An-Nahl (The Bees)
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In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Compassionate.
(16:1) Allah's command has come; so do not hasten it. Glorified is He and High above the partners they have set up.
(16:2) He sends down Angels with the Inspiration of His Command to whichever of His obedient ones He wills. Indeed, I am Allah; there is no deity but Me. Be responsible (before) Me!
(16:3) He created the universes and the earth with the truth. He is High above the partners they have set up.
(16:4) He created the human being from sperm, but then he becomes a clear opponent.
(16:5) The livestock He created for you, in them is warmth and benefits, and from them you eat.
(16:6) For you in them is attraction, when you relax and when you travel.
(16:7) They carry your loads to a place you would not have been able to reach except with great strain. Your Lord is Kind, Compassionate.
(16:8) And the horses, the mules, and the donkeys, that you may ride them and as an adornment. He creates what you do not know.
(16:9) Allah points the way in moderation, but there are roads that lead away. If Allah had willed, He would have set you all on a straight path.
(16:10) He is the One who sent down water from the sky for you, from it you drink, and from it emerge the trees that you wander around in.
(16:11) He brings forth with it vegetation, olives, palm trees, grapes and from all the fruits. In that are ideas for a people who think.
(16:12) He committed for you the night, the day, the sun, the moon. Also the stars are committed by His command. In that are ideas for a people who reason.
(16:13) What He has placed for you on earth in various colors. In that are ideas for a people of methodology.
(16:14) He is the One who committed the sea, that you may eat from it a tender meat, and that you may extract from it pearls that you wear. You see the ships flowing through it, so that you may seek from His bounty, and that you may be sincere.
(16:15) He has cast into the earth stabilizers so that it does not sway with you, and rivers, and paths, perhaps you will be guided.
(16:16) Landmarks, and by the stars they use to guide.
(16:17) Is the One who creates the same as one who does not create? Will you not (use) methodology?
(16:18) If you count the blessings of Allah you will not be able to fathom them. Allah is Forgiving, Compassionate.
(16:19) Allah knows what you hide and what you declare.
(16:20) As for those they call on besides Allah, they do not create anything, but are themselves created!
(16:21) They are dead, not alive, and they will not know when they are resurrected.
(16:22) Your Allah is One Allah. Those who do not acknowledge the Hereafter, their hearts are denying, and they are arrogant.
(16:23) Certainly, Allah knows what they hide and what they declare. He does not like the arrogant.
(16:24) If they are told: "What has your Lord sent down?" They say, "Ancient miths."
(16:25) They will carry their burdens in full on the day of Resurrection, and also from the burdens of those whom they misguided without knowledge. Evil indeed is what they bear.
(16:26) Those before them have schemed, but Allah came to their buildings from the foundation, thus the roof fell on top of them, and the retribution came to them from where they did not know.
(16:27) Then, on the day of Resurrection He will humiliate them, and say, "Where are My partners whom you used to dispute regarding them?" Those who have received the knowledge said, "The humiliation today and misery is upon the ingrates."
(16:28) Those whom the angels put to death when they have sinned against themselves will show docility and say, "We have done no evil. They will be answered, "Oh no! Verily Allah is aware of what you have done.
(16:29) "So welcome to the gates of Samsara! In it you shall reside! Such is the abode of the arrogant."
(16:30) It was said to those who were righteous: "What has your Lord sent down?" They said, "All goodness." For those who have done good in this world there is good, and the Hereafter is even better. Excellent indeed is the home of the righteous.
(16:31) Genetics of Eden, which they will enter, with rivers flowing beneath, in it they will have what they wish. It is such that Allah rewards the righteous.
(16:32) The angels will rest those who are virtuous with the words, "Solace to you! Enter the Garden of Eden as a (recompense) for what you (.) have done."
(16:33) Are they waiting for the angels to come for them, or a command from your Lord? It was exactly the same as what those before them did. Allah did not wrong them, but it was their own selves that they wronged.
(16:34) Thus, the evil of their work afflicted them, and they were surrounded by what they used to make fun of!
