Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd those who look not for a meeting with Us say: Why are angels not sent down unto us and (Why) do we not see our Lord! Assuredly they think too highly of themselves and are scornful with great pride.
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Juz 19
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallOn the day when they behold the angels, on that day there will be no good tidings for the guilty; and they will cry: A forbidding ban!
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd We shall turn unto the work they did and make it scattered motes.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThose who have earned the Garden on that day will be better in their home and happier in their place of noonday rest;
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallA day when the heaven with the clouds will be rent asunder and the angels will be sent down, a grand descent.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThe Sovereignty on that day will be the True (Sovereignty) belonging to the Beneficent One, and it will be a hard day for disbelievers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallOn the day when the wrong-doer gnaweth his hands, he will say: Ah, would that I had chosen a way together with the messenger (of Allah)!
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAlas for me! Ah, would that I had never taken such a one for friend!
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHe verily led me astray from the Reminder after it had reached me. Satan was ever man's deserter in the hour of need.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd the messenger saith: O my Lord! Lo! mine own folk make this Qur'an of no account.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallEven so have We appointed unto every prophet an opponent from among the guilty; but Allah sufficeth for a Guide and Helper.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd those who disbelieve say: Why is the Qur'an not revealed unto him all at once? (It is revealed) thus that We may strengthen thy heart therewith; and We have arranged it in right order.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd they bring thee no similitude but We bring thee the Truth (as against it), and better (than their similitude) as argument.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThose who will be gathered on their faces unto hell: such are worse in plight and further from the right road.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallWe verily gave Moses the Scripture and placed with him his brother Aaron as henchman.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThen We said: Go together unto the folk who have denied Our revelations. Then We destroyed them, a complete destruction.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd Noah's folk, when they denied the messengers, We drowned them and made of them a portent for mankind. We have prepared a painful doom for evil-doers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd (the tribes of) A'ad and Thamud, and the dwellers in Ar-Rass, and many generations in between.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallEach (of them) We warned by examples, and each (of them) We brought to utter ruin.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd indeed they have passed by the township whereon was rained the fatal rain. Can it be that they have not seen it? Nay, but they hope for no resurrection.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd when they see thee (O Muhammad) they treat thee only as a jest (saying): Is this he whom Allah sendeth as a messenger?
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHe would have led us far away from our gods if we had not been staunch to them. They will know, when they behold the doom, who is more astray as to the road.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHast thou seen him who chooseth for his god his own lust? Wouldst thou then be guardian over him?
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallOr deemest thou that most of them hear or understand? They are but as the cattle - nay, but they are farther astray?
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHast thou not seen how thy Lord hath spread the shade - And if He willed He could have made it still - then We have made the sun its pilot;
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThen We withdraw it unto Us, a gradual withdrawal?
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd He it is Who maketh night a covering for you, and sleep repose, and maketh day a resurrection.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd He it is Who sendeth the winds, glad tidings heralding His mercy, and We send down purifying water from the sky,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThat We may give life thereby to a dead land, and We give many beasts and men that We have created to drink thereof.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd verily We have repeated it among them that they may remember, but most of mankind begrudge aught save ingratitude.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallIf We willed, We could raise up a warner in every village.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallSo obey not the disbelievers, but strive against them herewith with a great endeavour.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd He it is Who hath given independence to the two seas (though they meet); one palatable, sweet, and the other saltish, bitter; and hath set a bar and a forbidding ban between them.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd He it is Who hath created man from water, and hath appointed for him kindred by blood and kindred by marriage; for thy Lord is ever Powerful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallYet they worship instead of Allah that which can neither benefit them nor hurt them. The disbeliever was ever a partisan against his Lord.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd We have sent thee (O Muhammad) only as a bearer of good tidings and a warner.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallSay: I ask of you no reward for this, save that whoso will may choose a way unto his Lord.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd trust thou in the Living One Who dieth not, and hymn His praise. He sufficeth as the Knower of His bondmen's sins,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallWho created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six Days, then He mounted the Throne. The Beneficent! Ask anyone informed concerning Him!
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd when it is said unto them: Prostrate to the Beneficent! they say: And what is the Beneficent? Are we to prostrate to whatever thou (Muhammad) biddest us? And it increaseth aversion in them.
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Quran text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani), tanzil.net – CC BY 3.0, unchanged. Translation: The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall – Public domain (published 1930).