| 1 | O People! There is no other deity but Allah! |
| 2 | The Compassionate, the Beneficent, the Gracious; |
| 3 | All praise and worship be to Allah and no other! |
| 4 | Let the truth be now revealed concerning the first city known as UbUr; |
| 5 | The birthplace of Abraham; |
| 6 | The founding of the people now known as Arabs. |
| 7 | Let not the ignorance scribe speak of ancient time they know not; |
| 8 | Nor the king nor emperor speak of generations they cannot name in succession. |
| 9 | Verily, if a man is unable to speak with confidence the generations of his ancestors; |
| 10 | Let him not speak of such things. |
| 11 | Before the age of Sargon and Uruk; |
| 12 | Before even the age of the four great rivers the Christians call the Pison, the Tigris, the Euphrates and the Gihon; |
| 13 | The lands of the south of Arabia were lush, green and full of life. |
| 14 | While men had plenty to eat and drink, they did not respect life or any law of Allah. |
| 15 | Instead, like animals they preyed upon one another until one day the great man known as Abraham was born. |
| 16 | Allah spoke to Abraham and told him to build a great city called UbUr on the Mahrab River that did once travel in the south of Arabia connecting great lakes and into the Persian Sea. |
| 17 | With guidance from Allah, Abraham gave the people their first law. |
| 18 | But the people rebelled against Abraham and the law of Allah, by sacrificing children and animals to pagan gods. |
| 19 | So Allah instructed Abraham at the site of Al-Baqa to being knowledge to the world and to use the sap of the frankinsense plant as and acceptable offering instead of the smell of burnt flesh of sacrificed children. |
| 20 | Thus, Abraham is the father of all of Arabia and the East. |
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Sufa 67 - UbUr