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Then guard yourselves against a day when one soul will not avail another nor will intercession be accepted for her, nor will compensation be taken from her, nor will anyone be helped from outside. Then guard yourselves against a Day when one soul will not avail another, nor will compensation be accepted from her nor will intercession profit her nor will anyone be helped from outside. So when you have accomplished your Holy rites, celebrate the praises of God, as you used to celebrate the praises of your fathers. Yea, with far more Heart and soul. There are men who say: "Our Lord! Give us Your bounties in this world!" But they will have no portion in the Hereafter. When you divorce women, and they fulfill the term of their 'Iddat, either take them back on equitable terms or set them free on equitable terms; but do not take them back to injure them, or to take undue advantage; if any one does that; He wrongs his own soul. Do not treat God's Signs as a jest, but solemnly rehearse God's favors on you, and the fact that He sent down to you the Book and Wisdom, for your instruction. And fear God, and know that God is well acquainted with all things. The mothers will give suck to their offspring for two whole years, if the father desires to complete the term, but he will bear the cost of their food and clothing on equitable terms. No soul will have a burden laid on it greater than it can bear. No mother will be Treated unfairly on account of her child. Nor father on account of his child, an heir will be chargeable in the same way. If they both decide on weaning, by mutual consent, and after due consultation, there is no blame on them. If you decide on a foster-mother for your offspring, there is no blame on you, provided you pay the mother what you offered, on equitable terms. But fear God and know that God sees well what you do. And fear the Day when you will be brought back to God. Then will every soul be paid what it earned, and none will be dealt with unjustly. On no soul does God Place a burden greater than it can bear, it gets every good that it earns, and it suffers every ill that it earns. Pray: "Our Lord! Condemn us not if we forget or fall into error; Our Lord! Lay not on us a burden Like that which You did lay on those before us; Our Lord! Lay not on us a burden greater than we have strength to bear. Blot out our sins, and grant us forgiveness. Have mercy on us. You are our Protector; Help us against those who stand against faith." But how will they fare when we gather them together against a day about which there is no doubt, and each soul will be paid out just what it has earned, without favor or injustice? "On the Day when every soul will be confronted with all the good it has done, and all the evil it has done, it will wish there were a great distance between it and its evil. But God cautions you To remember Himself, and God is full of kindness to those that serve Him." Nor can a soul die except by God's leave, the term being fixed as by writing. If any do desire a reward in this life, We will give it to him; and if any do desire a reward in the Hereafter, We will give it to him. And swiftly will We reward those that serve us with gratitude. No prophet could ever be false to his trust. If any person is so false, He will, on the Day of Judgment, restore what he misappropriated; then will every soul receive its due, whatever it earned. And none will be dealt with unjustly. Every soul will have a taste of death: And only on the Day of Judgment will you be paid your full recompense. Only he who is saved far from the Fire and admitted to the Garden will have attained the object of Life: For the life of this world is but goods and chattels of deception. Whatever good, O man! happens to you, is from God, but whatever evil happens to you, is from your own soul. And We have sent you as an apostle to instruct mankind, and enough is God for a witness. If any one does evil or wrongs his own soul but afterwards seeks God's forgiveness, he will find God Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. And if any one earns sin, he earns it against His own soul: For God is full of knowledge and wisdom. The selfish soul of the other led him to the murder of his brother: He murdered him, and became himself one of the lost ones. He is the irresistible, watching from above over His worshippers, and He sets guardians over you. At length, when death approaches one of you, Our angels take his soul, and they never fail in their duty. Leave alone those who take their religion to be mere play and amusement, and are deceived by the life of this world. But proclaim to them this truth: That every soul delivers itself to ruin by its own acts: It will find for itself no protector or intercessor except God. If it offered every ransom, or reparation, none will be accepted: Such is the end of those who deliver themselves to ruin by their own acts: They will have for drink only boiling water, and for punishment, one most grievous: For they persisted in rejecting God. "Now have come to you, from your Lord, proofs to open your eyes: If any will see, it will be for the good of his own soul; if any will be blind, it will be to his own harm: I am not here to watch over your doings." And come not nigh to the orphan's property, except to improve it, until he attain the age of full strength; give measure and weight with full justice; no burden do We place on any soul, but that which it can bear; whenever you speak, speak justly, even if a near relative is concerned; and fulfill the covenant of God. Thus does He command you, that you may remember. Are they waiting to see if the angels come to them, or your Lord Himself, or certain of the signs of your Lord! The day that certain of the signs of your Lord do come, no good will it do to a soul to believe in them then if it believed not before nor earned righteousness through its faith. Say: "Wait you: We too are waiting." Say: "Will I seek for my Cherisher other than God, when He is the Cherisher