Sacred Texts  Islam  Index  Previous  Next     MECCA.--31 Verses
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Doth not a
long time pass over MAN, during which he is a thing
unremembered? 1 We have created man from the union of the sexes
that we might prove him; and hearing, seeing, have we made him:
In a right way have we guided him, be he thankful or ungrateful.
For the Infidels we have got ready chains and collars and
flaming fire. But a wine cup tempered at the camphor fountain 2
the just shall quaff: Fount whence the servants of God shall
drink, and guide by channels from place to place; They who
fulfilled their vows, and feared the day whose woes will spread
far and wide; Who though longing for it themselves, bestowed
their food on the poor and the orphan and the captive: "We feed
you for the sake of God: we seek from you neither recompense nor
thanks: 3 A stern and calamitous day dread we from our Lord."
From the evil therefore of that day hath God delivered them and
cast on them brightness of f