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ṣ (ṣād) wa-l-qurʾāni dhī dh-dhikri

Suad. By the Quran bearing the Reminder,

— Ali Quli Qarai

bali lladhīna kafarū fī ʿizzatin wa-shiqāqin

the faithless indeed dwell in conceit and defiance.

— Ali Quli Qarai

kam ʾahlaknā min qablihim min qarnin fa-nādaw wa-lāta ḥīna manāṣin

How many a generation We have destroyed before them! They cried out [for help], but gone was the time for escape.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʿajibū ʾan jāʾahum mundhirun minhum wa-qāla l-kāfirūna hādhā sāḥirun kadhdhābun

They consider it odd that there should come to them a warner from among themselves, and the faithless say, ‘This is a magician, a mendacious liar.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-jaʿala l-ʾālihata ʾilāhan wāḥidan ʾinna hādhā la-shayʾun ʿujābun

‘Has he reduced the gods to one god? This is indeed an odd thing!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-nṭalaqa l-malaʾu minhum ʾani mshū wa-ṣbirū ʿalā ʾālihatikum ʾinna hādhā la-shayʾun yurādu

Their elite go about [urging others]: ‘Go and stand by your gods! This is indeed the desirable thing [to do].

— Ali Quli Qarai

mā samiʿnā bi-hādhā fī l-millati l-ʾākhirati ʾin hādhā ʾillā khtilāqun

We did not hear of this in the latter-day creed. This is nothing but a fabrication.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-ʾunzila ʿalayhi dh-dhikru min bayninā bal hum fī shakkin min dhikrī bal lammā yadhūqū ʿadhābi

Has the Reminder been sent down to him out of [all of] us?’ Indeed, they are in doubt concerning My Reminder. Indeed, they have not yet tasted My punishment.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾam ʿindahum khazāʾinu raḥmati rabbika l-ʿazīzi l-wahhābi

Do they possess the treasuries of the mercy of your Lord, the All-mighty, the All-munificent?

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾam lahum mulku s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-mā baynahumā fa-l-yartaqū fī l-ʾasbābi

Do they own the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them? [If so,] let them ascend [to the higher spheres] by the means [of ascension].

— Ali Quli Qarai

jundun mā hunālika mahzūmun mina l-ʾaḥzābi

[They are but] a host routed out there of the factions.

— Ali Quli Qarai

kadhdhabat qablahum qawmu nūḥin wa-ʿādun wa-firʿawnu dhū l-ʾawtādi

Before them Noah’s people impugned [their apostle] and [so did the people of] ‘Ad, and Pharaoh, the Impaler [of his victims],

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-thamūdu wa-qawmu lūṭin wa-ʾaṣḥābu l-ʾaykati ʾulāʾika l-ʾaḥzābu

and Thamud, and the people of Lot, and the inhabitants of Aykah: those were the factions.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾin kullun ʾillā kadhdhaba r-rusula fa-ḥaqqa ʿiqābi

There was not any one but such as impugned the apostles; so My retribution became due [against them].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mā yanẓuru hāʾulāʾi ʾillā ṣayḥatan wāḥidatan mā lahā min fawāqin

These [too] do not await but a single Cry, which will not grant [them] any respite.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qālū rabbanā ʿajjil lanā qiṭṭanā qabla yawmi l-ḥisābi

They say, ‘Our Lord! Hasten on for us our share before the Day of Reckoning.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

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iṣbir ʿalā mā yaqūlūna wa-dhkur ʿabdanā dāwūda dhā l-ʾaydi ʾinnahū ʾawwābun

Be patient over what they say, and remember Our servant, David, [the man] of strength. Indeed he was a penitent [soul].

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnā sakhkharnā l-jibāla maʿahū yusabbiḥna bi-l-ʿashiyyi wa-l-ʾishrāqi

We disposed the mountains to glorify [Allah] with him at evening and dawn,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ṭ-ṭayra maḥshūratan kullun lahū ʾawwābun

and the birds [as well], mustered [in flocks]; all echoing him [in a chorus].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-shaddadnā mulkahū wa-ʾātaynāhu l-ḥikmata wa-faṣla l-khiṭābi

We consolidated his kingdom and gave him wisdom and conclusive speech.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-hal ʾatāka nabaʾu l-khaṣmi ʾidh tasawwarū l-miḥrāba

Has there not come to you the account of the contenders, when they scaled the wall into the sanctuary?

