their places, so that they would not be able to move forward, and could not turn back.]

[68] But [let them always remember that] if We lengthen a human being’s days, We also cause him to decline in his powers [when he grows old]: will they not, then, use their reason?

[69] AND [thus it is:] We have not imparted to this [Prophet the gift of] poetry, nor would [poetry] have suited this [message]: it is but a reminder and a [divine] discourse, clear in itself and clearly showing the truth,

[70] to the end that it may warn everyone who is alive [of heart], and that the word [of God] may bear witness against all who deny the truth.

[71] Are they, then, not aware that it is for them that We have created, among all the things which Our hands have wrought, the domestic animals of which they are [now] masters? –

[72] and that We have subjected them to men’s will, so that some of them they may use for riding and of some they may eat,

[73] and may have [yet other] benefits from them, and [milk] to drink? Will they not, then, be grateful? (

[74] But [nay,] they take to worshipping deities other than God, [hoping] to be succoured [by them, and not knowing that]

[75] they are unable to succour their devotees, even though to them they may [appear to] be hosts drawn up [for succour].

[76] However, be not grieved by the sayings of those [who deny the truth]: verily, We know all that they keep secret as well as all that they bring into the open.

[77] IS MAN, then, not aware that it is We who create him out of a [mere] drop of sperm - whereupon, lo! he shows himself endowed with the power to think and to argue?

[78] And [now] he [argues about Us, and] thinks of Us in terms of comparison, and is oblivious of how he himself was created! [And so] he says, “Who could give life to bones that have crumbled to dust?”

[79] Say: “He who brought them into being in the first instance will give them life [once again], seeing that He has full knowledge of every act of creation:

[80] He who produces for you fire out of the green tree, so that, lo! you kindle [your fires] therewith.”

[81] Is, then, He who has created the heavens and the earth not able to create [anew] the like of those [who have died]? Yea, indeed - for He alone is the all-knowing Crea­tor:

[82] His Being alone is such that when He wills a thing to be, He but says unto it, “Be” — and it is.

[83] Limitless, then, in His glory is He in whose hand rests the mighty dominion over all things; and unto Him you all will be brought back!

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