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AL-NAHAL (16)
The Bee
Revealed At Mecca,Verses: 128
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The
All-merciful
- God's command comes, so seek not to hasten
it; Holy is He and Exalted above that they associate with Him!(1)
- He sends down angels with the Spirit of
His command on whomsoever of His servants He will: `Give you warning that
there is no god but I, so fear Me'.(2)
- He created the heavens and the earth with
truth; Exalted is He above that they associate with Him!(3)
- He created man of a sperm-drop, then lo,
he is an open disputant!(4)
- And the cattle __ He created them; in them
is warmth and other benefits for you, and of them you eat;(5)
- and in them is beauty for you, when you
bring them home to rest and when you take them out to pasture;(6)
- and they carry your loads to a land that
you would never reach except with distress of souls; your Lord is surely
Kind and Merciful.(7)
- And horses, mules and asses, (He created)
that you may ride on them, and as an adornment; and He creates what you
know not.(8)
- And it is God's to show the mean way, yet
some turn away from it; and if He willed, He would have guided you all.(9)
- It is He who sends down from heaven water,
of which you have your drink, and of which are trees on which you pasture
herds.(10)
- With it He grows for you crops, olives,
palms, grapes and all kinds of fruits. In that is surely a Sign for a
people who ponder.(11)
- And He has subjected for you the night
and the day, and the sun and the moon; and the stars are also subjected
by His command; in that are surely Signs for a people who understand.(12)
- And the things He has scattered for you
in the earth have different colours; in that is surely a Sign for a people
who pay heed.(13)
- And it is He who has subjected the sea,
that you may eat out of it fresh flesh, and bring forth out of it ornaments
that you wear; and thou seest the ships ploughing through it; and that
you may seek of His bounty, and that you may be thankful.(14)
- And He has cast firm mountains in the earth,
lest it should shake with you, and rivers and paths, that you may find
the way,(15)
- and also way-marks; and by the stars they
find the way.(16)
- Is then He who creates as he who does not
create? Will you not pay heed?(17)
- And if you count God's blessings, you will
not number them; God is surely Forgiving, Merciful.(18)
- And God knows what you hide and what you
make public.(19)
- And those they call upon, apart from God,
create nothing, and themselves are created;(20)
- they are dead without life, and cannot
know when they shall be raised.(21)
- Your God is One God, but those who do not
believe in the Hereafter, their hearts deny and they show arrogance.(22)
- Without a doubt, God knows what they hide
and what they make public; surely He does not love those who show arrogance.(23)
- And when it is said to them, `what thing
has your Lord sent down', they say, `fables of the ancients',(24)
- that they may bear their loads complete
on the Day of Resurrection, and also some of the loads of those whom they
lead astray without knowldge. Behold, how evil a load they bear!(25)
- Those that were before them contrived;
then God came upon their building from the foundations, and the roof fell
down upon them from above them; and the punishment came upon them whence
they perceived not.(26)
- Then, on the Day of Resurrection, He will
humiliate them and say, `where are My associates for whom you made a breach?'
