32 verses Starts at Fatir 41 Ends at Ya-Sin 27

Rub’ al-Hizb 176 of 240

Rub’ al-Hizb 176 ربع ١٧٦

A quarter of a hizb: 240 short portions.

From: Fatir 41
To: Ya-Sin 27
Verses: 32

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

God keeps the heavens and earth from vanishing; if they did vanish, no one else could stop them. God is most forbearing, most forgiving.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

35:42

[The idolaters] swore their most solemn oath that, if someone came to warn them, they would be more rightly guided than any [other] community, but when someone did come they turned yet further away,

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35:43

became more arrogant in the land, and intensified their plotting of evil- the plotting of evil only rebounds on those who plot. Do they expect anything but what happened to earlier people? You will never find any change in God’s practice; you will never find any deviation there.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

35:44

Have they not travelled in the land and seen how those before them met their end, although they were superior to them in strength? God is not to be frustrated by anything in the heavens or on the earth: He is all knowing, all powerful.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

35:45

If God were to punish people [at once] for the wrong they have done, there would not be a single creature left on the surface of the earth. He gives them respite for a stated time and, whenever their time comes, God has been watching His servants.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

36:1

Ya Sin

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36:2

By the wise Quran,

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36:3

you [Muhammad] are truly one of the mes-sengers sent

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36:4

on a straight path,

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36:5

with a revelation from the Almighty, the Lord of Mercy,

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36:6

to warn a people whose forefathers were not warned, and so they are unaware.

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36:7

The verdict has been passed against most of them, for they refuse to believe.

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36:8

[It is as if] We had placed [iron] collars around their necks, right up to their chins so that their heads are forced up

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36:9

and set barriers before and behind them, blocking their vision: they cannot see.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem