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  "number": 34,
  "slug": "saba",
  "name": "Saba",
  "arabicName": "سبأ",
  "meaning": "Sheba",
  "period": "Makkan",
  "tagline": "Power and prosperity answered with gratitude",
  "overview": "Saba contrasts gifts used gratefully with prosperity mistaken for lasting security. David and Solomon receive remarkable provisions; the people of Saba are remembered through gardens, safe journeys, and a devastating reversal. Arguments about wealth and influence culminate in a call to reflect sincerely before the opportunity to respond has passed.",
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  "titles": [
    "Praise across this life and the next",
    "Nothing passes outside His knowledge",
    "The Hour and the smallest detail",
    "Reward with forgiveness",
    "Striving against the signs",
    "Knowledge that recognizes a path",
    "Resurrection made an object of ridicule",
    "Accusations against the messenger",
    "The world around the confident",
    "David and responsive praise",
    "Skill directed toward good",
    "Solomon's remarkable provisions",
    "Gratitude expressed through work",
    "The limits of unseen knowledge",
    "Two gardens and an invitation to thank",
    "Gardens changed by the flood",
    "Ingratitude and its consequence",
    "Safe journeys between settlements",
    "A gift no longer valued",
    "A temptation widely followed",
    "Influence without independent sovereignty",
    "What do the claimed partners possess?",
    "Intercession under permission",
    "A question that opens examination",
    "Responsibility without transferred guilt",
    "A shared appointment before the Judge",
    "Show the supposed partners",
    "A message addressed to humanity",
    "A demand for the date",
    "An appointment beyond human control",
    "Followers blame their leaders",
    "The powerful deny responsibility",
    "Pressure recalled and regret revealed",
    "Privilege resisting a warning",
    "Wealth mistaken for immunity",
    "Provision is not a simple verdict",
    "What brings a person near",
    "The cost of continued obstruction",
    "Giving within trust in provision",
    "The angels are questioned",
    "The claimed relationship is disowned",
    "Imagined protection has no power",
    "Inherited worship used as an objection",
    "No earlier warrant for the claim",
    "Earlier power was greater",
    "An invitation to think sincerely",
    "No price for the message",
    "Truth from the Knower of the unseen",
    "Falsehood cannot create or restore",
    "Guidance traced to revelation",
    "Seized without an avenue of escape",
    "Belief sought from too far away",
    "Conjecture about the unseen",
    "A barrier before the desired return"
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  "notes": [
    "The opening gives praise to Allah as owner of heaven and earth, extending that praise into the Hereafter. Wisdom and awareness frame the chapter. Its coming stories of wealth and rule are therefore placed beneath a larger sovereignty.",
    "What enters and leaves the earth, and what descends and rises through the sky, all lie within divine knowledge. Mercy and forgiveness accompany this encompassing awareness. The verse connects vast movement in creation with the possibility of a compassionate response.",
    "The denial of the Hour is answered with an oath by the Lord who knows the unseen. Nothing small or great escapes the record. The verse supports accountability through comprehensive knowledge, not through an announced date for the world's ending.",
    "Belief and good work are answered by forgiveness and generous provision. The promise makes accountability more than a threat of punishment. A record of deeds also means that faithful effort is not lost and that mercy accompanies the final response.",
    "The warning concerns deliberate efforts to defeat or frustrate the revelations. It distinguishes active resistance from simply not having heard a message. The verse asks what a person's energy serves when conviction becomes a sustained campaign against guidance.",
    "Those given knowledge recognize the revealed truth and the path to the Mighty, the Praiseworthy. Learning is measured by recognition and direction. The statement contrasts understanding with the mockery of resurrection that the next verses place on the opponents' lips.",
    "The quoted opponents introduce the messenger through what they consider an absurd promise: renewed creation after complete dispersal. Their wording turns the claim into mockery before examining it. The reader is invited to hear the argument beneath that framing.",
    "The alternatives of invention and madness are accusations made by opponents, not the Quran's assessment of the messenger. The reply returns attention to their denial of the Hereafter. Discrediting a speaker does not itself answer the claim being presented.",
    "Sky and earth surround people who argue as though their security were assured. The verse uses that vulnerability as a sign for a returning heart. It is a warning about dependence, not a rule for assigning guilt after ordinary natural disasters.",
    "David receives grace, with mountains and birds joining praise and iron made workable for him. The narrative connects extraordinary gifts with devotion. Its purpose is not to establish a modern metallurgical process or to supply a visual portrait of the prophet.",
    "The making of armor requires careful measurement, and the instruction immediately joins craftsmanship with righteous action. Technical ability is placed under moral responsibility. The reminder that Allah sees conduct asks how useful skill serves people, beyond whether the finished work impresses.",
    "Wind, flowing copper, and working jinn are described among Solomon's gifts. These belong to the scriptural account of his rule and divine permission. The reader does not reconstruct the unseen workers or claim a surveyed factory site from the narrative.",
    "Large structures and vessels display the scale of what was made for Solomon, but the command is to work gratefully. The closing observation about few grateful servants gives the scene its point. Abundance is tested by the response it produces.",
    "Solomon's death is disclosed when a creature weakens his staff and his body falls. The narrative's explicit lesson concerns the jinn's ignorance of the unseen. It does not invite a claim that later people can determine hidden knowledge through similar signs.",
    "Saba's dwelling place is presented through gardens on both sides, good provision, and a forgiving Lord. The scene begins with a gift and its proper response. Fertility and comfort are invitations to gratitude rather than guarantees of permanent security.",
    "After the people's turning away, the flood transforms the fruitful setting into a harsher landscape. The verse supplies the narrative's moral sequence without dating a specific dam failure. Archaeology can illuminate Saba's irrigation setting without proving every detail of this account.",
    "The verse explicitly connects the preceding reversal with ingratitude. Its question asks the audience to understand the story as a warning about response to blessings. It should not become a general license to identify the victims of every flood as guilty.",
    "Settlements and manageable stages of travel are recalled as additional gifts. Safety by night and day made movement possible without the same burdens of isolation. The verse does not provide a complete caravan itinerary, but highlights the value of accessible connections.",
    "The people's request for longer stages is followed by scattering and their becoming a cautionary story. What had supported secure movement was treated without gratitude. The closing appeal joins patience and thankfulness as ways to recognize the signs in that reversal.",
    "Satan's expectation is realized among many, while a group of believers stands apart. The verse turns from one community's story to the pattern of temptation. The exception matters: a prevailing response does not erase the possibility of faithful resistance.",
    "Satan's role does not make him an independent ruler over human destiny. The passage concerns the distinction between belief in the Hereafter and doubt, under the Lord's watchfulness. Responsibility remains with people responding to influence, rather than disappearing behind it.",
    "Those invoked beside Allah are challenged about ownership, partnership, and assistance in governing creation. The questions dismantle imagined shares in divine sovereignty. A claim to protection needs more than custom or confidence when no actual independent power supports it.",
    "Intercession is placed beneath divine permission, and the response to the Lord's word affirms truth and greatness. The scene concerns authority in the unseen. It offers no technique for forcing favor or purchasing a guaranteed outcome through a chosen intermediary.",
    "The messenger asks who provides from sky and earth, then places the opposing positions before the audience for consideration. The wording encourages examination of guidance and error. Recognizing the source of provision should have consequences for worship and allegiance.",
    "Each side will answer for its own conduct rather than carrying the other's deeds. The verse gives the disagreement a disciplined moral boundary. It invites clarity without making accusation a substitute for examining what one actually does oneself.",
