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XIII. The Thunder
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Alif Lam Mim Ra. These are the verses of the Book; and that which is revealed to you from
your Lord is the truth, but most people do not believe.
2. Allah is He Who raised the heavens without any pillars that you see, and He is firm in power
and He made the sun and the moon subservient (to you); each one pursues its course to an
appointed time; He regulates the affair, making clear the signs that you may be certain of
meeting your Lord.
3. And He it is Who spread the earth and made in it firm mountains and rivers, and of all fruits
He has made in it two kinds; He makes the night cover the day; most surely there are signs in
this for a people who reflect.
4. And in the earth there are tracts side by side and gardens of grapes and corn and palm trees
having one root and (others) having distinct roots-- they are watered with one water, and We
make some of them excel others in fruit; most surely there are signs in this for a people who understand.
S. And if you would wonder, then wondrous is their saying: What! when we are dust, shall we
then certainly be in a new creation? These are they who disbelieve in their Lord, and these
have chains on their necks, and they are the inmates of the fire; in it they shall abide.
6. And they ask you to hasten on the evil before the good, and indeed there have been
exemplary punishments before them; and most surely your Lord is the Lord of forgiveness to
people, notwithstanding their injustice; and most surely your Lord is severe in requiting (evil).
7. And those who disbelieve say: Why has not a sign been sent down upon him from his Lord?
You are only a warner and (there is) a guide for every people.
8. Allah knows what every female bears, and that of which the wombs fall short of completion
and that in which they increase; and there is a measure with Him of everything.
9. The knower of the unseen and the seen, the Great, the Most High.
10. Alike (to Him) among you is he who conceals (his) words and he who speaks them openly,
and he who hides himself by night and (who) goes forth by day.
11 . For his sake there are angels following one another, before him and behind him, who
guard him by Allah's commandment; surely Allah does not change the condition of a people
until they change their own condition; and when Allah intends evil to a people, there is no
averting it, and besides Him they have no protector.
12. He it is Who shows you the lightning causing fear and hope and (Who) brings up the heavy
cloud.
13. And the thunder declares His glory with His praise, and the angels too for awe of Him; and
He sends the thunderbolts and smites with them whom He pleases, yet they dispute
concerning Allah, and He is mighty in prowess.
14. To Him is due the true prayer; and those whom they pray to besides Allah give them no
answer, but (they are) like one who stretches forth his two hands towards water that it may
reach his mouth, but it will not reach it; and the prayer of the unbelievers is only in error.
15. And whoever is in the heavens and the earth makes obeisance to Allah only, willingly and
unwillingly, and their shadows too at morn and eve.
16. Say: Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?-- Say: Allah. Say: Do you take then
besides Him guardians who do not control any profit or harm for themselves? Say: Are the
blind and the seeing alike? Or can the darkness and the light be equal? Or have they set up with
Allah associates who have created creation like His, so that what is created became confused
to them? Say: Allah is the Creator of all things, and He is the One, the Supreme.
17. He sends down water from the cloud, then watercourses flow (with water) according to
their measure, and the torrent bears along the swelling foam, and from what they melt in the
fire for the sake of making ornaments or apparatus arises a scum like it; thus does Allah
compare truth and falsehood; then as for the scum, it passes away as a worthless thing; and as
for that which profits the people, it tarries in the earth; thus does Allah set forth parables.
18. For those who respond to their Lord is good; and (as for) those who do not respond to Him,
had they all that is in the earth and the like thereof with it they would certainly offer it for a
ransom. (As for) those, an evil reckoning shall be theirs and their abode is hell, and evil is the resting-place.
19. Is he then who knows that what has been revealed to you from your Lord is the truth like
him who is blind? Only those possessed of understanding will mind,
20. Those who fulfil the promise of Allah and do not break the covenant,
21. And those who join that which Allah has bidden to be joined and have awe of their Lord
and fear the evil reckoning.
22. And those who are constant, seeking the pleasure of their Lord, and keep up prayer and
spend (benevolently) out of what We have given them secretly and openly and repel evil with
good; as for those, they shall have the (happy) issue of the abode
23. The gardens of perpetual abode which they will enter along with those who do good from
among their parents and their spouses and their offspring; and the angels will enter in upon
them from every gate:
24. Peace be on you because you were constant, how excellent, is then, the issue of the abode.
25. And those who break the covenant of Allah after its confirmation and cut asunder that
which Allah has ordered to be joined and make mischief in the land; (as for) those, upon them
shall be curse and they shall have the evil (issue) of the abode.
26. Allah amplifies and straitens the means of subsistence for whom He pleases; and they
rejoice in this world's life, and this world's life is nothing compared with the hereafter but a
temporary enjoyment.
27. And those who disbelieve say: Why is not a sign sent down upon him by his Lord? Say:
Surely Allah makes him who will go astray, and guides to Himself those who turn (to Him).
28. Those who believe and whose hearts are set at rest by the remembrance of Allah; now
surely by Allah's remembrance are the hearts set at rest.
29. (As for) those who believe and do good, a good final state shall be theirs and a goodly return.
30. And thus We have sent you among a nation before which other nations have passed away,
that you might recite to them what We have revealed to you and (still) they deny the
Beneficent God. Say: He is my Lord, there is no god but He; on Him do I rely and to Him is my return.
31. And even if there were a Quran with which the mountains were made to pass away, or the
earth were travelled over with it, or the dead were made to speak thereby; nay! the
commandment is wholly Allah's, Have not yet those who believe known that if Allah please He
would certainly guide all the people? And (as for) those who disbelieve, there will not cease to
afflict them because of what they do a repelling calamity, or it will alight close by their abodes,
until the promise of Allah comes about; surely Allah will not fail in (His) promise.
32. And apostles before you were certainly mocked at, but I gave respite to those who
disbelieved, then I destroyed them; how then was My requital (of evil)?
33. Is He then Who watches every soul as to what it earns? And yet they give associates to
Allah! Say: Give them a name; nay, do you mean to inform Him of what He does not know in
the earth, or (do you affirm this) by an outward saying? Rather, their plans are made to appear
fair-seeming to those who disbelieve, and they are kept back from the path; and whom Allah
makes err, he shall have no guide.
34. They shall have chastisement in this world's life, and the chastisement of the hereafter is
certainly more grievous, and they shall have no protector against Allah.
35. A likeness of the garden which the righteous are promised; there now beneath it rivers, its
food and shades are perpetual; this is the requital of those who guarded (against evil), and the
requital of the unbelievers is the fire.
36. And those to whom We have given the Book rejoice in that which has been revealed to
you, and of the confederates are some who deny a part of it. Say: I am only commanded that I
should serve Allah and not associate anything with Him, to Him do I invite (you) and to Him is
my return.
37. And thus have We revealed it, a true judgment in Arabic, and if you follow their low
desires after what has come to you of knowledge, you shall not have against Allah any
guardian or a protector.
38. And certainly We sent apostles before you and gave them wives and children, and it is not
in (the power of) an apostle to bring a sign except by Allah's permission; for every term there
is an appointment.
39. Allah makes to pass away and establishes what He pleases, and with Him is the basis of the
Book.
40. And We will either let you see part of what We threaten them with or cause you to die, for
only the delivery of the message is (incumbent) on you, while calling (them) to account is Our
(business).
41. Do they not see that We are bringing destruction upon the land by curtailing it of its sides?
And Allah pronounces a doom-- there is no repeller of His decree, and He is swift to take account.
42. And those before them did indeed make plans, but all planning is Allah's; He knows what
every soul earns, and the unbelievers shall come to know for whom is the (better) issue of the abode.
43. And those who disbelieve say: You are not a messenger. Say: Allah is sufficient as a
witness between me and you and whoever has knowledge of the Book.
XIV. Ibrahim<BR>
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Alif Lam Ra. (This is) a Book which We have revealed to you that you may bring forth men,
by their Lord's permission from utter darkness into light-- to the way of the Mighty, the
Praised One,
2. (Of) Allah, Whose is whatever is in the heavens and whatever Is in the earth; and woe to the
unbelievers on account of the severe chastisement,
3. (To) those who love this world's life more than the hereafter, and turn away from Allah's
path and desire to make it crooked; these are in a great error.
4. And We did not send any apostle but with the language of his people, so that he might
explain to them clearly; then Allah makes whom He pleases err and He guides whom He
pleases and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
5. And certainly We sent Musa with Our communications, saying: Bring forth your people
from utter darkness into light and remind them of the days of Allah; most surely there are
signs in this for every patient, grateful one.
6. And when Musa said to his people: Call to mind Allah's favor to you when He delivered you
from Firon's people, who subjected you to severe torment, and slew your sons and spared your
women; and in this there was a great trial from your Lord.
7. And when your Lord made it known: If you are grateful, I would certainly give to you more,
and if you are ungrateful, My chastisement is truly severe.
8. And Musa said: If you are ungrateful, you and those on earth all together, most surely Allah
is Self-sufficient, Praised;
9. Has not the account reached you of those before you, of the people of Nuh and Ad and
Samood, and those after them? None knows them but Allah. Their apostles come to them with
clear arguments, but they thrust their hands into their mouths and said: Surely we deny that
with which you are sent, and most surely we are in serious doubt as to that to which you invite
us.
10. Their apostles said: Is there doubt about Allah, the Maker of the heavens and the earth? He
invites you to forgive you your faults and to respite you till an appointed term. They said: You
are nothing but mortals like us; you wish to turn us away from what our fathers used to
worship; bring us therefore some clear authority.
11. Their apostles said to them: We are nothing but mortals like yourselves, but Allah bestows
(His) favors on whom He pleases of His servants, and it is not for us that we should bring you
an authority except by Allah's permission; and on Allah should the believers rely.
12. And what reason have we that we should not rely on Allah? And He has indeed guided us
in our ways; and certainly we would bear with patience your persecution of us; and on Allah
should the reliant rely.
13. And those who disbelieved said to their apostles: We will most certainly drive you forth
from our land, or else you shall come back into our religion. So their Lord revealed to them:
Most certainly We will destroy the unjust.
14. And most certainly We will settle you in the land after them; this is for him who fears
standing in My presence and who fears My threat.
15. And they asked for judgment and every insolent opposer was disappointed:
16. Hell is before him and he shall be given to drink of festering water:
17. He will drink it little by little and will not be able to swallow it agreeably, and death will
come to him from every quarter, but he shall not die; and there shall be vehement
chastisement before him.
18. The parable of those who disbelieve in their Lord: their actions are like ashes on which the
wind blows hard on a stormy day; they shall not have power over any thing out of what they
have earned; this is the great error.
19. Do you not see that Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth? If He please He will
take you off and bring a new creation,
20. And this is not difficult for Allah.
21. And they shall all come forth before Allah, then the weak shall say to those who were
proud: Surely we were your followers, can you therefore avert from us any part of the
chastisement of Allah? They would say: If Allah had guided us, we too would have guided you;
it is the same to us whether we are impatient (now) or patient, there is no place for us to fly to.
22. And the Shaitan shall say after the affair is decided: Surely Allah promised you the promise
of truth, and I gave you promises, then failed to keep them to you, and I had no authority over
you, except that I called you and you obeyed me, therefore do not blame me but blame
yourselves: I cannot be your aider (now) nor can you be my aiders; surely I disbelieved in your
associating me with Allah before; surely it is the unjust that shall have the painful punishment.
23. And those who believe and do good are made to enter gardens, beneath which rivers flow,
to abide in them by their Lord's permission; their greeting therein is, Peace.
24. Have you not considered how Allah sets forth a parable of a good word (being) like a good
tree, whose root is firm and whose branches are in heaven,
25. Yielding its fruit in every season by the permission of its Lord? And Allah sets forth
parables for men that they may be mindful.
26. And the parable of an evil word is as an evil tree pulled up from the earth's surface; it has
no stability.
27. Allah confirms those who believe with the sure word in this world's life and in the
hereafter, and Allah causes the unjust to go astray, and Allah does what He pleases.
28. Have you not seen those who have changed Allah's favor for ungratefulness and made their
people to alight into the abode of perdition
29. (Into j hell? They shall enter into it and an evil place it is to settle in.
30. And they set up equals with Allah that they may lead (people) astray from His path. Say:
Enjoy yourselves, for surely your return is to the fire.
31. Say to My servants who believe that they should keep up prayer and spend out of what We
have given them secretly and openly before the coming of the day in which there shall be no
bartering nor mutual befriending.
32. Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and sent down water from the clouds,
then brought forth with it fruits as a sustenance for you, and He has made the ships
subservient to you, that they might run their course in the sea by His command, and He has
made the rivers subservient to you.
33. And He has made subservient to you the sun and the moon pursuing their courses, and He
has made subservient to you the night and the day.
34. And He gives you of all that you ask Him; and if you count Allah's favors, you will not be
able to number them; most surely man is very unjust, very ungrateful.
35. And when Ibrahim said: My Lord! make this city secure, and save me and my sons from
worshipping idols:
36. My Lord! surely they have led many men astray; then whoever follows me, he is surely of
me, and whoever disobeys me, Thou surely arc Forgiving, Merciful:
37. O our Lord! surely I have settled a part of my offspring in a valley unproductive of fruit
near Thy Sacred House, our Lord! that they may keep up prayer; therefore make the hearts of
some people yearn towards them and provide them with fruits; haply they may be grateful:
38. O our Lord! Surely Thou knowest what we hide and what we make public, and nothing in
the earth nor any thing in heaven is hidden from Allah:
39. Praise be to Allah, Who has given me in old age Ismail and Ishaq; most surely my Lord is
the Hearer of prayer:
40. My Lord! make me keep up prayer and from my offspring (too), O our Lord, and accept my
prayer:
41. O our Lord! grant me protection and my parents and the believers on the day when the
reckoning shall come to pass!
42. And do not think Allah to be heedless of what the unjust do; He only respites them to a day
on which the eyes shall be fixedly open,
43. Hastening forward, their heads upraised, their eyes not reverting to them and their hearts vacant.
44. And warn people of the day when the chastisement shall come to them, then those who
were unjust will say: O our Lord! respite us to a near term, (so) we shall respond to Thy call
and follow the apostles. What! did you not swear before (that) there will be no passing away for
you!
45. And you dwell in the abodes of those who were unjust to themselves, and it is clear to you
how We dealt with them and We have made (them) examples to you.
46. And they have indeed planned their plan, but their plan is with Allah, though their plan was
such that the mountains should pass away thereby.
47. Therefore do not think Allah (to be one) failing in His promise to His apostles; surely Allah
is Mighty, the Lord of Retribution.
48. On the day when the earth shall be changed into a different earth, and the heavens (as
well), and they shall come forth before Allah, the One, the Supreme.
49. And you will see the guilty on that day linked together in chains.
50. Their shirts made of pitch and the fire covering their faces
51. That Allah may requite each soul (according to) what it has earned; surely Allah is swift in reckoning.
52. This is a sufficient exposition for the people and that they may be warned thereby, and that
they may know that He is One God and that those possessed of understanding may mind.
XV. The Rock
In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.
1. Alif Lam Ra. These are the verses of the Book and (of) a Quran that makes (things) clear.
2. Often will those who disbelieve wish that they had been Muslims.
3. Leave them that they may eat and enjoy themselves and (that) hope may beguile them, for
they will soon know.
4. And never did We destroy a town but it had a term made known.
5. No people can hasten on their doom nor can they postpone (it).
6. And they say: O you to whom the Reminder has been revealed! you are most surely insane:
7. Why do you not bring to us the angels if you are of the truthful ones?
8. We do not send the angels but with truth, and then they would not be respited.
9 Surely We have revealed the Reminder and We will most surely be its guardian.
10. And certainly We sent (apostles) before you among the nations of yore.
11. And there never came an apostle to them but they mocked him.
12. Thus do We make it to enter into the hearts of the guilty;
13. They do not believe in it, and indeed the example of the former people has already passed.
14. And even if We open to them a gateway of heaven, so that they ascend into it all the while,
15. They would certainly say: Only our eyes.have been covered over, rather we are an
enchanted people.
16. And certainly We have made strongholds in the heaven and We have made it fair seeming
to the beholders.
17. And We guard it against every accursed Shaitan,
18. But he who steals a hearing, so there follows him a visible flame.
19. And the earth-- We have spread it forth and made in it firm mountains and caused to grow
in it of every suitable thing.
20. And We have made in it means of subsistence for you and for him for whom you are not
the suppliers.
21. And there is not a thing but with Us are the treasures of it, and We do not send it down but
in a known measure.
22. And We send the winds fertilizing, then send down water from the cloud so We give it to
you to drink of, nor is it you who store it up.
23. And most surely We bring to life and cause to die and We are the heirs.
24. And certainly We know those of you who have gone before and We certainly know those
who shall come later.
25. And surely your Lord will gather them together; surely He is Wise, Knowing.
26. And certainly We created man of clay that gives forth sound, of black mud fashioned in shape.
27. And the jinn We created before, of intensely hot fire.
28. And when your Lord said to the angels: Surely I am going to create a mortal of the essence
of black mud fashioned in shape.
29. So when I have made him complete and breathed into him of My spirit, fall down making
obeisance to him.
30. So the angels made obeisance, all of them together,
31. But Iblis (did it not); he refused to be with those who made obeisance.
32. He said: O Iblis! what excuse have you that you are not with those who make obeisance?
33. He said: I am not such that I should make obeisance to a mortal whom Thou hast created of
the essence of black mud fashioned in shape.
34. He said: Then get out of it, for surely you are driven away:
35. And surely on you is curse until the day of judgment.
36. He said: My Lord! then respite me till the time when they are raised.
37. He said: So surely you are of the respited ones
38. Till the period of the time made known.
39. He said: My Lord! because Thou hast made life evil to me, I will certainly make (evil)
fair-seeming to them on earth, and I will certainly cause them all to deviate
40. Except Thy servants from among them, the devoted ones.
41. He said: This is a right way with Me:
42. Surely. as regards My servants, you have no authority ,over them except those who follow
you of the deviators.
43. And surely Hell is the promised place of them all:
44. It has seven gates; for every gate there shall be a separate party of them.
45. Surely those who guard (against evil) shall be in the midst of gardens and fountains:
46. Enter them in peace, secure.
47. And We will root out whatever of rancor is in their breasts-- (they shall be) as brethren, on
raised couches, face to face.
48. Toil shall not afflict them in it, nor shall they be ever ejected from it.
49. Inform My servants that I am the Forgiving, the Merciful,
50. And that My punishment-- that is the painful punishment.
51. And inform them of the guests of Ibrahim:
52. When they entered upon him, they said, Peace. He said: Surely we are afraid of you.
53. They said: Be not afraid, surely we give you the good news of a boy, possessing knowledge.
54. He said: Do you give me good news (of a son) when old age has come upon me?-- Of what
then do you give me good news! SS. They said: We give you good news with truth, therefore
be not of the despairing.
56. He said: And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord but the erring ones?
57. He said: What is your business then, O messengers?
58. They said: Surely we are sent towards a guilty people,
59. Except Lut's followers: We will most surely deliver them all,
60. Except his wife; We ordained that she shall surely be of those who remain behind.
61. So when the messengers came to Lut's followers,
62. He said: Surely you are an unknown people.
63. They said: Nay, we have come to you with that about which they disputed.
64. And we have come to you with the truth, and we are most surely truthful.
65. Therefore go forth with your followers in a part of the night and yourself follow their rear,
and let not any one of you turn round, and go forth whither you are commanded.
66. And We revealed to him this decree, that the roots of these shall be cut off in the morning.
67. And the people of the town came rejoicing.
68. He said: Surely these are my guests, therefore do not disgrace me,
69. And guard against (the punishment of) Allah and do not put me to shame.
70. They said: Have we not forbidden you from (other) people?
71. He said: These are my daughters, if you will do (aught).
72. By your life! they were blindly wandering on in their intoxication.
73. So the rumbling overtook them (while) entering upon the time of sunrise;
74. Thus did We turn it upside down, and rained down upon them stones of what had been decreed.
75. Surely in this are signs for those who examine.
76. And surely it is on a road that still abides.
77. Most surely there is a sign in this for the believers.
78. And the dwellers of the thicket also were most surely unjust.
79. So We inflicted retribution on them, and they are both, indeed, on an open road (still) pursued.
80. And the dwellers of the Rock certainly rejected the messengers;
81. And We gave them Our communications, but they turned aside from them;
82. And they hewed houses in the mountains in security.
83. So the rumbling overtook them in the morning;
84. And what they earned did not avail them.
85. And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them two but in
truth; and the hour is most surely coming, so turn away with kindly forgiveness.
86. Surely your Lord is the Creator of all things, the Knowing.
87. And certainly We have given you seven of the oft-repeated (verses) and the grand Quran.
88. Do not strain your eyes after what We have given certain classes of them to enjoy, and do
not grieve for them, and make yourself gentle to the believers.
89. And say: Surely I am the plain warner.
90. Like as We sent down on the dividers
91. Those who made the Quran into shreds.
92. So, by your Lord, We would most certainly question them all,
93. As to what they did.
94. Therefore declare openly what you are bidden and turn aside from the polytheists.
95. Surely We will suffice you against the scoffers
96. Those who set up another god with Allah; so they shall soon know.
97. And surely We know that your breast straitens at what they say;
98. Therefore celebrate the praise of your Lord, and be of those who make obeisance.
99. And serve your Lord until there comes to you that which is certain.
XVI. The Bee
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Allah's commandment has come, therefore do not desire to hasten it; glory be to Him, and
highly exalted be He above what they associate (with Him).
2. He sends down the angels with the inspiration by His commandment on whom He pleases of
His servants, saying: Give the warning that there is no god but Me, therefore be careful (of
your duty) to Me.
3. He created the heavens and the earth with the truth, highly exalted be He above what they
associate (with Him).
4. He created man from a small seed and lo! he is an open contender.
5. And He created the cattle for you; you have in them warm clothing and (many) advantages,
and of them do you eat.
6. And there is beauty in them for you when you drive them back (to home), and when you
send them forth (to pasture).
7. And they carry your heavy loads to regions which you could not reach but with distress of
the souls; most surely your Lord is Compassionate, Merciful.
8. And (He made) horses and mules and asses that you might ride upon them and as an
ornament; and He creates what you do not know.
9. And upon Allah it rests to show the right way, and there are some deviating (ways); and if
He please He would certainly guide you all aright.
10. He it is Who sends down water from the cloud for you; it gives drink, and by it (grow) the
trees upon which you pasture.
11. He causes to grow for you thereby herbage, and the olives, and the palm trees, and the
grapes, and of all the fruits; most surely there is a sign in this for a people who reflect.
12. And He has made subservient for you the night and the day and the sun and the moon, and
the stars are made subservient by His commandment; most surely there are signs in this for a
people who ponder;
13. And what He has created in the earth of varied hues most surely there is a sign in this for a
people who are mindful.
14. And He it is Who has made the sea subservient that you may eat fresh flesh from it and
bring forth from it ornaments which you wear, and you see the ships cleaving through it, and
that you might seek of His bounty and that you may give thanks.
15. And He has cast great mountains in the earth lest it might be convulsed with you, and
rivers and roads that you may go aright,
16. And landmarks; and by the stars they find the right way.
17. Is He then Who creates like him who does not create? Do you not then mind?
18. And if you would count Allah's favors, you will not be able to number them; most surely
Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
19. And Allah knows what you conceal and what you do openly.
20. And those whom they call on besides Allah have not created anything while they are
themselves created;
21. Dead (are they), not living, and they know not when they shall be raised.
22. Your God is one God; so (as for) those who do not believe m the hereafter, their hearts are
ignorant and they are proud.
23. Truly Allah knows what they hide and what they manifest; surely He does not love the proud.
24. And when it is said to them, what is it that your Lord has revealed? They say: Stories of the
ancients;
25. That they may bear their burdens entirely on the day of resurrection and also of the burdens
of those whom they lead astray without knowledge; now surely evil is what they bear.
26. Those before them did indeed devise plans, but Allah demolished their building from the
foundations, so the roof fell down on them from above them, and the punishment came to
them from whence they did not perceive.
27. Then on the resurrection day He will bring them to disgrace and say: Where are the
associates you gave Me, for whose sake you became hostile? Those who are given the
knowledge will say: Surely the disgrace and the evil are this day upon the unbelievers:
28. Those whom the angels cause to die while they are unjust to themselves. Then would they
offer submission: We used not to do any evil. Aye! surely Allah knows what you did.
29. Therefore enter the gates of hell, to abide therein; so certainly evil is the dwelling place of
the proud.
30. And it is said to those who guard (against evil): What is it that your Lord has revealed?
They say, Good. For those who do good in this world is good, and certainly the abode of the
hereafter is better; and certainly most excellent is the abode of those who guard (against evil);
31. The gardens of perpetuity, they shall enter them, rivers flowing beneath them; they shall
have in them what they please. Thus does Allah reward those who guard (against evil),
32. Those whom the angels cause to die in a good state, saying: Peace be on you: enter the
garden for what you did.
33. They do not wait aught but that the angels should come to them or that the commandment
of your Lord should come to pass. Thus did those before them; and Allah was not unjust to
them, but they were unjust to themselves.
34. So the evil (consequences) of what they did shall afflict them and that which they mocked
shall encompass them.
35. And they who give associates (to Allah) say: If Allah had pleased, we would not have
served anything besides Allah, (neither) we nor our fathers, nor would we have prohibited
anything without (order from) Him. Thus did those before them; is then aught incumbent upon
the apostles except a plain delivery (of the message)?
36. And certainly We raised in every nation an apostle saying: Serve Allah and shun the
Shaitan. So there were some of them whom Allah guided and there were others against whom
error was due; therefore travel in the land, then see what was the.end of the rejecters.
37. If you desire for their guidance, yet surely Allah does not guide him who leads astray, nor
shall they have any helpers.
38. And they swear by Allah with the most energetic of their oaths: Allah will not raise up him
who dies. Yea! it is a promise binding on Him, quite true, but most people do not know;
39. So that He might make manifest to them that about which they differ, and that those who
disbelieve might know that they were liars.
40. Our word for a thing when We intend it, is only that We say to it, Be, and it is.
41. And those who fly for Allah's sake after they are oppressed, We will most certainly give
them a good abode in the world, and the reward of the hereafter is certainly much greater, did
they but know;
42. Those who are patient and on their Lord do they rely.
43. And We did not send before you any but men to whom We sent revelation-- so ask the
followers of the Reminder if you do not know--
44. With clear arguments and scriptures; and We have revealed to you the Reminder that you
may make clear to men what has been revealed to them, and that haply they may reflect.
45. Do they then who plan evil (deeds) feel secure (of this) that Allah will not cause the earth
to swallow them or that punishment may not overtake them from whence they do not perceive?
46. Or that He may not seize them in the course of their journeys, then shall they not escape;
47. Or that He may not seize them by causing them to suffer gradual loss, for your Lord is most
surely Compassionate, Merciful.
48. Do they not consider every thing that Allah has created? Its (very) shadows return from
right and left, making obeisance to Allah while they are in utter abasement.
49. And whatever creature that is in the heavens and that is in the earth makes obeisance to
Allah (only), and the angels (too) and they do not show pride.
50. They fear their Lord above them and do what they are commanded.
51. And Allah has said: Take not two gods, He is only one God; so of Me alone should you be afraid.
52. And whatever is in the heavens and the earth is His, and to Him should obedience be
(rendered) constantly; will you then guard against other than (the punishment of) Allah?
53. And whatever favor is (bestowed) on you it is from Allah; then when evil afflicts you, to
Him do you cry for aid.
54. Yet when He removes the evil from you, lo ! a party of you associate others with their
Lord;
55. So that they be ungrateful for what We have given them; then enjoy yourselves; for soon
will you know
56. And they set apart for what they do not know a portion of what We have given them. By
Allah, you shall most certainly be questioned about that which you forged.
57. And they ascribe daughters to Allah, glory be to Him; and for themselves (they would
have) what they desire.
58. And when a daughter is announced to one of them his face becomes black and he is full of wrath.
59. He hides himself from the people because of the evil of that which is announced to him.
Shall he keep it with disgrace or bury it (alive) in the dust? Now surely evil is what they judge.
60. For those who do not believe in the hereafter is an evil attribute, and Allah's is the loftiest
attribute; and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
61. And if Allah had destroyed men for their iniquity, He would not leave on the earth a single
creature, but He respites them till an appointed time; so when their doom will come they shall
not be able to delay (it) an hour nor can they bring (it) on (before its time).
62. And they ascribe to Allah what they (themselves) hate and their tongues relate the lie that
they shall have the good; there is no avoiding it that for them is the fire and that they shall be
sent before.
63. By Allah, most certainly We sent (apostles) to nations before you, but the Shaitan made
their deeds fair-seeming to them, so he is their guardian today, and they shall have a painful punishment.
64. And We have not revealed to you the Book except that you may make clear to them that
about which they differ, ind (as) a guidance and a mercy for a people who believe.
65. And Allah has sent down water from the cloud and therewith given life to the earth after its
death; most surely there is a sign in this for a people who would listen.
66. And most surely there is a lesson for you in the cattle; We give you to drink of what is in
their bellies-- from betwixt the feces and the blood-- pure milk, easy and agreeable to swallow
for those who drink.
67. And of the fruits of the palms and the grapes-- you obtain from them intoxication and
goodly provision; most surely there is a sign in this for a people who ponder.
68. And your Lord revealed to the bee saying: Make hives in the mountains and in the trees and
in what they build:
69. Then eat of all the fruits and walk in the ways of your Lord submissively. There comes
forth from within it a beverage of many colours, in which there is healing for men; most
surely there is a sign in this for a people who reflect.
70. And Allah has created you, then He causes you to die, and of you is he who is brought back
to the worst part of life, so that after having knowledge he does not know anything; surely
Allah is Knowing, Powerful.
71. And Allah has made some of you excel others in the means of subsistence, so those who
are made to excel do not give away their sustenance to those whom their right hands possess
so that they should be equal therein; is it then the favor of Allah which they deny?
72. And Allah has made wives for you from among yourselves, and has given you sons and
grandchildren from your wives, and has given you of the good things; is it then in the
falsehood that they believe while it is in the favor of Allah that they disbelieve?
73. And they serve besides Allah that which does not control for them any sustenance at all
from the heavens and the earth, nor have they any power.
74. Therefore do not give likenesses to Allah; surely Allah knows and you do not know.
75. Allah sets forth a parable: (consider) a slave, the property of another, (who) has no power
over anything, and one whom We have granted from Ourselves a goodly sustenance so he
spends from it secretly and openly; are the two alike? (All) praise is due to Allah! Nay, most of
them do not know.
76. And Allah sets forth a parable of two men; one of them is dumb, not able to do anything,
and he is a burden to his master; wherever he sends him, he brings no good; can he be held
equal with him who enjoins what is just, and he (himself) is on the right path?
77. And Allah's is the unseen of the heavens and the earth; and the matter of the hour is but as
the twinkling of an eye or it is higher still; surely Allah has power over all things.
78. And Allah has brought you forth from the wombs of your mothers-- you did not know
anything-- and He gave you hearing and sight and hearts that you may give thanks.
79. Do they not see the birds, constrained in the middle of the sky? None withholds them but
Allah; most surely there are signs in this for a people who believe.
80. And Allah has given you a place to abide in your houses, and He has given you tents.of the
skins of cattle which you find light to carry on the day of your march and on the day of your
halting, and of their wool and their fur and their hair (He has given you) household stuff and a
provision for a time.
81. And Allah has made for you of what He has created shelters, and He has given you in the
mountains places of retreat, and He has given you garments to preserve you from the heat and
coats of mail to preserve you in your fighting; even thus does He complete His favor upon you,
that haply you may submit.
82. But if they turn back, then on you devolves only the clear deliverance (of the message).
83. They recognize the favor of Allah, yet they deny it, and most of them are ungrateful.
84. And on the day when We will raise up a witness out of every nation, then shall no
permission be given to those who E disbelieve, nor shall they be made to solicit favor.
85. And when those who are unjust shall see the chastisement, it shall not be lightened for
them, nor shall they be respited. .
86. And when those who associate (others with Allah) shall see their associate-gods, they shall
say: Our Lord, these are our associate-gods on whom we called besides Thee. But they will
give them back the reply: Most surely you are liars.
87. And they shall tender submission to Allah on that day; and what they used to forge shall
depart from them.
88. (As for) those who disbelieve and turn away from Allah's way, We will add chastisement to
their chastisement because they made mischief.
89. And on the day when We will raise up in every people a witness against them from among
themselves, and bring you as a witness against these-- and We have revealed the Book to you
explaining clearly everything, and a guidance and mercy and good news for those who submit.
90. Surely Allah enjoins the doing of justice and the doing of good (to others) and the giving to
the kindred, and He forbids indecency and evil and rebellion; He admonishes you that you
may be mindful.
91. And fulfill the covenant of Allah when you have made a covenant, and do not break the
oaths after making them fast, and you have indeed made Allah a surety for you; surely Allah I
. knows what you do.
92. And be not like her who unravels her yarn, disintegrating it into pieces after she has spun it
strongly. You make your oaths to be means of deceit between you because (one) nation is more
numerous than (another) nation. Allah only tries you by this; and He will most certainly make
clear to you on the resurrection day that about which you differed.
93. And if Allah please He would certainly make you a single nation, but He causes to err
whom He pleases and guides whom He pleases; and most certainly you will be questioned as to
what you did.
94. And do not make your oaths a means of deceit between you, lest a foot should slip after its
stability and you should taste evil because you turned away from Allah's way and grievous
punishment be your (lot).
95. And do not take a small price in exchange for Allah's covenant; surely what is with Allah is
better for you, did you but know.
96. What is with you passes away and what is with Allah is enduring; and We will most
certainly give to those who are patient their reward for the best of what they did.
97. Whoever does good whether male or female and he is a believer, We will most certainly
make him live a happy life, and We will most certainly give them their reward for the best of
what they did.
98. So when you recite the Quran, seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Shaitan,
99. Surely he has no authority over those who believe and rely on their Lord.
100. His authority is only over those who befriend him and those who associate others with Him.
101. And when We change (one) communication for (another) communication, and Allah
knows best what He reveals, they say: You are only a forger. Nay, most of them do not know.
102. Say: The Holy spirit has revealed it from your Lord with the truth, that it may establish
those who believe and as a guidance and good news for those who submit.
103. And certainly We know that they say: Only a mortal teaches him. The tongue of him
whom they reproach is barbarous, and this is clear Arabic tongue.
104. (As for) those who do not believe in Allah's communications, surely Allah will not guide
them, and they shall have a painful punishment.
105. Only they forge the lie who do not believe in Allah's communications, and these are the
liars.
106. He who disbelieves in Allah after his having believed, not he who is compelled while his
heart is at rest on account of faith, but he who opens (his) breast to disbelief-- on these is the
wrath of Allah, and they shall have a grievous chastisement.
107. This is because they love this world's life more than the hereafter, and because Allah does
not guide the unbelieving people.
108. These are they on whose hearts and their hearing and their eyes Allah has set a seal, and
these are the heedless ones.
109. No doubt that in the hereafter they will be the losers.
110. Yet surely your Lord, with respect to those who fly after they are persecuted, then they
struggle hard and are patient, most surely your Lord after that is Forgiving, Merciful.
111. (Remember) the day when every soul shall come, pleading for itself and every soul shall
be paid in full what it has done, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly.
112. And Allah sets forth a parable: (Consider) a town safe and secure to which its means of
subsistence come in abundance from every quarter; but it became ungrateful to Allah's favors,
therefore Allah made it to taste the utmost degree of hunger and fear because of what they wrought.
113. And certainly there came to them an Apostle from among them, but they rejected him, so
the punishment overtook them while they were unjust.
114. Therefore eat of what Allah has given you, lawful and good (things), and give thanks for
Allah's favor if Him do you serve.
115. He has only forbidden you what dies of itself and blood and flesh of swine and that over
which any other name than that of Allah has been invoked, but whoever is driven to necessity,
not desiring nor exceeding the limit, then surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
116. And, for what your tongues describe, do not utter the lie, (saying) This is lawful and this
is unlawful, in order to forge a lie against Allah; surely those who forge the lie against Allah
shall not prosper.
117. A little enjoyment and they shall have a painful punishment.
118. And for those who were Jews We prohibited what We have related to you already, and
We did them no injustice, but they were unjust to themselves.
119. Yet surely your Lord, with respect to those who do an evil in ignorance, then turn after
that and make amends, most surely your Lord after that is Forgiving, Merciful.
120. Surely Ibrahim was an exemplar, obedient to Allah, upright, and he was not of the
polytheists.
121. Grateful for His favors; He chose him and guided him on the right path.
122. And We gave him good in this world, and in the next he will most surely be among the
good.
123. Then We revealed to you: Follow the faith of Ibrahim, the upright one, and he was not of
the polytheists.
124. The Sabbath was ordained only for those who differed about it, and most surely your Lord
will judge between them on the resurrection day concerning that about which they differed.
125. Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and have disputations
with them in the best manner; surely your Lord best knows those who go astray from His path,
and He knows best those who follow the right way.
126. And if you take your turn, then retaliate with the like of that with which you were
afflicted; but if you are patient, it will certainly be best for those who are patient.
127. And be patient and your patience is not but by (the assistance of) Allah, and grieve not for
them, and do not distress yourself at what they plan.
128. Surely Allah is with those who guard (against evil) and those who do good (to others).
XVII. The Israelites
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Glory be to Him Who made His servant to go on a night from the Sacred Mosque to the
remote mosque of which We have blessed the precincts, so that We may show to him some of
Our signs; surely He is the Hearing, the Seeing.
2. And We gave Musa the Book and made it a guidance to the children of Israel, saying: Do
not take a protector besides Me;
3. The offspring of those whom We bore with Nuh; surely he was a grateful servant.
4. And We had made known to the children of Israel in the Book: Most certainly you will
make mischief in the land twice, and most certainly you will behave insolently with great insolence.
5. So when the promise for the first of the two came, We sent over you Our servants, of mighty
prowess, so they went to and fro among the houses, and it was a promise to be accomplished.
6. Then We gave you back the turn to prevail against them, and aided you with wealth and
children and made you a numerous band.
7. If you do good, you will do good for your own souls, and if you do evil, it shall be for them.
So when the second promise came (We raised another people) that they may bring you to grief
and that they may enter the mosque as they entered it the first time, and that they might destroy
whatever they gained ascendancy over with utter destruction.
8. It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you, and if you again return (to disobedience)
We too will return (to punishment), and We have made hell a prison for the unbelievers.
9. Surely this Quran guides to that which is most upright and gives good news to the believers
who do good that they shall have a great reward.
10. And that (as for) those who do not believe in the hereafter, We have prepared for them a
painful chastisement.
11. And man prays for evil as he ought to pray for good, and man is ever hasty.
12. And We have made the night and the day two signs, then We have made the sign of the
night to pass away and We have made the sign of the day manifest, so that you may seek grace
from your Lord, and that you might know the numbering of years and the reckoning; and We
have explained everything with distinctness.
13. And We have made every man's actions to cling to his neck, and We will bring forth to him
on the resurrection day a book which he will find wide open:
14. Read your book; your own self is sufficient as a reckoner against you this day.
15. Whoever goes aright, for his own soul does he go aright; and whoever goes astray, to its
detriment only does he go astray: nor can the bearer of a burden bear the burden of another,
nor do We chastise until We raise an apostle.
16. And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who
lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy
it with utter destruction.
17. And how many of the generations did We destroy after Nuh! and your Lord is sufficient as
Knowing and Seeing with regard to His servants' faults.
18. Whoever desires this present life, We hasten to him therein what We please for
whomsoever We desire, then We assign to him the hell; he shall enter it despised, driven
away.
19. And whoever desires the hereafter and strives for it as he ought to strive and he is a
believer; (as for) these, their striving shall surely be accepted.
20. All do We aid-- these as well as those-- out of the bounty of your Lord, and the bounty of
your Lord is not confined.
21. See how We have made some of them to excel others, and certainly the hereafter is much
superior in respect of excellence.
22. Do not associate with Allah any other god, lest you sit down despised, neglected.
23. And your Lord has commanded that you shall not serve (any) but Him, and goodness to
your parents. If either or both of them reach old age with you, say not to them (so much as)
"Ugh" nor chide them, and speak to them a generous word.
24. And make yourself submissively gentle to them with compassion, and say: O my Lord!
have compassion on them, as they brought me up (when I was) little.
25. Your Lord knows best what is in your minds; if you are good, then He is surely Forgiving
to those who turn (to Him) frequently.
26. And give to the near of kin his due and (to) the needy and the wayfarer, and do not
squander wastefully.
27. Surely the squanderers are the fellows of the Shaitans and the Shaitan is ever ungrateful to
his Lord.
28. And if you turn away from them to seek mercy from your Lord, which you hope for, speak
to them a gentle word.
29. And do not make your hand to be shackled to your neck nor stretch it forth to the utmost
(limit) of its stretching forth, lest you should (afterwards) sit down blamed, stripped off.
30. Surely your Lord makes plentiful the means of subsistence for whom He pleases and He
straitens (them); surely He is ever Aware of, Seeing, His servants.
31. And do not kill your children for fear of poverty; We give them sustenance and yourselves
(too); surely to kill them is a great wrong.
32. And go not nigh to fornication; surely it is an indecency and an evil way.
33. And do not kill any one whom Allah has forbidden, except for a just cause, and whoever is
slain unjustly, We have indeed given to his heir authority, so let him not exceed the just limits
in slaying; surely he is aided.
34. And draw not near to the property of the orphan except in a goodly way till he attains his
maturity and fulfill the promise; surely (every) promise shall be questioned about.
35. And give full measure when you measure out, and weigh with a true balance; this is fair
and better in the end.
36. And follow not that of which you have not the knowledge; surely the hearing and the sight
and the heart, all of these, shall be questioned about that.
37. And do not go about in the land exultingly, for you cannot cut through the earth nor reach
the mountains in height.
38. All this-- the evil of it-- is hateful in the sight of your Lord.
39. This is of what your Lord has revealed to you of wisdom, and do not associate any other
god with Allah lest you should be thrown into hell, blamed, cast away.
40. What! has then your Lord preferred to give you sons, and (for Himself) taken daughters
from among the angels? Most surely you utter a grievous saying.
41. And certainly We have repeated (warnings) in this Quran that they may be mindful, but it
does not add save to their aversion.
42. Say: If there were with Him gods as they say, then certainly they would have been able to
seek a way to the Lord of power.
43. Glory be to Him and exalted be He in high exaltation above what they say.
44. The seven heavens declare His glory and the earth (too), and those who are in them; and
there is not a single thing but glorifies Him with His praise, but you do not understand their
glorification; surely He is Forbearing, Forgiving.
45. And when you recite the Quran, We place between you and those who do not believe in the
hereafter a hidden barrier;
46. And We have placed coverings on their hearts and a heaviness in their ears lest they
understand it, and when you mention your Lord alone in the Quran they turn their backs in
aversion.
47. We know best what they listen to when they listen to you, and when they take counsel
secretly, when the unjust say: You follow only a man deprived of reason.
48. See what they liken you to! So they have gone astray and cannot find the way.
49. And they say: What! when we shall have become bones and decayed particles, shall we
then certainly be raised up, being a new creation?
50. Say: Become stones or iron,
51. Or some other creature of those which are too hard (to receive life) in your minds! But they
will say: Who will return us? Say: Who created you at first. Still they will shake their heads at
you and say: When will it be? Say: Maybe it has drawn nigh.
52. On the day when He will call you forth, then shall you obey Him, giving Him praise, and
you will think that you tarried but a little (while).
53. And say to My servants (that) they speak that which is best; surely the Shaitan sows
dissensions among them; surely the Shaitan is an open enemy to man.
54. Your Lord knows you best; He will have mercy on you if He pleases, or He will chastise
you if He pleases; and We have not sent you as being in charge of them. SS. And your Lord
best knows those who are in the heavens and the earth; and certainly We have made some of
the prophets to excel others, and to Dawood We gave a scripture.
56. Say: Call on those whom you assert besides Him, so they shall not control the removal of
distress from you nor (its) transference.
57. Those whom they call upon, themselves seek the means of access to their Lord-- whoever
of them is nearest-- and they hope for His mercy and fear His chastisement; surely the
chastisement of your Lord is a thing to be cautious of.
58. And there is not a town but We will destroy it before the day of resurrection or chastise it
with a severe chastisement; this is written in the Divine ordinance.
59. And nothing could have hindered Us that We should send signs except that the ancients
rejected them; and We gave to Samood the she-camel-- a manifest sign-- but on her account
they did injustice, and We do not send signs but to make (men) fear.
60. And when We said to you: Surely your Lord encompasses men; and We did not make the
vision which We showed you but a trial for men and the cursed tree in the Quran as well; and
We cause them to fear, but it only adds to their great inordinacy.
61. And when We said to the angels: Make obeisance to Adam; they made obeisance, but Iblis
(did it not). He said: Shall I make obeisance to him whom Thou hast created of dust?
62. He said: Tell me, is this he whom Thou hast honored above me? If Thou shouldst respite
me to the day of resurrection, I will most certainly cause his progeny to perish except a few.
63. He said: Be gone! for whoever of them will follow you, then surely hell is your
recompense, a full recompense:
64. And beguile whomsoever of them you can with your voice, and collect against them your
forces riding and on foot, and share with them in wealth and children, and hold out promises
to them; and the Shaitan makes not promises to them but to deceive:
65. Surely (as for) My servants, you have no authority over them; and your Lord is sufficient as
a Protector.
66. Your Lord is He Who speeds the ships for you in the sea that you may seek of His grace;
surely He is ever Merciful to you.
67. And when distress afflicts you in the sea, away go those whom you call on except He; but
when He brings you safe to the land, you turn aside; and man is ever ungrateful.
68. What! Do you then feel secure that He will not cause a tract of land to engulf you or send
on you a tornado? Then you shall not find a protector for yourselves.
69. Or, do you feel secure that He will (not) take you back into it another time, then send on
you a fierce gale and thus drown you on account of your ungratefulness? Then you shall not
find any aider against Us in the matter.
70. And surely We have honored the children of Adam, and We carry them in the land and the
sea, and We have given them of the good things, and We have made them to excel by an
appropriate excellence over most of those whom We have created.
71. (Remember) the day when We will call every people with their Imam; then whoever is
given his book in his right hand, these shall read their book; and they shall not be dealt with a
whit unjustly.
72. And whoever is blind in this, he shall (also) be blind in the hereafter; and more erring from
the way.
73. And surely they had purposed to turn you away from that which We have revealed to you,
that you should forge against Us other than that, and then they would certainly have taken you
for a friend.
74. And had it not been that We had already established you, you would certainly have been
near to incline to them a little;
75. In that case We would certainly have made you to taste a double (punishment) in this life
and a double (punishment) after death, then you would not have found any helper against Us.
76. And.surely they purposed to unsettle you from the land that they might expel you from it,
and in that case they will not tarry behind you but a little.
77. (This is Our) course with regard to those of Our apostles whom We sent before you, and
you shall not find a change in Our course.
78. Keep up prayer from the declining of the sun till the darkness of the night and the morning
recitation; surely the morning recitation is witnessed.
79. And during a part of the night, pray Tahajjud beyond what is incumbent on you; maybe
your Lord will raise you to a position of great glory.
80. And say: My Lord! make me to enter a goodly entering, and cause me to go forth a goodly
going forth, and grant me from near Thee power to assist (me).
81. And say: The truth has come and the falsehood has vanished; surely falsehood is a
vanishing (thing).
82. And We reveal of the Quran that which is a healing and a mercy to the believers, and it
adds only to the perdition of the unjust.
83. And when We bestow favor on man, he turns aside and behaves proudly, and when evil
afflicts him, he is despairing.
84. Say: Every one acts according to his manner; but your Lord best knows who is best guided
in the path.
85. And they ask you about the soul. Say: The soul is one of the commands of my Lord, and
you are not given aught of knowledge but a little.
86. And if We please, We should certainly take away that which We have revealed to you, then
you would not find for it any protector against Us.
87. But on account of mercy from your Lord-- surely His grace to you is abundant.
88. Say: If men and jinn should combine together to bring the like of this Quran, they could not
bring the like of it, though some of them were aiders of others.
89. And certainly We have explained for men in this Quran every kind of similitude, but most
men do not consent to aught but denying.
90. And they say: We will by no means believe in you until you cause a fountain to gush forth
from the earth for us.
91. Or you should have a garden of palms and grapes in the midst of which you should cause
rivers to flow forth, gushing out.
92. Or you should cause the heaven to come down upon us in pieces as you think, or bring
Allah and the angels face to face (with us).
93. Or you should have a house of gold, or you should ascend into heaven, and we will not
believe in your ascending until you bring down to us a book which we may read. Say: Glory be
to my Lord; am I aught but a mortal apostle?
94. And nothing prevented people from believing when the guidance came to them except that
they said: What! has Allah raised up a mortal to be an apostle?
95. Say: Had there been in the earth angels walking about as settlers, We would certainly have
sent down to them from the heaven an angel as an apostle.
96. Say: Allah suffices as a witness between me and you; surely He is Aware of His servants,
Seeing.
97. And whomsoever Allah guides, he is the follower of the right way, and whomsoever He
causes to err, you shall not find for him guardians besides Him; and We will gather them
together on the day of resurrection on their faces, blind and dumb and deaf; their abode is hell;
whenever it becomes allayed We will add to their burning.
98. This is their retribution because they disbelieved in Our communications and said What!
when we shall have become bones and decayed particles, shall we then indeed be raised up
into a new creation?
99. Do they not consider that Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth, is able to create
their like, and He has appointed for them a doom about which there is no doubt? But the
unjust do not consent to aught but denying.
100. Say: If you control the treasures of the mercy of my Lord, then you would withhold (them)
from fear of spending, and man is niggardly.
101. And certainly We gave Musa nine clear signs; so ask the children of Israel. When he came
to them, Firon said to him: Most surely I deem you, O Musa, to be a man deprived of reason.
102. He said: Truly you know that none but the Lord of the heavens and the earth has sent
down these as clear proof and most surely I believe you, O Firon, to be given over to
perdition.
103. So he desired to destroy them out of the earth, but We drowned him and those with him
all together;
104. And We said to the Israelites after him: Dwell in the land: and when the promise of the
next life shall come to pass, we will bring you both together in judgment.
105. And with truth have We revealed it, and with truth did it come; and We have not sent you
but as the giver of good news and as a warner.
106. And it is a Quran which We have revealed in portions so that you may read it to the
people by slow degrees, and We have revealed it, revealing in portions.
107. Say: Believe in it or believe not; surely those who are given the knowledge before it fall
down on their faces, making obeisance when it is recited to them.
108. And they say: Glory be to our Lord! most surely the promise of our Lord was to be
fulfilled.
109. And they fall down on their faces weeping, and it adds to their humility.
110. Say: Call upon Allah or call upon, the Beneficent God; whichever you call upon, He has
the best names; and do not utter your prayer with a very raised voice nor be silent with regard
to it, and seek a way between these.
111. And say: (All) praise is due to Allah, Who has not taken a son and Who has not a partner
in the kingdom, and Who has not a helper to save Him from disgrace; and proclaim His
greatness magnifying (Him).
XVIII. The Cave
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. (All) praise is due to Allah, Who revealed the Book to His servant and did not make in it any
crookedness.
2. Rightly directing, that he might give warning of severe punishment from Him and give good
news to the believers who do good that they shall have a goodly reward,
3. Staying in it for ever;
4. And warn those who say: Allah has taken a son. S. They have no knowledge of it, nor had
their fathers; a grievous word it is that comes out of their mouths; they speak nothing but a lie.