Those who were given the knowledge will say, `today, humiliation and evil
are on the unbelievers,(27)
- those whom the angels take while doing
wrong to themselves;' then they will offer submission: `we were not doing
any evil' __ `No, God knows what you were doing.(28)
- Now enter the gates of Hell to dwell therein
forever; evil indeed is the resort of the arrogant.' (29)
- And it is said to the godfearing, `what
has your Lord sent down?' They say, `good'. For those who do good is good
in this world; and the House of the Hereafter will be better; excellent
indeed is the House of the godfearing __(30)
- gardens of eternity they shall enter, rivers
flowing underneath them, wherein they shall have what they will; so does
God recompense the godfearing __(31)
- those whom the angels take while they are
pure, saying, `peace be on you; enter Paradise for what you have been
doing.(32)
- Do they only look for angels to come to
them, or that thy Lord's command should come? So did those before them:
and God wronged them not, but themselves they wronged.(33)
- Then the evil of what they did afflicted
them, and what they mocked at encompassed them.(34)
- And Those who make associates (to God)
say, `had God willed, we would not have served anything apart from Him,
neither we nor our fathers, and we would not have made anything, apart
from Him, sacred. So did those that were before them. But is there any
obligation on the Messengers except to deliver the manifest Message.(35)
- And We indeed raised a Messenger in every
community, (saying) `Serve God and avoid the idol'; then some of them
God guided and some of them were bound to go astray. Journey in the land
and see how was the end of those who cried lies.(36)
- If thou art eager for their guidance, yet
God does not guide him whom He sends astray, and there are no helpers
for them.(37)
- And they swear by God their earnest oaths:
`God will not raise him up who dies'. No, it is a promise binding upon
Him, but most men know not.(38)
- It is so, that He may make clear to them
in what they differed, and the unbelievers may know that they were surely
liars.(39)
- Our word for a thing, when We desire it,
is only this that We say to it, `Be', and it is.(40)
- And those who emigrated for God's sake
after they were wronged, We shall surely lodge them in this world in a
good way; and the wage of the Hereafter shall be greater, if they but
knew;(41)
- those showed patience and put their trust
in their Lord.(42)
- And We did not send before thee any but
men to whom We revealed (Our Message); ask the People of the Remembrance,
if you do not know;(43)
- (We sent them) with clear Signs and Psalms;
and We have sent down to thee the Remembrance that thou mayest make clear
to mankind what has been sent down to them, and that they may ponder.(44)
- Do those who devise evil things feel secure
that God will not make the earth to swallow them, or punishment will not
come upon them from whence they do not perceive;(45)
- or He will not seize them in their moving
about, and they will not be able to frustrate Him;(46)
- or He will not seize them slowly and gradually?
But your Lord is surely Kind and Merciful.(47)
- Have they not seen the things God has created,
their shadows inclining to the right and to the left, prostrating themselves
to God in all lowliness?(48)
- And to God prostrate all the creatures
which are in the heavens and which are in the earth, and also the angels,
and they do not show arrogance.(49)
- They fear their Lord above them, and they
do what they are commanded.(50)
- And God says, `do not take two gods; He
is only One God; so have awe of Me only.'(51)
- And to Him belongs whatever is in the heavens
and the earth and to Him is Submission due forever. Will you then fear
other than God?(52)
- And whatever blessing you have, it is from
God; then when harm touches you, it is unto Him that you groan.(53)
- Then, when He removes the harm from you,
lo, a party of yours assigns associates to their Lord,(54)
- that they may show unthankfulness to what
We have given them; so enjoy, but you will soon know.(55)
- And they appoint a share of what We have
provided them to what they do not know. By God, you shall be questioned
about what you forge.(56)
- And they assign daughters to God __ Holy
be He __ and to themselves what they desire!(57)
- And when any of them is given good news
of a girl, his face gets darkened and he is choked.(58)
- He hides himself from the people for the
evil of the good news given to him. Shall he retain it in humiliation
or bury it into the dust? Ah, how evil is that they judge!(59)
- Those who do not believe in the Hereafter,
theirs is the evil likeness, and God's is the most high likeness; and
He is the Mighty, the Wise.(60)
- And if God were to take men to task for
their wrong-doing, He would not leave any creature therein, but He is
deferring them to a stated term; and when their term comes they shall
not put it back nor put it forward by a moment.(61)
- And they assign to God what they hate,
and their tongues utter the lie that theirs shall be the best reward.
No doubt for them shall be the Fire, and they shall be hastened into it.(62)
- By God, We sent Messengers to the communities
before thee, but the Devil showed their deeds fair to them; so today he
is their friend, and for them shall be a painful punishment.(63)
- And We have not sent down on thee the Book
except that thou mayest make clear to them the things they differ in,
and as a guidance and a mercy for a people who believe.(64)
- And God sends down from the heaven water
with which He quickens the earth after it is deed. In that is surely a
Sign for a people who listen.(65)
- And for you in the cattle is a lesson.
