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a-l-m (ʾalif lām mīm)

Alif, Lam, Meem.

— Ali Quli Qarai

tanzīlu l-kitābi lā rayba fīhi min rabbi l-ʿālamīna

The [gradual] sending down of the Book, there is no doubt in it, is from the Lord of all the worlds.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾam yaqūlūna ftarāhu bal huwa l-ḥaqqu min rabbika li-tundhira qawman mā ʾatāhum min nadhīrin min qablika laʿallahum yahtadūna

But they say, ‘He has fabricated it.’ No, it is the truth from your Lord, that you may warn a people to whom there did not come any warner before you, so that they may be guided [to the right path].

— Ali Quli Qarai

allāhu lladhī khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa wa-mā baynahumā fī sittati ʾayyāmin thumma stawā ʿalā l-ʿarshi mā lakum min dūnihī min waliyyin wa-lā shafīʿin ʾa-fa-lā tatadhakkarūna

It is Allah who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days, then He settled on the Throne. You do not have besides Him any guardian or intercessor. Will you not then take admonition?

— Ali Quli Qarai

yudabbiru l-ʾamra mina s-samāʾi ʾilā l-ʾarḍi thumma yaʿruju ʾilayhi fī yawmin kāna miqdāruhū ʾalfa sanatin mimmā taʿuddūna

He directs the command from the heaven to the earth; then it ascends toward Him in a day whose span is a thousand years by your reckoning.

— Ali Quli Qarai

dhālika ʿālimu l-ghaybi wa-sh-shahādati l-ʿazīzu r-raḥīmu

That is the Knower of the sensible and the Unseen, the All-mighty, the All-merciful,

— Ali Quli Qarai

alladhī ʾaḥsana kulla shayʾin khalaqahū wa-badaʾa khalqa l-ʾinsāni min ṭīnin

who perfected everything that He created and commenced man’s creation from clay.

— Ali Quli Qarai

thumma jaʿala naslahū min sulālatin min māʾin mahīnin

Then He made his progeny from an extract of a base fluid.

— Ali Quli Qarai

thumma sawwāhu wa-nafakha fīhi min rūḥihī wa-jaʿala lakumu s-samʿa wa-l-ʾabṣāra wa-l-ʾafʾidata qalīlan mā tashkurūna

Then He proportioned him and breathed into him of His Spirit, and made for you hearing, sight, and hearts. Little do you thank.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qālū ʾa-ʾidhā ḍalalnā fī l-ʾarḍi ʾa-ʾinnā la-fī khalqin jadīdin bal hum bi-liqāʾi rabbihim kāfirūna

They say, ‘When we have been lost in the dust, shall we be indeed created anew?’ Indeed, they disbelieve in the encounter with their Lord.

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul yatawaffākum malaku l-mawti lladhī wukkila bikum thumma ʾilā rabbikum turjaʿūna

Say, ‘You will be taken away by the angel of death, who has been charged with you. Then you will be brought back to your Lord.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-law tarā ʾidhi l-mujrimūna nākisū ruʾūsihim ʿinda rabbihim rabbanā ʾabṣarnā wa-samiʿnā fa-rjiʿnā naʿmal ṣāliḥan ʾinnā mūqinūna

Were you to see when the guilty hang their heads before their Lord [confessing], ‘Our Lord! We have seen and heard. Send us back so that we may act righteously. Indeed we are [now] convinced.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-law shiʾnā la-ʾātaynā kulla nafsin hudāhā wa-lākin ḥaqqa l-qawlu minnī la-ʾamlaʾanna jahannama mina l-jinnati wa-n-nāsi ʾajmaʿīna

Had We wished We would have given every soul its guidance, but My word became due [against the faithless]: ‘Surely I will fill hell with all the [guilty] jinn and humans.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-dhūqū bi-mā nasītum liqāʾa yawmikum hādhā ʾinnā nasīnākum wa-dhūqū ʿadhāba l-khuldi bi-mā kuntum taʿmalūna

So taste [the punishment] for your having forgotten the encounter of this day of yours. We [too] have forgotten you. Taste the everlasting punishment because of what you used to do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnamā yuʾminu bi-ʾāyātinā lladhīna ʾidhā dhukkirū bihā kharrū sujjadan wa-sabbaḥū bi-ḥamdi rabbihim wa-hum lā yastakbirūna

Only those believe in Our signs who, when they are reminded of them, fall down in prostration and celebrate the praise of their Lord, and they are not arrogant.

