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y-s (yā sīn)

Ya Seen!

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-l-qurʾāni l-ḥakīmi

By the Wise Quran,

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ʾinnaka la-mina l-mursalīna

you are indeed one of the apostles,

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ʿalā ṣirāṭin mustaqīmin

on a straight path.

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tanzīla l-ʿazīzi r-raḥīmi

[It is a scripture] sent down gradually from the All-mighty, the All-merciful

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li-tundhira qawman mā ʾundhira ʾābāʾuhum fa-hum ghāfilūna

that you may warn a people whose fathers were not warned, so they are oblivious.

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la-qad ḥaqqa l-qawlu ʿalā ʾaktharihim fa-hum lā yuʾminūna

The word has certainly become due against most of them, so they will not have faith.

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ʾinnā jaʿalnā fī ʾaʿnāqihim ʾaghlālan fa-hiya ʾilā l-ʾadhqāni fa-hum muqmaḥūna

Indeed We have put iron collars around their necks, which are up to the chins, so their heads are upturned.

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wa-jaʿalnā min bayni ʾaydīhim saddan wa-min khalfihim saddan fa-ʾaghshaynāhum fa-hum lā yubṣirūna

And We have put a barrier before them and a barrier behind them, then We have blind-folded them, so they do not see.

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wa-sawāʾun ʿalayhim ʾa-ʾandhartahum ʾam lam tundhirhum lā yuʾminūna

It is the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them, they will not have faith.

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ʾinnamā tundhiru mani ttabaʿa dh-dhikra wa-khashiya r-raḥmāna bi-l-ghaybi fa-bashshirhu bi-maghfiratin wa-ʾajrin karīmin

You can only warn someone who follows the Reminder and fears the All-beneficent in secret; so give him the good news of forgiveness and a noble reward.

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ʾinnā naḥnu nuḥyi l-mawtā wa-naktubu mā qaddamū wa-ʾāthārahum wa-kulla shayʾin ʾaḥṣaynāhu fī ʾimāmin mubīnin

Indeed it is We who revive the dead and write what they have sent ahead and their effects [which they left behind], and We have figured everything in a manifest Imam.

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wa-ḍrib lahum mathalan ʾaṣḥāba l-qaryati ʾidh jāʾahā l-mursalūna

Cite for them the example of the inhabitants of the town when the apostles came to it.

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ʾidh ʾarsalnā ʾilayhimu thnayni fa-kadhdhabūhumā fa-ʿazzaznā bi-thālithin fa-qālū ʾinnā ʾilaykum mursalūna

When We sent to them two [apostles], they impugned both of them. Then We reinforced them with a third, and they said, ‘We have indeed been sent to you.’

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qālū mā ʾantum ʾillā basharun mithlunā wa-mā ʾanzala r-raḥmānu min shayʾin ʾin ʾantum ʾillā takdhibūna

They said, ‘You are no other than human beings like us, and the All-beneficent has not sent down anything, and you are only lying.’

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qālū rabbunā yaʿlamu ʾinnā ʾilaykum la-mursalūna

They said, ‘Our Lord knows that we have indeed been sent to you,

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wa-mā ʿalaynā ʾillā l-balāghu l-mubīnu

and our duty is only to communicate in clear terms.’

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qālū ʾinnā taṭayyarnā bikum la-ʾin lam tantahū la-narjumannakum wa-la-yamassannakum minnā ʿadhābun ʾalīmun

They said, ‘Indeed we take you for a bad omen. If you do not desist we will stone you, and surely a painful punishment will visit you from us.’

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qālū ṭāʾirukum maʿakum ʾa-ʾin dhukkirtum bal ʾantum qawmun musrifūna

They said, ‘Your bad omens attend you. What! If you are admonished.... Indeed, you are an unrestrained lot.’

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wa-jāʾa min ʾaqṣā l-madīnati rajulun yasʿā qāla yā-qawmi ttabiʿū l-mursalīna

There came a man hurrying from the city outskirts. He said, ‘O my people! Follow the apostles!

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ittabiʿū man lā yasʾalukum ʾajran wa-hum muhtadūna

Follow them who do not ask you any reward and they are rightly guided.

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wa-mā liya lā ʾaʿbudu lladhī faṭaranī wa-ʾilayhi turjaʿūna

Why should I not worship Him who has originated me, and to whom you shall be brought back?