    "The Lord will gather the disputing parties and judge truthfully between them. The verse moves beyond the limits of present argument. Final judgment belongs to complete knowledge, rather than to whichever group currently commands a louder voice or greater power.",
    "The challenge again asks for the alleged partners to be produced, then affirms Allah's might and wisdom. Repetition presses the difference between assertion and reality. The audience is asked to consider what grounds its religious claims actually rest upon.",
    "The messenger's task combines good news and warning for all humanity. Its scope is broader than the immediate opponents or the communities recalled in the stories. The verse presents communication and responsibility together, without offering a claim to control every hearer's response.",
    "The opponents ask when the promised outcome will come if the messengers are truthful. The question seeks to make timing the condition of belief. The following answer distinguishes certainty of the appointment from the audience's ability to accelerate or postpone it.",
    "The promised day cannot be delayed or advanced by the audience. The verse answers the demand for timing with a limit on human power, not a calendar date. Responsibility therefore cannot reasonably depend on receiving advance notice of the exact moment.",
    "At the final gathering, those who were socially weak accuse the powerful of preventing their belief. The scene exposes how authority shaped earlier choices. It opens a dispute about influence and responsibility rather than simply removing accountability from one side.",
    "The leaders answer that they did not force rejection after guidance came. Their reply contests the followers' account and turns blame back upon them. The narrative shows the collapse of solidarity when a relationship built on wrongdoing meets its consequences.",
    "The weaker group recalls persistent scheming and commands to reject Allah, while all confront the punishment and regret. Influence is shown as real without making shared wrongdoing harmless. The verse ends by connecting recompense with what people themselves did.",
    "The affluent of earlier towns are recalled rejecting their warners. The pattern asks how comfort and influence can make a challenge feel threatening. It does not mean that possession itself determines a person's response; the issue is the resistance described.",
    "The speakers point to wealth and children as proof that they will not be punished. Their confidence confuses present resources with final approval. The chapter will answer by separating the distribution of provision from closeness to Allah and lasting security.",
    "The Lord enlarges or restricts provision as He wills, while many misunderstand what that distribution means. The verse challenges the argument that prosperity proves innocence. Neither abundance nor scarcity alone supplies a complete judgment of a person's moral standing.",
    "Wealth and children do not themselves secure nearness to Allah; faith and good action are the relevant response. The promise joins multiplied reward with safety. The verse redirects comparison away from family size and possessions toward the purposes of a lived commitment.",
    "Those striving against the revelations are again brought within the warning. The repeated theme places active opposition beside the promise for faithful action. The contrast asks what direction effort takes, rather than treating intensity or success as its own moral justification.",
    "The power to enlarge or restrict provision is repeated, now joined to reassurance about spending for good. Generosity becomes possible within dependence on the Provider. The verse is not a financial formula promising an immediate, measurable return for every expenditure.",
    "The final gathering includes a question to angels about the worship directed toward them. The scene tests the worshippers' assumed relationship with the unseen. It does not describe angelic bodies or authorize an illustration claiming to reveal their actual appearance.",
    "The angels glorify Allah and deny belonging to the worshippers as patrons, identifying the underlying allegiance differently. The response dismantles the security those people imagined. The unseen scene emphasizes the difference between a worshipper's claim and a relationship recognized by revelation.",
    "At the final account, people cannot secure one another's benefit or harm as they had supposed. The warning returns to the consequence denied earlier. Its force is to challenge misplaced reliance while present readers still have the opportunity to reconsider it.",
    "The opponents call the messenger an enemy of ancestral practice and dismiss revelation as invention or magic. Several accusations replace engagement with its contents. The verse invites the reader to distinguish respect for family history from unexamined rejection of a reminder.",
    "The audience has not received the scriptures or prior warner it would need to ground the particular authority it asserts. The verse continues the demand for evidence. Familiarity with a practice does not by itself establish that it came from revelation.",
    "Previous peoples received far more than the present opponents yet denied the messengers and faced consequence. The comparison undercuts confidence based on limited worldly advantage. The chapter does not turn this statement into an exact inventory of the wealth of ancient kingdoms.",
    "The messenger asks people to stand sincerely before Allah, together or alone, and reflect on their companion's message. The invitation replaces collective mockery with thoughtful attention. It asks for honest examination rather than a performance staged for a hostile audience.",
    "The messenger disclaims a fee and places his reward with Allah, witness to all things. The statement removes a suspected material motive from the appeal. It invites the audience to consider the warning itself rather than imagine a hidden commercial transaction.",
    "The Lord sends forth truth while knowing what remains hidden. The verse connects the message's force with its source rather than the messenger's social resources. The audience's incomplete view cannot encompass everything relevant to the account being presented.",
    "Truth's arrival exposes falsehood's inability to originate or renew. The statement belongs to the chapter's contrast between actual divine power and unsupported claims. It asks what a belief can genuinely explain or sustain once its confident appearance is questioned.",
    "The messenger accepts responsibility for any error and attributes guidance to what his Lord reveals. Hearing and nearness close the statement. The verse directs trust toward the source of the message while refusing to make personal authority independent of revelation.",
    "The final warning presents terrified people caught near at hand, unable to flee. It reverses the distance from consequence they previously imagined. The scene's purpose is to awaken present attention, not to supply a date or a terrestrial location for judgment.",
    "The condemned now declare belief, but the scene asks how the opportunity can be reached after its time has passed. The image of distance concerns a lost chance. The present reader is encouraged to respond before recognition becomes only regret.",
    "Their earlier denial and unsupported assertions about the unseen are recalled. The verse contrasts speculative confidence with the reality now faced. It asks whether claims about ultimate matters are being made with knowledge or simply projected from what feels convenient.",
    "A gulf now separates them from what they desire, as with earlier people of similar doubt. The chapter closes with the cost of refusing an available response. Its warning returns readers to the importance of reflection during the opportunity still present."
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    {
      "start": 1,
      "end": 9,
      "title": "Revelation and the promised return",
      "summary": "Divine knowledge and sovereignty answer mockery of resurrection and invite attention to the surrounding world.",
      "reflection": "What assumptions shape the way you hear a claim you find difficult?"
    },
    {
      "start": 10,
      "end": 14,
      "title": "David and Solomon: gifts put to work",
      "summary": "Praise, craftsmanship, and extraordinary provisions are joined to gratitude and the limits of unseen knowledge.",
      "reflection": "What responsibility accompanies a skill or resource entrusted to you?"
    },
    {
      "start": 15,
      "end": 21,
      "title": "Saba's gardens and the loss of gratitude",
      "summary": "Gardens and safe roads are followed by flood and dispersal when blessings cease to be valued rightly.",
      "reflection": "Notice a reliable convenience whose absence would change daily life."
    },
    {
      "start": 22,
      "end": 39,
      "title": "Influence, wealth, and what brings nearness",
      "summary": "The claims of imagined protectors and powerful leaders are tested against responsibility, faith, and generous action.",
      "reflection": "Which signs of worldly success are easy to mistake for moral authority?"
    },
    {
      "start": 40,
      "end": 54,
      "title": "A sincere moment before the final account",
      "summary": "False allegiances fail, and the messenger asks the audience to pause and think before belated recognition.",
      "reflection": "Give an important question a quiet, sincere hearing without an audience to impress."
