{"product_id":"the-koran-isbn-9780553587524","title":"The Koran","description":"The Qur'an, a masterpiece of immense religious and literary value, is presented in a convenient, affordable edition for a new generation of readers. The earliest known work in Arabic prose, the Qur'an is divided into 114 \"suras\", or chapters, containing the religious, social, civil, commercial, military, and legal codes of Islam.\u003cb\u003eJohn Medows Rodwell\u003c\/b\u003e (1808–1900) published his acclaimed translation of the Koran in 1861.SURA I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKAF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE BE to God, Lord of the worlds!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Compassionate, the Merciful!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKing on the Day of Reckoning!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThee only do we worship, and to Thee do we cry for help.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuide Thou us on the straight path,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe path of those to whom Thou has been gracious;--with whom Thou art not angry, and who go not astray.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSURA II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE COW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELIF. LAM. Mim. No doubt is there about this Book: It is a guidance to the God-fearing,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho believe in the Unseen, who observe prayer, and out of what We have bestowed on them, expend for God;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd who believe in what hath been sent down to thee, and in what hath been sent down before thee, and full faith have they in the life to come:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are guided by their Lord; and with these it shall be well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs to the infidels, alike is it to them whether Thou warn them or warn them not--they will not believe:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir hearts and their ears hath God sealed up; and over their eyes is a covering. For them, a severe chastisement!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd some there are who say, \"We believe in God, and in the latter day:\" Yet are they not believers!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFain would they deceive God and those who have believed; but they deceive themselves only, and know it not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiseased are their hearts! And that disease hath God increased to them. Theirs a sore chastisement, for that they treated their Prophet as a liar!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 And when it is said to them, \"Cause not disorders in the earth:\" they say, \"Nay, rather do we set them right.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs it not that they are themselves the authors of disorder? But they perceive it not!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when it is said to them, \"Believe as other men have believed;\" they say, \"Shall we believe as the fools have believed?\" Is it not that they are themselves the fools? But they know it not!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when they meet the faithful they say, \"We believe;\" but when they are apart with their Satans they say, \"Verily we hold with you, and at them we only mock.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGod shall mock at them, and keep them long in their rebellion, wandering in perplexity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are they who have purchased error at the price of guidance: but their traffic hath not been gainful, neither are they guided at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey are like one who kindleth a fire, and when it hath thrown its light on all around him. . . . God taketh away their light and leaveth them in darkness--they cannot see!--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeaf, dumb, blind: therefore they shall not retrace their steps from error!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr like those who, when there cometh a storm-cloud out of the heaven, big with darkness, thunder and lightning, thrust their fingers into their ears because of the thunder-clap, for fear of death! God is round about the infidels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe lightning almost snatcheth away their eyes! So oft as it gleameth on them they walk on in it, but when darkness closeth upon them, they stop! And if God pleased, of their ears and of their eyes would He surely deprive them:--verily God is almighty! O men of Mecca adore your Lord, who hath created you and those who were before you: haply ye will fear Him\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e20 Who hath made the earth a bed for you, and the heaven a covering, and hath caused water to come down from heaven, and by it hath brought forth fruits for your sustenance! Do not then wittingly give peers to God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd if ye be in doubt as to that which We have sent down to Our servant, then produce a Sura like it, and summon your witnesses, beside God, if ye are men of truth:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut if ye do it not, and never shall ye do it, then fear the Fire prepared for the infidels, whose fuel is men and stones:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut announce to those who believe and do the things that are right, that for them are gardens neath which the rivers flow! So oft as they are fed therefrom with fruit for sustenance, they shall say, \"This same was our sustenance of old:\" And they shall have its like given to them. Therein shall they have wives of perfect purity, and therein shall they abide for ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVerily God is not ashamed to set forth as well the instance of a gnat as of any nobler object: for as to those who have believed, they know it to be the truth from their Lord; but as to the unbelievers, they will say, \"What meaneth God by this comparison?