The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad, Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah [speed reading book TXT] 📗
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They say, “God hath taken him a son.” Extolled be his glory! He is the Self-sufficient, all that is in the heavens, and all that is in the earth is his! ye have no warranty for this! do ye say about God that which ye know not?
Say: Verily they who forge this lie against God shall not prosper:—
A passing joy in this world, then to us they return; and then we will make them taste the grievous torment, because they did not believe.
And tell them the story of Noah, when he said to his people,—“O my people! though my dwelling with you and my warning you of the signs of God hath been grievous to you, yet in God do I put my trust: so gather together your case and your Partners; then will not your case fall upon you in the dark: then decide about me and delay not.
And if ye turn, yet ask I no reward from you: my reward is with God alone, and I am commanded to be of those who are resigned.”
But they called him a liar, so we delivered him and those who were with him in the ship, and we made them to survive; and we drowned those who had called our signs lies: see then what was the end of those who were warned!
Then after him, we sent apostles to their people, and they came to them with manifestations: but they would not believe in what they had denied before: thus do we put a seal upon the hearts of the transgressors.
Then sent we, after them, Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh and his nobles with our signs; but they were puffed up and were a sinful folk.
And when the truth came to them from us, they said, “This is clear sorcery indeed.”
Moses said, “Say ye of the truth when it is come to you, Is this sorcery?—but sorcerers shall not prosper.”
They said, “Art thou come to us to hinder us from what we found our fathers in, and in order that for you twain there shall be majesty in the land? but we are not going to believe in you!”
And Pharaoh said, “Fetch me every wise sorcerer.” And when the sorcerers came, Moses said to them, “Cast down what ye have to cast.”
And when they had cast them down, Moses said, “What ye come with is sorcery: verily God will make it vain; aye, God doth not prosper the work of evildoers;
And God will establish the truth by his word, though loth be the sinners.”
And none believed in Moses but the children of his own folk, for fear of Pharaoh and his nobles, lest he should afflict them: for of a truth Pharaoh was mighty in the earth, and verily he was of the transgressors.
And Moses said, “O my people! if ye believe in God, put your trust in Him, if ye are resigned.”
And they said, “In God do we put our trust. O our Lord, make us not a trial to the folk of the wicked,
And deliver us in Thy mercy from the folk of the unbelievers.”
Then revealed we to Moses and to his brother: “Build houses for your people in Egypt, and make your houses with a Kibla, and perform prayer, and give good tidings to the believers.”
And Moses said, “O our Lord, thou hast indeed given to Pharaoh and his nobles adornments and riches in the life of this world: O our Lord! may they err from thy way; O our Lord, confound their riches, and harden their hearts, so shall they not believe until they see the aching torment.”
God said: “Your prayer is heard, then stand ye upright, and follow not the path of those who know not.”
And we brought the Children of Israel across the sea; and Pharaoh and his host followed them, eager and hostile, until when drowning overtook him he said, “I believe that there is no God but He in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am one of the resigned.”
“Now! thou hast been rebellious aforetime, and wast one of the evildoers,
This day will we raise thee in thy flesh, to be a sign to those who come after thee: but verily many men are heedless of our signs!”
Moreover we lodged the Children of Israel in a firm abode, and provided them with good things: and they did not differ until the knowledge came to them; verily thy Lord will decide between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that on which they differed.
And if thou art in doubt of what we have sent down to thee, inquire of those who read the Scriptures before thee. Now hath truth come unto thee from thy Lord: then be not thou of those who doubt,
Neither be of those who deny the signs of God lest thou be among the losers.
Verily they against whom the word of thy Lord is passed shall not believe,—
Though there came unto them every kind of sign,—till they behold the aching torment.
Else any city had believed, and its faith had benefited it:—save the people of Jonah; when they believed, we took away from them the torment of shame in the life of this world, and provided for them awhile.
But if thy Lord pleased, verily all who are in the earth had believed together. Then canst thou compel men to become believers?
It is not in a soul to believe but by the permission of God: and He shall lay His curse on those who have no wits.
Say: Look upon that which is in the heavens and in the earth: but signs and warners avail not a folk that will not believe!
What then can they expect but the like of the days of those who passed away before them? Say: Wait ye,—I too am waiting with you.
