Verse 15:39 in Context

Translator Abdel Haleem
35 وَإِنَّ عَلَیۡكَ ٱللَّعۡنَةَ إِلَىٰ یَوۡمِ ٱلدِّینِ ۝٣٥ wa-inna ʿalayka l-laʿnata ilā yawmi l-dīn rejected until the Day of Judgement.’ 36 قَالَ رَبِّ فَأَنظِرۡنِیۤ إِلَىٰ یَوۡمِ یُبۡعَثُونَ ۝٣٦ qāla rabbi fa-anẓir'nī ilā yawmi yub'ʿathūn Iblis said, ‘My Lord, give me respite until the Day when they are raised from the dead.’ 37 قَالَ فَإِنَّكَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُنظَرِینَ ۝٣٧ qāla fa-innaka mina l-munẓarīn ‘You have respite,’ said God 38 إِلَىٰ یَوۡمِ ٱلۡوَقۡتِ ٱلۡمَعۡلُومِ ۝٣٨ ilā yawmi l-waqti l-maʿlūm ‘until the Day of the Appointed Time.’
39 قَالَ رَبِّ بِمَاۤ أَغۡوَیۡتَنِی لَأُزَیِّنَنَّ لَهُمۡ فِی ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَلَأُغۡوِیَنَّهُمۡ أَجۡمَعِینَ ۝٣٩ qāla rabbi bimā aghwaytanī la-uzayyinanna lahum fī l-arḍi wala-ugh'wiyannahum ajmaʿīn Iblis then said to God, ‘Because You have put me in the wrong, I will lure mankind on earth and put them in the wrong
40 إِلَّا عِبَادَكَ مِنۡهُمُ ٱلۡمُخۡلَصِینَ ۝٤٠ illā ʿibādaka min'humu l-mukh'laṣīn all except Your devoted servants.’ 41 قَالَ هَـٰذَا صِرَ ٰطٌ عَلَیَّ مُسۡتَقِیمٌ ۝٤١ qāla hādhā ṣirāṭun ʿalayya mus'taqīmu God said, ‘[Devotion] is a straight path to Me 42 إِنَّ عِبَادِی لَیۡسَ لَكَ عَلَیۡهِمۡ سُلۡطَـٰنٌ إِلَّا مَنِ ٱتَّبَعَكَ مِنَ ٱلۡغَاوِینَ ۝٤٢ inna ʿibādī laysa laka ʿalayhim sul'ṭānun illā mani ittabaʿaka mina l-ghāwīn you will have no power over My servants, only over the ones who go astray and follow you 43 وَإِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ لَمَوۡعِدُهُمۡ أَجۡمَعِینَ ۝٤٣ wa-inna jahannama lamawʿiduhum ajmaʿīn Hell is the promised place for all these

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