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41. REVELATIONS WELL EXPOUNDED
(FUSSILAT)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
1 Ha Mim deeds shall have a reward which
will never be withheld from
2 A revelation from [God], the them.’ a
Most Gracious, the Most 9 Say, ‘What! Do you indeed
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Merciful— a Book whose deny Him who created the earth
revelations are well expounded, in two Days [periods] and do
an Arabic Quran for people you set up equals with Him? He
who possess knowledge, is the Lord of the Universe.’
4 proclaiming good news and a 10 He placed firm mountains on
warning. Yet most of them turn the earth, and blessed it. He
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away and so do not listen. And measured out its means of
they say, ‘Our hearts are encased sustenance all in four Days; this
against that to which you call us, is for those who ask for it. Then
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and there is a heaviness in our He turned to heaven when it was
ears, and there is a barrier vapour and said to it and to the
between us, so do as you will earth, ‘Come willingly or
and so shall we.’ unwillingly.’ They both said, ‘We
6 Say, ‘I am only a human come willingly,’ 12 and in two
being like yourselves. It has been Days He formed seven heavens,
revealed to me that your God is and revealed to each heaven its
One God. So take the straight functions; and We adorned the
path to Him and ask His
forgiveness.’ Woe to those who a ‘So take the straight path to Him’
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associate others with Him, who means ‘keep your worship purely for
God’, i.e. your whole attention should
do not pay the zakat, and who be directed towards God; the sole
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deny the Hereafter. ‘The ones object of your prayers and worship
who believe and perform good should be the one and only God.