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The Thunder
In the name of Allah, the
Beneficent, the Merciful.
[13.1] Alif Lam Mim Ra. These are the verses of the Book;
and that which is revealed to you from your Lord is the
truth, but most people do not believe.
[13.2] Allah is He Who raised the heavens without any
pillars that you see, and He is firm in power and He made
the sun and the moon subservient (to you); each
one pursues its course to an appointed time; He regulates
the affair, making clear the signs that you may be certain
of meeting your Lord.
[13.3] And He it is Who spread the earth and made in it
firm mountains and rivers, and of all fruits He has made in
it two kinds; He makes the night cover the day; most surely
there are signs in this for a people who reflect.
[13.4] And in the earth there are tracts side by side and
gardens of grapes and corn and palm trees having one root
and (others) having distinct roots-- they
are watered with one water, and We make some of them excel
others in fruit; most surely there are signs in this for a
people who understand.
[13.5] And if you would wonder, then wondrous is their
saying: What! when we are dust, shall we then certainly be
in a new creation? These are they who disbelieve in their
Lord, and these have chains on their necks, and they are
the inmates of the fire; in it they shall abide.
[13.6] And they ask you to hasten on the evil before the
good, and indeed there have been exemplary punishments
before them; and most surely your Lord is the
Lord of forgiveness to people, notwithstanding their
injustice; and most surely your Lord is severe in requiting
(evil).
[13.7] And those who disbelieve say: Why has not a sign
been sent down upon him from his Lord? You are only a
warner and (there is) a guide for every people.
[13.8] Allah knows what every female bears, and that of
which the wombs fall short of completion and that in which
they increase; and there is a measure with
Him of everything.
[13.9] The knower of the unseen and the seen, the Great,
the Most High.
[13.10] Alike (to Him) among you is he who conceals (his)
words and he who speaks them openly, and he who hides
himself by night and (who) goes forth by
day. 11 . For his sake there are angels following one
another, before him and behind him, who guard him by
Allah's commandment; surely Allah does not change
the condition of a people until they change their own
condition; and when Allah intends evil to a people, there
is no averting it, and besides Him they have no
protector.
[13.12] He it is Who shows you the lightning causing fear
and hope and (Who) brings up the heavy cloud.
[13.13] And the thunder declares His glory with His praise,
and the angels too for awe of Him; and He sends the
thunderbolts and smites with them whom He
pleases, yet they dispute concerning Allah, and He is
mighty in prowess.
[13.14] To Him is due the true prayer; and those whom they
pray to besides Allah give them no answer, but (they are)
like one who stretches forth his two hands
towards water that it may reach his mouth, but it will not
reach it; and the prayer of the unbelievers is only in
error.
[13.15] And whoever is in the heavens and the earth makes
obeisance to Allah only, willingly and unwillingly, and
their shadows too at morn and eve.
[13.16] Say: Who is the Lord of the heavens and the
earth?-- Say: Allah. Say: Do you take then besides Him
guardians who do not control any profit or harm for
themselves? Say: Are the blind and the seeing alike? Or can
the darkness and the light be equal? Or have they set up
with Allah associates who have created creation like His,
so that what is created became confused to them? Say: Allah
is the Creator of all things, and He is the One, the
Supreme.
[13.17] He sends down water from the cloud, then
watercourses flow (with water) according to their measure,
and the torrent bears along the swelling foam, and
from what they melt in the fire for the sake of making
ornaments or apparatus arises a scum like it; thus does
Allah compare truth and falsehood; then as for
the scum, it passes away as a worthless thing; and as for
that which profits the people, it tarries in the earth;
thus does Allah set forth parables.
[13.18] For those who respond to their Lord is good; and
(as for) those who do not respond to Him, had they all that
is in the earth and the like thereof with
it they would certainly offer it for a ransom. (As for)
those, an evil reckoning shall be theirs and their abode is
hell, and evil is the resting-place.
[13.19] Is he then who knows that what has been revealed to
you from your Lord is the truth like him who is blind? Only
those possessed of understanding will mind,
[13.20] Those who fulfil the promise of Allah and do not
break the covenant,
[13.21] And those who join that which Allah has bidden to
be joined and have awe of their Lord and fear the evil
reckoning.
