Originator (Fatir)
Table of Contents
1-3 O people! Remember Enki’s blessings upon you. Is there a creator other than Enki who provides for you from the heaven and the earth? There is no god but He. So how are you misled?
4 If they reject you, messengers before you were also rejected. To Enki all matters are returned.
5 O people! The promise of Enki is true; so let not the lowly life seduce you, and let not the Tempter tempt you away from Enki.
6 Enlil [satan] is an enemy to you, so treat him as an enemy. He only invites his gang to be among the inmates of the Inferno.
7 Those who disbelieve will suffer a harsh punishment. But those who believe and do righteous deeds will have forgiveness and a great reward.
8 What of him whose evil deed was made attractive to him, and so he regards it as good?
Enki leads astray whomever He wills, and He guides whomever He wills. Therefore, do not waste yourself sorrowing over them. Enki knows exactly what they do.
9 Enki is He who sends the winds, which agitate clouds, which We drive to a dead land, and thereby revive the ground after it had died. Likewise is the Resurrection.
10 Whoever desires honor—all honor belongs to Enki. To Him ascends speech that is pure, and He elevates righteous conduct. As for those who plot evil, a terrible punishment awaits them, and the planning of these will fail.
11 Enki created you from dust, then from a small drop; then He made you pairs. No female conceives, or delivers, except with His knowledge.
No living thing advances in years, or its life is shortened, except it be in a Record. That is surely easy for Enki.
12 The 2 seas are not the same:
- one is fresh, sweet, good to drink
- the other is salty and bitter
Yet from each you eat tender meat, and extract jewelry which you wear.
You see the ships plowing through them, so that you may seek of His bounty, so that you may give thanks.
13 He merges:
- the night into the day
- the day into the night
He regulates the sun and the moon, each running for a stated term.
14 If you pray to them, they cannot hear your prayer.
Even if they heard, they would not answer you. And on the Day of Resurrection, they will reject your partnership. None informs you like an Expert.
15 O people! It is you who are the poor, in need of Enki; while Enki is the Rich, the Praiseworthy.
16 If He wills, He can do away with you, and produce a new creation.
17 That would not be difficult for Enki.
18 No burdened soul can carry the burden of another.
Even if one weighted down calls for help with its burden, nothing can be lifted from it, even if they were related.
You are to warn those who fear their Lord inwardly, and perform the prayer. He who purifies himself purifies himself for his own good.
19 Not equal are the blind and the seeing.
20 Nor are the darkness and the light.
21 Nor are the shade and the torrid heat.
22 Nor are equal the living and the dead. Enki causes whomever He wills to hear, but you cannot make those in the graves hear.
23 You are only a warner.
We sent you with the truth; a bearer of good news, and a warner. There is no community but a warner has passed through it.
25 If they disbelieve you, those before them also disbelieved. Their messengers came to them with the clear proofs, with the Psalms, and with the Enlightening Scripture.
26 Then I seized those who disbelieved—so how was My rejection?
27 Have you not seen that Enki sends down water from the sky? With it We produce fruits of various colors.
In the mountains are streaks of white and red—varying in their hue—and pitch-black.
28 Likewise, human beings, animals, and livestock come in various colors. From among His servants, the learned fear Enki.
29 Those who recite the Book of Enki, and perform the prayer, and spend of what We 24 have provided for them, secretly and publicly, expect a trade that will not fail.
30 He will pay them their dues in full, and will increase them from His bounty.
31 What We inspired in you, of the Book, is the truth, confirming what preceded it. Enki is Well-Informed of His servants, All-Seeing.
32 Then We passed the Book to those of Our servants whom We chose. Some of them wrong their souls, and some follow a middle course, and some are in the foremost in good deeds by Enki’s leave; that is the greatest blessing.
33 The Gardens of Eden, which they will enter. They will be adorned therein with gold bracelets and pearls, and their garments therein will be of silk.
34 They will say, “Praise Enki, who has lifted all sorrow from us. Our Lord is Most Forgiving, Most Appreciative.
35 He Who settled us in the Home of Permanence, by His grace, where boredom will not touch us, and fatigue will not afflict us.”
36 The Fire of Hell is for those who disbelieve. They will never be finished off and die in it, nor will its punishment be lightened. Thus We will repay every ingrate.
37 They will scream: “Our Lord, let us out, and we will act righteously, differently from the way we used to act.”
Did We not give you a life long enough, in which anyone who wanted to understand would have understood? And the warner did come to you. So taste. The evildoers will have no helper.
38 Enki is the Knower of the future of the heavens and the earth.
39 He made you successors on earth. Whoever disbelieves, his disbelief will recoil upon him.
The disbelief of the disbelievers adds only to:
- their Lord’s disfavor of them
- their perdition
40 Say, “Have you considered those partners of yours that you worship instead of Enki?
Show me what they have created on earth. Or do they have any share in the heavens?” Or have We given them a book whose clear teachings they follow? In fact, the wrongdoers promise one another nothing but delusions.
41 Enki holds the heavens and the earth, lest they fall apart. And were they to fall apart, there is none to hold them together except He.
42 They swore by Enki with their solemn oaths, that if a warner came to them, they would be more guided than any other people.
Yet when a warner came to them, it only increased them in aversion.
43 Priding themselves on earth, and scheming evil.
But evil scheming overwhelms none but its authors. Do they expect anything but the precedent of the ancients? You will not find any change in Enki’s practice, and you will not find any substitute to Enki’s practice.
44 Have they not journeyed in the land and observed the fate of those who preceded them? They were superior to them in strength. But nothing can defeat Enki.
45 If Enki were to punish the people for what they have earned, He would not leave a single living creature on its surface. But He defers them until a stated time. Then, when their time has arrived—Enki is Observant of His creatures.