28 verses Starts at Ar-Rum 54 Ends at Luqman 21

Rub’ al-Hizb 164 of 240

Rub’ al-Hizb 164 ربع ١٦٤

A quarter of a hizb: 240 short portions.

From: Ar-Rum 54
To: Luqman 21
Verses: 28

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

It is God who creates you weak, then gives you strength, then weakness after strength, together with your grey hair: He creates what He will; He is the All Knowing, the All Powerful.

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On the Day the Hour comes, the guilty will swear they lingered no more than an hour- they have always been deluded-

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but those endowed with knowledge and faith will say, ‘In accordance with God’s decree, you actually lingered till the Day of Resurrection: this is the Day of Resurrection, yet you did not know.’

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On that Day the evildoers’ excuses will be of no use to them: they will not be allowed to make amends.

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In this Quran We have set every kind of illustration before people, yet if you [Prophet] brought them a miracle, the disbelievers would still say, ‘You [prophets] deal only in falsehood.’

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In this way God seals the hearts of those who do not know,

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so be patient, for God’s promise is true: do not let those with no firm beliefs discourage you.

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Alif Lam Mim

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These are the verses of the wise Scripture,

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[with] guidance and mercy for those who do good,

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who keep up the prayer, pay the prescribed alms, and are certain of the Hereafter:

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these are rightly guided by their Lord, and it is they who will prosper.

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But there is the sort of person who pays for distracting tales, intending, without any knowledge, to lead others from God’s way, and to hold it up to ridicule. There will be humiliating torment for him!

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When Our verses are recited to him, he turns away disdainfully as if he had not heard them, as if there were heaviness in his ears. Tell him that there will be a painful torment!

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But for those who believe and do righteous deeds, there will be Gardens of bliss

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where they will stay: that is God’s true promise, and He is the Almighty, the All Wise.

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He created the heavens without any visible support, and He placed firm mountains on the earth––in case it should shake under you––and He spread all kinds of animals around it. We sent down water from the sky, with which We made every kind of good plant grow on earth:

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all this is God’s creation. Now, show Me what your other gods have created. No, the disbelievers are clearly astray.

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We endowed Luqman with wisdom: ‘Be thankful to God: whoever gives thanks benefits his own soul, and as for those who are thankless––God is self-sufficient, worthy of all praise.’

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Luqman counselled his son, ‘My son, do not attribute any partners to God: attributing partners to Him is a terrible wrong.’

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We have commanded people to be good to their parents: their mothers carried them, with strain upon strain, and it takes two years to wean them. Give thanks to Me and to your parents- all will return to Me.

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If they strive to make you associate with Me anything about which you have no knowledge, then do not obey them. Yet keep their company in this life according to what is right, and follow the path of those who turn to Me. You will all return to Me in the end, and I will tell you everything that you have done.

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[And Luqman continued], ‘My son, if even the weight of a mustard seed were hidden in a rock or anywhere in the heavens or earth, God would bring it [to light], for He is all subtle and all aware.

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Keep up the prayer, my son; command what is right; forbid what is wrong; bear anything that happens to you steadfastly: these are things to be aspired to.

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Do not turn your nose up at people, nor walk about the place arrogantly, for God does not love arrogant or boastful people.

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Go at a moderate pace and lower your voice, for the ugliest of all voices is the braying of asses.’

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[People], do you not see how God has made what is in the heavens and on the earth useful to you, and has lavished His bless-ings on you both outwardly and inwardly? Yet some people argue about God, without knowledge or guidance or an illuminating scripture.

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When they are told, ‘Follow what God has sent down,’ they say: ‘We shall follow what we saw our forefathers following.’ What! Even if Satan is calling them to the suffering of the Blazing Flame?

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End of Ar-Rum

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