| | T.B.Irving rendition of Surah The Rock, Stoneland, Rock City(al-Hijr)
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| 15:1 | | A. L. R. These are verses from the Book, and a clear Reading |
| 15:2 | | Perhaps those who disbelieve would like to become Muslims. |
| 15:3 | | Leave them eating and enjoying themselves; let hope distract them, for they soon will know (anyhow). |
| 15:4 | | We have never wiped out any town unless it had [received] a known term; |
| 15:5 | | no nation can forestall its deadline, nor will they ever postpone it. |
| 15:6 | | Yet they say: "You to whom the Reminder has been sent down, why you´re crazy! |
| 15:7 | | Why don´t you bring us angels if you are so truthful?"´ |
| 15:8 | | We do not send down any angels except with the Truth, and even then they would not be allowed to wait. |
| 15:9 | | We Ourself have sent down the Reminder just as We are safeguarding it. |
| 15:10 | | Even before you, We sent [some] down among the sects of early people; |
| 15:11 | | yet no messenger ever came to them whom they did not sneer at. |
| 15:12 | | Thus We slip it into criminals´ hearts; |
| 15:13 | | they will not believe in it, even though the custom of early people has already preceded it. |
| 15:14 | | Even though We opened up a gate to Heaven for them so they might keep on climbing into it, |
| 15:15 | | they still would say: "Our eyesight has been dazzled-in fact, we are enchanted folk!" |
| 15:16 | | We have placed constellations in the sky and embellished it for onlookers. |
| 15:17 | | We have safeguarded them against every outcast Satan |
| 15:18 | | except for such as may try to eavesdrop, so a blazing meteor follows him. |
| 15:19 | | Earth have We spread out and cast headlands upon it, and planted a bit of everything to grow there (so it is) well balanced. |
| 15:20 | | We have placed various means of livelihood on it for (all of) you as well as anyone you do not have to provide for. |
| 15:21 | | There is nothing whose stores are not [controlled] by Us, and We send it down only according to a fixed quantity. |
| 15:22 | | We send forth fertilizing winds and send down water from the sky and offer you something to drink from it. You are not the ones who store it up. |
| 15:23 | | We give life and bring death, and We are the Heirs [to every- thing]! |
| 15:24 | | We know which of you try to get ahead and We know those who hold back. |
| 15:25 | | Your Lord will summon them; He is Wise, Aware. |
| 15:26 | | We created man from ringing clay, from moulded slime; |
| 15:27 | | while the sprites We had created earlier from smokeless fire. |
| 15:28 | | So your Lord told the angels: "I am about to create a human being from ringing clay, from moulded slime. |
| 15:29 | | When I have finished with him and breathed some of My spirit into him, then drop down on your knees before him." |
| 15:30 | | The angels all bowed down together |
| 15:31 | | except for Diabolis; he refused to be one of those bowing down on their knees. |
| 15:32 | | He said: "Diabolis, what is wrong with you that you are not among those who bow down on their knees?" |
| 15:33 | | He said: "I am no one to kneel before a human being You have created from ringing clay, from moulded slime." |
| 15:34 | | He said: "Then get out of here, for you are an outcast! |
| 15:35 | | On you lies the Curse until the Day for Repayment!" |
| 15:36 | | He said: ´My Lord, let me wait till the day when they are raised up again." |
| 15:37 | | He said: "You will be allowed to wait |
| 15:38 | | until a day in known time." |
| 15:39 | | He said: "My Lord, since You have let me go astray, I shall make things on earth seem attractive to them; I´ll mislead them all |
| 15:40 | | except for any of Your sincere servants who may be among them." |
| 15:41 | | He said: "Here will be a Straight Road [leading] up to Me! |
| 15:42 | | You will not hold any authority over My servants except for someone who may follow you from among those who are misguided. |
| 15:43 | | Hell will [serve as] an appointment for all of them together. |
| 15:44 | | It has seven gates; each gate will have a portion assigned from them." |
| 15:45 | | The heedful will be in gardens and by springs: |
