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  "number": 46,
  "slug": "ahqaf",
  "name": "Al-Ahqaf",
  "arabicName": "الأحقاف",
  "meaning": "The Wind-Curved Sandhills",
  "period": "Makkan",
  "tagline": "Evidence, gratitude, and the courage to listen",
  "overview": "Al-Ahqaf asks what supports a belief, what gratitude owes to parents, and what earlier peoples can teach a confident society. The wind over Ad's dunes contrasts with unseen listeners who attend carefully to the Quran. Its final instruction brings these scenes together in patience rather than demands for immediate punishment.",
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    {
      "title": "The listening jinn · Ibn Kathir",
      "url": "https://quran.com/46:29/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    },
    {
      "title": "Aisha rejects a named identification of 46:17 · Bukhari 4827",
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  "titles": [
    "The opening letters",
    "Revelation and wisdom",
    "Creation with an appointed term",
    "A challenge to produce evidence",
    "Calling upon the unresponsive",
    "A relationship disowned",
    "Dismissing the message as magic",
    "An accusation answered with accountability",
    "A messenger among messengers",
    "A witness and a question",
    "Status mistaken for a test of truth",
    "Continuity in an Arabic scripture",
    "A declaration sustained by conduct",
    "An enduring home",
    "Gratitude across generations",
    "Good accepted and faults overlooked",
    "A household divided over resurrection",
    "Shared responsibility beyond one household",
    "Deeds and distinct degrees",
    "Comfort without humility",
    "A warning among the sandhills",
    "Demanding the threatened outcome",
    "The limits of the messenger's knowledge",
    "A cloud misunderstood",
    "Dwellings after devastation",
    "Abilities that did not protect",
    "Warnings around the audience",
    "The failure of imagined protectors",
    "Listening before speaking",
    "Recognizing a shared direction",
    "An invitation carried home",
    "No escape from responsibility",
    "Creation and renewed life",
    "Recognition that comes too late",
    "The patience of determined messengers"
  ],
  "notes": [
    "The chapter opens with the separate letters Ha and Mim, shared with several neighboring surahs. The text does not spell out a definitive expansion for them. Their presence invites attentive listening before the declaration about the Scripture's source.",
    "The Scripture is traced to Allah, described through might and wisdom. Authority and purpose are placed together, preparing the following demand for evidence. The chapter asks readers to approach its message as something that concerns how life is understood.",
    "Heaven and earth are presented as purposeful and bounded by an appointed term. The contrast is with turning away from warning. The verse offers a framework for responsibility, rather than a calendar from which the world's ending can be calculated.",
    "Those invoking other powers are asked what those powers created and what reliable knowledge supports their claims. Creation, scripture, and transmitted knowledge become grounds for examination. The question invites careful reasons rather than confidence inherited without supporting evidence.",
    "The warning concerns directing worship toward beings or objects unable to hear or answer such invocation. It exposes the gap between a worshipper's expectation and the invoked power's capacity. The following verse carries that failed relationship into the final gathering.",
    "At the gathering, the supposed objects of worship become opponents and deny that worship. The imagined security of the relationship collapses. The passage asks whether an allegiance rests on truth, rather than on the benefits its followers expect from it.",
    "Clear recitation is met with the label of magic. The verse examines how a dismissive name can replace engagement with a claim. Readers can reflect on whether a familiar category is being used to avoid hearing what is actually said.",
    "The accusation of invention is answered by placing the messenger himself under Allah's judgment. Human support could not protect fabrication from that judgment. The reply ends with forgiveness and mercy, leaving the challenge joined to an opening for return.",
    "The speaker presents himself within an existing succession of messengers and follows what is revealed to him. His task is clear warning, not independent possession of every unseen outcome. The verse keeps the messenger's authority connected to revelation.",
    "The verse asks what follows if the message is from Allah and a witness from Israel recognizes its likeness to earlier revelation. The witness remains unnamed in the verse. The central contrast is receptive testimony against prideful refusal to consider it.",
    "Opponents argue that a good message would not have been accepted by others before them. Their social assumptions become a barrier to listening. The verse exposes the mistake of judging truth by the rank or prestige of its earliest hearers.",
    "The Scripture of Moses is recalled as guidance and mercy, followed by a confirming revelation in Arabic. Warning and good news are paired. The passage emphasizes continuity of moral address while recognizing the language through which this audience receives it.",
    "Saying that Allah is one's Lord is followed by walking uprightly. The promise of freedom from fear and grief belongs to that joined movement of faith and perseverance. A spoken commitment is pictured as a direction to inhabit over time.",
    "The Garden is described as the lasting home of those whose profession is accompanied by upright conduct. Reward is linked with what they practiced. The verse continues the preceding assurance rather than presenting belonging as a merely inherited social identity.",
    "Care for parents is connected with the mother's burden, growing maturity, gratitude, repentance, and concern for descendants. The prayer at forty gathers past and future into responsibility. Its numbers belong to the verse's account, not an individualized medical timetable.",
    "The response to grateful, repentant living combines acceptance of good deeds with the overlooking of faults. The promise does not describe a flawless past. It places hope in mercy while preserving the significance of a person's continuing moral effort.",