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾidh dakhalū ʿalā dāwūda fa-faziʿa minhum qālū lā takhaf khaṣmāni baghā baʿḍunā ʿalā baʿḍin fa-ḥkum baynanā bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-lā tushṭiṭ wa-hdinā ʾilā sawāʾi ṣ-ṣirāṭi

When they entered into the presence of David, he was alarmed by them. They said, ‘Do not be afraid. [We are only] two contenders: one of us has bullied the other. So judge justly between us, and do not exceed [the bounds of justice], and show us the right path.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna hādhā ʾakhī lahū tisʿun wa-tisʿūna naʿjatan wa-liya naʿjatun wāḥidatun fa-qāla ʾakfilnīhā wa-ʿazzanī fī l-khitābi

‘This brother of mine has ninety-nine ewes, while I have only a single ewe, and [yet] he says, ‘Commit it to my care,’ and he browbeats me in speech.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla la-qad ẓalamaka bi-suʾāli naʿjatika ʾilā niʿājihī wa-ʾinna kathīran mina l-khulaṭāʾi la-yabghī baʿḍuhum ʿalā baʿḍin ʾillā lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti wa-qalīlun mā hum wa-ẓanna dāwūdu ʾannamā fatannāhu fa-staghfara rabbahū wa-kharra rākiʿan wa-ʾanāba

He said, ‘He has certainly wronged you by asking your ewe in addition to his own ewes, and indeed many partners bully one another, except such as have faith and do righteous deeds, and few are they.’ Then David knew that We had tested him, whereat he pleaded with his Lord for forgiveness, and fell down in prostration and repented.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ghafarnā lahū dhālika wa-ʾinna lahū ʿindanā la-zulfā wa-ḥusna maʾābin

So We forgave him that, and indeed he has [a station of] nearness with Us and a good destination.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yā-dāwūdu ʾinnā jaʿalnāka khalīfatan fī l-ʾarḍi fa-ḥkum bayna n-nāsi bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-lā tattabiʿi l-hawā fa-yuḍillaka ʿan sabīli llāhi ʾinna lladhīna yaḍillūna ʿan sabīli llāhi lahum ʿadhābun shadīdun bi-mā nasū yawma l-ḥisābi

‘O David! Indeed, We have made you a vicegerent on the earth. So judge between people with justice, and do not follow your desires, or they will lead you astray from the way of Allah. Indeed there is a severe punishment for those who stray from the way of Allah, because of their forgetting the Day of Reckoning.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-mā khalaqnā s-samāʾa wa-l-ʾarḍa wa-mā baynahumā bāṭilan dhālika ẓannu lladhīna kafarū fa-waylun li-lladhīna kafarū mina n-nāri

We did not create the sky and the earth and whatever is between them in vain. That is a conjecture of the faithless. So woe to the faithless for the Fire!

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾam najʿalu lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti ka-l-mufsidīna fī l-ʾarḍi ʾam najʿalu l-muttaqīna ka-l-fujjāri

Shall We treat those who have faith and do righteous deeds like those who cause corruption on the earth? Shall We treat the Godwary like the vicious?

— Ali Quli Qarai

kitābun ʾanzalnāhu ʾilayka mubārakun li-yaddabbarū ʾāyātihī wa-li-yatadhakkara ʾulū l-ʾalbābi

[This is] a blessed Book that We have sent down to you, so that they may contemplate its signs, and that those who possess intellect may take admonition.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-wahabnā li-dāwūda sulaymāna niʿma l-ʿabdu ʾinnahū ʾawwābun

And to David We gave Solomon—what an excellent servant he was! Indeed, he was a penitent [soul].

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾidh ʿuriḍa ʿalayhi bi-l-ʿashiyyi ṣ-ṣāfinātu l-jiyādu

One evening when there were displayed before him prancing steeds,

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-qāla ʾinnī ʾaḥbabtu ḥubba l-khayri ʿan dhikri rabbī ḥattā tawārat bi-l-ḥijābi

he said, ‘Indeed I have preferred the love of [worldly] niceties to the remembrance of my Lord until [the sun] disappeared behind the [night’s] veil.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ruddūhā ʿalayya fa-ṭafiqa masḥan bi-s-sūqi wa-l-ʾaʿnāqi

‘Bring it back for me!’ Then he [and others] began to wipe [their] legs and necks.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad fatannā sulaymāna wa-ʾalqaynā ʿalā kursiyyihī jasadan thumma ʾanāba

Certainly We tried Solomon, and cast a [lifeless] body on his throne. Thereupon he was penitent.

