The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

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sent back, we would not reject the revelations of our Lord, but be
among the believers.’
28No! The truth they used to hide will become all
too clear to them. Even if they were brought back, they would only
return to the very thing that was forbidden to them –
– they are such
liars! 
29They say, ‘There is nothing beyond our life in this world: we
shall not be raised from the dead.’
30If you could only see, when they
are made to stand before their Lord, how He will say, ‘Is this not
real?’ They will say, ‘Yes indeed, by our Lord.’ He will say, ‘Then
taste the torment for having disbelieved.’
31Lost indeed are those
who deny the meeting with their Lord until, when the Hour sud-
denly arrives, they say, ‘Alas for us that we disregarded this!’ They
will bear their burdens on their backs. How terrible those burdens
will be! 
32The life of this world is nothing but a game and a distrac-
tion; the Home in the Hereafter is best for those who are aware of
God. Why will you [people] not understand?
33We know well that what they say grieves you [Prophet]. It is not
you they disbelieve: the evildoers reject God’s revelation. 
34Other
messengers were disbelieved before you, and they bore their rejec-
tion and persecution steadfastly until Our aid arrived –
– no one can
alter God’s promises. You have already received accounts of these
messengers. 
35If you find rejection by the disbelievers so hard to
bear, then seek a tunnel into the ground or a ladder into the sky,
if you can, and bring them a sign: God could bring them all to
guidance if it were His will, so do not join the ignorant. 
36Only those
who can hear will respond; as for the dead, God will raise them up,
and to Him they will all be returned.
37They also say, ‘Why has no sign been sent down to him from his
Lord?’ Say, ‘God certainly has the power to send down a sign,’
though most of them do not know: 
38all the creatures that crawl on
the earth and those that 
fly with their wings are communities like
yourselves. We have missed nothing out of the Record –
– in the end
they will be gathered to their Lord. 
39Those who reject Our signs are
deaf, dumb, and in total darkness. God leaves whoever He will to
stray, and sets whoever He will on a straight path. 
40Say, ‘Think: if
the punishment of God or the Hour should come to you, would you
call on anyone other than God, if you are being truthful?’
41No
indeed, it is on Him that you would call. If it were His will, He could
remove whatever harm made you call on Him, and then you would
forget what you now associate with Him.
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42We sent messengers before you [Prophet] to many communities
and a
fflicted their people with suffering and hardships, so that they
could learn humility. 
43If only they had learned humility when
su
ffering came from Us! But no, their hearts became hard and
Satan made their foul deeds alluring to them. 
44So, when they had
forgotten the warning they had received, We opened the gates to
everything for them. Then, as they revelled in what they had
been given, We struck them suddenly and they were dumbfounded.
45The evildoers were wiped out: praise be to God, the Lord of the
Worlds!
46Say [Prophet], ‘Think: if God were to take away your hearing and
your sight and seal up your hearts, what god other than He could
restore them?’ See how We explain Our revelations in various ways,
yet still they turn away. 
47Say, ‘Think: if the punishment of God
should come to you, by surprise or openly, would anyone but the
evildoers be destroyed?’
48We send messengers only to give good news
and to warn, so for those who believe and do good deeds there will be
no fear, nor will they grieve. 
49As for those who rejected Our signs,
torment will a
fflict them as a result of their defiance. 50Say, ‘I do not
have the treasures of God, nor do I know the unseen, nor do I tell you
that I am an angel. I only follow what is revealed to me.’ Say, ‘Is a blind
person like one who can see? Why will you not re
flect?’
51Use the Quran to warn those who fear being gathered before
their Lord –
– they will have no one but Him to protect them and no
one to intercede –
– so that they may beware. 
52Do not drive away
those who call upon their Lord morning and evening, seeking noth-
ing but His Face.