    "An unnamed child rejects the parents' appeal to believe in resurrection and dismisses it as old stories. The scene contrasts contempt with anxious concern. Its anonymity matters: it should not be turned into an unsupported accusation against a named historical person.",
    "The preceding example is set among earlier communities of humans and jinn facing the consequence of rejection. The movement widens the household scene into a general warning. It does not provide names, appearances, or a chronology for those unseen communities.",
    "Different degrees of recompense are linked to what people actually do, with an explicit assurance against injustice. The verse shifts attention away from status claimed in advance. Accountability takes conduct seriously without allowing anyone's effort to disappear from view.",
    "The warning confronts people who exhausted their blessings in self satisfied enjoyment while acting arrogantly and transgressing. The issue is not the existence of good things alone. It is a life that receives them without gratitude, restraint, or regard for others.",
    "The messenger to Ad warns his people among wind shaped dunes and calls them to worship Allah alone. The verse names a landscape rather than a modern archaeological coordinate. His appeal joins theological clarity with concern for his community's future.",
    "The people answer the warning by defending their gods and demanding the punishment if the messenger is truthful. This turns an invitation to reconsider into a challenge for immediate proof. The verse exposes impatience that mistakes delay for the absence of consequence.",
    "The messenger returns knowledge of the threatened event to Allah and states his own task as conveying the message. This distinction matters throughout the chapter: warning is a responsibility, while controlling its fulfillment is not a power the messenger claims.",
    "The approaching cloud is welcomed as rain, but the narrative identifies it as the wind they demanded. What appears reassuring becomes a warning about mistaken expectations. The passage is a particular scriptural account, not a rule for interpreting ordinary weather disasters.",
    "The narrative turns from the people's confident expectation to the sight of remaining dwellings. The wind acts by its Lord's command within this account. No date, excavated ruin, or modern location is established by the verse itself for these remains.",
    "The earlier people possessed power, hearing, sight, and understanding, yet these gifts did not protect a life devoted to denial. The warning concerns how faculties are used. Greater resources and perception create possibilities for response, not an automatic guarantee of wisdom.",
    "Destroyed settlements around the hearers are recalled alongside repeated signs intended to encourage return. The verse offers no complete map or list. Its emphasis falls on the chance to learn before consequences arrive, rather than curiosity about disaster alone.",
    "The powers chosen as intermediaries did not rescue their worshippers. The verse closes the historical warning by returning to the opening challenge about worship and evidence. The narrative's loss exposes the unsupported claims on which that promised protection rested.",
    "A group of jinn attends the recitation, calls for quiet, and then returns to warn its people. The unseen listeners are described through their response rather than their appearance. The passage models attention, completion of listening, and responsible communication.",
    "The listeners connect the scripture they heard with revelation after Moses and recognize its guidance toward truth. Their report emphasizes continuity and direction. The verse does not provide an independent visual description of the jinn or the world they inhabit.",
    "The listeners invite their own people to respond to Allah's caller and believe, joining the invitation with forgiveness and protection. They pass on what they received rather than treating understanding as a private possession. Listening becomes concern for a wider community.",
    "The warning answers refusal with the limits of earthly escape and substitute protectors. It belongs to the jinn's address to their people. The central point is accountability before Allah, not a claim that human beings can pursue or identify unseen listeners.",
    "The capacity to create heaven and earth without exhaustion answers doubt about restoring the dead. The argument moves from the vastness of creation to the possibility of resurrection. It is a theological appeal to divine power, not an experimental timetable.",
    "The final encounter makes the reality previously denied impossible to dismiss. The question and answer expose the distance between present refusal and later recognition. The warning is meant to awaken a response while choices can still be reconsidered.",
    "The closing instruction calls for the patience shown by resolute messengers and refuses haste over punishment. Life will appear brief beside the promised outcome. The chapter ends by placing the messenger's task in clear communication, endurance, and trust in judgment."
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "start": 1,
      "end": 10,
      "title": "What evidence can sustain belief?",
      "summary": "Revelation, creation, and testimony challenge claims made without knowledge.",
      "reflection": "Which convictions have you examined, and which have simply arrived with your surroundings?"
    },
    {
      "start": 11,
      "end": 20,
      "title": "Parents, gratitude, and responsibility",
      "summary": "Social pride gives way to two contrasting household responses and a prayer that embraces generations.",
      "reflection": "How can gratitude become a concrete act of care?"
    },
    {
      "start": 21,
      "end": 28,
      "title": "The wind over Ad's dunes",
      "summary": "A warning among sandhills is rejected, and a cloud welcomed as rain becomes a devastating wind.",
      "reflection": "What makes an encouraging appearance easy to mistake for a reliable promise?"
    },
    {
      "start": 29,
      "end": 35,
      "title": "Listening deeply, enduring patiently",
      "summary": "Jinn listen and carry the message home; the closing verses call the messenger to patient clarity.",
      "reflection": "Give a message your full attention before deciding what to repeat."