6. Then maybe you will kill yourself with grief, sorrowing after them, if they do not believe in
this announcement.
7. Surely We have made whatever is on the earth an embellishment for it, so that We may try
them (as to) which of them is best in works.
8. And most surely We will make what is on it bare ground without herbage.
9. Or, do you think that the Fellows of the Cave and the Inscription were of Our wonderful
signs?
10. When the youths sought refuge in the cave, they said: Our Lord! grant us mercy from Thee,
and provide for us a right course in our affair.
11. So We prevented them from hearing in the cave for a number of years.
12. Then We raised them up that We might know which of the two parties was best able to
compute the time for which they remained.
13. We relate to you their story with the truth; surely they were youths who believed in their
Lord and We increased them in guidance.
14. And We strengthened their hearts with patience, when they stood up and said: Our Lord is
the Lord of the heavens and the earth; we will by no means call upon any god besides Him, for
then indeed we should have said an extravagant thing.
15. These our people have taken gods besides Him; why do they not produce any clear authority
in their support? Who is then more unjust than he who forges a lie against Allah?
16. And when you forsake them and what they worship save Allah, betake yourselves for refuge
to the cave; your Lord will extend to you largely of His mercy and provide for you a profitable
course in your affair.
17. And you might see the sun when it rose, decline from their cave towards the right hand, and
when it set, leave them behind on the left while they were in a wide space thereof. This is of
the signs of Allah; whomsoever Allah guides, he is the rightly guided one, and whomsoever He
causes to err, you shall not find for him any friend to lead (him) aright.
18. And you might think them awake while they were asleep and We turned them about to the
right and to the left, while their dog (lay) outstretching its paws at the entrance; if you looked at
them you would certainly turn back from them in flight, and you would certainly be filled with
awe because of them.
19. And thus did We rouse them that they might question each other. A speaker among them
said: How long have you tarried? They said: We have tarried for a day or a part of a day.
(Others) said: Your Lord knows best how long you have tarried. Now send one of you with this
silver (coin) of yours to the city, then let him see which of them has purest food, so let him
bring you provision from it, and let him behave with gentleness, and by no means make your
case known to any one:
20. For surely if they prevail against you they would stone you to death or force you back to
their religion, and then you will never succeed.
21. And thus did We make (men) to get knowledge of them that they might know that Allah's
promise is true and that as for the hour there is no doubt about it. When they disputed among
themselves about their affair and said: Erect an edifice over them-- their Lord best knows them.
Those who prevailed in their affair said: We will certainly raise a masjid over them.
22. (Some) say: (They are) three, the fourth of them being their dog; and (others) say: Five, the
sixth of them being their dog, making conjectures at what is unknown; and (others yet) say:
Seven, and the eighth of them is their dog. Say: My Lord best knows their number, none knows
them but a few; therefore contend not in the matter of them but with an outward contention, and
do not question concerning them any of them.
23. And do not say of anything: Surely I will do it tomorrow,
24. Unless Allah pleases; and remember your Lord when you forget and say: Maybe my Lord
will guide me to a nearer course to the right than this.
25. And they remained in their cave three hundred years and (some) add (another) nine.
26. Say: Allah knows best how long they remained; to Him are (known) the unseen things of the
heavens and the earth; how clear His sight and how clear His hearing! There is none to be a
guardian for them besides Him, and He does not make any one His associate in His Judgment.
27. And recite what has been revealed to you of the Book of your Lord, there is none who can
alter His words; and you shall not find any refuge besides Him.
28. And withhold yourself with those who call on their Lord morning and evening desiring His
goodwill, and let not your eyes pass from them, desiring the beauties of this world's life; and do
not follow him whose heart We have made unmindful to Our remembrance, and he follows his
low desires and his case is one in which due bounds are exceeded.
29. And say: The truth is from your Lord, so let him who please believe, and let him who please
disbelieve; surely We have prepared for the iniquitous a fire, the curtains of which shall
encompass them about; and if they cry for water, they shall be given water like molten brass
which will scald their faces; evil the drink and ill the resting-place.
30. Surely (as for) those who believe and do good, We do not waste the reward of him who does
a good work.
31. These it is for whom are gardens of perpetuity beneath which rivers flow, ornaments shall
be given to them therein of bracelets of gold, and they shall wear green robes of fine silk and
thick silk brocade interwoven with gold, reclining therein on raised couches; excellent the
recompense and goodly the resting place.
32. And set forth to them a parable of two men; for one of them We made two gardens of grape
vines, and We surrounded them both with palms, and in the midst of them We made cornfields.
33. Both these gardens yielded their fruits, and failed not aught thereof, and We caused a river
to gush forth in their midst,
34. And he possessed much wealth; so he said to his companion, while he disputed with him: I
have greater wealth than you, and am mightier in followers.
35. And he entered his garden while he was unjust to himself. He said: I do not think that this
will ever perish
36. And I do not think the hour will come, and even if I am returned to my Lord I will most
certainly find a returning place better than this.
37. His companion said to him while disputing with him: Do you disbelieve in Him Who
created you from dust, then from a small seed, then He made you a perfect man?
38. But as for me, He, Allah, is my Lord, and I do not associate anyone with my Lord.
39. And wherefore did you not say when you entered your garden: It is as Allah has pleased,
there is no power save in Allah? If you consider me to be inferior to you in wealth and children,
40. Then maybe my Lord will give me what is better than your garden, and send on it a
thunderbolt from heaven so that it shall become even ground without plant,
41. Or its waters should sink down into the ground so that you are unable to find it.
42. And his wealth was destroyed; so he began to wring his hands for what he had spent on it,
while it lay, having fallen down upon its roofs, and he said: Ah me! would that I had not
associated anyone with my Lord.
43. And he had no host to help him besides Allah nor could he defend himself.
44. Here is protection only Allah's, the True One; He is best in (the giving of) reward and best in
requiting.
45. And set forth to them parable of the life of this world: like water which We send down from
the cloud so the herbage of the earth becomes tangled on account of it, then it becomes dry
broken into pieces which the winds scatter; and Allah is the holder of power over all things.
46. Wealth and children are an adornment of the life of this world; and the ever-abiding, the
good works, are better with your Lord in reward and better in expectation.
47. And the day on which We will cause the mountains to pass away and you will see the earth a
levelled plain and We will gather them and leave not any one of them behind.
48. And they shall be brought before your Lord, standing in ranks: Now certainly you have come
to Us as We created you at first. Nay, you thought that We had not appointed to you a time of
the fulfillment of the promise.
49. And the Book shall be placed, then you will see the guilty fearing from what is in it, and
they will say: Ah! woe to us! what a book is this! it does not omit a small one nor a great one,
but numbers them (all); and what they had done they shall find present (there); and your Lord
does not deal unjustly with anyone.
50. And when We said to the angels: Make obeisance to Adam; they made obeisance but Iblis
(did it not). He was of the jinn, so he transgressed the commandment of his Lord. What! would
you then take him and his offspring for friends rather than Me, and they are your enemies? Evil
is (this) change for the unjust.
51. I did not make them witnesses of the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor of the
creation of their own souls; nor could I take those who lead (others) astray for aiders.
52. And on the day when He shall say: Call on those whom you considered to be My associates.
So they shall call on them, but they shall not answer them, and We will cause a separation
between them.
53. And the guilty shall see the fire, then they shall know that they are going to fall into it, and
they shall not find a place to which to turn away from it.
54. And certainly We have explained in this Quran every kind of example, and man is most of
all given to contention. SS. And nothing prevents men from believing when the guidance comes
to them, and from asking forgiveness of their Lord, except that what happened to the ancients
should overtake them, or that the chastisement should come face to face with them.
56. And We do not send apostles but as givers of good news and warning, and those who
disbelieve make a false contention that they may render null thereby the truth, and they take My
communications and that with which they are warned for a mockery.
57. And who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the communications of his Lord, then
he turns away from them and forgets what his two hands have sent before? Surely We have
placed veils over their hearts lest they should understand it and a heaviness in their ears; and if
you call them to the guidance, they will not ever follow the right course in that case.
58. And your Lord is Forgiving, the Lord of Mercy; were He to punish them for what they earn,
He would certainly have hastened the chastisement for them; but for them there is an appointed
time from which they shall not find a refuge.
59. And (as for) these towns, We destroyed them when they acted unjustly, and We have
appointed a time for their destruction.
60. And when Musa said to his servant: I will not cease until I reach the junction of the two
rivers or I will go on for years.
61. So when they had reached the junction of the two (rivers) they forgot their fish, and it took
its way into the sea, going away.
62. But when they had gone farther, he said to his servant: Bring to us our morning meal,
certainly we have met with fatigue from this our journey.
63. He said: Did you see when we took refuge on the rock then I forgot the fish, and nothing
made me forget to speak of it but the Shaitan, and it took its way into the river; what a wonder!
64. He said: This is what we sought for; so they returned retracing their footsteps.
65. Then they found one from among Our servants whom We had granted mercy from Us and
whom We had taught knowledge from Ourselves.
66. Musa said to him: Shall I follow you on condition that you should teach me right knowledge
of what you have been taught?
67. He said: Surely you cannot have patience with me
68. And how can you have patience in that of which you have not got a comprehensive
knowledge?
69. He said: If Allah pleases, you will find me patient and I shall not disobey you in any matter.
70. He said: If you would follow me, then do not question me about any thing until I myself
speak to you about it
71. So they went (their way) until when they embarked in the boat he made a hole in it. (Musa)
said: Have you made a hole in it to drown its inmates? Certainly you have done a grievous thing.
72. He said: Did I not say that you will not be able to have patience with me?
73. He said: Blame me not for what I forgot, and do not constrain me to a difficult thing in my
affair.
74. So they went on until, when they met a boy, he slew him. (Musa) said: Have you slain an
innocent person otherwise than for manslaughter? Certainly you have done an evil thing.
75. He said: Did I not say to you that you will not be able to have patience with me?
76. He said: If I ask you about anything after this, keep me not in your company; indeed you
shall have (then) found an excuse in my case.
77. So they went on until when they came to the people of a town, they asked them for food, but
they refused to entertain them as guests. Then they found in it a wall which was on the point of
falling, so he put it into a right state. (Musa) said: If you had pleased, you might certainly have
taken a recompense for it.
78. He said: This shall be separation between me and you; now I will inform you of the
significance of that with which you could not have patience.
79. As for the boat, it belonged to (some) poor men who worked on the river and I wished that I
should damage it, and there was behind them a king who seized every boat by force.
80. And as for the boy, his parents were believers and we feared lest he should make
disobedience and ingratitude to come upon them:
81. So we desired that their Lord might give them in his place one better than him in purity and
nearer to having compassion.
82. And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and there was beneath it a
treasure belonging to them, and their father was a righteous man; so your Lord desired that they
should attain their maturity and take out their treasure, a mercy from your Lord, and I did not do
it of my own accord. This is the significance of that with which you could not have patience.
83. And they ask you about Zulqarnain. Say: I will recite to you an account of him.
84. Surely We established him in the land and granted him means of access to every thing.
85. So he followed a course.
86. Until when he reached the place where the sun set, he found it going down into a black sea,
and found by it a people. We said: O Zulqarnain! either give them a chastisement or do them a
benefit.
87. He said: As to him who is injust, we will chastise him, then shall he be returned to his Lord,
and He will chastise him with an exemplary chastisement: And as for him who believes and
does good, he shall have goodly reward, and We will speak to him an easy word of Our
command.
89. Then he followed (another) course.
90. Until when he reached the land of the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people to
whom We had given no shelter from It;
91. Even so! and We had a full knowledge of what he had.
92. Then he followed (another) course.
93. Until when he reached (a place) between the two mountains, he found on that side of them a
people who could hardly understand a word.
94. They said: O Zulqarnain! surely Gog and Magog make mischief in the land. Shall we then
pay you a tribute on condition that you should raise a barrier between us and them
95. He said: That in which my Lord has established me is better, therefore you only help me
with workers, I will make a fortified barrier between you and them;
96. Bring me blocks of iron; until when he had filled up the space between the two mountain
sides, he said: Blow, until when he had made it (as) fire, he said: Bring me molten brass which I
may pour over it.
97. So they were not able to scale it nor could they make a hole in it.
98. He said: This is a mercy from my Lord, but when the promise of my Lord comes to pass He
will make it level with the ground, and the promise of my Lord is ever true.
99. And on that day We will leave a part of them in conflict with another part, and the trumpet
will be blown, so We will gather them all together;
100. And We will bring forth hell, exposed to view, on that day before the unbelievers.
101. They whose eyes were under a cover from My reminder and they could not even hear.
102. What! do then those who disbelieve think that they can take My servants to be guardians
besides Me? Surely We have prepared hell for the entertainment of the unbelievers.
103. Say: Shall We inform you of the greatest losers in (their) deeds?
104. (These are) they whose labor is lost in this world's life and they think that they are well
versed in skill of the work of hands.
105. These are they who disbelieve in the communications of their Lord and His meeting, so
their deeds become null, and therefore We will not set up a balance for them on the day of
resurrection.
106. Thus it is that their recompense is hell, because they disbelieved and held My
communications and My apostles in mockery.
107. Surely (as for) those who believe and do good deeds, their place of entertainment shall be
the gardens of paradise,
108. Abiding therein; they shall not desire removal from them.
109. Say: If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would surely be consumed before
the words of my Lord are exhausted, though We were to bring the like of that (sea) to add
110. Say: I am only a mortal like you; it is revealed to me that your god is one God, therefore
whoever hopes to meet his Lord, he should do good deeds, and not join any one in the service of
his Lord.
XIX.
XX. TaHa
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Ta Ha.
2. We have not revealed the Quran to you that you may be unsuccessful.
3. Nay, it is a reminder to him who fears:
4. A revelation from Him Who created the earth and the high heavens.
5. The Beneficent God is firm in power.
6. His is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth and what is between them two and what
is beneath the ground.
7. And if you utter the saying aloud, then surely He knows the secret, and what is yet more hidden.
8. Allah-- there is no god but He; His are the very best names.
9. And has the story of Musa come to you?
10. When he saw fire, he said to his family: Stop, for surely I see a fire, haply I may bring to you
therefrom a live coal or find a guidance at the fire.
11. So when he came to it, a voice was uttered: O Musa:
12. Surely I am your Lord, therefore put off your shoes; surely you are in the sacred valley, Tuwa,
13. And I have chosen you, so listen to what is revealed:
14. Surely I am Allah, there is no god but 1, therefore serve Me and keep up prayer for My remembrance:
15. Surely the hour is coming-- I am about to make it manifest-- so that every soul may be
rewarded as it strives:
16. Therefore let not him who believes not in it and follows his low desires turn you away from
it so that you should perish;
17. And what is this in your right hand, O Musa!
18. He said: This is my staff: I recline on it and I beat the leaves with it to make them fall upon
my sheep, and I have other uses for it.
19. He said: Cast it down, O Musa!
20. So he cast it down; and lo! it was a serpent running.
21. He said: Take hold of it and fear not; We will restore it to its former state:
22. And press your hand to your side, it shall come out white without evil: another sign:
23. That We may show you of Our greater signs:
24. Go to Firon, surely he has exceeded all limits.
25. He said: O my Lord! Expand my breast for me,
26. And make my affair easy to me,
27. And loose the knot from my tongue,
28. (That) they may understand my word;
29. And give to me an aider from my family:
30. Haroun, my brother,
31. Strengthen my back by him,
32. And associate him (with me) in my affair,
33. So that we should glorify Thee much,
34. And remember Thee oft.
35. Surely, Thou art seeing us.
36. He said: You are indeed granted your petition, O Musa
And certainly We bestowed on you a favor at another time;
38. When We revealed to your mother what was revealed;
39. Saying: Put him into a chest, then cast it down into the river, then the river shall throw him
on the shore; there shall take him up one who is an enemy to Me and enemy to him, and I cast
down upon you love from Me, and that you might be brought up before My eyes;
40. When your sister went and said: Shall I direct you to one who will take charge of him? So
We brought you back to your mother, that her eye might be cooled and she should not grieve
and you killed a man, then We delivered you from the grief, and We tried you with (a severe)
trying. Then you stayed for years among the people of Madyan; then you came hither as
ordained, O Musa.
41. And I have chosen you for Myself:
42. Go you and your brother with My communications and be not remiss in remembering Me;
43. Go both to Firon, surely he has become inordinate;
44. Then speak to him a gentle word haply he may mind or fear.
45. Both said: O our Lord! Surely we fear that he may hasten to do evil to us or that he may
become inordinate.
46. He said: Fear not, surely I am with you both: I do hear and see.
47. So go you both to him and say: Surely we are two apostles of your Lord; therefore send the
children of Israel with us and do not torment them! Indeed we have brought to you a
communication from your Lord, and peace is on him who follows the guidance;
48. Surely it has been revealed to us that the chastisement will surely come upon him who
rejects and turns back.
49. (Firon) said: And who is your Lord, O Musa?
50. He said: Our Lord is He Who gave to everything its creation, then guided it (to its goal).
51. He said: Then what is the state of the former generations?
52. He said: The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a book, my Lord errs not, nor does He forget;
53. Who made the earth for you an expanse and made for you therein paths and sent down water
from the cloud; then thereby We have brought forth many species of various herbs.
54. Eat and pasture your cattle; most surely there are signs in this for those endowed with understanding.
SS. From it We created you and into it We shall send you back and from it will We raise you a
second time.
56. And truly We showed him Our signs, all of them, but he rejected and refused.
57. Said he: Have you come to us that you should turn us out of our land by your magic, O Musa?
58. So we too will produce before you magic like it, therefore make between us and you an
appointment, which we should not break, (neither) we nor you, (in) a central place.
59. (Musa) said: Your appointment is the day of the Festival and let the people be gathered
together in the early forenoon.
60. So Firon turned his back and settled his plan, then came.
61. Musa said to them: Woe to you! do not forge a lie against Allah, lest He destroy you by a
punishment, and he who forges (a lie) indeed fails to attain (his desire).
62. So they disputed with one another about their affair and kept the discourse secret.
63. They said: These are most surely two magicians who wish to turn you out from your land by
their magic and to take away your best traditions.
64. Therefore settle your plan, then come standing in ranks and he will prosper indeed this day
who overcomes.
65. They said: O Musa! will you cast, or shall we be the first who cast down?
66. He said: Nay! cast down. then lo! their cords and their rods-- it was imaged to him on
account of their magic as if they were running.
67. So Musa conceived in his mind a fear.
68. We said: Fear not, surely you shall be the uppermost,
69. And cast down what is in your right hand; it shall devour what they have wrought; they have
wrought only the plan of a magician, and the magician shall not be successful wheresoever he
may come from.
70. And the magicians were cast down making obeisance; they said: We believe in the Lord of
Haroun and Musa.
71. (Firon) said: You believe in him before I give you leave; most surely he is the chief of you
who taught you enchantment, therefore I will certainly cut off your hands and your feet on
opposite sides, and I will certainly crucify you on the trunks of the palm trees, and certainly you
will come to know which of us is the more severe and the more abiding in chastising.
72. They said: We do not prefer you to what has come to us of clear arguments and to He Who
made us, therefore decide what you are going to decide; you can only decide about this world's life.
73. Surely we believe in our Lord that He may forgive us our sins and the magic to which you
compelled us; and Allah is better and more abiding.
74. Whoever comes to his Lord (being) guilty, for him is surely hell; he shall not die therein, nor
shall he live.
75. And whoever comes to Him a believer (and) he has done good deeds indeed, these it is who
shall have the high ranks,
76. The gardens of perpetuity, beneath which rivers flow, to abide therein; and this is the reward
of him who has purified himself.
77. And certainly We revealed to Musa, saying: Travel by night with My servants, then make for
them a dry path in the sea, not fearing to be overtaken, nor being afraid.
78. And Firon followed them with his armies, so there came upon them of the sea that which
came upon them.
79. And Firon led astray his people and he did not guide (them) aright.
80. O children of Israel! indeed We delivered you from your enemy, and We made a covenant
with you on the blessed side of the mountain, and We sent to you the manna and the quails.
81. Eat of the good things We have given you for sustenance, and be not inordinate with respect
to them, lest My wrath should be due to you, and to whomsoever My wrath is due be shall
perish indeed.
82. And most surely I am most Forgiving to him who repents and believes and does good, then
continues to follow the right direction.
83. And what caused you to hasten from your people, O Musa?
84. He said: They are here on my track and I hastened on to Thee, my Lord, that Thou mightest
be pleased.
85. He said: So surely We have tried your people after you, and the Samiri has led them astray.
86. So Musa returned to his people wrathful, sorrowing. Said he: O my people! did not your
Lord promise you a goodly promise: did then the time seem long to you, or did you wish that
displeasure from your Lord should be due to you, so that you broke (your) promise to me?
87. They said: We did not break (our) promise to you of our own accord, but we were made to
bear the burdens of the ornaments of the people, then we made a casting of them, and thus did
the Samiri suggest.
88. So he brought forth for them a calf, a (mere) body, which had a mooing sound, so they said:
This is your god and the god of Musa, but he forgot.
89. What! could they not see that it did not return to them a reply, and (that) it did not control
any harm or benefit for them?
90. And certainly Haroun had said to them before: O my people! you are only tried by it, and
surely your Lord is the Beneficent God, therefore follow me and obey my order.
91. They said: We will by no means cease to keep to its worship until Musa returns to us.
92. (Musa) said: O Haroun! what prevented you, when you saw them going astray,
93. So that you did not follow me? Did you then disobey my order?
94. He said: O son of my mother! seize me not by my beard nor by my head; surely I was afraid
lest you should say: You have caused a division among the children of Israel and not waited for
my word.
95. He said: What was then your object, O Samiri?
96. He said: I saw (Jibreel) what they did not see, so I took a handful (of the dust) from the
footsteps of the messenger, then I threw it in the casting; thus did my soul commend to me
97. He said: Begone then, surely for you it will be in this life to say, Touch (me) not; and surely
there is a threat for you, which shall not be made to fail to you, and look at your god to whose
worship you kept (so long); we will certainly burn it, then we will certainly scatter it a (wide)
scattering in the sea.
98. Your God is only Allah, there is no god but He; He comprehends all things in (His) knowledge.
99. Thus do We relate to you (some) of the news of what has gone before; and indeed We have
given to you a Reminder from Ourselves.
100. Whoever turns aside from it, he shall surely bear a burden on the day of resurrection
101. Abiding in this (state), and evil will it be for them to bear on the day of resurrection;
102. On the day when the trumpet shall be blown, and We will gather the guilty, blue-eyed, on
that day
103. They shall consult together secretly: You did tarry but ten (centuries).
104. We know best what they say, when the fairest of them in course would say: You tarried but
a day.
105. And they ask you about the mountains. Say: My Lord will carry them away from the roots.
106. Then leave it a plain, smooth level
107. You shall not see therein any crookedness or unevenness.
108. On that day they shall follow the inviter, there is no crookedness in him, and the voices
shall be low before the Beneficent God so that you shall not hear aught but a soft sound.
109. On that day shall no intercession avail except of him whom the Beneficent God allows and
whose word He is pleased with.
110. He knows what is before them and what is behind them, while they do not comprehend it
in knowledge.
111. And the faces shall be humbled before the Living, the Self-subsistent God, and he who
bears iniquity is indeed a failure.
112. And whoever does good works and he is a believer, he shall have no fear of injustice nor of
the withholding of his due.
113. And thus have We sent it down an Arabic Quran, and have distinctly set forth therein of
threats that they may guard (against evil) or that it may produce a reminder for them.
114. Supremely exalted is therefore Allah, the King, the Truth, and do not make haste with the
Quran before its revelation is made complete to you and say: O my Lord ! increase me in knowledge.
115. And certainly We gave a commandment to Adam before, but he forgot; and We did not
find in him any determination.
116. And when We said to the angels: Make obeisance to Adam, they made obeisance, but Iblis
(did it not); he refused.
117. So We said: O Adam! This is an enemy to you and to your wife; therefore let him not drive
you both forth from the garden so that you should be unhappy;
118. Surely it is (ordained) for you that you shall not be hungry therein nor bare of clothing;
119. And that you shall not be thirsty therein nor shall you feel the heat of the sun.
120. But the Shaitan made an evil suggestion to him; he said: O Adam! Shall I guide you to the
tree of immortality and a kingdom which decays not?
121 . Then they both ate of it, so their evil inclinations became manifest to them, and they both
began to cover themselves with leaves of the garden, and Adam disobeyed his Lord, so his life
became evil (to him).
122. Then his Lord chose him, so He turned to him and guided (him).
123. He said: Get forth you two therefrom, all (of you), one of you (is) enemy to another. So
there will surely come to you guidance from Me, then whoever follows My guidance, he shall
not go astray nor be unhappy;
124. And whoever turns away from My reminder, his shall be a straitened life, and We will raise
him on the day of resurrection, blind.
125. He shall say: My Lord! why hast Thou raised me blind and I was a seeing one indeed?
126. He will say: Even so, Our communications came to you but you neglected them; even thus
shall you be forsaken this day.
127. And thus do We recompense him who is extravagant and does not believe in the
communications of his Lord, and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter is severer and more
128. Does it not then direct them aright how many of the generations In whose dwelling-places
they go about We destroyed before them? Most surely there are signs in this for those endowed
with understanding.
129. And had there not been a word (that had) already gone forth from your Lord and an
appointed term, it would surely have been made to cleave (to them).
130. Bear then patiently what they say, and glorify your Lord by the praising of Him before the
rising of the sun and before its setting, and during hours of the night do also glorify (Him) and
during parts of the day, that you may be well pleased
131. And do not stretch your eyes after that with which We have provided different classes of
them, (of) the splendor of this world's life, that We may thereby try them; and the sustenance
(given) by your Lord is better and more abiding.
132. And enjoin prayer on your followers, and steadily adhere to it; We do not ask you for
subsistence; We do give you subsistence, and the (good) end is for guarding (against evil).
133. And they say: Why does he not bring to us a sign from his Lord? Has not there come to
them a clear evidence of what is m the previous books?
134. And had We destroyed them with chastisement before this, they would certainly have said:
O our Lord! why didst Thou not send to us an apostle, for then we should have followed Thy
communications before that we met disgrace and shame.
135. Say: Every one (of us) is awaiting, therefore do await: So you will come to know who is the
follower of the even path and who goes aright.
XXI. The Prophets
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Their reckoning has drawn near to men, and in heedlessness are they turning aside.
2. There comes not to them a new reminder from their Lord but they hear it while they sport,
3. Their hearts trifling; and those who are unjust counsel together in secret: He is nothing but a
mortal like yourselves; what! will you then yield to enchantment while you see?
4. He said: My Lord knows what is spoken in the heaven and the earth, and He is the Hearing,
the Knowing.
5. Nay! say they: Medleys of dreams; nay! he has forged it; nay! he is a poet; so let him bring
to us a sign as the former (prophets) were sent (with).
6. There did not believe before them any town which We destroyed, will they then believe?
7. And We did not send before you any but men to whom We sent revelation, so ask the
followers of the reminder if you do not
8. And We did not make them bodies not eating the food, and they were not to abide (forever).
9. Then We made Our promise good to them, so We delivered them and those whom We
pleased, and We destroyed the ex
10. Certainly We have revealed to you a Book in which is your good remembrance; what! do
you not then understand?
11. And how many a town which was iniquitous did We demolish, and We raised up after it
another people!
12. So when they felt Our punishment, lo! they began to fly
13. Do not fly (now) and come back to what you were made to lead easy lives in and to your
dwellings, haply you will be questioned.
14. They said: O woe to us! surely we were unjust.
15. And this ceased not to be their cry till We made them cut
16. And We did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between them for sport.
17. Had We wished to make a diversion, We would have made it from before Ourselves: by no
means would We do (it).
18. Nay! We cast the truth against the falsehood, so that it breaks its head, and lo! it vanishes;
and woe to you for what you describe;
19. And whoever is in the heavens and the earth is His; and those who are with Him are not
proud to serve Him, nor do they grow weary.
20. They glorify (Him) by night and day; they are never languid.
21. Or have they taken gods from the earth who raise (the dead).
22. If there had been in them any gods except Allah, they would both have certainly been in a
state of disorder; therefore glory be to Allah, the Lord of the dominion, above what they
attribute (to Him).
23. He cannot be questioned concerning what He does and they shall be questioned.
24. Or, have they taken gods besides Him? Say: Bring your proof; this is the reminder of those
with me and the reminder of those before me. Nay! most of them do not know the truth, so
they turn aside.
25. And We did not send before you any apostle but We revealed to him that there is no god
but Me, therefore serve Me.
26. And they say: The Beneficent God has taken to Himself a ! son. Glory be to Him. Nay! they
are honored servants
27. They do not precede Him in speech and (only) according to His commandment do they act.
28. He knows what is before them and what is behind them, and they do not intercede except
for him whom He approves and for fear of Him they tremble.
29. And whoever of them should say: Surely I am a god besides Him, such a one do We
recompense with hell; thus do, We recompense the unjust.
30. Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the earth were closed up, but We
have opened them; and We have made of water everything living, will they not then believe?
31. And We have made great mountains in the earth lest it might be convulsed with them, and
We have made in it wide ways that they may follow a right direction.
32. And We have made the heaven a guarded canopy and (yet) they turn aside from its signs.
33. And He it is Who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all (orbs) travel
along swiftly in their celestial spheres.
34. And We did not ordain abiding for any mortal before you. What! Then if you die, will they abide?
35. Every soul must taste of death and We try you by evil and good by way of probation; and to
Us you shall be brought back.
36. And when those who disbelieve see you, they do not take you but for one to be scoffed at:
Is this he who speaks of your gods? And they are deniers at the mention of the Beneficent God.
37. Man is created of haste; now will I show to you My signs, therefore do not ask Me to
hasten (them) on.
38. And they say: When will this threat come to pass if you are truthful?
39. Had those who disbelieve but known (of the time) when they shall not be able to ward off
the fire from their faces nor from their backs, nor shall they be helped.
40. Nay, it shall come on them all of a sudden and cause them to become confounded, so they
shall not have the power to avert it, nor shall they be respited.
41. And certainly apostles before you were scoffed at, then there befell those of them who
scoffed that at which they had scoffed.
42. Say: Who guards you by night and by day from the Beneficent God? Nay, they turn aside at
the mention of their Lord.
43. Or, have they gods who can defend them against Us? They shall not be able to assist
themselves, nor shall they be defended from Us.
44. Nay, We gave provision to these and their fathers until life was prolonged to them. Do they
not then see that We are visiting the land, curtailing it of its sides? Shall they then prevail?
45. Say: I warn you only by revelation; and the deaf do not hear the call whenever they are warned.
46. And if a blast of the chastisement of your Lord were to touch them, they will certainly say:
O woe to us! surely we were unjust.
47. And We will set up a just balance on the day of resurrection, so no soul shall be dealt with
unjustly in the least; and though there be the weight of a grain of mustard seed, (yet) will We
bring it, and sufficient are We to take account.
48. And certainly We gave to Musa and Haroun the Furqan and a light and a reminder for
those who would guard (against evil).
49. (For) those who fear their Lord in secret and they are fearful of the hour.
50. And this is a blessed Reminder which We have revealed; will you then deny it?
51. And certainly We gave to Ibrahim his rectitude before, and We knew him fully well.
52. When he said to his father and his people: What are these images to whose worship you cleave?
53. They said: We found our fathers worshipping them.
54. He said: Certainly you have been, (both) you and your fathers, in manifest error.
55. They said: Have you brought to us the truth, or are you one of the triflers?
56. He said: Nay! your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, Who brought them into
existence, and I am of those who bear witness to this:
57. And, by Allah! I will certainly do something against your idols after you go away, turning back.
58. So he broke them into pieces, except the chief of them, that haply they may return to it.
59. They said: Who has done this to our gods? Most surely he is one of the unjust.
60. They said: We heard a youth called Ibrahim speak of them.
61. Said they: Then bring him before the eyes of the people, perhaps they may bear witness.
62. They said: Have you done this to our gods, O Ibrahim?
63. He said: Surely (some doer) has done it; the chief of them is this, therefore ask them, if
they can speak.
64. Then they turned to themselves and said: Surely you yourselves are the unjust;
65. Then they were made to hang down their heads: Certainly you know that they do not speak.
66. He said:.What! do you then serve besides Allah what brings you not any benefit at all, nor
does it harm you?
67. Fie on you and on what you serve besides Allah; what! do you not then understand?
68. They said: Burn him and help your gods, if you are going to do (anything).
69. We said: O fire! be a comfort and peace to Ibrahim;
70. And they desired a war on him, but We made them the greatest losers.
71. And We delivered him as well as Lut (removing them) to the land which We had blessed
for all people.
72. And We gave him Ishaq and Yaqoub, a son's son, and We made (them) all good.
73. And We made them Imams who guided (people) by Our command, and We revealed to
them the doing of good and the keeping up of prayer and the giving of the alms, and Us
(alone) did they serve;
74. And (as for) Lut, We gave him wisdom and knowledge, and We delivered him from the
town which wrought abominations; surely they were an evil people, transgressors;
75. And We took him into Our mercy; surely he was of the good.
76. And Nuh, when he cried aforetime, so We answered him, and delivered him and his
followers from the great calamity.
77. And We helped him against the people who rejected Our communications; surely they
were an evil people, so We drowned them all.
78. And Dawood and Sulaiman when they gave judgment concerning the field when the
people's sheep pastured therein by night, and We were bearers of witness to their judgment.
79. So We.made Sulaiman to understand it; and to each one We gave wisdom and knowledge;
and We made the mountains, and the birds to celebrate Our praise with Dawood; and We were
the doers.
80. And We taught him the making of coats of mail for you, that they might protect you in your
wars; will you then be grateful?
81 . And (We made subservient) to Sulaiman the wind blowing violent, pursuing its course by
his command to the land which We had blessed, and We are knower of ail things.
82. And of the rebellious people there were those who dived for him and did other work
besides that, and We kept guard over them;
83. And Ayub, when he cried to his Lord, (saying): Harm has afflicted me, and Thou art the
most Merciful of the merciful.
84. Therefore We responded to him and took off what harm he had, and We gave him his
family and the like of them with them: a mercy from Us and a reminder to the worshippers.
85. And Ismail and Idris and Zulkifl; all were of the patient ones;
86. And We caused them to enter into Our mercy, surely they were of the good ones.
87. And Yunus, when he went away in wrath, so he thought that We would not straiten him, so
he called out among afflictions: There is no god but Thou, glory be to Thee; surely I am of
those who make themselves to suffer loss.
88. So We responded to him and delivered him from the grief and thus do We deliver the believers.
89. And Zakariya, when he cried to his Lord: O my Lord leave me not alone; and Thou art the
best of inheritors.
90. So We responded to him and gave him Yahya and made his wife fit for him; surely they
used to hasten, one with another In deeds of goodness and to call upon Us, hoping and fearing
and they were humble before Us.
91. And she who guarded her chastity, so We breathed into her of Our inspiration and made
her and her son a sign for the nations.
92. Surely this Islam is your religion, one religion (only), and I am your Lord, therefore serve Me.
93. And they broke their religion (into sects) between them: to Us shall all come back.
94. Therefore whoever shall do of good deeds and he is a believer, there shall be no denying of
his exertion, and surely We will write (It) down for him.
95. And it is binding on a town which We destroy that they shall not return.
96. Even when Gog and Magog are let loose and they shall break forth from every elevated place.
97. And the true promise shall draw nigh, then lo! the eyes of those who disbelieved shall be
fixedly open: O woe to us! surely we were m a state of heedlessness as to this; nay, we were unjust.
98. Surely you and what you worship besides Allah are the firewood of hell; to it you shall come.
99. Had these been gods, they would not have come to it and all shall abide therein.
100. For them therein shall be groaning and therein they shall not hear.
101. Surely (as for) those for whom the good has already gone forth from Us, they shall be
kept far off from it;
102. They will not hear its faintest sound, and they shall abide in that which their souls long for.
103. The great fearful event shall not grieve them, and the angels shall meet them: This is your
day which you were promised.
104. On the day when We will roll up heaven like the rolling up of the scroll for writings, as
We originated the first creation, (so) We shall reproduce it; a promise (binding on Us); surely
We will bring it about.
105. And certainly We wrote in the Book after the reminder that (as for) the land, My
righteous servants shall inherit it.
106. Most surely in this is a message to a people who serve
107. And We have hot sent you but as a mercy to the worlds.
108. Say: It is only revealed to me that your God is one God; will you then submit?
109. But if they turn back, say: I have given you warning m fairness and I do not know whether
what you are threatened with is near or far:
110. Surely He knows what is spoken openly and He knows what you hide:
111. And I do not know if this may be a trial for you and a provision till a time.
112. He said: O my Lord! judge Thou with truth; and our Lord is the Beneficent God, Whose
help is sought against what you ascribe (to Him).
XXII. The Pilgrimage . In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. O people! guard against (the punishment from) your Lord; surely the violence of the hour is
a grievous thing.
2. On the day when you shall see it, every woman giving suck shall quit in confusion what she
suckled, and every pregnant woman shall lay down her burden, and you shall see men
intoxicated, and they shall not be intoxicated but the chastisement of Allah will be severe.
3. And among men there is he who disputes about Allah without knowledge and follows every
rebellious Shaitan;
4. Against him it is written down that whoever takes him for a friend, he shall lead him astray
and conduct him to the chastisement of the burning fire.
5. O people! if you are in doubt about the raising, then surely We created you from dust, then
from a small seed, then from a clot, then from a lump of flesh, complete in make and
incomplete, that We may make clear to you; and We cause what We please to stay in the
wombs till an appointed time, then We bring you forth as babies, then that you may attain
your maturity; and of you is he who is caused to die, and of you is he who is brought back to
the worst part of life, so that after having knowledge he does not know anything; and you see
the earth sterile land, but when We send down on it the water, it stirs and swells and brings
forth of every kind a beautiful herbage.
6. This is because Allah is the Truth and because He gives life to the dead and because He has
power over all things
7. And because the hour is coming, there is no doubt about it; and because Allah shall raise up
those who are in the graves.
8. And among men there is he who disputes about Allah without knowledge and without
guidance and without an illuminating book,
9. Turning away haughtily that he may lead (others) astray from the way of Allah; for him is
disgrace in this world, and on the day of resurrection We will make him taste the punishment
of burning:
10. This is due to what your two hands have sent before, and because Allah is not in the least
unjust to the servants.
11. And among men is he who serves Allah (standing) on the verge, so that if good befalls him
he is satisfied therewith, but if a trial afflict him he turns back headlong; he loses this world as
well as the hereafter; that is a manifest loss.
12. He calls besides Allah upon that which does not harm him and that which does not profit
him, that is the great straying.
13. He calls upon him whose harm is nearer than his profit; evil certainly is the guardian and
evil certainly is the associate.
14. Surely Allah will cause those who believe and do good deeds to enter gardens beneath
which rivers flow, surely Allah does what He pleases.
15. Whoever thinks that Allah will not assist him in this life and the hereafter, let him stretch a
rope to the ceiling, then let him cut (it) off, then let him see if his struggle will take away that
at which he is enraged.
16. And thus have We revealed it, being clear arguments, and because Allah guides whom He intends.
17. Surely those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabeans and the Christians and
the Magians and those who associate (others with Allah)-- surely Allah will decide between
them on the day of resurrection; surely Allah is a witness over all things.
18. Do you not see that Allah is He, Whom obeys whoever is in the heavens and whoever is in
the earth, and the sun and the moon and the stars, and the mountains and the trees, and the
animals and many of the people; and many there are against whom chastisement has become
necessary; and whomsoever Allah abases, there is none who can make him honorable; surely
Allah does what He pleases.
19. These are two adversaries who dispute about their Lord; then (as to) those who disbelieve,
for them are cut out garments of fire, boiling water shall be poured over their heads.
20. With it shall be melted what is in their bellies and (their) skins as well.
21 And for them are whips of iron.
22 Whenever they will desire to go forth from it, from grief, they shall be turned back into it,
and taste the chastisement of burning.
23. Surely Allah will make those who believe and do good deeds enter gardens beneath which
rivers flow; they shall be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and (with) pearls, and their
garments therein shall be of silk.
24. And they are guided to goodly words and they are guided into the path of the Praised One.
25. Surely (as for) those who disbelieve, and hinder (men) from Allah's way and from the
Sacred Mosque which We have made equally for all men, (for) the dweller therein and (for)
the visitor, and whoever shall incline therein to wrong unjustly, We will make him taste of a
painful chastisement.
26. And when We assigned to Ibrahim the place of the House, saying: Do not associate with
Me aught, and purify My House for those who make the circuit and stand to pray and bow and
prostrate themselves.
27. And proclaim among men the Pilgrimage: they will come to you on foot and on every lean
camel, coming from every remote path,
28. That they may witness advantages for them and mention the name of Allah during stated
days over what He has given them of the cattle quadrupeds, then eat of them and feed the
distressed one, the needy.
29. Then let them accomplish their needful acts of shaving and cleansing, and let them fulfil
their vows and let them go round the Ancient House.
30. That (shall be so); and whoever respects the sacred ordinances of Allah, it is better for him
with his Lord; and the cattle are made lawful for you, except that which is recited to you,
therefore avoid the uncleanness of the idols and avoid false words,
31. Being upright for Allah, not associating aught with Him and whoever associates (others)
with Allah, it is as though he had fallen from on high, then the birds snatch him away or the
wind carries him off to a far-distant place.
32. That (shall be so); and whoever respects the signs of Allah, this surely is (the outcome) of
the piety of hearts.
33. You have advantages in them till a fixed time, then their place of sacrifice is the Ancient House.
34. And to every nation We appointed acts of devotion that they may mention the name of
Allah on what He has given them of the cattle quadrupeds; so your God is One God, therefore
to Him should you submit, and give good news to the humble,
35. (To) those whose hearts tremble when Allah is mentioned, and those who are patient under
that which afflicts them, and those who keep up prayer, and spend (benevolently) out of what
We have given them.
36. And (as for) the camels, We have made them of the signs of the religion of Allah for you;
for you therein is much good; therefore mention the name of Allah on them as they stand in a
row, then when they fall down eat of them and feed the poor man who is contented and the
beggar; thus have We made them subservient to you, that you may be grateful.
37. There does not reach Allah their flesh nor their blood, but to Him is acceptable the
guarding (against evil) on your part; thus has He made them subservient to you, that you may
magnify Allah because He has guided you aright; and give good news to those who do good (to others).
38. Surely Allah will defend those who believe; surely Allah does not love any one who is
unfaithful, ungrateful.
39. Permission (to fight) is given to those upon whom war is made because they are oppressed,
and most surely Allah is well able to assist them;
40. Those who have been expelled from their homes without a just cause except that they say:
Our Lord is Allah. And had there not been Allah's repelling some people by others, certainly
there would have been pulled down cloisters and churches and synagogues and mosques in
which Allah's name is much remembered; and surely Allah will help him who helps His
cause; most surely Allah is Strong, Mighty.
41. Those who, should We establish them in the land, will keep up prayer and pay the
poor-rate and enjoin good and forbid evil; and Allah's is the end of affairs.
42. And if they reject you, then already before you did the people of Nuh and Ad and Samood
reject (prophets).
43. And the people of Ibrahim and the people of Lut,
44. As well as those of Madyan and Musa (too) was rejected, but I gave respite to the
unbelievers, then did I overtake them, so how (severe) was My disapproval.
45. So how many a town did We destroy while it was unjust, so it was fallen down upon its
roofs, and (how many a) deserted well and palace raised high.
46. Have they not travelled in the land so that they should have hearts with which to
understand, or ears with which to hear? For surely it is not the eyes that are blind, but blind are
the hearts which are in the breasts.
47. And they ask you to hasten on the punishment, and Allah will by no means fail in His
promise, and surely a day with your Lord is as a thousand years of what you number.
48. And how many a town to which I gave respite while it was unjust, then I overtook it, and to
Me is the return.
49. Say: O people! I am only a plain warner to you.
50. Then (as for) those who believe and do good, they shall have forgiveness and an honorable sustenance.
51. And (as for) those who strive to oppose Our communications, they shall be the inmates of
the flaming fire.
52. And We did not send before you any apostle or prophet, but when he desired, the Shaitan
made a suggestion respecting his desire; but Allah annuls that which the Shaitan casts, then
does Allah establish His communications, and Allah is Knowing, Wise,
53. So that He may make what the Shaitan casts a trial for those in whose hearts is disease and
those whose hearts are hard; and most surely the unjust are in a great opposition,
54. And that those who have been given the knowledge may know that it is the truth from your
Lord, so they may believe in it and their hearts may be lowly before it; and most surely Allah
is the Guide of those who believe into a right path.
55. And those who disbelieve shall not cease to be in doubt concerning it until the hour
overtakes them suddenly, or there comes on them the chastisement of a destructive day.
56. The kingdom on that day shall be Allah's; He will judge between them; so those who
believe and do good will be in gardens of bliss.
57. And (as for) those who disbelieve in and reject Our communications, these it is who shall
have a disgraceful chastisement.
58. And (as for) those who fly in Allah's way and are then slain or die, Allah will most
certainly grant them a goodly sustenance, and most surely Allah is the best Giver of sustenance.
59. He will certainly cause them to enter a place of entrance which they shall be well pleased
with, and most surely Allah is Knowing, Forbearing.
60. That (shall be so); and he who retaliates with the like of that with which he has been
afflicted and he has been oppressed, Allah will most certainly aid him; most surely.Allah is
Pardoning, Forgiving.
61. That is because Allah causes the night to enter into the day and causes the day to enter into
the night, and because Allah is Hearing, Seeing.
62. That is because Allah is the Truth, and that what they call upon besides Him-- that is the
falsehood, and because Allah is the High, the Great.
63. Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the cloud so the earth becomes green?
Surely Allah is Benignant, Aware.
64. His is whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth; and most surely Allah is
the Self-sufficient, the Praised.
65. Do you not see that Allah has made subservient to you whatsoever is in the earth and the
ships running in the sea by His command? And He withholds the heaven from falling on the
earth except with His permission; most surely Allah is Compassionate, Merciful to men.
66. And He it is Who has brought you to life, then He will cause you to die, then bring you to
life (again); most surely man is ungrateful.
67. To every nation We appointed acts of devotion which they observe, therefore they should
not dispute with you about the matter and call to your Lord; most surely you are on a right way.
68. And if they contend with you, say: Allah best knows what you do.
69. Allah will judge between you on the day of resurrection respecting that in which you differ.
70. Do you not know that Allah knows what is in the heaven and the earth? Surely this is in a
book; surely this is easy to Allah.
71. And they serve besides Allah that for which He has not sent any authority, and that of
which they have no knowledge; and for the unjust there shall be no helper.
72. And when Our clear communications are recited to them you will find denial on the faces
of those who disbelieve; they almost spring upon those who recite to them Our
communications. Say: Shall I inform you of what is worse than this? The fire; Allah has
promised it to those who disbelieve; and how evil the resort!
73. O people! a parable is set forth, therefore listen to it: surely those whom you call upon
besides Allah cannot create fly, though they should all gather for it, and should the fly snatch
away anything from them, they could not take it back from i weak are the invoker and the invoked.
74. They have not estimated Allah with the estimation that i due to Him; most surely Allah is
Strong, Mighty.
75. Allah chooses messengers from among the angels and from among the men; surely Allah is
Hearing, Seeing.
76. He knows what is before them and what is behind them and to Allah are all affairs turned back.
77. O you who believe! bow down and prostrate yourselves and serve your Lord, and do.good
that you may succeed.
78. And strive hard in (the way of) Allah, (such) a striving a is due to Him; He has chosen you
and has not laid upon you an hardship in religion; the faith of your father Ibrahim; He named
you Muslims before and in this, that the Apostle may be a bearer of witness to you, and you
may be bearers of witness to the people; therefore keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and
hold fast by Allah; He is your Guardian; how excellent the Guardian and how excellent the Helper!
XXIII. The Believers
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Successful indeed are the believers,
2. Who are humble in their prayers,
3. And who keep aloof from what is vain,
4. And who are givers of poor-rate,
5. And who guard their private parts,
6. Except before their mates or those whom their right hands possess, for they surely are not blameable,
7. But whoever seeks to go beyond that, these are they that exceed the limits;
8. And those who are keepers of their trusts and their covenant,
9. And those who keep a guard on their prayers;
10. These are they who are the heirs,
11. Who shall inherit the Paradise; they shall abide therein.
12. And certainly We created man of an extract of clay,
13. Then We made him a small seed in a firm resting-place,
14. Then We made the seed a clot, then We made the clot a lump of flesh, then We made (in)
the lump of flesh bones, then We clothed the bones with flesh, then We caused it to grow into
another creation, so blessed be Allah, the best of the creators.
15. Then after that you will most surely die.
16. Then surely on the day of resurrection you shall be raised.
17. And certainly We made above you seven heavens; and never are We heedless of creation.
18. And We send down water from the cloud according to a measure, then We cause it to settle
in the earth, and most surely We are able to carry it away.
19. Then We cause to grow thereby gardens of palm trees and grapes for you; you have in them
many fruits and from them do you eat;
20. And a tree that grows out of Mount Sinai which produces oil and a condiment for those
who eat.
21. And most surely there is a lesson for you in the cattle: We make you to drink of what is in
their bellies, and you have in them many advantages and of them you eat,
22. And on them and on the ships you are borne.
23. And certainly We sent Nuh to his people, and he said: O my people! serve Allah, you have
no god other than Him; will you not then guard (against evil)?
24. And the chiefs of those who disbelieved from among his people said: He is nothing but a
mortal like yourselves who desires that he may have superiority over you, and if Allah had
pleased, He could certainly have sent down angels. We have not heard of this among our
fathers of yore:
25. He is only a madman, so bear with him for a time.
26. He said: O my Lord! help me against their calling me a liar.
27. So We revealed to him, saying: Make the ark before Our eyes and (according to) Our
revelation; and when Our command is given and the valley overflows, take into it of every
kind a pair, two, and your followers, except those among them against whom the word has gone
forth, and do not speak to Me in respect of those who are unjust; surely they shall be drowned.
28. And when you are firmly seated, you and those with you, in the ark, say: All praise is due
to Allah who delivered us from the unjust people:
29. And say: O my Lord! cause me to disembark a blessed alighting, and Thou art the best to
cause to alight.
30. Most surely there are signs in this, and most surely We are ever trying (men).
31. Then We raised up after them another generation.
32. So We sent among them an apostle from among them, saying: Serve Allah, you have no
god other than Him; will you not then guard (against evil)?
33. And the chiefs of his people who disbelieved and called the meeting of the hereafter a lie,
and whom We had given plenty to enjoy in this world's life, said: This is nothing but a mortal
like yourselves, eating of what you eat from and drinking of what you drink.
34. And if you obey a mortal like yourselves, then most surely you will be losers:
35. What! does he threaten you that when you are dead and become dust and bones that you
shall then be brought forth?
36. Far, far is that which you are threatened with.
37. There is n.aught but our life in this world; we die and we live and we shall not be raised again.
38. He is naught but a man who has forged a lie against Allah, and we are not going to believe
in him.
39. He said: O my Lord! help me against their calling me a liar.
40. He said: In a little while they will most certainly be repenting.
41. So the punishment overtook them in justice, and We made them as rubbish; so away with
the unjust people.
