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Translation of page 477

1. 41:1

   Ḥā, Meem.

2. 41:2

   [This is] a revelation from the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful -

3. 41:3

   A Book whose verses have been detailed, an Arabic Qur’ān for a people who know,

4. 41:4

   As a giver of good tidings and a warner; but most of them turn away, so they do not hear.

5. 41:5

   And they say, "Our hearts are within coverings [i.e., screened] from that to which you invite us, and in our ears is deafness, and between us and you is a partition, so work; indeed, we are working."

6. 41:6

   Say, [O Muḥammad], "I am only a man like you to whom it has been revealed that your god is but one God; so take a straight course to Him and seek His forgiveness." And woe to those who associate others with Allāh –

7. 41:7

   Those who do not give zakāh, and in the Hereafter they are disbelievers.

8. 41:8

   Indeed, those who believe and do righteous deeds - for them is a reward uninterrupted.

9. 41:9

   Say, "Do you indeed disbelieve in He who created the earth in two days and attribute to Him equals? That is the Lord of the worlds."

10. 41:10

    And He placed on it [i.e., the earth] firmly set mountains over its surface, and He blessed it and determined therein its [creatures'] sustenance in four days without distinction - for [the information of] those who ask.

11. 41:11

    Then He directed Himself to the heaven while it was smoke and said to it and to the earth, "Come [into being], willingly or by compulsion." They said, "We have come willingly."