Gems from the Holy Qur’an
From the translation by Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss)
About the translator:
Muhammad Asad, Leopold Weiss, was born to Jewish parents in Livow, Austria (later Poland) in 1900, and at the age of 22 made his first visit to the Middle East. He later became an outstanding foreign correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung, and after years of devoted study became one of the leading Muslim scholars of our age. His translation of the Holy Qur'an is one of the most lucid and well-referenced works in this category, dedicated to “li-qawmin yatafakkaroon” (people who think). Forwarded by Dr Ismat Kamal.
Chapter 33, verses 41 – 48
O you who have attained to faith! Remember God with unceasing remembrance, and extol His limitless glory from morn to evening.
He it is who bestows His blessings upon you, with His angels [echoing Him], so that He might take you out of the depths of darkness into the light. And, indeed, a dispenser of grace is He unto the believers. On the day when they meet Him, they will be welcomed with the greeting, “Peace”; and He will have readied for them a most excellent reward.
[And as for thee,] O Prophet – behold, We have sent thee as a witness [to the truth], and as a herald of glad tidings and a warner, and as one who summons [all men] to God by His leave, and as a light-giving beacon.
And [so,] convey to the believers the glad tiding that a great bounty from God awaits them; and defer not to [the likes and dislikes of] the deniers of the truth and the hypocrites, and disregard their hurtful talk, and place thy trust in God: for none is as worthy of trust as God.
Chapter 33, verses 70 –71
O you who have attained to faith! Remain conscious of God, and [always] speak with a will to bring out [only] what is just and true – [whereupon] He will cause your deeds to be virtuous, and will forgive you your sins. And [know that] whoever pays heed unto God and His apostle has already attained to a mighty triumph.
Chapter 35, verse 11
And [remember:] God creates [every one of] you out of dust, then out of a drop of sperm; and then He fashions you into either of the two sexes. And no female conceives or gives birth unless it be with His knowledge; and none that is long-lived has his days lengthened – and neither is aught lessened of his days – unless it be thus laid down in [God’s] decree: for, behold, all this is easy for God.
Chapter 35, verses 15 –16
O men! It is you who stand in need of God, whereas He alone is self-sufficient, the one to whom all praise is due.
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