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ʾa-ʾattakhidhu min dūnihī ʾālihatan ʾin yuridni r-raḥmānu bi-ḍurrin lā tughni ʿannī shafāʿatuhum shayʾan wa-lā yunqidhūni

Shall I take gods besides Him? If the All-beneficent desired to cause me any distress, their intercession will not avail me in any way, nor will they rescue me.

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ʾinnī ʾidhan la-fī ḍalālin mubīnin

Indeed, then I would be in manifest error.

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ʾinnī ʾāmantu bi-rabbikum fa-smaʿūni

Indeed I have faith in your Lord, so listen to me.’

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qīla dkhuli l-jannata qāla yā-layta qawmī yaʿlamūna

He was told, ‘Enter paradise!’ He said, ‘Alas! Had my people only known

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bi-mā ghafara lī rabbī wa-jaʿalanī mina l-mukramīna

for what my Lord forgave me and made me one of the honoured ones!’

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wa-mā ʾanzalnā ʿalā qawmihī min baʿdihī min jundin mina s-samāʾi wa-mā kunnā munzilīna

After him We did not send down on his people a host from the sky, nor We would have sent down.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾin kānat ʾillā ṣayḥatan wāḥidatan fa-ʾidhā hum khāmidūna

It was but a single Cry, and, behold, they were stilled [like burnt ashes]!

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yā-ḥasratan ʿalā l-ʿibādi mā yaʾtīhim min rasūlin ʾillā kānū bihī yastahziʾūna

How regrettable of the servants! There did not come to them any apostle but that they used to deride him.

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ʾa-lam yaraw kam ʾahlaknā qablahum mina l-qurūni ʾannahum ʾilayhim lā yarjiʿūna

Have they not regarded how many generations We have destroyed before them who will not come back to them?

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wa-ʾin kullun lammā jamīʿun ladaynā muḥḍarūna

And all of them will indeed be presented before Us.

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wa-ʾāyatun lahumu l-ʾarḍu l-maytatu ʾaḥyaynāhā wa-ʾakhrajnā minhā ḥabban fa-minhu yaʾkulūna

A sign for them is the dead earth, which We revive and bring forth grain out of it, so they eat of it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-jaʿalnā fīhā jannātin min nakhīlin wa-ʾaʿnābin wa-fajjarnā fīhā mina l-ʿuyūni

We make in it orchards of date palms and vines, and We cause springs to gush forth in it,

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li-yaʾkulū min thamarihī wa-mā ʿamilathu ʾaydīhim ʾa-fa-lā yashkurūna

so that they may eat of its fruit and what their hands have cultivated. Will they not then give thanks?

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subḥāna lladhī khalaqa l-ʾazwāja kullahā mimmā tunbitu l-ʾarḍu wa-min ʾanfusihim wa-mimmā lā yaʿlamūna

Immaculate is He who has created all the kinds of what the earth grows, and of themselves, and of what they do not know.

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wa-ʾāyatun lahumu l-laylu naslakhu minhu n-nahāra fa-ʾidhā hum muẓlimūna

A sign for them is the night, which We strip of daylight, and, behold, they find themselves in the dark!

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wa-sh-shamsu tajrī li-mustaqarrin lahā dhālika taqdīru l-ʿazīzi l-ʿalīmi

The sun runs on to its place of rest: That is the ordaining of the All-mighty, the All-knowing.

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wa-l-qamara qaddarnāhu manāzila ḥattā ʿāda ka-l-ʿurjūni l-qadīmi

As for the moon, We have ordained its phases, until it becomes like an old palm leaf.

— Ali Quli Qarai

lā sh-shamsu yanbaghī lahā ʾan tudrika l-qamara wa-lā l-laylu sābiqu n-nahāri wa-kullun fī falakin yasbaḥūna

Neither it behooves the sun to overtake the moon, nor may the night outrun the day, and each swims in an orbit.

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wa-ʾāyatun lahum ʾannā ḥamalnā dhurriyyatahum fī l-fulki l-mashḥūni

A sign for them is that We carried their progeny in the laden ship,

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wa-khalaqnā lahum min mithlihī mā yarkabūna

and We have created for them what is similar to it, which they ride.

