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30. THE ROMANS (AL-RUM)

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
1 Alif Lam Mim land and seen what end their
predecessors met? They
2 The Romans have been defeated were mightier than them: they
3 in a nearby land. They will cultivated the earth more and
reverse their defeat with a victory built more upon it than these
4 within a few years: [for] with have ever built. Their own
God rests all power of decision, messengers also came to them
first and last. On that day the with clear signs: God did not
believers too will have cause to wrong them; they wronged
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rejoice, with the help of God. themselves. 10 Then the end of
He helps whom He pleases: He those who committed evil was
is the Mighty, and the Merciful. evil, for they belied the signs of
6 [This is] God’s promise. Never God, and they derided them.
does God fail to fulfil His 11 God originates the creation,
promise—but most people do and shall repeat it, then to Him
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not know this; they only know you shall be returned. On the
the outward appearance of the Day the Hour arrives, the guilty
life of this world, and they are will be struck dumb with
neglectful of the Hereafter. despair, 13 and they will have
8 Do they not ponder about no intercessors among those
their own selves? God has created partners they ascribed to God.
the heavens and the earth and all They will deny these partners.
that is between them for a 14 When the Last Hour dawns—
purpose and for an appointed on that Day they will be sorted
time? Yet many deny they will out: 15 those who believed and
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ever meet with their Lord. Have did good deeds will rejoice in a
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they not travelled through the Garden, and as for those who