\" Many will He mislead by such parables and many guide: but none will He mislead thereby except the wicked,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho, after its establishment, violate the covenant of God, and cut in sunder what God hath bidden to be joined, and act disorderly on the earth. These are they who shall suffer loss!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow can ye withhold faith from God? Ye were dead and He gave you life; next He will cause you to die; next He will restore you to life; next shall ye return to Him!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe it is who created for you all that is on earth, then proceeded to the heaven, and into seven heavens did He fashion it: and He knoweth all things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen thy Lord said to the angels, \"Verily, I am about to place one in my stead on earth,\" they said, \"Wilt thou place there one who will do ill therein and shed blood, when we celebrate thy praise and extol thy holiness?\" God said, \"Verily, I know what ye know not.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd He taught Adam the names of all things, and then set them before the angels, and said, \"Tell me the names of these, if ye are endued with wisdom.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e30 They said, \"Praise be to Thee! We have no knowledge but what Thou hast given us to know. Thou! Thou art the Knowing, the Wise.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe said, \"O Adam, inform them of their names.\" And when he had informed them of their names, He said, \"Did I not say to you that I know the hidden things of the heavens and of the earth, and that I know what ye bring to light, and what ye hide?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when We said to the angels, \"Bow down and worship Adam,\" then worshipped they all, save Eblis. He refused and swelled with pride, and became one of the unbelievers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd We said, \"Oh Adam! dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden, and eat ye plentifully therefrom wherever ye list; but to this tree come not nigh, lest ye become of the transgressors.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Satan made them slip from it, and caused their banishment from the place in which they were. And We said, \"Get ye down, the one of you an enemy to the other: and there shall be for you in the earth a dwelling-place, and a provision for a time.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd words of prayer learned Adam from his Lord: and God turned to him; for He loveth to turn, the Merciful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe said, \"Get ye down from it, all together: and if guidance shall come to you from Me, whoso shall follow My guidance, on them shall come no fear, neither shall they be grieved:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut they who shall not believe, and treat Our signs as falsehoods, these shall be inmates of the Fire; in it shall they remain for ever.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO children of Israel! remember My favour wherewith I shewed favour upon you, and be true to your covenant with Me; I will be true to my covenant with you; Me therefore, revere Me! and believe in what I have sent down confirming your Scriptures, and be not the first to disbelieve it, neither for a mean price barter My signs: Me therefore, fear ye Me!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd clothe not the truth with falsehood, and hide not the truth when ye know it:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e40 And observe prayer and pay the legal impost, and bow down with those who bow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill ye enjoin what is right upon others, and forget yourselves? Yet ye read the Book: will ye not understand?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd seek help with patience and prayer: a hard duty indeed is this, but not to the humble,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho bear in mind that they shall meet their Lord, and that unto Him shall they return.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO children of Israel! remember My favour wherewith I shewed favour upon you; for verily to you above all human beings have I been bounteous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd fear ye the day when soul shall not satisfy for soul at all, nor shall any intercession be accepted from them, nor shall any ransom be taken, neither shall they be helped.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd remember when We rescued you from the people of Pharaoh, who had laid on you a cruel chastisement. They slew your male children, and let only your females live: and in this was a great trial from your Lord:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when We parted the sea for you, and saved you, and drowned the people of Pharaoh, while ye were looking on:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when We were in treaty with Moses forty nights: then during his absence took ye the calf and acted wickedly:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet after this We forgave you, that ye might be grateful:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e50 And when We gave Moses the Book and the Illumination in order to your guidance:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd remember when Moses said to his people, \"O my people! verily ye have sinned to your own hurt, by your taking the calf to worship it: Be turned then to your Creator, and slay the guilty among you; this will be best for you with your Creator:\" Then turned He unto you, for