    }
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    {
      "title": "Before 622 CE · Makkan classification",
      "year": 622,
      "body": "Saba is generally classified as Makkan. The Hijrah is shown as a period boundary, not a precise revelation date for its stories or individual verses.",
      "source": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira"
    },
    {
      "title": "David and Solomon · scriptural past",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Verses 10–14 recall gifts, gratitude, and the limits of the jinn's knowledge. The chapter supplies no exact reign dates, worksite, or tomb identification.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/034.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Ancient Saba at Marib · archaeological context",
      "year": null,
      "body": "UNESCO describes surviving Sabaean urban and irrigation remains spanning the first millennium BCE to the early Islamic period. This broad archaeological setting does not date the Quran's particular flood narrative.",
      "source": "https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1700/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Gardens, flood, and dispersal · undated narrative",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Verses 15–19 describe a moral sequence involving provision and ingratitude. No specific dam breach year or complete migration itinerary is asserted by the verses.",
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    {
      "id": "makkah",
      "name": "Makkah · broad revelation setting",
      "lat": 21.4225,
      "lon": 39.8262,
      "body": "The Makkan classification gives general orientation without establishing an exact recitation point for every passage.",
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      "image": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "workshops",
      "name": "The works of David and Solomon",
      "body": "The chapter names armor, large vessels, buildings, and other works, but no surveyed workshop or palace. The architecture shown is interpretive and prophets and jinn are not depicted.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/034.htm",
      "image": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "marib",
      "name": "Marib · ancient Sabaean irrigation landscape",
      "body": "UNESCO documents extensive ancient irrigation and monumental settlements at Marib. These remains provide historical context for Saba's landscape; they do not by themselves prove a one-to-one match with the flood of verse 16.",
      "source": "https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1700/",
      "image": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "routes",
      "name": "Safe stages between settlements",
      "body": "Verse 18 describes manageable journeys among settlements without listing a full route. The reader avoids inventing exact caravan stops or identifying every blessed town.",
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      "image": 2
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  "people": [
    {
      "id": "david",
      "title": "David · praise and careful workmanship",
      "body": "David receives favor and works with iron, while the instruction joins measured craft to good action. His setting is evoked through objects and landscape, without a prophetic portrait.",
      "verse": 10,
      "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/034.htm"
    },
    {
      "id": "solomon",
      "title": "Solomon · authority and its limits",
      "body": "His extraordinary provisions culminate in the disclosure of his death. The explicit lesson is that the jinn did not possess knowledge of the unseen.",
      "verse": 14,
      "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/034.htm"
    },
    {
      "id": "saba",
      "title": "The people of Saba",
      "body": "Their gardens and safe journeys become a warning about ingratitude. The chapter does not supply a named ruler or date for this particular narrative.",
      "verse": 15,
      "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/034.htm"
    },
    {
      "id": "leaders-followers",
      "title": "Powerful leaders and their followers",
      "body": "Verses 31–33 stage mutual blame before judgment. Real social influence is exposed without making any participant's responsibility simply disappear.",
      "verse": 31,
      "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/034.htm"
    }
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    {
      "title": "A generally Makkan chapter",
      "body": "The chapter introduction places Saba in the Makkan period. The reader does not transform an attributed occasion report into a precise date for the whole surah.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/34/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "What archaeology can establish",
      "body": "The UNESCO property records Sabaean settlements and sophisticated irrigation at Marib. It illuminates the historical landscape while remaining distinct from theological interpretation of the Quran's undated flood.",
      "source": "https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1700/"
    },
    {
      "title": "A documented transcription correction",
      "body": "At verse 16 the retrieved Sacred Texts page spells the flood name Iram. The reader corrects it to Arim, matching the Arabic and the Alim Pickthall transcription; the correction is recorded rather than silently substituting a different translation.",
      "source": "https://www.alim.org/translation/picktal/34/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Gratitude as the connective theme",
      "body": "The command to work gratefully in verse 13 links royal gifts with the following gardens narrative. Later verses reject wealth as an automatic measure of nearness to Allah. This thematic connection is original editorial reading.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/034.htm"
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  "translationNote": "English translation: Sahih International, via AlQuran Cloud. Original source wording is preserved.",
  "revelationNote": "Generally Makkan. The before-622 CE marker is only a period boundary. UNESCO's archaeology offers background to ancient Saba, not an exact date or proof for the particular Quranic flood account.",
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    {
      "n": 1,
      "arabic": "ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ ٱلَّذِى لَهُۥ مَا فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَمَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَهُ ٱلْحَمْدُ فِى ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ ۚ وَهُوَ ٱلْحَكِيمُ ٱلْخَبِيرُ",
      "translation": "[All] praise is [due] to Allah, to whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth, and to Him belongs [all] praise in the Hereafter. And He is the Wise, the Acquainted."
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "arabic": "يَعْلَمُ مَا يَلِجُ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا يَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا وَمَا يَنزِلُ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَمَا يَعْرُجُ فِيهَا ۚ وَهُوَ ٱلرَّحِيمُ ٱلْغَفُورُ",
      "translation": "He knows what penetrates into the earth and what emerges from it and what descends from the heaven and what ascends therein. And He is the Merciful, the Forgiving."
    },
    {
      "n": 3,
      "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَا تَأْتِينَا ٱلسَّاعَةُ ۖ قُلْ بَلَىٰ وَرَبِّى لَتَأْتِيَنَّكُمْ عَٰلِمِ ٱلْغَيْبِ ۖ لَا يَعْزُبُ عَنْهُ مِثْقَالُ ذَرَّةٍۢ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَلَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَآ أَصْغَرُ مِن ذَٰلِكَ وَلَآ أَكْبَرُ إِلَّا فِى كِتَٰبٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ",
      "translation": "But those who disbelieve say, \"The Hour will not come to us.\" Say, \"Yes, by my Lord, it will surely come to you. [Allah is] the Knower of the unseen.\" Not absent from Him is an atom's weight within the heavens or within the earth or [what is] smaller than that or greater, except that it is in a clear register -"
    },
    {
      "n": 4,
      "arabic": "لِّيَجْزِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ لَهُم مَّغْفِرَةٌۭ وَرِزْقٌۭ كَرِيمٌۭ",
      "translation": "That He may reward those who believe and do righteous deeds. Those will have forgiveness and noble provision."
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ سَعَوْ فِىٓ ءَايَٰتِنَا مُعَٰجِزِينَ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌۭ مِّن رِّجْزٍ أَلِيمٌۭ",
      "translation": "But those who strive against Our verses [seeking] to cause failure - for them will be a painful punishment of foul nature."
    },
    {
      "n": 6,
      "arabic": "وَيَرَى ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْعِلْمَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِن رَّبِّكَ هُوَ ٱلْحَقَّ وَيَهْدِىٓ إِلَىٰ صِرَٰطِ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْحَمِيدِ",
      "translation": "And those who have been given knowledge see that what is revealed to you from your Lord is the truth, and it guides to the path of the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy."
    },
    {
      "n": 7,
      "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ هَلْ نَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَىٰ رَجُلٍۢ يُنَبِّئُكُمْ إِذَا مُزِّقْتُمْ كُلَّ مُمَزَّقٍ إِنَّكُمْ لَفِى خَلْقٍۢ جَدِيدٍ",
      "translation": "But those who disbelieve say, \"Shall we direct you to a man who will inform you [that] when you have disintegrated in complete disintegration, you will [then] be [recreated] in a new creation?"
    },
    {
      "n": 8,
      "arabic": "أَفْتَرَىٰ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا أَم بِهِۦ جِنَّةٌۢ ۗ بَلِ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْءَاخِرَةِ فِى ٱلْعَذَابِ وَٱلضَّلَٰلِ ٱلْبَعِيدِ",
      "translation": "Has he invented about Allah a lie or is there in him madness?\" Rather, they who do not believe in the Hereafter will be in the punishment and [are in] extreme error."
    },
    {
      "n": 9,
      "arabic": "أَفَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ إِلَىٰ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُم مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ إِن نَّشَأْ نَخْسِفْ بِهِمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ أَوْ نُسْقِطْ عَلَيْهِمْ كِسَفًۭا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَءَايَةًۭ لِّكُلِّ عَبْدٍۢ مُّنِيبٍۢ",
      "translation": "Then, do they not look at what is before them and what is behind them of the heaven and earth? If We should will, We could cause the earth to swallow them or [could] let fall upon them fragments from the sky. Indeed in that is a sign for every servant turning back [to Allah]."