42. Then We raised after them other generations.
43. No people can hasten on their doom nor can they postpone (it).
44. Then We sent Our apostles one after another; whenever there came to a people their
apostle, they called him a liar, so We made some of them follow others and We made them
stories; so away with a people who do not believe!
45. Then We sent Musa and his brother Haroun, with Our communications and a clear authority,
46. To Firon and his chiefs, but they behaved haughtily and they were an insolent people.
47. And they said: What! shall we believe in two mortals like ourselves while their people
serve us?
48. So they rejected them and became of those who were destroyed.
49. And certainly We gave Musa the Book that they may follow a right direction.
50. And We made the son of Marium and his mother a sign, and We gave them a shelter on a
lofty ground having meadows and springs.
51. O apostles! eat of the good things and do good; surely I know what you do.
52. And surely this your religion is one religion and I am your Lord, therefore be careful (of
your duty) to Me.
53. But they cut off their religion among themselves into sects, each part rejoicing in that
which is with them.
54. Therefore leave them in their overwhelming ignorance till
55. Do they think that by what We aid them with of wealth and children,
56. We are hastening to them of good things? Nay, they do not perceive.
57. Surely they who from fear of their Lord are cautious,
58. And those who believe in the communications of their Lord,
59. And those who do not associate (aught) with their Lord,
60. And those who give what they give.(in alms) while their hearts are full of fear that to their
Lord they must return,
61. These hasten to good things and they are foremost in (attaining) them.
62. And We do not lay on any soul a burden except to the extent of its ability, and with Us is a
book which speaks the truth, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly.
63. Nay, their hearts are in overwhelming ignorance with respect to it and they have besides
this other deeds which they do.
64. Until when We overtake those who lead easy lives among them with punishment, lo! they
cry for succor.
65. Cry not for succor this day; surely you shall not be given help from Us.
66. My communications were indeed recited to you, but you used to turn back on your heels,
67. In arrogance; talking nonsense about the Quran, and left him like one telling fables by night.
68. Is it then that they do not ponder over what is said, or is it that there has come to them that
which did not come to their fathers of old?
69. Or is it that they have not recognized their Apostle, so that they deny him?
70. Or do they say: There is madness in him? Nay! he has brought them the truth, and most of
them are averse from the truth.
71. And should the truth follow their low desires, surely the heavens and the earth and all those
who are therein would have perished. Nay! We have brought to them their reminder, but from
their reminder they turn aside.
72. Or is it that you ask them a recompense? But the recompense of your Lord is best, and He
is the best of those who provide sustenance.
73. And most surely you invite them to a right way.
74. And most surely those who do not believe in the hereafter are deviating from the way.
75. And if We show mercy to them and remove the distress they have, they would persist in
their inordinacy, blindly wandering on.
76. And already We overtook them with chastisement, but they were not submissive to their
Lord, nor do they humble themselves.
77. Until when We open upon them a door of severe chastisement, lo! they are in despair at it.
78. And He it is Who made for you the ears and the eyes and the hearts; little is it that you give
thanks.
79. And He it is Who multiplied you in the earth, and to Him you shall be gathered.
80. And He it is Who gives life and causes death, and (in) His (control) is the alternation of the
night and the day; do you not then understand?
81. Nay, they say the like of what the ancients said:
82. They say: What! When we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we then be raised?
83. Certainly we are promised this, and (so were) our fathers aforetime; this is naught but
stories of those of old.
84. Say: Whose is the earth, and whoever is therein, if you know?
85. They will say: Allah's. Say: Will you not then mind?
86. Say: Who is the Lord of the seven heavens and the Lord of the mighty dominion?
87. They will say: (This is) Allah's. Say: Will you not then guard (against evil)?
88. Say: Who is it in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things and Who gives succor, but
against Him Succor is not given, if you do but know?
89. They will say: (This is) Allah's. Say: From whence are you then deceived?
90. Nay! We have brought to them the truth, and most surely they are liars.
91. Never did Allah take to Himself a son, and never was there with him any (other) god-- in
that case would each god have certainly taken away what he created, and some of them would
certainly have overpowered others; glory be to Allah above what they describe!
92. The Knower of the unseen and the seen, so may He be exalted above what they associate
(with Him).
93. Say: O my Lord! if Thou shouldst make me see what they are threatened with:
94. My Lord! then place me not with the unjust.
95. And most surely We are well able to make you see what We threaten them with.
96. Repel evil by what is best; We know best what they describe.
97. And say: O my Lord! I seek refuge in Thee from the evil suggestions of the Shaitans;
98. And I seek refuge in Thee! O my Lord! from their presence.
99. Until when death overtakes one of them, he says: Send me back, my Lord, send me back;
100. Haply I may do good in that which I have left. By no means! it is a (mere) word that he
speaks; and before them is a barrier until the day they are raised.
101. So when the trumpet is blown, there shall be no ties of relationship between them on that
day, nor shall they ask of each other.
102. Then as for him whose good deeds are preponderant, these are the successful.
103. And as for him whose good deeds are light, these are they who shall have lost their souls,
abiding in hell
104. The fire shall scorch their faces, and they therein shall be in severe affliction.
105. Were not My communications recited to you? But you used to reject them.
106. They shall say: O our Lord! our adversity overcame us and we were an erring people:
107. O our Lord! Take us out of it; then if we return (to evil) surely we shall be unjust.
108. He shall say: Go away into it and speak nat to Me;
109. Surely there was a party of My servants who said: O OUI . Lord! we believe, so do Thou
forgive us and have mercy on us, and Thou art the best of the Merciful ones.
110. But you took them for a mockery until they made you forget My remembrance and you
used to laugh at them.
111. Surely I have rewarded them this day because they were patient, that they are the achievers.
112. He will say: How many years did you tarry in the earth?
113. They will say: We tarried a day or part of a day, but ask those who keep account.
114. He will say: You did tarry but a little-- had you but known (it):
115. What! did you then think that We had created you in vain and that you shall not be
returned to Us?
116. So exalted be Allah, the True King; no god is there but He, the Lord of the honorable dominion.
117. And whoever invokes with Allah another god-- he has no proof of this-- his reckoning is
only with his Lord; surely the unbelievers shall not be successful.
118. And say: O my Lord! forgive and have mercy, and Thou art the best of the Merciful ones.
XXIV. The Light
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. (This is) a chapter which We have revealed and made obligatory and in which We have
revealed clear communications that you may be mindful.
2. (As for) the fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them, (giving) a hundred stripes,
and let not pity for them detain you in the matter of obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah
and the last day, and let a party of believers witness their chastisement.
3. The fornicator shall not marry any but a fornicatress or idolatress, and (as for) the
fornicatress, none shall marry her but a fornicator or an idolater; and it is forbidden to the believers.
4. And those who accuse free women then do not bring four witnesses, flog them, (giving)
eighty stripes, and do not admit any evidence from them ever; and these it is that are the transgressors,
5. Except those who repent after this and act aright, for surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
6. And (as for) those who accuse their wives and have no witnesses except themselves, the
evidence of one of these (should be taken) four times, bearing Allah to witness that he is most
surely of the truthful ones.
7. And the fifth (time) that the curse of Allah be on him if he is one of the liars.
8. And it shall avert the chastisement from her if she testify four times, bearing Allah to
witness that he is most surely one of the liars;
9. And the fifth (time) that the wrath of Allah be on her if he is one of the truthful.
10. And were it not for Allah's grace upon you and His mercy-- and that Allah is Oft-returning
(to mercy), Wise!
11. Surely they who concocted the lie are a party from among you. Do not regard it an evil to
you; nay, it is good for you. Every man of them shall have what he has earned of sin; and (as
for) him who took upon himself the main part thereof, he shall have a grievous chastisement.
12. Why did not the believing men and the believing women, when you heard it, think well of
their own people, and say: This is an evident falsehood?
13. Why did they not bring four witnesses of it? But as they have not brought witnesses they
are liars before Allah.
14. And were it not for Allah's grace upon you and His mercy in this world and the hereafter, a
grievous chastisement would certainly have touched you on account of the discourse which
you entered into.
15. When you received it with your tongues and spoke with your mouths what you had no
knowledge of, and you deemed it an easy matter while with Allah it was grievous.
16. And why did you not, when you heard it, say: It does not beseem us that we should talk of
it; glory be to Thee! this is a great calumny?
17. Allah admonishes you that you should not return to the like of it ever again if you are believers.
18. And Allah makes clear to you the communications; and Allah is Knowing, Wise.
19. Surely (as for) those who love that scandal should circulate respecting those who believe,
they shall have a grievous chastisement in this world and the hereafter; and Allah knows,
while you do not know.
20. And were it not for Allah's grace on you and His mercy, and that Allah is Compassionate, Merciful.
21. O you who believe! do not follow the footsteps of the Shaitan, and whoever follows the
footsteps of the Shaitan, then surely he bids the doing of indecency and evil; and were it not
for Allah's grace upon you and His mercy, not one of you would have ever been pure, but Allah
purifies whom He pleases; and Allah is Hearing, Knowing.
22. And let not those of you who possess grace and abundance swear against giving to the near
of kin and the poor and those who have fled in Allah's way, and they should pardon and turn
away. Do you not love that Allah should forgive you? And Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
23. Surely those who accuse chaste believing women, unaware (of the evil), are cursed in this
world and the hereafter, and they shall have a grievous chastisement.
24. On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet shall bear witness against
them as to what they did.
25. On that day Allah will pay back to them in full their just reward, and they shall know that
Allah is the evident Truth.
26. Bad women .are for bad men and bad men are for bad women. Good women are for good
men and good men are for good women
27. O you who believe! Do not enter houses other than your own houses until you have asked
permission and saluted their inmates; this is better for you, that you may be mindful.
28. But if you do not find any one therein, then do not enter them until permission is given to
you; and if it is said to you: Go back, then go back; this is purer for you; and Allah is
Cognizant of what you do.
29. It is no sin in you that you enter uninhabited houses wherein you have your necessaries;
and Allah knows what you do openly and what you hide.
30. Say to the believing men that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts; that
is purer for them; surely Allah is Aware of what they do.
31. And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private
parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their
head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or
their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or
their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or those whom
their right hands possess, or the male servants not having need (of women), or the children who
have not attained knowledge of what is hidden of women; and let them not strike their feet so
that what they hide of their ornaments may be known; and turn to Allah all of you, O believers!
so that you may be successful.
32. And marry those among you who are single and those who are fit among your male slaves
and your female slaves; if they are needy, Allah will make them free from want out of His
grace; and Allah is Ample-giving, Knowing.
33. And let those who do not find the means to marry keep chaste until Allah makes them free
from want out of His grace. And (as for) those who ask for a writing from among those whom
your right hands possess, give them the writing if you know any good in them, and give them of
the wealth of Allah which He has given you; and do not compel your slave girls to
prostitution, when they desire to keep chaste, in order to seek the frail good of this world's life;
and whoever compels them, then surely after their compulsion Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
34. And certainly We have sent to you clear communications and a description of those who
have passed away before you, and an admonition to those who guard (against evil).
35. Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth; a likeness of His light is as a niche in which
is a lamp, the lamp is in a glass, (and) the glass is as it were a brightly shining star, lit from a
blessed olive-tree, neither eastern nor western, the oil whereof almost gives light though fire
touch it not-- light upon light-- Allah guides to His light whom He pleases, and Allah sets forth
parables for men, and Allah is Cognizant of all things.
36. In houses which Allah has permitted to be exalted and that His name may be remembered
in them; there glorify Him therein in the mornings and the evenings,
37. Men whom neither merchandise nor selling diverts from the remembrance of Allah and the
keeping up of prayer and the giving of poor-rate; they fear a day in which the hearts and eyes
shall turn about;
38. That Allah may give them the best reward of what they have done, and give them more out
of His grace; and Allah gives sustenance to whom He pleases without measure.
39. And (as for) those who disbelieve, their deeds are like the mirage in a desert, which the
thirsty man deems to be water; until when he comes to it he finds it to be naught, and there he
finds Allah, so He pays back to him his reckoning in full; and Allah is quick in reckoning;
40. Or like utter darkness in the deep sea: there covers it a wave above which is another wave,
above which is a cloud, (layers of) utter darkness one above another; when he holds out his
hand, he is almost unable to see it; and to whomsoever Allah does not give light, he has no light.
41. Do you not see that Allah is He Whom do glorify all those who are in the heavens and the
earth, and the (very) birds with expanded wings? He knows the prayer of each one and its
glorification, and Allah is Cognizant of what they do.
42. And Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and to Allah is the eventual coming.
43. Do you not see that Allah drives along the clouds, then gathers them together, then piles
them up, so that you see the rain coming forth from their midst? And He sends down of the
clouds that are (like) mountains wherein is hail, afflicting therewith whom He pleases and
turning it away from whom He pleases; the flash of His lightning almost takes away the sight.
44. Allah turns over the night and the day; most surely there is a lesson in this for those who
have sight.
45. And Allah has created from water every living creature: so of them is that which walks
upon its belly, and of them is that which walks upon two feet, and of them is that which walks
upon four; Allah creates what He pleases; surely Allah has power over all things.
46. Certainly We have revealed clear communications, and Allah guides whom He pleases to
the right way.
47. And they say: We believe in Allah and in the apostle and we obey; then a party of them
turn back after this, and these are not believers.
48. And when they are called to Allah and His Apostle that he may judge between them, lo! a
party of them turn aside.
49. And if the truth be on their side, they come to him quickly, obedient.
50. Is there in their hearts a disease, or are they in doubt, or do they fear that Allah and His
Apostle will act wrongfully towards them? Nay! they themselves are the unjust.
51. The response of the believers, when they are invited to Allah and His Apostle that he may
judge between them, is only to say: We hear and we obey; and these it is that are the successful.
52. And he who obeys Allah and His Apostle, and fears Allah, and is careful of (his duty to)
Him, these it is that are the achievers.
53. And they swear by Allah with the most energetic of their oaths that if you command them
they would certainly go forth. Say: Swear not; reasonable obedience (is desired); surely Allah
is aware of what you do.
54. Say: Obey Allah and obey the Apostle; but if you turn back, then on him rests that which is
imposed on him and on you rests that which is imposed on you; and if you obey him, you are
on the right way; and nothing rests on the Apostle but clear delivering (of the message).
55. Allah has promised to those of you who believe and do good that He will most certainly
make them rulers in the earth as He made rulers those before them, and that He will most
certainly establish for them their religion which He has chosen for them, and that He will most
certainly, after their fear, give them security in exchange; they shall serve Me, not associating
aught with Me; and whoever is ungrateful after this, these it is who are the. transgressors.
56. And keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and obey the Apostle, so that mercy may be
shown to you.
57. Think not that those who disbelieve shall escape in the earth, and their abode is the fire;
and certainly evil is the resort!
58. O you who believe! let those whom your right hands possess and those of you who have
not attained to puberty ask permission of you three times; before the morning prayer, and
when you put off your clothes at midday in summer, and after the prayer of the nightfall; these
are three times of privacy for you; neither is it a sin for you nor for them besides these, some
of you must go round about (waiting) upon others; thus does Allah make clear to you the
communications, and Allah is Knowing, Wise.
59. And when the children among you have attained to puberty, let them seek permission as
those before them sought permission; thus does Allah make clear to you His communications,
and Allah is knowing, Wise.
60. And (as for) women advanced in years who do not hope for a marriage, it is no sin for them
if they put off their clothes without displaying their ornaments; and if they restrain themselves
it is better for them; and Allah is Hearing, Knowing.
61. There is no blame on the blind man, nor is there blame on the lame, nor is there blame on
the sick, nor on yourselves that you eat from your houses, or your fathers' houses or your
mothers' houses, or your brothers' houses, or your sisters' houses, or your paternal uncles'
houses, or your paternal aunts' houses, or your maternal uncles' houses, or your maternal aunts'
houses, or what you possess the keys of, or your friends' (houses). It is no sin in you that you
eat together or separately. So when you enter houses, greet your people with a salutation from
Allah, blessed (and) goodly; thus does Allah make clear to you the communications that you
may understand.
62. Only those are believers who believe in Allah and His Apostle, and when they are with him
on a momentous affair they go not away until they have asked his permission; surely they who
ask your permission are they who believe in Allah and His Apostle; so when they ask your
permission for some affair of theirs, give permission to whom you please of them and ask
forgiveness for them from Allah; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
63. Do not hold the Apostle's calling (you) among you to be like your calling one to the other;
Allah indeed knows those who steal away from among you, concealing themselves; therefore
let those beware who go against his order lest a trial afflict them or there befall them a painful
chastisement.
64. Now surely Allah's is whatever is in the heavens and the earth; He knows indeed that to
which you are conforming yourselves; and on the day on which they are returned to Him He
will inform them of what they did; and Allah is Cognizant of all things.
XXV. The Criterion
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Blessed is He Who sent down the Furqan upon His servant that he may be a warner to the nations;
2. He, Whose is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and Who did not take to Himself a
son, and Who has no associate in the kingdom, and Who created everything, then ordained for
it a measure.
3. And they have taken besides Him gods, who do not create anything while they are
themselves created, and they control not for themselves any harm or profit, and they control not
death nor life, nor raising (the dead) to life.
4. And those who disbelieve say: This is nothing but a lie which he has forged, and other
people have helped him at it; so indeed they have done injustice and (uttered) a falsehood.
5. And they say: The stories of the ancients-- he has got them written-- so these are read out to
him morning and evening.
6. Say: He has revealed it Who knows the secret in the heavens and the earth; surely He is ever
Forgiving, Merciful.
7. And they say: What is the matter with this Apostle that he eats food and goes about in the
markets; why has not an angel been sent down to him, so that he should have been a warner
with him?
8. Or (why is not) a treasure sent down to him, or he is made to have a garden from which he
should eat? And the unjust say: You do not follow any but a man deprived of reason.
9. See what likenesses do they apply to you, so they have gone astray, therefore they shall not
be able to find a way.
10. Blessed is He Who, if He please, will give you what is better than this, gardens beneath
which rivers flow, and He will give you palaces.
11. But they reject the hour, and We have prepared a burning fire for him who rejects the hour.
12. When it shall come into their sight from a distant place, they shall hear its vehement raging
and roaring.
13. And when they are cast into a narrow place in it, bound, they shall there call out for destruction.
14. Call not this day for one destruction, but call for destructions many.
15. Say: Is this better or the abiding garden which those who guard (against evil) are promised?
That shall be a reward and a resort for them.
16. They shall have therein what they desire abiding (in it); it is a promise which it is proper to
be prayed for from your Lord.
17. And on the day when He shall gather them, and whatever they served besides Allah, He
shall say: Was it you who led astray these My servants, or did they themselves go astray from
the path?
18. They shall say: Glory be to Thee; it was not beseeming for us that we should take any
guardians besides Thee, but Thou didst make them and their fathers to enjoy until they
forsook the reminder, and they were a people in perdition,
19. So they shall indeed give you the lie in what you say, then you shall not be able to ward off
or help, and whoever among you is unjust, We will make him taste a great chastisement.
20. And We have not sent before you any messengers but they most surely ate food and went
about in the markets; and We have made some of you a trial for others; will you bear
patiently? And your Lord is ever Seeing.
21. And those who do not hope for Our meeting, say: Why have not angels been sent down
upon us, or (why) do we not see our Lord? Now certainly they are too proud of themselves and
have revolted in great revolt.
22. On the day when they shall see the angels, there shall be no joy on that day for the guilty,
and they shall say: It is a forbidden thing totally prohibited.
23. And We will proceed to what they have done of deeds, so We shall render them as
scattered floating dust.
24. The dwellers of the garden shall on that day be in a better abiding-place and a better resting-place.
25. And on the day when the heaven shall burst asunder with the clouds, and the angels shall
be sent down descending (in ranks).
26. The kingdom on that day shall rightly belong to the Beneficent God, and a hard day shall it
be for the unbelievers.
27. And the day when the unjust one shall bite his hands saying: O! would that I had taken a
way with the Apostle
28. O woe is me! would that I had not taken such a one for a friend !
29. Certainly he led me astray from the reminder after it had come to me; and the Shaitan fails
to aid man.
30. And the Apostle cried out: O my Lord! surely my people have treated this Quran as a
forsaken thing.
31. And thus have We made for every prophet an enemy from among the sinners and sufficient
is your Lord as a Guide and a Helper.
32. And those who disbelieve say: Why has not the Quran been revealed to him all at once?
Thus, that We may strengthen your heart by it and We have arranged it well in arranging.
33. And they shall not bring to you any argument, but We have brought to you (one) with truth
and best in significance.
34. (As for) those who shall be gathered upon their faces to hell, they are in a worse plight and
straying farther away from the path.
35. And certainly We gave Musa the Book and We appointed with him his brother Haroun an aider.
36. Then We said: Go you both to the people who rejected Our communications; so We
destroyed them with utter destruction.
37. And the people of Nuh, when they rejected the apostles, We drowned them, and made
them a sign for men, and We have prepared a painful punishment for the unjust;
38. And Ad and Samood and the dwellers of the Rass and many generations between them.
39. And to every one We gave examples and every one did We destroy with utter destruction.
40. And certainly they have (often) passed by the town on which was rained an evil rain; did
they not then see it? Nay! they did not hope to be raised again.
41. And when they see you, they do not take you for aught but a mockery: Is this he whom
Allah has raised to be an apostle?
42. He had well-nigh led us astray from our gods had we not adhered to them patiently! And
they will know, when they see the punishment, who is straying farther off from the path.
43. Have you seen him who takes his low desires for his god? Will you then be a protector over
him?
44. Or do you think that most of them do hear or understand? They are nothing but as cattle;
nay, they are straying farther off from the path.
45. Have you not considered (the work of) your Lord, how He extends the shade? And if He
had pleased He would certainly have made it stationary; then We have made the sun an
indication of it
46 Then We take it to Ourselves, taking little by little.
47 And He it is Who made the night a covering for you, and the sleep a rest, and He made the
day to rise up again.
48. And He it is Who sends the winds as good news before His mercy; and We send down pure
water from the cloud,
49. That We may give life thereby to a dead land and give it for drink, out of what We have
created, to cattle and many people.
50. And certainly We have repeated this to them that they may be mindful, but the greater
number of men do not consent to aught except denying.
51. And if We had pleased We would certainly have raised a warner in every town.
52. So do not follow the unbelievers, and strive against them a mighty striving with it.
53. And He it is Who has made two seas to flow freely, the one sweet that subdues thirst by its
sweetness, and the other salt that burns by its saltness; and between the two He has made a
barrier and inviolable obstruction.
54. And He it is Who has created man from the water, then He has made for him blood
relationship and marriage relationship, and your Lord is powerful.
55. And they serve besides Allah that which neither profits them nor causes them harm; and
the unbeliever is a partisan against his Lord.
56. And We have not sent you but as a giver of good news and as a warner.
57. Say: I do not ask you aught in return except that he who will, may take the way to his Lord.
58. And rely on the Ever-living Who dies not, and celebrate His praise; and Sufficient is He as
being aware of the faults of His servants,
59. Who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six periods, and He is
firmly established on the throne of authority; the Beneficent God, so ask respecting it one aware.
60. And when it is said to them: Make obeisance to the Beneficent God, they say: And what is
the God of beneficence? Shall we make obeisance to what you bid us? And it adds to their aversion.
61. Blessed is He Who made the constellations in the heavens and made therein a lamp and a
shining moon.
62. And He it is Who made the night and the day to follow each other for him who desires to
be mindful or desires to be thankful.
63. And the servants of the Beneficent God are they who walk on the earth in humbleness, and
when the ignorant address them, they say: Peace.
64. And they who pass the night prostrating themselves before their Lord and standing.
65. And they who say: O our Lord! turn away from us the punishment of hell, surely the
punishment thereof is a lasting
66. Surely it is an evil abode and (evil) place to stay.
67. And they who when they spend, are neither extravagant nor parsimonious, and (keep)
between these the just mean.
68. And they who do not call upon another god with Allah and do not slay the soul, which
Allah has forbidden except in the requirements of justice, and (who) do not commit
fornication and he who does this shall find a requital of sin;
69. The punishment shall be doubled to him on the day of resurrection, and he shall abide
therein in abasement;
70. Except him who repents and believes and does a good deed; so these are they of whom
Allah changes the evil deeds to good ones; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
71. And whoever repents and does good, he surely turns to Allah a (goodly) turning.
72. And they who do not bear witness to what is false, and when they pass by what is vain, they
pass by nobly.
73. And they who, when reminded of the communications of their Lord, do not fall down
thereat deaf and blind.
74. And they who say: O our Lord! grant us in our wives and our offspring the joy of our eyes,
and make us guides to those who guard (against evil).
75. These shall be rewarded with high places because they were patient, and shall be met
therein with greetings and salutations.
76. Abiding therein; goodly the abode and the resting-place.
77. Say: My Lord would not care for you were it not for your prayer; but you have indeed
rejected (the truth), so that which shall cleave shall come.
XXVI. The Poets .
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Ta Sin Mim.
2. These are the verses of the Book that makes (things) clear.
3. Perhaps you will kill yourself with grief because they do not believe.
4. If We please, We should send down upon them a sign from the heaven so that their necks
should stoop to it.
5. And there does not come to them a new reminder from the Beneficent God but they turn
aside from it.
6. So they have indeed rejected (the truth), therefore the news of that which they mock shall
soon come to them.
7. Do they not see the earth, how many of every noble kind We have caused to grow in it?
8. Most surely there is a sign in that, but most of them will not believe.
9. And most surely your Lord is the Mighty, the Merciful.
10. And when your Lord called out to Musa, saying: Go to the unjust people,
I 1. The people of Firon: Will they not guard (against evil)?
12. He said: O my Lord! surely I fear that they will reject me;
13. And by breast straitens, and my tongue is not eloquent, therefore send Thou to Haroun (to
help me);
14. And they have a crime against me, therefore I fear that they may slay me.
15. He said: By no means, so go you both with Our signs; surely We are with you, hearing;
16. Then come to Firon and say: Surely we are the messengers of the Lord of the worlds:
17. Then send with us the children of Israel.
18. (Firon) said: Did we not bring you up as a child among us, and you tarried among us for
(many) years of your life?
19. And you did (that) deed of yours which you did, and you are one of the ungrateful.
20. He said: I did it then while I was of those unable to see the right course;
21. So I fled from you when I feared you, then my Lord granted me wisdom and made me of
the apostles;
22. And is it a favor of which you remind me that you have enslaved the children of Israel?
23. Firon said: And what is the Lord of the worlds?
24. He said: The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, if you would be sure.
25. (Firon) said to those around him: Do you not hear?
26. He said: Your Lord and the Lord of your fathers of old.
27. Said he: Most surely your Apostle who is sent to you is mad.
28. He said: The Lord of the east and the west and what is between them, if you understand.
29. Said he: If you will take a god besides me, I will most certainly make you one of the imprisoned.
30. He said: What! even if I bring to you something manifest?
31. Said he: Bring it then, if you are of the truthful ones.
32. So he cast down his rod, and lo! it was an obvious serpent,
33. And he drew forth his hand, and lo! it appeared white to the onlookers.
34. (Firon) said to the chiefs around him: Most surely this is a skillful magician,
35. Who desires to turn you out of your land with his magic; what is it then that you advise?
36. They said: Give him and his brother respite and send heralds into the cities
37. That they should bring to you every skillful magician.
38. So the magicians were gathered together at the appointed time on the fixed day,
39. And it was said to the people: Will you gather together?
40. Haply we may follow the magicians, if they are the vanquishers.
41. And when the magicians came, they said to Firon: Shall we get a reward if we are the vanquishers?
42. He said: Yes, and surely you will then be of those who are made near.
43. Musa said to them: Cast what you are going to cast.
44. So they cast down their cords and their rods and said: By Firon's power, we shall most
surely be victorious.
45. Then Musa cast down his staff and lo! it swallowed up the lies they told.
46. And the magicians were thrown down prostrate;
47. They said: We believe in the Lord of the worlds:
48. The Lord of Musa and Haroun.
49. Said he: You believe in him before I give you permission; most surely he is the chief of
you who taught you the magic, so you shall know: certainly I will cut off your hands and your
feet on opposite sides, and certainly I will crucify you all.
50. They said: No harm; surely to our Lord we go back;
51. Surely we hope that our Lord will forgive us our wrongs because we are the first of the believers.
52. And We revealed to Musa, saying: Go away with My servants travelling by night, surely
you will be pursued.
53. So Firon sent heralds into the cities;
54. Most surely these are a small company;
55. And most surely they have enraged us;
56. And most surely we are a vigilant multitude.
57. So We turned them out of gardens and springs,
58. And treasures and goodly dwellings,
59. Even so. And We gave them as a heritage to the children of Israel.
60. Then they pursued them at sunrise.
61. So when the two hosts saw each other, the companions of Musa cried out: Most surely we
are being overtaken.
62. He said: By no means; surely my Lord is with me: He will show me a way out.
63. Then We revealed to Musa: Strike the sea with your staff. So it had cloven asunder, and
each part was like a huge mound.
64. And We brought near, there, the others.
65. And We saved Musa and those with him, all of them.
66. Then We drowned the others.
67. Most surely there is a sign in this, but most of them do not believe.
68. And most surely your Lord is the Mighty, the Merciful.
69. And recite to them the story of Ibrahim.
70. When he said to his father and his people: What do you worship?
71. They said: We worship idols, so we shall be their votaries.
72. He said: Do they hear you when you call?
73. Or do they profit you or cause you harm?
74. They said: Nay, we found our fathers doing so.
75. He said: Have you then considered what you have been worshipping:
76. You and your ancient sires.
77. Surely they are enemies to me, but not (so) the Lord of the worlds;
78. Who created me, then He has shown me the way:
79. And He Who gives me to eat and gives me to drink:
80. And when I am sick, then He restores me to health
81. And He Who will cause me to die, then give me life;
82. And Who, I hope, will forgive me my mistakes on the day of judgment.
83. My Lord: Grant me wisdom, and join me with the good
84. And ordain for me a goodly mention among posterity
85. And make me of the heirs of the garden of bliss
86. And forgive my father, for surely he is of those who have gone astray;
87. And disgrace me not on the day when they are raised
88. The day on which property will not avail, nor sons
89. Except him who comes to Allah with a heart free (from evil).
90. And the garden shall be brought near for those who guard (against evil),
91. And the hell shall be made manifest to the erring ones,
92. And it shall be said to them: Where are those that you used to worship;
93. Besides Allah? Can they help you or yet help themselves?
94. So they shall be thrown down into it, they and the erring ones,
95. And the hosts of the Shaitan, all.
96. They shall say while they contend therein:
97. By Allah! we were certainly in manifest error,
98. When we made you equal to the Lord of the worlds;
99. And none but the guilty led us astray;
100. So we have no intercessors,
101. Nor a true friend;
102. But if we could but once return, we would be of the believers.
103. Most surely there is a sign in this, but most of them do not believe.
104. And most surely your Lord is the Mighty, the Merciful.
105. The people of Nuh rejected the apostles.
106. When their brother Nuh said to them: Will you not guard (against evil)?
107. Surely I am a faithful apostle to you;
108. Therefore guard against (the punishment of) Allah and obey me
109. And I do not ask you any reward for it; my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds:
110. So guard against (the punishment of) Allah and obey me.
111. They said: Shall we believe in you while the meanest follow you?
112 He said: And what knowledge have I of what they do?
113 Their account is only with my Lord, if you could perceive
114. And I am not going to drive away the believers;
115. I am naught but a plain warner.
116. They said: If you desist not, O Nuh, you shall most certainly be of those stoned to death.
117. He said: My Lord! Surely my people give me the lie!
118. Therefore judge Thou between me and them with a (just) judgment, and deliver me and
those who are with me of the believers.
119. So We delivered him and those with him in the laden ark.
120. Then We drowned the rest afterwards
121. Most surely there is a sign in this, but most of them do not believe.
122. And most surely your Lord is the Mighty, the Merciful.
123. Ad gave the lie to the apostles.
124. When their brother Hud said to them: Will you not guard (against evil)?
125. Surely I am a faithful apostle to you;
126. Therefore guard against (the punishment of) Allah and obey me:
127. And I do not ask you any reward for it; surely my reward 15 only with the Lord of the worlds
128. Do you build on every height a monument? Vain is it that you do:
129. And you make strong fortresses that perhaps you may
130. And when you lay hands (on men) you lay hands (like) tyrants;
131. So guard against (the punishment of) Allah and obey me
132. And be careful of (your duty to) Him Who has given you abundance of what you know.
133. He has given you abundance of cattle and children
134. And gardens and fountains;
135. Surely I fear for you the chastisement of a grievous day
136. They said: It is the same to us whether you admonish or are not one of the admonishers
137. This is naught but a custom of the ancients;
138. And we are not going to be punished.
139. So they gave him the lie, then We destroyed them. Most surely there is a sign in this, but
most of them do not believe.
140. And most surely your Lord is the Mighty, the Merciful.
141. Samood gave the lie to the apostles
142. When their brother Salih said to them: Will you not guard (against evil)?
143. Surely I am a faithful apostle to you
144. Therefore guard against (the punishment of) Allah and obey me:
145. And I do not ask you any reward for it; my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds:
146. Will you be left secure in what is here;
147. In gardens and fountains,
148. And cornfields and palm-trees having fine spadices?
149 And you hew houses out of the mountains exultingly;
15O Therefore guard against (the punishment of) Allah and obey me;
151. And do not obey the bidding of the extravagant,
152. Who make mischief in the land and do not act aright.
153. They said: You are only of the deluded ones;
154. You are naught but a mortal like ourselves; so bring a sign if you are one of the truthful.
155. He said: This is a she-camel; she shall have her portion of water, and you have your
portion of water on an appointed time;
156. And do not touch her with evil, lest the punishment of a grievous day should overtake you.
157. But they hamstrung her, then regretted;
158. So the punishment overtook them. Most surely there is a sign in this, but most of them do
not believe.
159. And most surely your Lord is the Mighty, the Merciful.
160. The people of Lut gave the lie to the apostles.
161. When their brother Lut said to them: Will you not guard (against evil)?
162. Surely I am a faithful apostle to you;
163. Therefore guard against (the punishment of) Allah and obey me:
164. And I do not ask you any reward for it; my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds;
165. What! do you come to the males from among the creatures
166. And leave what your Lord has created for you of your wives? Nay, you are a people
exceeding limits.
167. They said: If you desist not, O Lut! you shall surely be of those who are expelled.
168. He said: Surely I am of those who utterly abhor your
169 My Lord ! deliver me and my followers from what they do.
17O So We delivered him and his followers all,
171. Except an old woman, among those who remained behind.
172. Then We utterly destroyed the others.
173. And We rained down upon them a rain, and evil was the rain on those warned.
174. Most surely there is a sign in this, but most of them do not believe.
175. And most surely your Lord is the Mighty, the Merciful.
176. The dwellers of the thicket gave the lie to the apostles.
177. When Shu'aib said to them: Will you not guard (against evil)?
178. Surely I am a faithful apostle to you;
179. Therefore guard against (the punishment of) Allah and obey me:
180. And I do not ask you any reward for it, my reward is only with the Lord of the worlds;
181. Give a full measure and be not of those who diminish;
182. And weigh (things) with a right balance,
183. And do not wrong men of their things, and do not act corruptly in the earth, making mischief.
184. And guard against (the punishment of) Him who created you and the former nations.
185. They said: You are only of those deluded;
186. And you are naught but a mortal like ourselves, and we know you to be certainly of the liars.
187. Therefore cause a portion of the heaven to come down upon us, if you are one of the truthful.
188. He said: My Lord knows best what you do.
189. But they called him a liar, so the punishment of the day of covering overtook them; surely
it was the punishment of a grievous day.
190. Most surely there is a sign in this, but most of them do not believe.
191. And most surely your Lord is Mighty, the Merciful.
192. And most surely this is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
193. The Faithful Spirit has descended with it,
194. Upon your heart that you may be of the warners
195. In plain Arabic language.
196. And most surely the same is in the scriptures of the ancients.
197. Is it not a sign to them that the learned men of the Israelites know it?
198. And if we had revealed it to any of the foreigners
199. So that he should have recited it to them, they would not have believed therein.
200. Thus have We caused it to enter into the hearts of the guilty.
201. They will not believe in it until they see the painful punishment.
202. And it shall come to them all of a sudden, while they shall not perceive;
203. Then they will say: Shall we be respited?
204. What! do they still seek to hasten on Our punishment?
205. Have you then considered if We let them enjoy themselves for years,
206. Then there comes to them that with which they are threatened,
207. That which they were made to enjoy shall not avail them?
208. And We did not destroy any town but it had (its) warners,
209. To remind, and We are never unjust.
210. And the Shaitans have not come down with it.
211. And it behoves them not, and they have not the power to do (it).
212 Most surely they are far removed from the hearing of it.
213 So call not upon another god with Allah, lest you be of those who are punished.
214. And warn your nearest relations,
215. And be kind to him who follows you of the believers.
216. But if they disobey you, then say: Surely I am clear of what you do.
217. And rely on the Mighty, the Merciful,
218. Who sees you when you stand up.
219. And your turning over and over among those who prostrate themselves before Allah.
220. Surely He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
221. Shall I inform you (of him) upon whom the Shaitans descend?
222. They descend upon every lying, sinful one,
223. They incline their ears, and most of them are liars.
224. And as to the poets, those who go astray follow them.
225. Do you not see that they wander about bewildered in every valley?
226. And that they say that which they do not do,
227. Except those who believe and do good and remember Allah much, and defend themselves
after they are oppressed; and they who act unjustly shall know to what final place of turning
they shall turn back.
XXVII. The Ant
. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Ta Sin! These are the verses of the Quran and the Book that makes (things) clear
2. A guidance and good news for the believers,
3. Who keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, and of the hereafter, they are sure.
4. As to those who do not believe in the hereafter, We have surely made their deeds
fair-seeming to them, but they blindly wander on.
S. These are they who shall have an evil punishment, and in the hereafter they shall be the
greatest losers.
6. And most surely you are made to receive the Quran from the Wise, the Knowing God.
7. When Musa said to his family: Surely I see fire; I will bring to you from it some news, or I
will bring to you therefrom a burning firebrand so that you may warm yourselves.
8. So when he came to it a voice was uttered saying: Blessed is Whoever is in the fire and
whatever is about it; and glory be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds;
9. O Musa! surely I am Allah, the Mighty, the Wise;
10. And cast down your staff. So when he saw it in motion as if it were a serpent, he turned
back retreating and did not return: O Musa! fear not; surely the apostles shall not fear in My presence;
11. Neither he who has been unjust, then he does good instead after evil, for surely I am the
Forgiving, the Merciful:
12. And enter your hand into the opening of your bosom, it shall come forth white without
evil; among nine signs to Firon and his people, surely they are a transgressing people.
13. So when Our clear signs came to them, they said: This is clear enchantment.
14. And they denied them unjustly and proudly while their soul had been convinced of them;
consider, then how was the end of the mischief-makers.
15. And certainly We gave knowledge to Dawood and Sulaiman, and they both said: Praise be
to Allah, Who has made us to excel many of His believing servants.
16. And Sulaiman was Dawood's heir, and he said: O men! we have been taught the language
of birds, and we have been given all things; most surely this is manifest grace.
17. And his hosts of the jinn and the men and the birds were gathered to him, and they were
formed into groups.
18. Until when they came to the valley of the Naml, a Namlite said: O Naml! enter your
houses, (that) Sulaiman and his hosts may not crush you while they do not know.
19. So he smiled, wondering at her word, and said: My Lord! grant me that I should be grateful
for Thy favor which Thou hast bestowed on me and on my parents, and that I should do good
such as Thou art pleased with, and make me enter, by Thy mercy, into Thy servants, the good ones.
20. And he reviewed the birds, then said: How is it I see not the hoopoe or is it that he is of the absentees?
21. 1 will most certainly punish him with a severe punishment, or kill him, or he shall bring to
me a clear plea.
22. And he tarried not long, then said: I comprehend that which you do not comprehend and I
have brought to you a sure information from Sheba.
23. Surely I found a woman ruling over them, and she has been given abundance and she has a
mighty throne:
24. 1 found her and her people adoring the sun instead of Allah, and the Shaitan has made their
deeds fair-seeming to them and thus turned them from the way, so they do not go aright
25. That they do not make obeisance to Allah, Who brings forth what is hidden in the heavens
and the earth and knows what you hide and what you make manifest:
26. Allah, there is no god but He: He is the Lord of mighty power.
27. He said: We will see whether you have told the truth or whether you are of the liars:
28. Take this my letter and hand it over to them, then turn away from them and see what
(answer) they return.
29. She said: O chief! surely an honorable letter has been delivered to me
30. Surely it is from Sulaiman, and surely it is in the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful;
31. Saying: exalt not yourselves against me and come to me in submission.
32. She said: O chiefs! give me advice respecting my affair: I never decide an affair until you
are in my presence.
33. They said: We are possessors of strength and possessors of mighty prowess, and the
command is yours, therefore see what you will command.
34. She said: Surely the kings, when they enter a town, ruin it and make the noblest of its
people to be low, and thus they (always) do;
35. And surely I am going to send a present to them, and shall wait to see what (answer) do the
messengers bring back.
36. So when he came to Sulaiman, he said: What! will you help me with wealth? But what
Allah has given me is better than what He has given you. Nay, you are exultant because of
your present;
37. Go back to them, so we will most certainly come to them with hosts which they shall have
no power to oppose, and we will most certainly expel them therefrom in abasement, and they
shall be in a state of ignominy.
38. He said: O chiefs! which of you can bring to me her throne before they come to me in submission?
39. One audacious among the jinn said: I will bring it to you before you rise up from your
place; and most surely I am strong (and) trusty for it.
40. One who had the knowledge of the Book said: I will bring it to you in the twinkling of an
eye. Then when he saw it settled beside him, he said: This is of the grace of my Lord that He
may try me whether I am grateful or ungrateful; and whoever is grateful, he is grateful only for
his own soul, and whoever is ungrateful, then surely my Lord is Self-sufficient, Honored.
41. He said: Alter her throne for her, we will see whether she follows the right way or is of
those who do not go aright.
42. So when she came, it was said: Is your throne like this? She said: It is as it were the same,
and we were given the knowledge before it, and we were submissive.
43. And what she worshipped besides Allah prevented her, surely she was of an unbelieving people.
44. It was said to her: Enter the palace; but when she saw it she deemed it to be a great expanse
of water, and bared her legs. He said: Surely it is a palace made smooth with glass. She said:
My Lord! surely I have been unjust to myself, and I submit with Sulaiman to Allah, the Lord of
the worlds.
45. And certainly We sent to Samood their brother Salih, saying: Serve Allah; and lo! they
became two sects quarrelling with each other.
46. He said: O my people! why do you seek to hasten on the evil before the good? Why do you
not ask forgiveness of Allah so that you may be dealt with mercifully?
47. They said: We have met with ill luck on account of you and on account of those with you.
He said: The cause of your evil fortune is with Allah; nay, you are a people who are tried.
48. And there were in the city nine persons who made mischief in the land and did not act aright.
49. They said: Swear to each other by Allah that we will certainly make a sudden attack on
him and his family by night, then we will say to his heir: We did not witness the destruction of
his family, and we are most surely truthful.
50. And they planned a plan, and We planned a plan while they perceived not.
51. See, then, how was the end of their plan that We destroyed them and their people, all (of them).
52. So those are their houses fallen down because they were unjust, most surely there is a sign
in this for a people who know.
53. .And We delivered those who believed and who guarded (against evil).
54. And (We sent) Lut, when he said to his people: What! do you commit indecency while you see?
SS. What! do you indeed approach men lustfully rather than women? Nay, you are a people
who act ignorantly.
56. But the answer of his people was no other except that they ~s said: Turn out Lut's followers
from your town; surely they are a people who would keep pure!
57. But We delivered him and his followers except his wife; We ordained her to be of those
who remained behind.
58. And We rained on them a rain, and evil was the rain of those who had been warned.
59. Say: Praise be to Allah and peace on His servants whom He has chosen: is Allah better, or
what they associate (with Him)?
60. Nay, He Who created the heavens and the earth, and sent down for you water from the
cloud; then We cause to grow thereby beautiful gardens; it is not possible for you that you
should make the trees thereof to grow. Is there a god with Allah? Nay! they are people who deviate.
61. Or, Who made the earth a restingplace, and made in it rivers, and raised on it mountains
and placed between the two seas a barrier. Is there a god with Allah? Nay! most of them do
not know!
62. Or, Who answers the distressed one when he calls upon Him and removes the evil, and He
will make you successors in the earth. Is there a god with Allah? Little is it that you mind!
63. Or, Who guides you in utter darkness of the land and the sea, and Who sends the winds as
good news before His mercy. Is there a god with Allah? Exalted by Allah above what they
associate (with Him).
64. Or, Who originates the creation, then reproduces it and Who gives you sustenance from the
heaven and the earth. Is there a god With Allah? Say: Bring your proof if you are truthful.
65. Say: No one in the heavens and the earth knows the unseen but Allah; and they do not
know when they shall be raised.
66. Nay, their knowledge respecting the hereafter is slight and hasty; nay, they are in doubt
about it; nay, they are quite blind to
67. And those who disbelieve say: What! when we have become dust and our fathers (too),
shall we certainly be brought forth?
68. We have certainly been promised this, we and our fathers before; these are naught but
stories of the ancients
69. Say: Travel in the earth, then see how was the end of the guilty.
70. And grieve not for them and be not distressed because of what they plan.
71. And they say: When will this threat come to pass, if you are truthful?
72. Say: Maybe there may have drawn near to you somewhat of that which you seek to hasten on.
73. And surely your Lord is the Lord of grace to men, but most of them are not grateful.
74. And most surely your Lord knows what their breasts conceal and what they manifest.
75. And there is nothing concealed in the heaven and the earth but it is in a clear book.
76. Surely this Quran declares to the children of Israel most of what they differ in.
77. And most surely it is a guidance and a mercy for the believers.
78. Surely your Lord will judge between them by his judgment, and He is the Mighty, the knowing.
79. Therefore rely on Allah; surely you are on the clear truth.
80. Surely you do not make the dead to hear, and you do not make the deaf to hear the call
when they go back retreating.
81. Nor can you be a guide to the blind out of their error; you cannot make to bear (any one)
except those who believe in Our communications, so they submit.
82. And when the word shall come to pass against them, We shall bring forth for them a
creature from the earth that shall i wound them, because people did not believe in Our communications.
83. And on the day when We will gather from every nation a party from among those who
rejected Our communications, then they shall be formed into groups.
84. Until when they come, He will say: Did you reject My communications while you had no
comprehensive knowledge of them? Or what was it that you did?
85. And the word shall come to pass against them because they were unjust, so they shall not speak.
86. Do they not consider that We have made the night that. they may rest therein, and the day
to give light? Most surely there are signs in this for a people who believe.
87. And on the day when the trumpet shall be blown, then those who are in the heavens and
those who are in the earth shall be terrified except such as Allah please, and all shall come to
him abased.
88. And you see the mountains, you think them to be solid, and they shall pass away as the
passing away of the cloud-- the handiwork of Allah Who has made every thing thoroughly;
surely He is Aware of what you do.
89. Whoever brings good, he shall have better than it; and they shall be secure from terror on
the day.
90. And whoever brings evil, these shall be thrown down on their faces into the fire; shall you
be rewarded (for) aught except what you did?
91. I am commanded only that I should serve the Lord of this city, Who has made it sacred,
and His are all things; and I am commanded that I should be of these who submit;
92. And that I should recite the Quran. Therefore whoever goes aright, he goes aright for his
own soul, and whoever goes ' astray, then say: I am only one of the warners.
93. And say: Praise be to Allah, He will show you His signs so that you shall recognize them;
nor is your Lord heedless of what you do.
XXVIII. The Narrative
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Ta sin Mim.
2. These are the verses of the Book that makes (things) clear.
3. We recite to you from the account of Musa and Firon with truth for people who believe.
4. Surely Firon exalted himself in the land and made its people into parties, weakening one
party from among them; he slaughtered their sons and let their women live; surely he was one
of the mischiefmakers.
S. And We desired to bestow a favor upon those who were deemed weak in the land, and to
make them the Imams, and to make them the heirs,
6. And to grant them power in the land, and to make Firon and Haman and their hosts see from
them what they feared.
7. And We revealed to Musa's mothers, saying: Give him suck, then when you fear for him,
cast him into the river and do not fear nor grieve; surely We wi!l bring him back to you and
make him one of the apostles.
8. And Firon's family took him up that he might be an enemy and a grief for them; surely Firon
and Haman and their hosts were wrongdoers.
9. And Firon's wife said: A refreshment of the eye to me and to you; do not slay him; maybe he
will be useful to us, or we may take him for a son; and they did not perceive.
10. And the heart of Musa's mother was free (from anxiety) she would have almost disclosed it
had We not strengthened her heart so that she might be of the believers.
11. And she said to his sister: Follow him up. So she watched him from a distance while they
did not perceive,
12. And We ordained that he refused to suck any foster mother before, so she said: Shall I
point out to you the people of a house who will take care of him for you, and they will be
benevolent to him?
13. So We gave him back to his mother that her eye might be refreshed, and that she might no
grieve, and that she might know that the promise of Allah is true, but most of them do not
know.
14. And when he attained his maturity and became full grown, We granted him wisdom and
knowledge; and thus do We reward those who do good (to others).
15. And he went into the city at a time of unvigilance on the part of its people, so he found
therein two men fighting, one being of his party and the other of his foes, and he who was of
his party cried out to him for help against him who was of his enemies, so Musa struck him
with his fist and killed him. He said: This is on account of the Shaitan's doing; surely he is an
enemy, openly leading astray.
16. He said: My Lord! surely I have done harm to myself, so do Thou protect me. So He
protected him; surely He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.
17. He said: My Lord! because Thou hast bestowed a favor on me, I shall never be a backer of
the guilty.
18. And he was in the city, fearing, awaiting, when lo! he who had asked his assistance the day
before was crying out to him for aid. Musa said to him: You are most surely one erring
manifestly.
19. So when he desired to seize him who was an enemy to them both, he said: O Musa! do you
intend to kill me as you killed a person yesterday? You desire nothing but that you should be a
tyrant in the land, and you do not desire to be of those who act aright.
20. And a man came running from the remotest part of the city. He said: O Musa! surely the
chiefs are consulting together to slay you, therefore depart (at once); surely I am of those who
wish well to you.
21. So he went forth therefrom, fearing, awaiting, (and) he said: My Lord! deliver me from the
unjust people.
22. And when he turned his face towards Madyan, he said: Maybe my Lord will guide me in
the right path.
23. And when he came to the water of Madyan, he found on it a group of men watering, and he
found besides them two women keeping back (their flocks). He said: What is the matter with
you? They said: We cannot water until the shepherds take away (their sheep) from the water,
and our father is a very old man.
24. So he watered (their sheep) for them, then went back to the shade and said: My Lord!
surely I stand in need of whatever good Thou mayest send down to me.
25. Then one of the two women came to him walking bashfully. She said: My father invites
you that he may give you the reward of your having watered for us. So when he came to him
and gave to him the account, he said: Fear not, you are secure from the unjust people.
26. Said one of them: O my father! employ him, surely the best of those that you can employ is
the strong man, the faithful one.
27. He said: I desire to marry one of these two daughters of mine to you on condition that you
should serve me for eight years; but if you complete ten, it will be of your own free will, and I
do not wish to be hard to you; if Allah please, you will find me one of the good.