(16:35) The polytheists say, "If Allah had willed, neither we nor our fathers would have obeyed anything but Him, and we would not have (done) harm in any way contrary to Him. So did those who lived before. Were the messengers entrusted with anything but the clear transmission of revelation?
(16:36) And verily We have certainly appointed messages in every congregation, that (the congregations) may obey Allah, and shun the Empires. And among them are those whom Allah hath directed, and among them are those to whom Delusion has rightly been appointed. Travel through the earth, and observe - what was the end of the Knuckleheads!
(16:37) If you are concerned for their guidance, Allah does not guide whom He misleads. They will have no victors.
(16:38) They swore by Allah, in their strongest oaths, that Allah will not resurrect whoever dies. No, it is a promise of truth upon Him, but most people do not know.
(16:39) So that He will make clear for them that in which they have disputed, and so that those who have rejected will know that they were liars.
(16:40) When We want something, We should say, «Be!» - and it continues.
(16:41) Those who have emigrated for Allah, after they were oppressed, We will grant them good in the world, and the gratuity of the Hereafter will be greater, if they knew.
(16:42) Those who are sober, and put their trust in their Lord.
(16:43) We have sent before you only men who were compelled (revelations). So ask the Possessors of Methodology, if you are in ignorance.
(16:44) With the clear proofs and The Hymns. We sent down to you The Methodology that you may clarify to the mankind, what was sent to them. Perhaps they will use allegorical thinking.
(16:45) Do those who build evil plots not immune that Allah will cause the earth to swallow them up, or that torment will befall them from whence they do not expect it?
(16:46) Or that He will take them in their actions as they cannot escape?
(16:47) Or that He will take them while they are in fear? Your Lord is Kind, Compassionate.
(16:48) Did they not see that what Allah has created, its shadow inclines to the right and the left prostrating to Allah, willingly?
(16:49) And to Allah are subjected all those in the heavens and all those on the earth, from the creatures as well as the angels, and they are not arrogant.
(16:50) They fear their Lord from above them, and they do what they are commanded.
(16:51) Allah said, "Do not take-up two Allahs, there is only One Allah, so it is Me that you shall revere."
(16:52) To Him is what is in the heavens and the earth, and the system shall always be to Him. Is it other than Allah that you shall be aware of?
(16:53) Any blessings that are with you are from Allah. Then, when harm afflicts you, to Him you cry out.
(16:54) Then, when He removes the harm from you, a group of you set up partners with their Lord!
(16:55) So they reject what We have given them. Enjoy, for you will come to know.
(16:56) They allocate a portion from what We provide to them to what they did not have knowledge of. By Allah, you will be asked about the lies you have invented!
(16:57) They assign daughters to Allah; be He glorified; and to them is what they desire.
(16:58) When someone (of them) is happy (with the news) of the girl, his face turns dark and black, and he (barely) holds back (his anger).
(16:59) He hides from his people because of the bad news he has received. Shall he keep her with dishonor, or bury her in the sand? Miserable indeed is how they judge!
(16:60) For those who do not acknowledge the Hereafter is the worst example, and for Allah is the highest example, and He is the Noble, the Acuminate.
(16:61) If Allah were to immediately call the people to account for their transgression, then He would not leave a single creature standing. But He delays them to a determined time; so when that time comes to any of them, they cannot delay it by one moment or advance it.
(16:62) They attribute to Allah what they hate, and their tongues assert lies that they will get the best. No doubt they will have the fire, for they have rebelled.
(16:63) By Allah, We have sent others to nations before you, but the devil adorned their work for them. So he is their ally today, and they will have a painful retribution.
(16:64) We did not send down the book to you except that you may proclaim to them that in which they disputed, and as a guidance and mercy to a people who acknowledge.
(16:65) Allah has sent down water from the sky, so He revives the land with it after its death. In that is an idea for a people who listen.
(16:66) And indeed, for you there is a lesson in the livestock. We give you to drink from what is in its stomachs between the digested food and the blood, whole milk which is relieving for the drinkers.
(16:67) From the fruits of the palm trees and the grapes you get sugar (addiction) as well as a good provision. In that is an idea for a people who reason.
(16:68) Your Lord inspired to the bee: "You shall take homes of the mountains and of the trees and of what they erect."
