SURAH
35: FATIR (The Originator of Creation).
In the name of Allah, the Gracious,
the Merciful
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Praise be to Allah, who created the heavens and the earth, who made the angels
messengers with wings, two, or three, or four: he adds to creation as he
pleases: for Allah has power over all things.
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What Allah out of his mercy bestows on mankind there is none can withhold: what
he withholds, there is none can grant, apart from him: and he is the exalted in
power, full of wisdom.
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O men! Call to mind the grace of Allah to you! Is there a creator, other than
Allah, to give you sustenance from heaven or earth? There is no god but he: how
then are you deluded away from the truth?
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And if they reject you, so were messengers rejected before you: to Allah go
back for decision all affairs.
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O men certainly the promise of Allah is true. Let not then this present life
deceive you, nor let the chief deceiver deceive you about Allah.
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Truly Satan is an enemy to you: so treat him as an enemy. He only invites his
adherents, that they may become companions of the blazing fire.
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For those who reject Allah is a terrible penalty: but for those who believe and
work righteous deeds, is forgiveness, and a magnificent reward.
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Note the one to whom the evil of his conduct is made alluring, so that he looks
upon it as good. For Allah leaves to stray whom he wills. So let not your soul
go out in sighing after them: For Allah knows well all that they do.
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It is Allah who sends forth the winds, so that they raise up the clouds, and we
drive them to a land that is dead, and revive the earth therewith after its
death: even so will be the resurrection.
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If any do seek for glory and power, to Allah belong all glory and power. To him
mount up all words of purity: it is he who exalts each deed of righteousness.
Those that lay plots of evil, for them is a penalty terrible; and the plotting
of such will be void.
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And Allah created you from dust; then from a sperm drop; then he made you in
pairs. And no female conceives or gives birth, but with his knowledge. Nor is a
man long-lived granted length of days, nor is a part cut off from his life, But
is in a decree. All this is easy to Allah.
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Nor are the two bodies of flowing water alike, the one palatable, sweet, and
pleasant to drink, and the other, salt and bitter. Yet from each you eat flesh
fresh and tender, and you extract ornaments to wear; and you see the ships in
them that plough the waves, that you may seek of the bounty of Allah that you
may be grateful.
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He merges night into day, and he merges day into night, and he has subjected
the sun and the moon to his law: Each one runs its course for a term appointed.
Such is Allah your Lord: to him belongs all dominion. And those whom you invoke
besides him have not the least power.
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If you invoke them, they will not listen to your call, and if they were to
listen, they cannot answer your prayer. On the day of judgment they will reject
your partnership. And none can tell you the truth like the one who is
acquainted with all things.
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O you men! It is you that have need of Allah: but Allah is the one free of all
wants, worthy of all praise.
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If he so pleased, he could blot you out and bring in a new creation.
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Nor is that difficult for Allah.
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Nor can a bearer of burdens bear another's burden. If one heavily laden should
call another to bear his load, not the least portion of it can be carried by
the other, even though he be nearly related. You can but admonish such as fear
their Lord unseen and establish regular prayer. And whoever purifies himself
does so for the benefit of his own soul; and the destination of all is to
Allah.
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The blind and the seeing are not alike;
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Nor are the depths of darkness and the light;
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Nor are the shade and the heat of the sun;
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Nor are alike those that are living and those that are dead. Allah can make any
that he wills to hear; but you can not make those to hear who are buried in
graves.
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you are no other than a warner.
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Truly we have sent you in truth, as a bearer of glad tidings, and as a warner:
and there never was a people, without a warner having lived among them.
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And if they reject you, so did their predecessors, to whom came their
messengers with clear signs, the Zabur, and Al-Kitab which gives light.
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In the end did I
punish those who rejected faith: and how terrible was my rejection of them.
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Do you not see that Allah sends down rain from the sky? With it we then bring
out produce of various colours. And in the mountains are tracts white and red,
of various shades of colour, and black intense in hue.
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And so among men and crawling creatures and cattle, are they of various
colours. Those truly fear Allah, among his servants, who have knowledge: for
Allah is exalted in might oft-forgiving.
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Those who rehearse Allah's Al-Kitab, establish regular prayer, and spend out
of what we have provided for them, secretly and openly, hope for commerce that
will never fail:
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For he will pay them their wages, and give them more out of his bounty: for he
is oft-forgiving, most ready to appreciate.
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That which we have revealed to you of Al-Kitab is the truth, confirming what was before
it: for Allah is assuredly with respect to his servants well acquainted and
fully observant.
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Then we have given Al-Kitab for inheritance to such of our servants as we have chosen.
But there are among them some who wrong their own souls, some who follow a
middle course, and some who are, by Allah's leave, foremost in good deeds. That
is the highest grace.
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Gardens of eternity will they enter: therein will they be adorned with
bracelets of gold and pearls; and their garments there will be of silk.
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And they will say: Praise be to Allah, who has removed from us sorrow: for our
Lord is indeed oft-forgiving, ready to appreciate.
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Who has, out of his bounty, settled us in a home that will last: no toil nor
sense of weariness shall touch us in it.
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But those who reject, for them will be the fire of hell: no term shall be
determined for them, so they should die, nor shall its penalty be lightened for
them. Thus do we reward every ungrateful one.
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Therein will they cry aloud: Our Lord, bring us out! We shall work
righteousness, not the deeds we used to do. Did we not give you long enough life
so that he that would should receive admonition? And moreover the warner came
to you. So taste the fruits of your deeds: for the wrong doers there is no
helper.
38
Truly Allah knows all the hidden things of the heavens and the earth: truly he
has full knowledge of all that is in men's hearts.
39
He it is that has made you inheritors in the earth: if, then any reject, their
rejection works against themselves: their rejection but adds to the odium for
the unbelievers in the sight of their Lord: their rejection but adds to their
own undoing.
40
Say: Have you seen these partners of yours whom you call upon besides Allah?
Show me what it is they have created in the earth. Or have they a share in the
heavens? Or have we given them a book from which they can derive clear
evidence? No, the wrongdoers promise each other nothing but delusions.
41
It is Allah who sustains the heavens and the earth, lest they cease: and if
they should fail, there is none not one can sustain them thereafter: truly he
is most forbearing, oft-forgiving.
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They swore their strongest oaths by Allah that if a warner came to them, they
would follow his guidance better than any other of the peoples: but when a
warner came to them, it has only increased their flight,
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On account of their arrogance in the land and their plotting of evil. But the
plotting of evil will hem in only the authors of it. Now are they but looking
for the way the ancients were dealt with? But no change will you find in
Allah's way. No turning off will you find in Allah's way.
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Do they not travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those before
them, though they were superior to them in strength? Nor is Allah to be
frustrated by anything whatever in the heavens or on earth: for he is all-knowing,
all powerful.
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If Allah were to punish men according to what they deserve, he would not leave
on the back of the earth a single living creature: but he gives them respite
for a stated term: When their term expires, truly Allah has in his sight all
his servants.