Rowwad Translation Center — 461

39:22 Is one whose heart Allah has opened to Islam, so he is enlightened by his Lord [like a disbeliever]? Woe to those whose hearts are hardened upon hearing the reminder of Allah; it is they who are clearly misguided.

39:23 Allah has sent down the best message – a consistent Book of repeated lessons – causing the skins of those who fear their Lord to shiver, and then their skins and their hearts soften at the remembrance of Allah. This is the guidance of Allah by which He guides whom He wills. But whoever Allah causes to stray, there is none to guide him.

39:24 Is one who will shield himself from the terrible punishment with his face[1] on the Day of Resurrection [like someone in Paradise]? And it will be said to the wrongdoers: “Taste what you used to earn.”

39:25 Those who came before them also disbelieved, so the punishment came upon them from where they could not imagine.

39:26 Therefore Allah gave them a taste of disgrace in the life of this world, but the punishment of the Hereafter will be far greater, if only they knew.

39:27 Indeed, We have presented for mankind all kinds of examples in this Qur’an, so that they may take heed –

39:28 an Arabic Qur’an, free of flaws and contradictions, so that they may be conscious of Allah.

39:29 Allah makes a comparison of a slave owned by several quarrelsome masters, and a slave owned by only one master. Are they equal in comparison? All praise be to Allah. But most of them do not know.

39:30 You [O Prophet] will surely die, and they too will die;

39:31 then on the Day of Resurrection, you will dispute with one another before your Lord.