28. He said: This shall be (an agreement) between me and you; whichever of the two terms I
fulfill, there shall be no wrongdoing to me; and Allah is a witness of what we say.
29. So when Musa had fulfilled the term, and he journeyed with his family, he perceived on
this side of the mountain a fire. He said to his family: Wait, I have seen a fire, maybe I will
bring to you from it some news or a brand of fire, so that you may warm yourselves.
30. And when he came to it, a voice was uttered from the right side of the valley in the blessed
spot of the bush, saying: O Musa! surely I am Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
31. And saying: Cast down you staff. So when he saw it in motion as if it were a serpent, he
turned back retreating, and did not return. O Musa! come forward and fear not; surely you are
of those who are secure;
32. Enter your hand into the opening of your bosom, it will come forth white without evil, and
draw your hand to yourself to ward off fear: so these two shall be two arguments from your
Lord to Firon and his chiefs, surely they are a transgressing people.
33. He said: My Lord! surely I killed one of them, so I fear lest they should slay me;
34. And my brother, Haroun, he is more eloquent of tongue than 1, therefore send him with me
as an aider, verifying me: surely I fear that they would reject me.
35. He said: We will strengthen your arm with your brother, and We will give you both an
authority, so that they shall not reach you; (go) with Our signs; you two and those who follow
you shall be uppermost.
36. So when Musa came to them with Our clear signs, they said: This is nothing but forged
enchantment, and we never heard of it amongst our fathers of old.
37. And Musa said: My Lord knows best who comes with guidance from Him, and whose shall
be the good end of the abode; surely the unjust shall not be successful.
38. And Firon said: O chiefs! I do not know of any god for you besides myself; therefore kindle
a fire for me, O Haman, for brick, then prepare for me a lofty building so that I may obtain
knowledge of Musa's God, and most surely I think him to be one of the liars.
39. And he was unjustly proud in the land, he and his hosts, and they deemed that they would
not be brought back to Us.
40. So We caught hold of him and his hosts, then We cast them into the sea, and see how was
the end of the unjust.
41. And We made them Imams who call to the fire, and on the day of resurrection they shall
not be assisted.
42. And We caused a curse to follow them in this world, and on the day of resurrection they
shall be of those made to appear hideous.
43. And certainly We gave Musa the Book after We had destroyed the former generations,
clear arguments for men and a guidance and a mercy, that they may be mindful.
44. And you were not on the western side when We revealed to Musa the commandment, and
you were not among the witnesses;
45. But We raised up generations, then life became prolonged to them; and you were not
dwelling among the people of Madyan, reciting to them Our communications, but We were the
senders.
46. And you were not on this side of the mountain when We called, but a mercy from your
Lord that you may warn a people to whom no warner came before you, that they may be mindful.
47. And were it not that there should befall them a disaster for what their hands have sent
before, then they should say: Our Lord! why didst Thou not send to us an apostle so that we
should have followed Thy communications and been of the believers !
48. But (now) when the truth has come to them from Us, they say: Why is he not given the like
of what was given to Musa? What! did they not disbelieve in what Musa was given before?
They say: Two magicians backing up each other; and they say: Surely we are unbelievers in all.
49. Say: Then bring some (other) book from Allah which is a better guide than both of them,
(that) I may follow it, if you are truthful.
50. But if they do not answer you, then know that they only follow their low desires; and who
is more erring than he who follows his low desires without any guidance from Allah? Surely
Allah does not guide the unjust people.
51. And certainly We have made the word to reach them so that they may be mindful.
52. (As to) those whom We gave the Book before it, they are believers in it.
53. And when it is recited to them they say: We believe in it surely it is the truth from our
Lord; surely we were submitters before this.
54. These shall be granted their reward twice, because they are steadfast and they repel evil
with good and spend out of what We have given them.
SS. And when they hear idle talk they turn aside from it and say: We shall have our deeds and
you shall have your deeds; peace be on you, we do not desire the ignorant.
56. Surely you cannot guide whom you love, but Allah guides whom He pleases, and He
knows best the followers of the right way.
57. And they say: If we follow the guidance with you, we shall be carried off from our country.
What ! have We not settled them in a safe, sacred territory to which fruits of every kind shall
be drawn?-- a sustenance from Us; but most of them do not know.
58. And how many a town have We destroyed which exulted in its means of subsistence, so
these are their abodes, they have not been dwelt in after them except a little, and We are the inheritors,
59. And your Lord never destroyed the towns until He raised in their metropolis an apostle,
reciting to them Our communications, and We never destroyed the towns except when their
people were unjust.
60. And whatever things you have been given are only a provision of this world's life and its
adornment, and whatever is with Allah is better and more lasting; do you not then understand?
61. Is he to whom We have promised a goodly promise which he shall meet with like him
whom We have provided with the provisions of this world's life, then on the day of
resurrection he shall be of those who are brought up?
62. And on the day when He will call them and say: Where are those whom you deemed to be
My associates?
63. Those against whom the sentence has become confirmed will say: Our Lord! these are they
whom we caused to err; we caused them to err as we ourselves did err; to Thee we declare
ourselves to be clear (of them); they never served Us.
64. And it will be said: Call your associate-gods. So they will call upon them, but they will not
answer them, and they shall see the punishment; would that they had followed the right way!
65. And on the day when He shall call them and say: What was the answer you gave to the apostles?
66. Then the pleas shall become obscure to them on that day, so they shall not ask each other.
67. But as to him who repents and believes and does good, maybe he will be among the successful:
68. And your Lord creates and chooses whom He pleases; to choose is not theirs; glory be to
Allah, and exalted be He above what they associate (with Him).
69. And your Lord knows what their breasts conceal and what they manifest.
70. And He is Allah, there is no god but He! All praise is due to Him in this (life) and the
hereafter, and His is the judgment, and to Him you shall be brought back.
71. Say: Tell me, if Allah were to make the night to continue incessantly on you till the day of
resurrection, who is the god besides Allah that could bring you light? Do you not then hear?
72. Say: Tell me, if Allah were to make the day to continue incessantly on you till the day of
resurrection, who is the god besides Allah that could bring you the night in which you take
rest? Do you not then see?
73. And out of His mercy He has made for you the night and the day, that you may rest therein,
and that you may seek of His grace, and that you may give thanks.
74. And on the day when He shall call them and say: Where are those whom you deemed to be
My associates?
75. And We will draw forth from among every nation a witness and say: Bring your proof; then
shall they know that the truth is Allah's, and that which they forged shall depart from them.
76. Surely Qaroun was of the people of Musa, but he rebelled against them, and We had given
him of the treasures, so much so that his hoards of wealth would certainly weigh down a
company of men possessed of great strength. When his people said to him: Do not exult, surely
Allah does not love the exultant;
77. And seek by means of what Allah has given you the future abode, and do not neglect your
portion of this world, and do good (to others) as Allah has done good to you, and do not seek
to make mischief in the land, surely Allah does not love the mischief-makers.
78. He said: I have been given this only on account of the knowledge I have. Did he not know
that Allah had destroyed before him of the generations those who were mightier in strength
than he and greater in assemblage? And the guilty shall not be asked about their faults.
79. So he went forth to his people in his finery. Those who desire this world's life said: O
would that we had the like of what Qaroun is given; most surely he is possessed of mighty
good fortune.
80. And those who were given the knowledge said: Woe to you! Allah's reward is better for
him who believes and does good, and none is made to receive this except the patient.
81. Thus We made the earth to swallow up him and his abode; so he had no body of helpers to
assist him against Allah nor was he of those who can defend themselves.
82. And those who yearned for his place only the day before began to say: Ah! (know) that
Allah amplifies and straitens the means of subsistence for whom He pleases of His servants;
had not Allah been gracious to us, He would most surely have abased us; ah! (know) that the
ungrateful are never successful.
83. (As for) that future abode, We assign it to those who have no desire to exalt themselves in
the earth nor to make mischief and the good end is for those who guard (against evil)
84. Whoever brings good, he shall have better than it, and whoever brings evil, those who do
evil shall not be rewarded (for) aught except what they did.
85. Most surely He Who has made the Quran binding on you will bring you back to the
destination. Say: My Lord knows best him who has brought the guidance and him who is in
manifest error.
86. And you did not expect that the Book would be inspired to you, but it is a mercy from your
Lord, therefore be not a backer-up of the unbelievers.
87. And let them not turn you aside from the communications of Allah after they have been
revealed to you, and call (men) to your Lord and be not of the polytheists.
88. And call not with Allah any other god; there is no god but He, every thing is perishable but
He; His is the judgment, and to Him you shall be brought back.
XXIX. The Spider
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Alif Lam Mim.
2. Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, We believe, and not be tried?
3. And certainly We tried those before them, so Allah will certainly know those who are true
and He will certainly know the liars.
4. Or do they who work evil think that they will escape Us? Evil is it that they judge!
S. Whoever hopes to meet Allah, the term appointed by Allah will then most surely come; and
He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
6. And whoever strives hard, he strives only for his own soul; most surely Allah is
Self-sufficient, above (need of) the worlds.
7. And (as for) those who believe and do good, We will most certainly do away with their evil
deeds and We will most certainly reward them the best of what they did.
8. And We have enjoined on man goodness to his parents, and if they contend with you that
you should associate (others) with Me, of which you have no knowledge, do not obey them, to
Me is your return, so I will inform you of what you did.
9. And (as for) those who believe and do good, We will most surely cause them to enter among
the good.
10. And among men is he who says: We believe in Allah; but when he is persecuted in (the
way of) Allah he thinks the persecution of men to be as the chastisement of Allah; and if there
come assistance from your Lord, they would most certainly say: Surely we were with you.
What! is not Allah the best knower of what is in the breasts of mankind.
11. And most certainly Allah will know those who believe and most certainly He will know the
hypocrites.
12. And those who disbelieve say to those who believe: Follow our path and we will bear your
wrongs. And never shall they be the bearers of any of their wrongs; most surely they are liars.
13. And most certainly they shall carry their own burdens, and other burdens with their own
burdens, and most certainly they shall be questioned on the resurrection day as to what they forged.
14. And certainly We sent Nuh to his people, so he remained among them a thousand years
save fifty years. And the deluge overtook them, while they were unjust.
15. So We delivered him and the inmates of the ark, and made it a sign to the nations.
16. And (We sent) Ibrahim, when he said to his people: Serve Allah and be careful of (your
duty to) Him; this is best for you, if you did but know:
17. You only worship idols besides Allah and you create a lie surely they whom you serve
besides Allah do not control for you any sustenance, therefore seek the sustenance from Allah
and serve Him and be grateful to Him; to Him you shall be brought back.
18. And if you reject (the truth), nations before you did indeed reject (the truth); and nothing is
incumbent on the apostle but a plain delivering (of the message).
19. What! do they not consider how Allah originates the creation, then reproduces it? Surely
that is easy to Allah.
20. Say: Travel in the earth and see how He makes the first creation, then Allah creates the
latter creation; surely Allah has power over all things.
21. He punishes whom He pleases and has mercy on whom He pleases, and to Him you shall
be turned back.
22. And you shall not escape in the earth nor in the heaven, and you have neither a protector
nor a helper besides Allah.
23. And (as to) those who disbelieve in the communications of Allah and His meeting, they
have despaired of My mercy, and these it is that shall have a painful punishment.
24. So naught was the answer of his people except that they said: Slay him or burn him; then
Allah delivered him from the fire; most surely there are signs in this for a people who believe.
25. And he said: You have only taken for yourselves idols besides Allah by way of friendship
between you in this world's life, then on the resurrection day some of you shall deny others,
and some of you shall curse others, and your abode is the fire, and you shall not have any helpers.
26. And Lut believed in Him, and he said: I am fleeing to my Lord, surely He is the Mighty, the
Wise.
27. And We granted him Ishaq and Yaqoub, and caused the t prophethood and the book to
remain in his seed, and We gave him his reward in this world, and in the hereafter he will
most surely be among the good.
28. And (We sent) Lut when he said to his people: Most surely you are guilty of an indecency
which none of the nations has ever done before you;
29. What! do you come to the males and commit robbery on the highway, and you commit evil
deeds in your assemblies? But nothing was the answer of his people except that they said:
Bring on us Allah's punishment, if you are one of the truthful.
30. He said: My Lord! help me against the mischievous people.
31. And when Our messengers came to Ibrahim with the good news, they said: Surely we are
going to destroy the people of this town, for its people are unjust.
32. He said: Surely in it is Lut. They said: We know well who is in it; we shall certainly deliver
him and his followers, except his wife; she shall be of those who remain behind.
33. And when Our messengers came to Lut he was grieved on account of them, and he felt
powerless (to protect) them; and they said: Fear not, nor grieve; surely we will deliver you and
your followers, except your wife; she shall be of those who remain behind.
34. Surely We will cause to come down upon the people of this town a punishment from
heaven, because they transgressed.
35. And certainly We have left a clear sign of it for a people who understand.
36. And to Madyan (We sent) their brother Shuaib, so he said: O my people! serve Allah and
fear the latter day and do not act corruptly in the land, making mischief.
37. But they rejected him, so a severe earthquake overtook them, and they became motionless
bodies in their abode.
38. And (We destroyed) Ad and Samood, and from their dwellings (this) is apparent to you
indeed; and the Shaitan made their deeds fair-seeming to them, so he kept them back from the
path, though they were endowed with intelligence and skill,
39. And (We destroyed) Qaroun and Firon and Haman; and certainly Musa came to them with
clear arguments, but they behaved haughtily in the land; yet they could not outstrip (Us).
40. So each We punished for his sin; of them was he on whom We sent down a violent storm,
and of them was he whom the rumbling overtook, and of them was he whom We made to be
swallowed up by the earth, and of them was he whom We drowned; and it did not beseem
Allah that He should be unjust to them, but they were unjust to their own souls.
41. The parable of those who take guardians besides Allah is as the parable of the spider that
makes for itself a house; and most surely the frailest of the houses is the spider's house did
they but know.
42. Surely Allah knows whatever thing they call upon besides Him; and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
43. And (as for) these examples, We set them forth for men, and none understand them but the learned.
44. Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth; most surely there is a sign in this for the
believers.
45. Recite that which has been revealed to you of the Book and keep up prayer; surely prayer
keeps (one) away from indecency and evil, and certainly the remembrance of Allah is the
greatest, and Allah knows what you do.
46. And do not dispute with the followers of the Book except by what is best, except those of
them who act unjustly, and say: We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed
to you, and our God and your God is One, and to Him do we submit.
47. And thus have We revealed the Book to you. So those whom We have given the Book
believe in it, and of these there are those who believe in it, and none deny Our communications
except the unbelievers.
48. And you did not recite before it any book, nor did you transcribe one with your right hand,
for then could those who say untrue things have doubted.
49. Nay! these are clear communications in the breasts of those who are granted knowledge;
and none deny Our communications except the unjust.
50. And they say: Why are not signs sent down upon him from his Lord? Say: The signs are
only with Allah, and I am only a plain warner.
51. Is it not enough for them that We have revealed to you the Book which is recited to them?
Most surely there is mercy in this and a reminder for a people who believe.
52. Say: Allah is sufficient as a witness between me and you; He knows what is in the heavens
and the earth. And (as for) those who believe in the falsehood and disbelieve in Allah, these it
is that are the losers.
53. And they ask you to hasten on the chastisement; and had not a term been appointed, the
chastisement would certainly have come to them; and most certainly it will come to them all
of a sudden while they will not perceive.
54. They ask you to hasten on the chastisement, and most surely hell encompasses the unbelievers;
55. On the day when the chastisement shall cover them from above them, and from beneath
their feet; and He shall say: Taste what you did.
56. O My servants who believe! surely My earth is vast, therefore Me alone should you serve.
57. Every soul must taste of death, then to Us you shall be brought back.
58. And (as for) those who believe and do good, We will certainly give them abode in the high
places in gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein; how good the reward of the workers:
59. Those who are patient, and on their Lord do they rely.
60. And how many a living creature that does not carry its sustenance: Allah sustains it and
yourselves; and He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
61. And if you ask them, Who created the heavens and the earth and made the sun and the
moon subservient, they will certainly say, Allah. Whence are they then turned away?
62. Allah makes abundant the means of subsistence for whom He pleases of His servants, and
straitens them for whom (He pleases) surely Allah is Cognizant of all things.
63. And if you ask them Who is it that sends down water from the clouds, then gives life to the
earth with it after its death, they will certainly say, Allah. Say: All praise is due to Allah. Nay,
most of them do not understand.
64. And this life of the world is nothing but a sport and a play; and as for the next abode, that
most surely is the life-- did they but know!
65. So when they ride in the ships they call upon Allah, being sincerely obedient to Him, but
when He brings them safe to the land, lo! they associate others (with Him);
66. Thus they become ungrateful for what We have given them, so that they may enjoy; but
they shall soon know.
67. Do they not see that We have made a sacred territory secure, while men are carried off by
force from around them? Will they still believe in the falsehood and disbelieve in the favour
of Allah?
68. And who is more unjust than one who forges a lie against Allah, or gives the lie to the truth
when it has come to him? Will not in hell be the abode of the unbelievers?
69. And (as for) those who strive hard for Us, We will most certainly guide them in Our ways;
and Allah is most surely with the doers of good.
XXX. The Romans
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Alif Lam Mim.
2. The Romans are vanquished,
3. In a near land, and they, after being vanquished, shall overcome,
4. Within a few years. Allah's is the command before and after; and on that day the believers
shall rejoice,
5. With the help of Allah; He helps whom He pleases; and He is the Mighty, the Merciful;
6. (This is) Allah's promise! Allah will not fail His promise, but most people do not know.
7. They know the outward of this world's life, but of the hereafter they are absolutely heedless.
8. Do they not reflect within themselves: Allah did not create the heavens and the earth and
what is between them two but with truth, and (for) an appointed term? And most surely most
of the people are deniers of the meeting of their Lord.
9. Have they not travelled in the earth and seen how was the end of those before them? They
were stronger than these in prowess, and dug up the earth, and built on it in greater abundance
than these have built on it, and there came to them their apostles with clear arguments; so it
was not beseeming for Allah that He should deal with them unjustly, but they dealt unjustly
with their own souls.
10. Then evil was the end of those who did evil, because they | rejected the communications of
Allah and used to mock them.
11. Allah originates the creation, then reproduces it, then to Him you shall be brought back.
12. And at the time when the hour shall come the guilty shall be in despair.
13. And they shall not have any intercessors from among their gods they have joined with God,
and they shall be deniers of their associate-gods.
14. And at the time when the hour shall come, at that time they shall become separated one
from the other.
15. Then as to those who believed and did good, they shall be made happy in a garden.
16. And as to those who disbelieved and rejected Our communications and the meeting of the
hereafter, these shall be brought over to the chastisement.
17. Therefore glory be to Allah when you enter upon the time of the evening and when you
enter upon the time of the morning.
18. And to Him belongs praise in the heavens and the earth, and at nightfall and when you are
at midday.
19. He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living, and
gives life to the earth after its death, and thus shall you be brought forth.
20. And one of His signs is that He created you from dust, then lo! you are mortals (who) scatter.
21. And one of His signs is that He created mates for you from yourselves that you may find
rest in them, and He put between you love and compassion; most surely there are signs in this
for a people who reflect.
22. And one of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your
tongues and colors; most surely there are signs in this for the learned.
23. And one of His signs is your sleeping and your seeking of His grace by night and (by) day;
most surely there are signs in this for a people who would hear.
24. And one of His signs is that He shows you the lightning for fear and for hope, and sends
down water from the clouds then gives life therewith to the earth after its death; most surely
there are signs in this for a people who understand
25. And one of His signs is that the heaven and the earth subsist by His command, then when
He calls you with a (single) call from out of the earth, lo! you come forth.
26. And His is whosoever is in the heavens and the earth; all are obedient to Him.
27. And He it is Who originates the creation, then reproduces it, and it is easy to Him; and His
are the most exalted attributes in the heavens and the earth, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
28. He sets forth to you a parable relating to yourselves: Have you among those whom your
right hands possess partners in what We have given you for sustenance, so that with respect to
it you are alike; you fear them as you fear each other? Thus do We make the communications
distinct for a people who understand.
29. Nay! those who are unjust follow their low desires without any knowledge; so who can
guide him whom Allah makes err? And they shall have no helpers.
30. Then set your face upright for religion in the right state-- the nature made by Allah in
which He has made men; there is no altering of Allah's creation; that is the right religion, but
most people do not know--
31. Turning to Him, and be careful of (your duty to) Him and keep up prayer and be not of the polytheists
32. Of those who divided their religion and became seas every sect rejoicing in what they had
with them
33. And when harm afflicts men, they call upon their Lord, turning to Him, then when He
makes them taste of mercy from Him, lo! some of them begin to associate (others) with their Lord,
34. So as to be ungrateful for what We have given them; but enjoy yourselves (for a while), for
you shall soon come to know.
35. Or, have We sent down upon them an authority so that it speaks of that which they
associate with Him?
36. And when We make people taste of mercy they rejoice in it, and if an evil befall them for
what their hands have already wrought, lo! they are in despair.
37. Do they not see that Allah makes ample provision for whom He pleases, or straitens? Most
surely there are signs in this for a people who believe.
38. Then give to the near of kin his due, and to the needy and the wayfarer; this is best for
those who desire Allah's pleasure, and these it is who are successful.
39. And whatever you lay out as usury, so that it may increase in the property of men, it shall
not increase with Allah; and whatever you give in charity, desiring Allah's pleasure-- it is these
(persons) that shall get manifold.
40. Allah is He Who created you, then gave you sustenance, then He causes you to die, then
brings you to life. Is there any of your associate-gods who does aught of it? Glory be to Him,
and exalted be He above what they associate (with Him).
41. Corruption has appeared in the land and the sea on account of what the hands of men have
wrought, that He may make them taste a part of that which they have done, so that they may return.
42. Say: Travel in the land, then see how was the end of those before; most of them were polytheists.
43. Then turn thy face straight to the right religion before there come from Allah the day which
cannot be averted; on that day they shall become separated.
44. Whoever disbelieves, he shall be responsible for his disbelief, and whoever does good, they
prepare (good) for their own souls,
45. That He may reward those who believe and do good out of His grace; surely He does not
love the unbelievers.
46. And one of His signs is that He sends forth the winds bearing good news, and that He may
make your taste of His mercy, and that the ships may run by His command, and that you may
seek of His grace, and that you may be grateful.
47. And certainly We sent before you apostles to their people, so they came to them with clear
arguments, then We gave the punishment to those who were guilty; and helping the believers
is ever incumbent on Us.
48. Allah is he Who sends forth the winds so they raise a cloud, then He spreads it forth in the
sky as He pleases, and He breaks it up so that you see the rain coming forth from inside it;
then when He causes it to fall upon whom He pleases of His servants, lo! they are joyful
49. Though they were before this, before it was sent down upon them, confounded in sure despair.
50. Look then at the signs of Allah's mercy, how He gives life to the earth after its death, most
surely He will raise the dead to life; and He has power over all things.
51. And if We send a wind and they see it to be yellow, they would after that certainly continue
to disbelieve
52. For surely you cannot, make the dead to hear and you cannot make the deaf to hear the call,
when they turn back and
53. Nor can you lead away the blind out of their error. You cannot make to hear any but those
who believe in Our communications so they shall submit.
54. Allah is He Who created you from a state of weakness then He gave strength after
weakness, then ordained weakness and hoary hair after strength; He creates what He pleases,
and He is the Knowing, the Powerful.
SS. And at the time when the hour shall come, the guilty shall swear (that) they did not tarry
but an hour; thus are they ever turned away.
56. And those who are given knowledge and faith will say: Certainly you tarried according to
the ordinance of Allah till the day of resurrection, so this is the day of resurrection, but you
did not know.
57. But on that day their excuse shall not profit those who were unjust, nor shall they be
regarded with goodwill.
58. And certainly We have set forth for men every kind of example in this Quran; and if you
should bring them a communication, those who disbelieve would certainly say: You are
naught but false claimants.
59. Thus does Allah set a seal on the hearts of those who do not know.
60. Therefore be patient; surely the promise of Allah is true and let not those who have no
certainty hold you in light estimation.
XXXI. Lugman
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Alif Lam Mim.
2. These are verses of the Book of Wisdom
3. A guidance and a mercy for the doers of goodness,
4. Those who keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and they are certain of the hereafter.
5. These are on a guidance from their Lord, and these are they who are successful:
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. (As for) those who believe and do good, they shall surely have gardens of bliss,
9. Abiding in them; the promise of Allah; (a) true (promise), and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
10. 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, then caused to grow therein (vegetation) of every noble kind.
11. This is Allah's creation, but show Me what those besides Him have created. Nay, the unjust
are in manifest error
12. And certainly We gave wisdom to Luqman, saying: Be grateful to Allah. And whoever is
grateful, he is on!y grateful for his own soul; and whoever is ungrateful, then surely Allah is
Self-sufficient, Praised.
13. 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--
14. And We have enjoined man in respect of his parents-- his mother bears him with faintings
upon faintings and his weaning takes two years-- saying: Be grateful to Me and to both your
parents; to Me is the eventual coming.
15. And if they contend with you that you should associate with Me what you have no
knowledge of, do not obey them, and keep company with them in this world kindly, and follow
the way of him who turns to Me, then to Me is your return, then will I inform you of what you
did--
16. O my son! surely if it is the very weight of the grain of a mustard-seed, even though it is in
(the heart of) rock, or (high above) in the heaven or (deep down) in the earth, Allah will bring
it (to light); surely Allah is Knower of subtleties, Aware;
17. O my son! keep up prayer and enjoin the good and forbid the evil, and bear patiently that
which befalls you; surely these acts require courage;
18. And do not turn your face away from people in contempt, nor go about in the land exulting
overmuch; surely Allah does not love any self-conceited boaster;
19. And pursue the right course in your going about and lower your voice; surely the most
hateful of voices is braying of the asses.
20. Do you not see that Allah has made what is in the heavens and what is in the earth
subservient to you, and made complete to you His favors outwardly and inwardly? And among
men is he who disputes in respect of Allah though having no knowledge nor guidance, nor a
book giving light.
21. And when it is said to them: Follow what Allah has revealed, they say: Nay, we follow that
on which we found our fathers. What! though the Shaitan calls them to the chastisement of the
burning fire!
22. And whoever submits himself wholly to Allah and he is the doer of good (to others), he
indeed has taken hold of the firmest thing upon which one can lay hold; and Allah's is the end
of affairs.
23. And whoever disbelieves, let not his disbelief grieve you; to Us is their return, then will
We inform them of what they did surely Allah is the Knower of what is in the breasts.
24. We give them to enjoy a little, then will We drive them to a severe chastisement.
25. And if you ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will certainly say: Allah.
Say: (All) praise is due to Allah; nay! most of them do not know.
26. What is in the heavens and the earth is Allah's; surely Allah is the Self-sufficient, the Praised.
27. And were every tree that is in the earth (made into) pens and the sea (to supply it with ink),
with seven more seas to increase it, the words of Allah would not come to an end; surely
Allah is Mighty, Wise.
28. Neither your creation nor your raising is anything but as a single soul; surely Allah is
Hearing, Seeing.
29. Do you not see that Allah makes the night to enter into the day, and He makes the day to
enter into the night, and He has made the sun and the moon subservient (to you); each pursues
its course till an appointed time; and that Allah is Aware of what you do?
3O This is because Allah is the Truth, and that which they call upon besides Him is the
falsehood, and that Allah is the High, the Great.
31. Do you not see that the ships run on in the sea by Allah's favor that He may show you of
His signs? Most surely there are signs in this for every patient endurer, grateful one.
32. And when a wave like mountains covers them they call upon Allah, being sincere to Him
in obedience, but when He brings them safe to the land, some of them follow the middle
course; and none denies Our signs but every perfidious, ungrateful one.
33. O people! guard against (the punishment of) your Lord and dread the day when a father
shall not make any satisfaction for his son, nor shall the child be the maker of any satisfaction
for his father; surely the promise of Allah is true, therefore let not this world's life deceive
you, nor let the archdeceiver deceive you in respect of Allah.
34. Surely Allah is He with Whom is the knowledge of the hour, and He sends down the rain
and He knows what is in the wombs; and no one knows what he shall earn on the morrow; and
no one knows in what land he shall die; surely Allah is Knowing, Aware.
XXXII. The Adoration
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1: Alif Lam Mim.
2. The revelation of the Book, there is no doubt in it, is from the Lord of the worlds.
3. Or do they say: He has forged it? Nay! it is the truth from your Lord that you may warn a
people to whom no warner has come before you, that they may follow the right direction.
4. Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six periods,
and He mounted the throne (of authority); you have not besides Him any guardian or any
intercessor, will you not then mind?
5. He regulates the affair from the heaven to the earth; then shall it ascend to Him in a day the
measure of which is a thousand years of what you count.
6. This is the Knower of the unseen and the seen, the Mighty the Merciful,
7. Who made good everything that He has created, and He began the creation of man from dust.
8. Then He made his progeny of an extract, of water held in light estimation.
9. Then He made him complete and breathed into him of His spirit, and made for you the ears
and the eyes and the hearts; little is it that you give thanks.
10. And they say: What! when we have become lost in the earth, shall we then certainly be in a
new creation? Nay! they are disbelievers in the meeting of their Lord.
11. Say: The angel of death who is given charge of you shall cause you to die, then to your
Lord you shall be brought back.
12. And could you but see when the guilty shall hang down their heads before their Lord: Our
Lord! we have seen and we have heard, therefore send us back, we will do good; surely (now)
we are certain.
13. And if We had pleased We would certainly have given to every soul its guidance, but the
word (which had gone forth) from Me was just: I will certainly fill hell with the jinn and men together.
14. So taste, because you neglected the meeting of this day of yours; surely We forsake you;
and taste the abiding chastisement for what you did.
15. Only they believe in Our communications who, when they are reminded of them, fall down
making obeisance and celebrate the praise of their Lord, and they are not proud.
16. Their sides draw away from (their) beds, they call upon their Lord in fear and in hope, and
they spend (benevolently) out of what We have given them.
17. So no soul knows what is hidden for them of that which will refresh the eyes; a reward for
what they did.
18. Is he then who is a believer like him who is a transgressor? They are not equal.
19. As for those who believe and do good, the gardens are their abiding-place; an
entertainment for what they did.
20. And as for those who transgress, their abode is the fire; whenever they desire to go forth
from it they shall be brought back into it, and it will be said to them: Taste the chastisement of
the fire which you called a lie.
21. And most certainly We will make them taste of the nearer chastisement before the greater
chastisement that haply they may turn.
22. And who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the communications of his Lord, then
he turns away from them? Surely We will give punishment to the guilty.
23. And certainly We gave the Book to Musa, so be not in doubt concerning the receiving of it,
and We made it a guide for the children of Israel.
24. And We made of them Imams to guide by Our command when they were patient, and they
were certain of Our communications.
25. Surely your Lord will judge between them on the day of resurrection concerning that
wherein they differ.
26. Does it not point out to them the right way, how many of the generations, in whose abodes
they go about, did We destroy before them? Most surely there are signs in this; will they not
then hear?
27. Do they not see that We drive the water to a land having no herbage, then We bring forth
thereby seed-produce of which their cattle and they themselves eat; will they not then see?
28. And they say: When will this judgment take place, If you are truthful?
29. Say: On the day of judgment the faith of those who (now) disbelieve will not profit them,
nor will they be respited.
30. Therefore turn away from them and wait, surely they too are waiting.
XXXIII. The Allies.
. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
I. O Prophet! be careful of (your duty to) Allah and do not comply with (the wishes of) the
unbelievers and the hypocrites; surely Allah is Knowing, Wise;
2. And follow what is revealed to you from your Lord; surely Allah is Aware of what you do;
3. And rely on Allah; and Allah is sufficient for a Protector.
4. Allah has not made for any man two hearts within him; nor has He made your wives whose
backs you liken to the backs of your mothers as your mothers, nor has He made those whom
you assert to be your sons your real sons; these are the words of your mouths; and Allah
speaks the truth and He guides to the way.
5. Assert their relationship to their fathers; this is more equitable with Allah; but if you do not
know their fathers, then they are your brethren in faith and your friends; and there is no blame
on you concerning that in which you made a mistake, but (concerning) that which your hearts
do purposely (blame may rest on you), and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
6. The Prophet has a greater claim on the faithful than they have on themselves, and his wives
are (as) their mothers; and the possessors of relationship have the better claim in the
ordinance of Allah to inheritance, one with respect to another, than (other) believers, and (than)
those who have fled (their homes), except that you do some good to your friends; this is
written in the Book.
/ 7. And when We made a covenant with the prophets and with you, and with Nuh and Ibrahim
and Musa and Isa, son of Marium, and We made with them a strong covenant
8. That He may question the truthful of their truth, and He has prepared for the unbelievers a
painful punishment.
9. O you who believe! call to mind the favor of Allah to you when there came down upon you
hosts, so We sent against them a strong wind and hosts, that you saw not, and Allah is Seeing
what you do.
10. When they came upon you from above you and from below you, and when the eyes turned
dull, and the hearts rose up to the throats, and you began to think diverse thoughts of Allah.
11. There the believers were tried and they were shaken with severe shaking.
12. And when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was a disease began to say: Allah and
His Apostle did not promise us (victory) but only to deceive.
13. And when a party of them said: O people of Yasrib! there IS no place to stand for you
(here), therefore go back; and a party of them asked permission of the prophet, saying. Surely
our houses are exposed; and they were not exposed; they only desired to fly away.
14. And if an entry were made upon them from the outlying parts of it, then they were asked to
wage war, they would certainly have done it, and they would not have stayed in it but a little while.
15. And certainly they had made a covenant with Allah before, that) they would not turn (their)
backs; and Allah's covenant shall be inquired of.
16. Say: Flight shall not do you any good if you fly from death or slaughter, and in that case
you will not be allowed to enjoy yourselves but a little.
17. Say: Who is it that can withhold you from Allah if He intends to do you evil, rather He
intends to show you mercy? And they will not find for themselves besides Allah any guardian
or a helper.
18. Allah knows indeed those among you who hinder others and those who say to their
brethren: Come to us; and they come not to the fight but a little,
19. Being niggardly with respect to you; but when fear comes, you will see them looking to
you, their eyes rolling like one swooning because of death; but when the fear is gone they
smite you with sharp tongues, being niggardly of the good things. These have not believed,
therefore Allah has made.their doing naught; and this is easy to Allah.
20. They think the allies are not gone, and if the allies should come (again) they would fain be
in the deserts with the desert Arabs asking for news about you, and if they were among you
they would not fight save a little.
21. Certainly you have in the Apostle of Allah an excellent exemplar for him who hopes in
Allah and the latter day and remembers Allah much.
22. And when the believers saw the allies, they said: This is what Allah and His Apostle
promised us, and Allah and His Apostle spoke the truth; and it only increased them in faith
and submission.
23. Of the believers are men who are true to the covenant which they made with Allah: so of
them is he who accomplished his vow, and of them is he who yet waits, and they have not
changed in the least
24. That Allah may reward the truthful for their truth, and punish the hypocrites if He please or
turn to them (mercifully); surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
25. And Allah turned back the unbelievers in their rage; they did not obtain any advantage, and
Allah sufficed the believers in fighting; and Allah is Strong, Mighty.
26. And He drove down those of the followers of the Book who backed them from their
fortresses and He cast awe into their hearts; some you killed and you took captive another part.
27. And He made you heirs to their land and their dwellings and their property, and (to) a land
which you have not yet trodden, and Allah has power over all things.
28. O Prophet! say to your wives: If you desire this world's life and its adornment, then come, I
will give you a provision and allow you to depart a goodly departing
29. And if you desire Allah and His Apostle and the latter abode, then surely Allah has
prepared for the doers of good among you a mighty reward.
30. O wives of the prophet! whoever of you commits an open indecency, the punishment shall
be increased to her doubly; and this IS easy to Allah.
31. And whoever of you is obedient to Allah and His Apostle and does good, We will give to
her her reward doubly, and We have prepared for her an honorable sustenance.
32. O wives of the Prophet! you are not like any other of the women; If you will be on your
guard, then be not soft in (your) speech, lest he in whose heart is a disease yearn; and speak a
good word.
33. And stay in your houses and do not display your finery like the displaying of the ignorance
of yore; and keep up prayer, and pay the poor-rate, and obey Allah and His Apostle. Allah
only desires to keep away the uncleanness from you, O people of the House! and to purify you a
(thorough) purifying.
34. And keep to mind what is recited in your houses of the communications of Allah and the
wisdom; surely Allah is Knower of subtleties, Aware.
35. Surely the men who submit and the women who submit, and the believing men and the
believing women, and the obeying men and the obeying women, and the truthful men and the
truthful women, and the patient men and the patient women and the humble men and the
humble women, and the almsgiving men and the almsgiving women, and the fasting men and
the fasting women, and the men who guard their private parts and the women who guard, and
the men who remember Allah much and the women who remember-- Allah has prepared for
them forgiveness and a mighty reward.
36. And it behoves not a believing man and a believing woman that they should have any
choice in their matter when Allah and His Apostle have decided a matter; and whoever
disobeys Allah and His Apostle, he surely strays off a manifest straying.
37. And when you said to him to whom Allah had shown favor and to whom you had shown a
favor: Keep your wife to yourself and be careful of (your duty to) Allah; and you concealed in
your soul what Allah would bring to light, and you feared men, and Allah had a greater right
that you should fear Him. But when Zaid had accomplished his want of her, We gave her to
you as a wife, so that there should be no difficulty for the believers in respect of the wives of
their adopted sons, when they have accomplished their want of them; and Allah's command
shall be performed.
38. There is no harm in the Prophet doing that which Allah has ordained for him; such has
been the course of Allah with respect to those who have gone before; and the command of
Allah is a decree that is made absolute:
39. Those who deliver the messages of Allah and fear Him, and do not fear any one but Allah;
and Allah is sufficient to take account.
40. Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but he is the Apostle of Allah and the Last
of the prophets; and Allah is cognizant of all things.
41. O you who believe! remember Allah, remembering frequently,
42. And glorify Him morning and evening.
43. He it is Who sends His blessings on you, and (so do) His angels, that He may bring you
forth out of utter darkness into the light; and He is Merciful to the believers.
44. Their salutation on the day that they meet Him shall be, Peace, and He has prepared for
them an honourable reward.
45. O Prophet! surely We have sent you as a witness, and as a bearer of good news and as a warner,
46. And as one inviting to Allah by His permission, and as a light-giving torch.
47. And give to the believers the good news that they shall have a great grace from Allah.
48. And be not compliant to the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and leave unregarded their
annoying talk, and rely on Allah; and Allah is sufficient as a Protector.
49. O you who believe! when you marry the believing women, then divorce them before you
touch them, you have in their case no term which you should reckon; so make some provision
for them and send them forth a goodly sending forth.
50. O Prophet! surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their
dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you
as prisoners of war, and the daughters of your paternal uncles and the daughters of your
paternal aunts, and the daughters of your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal
aunts who fled with you; and a believing woman if she gave herself to the Prophet, if the
Prophet desired to marry her-- specially for you, not for the (rest of) believers; We know what
We have ordained for them concerning their wives and those whom their right hands possess in
order that no blame may attach to you; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
51. You may put off whom you please of them, and you may take to you whom you please, and
whom you desire of those whom you had separated provisionally; no blame attaches to you;
this is most proper, so that their eyes may be cool and they may not grieve, and that they should
be pleased, all of them with what you give them, and Allah knows what is in your hearts; and
Allah is Knowing, Forbearing.
52. It is not allowed to you to take women afterwards, nor that you should change them for
other wives, though their beauty be pleasing to you, except what your right hand possesses and
Allah is Watchful over all things.
53. O you who believe! do not enter the houses of the Prophet unless permission is given to
you for a meal, not waiting for its cooking being finished-- but when you are invited, enter,
and when you have taken the food, then disperse-- not seeking to listen to talk; surely this gives
the Prophet trouble, but he forbears from you, and Allah does not forbear from the truth And
when you ask of them any goods, ask of them from behind a curtain; this is purer for your
hearts and (for) their hearts; and it does not behove you that you should give trouble to the
Apostle of Allah, nor that you should marry his wives after him ever; surely this is grievous in
the sight of Allah.
54. If you do a thing openly or do it in secret, then surely Allah is Cognizant of all things.
55. There is no blame on them in respect of their fathers, nor their brothers, nor their brothers'
sons, nor their sisters' sons nor their own women, nor of what their right hands possess; and be
careful of (your duty to) Allah; surely Allah is a witness of all things.
56. Surely Allah and His angels bless the Prophet; O you who believe! call for (Divine)
blessings on him and salute him with a (becoming) salutation.
57. Surely (as for) those who speak evil things of Allah and His Apostle, Allah has cursed them
in this world and the here after, and He has prepared for them a chastisement bringing disgrace.
58. And those who speak evil things of the believing men and the believing women without
their having earned (it), they are guilty indeed of a false accusation and a manifest sin.
59. O Prophet! say to your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers that they
let down upon them their over-garments; this will be more proper, that they may be known,
and thus they will not be given trouble; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
60. If the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease and the agitators in the city do not
desist, We shall most certainly set you over them, then they shall not be your neighbors in it
but for a little while;
61. Cursed: wherever they are found they shall be seized and murdered, a (horrible) murdering.
62. (Such has been) the course of Allah with respect to those who have gone before; and you
shall not find any change in the course of Allah.
63. Men ask you about the hour; say: The knowledge of it is only with Allah, and what will
make you comprehend that the : hour may be nigh.
64. Surely Allah has cursed the unbelievers and has prepared for them a burning fire,
65. To abide therein for a long time; they shall not find a protector or a helper.
66. On the day when their faces shall be turned back into the fire, they shall say: O would that
we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Apostle!
67. And they shall say: O our Lord! surely we obeyed our leaders and our great men, so they
led us astray from the path;
68. O our Lord! give them a double punishment and curse them with a great curse.
69. O you who believe! be not like those who spoke evil things of Musa, but Allah cleared him
of what they said, and he was worthy of regard with Allah.
70. O you who believe! be careful of(your duty to) Allah and speak the right word,
71. He will put your deeds into a right state for you, and forgive you your faults; and whoever
obeys Allah and His Apostle, he indeed achieves a mighty success.
72. Surely We offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they
refused to be unfaithful to it and feared from it, and man has turned unfaithful to it; surely he
is unjust, ignorant;
73. So Allah will chastise the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women and the
polytheistic men and the polytheistic women, and Allah will turn (mercifully) to the believing
women, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
XXXIV. Saba
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. (All) praise is due to Allah, Whose is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and to
Him is due (all) praise in the hereafter; and He is the Wise, the Aware.
2. He knows that which goes down into the earth and that which comes out of it, and that
which comes down from the heaven and that which goes up to it; and He is the Merciful, the Forgiving.
3. And those who disbelieve say: The hour shall not come upon us. Say: Yea! by my Lord, the
Knower of the unseen, it shall certainly come upon you; not the weight of an atom becomes
absent from Him, in the heavens or in the earth, and neither less than that nor greater, but (all)
is in a clear book
4. That He may reward those who believe and do good; these it is for whom is forgiveness and
an honorable sustenance.
5. And (as for) those who strive hard in opposing Our communications, these it is for whom is
a painful chastisement of an evil kind.
6. And those to whom the knowledge has been given see that which has been revealed to you
from your Lord, that is the truth, and it guides into the path of the Mighty, the Praised.
7. And those who disbelieve say: Shall we point out to you a man who informs you that when
you are scattered the utmost scattering you shall then be most surely (raised) in (to) a new creation?
8. He has forged a lie against Allah or there is madness in him. Nay! those who do not believe
in the hereafter are in torment and in great error.
9. Do they not then consider what is before them and what is behind them of the heaven and
the earth? If We please We will make them disappear in the land or bring down upon them a
portion from the heaven; most surely there is a sign in this for every servant turning (to Allah).
10. And certainly We gave to Dawood excellence from Us: O mountains! sing praises with
him, and the birds; and We made the iron pliant to him,
11. Saying: Make ample (coats of mail), and assign a time to the making of coats of mail and
do good; surely I am Seeing what you do.
12. And (We made) the wind (subservient) to Sulaiman, which made a month's journey in the
morning and a month's journey m the evening, and We made a fountain of molten copper to
flow out for him, and of the jinn there were those who worked before him by the command of
his Lord; and whoever turned aside from Our command from among them, We made him
taste of the punishment of burning.
13. They made for him what he pleased of fortresses and images, and bowls (large) as
watering-troughs and cooking-pots that will not move from their place; give thanks, O family
of Dawood! and very few of My servants are grateful.
14. But when We decreed death for him, naught showed them his death but a creature of the
earth that ate away his staff; and when it fell down, the jinn came to know plainly that if they
had known the unseen, they would not have tarried in abasing torment.
15 Certainly there was a sign for Saba in their abode; two gardens on the right and the left; eat
of the sustenance of your Lord and give thanks to Him: a good land and a Forgiving Lord!
16 But they turned aside, so We sent upon them a torrent of which the rush could not be
withstood, and in place of their two gardens We gave to them two gardens yielding bitter fruit
and (growing) tamarisk and a few lote-trees.
17. This We requited them with because they disbelieved; and We do not punish any but the ungrateful.
18. And We made between them and the towns which We had blessed (other) towns to be
easily seen, and We apportioned the journey therein: Travel through them nights and days, secure.
19. And they said: O our Lord! make spaces to be longer between our journeys; and they were
unjust to themselves so We made them stories and scattered them with an utter scattering;
most surely there are signs in this for every patient, grateful one
20. And certainly the Shaitan found true his conjecture concerning them, so they follow him,
except a party of the believers.
21. And he has no authority over them, but that We may distinguish him who believes in the
hereafter from him who is in doubt concerning it; and your Lord is the Preserver of all things
22. Say: Call upon those whom you assert besides Allah; they do not control the weight of an
atom in the heavens or in the earth nor have they any partnership in either, nor has He among
them any one to back (Him) up.
23. And intercession will not avail aught with Him save of him whom He permits. Until when
fear shall be removed from their hearts, They shall say: What is it that your Lord said? They
shall say: The truth. And He is the Most High, the Great.
24. Say: Who gives you the sustenance from the heavens and the earth? Say: Allah. And most
surely we or you are on a right way or in manifest error
25. Say: You will not be questioned as to what we are guilty of, nor shall we be questioned as
to what you do.
26. Say: Our Lord will gather us together, then will He judge between us with the truth; and He
is the greatest Judge, the All-knowing.
27. Say: Show me those whom you have joined with Him as associates; by no means (can you
do it). Nay! He is Allah, the Mighty, the Wise.
28. And We have not sent you but to all the men as a bearer of good news and as a warner, but
most men do not know.
29. And they say: When will this promise be (fulfilled) if you are truthful?
30. Say: You have the appointment of a day from which you cannot hold back any while, nor
can you bring it on.
31. And those who disbelieve say: By no means will we believe in this Quran, nor in that
which is before it; and could you see when the unjust shall be made to stand before their Lord,
bandying words one with another! Those who were reckoned weak shall say to those who were
proud: Had it not been for you we would certainly have been believers.
32. Those who were proud shall say to those who were deemed weak: Did we turn you away
from the guidance after it had come to you? Nay, you (yourselves) were guilty 33. And those
who were deemed weak shall say to those who were proud. Nay, (it was) planning by night and
day when you told us to disbelieve in Allah and to set up likes with Him. And they shall
conceal regret when they shall see the punishment; and We will put shackles on the necks of
those who disbelieved; they shall not be requited but what they did.
34. And We never sent a warner to a town but those who led lives in ease in it said: We are
surely disbelievers in what you are sent with.
35. And they say: We have more wealth and children, and we shall not be punished.
36. Say: Surely my Lord amplifies the means of subsistence for whom He pleases and straitens
(for whom He pleases), but most men do not know.
37. And not your wealth nor your children, are the things which bring you near Us in station,
but whoever believes and does good, these it is for whom is a double reward for what they do,
and they shall be secure in the highest places.
38. And (as for) those who strive in opposing Our communications, they shall be caused to be
brought to the chastisement.
39. Say: Surely my Lord amplifies the means of subsistence for whom He pleases of His
servants and straitens (them) for whom
(He pleases), and whatever thing you spend, He exceeds It m reward, and He is the best of Sustainers.
40. And on the day when He will gather them all together, then will He say to the angels: Did
these worship you?
41. They shall say: Glory be to Thee! Thou art our Guardian, not they; nay! they worshipped
the jinn; most of them were believers in them.
42. So on that day one of you shall not control profit or harm for another, and We will say to
those who were unjust: Taste the chastisement of the fire which you called a lie.
43. And when Our clear communications are recited to them, they say: This is naught but a
man who desires to turn you away from that which your fathers worshipped. And they say:
This is naught but a lie that is forged. And those who disbelieve say of the truth when it comes
to them: This is only clear enchantment.
44. And We have not given them any books which they read, nor did We send to them before
you a warner.
45. And those before them rejected (the truth), and these have not yet attained a tenth of what
We gave them, but they gave the lie to My apostles, then how was the manifestation of My disapproval?
46. Say: I exhort you only to one thing, that rise up for Allah's sake in twos and singly, then
ponder: there is no madness in your fellow-citizen; he is only a warner to you before a severe chastisement.
47. Say: Whatever reward I have asked of you, that is only for yourselves; my reward is only
with Allah, and He is a witness of all things.
48. Say: Surely my Lord utters the truth, the great Knower of the unseen.
49. Say: The truth has come, and the falsehood shall vanish and shall not come back.
50. Say: If I err, I err only against my own soul, and if I follow a right direction, it ?s because
of what my Lord reveals to me; surely He is Hearing, Nigh.
51. And could you see when they shall become terrified, but (then) there shall be no escape
and they shall be seized upon from a near place
52. And they shall say: We believe in it. And how shall the attaining (of faith) be possible to
them from a distant place?
53. And they disbelieved in it before, and they utter conjectures with regard to the unseen from
a distant place.
54. And a barrier shall be placed between them and that which they desire, as was done with
the likes of them before: surely they are in a disquieting doubt.
XXXV. The Originator
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. All praise is due to Allah, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, the Maker of the
angels, messengers flying on wings, two, and three, and four; He increases in creation what He
pleases; surely Allah has power over all things.
2. Whatever Allah grants to men of (His) mercy, there is none to withhold it, and what He
withholds there is none to send it forth after that, and He is the Mighty, the Wise
3. O men! call to mind the favor of Allah on you; is there any creator besides Allah who gives
you sustenance from the heaven and the earth? There is no god but He; whence are you then
turned away?
4. And if they call you a liar, truly apostles before you were called liars, and to Allah are all
affairs returned.
5. O men! surely the promise of Allah is true, therefore let not the life of this world deceive
you, and let not the archdeceiver deceive you respecting Allah.
6. Surely the Shaitan is your enemy, so take him for an enemy; he only invites his party that
they may be inmates of the burning
7 (As for) those who disbelieve, they shall have a severe punishment, and (as for) those who
believe and do good, they shall have forgiveness and a great reward.
8. What! is he whose evil deed is made fairseeming to him so much so that he considers it
good? Now surely Allah makes err whom He pleases and guides aright whom He pleases, so
let not your soul waste away in grief for them; surely Allah is Cognizant of what they do
9. And Allah is He Who sends the winds so they raise a cloud, then We drive it on to a dead
country, and therewith We give life to the earth after its death; even so is the quickening.
10. Whoever desires honor, then to Allah belongs the honor wholly. To Him do ascend the
good words; and the good deeds, lift them up, and (as for) those who plan evil deeds, they
shall have a severe chastisement; and (as for) their plan, it shall perish.
