If I was remiss in where I started you have my apologies. I did start at the very beginning, but felt I didn't have much to discuss, as it simply reminded me of the lord prayer. I'll loop back to the beginning as soon as I make it through the Surah of the Cow. I've been quite happy to see all the discussion going on. I feel like I'm learning a lot from all the back and forth.
With that said here is the next segment of the surah of the cow.
When they are told,
‘Do not cause corruption on the earth,’
they say, ‘We are only reformers!’
Look! They are themselves the agents of corruption,
but they are not aware.
And when they are told,
‘Believe like the people who have believed,’
they say, ‘Shall we believe
like the fools who have believed?’
Look! They are themselves the fools,
but they do not know.
When they meet the faithful,
they say, ‘We believe,’
but when they are alone with their devils,
they say, ‘We are with you;
we were only deriding [them].’
It is Allah who derides them,
and leaves them bewildered in their rebellion.
They are the ones who bought error
for guidance,
so their trade did not profit them,
nor were they guided.
Their parable
is that of one who lighted a torch,
and when it had lit up all around him,
Allah took away their light,
and left them sightless in a manifold darkness.
Deaf, dumb, and blind,
they will not come back.
Or that of a rainstorm from the sky,
wherein is darkness, thunder, and lightning:
they put their fingers in their ears
due to the thunderclaps, apprehensive of death;
and Allah besieges the faithless.
The lightning almost snatches away their sight:
whenever it shines for them, they walk in it,
and when the darkness falls upon them, they stand.
Had Allah willed,
He would have taken away their hearing
and their sight.
Indeed Allah has power over all things.
O mankind! Worship your Lord,
who created you
and those who were before you,
so that you may be Godwary.
He who made the earth a place of repose for you,
and the sky a canopy,
and He sends down water from the sky,
and with it He brings forth crops
for your sustenance.
So do not set up equals to Allah,
while you know.
And if you are in doubt
concerning what We have sent down
to Our servant,
then bring a sūrah like it,
and invoke your helpers besides Allah,
should you be truthful.
And if you do not—and you will not—
then beware the Fire whose fuel will be humans
and stones,
prepared for the faithless.
And give good news to those who have faith
and do righteous deeds,
that for them shall be gardens
with streams running in them:
whenever they are provided with their fruit
for nourishment,
they will say,
‘This is what we were provided before,’
and they were given something resembling it.
In it there will be chaste mates for them,
and they will remain in it [forever].
Indeed Allah is not ashamed to draw a parable
whether it is that of a gnat or something above it.
As for those who have faith,
they know it is the truth from their Lord;
and as for the faithless, they say,
‘What did Allah mean by this parable?’
Thereby He leads many astray,
and thereby He guides many;
and He leads no one astray thereby
except the transgressors
—those who break the covenant made with Allah
after having pledged it solemnly,
and sever
what Allah has commanded to be joined,
and cause corruption on the earth—
it is they who are the losers.
How can you be unfaithful to Allah,
[seeing that] you were lifeless
and He gave you life,
then He will make you die,
and then He shall bring you to life,
and then you will be brought back to Him?
It is He who created for you
all that is in the earth,
then He turned to the heaven,
and fashioned it into seven heavens,
and He has knowledge of all things.
It is He who created for you
all that is in the earth,
then He turned to the heaven,
and fashioned it into seven heavens,
and He has knowledge of all things.
When your Lord said to the angels,
‘Indeed I am going to set a viceroy on the earth,’
they said, ‘Will You set in it
someone who will cause corruption in it,
and shed blood,
while we celebrate Your praise
and proclaim Your sanctity?’
He said, ‘Indeed I know what you do not know.’