The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

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The Quran 41: 45
Quran, they would have said, ‘If only its verses were clear! What?
Foreign speech to an Arab?’ Say, ‘It is guidance and healing for those
who have faith, but the ears of the disbelievers are heavy, they are
blind to it, it is as if they are being called from a distant place.’ 45 We
gave the Scripture to Moses but disputes arose about it – if it were
not for a decree that had already been issued from your Lord, they
would already have been judged – and still they are doubtful and
suspicious of it.
46 Whoever does good does it for his own soul and whoever does
evil does it against his own soul: your Lord is never unjust to His
creatures. 47 Knowledge of the Hour belongs solely to Him and no
crop comes out of its sheath, nor does any female conceive or give
birth, without His knowledge. On the Day He asks them, ‘Where are
My partners?’ they will answer, ‘We admit to You that none of us can
see [them]’: 48 the gods they invoked before will have vanished away;
they will know that there is no escape.
49 Man never tires of asking for good, but if evil touches him he
loses all hope and becomes despondent. 50 Whenever We let him taste
some of Our mercy after he has been afflicted, he is sure to say, ‘This
is all my own doing: I do not think the Hour will ever come, but even
if I were to be taken back to my Lord, the best reward would await
me with Him.’ We shall most certainly inform the disbelievers
of what they have done and give them a taste of severe torment.
51 Whenever We are gracious to man, he goes away haughtily, but, as
soon as evil touches him, he turns to prolonged prayer. 52 Say
[Prophet], ‘Have you ever thought, what if this revelation really is
from God and you still reject it? Who could be more astray than
someone who cuts himself off so far [from God]?’ 53 We shall show
them Our signs in every region of the earth and in themselves, until
it becomes clear to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that
your Lord witnesses everything? 54 Truly, they doubt that they will
meet their Lord; truly He encompasses a everything.
a This is muhit, a metaphor in Arabic for having full knowledge and full power over
everything.