— Ali Quli Qarai

tatajāfā junūbuhum ʿani l-maḍājiʿi yadʿūna rabbahum khawfan wa-ṭamaʿan wa-mimmā razaqnāhum yunfiqūna

Their sides vacate their beds to supplicate their Lord in fear and hope, and they spend out of what We have provided them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-lā taʿlamu nafsun mā ʾukhfiya lahum min qurrati ʾaʿyunin jazāʾan bi-mā kānū yaʿmalūna

No one knows what delights have been kept hidden for them [in the Hereafter] as a reward for what they used to do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-fa-man kāna muʾminan ka-man kāna fāsiqan lā yastawūna

Is someone who is faithful like someone who is a transgressor? They are not equal.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾammā lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti fa-lahum jannātu l-maʾwā nuzulan bi-mā kānū yaʿmalūna

As for those who have faith and do righteous deeds, for them will be the gardens of the Abode—a hospitality for what they used to do.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾammā lladhīna fasaqū fa-maʾwāhumu n-nāru kullamā ʾarādū ʾan yakhrujū minhā ʾuʿīdū fīhā wa-qīla lahum dhūqū ʿadhāba n-nāri lladhī kuntum bihī tukadhdhibūna

As for those who have transgressed, their refuge will be the Fire. Whenever they seek to leave it, they will be turned back into it and told: ‘Taste the punishment of the Fire which you used to deny.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-la-nudhīqannahum mina l-ʿadhābi l-ʾadnā dūna l-ʿadhābi l-ʾakbari laʿallahum yarjiʿūna

We shall surely make them taste the nearer punishment prior to the greater punishment, so that they may come back.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-man ʾaẓlamu mimman dhukkira bi-ʾāyāti rabbihī thumma ʾaʿraḍa ʿanhā ʾinnā mina l-mujrimīna muntaqimūna

Who is a greater wrongdoer than him who is reminded of his Lord’s signs, whereat he disregards them? Indeed, We shall take vengeance upon the guilty.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad ʾātaynā mūsā l-kitāba fa-lā takun fī miryatin min liqāʾihī wa-jaʿalnāhu hudan li-banī ʾisrāʾīla

Certainly We gave Moses the Book, [declaring], ‘Do not be in doubt about the encounter with Him,’ and We made it a [source of] guidance for the Children of Israel.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-jaʿalnā minhum ʾaʾimmatan yahdūna bi-ʾamrinā lammā ṣabarū wa-kānū bi-ʾāyātinā yūqinūna

When they had been patient and had conviction in Our signs, We appointed amongst them imams to guide [the people] by Our command.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna rabbaka huwa yafṣilu baynahum yawma l-qiyāmati fī-mā kānū fīhi yakhtalifūna

Indeed your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that about which they used to differ.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-wa-lam yahdi lahum kam ʾahlaknā min qablihim mina l-qurūni yamshūna fī masākinihim ʾinna fī dhālika la-ʾāyātin ʾa-fa-lā yasmaʿūna

Does it not dawn upon them how many generations We have destroyed before them, amid [the ruins of] whose dwellings they walk? There are indeed signs in that. Will they not then listen?

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-wa-lam yaraw ʾannā nasūqu l-māʾa ʾilā l-ʾarḍi l-juruzi fa-nukhriju bihī zarʿan taʾkulu minhu ʾanʿāmuhum wa-ʾanfusuhum ʾa-fa-lā yubṣirūna

Do they not see that We carry water to the parched earth and with it We bring forth crops, from which they eat, themselves and their cattle? Will they not then see?

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-yaqūlūna matā hādhā l-fatḥu ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna

They say, ‘When will this judgement be, if you are truthful?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul yawma l-fatḥi lā yanfaʿu lladhīna kafarū ʾīmānuhum wa-lā hum yunẓarūna

Say, ‘On the day of judgement their [newly found] faith will not avail the faithless, nor will they be granted any respite.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʾaʿriḍ ʿanhum wa-ntaẓir ʾinnahum muntaẓirūna

So turn away from them, and wait. They too are waiting.

— Ali Quli Qarai