heard a scripture sent down since the days of Moses verifying previous scriptures, a guide to
the truth and the straight path. Oh, people! Hear the Messenger of Allah and believe Him
that He will forgive your faults and protect you from tormenting punishment.”
46:32 Those who do not respond to Allah’s messenger cannot defeat His plan on earth, and
he will have no protectors beside Him. Such men are in flagrant error. Have they not seen
that Allah, who created the heavens and the earth and was not wearied by their creation, can
give life to the dead? Yes, He has power over all things.
46:34 On the day the unbelievers are set before the Fire and are asked, “Is this not the
truth?” they will say, “Yes, by Our Lord!” He will say, “Then taste the punishment
because you did not believe.” Then be patient, as the messengers had patience and
firmness, and do not try to hasten their doom. When they see what has been promised
them, it will be as if they had waited but one hour. Will any perish except those who have
transgressed?
7:8 The weighing on that day will be just [a balance will be used to weigh the good and bad
deeds of life], and those who weigh heavy in good deeds will be happy. And those who
weigh light, their souls will suffer because they rejected Our signs.
7:10 And We have given mankind authority on earth and given you the means for a
livelihood. How little are the thanks you give. We created you, then fashioned you, then said
to the angels, “Fall prostrate to Adam, and they obeyed in worship, save Iblis. He refused to
fall prostrate.”
7:12 Allah said, “What prevented you from prostrating in worship when I asked?” Ilbis said,
“I am nobler than Adam and
You created me from fire, while You created him from clay.”
7:13 Allah said, “Then go down from here. Paradise is no place for pride. Get out! You are
of the degraded ones.”
7:14 He said, “Give me a reprieve until the day when mankind will be raised from the dead.”
7:15 Allah said, “You will be of the reprieved.”
7:16 He [Satan] said, “Because you have thrown me out, I will lie in wait for them in your
straight path. Then I will assault them from before and from behind, and from their right
hand
and from their left, and You will not find most of them to be thankful.”
7:18 Allah said, “Get out of here, disgraced and banished! If any of them follow you, I will
fill Hell with you all.”
7:19 “Oh, Adam! You and your wife will dwell in Paradise and eat where you will, but do
not come to this tree, or you will become one of the wrongdoers.”
7:20 Then Satan whispered to them, telling them of their hidden and evil inclinations. He
said, “Your Lord has forbidden you from this tree fearing that you might become angels or
one of the immortals.” And he swore to both of them, “I am a friend to you.” So he used
deceit to cause their fall, and when they had tasted of the tree, they knew their shame and
began to hide themselves sewing together leaves of the garden for clothing. And their Lord
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called to them, “Did I not forbid you this tree, and did I not say to you, ‘Satan is your open
enemy’?”
7:23 They said, “Oh, our Lord! We have wronged ourselves; if you will not forgive us and
have mercy on us, we will surely be lost.”
7:24 Allah said, “Get out. Your descendents will be enemies of each other. Earth will be
home and your livelihood for a time. There you will live, there you will die, and from there
you will be raised.”
30:46 Among His signs is that He sends the winds as heralds of glad tidings giving tastes of
His mercy, and that ships may sail by His command, and that you may seek his favor, and
that you may be grateful. Before you, We sent messengers to their own peoples, and they
went to them with clear signs. Then, We punished those who were wicked, while it was Our
pleasure to help the believers.
30:48 It is Allah Who sends the winds and raises the clouds and, as he wishes spreads them
across the sky, or breaks them up, until you see the rain pouring down from their midst.
When He lets it rain on those servants of his whom he pleases, they are filled with joy, even
though before the rain came they had lost all hope. Look at the signs of Allah’s mercy, how
He gives life to the earth after it was parched. In the same way He will raise the dead to life.
He has power over all things. However, if We were to send a wind that destroyed their
crops, they would become ungrateful and would disbelieve.
30:52 You cannot make the dead to listen, or the deaf to hear the call when they turn their
backs. Neither can you lead the blind from their errors. You cannot make any hear except
those who believe in Our signs and submit to Allah. You were weak when Allah created
you; then afterwards He gave you strength. After strength, with age comes weakness and
gray hair. He creates what he pleases.
He is the wise, the powerful.
30:55 On the day when the Hour arrives, the wicked will believe that they have waited only
an hour. They were always easily deceived. But those with knowledge and faith will say,
“The truth is you have waited by Allah’s decree until the Judgment Day. This is the
Judgment Day, but you did not know.” On that day their excuses will not help the wicked,
and they will not be asked again to make amends.
7:172 Remember when the Lord brought forth the children of Adam from their seed, their
descendants, and made them testify against their own souls saying, “Am I not your Lord
who cherishes you?” They said, “Yes, we so testify.” Just in case you say on the day of
Resurrection, “We were unaware of this.” Or in case you say, “Our fathers before us may
have taken false gods, but we are their seed after them. Will You destroy us for what
wrongdoers did?”
7:174 In this way We explain Our signs in detail that they might return to Allah. Tell them
[the Jews] the story of the man to whom We gave Our signs but he passed them by, and
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