of all things that exist? Every soul draws the meed of its acts on none but itself: No bearer of burdens can bear of burdens can bear the burden of another. Your goal in the end is towards God, He will tell you the truth of the things wherein you disputed." But those who believe and work righteousness, no burden do We place on any soul, but that which it can bear. They will be Companions of the Garden, therein to dwell for ever. And do you O reader! Bring your Lord to remembrance in your very soul, with humility and in reverence, without loudness in words, in the mornings and evenings; and be not you of those who are unheedful. There will every soul prove the fruits of the deeds it sent before: They will be brought back to God their rightful Lord, and their invented falsehoods will leave them in the lurch. Verily God will not deal unjustly with man in anything: It is man that wrongs his own soul. Whether We show you realized in your life-time some part of what We promise them, or We take your soul to Our Mercy Before that, in any case, to Us is their return: Ultimately God is witness, to all that they do. Every soul that has sinned, if it possessed all that is on earth, would readily give it in ransom: They would declare their repentance when they see the penalty: But the judgment between them will be with justice, and no wrong will be done unto them. No soul can believe, except by the will of God, and He will place doubt or obscurity on those who will not understand. The day it arrives, no soul will speak except by His leave: Of those gathered some will be wretched and some will be blessed. "Nor do I absolve my own self of blame: The human soul is certainly prone to evil, unless my Lord do bestow His Mercy: but surely my Lord is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." And when they entered in the manner their father had enjoined, it did not profit them in the least against the plan of God, it was but a necessity of Jacob's soul, which he discharged. For he was, by our instruction, full of knowledge and experience: But most men know not. "O my Lord! You have indeed bestowed on me some power, and taught me something of the interpretation of dreams and events. O You Creator of the heavens and the earth! You are my Protector in this world and in the Hereafter. Take You my soul at death as one submitting to Your will as a Muslim, and unite me with the righteous." Is then He who stands over every soul and knows all that it does, like any others? And yet they ascribe partners to God. Say: "But name them! Is it that you will inform Him of something he knows not on earth, or is it just a show of words?" Nay! To those who believe not, their pretence seems pleasing, but they are kept back thereby from the path, and those whom God leaves to stray, no one can guide. Whether We will show you within your life-time part of what we promised them or take to ourselves your soul before it is all accomplished, your duty is to make the Message reach them: It is our part to call them to account. Those before them did also devise plots; but in all things the master-planning is God's He knows the doings of every soul: And soon will the Unbelievers know who gets home in the end. That God may requite each soul according to its deserts; and verily God is swift in calling to account. One Day every soul will come up struggling for itself, and every soul will be recompensed fully for all its actions, and none will be unjustly dealt with. It will be said to him: "Read your own record: Sufficient is your soul this day to make out an account against you." And keep your soul content with those who call on their Lord morning and evening, seeking His Face; and let not your eyes pass beyond them, seeking the pomp and glitter of this Life; nor obey any whose heart We have permitted to neglect the remembrance of Us, one who follows his own desires, whose case has gone beyond all bounds. He went into his garden in a state of mind unjust to his soul: He said, "I deem not that this will ever perish, "Verily the Hour is coming - My design is to keep it hidden - for every soul to receive its reward by the measure of its Endeavor. He replied: "I saw what they saw not: So I took a handful of dust from the footprint of the Messenger, and threw it into the calf: Thus did my soul suggest to me." Every soul will have a taste of death: And We test you by evil and by good by way of trial, to Us must you return. We will set up scales of justice for the Day of Judgment, so that not a soul will be dealt with unjustly in the least, and if there be no more than the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it to account: And enough are We to take account. On no soul do We place a burden greater than it can bear: Before Us is a record which clearly shows the truth: They will never be wronged. It may be you frett your soul with grief, that they do not become Believers. Said one who had knowledge of the Book: "I will bring it to you within the twinkling of an eye!" Then when Solomon saw it placed firmly before him, he said: "This is by the Grace of my Lord!- to test me whether I am grateful or ungrateful! And if any is grateful, truly his gratitude is a gain for his own soul; but if any is ungrateful, truly my Lord is Free of all Needs, Supreme in Honor !" She was asked to enter the lofty Palace: But when she saw it, she thought it was a lake of water, and she tucked up her skirts, uncovering her legs. He said: "This is but a palace paved smooth with slabs of glass." She said: "O my Lord! I have indeed wronged my soul: I do now submit in Islam, with Solomon, to the Lord of the Worlds." Or, Who listens to the soul distressed when it calls on Him, and Who relieves its suffering, and makes you mankind inheritors of the earth? Can there be another god besides God. Little it is that you heed! He prayed: "O my Lord! I have indeed wronged my soul! Do You then forgive me!" So God forgave him: For He is the Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. Every soul will have a taste of death in the end