    },
    {
      "n": 10,
      "arabic": "۞ وَلَقَدْ ءَاتَيْنَا دَاوُۥدَ مِنَّا فَضْلًۭا ۖ يَٰجِبَالُ أَوِّبِى مَعَهُۥ وَٱلطَّيْرَ ۖ وَأَلَنَّا لَهُ ٱلْحَدِيدَ",
      "translation": "And We certainly gave David from Us bounty. [We said], \"O mountains, repeat [Our] praises with him, and the birds [as well].\" And We made pliable for him iron,"
    },
    {
      "n": 11,
      "arabic": "أَنِ ٱعْمَلْ سَٰبِغَٰتٍۢ وَقَدِّرْ فِى ٱلسَّرْدِ ۖ وَٱعْمَلُوا۟ صَٰلِحًا ۖ إِنِّى بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌۭ",
      "translation": "[Commanding him], \"Make full coats of mail and calculate [precisely] the links, and work [all of you] righteousness. Indeed I, of what you do, am Seeing.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 12,
      "arabic": "وَلِسُلَيْمَٰنَ ٱلرِّيحَ غُدُوُّهَا شَهْرٌۭ وَرَوَاحُهَا شَهْرٌۭ ۖ وَأَسَلْنَا لَهُۥ عَيْنَ ٱلْقِطْرِ ۖ وَمِنَ ٱلْجِنِّ مَن يَعْمَلُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِۦ ۖ وَمَن يَزِغْ مِنْهُمْ عَنْ أَمْرِنَا نُذِقْهُ مِنْ عَذَابِ ٱلسَّعِيرِ",
      "translation": "And to Solomon [We subjected] the wind - its morning [journey was that of] a month - and its afternoon [journey was that of] a month, and We made flow for him a spring of [liquid] copper. And among the jinn were those who worked for him by the permission of his Lord. And whoever deviated among them from Our command - We will make him taste of the punishment of the Blaze."
    },
    {
      "n": 13,
      "arabic": "يَعْمَلُونَ لَهُۥ مَا يَشَآءُ مِن مَّحَٰرِيبَ وَتَمَٰثِيلَ وَجِفَانٍۢ كَٱلْجَوَابِ وَقُدُورٍۢ رَّاسِيَٰتٍ ۚ ٱعْمَلُوٓا۟ ءَالَ دَاوُۥدَ شُكْرًۭا ۚ وَقَلِيلٌۭ مِّنْ عِبَادِىَ ٱلشَّكُورُ",
      "translation": "They made for him what he willed of elevated chambers, statues, bowls like reservoirs, and stationary kettles. [We said], \"Work, O family of David, in gratitude.\" And few of My servants are grateful."
    },
    {
      "n": 14,
      "arabic": "فَلَمَّا قَضَيْنَا عَلَيْهِ ٱلْمَوْتَ مَا دَلَّهُمْ عَلَىٰ مَوْتِهِۦٓ إِلَّا دَآبَّةُ ٱلْأَرْضِ تَأْكُلُ مِنسَأَتَهُۥ ۖ فَلَمَّا خَرَّ تَبَيَّنَتِ ٱلْجِنُّ أَن لَّوْ كَانُوا۟ يَعْلَمُونَ ٱلْغَيْبَ مَا لَبِثُوا۟ فِى ٱلْعَذَابِ ٱلْمُهِينِ",
      "translation": "And when We decreed for Solomon death, nothing indicated to the jinn his death except a creature of the earth eating his staff. But when he fell, it became clear to the jinn that if they had known the unseen, they would not have remained in humiliating punishment."
    },
    {
      "n": 15,
      "arabic": "لَقَدْ كَانَ لِسَبَإٍۢ فِى مَسْكَنِهِمْ ءَايَةٌۭ ۖ جَنَّتَانِ عَن يَمِينٍۢ وَشِمَالٍۢ ۖ كُلُوا۟ مِن رِّزْقِ رَبِّكُمْ وَٱشْكُرُوا۟ لَهُۥ ۚ بَلْدَةٌۭ طَيِّبَةٌۭ وَرَبٌّ غَفُورٌۭ",
      "translation": "There was for [the tribe of] Saba' in their dwelling place a sign: two [fields of] gardens on the right and on the left. [They were told], \"Eat from the provisions of your Lord and be grateful to Him. A good land [have you], and a forgiving Lord.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 16,
      "arabic": "فَأَعْرَضُوا۟ فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَيْلَ ٱلْعَرِمِ وَبَدَّلْنَٰهُم بِجَنَّتَيْهِمْ جَنَّتَيْنِ ذَوَاتَىْ أُكُلٍ خَمْطٍۢ وَأَثْلٍۢ وَشَىْءٍۢ مِّن سِدْرٍۢ قَلِيلٍۢ",
      "translation": "But they turned away [refusing], so We sent upon them the flood of the dam, and We replaced their two [fields of] gardens with gardens of bitter fruit, tamarisks and something of sparse lote trees."
    },
    {
      "n": 17,
      "arabic": "ذَٰلِكَ جَزَيْنَٰهُم بِمَا كَفَرُوا۟ ۖ وَهَلْ نُجَٰزِىٓ إِلَّا ٱلْكَفُورَ",
      "translation": "[By] that We repaid them because they disbelieved. And do We [thus] repay except the ungrateful?"
    },
    {
      "n": 18,
      "arabic": "وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ ٱلْقُرَى ٱلَّتِى بَٰرَكْنَا فِيهَا قُرًۭى ظَٰهِرَةًۭ وَقَدَّرْنَا فِيهَا ٱلسَّيْرَ ۖ سِيرُوا۟ فِيهَا لَيَالِىَ وَأَيَّامًا ءَامِنِينَ",
      "translation": "And We placed between them and the cities which We had blessed [many] visible cities. And We determined between them the [distances of] journey, [saying], \"Travel between them by night or day in safety.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 19,
      "arabic": "فَقَالُوا۟ رَبَّنَا بَٰعِدْ بَيْنَ أَسْفَارِنَا وَظَلَمُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ أَحَادِيثَ وَمَزَّقْنَٰهُمْ كُلَّ مُمَزَّقٍ ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَءَايَٰتٍۢ لِّكُلِّ صَبَّارٍۢ شَكُورٍۢ",
      "translation": "But [insolently] they said, \"Our Lord, lengthen the distance between our journeys,\" and wronged themselves, so We made them narrations and dispersed them in total dispersion. Indeed in that are signs for everyone patient and grateful."
    },
    {
      "n": 20,
      "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ صَدَّقَ عَلَيْهِمْ إِبْلِيسُ ظَنَّهُۥ فَٱتَّبَعُوهُ إِلَّا فَرِيقًۭا مِّنَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ",
      "translation": "And Iblees had already confirmed through them his assumption, so they followed him, except for a party of believers."
    },
    {
      "n": 21,
      "arabic": "وَمَا كَانَ لَهُۥ عَلَيْهِم مِّن سُلْطَٰنٍ إِلَّا لِنَعْلَمَ مَن يُؤْمِنُ بِٱلْءَاخِرَةِ مِمَّنْ هُوَ مِنْهَا فِى شَكٍّۢ ۗ وَرَبُّكَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ حَفِيظٌۭ",
      "translation": "And he had over them no authority except [it was decreed] that We might make evident who believes in the Hereafter from who is thereof in doubt. And your Lord, over all things, is Guardian."
    },
    {
      "n": 22,
      "arabic": "قُلِ ٱدْعُوا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ زَعَمْتُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ ۖ لَا يَمْلِكُونَ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍۢ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَلَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا لَهُمْ فِيهِمَا مِن شِرْكٍۢ وَمَا لَهُۥ مِنْهُم مِّن ظَهِيرٍۢ",
      "translation": "Say, [O Muhammad], \"Invoke those you claim [as deities] besides Allah.\" They do not possess an atom's weight [of ability] in the heavens or on the earth, and they do not have therein any partnership [with Him], nor is there for Him from among them any assistant."
    },
    {
      "n": 23,
      "arabic": "وَلَا تَنفَعُ ٱلشَّفَٰعَةُ عِندَهُۥٓ إِلَّا لِمَنْ أَذِنَ لَهُۥ ۚ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا فُزِّعَ عَن قُلُوبِهِمْ قَالُوا۟ مَاذَا قَالَ رَبُّكُمْ ۖ قَالُوا۟ ٱلْحَقَّ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَلِىُّ ٱلْكَبِيرُ",
      "translation": "And intercession does not benefit with Him except for one whom He permits. [And those wait] until, when terror is removed from their hearts, they will say [to one another], \"What has your Lord said?\" They will say, \"The truth.\" And He is the Most High, the Grand."