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "title": "Before 622 CE · Makkan classification",
      "year": 622,
      "body": "Makkan classification places the chapter before the Hijrah boundary shown here. This is not an exact revelation year, and reports about individual passages should not be flattened into a single dated occasion.",
      "source": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira"
    },
    {
      "title": "Ad and the sandhills · undated scriptural past",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Verses 21–28 recall the warning to Ad and the destructive wind. The chapter supplies neither a calendar year nor a securely identifiable ruin for the event.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/046.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Listening at Nakhlah · reported setting",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Ibn Kathir collects reports associating the jinn's listening with Nakhlah, with differing narrated details. The commentary is presented as tradition; the Quranic passage itself does not name the location or date.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/46:29/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "makkah",
      "name": "Makkah · broad revelation setting",
      "lat": 21.4225,
      "lon": 39.8262,
      "body": "The chapter is classified as Makkan. The city provides broad orientation without claiming an exact house, recitation point, or route for every passage.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/46/info",
      "image": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "ahqaf",
      "name": "Al-Ahqaf · the sandhills of Ad",
      "body": "The title refers to the wind shaped sandhills in verse 21. Their exact modern identification is not established here; dunes and dwellings in artwork are illustrative, not documented remains.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/046.htm",
      "image": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "nakhlah",
      "name": "Nakhlah · a setting in listening reports",
      "body": "Commentary associates the listening jinn with Nakhlah on a journey toward the Ukaz market. The reports have different details; this reader does not assign an exact modern point or depict the unseen listeners.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/46:29/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir",
      "image": 3
    }
  ],
  "people": [
    {
      "id": "parents",
      "title": "Parents and a grateful adult child",
      "body": "Verse 15 remembers a mother's hardship and gives a prayer for gratitude, good action, and descendants. The household is presented through its ethical relationships rather than a required named biography.",
      "verse": 15,
      "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/046.htm"
    },
    {
      "id": "unnamed-child",
      "title": "The unnamed rejecting child",
      "body": "Verse 17 names no individual. Bukhari 4827 preserves Aisha's rejection of Marwan's attempt to apply it to Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr, a reminder to handle personal identifications carefully.",
      "verse": 17,
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4827"
    },
    {
      "id": "ad-messenger",
      "title": "The brother of Ad",
      "body": "Verse 21 describes the messenger through his relationship to his people. His warning and patient statement of his limits carry the scene; no portrait, verified tomb, or precise lifetime is supplied here.",
      "verse": 21,
      "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/046.htm"
    },
    {
      "id": "jinn",
      "title": "The listening jinn",
      "body": "They ask for silence, recognize the message, and return as warners. Their bodies and exact unseen circumstances are not described or reconstructed in this reader.",
      "verse": 29,
      "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/046.htm"
    }
  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "title": "A Makkan setting, cautiously dated",
      "body": "The chapter introduction places Al-Ahqaf in the Makkan period. This reader uses the Hijrah as a broad boundary and does not assert one exact year for every verse.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/46/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "Names can be contested",
      "body": "Aisha's response in Bukhari 4827 rejects a political use of verse 17 against a named person. The reader therefore keeps the verse's character anonymous rather than presenting a disputed identification as fact.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4827"
    },
    {
      "title": "Tradition and the listening scene",
      "body": "Ibn Kathir gathers reports linking the jinn's hearing to Nakhlah and describes differing circumstances. The Quran's own emphasis is their attentive response and subsequent warning, not a surveyed route or visual appearance.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/46:29/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    },
    {
      "title": "Original reading notes",
      "body": "The notes follow the argument of the public domain Quran translation and distinguish scriptural narrative from historical reconstruction. The landscape of Ad and the afterlife are not assigned fabricated archaeological evidence.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/046.htm"
    }
  ],
  "revelationNote": "Makkan in the chapter's general classification. The before-622 CE marker is a period boundary, not an exact revelation date. Particular occasion reports and disputed personal identifications remain separate from the wording of the verses.",
  "verses": [
    {
      "n": 1,
      "arabic": "حمٓ",
      "translation": "Ha, Meem."
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "arabic": "تَنزِيلُ ٱلْكِتَٰبِ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْحَكِيمِ",
      "translation": "The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Wise."
    },
    {
      "n": 3,
      "arabic": "مَا خَلَقْنَا ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَآ إِلَّا بِٱلْحَقِّ وَأَجَلٍۢ مُّسَمًّۭى ۚ وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ عَمَّآ أُنذِرُوا۟ مُعْرِضُونَ",
      "translation": "We did not create the heavens and earth and what is between them except in truth and [for] a specified term. But those who disbelieve, from that of which they are warned, are turning away."
    },
    {
      "n": 4,
      "arabic": "قُلْ أَرَءَيْتُم مَّا تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ أَرُونِى مَاذَا خَلَقُوا۟ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ أَمْ لَهُمْ شِرْكٌۭ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ ۖ ٱئْتُونِى بِكِتَٰبٍۢ مِّن قَبْلِ هَٰذَآ أَوْ أَثَٰرَةٍۢ مِّنْ عِلْمٍ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰدِقِينَ",
      "translation": "Say, [O Muhammad], \"Have you considered that which you invoke besides Allah? Show me what they have created of the earth; or did they have partnership in [creation of] the heavens? Bring me a scripture [revealed] before this or a [remaining] trace of knowledge, if you should be truthful.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "arabic": "وَمَنْ أَضَلُّ مِمَّن يَدْعُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَن لَّا يَسْتَجِيبُ لَهُۥٓ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ وَهُمْ عَن دُعَآئِهِمْ غَٰفِلُونَ",
      "translation": "And who is more astray than he who invokes besides Allah those who will not respond to him until the Day of Resurrection, and they, of their invocation, are unaware."
    },
    {
      "n": 6,
      "arabic": "وَإِذَا حُشِرَ ٱلنَّاسُ كَانُوا۟ لَهُمْ أَعْدَآءًۭ وَكَانُوا۟ بِعِبَادَتِهِمْ كَٰفِرِينَ",
      "translation": "And when the people are gathered [that Day], they [who were invoked] will be enemies to them, and they will be deniers of their worship."