Then will we deliver our apostles and those who believe: thus is it binding on us to deliver the faithful.
Say: O ye people! if ye are in doubt of my religion, I do not worship those whom ye worship beside God; but I worship God, who taketh you away; and I am commanded to be of the faithful.
And set thy face towards religion as a Hanīf, and be not of those idolaters:
And invoke not beside God that which can neither help nor hurt; for if thou do, thou wilt certainly be of the wicked.
And if God touch thee with affliction, there is none to remove it but He. And if He desire thy good, there is none to hinder His bounty—He will confer it on whom He pleaseth of his servants: and He is the Forgiving, the Merciful!
Say: O ye people! now hath truth come unto you from your Lord; then he who is guided, is guided only for his own behoof: but he who erreth doth err only against himself; and I am no governor over you!
And follow what is revealed to thee: and be patient till God judgeth; and He is the best of judges.
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THE THUNDER.
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
A. L. M. R. These are the Signs of the Book! and that which was sent down to thee from thy Lord is the truth: but most men do not believe.
It is God who raised the heavens without pillars that ye can see; then ascended the Throne, and subdued the sun and the moon: each runneth to its appointed goal, to rule every thing, to manifest signs. Haply ye will be convinced of meeting your Lord!
And it is He who spread out the earth, and put thereon firm mountains, and rivers; and of every fruit He hath made therein two kinds: He maketh the night to cover the day; verily in that are signs for reflecting folk.
And on the earth are neighbouring tracts, and gardens of grapes, and corn, and palms clustered and not clustered at the root; they are watered by the same water, yet we make some better than others for food: verily in that are signs for folk that have wits.
If ever thou dost wonder, wonderful is their saying, “What! when we have become dust, shall we indeed become a new creation?”
These are they who disbelieve in their Lord: and these shall have the shackles on their necks, and these shall be the inmates of the fire to abide therein for ever.
They will bid thee hasten evil rather than good: examples have passed away before them; and verily thy Lord is full of forgiveness unto men despite their iniquity; and verily thy Lord is heavy in punishing.
And they who disbelieve say, “Unless a sign be sent down to him from his Lord ...” Thou art but a warner, and to every people its guide.
God knoweth what every woman beareth, and the decrease of the wombs and the increase; for the pattern of all things is with Him,
Who knoweth the hidden and the seen, the Great, the Most High.
Equal is he of you who concealeth his words and he that proclaimeth them: he who hideth by night, and he who goeth abroad by day.
Each hath angels before him and behind him, who watch over him by God’s command. Verily God doth not change towards a people, till they change themselves; and when God willeth evil unto a people, there is no averting it, nor have they any protector beside Him.
It is He who showeth you the lightning for fear and hope [of rain], and gathereth the lowering clouds,
And the Thunder magnifieth His praise, and the angels, for awe of Him, and He sendeth His thunderbolts and smiteth therewith whom He pleaseth:—and they are wrangling about God! but strong is His might!
Unto Him is the true cry: but those whom they cry to beside Him shall answer them naught save as one who stretcheth forth his hands to the water that it may reach his mouth, but it doth not reach it! The cry of the unbelievers is but in error.
And unto God bow down all things in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and their shadows at morn and eve!
Say: Who is Lord of the heavens and the earth? Say: God. Say: Why then have ye taken beside Him Patrons who are powerless for weal or woe to themselves? Say: What! are the blind and the seeing alike? or are darkness and light the same? or have they made Partners for God, who create as He creates, so that they confuse the creation? Say: God is the Creator of all things, He is the One, the Conqueror.
He sendeth down water from heaven; and the valleys flow in their degree, and the torrent beareth along foaming froth, and from the [ore] which they burn in the fire, desiring ornaments or necessaries, a scum like it ariseth. So doth God liken truth and falsehood. As to the scum it passeth off as refuse, and as to what profiteth man it remaineth on the earth. Thus doth God frame parables. For those who respond to their Lord, good; but those who respond not to Him, had they all that the earth containeth and its like beside it, they would surely give it in ransom: these shall have an evil reckoning, and Hell shall be their home,—and wretched the bed!
Is he who knoweth that what hath been sent down to thee
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