    },
    {
      "n": 24,
      "arabic": "۞ قُلْ مَن يَرْزُقُكُم مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۖ قُلِ ٱللَّهُ ۖ وَإِنَّآ أَوْ إِيَّاكُمْ لَعَلَىٰ هُدًى أَوْ فِى ضَلَٰلٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ",
      "translation": "Say, \"Who provides for you from the heavens and the earth?\" Say, \"Allah. And indeed, we or you are either upon guidance or in clear error.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 25,
      "arabic": "قُل لَّا تُسْـَٔلُونَ عَمَّآ أَجْرَمْنَا وَلَا نُسْـَٔلُ عَمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ",
      "translation": "Say, \"You will not be asked about what we committed, and we will not be asked about what you do.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 26,
      "arabic": "قُلْ يَجْمَعُ بَيْنَنَا رَبُّنَا ثُمَّ يَفْتَحُ بَيْنَنَا بِٱلْحَقِّ وَهُوَ ٱلْفَتَّاحُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ",
      "translation": "Say, \"Our Lord will bring us together; then He will judge between us in truth. And He is the Knowing Judge.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 27,
      "arabic": "قُلْ أَرُونِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَلْحَقْتُم بِهِۦ شُرَكَآءَ ۖ كَلَّا ۚ بَلْ هُوَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ",
      "translation": "Say, \"Show me those whom you have attached to Him as partners. No! Rather, He [alone] is Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 28,
      "arabic": "وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَٰكَ إِلَّا كَآفَّةًۭ لِّلنَّاسِ بَشِيرًۭا وَنَذِيرًۭا وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ ٱلنَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ",
      "translation": "And We have not sent you except comprehensively to mankind as a bringer of good tidings and a warner. But most of the people do not know."
    },
    {
      "n": 29,
      "arabic": "وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَىٰ هَٰذَا ٱلْوَعْدُ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰدِقِينَ",
      "translation": "And they say, \"When is this promise, if you should be truthful?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 30,
      "arabic": "قُل لَّكُم مِّيعَادُ يَوْمٍۢ لَّا تَسْتَـْٔخِرُونَ عَنْهُ سَاعَةًۭ وَلَا تَسْتَقْدِمُونَ",
      "translation": "Say, \"For you is the appointment of a Day [when] you will not remain thereafter an hour, nor will you precede [it].\""
    },
    {
      "n": 31,
      "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَن نُّؤْمِنَ بِهَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانِ وَلَا بِٱلَّذِى بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ ۗ وَلَوْ تَرَىٰٓ إِذِ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ مَوْقُوفُونَ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ يَرْجِعُ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَىٰ بَعْضٍ ٱلْقَوْلَ يَقُولُ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱسْتُضْعِفُوا۟ لِلَّذِينَ ٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ لَوْلَآ أَنتُمْ لَكُنَّا مُؤْمِنِينَ",
      "translation": "And those who disbelieve say, \"We will never believe in this Qur'an nor in that before it.\" But if you could see when the wrongdoers are made to stand before their Lord, refuting each other's words... Those who were oppressed will say to those who were arrogant, \"If not for you, we would have been believers.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 32,
      "arabic": "قَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ لِلَّذِينَ ٱسْتُضْعِفُوٓا۟ أَنَحْنُ صَدَدْنَٰكُمْ عَنِ ٱلْهُدَىٰ بَعْدَ إِذْ جَآءَكُم ۖ بَلْ كُنتُم مُّجْرِمِينَ",
      "translation": "Those who were arrogant will say to those who were oppressed, \"Did we avert you from guidance after it had come to you? Rather, you were criminals.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 33,
      "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱسْتُضْعِفُوا۟ لِلَّذِينَ ٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ بَلْ مَكْرُ ٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ إِذْ تَأْمُرُونَنَآ أَن نَّكْفُرَ بِٱللَّهِ وَنَجْعَلَ لَهُۥٓ أَندَادًۭا ۚ وَأَسَرُّوا۟ ٱلنَّدَامَةَ لَمَّا رَأَوُا۟ ٱلْعَذَابَ وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلْأَغْلَٰلَ فِىٓ أَعْنَاقِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ ۚ هَلْ يُجْزَوْنَ إِلَّا مَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ",
      "translation": "Those who were oppressed will say to those who were arrogant, \"Rather, [it was your] conspiracy of night and day when you were ordering us to disbelieve in Allah and attribute to Him equals.\" But they will [all] confide regret when they see the punishment; and We will put shackles on the necks of those who disbelieved. Will they be recompensed except for what they used to do?"
    },
    {
      "n": 34,
      "arabic": "وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَا فِى قَرْيَةٍۢ مِّن نَّذِيرٍ إِلَّا قَالَ مُتْرَفُوهَآ إِنَّا بِمَآ أُرْسِلْتُم بِهِۦ كَٰفِرُونَ",
      "translation": "And We did not send into a city any warner except that its affluent said, \"Indeed we, in that with which you were sent, are disbelievers.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 35,
      "arabic": "وَقَالُوا۟ نَحْنُ أَكْثَرُ أَمْوَٰلًۭا وَأَوْلَٰدًۭا وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمُعَذَّبِينَ",
      "translation": "And they said, \"We are more [than the believers] in wealth and children, and we are not to be punished.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 36,
      "arabic": "قُلْ إِنَّ رَبِّى يَبْسُطُ ٱلرِّزْقَ لِمَن يَشَآءُ وَيَقْدِرُ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ ٱلنَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ",
      "translation": "Say, \"Indeed, my Lord extends provision for whom He wills and restricts [it], but most of the people do not know.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 37,
      "arabic": "وَمَآ أَمْوَٰلُكُمْ وَلَآ أَوْلَٰدُكُم بِٱلَّتِى تُقَرِّبُكُمْ عِندَنَا زُلْفَىٰٓ إِلَّا مَنْ ءَامَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَٰلِحًۭا فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ لَهُمْ جَزَآءُ ٱلضِّعْفِ بِمَا عَمِلُوا۟ وَهُمْ فِى ٱلْغُرُفَٰتِ ءَامِنُونَ",
      "translation": "And it is not your wealth or your children that bring you nearer to Us in position, but it is [by being] one who has believed and done righteousness. For them there will be the double reward for what they did, and they will be in the upper chambers [of Paradise], safe [and secure]."
    },
    {
      "n": 38,
      "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ يَسْعَوْنَ فِىٓ ءَايَٰتِنَا مُعَٰجِزِينَ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ فِى ٱلْعَذَابِ مُحْضَرُونَ",
      "translation": "And the ones who strive against Our verses to cause [them] failure - those will be brought into the punishment [to remain]."
