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2: 24. And if you are in doubt as to what WE have sent down to OUR servant,
then produce a chapter like it, and call upon your helpers besides ALLAH,
if you are truthful.
2: 25. But if you do it not - and never shall you do it - then guard against
the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, which is prepared for the disbelievers.
2: 26. And give glad tidings to those who believe and do good works, that
for them are gardens beneath which flow streams. Whenever they are given
a portion of fruit therefrom, they will say, `This is what was given us
before,' and gifts mutually resembling shall be brought to them. And they
will have therein pure mates, and therein will they abide.
2: 27. ALLAH disdains not to give an illustration - as small as a gnat
or even smaller. Those who believe know that it is the truth from their
Lord, while those who disbelieve say, `What does ALLAH mean by such an
illustration ?' Many does HE adjudge by it to be in error and many by
it does HE guide, and none does HE adjudge thereby to be in error except
the disobedient,
2: 28. Who breaks the covenant of ALLAH after having established it, and
cut asunder what ALLAH has bidden to be joined, and create disorder in
the earth; it is these that are the losers.
2: 29. How can you disbelieve in ALLAH ? You were without life and HE
gave you life, and then HE will cause you to die, then restore you to
life, and then to HIM shall you be made to return.
2: 30. HE it is WHO created for you all that is in the earth; then HE
turned towards the heavens, and HE perfected them as seven heavens; and
HE has perfect knowledge of all things.
2: 31. And when thy Lord said to the angels, `I am about to place a
viceregent in the earth,' they said `Wilt THOU place therein such as will
cause disorder in it, and shed blood ? - and we glorify THEE with THY
praise and extol THY holiness,' HE answered, `I know what you know not.'
2: 32. And HE taught Adam all the names, then HE put the objects of these
names before the angles and said, `Tell ME the names of these, if you
are right,'
2: 33. They said, `Holy art THOU ! No knowledge have we except what THOU
hast taught us; surely THOU art All-Knowing, the Wise.'
2: 34. HE said `O Adam, tell them their names;' and when he had told them
their names, HE said `Did I not say to you, I know the secrets of the
heavens and the earth, and I know what you reveal and what you hide ?
2: 35. And remember the time when WE said to the angels `Submit to ADAM,'
and they all submitted. But Iblis did not. He refused and deem himself
too big; and he was of the disbelievers.
2: 36. And when WE said `O Adam, dwell thou and thy wife in the garden,
and eat therefrom plentifully where ever you will, but approach not this
tree, least you be of the wrongdoers.'
2: 37. But Satan caused them both to slip by means of it and drove them
out of the state in which they were. And WE said, `Go forth hence; some
of you are enemies of others and for you there is an abode in the earth
and a provision for a time.'
2: 38. Then Adam learnt from his Lord certain words of prayer. So HE turned
towards him with mercy. Surely HE is Oft-Returning with compassion, and
is Merciful.
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