    },
    {
      "n": 7,
      "arabic": "وَإِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ ءَايَٰتُنَا بَيِّنَٰتٍۢ قَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لِلْحَقِّ لَمَّا جَآءَهُمْ هَٰذَا سِحْرٌۭ مُّبِينٌ",
      "translation": "And when Our verses are recited to them as clear evidences, those who disbelieve say of the truth when it has come to them, \"This is obvious magic.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 8,
      "arabic": "أَمْ يَقُولُونَ ٱفْتَرَىٰهُ ۖ قُلْ إِنِ ٱفْتَرَيْتُهُۥ فَلَا تَمْلِكُونَ لِى مِنَ ٱللَّهِ شَيْـًٔا ۖ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا تُفِيضُونَ فِيهِ ۖ كَفَىٰ بِهِۦ شَهِيدًۢا بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَكُمْ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلْغَفُورُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ",
      "translation": "Or do they say, \"He has invented it?\" Say, \"If I have invented it, you will not possess for me [the power of protection] from Allah at all. He is most knowing of that in which you are involved. Sufficient is He as Witness between me and you, and He is the Forgiving the Merciful.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 9,
      "arabic": "قُلْ مَا كُنتُ بِدْعًۭا مِّنَ ٱلرُّسُلِ وَمَآ أَدْرِى مَا يُفْعَلُ بِى وَلَا بِكُمْ ۖ إِنْ أَتَّبِعُ إِلَّا مَا يُوحَىٰٓ إِلَىَّ وَمَآ أَنَا۠ إِلَّا نَذِيرٌۭ مُّبِينٌۭ",
      "translation": "Say, \"I am not something original among the messengers, nor do I know what will be done with me or with you. I only follow that which is revealed to me, and I am not but a clear warner.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 10,
      "arabic": "قُلْ أَرَءَيْتُمْ إِن كَانَ مِنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ وَكَفَرْتُم بِهِۦ وَشَهِدَ شَاهِدٌۭ مِّنۢ بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ عَلَىٰ مِثْلِهِۦ فَـَٔامَنَ وَٱسْتَكْبَرْتُمْ ۖ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِى ٱلْقَوْمَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ",
      "translation": "Say, \"Have you considered: if the Qur'an was from Allah, and you disbelieved in it while a witness from the Children of Israel has testified to something similar and believed while you were arrogant...?\" Indeed, Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people."
    },
    {
      "n": 11,
      "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لِلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَوْ كَانَ خَيْرًۭا مَّا سَبَقُونَآ إِلَيْهِ ۚ وَإِذْ لَمْ يَهْتَدُوا۟ بِهِۦ فَسَيَقُولُونَ هَٰذَآ إِفْكٌۭ قَدِيمٌۭ",
      "translation": "And those who disbelieve say of those who believe, \"If it had [truly] been good, they would not have preceded us to it.\" And when they are not guided by it, they will say, \"This is an ancient falsehood.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 12,
      "arabic": "وَمِن قَبْلِهِۦ كِتَٰبُ مُوسَىٰٓ إِمَامًۭا وَرَحْمَةًۭ ۚ وَهَٰذَا كِتَٰبٌۭ مُّصَدِّقٌۭ لِّسَانًا عَرَبِيًّۭا لِّيُنذِرَ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ وَبُشْرَىٰ لِلْمُحْسِنِينَ",
      "translation": "And before it was the scripture of Moses to lead and as a mercy. And this is a confirming Book in an Arabic tongue to warn those who have wronged and as good tidings to the doers of good."
    },
    {
      "n": 13,
      "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوا۟ رَبُّنَا ٱللَّهُ ثُمَّ ٱسْتَقَٰمُوا۟ فَلَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ",
      "translation": "Indeed, those who have said, \"Our Lord is Allah,\" and then remained on a right course - there will be no fear concerning them, nor will they grieve."
    },
    {
      "n": 14,
      "arabic": "أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْجَنَّةِ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا جَزَآءًۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ",
      "translation": "Those are the companions of Paradise, abiding eternally therein as reward for what they used to do."
    },
    {
      "n": 15,
      "arabic": "وَوَصَّيْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ بِوَٰلِدَيْهِ إِحْسَٰنًا ۖ حَمَلَتْهُ أُمُّهُۥ كُرْهًۭا وَوَضَعَتْهُ كُرْهًۭا ۖ وَحَمْلُهُۥ وَفِصَٰلُهُۥ ثَلَٰثُونَ شَهْرًا ۚ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا بَلَغَ أَشُدَّهُۥ وَبَلَغَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةًۭ قَالَ رَبِّ أَوْزِعْنِىٓ أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَىَّ وَعَلَىٰ وَٰلِدَىَّ وَأَنْ أَعْمَلَ صَٰلِحًۭا تَرْضَىٰهُ وَأَصْلِحْ لِى فِى ذُرِّيَّتِىٓ ۖ إِنِّى تُبْتُ إِلَيْكَ وَإِنِّى مِنَ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ",
      "translation": "And We have enjoined upon man, to his parents, good treatment. His mother carried him with hardship and gave birth to him with hardship, and his gestation and weaning [period] is thirty months. [He grows] until, when he reaches maturity and reaches [the age of] forty years, he says, \"My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to work righteousness of which You will approve and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed, I am of the Muslims.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 16,
      "arabic": "أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ نَتَقَبَّلُ عَنْهُمْ أَحْسَنَ مَا عَمِلُوا۟ وَنَتَجَاوَزُ عَن سَيِّـَٔاتِهِمْ فِىٓ أَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْجَنَّةِ ۖ وَعْدَ ٱلصِّدْقِ ٱلَّذِى كَانُوا۟ يُوعَدُونَ",
      "translation": "Those are the ones from whom We will accept the best of what they did and overlook their misdeeds, [their being] among the companions of Paradise. [That is] the promise of truth which they had been promised."