    },
    {
      "n": 39,
      "arabic": "قُلْ إِنَّ رَبِّى يَبْسُطُ ٱلرِّزْقَ لِمَن يَشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِۦ وَيَقْدِرُ لَهُۥ ۚ وَمَآ أَنفَقْتُم مِّن شَىْءٍۢ فَهُوَ يُخْلِفُهُۥ ۖ وَهُوَ خَيْرُ ٱلرَّٰزِقِينَ",
      "translation": "Say, \"Indeed, my Lord extends provision for whom He wills of His servants and restricts [it] for him. But whatever thing you spend [in His cause] - He will compensate it; and He is the best of providers.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 40,
      "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ يَحْشُرُهُمْ جَمِيعًۭا ثُمَّ يَقُولُ لِلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ أَهَٰٓؤُلَآءِ إِيَّاكُمْ كَانُوا۟ يَعْبُدُونَ",
      "translation": "And [mention] the Day when He will gather them all and then say to the angels, \"Did these [people] used to worship you?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 41,
      "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ سُبْحَٰنَكَ أَنتَ وَلِيُّنَا مِن دُونِهِم ۖ بَلْ كَانُوا۟ يَعْبُدُونَ ٱلْجِنَّ ۖ أَكْثَرُهُم بِهِم مُّؤْمِنُونَ",
      "translation": "They will say, \"Exalted are You! You, [O Allah], are our benefactor not them. Rather, they used to worship the jinn; most of them were believers in them.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 42,
      "arabic": "فَٱلْيَوْمَ لَا يَمْلِكُ بَعْضُكُمْ لِبَعْضٍۢ نَّفْعًۭا وَلَا ضَرًّۭا وَنَقُولُ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ذُوقُوا۟ عَذَابَ ٱلنَّارِ ٱلَّتِى كُنتُم بِهَا تُكَذِّبُونَ",
      "translation": "But today you do not hold for one another [the power of] benefit or harm, and We will say to those who wronged, \"Taste the punishment of the Fire, which you used to deny.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 43,
      "arabic": "وَإِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ ءَايَٰتُنَا بَيِّنَٰتٍۢ قَالُوا۟ مَا هَٰذَآ إِلَّا رَجُلٌۭ يُرِيدُ أَن يَصُدَّكُمْ عَمَّا كَانَ يَعْبُدُ ءَابَآؤُكُمْ وَقَالُوا۟ مَا هَٰذَآ إِلَّآ إِفْكٌۭ مُّفْتَرًۭى ۚ وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لِلْحَقِّ لَمَّا جَآءَهُمْ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا سِحْرٌۭ مُّبِينٌۭ",
      "translation": "And when our verses are recited to them as clear evidences, they say, \"This is not but a man who wishes to avert you from that which your fathers were worshipping.\" And they say, \"This is not except a lie invented.\" And those who disbelieve say of the truth when it has come to them, \"This is not but obvious magic.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 44,
      "arabic": "وَمَآ ءَاتَيْنَٰهُم مِّن كُتُبٍۢ يَدْرُسُونَهَا ۖ وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَآ إِلَيْهِمْ قَبْلَكَ مِن نَّذِيرٍۢ",
      "translation": "And We had not given them any scriptures which they could study, and We had not sent to them before you, [O Muhammad], any warner."
    },
    {
      "n": 45,
      "arabic": "وَكَذَّبَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ وَمَا بَلَغُوا۟ مِعْشَارَ مَآ ءَاتَيْنَٰهُمْ فَكَذَّبُوا۟ رُسُلِى ۖ فَكَيْفَ كَانَ نَكِيرِ",
      "translation": "And those before them denied, and the people of Makkah have not attained a tenth of what We had given them. But the former peoples denied My messengers, so how [terrible] was My reproach."
    },
    {
      "n": 46,
      "arabic": "۞ قُلْ إِنَّمَآ أَعِظُكُم بِوَٰحِدَةٍ ۖ أَن تَقُومُوا۟ لِلَّهِ مَثْنَىٰ وَفُرَٰدَىٰ ثُمَّ تَتَفَكَّرُوا۟ ۚ مَا بِصَاحِبِكُم مِّن جِنَّةٍ ۚ إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا نَذِيرٌۭ لَّكُم بَيْنَ يَدَىْ عَذَابٍۢ شَدِيدٍۢ",
      "translation": "Say, \"I only advise you of one [thing] - that you stand for Allah, [seeking truth] in pairs and individually, and then give thought.\" There is not in your companion any madness. He is only a warner to you before a severe punishment."
    },
    {
      "n": 47,
      "arabic": "قُلْ مَا سَأَلْتُكُم مِّنْ أَجْرٍۢ فَهُوَ لَكُمْ ۖ إِنْ أَجْرِىَ إِلَّا عَلَى ٱللَّهِ ۖ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ شَهِيدٌۭ",
      "translation": "Say, \"Whatever payment I might have asked of you - it is yours. My payment is only from Allah, and He is, over all things, Witness.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 48,
      "arabic": "قُلْ إِنَّ رَبِّى يَقْذِفُ بِٱلْحَقِّ عَلَّٰمُ ٱلْغُيُوبِ",
      "translation": "Say, \"Indeed, my Lord projects the truth. Knower of the unseen.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 49,
      "arabic": "قُلْ جَآءَ ٱلْحَقُّ وَمَا يُبْدِئُ ٱلْبَٰطِلُ وَمَا يُعِيدُ",
      "translation": "Say, \"The truth has come, and falsehood can neither begin [anything] nor repeat [it].\""
    },
    {
      "n": 50,
      "arabic": "قُلْ إِن ضَلَلْتُ فَإِنَّمَآ أَضِلُّ عَلَىٰ نَفْسِى ۖ وَإِنِ ٱهْتَدَيْتُ فَبِمَا يُوحِىٓ إِلَىَّ رَبِّىٓ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ سَمِيعٌۭ قَرِيبٌۭ",
      "translation": "Say, \"If I should err, I would only err against myself. But if I am guided, it is by what my Lord reveals to me. Indeed, He is Hearing and near.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 51,
      "arabic": "وَلَوْ تَرَىٰٓ إِذْ فَزِعُوا۟ فَلَا فَوْتَ وَأُخِذُوا۟ مِن مَّكَانٍۢ قَرِيبٍۢ",
      "translation": "And if you could see when they are terrified but there is no escape, and they will be seized from a place nearby."
    },
    {
      "n": 52,
      "arabic": "وَقَالُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا بِهِۦ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُمُ ٱلتَّنَاوُشُ مِن مَّكَانٍۭ بَعِيدٍۢ",
      "translation": "And they will [then] say, \"We believe in it!\" But how for them will be the taking [of faith] from a place far away?"
    },
    {
      "n": 53,
      "arabic": "وَقَدْ كَفَرُوا۟ بِهِۦ مِن قَبْلُ ۖ وَيَقْذِفُونَ بِٱلْغَيْبِ مِن مَّكَانٍۭ بَعِيدٍۢ",
      "translation": "And they had already disbelieved in it before and would assault the unseen from a place far away."
    },
    {
      "n": 54,
      "arabic": "وَحِيلَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ كَمَا فُعِلَ بِأَشْيَاعِهِم مِّن قَبْلُ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ فِى شَكٍّۢ مُّرِيبٍۭ",
      "translation": "And prevention will be placed between them and what they desire, as was done with their kind before. Indeed, they were in disquieting denial."
    }
  ],
  "glosses": [
    [
      "All praises",
      "(be) to Allah",
      "the One",
      "to Whom belongs",
      "whatever",
      "(is) in",
      "the heavens",
      "and whatever",
      "(is) in",
      "the earth,",
      "and for Him",
      "(are) all praises",
      "in",
      "the Hereafter.",
      "And He",
      "(is) the All-Wise,",
      "the All-Aware."
    ],
    [
      "He knows",
      "what",
      "penetrates",
      "in",
      "the earth",
      "and what",
      "comes out",
      "from it,",
      "and what",
      "descends",
      "from",
      "the heaven",
      "and what",
      "ascends",
      "therein.",
      "And He",
      "(is) the Most Merciful,",
      "the Oft-Forgiving."
    ],
    [
      "But say",
      "those who",
      "disbelieve,",
      "\"Not",
      "will come to us",
      "the Hour.\"",
      "Say,",
      "\"Nay,",
      "by my Lord",
      "surely it will come to you.",
      "(He is the) Knower",
      "(of) the unseen.\"",
      "Not",
      "escapes",
      "from Him",
      "(the) weight",
      "(of) an atom",
      "in",
      "the heavens",
      "and not",
      "in",
      "the earth",
      "and not",
      "smaller",
      "than",
      "that",
      "and not",
      "greater,",
      "but",
      "(is) in",
      "a Record",
      "Clear."
    ],
    [
      "That He may reward",
      "those who",
      "believe",
      "and do",
      "righteous deeds.",
      "Those -",
      "for them",
      "(will be) forgiveness",
      "and a provision",
      "noble."
