THE HOLY QUR’ANTrnslated by Khan, Muhammad Ayub
AL-FATIHAH (1)
"The Opening"
(Revealed at Mecca, Verses: 7)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-merciful (1)
Praise be to God, the Lord of the World, (2)
the Merciful, the All-merciful, (3)
the Master of the Day of Recompense. (4)
Thee we serve, and to Thee we pray for help. (5)
Guide us to the Straight Path, (6)
the path of those whom Thou hast blessed,
not of those who incurred wrath, nor of the astray. (7)
ALBAQARAH (2)
"The Cow"
(Revealed at Medina, Verses 286)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulAlif Lam Mim (A.L.M.); (1)
this is the Book, no doubt in it, a guidance to the godfearing, (2)
who believe without seeing, establish the Prayer and expend of that We have
provided them; (3)
who believe in what has been sent down to thee and what has been sent down
before thee, and they are sure about the Hereafter. (4)
Those are upon guidance from their Lord, and those are the ones who shall
prosper.(5)
Those who disbelieve, it is equal for them whether thou warn them or warn
them not, they will not believe. (6)
God has set a seal on their hearts and on their ears; and there is a
covering on their eyes; and for them shall be a big punishment.(7)
And some men there are who say, `we believe in God and the Last Day', but
they are no believers. (8)
They would deceive God and the Believers, but they do not deceive any
except themselves, though they do not perceive. (9)
In their hearts is a sickness, then God increased their sickness, and for
them shall be a painful punishment, for that they were speaking lies. (10)
And when it is said to them, `do not cause disorder in the land', they say,
`we are only putting things right.' (11)
Behold, they are the ones that cause disorder, though they do not perceive.
(12)
And when it is said to them, `believe as the people believe', they say,
`shall we believe as the fools believe?' Behold, they are the fools, but
they do not know. (13)
And when they meet the Believers, they say, `we believe'; but when they are
alone with their devils, they say, `we are with you, we only mock.' (14)
God mocks them and leaves them in their insolence, blindly wandering. (15)
Those are the ones that have bought error in place of guidance, and their
commerce has not profited them, and they are not guided.(16)
Their likeness is as the likeness of him who kindled a fire, and when it
lit about him, God took away their light, and left them in darkness,
unseeing. (17)
Deaf, dumb and blind, they do not return. (18)
Or it is as a cloud-burst from the heaven, in which is darkness, thunder
and lightning; they put their fingers in their ears against the
thunderclaps, for fear of death; but God has encompassed the unbelievers.
(19)
The lightning almost snatches away their eyes; whenever it gives them
light, they walk in it, and when it darkens over them, they halt; had God
willed, He would have taken away their ears and their eyes; God is powerful
over everything.(20)
O mankind, serve your Lord who created you and those that were before you,
that you may become godfearing;(21)
who made the earth a couch for you and heaven an edifice, and sent down
from heaven water, wherewith He brought forth fruits for your provision; so
do not set up compeers to God while you know. (22)
And if you are in doubt concerning that We have sent down on Our Servant,
then produce a Sura (chapter) like it, and call your witnesses, apart from
God, if you are truthful.(23)
But if you do not, and you will not, then fear the Fire whose fuel is men
and stones; it is prepared for the unbelievers.(24)
And give thou good news to those who believe and do righteous deeds, that
for them shall be gardens underneath which rivers flow; whenever they are
provided with any fruit therefrom, they shall say, `this is what we were
provided before', and they will be given in semblance; and there, for them
shall be pure spouses, and therein they shall dwell forever.(25)
God is not ashamed to give a similitude even of a gnat or anything above
it. Then, as for the Believers, they know that it is the truth from their
Lord; but as for the unbelievers, they say, `what does God desire by this
similitude?' Thereby He sends astray many and thereby He guides many; but
thereby He sends none astray except the transgressors, (26)
those who break the covenant of God after its binding, and cut what God has
commanded should be joined, and cause disorder in the land; those are the
losers.(27)
How do you disbelieve in God, seeing that you were dead and He gave you
life, then He shall make you to die, then He shall give you life, then unto
Him you shall be returned?(28)
It is He who created for you all that is in the earth, then turned to the
heaven and levelled them seven heavens; and He has knowledge of
everything.(29)
And when thy Lord said to the angels, `I am appointing a viceroy in the
