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21. Al-Anbiya (The Prophets, 112 verses)
21.1. Their reckoning has drawn near for humankind, yet they do not pay heed to it, being lost in worldly things and heedlessness.
21.2. Whenever a new Revelation comes to them from their Lord to warn and enlighten them, they only listen to it in a playful manner,
21.3. With hearts set on passing pleasures; yet those who lead in wrongdoing, especially by associating partners with God, confer among themselves in great secret: "Is this (not) but a mortal like you? Will you, then, yield to magic while you see it patently?"
21.4. (The Messenger) says (in response): "My Lord knows every word spoken in the heaven and on the earth. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. "
21.5. (Confused about which source they should attribute the Qur'an to,) they say, "No, but Muhammad offers some jumbles of dream images he has! No, but he fabricates all this! No, but he is a poet! If he is true in his claim, then let him come to us with a sign (a miracle), just as the previous Messengers were sent with miracles!"
21.6. Not one of the peoples before them that We destroyed believed (even though the Messengers came to them with miracles). Will, then, these believe?
21.7. We did not send as Messengers before you (,O Muhammad,) any but men to whom We revealed. So (O people) ask those who have special knowledge (of the Divine Revelations), if you do not know.
21.8. Nor did We make them bodies not needing food so that they would not eat like others; nor were they immortals.
21.9. We promised them help and victory, and We kept Our promise: We saved them and all whom We willed (and bound Ourselves to save – the believers), and We destroyed those who wasted their God-given faculties and committed excesses.
21.10. Now We send down to you (O people of Makkah, and O all humankind,) a Book which contains what you must heed in life for your honor and happiness. Will you not, then, use your reason?
21.11. How many a community that did the greatest wrong (by associating partners with God) and, thereby, wronged itself have We shattered, and raised up another people after them.
21.12. When they felt Our mighty punishment coming, they at once attempted to flee from it.
21.13. "Do not attempt to flee, but return to all that (ease and comfort) in which you had been lost without scruples, and to your homes, that you may be appealed to by the poor and needy, or to take your valuable counsels!
21.14. They could only cry: "Oh, woe to us! We were indeed wrongdoers!"
21.15. That cry of theirs did not cease until We made them like reaped corn, and a heap of ashes.
21.16. We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them as a play and game for Us.
21.17. If We had willed to find a pastime (without creating the heavens and the earth with all that is in and between them), We would indeed have found it in Our Presence, if We were going to do so!
21.18. No, but We hurl the truth against falsehood, and it breaks the latter's head, and see, it vanishes. So woe to you for all the falsehood you attribute to God.
21.19. To Him belongs whoever is in the heavens and the earth. And those (the angels) who are with Him, never disdain to worship Him, nor do they ever weary.
21.20. They glorify Him by night and day (proclaiming that He is absolutely exalted above any shortcoming or need of partners, or doing pointless things), and never show tiredness nor lose zeal.
21.21. What, have those polytheists (given up hope of heaven and) adopted deities from the earth, (do they believe) that they (those deities) can raise up the dead?
21.22. But the fact is that had there been in the heavens and the earth any deities other than God, both (of those realms) would certainly have fallen into ruin. All-Glorified God is, the Lord of the Supreme Throne, in that He is absolutely above all that they attribute to Him.
21.23. He cannot be called to account for whatever He does, but their false deities (they have adopted from among conscious beings) are accountable.
21.24. What, have they adopted deities other than Him? Say (O Messenger): "If so, present your proof! But look, here is the Book those who are in my company follow, and there are the Books those who came before me followed (what is stressed in all of them is that there is no deity other than Him. )" But they have nothing to do with knowledge so that they might know the truth,  this is why they turn away from it in aversion.
21.25. We never sent any Messenger before you except that We revealed to him that there is no deity but Me, so worship Me alone.
21.26. Yet some say, "The All-Merciful has taken to Himself a child. " All-Glorified He is (in that He is absolutely above doing such things). Rather, those (the angels, whom they regard as God's offspring) are but His honored servants.
