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45. KNEELING (AL-JATHIYAH)

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

1 Ha Mim heard them. Forewarn him of a
painful punishment. 9 When he
2 This Scripture is sent down learns something of Our
from God, the Mighty and Wise revelations, he derides them: for
One. 3 There are signs in the such there will be humiliating
heavens and the earth for those torment. 10 In front of them is
who believe: 4 in your own Hell; and of no profit to them is
creation and all the creatures He anything they may have earned,
has spread about, there are signs nor any protectors they may have
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for people of sure faith; and in taken to themselves besides God:
the succession of night and day, for them there shall be a terrible
and in the means of subsistence punishment. 11 Such is Our
which God sends down from the guidance; those who reject their
skies, giving life thereby to the Lord’s revelations shall suffer a
earth after it had been lifeless, woeful punishment.
and in the circulation of the 12 It is God who has subjected
winds: [in all this] there are the sea to you so that you may
signs for people who use their sail thereon by His command,
reason. 6 These are God’s and so that you may seek His
revelations, which We recite to bounty, and so that you may be
you in all truth. But if they deny grateful. 13 He has subjected
God and His revelations, in what whatever is in heaven and on the
message will they believe? earth to you; it is all from Him.
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7 Woe to every sinful liar! He In that are signs for those who
hears God’s revelations being ponder.
recited to him, yet persists in his 14 Tell the believers to ignore
arrogance as if he had never those who do not believe in the