11. And Allah created you of dust, then of the life-germ, then He made you pairs; and no
female bears, nor does she bring forth, except with His knowledge; and no one whose life is
lengthened has his life lengthened, nor is aught diminished of one's life, but it is all in a book;
surely this is easy to Allah.
12. And the two seas are not alike: the one sweet, that subdues thirst by its excessive
sweetness, pleasant to drink; and the other salt, that burns by its saltness; yet from each of
them you eat fresh flesh and bring forth ornaments which you wear; and you see the ships
cleave through it that you may seek of His bounty and that you may be grateful.
13. He causes the night to enter in upon the day, and He causes the day to enter in upon the
night, and He has made subservient (to you) the sun and the moon; each one follows its course
to an appointed time; this is Allah, your Lord, His is the kingdom; and those whom you call
upon besides Him do not control a straw.
14. If you call on them they shall not hear your call, and even if they could hear they shall not
answer you; and on the resurrection day they will deny your associating them (with Allah);
and none can inform you like the One Who is Aware.
15. O men! you are they who stand in need of Allah, and Allah is He Who is the
Self-sufficient, the Praised One.
16. If He please, He will take you off and bring a new generation.
17. And this is not hard to Allah.
18. And a burdened soul cannot bear the burden of another and if one weighed down by burden
should cry for (another to carry) its burden, not aught of it shall be carried, even though he be
near of kin. You warn only those who fear their Lord in secret and keep up prayer; and whoever
purifies himself, he purifies himself only for (the good of) his own soul; and to Allah is the
eventual coming.
19. And the blind and the seeing are not alike
20. Nor the darkness and the light,
21. Nor the shade and the heat,
22. Neither are the living and the dead alike. Surely Allah makes whom He pleases hear, and
you cannot make those hear who are m the graves.
23. You are naught but a warner.
24. Surely We have sent you with the truth as a bearer of good news and a warner; and there is
not a people but a warner has gone among them.
25. And if they call you a liar, so did those before them indeed call (their apostles) liars; their
apostles had come to them with clear arguments, and with scriptures, and with the
illuminating book.
26 Then did I punish those who disbelieved, so how was the manifestation of My disapproval?
27. Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the cloud, then We bring forth therewith
fruits of various colors; and in the mountains are streaks, white and red, of various hues and
(others) intensely black?
28. And of men and beasts and cattle are various species of it likewise; those of His servants
only who are possessed of knowledge fear Allah; surely Allah is Mighty, Forgiving.
29. Surely they who recite the Book of Allah and keep up prayer and spend out of what We
have given them secretly and openly, hope for a gain which will not perish.
30. That He may pay them back fully their rewards and give them more out of His grace:
surely He is Forgiving, Multiplier of rewards.
31. And that which We have revealed to you of the Book, that is the truth verifying that which
is before it; most surely with respect to His servants Allah is Aware, Seeing.
32. Then We gave the Book for an inheritance to those whom We chose from among Our
servants; but of them is he who makes his soul to suffer a loss, and of them is he who takes a
middle course, and of them is he who is foremost in deeds of goodness by Allah's permission;
this is the great excellence.
33. Gardens of perpetuity, they shall enter therein; they shad be made to wear therein bracelets
of gold and pearls, and their dress therein shall be silk.
34. And they shall say: (All) praise is due to Allah, Who has made grief to depart from us;
most surely our Lord is Forgiving, Multiplier of rewards,
35. Who has made us alight in a house abiding for ever out of . His grace; toil shall not touch
us therein, nor shall fatigue therein afflict us.
34. And (as for) those who disbelieve, for them is the fire of hell; it shall not be finished with
them entirely so that they should die, nor shall the chastisement thereof be lightened to them:
even thus do We retribute every ungrateful one.
37. And they shall cry therein for succour: O our Lord ! take us out, we will do good deeds
other than those which we used to do. Did We not preserve you alive long enough, so that he
who would be mindful in it should mind? And there came to you the warner; therefore taste;
because for the unjust, there 1S no helper.
38. Surely Allah is the Knower of what is unseen m the heavens and the earth; surely He is
Cognizant of what IS m the hearts.
39. He it is Who made you rulers in the land; therefore whoever disbelieves, his unbelief is
against himself; and their unbelief does not increase the disbelievers with their Lord in
anything except hatred; and their unbelief does not increase the disbelievers m anything except loss.
40. Say: Have you considered your associates which you call upon besides Allah? Show me
what part of the earth they have created, or have they any share in the heavens; or, have We
given them a book so that they follow a clear argument thereof? Nay, the unjust do not hold out
promises one to another but only to deceive.
41 Surely Allah upholds the heavens and the earth lest they come to naught; and if they should
come to naught, there Is none who can uphold them after Him; surely He is the Forbearing,
the Forgiving.
42. And they swore by Allah with the strongest of their oaths that if there came to them a
warner they would be better guided than any of the nations; but when there came to them a
warner it increased them in naught but aversion.
43. (In) behaving proudly in the land and in planning evil; and the evil plans shall not beset any
save the authors of it. Then should they wait for aught except the way of the former people?
For you shall not find any alteration in the course of Allah; and you shall not find any change in
the course of Allah.
44. Have they not travelled in the land and seen how was the end of those before them while
they were stronger than these in power? And Allah is not such that any thing in the heavens or
in the earth should escape Him; surely He is Knowing, Powerful.
45. And were Allah to punish men for what they earn, He would not leave on the back of it any
creature, but He respites them till an appointed term; so when their doom shall come, then
surely Allah is Seeing with respect to His servants.
XXXVI. YaSeen
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Ya Seen.
2. I swear by the Quran full of wisdom
3. Most surely you are one of the apostles
4. On a right way.
S. A revelation of the Mighty, the Merciful.
6. That you may warn a people whose fathers were not warned, so they are heedless.
7. Certainly the word has proved true of most of them, so they do not believe.
8. Surely We have placed chains on their necks, and these reach up to their chins, so they have
their heads raised aloft.
9. And We have made before them a barrier and a barrier behind them, then We have covered
them over so that they do not see.
10. And it is alike to them whether you warn them or warn them not: they do not believe.
11. You can only warn him who follows the reminder and fears the Beneficent God in secret;
so announce to him forgiveness and an honorable reward.
12. Surely We give life to the dead, and We write down what they have sent before and their
footprints, and We have recorded everything in a clear writing.
13. And set out to them an example of the people of the town, when the messengers came to it.
14. When We sent to them two, they rejected both of them, then We strengthened (them) with
a third, so they said: Surely we are messengers to you.
15. They said: You are naught but mortals like ourselves, nor has the Beneficent God revealed
anything; you only lie.
16. They said: Our Lord knows that we are most surely messengers to you.
17. And nothing devolves on us but a clear deliverance (of the message).
18. They said: Surely we augur evil from you; if you do not desist, we will certainly stone you,
and there shall certainly afflict vou a painful chastisement from us.
19. They said: Your evil fortune is with you; what! if you are reminded! Nay, you are an
extravagant people.
20. And from the remote part of the city there came a man running, he said: O my people!
follow the messengers;
21. Follow him who does not ask you for reward, and they are the followers of the right course;
22. And what reason have I that I should not serve Him Who brought me into existence? And
to Him you shall be brought back;
23. What! shall I take besides Him gods whose intercession, If the Beneficent God should
desire to afflict me with a harm, shall not avail me aught, nor shall they be able to deliver me?
24. In that case I shall most surely be in clear error:
25 Surely I believe in your Lord, therefore hear me.
26 It was said: Enter the garden. He said: O would that my people had known
27. Of that on account of which my Lord has forgiven me and made me of the honored ones!
28. And We did not send down upon his people after him any hosts from heaven, nor do We
ever send down.
29. It was naught but a single cry, and lo! they were still.
30. Alas for the servants! there comes not to them an apostle but they mock at him.
31. Do they not consider how many of the generations have We destroyed before them,
because they do not turn to them?
32. And all of them shall surely be brought before Us.
33. And a sign to them is the dead earth: We give life to it and bring forth from it grain SQ
they eat of it.
34. And We make therein gardens of palms and grapevines and We make springs to flow forth
in it,
35. That they may eat of the fruit thereof, and their hands did not make it; will they not then be
grateful?
36. Glory be to Him Who created pairs of all things, of what the earth grows, and of their kind
and of what they do not know.
37. And a sign to them is the night: We draw forth from it the day, then lo! they are in the dark;
38. And the sun runs on to a term appointed for it; that is the ordinance of the Mighty, the Knowing.
39. And (as for) the moon, We have ordained for it stages till it becomes again as an old dry
palm branch.
40. Neither is it allowable to the sun that it should overtake the moon, nor can the night
outstrip the day; and all float on in a sphere.
41. And a sign to them is that We bear their offspring in the laden ship.
42. And We have created for them the like of it, what they will ride on.
43. And if We please, We can drown them, then there shall be no succorer for them, nor shall
they be rescued
44. But (by) mercy from Us and for enjoyment till a time.
45. And when it is said to them: Guard against what is before you and what is behind you, that
mercy may be had on you.
46. And there comes not to them a communication of the communications of their Lord but
they turn aside from it.
47. And when it is said to them: Spend out of what Allah has given you, those who disbelieve
say to those who believe: Shall we feed him whom, if Allah please, He could feed? You are in
naught but clear error.
48. And they say: When will this threat come to pass, if you are truthful?
49. They wait not for aught but a single cry which will overtake them while they yet contend
with one another.
50. So they shall not be able to make a bequest, nor shall they return to their families.
51 . And the trumpet shall be blown, when lo ! from their graves they shall hasten on to their Lord.
52. They shall say: O woe to us! who has raised us up from our sleeping-place? This is what
the Beneficent God promised and the apostles told the truth.
53. There would be naught but a single cry, when lo ! they shall all be brought before Us;
54. So this day no soul shall be dealt with unjustly in the least; and you shall not be rewarded
aught but that which you did.
55. Surely the dwellers of the garden shall on that day be in an occupation quite happy.
56. They and their wives shall be in shades, reclining on raised couches.
57. They shall have fruits therein, and they shall have whatever they desire.
58. Peace: a word from a Merciful Lord.
59. And get aside today, O guilty ones!
60. Did I not charge you, O children of Adam ! that you should not serve the Shaitan? Surely
he is your open enemy,
61. And that you should serve Me; this is the right way.
62. And certainly he led astray numerous people from among you. What! could you not then understand?
63. This is the hell with which you were threatened.
64. Enter into it this day because you disbelieved.
65. On that day We will set a seal upon their mouths, and their hands shall speak to Us, and
their feet shall bear witness of what they earned.
66. And if We please We would certainly put out their eyes, then they would run about groping
for the way, but how should they see?
67. And if We please We would surely transform them in their place, then they would not be
able to go on, nor will they return.
68. And whomsoever We cause to live long, We reduce (him) to an abject state in constitution;
do they not then understand?
69. And We have not taught him poetry, nor is it meet for him; it is nothing but a reminder and
a plain Quran,
70. That it may warn him who would have life, and (that) the word may prove true against the unbelievers.
71. Do they not see that We have created cattle for them, out of what Our hands have wrought,
so they are their masters?
72. And We have subjected them to them, so some of them they have to ride upon, and some
of them they eat.
73. And therein they have advantages and drinks; will they not then be grateful?
74. And they have taken gods besides Allah that they may be helped.
75. (But) they shall not be able to assist them, and they shall be a host brought up before them.
76. Therefore let not their speech grieve you; surely We know what they do in secret and what
they do openly.
77. Does not man see that We have created him from the small seed? Then lo! he is an open disputant.
78. And he strikes out a likeness for Us and forgets his own creation. Says he: Who will give
life to the bones when they are rotten?
79. Say: He will give life to them Who brought them into existence at first, and He is cognizant
of all creation
80. He Who has made for you the fire (to burn) from the green tree, so that with it you kindle (fire).
81. Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them? Yea! and
He is the Creator (of all), the Knower.
82. His command, when He intends anything, is only to say to it: Be, so it is.
83. Therefore glory be to Him in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things, and to Him you
shall be brought back.
XXXVII. The Rangers
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by those who draw themselves out in ranks
2. Then those who drive away with reproof,
3. Then those who recite, being mindful,
4. Most surely your God is One:
5. The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, and Lord of the easts.
6. Surely We have adorned the nearest heaven with an adornment, the stars,
7. And (there is) a safeguard against every rebellious Shaitan.
8. They cannot listen to the exalted assembly and they are thrown at from every side,
9. Being driven off, and for them is a perpetual chastisement,
10. Except him who snatches off but once, then there follows him a brightly shining flame.
11. Then ask them whether they are stronger in creation or those (others) whom We have
created. Surely We created them of firm clay.
12. Nay! you wonder while they mock,
13. And when they are reminded, they mind not,
14. And when they see a sign they incite one another to scoff,
15. And they say: This is nothing but clear magic:
16. What! when we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then certainly be raised,
17. Or our fathers of yore?
18. Say: Aye! and you shall be abject.
19. So it shall only be a single cry, when lo! they shall see.
20. And they shall say: O woe to us! this is the day of requital.
21. This is the day of the judgment which you called a lie.
22. Gather together those who were unjust and their associates, and what they used to worship
23. Besides Allah, then lead them to the way to hell.
24. And stop them, for they shall be questioned:
25. What is the matter with you that you do not help each other?
26. Nay! on that day they shall be submissive.
27. And some of them shall advance towards others, questioning each other.
28. They shall say: Surely you used to come to us from the right side.
29. They shall say: Nay, you (yourselves) were not believers;
30. And we had no authority over you, but you were an inordinate people;
31. So the sentence of our Lord has come to pass against us: (now) we shall surely taste;
32. So we led you astray, for we ourselves were erring.
33. So they shall on that day be sharers in the chastisement one with another.
34. Surely thus do We deal with the guilty.
35. Surely they used to behave proudly when it was said to them: There is no god but Allah;
36. And to say: What! shall we indeed give up our gods for the sake of a mad poet?
37. Nay: he has come with the truth and verified the apostles.
38. Most surely you will taste the painful punishment.
39. And you shall not be rewarded except (for) what you did.
40. Save the servants of Allah, the purified ones.
41. For them is a known sustenance,
42. Fruits, and they shall be highly honored,
43. In gardens of pleasure,
44. On thrones, facing each other.
45. A bowl shall be made to go round them from water running out of springs,
46. White, delicious to those who drink.
47. There shall be no trouble in it, nor shall they be exhausted therewith.
48. And with them shall be those who restrain the eyes, having beautiful eyes;
49. As if they were eggs carefully protected.
50. Then shall some of them advance to others, questioning each other.
51. A speaker from among them shall say: Surely I had a comrade of mine,
52. Who said: What! are you indeed of those who accept (the truth)?
53. What! when we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then be certainly
brought to judgment?
54. He shall say: Will you look on?
SS. Then he looked down and saw him in the midst of hell.
56. He shall say: By Allah! you had almost caused me to perish;
57. And had it not been for the favor of my Lord, I would certainly have been among those
brought up.
58. Is it then that we are not going to die,
59. Except our previous death? And we shall not be chastised?
60. Most surely this is the mighty achievement.
61. For the like of this then let the workers work.
62. Is this better as an entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum?
63. Surely We have made it to be a trial to the unjust.
64. Surely it is a tree that-grows in the bottom of the hell;
65. Its produce is as it were the heads of the serpents.
66. Then most surely they shall eat of it and fill (their) bellies with it.
67. Then most surely they shall have after it to drink of a mixture prepared in boiling water.
68. Then most surely their return shall be to hell.
69. Surely they found their fathers going astray,
70. So in their footsteps they are being hastened on.
71. And certainly most of the ancients went astray before them,
72. And certainly We sent among them warners.
73. Then see how was the end of those warned,
74. Except the servants of Allah, the purified ones.
75. And Nuh did certainly call upon Us, and most excellent answerer of prayer are We.
76. And We delivered him and his followers from the mighty distress.
77. And We made his offspring the survivors.
78. And We perpetuated to him (praise) among the later generations.
79. Peace and salutation to Nuh among the nations.
80. Thus do We surely reward the doers of good.
81. Surely he was of Our believing servants.
82. Then We drowned the others
83. And most surely Ibrahim followed his way.
84. When he came to his Lord with a free heart,
85. When he said to his father and his people: What is it that you worship?
86. A lie-- gods besides Allah-- do you desire?
87. What is then your idea about the Lord of the worlds?
88. Then he looked at the stars, looking up once,
89. Then he said: Surely I am sick (of your worshipping these).
90. So they went away from him, turning back.
91. Then he turned aside to their gods secretly and said: What! do you not eat?
92. What is the matter with you that you do not speak?
93. Then he turned against them secretly, smiting them with the right hand.
94. So they (people) advanced towards him, hastening.
95. Said he: What! do you worship what you hew out?
96. And Allah has created you and what you make.
97. They said: Build for him a furnace, then cast him into the burning fire.
98. And they desired a war against him, but We brought them low.
99. And he said: Surely I fly to my lord; He will guide me.
100. My Lord! grant me of the doers of good deeds.
101. So We gave him the good news of a boy, possessing forbearance.
102. And when he attained to working with him, he said: O my son! surely I have seen in a
dream that I should sacrifice you; consider then what you see. He said: O my father! do what
you are commanded; if Allah please, you will find me of the patient ones.
103. So when they both submitted and he threw him down upon his forehead,
104. And We called out to him saying: O Ibrahim!
105. You have indeed shown the truth of the vision; surely thus do We reward the doers of good:
106. Most surely this is a manifest trial.
107. And We ransomed him with a Feat sacrifice.
108. And We perpetuated (praise) to him among the later generations.
109. Peace be on Ibrahim.
110. Thus do We reward the doers of good.
111. Surely he was one of Our believing servants.
112. And We gave him the good news of Ishaq, a prophet among the good ones.
113. And We showered Our blessings on him and on Ishaq; and of their offspring are the doers
of good, and (also) those who are clearly unjust to their own souls.
114. And certainly We conferred a favor on Musa and Haroun.
115. And We delivered them both and their people from the mighty distress.
116. And We helped them, so they were the vanquishers.
117. And We gave them both the Book that made (things) clear.
118. And We guided them both on the right way.
119. And We perpetuated (praise) to them among the later generations.
120. Peace be on Musa and Haroun.
121. Even thus do We reward the doers of good.
122. Surely they were both of Our believing servants.
123. And Ilyas was most surely of the apostles.
124. When he said to his people: Do you not guard (against evil)?
125. What! do you call upon Ba'l and forsake the best of the creators,
126. Allah, your Lord and the Lord of your fathers of yore?
127. But they called him a liar, therefore they shall most surely be brought up.
128. But not the servants of Allah, the purified ones.
129. And We perpetuated to him (praise) among the later generations.
130. Peace be on Ilyas.
131. Even thus do We reward the doers of good.
132. Surely he was one of Our believing servants.
133. And Lut was most surely of the apostles.
134. When We delivered him and his followers, all--
135. Except an old woman (who was) amongst those who tarried.
136. Then We destroyed the others.
137. And most surely you pass by them in the morning,
138. And at night; do you not then understand?
139. And Yunus was most surely of the apostles.
140. When he ran away to a ship completely laden,
141. So he shared (with them), but was of those who are cast off.
142. So the fish swallowed him while he did that for which he blamed himself
143. But had it not been that he was of those who glorify (Us),
144. He would certainly have tarried in its belly to the day when they are raised.
145. Then We cast him on to the vacant surface of the earth while he was sick.
146. And We caused to grow up for him a gourdplant.
147. And We sent him to a hundred thousand, rather they exceeded.
148. And they believed, so We gave them provision till a time.
149. Then ask them whether your Lord has daughters and they have sons.
150. Or did We create the angels females while they were witnesses?
151. Now surely it is of their own lie that they say:
152. Allah has begotten; and most surely they are liars.
153. Has He chosen daughters in preference to sons?
154. What is the matter with you, how is it that you judge?
155. Will you not then mind?
156. Or have you a clear authority?
157. Then bring your book, if you are truthful.
158. And they assert a relationship between Him and the jinn; and certainly the jinn do know
that they shall surely be brought up;
159. Glory be to Allah (for freedom) from what they describe;
160. But not so the servants of Allah, the purified ones.
161. So surely you and what you worship,
162. Not against Him can you cause (any) to fall into trial,
163. Save him who will go to hell.
164. And there is none of us but has an assigned place,
165. And most surely we are they who draw themselves out in ranks,
166. And we are most surely they who declare the glory (of Allah).
167. And surely they used to say:
168. Had we a reminder from those of yore,
169. We would certainly have been the servants of Allah-- the purified ones.
170. But (now) they disbelieve in it, so they will come to know.
171. And certainly Our word has already gone forth in respect of Our servants, the apostles:
172. Most surely they shall be the assisted ones
173. And most surely Our host alone shall be the victorious ones.
174. Therefore turn away from them till a time,
175. And (then) see them, so they too shall see.
176. What! would they then hasten on Our chastisement?
177. But when it shall descend in their court, evil shall then be the morning of the warned ones.
178. And turn away from them till a time
179. And (then) see, for they too shall see.
180. Glory be to your Lord, the Lord of Honor, above what they describe.
181. And peace be on the apostles.
182. And all praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
XXXVIII. Suad
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Suad, I swear by the Quran, full of admonition.
2. Nay! those who disbelieve are in self-exaltation and opposition.
3. How many did We destroy before them of the generations,
then they cried while the time of escaping had passed away.
4. And they wonder that there has come to them a warner from among themselves, and the
disbelievers say: This IS an enchanter, a liar.
5. What! makes he the gods a single God? A strange thing is this, to be sure!
6. And the chief persons of them break forth, saying: Go and steadily adhere to your gods; this
is most surely a thing sought after.
7. We never heard of this in the former faith; this is nothing but a forgery:
8. Has the reminder been revealed to him from among us? Nay! they are in doubt as to My
reminder. Nay! they have not yet tasted My chastisement!
9. Or is it that they have the treasures of the mercy of your Lord, the Mighty, the great Giver?
10. Or is it that theirs is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what is between them?
Then let them ascend by any
11. A host of deserters of the allies shall be here put to flight.
12. The people of Nuh and Ad, and Firon, the lord of spikes, rejected (apostles) before them.
13. And Samood and the people of Lut and the dwellers of the thicket; these were the parties.
14. There was none of them but called the apostles liars, so just was My retribution.
15. Nor do these await aught but a single cry, there being no delay in it.
16. And they say: O our Lord! hasten on to us our portion before the day of reckoning.
17. Bear patiently what they say, and remember Our servant Dawood, the possessor of power;
surely he was frequent m returning (to Allah).
18. Surely We made the mountains to sing the glory (of Allah) in unison with him at the
evening and the sunrise,
19. And the birds gathered together; all joined in singing with him.
20. And We strengthened his kingdom and We gave him wisdom and a clear judgment.
21 . And has there come to you the story of the litigants, when they made an entry into the
private chamber by ascending over the walls?
22. When they entered in upon Dawood and he was frightened at them, they said: Fear not; two
litigants, of whom one has acted wrongfully towards the other, therefore decide between us
with justice, and do not act unjustly, and guide us to the right way.
23. Surely this is my brother; he has ninety-nine ewes and I have a single ewe; but he said:
Make it over to me, and he has prevailed against me in discourse.
24. He said: Surely he has been unjust to you in demanding your ewe (to add) to his own ewes;
and most surely most of the partners act wrongfully towards one another, save those who
believe and do good, and very few are they; and Dawood was sure that We had tried him, so he
sought the protection of his Lord and he fell down bowing and turned time after time (to Him).
25. Therefore We rectified for him this, and most surely he had a nearness to Us and an
excellent resort.
26. o Dawood ! surely We have made you a ruler in the land; so judge between men with
justice and do not follow desire, lest it should lead you astray from the path of Allah; (as for)
those who go astray from the path of Allah, they shall surely have a severe punishment because
they forgot the day of reckoning.
27. And We did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between them in vain; that is
the opinion of those who disbelieve then woe to those who disbelieve on account of the fire.
28. Shall We treat those who believe and do good like the mischief-makers in the earth? Or
shall We make those who guard (against evil) like the wicked?
29. (It is) a Book We have revealed to you abounding in good that they may ponder over its
verses, and that those endowed with understanding may be mindful.
30. And We gave to Dawood Sulaiman, most excellent the servant! Surely he was frequent in
returning (to Allah).
31. When there were brought to him in the evening (horses) still when standing, swift when
running--
32. Then he said: Surely I preferred the good things to the remembrance of my Lord-- until the
sun set and time for Asr prayer was over, (he said):
33. Bring them back to me; so he began to slash (their) legs and necks.
34. And certainly We tried Sulaiman, and We put on his throne a (mere) body, so he turned (to Allah).
35. He said: My Lord! do Thou forgive me and grant me a kingdom which is not fit for (being
inherited by) anyone after me;
36. Then We made the wind subservient to him; it made his command to run gently wherever
he desired,
37. And the shaitans, every builder and diver,
38. And others fettered in chains.
39. This is Our free gift, therefore give freely or withhold, without reckoning.
40. And most surely he had a nearness to Us and an excellent resort.
41. And remember Our servant Ayyub, when he called upon his Lord: The Shaitan has
afflicted me with toil and torment.
42. Urge with your foot; here is a cool washing-place and a drink.
43. And We gave him his family and the like of them with them, as a mercy from Us, and as a
reminder to those possessed of understanding.
44. And take in your hand a green branch and beat her with It and do not break your oath;
surely We found him patient; most excellent the servant! Surely he was frequent m returning
(to Allah).
45. And remember Our servants Ibrahim and Ishaq and Yaqoub, men of power and insight.
46. Surely We purified them by a pure quality, the keeping m mind of the (final) abode.
47 And most surely they were with Us, of the elect, the best.
48 And remember Ismail and Al-Yasha and Zulkifl; and they were all of the best.
49. This is a reminder; and most surely there is an excellent resort for those who guard (against
evil),
50. The gardens of perpetuity, the doors are opened for them.
51 . Reclining therein, calling therein for many fruits and drink.
52. And with them shall be those restraining their eyes, equals in age.
53. This is what you are promised for the day of reckoning.
54. Most surely this is Our sustenance; it shall never come to an end;
55. This (shall be so); and most surely there is an evil resort for the inordinate ones;
56. Hell; they shall enter it, so evil is the resting-place.
57. This (shall be so); so let them taste it, boiling and intensely cold (drink).
58. And other (punishment) of the same kind-- of various sorts.
59. This is an army plunging in without consideration along with you; no welcome for them,
surely they shall enter fire.
60. They shall say: Nay! you-- no welcome to you: you did proffer it to us, so evil is the resting-place.
61. They shall say: Our Lord! whoever prepared it first for us, add Thou to him a double
chastisement in the fire.
62. And they shall say: What is the matter with us that we do not see men whom we used to
count among the vicious?
63. Was it that we (only) took them in scorn, or have our eyes (now) turned aside from them?
64. That most surely is the truth: the contending one with another of the inmates of the fire.
65. Say: I am only a warner, and there is no god but Allah, the One, the Subduer (of all):
66. The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, the Mighty, the most Forgiving.
67. Say: It is a message of importance,
68. (And) you are turning aside from it:
69. 1 had no knowledge of the exalted chiefs when they contended:
70. Naught is revealed to me save that I am a plain warner.
71. When your Lord said to the angels; Surely I am going to create a mortal from dust:
72. So when I have made him complete and breathed into him of My spirit, then fall down
making obeisance to him.
73. And the angels did obeisance, all of them,
74. But not Iblis: he was proud and he was one of the unbelievers.
75. He said: O Iblis! what prevented you that you should do obeisance to him whom I created
with My two hands? Are you proud or are you of the exalted ones?
76. He said: I am better than he; Thou hast created me of fire, and him Thou didst create of dust.
77. He said: Then get out of it, for surely you are driven away:
78. And surely My curse is on you to the day of judgment.
79. He said: My Lord! then respite me to the day that they are raised.
80. He said: Surely you are of the respited ones,
81. Till the period of the time made known.
82. He said: Then by Thy Might I will surely make them live an evil life, all,
83. Except Thy servants from among them, the purified ones.
84. He said: The truth then is and the truth do I speak:
85. That I will most certainly fill hell with you and with those among them who follow you, all.
86. Say: I do not ask you for any reward for it; nor am I of those who affect:
87. It is nothing but a reminder to the nations;
88. And most certainly you will come to know about it after a time.
XXXIX. The Companies
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise.
2. Surely We have revealed to you the Book with the truth, therefore serve Allah, being sincere
to Him in obedience.
3. Now, surely, sincere obedience is due to Allah (alone) and (as for) those who take guardians
besides Him, (saying), We do not serve them save that they may make us nearer to Allah,
surely Allah will judge between them in that in which they differ; surely Allah does not guide
him aright who is a liar, ungrateful.
4. If Allah desire to take a son to Himself, He will surely choose those He pleases from what
He has created. Glory be to Him: He is Allah, the One, the Subduer (of all).
5. He has created the heavens and the earth with the truth; He makes the night cover the day
and makes the day overtake the night, and He has made the sun and the moon subservient;
each one runs on to an assigned term; now surely He is the Mighty, the great Forgiver.
6. He has created you from a single being, then made its mate of the same (kind), and He has
made for you eight of the cattle in pairs. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers-- a
creation after a creation-- in triple darkness; that is Allah your Lord, His is the kingdom; there
is no god but He; whence are you then turned away?
7. If you are ungrateful, then surely Allah is Self-sufficient above all need of you; and He does
not like ungratefulness in His servants; and if you are grateful, He likes it in you; and no
bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another; then to your Lord is your return, then will
He inform you of what you did; surely He is Cognizant of what is in the breasts.
8. And when distress afflicts a man he calls upon his Lord turning to Him frequently; then
when He makes him possess a favor from Him, he forgets that for which he called upon Him
before, and sets up rivals to Allah that he may cause (men) to stray off from His path. Say:
Enjoy yourself in your ungratefulness a little, surely you are of the inmates of the fire.
9. What! he who is obedient during hours of the night, prostrating himself and standing, takes
care of the hereafter and hopes for the mercy of his Lord! Say: Are those who know and those
who do not know alike? Only the men of understanding are mindful.
10. Say: O my servants who believe! be careful of (your duty to) your Lord; for those who do
good in this world is good, and Allah's earth is spacious; only the patient will be paid back
their reward in full without measure.
11. Say: I am commanded that I should serve Allah, being sincere to Him in obedience.
12. And I am commanded that I shall be the first of those who submit.
13. Say: I fear, if I disobey my Lord, the chastisement of a grievous day.
14. Say: Allah (it is Whom) I serve, being sincere to Him in my obedience:
15. Serve then what you like besides Him. Say: The losers surely are those who shall have lost
themselves and their families on the day of resurrection; now surely that is the clear loss.
16. They shall have coverings of fire above them and coverings beneath them; with that Allah
makes His servants to fear, so be careful of (your duty to) Me, O My servants!
17, And (as for) those who keep off from the worship of the idols and turn to Allah, they shall
have good news, therefore give good news to My servants,
18. Those who listen to the word, then follow the best of it; those are they whom Allah has
guided, and those it is who are the men of understanding.
19. What! as for him then against whom the sentence of chastisement is due: What! can you
save him who is in the fire?
. 20. But (as for) those who are careful of (their duty to) their Lord, they shall have high places,
above them higher places, built (for them), beneath which flow rivers; (this is) the promise of
Allah: Allah will not fail in (His) promise.
21. Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the cloud, then makes it go along in the
earth in springs, then brings forth therewith herbage of various colors, then it withers so that
you see it becoming yellow, then He makes it a thing crushed and broken into pieces? Most
surely there is a reminder in this for the men of understanding.
22. What! is he whose heart Allah has opened for Islam so that he is in a light from his Lord
(like the hard-hearted)? Nay, woe to those whose hearts are hard against the remembrance of
Allah; those are in clear error.
23. Allah has revealed the best announcement, a book conformable in its various parts,
repeating, whereat do shudder the skins of those who fear their Lord, then their skins and their
hearts become pliant to the remembrance of Allah; this is Allah's guidance, He guides with it
whom He pleases; and (as for) him whom Allah makes err, there is no guide for him.
24. Is he then who has to guard himself with his own person against the evil chastisement on
the resurrection day? And it will be said to the unjust: Taste what you earned.
25. Those before them rejected (prophets), therefore there came to them the chastisement from
whence they perceived not.
26. So Allah made them taste the disgrace in this world's life, and certainly the punishment of
the hereafter is greater; did they but know!
27. And certainly We have set forth to men in this Quran similitudes of every sort that they
may mind.
28. An Arabic Quran without any crookedness, that they may guard (against evil).
29. Allah sets forth an example: There is a slave in whom are (several) partners differing with
one another, and there is another slave wholly owned by one man. Are the two alike in
condition? (All) praise is due to Allah. Nay! most of them do not know.
30. Surely you shall die and they (too) shall surely die.
31. Then surely on the day of resurrection you will contend one with another before. your Lord.
32. Who is then more unjust than he who utters a lie against Allah and (he who) gives the lie to
the truth when it comes to him; is there not in hell an abode for the unbelievers?
33. And he who brings the truth and (he who) accepts it as the truth-- these are they that guard
(against evil).
34. They shall have with their Lord what they please; that is the reward of the doers of good;
35. So that Allah will do away with the worst of what they did and give them their reward for
the best of what they do.
36. Is not Allah sufficient for His servant? And they seek to frighten you with those besides
Him; and whomsoever Allah makes err, there is no guide for him.
37. And whom Allah guides, there is none that can lead him astray; is not Allah Mighty, the
Lord of retribution?
38. And should you ask them, Who created the heavens and the earth? They would most
certainly say: Allah. Say: Have you then considered that what you call upon besides Allah,
would they, if Allah desire to afflict me with harm, be the removers of His harm, or (would
they), if Allah desire to show me mercy, be the withholders of His mercy? Say: Allah is
sufficient for me; on Him do the reliant rely.
39. Say: O my people! work in your place, surely I am a worker, so you will come to know.
40. Who it is to whom there shall come a punishment which will disgrace him and to whom
will be due a lasting punishment.
41. Surely We have revealed to you the Book with the truth for the sake of men; so whoever
follows the right way, it is for his own soul and whoever errs, he errs only to its detriment; and
you are not a custodian over them.
42. Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that die not during their sleep;
then He withholds those on whom He has passed the decree of death and sends the others
back till an appointed term; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect.
43. Or have they taken intercessors besides Allah? Say: what! even though they did not ever
have control over anything, nor do they understand.
44. Say: Allah's is the intercession altogether; His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth,
then to Him you shall be brought back.
45. And when Allah alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who do not believe in the hereafter
shrink, and when those besides Him are mentioned, lo! they are joyful.
46. Say: O Allah! Originator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the seen!
Thou (only) judgest between Thy servants as to that wherein they differ.
47. And had those who are unjust all that is in the earth and the like of it with it, they would
certainly offer it as ransom (to be saved) from the evil of the punishment on the day of
resurrection; and what they never thought of shall become plain to them from Allah.
48. And the evil (consequences) of what they wrought shall become plain to them, and the very
thing they mocked at shall beset them.
49. So when harm afflicts a man he calls upon Us; then, when We give him a favor from Us,
he says: I have been given it only by means of knowledge. Nay, it is a trial, but most of them
do not know.
50. Those before them did say it indeed, but what they earned availed them not.
51. So there befell them the evil (consequences) of what they earned; and (as for) those who
are unjust from among these, there shall befall them the evil (consequences) of what they
earn, and they shall not escape.
52. Do they not know that Allah makes ample the means of subsistence to whom He pleases,
and He straitens; most surely there are signs in this for a people who believe.
53. Say: O my servants! who have acted extravagantly against their own souls, do not despair
of the mercy of Allah; surely Allah forgives the faults altogether; surely He is the Forgiving
the Merciful.
54. And return to your Lord time after time and submit to Him before there comes to you the
punishment, then you shall not be helped.
SS. And follow the best that has been revealed to you from your Lord before there comes to
you the punishment all of a sudden while you do not even perceive;
56. Lest a soul should say: O woe to me! for what I fell short of my duty to Allah, and most
surely I was of those who laughed to scorn;
57. Or it should say: Had Allah guided me, I would certainly have been of those who guard
(against evil);
58. Or it should say when it sees the punishment: Were there
only a returning for me, I should be of the doers of good.
59. Aye! My communications came to you, but you rejected them, and you were proud and you
were one of the unbelievers.
60. And on the day of resurrection you shall see those who lied against Allah; their faces shall
be blackened. Is there not in hell an abode for the proud?
61. And Allah shall deliver those who guard (against evil) with their achievement; evil shall
not touch them, nor shall they grieve.
62. Allah is the Creator of every thing and He has charge over every thing.
63. His are the treasures of the heavens and the earth; and (as for) those who disbelieve in the
communications of Allah, these it is that are the losers.
64. Say: What! Do you then bid me serve others than Allah, O ignorant men?
65. And certainly, it has been revealed to you and to those before you: Surely if you associate
(with Allah), your work would certainly come to naught and you would certainly be of the losers.
66. Nay! but serve Allah alone and be of the thankful.
67. And they have not honored Allah with the honor that is due to Him; and the whole earth
shall be in His grip on the day of resurrection and the heavens rolled up in His right hand;
glory be to Him, and may He be exalted above what they associate (with Him).
68. And the trumpet shall be blown, so all those that are in the heavens and all those that are in
the earth shall swoon, except such as Allah please; then it shall be blown again, then lo! they
shall stand up awaiting.
69. And the earth shall beam with the light of its Lord, and the Book shall be laid down, and
the prophets and the witnesses shall be brought up, and judgment shall be given between them
with justice, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly.
70. And every soul shall be paid back fully what it has done, and He knows best what they do.
71. And those who disbelieve shall be driven to hell in companies; until, when they come to it,
its doors shall be opened, and the keepers of it shall say to them: Did not there come to you
apostles from among you reciting to you the communications of your Lord and warning you of
the meeting of this day of yours? They shall say: Yea! But the sentence of punishment was due
against the unbelievers.
72. It shall be said: Enter the gates of hell to abide therein; so evil is the abode of the proud.
73. And those who are careful of (their duty to) their Lord shall be conveyed to the garden in
companies; until when they come to it, and its doors shall be opened, and the keepers of it
shall say to them: Peace be on you, you shall be happy; therefore enter it to abide.
74. And they shall say: (All) praise is due to Allah, Who has made good to us His promise, and
He has made us inherit the land; we may abide in the garden where we please; so goodly is the
reward of the workers.
75. And you shall see the angels going round about the throne glorifying the praise of their
Lord; and judgment shall be given between them with justice, and it shall be said: All praise is
due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
XL. The Believer
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Ha Mim.
2. The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Mighty, the Knowing,
3. The Forgiver of the faults and the Acceptor of repentance, Severe to punish, Lord of bounty;
there is no god but He; to Him is the eventual coming.
4. None dispute concerning the communications of Allah but those who disbelieve, therefore
let not their going to and fro in the cities deceive you.
5. The people of Nuh and the parties after them rejected (prophets) before them, and every
nation purposed against their apostle to destroy him, and they disputed by means of the
falsehood that they might thereby render null the truth, therefore I destroyed them; how was
then My retribution!
6. And thus did the word of your Lord prove true against those who disbelieved that they are
the inmates of the fire.
7. Those who bear the power and those around Him celebrate the praise of their Lord and
believe in Him and ask protection for those who believe: Our Lord! Thou embracest all things
in mercy and knowledge, therefore grant protection to those who turn (to Thee) and follow Thy
way, and save them from the punishment of the hell:
8. Our Lord! and make them enter the gardens of perpetuity which Thou hast promised to them
and those who do good of their fathers and their wives and their offspring, surely Thou are the
Mighty, the Wise.
9. And keep them from evil deeds, and whom Thou keepest from evil deeds this day, indeed
Thou hast mercy on him, and that is the mighty achievement.
10. Surely those who disbelieve shall be cried out to: Certainly Allah's hatred (of you) when
you were called upon to the faith and you rejected, is much greater than your hatred of yourselves.
11. They shall say: Our Lord! twice didst Thou make us subject to death, and twice hast Thou
given us life, so we do confess our faults; is there then a way to get out?
12. That is because when Allah alone was called upon, you disbelieved, and when associates
were given to Him, you believed; so judgment belongs to Allah, the High, the Great.
13. He it is Who shows you His signs and sends down for you sustenance from heaven, and
none minds but he who turns (to Him) again and again.
14. Therefore call upon Allah, being sincere to Him in obedience, though the unbelievers are averse:
15. Possessor of the highest rank, Lord of power: He makes the inspiration to light by His
command upon whom He pleases of His servants, that he may warn (men) of the day of meeting.
16. (Of) the day when they shall come forth, nothing concerning them remains hidden to Allah.
To whom belongs the kingdom this day? To Allah, the One, the Subduer (of all).
17. This day every soul shall be rewarded for what it has earned; no injustice (shall be done)
this day; surely Allah is quick in reckoning.
18. And warn them of the day that draws near, when hearts shall rise up to the throats, grieving
inwardly; the unjust shall not have any compassionate friend nor any intercessor who should
be obeyed.
19. He knows the stealthy looks and that which the breasts conceal.
20. And Allah judges with the truth; and those whom they call upon besides Him cannot judge
aught; surely Allah is the Hearing, the Seeing.
21. Have they not travelled in the earth and seen how was the end of those who were before
them? Mightier than these were they in strength-- and in fortifications in the land, but Allah
destroyed them for their sins; and there was not for them any defender against Allah.
22. That was because there came to them their apostles with clear arguments, but they rejected
(them), therefore Allah destroyed them; surely He is Strong, Severe in retribution.
23. And certainly We sent Musa with Our communications and clear authority,
24. To Firon and Haman and Qaroun, but they said: A lying magician.
25. So when he brought to them the truth from Us, they said: Slay the sons of those who
believe with him and keep their women alive; and the struggle of the unbelievers will only
come to a state of perdition.
26. And Firon said: Let me alone that I may slay Musa and let him call upon his Lord; surely I
fear that he will change your religion or that he will make mischief to appear in the land.
27. And Musa said: Surely I take refuge with my Lord and-- your Lord from every proud one
who does not believe in the day of reckoning.
28. And a believing man of Firon's people who hid his faith said: What! will you slay a man
because he says: My Lord is Allah, and indeed he has brought to you clear arguments from
your Lord? And if he be a liar, on him will be his lie, and if he be truthful, there will befall you
some of that which he threatens you (with); surely Allah does not guide him who is
extravagant, a liar:
29. O my people! yours is the kingdom this day, being masters in the land, but who will help us
against the punishment of Allah if it come to us? Firon said: I do not show you aught but that
which I see (myself), and I do not make you follow any but the right way.
30. And he who believed said: O my people! surely I fear for you the like of what befell the parties:
31. The like of what befell the people of Nuh and Ad and Samood and those after them, and
Allah does not desire injustice for (His) servants;
32. And, O my people! I fear for you the day of calling out,
33. The day on which you will turn back retreating; there shall be no savior for you from
Allah, and whomsoever Allah causes to err, there is no guide for him:
34. And certainly Yusuf came to you before with clear arguments, but you ever remained in
doubt as to what he brought; until when he died, you said: Allah will never raise an apostle
after him. Thus does Allah cause him to err who is extravagant, a doubter
35. Those who dispute concerning the communications of Allah without any authority that He
has given them; greatly hated is it by Allah and by-those who believe. Thus does Allah set a
seal over the heart of every proud, haughty one.
36. And Firon said: O Haman! build for me a tower that I may attain the means of access,
37. The means of access to the heavens, then reach the God of Musa, and I surely think him to
be a liar. And thus the evil of his deed was made fairseeming to Firon, and he was turned
away from the way; and the struggle of Firon was not (to end) in aught but destruction.
38. And he who believed said: O my people! follow me, I will guide you to the right course;
39. O my people! this life of the world is only a (passing) enjoyment, and surely the hereafter
is the abode to settle;
40. Whoever does an evil, he shall not be recompensed (with aught) but the like of it, and
whoever does good, whether male or female, and he is a believer, these shall enter the garden,
in which they shall be given sustenance without measure.
41. And, O my people! how is it that I call you to salvation and you call me to the fire?
42. You call on me that I should disbelieve in Allah and associate with Him that of which I
have no knowledge, and I call you to the Mighty, the most Forgiving;
43. No doubt that what you call me to has no title to be called to in this world, nor in the
hereafter, and that our turning back is to Allah, and that the extravagant are the inmates of the fire;
44. So you shall remember what I say to you, and I entrust my affair to Allah, Surely Allah sees
the servants.
45. So Allah protected him from the evil (consequences) of what they planned, and the most
evil punishment overtook Firon's people:
46. The fire; they shall be brought before it (every) morning and evening and on the day when
the hour shall come to pass: Make Firon's people enter the severest chastisement.
47. And when they shall contend one with another in the fire, then the weak shall say to those
who were proud: Surely we were your followers; will you then avert from us a portion of the fire?
48. Those who were proud shall say: Surely we are all in it: surely Allah has judged between
the servants.
49. And those who are in the fire shall say to the keepers of hell: Call upon your Lord that He
may lighten to us one day of the punishment.
50. They shall say: Did not your apostles come to you with clear arguments? They shall say:
Yea. They shall say: Then call. And the call of the unbelievers is only in error.
51 . Most surely We help Our apostles, and those who believe, in this world's life and on the
day when the witnesses shall stand
52. The day on which their excuse shall not benefit the unjust, and for them is curse and for
them is the evil abode.
53. And certainly We gave Musa the guidance, and We made the children of Israel inherit the Book,
54. A guidance and a reminder to the men of understanding.
55. Therefore be patient; surely the promise of Allah is true; and ask protection for your fault
and sing the praise of your Lord in the evening and the morning.
56. Surely (as for) those who dispute about the communications of Allah without any authority
that has come to them, there is naught in their breasts but (a desire) to become great which
they shall never attain to; Therefore seek refuge in Allah, surely He is the Hearing, the Seeing.
57. Certainly the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of the men,
but most people do not know
58. And the blind and the seeing are not alike, nor those who believe and do good and the
evil-doer; little is it that you are mindful.
59. Most surely the hour is coming, there is no doubt therein, but most people do not believe.
60. And your Lord says: Call upon Me, I will answer you; surely those who are too proud for
My service shall soon enter hell abased.
61. Allah is He Who made for you the night that you may rest therein and the day to see; most
surely Allah is Gracious to men, but most men do not give thanks.
62. That is Allah, your Lord, the Creator of everything; there is no God but He; whence are you
then turned away?
63. Thus were turned away those who denied the communications of Allah.
64. Allah is He Who made the earth a resting-place for you and the heaven a canopy, and He
formed you, then made goodly your forms, and He provided you with goodly things; that is
Allah, your Lord; blessed then is Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
65. He is the Living, there is no god but He, therefore call on Him, being sincere to Him in
obedience; (all) praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
66. Say: I am forbidden to serve those whom you call upon besides Allah when clear
arguments have come to me from my Lord, and I am commanded that I should submit to the
Lord of the worlds.
67. He it is Who created you from dust, then from a small lifegerm, then from a clot, then He
brings you forth as a child, then that you may attain your maturity, then that you may be old--
and of you there are some who are caused to die before-- and that you may reach an appointed
term, and that you may understand.
68. He it is Who gives life and brings death, so when He decrees an affair, He only says to it:
Be, and it is.
69. Have you not seen those who dispute with respect to the communications of Allah: how are
they turned away?
70. Those who reject the Book and that with which We have sent Our Apostle; but they shall
soon come to know,
71. When the fetters and the chains shall be on their necks; they shall be dragged 72. Into
boiling water, then in the fire shall they be burned;
73. Then shall it be said to them: Where is that which you used to set up
74. Besides Allah? They shall say: They are gone away from us, nay, we used not to call upon
anything before. Thus does Allah confound the unbelievers.
75. That is because you exulted in the land unjustly and because you behaved insolently.
76. Enter the gates of hell to abide therein, evil then is the abode of the proud.
77. So be patient, surely the promise of Allah is true. So should We make you see part of what
We threaten them with, or should We cause you to die, to Us shall they be returned.
78. And certainly We sent apostles before you: there are some of them that We have
mentioned to you and there are others whom We have not mentioned to you, and it was not
meet for an apostle that he should bring a sign except with Allah's permission, but when the
command of Allah came, judgment was given with truth, and those who treated (it) as a lie
were lost.
79. Allah is He Who made the cattle for you that you may ride on some of them, and some of
them you eat.
80. And there are advantages for you in them, and that you may attain thereon a want which is
in your breasts, and upon them and upon the ships you are borne.
81. And He shows you His signs: which then of Allah's signs will you deny?
82. Have they not then journeyed in the land and seen how was the end of those before them?
They were more (in numbers) than these and greater in strength and in fortifications in the
land, but what they earned did not avail them.
83. Then when their apostles came to them with clear arguments, they exulted in what they had
with them of knowledge, and there beset them that which they used to mock.
84. But when they saw Our punishment, they said: We believe in Allah alone and we deny
what we used to associate with Him.
85. But their belief was not going to profit them when they had seen Our punishment; (this is)
Allah's law, which has indeed obtained in the matter of His servants, and there the unbelievers
are lost.
XLI. HaMim
. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Ha Mim!
2. A revelation from the Beneficent, the Merciful God:
3. A Book of which the verses are made plain, an Arabic Quran for a people who know:
4. A herald of good news and a warner, but most of them turn aside so they hear not.
5. And they say: Our hearts are under coverings from that to which you call us, and there is a
heaviness in our ears, and a veil hangs between us and you, so work, we too are working.
6. Say: I am only a mortal like you; it is revealed to me that your God is one God, therefore
follow the right way to Him and ask His forgiveness; and woe to the polytheists;
7. (To) those who do not give poor-rate and they are unbelievers in the hereafter.
8. (As for) those who believe and do good, they shall surely have a reward never to be cut off.
9. Say: What! do you indeed disbelieve in Him Who created the earth in two periods, and do
you set up equals with Him? That is the Lord of the Worlds.
10. And He made in it mountains above its surface, and He blessed therein and made therein
its foods, in four periods: alike for the seekers.
11. Then He directed Himself to the heaven and it is a vapor, so He said to it and to the earth:
Come both, willingly or unwillingly. They both said: We come willingly.
12. So He ordained them seven heavens in two periods, and revealed in every heaven its affair;
and We adorned the lower heaven with brilliant stars and (made it) to guard; that is the decree
of the Mighty, the Knowing.
13. But if they turn aside, then say: I have warned you of a scourge like the scourge of Ad and Samood.
14. When their apostles came to them from before them and from behind them, saying, Serve
nothing but Allah, they said: If our Lord had pleased He would certainly have sent down
angels, so we are surely unbelievers in that with which you are sent.
15. Then as to Ad, they were unjustly proud in the land, and they said: Who is mightier in
strength than we? Did they not see that Allah Who created them was mightier than they in
strength, and they denied Our communications?
16. So We sent on them a furious wind in unlucky days, that We may make them taste the
chastisement of abasement in this world's life; and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter
is much more abasing, and they shall not be helped.
17. And as to Samood, We showed them the right way, but they chose error above guidance, so
there overtook them the scourge of an abasing chastisement for what they earned.
18. And We delivered those who believed and guarded (against evil).
19. And on the day that the enemies of Allah shall be brought together to the fire, then they
shall be formed into groups.
20. Until when they come to it, their ears and their eyes and their skins shall bear witness
against them as to what they did.
