WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.099 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:04.099 --> 00:00:07.700 Ha, Meem. 00:00:07.700 --> 00:00:12.900 By the clear Book, 00:00:12.900 --> 00:00:19.899 “Lo! We revealed it on a blessed night - Lo! We are ever warning -” (44:3) 00:00:19.899 --> 00:00:26.100 indeed, We have always been warning. 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:31.300 “Whereon every wise command is made clear” (44:4) 00:00:31.300 --> 00:00:35.500 A matter decreeing from Us, 00:00:35.500 --> 00:00:41.899 for indeed, We have always sent messengers, 00:00:41.899 --> 00:00:45.439 as a mercy from your Lord. 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:51.740 Truly, He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing, 00:00:51.740 --> 00:00:56.640 Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:03.039 if you would only be certain. 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:08.040 There is no deity worthy of worship except Him; He gives life and causes death, 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:14.730 your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers. 00:01:14.730 --> 00:01:19.930 “Nay, but they play in doubt.” (44:9) 00:01:19.930 --> 00:01:28.129 “But watch thou (O Muhammad) for the day when the sky will produce visible smoke” (44:10) 00:01:28.129 --> 00:01:34.129 “That will envelop the people. This will be a painful torment.” (44:11) 00:01:34.129 --> 00:01:41.730 "Our Lord, relieve us of the punishment; indeed, we will believe." 00:01:41.730 --> 00:01:49.730 How can they take heed when there has already come to them a clear messenger, 00:01:49.730 --> 00:01:57.129 “And they had turned away from him and said: One taught (by others), a madman?” (44:14) 00:01:57.129 --> 00:02:06.930 Indeed, We will remove the punishment a little, but you will surely revert. 00:02:06.930 --> 00:02:10.729 “On the day when We shall seize them with the greater seizure, (then) in truth We shall punish.” (44:16) 00:02:10.729 --> 00:02:15.930 and indeed, We will exact retribution. 00:02:15.930 --> 00:02:20.530 “And verily We tried before them Pharaoh's folk, when there came unto them a noble messenger,” (44:17) 00:02:20.530 --> 00:02:25.330 and there came to them a noble messenger, 00:02:25.330 --> 00:02:29.330 “Saying: Give up to me the slaves of Allah. Lo! I am a faithful messenger unto you.” (44:18) 00:02:29.330 --> 00:02:35.050 "Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger, 00:02:35.050 --> 00:02:41.120 “And saying: Be not proud against Allah. Lo! I bring you a clear warrant.” (44:19) 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:47.449 “And saying: Be not proud against Allah. Lo! I bring you a clear warrant.” (44:19) 00:02:47.449 --> 00:02:56.050 “And lo! I have sought refuge in my Lord and your Lord lest ye stone me to death.” (44:20) 00:02:56.050 --> 00:03:00.449 “And if ye put no faith in me, then let me go.” (44:21) 00:03:00.449 --> 00:03:09.849 So he called upon his Lord, "These are indeed a criminal people." 00:03:09.849 --> 00:03:16.789 "So depart with My servants by night; indeed, you will be pursued, 00:03:16.789 --> 00:03:25.789 “And leave the sea behind at rest, for lo! they are a drowned host.” (44:24) 00:03:25.789 --> 00:03:32.189 “How many were the gardens and the watersprings that they left behind,” (44:25) 00:03:32.189 --> 00:03:37.789 and crops, and a noble estate, 00:03:37.789 --> 00:03:44.590 “And pleasant things wherein they took delight!” (44:27) 00:03:44.590 --> 00:03:50.189 “Even so (it was), and We made it an inheritance for other folk;” (44:28) 00:03:50.189 --> 00:03:59.590 “And the heaven and the earth wept not for them, nor were they reprieved.” (44:29) 00:03:59.590 --> 00:04:06.789 “And We delivered the Children of Israel from the shameful doom;” (44:30) 00:04:06.789 --> 00:04:09.590 from Pharaoh. 00:04:09.590 --> 00:04:15.870 “(We delivered them) from Pharaoh. Lo! he was a tyrant of the wanton ones.” (44:31) 00:04:15.870 --> 00:04:21.870 “And We chose them, purposely, above (all) creatures.” (44:32) 00:04:21.870 --> 00:04:30.069 “And We gave them portents wherein was a clear trial.” (44:33) 00:04:30.069 --> 00:04:44.079 Indeed, these people say, "There is nothing beyond our first death, and we will not be resurrected." 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:51.970 “Bring back our fathers, if ye speak the truth!” (44:36) 00:04:51.970 --> 00:04:59.170 “Are they better, or the folk of Tubb'a and those before them? We destroyed them, for surely they were guilty.” (44:37) 00:04:59.170 --> 00:05:06.220 “Are they better, or the folk of Tubb'a and those before them? We destroyed them, for surely they were guilty.” (44:37) 00:05:06.220 --> 00:05:13.819 “And We created not the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in play.” (44:38) 00:05:13.819 --> 00:05:23.420 “We created them not save with truth; but most of them know not.” (44:39) 00:05:23.420 --> 00:05:30.420 Indeed, the Day of Judgement is the appointed time for them all, 00:05:30.420 --> 00:05:40.019 the Day when no relation will avail a relation at all, nor will they be helped, 00:05:40.019 --> 00:05:48.829 “Save him on whom Allah hath mercy. Lo! He is the Mighty, the Merciful.” (44:42) 00:05:48.829 --> 00:05:53.959 Indeed, the tree of Zaqqum 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:57.959 is the food of the sinful, 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:02.759 “Like molten brass, it seetheth in their bellies” (44:45) 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:05.959 boiling like scalding water. 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:13.360 “(And it will be said): Take him and drag him to the midst of hell,” (44:47) 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:21.019 "Then pour over his head the torment of boiling water." 00:06:21.019 --> 00:06:27.889 “(Saying): Taste! Lo! thou wast forsooth the mighty, the noble!” (44:49) 00:06:27.889 --> 00:06:35.670 “Lo! this is that whereof ye used to doubt.” (44:50) 00:06:35.670 --> 00:06:43.329 “Lo! those who kept their duty will be in a place secured.” (44:51) 00:06:43.329 --> 00:06:49.019 in gardens and springs, 00:06:49.019 --> 00:06:57.620 “Attired in silk and silk embroidery, facing one another.” (44:53) 00:06:57.620 --> 00:07:04.220 “Even so (it will be). And We shall wed them unto fair ones with wide, lovely eyes.” (44:54) 00:07:04.220 --> 00:07:09.819 “They call therein for every fruit in safety.” (44:55) 00:07:09.819 --> 00:07:15.620 “They taste not death therein, save the first death. And He hath saved them from the doom of hell,” (44:56) 00:07:15.620 --> 00:07:20.019 and He protected them from the torment of Hellfire, 00:07:20.019 --> 00:07:23.420 as a bounty from your Lord. 00:07:23.420 --> 00:07:28.220 That is indeed the supreme triumph. 00:07:28.220 --> 00:07:36.879 “And We have made (this Scripture) easy in thy language only that they may heed.” (44:58) 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:44.899 So wait; indeed, they too are waiting.