(16:69) Then you shall eat from every fruit, so seek the path your Lord has made easy. From its stomachs will emerge a liquid that has different colors, wherein there is a healing for the people. In that is an idea for a people who will think.
(16:70) Allah created you, then He will take you. Some of you will continue to the most miserable age so that he will not know anything after knowledge. Allah is Omniscient, Omnipotent.
(16:71) Allah has preferred some of you over others in provision. Those who have been preferred will not relinquish their provision to those whom they have contractual rights, so they may become equal in it. Are they denying the favor of Allah?
(16:72) Allah has made for you mates from amongst yourselves, and He has made from your mates children and grandchildren, and He has provided you from the good provisions. Do they acknowledge falsehood, while in Allah's favor they are denying?
(16:73) They obey, apart from Allah, that which has not and cannot have a destiny for them in heaven and on earth.
(16:74) So do not give parables to Allah. Allah knows while you do not know.
(16:75) Allah gave the parable of the obedient who belongs to another and can do nothing, and the man to whom We have given a beautiful estate and who spends it secretly and openly. Are they equal? Praise Allah! But most people don't know that.
(16:76) Allah puts forth the example of two men, one of them is mute and he cannot control anything, and he is a burden to his master. Wherever he points him, he does not come with any good. Is he the same as one who orders good and he is on a straight path?
(16:77) To Allah is the mystery of the heavens and the earth, and the matter of the moment is like the blink of the eye or nearer. Allah is capable of all things.
(16:78) Allah produced you out of your mothers’ wombs while you knew nothing. He made for you the hearing and the eyesight and the intuition, perhaps you would be sincere.
(16:79) Did they not look to the birds held in the atmosphere of the sky? No one holds them up except Allah. In that are ideas for a people who acknowledge.
(16:80) Allah has made your homes a habitat, and He made for you from the hides of the livestock shelter which you find light for travel and when you stay, and from its wool, fur, and hair you make furnishings and goods, for a while.
(16:81) And Allah has given you shadows from what He has created. He has set up shelters for you in the mountains, and given you equipment to protect you from the heat, and armor to protect you from wounds in battle. Thus He brings (to the end) His mercy to you, that you may (be) docile.
(16:82) So if they turn away, then you are only required to deliver clearly.
(16:83) They recognize Allah's blessing, then they deny it. Most of them are ingrates.
(16:84) The day We send from every community a witness, then those who have rejected will not be given leave, nor will they be allowed to make amends.
(16:85) Then those who were wicked will see the retribution; it will not be lightened for them, nor will they be given respite.
(16:86) When those who set up partners saw the partners they made, they said, "Our Lord, these are our partners that we used to call upon besides You." But they returned in answer to them: "You are liars!"
(16:87) In that day they will (make) docile to Allah, and that which they have devised will depart from them.
(16:88) Those who rejected, and repelled others from the path of Allah, We have increased the retribution for them over the retribution for what they had corrupted.
(16:89) And on that day We shall appoint in every denomination a checker from among them, and We shall bring thee as a checker against them. And We have sent down the Scripture for you to determine (the right choice) for all kinds of situations, as a guide, a mercy and a good tidings for the Reconciled.
(16:90) Indeed, Allah commands us to observe justice, to do good, and to give gifts to our relatives. He forbids abominations, reprehensible deeds and impurities. He exhorts you - may you remember (the exhortation).
(16:91) You shall fulfill your accord to Allah when you accorded so, and do not violate your oath after making it, for you have endowed Allah a sponsor over you. Allah is aware of what you do.
(16:92) Do not be like the one who unraveled her knitting after it had become strong, by breaking your oaths as a means of deception between you, because a nation is more numerous than another nation. Allah only puts you to the test by it. He will show you on the day of Resurrection what you were disputing in.
(16:93) Had Allah wished, He would have made you one nation, but He misguides whom He wishes, and He guides whom He wishes. You will be asked about what you used to do.
(16:94) Do not use your oaths as a means of deception between you, that a foot will falter after it had been firm, and you will taste the evil of turning away from the path of Allah, and you will have a great retribution.
