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q (qāf) wa-l-qurʾāni l-majīdi

Qaf. By the glorious Quran.

— Ali Quli Qarai

bal ʿajibū ʾan jāʾahum mundhirun minhum fa-qāla l-kāfirūna hādhā shayʾun ʿajībun

Indeed they consider it odd that a warner from among themselves should have come to them. So the faithless say, ‘This is an odd thing.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-ʾidhā mitnā wa-kunnā turāban dhālika rajʿun baʿīdun

‘What! When we are dead and have become dust, [shall we be raised again]? That is a far-fetched return!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qad ʿalimnā mā tanquṣu l-ʾarḍu minhum wa-ʿindanā kitābun ḥafīẓun

We know what the earth diminishes from them, and with Us is a preserving Book.

— Ali Quli Qarai

bal kadhdhabū bi-l-ḥaqqi lammā jāʾahum fa-hum fī ʾamrin marījin

Indeed, they denied the truth when it came to them; so they are now in a perplexed state of affairs.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-fa-lam yanẓurū ʾilā s-samāʾi fawqahum kayfa banaynāhā wa-zayyannāhā wa-mā lahā min furūjin

Have they not, then, observed the heaven above them, how We have built it and adorned it, and that there are no cracks in it?

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-l-ʾarḍa madadnāhā wa-ʾalqaynā fīhā rawāsiya wa-ʾanbatnā fīhā min kulli zawjin bahījin

And We spread out the earth, and cast in it firm mountains, and caused every delightful kind [of vegetation] to grow in it.

— Ali Quli Qarai

tabṣiratan wa-dhikrā li-kulli ʿabdin munībin

[In this there is] an insight and admonition for every penitent servant.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-nazzalnā mina s-samāʾi māʾan mubārakan fa-ʾanbatnā bihī jannātin wa-ḥabba l-ḥaṣīdi

We send down from the sky salubrious water, with which We grow gardens and the grain which is harvested,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-n-nakhla bāsiqātin lahā ṭalʿun naḍīdun

and tall date palms with regularly set spathes,

— Ali Quli Qarai

rizqan li-l-ʿibādi wa-ʾaḥyaynā bihī baldatan maytan ka-dhālika l-khurūju

as a provision for Our servants, and with it We revive a dead country. Likewise will be the rising [from the dead].

— Ali Quli Qarai

kadhdhabat qablahum qawmu nūḥin wa-ʾaṣḥābu r-rassi wa-thamūdu

The people of Noah denied before them, and [so did] the people of Rass and Thamud,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʿādun wa-firʿawnu wa-ʾikhwānu lūṭin

and ‘Ad, Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lot,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾaṣhābu l-ʾaykati wa-qawmu tubbaʿin kullun kadhdhaba r-rusula fa-ḥaqqa waʿīdi

and the inhabitants of Aykah and the people of Tubbac. Each [of them] impugned the apostles, and so My threat became due [against them].

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-fa-ʿayīnā bi-l-khalqi l-ʾawwali bal hum fī labsin min khalqin jadīdin

Have We been exhausted by the first creation? No, they are in doubt about a new creation.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-la-qad khalaqnā l-ʾinsāna wa-naʿlamu mā tuwaswisu bihī nafsuhū wa-naḥnu ʾaqrabu ʾilayhi min ḥabli l-warīdi

Certainly We have created man and We know to what his soul tempts him, and We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾidh yatalaqqā l-mutalaqqiyāni ʿani l-yamīni wa-ʿani sh-shimāli qaʿīdun

When the twin recorders record [his deeds], seated on the right hand and on the left:

— Ali Quli Qarai

mā yalfiẓu min qawlin ʾillā ladayhi raqībun ʿatīdun

he says no word but that there is a ready observer beside him.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-jāʾat sakratu l-mawti bi-l-ḥaqqi dhālika mā kunta minhu taḥīdu

The throes of death bring the truth: ‘This is what you used to shun!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-nufikha fī ṣ-ṣūri dhālika yawmu l-waʿīdi

And the Trumpet will be blown: ‘This is the promised day.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-jāʾat kullu nafsin maʿahā sāʾiqun wa-shahīdun

Every soul will come accompanied by [two angels], a driver, and a witness:

— Ali Quli Qarai

la-qad kunta fī ghaflatin min hādhā fa-kashafnā ʿanka ghiṭāʾaka fa-baṣaruka l-yawma ḥadīdun

[he will be told] ‘You were certainly oblivious of this. We have removed your veil from you, and so today your eyesight is acute.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qāla qarīnuhū hādhā mā ladayya ʿatīdun