    },
    {
      "n": 17,
      "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِى قَالَ لِوَٰلِدَيْهِ أُفٍّۢ لَّكُمَآ أَتَعِدَانِنِىٓ أَنْ أُخْرَجَ وَقَدْ خَلَتِ ٱلْقُرُونُ مِن قَبْلِى وَهُمَا يَسْتَغِيثَانِ ٱللَّهَ وَيْلَكَ ءَامِنْ إِنَّ وَعْدَ ٱللَّهِ حَقٌّۭ فَيَقُولُ مَا هَٰذَآ إِلَّآ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ",
      "translation": "But one who says to his parents, \"Uff to you; do you promise me that I will be brought forth [from the earth] when generations before me have already passed on [into oblivion]?\" while they call to Allah for help [and to their son], \"Woe to you! Believe! Indeed, the promise of Allah is truth.\" But he says, \"This is not but legends of the former people\" -"
    },
    {
      "n": 18,
      "arabic": "أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ حَقَّ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْقَوْلُ فِىٓ أُمَمٍۢ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلِهِم مِّنَ ٱلْجِنِّ وَٱلْإِنسِ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ خَٰسِرِينَ",
      "translation": "Those are the ones upon whom the word has come into effect, [who will be] among nations which had passed on before them of jinn and men. Indeed, they [all] were losers."
    },
    {
      "n": 19,
      "arabic": "وَلِكُلٍّۢ دَرَجَٰتٌۭ مِّمَّا عَمِلُوا۟ ۖ وَلِيُوَفِّيَهُمْ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ",
      "translation": "And for all there are degrees [of reward and punishment] for what they have done, and [it is] so that He may fully compensate them for their deeds, and they will not be wronged."
    },
    {
      "n": 20,
      "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ يُعْرَضُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ عَلَى ٱلنَّارِ أَذْهَبْتُمْ طَيِّبَٰتِكُمْ فِى حَيَاتِكُمُ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَٱسْتَمْتَعْتُم بِهَا فَٱلْيَوْمَ تُجْزَوْنَ عَذَابَ ٱلْهُونِ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَسْتَكْبِرُونَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ ٱلْحَقِّ وَبِمَا كُنتُمْ تَفْسُقُونَ",
      "translation": "And the Day those who disbelieved are exposed to the Fire [it will be said], \"You exhausted your pleasures during your worldly life and enjoyed them, so this Day you will be awarded the punishment of [extreme] humiliation because you were arrogant upon the earth without right and because you were defiantly disobedient.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 21,
      "arabic": "۞ وَٱذْكُرْ أَخَا عَادٍ إِذْ أَنذَرَ قَوْمَهُۥ بِٱلْأَحْقَافِ وَقَدْ خَلَتِ ٱلنُّذُرُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِۦٓ أَلَّا تَعْبُدُوٓا۟ إِلَّا ٱللَّهَ إِنِّىٓ أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍۢ",
      "translation": "And mention, [O Muhammad], the brother of 'Aad, when he warned his people in the [region of] al-Ahqaf - and warners had already passed on before him and after him - [saying], \"Do not worship except Allah. Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a terrible day.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 22,
      "arabic": "قَالُوٓا۟ أَجِئْتَنَا لِتَأْفِكَنَا عَنْ ءَالِهَتِنَا فَأْتِنَا بِمَا تَعِدُنَآ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ",
      "translation": "They said, \"Have you come to delude us away from our gods? Then bring us what you promise us, if you should be of the truthful.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 23,
      "arabic": "قَالَ إِنَّمَا ٱلْعِلْمُ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ وَأُبَلِّغُكُم مَّآ أُرْسِلْتُ بِهِۦ وَلَٰكِنِّىٓ أَرَىٰكُمْ قَوْمًۭا تَجْهَلُونَ",
      "translation": "He said, \"Knowledge [of its time] is only with Allah, and I convey to you that with which I was sent; but I see you [to be] a people behaving ignorantly.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 24,
      "arabic": "فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ عَارِضًۭا مُّسْتَقْبِلَ أَوْدِيَتِهِمْ قَالُوا۟ هَٰذَا عَارِضٌۭ مُّمْطِرُنَا ۚ بَلْ هُوَ مَا ٱسْتَعْجَلْتُم بِهِۦ ۖ رِيحٌۭ فِيهَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۭ",
      "translation": "And when they saw it as a cloud approaching their valleys, they said, \"This is a cloud bringing us rain!\" Rather, it is that for which you were impatient: a wind, within it a painful punishment,"
    },
    {
      "n": 25,
      "arabic": "تُدَمِّرُ كُلَّ شَىْءٍۭ بِأَمْرِ رَبِّهَا فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ لَا يُرَىٰٓ إِلَّا مَسَٰكِنُهُمْ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِى ٱلْقَوْمَ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ",
      "translation": "Destroying everything by command of its Lord. And they became so that nothing was seen [of them] except their dwellings. Thus do We recompense the criminal people."
    },
    {
      "n": 26,
      "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ مَكَّنَّٰهُمْ فِيمَآ إِن مَّكَّنَّٰكُمْ فِيهِ وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُمْ سَمْعًۭا وَأَبْصَٰرًۭا وَأَفْـِٔدَةًۭ فَمَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُمْ سَمْعُهُمْ وَلَآ أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ وَلَآ أَفْـِٔدَتُهُم مِّن شَىْءٍ إِذْ كَانُوا۟ يَجْحَدُونَ بِـَٔايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ وَحَاقَ بِهِم مَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ",
      "translation": "And We had certainly established them in such as We have not established you, and We made for them hearing and vision and hearts. But their hearing and vision and hearts availed them not from anything [of the punishment] when they were [continually] rejecting the signs of Allah; and they were enveloped by what they used to ridicule."
