Ar-Ra'd 13:13 ويسبح الرعد بحمده والملايكة من خيفته ويرسل الصواعق فيصيب بها من يشاء وهم يجادلون في الله وهو شديد المحال ١٣

13:13

وَيُسَبِّحُ

ٱلرَّعۡدُ

بِحَمۡدِهِۦ

وَٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ

مِنۡ

خِيفَتِهِۦ

وَيُرۡسِلُ

ٱلصَّوَٰعِقَ

فَيُصِيبُ

بِهَا

مَن

يَشَآءُ

وَهُمۡ

يُجَٰدِلُونَ

فِي

ٱللَّهِ

وَهُوَ

شَدِيدُ

ٱلۡمِحَالِ

١٣

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Chapter 13, Page 250, Juz 13

8. Allâh knows what every female bears, and by how much the wombs fall short (of their time or number) or exceed. Everything with Him is in (due) proportion. 9. All-Knower of the Unseen and the seen, the Most Great, the Most High. 10. It is the same (to Him) whether any of you conceal his speech or declares it openly, whether he be hid by night or goes forth freely by day. 11. For him (each person), there are angels in succession, before and behind him. They guard him by the Command of Allâh. Verily! Allâh will not change the (good) condition of a people as long as they do not change their state (of goodness) themselves (by committing sins and by being ungrateful and disobedient to Allâh). But when Allâh wills a people’s punishment, there can be no turning back of it, and they will find besides Him no protector. 12. It is He Who shows you the lightning, as a fear (for travellers) and as a hope (for those who wait for rain). And it is He Who brings up (or originates) the clouds, heavy (with water). 13. And Ar-Ra‘d (thunder) glorifies and praises Him, and so do the angels because of His Awe. He sends the thunderbolts, and therewith He strikes whom He wills, yet they (disbelievers) dispute about Allâh. And He is Mighty in strength and Severe in punishment. 14. For Him (Allah, Alone) is the Word of Truth (i.e. none has the right to be worshipped but Allah). And those whom they (polytheists and disbelievers) invoke, answer them no more than one who stretches forth his hand (at the edge of a deep well) for water to reach his mouth, but it reaches him not; and the invocation of the disbelievers is nothing but an error (i.e. of no use). 15. And unto Allâh (Alone) falls in prostration whoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and so do their shadows in the mornings and in the afternoons.

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