We give you to drink of that which is in their bellies between the dung
and the blood, pure milk, pleasant to the drinkers.(66)
- And of the fruits of the palms and the
grapes, you take therefrom intoxicant and good provision. In that is surely
a Sign for a people who understand.(67)
- And thy Lord revealed to the bee: `make
houses in the mountains, in the trees and in what people build;(68)
- then eat of all the fruits, and follow
the set ways of thy Lord'. There comes forth out of their bellies a beverage
of different hues having healing power for mankind. In that is surely
a Sign for a people who ponder.(69)
- And God has created you, then He takes
you to Him; and some of you are turned to the abject age, so that they
may not know anything in spite of knowledge; God is Knowing, Powerful.(70)
- And God has made some of you to excel others
in provision; then those who are made to excel, do not give over their
provision to those whom their right hands own, so that they may become
equal in it; will they then deny the blessing of God?(71)
- And God has made for you wives out of yourselves,
and has made, out of your wives, sons and grandsons for you, and has provided
you with good things; will they then believe in falsehood and disbelieve
in the blessing of God,(72)
- and serve, apart from God, that which has
no power to provide them anything from the heavens and the earth, nor
can they ever do?(73)
- So, do not strike similitudes for God;
God knows, and you know not.(74)
- God strikes a similitude: there is a slave
possessed (by his master), who has no power on anything, and there is
one whom We have provided from Ourselves with a good provision, and he
expends of it secretly and openly. Are they equal? Praise be to God; but
most of them know not.(75)
- And God strikes a similitude: there are
two men; one of them is dumb who has no power over anything and is a burden
on his master; wherever he directs him, he brings no good. Is he equal
to him who enjoins justice and is on a straight path?(76)
- And to God belongs the unseen in the heavens
and the earth. And the matter of the Hour is as a twinkling of the eye
or nearer. God is powerful over everything.(77)
- And God brings you forth from the wombs
of your mothers, you not knowing anything, and makes for you ears, eyes
and hearts, that you may give thanks.(78)
- Have they not seen the birds held in the
atmosphere? Naught holds them except God? In that are surely Signs for
a people who believe.(79)
- And God has made for you of your houses
a place of rest, and has made for you, of the skins of the cattle, houses
which you find light on the day you march and on the day you halt, and
(he has made) of their wool and their fur and their hair, household stuff
and other goods for a time.(80)
- And God has made, for you, out of what
He has created, shades; and he has made, for you, in mountains shelters;
and He has made for you shirts that guard you against heat, and shirts
that guard you during your violence Thus He perfects His blessing on you
that you may submit to Him.(81)
- But if they turn away, then thine is only
to deliver the Manifest Message.(82)
- They recognise God's blessing yet deny
it, and most of them are unthankful.(83)
- And the day We shall raise up a witness
from every community, no leave shall be given to the unbelievers, nor
shall they be allowed to make amends.(84)
- And when the wrong--doers see the punishment,
it shall not be lightened for them, nor shall they be given respite.(85)
- And when the idolaters see their associate-gods,
they shall say, `our Lord, these are our associate-gods, on whom we called,
apart from Thee'; but they will throw back the saying on them, `you are
surely liars.'(86)
- And that day they will offer surrender
to God, and what they had forged will forsake them.(87)
- Those who disbelieve and bar from God's
way, We shall increase on them punishment over punishment, for they were
causing disorder.(88)
- And the day We shall raise up from every
community a witness over them from amongst them, We shall bring thee as
a witness over these people. And We have sent down on thee the Book as
an exposition of everything, and as a guidance, and a mercy and as a good
news for those who surrender.(89)
- God enjoins justice, good-doing, and giving
to kinsmen, and He forbids indecency, disgusting things and rebellion;
He admonishes you so that you may pay heed.(90)
- And fulfil God's covenant, when you make
a covenant, and do not break the oaths after their confirmation, when
you have made God your surety; God knows the things you do.(91)
- And be not like her who broke her thread,
after it was firmly spun, into bits. You take your oaths as a deceit between
you, lest a community may become more powerful than another community.