    ],
    [
      "But those who",
      "strive",
      "against",
      "Our Verses",
      "(to) cause failure -",
      "those -",
      "for them",
      "(is) a punishment",
      "of",
      "foul nature,",
      "painful."
    ],
    [
      "And see",
      "those who",
      "have been given",
      "the knowledge,",
      "(that) what",
      "is revealed",
      "to you",
      "from",
      "your Lord",
      "[it]",
      "(is) the Truth,",
      "and it guides",
      "to",
      "(the) Path",
      "(of) the All-Mighty,",
      "the Praiseworthy."
    ],
    [
      "But say",
      "those who",
      "disbelieve,",
      "\"Shall",
      "we direct you",
      "to",
      "a man",
      "who informs you",
      "when",
      "you have disintegrated",
      "(in) total",
      "disintegration,",
      "indeed you",
      "surely (will be) in",
      "a creation",
      "new?"
    ],
    [
      "Has he invented",
      "about",
      "Allah",
      "a lie",
      "or",
      "in him",
      "(is) madness?\"",
      "Nay,",
      "those who",
      "(do) not",
      "believe",
      "in the Hereafter",
      "(will be) in",
      "the punishment",
      "and error",
      "far."
    ],
    [
      "Then, do not",
      "they see",
      "towards",
      "what",
      "before",
      "them",
      "and what",
      "(is) behind them",
      "of",
      "the heaven",
      "and the earth?",
      "If",
      "We will",
      "We cause to swallow",
      "them",
      "the earth",
      "or",
      "cause to fall",
      "upon them",
      "fragments",
      "from",
      "the sky.",
      "Indeed,",
      "in",
      "that",
      "surely, is a Sign",
      "for every",
      "slave",
      "who turns (to Allah)."
    ],
    [
      "And certainly,",
      "We gave",
      "Dawood",
      "from Us",
      "Bounty.",
      "\"O mountains!",
      "Repeat praises",
      "with him,",
      "and the birds.\"",
      "And We made pliable",
      "for him",
      "[the] iron,"
    ],
    [
      "That",
      "make",
      "full coats of mail",
      "and measure precisely",
      "[of]",
      "the links (of armor),",
      "and work",
      "righteousness.",
      "Indeed, I Am",
      "of what",
      "you do",
      "All-Seer."
    ],
    [
      "And to Sulaiman,",
      "the wind -",
      "its morning course",
      "(was) a month",
      "and its afternoon course",
      "(was) a month,",
      "and We caused to flow",
      "for him",
      "a spring",
      "(of) molten copper.",
      "And [of]",
      "the jinn",
      "who",
      "worked",
      "before",
      "him",
      "by the permission",
      "(of) his Lord.",
      "And whoever",
      "deviated",
      "among them",
      "from",
      "Our Command,",
      "We will make him taste",
      "of",
      "(the) punishment",
      "(of) the Blaze."
    ],
    [
      "They worked",
      "for him",
      "what",
      "he willed",
      "of",
      "elevated chambers",
      "and statues",
      "and bowls",
      "like reservoirs",
      "and cooking-pots",
      "fixed.",
      "\"Work,",
      "O family",
      "(of) Dawood!",
      "(in) gratitude.\"",
      "But few",
      "of",
      "My slaves",
      "(are) grateful."
    ],
    [
      "Then when",
      "We decreed",
      "for him",
      "the death,",
      "not",
      "indicated to them",
      "[on]",
      "his death",
      "except",
      "a creature",
      "(of) the earth",
      "eating",
      "his staff.",
      "But when",
      "he fell down,",
      "became clear",
      "(to) the jinn",
      "that",
      "if",
      "they had",
      "known",
      "the unseen,",
      "not",
      "they (would have) remained",
      "in",
      "the punishment",
      "humiliating."
    ],
    [
      "Certainly,",
      "(there) was",
      "for Saba",
      "in",
      "their dwelling place",
      "a sign:",
      "Two gardens",
      "on",
      "(the) right",
      "and (on the) left.",
      "\"Eat",
      "from",
      "(the) provision",
      "(of) your Lord",
      "and be grateful",
      "to Him.",
      "A land",
      "good",
      "and a Lord",
      "Oft-Forgiving.\""
    ],
    [
      "But they turned away,",
      "so We sent",
      "upon them",
      "(the) flood",
      "(of) the dam,",
      "and We changed for them",
      "their two gardens",
      "(with) two gardens",
      "bearing",
      "fruit",
      "bitter,",
      "and tamarisks",
      "and (some)thing",
      "of",
      "lote trees",
      "few."
    ],
    [
      "That",
      "We recompensed them",
      "because",
      "they disbelieved.",
      "And not",
      "We recompense",
      "except",
      "the ungrateful."
    ],
    [
      "And We made",
      "between them",
      "and between",
      "the towns",
      "which",
      "We had blessed",
      "in it",
      "towns",
      "visible.",
      "And We determined",
      "between them",
      "the journey.",
      "\"Travel",
      "between them",
      "(by) night",
      "and (by) day",
      "safely.\""
    ],
    [
      "But they said,",
      "\"Our Lord",
      "lengthen (the distance)",
      "between",
      "our journeys.\"",
      "And they wronged",
      "themselves,",
      "so We made them",
      "narrations",
      "and We dispersed them",
      "(in) a total",
      "dispersion.",
      "Indeed,",
      "in",
      "that",
      "surely (are) Signs",
      "for everyone,",
      "patient",
      "(and) grateful."
    ],
    [
      "And certainly,",
      "found true",
      "about them",
      "Iblis",
      "his assumption,",
      "so they followed him",
      "except",
      "a group",
      "of",
      "the believers."
    ],
    [
      "And not",
      "was",
      "for him",
      "over them",
      "any",
      "authority",
      "except",
      "that We (might) make evident",
      "who",
      "believes",
      "in the Hereafter",
      "from (one) who",
      "[he]",
      "about it",
      "(is) in",
      "doubt.",
      "And your Lord",
      "over",
      "all",
      "things",
      "(is) a Guardian."
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Call upon",
      "those whom",
      "you claim",
      "besides",
      "besides",
      "Allah.\"",
      "Not",
      "they possess",
      "(the) weight",
      "(of) an atom",
      "in",
      "the heavens",
      "and not",
      "in",
      "the earth",
      "and not",
      "for them",
      "in both of them",
      "any",
      "partnership,",
      "and not",
      "for Him",
      "from them",
      "any",
      "supporter."
    ],
    [
      "And not",
      "benefits",
      "the intercession",
      "with Him",
      "except",
      "for (one) whom",
      "He permits",
      "for him.",
      "Until",
      "when",
      "fear is removed",
      "on",
      "their hearts,",
      "they will say,",
      "\"What is that -",
      "has said",
      "your Lord",
      "They will say,",
      "\"The truth.\"",
      "And He",
      "(is) the Most High,",
      "the Most Great."
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Who",
      "provides (for) you",
      "from",
      "the heavens",
      "and the earth?\"",
      "Say,",
      "\"Allah.",
      "And indeed, we",
      "or",
      "you",
      "(are) surely upon",
      "guidance",
      "or",
      "in",
      "error",
      "clear.\""
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Not",
      "you will be asked",
      "about what",
      "sins we committed",
      "and not",
      "we will be asked",
      "about what",
      "you do.\""
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Will gather",
      "us together",
      "our Lord,",
      "then",
      "He will judge",
      "between us",
      "in truth.",
      "And He",
      "(is) the Judge",
      "the All-Knowing.\""
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Show me",
      "those whom",
      "you have joined",
      "with Him",
      "(as) partners.",
      "By no means!",
      "Nay,",
      "He",
      "(is) Allah",
      "the All-Mighty,",
      "the All-Wise.\""
    ],
    [
      "And not",
      "We have sent you",
      "except",
      "comprehensively",
      "to mankind",
      "(as) a giver of glad tidings",
      "and (as) a warner.",
      "But",
      "most",
      "[the] people",
      "(do) not",
      "know."
