SURA XLI (41) - THE MADE PLAIN - (Mecca - 54 Verses)            (LXXI - 192)  
 
       In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
 
       Ha. Mim.  A Revelation from the Compassionate, the Merciful!
 
       A Book whose verses (signs) are made plain - an Arabic Koran, for men of
knowledge;
 
       Announcer of glad tidings and charged with warnings!  But most of them
withdraw and hearken not:
 
       And they say, "Our hearts are under shelter from thy teachings, and in
our ears is a deafness, and between us and thee there is a veil.  Act as thou
thinkest right: we verily shall act as we think right."
 
       Say:  I am only aman like you.  It is revealed to me that your God is
one God: go straight then to Him, and implore his pardon.  And woe to those who
join gods with God;
 
       Who pay not the alms of obligation, and in the life to come believe not!
 
       But they who believe and do the things that are right shall receive a
perfect recompense.
 
       Say:  Do ye indeed disbelieve in Him who in two days created the earth?
and do ye assign Him peers?  The Lord of the worlds is He!
 
       And he hath placed on the earth the firm mountains which tower above it;
and He hath blessed it, and distributed food throughout it, for the cravings of
all are alike, in four days:
 
41:10  Then He applied himself to the Heaven, which then was but smoke: and to
it and to the Earth He said, "Come ye, whether in obedience or against your
will?" and they both said, "We come obedient."
 
       And He made them seven heavens in two days, and in each heaven made
known its office:  And we furnished the lower heaven with lights and guardian
angels.  This, the disposition of the Almighty, the All-knowing.
 
       If they turn away, then say:  I warn you of a tempest, like the tempest
of Ad and Themoud!
 
       When the apostles came to them, on every side, saying, "Worship none but
God," they said, "Had our Lord been pleased to send down, He had surely sent
down angels; and in sooth, your message we do not believe."
 
       As to Ad, they bore them proudly and unjustly in the land, and said,
"Who more mighty than we in prowess?"  Saw they not that God their creator was
mightier than they in prowess?  And they rejected our signs.
 
       Therefore on ill-omened days did we send against them an impetuous blast
that we mighty  make them taste the chastisement of shame in this world: - but
more shameful shall be the chastisement of the life to come; and they shall not
be protected.
 
       And as to Themoud, we had vouchsafed them guidance; but to guidance did
they prefer blindness; wherefore the tempest of a shameful punishment overtook
them for their doings:
 
       But we rescued the believing and the God-fearing:
 
       And warn of the day when the enemies of God shall be gathered unto the
fire urged on in bands:
 
       Until when they reach it, their ears and their eyes and their skins
shall bear witness against them of their deeds:
 
41:20  And they shall say to their skins, "Why witness ye against us?"  They
shall say, "God, who giveth a voice to all things, hath given us a voice:  He
created you at first, and to Him are ye brought back.
 
       And ye did not hide yourselves so that neither your ears nor your eyes
nor your skins should witness against you: but ye thought that God knew not
many a thing that ye did!
 
       And this your thought which ye did think of your Lord hath ruined you,
so that ye are become of those who perish."
 
       And be they patient, still the fire shall be their abode: or if they beg
for favour, yet shall they not be of the favoured.
 
       And we will appoint Satans as their fast companions; for it was they who
made their present and future state seem fair and right to them; and the
sentence passed on the peoples of Djinn and men who flourished before them hath
become their due, and they shall perish.
 
       Yet the unbelievers say, "Hearken not to this Koran, but keep up a
talking, that ye may overpower the voice of the reader."
 
       Surely therefore will we cause the unbelievers to taste a terrible
punishment;
 
       And recompense them according to the worst of their actions.
 
       This the reward of the enemies of God, - the Fire! it shall be their
eternal abode, in requital for their gainsaying our signs.
 
       And they who believed not shall say, "O our Lord! shew us those of the
Djinn and men who led us astray: both of them will we put under our feet, that
they may be of the humbled."
 
