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43. ORNAMENTS OF GOLD
(AL-ZUKHRUF)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
1 Ha Mim you so that, hopefully, you may
find your way. 11 It is He who
2 By the Book that makes things sends water down from the sky
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clear, We have made it an Arabic in due measure—We revive dead
Quran so that you may land with it and likewise you
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understand. Truly, it is inscribed will be resurrected from the
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in the Original Book, in Our grave— it is He who created
keeping; it is sublime and full of all living things in pairs and
wisdom. gave you ships to sail in and
5 Should We withdraw the beasts to ride upon so that you
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admonition from you because may sit firmly on their backs.
you are a people far gone in Then once you have mounted
transgression? 6 We have sent them, remember your Lord’s
many a prophet to earlier peoples favour and say, ‘Glory be to Him
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but whenever a prophet came who has subjected these creatures
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to them, they mocked him, so to us; we would never on our
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We destroyed those who were own have subdued them. And
mightier than these; such was to our Lord we shall surely
the example of the earlier return.’
peoples. 15 Yet they make some of His
9 If you ask them, ‘Who has servants partners in His divinity.
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created the heavens and the Man is clearly ungrateful! Has
earth?’, they will surely answer, He then taken daughters out of
‘The Almighty, the All Knowing His own creation and chosen
One has created them.’ 10 Who sons for you? 17 When any of
has made the earth a cradle for them is given the news of the
you and made thereon paths for very thing [i.e. a female child]