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wa-ʾin nashaʾ nughriqhum fa-lā ṣarīkha lahum wa-lā hum yunqadhūna

And if We like We drown them, whereat they have no one to call for help, nor are they rescued

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ʾillā raḥmatan minnā wa-matāʿan ʾilā ḥīnin

except by a mercy from Us and for an enjoyment until some time.

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wa-ʾidhā qīla lahumu ttaqū mā bayna ʾaydīkum wa-mā khalfakum laʿallakum turḥamūna

And when they are told, ‘Beware of that which is before you and that which is behind you, so that you may receive [His] mercy…’

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wa-mā taʾtīhim min ʾāyatin min ʾāyāti rabbihim ʾillā kānū ʿanhā muʿriḍīna

There does not come to them any sign from among the signs of their Lord but that they have been disregarding it.

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wa-ʾidhā qīla lahum ʾanfiqū mimmā razaqakumu llāhu qāla lladhīna kafarū li-lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾa-nuṭʿimu man law yashāʾu llāhu ʾaṭʿamahū ʾin ʾantum ʾillā fī ḍalālin mubīnin

When they are told, ‘Spend out of what Allah has provided you,’ the faithless say to the faithful, ‘Shall we feed [someone] whom Allah would feed, if He wished? You are only in manifest error.’

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wa-yaqūlūna matā hādhā l-waʿdu ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna

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

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mā yanẓurūna ʾillā ṣayḥatan wāḥidatan taʾkhudhuhum wa-hum yakhiṣṣimūna

They do not await but a single Cry that will seize them as they wrangle.

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fa-lā yastaṭīʿūna tawṣiyatan wa-lā ʾilā ʾahlihim yarjiʿūna

Then they will not be able to make any will, nor will they return to their folks.

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wa-nufikha fī ṣ-ṣūri fa-ʾidhā hum mina l-ʾajdāthi ʾilā rabbihim yansilūna

And when the Trumpet is blown, behold, there they will be, scrambling towards their Lord from their graves!

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qālū yā-waylanā man baʿathanā min marqadinā hādhā mā waʿada r-raḥmānu wa-ṣadaqa l-mursalūna

They will say, ‘Woe to us! Who raised us from our place of sleep?’ ‘This is what the All-beneficent had promised, and the apostles had spoken the truth!’

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ʾin kānat ʾillā ṣayḥatan wāḥidatan fa-ʾidhā hum jamīʿun ladaynā muḥḍarūna

It will be but a single Cry, and, behold, they will all be presented before Us!

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fa-l-yawma lā tuẓlamu nafsun shayʾan wa-lā tujzawna ʾillā mā kuntum taʿmalūna

‘Today no soul will be wronged in the least, nor will you be requited except for what you used to do.’

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ʾinna ʾaṣḥāba l-jannati l-yawma fī shughulin fākihūna

Indeed today the inhabitants of paradise rejoice in their engagements

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hum wa-ʾazwājuhum fī ẓilālin ʿalā l-ʾarāʾiki muttakiʾūna

—they and their mates, reclining on couches in the shades.

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lahum fīhā fākihatun wa-lahum mā yaddaʿūna

There they have fruits, and they have whatever they want.

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salāmun qawlan min rabbin raḥīmin

‘Peace!’—a watchword from the all-merciful Lord.

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wa-mtāzū l-yawma ʾayyuhā l-mujrimūna

And ‘Get apart today, you guilty ones!’

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ʾa-lam ʾaʿhad ʾilaykum yā-banī ʾādama ʾan lā taʿbudū sh-shayṭāna ʾinnahū lakum ʿaduwwun mubīnun

‘Did I not exhort you, O children of Adam, saying, “Do not worship Satan. He is indeed your manifest enemy.

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wa-ʾani ʿbudūnī hādhā ṣirāṭun mustaqīmun

Worship Me. That is a straight path”?

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wa-la-qad ʾaḍalla minkum jibillan kathīran ʾa-fa-lam takūnū taʿqilūna

Certainly, he has led astray many of your generations. Have you not exercised your reason?

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hādhihī jahannamu llatī kuntum tūʿadūna

This is the hell you had been promised!

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iṣlawhā l-yawma bi-mā kuntum takfurūna

Enter it today, because of what you used to deny.