21. And they shall say to their skins: Why have you borne witness against us? They shall say:
Allah Who makes everything speak has made us speak, and He created you at first, and to
Him you shall be brought back.
22. And you did not veil yourselves lest your ears and your eyes and your skins should bear
witness against you, but you thought that Allah did not know most of what you did.
23. And that was your (evil) thought which you entertained about your Lord that has tumbled
you down into perdition, so are you become of the lost ones.
24. Then if they will endure, still the fire is their abode, and if they ask for goodwill, then are
they not of those who shall be granted goodwill.
25. And We have appointed for them comrades so they have made fair-seeming to them what
is before them and what is behind them, and the word proved true against them-- among the
nations of the jinn and the men that have passed away before them-- that they shall surely be losers.
26. And those who disbelieve say: Do not listen to this Quran and make noise therein, perhaps
you may overcome.
27. Therefore We will most certainly make those who disbelieve taste a severe punishment,
and We will most certainly reward them for the evil deeds they used to do.
28. That is the reward of the enemies of Allah-- the fire; for them therein shall be the house of
long abiding; a reward for their denying Our communications.
29. And those who disbelieve will say: Our Lord! show us those who led us astray from among
the jinn and the men that we may trample them under our feet so that they may be of the lowest.
30. (As for) those who say: Our Lord is Allah, then continue in the right way, the angels
descend upon them, saying: Fear not, nor be grieved, and receive good news of the garden
which you were promised.
31. We are your guardians in this world's life and in the hereafter, and you shall have therein
what your souls desire and you shall have therein what you ask for:
32. A provision from the Forgiving, the Merciful.
33. And who speaks better than he who calls to Allah while he himself does good, and says: I
am surely of those who submit?
34. And not alike are the good and the evil. Repel (evil) with what is best, when lo! he between
whom and you was enmity would be as if he were a warm friend.
35. And none are made to receive it but those who are patient, and none are made to receive it
but those who have a mighty good fortune.
36. And if an interference of the Shaitan should cause you mischief, seek refuge in Allah;
surely He is the Hearing, the Knowing.
37. And among His signs are the night and the day and the sun and the moon; do not make
obeisance to the sun nor to the moon; and make obeisance to Allah Who created them, if Him
it is that you serve.
38. But if they are proud, yet those with your Lord glorify Him during the night and the day,
and they are not tired.
39. And among His signs is this, that you see the earth still, but when We send down on it the
water, it stirs and swells: most surely He Who gives it life is the Giver of life to the dead;
surely He has power over all things.
40. Surely they who deviate from the right way concerning Our communications are not
hidden from Us. What! is he then who is cast into the fire better, or he who comes safe on the
day of resurrection? Do what you like, surely He sees what you do.
41. Surely those who disbelieve in the reminder when it comes to them, and most surely it is a
Mighty Book:
42. Falsehood shall not come to it from before it nor from behind it; a revelation from the
Wise, the Praised One.
43. Naught is said to you but what was said indeed to the apostles before you; surely your Lord
is the Lord of forgiveness and the Lord of painful retribution.
44. And if We had made it a Quran in a foreign tongue, they would certainly have said: Why
have not its communications been made clear? What! a foreign (tongue) and an Arabian! Say:
It is to those who believe a guidance and a healing; and (as for) those who do not believe, there
is a heaviness in their ears and it is obscure to them; these shall be called to from a far-off place.
45. And certainly We gave the Book to Musa, but it has been differed about, and had not a
word already gone forth from your Lord, judgment would certainly have been given between
them; and most surely they are in a disquieting doubt about it.
46. Whoever does good, it is for his own soul, and whoever does evil, it is against it; and your
Lord is not in the least unjust to the servants.
47. To Him is referred the knowledge of the hour, and there come not forth any of the fruits
from their coverings, nor does a female bear, nor does she give birth, but with His knowledge;
and on the day when He shall call out to them, Where are (those whom you called) My
associates? They shall say: We declare to Thee, none of us is a witness.
48. And away from them shall go what they called upon before, and they shall know for certain
that there is no escape for them.
49. Man is never tired of praying for good, and if evil touch him, then he is despairing, hopeless.
50. And if We make him taste mercy from Us after distress that has touched him, he would
most certainly say: This is of me, and I do not think the hour will come to pass, and if I am
sent back to my Lord, I shall have with Him sure good; but We will most certainly inform those
who disbelieved of what they did, and We will most certainly make them taste of hard chastisement.
51. And when We show favor to man, he turns aside and withdraws himself; and when evil
touches him, he makes lengthy supplications.
52. Say: Tell me if it is from Allah; then you disbelieve in it, who is in greater error than he
who is in a prolonged opposition?
53. We will soon show them Our signs in the Universe and in their own souls, until it will
become quite clear to them that it is the truth. Is it not sufficient as regards your Lord that He
is a witness over all things?
54. Now surely they are in doubt as to the meeting of their Lord; now surely He encompasses
all things.
I. The Counsel
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Ha Mim.
2. Ain Sin Qaf.
3. Thus does Allah, the Mighty, the Wise, reveal to you, and (thus He revealed) to those before
you.
4. His is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and He is the High, the Great.
5. The heavens may almost rend asunder from above them and the angels sing the praise of
their Lord and ask forgiveness for those on earth; now surely Allah is the Forgiving, the Merciful.
6. And (as for) those who take guardians besides Him, Allah watches over them, and you have
not charge over them.
7. And thus have We revealed to you an Arabic Quran, that you may warn the mother city and
those around it, and that you may give warning of the day of gathering together wherein is no
doubt; a party shall be in the garden and (another) party in the burning fire.
8. And if Allah had pleased He would surely have made them a single community, but He
makes whom He pleases enter into His mercy, and the unjust it is that shall have no guardian
or helper.
9. Or have they taken guardians besides Him? But Allah is the Guardian, and He gives life to
the dead, and He has power over all things.
10. And in whatever thing you disagree, the judgment thereof is (in) Allah's (hand); that is
Allah, my Lord, on Him do I rely and to Him do I turn time after time.
11. The Originator of the heavens and the earth; He made mates for you from among
yourselves, and mates of the cattle too, multiplying you thereby; nothing like a likeness of
Him; and He is the Hearing, the Seeing.
12. His are the treasures of the heavens and the earth; He makes ample and straitens the means
of subsistence for whom He pleases; surely He is Cognizant of all things.
13. He has made plain to you of the religion what He enjoined upon Nuh and that which We
have revealed to you and that which We enjoined upon Ibrahim and Musa and Isa that keep to
obedience and be not divided therein; hard to the unbelievers is that which you call them to;
Allah chooses for Himself whom He pleases, and guides to Himself him who turns (to Him), frequently.
14. And they did not become divided until after knowledge had come to them out of envy
among themselves; and had not a word gone forth from your Lord till an appointed term,
certainly judgment would have been given between them; and those who were made to inherit
the Book after them are most surely in disquieting doubt concerning it.
15. To this then go on inviting, and go on steadfastly on the right way as you are commanded,
and do not follow their low desires, and say: I believe in what Allah has revealed of the Book,
and I am commanded to do justice between you: Allah is our Lord and your Lord; we shall have
our deeds and you shall have your deeds; no plea need there be (now) between us and you:
Allah will gather us together, and to Him is the return.
16. And (as for) those who dispute about Allah after that obedience has been rendered to Him,
their plea is null with their Lord, and upon them is wrath, and for them is severe punishment.
17. Allah it is Who revealed the Book with truth, and the balance, and what shall make you
know that haply the hour be nigh?
18. Those who do not believe in it would hasten it on, and those who believe are in fear from
it, and they know that it is the truth. Now most surely those who dispute obstinately
concerning the hour are in a great error.
19. Allah is Benignant to His servants; He gives sustenance to whom He pleases, and He is the
Strong, the Mighty.
20. Whoever desires the gain of the hereafter, We will give him more of that again; and
whoever desires-- the gain of this world, We give him of it, and in the hereafter he has no portion.
21. Or have they associates who have prescribed for them any religion that Allah does not
sanction? And were it not for the word of judgment, decision would have certainly been given
between them; and surely the unjust shall have a painful punish ^ment.
22. You will see the unjust fearing on account of what they have earned, and it must befall
them; and those who believe and do good shall be in the meadows of the gardens; they shall
have what they please with their Lord: that is the great grace.
23. That is of which Allah gives the good news to His servants, (to) those who believe and do
good deeds. Say: I do not ask of you any reward for it but love for my near relatives; and
whoever earns good, We give him more of good therein; surely Allah is Forgiving, Grateful.
24. Or do they say: He has forged a lie against Allah? But if Allah pleased, He would seal your
heart; and Allah will blot out the falsehood and confirm the truth with His words; surely He is
Cognizant of what is in the breasts.
25. And He it is Who accepts repentance from His servants and pardons the evil deeds and He
knows what you do;
26. And He answers those who believe and do good deeds, and gives them more out of His
grace; and (as for) the unbelievers, they shall have a severe punishment.
27. And if Allah should amplify the provision for His servants they would certainly revolt in
the earth; but He sends it down according to a measure as He pleases; surely He is Aware of,
Seeing, His servants.
28. And He it is Who sends down the rain after they have despaired, and He unfolds His
mercy; and He is the Guardian, the Praised One.
29. And one of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and what He has spread
forth in both of them of living beings; and when He pleases He is all-powerful to gather them together.
30. And whatever affliction befalls you, it is on account of what your hands have wrought, and
(yet) He pardons most (of your faults).
31. And you cannot escape in the earth, and you shall not have a guardian or a helper besides Allah.
32. And among His signs are the ships in the sea like mountains.
33. If He pleases, He causes the wind to become still so that they lie motionless on its back;
most surely there are signs in this for every patient, grateful one,
34. Or He may make them founder for what they have earned, and (even then) pardon most;
35. And (that) those who dispute about Our communications may know; there is no place of
refuge for them.
36. So whatever thing you are given, that is only a provision of this world's life, and what is
with Allah is better and more lasting for those who believe and rely on their Lord.
37. And those who. shun the great sins and indecencies, and whenever they are angry they forgive.
38. And those who respond to their Lord and keep up prayer, and their rule is to take counsel
among themselves, and who spend out of what We have given them.
39. And those who, when great wrong afflicts them, defend themselves.
40. And the recompense of evil is punishment like it, but whoever forgives and amends, he
shall have his reward from Allah; surely He does not love the unjust.
41. And whoever defends himself after his being oppressed, these it is against whom there is
no way (to blame).
42. The way (to blame) is only against those who oppress men and revolt in the earth unjustly;
these shall have a painful punishment.
43. And whoever is patient and forgiving, these most surely are actions due to courage.
44. And whomsoever Allah makes err, he has no guardian after Him; and you shall see the
unjust, when they see the punishment, saying: Is there any way to return?
45. And you shall see them brought before it humbling themselves because of the abasements,
looking with a faint glance. And those who believe shall say: Surely the losers are they who
have lost themselves and their followers on the resurrection day. Now surely the iniquitous
shall remain in lasting chastisement.
46. And they shall have no friends to help them besides Allah; and-- whomsoever Allah makes
err, he shall have no way.
47. Hearken to your Lord before there comes the day from Allah for which there shall be no
averting; you shall have no refuge on that day, nor shall it be yours to make a denial.
48. But if they turn aside, We have not sent you as a watcher over them; on you is only to
deliver (the message); and surely when We make man taste mercy from Us, he rejoices
thereat; and if an evil afflicts them on account of what their hands have already done,
then-surely man is ungrateful.
49. Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; He creates what He pleases; He grants
to whom He pleases daughters and grants to whom He pleases sons.
5O Or He makes them of both sorts, male and female; and He makes whom He pleases barren;
surely He is the Knowing, the Powerful.
51. And it is not for any mortal that Allah should speak to them, they could not bear to hear
and they did not see.
52. And thus did We reveal to you an inspired book by Our command. You did not know what
the Book was, nor (what) the faith (was), but We made it a light, guiding thereby whom We
please of Our servants; and most surely you show the way to the right path:
53. The path of Allah, Whose is whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth;
now surely to Allah do all affairs eventually come.
XLIII. The Embellishment
. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Ha Mim.
2. I swear by the Book that makes things clear:
3. Surely We have made it an Arabic Quran that you may understand.
4. And surely it is in the original of the Book with Us, truly elevated, full of wisdom.
5. What! shall We then turn away the reminder from you altogether because you are an
extravagant people?
6. And how many a prophet have We sent among the ancients.
7. And there came not to them a prophet but they mocked at him.
8. Then We destroyed those who were stronger than these in prowess, and the case of the
ancients has gone before,
9. And if you should ask them, Who created the heavens and the earth? they would most
certainly say: The Mighty, the Knowing One, has created them;
10. He Who made the earth a resting-place for you, and made in it ways for you that you may
go aright;
11. And He Who sends down water from the cloud according to a measure, then We raise to
life thereby a dead country, even thus shall you be brought forth;
12. And He Who created pairs of all things, and made for you of the ships and the cattle what
you ride on,
13. That you may firmly sit on their backs, then remember the favor of your Lord when you are
firmly seated thereon, and say: Glory be to Him Who made this subservient to us and we were
not able to do it
14. And surely to our Lord we must return.
15. And they assign to Him a part of His servants; man, to be sure, is clearly ungrateful.
16. What! has He taken daughters to Himself of what He Himself creates and chosen you to
have sons?
17. And when one of them is given news of that of which he sets up as a likeness for the
Beneficent God, his face becomes black and he is full of rage.
18. What! that which is made in ornaments and which in contention is unable to make plain speech!
19. And they make the angels-- them who are the servants of the Beneficent God-- female
(divinities). What! did they witness their creation? Their evidence shall be written down and
they shall be questioned.
20. And they say: If the Beneficent God had pleased, we should never have worshipped them.
They have no knowledge of this; they only lie.
21. Or have We given them a book before it so that they hold fast to it?
22. Nay! they say: We found our fathers on a course, and surely we are guided by their footsteps.
23. And thus, We did not send before you any warner in a town, but those who led easy lives in
it said: Surely we found our fathers on a course, and surely we are followers of their footsteps.
24. (The warner) said: What! even if I bring to you a better guide than that on which you found
your fathers? They said:
Surely we are unbelievers in that with which you are sent.
25. So We inflicted retribution on them, then see how was the end of the rejecters.
26. And when Ibrahim said to his father and his people: Surely I am clear of what you worship,
27. Save Him Who created me, for surely He will guide me.
28. And he made it a word to continue in his posterity that they may return.
29. Nay! I gave them and their fathers to enjoy until there came to them the truth and an
Apostle making manifest (the truth).
30. And when there came to them the truth they said: This is magic, and surely we are
disbelievers in it.
29. Nay! I gave them and their fathers to enjoy until there came to them the truth and an
Apostle making manifest (the truth).
30. And when there came to them the truth they said: This is magic, and surely we are
disbelievers in it.
31. And they say: Why was not this Quran revealed to a man of importance in the two towns?
32. Will they distribute the mercy of your Lord? We distribute among them their livelihood in
the life of this world, and We j have exalted some of them above others in degrees, that some
of them may take others in subjection; and the mercy of your Lord is better than what they amass.
33. And were it not that all people had been a single nation, We would certainly have assigned
to those who disbelieve in the Beneficent God (to make) of silver the roofs of their houses and
the stairs by which they ascend.
34. And the doors of their houses and the couches on which they recline,
35. And (other) embellishments of gold; and all this is naught but provision of this world's life,
and the hereafter is with your Lord only for those who guard (against evil).
36. And whoever turns himself away from the remembrance of the Beneficent God, We
appoint for him a Shaitan, so he becomes his associate.
37. And most surely they turn them away from the path, and they think that they are guided aright:
38. Until when he comes to Us, he says: O would that between me and you there were the
distance of the East and the West; so evil is the associate!
39. And since you were unjust, it will not profit you this day that you are sharers in the chastisement.
40. What! can you then make the deaf to hear or guide the blind and him who is in clear error?
41. But if We should take you away, still We shall inflict retribution on them;
42. Rather We will certainly show you that which We have promised them; for surely We are
the possessors of full power over them.
43. Therefore hold fast to that which has been revealed to you; surely you are on the right path.
44. And most surely it is a reminder for you and your people, and you shall soon be questioned.
45. And ask those of Our apostles whom We sent before you: Did We ever appoint gods to be
worshipped besides the Beneficent God?
46. And certainly We sent Musa with Our communications to Firon and his chiefs, so he said:
Surely I am the apostle of the Lord of the worlds.
47. But when he came to them with Our signs, lo! they laughed at them.
48. And We did not show them a sign but it was greater than its like, and We overtook them
with chastisement that they may turn.
49. And they said: O magician! call on your Lord for our sake, as He has made the covenant
with you; we shall surely be the followers of the right way.
50. But when We removed from them the chastisement, lo! they broke the pledge.
51. And Firon proclaimed amongst his people: O my people! is not the kingdom of Egypt
mine? And these rivers flow beneath me; do you not then see?
52. Nay! I am better than this fellow, who is contemptible, and who can hardly speak distinctly:
53. But why have not bracelets of gold been put upon him, or why have there not come with
him angels as companions?
54. So he incited his people to levity and they obeyed him: surely they were a transgressing people.
55. Then when they displeased Us, We inflicted a retribution on them, so We drowned them
all together,
56. And We made them a precedent and example to the later generations.
57. And when a description of the son of Marium is given, lo! your people raise a clamor thereat.
58. And they say: Are our gods better, or is he? They do not set it forth to you save by way of
disputation; nay, they are a contentious people.
59. He was naught but a servant on whom We bestowed favor, and We made him an example
for the children of Israel.
60. And if We please, We could make among you angels to be successors in the land.
61. And most surely it is a knowledge of the hour, therefore have no doubt about it and follow
me: this is the right path.
62. And let not the Shaitan prevent you; surely he is your j open enemy.
63. And when Isa came with clear arguments he said: I have come to you indeed with wisdom,
and that I may make clear to you part of what you differ in; so be careful of (your duty to)
Allah and obey me:
64. Surely Allah is my Lord and your Lord, therefore serve Him; this is the right path:
65. But parties from among them differed, so woe to those who were unjust because of the
chastisement of a painful day.
66. Do they wait for aught but the hour, that it should come ! upon them all of a sudden while
they do not perceive?
67. The friends shall on that day be enemies one to another, except those who guard (against evil).
68. O My servants! there is no fear for you this day, nor shall you grieve.
69. Those who believed in Our communications and were submissive:
70. Enter the garden, you and your wives; you shall be made happy.
71. There shall be sent round to them golden bowls and drinking-cups and therein shall be
what their souls yearn after and (wherein) the eyes shall delight, and you shall abide therein.
72. And this is the garden which you are given as an inheritance on account of what you did.
73. For you therein are many fruits of which you shall eat.
74. Surely the guilty shall abide in the chastisement of hell.
75. It shall not be abated from them and they shall therein be despairing.
76. And We are not unjust to them, but they themselves were unjust.
77. And they shall call out: O Malik! let your Lord make an end of us. He shall say: Surely you
shall tarry.
78. Certainly We have brought you the truth, but most of you are averse to the truth.
79. Or have they settled an affair? Then surely We are the settlers.
80. Or do they think that We do not hear what they conceal and their secret discourses? Aye!
and Our messengers with them write down.
81. Say: If the Beneficent God has a son, I am the foremost of those who serve.
82. Glory to the Lord of the heavens and the earth, the Lord of power, from what they describe.
83. So leave them plunging into false discourses and sporting until they meet their day which
they are threatened with.
84. And He it is Who is God in the heavens and God in the earth; and He is the Wise, the Knowing.
85. And blessed is He Whose is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what is between
them, and with Him is the knowledge of the hour, and to Him shall you be brought back.
86. And those whom they call upon besides Him have no authority for intercession, but he who
bears witness of the truth and they know (him).
87. And if you should ask them who created them, they would certainly say: Allah. Whence are
they then turned back?
88. Consider his cry: O my Lord! surely they are a people who do not believe.
89. So turn away from them and say, Peace, for they shall soon come to know.
XLIV. The Evident Smoke
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Ha Mim!
2. I swear by the Book that makes manifest (the truth).
3. Surely We revealed it on a blessed night surely We are ever warning--
4. Therein every wise affair is made distinct,
5. A command from Us; surely We are the senders (of apostles),
6. A mercy from your Lord, surely He is the Hearing, the Knowing,
7. The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, if you would be sure.
8. There is no god but He; He gives life and causes death, your Lord and the Lord of your
fathers of yore.
9. Nay, they are in doubt, they sport.
10. Therefore keep waiting for the day when the heaven shall bring an evident smoke,
11. That shall overtake men; this is a painful punishment.
12. Our Lord! remove from us the punishment; surely we are believers.
13. How shall they be reminded, and there came to them an Apostle making clear (the truth),
14. Yet they turned their backs on him and said: One taught (by others), a madman.
15. Surely We will remove the punishment a little, (but) you will surely return (to evil).
16. On the day when We will seize (them) with the most violent seizing; surely We will inflict retribution.
17. And certainly We tried before them the people of Firon, and there came to them a noble apostle,
18. Saying: Deliver to me the servants of Allah, surely I am a faithful apostle to you,
19. And that do not exalt yourselves against Allah, surely I will bring to you a clear authority:
20. And surely I take refuge with my Lord and your Lord that you should stone me to death:
21. And if you do not believe in me, then leave me alone.
22. Then he called upon his Lord: These are a guilty people.
23. So go forth with My servants by night; surely you will be pursued:
24. And leave the sea intervening; surely they are a host that shall be drowned.
25. How many of the gardens and fountains have they left!
26. And cornfields and noble places!
27. And goodly things wherein they rejoiced;
28. Thus (it was), and We gave them as a heritage to another people.
29. So the heaven and the earth did not weep for them, nor were they respited.
30. And certainly We delivered the children of Israel from the abasing chastisement,
31. From Firon; surely he was haughty, (and) one of the extravagant.
32. And certainly We chose them, having knowledge, above the nations.
33. And We gave them of the communications wherein was clear blessing.
34. Most surely these do say:
35. There is naught but our first death and we shall not be raised again.
36. So bring our fathers (back), if you are truthful.
37. Are they better or the people of Tubba and those before them? We destroyed them, for
surely they were guilty.
38. And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them in sport.
39. We did not create them both but with the truth, but most of them do not know.
40. Surely the day of separation is their appointed term, of all of them
41. The day on which a friend shall not avail (his) friend aught, nor shall they be helped,
42. Save those on whom Allah shall have mercy; surely He is the Mighty the Merciful.
43. Surely the tree of the Zaqqum,
44. Is the food of the sinful
45. Like dregs of oil; it shall boil in (their) bellies,
46. Like the boiling of hot water.
47. Seize him, then drag him down into the middle of the hell;
48. Then pour above his head of the torment of the boiling water:
49. Taste; you forsooth are the mighty, the honorable:
50. Surely this is what you disputed about.
51. Surely those who guard (against evil) are in a secure place,
52. In gardens and springs;
53. They shall wear of fine and thick silk, (sitting) face to face;
54. Thus (shall it be), and We will wed them with Houris pure, beautiful ones.
55. They shall call therein for every fruit in security;
56. They shall not taste therein death except the first death, and He will save them from the
punishment of the hell,
57. A grace from your Lord; this is the great achievement.
58. So have We made it easy in your tongue that they may be mindful.
59. Therefore wait; surely they are waiting.
XLV. The Kneeling
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Ha Mim.
2. The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise.
3. Most surely in the heavens and the earth there are signs for the believers.
4. And in your (own) creation and in what He spreads abroad of animals there are signs for a
people that are sure;
5. And (in) the variation of the night and the day, and (in) what Allah sends down of
sustenance from the cloud, then gives life thereby to the earth after its death, and (in) the
changing of the winds, there are signs for a people who understand.
6. These are the communications of Allah which We recite to you with truth; then in what
announcement would they believe after Allah and His communications?
7. Woe to every sinful liar,
8. Who hears the communications of Allah recited to him, then persists proudly as though he
had not heard them; so announce to him a painful punishment.
9. And when he comes to know of any of Our communications, he takes it for a jest; these it is
that shall have abasing chastisement.
10. Before them is hell, and there shall not avail them aught of what they earned, nor those
whom they took for guardians besides Allah, and they shall have a grievous punishment.
11. This is guidance; and (as for) those who disbelieve in the communications of their Lord,
they shall have a painful punishment on account of uncleanness.
12. Allah is He Who made subservient to you the sea that the ships may run therein by His
command, and that you may seek of His grace, and that you may give thanks.
13. And He has made subservient to you whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the
earth, all, from Himself; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect.
14. Say to those who believe (that) they forgive those who do not fear the days of Allah that He
may reward a people for what they earn.
15. Whoever does good, it is for his own soul, and whoever does evil, it is against himself;
then you shall be brought back to your-- Lord.
16. And certainly We gave the Book and the wisdom and the prophecy to the children of Israel,
and We gave them of the goodly things, and We made them excel the nations.
17. And We gave them clear arguments in the affair, but they did not differ until after
knowledge had come to them out of envy among themselves; surely your -Lord will judge
between them on the day of resurrection concerning that wherein they differed.
18. Then We have made you follow a course in the affair, therefore follow it, and do not
follow the low desires of those who do not know.
19. Surely they shall not avail you in the least against Allah; and surely the unjust are friends
of each other, and Allah is the guardian of those who guard (against evil).
20. These are clear proofs for men, and a guidance and a mercy for a people who are sure.
21. Nay! do those who have wrought evil deeds think that We will make them like those who
believe and do good-- that their life and their death shall be equal? Evil it is that they judge.
22. And Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth and that every soul may be
rewarded for what it has earned and they shall not be wronged.
23. Have you then considered him who takes his low desire for his god, and Allah has made
him err having knowledge and has set a seal upon his ear and his heart and put a covering
upon his eye. Who can then guide him after Allah? Will you not then be mindful?
24. And they say: There is nothing but our life in this world; we live and die and nothing
destroys us but time, and they have no knowledge of that; they only conjecture.
25. And when Our clear communications are recited to them, their argument is no other than
that they say: Bring our fathers (back) if you are truthful.
26. Say: Allah gives you life, then He makes you die, then will He gather you to the day of
resurrection wherein is no doubt, but most people do not know.
27. And Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and on the day when the hour
shall come to pass, on that day shall they perish who say false things.
28. And you shall see every nation kneeling down; every nation shall be called to its book:
today you shall be rewarded for what you did.
29. This is Our book that speaks against you with justice; surely We wrote what you did,
30. Then as to those who believed and did good, their Lord will make them enter into His
mercy; that is the manifest achievement.
31. As to those who disbelieved: What! were not My communications recited to you? But you
were proud and you were a guilty people.
32. And when it was said, Surely the promise of Allah is true and as for the hour, there is no
doubt about it, you said: We do not know what the hour is; we do not think (that it will come
to pass) save a passing thought, and we are not at all sure.
33. And the evil (consequences) of what they did shall become manifest to them and that
which they mocked shall encompass them.
34. And it shall be said: Today We forsake you as you neglected the meeting of this day of
yours and your abode is the fire, and there are not for you any helpers:
35. That is because you took the communications of Allah for a jest and the life of this world
deceived you. So on that day they shall not be brought forth from it, nor shall they be granted goodwill.
36. Therefore to Allah is due (all) praise, the Lord of the heavens and the Lord of the earth, the
Lord of the worlds.
37. And to Him belongs greatness in the heavens and the earth, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
XLVI. The Sandhills
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Ha Mim.
2. The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise.
3. We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them two save with truth
and (for) an appointed term; and those who disbelieve turn aside from what they are warned of.
4. Say: Have you considered what you call upon besides Allah? Show me what they have
created of the earth, or have they a share in the heavens? Bring me a book before this or traces
of knowledge, if you are truthful.
5. And who is in greater error than he who calls besides Allah upon those that will not answer
him till the day of resurrection and they are heedless of their call?
6. And when men are gathered together they shall be their enemies, and shall be deniers of
their worshipping (them).
7. And when Our clear communications are recited to them, those who disbelieve say with
regard to the truth when it comes to them: This is clear magic.
8. Nay! they say: He has forged it. Say: If I have forged it, you do not control anything for me
from Allah; He knows best what you utter concerning it; He is enough as a witness between
me and you, and He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.
9. Say: I am not the first of the apostles, and I do not know what will be done with me or with
you: I do not follow anything but that which is revealed to me, and I am nothing but a plain warner.
10. Say: Have you considered if it is from Allah, and you disbelieve in it, and a witness from
among the children of Israel has borne witness of one like it, so he believed, while you are big
with pride; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
11. And those who disbelieve say concerning those who believe: If it had been a good, they
would not have gone ahead of us therein. And as they do not seek to be rightly directed
thereby, they say: It is an old lie.
12. And before it the Book of Musa was a guide and a mercy: and this is a Book verifying (it)
in the Arabic language that it may warn those who are unjust and as good news for the doers
of good.
13. Surely those who say, Our Lord is Allah, then they continue on the right way, they shall
have no fear nor shall they grieve.
14. These are the dwellers of the garden, abiding therein: a reward for what they did.
15. And We have enjoined on man doing of good to his parents; with trouble did his mother
bear him and with trouble did she bring him forth; and the bearing of him and the weaning of
him was thirty months; until when he attains his maturity and reaches forty years, he says: My
Lord! grant me that I may give thanks for Thy favor which Thou hast bestowed on me and on
my parents, and that I may do good which pleases Thee and do good to me in respect of my
offspring; surely I turn to Thee, and surely I am of those who submit.
16. These are they from whom We accept the best of what they have done and pass over their
evil deeds, among the dwellers of the garden; the promise of truth which they were promised.
17. And he who says to his parents: Fie on you! do you threaten me that I shall be brought forth
when generations have already passed away before me? And they both call for Allah's aid:
Woe to you! believe, surely the promise of Allah is true. But he says: This is nothing but stories
of the ancients.
18. These are they against whom the word has proved true among nations of the jinn and the
men that have already passed away before them; surely they are losers.
19. And for all are degrees according to what they did, and that He may pay them back fully
their deeds and they shall not be wronged.
20. And on the day when those who disbelieve shall be brought before the fire: You did away
with your good things in your life of the world and you enjoyed them for a while, so today you
shall be rewarded with the punishment of abasement because you were unjustly proud in the
land and because you transgressed.
21. And mention the brother of Ad; when he warned his people in the sandy plains,-- and
indeed warners came before him and after him-- saying Serve none but Allah; surely I fear for
you the punishment of a grievous day.
22. They said: Have you come to us to turn us away from our gods; then bring us what you
threaten us with, if you are of the truthful ones.
23. He said: The knowledge is only with Allah, and I deliver to you the message with which I
am sent, but I see you are a people who are ignorant.
24. So when they saw it as a cloud appearing in the sky advancing towards their valleys, they
said: This is a cloud which will give us rain. Nay! it is what you sought to hasten on, a blast of
wind in which is a painful punishment,
25. Destroying everything by the command of its Lord, so they became such that naught could
be seen except their dwellings. Thus do We reward the guilty people.
26. And certainly We had established them in what We have not established you in, and We
had given-- them ears and eyes and hearts, but neither their ears, nor their eyes, nor their
hearts availed them aught, since they denied the communications of Allah, and that which they
mocked encompassed them.
27. And certainly We destroyed the towns which are around you, and We repeat the
communications that they might turn.
28. Why did not then those help them whom they took for gods besides Allah to draw (them)
nigh (to Him)? Nay! they were lost to them; and this was their lie and what they forged.
29. And when We turned towards you a party of the jinn who listened to the Quran; so when
they came to it, they said: Be silent; then when it was finished, they turned back to their
people warning (them).
30. They said: O our people! we have listened to a Book revealed after Musa verifying that
which is before it, guiding to the truth and to a right path:
31. O our people! accept the Divine caller and believe in Him, He will forgive you of your
faults and protect you from a painful punishment.
32. And whoever does not accept the-Divine caller, he shall not escape in the earth and he
shall not have guardians besides Him, these are in manifest error.
33. Have they not considered that Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth and was not
tired by their creation, is able to give life to the dead? Aye! He has surely power over all things.
34. And on the day when those who disbelieve shall be brought before the fire: Is it not true?
They shall say: Aye! by our Lord! He will say: Then taste the punishment, because you disbelieved.
35. Therefore bear up patiently as did the apostles endowed with constancy bear up with
patience and do not seek to hasten for them (their doom). On the day that they shall see what
they are promised they shall be as if they had not tarried save an hour of the day. A sufficient
exposition! Shall then any be destroyed save the transgressing people?
XLVII..Muhammad .
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. (As for) those who disbelieve and turn away from Allah's way, He shall render their works ineffective.
2. And (as for) those who believe and do good, and believe in what has been revealed to
Muhammad, and it is the very truth from their Lord, He will remove their evil from them and
improve their condition.
3. That is because those who disbelieve follow falsehood, and have given them their dowries,
taking (them) in marriage, not fornicating nor taking them for paramours in secret; and
whoever denies faith, his work indeed is of no account, and in the hereafter he shall be one of
the losers.
6. O you who believe! when you rise up to prayer, wash your faces and your hands as far as the
elbows, and wipe your heads and-- those who believe follow the truth from their Lord; thus
does Allah set forth to men their examples.
4. So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have
overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or
let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates. That (shall be so); and if Allah had
pleased He would certainly have exacted what is due from them, but that He may try some of
you by means of others; and (as for) those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will by no
means allow their deeds to perish.
5. He will guide them and improve their condition.
6. And cause them to enter the garden which He has made known to them.
7. O you who believe ! if you help (the cause of) Allah, He will help you and make firm your feet.
8. And (as for) those who disbelieve, for them is destruction and He has made their deeds ineffective.
9. That is because they hated what Allah revealed, so He rendered their deeds null.
10. Have they not then journeyed in the land and seen how was the end of those before them:
Allah brought down destruction upon them, and the unbelievers shall have the like of it.
11. That is because Allah is the Protector of those who believe, and because the unbelievers
shall have no protector for them.
12. Surely Allah will make those who believe and do good enter gardens beneath which rivers
flow; and those who disbelieve enjoy themselves and eat as the beasts eat, and the fire is their abode.
13. And how many a town which was far more powerful than the town of yours which has
driven you out: We destroyed them so there was no helper for them.
14. What! is he who has a clear argument from his Lord like him to whom the evil of his work
is made fairseeming: and they follow their low desires.
15. A parable of the garden which those guarding (against evil) are promised: Therein are
rivers of water that does not alter, and rivers of milk the taste whereof does not change, and
rivers of drink delicious to those who drink, and rivers of honey clarified and for them therein
are all fruits and protection from their Lord. (Are these) like those who abide in the fire and
who are made to drink boiling water so it rends their bowels asunder.
16. And there are those of them who seek to listen to you, until when they go forth from you,
they say to those who have been given the knowledge: What was it that he said just now?
These are they upon whose hearts Allah has set a seal and they follow their low desires.
17. And (as for) those who follow the right direction, He increases them in guidance and gives
them their guarding (against evil).
18. Do they then wait for aught but the hour that it should come to them all of a sudden? Now
indeed the tokens of it have (already) come, but how shall they have their reminder when it
comes on them?
19. So know that there is no god but Allah, and, ask protection for your fault and for the
believing men and the believing women; and Allah knows the place of your returning and the
place of your abiding.
20. And those who believe say: Why has not a chapter been revealed? But when a decisive
chapter is revealed, and fighting is mentioned therein you see those in whose hearts is a
disease look to you with the look of one fainting because of death. Woe to them then!
21. Obedience and a gentle word (was proper); but when the affair becomes settled, then if
they remain true to Allah it would certainly be better for them.
22. But if you held command, you were sure to make mischief in the land and cut off the ties
of kinship!
23. Those it is whom Allah has cursed so He has made them deaf and blinded their eyes.
24. Do they not then reflect on the Quran? Nay, on the hearts there are locks.
25. Surely (as for) those who return on their backs after that guidance has become manifest to
them, the Shaitan has made it a light matter to them; and He gives them respite.
26. That is because they say to those who hate what Allah has revealed: We will obey you in
some of the affairs; and Allah knows their secrets.
27. But how will it be when the angels cause them to die smiting their backs.
28. That is because they follow what is displeasing to Allah and are averse to His pleasure,
therefore He has made null their deeds.
29. Or do those in whose hearts is a disease think that Allah will not bring forth their spite?
30. And if We please We would have made you know them so that you would certainly have
recognized them by their marks and most certainly you can recognize them by the intent of
(their) speech; and Allah knows your deeds.
31. And most certainly We will try you until We have known those among you who exert
themselves hard, and the patient, and made your case manifest.
32. Surely those who disbelieve and turn away from Allah's way and oppose the Apostle after
that guidance has become clear to them cannot harm Allah in any way, and He will make null
their deeds.
33. O you who believe! obey Allah and obey the Apostle, and do not make your deeds of no effect.
34. Surely those who disbelieve and turn away from Allah's way, then they die while they are
unbelievers, Allah will by no means forgive them.
35. And be not slack so as to cry for peace and you have the upper hand, and Allah is with you,
and He will not bring your deeds to naught.
36. The life of this world is only idle sport and play, and if you believe and guard (against evil)
He will give you your rewards, and will not ask of you your possessions.
37. If He should ask you for it and urge you, you will be niggardly, and He will bring forth your
malice.
38. Behold! you are those who are called upon to spend in Allah's way, but among you are
those who are niggardly, and whoever is niggardly is niggardly against his own soul; and
Allah is Self-sufficient and you have need (of Him), and if you turn back He will bring in your
place another people, then they will not be like you. .XKVIII. The Victory
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Surely We have given to you a clear victory
2. That Allah may forgive your community their past faults and those to follow and complete
His favor to you and keep you on a right way,
3. And that Allah might help you with a mighty help.
4. He it is Who sent down tranquillity into the hearts of the believers that they might have
more of faith added to their faith-- and Allah's are the hosts of the heavens and the earth, and
Allah is Knowing, Wise--
S. That He may cause the believing men and the believing women to enter gardens beneath
which rivers flow to abide therein and remove from them their evil; and that is a grand
achievement with Allah
6. And (that) He may punish the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women, and the
polytheistic men and the polytheistic women, the entertainers of evil thoughts about Allah. On
them is the evil turn, and Allah is wroth with them and has cursed them and prepared hell for
them, and evil is the resort.
7. And Allah's are the hosts of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is Mighty, Wise.
8. Surely We have sent you as a witness and as a bearer of good news and as a warner,
9. That you may believe in Allah and His Apostle and may aid him and revere him; and (that)
you may declare His glory, morning and evening.
10. Surely those who swear allegiance to you do but swear allegiance to Allah; the hand of
Allah is above their hands. Therefore whoever breaks (his faith), he breaks it only to the injury
of his own soul, and whoever fulfills what he has covenanted with Allah, He will grant him a
mighty reward.
11. Those of the dwellers of the desert who were left behind will say to you: Our property and
our families kept us busy, so ask forgiveness for us. They say with their tongues what is not in
their hearts. Say: Then who can control anything for you from Allah if He intends to do you
harm or if He intends to do you good; nay, Allah is Aware of what you do:
12. Nay! you rather thought that the Apostle and the believers would not return to their
families ever, and that was made fairseeming to your hearts and you thought an evil thought
and you were a people doomed to perish.
13. And whoever does not believe in Allah and His Apostle, then surely We have prepared
burning fire for the unbelievers.
14. And Allah's is the kingdom. of the heavens and the earth; He forgives whom He pleases
and punishes whom He pleases, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
15. Those who are left behind will say when you set forth for the gaining of acquisitions:
Allow us (that) we may follow you. They desire to change the world of Allah. Say: By no
means shall you follow us; thus did Allah say before. But they will say: Nay! you are jealous of
us. Nay! they do not understand but a little.
16. Say to those of the dwellers of the desert who were left behind: You shall soon be invited
(to fight) against a people possessing mighty prowess; you will fight against them until they
submit; then if you obey, Allah will grant you a good reward; and if you turn back as you turned
back before, He will punish you with a painful punishment.
17. There is no harm in the blind, nor is there any harm in the lame, nor is there any harm in
the sick (if they do not go forth); and whoever obeys Allah and His Apostle, He will cause him
to enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, and whoever turns back, He will punish him with a
painful punishment.
18. Certainly Allah was well pleased with the believers when they swore allegiance to you
under the tree, and He knew what was in their hearts, so He sent down tranquillity on them
and rewarded them with a near victory,
19. And many acquisitions which they will take; and Allah is Mighty, Wise.
20. Allah promised you many acquisitions which you will take, then He hastened on this one
for you and held back the hands of men from you, and that it may be a sign for the believers
and that He may guide you on a right path.
21. And others which you have not yet been able to achieve Allah has surely encompassed
them, and Allah has power over all things.
22. And if those who disbelieve fight with you, they would certainly turn (their) backs, then
they would not find any protector or a helper.
23. Such has been the course of Allah that has indeed run before, and you shall not find a
change in Allah's course.
24. And He it is Who held back their hands from you and your hands from them in the valley
of Mecca after He had given you victory over them; and Allah is Seeing what you do.
25. It is they who disbelieved and turned you away from the Sacred Mosque and (turned off)
the offering withheld from arriving at its destined place; and were it not for the believing men
and the believing women, whom, not having known, you might have trodden down, and thus
something hateful might have afflicted you on their account without knowledge-- so that Allah
may cause to enter into His mercy whomsoever He pleases; had they been widely separated one
from another, We would surely have punished those who disbelieved from among them with a
painful punishment.
26. When those who disbelieved harbored in their hearts (feelings of) disdain, the disdain of
(the days of) ignorance, but Allah sent down His tranquillity on His Apostle and on the
believers, and made them keep the word of guarding (against evil), and they were entitled to it
and worthy of it; and Allah is Cognizant of all things.
27. Certainly Allah had shown to His Apostle the vision with truth: you shall most certainly
enter the Sacred Mosque, if Allah pleases, in security, (some) having their heads shaved and
(others) having their hair cut, you shall not fear, but He knows what you do not know, so He
brought about a near victory before that.
28. He it is Who sent His Apostle with the guidance and the true religion that He may make it
prevail over all the religions; and Allah is enough for a witness.
29. Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah, and those with him are firm of heart against the
unbelievers, compassionate among themselves; you will see them bowing down, prostrating
themselves, seeking grace from Allah and pleasure; their marks are in their faces because of the
effect of prostration; that is their description in the Taurat and their description in the Injeel;
like as seed-produce that puts forth its sprout, then strengthens it, so it becomes stout and
stands firmly on its stem, delighting the sowers that He may enrage the unbelievers on account
of them; Allah has promised those among them who believe and do good, forgiveness and a
great reward.
XLIX. The Chambers
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. O you who believe! be not forward in the presence of Allah and His Apostle, and be careful
of (your duty to) Allah; surely Allah is Hearing, Knowing.
2. O you who believe! do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet, and do not
speak loud to him as you speak loud to one another, lest your deeds became null while you do
not perceive.
3. Surely those who lower their voices before Allah's Apostle are they whose hearts Allah has
proved for guarding (against evil); they shall have forgiveness and a great reward.
4. (As for) those who call out to you from behind the private chambers, surely most of them do
not understand.
5. And if they wait patiently until you come out to them, it would certainly be better for them,
and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
6. O you who believe! if an evil-doer comes to you with a report, look carefully into it, lest you
harm a people in ignorance, then be sorry for what you have done.
7. And know that among you is Allah's Apostle; should he obey you in many a matter, you
would surely fall into distress, but Allah has endeared the faith to you and has made it seemly
in your hearts, and He has made hateful to you unbelief and transgression and disobedience;
these it is that are the followers of a right way.
8. By grace from Allah and as a favor; and Allah is Knowing, Wise.
9. And if two parties of the believers quarrel, make peace between them; but if one of them
acts wrongfully towards the other, fight that which acts wrongfully until it returns to Allah's
command; then if it returns, make peace between them with justice and act equitably; surely
Allah loves those who act equitably.
10. The believers are but brethren, therefore make peace between your brethren and be careful
of (your duty to) Allah that mercy may be had on you.
11. O you who believe! let not (one) people laugh at (another) people perchance they may be
better than they, nor let women (laugh) at (other) women, perchance they may be better than
they; and do not find fault with your own people nor call one another by nicknames; evil is a
bad name after faith, and whoever does not turn, these it is that are the unjust.
12. O you who believe! avoid most of suspicion, for surely suspicion in some cases is a sin,
and do not spy nor let some of you backbite others. Does one of you like to eat the flesh of his
dead brother? But you abhor it; and be careful of (your duty to) Allah, surely Allah is
Oft-returning (to mercy), Merciful.
13. O you men! surely We have created you of a male and a female, and made you tribes and
families that you may know each other; surely the most honorable of you with Allah is the one
among you most careful (of his duty); surely Allah is Knowing, Aware.
14. The dwellers of the desert say: We believe. Say: You do not believe but say, We submit;
and faith has not yet entered into your hearts; and if you obey Allah and His Apostle, He will
not diminish aught of your deeds; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
15. The believers are only those who believe in Allah and His Apostle then they doubt not and
struggle hard with their wealth and their lives in the way of Allah; they are the truthful ones.
16. Say: Do you apprise Allah of your religion, and Allah knows what is in the heavens and
what is in the earth; and Allah is Cognizant of all things.
17. They think that they lay you under an obligation by becoming Muslims. Say: Lay me not
under obligation by your Islam: rather Allah lays you under an obligation by guiding you to
the faith if you are truthful.
18. Surely Allah knows the unseen things of the heavens and the earth; and Allah sees what
you do.
L. Qaf
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Qaf. I swear by the glorious Quran (that Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah.)
2. Nay! they wonder that there has come to them a warner from among themselves, so the
unbelievers say: This is a wonderful thing:
3. What! when we are dead and have become dust? That is afar (from probable) return.
4. We know indeed what the earth diminishes of them, and with Us is a writing that preserves.
5. Nay, they rejected the truth when it came to them, so they are (now) in a state of confusion.
6. Do they not then look up to heaven above them how We have made it and adorned it and it
has no gaps?
7. And the earth, We have made it plain and cast in it mountains and We have made to grow
therein of all beautiful kinds,
8. To give sight and as a reminder to every servant who turns frequently (to Allah).
9. And We send down from the cloud water abounding in good, then We cause to grow thereby
gardens and the grain that is reaped,
10. And the tall palm-trees having spadices closely set one above another,
11. A sustenance for the servants, and We give life thereby to a dead land; thus is the rising.
12. (Others) before them rejected (prophets): the people of Nuh and the dwellers of Ar-Rass
and Samood,
13. And Ad and Firon and Lut's brethren,
14. And the dwellers of the grove and the people of Tuba; all rejected the apostles, so My
threat came to pass.
15. Were We then fatigued with the first creation? Yet are they in doubt with regard to a new creation.
16. And certainly We created man, and We know what his mind suggests to him, and We are
nearer to him than his life-vein.
17. When the two receivers receive, sitting on the right and on the left.
18. He utters not a word but there is by him a watcher at hand.
19. And the stupor of death will come in truth; that is what you were trying to escape.
20. And the trumpet shall be blown; that is the day of the threatening.
21. And every soul shall come, with it a driver and a witness.
22. Certainly you were heedless of it, but now We have removed from you your veil, so your
sight today is sharp.
23. And his companions shall say: This is what is ready with me.
24. Do cast into hell every ungrateful, rebellious one,
25. Forbidder of good, exceeder of limits, doubter,
26. Who sets up another god with Allah, so do cast him into severe chastisement.
27. His companion will say: Our Lord! I did not lead him into inordinacy but he himself was in
a great error.
28. He will say: Do not quarrel in My presence, and indeed I gave you the threatening beforehand:
29. My word shall not be changed, nor am I in the least unjust to the servants.
30. On the day that We will say to hell: Are you filled up? And it will say: Are there any more?
31. And the garden shall be brought near to those who guard (against evil), not far off:
32. This is what you were promised, (it is) for every one who turns frequently (to Allah), keeps
(His limits);
33. Who fears the Beneficent God in secret and comes with a penitent heart:
34. Enter it in peace, that is the day of abiding.
35. They have therein what they wish and with Us is more yet.
36. And how many a generation did We destroy before them who were mightier in prowess
than they, so they went about and about in the lands. Is there a place of refuge?
37. Most surely there is a reminder in this for him who has a heart or he gives ear and is a witness.
38. And certainly We created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six
periods and there touched Us not any fatigue.
39. Therefore be patient of what they say, and sing the praise of your Lord before the rising of
the sun and before the setting.
40. And glorify Him in the night and after the prayers.
41. And listen on the day when the crier shall cry from a near place
42. The day when they shall hear the cry in truth; that is the day of coming forth.
43. Surely We give life and cause to die, and to Us is the eventual coming;
44. The day on which the earth shall cleave asunder under them, they will make haste; that is a
gathering together easy to Us.
45. We know best what they say, and you are not one to compel them; therefore remind him by
means of the Quran who fears My threat.
LI. The Scatterers
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by the wind that scatters far and wide,
2. Then those clouds bearing the load (of minute things in space).
3. Then those (ships) that glide easily,
4. Then those (angels who) distribute blessings by Our command;
5. What you are threatened with is most surely true,
6. And the judgment must most surely come about.
7. 1 swear by the heaven full of ways.
8. Most surely you are at variance with each other in what you say,
9. He is turned away from it who would be turned away.
10. Cursed be the liars,
11. Who are in a gulf (of ignorance) neglectful;
12. They ask: When is the day of judgment?
13. (It is) the day on which they shall be tried at the fire.
14. Taste your persecution! this is what.you would hasten on.
15. Surely those who guard (against evil) shall be in gardens and fountains.
16. Taking what their Lord gives them; surely they were before that, the doers of good.
17. They used to sleep but little in the night.
18. And in the morning they asked forgiveness.
19. And in their property was a portion due to him who begs and to him who is denied (good).
20. And in the earth there are signs for those who are sure,
21. And in your own souls (too); will you not then see?
22. And in the heaven is your sustenance and what you are threatened with.
23. And by the Lord of the heavens and the earth! it is most surely the truth, just as you do speak.
24. Has there come to you information about the honored guests of Ibrahim?
25. When they entered upon him, they said: Peace. Peace, said he, a strange people.
26. Then he turned aside to his family secretly and brought a fat (roasted) calf,
27. So he brought it near them. He said: What! will you not eat?
28. So he conceived in his mind a fear on account of them. They said: Fear not. And they gave
him the good news of a boy possessing knowledge.
29. Then his wife came up in great grief, and she struck her face and said: An old barren woman!
30. They said: Thus says your Lord: Surely He is the Wise, the Knowing.
31. He said: What is your affair then, O messengers!
32. They said: Surely we are sent to a guilty people,
33. That we may send down upon them stone of clay,
34. Sent forth from your Lord for the extravagant.
35. Then We brought forth such as were therein of the believers.
36. But We did not find therein save a (single) house of those who submitted (the Muslims).
37. And We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful punishment.
38. And in Musa: When We sent him to Firon with clear authority.
39. But he turned away with his forces and said: A magician or a mad man.
40. So We seized him and his hosts and hurled them into the sea and he was blamable.
41. And in Ad: When We sent upon them the destructive wind.
42. It did not leave aught on which it blew, but it made it like ashes.
43. And in Samood: When it was said to them: Enjoy yourselves for a while.
44. But they revolted against the commandment of their Lord, so the rumbling overtook them
while they saw.
