Surah Luqman
A.L.M.
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These are signs of the Book full of wisdom,
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guidance and mercy for those who do good,
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those who pray regularly and give alms and who are certain of the hereafter;
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they are following guidance from their Lord, and they are the ones who thrive.
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But there are some people who vend amusing tales to lead astray from the way of God in the absence of knowledge, making a joke of it; there is a degrading punishment in store for them.
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When Our signs are read to one of them, he turns away arrogantly, as if he hadn’t heard, as if there were deafness in his ears; so announce a painful penalty to him.
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As for those who have faith and do good works, for them there are gardens of felicity,
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wherein they will abide, as a promise of God, which is true; as God is the almighty, the supremely wise,
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who created the skies without supports you can see, and set unshakable mountains on earth lest it quake with you all, and dispersed every kind of animal thereon. And We have showered water from the sky, propagating every precious species on earth,
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