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Alif, Lam, Ra. These are the signs of the Wise Book.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Does it seem odd to these people that We have revealed to a man from among themselves, [declaring], ‘Warn mankind, and give good news to the faithful that they are in good standing with their Lord’? The faithless say, ‘This is indeed a plain magician.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed your Lord is Allah, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, and then settled on the Throne, directing the command. There is no intercessor, except by His leave. That is Allah, your Lord! So worship Him. Will you not then take admonition?

— Ali Quli Qarai

To Him will be the return of you all; [that is] Allah’s true promise. Indeed, He originates the creation, then He will bring it back that He may reward with justice those who have faith and do righteous deeds. As for the faithless, they shall have boiling water for drink, and a painful punishment because of what they used to defy.

— Ali Quli Qarai

It is He who made the sun a radiance and the moon a light, and ordained its phases that you might know the number of years and the calculation [of time]. Allah did not create all that except with justice. He elaborates the signs for a people who have knowledge.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed in the alternation of night and day, and whatever Allah has created in the heavens and the earth, there are surely signs for a people who are Godwary.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed those who do not expect to encounter Us and who are pleased with the life of this world and satisfied with it, and those who are oblivious of Our signs

— Ali Quli Qarai

—it is they whose refuge shall be the Fire because of what they used to earn.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed those who have faith and do righteous deeds, their Lord guides them by the means of their faith. Streams will run for them in gardens of bliss.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Their call therein will be, ‘O Allah! Immaculate are You!’ and their greeting therein will be, ‘Peace!’ and their concluding call, ‘All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Were Allah to hasten ill for mankind with their haste for good, their term would have been over. But We leave those who do not expect to encounter Us bewildered in their rebellion.

— Ali Quli Qarai

When distress befalls man, he supplicates Us, [lying] on his side, sitting, or standing; but when We remove his distress, he passes on as if he had never supplicated Us concerning the distress that had befallen him. What they have been doing is thus presented as decorous to the transgressors.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Certainly We destroyed generations before you when they perpetrated wrongs: their apostles brought them manifest proofs, but they would not have faith. Thus do We requite the guilty lot.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Then We made you successors on the earth after them that We may observe how you will act.

— Ali Quli Qarai

When Our manifest signs are recited to them, those who do not expect to encounter Us say, ‘Bring a Quran other than this, or alter it.’ Say, ‘I may not alter it of my own accord. I follow only what is revealed to me. Indeed should I disobey my Lord, I fear the punishment of a tremendous day.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Say, ‘Had Allah [so] wished, I would not have recited it to you, nor would He have made it known to you, for I have dwelled among you for a lifetime before it. Do you not exercise your reason?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

So who is a greater wrongdoer than him who fabricates a lie against Allah, or denies His signs? Indeed the guilty will not be felicitous.

— Ali Quli Qarai

They worship besides Allah that which neither causes them any harm, nor brings them any benefit, and they say, ‘These are our intercessors with Allah.’ Say, ‘Will you inform Allah about something He does not know in the heavens or on the earth?’ Immaculate is He and exalted above [having] any partners that they ascribe [to Him]!

— Ali Quli Qarai

Mankind were but a single [religious] community; then they differed. And were it not for a prior decree of your Lord, decision would have been made between them concerning that about which they differ.

— Ali Quli Qarai

They say, ‘Why has not some sign been sent down to him from his Lord?’ Say, ‘[The knowledge of] the Unseen belongs only to Allah. So wait. I too am waiting along with you.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

When We let people taste [Our] mercy after a distress that has befallen them, behold, they scheme against Our signs! Say, ‘Allah is more swift at devising.’ Indeed Our messengers write down what you scheme.

— Ali Quli Qarai

It is He who carries you across land and sea. When you are in the ships, and they sail along with them with a favourable wind, exulting in it, there comes upon them a tempestuous wind and waves assail them from every side, and they think that they are besieged, they invoke Allah putting exclusive faith in Him, ‘If You deliver us from this, we will surely be among the grateful.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

But when He delivers them, behold, they commit violations on the earth unduly! O mankind! Your violations are only to your own detriment. [These are] the wares of the life of this world; then to Us will be your return, whereat We will inform you concerning what you used to do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

The parable of the life of this world is that of water which We send down from the sky. It mingles with the earth’s vegetation from which humans and cattle eat. When the earth puts on its luster and is adorned, and its inhabitants think they have power over it, Our edict comes to it, by night or day, whereat We turn it into a mown field, as if it did not flourish the day before. Thus do We elaborate the signs for a people who reflect.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Allah invites to the abode of peace, and He guides whomever He wishes to a straight path.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Those who are virtuous shall receive the best reward and an enhancement. Neither dust nor abasement shall overcast their faces. They shall be the inhabitants of paradise, and they shall remain in it [forever].

— Ali Quli Qarai

For those who have committed misdeeds, the requital of a misdeed shall be its like, and they shall be overcast by abasement. They shall have no one to protect [them] from Allah. [They will be] as if their faces were covered with dark patches of the night. They shall be the inmates of the Fire, and they shall remain in it [forever].

