21. O ye people! Adore your
Guardian Lord, Who created you and those who came before you, that ye may have
the chance to learn righteousness;
22. Who has made the earth your
couch and the heavens your canopy; and sent down rain from the heavens; and
brought forth therewith fruits for your sustenance; then set not up rivals unto
Allah when ye know (the truth).
23. And if ye are in doubt as
to what We have revealed from time to time to Our servant, then produce a Sura
like thereunto; and call your witnesses or helpers (if there are any) besides
Allah, if your (doubts) are true.
24. But if ye cannot - and of a
surety ye cannot - then fear the Fire whose fuel is men and stones which is
prepared for those who reject Faith.
25. But give glad tidings to
those who believe and work righteousness, that their portion is Gardens, beneath
which rivers flow. Every time they are fed with fruits therefrom, they say:
"Why, this is what we were fed with before," for they are given things in
similitude; and they have therein companions pure (and holy); and they abide
therein (forever).
26. Allah disdains not to use
the similitude of things, lowest as well as highest. Those who believe know that
it is truth from their Lord; but those who reject Faith say: "What means Allah
by this similitude?" By it He causes many to stray, and many He leads into the
right path; but He causes not to stray, except those who forsake (the path),
27. Those who break Allah's
Covenant after it is ratified, and who sunder what Allah has ordered to be
joined, and do mischief on earth: these cause losses (only) to themselves.
28. How can ye reject the faith
in Allah? Seeing that ye were without life, and He gave you life; then will He
cause you to die, and will again bring you to life; and again to Him will ye
return.
29. It is He Who hath created
for you all things that are on earth; then He turned to the heaven and made them
into seven firmaments. And of all things He hath perfect knowledge.
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