Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd keep your duty unto Him Who created you and the generations of the men of old.
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Juz 19
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThey said: Thou art but one of the bewitched;
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThou art but a mortal like us, and lo! we deem thee of the liars.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThen make fragments of the heaven fall upon us, if thou art of the truthful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHe said: My Lord is Best Aware of what ye do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallBut they denied him, so there came on them the retribution of the day of gloom. Lo! it was the retribution of an awful day.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallLo! herein is indeed a portent; yet most of them are not believers.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd lo! thy Lord! He is indeed the Mighty, the Merciful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd lo! it is a revelation of the Lord of the Worlds,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallWhich the True Spirit hath brought down
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallUpon thy heart, that thou mayst be (one) of the warners,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallIn plain Arabic speech.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd lo! it is in the Scriptures of the men of old.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallIs it not a token for them that the doctors of the Children of Israel know it?
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd if We had revealed it unto one of any other nation than the Arabs,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd he had read it unto them, they would not have believed in it.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThus do We make it traverse the hearts of the guilty.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThey will not believe in it till they behold the painful doom,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallSo that it will come upon them suddenly, when they perceive not.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThen they will say: Are we to be reprieved?
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallWould they (now) hasten on Our doom?
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHast thou then seen, if We content them for (long) years,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd then cometh that which they were promised,
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall(How) that wherewith they were contented naught availeth them?
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd We destroyed no township but it had its warners
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallFor reminder, for We never were oppressors.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThe devils did not bring it down.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallIt is not meet for them, nor is it in their power,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallLo! verily they are banished from the hearing.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallTherefor invoke not with Allah another god, lest thou be one of the doomed.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd warn thy tribe of near kindred,
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd lower thy wing (in kindness) unto those believers who follow thee.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd if they (thy kinsfolk) disobey thee, say: Lo! I am innocent of what they do.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd put thy trust in the Mighty, the Merciful.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallWho seeth thee when thou standest up (to pray)
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd (seeth) thine abasement among those who fall prostrate (in worship).
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallLo! He, only He, is the Hearer, the Knower.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallShall I inform you upon whom the devils descend?
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThey descend on every sinful, false one.
Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThey listen eagerly, but most of them are liars.
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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).