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The Sovereignty67. Al-Mulkالملك

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tabāraka lladhī bi-yadihi l-mulku wa-huwa ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīrun-i

Blessed is He in whose hands is all sovereignty, and He has power over all things.

— Ali Quli Qarai

alladhī khalaqa l-mawta wa-l-ḥayāta li-yabluwakum ʾayyukum ʾaḥsanu ʿamalan wa-huwa l-ʿazīzu l-ghafūru

He, who created death and life that He may test you [to see] which of you is best in conduct. And He is the All-mighty, the All-forgiving.

— Ali Quli Qarai

alladhī khalaqa sabʿa samāwātin ṭibāqan mā tarā fī khalqi r-raḥmāni min tafāwutin fa-rjiʿi l-baṣara hal tarā min fuṭūrin

He created seven heavens in layers. You do not see any discordance in the creation of the All-beneficent. Look again! Do you see any flaw?

— Ali Quli Qarai

thumma rjiʿi l-baṣara karratayni yanqalib ʾilayka l-baṣaru khāsiʾan wa-huwa ḥasīrun

Look again, once more. Your look will return to you humbled and weary.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad zayyannā s-samāʾa d-dunyā bi-maṣābīḥa wa-jaʿalnāhā rujūman li-sh-shayāṭīni wa-ʾaʿtadnā lahum ʿadhāba s-saʿīri

We have certainly adorned the lowest heaven with lamps, and made them [the means of pelting] missiles against the devils, and We have prepared for them a punishment of the Blaze.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-li-lladhīna kafarū bi-rabbihim ʿadhābu jahannama wa-biʾsa l-maṣīru

For those who defy their Lord is the punishment of hell, and it is an evil destination.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾidhā ʾulqū fīhā samiʿū lahā shahīqan wa-hiya tafūru

When they are thrown in it, they hear it blaring, as it seethes,

— Ali Quli Qarai

takādu tamayyazu mina l-ghayẓi kullamā ʾulqiya fīhā fawjun saʾalahum khazanatuhā ʾa-lam yaʾtikum nadhīrun

almost exploding with rage. Whenever a group is thrown in it, its keepers will ask them, ‘Did not any warner come to you?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qālū balā qad jāʾanā nadhīrun fa-kadhdhabnā wa-qulnā mā nazzala llāhu min shayʾin ʾin ʾantum ʾillā fī ḍalālin kabīrin

They will say, ‘Yes, a warner did come to us, but we impugned [him] and said, ‘Allah did not send down anything; you are only in great error.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-qālū law kunnā nasmaʿu ʾaw naʿqilu mā kunnā fī ʾaṣḥābi s-saʿīri

And they will say, ‘Had we listened or applied reason, we would not have been among inmates of the Blaze.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʿtarafū bi-dhanbihim fa-suḥqan li-ʾaṣḥābi s-saʿīri

Thus they will admit their sin. So away with the inmates of the Blaze!

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna lladhīna yakhshawna rabbahum bi-l-ghaybi lahum maghfiratun wa-ʾajrun kabīrun

Indeed for those who fear their Lord in secret there will be forgiveness and a great reward.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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wa-ʾasirrū qawlakum ʾawi jharū bihī ʾinnahū ʿalīmun bi-dhāti ṣ-ṣudūri

Speak secretly, or do so openly, indeed He knows well what is in the breasts.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-lā yaʿlamu man khalaqa wa-huwa l-laṭīfu l-khabīru

Would He who has created not know? And He is the All-attentive, the All-aware.

— Ali Quli Qarai

huwa lladhī jaʿala lakumu l-ʾarḍa dhalūlan fa-mshū fī manākibihā wa-kulū min rizqihī wa-ʾilayhi n-nushūru

It is He who made the earth tractable for you; so walk on its flanks and eat of His provision, and towards Him is the resurrection.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-ʾamintum man fī s-samāʾi ʾan yakhsifa bikumu l-ʾarḍa fa-ʾidhā hiya tamūru

Are you secure that He who is in the sky will not make the earth swallow you while it quakes?

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾam ʾamintum man fī s-samāʾi ʾan yursila ʿalaykum ḥāṣiban fa-sa-taʿlamūna kayfa nadhīri

Are you secure that He who is in the sky will not unleash upon you a rain of stones? Soon you will know how My warning has been!

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad kadhdhaba lladhīna min qablihim fa-kayfa kāna nakīri

Certainly those who were before them had impugned [My apostles]; but then how was My rebuttal!

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-wa-lam yaraw ʾilā ṭ-ṭayri fawqahum ṣāffātin wa-yaqbiḍna mā yumsikuhunna ʾillā r-raḥmānu ʾinnahū bi-kulli shayʾin baṣīrun

Have they not regarded the birds above them spreading and closing their wings? No one sustains them except the All-beneficent. Indeed, He watches all things.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾam-man hādhā lladhī huwa jundun lakum yanṣurukum min dūni r-raḥmāni ʾini l-kāfirūna ʾillā fī ghurūrin

Who is it that is your host who may help you, besides the All-beneficent? The faithless only dwell in delusion.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾam-man hādhā lladhī yarzuqukum ʾin ʾamsaka rizqahū bal lajjū fī ʿutuwwin wa-nufūrin

Who is it that may provide for you if He withholds His provision? Indeed, they persist in defiance and aversion.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾa-fa-man yamshī mukibban ʿalā wajhihī ʾahdā ʾam-man yamshī sawiyyan ʿalā ṣirāṭin mustaqīmin

Is he who walks prone on his face better guided, or he who walks upright on a straight path?

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul huwa lladhī ʾanshaʾakum wa-jaʿala lakumu s-samʿa wa-l-ʾabṣāra wa-l-ʾafʾidata qalīlan mā tashkurūna

Say, ‘It is He who created you, and made for you hearing, eyesight, and hearts. Little do you thank.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul huwa lladhī dharaʾakum fī l-ʾarḍi wa-ʾilayhi tuḥsharūna

Say, ‘It is He who created you on the earth, and toward Him you will be mustered.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-yaqūlūna matā hādhā l-waʿdu ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul ʾinnamā l-ʿilmu ʿinda llāhi wa-ʾinnamā ʾana nadhīrun mubīnun

Say, ‘Its knowledge is only with Allah; I am only a manifest warner.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

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fa-lammā raʾawhu zulfatan sīʾat wujūhu lladhīna kafarū wa-qīla hādhā lladhī kuntum bihī taddaʿūna

When they see it brought near, the countenances of the faithless will be contorted, and [they will be] told, ‘This is what you were asking for!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul ʾa-raʾaytum ʾin ʾahlakaniya llāhu wa-man maʿiya ʾaw raḥimanā fa-man yujīru l-kāfirīna min ʿadhābin ʾalīmin

Say, ‘Tell me, whether Allah destroys me and those who are with me, or He has mercy on us, who will shelter the faithless from a painful punishment?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul huwa r-raḥmānu ʾāmannā bihī wa-ʿalayhi tawakkalnā fa-sa-taʿlamūna man huwa fī ḍalālin mubīnin

Say, ‘He is the All-beneficent; we have faith in Him, and in Him do we trust. Soon you will know who is in manifest error.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

qul ʾa-raʾaytum ʾin ʾaṣbaḥa māʾukum ghawran fa-man yaʾtīkum bi-māʾin maʿīnin

Say, ‘Tell me, should your water sink down [into the ground], who will bring you running water?’

— Ali Quli Qarai