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla rabbi ghfir lī wa-hab lī mulkan lā yanbaghī li-ʾaḥadin min baʿdī ʾinnaka ʾanta l-wahhābu

He said, ‘My Lord! Forgive me, and grant me a kingdom that will not befit anyone except me. Indeed You are the All-munificent.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-sakhkharnā lahu r-rīḥa tajrī bi-ʾamrihī rukhāʾan ḥaythu ʾaṣāba

So We disposed the wind for him, blowing softly wherever he intended by his command,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-sh-shayāṭīna kulla bannāʾin wa-ghawwāṣin

and every builder and diver from the demons,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾākharīna muqarranīna fī l-ʾaṣfādi

and others [too] bound together in chains.

— Ali Quli Qarai

hādhā ʿaṭāʾunā fa-mnun ʾaw ʾamsik bi-ghayri ḥisābin

‘This is Our bounty: so withhold or bestow without any reckoning.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾinna lahū ʿindanā la-zulfā wa-ḥusna maʾābin

Indeed he has [a station of] nearness with Us and a good destination.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-dhkur ʿabdanā ʾayyūba ʾidh nādā rabbahū ʾannī massaniya sh-shayṭānu bi-nuṣbin wa-ʿadhābin-i

And remember Our servant Job [in the Quran]. When he called out to his Lord, ‘The devil has visited on me hardship and torment,’

— Ali Quli Qarai

urkuḍ bi-rijlika hādhā mughtasalun bāridun wa-sharābun

[We told him:] ‘Stamp your foot on the ground; this [ensuing spring] will be a cooling bath and drink.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-wahabnā lahū ʾahlahū wa-mithlahum maʿahum raḥmatan minnā wa-dhikrā li-ʾulī l-ʾalbābi

We gave [back] his family to him along with others like them, as a mercy from Us and an admonition for those who possess intellect.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-khudh bi-yadika ḍighthan fa-ḍrib bihī wa-lā taḥnath ʾinnā wajadnāhu ṣābiran niʿma l-ʿabdu ʾinnahū ʾawwābun

[We told him:] ‘Take a faggot in your hand and then strike [your wife] with it, but do not break [your] oath.’ Indeed, We found him to be patient. What an excellent servant! Indeed he was a penitent [soul].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-dhkur ʿibādanā ʾibrāhīma wa-ʾisḥāqa wa-yaʿqūba ʾulī l-ʾaydī wa-l-ʾabṣāri

And remember Our servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, men of strength and insight.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnā ʾakhlaṣnāhum bi-khāliṣatin dhikrā d-dāri

Indeed We purified them with exclusive remembrance of the abode [of the Hereafter].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾinnahum ʿindanā la-mina l-muṣṭafayna l-ʾakhyāri

Indeed they are surely with Us among the elect of the best.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-dhkur ʾismāʿīla wa-l-yasaʿa wa-dhā l-kifli wa-kullun mina l-ʾakhyāri

And remember Ishmael, Elisha and Dhu’l-Kifl—each [of whom was] among the elect.

— Ali Quli Qarai

hādhā dhikrun wa-ʾinna li-l-muttaqīna la-ḥusna maʾābin

This is a Reminder, and indeed the Godwary have a good destination:

— Ali Quli Qarai

jannāti ʿadnin mufattaḥatan lahumu l-ʾabwābu

the Gardens of Eden, whose gates will be flung open for them.

— Ali Quli Qarai

muttakiʾīna fīhā yadʿūna fīhā bi-fākihatin kathīratin wa-sharābin

Reclining therein [on couches], they will call for abundant fruits and drinks,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʿindahum qāṣirātu ṭ-ṭarfi ʾatrābun

and there will be with them maidens of restrained glances, of a like age.

— Ali Quli Qarai

hādhā mā tūʿadūna li-yawmi l-ḥisābi

This is what you are promised on the Day of Reckoning.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna hādhā la-rizqunā mā lahū min nafādin

This is Our provision, which will never be exhausted.

— Ali Quli Qarai

hādhā wa-ʾinna li-ṭ-ṭāghīna la-sharra maʾābin

This [will be for the righteous], and as for the rebellious there will surely be a bad destination:

— Ali Quli Qarai

jahannama yaṣlawnahā fa-biʾsa l-mihādu

hell, which they shall enter, an evil resting place.