earth', they said, `wilt Thou appoint therein one who will cause disorder
there and shed blood, while we celebrate Thy praise and sanctify Thee?' He
said, `I know what you know not?'(30)
And He taught Adam all the names, then presented them to the angels and
said, `tell Me the names of these, if you are truthful.'(31)
They said, `glory be to Thee, we have no knowledge except what Thou hast
taught us; Thou art the Knowing, the Wise.'(32)
He said, `O Adam, tell them their names.' Then, when he had told them their
names, He said, `did I not say to you, I know the unseen of the heavens and
the earth, and I know what you reveal and what you were hiding.'(33)
And when We said to the angels, `prostrate yourselves to Adam', they
prostrated themselves, except Iblis; he refused and showed arrogance and
was among the unbelievers.(34)
And We said, `O Adam, dwell thou and thy wife in the garden, and eat
thereof easefully where you will, but do not go near this tree, for then
you will be among the wrong-doers.'(35)
Then the Devil caused them to slip therefrom and brought them out of the
state they were in; and We said , `get you down as enemy to one another;
and for you in the earth shall be an abode and goods for a time.'(36)
Then Adam received certain Words from his Lord, so He turned towards him;
surely He is the All-returning, the Merciful. (37)
We said, `get you down from here all together; yet there shall come to you
guidance from Me, then whosoever follows My guidance, no fear shall be on
them, nor shall they grieve.(38)
But those who disbelieve and give lies to Our signs, those shall be the
people of the Fire; they shall dwell therein forever.(39)
O Children of Israel, remember My blessing with which I blessed you, and
fulfil My covenant and I shall fulfil your covenant, and have awe of
Me.(40)
And believe in that I have sent down confirming that which is with you, and
be not the first unbeliever of it, nor sell My signs for a little price,
and fear you Me.(41)
And do not confound the truth with falsehood, and do not conceal the truth
knowingly.(42)
And establish the Prayer and pay the Due-alms and bow with those who
bow.(43)
Do you bid people to virtue and forget yourselves, while you recite the
Book? Do you not understand?(44)
And seek help through patience and the Prayer; and it is indeed hard except
to the humble,(45)
who reckon that they shall meet their Lord, and that to Him they are
returning.(46)
O Children of Israel, remember My blessing with which I blessed you, and
that I exalted you above all people.(47)
And fear a Day when a soul shall not avail another soul in the least, nor
shall any intercession be accepted from it, nor any compensation be taken
from it, nor shall they be helped.(48)
And (remember) when We delivered you from Pharaoh's folk who afflicted you
with evil punishment, slaughtering your sons and letting your women live;
and in that was a big trial from your Lord.(49)
And (remember) when We divided the sea for you, then saved you and drowned
Pharaoh's folk, while you beheld.(50)
And (remember) when We appointed with Moses forty nights, then you took the
Calf (for a god) after him, and you were wrong-doers.(51)
Yet We pardoned you after that, that you may be thankful.(52)
And (remember) when We gave Moses the Book and the Criterion that you may
be guided.(53)
And (remember) when Moses said to his people, `O my people, you have done
wrong against yourselves by your taking the Calf (for a god); now turn to
your Creator, and kill your people; that is better for you in the sight of
your Creator; then He turned to you; surely He is the All-returning, the
Merciful.(54)
And (remember) when you said, `O Moses, we will not believe thee until we
see God openly;' then the thunderbolt struck you while you beheld.(55)
Then We raised you up after your death that you may give thanks.(56)
And We caused the clouds to overshadow you, and sent down upon you manna
and quails: `eat of the good things that We have provided you.' And they
did no wrong upon Us, but upon themselves they wronged.(57)
And (remember) when We said, `enter this town and eat therefrom wherever
you will easefully, and enter the gate prostrating, and say, `forgive us',
We will forgive you your mistakes, and increase for the good-doers.'(58)
But the wrong-doers substituted a saying other than that which was said to
them, so We sent down upon the wrong-doers a scourge from the heaven for
their transgression.(59)
And (remember) when Moses sought water for his people, We said, `strike the
rock with thy staff; and there gushed forth from it twelve springs; each
tribe learnt its drinking place: `eat and drink of God's provision, and do
not go about in the land causing disorder.'(60)
And (remember) when you said, `O Moses, we will not endure only one food;
pray to thy Lord for us that He may bring forth for us, of that which the