God only tries you thereby; and He will surely make clear to you, on the
Day of Resurrection, in what you differed.(92)
- And had God willed, He would have made
you one community; but He sends astray whom He will and guides whom He
will, and you will surely be questioned about the things you were doing.(93)
- And do not take your oaths as a deceit
between you, lest a foot should slip after it is firmly planted, and you
taste evil for that you barred from God's way, and lest you have a big
punishment.(94)
- And do not sell God's covenant for a small
price; surely that which is with God is good for you, if you but knew.(95)
- That which is with you shall exhaust, but
that which is with God shall abide; and We will surely recompense those
who are patient their wage, for the best of their deeds.(96)
- Whoso does a righteous deed, be it male
or female, and he is a Believer, We will surely give him a good life;
and We will recompense them their wage, for the best of their deeds.(97)
- Now, when thou readest the Qur'an, seek
refuge in God from the outcast Devil.(98)
- He has no authority over those who believe
and trust in their Lord.(99)
- His authority is only over those who befriend
him and those who make him an associate to God.(100)
- And when We exchange a verse in place of
another verse, and God knows best what He sends down, they say, `thou
art only a forger!' No, but most of them have no knowledge.(101)
- Say, `the Holy Spirit has brought it down
from thy Lord with truth, that it may confirm the Believers, and be a
guidance and a good news to those who surrender.'(102)
- And We do know that they say, `only a mortal
teaches him', his language, to whom they refer, is foreign, while this
is clear Arabic language.(103)
- Surely those who do not believe in the
Signs of God, God will not guide them, and for them shall be a painful
punishment.(104)
- They only forge falsehood who do not believe
in the Signs of God, and they are the liars.(105)
- Whoso disbelieves in God, after he believed--excepting
him who has been compelled but his heart is contented with belief __ but
whoso opens his breast with unbelief, upon them shall fall wrath from
God, and for them shall be a big punishment.(106)
- That is because they prefer the present
life against the Hereafter, and because God does not guide the disbelieving
people.(107)
- Those are the ones on whose hearts, ears
and eyes, God has set a seal, and those are the heedless.(108)
- No doubt, it is they who shall be the losers
in the Hereafter.(109)
- Then, thy Lord __ to those who emigrated,
after they were persecuted, then struggled and were patient __ surely
thy Lord thereafter is Forgiving, Merciful.(110)
- That day every soul shall come pleading
for itself, and every soul shall be paid in full for what it did, and
they shall not be wronged.(111)
- And God strikes a similitude: a city that
was secure and content, its provision coming to it easefully from every
place; then it became unthankful to the blessings of God; so God let it
taste overwhelming hunger and fear for the things that they were working.(112)
- And indeed there came to them a Messenger
from among them, but they gave lies to him; so the punishment seized them,
for they were wrong-doers.(113)
- Now, eat of the lawful and good things
that God has provided you; and give thanks for God's blessings, if Him
only you serve.(114)
- He has forbidden you only the carrion,
the blood, the flesh of swine, and that over which name of other than
God is invoked; yet if any is constrained, when not revolting nor transgressing,
then God is Forgiving, Merciful.(115)
- And do not utter the falsehood as to what
your tongues describe, `this is lawful and this is forbidden', so that
you forge falsehood against God. Surely those who forge falsehood against
God shall not prosper.(116)
- A little enjoyment, and they shall have
a painful punishment.(117)
- And to the Jews, We forbade what We have
related to thee before; and We did not wrong them, but themselves they
wronged.(118)
- Then thy Lord __ to those who did evil
in ignorance, then repented after that, and put things right __ surely
thy Lord, thereafter, is Forgiving, Merciful.(119)
- Surely Abraham was a complete model, obedient
to God, and all-devoted; and he was not of the idolators;(120)
- he was thankful for His blessings; He chose
him and guided him to a straight path.(121)
- And We gave him good in this world, and
he will surely be among the righteous in the Hereafter.(122)
- Then We have revealed to thee, `follow
the creed of Abraham, who was all-devoted; and he was not of the idolators.'(123)
- The Sabbath was appointed only for those
who differed in it; and thy Lord will surely judge between them on the
Day of Resurrection in what they differed.(124)
- Call thou to the way of thy Lord with wisdom
and good admonition, and plead with them in a way that is most handsome.
It is thy Lord who knows best those who have gone astray from His way,
and He knows best the guided ones.(125)
- And if you punish, then punish like you
were punished; but if you are patient, it is good for the patient.(126)
- And be patient, yet thy patience is only
with the help of God; and do not grieve over them, nor be distressed for
what they devise.(127)
- God is with those who are godfearing, and
those who are good-doers.(128)
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