— Ali Quli Qarai

On the day when We gather them all together, We shall say to those who ascribe partners [to Allah], ‘Stay where you are—you and your partners!’ Then We shall set them apart from one another, and their partners will say, ‘It was not us that you worshipped.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Allah suffices as a witness between you and us. We were indeed unaware of your worship.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

There every soul will examine what it has sent in advance, and they will be returned to Allah, their real master, and what they used to fabricate will forsake them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Say, ‘Who provides for you out of the sky and the earth? Who controls [your] hearing and sight, and who brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living, and who directs the command?’ They will say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘Will you not then be wary [of Him]?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

That, then, is Allah, your true Lord. So what is there after the truth except error? Then where are you being led away?

— Ali Quli Qarai

Thus the word of your Lord became due against those who transgress, that they shall not have faith.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Say, ‘Is there anyone among your partners who originates the creation and then brings it back?’ Say, ‘Allah originates the creation, then He will bring it back.’ Then where do you stray?

— Ali Quli Qarai

Say, ‘Is there anyone among your partners who may guide to the truth?’ Say, ‘Allah guides to the truth. Is He who guides to the truth worthier to be followed, or he who is not guided unless shown the way? What is the matter with you? How do you judge?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Most of them just follow conjecture; indeed conjecture is no substitute for the truth. Indeed Allah knows best what they do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

This Quran could not have been fabricated by anyone besides Allah; rather, it is a confirmation of what was [revealed] before it, and an elaboration of the Book, there is no doubt in it, from the Lord of all the worlds.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Do they say, ‘He has fabricated it?’ Say, ‘Then bring a surah like it, and invoke whomever you can, besides Allah, should you be truthful.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed, they deny something whose knowledge they do not comprehend, and whose explanation has not yet come to them. Those who were before them denied likewise. So observe how was the fate of the wrongdoers!

— Ali Quli Qarai

Some of them believe in it, and some of them do not believe in it, and your Lord best knows the agents of corruption.

— Ali Quli Qarai

If they deny you, say, ‘My deeds belong to me and your deeds belong to you: you are absolved of what I do and I am absolved of what you do.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

There are some of them who prick up their ears at you. But can you make the deaf hear even if they do not exercise their reason?

— Ali Quli Qarai

There are some of them who observe you. But can you guide the blind even if they do not perceive?

— Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed Allah does not wrong people in the least; rather, it is people who wrong themselves.

— Ali Quli Qarai

On the day He will gather them [it will be] as if they had not remained [in the world] except for an hour of the day getting acquainted with one another. They are certainly losers who deny the encounter with Allah, and they are not guided.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Whether We show you a part of what We promise them, or take you away [before that], [in any case] their return will be to Us and Allah will be witness to what they do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

There is an apostle for every nation; so when their apostle comes, judgement is made between them with justice, and they are not wronged.

— Ali Quli Qarai

They say, ‘When will this promise be fulfilled, should you be truthful?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Say, ‘I have no control over any benefit for myself nor [over] any harm except what Allah may wish. There is a time for every nation: when their time comes, they shall not defer it by a single hour nor shall they advance it.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Say, ‘Tell me, should His punishment overtake you by night or day, [you will not be able to avert it]; so what part of it do the guilty seek to hasten?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

‘What! Do you believe it when it has befallen? Now? While you would seek to hasten it [earlier]?!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Then it will be said to those who were wrongdoers, ‘Taste the everlasting punishment. Shall you not be requited for what you used to earn?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

They inquire of you, ‘Is it true?’ Say, ‘Yes! By my Lord, it is true, and you cannot frustrate [Him].’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Were any soul that has done wrong to possess whatever there is on the earth, it would surely offer it for ransom. They will hide their remorse when they sight the punishment; and judgement will be made between them with justice and they will not be wronged.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Look! To Allah indeed belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth. Look! Allah’s promise is indeed true; but most of them do not know.

— Ali Quli Qarai

It is He who gives life and brings death, and to Him you shall be brought back.

— Ali Quli Qarai

O mankind! There has certainly come to you an advice from your Lord, and a cure for what is in the breasts, and a guidance and mercy for the faithful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Say, ‘In Allah’s grace and His mercy—let them rejoice in that! It is better than what they amass.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Say, ‘Have you regarded what Allah has sent down for you of [His] provision, whereupon you have made some of it unlawful and [some] lawful?’ Say, ‘Did Allah give you the sanction [to do so], or do you fabricate a lie against Allah?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

What is the idea of those who fabricate lies against Allah [concerning their situation] on the Day of Resurrection? Indeed Allah is gracious to mankind, but most of them do not give thanks.

— Ali Quli Qarai

You do not engage in any work, neither do you recite any part of the Quran, nor do you perform any deed without Our being witness over you when you are engaged therein. Not an atom’s weight escapes your Lord in the earth or in the sky, nor [is there] anything smaller than that nor bigger, but it is in a manifest Book.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Look! The friends of Allah will indeed have no fear nor will they grieve

— Ali Quli Qarai

—those who have faith and are Godwary.

