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The Ant
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the
Merciful.
[27.1] Ta Sin! These are the verses of the Quran and the
Book that makes (things) clear
[27.2] A guidance and good news for the believers,
[27.3] Who keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, and of the
hereafter, they are sure.
[27.4] As to those who do not believe in the hereafter, We
have surely made their deeds fair-seeming to them, but they
blindly wander on.
[27.5] These are they who shall have an evil punishment,
and in the hereafter they shall be the greatest losers.
[27.6] And most surely you are made to receive the Quran
from the Wise, the Knowing God.
[27.7] When Musa said to his family: Surely I see fire; I
will bring to you from it some news, or I will bring to you
therefrom a burning firebrand so that you
may warm yourselves.
[27.8] So when he came to it a voice was uttered saying:
Blessed is Whoever is in the fire and whatever is about it;
and glory be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds;
[27.9] O Musa! surely I am Allah, the Mighty, the Wise;
[27.10] And cast down your staff. So when he saw it in
motion as if it were a serpent, he turned back retreating
and did not return: O Musa! fear not; surely
the apostles shall not fear in My presence;
[27.11] Neither he who has been unjust, then he does good
instead after evil, for surely I am the Forgiving, the
Merciful:
[27.12] And enter your hand into the opening of your bosom,
it shall come forth white without evil; among nine signs to
Firon and his people, surely they are a
transgressing people.
[27.13] So when Our clear signs came to them, they said:
This is clear enchantment.
[27.14] And they denied them unjustly and proudly while
their soul had been convinced of them; consider, then how
was the end of the mischief-makers.
[27.15] And certainly We gave knowledge to Dawood and
Sulaiman, and they both said: Praise be to Allah, Who has
made us to excel many of His believing servants.
[27.16] And Sulaiman was Dawood's heir, and he said: O men!
we have been taught the language of birds, and we have been
given all things; most surely this is manifest grace.
[27.17] And his hosts of the jinn and the men and the birds
were gathered to him, and they were formed into groups.
[27.18] Until when they came to the valley of the Naml, a
Namlite said: O Naml! enter your houses, (that) Sulaiman
and his hosts may not crush you while they do
not know.
[27.19] So he smiled, wondering at her word, and said: My
Lord! grant me that I should be grateful for Thy favor
which Thou hast bestowed on me and on my
parents, and that I should do good such as Thou art pleased
with, and make me enter, by Thy mercy, into Thy servants,
the good ones.
[27.20] And he reviewed the birds, then said: How is it I
see not the hoopoe or is it that he is of the absentees?
[27.21] 1 will most certainly punish him with a severe
punishment, or kill him, or he shall bring to me a clear
plea.
[27.22] And he tarried not long, then said: I comprehend
that which you do not comprehend and I have brought to you
a sure information from Sheba.
[27.23] Surely I found a woman ruling over them, and she
has been given abundance and she has a mighty throne:
[27.24] 1 found her and her people adoring the sun instead
of Allah, and the Shaitan has made their deeds fair-seeming
to them and thus turned them from the way, so they do not
go aright
[27.25] That they do not make obeisance to Allah, Who
brings forth what is hidden in the heavens and the earth
and knows what you hide and what you make
manifest:
[27.26] Allah, there is no god but He: He is the Lord of
mighty power.
[27.27] He said: We will see whether you have told the
truth or whether you are of the liars:
[27.28] Take this my letter and hand it over to them, then
turn away from them and see what (answer) they return.
[27.29] She said: O chief! surely an honorable letter has
been delivered to me
[27.30] Surely it is from Sulaiman, and surely it is in the
name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful;
[27.31] Saying: exalt not yourselves against me and come to
me in submission.
[27.32] She said: O chiefs! give me advice respecting my
affair: I never decide an affair until you are in my
presence.
[27.33] They said: We are possessors of strength and
possessors of mighty prowess, and the command is yours,
therefore see what you will command.
[27.34] She said: Surely the kings, when they enter a town,
ruin it and make the noblest of its people to be low, and
thus they (always) do;
[27.35] And surely I am going to send a present to them,
and shall wait to see what (answer) do the messengers bring
back.
[27.36] So when he came to Sulaiman, he said: What! will
you help me with wealth? But what Allah has given me is
better than what He has given you. Nay,
you are exultant because of your present;
[27.37] Go back to them, so we will most certainly come to
them with hosts which they shall have no power to oppose,
and we will most certainly expel them therefrom in
abasement, and they shall be in a state of ignominy.
[27.38] He said: O chiefs! which of you can bring to me her
throne before they come to me in submission?
[27.39] One audacious among the jinn said: I will bring it
to you before you rise up from your place; and most surely
I am strong (and) trusty for it.
[27.40] One who had the knowledge of the Book said: I will
bring it to you in the twinkling of an eye. Then when he
saw it settled beside him, he said: This
is of the grace of my Lord that He may try me whether I am
grateful or ungrateful; and whoever is grateful, he is
grateful only for his own soul, and whoever is ungrateful,
then surely my Lord is Self-sufficient, Honored.
[27.41] He said: Alter her throne for her, we will see
whether she follows the right way or is of those who do not
go aright.
[27.42] So when she came, it was said: Is your throne like
this? She said: It is as it were the same, and we were
given the knowledge before it, and we were
submissive.
[27.43] And what she worshipped besides Allah prevented
her, surely she was of an unbelieving people.
[27.44] It was said to her: Enter the palace; but when she
saw it she deemed it to be a great expanse of water, and
bared her legs. He said: Surely it is a
palace made smooth with glass. She said: My Lord! surely I
have been unjust to myself, and I submit with Sulaiman to
Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
[27.45] And certainly We sent to Samood their brother
Salih, saying: Serve Allah; and lo! they became two sects
quarrelling with each other.
