Friday, September 21, 2007

Qur'an Reading for today

Surah 31: 5-13


These are on a guidance from their Lord, and these are they who are successful.


And of men is he who takes instead frivolous discourse to lead astray from Allah’s path without knowledge, and to take it for a mockery; these shall have an abasing chastisement.


And when Our communications are recited to him, he turns back proudly, as if he had not heard them, as though in his ears were a heaviness, therefore announce to him a painful chastisement.


(As for) those who believe and do good, they shall surely have gardens of bliss.


Abiding in them; the promise of Allah; (a) true (promise), and He is the Mighty, the Wise.


He created the heavens without pillars as you see them, and put mountains upon the earth lest it might convulse with you, and He spread in it animals of every kind; and We sent down water from the cloud, and then caused to grow therein (vegetation) of every noble kind.


This is Allah’s creation, but show Me what those besides Him have created. Nay, the unjust are in manifest error.


And certainly We gave wisdom to Luqman, saying: Be grateful to Allah. And whoever is grateful, he is only grateful for his own soul; and whoever is ungrateful, then surely Allah is Self-sufficient, Praised.


And when Luqman said to his son, while he admonished him: O my son! Do not associate aught with Allah; most surely polytheism is a grievous iniquity-