— Ali Quli Qarai

For them is good news in the life of this world and in the Hereafter. (There is no altering the words of Allah.) That is the great success.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Do not grieve at their remarks; indeed all might belongs to Allah; He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Look! To Allah indeed belongs whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth. What do they pursue who invoke partners besides Allah? They merely follow conjectures and they just make surmises.

— Ali Quli Qarai

It is He who made the night for you, that you may rest in it, and the day to provide visibility. There are indeed signs in that for people who listen.

— Ali Quli Qarai

They say, ‘Allah has taken a son!’ Immaculate is He! He is the All-sufficient. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth. You have no authority for this [statement]. Do you attribute to Allah what you do not know?

— Ali Quli Qarai

Say, ‘Indeed those who fabricate lies against Allah will not be felicitous.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

An enjoyment in this world; then to Us shall be their return, then We shall make them taste the severe punishment because of what they used to defy.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Relate to them the account of Noah when he said to his people, ‘O my people! If my stay [among you] be hard on you and [also] my reminding you of Allah’s signs, [for my part] I have put my trust in Allah. So conspire together, along with your partners, leaving nothing vague in your plan, then carry it out against me without giving me any respite.

— Ali Quli Qarai

If you turn your back [on me], I do not ask any reward from you; my reward lies only with Allah and I have been commanded to be of those who submit [to Allah].’

— Ali Quli Qarai

But they impugned him. So We delivered him and those who were with him in the ark and We made them the successors, and We drowned those who denied Our signs. So observe how was the fate of those who were warned!

— Ali Quli Qarai

Then after him We sent [other] apostles to their people. They brought them manifest proofs, but they would not believe something they had denied before. Thus do We seal the hearts of the transgressors.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Then, after them, We sent Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh and his elite with Our signs, but they acted arrogantly and they were a guilty lot.

— Ali Quli Qarai

When the truth from Us came to them, they said, ‘This is indeed plain magic!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Moses said, ‘Do you say of the truth when it comes to you [that it is magic]? Is this magic? Magicians do not find salvation.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

They said, ‘Have you come to us to turn us away from what we found our fathers following, so that supremacy may be yours in the land? We will not believe in the two of you.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Pharaoh said, ‘Bring me every expert magician.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

So when the magicians came, Moses said to them, ‘Throw down what you have to throw.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

So when they threw down [their sticks and ropes], Moses said, ‘What you have produced is magic. Indeed Allah will bring it to naught presently. Indeed Allah does not foster the efforts of those who cause corruption.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Allah will confirm the truth with His words, though the guilty should be averse.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

But none believed in Moses except some youths from among his people, for the fear of Pharaoh and his elite that he would persecute them. For Pharaoh was indeed a tyrant in the land, and indeed he was an unrestrained [despot].

— Ali Quli Qarai

And Moses said, ‘O my people! If you have faith in Allah, put your trust in Him, if you have submitted [to Him].’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Whereat they said, ‘In Allah we have put our trust.’ ‘Our Lord! Do not make us a [means of] test for the wrongdoing lot,

— Ali Quli Qarai

and deliver us by Your mercy from the faithless lot.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

We revealed to Moses and his brother [saying], ‘Settle your people in the city, and let your houses face each other, and maintain the prayer, and give good news to the faithful.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Moses said, ‘Our Lord! You have given Pharaoh and his elite glamour and wealth in the life of this world, our Lord, that they may lead [people] astray from Your way! Our Lord! Blot out their wealth and harden their hearts so that they do not believe until they sight the painful punishment.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Said He, ‘Your supplication has already been granted. So be steadfast, and do not follow the way of those who do not know.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

We carried the Children of Israel across the sea, whereat Pharaoh and his troops pursued them, out of defiance and aggression. When overtaken by drowning, he called out, ‘I believe that there is no god except Him in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am one of those who submit [to Him]!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

[He was told,] ‘What! Now? When you have been disobedient heretofore and were among the agents of corruption?!

— Ali Quli Qarai

So today We shall deliver your body so that you may be a sign for those who come after you.’ Indeed many of the people are oblivious to Our signs.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Certainly We settled the Children of Israel in a worthy settlement and We provided them with all the good things, and they did not differ until [after] the knowledge had come to them. Your Lord will indeed judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that about which they used to differ.

— Ali Quli Qarai

So if you are in doubt about what We have sent down to you, ask those who read the Book [revealed] before you. The truth has certainly come to you from your Lord; so do not be among the skeptics.

— Ali Quli Qarai

And do not be of those who deny the signs of Allah, [for] then you shall be among the losers.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed those against whom your Lord’s judgement has become due will not have faith,

— Ali Quli Qarai

even though every sign were to come to them, until they sight the painful punishment.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Why has there not been any town that might believe, so that its belief might benefit it, except the people of Jonah? When they believed, We removed from them the punishment of disgrace in the life of this world, and We provided for them for a while.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Had your Lord wished, all those who are on earth would have believed. Would you then force people until they become faithful?

— Ali Quli Qarai

No soul may have faith except by Allah’s leave, and He lays defilement on those who do not exercise their reason.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Say, ‘Observe what is in the heavens and the earth.’ But neither signs nor warnings avail a people who have no faith.

— Ali Quli Qarai