(16:95) Do not purchase with Allah's pledge a cheap price. What is with Allah is far better for you if you know.
(16:96) What you have will run out, while what Allah has will remain. We will recompense those who are patient, their gratuity with the best of what they used to do.
(16:97) To the men and women of faith who have acted righteously, We will surely bestow a beautiful life and gratuity the best of what they have done.
(16:98) And when you construct the Quran, resort to (the protection of) Allah, from (subjected to) Satan's Anathema.
(16:99) He has no authority over those who immune, and who put their trust in their Lord.
(16:100) His authority is over those who follow him, and those who set him up as a partner.
(16:101) If We exchange an idea in place of another idea; and Allah is more aware of what He is revealing; they say, "You are making this up!" Alas, most of them do not know.
(16:102) Say: "Send down the Holy inspiration (spirit) from your Lord with the Truth, to strengthen those who trust, and (as) guidance, and good news for the reconciled.
(16:103) We are aware that they say, "A human is teaching him." The language of the one they refer to is foreign, while this is a clear Arabic language.
(16:104) Those who do not acknowledge Allah's ideas, Allah will not guide them, and they will have a painful retribution.
(16:105) Making up lies is only done by those who do not acknowledge Allah's ideas, and these are the liars.
(16:106) Whoever rejects Allah after having acknowledged; except for one who is forced while his heart is still content with acknowledgement; and has opened his chest to rejection, then they will have a wrath from Allah and they will have a great retribution.
(16:107) That is because they preferred the worldly life over the Hereafter, and Allah does not guide the rejecting people.
(16:108) Those are the ones whom Allah has stamped on their hearts, their hearing, and their sight; such are the heedless.
(16:109) Without doubt, in the Hereafter they are the losers.
(16:110) Your Lord is to those who emigrated after they were persecuted, then they strived and were patient; your Lord after that is Forgiving, Compassionate.
(16:111) The day every person will come to argue for herself, and every person will be paid in full for what she did, and they will not be wronged.
(16:112) Allah cites the example of a town which was peaceful and content, its provisions were coming to it bountifully from all places, but then it rebelled against Allah's blessings and Allah made it taste hunger and fear for what they used to do.
(16:113) A messenger came to them from themselves, but they denied him. So, the punishment took them while they were wicked.
(16:114) Eat what is holy and good from what Allah has given you, and be sincere for Allah's mercies as you obey Allah.
(16:115) He only (made) it harmful for you to eat dead meat, blood, the meat of pig, and that which is not slaughtered in the name of Allah. But if one is compelled to go to these things, without reaching for what is harmful, and without transgressing the limits of what is necessary, for Allah is forgiving, compassionate.
(16:116) Speak not a lie with your mouth, saying that this is permissible and that is harmful, and do not slander Allah. Indeed, those who blaspheme Allah will not prosper.
(16:117) A small enjoyment, and they will have a painful retribution.
(16:118) And as for those (called) jews, We have (made) harmful that which We told you before. We were not unjust toward them, but they were unjust toward themselves.
(16:119) Yet, your Lord, to those who repent and reform after committing the sin out of ignorance, your Lord after that is Forgiving, Compassionate.
(16:120) Abraham was a nation, devoted to Allah, a monotheist, and he was not among the Disuniting.
(16:121) Because he was thankful for His blessings, He chose him and guided him to the Cumulative Strategy.
(16:122) We gave him good in this world, and in the Hereafter he is of the reformed ones.
(16:123) Then We inspired to you: "You shall follow the creed of Abraham, monotheism, and he was not among the Disuniting."
(16:124) The Sabbath was only decreed for those who disputed in it, and your Lord will judge between them for what they disputed in.
(16:125) Invite to the path of your Lord with acme and good advice, and argue with them in the best possible manner. Your Lord is fully aware of who is misguided from His path, and He is fully aware of the guided ones.
(16:126) If you penalize, then punish with an equivalent punishment inflicted on you. If you show patience then it is better for the patient ones.
(16:127) Be patient, and your patience is only possible by Allah. Do not grieve for them, and do not be depressed by what they scheme.
(16:128) Allah is with those who are aware and are good doers.