earth produces ___ of its herbs, its cucumbers, its corn, its lentils and
its onions.' He said, `do you ask in exchange that which is inferior for
that which is better? Get you down to a city and you shall have what you
demand.' And they were struck with abasement and misery, and they were
laden with God's wrath; that because they disbelieved in the signs of God
and killed the Prophets without right; that because they disobeyed and were
exceeding limits.(61)
Surely the Believers, the Jews, the Christians and the Sabaeans, whoso
believes in God and the Last Day and does righteous deeds, shall have their
wage with their Lord, and no fear shall be on them, nor shall they
grieve.(62)
And (remember) when We made a covenant with you and raised the Mount above
you: `hold firmly what We have given you, and remember what is in it, that
you may be godfearing.'(63)
Yet you turned away after that; and had it not been for the bounty of God
and His mercy on you, you would have been among the losers.(64)
And you surely know those of you who violated the Sabbath, and We said to
them `be you apes, driven away.'(65)
And We made it a punishment exemplary for those present and those
succeeding it, and an admonition to the godfearing.(66)
And (remember) when Moses said to his people, `God commands you to
sacrifice a cow,; they said, `dost thou take us in mockery?' He said, `I
take refuge with God, lest I should be among the ignorant.'(67)
They said, `pray to thy Lord for us that He may make clear to us what she
may be.' He said, `He says, she is a cow neither old nor virgin, middling
between that; now do what you are commanded.'(68)
They said, `pray to thy Lord for us that He may make clear to us what her
colour may be.' He said, `He says, she shall be a yellow cow of bright
colour, gladdening the beholders.'(69)
They said, `pray to thy Lord for us that He may make clear to us what she
may be; the cows seem much alike to us; but, if God will, we shall surely
be guided.'(70)
He said, `He says, she is a cow not broken to plough the earth, nor to
water the tillage; sound, with no blemish on her.' They said, `now thou
hast brought the truth.' Then they sacrificed her, though they hardly
wanted to do it.(71)
And (remember) when you killed a soul and then fell into dispute on it; and
God was to bring forth what you were hiding.(72)
So We said, `strike him with a part of it;' like that God brings to life
the dead and shows you His Signs that you may have understanding.(73)
But, in spite of that, your hearts became hardened, and they were like
stones or even harder; for there are stones from which rivers gush out, and
there are those that split and water comes out of them, and there are those
that fall down in the fear of God; and God is not heedless of the things
you do.(74)
Are you then eager that they should believe you, seeing that there is a
party of them that hears God's Word then tampers with it after they have
understood it, and that knowingly?(75)
And when they meet those who believe, they say, `we believe'; but when they
are alone with one another, they say, `will you tell them what God has
disclosed to you, that they may thereby dispute with you before your Lord;
do you not understand?'(76)
But do they not know that God knows what they keep secret and what they
make public?(77)
And among them are the common folk who do not know the Book but only
fancies, and they only make conjecture.(78)
So woe to those who write the Book with their hands, then say, `this is
from God,' that they may sell it for a little price; woe to them for what
their hands have written, and woe to them for what they earn.(79)
And they say, `the Fire shall not touch us but for days numbered.' Say,
`have you taken with God a covenant? If so, God will not fail in His
covenant; or you say about God things that you do not know?'(80)
No, whoso earns evil, and his wrong deeds encompass him, those are the
people of the Fire; they shall dwell therein forever.(81)
And those who believe and do righteous deeds, they are the people of
Paradise; they shall dwell therein forever.(82)
And (remember) when We made a covenant with the Children of Israel: `you
shall not serve any except God; and be good to parents, the near kinsman,
orphans and the needy; and speak good to men; and establish the Prayer, and
pay the Due-alms.' Then you turned away, swerving aside, excepting a few of
you.(83)
And (remember) when We made a covenant with you: `you shall not shed your
own blood, nor expel your people from your habitations.' Then you consented
and you are witness to it.(84)
Yet you are those who kill your people and expel a party of yours from
their habitations, backing each other against them in sin and enmity; and
if they come to you as captives, you ransom them, whereas their very
expulsion was forbidden to you. Do you believe in part of the Book and
disbelieve in part? The recompense of those who do that is not but disgrace