| 15:46 | | Enter them safely, at peace! |
| 15:47 | | We will strip away any rancor that [lingers] in their breasts; like brethren they will face one another on couches. |
| 15:48 | | Toil will not touch them there, nor will they ever be expelled from it. |
| 15:49 | | Advise My servants that I am the Forgiving, Merciful One, |
| 15:50 | | although My torment will be painful torment. |
| 15:51 | | Advise them about Abraham´s guests |
| 15:52 | | how, when they entered his presence and said: "Peace!", he said: "We feel wary of you." |
| 15:53 | | They said: ´Don´t feel so wary; We bring you word about a clever boy." |
| 15:54 | | He said: "Have you brought me word like this once old age has set in on me? What sort of word do you want to spread?" |
| 15:55 | | They said: "We have brought you word of the Truth, so do not act so discouraged." |
| 15:56 | | He said: "Who despairs of his Lord´s mercy except those who are lost?" |
| 15:57 | | He said: "Yet what is your errand, you emissaries?" |
| 15:58 | | They said: "We have been sent for some criminal folk, |
| 15:59 | | except for Lot´s house; we will rescue them all |
| 15:60 | | except his wife. We have decreed that she will be one of those who will be left behind." |
| 15:61 | | When the emissaries came to Lot´s household, |
| 15:62 | | he said: "You are folk who should be ignored." |
| 15:63 | | They said: Rather we have come to you about something they have been puzzling over. |
| 15:64 | | We have brought you the Truth, for we are reliable. |
| 15:65 | | Travel with your family at dead of night; you should follow in their rear, and let none of you glance around! Keep on going wherever you are ordered to. |
| 15:66 | | We have passed judgment on that case for him so that those people´s last remnant shall be cut off once morning dawns for them." |
| 15:67 | | The people of the city came up gay with the news. |
| 15:68 | | He said: "These are my guests so do not disgrace me. |
| 15:69 | | Heed God, and do not shame me." |
| 15:70 | | They said: "Didn´t we forbid you to have contact with [anyone in] the Universe [outside]?"´ |
| 15:71 | | He said: "These are my daughters if you are going to do (something)." |
| 15:72 | | Upon your life, they were groping along in their drunkenness |
| 15:73 | | so the Blast caught them at sunrise: |
| 15:74 | | We turned things upside down and rained down stones which had been stamped with their names on them. |
| 15:75 | | In that are signs for investigators; |
| 15:76 | | and it lies along a permanent highway. |
| 15:77 | | In that is a sign for believers. |
| 15:78 | | The Companions in the Forest had been wrongdoers, |
| 15:79 | | so We avenged Ourself on them. Both are a clear indication. |
| 15:80 | | The inhabitants of Stoneland rejected the emissaries. |
| 15:81 | | We gave them Our signs even though they had shunned them. |
| 15:82 | | They had confidently hewn houses out of the mountains. |
| 15:83 | | So the Blast caught them early one morning |
| 15:84 | | and what they had been earning did not help them out. |
| 15:85 | | We have only created Heaven and Earth and whatever lies between them for the sake of Truth. The Hour is coming on, so examine [matters] with fine discrimination. |
| 15:86 | | Your Lord is the Clever Creator! |
| 15:87 | | We have brought you seven Oft-Repeated (verses] plus the Mighty Qur´an. |
| 15:88 | | Do not strain your eyes towards what We let some types of them enjoy; do not feel saddened by them, and lower your [sheltering] wing over believers. |
| 15:89 | | SAY:"I am the plain Warner," |
| 15:90 | | (such as We have sent down for the quibblers |
| 15:91 | | who have torn the Quran apart. |
| 15:92 | | By your Lord, We shall question them all |
| 15:93 | | about whatever they have been doing!) |
| 15:94 | | So proclaim whatever you are ordered to, and shun associators; |
| 15:95 | | We will suffice for you against such scoffers |
| 15:96 | | who place another deity alongside God [Alone], They soon will know! |
| 15:97 | | We already know how cramped your breast feels because of what they say: |
| 15:98 | | so hymn your Lord´s praise and be one of those who bow down on their knees (in worship). |
| 15:99 | | Serve your Lord until conviction comes to you! |
