Surah Sad
Ś.: By the Recital, full of reminder!
- Thomas Cleary
But those who scoff are proud and divisive.
- Thomas Cleary
How many generations have We destroyed before, and they cried out, with no time to flee?
- Thomas Cleary
So they have thought it strange that a warner has come to them from their very midst; and they who scoff have said, “This is a lying conjuror!
- Thomas Cleary
“Has he made the deities into one God? This is indeed an astonishing thing!”
- Thomas Cleary
And the chiefs among them have gone their way, as if to say, “Go and remain faithful to your gods. This is surely a thing devised.
- Thomas Cleary
“We have never heard this among people these days; it is only a fabrication.
- Thomas Cleary
“What? Has the reminder been revealed to him in particular?” They are in doubt about My Reminder; but they haven’t tasted My punishment yet!
- Thomas Cleary
Or do they have the treasuries of the mercy of your Lord, the Mighty, the Generous?
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Or do they have dominion over the heavens and the earth and what is between them? Then let them ascend in those ways*.
- Thomas Cleary