The Majestic Quran
T E 24 This worldly life is like the water We send down from the sky, it soaks the soil and the plants, which are eaten by the people and livestock. They grow until the land takes on beautiful colours and appears attractive, and its owners think they have control over it, then Our command comes, at night or by day, and We leave it looking like stubble after the harvest , as though it never existed a day earlier. This is how We explain the signs for people who reflect. 25 God calls people to the home of Heavenly peace, and He guides the one who pleases Him along a straight path. 26 For those who are righteous, there will be an excellent reward and more beside; neither dust nor disgrace will stain their faces, such people will be the companions of Paradise, living there forever. T 27 The wrongdoers will get a matching reward; disgrace will stain them, and they will have no one to protect them from God’s punishment . As though their faces are masked bit by bit with the pitch darkness of night. Such people will be the companions of the Fire, living there forever. 28 The day We gather them together, We will say to idolaters, “ This place is for you and your partners.” Then We shall separate them, and their partners will say, “You didn’t worship us, 29 God is sufficient as a witness between us and you, we were unaware of your worship.” 30 There, every soul will be forced to confront what it did in the past as they are returned to God, their true Master, all the idols they devised will desert them. T 31 Say: “Who provides for you from the Heavens and Earth, and Who has the power of granting hearing and sight? And Who brings forth the living from the dead and the dead from the living? And Who oversees the running of the entire universe ?” “God!” They will say. So, say: “Won’t you be mindful of Him ? 32 Such is God, your true Lord. And, beyond truth, what is there except falsehood? So where else can you turn?” 33 This is how your Lord’s statement against the evildoers has been justified, that they don’t believe. 34 Say: “Has any of your partners initiated the process of creation and will then restore it to its original state ?” Tell them: “It is God Who initiates creation and then restores it. Why then are you telling lies?” 35 Say: “Does any of your partners guide to the truth?” Say: “Only
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