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39. THE CROWDS (AL-ZUMAR)

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

1 This Book is sent down by God appointed time; He is truly the
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the Mighty, the Wise. It is We Mighty, the Forgiving.
who sent down the Book to you 6 He created you from a single
[Prophet] with the Truth, so soul, then produced its spouse
worship God with your total from it, and He has provided for
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devotion: it is to God alone that you eight heads of cattle in pairs.
sincere obedience is due. And He creates you stage by stage in
those who take other guardians your mothers’ wombs in a
besides Him say, ‘We serve them threefold darkness. Such is God,
only that they may bring us nearer your Lord. Sovereignty is His.
to God.’ Surely, God will judge There is no god but Him. So
between them concerning that what has made you turn away?
wherein they differ. God does 7 If you are ungrateful,
not guide anyone who is bent on remember that God has no need
lying and is a disbelieving liar. of you. He is not pleased by
4 If God had willed to take a ingratitude in His servants; if
son He could have chosen anyone you are grateful, He is pleased

He pleased out of His creation: [to see] it in you. No soul shall
but Glory be to Him! [He is bear another’s burden. You will
above such things.] He is God, return to your Lord in the end
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the One, the Omnipotent. He and He will declare to you what
created the heavens and the earth you have done: He knows well
for a true purpose; He causes the what is in the hearts of men.
night to succeed the day and the 8 When man suffers some
day to succeed the night; He has affliction, he prays to his Lord
subjected the sun and moon, so and turns to Him in penitence,
that they run their courses for an but once he has been granted a