    },
    {
      "n": 27,
      "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ أَهْلَكْنَا مَا حَوْلَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْقُرَىٰ وَصَرَّفْنَا ٱلْءَايَٰتِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ",
      "translation": "And We have already destroyed what surrounds you of [those] cities, and We have diversified the signs [or verses] that perhaps they might return [from disbelief]."
    },
    {
      "n": 28,
      "arabic": "فَلَوْلَا نَصَرَهُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ قُرْبَانًا ءَالِهَةًۢ ۖ بَلْ ضَلُّوا۟ عَنْهُمْ ۚ وَذَٰلِكَ إِفْكُهُمْ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ",
      "translation": "Then why did those they took besides Allah as deities by which to approach [Him] not aid them? But they had strayed from them. And that was their falsehood and what they were inventing."
    },
    {
      "n": 29,
      "arabic": "وَإِذْ صَرَفْنَآ إِلَيْكَ نَفَرًۭا مِّنَ ٱلْجِنِّ يَسْتَمِعُونَ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ فَلَمَّا حَضَرُوهُ قَالُوٓا۟ أَنصِتُوا۟ ۖ فَلَمَّا قُضِىَ وَلَّوْا۟ إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِم مُّنذِرِينَ",
      "translation": "And [mention, O Muhammad], when We directed to you a few of the jinn, listening to the Qur'an. And when they attended it, they said, \"Listen quietly.\" And when it was concluded, they went back to their people as warners."
    },
    {
      "n": 30,
      "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ يَٰقَوْمَنَآ إِنَّا سَمِعْنَا كِتَٰبًا أُنزِلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ مُوسَىٰ مُصَدِّقًۭا لِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ يَهْدِىٓ إِلَى ٱلْحَقِّ وَإِلَىٰ طَرِيقٍۢ مُّسْتَقِيمٍۢ",
      "translation": "They said, \"O our people, indeed we have heard a [recited] Book revealed after Moses confirming what was before it which guides to the truth and to a straight path."
    },
    {
      "n": 31,
      "arabic": "يَٰقَوْمَنَآ أَجِيبُوا۟ دَاعِىَ ٱللَّهِ وَءَامِنُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَغْفِرْ لَكُم مِّن ذُنُوبِكُمْ وَيُجِرْكُم مِّنْ عَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍۢ",
      "translation": "O our people, respond to the Messenger of Allah and believe in him; Allah will forgive for you your sins and protect you from a painful punishment."
    },
    {
      "n": 32,
      "arabic": "وَمَن لَّا يُجِبْ دَاعِىَ ٱللَّهِ فَلَيْسَ بِمُعْجِزٍۢ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَيْسَ لَهُۥ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ أَوْلِيَآءُ ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ فِى ضَلَٰلٍۢ مُّبِينٍ",
      "translation": "But he who does not respond to the Caller of Allah will not cause failure [to Him] upon earth, and he will not have besides Him any protectors. Those are in manifest error.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 33,
      "arabic": "أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَلَمْ يَعْىَ بِخَلْقِهِنَّ بِقَٰدِرٍ عَلَىٰٓ أَن يُحْۦِىَ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ ۚ بَلَىٰٓ إِنَّهُۥ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ قَدِيرٌۭ",
      "translation": "Do they not see that Allah, who created the heavens and earth and did not fail in their creation, is able to give life to the dead? Yes. Indeed, He is over all things competent."
    },
    {
      "n": 34,
      "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ يُعْرَضُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ عَلَى ٱلنَّارِ أَلَيْسَ هَٰذَا بِٱلْحَقِّ ۖ قَالُوا۟ بَلَىٰ وَرَبِّنَا ۚ قَالَ فَذُوقُوا۟ ٱلْعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ",
      "translation": "And the Day those who disbelieved are exposed to the Fire [it will be said], \"Is this not the truth?\" They will say, \"Yes, by our Lord.\" He will say, \"Then taste the punishment because you used to disbelieve.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 35,
      "arabic": "فَٱصْبِرْ كَمَا صَبَرَ أُو۟لُوا۟ ٱلْعَزْمِ مِنَ ٱلرُّسُلِ وَلَا تَسْتَعْجِل لَّهُمْ ۚ كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَ مَا يُوعَدُونَ لَمْ يَلْبَثُوٓا۟ إِلَّا سَاعَةًۭ مِّن نَّهَارٍۭ ۚ بَلَٰغٌۭ ۚ فَهَلْ يُهْلَكُ إِلَّا ٱلْقَوْمُ ٱلْفَٰسِقُونَ",
      "translation": "So be patient, [O Muhammad], as were those of determination among the messengers and do not be impatient for them. It will be - on the Day they see that which they are promised - as though they had not remained [in the world] except an hour of a day. [This is] notification. And will [any] be destroyed except the defiantly disobedient people?"
    }
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      "for them",
      "enemies",
      "and they will be",
      "of their worship",
      "deniers."
    ],
    [
      "And when",
      "are recited",
      "to them",
      "Our Verses",
      "clear,",
      "say",
      "those who",
      "disbelieve",
      "of the truth",
      "when",
      "it comes to them,",
      "\"This",
      "(is) a magic",
      "clear.\""
    ],
    [
      "Or",
      "they say,",
      "\"He has invented it.\"",
      "Say,",
      "\"If",
      "I have invented it",
      "then not",
      "you have power",
      "for me",
      "against",
      "Allah",
      "anything.",
      "He",
      "knows best",
      "of what",
      "you utter",
      "concerning it.",
      "Sufficient is He",
      "Sufficient is He",
      "(as) a Witness",
      "between me",
      "and between you,",
      "and He",
      "(is) the Oft-Forgiving,",
      "the Most Merciful."