to Us will you be brought back. we bestowed in the past Wisdom on Luqman: "Show your gratitude to God." Any who is so grateful does so to the profit of his own soul: But if any is ungrateful, verily God is free of all wants, Worthy of all praise. And your creation or your resurrection is in no wise but as an individual soul: For God is He Who hears and sees all things. If We had so willed, We could certainly have brought every soul its true guidance: but the Word from Me will come true, "I will fill Hell with Jinns and men all together." O Prophet! We have made lawful to you your wives to whom you have paid their dowers; and those whom your right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom God has assigned to you; and daughters of your paternal uncles and aunts, and daughters of your maternal uncles and aunts, who migrated from Makka with you; and any believing woman who dedicates her soul to the Prophet if the Prophet wishes to wed her; this only for you, and not for the Believers at large; We know what We have appointed for them as to their wives and the captives whom their right hands possess; in order that there should be no difficulty for you. And God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. But they said: "Our Lord! Place longer distances between our journey - stages.": But they wronged themselves therein. At length We made them as a tale that is told, and We dispersed them all in scattered fragments. Verily in this are Signs for every soul that is patiently constant and grateful. Say: "If I am astray, I only stray to the loss of my own soul: But if I receive guidance, it is because of the inspiration of my Lord to me: It is He Who hears all things, and is ever near." Is he, then, to whom the evil of his conduct is made alluring, so that he looks upon it as good, equal to one who is rightly guided? For God leaves to stray whom He wills, and guides whom He wills. So let not your soul go out in vainly sighing after them: For God knows well all that they do! Nor can a bearer of burdens bear another's burdens 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 God. Then, on that Day, not a soul will be wronged in the least, and you will but be repaid the meeds of your past Deeds. Verily We have revealed the Book to you in Truth, for instructing mankind. He, then, that receives guidance benefits his own soul: But he that strays injures his own soul. Nor are you set over them to dispose of their affairs. "Lest the soul should then say: `Ah! Woe is me!- In that I neglected my duty towards God, and was but among those who mocked!´- And to every soul will be paid in full the fruit of its Deeds; and God knows best all that they do. That Day will every soul be requited for what it earned; no injustice will there be that Day, for God is Swift in taking account. So persevere in patience; for the Promise of God is true: And whether We show you in this life some part of what We promise them, or We take your soul to Our Mercy before that, in any case it is to Us that they will all return. Whoever works righteousness benefits his own soul; whoever works evil, it is against his own soul: Nor is your Lord ever unjust in the least to His Servants. If any one does a righteous deed, it ensures to the benefit of his own soul; if he does evil, it works against his own soul. In the end will you all be brought back to your Lord. God created the heavens and the earth for just ends, and in order that each soul may find the recompense of what it has earned, and none of them be wronged. Verily those who plight their fealty to you do no less than plight their fealty to God, the Hand of God is over their hands: Then any one who violates his oath, does so to the harm of his own soul, and any one who fulfils what he has covenanted with God, God will soon grant him a great Reward. It was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. And there will come forth every soul: With each will be an angel to drive, and an angel to bear witness. No soul but God can lay it bare. Then will no soul entertain falsehood concerning its coming. Then why do you not intervene when the soul of the dying man reaches the throat, Call back the soul, if you are true in the claim of independence? O you who believe! Fear God, and let every soul look to what provision He has sent forth for the morrow. Yea, fear God, for God is well-acquainted with all that you do. But to no soul will God grant respite when the time appointed for it has come; and God is well acquainted with all that you do. So fear God as much as you can; listen and obey and spend in charity for the benefit of your own soul and those saved from the covetousness of their own souls, they are the ones that achieve prosperity. O Prophet! When you do divorce women, divorce them at their prescribed periods, and count accurately, their prescribed periods: And fear God your Lord: And turn them not out of their houses, nor will they themselves leave, except in case they are guilty of some open lewdness, those are limits set by God. And any who transgresses the limits of God, does verily wrong his own soul: you know not if perchance God will bring about thereafter some new situation. Truly the rising by night is most potent for governing the soul, and most suitable for framing the Word of Prayer and Praise. Every soul will be held in pledge for its deeds. Yea, when the soul reaches to the collar-bone in its exit, And for such as had entertained the fear of standing before their Lord's tribunal and had restrained their soul from lower desires, Then will each soul know what it has put forward. Then will each soul know what it has sent forward and what it has kept back. It will be the Day when no soul will have power to do anything for another: For the command, that Day, will be wholly with God. There is no soul but has a protector over it. To the righteous soul will be said: "O you soul, in complete rest and satisfaction! By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it;
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