ما يفتح الله للناس من رزق ومطر وصحة وعلم وغير ذلك من النعم، فلا أحد يقدر أن يمسك هذه الرحمة، وما يمسك منها فلا أحد يستطيع أن يرسلها بعده سبحانه وتعالى. وهو العزيز القاهر لكل شيء، الحكيم الذي يرسل الرحمة ويمسكها وَفْق حكمته.

يا أيها الناس اذكروا نعمة الله عليكم بقلوبكم وألسنتكم وجوارحكم، فلا خالق لكم غير الله يرزقكم من السماء بالمطر، ومن الأرض بالماء والمعادن وغير ذلك. لا إله إلا هو وحده لا شريك له، فكيف تُصْرَفون عن توحيده وعبادته؟

وإن يكذبك قومك -أيها الرسول- فقد كُذِّب رسل مِن قبلك، وإلى الله تصير الأمور في الآخرة، فيجازي كلا بما يستحق. وفي هذا تسلية للرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم.

يا أيها الناس إن وعد الله بالبعث والثواب والعقاب حق ثابت، فلا تخدعنَّكم الحياة الدنيا بشهواتها ومطالبها، ولا يخدعنَّكم بالله الشيطان. إن الشيطان لبني آدم عدو، فاتخذوه عدوًّا ولا تطيعوه، إنما يدعو أتباعه إلى الضلال؛ ليكونوا من أصحاب النار الموقدة.

Satan is your enemy––so treat him as an enemy––and invites his followers only to enter the blazing fire.

الذين جحدوا أن الله هو وحده الإله الحق وجحدوا ما جاءت به رسله لهم عذاب شديد في الآخرة، والذين صدَّقوا الله ورسوله وعملوا الصالحات لهم عفو من ربهم وتجاوز عن ذنوبهم بعد سترها عليهم، ولهم أجر كبير، وهو الجنة.

أفمن حسَّن له الشيطان أعماله السيئة من معاصي الله والكفر وعبادة ما دونه من الآلهة والأوثان فرآه حسنًا جميلا كمَن هداه الله تعالى، فرأى الحسن حسنًا والسيئ سيئًا؟ فإن الله يضل من يشاء من عباده، ويهدي من يشاء، فلا تُهْلك نفسك حزنًا على كفر هؤلاء الضالين، إن الله عليم بقبائحهم وسيجازيهم عليها أسوأ الجزاء.

واللهُ هو الذي أرسل الرياح فتحرك سحابًا، فسقناه إلى بلد جدب، فينزل الماء فأحيينا به الأرض بعد يُبْسها فتخضر بالنبات، مثل ذلك الإحياء يحيي الله الموتى يوم القيامة.

من كان يطلب عزة في الدنيا أو الآخرة فليطلبها من الله، ولا تُنال إلا بطاعته، فلله العزة جميعًا، فمن اعتز بالمخلوق أذلَّه الله، ومن اعتز بالخالق أعزه الله، إليه سبحانه يصعد ذكره والعمل الصالح يرفعه. والذين يكتسبون السيئات لهم عذاب شديد، ومكر أولئك يَهْلك ويَفْسُد، ولا يفيدهم شيئًا.

واللهُ خلق أباكم آدم من تراب، ثم جعل نسله من سلالة من ماء مهين، ثم جعلكم رجالا ونساءً. وما تحمل من أنثى ولا تضع إلا بعلمه، وما يعمَّر من مُعَمَّر، فيطول عمره، ولا يُنْقَص من عمره إلا في كتاب عنده، وهو اللوح المحفوظ، قبل أن تحمل به أمُّه وقبل أن تضعه. قد أحصى الله ذلك كله، وعلمه قبل أن يخلقه، لا يُزاد فيما كتب له ولا يُنْقَص. إن خَلْقكم وعِلْم أحوالكم وكتابتها في اللوح المحفوظ سهل يسير على الله.

The two bodies of water are not alike- one is palatable, sweet, and pleasant to drink, the other salty and bitter- yet from each you eat fresh fish and extract ornaments to wear, and in each you see the ships ploughing their course so that you may seek God’s bounty and be grateful.

He makes the night merge into the day and the day into the night; He has subjected the sun and the moon- each runs for an appointed term. Such is God your Lord: all control belongs to Him. Those you invoke beside Him do not even control the skin of a date stone;

if you call them they cannot hear you; if they could hear, they could not answer you; on the Day of Resurrection they will disown your idolatry. None can inform you [Prophet] like the One who is all aware.

People, it is you who stand in need of God- God needs nothing and is worthy of all praise-

if He wills, He can do away with you and bring in a new creation,

that is not difficult for God.

No burdened soul will bear the burden of another: even if a heavily laden soul should cry for help, none of its load will be carried, not even by a close relative. But you [Prophet] can only warn those who fear their Lord, though they cannot see Him, and keep up the prayer- whoever purifies himself does so for his own benefit–– everything returns to God.

The blind and the seeing are not alike,

nor are darkness and light;

shade and heat are not alike,

nor are the living and the dead. God makes anyone He wills hear [His message]: you cannot make those in their graves hear.

You are only here to warn them-

We have sent you with the Truth as a bearer of good news and warning- every community has been sent a warner.

If they call you a liar, their predecessors did the same: messengers came to them with clear signs, scriptures, and enlightening revelation

and afterwards I seized the disbelievers- how terrible My punishment was!

Have you [Prophet] not considered how God sends water down from the sky and that We produce with it fruits of varied colours; that there are in the mountains layers of white and red of various hues, and jet black;

that there are various colours among human beings, wild animals, and livestock too? It is those of His servants who have knowledge who stand in true awe of God. God is almighty, most forgiving.

Those who recite God’s scripture, keep up the prayer, give secretly and openly from what We have provided for them, may hope for a trade that will never decline:

He will repay them in full, and give them extra from His bounty. He is most forgiving, most appreciative.

The Scripture We have revealed to you [Prophet] is the Truth and confirms the scriptures that preceded it. God is well informed about His servants, He sees everything.

We gave the Scripture as a heritage to Our chosen servants: some of them wronged their own souls, some stayed between [right and wrong], and some, by God’s leave, were foremost in good deeds. That is the greatest favour:

they will enter lasting Gardens where they will be adorned with bracelets of gold and pearls, where they will wear silk garments.

They will say, ‘Praise be to God, who has separated us from all sorrow! Our Lord is truly most forgiving, most appreciative:

He has, in His bounty, settled us in the everlasting Home where no toil or fatigue will touch us.’

But those who reject the truth will stay in Hellfire, where they will neither be finished off by death, nor be relieved from Hell’s torment: this is how We reward hardened disbelievers.

They will cry out loud in Hell, ‘Lord, let us out, and we will do righteous deeds, not what we did before!’- ‘ Did We not give you a life long enough to take warning if you were going to? The warner came to you, now taste the punishment.’ The evildoers will have nobody to help them.

God knows all that is hidden in the heavens and earth; He knows the thoughts contained in the heart;

it is He who made you [people] successors to the land. Those who deny the truth will bear the consequences: their denial will only make them more odious to their Lord, and add only to their loss.

Say, ‘Consider those “partners” of yours that you call upon beside God. Show me! What part of the earth did they create? What share of the heavens do they possess?’ Have We given them a book that contains clear evidence? No indeed! The idolaters promise each other only delusion.

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

[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,

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.

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.

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.