21.27. They speak only what He has spoken to them and allows them to speak, and they act by His command.
21.28. He knows what lies before them and what lies after them (what lies in their future and in their past, what is known to them and what is hidden from them); and they cannot intercede for any but His believing servants, those with whom He is well-pleased, and they themselves quake for reverent awe of Him.
21.29. If any of them were to attempt to say, "I am a deity besides Him," We would recompense him with Hell. Thus do We recompense all such wrongdoers.
21.30. Do those who disbelieve ever consider that the heavens and the earth were at first one piece, and then We parted them as separate entities; and that We have made every living thing from water? Will they still not come to believe?
21.31. We have set up firm mountains on the earth lest it should shake them with its movement, and We have made thereon broad paths, so that they might find their way.
21.32. And We have established the heaven as a canopy well-secured (against collapse and the ascension of devils). Yet they turn away from all such signs (of truth manifested) in the universe.
21.33. It is He Who has created the night and the day and the sun and the moon. Every one (of such celestial bodies) floats in its orbit.
21.34. We never granted everlasting life to any human being before you (O Messenger); so if you die, will they live forever?
21.35. Every soul (person) is bound to taste death, and We try you through the bad and the good things (of life) by way of testing (so that your real character and rank may reveal itself). In fact, you are on the way to return to Us (to finally be brought to Our Presence).
21.36. When those who persistently disbelieve see you, they make you but a target of mockery, (,saying to each other): "Is this the one who speaks against your deities?" (They cannot bear to hear their false deities denied. ) And yet, it is they themselves who deny the Book of the All-Merciful (Who has created them ,and embraces them with mercy—without recognizing this as a crime).
21.37. Human is, by nature, impatient, as if made of haste (this is why they ask derisively when the punishment with which they are threatened will come). I will soon show you the truth of My threats, so do not ask Me to hasten it.
21.38. But they insistently ask, "After all, when will this threat be fulfilled? (Answer us, O you who believe in it,) if you are people of truth!"
21.39. If only those who persistently disbelieve knew the time when they will be unable to ward off the Fire from their faces, and from their backs, and they will never be helped against it!
21.40. But it will come upon them all of a sudden and dumbfound them. They will not be able to avert it, nor will they be given respite to escape it.
21.41. Indeed, Messengers were mocked before you (O Muhammad), but the very thing, because of which the people used to mock them, overwhelmed those who scoffed at the Messengers (to humiliate them).
21.42. Say: "Who could protect you by night and day from the All-Merciful, if He wills to punish you?" And yet, they turn away from the Book of their Lord in aversion.
21.43. Or do they really have deities apart from Us to defend them? They (those alleged deities) are not even able to help themselves, nor can they get any help and friendship from Us.
21.44. The truth is that We have provided for those (polytheist sinners) and their forefathers to enjoy life, so that they have lived for a long time in ease and safety. (This is why they think that they will live forever in prosperity. ) But do they not see how We deal with the earth, reducing it of its outlying parts? So, can they really be the victors?
21.45. Say: "I warn you only on the strength of the Revelation (in which there is no doubt). But the deaf do not hear the call, however much they are warned. "
21.46. And yet, if but a breath of your Lord's punishment touches them, they are sure to cry: "Oh, woe to us! We were indeed wrongdoers!"
21.47. We will set up balances of absolute justice on the Day of Resurrection, and no person will be wronged in the least. Even though it be a deed so much as the weight of a grain of mustard seed, We will bring it forth to be weighed. We suffice as reckoners.
21.48. We granted Moses and Aaron the Criterion (the Book distinguishing between truth and falsehood), and made it a (guiding) light and reminder for the God-revering, pious.
21.49. They stand in great awe of their Lord though unseen (and beyond their perception), and tremble with the thought of the Last Hour.
21.50. And this one (the Qur'ān), too, is a Reminder full of blessings which We are sending down. Will you then reject it?
 
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