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Not",
      "I am",
      "a new (one)",
      "among",
      "the Messengers",
      "and not",
      "I know",
      "what",
      "will be done",
      "with me",
      "and not",
      "with you.",
      "Not",
      "I follow",
      "but",
      "what",
      "is revealed",
      "to me",
      "and not",
      "I am",
      "but",
      "a warner",
      "clear.\""
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Do you see",
      "if",
      "it is",
      "from Allah",
      "from Allah",
      "from Allah",
      "and you disbelieve",
      "in it,",
      "and testifies",
      "a witness",
      "from",
      "(the) Children of Israel",
      "(the) Children of Israel",
      "to",
      "(the) like thereof,",
      "then he believed",
      "while you are arrogant?\"",
      "Indeed,",
      "Allah",
      "(does) not",
      "guide",
      "the people",
      "the wrongdoers."
    ],
    [
      "And say",
      "those who",
      "disbelieve",
      "of those who",
      "believe,",
      "\"If",
      "it had been",
      "good,",
      "not",
      "they (would) have preceded us",
      "to it.\"",
      "And when",
      "not",
      "they (are) guided",
      "by it,",
      "they say,",
      "\"This",
      "(is) a lie",
      "ancient.\""
    ],
    [
      "And before it",
      "And before it",
      "(was the) Scripture",
      "(of) Musa",
      "(as) a guide",
      "and a mercy.",
      "And this",
      "(is) a Book",
      "confirming,",
      "(in) language",
      "Arabic",
      "to warn",
      "those who",
      "do wrong",
      "and (as) glad tidings",
      "for the good-doers."
    ],
    [
      "Indeed,",
      "those who",
      "say,",
      "\"Our Lord",
      "(is) Allah,\"",
      "then",
      "remain firm,",
      "then no",
      "fear",
      "on them",
      "and not",
      "they",
      "will grieve."
    ],
    [
      "Those",
      "(are the) companions",
      "(of) Paradise",
      "abiding forever",
      "therein,",
      "a reward",
      "for what",
      "they used to",
      "do."
    ],
    [
      "And We have enjoined",
      "(on) man",
      "to his parents",
      "kindness.",
      "Carried him",
      "his mother",
      "(with) hardship",
      "and gave birth to him",
      "(with) hardship.",
      "And (the) bearing of him",
      "and (the) weaning of him",
      "(is) thirty",
      "month(s)",
      "until,",
      "when",
      "he reaches",
      "his maturity",
      "and reaches",
      "forty",
      "year(s),",
      "he says,",
      "\"My Lord,",
      "grant me (the) power",
      "that",
      "I may be grateful",
      "(for) Your favor",
      "which",
      "You have bestowed",
      "upon me",
      "and upon",
      "my parents",
      "and that",
      "I do",
      "righteous (deeds)",
      "which please You,",
      "and make righteous",
      "for me",
      "among",
      "my offspring,",
      "indeed,",
      "I turn",
      "to You",
      "and indeed, I am",
      "of",
      "those who submit.\""
    ],
    [
      "Those",
      "(are) the ones",
      "We will accept",
      "from them",
      "(the) best",
      "(of) what",
      "they did",
      "and We will overlook",
      "[from]",
      "their evil deeds,",
      "among",
      "(the) companions",
      "(of) Paradise.",
      "A promise",
      "true",
      "which",
      "they were",
      "promised."
    ],
    [
      "But the one who",
      "says",
      "to his parents,",
      "\"Uff",
      "to both of you!",
      "Do you promise me",
      "that",
      "I will be brought forth,",
      "and have already passed away",
      "and have already passed away",
      "the generations",
      "before me?\"",
      "before me?\"",
      "And they both",
      "seek help",
      "(of) Allah.",
      "\"Woe to you!",
      "Believe!",
      "Indeed,",
      "(the) Promise",
      "(of) Allah",
      "(is) true.\"",
      "But he says,",
      "\"Not",
      "(is) this",
      "but",
      "(the) stories",
      "(of) the former (people).\""
    ],
    [
      "Those -",
      "(are) the ones",
      "(has) proved true",
      "against them",
      "the word",
      "among",
      "nations",
      "(that) already passed away",
      "(that) already passed away",
      "before them",
      "before them",
      "of",
      "(the) jinn",
      "and the men.",
      "Indeed, they",
      "are",
      "(the) losers."
    ],
    [
      "And for all",
      "(are) degrees",
      "for what",
      "they did,",
      "and that He may fully compensate them",
      "(for) their deeds,",
      "and they",
      "will not be wronged.",
      "will not be wronged."