[13.22] And those who are constant, seeking the pleasure of
their Lord, and keep up prayer and spend (benevolently) out
of what We have given them secretly and
openly and repel evil with good; as for those, they shall
have the (happy) issue of the abode
[13.23] The gardens of perpetual abode which they will
enter along with those who do good from among their parents
and their spouses and their offspring; and
the angels will enter in upon them from every gate:
[13.24] Peace be on you because you were constant, how
excellent, is then, the issue of the abode.
[13.25] And those who break the covenant of Allah after its
confirmation and cut asunder that which Allah has ordered
to be joined and make mischief in the land;
(as for) those, upon them shall be curse and they shall
have the evil (issue) of the abode.
[13.26] Allah amplifies and straitens the means of
subsistence for whom He pleases; and they rejoice in this
world's life, and this world's life is nothing
compared with the hereafter but a temporary enjoyment.
[13.27] And those who disbelieve say: Why is not a sign
sent down upon him by his Lord? Say: Surely Allah makes him
who will go astray, and guides to Himself
those who turn (to Him).
[13.28] Those who believe and whose hearts are set at rest
by the remembrance of Allah; now surely by Allah's
remembrance are the hearts set at rest.
[13.29] (As for) those who believe and do good, a good
final state shall be theirs and a goodly return.
[13.30] And thus We have sent you among a nation before
which other nations have passed away, that you might recite
to them what We have revealed to you and
(still) they deny the Beneficent God. Say: He is my Lord,
there is no god but He; on Him do I rely and to Him is my
return.
[13.31] And even if there were a Quran with which the
mountains were made to pass away, or the earth were
travelled over with it, or the dead were made to
speak thereby; nay! the commandment is wholly Allah's, Have
not yet those who believe known that if Allah please He
would certainly guide all the people? And
(as for) those who disbelieve, there will not cease to
afflict them because of what they do a repelling calamity,
or it will alight close by their abodes,
until the promise of Allah comes about; surely Allah will
not fail in (His) promise.
[13.32] And apostles before you were certainly mocked at,
but I gave respite to those who disbelieved, then I
destroyed them; how then was My requital (of
evil)?
[13.33] Is He then Who watches every soul as to what it
earns? And yet they give associates to Allah! Say: Give
them a name; nay, do you mean to inform Him of
what He does not know in the earth, or (do you affirm this)
by an outward saying? Rather, their plans are made to
appear fair-seeming to those who disbelieve, and they are
kept back from the path; and whom Allah makes err, he
shall have no guide.
[13.34] They shall have chastisement in this world's life,
and the chastisement of the hereafter is certainly more
grievous, and they shall have no protector
against Allah.
[13.35] A likeness of the garden which the righteous are
promised; there now beneath it rivers, its food and shades
are perpetual; this is the requital of those who guarded
(against evil), and the requital of the unbelievers is the
fire.
[13.36] And those to whom We have given the Book rejoice in
that which has been revealed to you, and of the
confederates are some who deny a part of it. Say: I
am only commanded that I should serve Allah and not
associate anything with Him, to Him do I invite (you) and
to Him is my return.
[13.37] And thus have We revealed it, a true judgment in
Arabic, and if you follow their low desires after what has
come to you of knowledge, you shall not
have against Allah any guardian or a protector.
[13.38] And certainly We sent apostles before you and gave
them wives and children, and it is not in (the power of) an
apostle to bring a sign except by Allah's permission; for
every term there is an appointment.
[13.39] Allah makes to pass away and establishes what He
pleases, and with Him is the basis of the Book.
[13.40] And We will either let you see part of what We
threaten them with or cause you to die, for only the
delivery of the message is (incumbent) on you,
while calling (them) to account is Our (business).
[13.41] Do they not see that We are bringing destruction
upon the land by curtailing it of its sides? And Allah
pronounces a doom-- there is no repeller
of His decree, and He is swift to take account.
[13.42] And those before them did indeed make plans, but
all planning is Allah's; He knows what every soul earns,
and the unbelievers shall come to know for whom is the
(better) issue of the abode.
[13.43] And those who disbelieve say: You are not a
messenger. Say: Allah is sufficient as a witness between me
and you and whoever has knowledge of the
Book.
