The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

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earth’s contents twice over, if they had it, in order to ransom themselves,
so terrible will be their reckoning. Hell will be their home,
and their bed wretched.
19 Can someone who knows that the revelation from your Lord is
the Truth be equal to someone who is blind? Only those with understanding
will take it to heart; 20 those who fulfil the agreements they
make in God’s name and do not break their pledges; 21 who join
together what God commands to be joined; who are in awe of their
Lord and fear the harshness of the Reckoning; 22 who remain steadfast
through their desire for the face of their Lord; who keep up the
prayer; who give secretly and openly from what We have provided for
them; who repel evil with good. These will have the reward of the
[true] home: 23 they will enter perpetual Gardens, along with their
righteous ancestors, spouses, and descendants; the angels will go in
to them from every gate, 24 ‘Peace be with you, because you have
remained steadfast. What an excellent reward is this home of yours!’
25 But there will be rejection for those who break their confirmed
agreements made in God’s name, who break apart what God has
commanded to be joined and who spread corruption on earth: theirs
is the dreadful home – 26 God gives abundantly to whoever He will,
and sparingly to whoever He will – and though they may revel in the
life of this world, it is but a fleeting comfort compared with the Life
to come.
27 The disbelievers say, ‘Why has no miracle been sent down to
him from his Lord?’ [Prophet], say, ‘God leaves whoever He will to
stray, and guides to Himself those who turn towards Him, 28 those
who have faith and whose hearts find peace in the remembrance
of God – truly it is in the remembrance of God that hearts find
peace – 29 those who believe and do righteous deeds: joy awaits these,
and their final homecoming will be excellent.’ 30 So We have sent you
[Prophet] to a community – other communities passed away long
before them – to recite to them what We reveal to you. Yet they
disbelieve in the Lord of Mercy. Say, ‘He is my Lord: there is no god
but Him. I put my trust in Him and to Him is my return.’ 31 If there
were ever to be a Quran with which mountains could be moved, the
earth shattered, or the dead made to speak [it would have been this
one], a but everything is truly in God’s hands. Do the believers not
a Or ‘[they still would not believe]’.