    ],
    [
      "And (the) Day",
      "will be exposed",
      "those who",
      "disbelieved",
      "to",
      "the Fire.",
      "\"You exhausted",
      "your good things",
      "in",
      "your life",
      "(of) the world,",
      "and you took your pleasures",
      "therein.",
      "So today",
      "you will be recompensed",
      "(with) a punishment",
      "humiliating",
      "because",
      "you were",
      "arrogant",
      "in",
      "the earth",
      "without",
      "[the] right",
      "and because",
      "you were",
      "defiantly disobedient.\""
    ],
    [
      "And mention",
      "(the) brother",
      "(of) Aad,",
      "when",
      "he warned",
      "his people",
      "in the Al-Ahqaf -",
      "and had already passed away",
      "and had already passed away",
      "[the] warners",
      "before him",
      "before him",
      "before him",
      "and after him,",
      "and after him,",
      "\"That not",
      "you worship",
      "except",
      "Allah.",
      "Indeed, I",
      "[I] fear",
      "for you",
      "a punishment",
      "(of) a Day",
      "Great.\""
    ],
    [
      "They said,",
      "\"Have you come to us",
      "to turn us away",
      "from",
      "our gods?",
      "Then bring us",
      "what",
      "you threaten us,",
      "if",
      "you are",
      "of",
      "the truthful.\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"Only",
      "the knowledge",
      "(is) with Allah",
      "(is) with Allah",
      "and I convey to you",
      "what",
      "I am sent",
      "with it,",
      "but",
      "I see you",
      "a people",
      "ignorant.\""
    ],
    [
      "Then when",
      "they saw it",
      "(as) a cloud",
      "approaching",
      "their valleys,",
      "they said,",
      "\"This",
      "(is) a cloud",
      "bringing us rain.\"",
      "Nay,",
      "it",
      "(is) what",
      "you were asking it to be hastened,",
      "you were asking it to be hastened,",
      "a wind",
      "in it",
      "(is) a punishment",
      "painful,"
    ],
    [
      "Destroying",
      "every",
      "thing",
      "by (the) command",
      "(of) its Lord.",
      "Then they became (such),",
      "not",
      "is seen",
      "except",
      "their dwellings.",
      "Thus",
      "We recompense",
      "the people",
      "[the] criminals."
    ],
    [
      "And certainly,",
      "We had established them",
      "in what",
      "not",
      "We have established you",
      "in it,",
      "and We made",
      "for them",
      "hearing",
      "and vision",
      "and hearts.",
      "But not",
      "availed",
      "them",
      "their hearing",
      "and not",
      "their vision",
      "and not",
      "their hearts",
      "any",
      "thing,",
      "when",
      "they were",
      "rejecting",
      "(the) Signs",
      "(of) Allah",
      "and enveloped",
      "them",
      "what",
      "they used to",
      "[at it]",
      "ridicule."
    ],
    [
      "And certainly",
      "We destroyed",
      "what",
      "surrounds you",
      "of",
      "the towns,",
      "and We have diversified",
      "the Signs,",
      "that they may",
      "return."
    ],
    [
      "Then why (did) not",
      "help them",
      "those whom",
      "they had taken",
      "besides",
      "besides",
      "Allah",
      "gods as a way of approach?",
      "gods as a way of approach?",
      "Nay,",
      "they were lost",
      "from them.",
      "And that",
      "(was) their falsehood",
      "and what",
      "they were",
      "inventing."
    ],
    [
      "And when",
      "We directed",
      "to you",
      "a party",
      "of",
      "the jinn,",
      "listening",
      "(to) the Quran.",
      "And when",
      "they attended it,",
      "they said,",
      "\"Listen quietly.\"",
      "And when",
      "it was concluded,",
      "they turned back",
      "to",
      "their people",
      "(as) warners."
    ],
    [
      "They said,",
      "\"O our people!",
      "Indeed, we",
      "[we] have heard",
      "a Book",
      "revealed",
      "after",
      "after",
      "Musa",
      "confirming",
      "what",
      "(was) before it,",
      "(was) before it,",
      "guiding",
      "to",
      "the truth",
      "and to",
      "a Path",
      "Straight."
    ],
    [
      "O our people!",
      "Respond",
      "(to the) caller",
      "(of) Allah",
      "and believe",
      "in him.",
      "He will forgive",
      "for you",
      "of",
      "your sins",
      "and will protect you",
      "from",
      "a punishment",
      "painful."
    ],
    [
      "And whoever",
      "(does) not",
      "respond",
      "(to the) caller",
      "(of) Allah,",
      "then not",
      "he can escape",
      "in",
      "the earth,",
      "and not",
      "for him",
      "besides Him",
      "besides Him",
      "protectors.",
      "Those",
      "(are) in",
      "error",
      "clear.\""
    ],
    [
      "Do not",
      "they see",
      "that",
      "Allah,",
      "(is) the One Who",
      "created",
      "the heavens",
      "and the earth",
      "and (was) not",
      "tired",
      "by their creation,",
      "(is) able",
      "to give life",
      "to give life",
      "to give life",
      "(to) the dead?",
      "Yes,",
      "indeed He",
      "(is) on",
      "every",
      "thing",
      "All-Powerful."
    ],
    [
      "And (the) Day,",
      "are exposed",
      "those who",
      "disbelieved",
      "to",
      "the Fire,",
      "\"Is not",
      "this",
      "the truth?\"",
      "They will say,",
      "\"Yes",
      "by our Lord.\"",
      "He will say,",
      "\"Then taste",
      "the punishment",
      "because",
      "you used to",
      "disbelieve.\""
    ],
    [
      "So be patient,",
      "as",
      "had patience",
      "those of determination",
      "those of determination",
      "of",
      "the Messengers,",
      "and (do) not",
      "seek to hasten",
      "for them.",
      "As if they had,",
      "(the) Day",
      "they see",
      "what",
      "they were promised,",
      "not",
      "remained",
      "except",
      "an hour",
      "of",
      "a day.",
      "A notification.",
      "But will",
      "(any) be destroyed",
      "except",
      "the people -",
      "the defiantly disobedient?"
    ]
  ],
  "juz": 26
}
