Surah Zumar










The revelation of the Book is from God, the Mighty, the Wise:
- Thomas Cleary
for We have revealed the Book to you in truth; so serve God sincerely in your way of life.
- Thomas Cleary
Is it not to God that sincere obedience is due? Yet those who take protectors other than God say, “We only worship them that they may draw us nearer to God.” God will judge between them as to their differences. For God does not guide any lying ingrate.
- Thomas Cleary
If God wanted to have a son, God could have chosen from creation at will. Glory to God! It is God the One, the Omnipotent,
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who created the skies and the earth fittingly, wrapping the night over the day and wrapping the day over the night, compelling the sun and the moon, each coursing for a definite term. Is this God not the epitome of power and forgiveness?
- Thomas Cleary
God created you from one soul, then made its mate from it; and sent you livestock, eight in pairs. God creates you inside your mothers, in successive formations, in three darknesses. That is God for you, your Lord, to whom belongs the dominion. There is no other God; so how are you diverted?
- Thomas Cleary
If you disbelieve, God is independent of you, yet does not prefer disbelief in servants. And if you are grateful, God prefers that for you. And no one who takes responsibility can bear the burden of another. And then you will return to God, who will tell you what you were doing, for God knows what is in hearts.
- Thomas Cleary
When trouble afflicts man, he calls to his Lord, turning repentant to God. Then when God bestows favors on man, he forgets who he called to before, imputing peers to God, deflecting from the way of God. Say, “Enjoy your ingratitude a bit; for you’ll be among inmates of the fire.”
- Thomas Cleary
Is this one who practices devotion in the nighttime, prostrating himself and standing up, heedful of the end, and placing his hopes in the mercy of his Lord? Say, “Are they equal, those who know and those who do not know?” Only those with reason take heed.
- Thomas Cleary
Say, “O devotees, believers! Be conscious of your Lord! For those who do good in this world is good. And God’s earth is wide! Truly the patient will be rewarded, their recompense beyond account.”
- Thomas Cleary