Then his companion [angel] will say, ‘This is what is ready with me [of his record of deeds].’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾalqiyā fī jahannama kulla kaffārin ʿanīdin

[The two angels accompany him will be told,] ‘Cast every obdurate ingrate into hell,

— Ali Quli Qarai

mannāʿin li-l-khayri muʿtadin murībin-i

[every] hinderer of good, transgressor, and skeptic,

— Ali Quli Qarai

alladhī jaʿala maʿa llāhi ʾilāhan ʾākhara fa-ʾalqiyāhu fī l-ʿadhābi sh-shadīdi

who had set up another god along with Allah and cast him into the severe punishment.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla qarīnuhū rabbanā mā ʾaṭghaytuhū wa-lākin kāna fī ḍalālin baʿīdin

His companion [devil] will say, ‘Our Lord! I did not incite him to rebel [against You], but he was [himself] in extreme error.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qāla lā takhtaṣimū ladayya wa-qad qaddamtu ʾilaykum bi-l-waʿīdi

He will say, ‘Do not wrangle in My presence, for I had already warned you in advance.

— Ali Quli Qarai

mā yubaddalu l-qawlu ladayya wa-mā ʾana bi-ẓallāmin li-l-ʿabīdi

The word [of judgement] is unalterable with Me, and I am not tyrannical to My servants.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

yawma naqūlu li-jahannama hali mtalaʾti wa-taqūlu hal min mazīdin

The day when We shall say to hell, ‘Are you full?’ It will say, ‘Is there any more?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾuzlifati l-jannatu li-l-muttaqīna ghayra baʿīdin

And paradise will be brought near for the Godwary, it will not be distant [any more]:

— Ali Quli Qarai

hādhā mā tūʿadūna li-kulli ʾawwābin ḥafīẓin

‘This is what you were promised. [It is] for every penitent and dutiful [servant]

— Ali Quli Qarai

man khashiya r-raḥmāna bi-l-ghaybi wa-jāʾa bi-qalbin munībin-i

who fears the All-beneficent in secret and comes with a penitent heart.

— Ali Quli Qarai

udkhulūhā bi-salāmin dhālika yawmu l-khulūdi

Enter it in peace! This is the day of immortality.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

lahum mā yashāʾūna fīhā wa-ladaynā mazīdun

There they will have whatever they wish, and with Us there is yet more.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-kam ʾahlaknā qablahum min qarnin hum ʾashaddu minhum baṭshan fa-naqqabū fī l-bilādi hal min maḥīṣin

How many generations We have destroyed before them, who were stronger than these, insomuch that they ransacked the towns?! So, is there any escape [from Allah’s punishment]?

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna fī dhālika la-dhikrā li-man kāna lahū qalbun ʾaw ʾalqā s-samʿa wa-huwa shahīdun

There is indeed an admonition in that for one who has a heart, or gives ear, being attentive.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad khalaqnā s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa wa-mā baynahumā fī sittati ʾayyāmin wa-mā massanā min lughūbin

Certainly We created the heavens and the earth, and whatever is between them, in six days, and any fatigue did not touch Us.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ṣbir ʿalā mā yaqūlūna wa-sabbiḥ bi-ḥamdi rabbika qabla ṭulūʿi sh-shamsi wa-qabla l-ghurūbi

So be patient at what they say, and celebrate the praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before the sunset,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-mina l-layli fa-sabbiḥhu wa-ʾadbāra s-sujūdi

and glorify Him through part of the night and after the prostrations.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-stamiʿ yawma yunādi l-munādi min makānin qarībin

And be on the alert for the day when the caller calls from a close quarter,

— Ali Quli Qarai

yawma yasmaʿūna ṣ-ṣayḥata bi-l-ḥaqqi dhālika yawmu l-khurūji

the day when they hear the Cry in all truth. That is the day of rising [from the dead].

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnā naḥnu nuḥyī wa-numītu wa-ʾilaynā l-maṣīru

Indeed it is We who give life and bring death, and toward Us is the [final] destination.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yawma tashaqqaqu l-ʾarḍu ʿanhum sirāʿan dhālika ḥashrun ʿalaynā yasīrun

The day the earth is split open for [disentombing] them, [they will come out] hastening. That mustering is easy for Us [to carry out].

— Ali Quli Qarai

naḥnu ʾaʿlamu bi-mā yaqūlūna wa-mā ʾanta ʿalayhim bi-jabbārin fa-dhakkir bi-l-qurʾāni man yakhāfu waʿīdi

We know well what they say, and you are not there to compel them. So admonish by the Quran those who fear My threat.

— Ali Quli Qarai