in the present life; and, on the Day of Resurrection, they shall be turned
to the most severe punishment; and God is not heedless of the things you
do.(85)
Those are the ones who have purchased the present life for the Hereafter;
so punishment shall not be lightened for them, nor shall they be
helped.(86)
And We gave to Moses the Book and sent Messengers after him in succession;
and We gave Jesus, son of Mary, Clear Signs and strengthened him with the
Holy Spirit. Yet whenever there came to you a Messeng with that your souls
did not desire, you became arrogant; then some you gave lies to and some
you killed?(87)
And they say, `our hearts are wrapped.' No, God has cursed them for their
unbelief; so little do they believe. And when there came to them a Book
from God, confirming what was with them __ and aforetime they prayed for
victory over the unbelievers __ (88)
but when there came to them that which they recognized, they disbelieved in
it; so God's curse is on the unbelievers.(89)
Evil is the thing for which they have bartered themselves, that they should
disbelieve in what God has sent down, grudging that God should send down of
His bounty on whomsoever of His servants He will; so they are laden with
anger upon anger; and for the unbelievers there shall be a humiliating
punishment.(90)
And when it is said to them, `believe in what God has sent down', they say,
`we believe in what was sent down on us;' and they disbelieve in what is
beyond that, though it is the truth confirming what is with them. Say, `why
were you then killing the Prophets of God aforetime, if you were
believers?'(91)
And Moses came to you with Clear Signs, yet you took the Calf (for a god)
after him and you were wrong-doers.(92)
And when We made a covenant with you, and raised the Mount over you: `hold
what We have given you firmly, and listen;' they said, `we listen and we
disobey;' and their hearts were made to imbibe with (the love of) Calf
because of their unbelief. Say, `evil is the thing your belief bids you to,
if you are believers.'(93)
Say `if the Last House with God is exclusively yours, apart from other
people, then long for death, if you are truthful.'(94)
But they will never long for it because of what their hands have forwarded;
and God knows well the wrong-doers.(95)
And thou shalt find them the eagerest of men for life, even more than the
idolaters; each one of them wishes if he might be given a life of a
thousand years; but it will not remove him from the punishment, even if he
were given (long) life; and God sees the things they do.(96)
Say, `whosoever is an enemy to Gabriel' ___ and he it is that has brought
it down on thy heart, by the leave of God, confirming what was before it,
and for a guidance and a good news to the Believers __ (97)
`whoso is an enemy to God, His angels, His Messengers, Gabriel and Michael,
surely God is an enemy to the unbelievers.'(98)
And We have sent down to thee Clear Signs, and none disbelieves in them
except the transgressors.(99)
What! whenever they make a covenant, a party of them casts it aside! No,
but most of them have no faith.(100)
And when there came to them a Messenger from God, confirming what was with
them, a party of those who were given the Book cast off the Book of God
behind their backs, as if they had no knowledge.(101)
And they followed what the devils recited over Solomon's kingdom; and
Solomon did not disbelieve (the Book) but the devils disbelieved, teaching
the people sorcery and that which was sent down on the two angels in
Babylon, Harut and Marut; and they (two) did not teach anyone, until they
said, `we are only a trial, so do not disbelieve.' And they learnt from
them that by which they might cause division between man and his wife; yet
they could not hurt anyone except by the leave of God; and they learnt what
hurt them and did not profit them; and they knew that whoso bought it shall
have no share in the Hereafter; and evil indeed was that for which they
sold themselves, if they had but known.(102)
Yet had they believed and been godfearing, a reward from God would have
been better, if they had but known.(103)
O Believers, do not say, `have regard for us', but say, `look at us', and
listen; and (remember) the unbelievers will have a painful punishment.(104)
The unbelievers among the People of the Book do not wish, nor the
idolaters, that any good should be sent down on you from your Lord; but God
singles out for His mercy whom He will; and God is extremely
Bounteous.(105)
Whatever verse We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring one better
than it, or the like of it; dost thou not know that God is powerful over
everything?(106)
Dost thou not know that to God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the
earth; and you have no protector or helper apart from God?(107)
Or do you desire to question your Messenger as Moses was questioned before?