41:30  But as for those who say, "Our Lord is God;" and who go straight to Him,
the angels shall descend to them and say, "Fear ye not, neither be ye grieved,
but rejoice ye in the paradise which ye have been promised.
 
       We are your guardians in this life and in the next: your's therein shall
be your soul's desire, and your's therein whatever ye shall ask for,
 
       The hospitality of a Gracious, a Merciful One."
 
       And who speaketh fairer than he who biddeth to God and doth the thing
that is right, and saith, "I for my part am of the Muslims"?
 
       Moreover, good and evil are not to treated as the same thing.  Turn away
evil by what is better, and lo! he between whom and thyself was enmity, shall
be as though he were a warm friend.
 
       But none attain to this save men steadfast in patience, and none attain
to it except the most highly favoured.
 
       And if an enticement from Satan entice thee, then take refuge in God,
for He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
 
       And among his signs are the night, and the day, and the sun, and the
moon.  Bend not in adoration to the sun or the moon, but bend in adoration
before God who created them both, if ye would serve Him.
 
       But if they are too proud for this, yet they who are with thy Lord do
celebrate His praises night and day, and cease not.
 
       And among His signs is this, that thou seest the earth drooping: but,
when we send down the rain upon it, it is stirred and swelleth; verily He who
giveth it life, will surely give life to the dead; for His might extendeth over
all things.
 
41:40  They truly who with obloquy disown our signs are not hidden from us.  Is
he then who shall be cast into the fire, or he who shall come forth secure on
the day of resurrection, in the better position?  Do what ye will: but His eye
is on all your doings.
 
       Verily, they who believe not in "the warning," after it hath come to
them... and yet the Koran is a glorious book!
 
       Falsehood, from whatever side it cometh, shall not come nigh it; it is a
missive down from the Wise, the Praiseworthy.
 
       Nothing hath been said to thee what hath not been said of old to
apostles before thee.  Verily with thy Lord is forgiveness, and with Him is
terrible retribution.
 
       Had we made it a Koran in a foreign tongue, they had surely said,
"Unless its signs be made clear...!  What! in a foreign tongue? and the people
Arabian?"  Say:  It is to those who believe a guide and a medicine; but as to
those who believe not, there is a thickness in their ears, and to them it is a
blindness: they are like those who are called to from afar.
 
       Of old we gave the Book to Moses, and disputes rose about it: and if a
decree of respite from thy Lord had gone before, there would surely have been a
decision between them: for great were their doubts and questionings about it.
 
       He who doth right - it is for himself: and he who doth evil - it is for
himself: and thy Lord will not deal unfairly with his servants.
 
       With Him alone is the knowledge of "the Hour."  No fruit cometh forth
from its coverings, neither doth any female conceive, nor is she delivered, but
with His knowledge.  And on that day He shall call men to Him, saying, "{Where
are the companions ye gave me?"  They shall say, "We own to thee, there is no
one of us can witness for them."
 
       And what erst called on shall pass away from them, and they shall
perceive that there will be no escape for them.
 
       Man ceaseth not to pray for good: but if evil betide him he despondeth,
despairing.
 
41:50  And if we cause him to taste our mercy after affliction hath touched
him, he is sure to say, "This is my due: and I take no thought of the Hour of
Resurrection: and if I be brought back to my Lord, I shall indeed attain with
Him my highest good."  But we will then certainly declare their doings to the
Infidels, and cause them to taste a stern punishment.
 
       When we are gracious to man, he withdraweth and turneth him aside: but
when evil toucheth him, he is a man of long prayers.
 
       Say:  What think ye?  If this Book be from God and ye believe it not,
who will have gone further astray than he who is at a distance from it?
 
       We will shew them our signs in different countries and among themselves,
until it become plain to them that it is the truth.  Is it not enough for thee
that thy Lord is witness of all things?
 
       Are they not in doubt as to the meeting with their Lord?  But doth he
not encompass all things?
 
