will resurrect these bones when they are rotten?” Say: He gave them life in the beginning,
and He will return it to them because He has knowledge of all creation. He makes fire from
the green tree for you and allows you to kindle flame. Is the creator of the heavens and the
earth not able to create the likes of them? Certainly He is the supreme creator, the knower. If
He intends something, His command is, “Be,” and it is! So glory to Him in whose hands is
the kingdom of all things! All things will return to Him.
25:32 Those who disbelieve say, “Why was the Koran not revealed to him all at once?” It
was revealed one part at a time so that We might strengthen your heart with it and so that
We might
rehearse it with you gradually, in slow, well-arranged stages.
25:33 They will not come to you with any difficult questions for which We have not
provided you the true and best answers. Those who will be gathered together face down in
Hell will have the worst place and will be the farthest away from the right path.
18:54 In this Koran We have given to man every kind of example, but man is, in most
respects, contentious. Nothing prevents men from believing when guidance comes to them
nor from asking their Lord’s forgiveness, unless it is that they wish that the same fate which
befell the ancients should also befall them—that they come face to face with doom.
18:56 We do not send messengers except as bearers of glad tidings and to give warnings.
Yet the unbelievers make false contentions so that they may refute the truth. They mock
Our signs just like they do Our warnings. Who is more unjust than he who is reminded of
His Lord’s signs but turns away from them and forgets what His hands have done? Truly
We have placed veils over their hearts so that they do not understand, and deafness over
their ears. Even if you give them guidance, they will not follow.
18:58 Your Lord is most forgiving, the Lord of mercy. If He were to give them what they
deserve, He would certainly have hastened their punishment, but they have an appointed
time which they cannot escape. The same could be said for the cities. We destroyed them
when they behaved wickedly, and We appointed a set time for their destruction.
37:11 Ask the Meccans whether they or the angels are the stronger creation? We created
men from clay.
37:12 Truly you [Mohammed] are amazed when they mock. When they [the Meccans] are
warned, they pay no attention. When they see a sign, they begin to mock and say, “This is
obviously magic. What? Will we be resurrected after we are nothing but dust and bones?
And what about our ancestors?”
37:18 Tell them, “Yes! And you will be disgraced.” There will be a single cry, and they will
look around and say, “Oh, woe to us!” This is the day of reckoning. This is the Judgment
Day that you said was a lie.
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37:22 Gather together the unjust, their consorts [the demons], and the false gods they
worshiped besides Allah and point them down the road to Hell. Stop them because they
must be questioned. “What is wrong with you that you do not help each other?”
37:26 But on this day, they will submit to Allah and blame one another. They will say, “You
[the demons] used to come to us from the right-hand side [the side of a good omen].” But
they [the demons] will answer, “No, it was you who did not believe. We had no power over
you. No, you were a wicked people. Our Lord’s sentence has been passed upon us, and we
will surely taste our punishment. We misled you because we were lost.” Therefore, they will
be partners in punishment that day.
37:34 Truly, that is how We deal with the guilty, because when they were told that there is
no god but Allah, they swelled with pride and said, “Should we abandon our gods for a
crazy poet?”
37:37 No! He [Mohammed] comes truthfully and confirms the prophets of old. You will
surely taste the painful punishment, and you will be punished for what you have done, all
except the sincere servants of Allah! They will have a fixed banquet of fruits; and they will
be honored in the Garden of delight, facing one another on couches. A cup filled from a
gushing spring will be passed among them, crystal clear and delicious to those who drink. It
causes neither pain nor intoxication. And with them are companions [houris] with large eyes
and modest glances, fair like a sheltered egg. They will ask one another questions. One of
them will say, “I had a close friend who said, ‘Are you one of those who accept the truth?
What? When
we have died,
and become dust and bones, will we really be judged?’”
37:54 He will say to those around him, “Will you look?” Looking down, he saw his friend in
the depths of Hell. And he will say to him, “By Allah, you almost destroyed me. Except for
my Lord’s favor, I surely would have been one of those who came with you into torment.”
37:58 “Is it not true that we will not die,” say the blessed, “except for our first death and that
we have escaped the torment?” Certainly this is the supreme achievement! For something
like this, a striver should strive!
37:62 Is this a better feast than the Zaqqum tree [the tree of Hell]? We have certainly made
the tree to torment the wicked. It grows at the bottom of Hell. Its fruit is like the heads of
vipers. The damned will certainly eat it until their bellies fill. Then they will drink a mixture
of boiling water. Then they will return to the Fire.
37:69 The damned knew that the religion of their fathers was wrong, but they still followed
the old religion. Even before them, most of the ancients erred, though We had sent
messengers to warn them. See what happened to these warned ones except for Allah’s true
servants?
19:66 Man says, “What? When I am dead, will I then be resurrected?” Does man not
remember that We created him before out of nothing?
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