45. So they were not able to rise up, nor could they defend themselves-
46 And the people of Nuh before, surely they were a transgressing people.
47. And the heaven, We raised it high with power, and most surely We are the makers of
things ample.
48. And the earth, We have made it a wide extent; how well have We then spread (it) out.
49. And of everything We have created pairs that you may be mindful.
50. Therefore fly to Allah, surely I am a plain warner to you from Him.
51. And do not set up with Allah another god: surely I am a plain warner to you from Him.
52. Thus there did not come to those before them an apostle but they said: A magician or a
mad man.
53. Have they charged each other with this? Nay! they are an inordinate people.
54. Then turn your back upon them for you are not to blame;
55. And continue to remind, for surely the reminder profits the believers.
56. And I have not created the jinn and the men except that they should serve Me.
57. 1 do not desire from them any sustenance and I do not desire that they should feed Me.
58. Surely Allah is the Bestower of sustenance, the Lord of Power, the Strong.
59. So surely those who are unjust shall have a portion like the portion of their companions,
therefore let them not ask Me to hasten on.
60. Therefore woe to those who disbelieve because of their day which they are threatened with.
LII. The Mountains
. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by the Mountain,
2. And the Book written
3. In an outstretched fine parchment,
4. And the House (Kaaba) that is visited,
S. And the elevated canopy
6. And the swollen sea
7. Most surely the punishment of your Lord will come to pass;
8. There shall be none to avert it;
9. On the day when the heaven shall move from side to side
10. And the mountains shall pass away passing away (altogether).
11. So woe on that day to those who reject (the truth),
12. Those who sport entering into vain discourses.
13. The day on which they shall be driven away to the fire of hell with violence.
14. This is the fire which you used to give the lie to.
15. Is it magic then or do you not see?
16. Enter into it, then bear (it) patiently, or do not bear (it) patiently, it is the same to you; you
shall be requited only (for) what you did.
17. Surely those who guard (against evil) shall be in gardens and bliss
18. Rejoicing because of what their Lord gave them, and their Lord saved them from the
punishment of the burning fire.
19. Eat and drink pleasantly for what you did,
20. Reclining on thrones set in lines, and We will unite them to large-eyed beautiful ones.
21. And (as for) those who believe and their offspring follow them in faith, We will unite with
them their offspring and We will not diminish to them aught of their work; every man is
responsible for what he shall have wrought.
22. And We will aid them with fruit and flesh such as they desire.
23. They shall pass therein from one to another a cup wherein there shall be nothing vain nor
any sin.
24. And round them shall go boys of theirs as if they were hidden pearls.
25. And some of them shall advance towards others questioning each other.
26. Saying: Surely we feared before on account of our families:
27. But Allah has been gracious to us and He has saved us from the punishment of the hot wind:
28. Surely we called upon Him before: Surely He is the Benign, the Merciful.
29. Therefore continue to remind, for by the grace of your Lord, you are not a soothsayer, or a madman.
30. Or do they say: A poet, we wait for him the evil accidents of time.
31. Say: Wait, for surely I too with you am of those who wait.
32. Nay! do their understandings bid them this? Or are they an inordinate people?
33. Or do they say: He has forged it. Nay! they do not believe.
34. Then let them bring an announcement like it if they are truthful.
35. Or were they created without there being anything, or are they the creators?
36. Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay! they have no certainty.
37. Or have they the treasures of your Lord with them? Or have they been set in absolute authority?
38. Or have they the means by which they listen? Then let their listener bring a clear authority.
39. Or has He daughters while you have sons?
40. Or do you ask them for a reward, so that they are overburdened by a debt?
41. Or have they the unseen so that they write (it) down?
42. Or do they desire a war? But those who disbelieve shall be the vanquished ones in war.
43. Or have they a god other than Allah? Glory be to Allah from what they set up (with Him).
44. And if they should see a portion of the heaven coming down, they would say: Piled up clouds.
45. Leave them then till they meet that day of theirs wherein they shall be made to swoon (with
terror):
46. The day on which their struggle shall not avail them aught, nor shall they be helped.
47. And surely those who are unjust shall have a punishment besides that (in the world), but
most of them do not know.
48. And wait patiently for the judgment of your Lord, for surely you are before Our eyes, and
sing the praise of your Lord when you rise;
49. And in the night, give Him glory too, and at the setting of the stars.
LIII. The Star
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent the Merciful. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
LXXIII. The Wrapped up
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
LXXVI. The Man In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by the star when it goes down.
2. Your companion does not err, nor does he go astray;
3. Nor does he speak out of desire.
4. It is naught but revelation that is revealed,
S. The Lord of Mighty Power has taught him,
6. The Lord of Strength; so he attained completion,
7. And he is in the highest part of the horizon.
8. Then he drew near, then he bowed
9. So he was the measure of two bows or closer still.
10. And He revealed to His servant what He revealed.
11. The heart was not untrue in (making him see) what he saw.
12. What! do you then dispute with him as to what he saw?
13. And certainly he saw him in another descent,
14. At the farthest lote-tree;
15. Near which is the garden, the place to be resorted to.
16. When that which covers covered the lote-tree;
17. The eye did not turn aside, nor did it exceed the limit.
18. Certainly he saw of the greatest signs of his Lord.
19. Have you then considered the Lat and the Uzza,
20. And Manat, the third, the last?
21. What! for you the males and for Him the females!
22. This indeed is an unjust division!
23. They are naught but names which you have named, you and your fathers; Allah has not
sent for them any authority. They follow naught but conjecture and the low desires which
(their) souls incline to; and certainly the guidance has come to them from their Lord.
24. Or shall man have what he wishes?
25. Nay! for Allah is the hereafter and the former (life).
26. And how many an angel is there in the heavens whose intercession does not avail at all
except after Allah has given permission to whom He pleases and chooses.
27. Most surely they who do not believe in the hereafter name the angels with female names.
28. And they have no knowledge of it; they do not follow anything but conjecture, and surely
conjecture does not avail against the truth at all.
29. Therefore turn aside from him who turns his back upon Our reminder and does not desire
anything but this world's life.
30. That is their goal of knowledge; surely your Lord knows best him who goes astray from His
path and He knows best him who follows the right direction.
31. And Allah's is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, that He may reward those
who do evil according to what they do, and (that) He may reward those who do good with goodness.
32. Those who keep aloof from the great sins and the indecencies but the passing idea; surely
your Lord is liberal in forgiving. He knows you best when He brings you forth from the earth
and when you are embryos in the wombs of your mothers; therefore do not attribute purity to
your souls; He knows him best who guards (against evil).
33. Have you then seen him who turns his back?
34. And gives a little and (then) withholds.
35. Has he the knowledge of the unseen so that he can see?
36. Or, has he not been informed of what is in the scriptures of Musa?
37. And (of) Ibrahim who fulfilled (the commandments):
38. That no bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another-
39. And that man shall have nothing but what he strives for-
40. And that his striving shall soon be seen-
41. Then shall he be rewarded for it with the fullest reward-
42. And that to your Lord is the goal-
43. And that He it is Who makes (men) laugh and makes (them) weep;
44. And that He it is Who causes death and gives life-
45. And that He created pairs, the male and the female
46. From the small seed when it is adapted
47. And that on Him is the bringing forth a second time;
48. And that He it is Who enriches and gives to hold;
49. And that He is the Lord of the Sirius;
50. And that He did destroy the Ad of old
51. And Samood, so He spared not
52. And the people of Nuh before; surely they were most unjust and inordinate;
53. And the overthrown cities did He overthrow,
54. So there covered them that which covered.
SS. Which of your Lord's benefits will you then dispute about?
56. This is a warner of the warners of old.
57. The near event draws nigh.
58. There shall be none besides Allah to remove it.
59. Do you then wonder at this announcement?
60. And will you laugh and not weep?
61. While you are indulging in varieties.
62. So make obeisance to Allah and serve (Him).
LIV. The Moon
1. The hour drew nigh and the moon did rend asunder.
2. And if they see a miracle they turn aside and say: Transient magic.
3. And they call (it) a lie, and follow their low desires; and every affair has its appointed term.
4. And certainly some narratives have come to them wherein is prevention--
5. Consummate wisdom-- but warnings do not avail;
6. So turn (your) back on them (for) the day when the inviter shall invite them to a hard task,
7. Their eyes cast down, going forth from their graves as if they were scattered locusts,
8. Hastening to the inviter. The unbelievers shall say: This is a hard day.
9. Before them the people of Nuh rejected, so they rejected Our servant and called (him) mad,
and he was driven away.
10. Therefore he called upon his Lord: I am overcome, come Thou then to help.
11. So We opened the gates of the cloud with water pouring
12. And We made water to flow forth in the land in springs, so the water gathered together
according to a measure already ordained.
13. And We bore him on that which was made of planks and nails
14. Sailing, before Our eyes, a reward for him who was denied.
15. And certainly We left it as a sign, but is there anyone who
16. How (great) was then My punishment and My warning!
17. And certainly We have made the Quran easy for remembrance, but is there anyone who
will mind?
18. Ad treated (the truth) as a lie, so how (great) was My punishment and My warning!
19. Surely We sent on them a tornado in a day of bitter ill-luck
20. Tearing men away as if they were the trunks of palm-trees torn up.
21. How (great) was then My punishment and My warning!
22. And certainly We have made the Quran easy for remembrance, but is there anyone who
will mind?
23. Samood rejected the warning.
24. So they said: What! a single mortal from among us! Shall we follow him? Most surely we
shall in that case be in sure error and distress:
25. Has the reminder been made to light upon him from among us? Nay! he is an insolent liar!
26. Tomorrow shall they know who is the liar, the insolent one.
27. Surely We are going to send the she-camel as a trial for them; therefore watch them and
have patience.
28. And inform them that the water is shared between them; every share of the water shall be regulated.
29. But they called their companion, so he took (the sword) and slew (her).
30. How (great) was then My punishment and My warning!
31. Surely We sent upon them a single cry, so they were like the dry fragments of trees which
the maker of an enclosure collects.
32. And certainly We have made the Quran easy for remembrance, but is there anyone who
will mind?
33. The people of Lut treated the warning. as a lie.
34. Surely We sent upon them a stonestorm, except Lut's followers; We saved them a little
before daybreak,
35. A favor from Us; thus do We reward him who gives thanks.
36. And certainly he warned them of Our violent seizure, but they obstinately disputed the warning.
37. And certainly they endeavored to turn him from his guests, but We blinded their eyes; so
taste My chastisement and My warning.
38. And certainly a lasting chastisement overtook them in the morning.
39. So taste My chastisement and My warning.
40. And certainly We have made the Quran easy for remembrance, but is there anyone who
will mind?
41. And certainly the warning came to Firon's people.
42. They rejected all Our communications, so We overtook them after.the manner of a Mighty,
Powerful One.
43. Are the unbelievers of yours better than these, or is there an exemption for you in the scriptures?
44. Or do they say: We are a host allied together to help each other?
45. Soon shall the hosts be routed, and they shall turn (their) backs.
46. Nay, the hour is their promised time, and the hour shall be most grievous and bitter.
47. Surely the guilty are in error and distress.
48. On the day when they shall be dragged upon their faces into the fire; taste the touch of hell.
49. Surely We have created everything according to a measure.
50. And Our command is but one, as the twinkling of an eye.
51. And certainly We have already destroyed the likes of you, but is there anyone who will mind?
52. And everything they have done is in the writings.
53. And everything small and great is written down.
54. Surely those who guard (against evil) shall be in gardens and rivers,
55. In the seat of honor with a most Powerful King.
LV. The Beneficient.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. The Beneficent God,
2. Taught the Quran.
3. He created man,
4. Taught him the mode of expression.
S. The sun and the moon follow a reckoning.
6. And the herbs and the trees do adore (Him).
7. And the heaven, He raised it high, and He made the balance
8. That you may not be inordinate in respect of the measure.
9. And keep up the balance with equity and do not make the measure deficient.
10. And the earth, He has set it for living creatures;
11. Therein is fruit and palms having sheathed clusters,
12. And the grain with (its) husk and fragrance.
13. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
14. He created man from dry clay like earthen vessels,
15. And He created the jinn of a flame of fire.
16. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
17. Lord of the East and Lord of the West.
18. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
19..He has made the two seas to flow freely (so that) they meet together:
20. Between them is a barrier which they cannot pass.
21. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
22. There come forth from them pearls, both large and small.
23: Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
24. And His are the ships reared aloft in the sea like mountains.
25. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
26. Everyone on it must pass away.
27. And there will endure for ever the person of your Lord, the Lord of glory and honor.
28. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
29. All those who are in the heavens and the earth ask of Him; every moment He is in a state
(of glory).
30. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
31. Soon will We apply Ourselves to you, O you two armies.
32. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
33. O assembly of the jinn and the men! If you are able to pass through the regions of the
heavens and the earth, then pass through; you cannot pass through but with authority.
34. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
35. The flames of fire and smoke will be sent on you two, then you will not be able to defend yourselves.
36. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
37. And when the heaven is rent asunder, and then becomes red like red hide.
38. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
39. So on that day neither man nor jinni shall be asked about his sin.
40. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
41. The guilty shall be recognized by their marks, so they shall be seized by the forelocks and
the feet.
42. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
43. This is the hell which the guilty called a lie.
44. Round about shall they go between it and hot, boiling water.
45. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
46. And for him who fears to stand before his Lord are two gardens.
47. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
48. Having in them various kinds.
49. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
50. In both of them are.two fountains flowing.
51. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
52. In both of them are two pairs of every fruit.
53. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
54. Reclining on beds, the inner coverings of which are of silk brocade; and the fruits of the
two gardens shall be within reach.
55. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
56. In them shall be those who restrained their eyes; before them neither man nor jinni shall
have touched them.
57. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
58. As though they were rubies and pearls.
59. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
60. Is the reward of goodness aught but goodness?
61. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
62 And besides these two are two (other) gardens:
63 Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
64. Both inclining to blackness.
65. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
66. In both of them are two springs gushing forth.
67. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
68 In both are fruits and palms and pomegranates.
69 Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
70. In them are goodly things, beautiful ones.
71. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
72. Pure ones confined to the pavilions.
73. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
74. Man has not touched them before them nor jinni.
75. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
76. Reclining on green cushions and beautiful carpets.
77. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?
78. Blessed be the name of your Lord, the Lord of Glory and Honor!
LVI. The Great Event
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. When the great event comes to pass,
2. There is no belying its coming to pass--
3. Abasing (one party), exalting (the other),
4. When the earth shall be shaken with a (severe) shaking,
5. And the mountains shall be made to crumble with (an awful) crumbling,
6. So that they shall be as scattered dust.
7. And you shall be three sorts.
8. Then (as to) the companions of the right hand; how happy are the companions of the right hand!
9. And (as to) the companions of the left hand; how wretched are the companions of the left hand!
10. And the foremost are the foremost,
11. These are they who are drawn nigh (to Allah),
12. In the gardens of bliss.
13. A numerous company from among the first,
14. And a few from among the latter.
15. On thrones decorated,
16. Reclining on them, facing one another.
17. Round about them shall go youths never altering in age,
18. With goblets and ewers and a cup of pure drink;
19. They shall not be affected with headache thereby, nor shall they get exhausted,
20. And fruits such as they choose,
21. And the flesh of fowl such as they desire.
22. And pure, beautiful ones,
23. The like of the hidden pearls:
24. A reward for what they used to do.
25. They shall not hear therein vain or sinful discourse,
26. Except the word peace, peace.
27. And the companions of the right hand; how happy are the companions of the right hand!
28. Amid thornless lote-trees,
29. And banana-trees (with fruits), one above another.
30. And extended shade,
31. And water flowing constantly,
32. And abundant fruit,
33. Neither intercepted nor forbidden,
34. And exalted thrones.
35. Surely We have made them to grow into a (new) growth,
36. Then We have made them virgins,
37. Loving, equals in age,
38. For the sake of the companions of the right hand.
39. A numerous company from among the first,
40. And a numerous company from among the last.
41. And those of the left hand, how wretched are those of the left hand!
42. In hot wind and boiling water,
43. And the shade of black smoke,
44. Neither cool nor honorable.
45. Surely they were before that made to live in ease and plenty.
46. And they persisted in the great violation.
47. And they used to say: What! when we die and have become dust and bones, shall we then
indeed be raised?
48. Or our fathers of yore?
49. Say: The first and the last,
SO. Shall most surely be gathered together for the appointed hour of a known day.
51. Then shall you, O you who err and call it a lie!
52. Most surely eat of a tree of Zaqqoom,
53. And fill (your) bellies with it;
54. Then drink over it of boiling water;
55. And drink as drinks the thirsty camel.
56. This is their entertainment on the day of requital.
57. We have created you, why do you not then assent?
58. Have you considered the seed?
59. Is it you that create it or are We the creators?
60. We have ordained death among you and We are not to be overcome,
61. In order that We may bring in your place the likes of you and make you grow into what you
know not.
62. And certainly you know the first growth, why do you not then mind?
63. Have you considered what you sow?
64. Is it you that cause it to grow, or are We the causers of growth?
65. If We pleased, We should have certainly made it broken down into pieces, then would you
begin tb lament:
66. Surely we are burdened with debt:
67. Nay! we are deprived.
68. Have you considered the water which you drink?
69. Is it you that send it down from the clouds, or are We the senders?
70. If We pleased, We would have made it salty; why do you not then give thanks?
71. Have you considered the fire which you strike?
72. Is it you that produce the trees for it, or are We the producers?
73. We have made it a reminder and an advantage for the wayfarers of the desert.
74. Therefore glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.
75. But nay! I swear by the falling of stars;
76. And most surely it is a very great oath if you only knew;
77. Most surely it is an honored Quran,
78. In a book that is protected
79. None shall touch it save the purified ones.
80. A revelation by the Lord of the worlds.
81. Do you then hold this announcement in contempt?
82. And to give (it) the lie you make your means of subsistence.
83. Why is it not then that when it (soul) comes up to the throat,
84. And you at that time look on--
85. And We are nearer to it than you, but you do not see--
86. Then why is it not-- if you are not held under authority--
87. That you send it (not) back-- if you are truthful?
88. Then if he is one of those drawn nigh (to Allah),
89. Then happiness and bounty and a garden of bliss.
90. And if he is one of those on the right hand,
91. Then peace to you from those on the right hand.
92. And if he is one of the rejecters, the erring ones,
93. He shall have an entertainment of boiling water,
94. And burning in hell.
95. Most surely this is a certain truth.
96. Therefore glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.
LVII. The Iron
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Whatever is in the heavens and the earth declares the glory of Allah, and He is the Mighty,
the Wise.
2. His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; He gives life and causes death; and He has
power over all things.
3. He is the First and the Last and the Ascendant (over all) and the Knower of hidden things,
and He is Cognizant of all things.
4. He it is who created the heavens and the earth in six periods, and He is firm in power; He
knows that which goes deep down into the earth and that which comes forth out of it, and that
which comes down from the heaven and that which goes up into it, and He is with you
wherever you are; and Allah sees what you do.
5. His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and to Allah are (all) affairs returned.
6. He causes the night to enter in upon the day, and causes the day to enter in upon the night,
and He is Cognizant of what is in the hearts.
7. Believe in Allah and His Apostle, and spend out of what He has made you to be successors
of; for those of you who believe and spend shall have a great reward.
8. And what reason have you that you should not believe in Allah? And the Apostle calls on
you that you may believe in your Lord, and indeed He has made a covenant with you if you are
believers.
9. He it is who sends down clear communications upon His servant, that he may bring you
forth from utter darkness into light; and most surely Allah is Kind, Merciful to you.
10. And what reason have you that you should not spend in Allah's way? And Allah's is the
inheritance of the heavens and the earth, not alike among you are those who spent before the
victory and fought (and those who did not): they are more exalted in rank than those who spent
and fought afterwards; and Allah has promised good to all; and Allah is Aware of what you do.
I 1. Who is there that will offer to Allah a good gift so He will double it for him, and he shall
have an excellent reward.
12. On that day you will see the faithful men and the faithful women-- their light running
before them and on their right hand-- good news for you today: gardens beneath which rivers
flow, to abide therein, that is the grand achievement.
13. On the day when the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women will say to those who
believe: Wait for us, that we may have light from your light; it shall be said: Turn back and
seek a light. Then separation would be brought about between them, with a wall having a door
in it; (as for) the inside of it, there shall be mercy in it, and (as for) the outside of it, before it
there shall be punishment.
14. They will cry out to them: Were we not with you? They shall say: Yea! but you caused
yourselves to fall into temptation, and you waited and doubted, and vain desires deceived you
till the threatened punishment of Allah came, while the archdeceiver deceived you about Allah.
15. So today ransom shall not be accepted from you nor from those who disbelieved; your
abode is the fire; it is your friend and evil is the resort.
16. Has not the time yet come for those who believe that their hearts should be humble for the
remembrance of Allah and what has come down of the truth? And ~that) they should not be
like those who were given the Book before, but the time became prolonged to them, so their
hearts hardened, and most of them are transgressors.
17. Know that Allah gives life to the earth after its death; indeed, We have made the
communications clear to you that you may understand.
18. Surely (as for) the charitable men and the charitable women and (those who) set apart for
Allah a goodly portion, it shall be doubled for them and they shall have a noble reward.
19. And (as for) those who believe in Allah and His apostles, these it is that are the truthful and
the faithful ones in the sight of their Lord: they shall have their reward and their light, and (as
for) those who disbelieve and reject Our communications, these are the inmates of the hell.
20. Know that this world's life is only sport and play and gaiety and boasting among
yourselves, and a vying in the multiplication of wealth and children, like the rain, whose
causing the vegetation to grow, pleases the husbandmen, then it withers away so that you will
see it become yellow, then it becomes dried up and broken down; and in the hereafter is a
severe chastisement and (also) forgiveness from Allah and (His) pleasure; and this world's life
is naught but means of deception.
21 . Hasten to forgiveness from your Lord and to a garden the extensiveness of which is as the
extensiveness of the heaven and the earth; it is prepared for those who believe in Allah and
His apostles; that is the grace of Allah: He gives it to whom He pleases, and Allah is the Lord
of mighty grace.
22. No evil befalls on the earth nor in your own souls, but it is in a book before We bring it
into existence; surely that is easy to Allah:
23. So that you may not grieve for what has escaped you, nor be exultant at what He has given
you; and Allah does not love any arrogant boaster:
24. Those who are niggardly and enjoin niggardliness on men; and whoever turns back, then
surely Allah is He Who is the Selfsufficient, the Praised.
25. Certainly We sent Our apostles with clear arguments, and sent down with them the Book
and the balance that men may conduct themselves with equity; and We have made the iron,
wherein is great violence and advantages to men, and that Allah may know who helps Him and
His apostles in the secret; surely Allah is Strong, Mighty.
26. And certainly We sent Nuh and Ibrahim and We gave to their offspring the (gift of)
prophecy and the Book; so there are among them those who go aright, and most of them are transgressors.
27. Then We made Our apostles to follow in their footsteps, and We sent Isa son of Marium
afterwards, and We gave him the Injeel, and We put in the hearts of those who followed him
kindness and mercy; and (as for) monkery, they innovated it-- We did not prescribe it to them--
only to seek Allah's pleasure, but they did not observe it with its due observance; so We gave
to those of them who believed their reward, and most of them are transgressors.
28. O you who believe! be careful of (your duty to) Allah and believe in His Apostle: He will
give you two portions of His mercy, and make for you a light with which you will walk, and
forgive you, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful;
29. So that the followers of the Book may know that they do not control aught of the grace of
Allah, and that grace 15 m Allah's hand, He gives it to whom He pleases; and Allah is the
Lord of mighty grace.
LVIII. The Pleading One
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Allah indeed knows the plea of her who pleads with you about her husband and complains
to Allah, and Allah knows the contentions of both of you; surely Allah is Hearing, Seeing.
2. (As for) those of you who put away their wives by likening their backs to the backs of their
mothers, they are not their mothers; their mothers are no others than those who gave them
birth; and most surely they utter a hateful word and a falsehood and most surely Allah is
Pardoning, Forgiving.
3. And (as for) those who put away their wives by likening their backs to the backs of their
mothers then would recall what they said, they should free a captive before they touch each
other; to that you are admonished (to conform); and Allah is Aware of what you do.
4. But whoever has not the means, let him fast for two months successively before they touch
each other; then as for him who is not able, let him feed sixty needy ones; that is in order that
you may have faith in Allah and His Apostle, and these are Allah's limits, and the unbelievers
shall have a painful punishment.
5. Surely those who act in opposition to Allah and His Apostle shall be laid down prostrate as
those before them were laid down prostrate; and indeed We have revealed clear
communications, and the unbelievers shall have an abasing chastisement.
6. On the day when Allah will raise them up all together, then inform them of what they did:
Allah has recorded it while they have forgotten it; and Allah is a witness of all things.
7. Do you not see that Allah knows whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth?
Nowhere is there a secret counsel between three persons but He is the fourth of them, nor
(between) five but He is the sixth of them, nor less than that nor more but He is with them
wheresoever they are; then He will inform them of what they did on the day of resurrection:
surely Allah is Cognizant of all things.
8. Have you not seen those who are forbidden secret counsels, then they return to what they are
forbidden, and they hold secret counsels for sin and revolt and disobedience to the Apostle,
and when they come to you they greet you with a greeting with which Allah does not greet
you, and they say in themselves: Why does not Allah punish us for what we say? Hell is enough
for them; they shall enter it, and evil is the resort.
9. O you who believe! when you confer together in private, do not give to each other counsel
of sin and revolt and disobedience to the Apostle, and give to each other counsel of goodness
and guarding (against evil); and be careful of (your duty to) Allah, to Whom you shall be
gathered together.
10. Secret counsels are only (the work) of the Shaitan that he may cause to grieve those who
believe, and he cannot hurt them in the least except with Allah's permission, and on Allah let
the believers rely.
11. O you who believe! when it is said to you, Make room in (your) assemblies, then make
ample room, Allah will give you ample, and when it is said: Rise up, then rise up. Allah will
exalt those of you who believe, and those who are given knowledge, in high degrees; and Allah
is Aware of what you do.
12. O you who believe! when you consult the Apostle, then offer something in charity before
your consultation; that is better for you and purer; but if you do not find, then surely Allah is
Forgiving, Merciful.
13. Do you fear that you will not (be able to) give in charity before your consultation? So when
you do not do it and Allah has turned to you (mercifully), then keep up prayer and pay the
poor-rate and obey Allah and His Apostle; and Allah is Aware of what you do.
14. Have you not seen those who befriend a people with whom Allah is wroth? They are
neither of you nor of them, and they swear falsely while they know.
15. Allah has prepared for them a severe punishment; surely what they do is evil.
16. They make their oaths to serve as a cover so they turn away from Allah's way; therefore
they shall have an abasing chastisement.
17. Neither their wealth nor their children shall avail them aught against Allah; they are the
inmates of the fire, therein they shall abide.
18. On the day that Allah will raise them up all, then they will swear to Him as they swear to
you, and they think that they have something; now surely they are the liars.
19. The Shaitan has gained the mastery over them, so he has made them forget the
remembrance of Allah; they are the Shaitan's party; now surely the Shaitan's party are the losers.
20. Surely (as for) those who are in opposition to Allah and His Apostle; they shall be among
the most abased.
21. Allah has written down: I will most certainly prevail, I
and My apostles; surely Allah is Strong, Mighty.
22. You shall not find a people who believe in Allah and the latter day befriending those who
act in opposition to Allah and His Apostle, even though they were their (own) fathers, or their
sons, or their brothers, or their kinsfolk; these are they into whose hearts He has impressed
faith, and whom He has strengthened with an inspiration from Him: and He will cause them to
enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein; Allah is well-pleased with them and
they are well-pleased with Him these are Allah's party: now surely the party of Allah are the
successful ones.
LIX. The Banishment
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent the Merciful.
1. Whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth declares the glory of Allah, and He
is the Mighty, the Wise.
2. He it is Who caused those who disbelieved of the followers of the Book to go forth from
their homes at the first banishment you did not think that they would go forth, while they were
certain that their fortresses would defend them against Allah; but Allah came to them whence
they did not expect, and cast terror into their hearts; they demolished their houses with their
own hands and the hands of the believers; therefore take a lesson, O you who have eyes!
3. And had it not been that Allah had decreed for them the exile, He would certainly have
punished them in this world, and m the hereafter they shall have chastisement of the fire.
4. That is because they acted in opposition to Allah and His Apostle, and whoever acts in
opposition to Allah, then surely Allah is severe in retributing (evil).
5. Whatever palm-tree you cut down or leave standing upon its roots, It 15 by Allah's
command, and that He may abase the transgressors.
6. And whatever Allah restored to His Apostle from them you did not press forward against it
any horse or a riding camel but Allah gives authority to His apostles against whom He pleases,
and Allah has power over all things.
7. Whatever Allah has restored to His Apostle from the people of the towns, it is for Allah and
for the Apostle, and for the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, so that
it may not be a thing taken by turns among the rich of you, and whatever the Apostle gives you,
accept it, and from whatever he forbids you, keep back, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah;
surely Allah is severe in retributing (evil):
8. (It is) for the poor who fled their homes and their possessions, seeking grace of Allah and
(His) pleasure, and assisting Allah and His Apostle: these it is that are the truthful.
9. And those who made their abode in the city and in the faith before them love those who
have fled to them, and do not find in their hearts a need of what they are given, and prefer
(them) before themselves though poverty may afflict them, and whoever is preserved from the
niggardliness of his soul, these it is that are the successful ones.
10. And those who come after them say: Our Lord! forgive us and those of our brethren who
had precedence of us in faith, and do not allow any spite to remain in our hearts towards those
who believe, our Lord! surely Thou art Kind, Merciful.
11. Have you not seen those who have become hypocrites? They say to those of their brethren
who disbelieve from among the followers of the Book: If you are driven forth, we shall
certainly go forth with you, and we will never obey any one concerning you, and if you are
fought against, we will certainly help you, and Allah bears witness that they are most surely liars.
12. Certainly if these are driven forth, they will not go forth with them, and if they are fought
against, they will not help them, and even if they help-them, they will certainly turn (their)
backs, then they shall not be helped.
13. You are certainly greater in being feared in their hearts than Allah; that is because they are
a people who do not understand
14. They will not fight against you in a body save in fortified towns or from behind walls; their
fighting between them is severe, you may think them as one body, and their hearts are
disunited; that is because they are a people who have no sense.
15. Like those before them shortly; they tasted the evil result of their affair, and they shall have
a painful punishment.
16. Like the Shaitan when he says to man: Disbelieve, but when he disbelieves, he says: I am
surely clear of you; surely I fear Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
17. Therefore the end of both of them is that they are both in the fire to abide therein, and that
is the reward of the unjust.
18. O you who believe! be careful of (your duty to) Allah, and let every soul consider what it
has sent on for the morrow, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah; surely Allah is Aware of
what you do.
19. And be not like those who forsook Allah, so He made them forsake their own souls: these
it is that are the transgressors.
20. Not alike are the inmates of the fire and the dwellers of the garden: the dwellers of the
garden are they that are the achievers.
21. Had We sent down this Quran on a mountain, you would certainly have seen it falling
down, splitting asunder because of the fear of Allah, and We set forth these parables to men
that they may reflect.
22. He is Allah besides Whom there is no god; the Knower of the unseen and the seen; He is
the Beneficent, the Merciful
23. He is Allah, besides Whom there is no god; the King, the Holy, the Giver of peace, the
Granter of security, Guardian over all, the Mighty, the Supreme, the Possessor of every
greatness Glory be to Allah from what they set up (with Him).
24. He is Allah the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner; His are the most excellent names;
whatever is in the heavens and the earth declares His glory; and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
LX. The Examined One
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. O you who believe! do not take My enemy and your enemy for friends: would you offer
them love while they deny what has come to you of the truth, driving out the Apostle and
yourselves because you believe in Allah, your Lord? If you go forth struggling hard in My path
and seeking My pleasure, would you manifest love to them? And I know what you conceal
and what you manifest; and whoever of you does this, he indeed has gone astray from the
straight path.
2. If they find you, they will be your enemies, and will stretch forth towards you their hands
and their tongues with evil, and they ardently desire that you may disbelieve.
3. Your relationship would not profit you, nor your children on the day of resurrection; He will
decide between you; and Allah sees what you do.
4. Indeed, there is for you a good example in Ibrahim and those with him when they said to
their people: Surely we are clear of you and of what you serve besides Allah; we declare
ourselves to be clear of you, and enmity and hatred have appeared between us and you forever
until you believe in Allah alone-- but not in what Ibrahim said to his father: I would certainly
ask forgiveness for you, and I do not control for you aught from Allah-- Our Lord! on Thee do
we rely, and to Thee do we turn, and to Thee is the eventual coming:
5. Our Lord! do not make us a trial for those who disbelieve, and forgive us, our Lord! surely
Thou art the Mighty, the Wise.
6. Certainly there is for you in them a good example, for him who fears Allah and the last day;
and whoever turns back, then surely Allah is the Self-sufficient, the Praised.
7. It may be that Allah will bring about friendship between you and those whom you hold to be
your enemies among them; and Allah is Powerful; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
8. Allah does not forbid you respecting those who have not made war against you on account
of (your) religion, and have not driven you forth from your homes, that you show them
kindness and deal with them justly; surely Allah loves the doers of justice.
9. Allah only forbids you respecting those who made war upon you on account of (your)
religion, and drove you forth from your homes and backed up (others) in your expulsion, that
you make friends with them, and whoever makes friends with them, these are the unjust.
10. O you who believe! when believing women come to you flying, then examine them; Allah
knows best their faith; then if you find them to be believing women, do not send them back to
the unbelievers, neither are these (women) lawful for them, nor are those (men) lawful for
them, and give them what they have spent; and no blame attaches to you in marrying them
when you give them their dowries; and hold not to the ties of marriage of unbelieving women,
and ask for what you have spent, and kt them ask for what they have spent. That is Allah's
judgment; He judges between you, and Allah is Knowing, Wise.
11. And if anything (out of the dowries) of your wives has passed away from you to the
unbelievers, then your turn comes, give to those whose wives have gone away the like of what
they have spent, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah in Whom you believe.
12. O Prophet! when believing women come to you giving you a pledge that they will not
associate aught with Allah, and will not steal, and will not commit fornication, and will not
kill their children, and will not bring a calumny which they have forged of themselves, and will
not disobey you in what is good, accept their pledge, and ask forgiveness for them from Allah;
surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
13. O you who believe! do not make friends with a people with whom Allah is wroth; indeed
they despair of the hereafter as the unbelievers despair of those in tombs.
LXI. The Ranks
. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth declares the glory of Allah; and He
is the Mighty, the Wise.
2. O you who believe! why do you say that which you do not do?
3. It is most hateful to Allah that you should say that which you do not do.
4. Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way in ranks as if they were a firm and compact wall.
5. And when Musa said to his people: O my people! why do you give me trouble? And you
know indeed that I am Allah's apostle to you; but when they turned aside, Allah made their
hearts turn aside, and Allah does not guide the transgressing people.
6. And when Isa son of Marium said: O children of Israel! surely I am the apostle of Allah to
you, verifying that which is before me of the Taurat and giving the good news of an Apostle
who will come after me, his name being Ahmad, but when he came to them with clear
arguments they said: This is clear magic.
7. And who is more unjust than he who forges a lie against Allah and he is invited to Islam,
and Allah does not guide the unjust people.
8. They desire to put out the light of Allah with their mouths but Allah will perfect His light,
though the unbelievers may be averse.
9. He it is Who sent His Apostle with the guidance and the true religion, that He may make it
overcome the religions, all of them, though the polytheists may be averse.
10. O you who believe! shall I lead you to a merchandise which may deliver you from a painful
chastisement?
11. You shall believe in Allah and H,is Apostle, and struggle hard in Allah's way with your
property and your lives; that is better for you, did you but know!
12. He will forgive you your faults and cause you to enter into gardens, beneath which rivers
flow, and goodly dwellings in gardens of perpetuity; that is the mighty achievement;
13. And yet another (blessing) that you love: help from Allah and a victory near at hand; and
give good news to the believers.
14. O you who believe! be helpers (in the cause) of Allah, as~ Isa son of Marium said to (his)
disciples: Who are my helpers in the cause of Allah? The disciples said: We are helpers (in the
cause) of Allah. So a party of the children of Israel believed and another party disbelieved; then
We aided those who believed against their enemy, and they became uppermost.
LXII. Friday
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth declares the glory of Allah, the King,
the Holy, the Mighty, the Wise.
2. He it is Who raised among the inhabitants of Mecca an Apostle from among themselves,
who recites to them His communications and purifies them, and teaches them the Book and
the Wisdom, although they were before certainly in clear error,
3. And others from among them who have not yet joined them; and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
4. That is Allah's grace; He grants it to whom He pleases, and Allah is the Lord of mighty grace.
5. The likeness of those who were charged with the Taurat, then they did not observe it, is as
the likeness of the ass bearing books, evil is the likeness of the people who reject the
communications of Allah; and Allah does not guide the unjust people.
6. Say: O you who are Jews, if you think that you are the favorites of Allah to the exclusion of
other people, then invoke death If you are truthful.
7. And they will never invoke it because of what their hands have sent before; and Allah is
Cognizant of the unjust.
8. Say: (As for) the death from which you flee, that will surely overtake you, then you shall be
sent back to the Knower of the unseen and the seen, and He will inform you of that which you did.
9. O you who believe! when the call is made for prayer on Friday, then hasten to the
remembrance of Allah and leave off trading; that is better for you, if you know.
10. But when the prayer is ended, then disperse abroad in the land and seek of Allah's grace,
and remember Allah much, that you may be successful.
11. And when they see merchandise or sport they break up for It, and leave you standing. Say:
What is with Allah is better than sport and (better) than merchandise, and Allah is the best of Sustainers.
LXIII. The Hypocrites
1. When the hypocrites come to you, they say: We bear witness that you are most surely Allah's
Apostle; and Allah knows that you are most surely His Apostle, and Allah bears witness that
the hypocrites are surely liars.
2. They make their oaths a shelter, and thus turn away from Allah's way; surely evil is that
which they do.
3. That is because they believe, then disbelieve, so a seal is set upon their hearts so that they do
not understand.
4. And when you see them, their persons will please you, and If they speak, you will listen to
their speech; (they are) as if they were big pieces of wood clad with garments; they think
every cry to be against them. They are the enemy, therefore beware of them; may Allah destroy
them, whence are they turned back?
5. And when it is said to them: Come, the Apostle of Allah will ask forgiveness for you, they
turn back their heads and you may see them turning away while they are big with pride.
6. It is alike to them whether you beg forgiveness for them or do not beg forgiveness for them;
Allah will never forgive them; surely Allah does not guide the transgressing people.
7. They it is who say: Do not spend upon those who are with the Apostle of Allah until they
break up. And Allah's are the treasures of the heavens and the earth, but the hypocrites do not understand.
8. They say: If we return to Medina, the mighty will surely drive out the meaner therefrom; and
to Allah belongs the might and to His Apostle and to the believers, but the hypocrites do not know.
9. O you who believe! let not your wealth, or your children,
divert you from the remembrance of Allah; and whoever does that, these are the losers.
10. And spend out of what We have given you before death comes to one of you, so that he
should say: My Lord! why didst Thou not respite me to a near term, so that I should have
given alms and been of the doers of good deeds?
11. And Allah does not respite a soul when its appointed term has come, and Allah is Aware of
what you do.
LXIV. Loss and Gain
1. Whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth declares the glory of Allah; to Him
belongs the kingdom, and to Him is due (all) praise, and He has power over all things.
2. He it is Who created you, but one of you is an unbeliever and another of you is a believer;
and Allah sees what you do.
3. He created the heavens and the earth with truth, and He formed you, then made goodly your
forms, and to Him is the ultimate resort.
4. He knows what is in the heavens and the earth, and He knows what you hide and what you
manifest;and Allah is Cognizant of what is in the hearts.
S. Has there not come to you the story of those who disbelieved before, then tasted the evil
result of their conduct, and they had a painful punishment?
6. That is because there came to them their apostles with clear arguments, but they said: Shall
mortals guide us? So they disbelieved and turned back, and Allah does not stand in need (of
anything), and Allah is Self-sufficient, Praised.
7. Those who disbelieve think that they shall never be raised. Say: Aye! by my Lord! you shall
most certainly be raised, then you shall most certainly be informed of what you did; and that is
easy to Allah.
8. Therefore believe in Allah and His Apostle and the Light which We have revealed; and
Allah is Aware of what you do.
9. On the day that He will gather you for the day of gathering, that is the day of loss and gain;
and whoever believes in Allah and does good, He will remove from him his evil and cause
him to enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide therein forever; that is the great achievement.
10. And (as for) those who disbelieve and reject Our communications, they are the inmates of
the fire, to abide therein and evil is the resort.
11. No affliction comes about but by Allah's permission; and whoever believes in Allah, He
guides aright his heart; and Allah is Cognizant of all things.
12. And obey Allah and obey the Apostle, but if you turn back, then upon Our Apostle
devolves only the clear delivery (of the message).
13. Allah, there is no god but He; and upon Allah, then, let the believers rely.
14. O you who believe! surely from among your wives and your children there is an enemy to
you; therefore beware of them; and if you pardon and forbear and forgive, then surely Allah is
Forgiving, Merciful.
15. Your possessions and your children are only a trial, and Allah it is with Whom is a great reward.
16. Therefore be careful of (your duty to) Allah as much as you can, and hear and obey and
spend, it is better for your souls; and whoever is saved from the greediness of his soul, these it
is that are the successful.
17. If you set apart for Allah a goodly portion, He will double it for you and forgive you; and
Allah is the Multiplier (of rewards), Forbearing,
18. The Knower of the unseen and the seen, the Mighty, the Wise.
LXV The Divorce
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. O Prophet! when you divorce women, divorce them for~ their prescribed time, and calculate
the number of the days prescribed, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah, your Lord. Do not
drive them out of their houses, nor should they themselves go forth, unless they commit an
open indecency; and these are the limits of Allah, and whoever goes beyond the limits of
Allah, he indeed does injustice to his own soul. You do not know that Allah may after that
bring about reunion.
2. So when they have reached their prescribed time, then retain them with kindness or separate
them with kindness, and call to witness two men of justice from among you, and give upright
testimony for Allah. With that is admonished he who believes in Allah and the latter day; and
whoever is careful of (his duty to) Allah, He will make for him an outlet,
3. And give him sustenance from whence he thinks not; and whoever trusts in Allah, He is
sufficient for him; surely Allah attains His purpose; Allah indeed has appointed a measure for everything.
4. And (as for) those of your women who have despaired of menstruation, if you have a doubt,
their prescribed time shall be three months, and of those too who have not had their courses;
and (as for) the pregnant women, their prescribed time is that they lay down their burden; and
whoever is careful of (his duty to) Allah He will make easy for him his affair.
5. That is the command of Allah which He has revealed to you, and whoever is careful of (his
duty to) Allah, He will remove from him his evil and give him a big reward.
6. Lodge them where you lodge according to your means, and do not injure them in order that
you may straiten them; and if they are pregnant, spend on them until they lay down their
burden; then if they suckle for you, give them their recompense and enjoin one another among
you to do good; and if you disagree, another (woman) shall suckle for him.
7. Let him who has abundance spend out of his abundance and whoever has his means of
subsistence straitened to him, let him spend out of that which Allah has given him; Allah does
not lay on any soul a burden except to the extent to which He has granted it; Allah brings about
ease after difficulty.
8. And how many a town which rebelled against the commandment of its Lord and His
apostles, so We called it to account severely and We chastised it (with) a stern chastisement.
9. So it tasted the evil result of its conduct, and the end of its affair was perdition.
10. Allah has prepared for them severe chastisement, therefore be careful of (your duty to)
Allah, O men of understanding who believe! Allah has indeed revealed to you a reminder,
11. An Apostle who recites to you the clear communications of Allah so that he may bring
forth those who believe and do good deeds from darkness into light; and whoever believes in
Allah and does good deeds, He will cause him to enter gardens beneath which rivers now, to
abide therein forever, Allah has indeed given him a goodly sustenance.
12. Allah is He Who created seven heavens, and of the earth the like of them; the decree
continues to descend among them, that you may know that Allah has power over all things
and that Allah indeed encompasses all things in (His) knowledge.
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. O Prophet! why do you forbid (yourself) that which Allah has made lawful for you; you
seek to please your wives; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
2. Allah indeed has sanctioned for you the expiation of your oaths and Allah is your Protector,
and He is the Knowing the Wise.
3. And when the prophet secretly communicated a piece of information to one of his wives--
but when she informed (others) of it, and Allah made him to know it, he made known part of
it and avoided part; so when he informed her of it, she said: Who informed you of this? He said:
The Knowing, the one Aware, informed me.
4. If you both turn to Allah, then indeed your hearts are already inclined (to this); and if you
back up each other against him, then surely Allah it is Who is his Guardian, and Jibreel and
-the believers that do good, and the angels after that are the aiders.
5. Maybe, his Lord, if he divorce you, will give him in your place wives better than you,
submissive, faithful, obedient, penitent, adorers, fasters, widows and virgins.
6. O you who believe! save yourselves and your families from a fire whose fuel is men and
stones; over it are angels stern and strong, they do not disobey Allah in what He commands
them, and do as they are commanded.
7. O you who disbelieve! do not urge excuses today; you shall be rewarded only according to
what you did.
8. O you who believe! turn to Allah a sincere turning; maybe your Lord will remove from you
your evil and cause you to enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, on the day on which Allah
will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him; their light shall run on before them
and on their right hands; they shall say: Our Lord! make perfect for us our light, and grant us
protection, surely Thou hast power over all things.
9. O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and be hard against them;
and their abode is hell; and evil is the resort.
10. Allah sets forth an example to those who disbelieve the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut:
they were both under two of Our righteous servants, but they acted treacherously towards
them so they availed them naught against Allah, and it was said: Enter both the fire with those
who enter.
11. And Allah sets forth an example to those who believe the wife of Firon when she said: My
Lord! build for me a house with Thee in the garden and deliver me from Firon and his doing,
and deliver me from the unjust people:
12. And Marium, the daughter of Imran, who guarded her chastity, so We breathed into her of
Our inspiration and she accepted the truth of the words of her Lord and His books, and she
was of, the obedient ones.
LXVI. The Prohibition
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. O Prophet! why do you forbid (yourself) that which Allah has made lawful for you; you
seek to please your wives; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
2. Allah indeed has sanctioned for you the expiation of your oaths and Allah is your Protector,
and He is the Knowing the Wise.
3. And when the prophet secretly communicated a piece of information to one of his wives--
but when she informed (others) of it, and Allah made him to know it, he made known part of
it and avoided part; so when he informed her of it, she said: Who informed you of this? He said:
The Knowing, the one Aware, informed me.
4. If you both turn to Allah, then indeed your hearts are already inclined (to this); and if you
back up each other against him, then surely Allah it is Who is his Guardian, and Jibreel and
-the believers that do good, and the angels after that are the aiders.
5. Maybe, his Lord, if he divorce you, will give him in your place wives better than you,
submissive, faithful, obedient, penitent, adorers, fasters, widows and virgins.
6. O you who believe! save yourselves and your families from a fire whose fuel is men and
stones; over it are angels stern and strong, they do not disobey Allah in what He commands
them, and do as they are commanded.
7. O you who disbelieve! do not urge excuses today; you shall be rewarded only according to
what you did.
8. O you who believe! turn to Allah a sincere turning; maybe your Lord will remove from you
your evil and cause you to enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, on the day on which Allah
will not abase the Prophet and those who believe with him; their light shall run on before them
and on their right hands; they shall say: Our Lord! make perfect for us our light, and grant us
protection, surely Thou hast power over all things.
9. O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and be hard against them;
and their abode is hell; and evil is the resort.
10. Allah sets forth an example to those who disbelieve the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut:
they were both under two of Our righteous servants, but they acted treacherously towards
them so they availed them naught against Allah, and it was said: Enter both the fire with those
who enter.
11. And Allah sets forth an example to those who believe the wife of Firon when she said: My
Lord! build for me a house with Thee in the garden and deliver me from Firon and his doing,
and deliver me from the unjust people:
12. And Marium, the daughter of Imran, who guarded her chastity, so We breathed into her of
Our inspiration and she accepted the truth of the words of her Lord and His books, and she
was of, the obedient ones.
LXVII. The Kingdom
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things,
2. Who created death and life that He may try you-- which of you is best in deeds; and He is
the Mighty, the Forgiving,
3. Who created the seven heavens one above another; you see no incongruity in the creation of
the Beneficent God; then look again, can you see any disorder?
4. Then turn back the eye again and again; your look shall '~ come back to you confused while
it is fatigued.
5. And certainly We have adorned this lower heaven with ( lamps and We have made these
missiles for the Shaitans, and We have prepared for them the chastisement of burning.
6. And for those who disbelieve in their Lord is the punishment of hell, and evil is the resort.
7. When they shall be cast therein, they shall hear a loud moaning of it as it heaves,
8. Almost bursting for fury. Whenever a group is cast into it, its keeper shall ask them: Did
there not come to you a warner?
9. They shall say: Yea! indeed there came to us a warner, but we rejected (him) and said: Allah
has not revealed anything, you are only in a great error.
10. And they shall say: Had we but listened or pondered, we should not have been among the
inmates of the burning fire.
11. So they shall acknowledge their sins, but far will be (forgiveness) from the inmates of the
burning fire.
12. (As for) those who fear their Lord in secret, they shall surely have forgiveness and a great reward.
13. And conceal your word or manifest it; surely He is Cognizant of what is in the hearts.
14. Does He not know, Who created? And He is the Knower of the subtleties, the Aware.
15. He it is Who made the earth smooth for you, therefore go about in the spacious sides
thereof, and eat of His sustenance, and to Him is the return after death.
16. Are you secure of those in the heaven that He should not make the earth to swallow you
up? Then lo! it shall be in a state of commotion.
17. Or are you secure of those in the heaven that He should not send down upon you a
punishment? Then shall you know how was My warning.
18. And certainly those before them rejected (the truth), then how was My disapproval.
19. Have they not seen the birds above them expanding (their wings) and contracting (them)?
What is it that withholds them save the Beneficent God? Surely He sees everything.
20. Or who is it that will be a host for you to assist you besides the Beneficent God? The
unbelievers are only in deception.
21. Or who is it that will give you sustenance if He should withhold His sustenance? Nay! they
persist in disdain and aversion.
22. What! is he who goes prone upon his face better guided or he who walks upright upon a
straight path?
23. Say: He it is Who brought you into being and made for you the ears and the eyes and the
hearts: little is it that you give thanks.
24. Say: He it is Who multiplied you in the earth and to Him you shall be gathered.
25. And they say: When shall this threat be (executed) if you are truthful?
26. Say: The knowledge (thereof is only with Allah and I am only a plain warner.=
27. But when they shall see it nigh, the faces of those who disbelieve shall be sorry, and it shall
be said; This is that which you used to call for.
28. Say: Have you considered if Allah should destroy me and those with me-- rather He will
have mercy on us; yet who will protect the unbelievers from a painful punishment?
29. Say: He is the Beneficent God, we believe in Him and on Him do we rely, so you shall
come to know who it is that is in clear error.
30. Say: Have you considered if your water should go down, who is it then that will bring you
flowing water?