But whoso exchanges belief for unbelief has indeed strayed from the even
way.(108)
Many of the people of the Book wish that they might turn you back as
unbelievers due to jealousy of their souls, after the truth has become
clear to them; yet forgive and overlook, till God brings His command; God
is powerful over everything.(109)
And establish the Prayer and pay the Due-alms; and whatever good you will
forward for yourselves, you shall find it with God; God sees the things you
do. (110)
And they say, `none shall enter Paradise except that he be a Jew or a
Christian.' These are their fancies. Say, `produce your proof, if you are
truthful.'(111)
No, whoso submits himself to God, and he is a good-doer, he shall have his
wage with his Lord, and no fear shall be on them, nor shall they
grieve.(112)
And the Jews say, `the Christians do not stand on anything;' and the
Christians say, `the Jews do not stand on anything;' and they recite the
Book (of God). Even so, like their saying, say those who have no knowledge.
Now God shall decide between them on the Day of Resurrection in what they
differed.(113)
And who does greater wrong than he who bars God's places of worship, so
that His Name may not be rehearsed in them, and strives to ruin them? It
was not proper for them to enter them but in fear; for them shall be
disgrace in the present world, and a big punishment in the Hereafter.(114)
And to God belong the East and the West; so whithersoever you turn, there
is the Face of God; God is All-embracing, Knowing.(115)
And they say, `God has taken to Him a son' ___ glory be to Him. No, to Him
belongs whatever is in the heavens and earth; all have submitted to
Him.(116)
The Creator of the heavens and earth, when He decrees a thing, He only says
to it, `be', and it is.(117)
And those who have no knowledge say, `why does God not speak to us or a
sign not come to us?' Even so, like their saying, said those before them;
their hearts are all alike; We have made the Signs clear for a people who
have firm belief.(118)
We have sent thee with the truth, as a bearer of good news and as a warner,
and thou shalt not be questioned about the people of Hell.(119)
Yet never will the Jews be pleased with thee, nor the Christians, until
thou followest their creed. Say, `guidance of God is the guidance'; and if
thou followest their caprices, after the knowledge that has come to thee,
thou shalt have no protector or helper against God.(120)
Those to whom We have given the Book recite it with its due recitation;
those indeed believe in it; and those who disbelieve in it, they shall be
the losers.(121)
O Children of Israel, remember My blessing with which I blessed you, and
that I exalted you above all people.(122)
And fear a Day when a soul shall not avail another soul in the least, nor
shall compensation be accepted from it, nor shall any intercession profit
it, nor shall they be helped.(123)
And (remember) when his Lord tested Abraham with certain Words, he
fulfilled them; He said, `I make thee a leader of men.' He said, `and of my
offspring?' He said, `My covenant does not apply to the wrong-doers.'(124)
And (remember) when We made the House (Ka'ba) a resort and a security for
men, and (said), `take Abraham's station for a place of the Prayer.' And We
made covenant with Abraham and Ishmael: `cleanse my House for those who
shall go about it, and those who cleave to it, and those who bow and
prostrate themselves.'(125)
And (remember) when Abraham said, `my Lord, make this a land of security,
and provide its people with fruits, such of them as believe in God and the
Last Day,' He said, `but if any disbelieves, I shall provide him a little,
then I shall compel him to the punishment of the Fire; and how evil is the
destination!'(126)
And (remember) when Abraham and Ishmael were raising the foundations of the
House (Ka'ba): `our Lord, accept from us; surely Thou art the Hearing, the
Knowing.(127)
And our Lord, make us submissive to Thee, and of our offspring a community
submissive to Thee; and show us our rites, and turn to us; surely Thou art
the All- returning, the Merciful.(128)
And our Lord, raise up among them a Messenger from among them, who shall
recite to them Thy Signs, teach them the Book and the Wisdom, and purify