He is the One who turneth, the Merciful:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when ye said, \"O Moses! we will not believe thee until we see God plainly;\" the thunderbolt fell upon you while ye were looking on:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen We raised you to life after ye had been dead, that haply ye might give thanks:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd We caused the clouds to overshadow you, and We sent down manna and quails upon you;--\"Eat of the good things We have given you for sustenance;\"--and they injured not Us but they injured themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when We said, \"Enter this city and eat therefrom plentifully at your will, and enter the gate with prostrations, and say, 'Forgiveness;' and We will pardon you your sins, and give an increase to the doers of good:\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the evil doers changed that word into another than that spoken to them, and we sent down upon those evil doers wrath from heaven, for that they had done amiss:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when Moses asked drink for his people, We said, \"Strike the rock with thy rod;\" and from it there gushed twelve fountains: each tribe knew their drinking-place:--\"Eat and drink,\" said We, \"of what God hath supplied, and do no wrong on the earth by licentious deeds:\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when ye said, \"O Moses! we will not put up with one sort of food: pray, therefore, thy Lord for us, that He would bring forth for us of that which the earth groweth, its herbs and its cucumbers and its garlic and its lentils and its onions:\" He said, \"What! will ye exchange that which is worse for what is better? Get ye down into Egypt;--for ye shall have what ye have asked:\" Vileness and poverty were stamped upon them, and they returned with wrath from God: This, for that they disbelieved the signs of God, and slew the prophets unjustly: this, for that they rebelled and transgressed!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVerily, they who believe (Muslims), and they who follow the Jewish religion, and the Christians, and the Sabeites--whoever of these believeth in God and the last day, and doeth that which is right, shall have their reward with their Lord: fear shall not come upon them, neither shall they be grieved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e60 Call to mind also when We entered into a covenant with you, and lifted up the mountain over you:--\"Take hold,\" said We, \"on what We have revealed to you, with resolution, and remember what is therein, that ye may fear:\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut after this ye turned back, and but for God's grace and mercy towards you, ye had surely been of the lost! Ye know too those of you who transgressed on the Sabbath, and to whom We said, \"Be changed into scouted apes:\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd We made them a warning to those of their day, and to those who came after them, and a caution to the God-fearing:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when Moses said to his people, \"Verily, God bids you sacrifice a COW;\" they said, \"Makest thou a jest of us?\" He said, \"God keep me from being one of the foolish.\" They said, \"Call on thy Lord for us that He would make plain to us what she is.\" He said, \"God saith, 'She is a cow neither old nor young, but of the middle age--between the two:' do therefore what ye are bidden.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey said, \"Call on your Lord for us, that He would make plain to us what is her colour.\" He said, \"God saith. 'She is a fawn-coloured cow; her colour is very bright; she rejoiceth the beholders.' \"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey said, \"Call on thy Lord for us that He would make plain to us what cow it is--for to us are cows alike,--and verily, if God please, we shall be guided rightly:\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe said, \"God saith, 'She is a cow not worn by ploughing the earth or watering the field, sound, no blemish in her.' \" They said, \"Now hast thou brought the truth:\" Then they sacrificed her; Yet nearly had they done it not:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when ye slew a man, and strove among yourselves about him, God brought to light what he had hidden:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor We said, \"Strike the corpse with part of her.\" So God giveth life to the dead, and sheweth you his signs, that haply ye may understand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen after that your hearts became hard like rocks, or harder still: for verily, from rocks have rivers gushed; others, verily, have been cleft, and water hath issued from them; and others, verily, have sunk down through fear of God: And God is not regardless of your actions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e70 Desire ye then that for your sakes the Jews should believe? Yet a part of them heard the word of God, and then, after they had understood it, perverted it, and knew that they did so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when they fall in with the faithful, they say, \"We believe;\" but when they are apart one with another, they say, \"Will ye acquaint them with what God hath revealed to you, that they may dispute with you about it in the presence of your Lord?\" Understand ye their aim?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnow they not that God knoweth what they hide, as well as what they bring to light?","brand":"Bantam Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303081038053,"sku":"NP9780553587524","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780553587524.jpg?v=1767740080","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-koran-isbn-9780553587524","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}