The Embellishment 43

When Jesus came with clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty), he said: I have come unto you with wisdom, and to make plain some of that concerning which ye differ. So keep your duty to Allah, and obey me.

Lo! Allah, He is my Lord and your Lord. So worship Him. This is a right path.

But the factions among them differed. Then woe unto those who do wrong from the doom of a painful day.

Await they aught save the Hour, that it shall come upon them suddenly, when they know not?

Friends on that day will be foes one to another, save those who kept their duty (to Allah).

O My slaves! For you there is no fear this day, nor is it ye who grieve;

(Ye) who believed Our revelations and were self-surrendered,

Enter the Garden, ye and your wives, to be made glad.

Therein are brought round for them trays of gold and goblets, and therein is all that souls desire and eyes find sweet. And ye are immortal therein.

This is the Garden which ye are made to inherit because of what ye used to do.

Therein for you is fruit in plenty whence to eat.

Lo! the guilty are immortal in hell's torment.

It is not relaxed for them, and they despair therein.

We wronged them not, but they it was who did the wrong.

And they cry: O master! Let thy Lord make an end of us. He saith: Lo! here ye must remain.

We verily brought the Truth unto you, but ye were, most of you, averse to the Truth.

Or do they determine any thing (against the Prophet)? Lo! We (also) are determining.

Or deem they that We cannot hear their secret thoughts and private confidences? Nay, but Our envoys, present with them, do record.

Say (O Muhammad): If the Beneficent One hath a son, then, I shall be first among the worshippers. (But there is no son).

Glorified be the Lord of the heavens and the earth, the Lord of the Throne, from that which they ascribe (unto Him)!

So let them flounder (in their talk) and play until they meet the Day which they are promised.

And He it is Who in the heaven is God, and in the earth God. He is the Wise, the Knower.

And blessed be He unto Whom belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, and with Whom is knowledge of the Hour, and unto Whom ye will be returned.

And those unto whom they cry instead of Him possess no power of intercession, saving him who beareth witness unto the Truth knowingly.

And if thou ask them who created them, they will surely say: Allah. How then are they turned away?

And he saith: O my Lord! Lo! these are a folk who believe not.

Then bear with them (O Muhammad) and say: Peace. But they will come to know.