— Ali Quli Qarai

hādhā fa-l-yadhūqūhu ḥamīmun wa-ghassāqun

[They will be told, ‘This is scalding water and pus; let them taste it,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾākharu min shaklihī ʾazwājun

and other kinds [of torments] resembling it.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

hādhā fawjun muqtaḥimun maʿakum lā marḥaban bihim ʾinnahum ṣālū n-nāri

[The leaders of the faithless will be told,] ‘This is a group [of your followers] plunging [into hell] along with you.’ [They will repond,] ‘May wretchedness be their lot! For they will enter the Fire.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū bal ʾantum lā marḥaban bikum ʾantum qaddamtumūhu lanā fa-biʾsa l-qarāru

They will say, ‘No, may wretchedness be your lot! You prepared this [hell] for us. What an evil abode!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū rabbanā man qaddama lanā hādhā fa-zidhu ʿadhāban ḍiʿfan fī n-nāri

They will say, ‘Our Lord! Whoever has prepared this for us, double his punishment in the Fire!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-qālū mā lanā lā narā rijālan kunnā naʿudduhum mina l-ʾashrāri

And they will say, ‘Why is it that we do not see [here] men whom we used to count among the bad ones,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-ttakhadhnāhum sikhriyyan ʾam zāghat ʿanhumu l-ʾabṣāru

ridiculing them, or do [our] eyes miss them [here]?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna dhālika la-ḥaqqun takhāṣumu ʾahli n-nāri

That is indeed a true account of the contentions of the inmates of the Fire.

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul ʾinnamā ʾana mundhirun wa-mā min ʾilāhin ʾillā llāhu l-wāḥidu l-qahhāru

Say, ‘I am just a warner, and there is no god except Allah, the One, the All-paramount,

— Ali Quli Qarai

rabbu s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-mā baynahumā l-ʿazīzu l-ghaffāru

the Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them, the All-mighty, the All-forgiver.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul huwa nabaʾun ʿaẓīmun

Say, ‘It is a great prophesy,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾantum ʿanhu muʿriḍūna

of which you are disregardful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

mā kāna liya min ʿilmin bi-l-malaʾi l-ʾaʿlā ʾidh yakhtaṣimūna

I have no knowledge of the Supernal Elite when they contend.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾin yūḥā ʾilayya ʾillā ʾannamā ʾana nadhīrun mubīnun

All that is revealed to me is that I am just a manifest warner.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾidh qāla rabbuka li-l-malāʾikati ʾinnī khāliqun basharan min ṭīnin

When your Lord said to the angels, ‘Indeed I am about to create a human being out of clay.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʾidhā sawwaytuhū wa-nafakhtu fīhi min rūḥī fa-qaʿū lahū sājidīna

So when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My spirit, then fall down in prostration before him.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-sajada l-malāʾikatu kulluhum ʾajmaʿūna

Thereat the angels prostrated, all of them together,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾillā ʾiblīsa stakbara wa-kāna mina l-kāfirīna

but not Iblis; he acted arrogantly and he was one of the faithless.

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla yā-ʾiblīsu mā manaʿaka ʾan tasjuda li-mā khalaqtu bi-yadayya ʾa-stakbarta ʾam kunta mina l-ʿālīna

He said, ‘O Iblis! What keeps you from prostrating before that which I have created with My [own] two hands? Are you arrogant, or are you one of the exalted ones?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla ʾana khayrun minhu khalaqtanī min nārin wa-khalaqtahū min ṭīnin

‘I am better than him,’ he said. ‘You created me from fire and You created him from clay.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla fa-khruj minhā fa-ʾinnaka rajīmun

He said, ‘Begone hence, for you are indeed an outcast,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾinna ʿalayka laʿnatī ʾilā yawmi d-dīni

and indeed My curse will be on you till the Day of Retribution.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla rabbi fa-ʾanẓirnī ʾilā yawmi yubʿathūna

He said, ‘My Lord! Respite me till the day they will be resurrected.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla fa-ʾinnaka mina l-munẓarīna

Said He, ‘You are indeed among the reprieved

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾilā yawmi l-waqti l-maʿlūmi

until the day of the known time.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla fa-bi-ʿizzatika la-ʾughwiyannahum ʾajmaʿīna

He said, ‘By Your might, I will surely pervert them,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾillā ʿibādaka minhumu l-mukhlaṣīna

except Your exclusive servants among them.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

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qāla fa-l-ḥaqqu wa-l-ḥaqqa ʾaqūlu

Said He, ‘The truth is that—and I speak the truth—

— Ali Quli Qarai

la-ʾamlaʾanna jahannama minka wa-mimman tabiʿaka minhum ʾajmaʿīna

I will surely fill hell with you and all those who follow you.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul mā ʾasʾalukum ʿalayhi min ʾajrin wa-mā ʾana mina l-mutakallifīna

Say, ‘I do not ask you any reward for it, and I am no impostor.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾin huwa ʾillā dhikrun li-l-ʿālamīna

It is just a reminder for all the nations,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-taʿlamunna nabaʾahū baʿda ḥīnin

and you will surely learn its tidings in due time.’

— Ali Quli Qarai