The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

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Al-Hijr 163
grow there in due balance. 20 We have provided sustenance in it for
you and for all those creatures for whom you do not provide. 21 There
is not a thing whose storehouses are not with Us. We send it down
only according to a well-defined measure: 22 We send the winds to
fertilize, and We bring down water from the sky for you to drink –
you do not control its sources. 23 It is We who give life and death; it is
We who inherit [everything]. 24 We know exactly those of you who
come first and those who come later. 25 [Prophet], it is your Lord who
will gather them all together: He is all wise, all knowing.
26 We created man out of dried clay formed from dark mud – 27 the
jinn We created before, from the fire of scorching wind. 28 Your Lord
said to the angels, ‘I will create a mortal out of dried clay, formed
from dark mud. 29 When I have fashioned him and breathed My
spirit into him, bow down before him,’ 30 and the angels all did so.
31 But not Iblis: he refused to bow down like the others. 32 God said,
‘Iblis, why did you not bow down like the others?’ 33 and he
answered, ‘I will not bow to a mortal You created from dried clay,
formed from dark mud.’ 34 ‘Get out of here!’ said God. ‘You are an
outcast, 35 rejected until the Day of Judgement.’ 36 Iblis said, ‘My
Lord, give me respite until the Day when they are raised from the
dead.’ 37 ‘You have respite,’ said God, 38 ‘until the Day of the
Appointed Time.’ 39 Iblis then said to God, ‘Because You have put
me in the wrong, I will lure mankind on earth and put them in the
wrong, 40 all except Your devoted servants.’ 41 God said, ‘[Devotion]
is a straight path to Me: 42 you will have no power over My servants,
only over the ones who go astray and follow you. 43 Hell is the
promised place for all these, 44 with seven gates, each gate having its
allotted share of them. 45 But the righteous will be in Gardens with
springs – 46 “Enter them in peace and safety!”––47 and We shall
remove any bitterness from their hearts: [they will be like] brothers,
sitting on couches, face to face. 48 No weariness will ever touch them
there, nor will they ever be expelled.’ 49 [Prophet], tell My servants
that I am the Forgiving, the Merciful, 50 but My torment is the truly
painful one.
51 Tell them too about Abraham’s guests: 52 when they came to him
and said, ‘Peace,’ he said, ‘We are afraid of you.’ 53 ‘Do not be afraid,’
they said, ‘We bring you good news of a son who will have great
knowledge.’ 54 He said, ‘How can you give me such news when old
age has come to me? What sort of news is this?’ 55 They said, ‘We