— Ali Quli Qarai

al-yawma nakhtimu ʿalā ʾafwāhihim wa-tukallimunā ʾaydīhim wa-tashhadu ʾarjuluhum bi-mā kānū yaksibūna

Today We shall seal their mouths, and their hands shall speak to Us, and their feet shall bear witness concerning what they used to earn.’

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wa-law nashāʾu la-ṭamasnā ʿalā ʾaʿyunihim fa-stabaqū ṣ-ṣirāṭa fa-ʾannā yubṣirūna

Had We wished We would have blotted out their eyes: then, were they to advance towards the path, how would have they seen?

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wa-law nashāʾu la-masakhnāhum ʿalā makānatihim fa-mā staṭāʿū muḍiyyan wa-lā yarjiʿūna

And had We wished We would have deformed them in their place; then they would neither have been able to move ahead nor to return.

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wa-man nuʿammirhu nunakkishu fī l-khalqi ʾa-fa-lā yaʿqilūna

And whomever We give a long life, We cause him to regress in creation. Then, will they not exercise their reason?

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wa-mā ʿallamnāhu sh-shiʿra wa-mā yanbaghī lahū ʾin huwa ʾillā dhikrun wa-qurʾānun mubīnun

We did not teach him poetry, nor does it behoove him. This is just a reminder and a manifest Quran,

— Ali Quli Qarai

li-yundhira man kāna ḥayyan wa-yaḥiqqa l-qawlu ʿalā l-kāfirīna

so that anyone who is alive may be warned, and that the word may come due against the faithless.

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ʾa-wa-lam yaraw ʾannā khalaqnā lahum mimmā ʿamilat ʾaydīnā ʾanʿāman fa-hum lahā mālikūna

Have they not seen that We have created for them—of what Our hands have worked—cattle, so they have become their masters?

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-dhallalnāhā lahum fa-minhā rakūbuhum wa-minhā yaʾkulūna

And We made them tractable for them; so some of them make their mounts and some of them they eat.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-lahum fīhā manāfiʿu wa-mashāribu ʾa-fa-lā yashkurūna

There are other benefits for them therein, and drinks. Will they not then give thanks?

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wa-ttakhadhū min dūni llāhi ʾālihatan laʿallahum yunṣarūna

They have taken gods besides Allah, [hoping] that they might be helped [by the fake deities].

— Ali Quli Qarai

lā yastaṭīʿūna naṣrahum wa-hum lahum jundun muḥḍarūna

[But] they cannot help them, while they [themselves] are an army mobilized for their defence.

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fa-lā yaḥzunka qawluhum ʾinnā naʿlamu mā yusirrūna wa-mā yuʿlinūna

So do not let their remarks grieve you. We indeed know whatever they hide and whatever they disclose.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-wa-lam yara l-ʾinsānu ʾannā khalaqnāhu min nuṭfatin fa-ʾidhā huwa khaṣīmun mubīnun

Does not man see that We created him from a drop of [seminal] fluid, and, behold, he is an open contender!?

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wa-ḍaraba lanā mathalan wa-nasiya khalqahū qāla man yuḥyi l-ʿiẓāma wa-hiya ramīmun

He draws comparisons for Us, and forgets his own creation. He says, ‘Who shall revive the bones when they have decayed?’

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qul yuḥyīhā lladhī ʾanshaʾahā ʾawwala marratin wa-huwa bi-kulli khalqin ʿalīmun-i

Say, ‘He will revive them who produced them the first time, and He has knowledge of all creation.

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alladhī jaʿala lakum mina sh-shajari l-ʾakhḍari nāran fa-ʾidhā ʾantum minhu tūqidūna

He, who made for you fire out of the green tree, and, behold, you light fire from it!

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-wa-laysa lladhī khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa bi-qādirin ʿalā ʾan yakhluqa mithlahum balā wa-huwa l-khallāqu l-ʿalīmu

Is not He who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them? Yes indeed! He is the All-creator, the All-knowing.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnamā ʾamruhū ʾidhā ʾarāda shayʾan ʾan yaqūla lahū kun fa-yakūnu

All His command, when He wills something, is to say to it ‘Be,’ and it is.

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fa-subḥāna lladhī bi-yadihī malakūtu kulli shayʾin wa-ʾilayhi turjaʿūna

So immaculate is He in whose hand is the dominion of all things, and to whom you shall be brought back.

— Ali Quli Qarai