LXVIII. The Pen
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Noon. I swear by the pen and what the angels write,
2. By the grace of your Lord you are not mad.
3. And most surely you shall have a reward never to be cut off.
4. And most surely you conform (yourself) to sublime morality.
S. So you shall see, and they (too) shall see,
6. Which of you is afflicted with madness.
7. Surely your Lord best knows him who errs from His way, and He best knows the followers
of the right course.
8. So do not yield to the rejecters.
9. They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant.
10. And yield not to any mean swearer
11. Defamer, going about with slander
12. Forbidder of good, outstepping the limits, sinful,
13. Ignoble, besides all that, base-born;
14. Because he possesses wealth and sons.
15. When Our communications are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore.
16. We will brand him on the nose.
17. Surely We will try them as We tried the owners of the garden, when they swore that they
would certainly cut off the produce in the morning,
18. And were not willing to set aside a portion (for the poor).
19. Then there encompassed it a visitation from your Lord while they were sleeping.
20. So it became as black, barren land.
21. And they called out to each other in the morning,
22. Saying: Go early to your tilth if you would cut (the produce).
23. So they went, while they consulted together secretly,
24. Saying: No poor man shall enter it today upon you.
25. And in the morning they went, having the power to prevent.
26. But when they saw it, they said: Most surely we have gone astray
27. Nay! we are made to suffer privation.
28. The best of them said: Did I not say to you, Why do you not glorify (Allah)?
29. They said: Glory be to our Lord, surely we were unjust.
30. Then some of them advanced against others, blaming each other.
31. Said they: O woe to us! surely we were inordinate:
32. Maybe, our Lord will give us instead one better than it; surely to our Lord do we make our
humble petition.
33. Such is the chastisement, and certainly the chastisement of the hereafter is greater, did they
but know!
34. Surely those who guard (against evil) shall have with their Lord gardens of bliss.
35. What! shall We then make (i.e. treat) those who submit as the guilty?
36. What has happened to you? How do you judge?
37. Or have you a book wherein you read,
38. That you have surely therein what you choose?
39. Or have you received from Us an agreement confirmed by an oath extending to the day of
resurrection that you shall surely have what you demand?
40. Ask them which of them will vouch for that,
41. Or have.they associates if they are truthful.
42. On the day when there shall be a severe affliction, and they shall be called upon to make
obeisance, but they shall not be able,
43. Their looks cast down, abasement shall overtake them; and they were called upon to make
obeisance indeed while yet they were safe.
44. So leave Me and him who rejects this announcement; We will overtake them by degrees,
from whence they perceive not:
45. And I do bear with them, surely My plan is firm.
46. Or do you ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt?
47. Or have they (the knowledge of) the unseen, so that they write (it) down?
48. So wait patiently for the judgment of your Lord, and be not like the companion of the fish,
when he cried while he was in distress.
49. Were it not that favor from his Lord had overtaken him, he would certainly have been cast
down upon the naked Found while he was blamed.
50. Then his Lord chose him, and He made him of the good.
51. And those who disbelieve would almost smite you with their eyes when they hear the
reminder, and they say: Most surely he is mad.
52. And it is naught but a reminder to the nations.
LXIX. The Sure Calamity
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. The sure calamity!
2. What is the sure calamity! And what would make you realize what the sure calamity is!
4. Samood and Ad called the striking calamity a lie.
S. Then as to Samood, they were destroyed by an excessively severe punishment.
6. And as to Ad, they were destroyed by a roaring, violent blast.
7. Which He made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days unremittingly, so
that you might have seen the people therein prostrate as if they were the trunks of hollow palms.
8. Do you then see of them one remaining?
9. And Firon and those before him and the overthrown cities continuously committed sins.
10. And they disobeyed the Apostle of their Lord, so He punished them with a vehement punishment.
11. Surely We bore you up in the ship when the water rose high,
12. So that We may make it a reminder to you, and that the retaining ear might retain it.
13. And when the trumpet is blown with a single blast,
14. And the earth and the mountains are borne away and crushed with a single crushing.
15. On that day shall the great event come to pass,
16. And the heaven shall cleave asunder, so that on that day it shall be frail,
17. And the angels shall be on the sides thereof; and above ) I them eight shall bear on that day
your Lord's power.
18. On that day you shall be exposed to view-- no secret of yours shall remain hidden.
19. Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he will say: Lo! read my book:
20. Surely I knew that I shall meet my account.
21. So he shall be in a life of pleasure,
22. In a lofty garden,
23. The fruits of which are near at hand:
24. Eat and drink pleasantly for what you did beforehand in the days gone by.
25. And as for him who is given his book in his left hand he shall say: O would that my book
had never been given me:
26. And I had not known what my account was:
27. O would that it had made an end (of me):
28. My wealth has availed me nothing:
29. My authority is gone away from me.
30. Lay hold on him, then put a chain on him,
31. Then cast him into the burning fire,
32. Then thrust him into a chain the length of which is seventy cubits.
33. Surely he did not believe in Allah, the Great,
34. Nor did he urge the feeding of the poor.
35. Therefore he has not here today a true friend,
36. Nor any food except refuse,
37. Which none but the wrongdoers eat.
38. But nay! I swear by that which you see,
39. And that which you do not see.
40. Most surely, it is the Word brought by an honored Apostle,
41. And it is not the word of a poet; little is it that you believe;
42. Nor the word of a soothsayer; little is it that you mind.
43. It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.
44. And if he had fabricated against Us some of the sayings,
45. We would certainly have seized him by the right hand,
46. Then We would certainly have cut off his aorta.
47. And not one of you could have withheld Us from him.
48. And most surely it is a reminder for those who guard (against evil).
49. And most surely We know that some of you are rejecters.
50. And most surely it is a great grief to the unbelievers.
51. And most surely it is the true certainty
52. Therefore-glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.
LXX. The Ways of Ascent
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall
2. The unbelievers-- there is none to avert it--
3. From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent.
4. To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years.
S. Therefore endure with a goodly patience.
6. Surely they think it to be far off,
7. And We see it nigh.
8. On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper
9. And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool
10. And friend shall not ask of friend
11. (Though) they shall be made to see each other. The guilty one would fain redeem himself
from the chastisement of that day by (sacrificing) his children,
12. And his wife and his brother
13. And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter,
14. And all those that are in the earth, (wishing) then (that) this might deliver him.
15. By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire
16. Dragging by the head,
17. It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),
18. And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up.
19. Surely man is created of a hasty temperament
20. Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts him
21. And niggardly when good befalls him
22. Except those who pray,
23. Those who are constant at their prayer
24. And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion.
25. For him who begs and for him who is denied (good)
26. And those who accept the truth of the judgment day
27. And those who are fearful of the chastisement of their Lord--
28. Surely the chastisement of their Lord is (a thing) not to be felt secure of--
29. And those who guard their private parts,
30. Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess-- for these surely
are not to be blamed,
31. But he who seeks to go beyond this, these it is that go beyond the limits--
32. And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant
33. And those who are upright in their testimonies,
34. And those who keep a guard on their prayer,
35. Those shall be in gardens, honored.
36. But what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten on around you,
37. On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties?
38. Does every man of them desire that he should be made to enter the garden of bliss?
39. By no means! Surely We have created them of what they know.
40. But nay! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able
41. To bring instead (others) better than them, and We shall not be overcome.
42. Therefore leave them alone to go on with the false discourses and to sport until they come
face to face with that day of theirs with which they are threatened;
43. The day on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste, as if they were
hastening on to a goal,
44. Their eyes cast down; disgrace shall overtake them; that is the day which they were
threatened with.
LXXI. The Nuh
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Surely We sent Nuh to his people, saying: Warn your people before there come upon them a
painful chastisement.
2. He said: O my people! Surely I am a plain warner to you:
3. That you should serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him and obey me:
4. He will forgive you some of your faults and grant you a delay to an appointed term; surely
the term of Allah when it comes is not postponed; did you but know!
S. He said: O my Lord! surely I have called my people by night and by day!
6. But my call has only made them flee the more:
7. And whenever I have called them that Thou mayest forgive them, they put their fingers in
their ears, cover themselves with their garments, and persist and are puffed up with pride:
8. Then surely I called to them aloud:
9. Then surely I spoke to them in public and I spoke to them in secret:
10. Then I said, Ask forgiveness of your Lord, surely He is the most Forgiving:
11. He will send down upon you the cloud, pouring down abundance of rain:
12. And help you with wealth and sons, and make for you gardens, and make for you rivers.
13. What is the matter with you that you fear not the greatness of Allah?
14. And indeed He has created you through various grades:
15. Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens ,~ one above another,
16. And made the moon therein a light, and made the sun a lamp?
17. And Allah has made you grow out of the earth as a growth:
18. Then He returns you to it, then will He bring you forth a (new) bringing forth:
19. And Allah has made for you the earth a wide expanse,
20. That you may go along therein in wide paths.
21. Nuh said: My Lord! surely they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and
children have added to him nothing but loss.
22. And they have planned a very great plan.
23. And they say: By no means leave your gods, nor leave Wadd, nor Suwa; nor Yaghus, and
Yauq and Nasr.
24. And indeed they have led astray many, and do not increase the unjust in aught but error.
25. Because of their wrongs they were drowned, then made to enter fire, so they did not find
any helpers besides Allah.
26. And Nuh said: My Lord! leave not upon the land any dweller from among the unbelievers:
27. For surely if Thou leave them they will lead astray Thy servants, and will not beget any but
immoral, ungrateful (children)
28. My Lord! forgive me and my parents and him who enters my house believing, and the
believing men and the believing women; and do not increase the unjust in aught but destruction!
LXXII. The Jinn
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Say: It has been revealed to me that a party of the jinn listened, and they said: Surely we
have heard a wonderful Quran,
2. Guiding to the right way, so we believe in it, and we will not set up any one with our Lord:
3. And that He-- exalted be the majesty of our Lord-- has not taken a consort, nor a son:
4. And that the foolish amongst us used to forge extravagant things against Allah:
S. And that we thought that men and jinn did not utter a lie against Allah:
6. And that persons from among men used to seek refuge with persons from among jinn, so
they increased them in wrongdoing:
7. And that they thought as you think, that Allah would not raise anyone:
8. And that we sought to reach heaven, but we found it filled with strong guards and flaming stars.
9. And that we used to sit in some of the sitting-places thereof to steal a hearing, but he who
would (try to) listen now would find a flame lying in wait for him:
10. And that we know not whether evil is meant for those who are on earth or whether their
Lord means to bring them good:
11. And that some of us are good and others of us are below that: we are sects following
different ways:
12. And that we know that we cannot escape Allah in the earth, nor can we escape Him by flight:
13. And that when we heard the guidance, we believed in it; so whoever believes in his Lord,
he should neither fear loss nor being overtaken (by disgrace):
14. And that some of us are those who submit, and some of us are the deviators; so whoever
submits, these aim at the right way:
15. And as to the deviators, they are fuel of hell:
16. And that if they should keep to the (right) way, We would certainly give them to drink of
abundant water,
17. So that We might try them with respect to it; and whoever turns aside from the reminder of
his Lord, He will make him enter into an afflicting chastisement:
18. And that the mosques are Allah's, therefore call not upon any one with Allah:
19. And that when the servant of Allah stood up calling upon Him, they wellnigh crowded him
(to death).
20. Say: I only call upon my Lord, and I do not associate any one with Him.
21. Say: I do not control for you evil or good.
22. Say: Surely no one can protect me against Allah, nor can I find besides Him any place of refuge:
23. (It is) only a delivering (of communications) from Allah and His messages; and whoever
disobeys Allah and His Apostle surely he shall have the fire of hell to abide therein for a long time.
24. Until when they see what they are threatened with, then shall they know who is weaker in
helpers and fewer in number.
25. Say: I do not know whether that with which you are threatened be nigh or whether my Lord
will appoint for it a term:
26. The Knower of the unseen! so He does not reveal His secrets to any,
27. Except to him whom He chooses as an apostle; for surely He makes a guard to march
before him and after him,
28. So that He may know that they have truly delivered the messages of their Lord, and He
encompasses what is with them and He records the number of all things.
1. O you who have wrapped up in your garments!
2. Rise to pray in the night except a little,
3. Half of it, or lessen it a little,
4. Or add to it, and recite the Quran as it ought to be recited.
S. Surely We will make to light upon you a weighty Word.
6. Surely the rising by night is the firmest way to tread and the best corrective of speech.
7. Surely you have in the day time a long occupation.
8. And remember the name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him with (exclusive) devotion.
9. The Lord of the East and the West-- there is no god but He-- therefore take Him for a
protector.
10. And bear patiently what they say and avoid them with a becoming avoidance.
11. And leave Me and the rejecters, the possessors of ease and plenty, and respite them a little.
12. Surely with Us are heavy fetters and a flaming fire,
13. And food that chokes and a painful punishment,
14. On the day when the earth and the mountains shall quake and the mountains shall become
(as) heaps of sand let loose.
15. Surely We have sent to you an Apostle, a witness against you, as We sent an apostle to
Firon.
16. But Firon disobeyed the apostle, so We laid on him a violent hold.
17. How, then, will you guard yourselves, if you disbelieve, on the day which shall make
children grey-headed?
18. The heaven shall rend asunder thereby; His promise is ever brought to fulfillment.
19. Surely this is a reminder, then let him, who will take the way to his Lord.
20. Surely your Lord knows that you pass in prayer nearly two-thirds of the night, and
(sometimes) half of it, and (sometimes) a third of it, and (also) a party of those with you; and
Allah measures the night and the day. He knows that you are not able to do it, so He has turned
to you (mercifully), therefore read what is easy of the Quran. He knows that there must be
among you sick, and others who travel in the land seeking of the bounty of Allah, and others
who fight in Allah's way, therefore read as much of it as is easy (to you), and keep up prayer
and pay the poor-rate and offer to Allah a goodly gift, and whatever of good you send on
beforehand for yourselves, you will find it with Allah; that is best and greatest in reward; and
ask forgiveness of Allah; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
LXXIV. The Clothed One
1. O you who are clothed!
2. Arise and warn,
3. And your Lord do magnify,
4. And your garments do purify,
S. And uncleanness do shun,
6. And bestow not favors that you may receive again with increase,
7. And for the sake of your Lord, be patient.
8. For when the trumpet is sounded,
9. That, at that time, shall be a difficult day,
10. For the unbelievers, anything but easy.
11. Leave Me and him whom I created alone,
12. And give him vast riches,
13. And sons dwelling in his presence,
14. And I adjusted affairs for him adjustably;
15. And yet he desires that I should add more!
16. By no means! surely he offers opposition to Our communications.
17. 1 will make a distressing punishment overtake him.
18. Surely he reflected and guessed,
19. But may he be cursed how he plotted;
20. Again, may he be cursed how he plotted;
21. Then he looked,
22. Then he frowned and scowled,
23. Then he turned back and was big with pride,
24. ~Then he said: This is naught but enchantment, narrated (from others);
25. This is naught but the word of a mortal.
26. 1 will cast him into hell.
27. And what will make you realize what hell is?
28. It leaves naught nor does it spare aught.
29. It scorches the mortal.
30. Over it are nineteen.
31 . And We have not made the wardens of the fire others than angels, and We have not made
their number but as a trial for those who disbelieve, that those who have been given the book
may be certain and those who believe may increase in faith, and those who have been given the
book and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the
unbelievers may say: What does Allah mean by this parable? Thus does Allah make err whom
He pleases, and He guides whom He pleases, and none knows the hosts of your Lord but He
Himself; and this is naught but a reminder to the mortals.
32. Nay; I swear by the moon,
33. And the night when it departs,
34. And the daybreak when it shines;
35. Surely it (hell) is one of the gravest (misfortunes),
36. A warning to mortals,
37. To him among you who wishes to go forward or remain behind.
38. Every soul is held in pledge for what it earns,
39. Except the people of the right hand,
40. In gardens, they shall ask each other
41. About the guilty:
42. What has brought you into hell?
43. They shall say: We were not of those who prayed;
44. And we used not to feed the poor;
45. And we used to enter into vain discourse with those who entered into vain discourses.
46. And we used to call the day of judgment a lie;
47. Till death overtook us.
48. So the intercession of intercessors shall not avail them.
49. What is then the matter with them, that they turn away from the admonition
50. As if they were asses taking fright
51. That had fled from a lion?
52. Nay; every one of them desires that he may be given pages spread out;
53. Nay! but they do not fear the hereafter.
54. Nay! it is surely an admonition.
SS. So whoever pleases may mind it.
56. And they will not mind unless Allah please. He is worthy to be feared and worthy to forgive.
LXXV. The Resurrection
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Nay! I swear by the day of resurrection.
2. Nay! I swear by the self-accusing soul.
3. Does man think that We shall not gather his bones?
4. Yea! We are able to make complete his very fingertips
S. Nay! man desires to give the lie to what is before him.
6. He asks: When is the day of resurrection?
7. So when the sight becomes dazed,
8. And the moon becomes dark,
9. And the sun and the moon are brought together,
10. Man shall say on that day: Whither to fly to?
11. By no means! there shall be no place of refuge!
12. With your Lord alone shall on that.day be the place of rest.
13. Man shall on that day be informed of what he sent before and (what he) put off.
14. Nay! man is evidence against himself,
15. Though he puts forth his excuses.
16. Do not move your tongue with it to make haste with it,
17: Surely on Us (devolves) the collecting of it and the reciting of it.
18. Therefore when We have recited it, follow its recitation.
19. Again on Us (devolves) the explaining of it.
20. Nay! But you love the present life,
21. And neglect the hereafter.
22. (Some) faces on that day shall be bright,
23. Looking to their Lord.
24. And (other) faces on that day shall be gloomy,
25. Knowing that there will be made to befall them some great calamity.
26. Nay! When it comes up to the throat,
27. And it is said: Who will be a magician?
28. And he is sure that it is the (hour of) parting
29. And affliction is combined with affliction;
30. To your Lord on that day shall be the driving.
31. So he did not accept the truth, nor did he pray,
32. But called the truth a lie and turned back,
33. Then he went to his followers, walking away in haughtiness.
34. Nearer to you (is destruction) and nearer,
35. Again (consider how) nearer to you and nearer.
36. Does man think that he is to be left to wander without an aim?
37. Was he not a small seed in the seminal elements,
38. Then he was a clot of blood, so He created (him) then made (him) perfect.
39. Then He made of him two kinds, the male and the female.
40. Is not He able to give life to the dead?
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. There surely came over man a period of time when he was a thing not worth mentioning.
2. Surely We have created man from a small life-germ uniting (itself): We mean to try him, so
We have made him hearing, seeing.
3. Surely We have shown him the way: he may be thankful or unthankful.
4. Surely We have prepared for the unbelievers chains and shackles and a burning fire.
S. Surely the righteous shall drink of a cup the admixture of which is camphor
6. A fountain from which the servants of Allah shall drink; they make it to flow a (goodly)
flowing forth.
7. They fulfill vows and fear a day the evil of which shall be spreading far and wide.
8. And they give food out of love for Him to the poor and the orphan and the captive:
9. We only feed you for Allah's sake; we desire from you neither reward nor thanks:
10. Surely we fear from our Lord a stern, distressful day.
11. Therefore Allah win guard them from the evil of that day and cause them to meet with ease
and happiness;
12. And reward them, because they were patient, with garden and silk,
13. Reclining therein on raised couches, they shall find therein neither (the severe heat of) the
sun nor intense cold.
14. And close down upon them (shall be) its shadows, and its fruits shall be made near (to
them), being easy to reach.
15. And there shall be made to go round about them vessels of silver and goblets which are of glass,
16. (Transparent as) glass, made of silver; they have measured them according to a measure.
17. And they shall be made to drink therein a cup the admixture of which shall be ginger,
18. (Of) a fountain therein which is named Salsabil.
19. And round about them shall go youths never altering in age; when you see them you will
think them to be scattered pearls.
20. And when you see there, you shall see blessings and a great kingdom.
21. Upon them shall be garments of fine green silk and thick silk interwoven with gold, and
they shall be adorned with bracelets of silver, and their Lord shall make them drink a pure drink.
22. Surely this is a reward for you, and your striving shall be recompensed.
23. Surely We Ourselves have revealed the Quran to you revealing (it) in portions.
24. Therefore wait patiently for the command of your Lord, and obey not from among them a
sinner or an ungrateful one.
25. And glorify the name of your Lord morning and evening.
26. And during part of the night adore Him, and give glory to Him (a) long (part of the) night.
27. Surely these love the transitory and neglect a grievous day before them.
28. We created them and made firm their make, and when We please We will bring in their
place the likes of them by a change.
29. Surely this is a reminder, so whoever pleases takes to his Lord a way.
30. And you do not please except that Allah please, surely Allah is Knowing, Wise;
31. He makes whom He pleases to enter into His mercy; and (as for) the unjust, He has
prepared for them a painful chastisement.
LXXVII. The Emissaries
In the name of Allah, tho Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by the emissary winds, sent one after another (for men's benefit),
2. By the raging hurricanes,
3. Which scatter clouds to their destined places,
4. Then separate them one from another,
S. Then I swear by the angels who bring down the revelation,
6. To clear or to warn.
7. Most surely what you are threatened with must come to pass.
8. So when the stars are made to lose their light,
9. And when the heaven is rent asunder,
10. And when the mountains are carried away as dust,
11. And when the apostles are gathered at their appointed time
l2. To what day is the doom fixed?
13. To the day of decision.
14. And what will make you comprehend what the day of decision is?
15. Woe on that day to the rejecters.
16. Did We not destroy the former generations?
17 Then did We follow them up with later ones.
18 Even thus shall We deal with the guilty.
19. Woe on that day to the rejecters.
20. Did We not create you from contemptible water?
21. Then We placed it in a secure resting-place,
22. Till an appointed term,
23. So We proportion it-- how well are We at proportioning (things).
24. Woe on that day to the rejecters.
25. Have We not made the earth to draw together to itself,
26. The living and the dead,
27. And made therein lofty mountains, and given you to drink of sweet water?
28. Woe on that day to the rejecters.
29. Walk on to that which you called a lie.
30. Walk on to the covering having three branches,
31. Neither having the coolness of the shade nor availing against the flame.
32. Surely it sends up sparks like palaces,
33. As if they were tawny camels.
34. Woe on that day to the rejecters.
35. This is the day on which they shall not speak,
36. And permission shall not be given to them so that they should offer excuses.
37. Woe on that day to the rejecters.
38. This is the day of decision: We have gathered you and those of yore.
39. So if you have a plan, plan against Me (now).
40. Woe on that day to the rejecters.
41. Surely those who guard (against evil) shall be amid shades and fountains,
42. And fruits such as they desire.
43. Eat and drink pleasantly because of what you did.
44. Surely thus do We reward the doers of good.
45. Woe on that day to the rejecters.
46. Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little; surely you are guilty.
47. Woe on that day to the rejecters.
48. And where it is said to them: Bow down, they do not bow down.
49. Woe on that day to the rejecters.
50. In what announcement, then, after it, will they believe?
LXXVIII. The Great Event
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Of what do they ask one another?
2. About the great event,
3. About which they differ?
4. Nay! they shall soon come to know
S. Nay! Nay! they shall soon know.
6. Have We not made the earth an even expanse?
7. And the mountains as projections (thereon)?
8. And We created you in pairs,
9. And We made your sleep to be rest (to you),
10. And We made the night to be a covering,
11. And We made the day for seeking livelihood.
~2. And We made above you seven strong ones,
13. And We made a shining lamp,
14. And We send down from the clouds water pouring forth abundantly,
15. That We may bring forth thereby corn and herbs,
16. And gardens dense and luxuriant.
17. Surely the day of decision is (a day) appointed:
18. The day on which the trumpet shall be blown so you.shall come forth in hosts,
19 And the heaven shall be opened so that it shall be all openings,
20. And the mountains shall be moved off so that they shall remain a mere semblance.
21. Surely hell lies in wait,
22. A place of resort for the inordinate,
23. Living therein for ages.
24. They shall not taste therein cool nor drink
25. But boiling and intensely cold water,
26. Requital corresponding.
27. Surely they feared not the account,
28. And called Our communications a lie, giving the lie (to the truth).
29. And We have recorded everything in a book,
30. So taste! for We will not add to you aught but chastisement.
31. Surely for those who guard (against evil) is achievement,
32. Gardens and vineyards,
33. And those showing freshness of youth, equals in age,
34. And a pure cup.
35. They shall not hear therein any vain words nor lying.
36. A reward from your Lord, a gift according to a reckoning:
37. The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, the Beneficent God, they
shall not be able to address Him.
38. The day on which the spirit and the angels shall stand in ranks; they shall not speak except
he whom the Beneficent God permits and who speaks the right thing.
39. That is the sure day, so whoever desires may take refuge with his Lord.
40. Surely We have warned you of a chastisement near at hand: the day when man shall see
what his two hands have sent before, and the unbeliever shall say: O! would that I were dust!
LXXIX. Those Who Pull Out
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,
2. And by those who gently draw out the souls of the blessed,
3. And by those who float in space,
4. Then those who are foremost going ahead,
S. Then those who regulate the affair.
6. The day on which the quaking one shall quake,
7. What must happen afterwards shall follow it.
8. Hearts on that day shall palpitate,
9. Their eyes cast down.
10. They say: Shall we indeed be restored to (our) first state?
11. What! when we are rotten bones?
12. They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss.
13. But it shall be only a single cry,
14. When lo! they shall be wakeful.
15. Has not there come to you the story of Musa?
16. When his Lord called upon him in the holy valley, twice,
17. Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate.
18. Then say: Have you (a desire) to purify yourself:
19. And I will guide you to your Lord so that you should fear.
20. So he showed him the mighty sign.
21. But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.
22. Then he went back hastily.
23. Then he gathered (men) and called out.
24. Then he said: I am your lord, the most high.
25. So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.
26. Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.
27. Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it.
28. He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state.
29. And He made dark its night and brought out its light.
30. And the earth, He expanded it after that.
31. He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage.
32. And the mountains, He made them firm,
33. A provision for you and for your cattle.
34. But when the great predominating calamity comes;
35. The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,
36. And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees
37. Then as for him who is inordinate,
38. And prefers the life of this world,
39. Then surely the hell, that is the abode.
40. And as for him who fears to stand in the presence of his Lord and forbids the soul from low
desires,
41. Then surely the garden-- that is the abode.
42. They ask you about the hour, when it will come.
43. About what! You are one to remind of it.
44. To your Lord is the goal of it.
45. You are only a warner to him who would fear it.
46. On the day that they see it, it will be as though they had not tarried but the latter part of a
day or the early part of it.
LXXX. He Frowned
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. He frowned and turned (his) back,
2. Because there came to him the blind man.
3. And what would make you know that he would purify himself,
4. Or become reminded so that the reminder should profit him?
S. As for him who considers himself free from need (of you),
6. To him do you address yourself.
7. And no blame is on you if he would not purify himself
8. And as to him who comes to you striving hard,
9. And he fears,
10. From him will you divert yourself.
11. Nay! surely it is an admonishment.
12. So let him who pleases mind it.
13. In honored books,
14. Exalted, purified,
15. In the hands of scribes
16. Noble, virtuous.
17. Cursed be man! how ungrateful is he!
18. Of what thing did He create him?
19. Of a small seed; He created him, then He made him according to a measure,
20. Then (as for) the way-- He has made it easy (for him)
21. Then He causes him to die, then assigns to him a grave,
22. Then when He pleases, He will raise him to life again.
23. Nay; but he has not done what He bade him.
24. Then let man look to his food,
25. That We pour down the water, pouring (it) down in abundance,
26. Then We cleave the earth, cleaving (it) asunder,
27. Then We cause to grow therein the grain,
28. And grapes and clover,
29. And the olive and the palm,
30. And thick gardens,
31. And fruits and herbage
32. A provision for you and for your cattle.
33. But when the deafening cry comes,
34. The day on which a man shall fly from his brother,
35. And his mother and his father,
36. And his spouse and his son--
37. Every man of them shall on that day have an affair which will occupy him.
38. (Many) faces on that day shall be bright,
39. Laughing, joyous.
40. And (many) faces on that day, on them shall be dust,
41. Darkness shall cover them.
42. These are they who are unbelievers, the wicked.
LXXXI. The Covering Up
. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. When the sun is covered,
2. And when the stars darken,
3. And when the mountains are made to pass away,
4. And when the camels are left untended,
S. And when the wild animals are made to go forth,
6. And when the seas are set on fire,
7. And when souls are united,
8. And when the female infant buried alive is asked
9. For what sin she was killed,
10. And when the books are spread,
11. And when the heaven has its covering removed,
12. And when the hell is kindled up,
13. And when the garden is brought nigh,
14. Every soul shall (then) know what it has prepared.
15. But nay! I swear by the stars,
16. That run their course (and) hide themselves,
17. And the night when it departs,
18. And the morning when it brightens,
19. Most surely it is the Word of an honored messenger,
20. The processor of strength, having an honorable place with the Lord of the Dominion,
21. One (to be) obeyed, and faithful in trust.
22. And your companion is not gone mad.
23. And of a truth he saw himself on the clear horizon.
24. Nor of the unseen is he a tenacious concealer.
25. Nor is it the word of the cursed Shaitan,
26. Whither then will you go?
27. It is naught but a reminder for the nations,
28. For him among you who pleases to go straight.
29. And you do not please except that Allah please, the Lord of the worlds.
LXXXII. The Cleaving Asunder
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. When the heaven becomes cleft asunder,
2. And when the stars become dispersed,
3. And when the seas are made to flow forth,
4. And when the graves are laid open,
S. Every soul shall know what it has sent before and held back.
6. O man ! what has beguiled you from your Lord, the Gracious one,
7. Who created you, then made you complete, then made you symmetrical?
8. Into whatever form He pleased He constituted you.
9. Nay! but you give the lie to the judgment day,
10. And most surely there are keepers over you
11. Honorable recorders,
12. They know what you do.
13. Most surely the righteous are in bliss,
14. And most surely the wicked are in burning fire,
15. They shall enter it on the day of judgment.
16. And they shall by no means be absent from it.
17. And what will make you realize what the day of judgement is?
18. Again, what will make you realize what the day of judgment Is?
19. The day on which no soul shall control anything for (another) soul; and the command on
that day shall be entirely Allah's.
LXXXIII. The Defrauders
. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Woe to the defrauders,
2. Who, when they take the measure (of their dues) from men take it fully,
3. But when they measure out to others or weigh out for them, they are deficient.
4. Do not these think that they shall be raised again
S. For a mighty day,
6. The day on which men shall stand before the Lord of the worlds?
7. Nay! most surely the record of the wicked is in the Sijjin.
8. And what will make you know what the Sijjin is?
9. It is a written book.
10. Woe on that day to the rejecters,
11. Who give the lie to the day of judgment.
12. And none gives the lie to it but every exceeder of limits, sinful one
13. When Our communications are recited to him, he says: Stories of those of yore.
14. Nay! rather, what they used to do has become like rust . upon their hearts.
15. Nay! most surely they shall on that day be debarred from their Lord.
16. Then most surely they shall enter the burning fire.
17. Then shall it be said: This is what you gave the lie to.
18. Nay! Most surely the record of the righteous shall be in the Iliyin.
19. And what will make you know what the highest Iliyin is?
20. It is a written book,
21. Those who are drawn near (to Allah) shall witness it.
22. Most surely the righteous shall be in bliss,
23. On thrones, they shall gaze;
24. You will recognize in their faces the brightness of bliss.
25. They are made to quaff of a pure drink that is sealed (to others).
26. The sealing of it is (with) musk; and for that let the aspirers aspire.
27. And the admixture of it is a water of Tasnim,
28. A fountain from which drink they who are drawn near (to Allah).
29. Surely they who are guilty used to laugh at those who believe.
30. And when they passed by them, they winked at one another.
31. And when they returned to their own followers they returned exulting.
32. And when they saw them, they said: Most surely these are in error;
33. And they were not sent to be keepers over them.
34. So today those who believe shall laugh at the unbelievers;
35. On thrones, they will look.
36. Surely the disbelievers are rewarded as they did.
LXXXIV. The Bursting Asunder
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. When the heaven bursts asunder,
2. And obeys its Lord and it must.
3. And when the earth is stretched,
4. And casts forth what is in it and becomes empty,
S. And obeys its Lord and it must.
6. O man! surely you must strive (to attain) to your Lord, a hard striving until you meet Him.
7. Then as to him who is given his book in his right hand,
8. He shall be reckoned with by an easy reckoning,
9. And he shall go back to his people joyful.
10. And as to him who is given his book behind his back,
11. He shall call for perdition,
12. And enter into burning fire.
13. Surely he was (erstwhile) joyful among his followers.
14. Surely he thought that he would never return.
15. Yea! surely his Lord does ever see him.
16. But nay! I swear by the sunset redness,
17. And the night and that which it drives on,
18. And the moon when it grows full,
19. That you shall most certainly enter one state after another.
20. But what is the matter with them that they do not believe,
21. And when the Quran is recited to them they do not make obeisance?
22. Nay! those who disbelieve give the lie to the truth.
23. And Allah knows best what they hide,
24. So announce to them a painful punishment~
25. Except those who believe and do good; for them is a reward that shall never be cut off.
LXXXV. The Mansions of the Stars
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by the mansions of the stars,
2. And the promised day,
3. And the bearer of witness and those against whom the witness is borne.
4. Cursed be the makers of the pit,
S. Of the fire (kept burning) with fuel,
6. When they sat by it,
7. And they were witnesses of what they did with the believers.
8. And they did not take vengeance on them for aught except that they believed in Allah, the
Mighty, the Praised,
9. Whose is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is a Witness of all things.
10. Surely (as for) those who persecute the believing men and the believing women, then do
not repent, they shall have the chastisement of hell, and they shall have the chastisement of burning.
11. Surely (as for) those who believe and do good, they shall have gardens beneath which
rivers flow, that is the great achievement.
12. Surely the might of your Lord is great.
13. Surely He it is Who originates and reproduces,
14. And He is the Forgiving, the Loving,
15. Lord of the Arsh, the Glorious,
16. The great doer of what He will.
17. Has not there come to you the story of the hosts,
18. Of Firon and Samood?
19. Nay! those who disbelieve are in (the act of) giving the lie to the truth.
20. And Allah encompasses them on every side.
21. Nay! it is a glorious Quran,
22. In a guarded tablet.
LXXXVI. The Night Comer
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by the heaven and the comer by night;
2. And what will make you know what the comer by night is?
3. The star of piercing brightness;
4. There is not a soul but over it is a keeper.
5. So let man consider of what he is created:
6. He is created of water pouring forth,
7. Coming from between the back and the ribs.
8. Most surely He is able to return him (to life).
9. On the day when hidden things shall be made manifest,
10. He shall have neither strength nor helper.
11. I swear by the raingiving heavens,
12. And the earth splitting (with plants);
13. Most surely it is a decisive word,
14. And it is no joke.
15. Surely they will make a scheme,
16. And I (too) will make a scheme.
17. So grant the unbelievers a respite: let them alone for a
LXXXVII. The Most High
1. Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High,
2. Who creates, then makes complete,
3. And Who makes (things) according to a measure, then guides (them to their goal),
4. And Who brings forth herbage,
S. Then makes it dried up, dust-colored.
6. We will make you recite so you shall not forget,
7. Except what Allah pleases, surely He knows the manifest, and what is hidden.
8. And We will make your way smooth to a state of ease.
9. Therefore do remind, surely reminding does profit.
10. He who fears will mind,
11. And the most unfortunate one will avoid it,
12. Who shall enter the great fire;
13. Then therein he shall neither live nor die.
14. He indeed shall be successful who purifies himself,
15. And magnifies the name of his Lord and prays.
16. Nay! you prefer the life of this world,
17. While the hereafter is better and more lasting.
18. Most surely this is in the earlier scriptures,
19. The scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa.
LXXXVIII. The Overwhelming Calamity
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?
2. (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,
3. Laboring, toiling,
4. Entering into burning fire,
S. Made to drink from a boiling spring.
6. They shall have no food but of thorns,
7. Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.
8. (Other) faces on that day shall be happy,
9. Well-pleased because of their striving,
10. In a lofty garden,
11. Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.
12. Therein is a fountain flowing,
13. Therein are thrones raised high,
14. And drinking-cups ready placed,
15. And cushions set in a row,
16. And carpets spread out.
17. Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?
18. And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,
19. And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,
20. And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?
21. Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.
22. You are not a watcher over them;
23. But whoever turns back and disbelieves,
24. Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.
25. Surely to Us is their turning back,
26. Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.
LXXXIX. The Day Break
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by the daybreak,
2. And the ten nights,
3. And the even and the odd,
4. And the night when it departs.
S. Truly in that there is an oath for those who possess understanding.
6. Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with Ad,
7. (The people of) Aram, possessors of lofty buildings,
8. The like of which were not created in the (other) cities;
9. And (with) Samood, who hewed out the rocks in the valley,
10. And (with) Firon, the lord of hosts,
11. Who committed inordinacy in the cities,
12. So they made great mischief therein?
13. Therefore your Lord let down upon them a portion of the chastisement.
14. Most sure!y your Lord is watching.
15. And as for man, when his Lord tries him, then treats him with honor and makes him lead
an easy life, he says: My Lord honors me.
16. But when He tries him (differently), then straitens to him his means of subsistence, he says:
My Lord has disgraced me.
17. Nay! but you do not honor the orphan,
18. Nor do you urge one another to feed the poor,
19. And you eat away the heritage, devouring (everything) indiscriminately,
20. And you love wealth with exceeding love.
21. Nay! when the earth is made to crumble to pieces,
22. And your Lord comes and (also) the angels in ranks,
23. And hell is made to appear on that day. On that day shall man be mindful, and what shall
being mindful (then) avail him?
24. He shall say: O! would that I had sent before for (this) my life!
25. But on that day shall no one chastise with (anything like) His chastisement,
26. And no one shall bind with (anything like) His binding.
27. O soul that art at rest!
28. Return to your Lord, well-pleased (with him), well-pleasing (Him),
29. So enter among My servants,
30. And enter into My garden.
XC. The City
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Nay! I swear by this city.
2. And you shall be made free from obligation in this city--
3. And the begetter and whom he begot.
4. Certainly We have created man to be in distress.
S. Does he think that no one has power over him?
6. He shall say: I have wasted much wealth.
7. Does he think that no one sees him?
8. Have We not given him two eyes,
9. And a tongue and two lips,
10. And pointed out to him the two conspicuous ways?
11. But he would not attempt the uphill road,
12. And what will make you comprehend what the uphill road is?
13. (It is) the setting free of a slave,
14. Or the giving of food in a day of hunger
15. To an orphan, having relationship,
16. Or to the poor man lying in the dust.
17. Then he is of those who believe and charge one another to show patience, and charge one
another to show compassion.
18. These are the people of the right hand.
19. And (as for) those who disbelieve in our communications, they are the people of the left hand.
20. On them is fire closed over.
XCI. The Sun.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by the sun and its brilliance,
2. And the moon when it follows the sun,
3. And the day when it shows it,
4. And the night when it draws a veil over it,
S. And the heaven and Him Who made it,
6. And the earth and Him Who extended it,
7. And the soul and Him Who made it perfect,
8. Then He inspired it to understand what is right and wrong for it;
9. He will indeed be successful who purifies it,
10. And he will indeed fail who corrupts it.
11. Samood gave the lie (to the truth) in their inordinacy,
12. When the most unfortunate of them broke forth with
13 So Allah's apostle said to them (Leave alone) Allah's she-camel, and (give) her (to) drink.
14. But they called him a liar and slaughtered her, therefore their Lord crushed them for their
sin and levelled them (with the ground).
15. And He fears not its consequence.
XCII. The Night
1. I swear by the night when it draws a veil,
2. And the day when it shines in brightness,
3. And the creating of the male and the female,
4. Your striving is most surely (directed to) various (ends).
S. Then as for him who gives away and guards (against evil),
6. And accepts the best,
7. We will facilitate for him the easy end.
8. And as for him who is niggardly and considers himself free from need (of Allah),
9. And rejects the best,
10. We will facilitate for him the difficult end.
11. And his wealth will not avail him when he perishes.
12. Surely Ours is it to show the way,
13. And most surely Ours is the hereafter and the former.
14. Therefore I warn you of the fire that flames:
15. None shall enter it but the most unhappy,
16. Who gives the lie (to the truth) and turns (his) back.
17. And away from it shall be kept the one who guards most (against evil),
18. Who gives away his wealth, purifying himself
19. And no one has with him any boon for which he should be rewarded,
20. Except the seeking of the pleasure of his Lord, the Most High.
21. And he shall soon be well-pleased.
XCIII. The Early Hours
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by the early hours of the day,
2. And the night when it covers with darkness.
3. Your Lord has not forsaken you, nor has He become displeased,
4. And surely what comes after is better for you than that which has gone before.
5. And soon will your Lord give you so that you shall be well pleased.
6. Did He not find you an orphan and give you shelter?
7. And find you lost (i.e. unrecognized by men) and guide (them to you)?
8. And find you in want and make you to be free from want?
9. Therefore, as for the orphan, do not oppress (him).
10. And as for him who asks, do not chide (him),
11. And as for the favor of your Lord, do announce (it).
XCIV. The Expansion
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Have We not expanded for you your breast,
2. And taken off from you your burden,
3. Which pressed heavily upon your back,
4. And exalted for you your esteem?
5. Surely with difficulty is ease.
6. With difficulty is surely ease.
7. So when you are free, nominate.
8. And make your Lord your exclusive object.
XCIV. The Expansion
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Have We not expanded for you your breast,
2. And taken off from you your burden,
3. Which pressed heavily upon your back,
4. And exalted for you your esteem?
5. Surely with difficulty is ease.
6. With difficulty is surely ease.
7. So when you are free, nominate.
8. And make your Lord your exclusive object.
XCV. The Fig
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by the fig and the olive,
2. And mount Sinai,
3. And this city made secure,
4. Certainly We created man in the best make.
5. Then We render him the lowest of the low.
6. Except those who believe and do good, so they shall have a reward never to be cut off.
7. Then who can give you the lie after (this) about the judgment?
8. Is not Allah the best of the Judges?
XCVI. The Clot
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Read in the name of your Lord Who created.
2. He created man from a clot.
3. Read and your Lord is Most Honorable,
4. Who taught (to write) with the pen
5. Taught man what he knew not.
6. Nay! man is most surely inordinate,
7. Because he sees himself free from want.
8. Surely to your Lord is the return.
9. Have you seen him who forbids
10. A servant when he prays?
11. Have you considered if he were on the right way,
12. Or enjoined guarding (against evil)?
13. Have you considered if he gives the lie to the truth and turns (his) back?
14. Does he not know that Allah does see?
15. Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead,
16. A lying, sinful forehead.
17 Then let him summon his council,
18. We too would.summon the braves of the army.
19. Nay! obey him not, and make obeisance and draw nigh (to Allah).
XCVII. The Majesty
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Surely We revealed it on the grand night.
2. And what will make you comprehend what the grand night
3. The grand night is better than a thousand months.
4. The angels and Gibreel descend in it by the permission of their Lord for every affair,
5. Peace! it is till the break of the morning.
XCVIII. The Clear Evidence
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Those who disbelieved from among the followers of the Book and the polytheists could not
have separated (from the faithful) until there had come to them the clear evidence:
2. An apostle from Allah, reciting pure pages,
3. Wherein are all the right ordinances.
4. And those who were given the Book did not become divided except after clear evidence had
come to them.
5. And they were not enjoined anything except that they should serve Allah, being sincere to
Him in obedience, upright, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, and that is the right religion.
6. Surely those who disbelieve from among the followers of the Book and the polytheists shall
be in the fire of hell, abiding therein; they are the worst of men.
7. (As for) those who believe and do good, surely they are the -best of men.
8. Their reward with their Lord is gardens of perpetuity beneath which rivers flow, abiding
therein for ever; Allah is well pleased with them and they are well pleased with Him; that is
for him who fears his Lord.
XCIX. The Shaking
1. When the earth is shaken with her (violent) shaking,
2. And the earth brings forth her burdens,
3. And man says: What has befallen her?
4. On that day she shall tell her news,
5. Because your Lord had inspired her.
6. On that day men shall come forth in sundry bodies that they may be shown their works.
7. So. he who has done an atom's weight of good shall see it
8. And he who has done an atom's weight of evil shall see it.
C. The Assaulters.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by the runners breathing pantingly,
2. Then those that produce fire striking,
3. Then those that make raids at morn,
4. Then thereby raise dust,
5. Then rush thereby upon an assembly:
6. Most surely man is ungrateful to his Lord.
7. And most surely he is a witness of that.
8. And most surely he is tenacious in the love of wealth.
9. Does he not then know when what is in the graves is raised,
10. And what is in the breasts is made.apparent?
11. Most surely their Lord that day shall be fully aware of them.
CI. The Terrible Calamity
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. The terrible calamity!
2. What is the terrible calamity!
3. And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
4. The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
5. And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
6. Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
7. He shall live a pleasant life.
8. And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
9. His abode shall be the abyss.
10. And what will make you know what it is?
11 . A burning fire.
CII. The Multiplication of Wealth and Children
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Abundance diverts you,
2. Until you come to the graves.
3. Nay! you shall soon know,
4. Nay! Nay! you shall soon know.
5. Nay! if you had known with a certain knowledge,
6. You should most certainly have seen the hell;
7. Then you shall most certainly see it with the eye of certainty;
8. Then on that day you shall most certainly be questioned about the boons.
CIII. Time
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. I swear by the time,
2. Most surely man is in loss,
3. Except those who believe and do good, and enjoin on each other truth, and enjoin on each
other patience.
CIV. The Slanderer
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Woe to every slanderer, defamer,
2. Who amasses wealth and considers it a provision (against mishap);
3. He thinks that his wealth will make him immortal.
4. Nay! he shall most certainly be hurled into the crushing disaster,
5. And what will make you realize what the crushing disaster is?
6. It is the fire kindled by Allah,
7. Which rises above the hearts.
8. Surely it shall be closed over upon them,
9. In extended columns.
CV. The Elephant
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant?
2. Did He not cause their war to end in confusion,
3. And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,
4. Casting against them stones of baked clay,
5. So He rendered them like straw eaten up?
CVI. The Qureaish
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. For the protection of the Qureaish--
2. Their protection during their trading caravans in the winter and the summer--
3 So let them serve the Lord of this House
4 Who feeds them against hunger and gives them security against fear.
CVII. The Daily Necessities
. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Have you considered him who calls the judgment a lie?
2. That is the one who treats the orphan with harshness,
3. And does not urge (others) to feed the poor.
4. So woe to the praying ones,
5. Who are unmindful of their prayers,
6. Who do (good) to be seen,
7. And withhold the necessaries of life.
CVIII. The Heavenly Fountain
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Surely We have given you Kausar,
2. Therefore pray to your Lord and make a sacrifice.
3. Surely your enemy is the one who shall be without posterity,
CIX. The Unbelievers
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Say: O unbelievers!
2. I do not serve that which you serve,
3. Nor do you serve Him Whom I serve:
4. Nor am I going to serve that which you serve,
5. Nor are you going to serve Him Whom I serve:
6. You shall have your religion and I shall have my religion.
CX. The Help
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. When there comes the help of Allah and the victory,
2. And you see men entering the religion of Allah in companies,
3. Then celebrate the praise of your Lord, and ask His forgiveness; surely He is oft-returning
(to mercy).
CXI. The Flame
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Perdition overtake both hands of Abu Lahab, and he will perish.
2. His wealth and what he earns will not avail him.
3. He shall soon burn in fire that flames,
4. And his wife, the bearer of fuel,
5. Upon her neck a halter of strongly twisted rope.
CXII. The Unity
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Say: He, Allah, is One.
2. Allah is He on Whom all depend.
3. He begets not, nor is He begotten.
4. And none is like Him.
CXIII. The Dawn
1. Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of the dawn,
2. From the evil of what He has created,
3. And from the evil of the utterly dark night when it comes,
4. And from the evil of those who blow on knots,
5. And from the evil of the envious when he envies
CXIV. The Men
1. Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of men,
2. The King of men,
3. The God of men,
4. From the evil of the whisperings of the slinking (Shaitan),
5. Who whispers into the hearts of men,
6. From among the jinn and the men.
The End .
67,584 002.TheCow
38,912 003.TheFamilyOfImran
39,936 004.Women
30,720 005.TheFood
33,792 006.TheCattle
36,864 007.TheElevatedPlaces
13,312 008.TheSpoilsOfWar
27,648 009.Repentance
19,456 010.Yunus
21,504 011.Hud
19,456 012.Yusuf
9,216 013.TheThunder
9,216 014.Ibrahim
8,192 015.TheRock
21,504 016.TheBee
17,408 017.TheIsraelites
18,432 018.TheCave
15,360 020.TaHa
13,312 021.TheProphets
14,336 022.ThePilgrimage
12,288 023.TheBelievers
14,336 024.TheLight
10,240 025.TheCriterion
15,360 026.ThePoets
12,288 027.TheAnt
16,384 028.TheNarrative
11,264 029.TheSpider
9,216 030.TheRomans
5,120 031.Luqman
4,096 032.TheAdoration
14,336 033.TheAllies
9,216 034.Saba
8,192 035.TheOriginator
8,192 036.YaSeen
8,192 038.Suad
13,312 039.TheCompanies
13,312 040.TheBeliever
8,192 041.HaMim
9,216 042.TheCounsel
10,240 043.TheEmbellishment
4,096 044.TheEvidentSmoke
5,120 045.TheKneeling
6,144 046.TheSandhills
6,144 047.Muhammad
6,144 048.TheVictory
3,072 049.TheChambers
4,096 050.Qaf
4,096 051.TheScatterers
3,072 052.TheMountain
4,096 053.TheStar
4,096 054.TheMoon
4,096 055.TheBeneficient
5,120 056.TheGreatEvent
6,144 057.TheIron
5,120 058.ThePleadingOne
5,120 059.TheBanishment
3,072 060.TheExaminedOne
2,048 061.TheRanks
1,024 062.Friday
2,048 063.TheHypocrites
2,048 064.LossAndGain
6,144 065. Divorce
2,048 066.TheProhibition
3,072 067.TheKingdom
3,072 068.ThePen
3,072 069.TheSureCalamity
2,048 070.TheWaysOfAscent
2,048 071.Nuh
3,072 072.TheJinn
2,048 073.TheWrappedUp
3,072 074.TheClothedOne
2,048 075.TheResurrection
3,072 076.TheMan
2,048 077.TheEmissaries
2,048 078.TheGreatEvent
2,048 079.ThoseWhoPullOut
1,024 080.HeFrowned
1,024 081.TheCoveringUp
1,024 082.TheCleavingAsunder
2,048 083.TheDefrauders
1,024 084.TheBurstingAsunder
1,024 085.TheMansionsOfTheStars
819 086.TheNight-Comer
1,024 087.TheMostHigh
1,024 088.TheOverwhelmingCalamity
1,024 089.TheDaybreak
1,024 090.TheCity
921 091.TheSun
1,024 092.TheNight
716 093.TheEarlyHours
307 094.TheExpansion
409 095.TheFig
921 096.TheClot
307 097.TheMajesty
1,024 098.TheClearEvidence
409 099.TheShaking
512 100.TheAssaulters
512 101.TheTerribleCalamity
409 102. TheMultiplicationOfWealthAndChildren
204 103.Time
512 104.TheSlanderer
307 105.TheElephant
204 106.TheQureaish
307 107.TheDailyNecessaries
204 108.TheHeavenlyFountain
307 109.TheUnbelievers
204 110.TheHelp
307 111.TheFlame
102 112. TheUnity
307 113.TheDawn
204 114.TheMen