    ],
    [
      "And they say,",
      "\"When",
      "(is) this",
      "promise,",
      "if",
      "you are",
      "truthful?\""
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"For you",
      "(is the) appointment",
      "(of) a Day,",
      "not",
      "you can postpone",
      "[of] it",
      "(for) an hour,",
      "and not",
      "(can) you precede (it).\""
    ],
    [
      "And say",
      "those who",
      "disbelieve,",
      "\"Never will",
      "we believe",
      "in this",
      "Quran",
      "and not",
      "in (that) which",
      "before",
      "it",
      "But if",
      "you (could) see",
      "when",
      "the wrongdoers",
      "will be made to stand",
      "before",
      "their Lord,",
      "will throw back",
      "some of them",
      "to",
      "others",
      "the word.",
      "Will say",
      "those who",
      "were oppressed",
      "to those who",
      "were arrogant,",
      "\"If not",
      "(for) you",
      "certainly we (would) have been",
      "believers.\""
    ],
    [
      "Will say",
      "those who",
      "were arrogant",
      "to those",
      "who were oppressed,",
      "\"Did we",
      "avert you",
      "from",
      "the guidance",
      "after",
      "when",
      "it had come to you?",
      "Nay,",
      "you were",
      "criminals.\""
    ],
    [
      "And will say",
      "those who",
      "were oppressed",
      "to those who",
      "were arrogant,",
      "\"Nay,",
      "(it was) a plot",
      "(by) night",
      "and (by) day",
      "when",
      "you were ordering us",
      "that",
      "we disbelieve",
      "in Allah",
      "and we set up",
      "for Him",
      "equals.\"",
      "But they will conceal",
      "the regret",
      "when",
      "they see",
      "the punishment.",
      "And We will put",
      "shackles",
      "on",
      "(the) necks",
      "(of) those who",
      "disbelieved.",
      "Will",
      "they be recompensed",
      "except",
      "(for) what",
      "they used to",
      "do?"
    ],
    [
      "And not",
      "We sent",
      "to",
      "a town",
      "any",
      "warner",
      "but",
      "said",
      "its wealthy ones,",
      "\"Indeed we,",
      "in what",
      "you have been sent",
      "with,",
      "(are) disbelievers.\""
    ],
    [
      "And they say,",
      "\"We",
      "(have) more",
      "wealth",
      "and children,",
      "and not",
      "we",
      "will be punished.\""
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Indeed,",
      "my Lord",
      "extends",
      "the provision",
      "for whom",
      "He wills",
      "and restricts,",
      "but",
      "most",
      "[the] people",
      "(do) not",
      "know.\""
    ],
    [
      "And not",
      "your wealth",
      "and not",
      "your children",
      "[that]",
      "will bring you close",
      "to Us",
      "(in) position,",
      "but",
      "whoever",
      "believes",
      "and does",
      "righteousness,",
      "then those,",
      "for them",
      "(will be) reward",
      "two-fold",
      "for what",
      "they did,",
      "and they",
      "(will be) in",
      "the high dwellings",
      "secure."
    ],
    [
      "And those who",
      "strive",
      "against",
      "Our Verses",
      "(to) cause failure,",
      "those",
      "into",
      "the punishment",
      "(will be) brought."
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Indeed,",
      "my Lord",
      "extends",
      "the provision",
      "for whom",
      "He wills",
      "of",
      "His slaves",
      "and restricts",
      "for him.",
      "But what",
      "you spend",
      "of",
      "anything",
      "then He",
      "will compensate it",
      "and He",
      "(is the) Best",
      "(of) the Providers."
    ],
    [
      "And (the) Day",
      "He will gather them",
      "all,",
      "then",
      "He will say",
      "to the Angels,",
      "Were these",
      "you",
      "they were",
      "worshipping?\""
    ],
    [
      "They will say,",
      "\"Glory be to You!",
      "You",
      "(are) our Protector,",
      "rather than",
      "them",
      "Nay,",
      "they used",
      "(to) worship",
      "the jinn,",
      "most of them",
      "in them",
      "(were) believers.\""
    ],
    [
      "But today",
      "not",
      "possess power",
      "some of you",
      "on others",
      "to benefit",
      "and not",
      "to harm,",
      "and We will say",
      "to those",
      "who wronged,",
      "\"Taste",
      "(the) punishment",
      "(of) the Fire",
      "which",
      "you used",
      "to [it]",
      "deny.\""
    ],
    [
      "And when",
      "are recited",
      "to them",
      "Our Verses",
      "clear",
      "they say,",
      "\"Not",
      "(is) this",
      "but",
      "a man",
      "who wishes",
      "to",
      "hinder you",
      "from what",
      "used",
      "(to) worship",
      "your forefathers.\"",
      "And they say,",
      "\"Not",
      "(is) this",
      "except",
      "a lie",
      "invented.\"",
      "And said",
      "those who",
      "disbelieved",
      "about the truth",
      "when",
      "it came to them,",
      "\"Not",
      "(is) this",
      "except",
      "a magic",
      "obvious.\""
    ],
    [
      "And not",
      "We (had) given them",
      "any",
      "Scriptures",
      "which they could study,",
      "and not",
      "We sent",
      "to them",
      "before you",
      "any",
      "warner."
    ],
    [
      "And denied",
      "those who",
      "from",
      "before them",
      "and not",
      "they have attained",
      "a tenth",
      "(of) what",
      "We (had) given them.",
      "But they denied",
      "My Messengers,",
      "so how",
      "was",
      "My rejection?"
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Only",
      "I advise you",
      "for one (thing),",
      "that",
      "you stand",
      "for Allah",
      "(in) pairs",
      "and (as) individuals,",
      "then",
      "reflect.\"",
      "Not",
      "(is in) your companion",
      "any",
      "madness.",
      "Not",
      "he",
      "(is) except",
      "a warner",
      "for you",
      "before",
      "before",
      "a punishment",
      "severe.\""
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Not",
      "I ask you",
      "for",
      "any payment,",
      "but it (is)",
      "for you.",
      "Not",
      "(is) my payment",
      "but",
      "from",
      "Allah.",
      "And He",
      "(is) over",
      "all",
      "things",
      "a Witness.\""
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Indeed,",
      "my Lord",
      "projects",
      "the truth,",
      "(the) All-Knower",
      "(of) the unseen.\""
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"Has come",
      "the truth",
      "and not",
      "(can) originate",
      "the falsehood",
      "and not",
      "repeat.\""
    ],
    [
      "Say,",
      "\"If",
      "I err,",
      "then only",
      "I will err",
      "against",
      "myself.",
      "But if",
      "I am guided,",
      "then it is by what",
      "reveals",
      "to me",
      "my Lord.",
      "Indeed, He",
      "(is) All-Hearer,",
      "Ever-Near.\""
    ],
    [
      "And if",
      "you (could) see",
      "when",
      "they will be terrified",
      "but (there will be) no",
      "escape,",
      "and they will be seized",
      "from",
      "a place",
      "near."
    ],
    [
      "And they will say,",
      "\"We believe",
      "in it.\"",
      "But how",
      "for them",
      "(will be) the receiving",
      "from",
      "a place",
      "far off?"
    ],
    [
      "And certainly,",
      "they disbelieved",
      "in it",
      "before.",
      "before.",
      "And they utter conjectures",
      "about the unseen",
      "from",
      "a place",
      "far off."
    ],
    [
      "And a barrier will be placed",
      "between them",
      "and between",
      "what",
      "they desire,",
      "as",
      "was done",
      "with their kind",
      "before.",
      "before.",
      "Indeed, they",
      "were",
      "in",
      "doubt",
      "disquieting."
    ]
  ],
  "juz": 22,
  "glossNote": "Word meanings follow the Quranic Arabic Corpus. Repeated phrase glosses are divided into individual word senses for the displayed Arabic; exact adjustments are saved in the source audit. Stray Image labels from source rendering are removed."
}