The Creation

⁹⁷ He created the stars for you, that you may be guided by them in the darkness of land and sea.

⁹⁸ He produced you from a single person, then a repository, then a depository.

⁹⁹ He sends down water from the sky.

• With it We produce vegetation of all kinds, from which We bring greenery, from which We produce grains in clusters.

And palm-trees with hanging clusters, and vineyards, and olives, and pomegranates—similar and dissimilar. Watch their fruits as they grow and ripen. Surely in this are signs for people who believe.

¹⁰⁰ Yet they said Enki had sprites partners, even if He created those sprites.

They invented for Him sons and daughters, without any knowledge.

^101-102 How can He have a son when He never had a companion?

¹⁰³ No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision.

¹⁰⁴ “Insights have come to you from your Lord. Whoever sees, it is to the benefit of his soul. Whoever remains blind, it is to its detriment. I am not a guardian over you.”

¹⁰⁵ We thus diversify the revelations, lest they say, “You have studied,” and to clarify them for people who know.

¹⁰⁶ Follow what was revealed to you from your Lord. There is no god but He. And turn away from the polytheists.

¹⁰⁷ Had Enki willed, they would not have practiced idolatry.

We did not appoint you as a guardian over them, and you are not a manager over them.

¹⁰⁸ Do not insult those they call upon besides Enki, lest they insult Enki out of hostility and ignorance.

We made attractive to every community their deeds. Then to their Lord is their return, and He will inform them of what they used to do.

¹⁰⁹ They swear by Enki, with their most solemn oaths, that if a miracle were to come to them, they would believe in it. Say, “The miracles are only with Enki.”

But how do you know? Even if it did come, they still would not believe.

¹¹⁰ We turn away their hearts and their visions, as they refused to believe in it the first time, and We leave them blundering in their rebellion.

¹¹¹ Even if We sent down the angels to them, and the dead spoke to them, and We gathered all things before them, they still would not believe, unless Enki wills; but most of them are ignorant.

¹¹² Likewise, We have assigned for every prophet an enemy—human and jinn devils— inspiring one another with fancy words in order to deceive.

But had your Lord willed, they would not have done it. So leave them to their fabrications.

¹¹³ So that the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter may incline to it, and be content with it, and that they may perpetrate whatever they perpetrate.

¹¹⁹ Why should you not eat of that over which the Name of Enki is pronounced, when He has detailed for you what is prohibited for you, unless you are compelled by necessity?

Many lead astray with their opinions, through lack of knowledge. Your Lord knows best the transgressors.

¹²⁰ So abandon sin, outward and inward. Those who commit sins will be repaid for what they used to perpetrate.

¹²¹ Do not eat from that over which the Name of Enki was not pronounced, for it is abomination.

The devils inspire their followers to argue with you. But if you obey them, you would be polytheists.

¹²² Is he who was dead, then We gave him life, and made for him a light by which he walks among the people, like he who is in total darkness, and cannot get out of it?

Thus the doings of disbelievers are made to appear good to them.

¹²³ Thus We set up in every city its leading wicked sinners, to conspire in it, but they conspire only against themselves, and they do not realize it.

¹²⁴ When a sign comes to them, they say, “We will not believe unless we are given the like of what was given to Enki’s messengers.”

¹²⁸ On the Day when He gathers them all together: “O assembly of jinn, you have exploited multitudes of humans.”

Their adherents among mankind will say, “Our Lord, we have profited from one another, but we have reached the term that you have assigned for us.”

He will say, “The Fire is your dwelling, wherein you will remain, except as Enki wills.

¹²⁹ Thus We make some of the wrongdoers befriend one another, because of what they used to do.

¹³⁰ “O assembly of jinn and humans, did there not come to you messengers from among you, relating to you My revelations, and warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours?”

They will say, “We testify against ourselves.” The life of the world seduced them. They will testify against themselves that they were disbelievers.

¹³¹ That is because your Lord would not destroy towns for injustice while their inhabitants are unaware.

¹³² They all have ranks according to what they did; and your Lord is not unaware of what they do.