[27.46] He said: O my people! why do you seek to hasten on
the evil before the good? Why do you not ask forgiveness of
Allah so that you may be dealt with mercifully?
[27.47] They said: We have met with ill luck on account of
you and on account of those with you. He said: The cause of
your evil fortune is with Allah; nay, you
are a people who are tried.
[27.48] And there were in the city nine persons who made
mischief in the land and did not act aright.
[27.49] They said: Swear to each other by Allah that we
will certainly make a sudden attack on him and his family
by night, then we will say to his heir: We
did not witness the destruction of his family, and we are
most surely truthful.
[27.50] And they planned a plan, and We planned a plan
while they perceived not.
[27.51] See, then, how was the end of their plan that We
destroyed them and their people, all (of them).
[27.52] So those are their houses fallen down because they
were unjust, most surely there is a sign in this for a
people who know.
[27.53] .And We delivered those who believed and who
guarded (against evil).
[27.54] And (We sent) Lut, when he said to his people:
What! do you commit indecency while you see?
[27.55] What! do you indeed approach men lustfully rather
than women? Nay, you are a people who act ignorantly.
[27.56] But the answer of his people was no other except
that they ~s said: Turn out Lut's followers from your town;
surely they are a people who would keep
pure!
[27.57] But We delivered him and his followers except his
wife; We ordained her to be of those who remained behind.
[27.58] And We rained on them a rain, and evil was the rain
of those who had been warned.
[27.59] Say: Praise be to Allah and peace on His servants
whom He has chosen: is Allah better, or what they associate
(with Him)?
[27.60] Nay, He Who created the heavens and the earth, and
sent down for you water from the cloud; then We cause to
grow thereby beautiful gardens; it is not
possible for you that you should make the trees thereof to
grow. Is there a god with Allah? Nay! they are people who
deviate.
[27.61] Or, Who made the earth a restingplace, and made in
it rivers, and raised on it mountains and placed between
the two seas a barrier. Is there a god with
Allah? Nay! most of them do not know!
[27.62] Or, Who answers the distressed one when he calls
upon Him and removes the evil, and He will make you
successors in the earth. Is there a god with
Allah? Little is it that you mind!
[27.63] Or, Who guides you in utter darkness of the land
and the sea, and Who sends the winds as good news before
His mercy. Is there a god with Allah? Exalted by Allah
above what they associate (with Him).
[27.64] Or, Who originates the creation, then reproduces it
and Who gives you sustenance from the heaven and the earth.
Is there a god With Allah? Say: Bring your proof if you are
truthful.
[27.65] Say: No one in the heavens and the earth knows the
unseen but Allah; and they do not know when they shall be
raised.
[27.66] Nay, their knowledge respecting the hereafter is
slight and hasty; nay, they are in doubt about it; nay,
they are quite blind to
[27.67] And those who disbelieve say: What! when we have
become dust and our fathers (too), shall we certainly be
brought forth?
[27.68] We have certainly been promised this, we and our
fathers before; these are naught but stories of the
ancients
[27.69] Say: Travel in the earth, then see how was the end
of the guilty.
[27.70] And grieve not for them and be not distressed
because of what they plan.
[27.71] And they say: When will this threat come to pass,
if you are truthful?
[27.72] Say: Maybe there may have drawn near to you
somewhat of that which you seek to hasten on.
[27.73] And surely your Lord is the Lord of grace to men,
but most of them are not grateful.
[27.74] And most surely your Lord knows what their breasts
conceal and what they manifest.
[27.75] And there is nothing concealed in the heaven and
the earth but it is in a clear book.
[27.76] Surely this Quran declares to the children of
Israel most of what they differ in.
[27.77] And most surely it is a guidance and a mercy for
the believers.
[27.78] Surely your Lord will judge between them by his
judgment, and He is the Mighty, the knowing.
[27.79] Therefore rely on Allah; surely you are on the
clear truth.
[27.80] Surely you do not make the dead to hear, and you do
not make the deaf to hear the call when they go back
retreating.
[27.81] Nor can you be a guide to the blind out of their
error; you cannot make to bear (any one) except those who
believe in Our communications, so they submit.
[27.82] And when the word shall come to pass against them,
We shall bring forth for them a creature from the earth
that shall i wound them, because people did
not believe in Our communications.
[27.83] And on the day when We will gather from every
nation a party from among those who rejected Our
communications, then they shall be formed into groups.
[27.84] Until when they come, He will say: Did you reject
My communications while you had no comprehensive knowledge
of them? Or what was it that you did?
[27.85] And the word shall come to pass against them
because they were unjust, so they shall not speak.
[27.86] Do they not consider that We have made the night
that. they may rest therein, and the day to give light?
Most surely there are signs in this for a
people who believe.
[27.87] And on the day when the trumpet shall be blown,
then those who are in the heavens and those who are in the
earth shall be terrified except such as
Allah please, and all shall come to him abased.
[27.88] And you see the mountains, you think them to be
solid, and they shall pass away as the passing away of the
cloud-- the handiwork of Allah Who has made
every thing thoroughly; surely He is Aware of what you do.
[27.89] Whoever brings good, he shall have better than it;
and they shall be secure from terror on the day.
[27.90] And whoever brings evil, these shall be thrown down
on their faces into the fire; shall you be rewarded (for)
aught except what you did?
[27.91] I am commanded only that I should serve the Lord of
this city, Who has made it sacred, and His are all things;
and I am commanded that I should be of these who submit;
[27.92] And that I should recite the Quran. Therefore
whoever goes aright, he goes aright for his own soul, and
whoever goes ' astray, then say: I am only one
of the warners.
[27.93] And say: Praise be to Allah, He will show you His
signs so that you shall recognize them; nor is your Lord
heedless of what you do.