them; surely Thou art the Mighty, the Wise.'(129)
And who would forsake the creed of Abraham except him who has befooled
himself; We chose him in the present world, and he shall be among the
righteous in the Hereafter.(130)
When his Lord said to him, `surrender,' he said, `I surrender to the Lord
of the world.'(131)
And with that Abraham charged his sons, and did Jacob: `my sons, God has
chosen for you the Religion (of Surrender), so die not but that you have
surrendered.'(132)
Or were you witnesses, when death came to Jacob, when he said to his sons,
`what will you serve after me?' They said, `we shall serve thy God, and the
God of thy fathers, Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac, the One God, and to Him we
have surrendered.'(133)
That was a community that has passed away; for them was what they earned,
and for you shall be what you earned, and you shall not be questioned
concerning the things they were doing.(134)
And they say, `be Jews or Christians, and you shall be guided.' Say, `no,
but the creed of Abraham, the devout; and he was not of the
idolaters.'(135)
Say, `we believe in God, and that which has been sent down to us, and that
which was sent down to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, and
that which was given to Moses and Jesus, and that which was given to the
Prophets from their Lord; we make no division between any of them, and to
Him we have surrendered.’__ (136)
Then if they believe in the like of that you believe, they are guided; but
if they turn away, they are only insisting to remain separate; and God
shall suffice thee against them; and He is the Hearing, the Knowing.'
__(137)
`That is the baptism of God, and who could be better in baptizing than God,
and Him we serve.'(138)
Say, `do you dispute with us concerning God, and He is our Lord and your
Lord, and for us are our deeds and for you are your deeds, and we are
sincerely His?'(139)
Or do you say, `Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes were Jews or
Christians?' Say. `do you know better or God? And who does greater wrong
than he who conceals a testimony that he has from God; and God is not
heedless of the things you do.'(140)
That was a community that has passed away; for them was what they earned,
and for you shall be what you earned, and you shall not be questioned
concerning the things they were doing.(141)
he fools among the people will say, `what has turned them from their Qibla
(focus of direction in Prayer) which they were facing?' Say, `to God belong
the East and the West; He guides whom He will to a straight path.'(142)
And thus We have appointed you a central community that you be witnesses
over mankind, and the Messenger be a witness over you. And We did not
appoint the Qibla thou wast facing except that We might know who follows
the Messenger from him who turns about on his heels; and it was indeed
hard, except for those whom God guided; and God was not such as would let
your faith waste; God is Kind and Merciful to mankind.(143)
We have seen thee turning about thy face to the heaven, so We will surely
turn thee to the Qibla that shall please thee: `now turn thy face towards
the Sacred Mosque; and wherever you people may be, turn your faces towards
it.' And those who were given the Book know that it is the truth from their
Lord; and God is not heedless of the things they do.(144)
Yet even if thou shouldst bring every sign to those who were given the
Book, they will not follow thy Qibla, and thou wilt not follow their Qibla,
nor will they follow one another's Qibla. And if thou followest their
fancies, after the knowledge that has come to thee, then thou shalt be
among the wrong-doers.(145)
Those whom We had given the Book recognize it, as they recognize their
sons, yet a party of them conceals the truth knowingly.(146)
The truth comes from thy Lord, so be thou not among the doubters.(147)
And (remember) everyone has a direction to which he turns, so be you
forward in good works; wherever you may be, God will bring you all
together; God is powerful over everything.(148)
And whencesoever thou comest forth, turn thy face towards the Sacred
Mosque; and it is the truth from thy Lord; and God is not heedless of the
things you do.(149)
And whencesoever thou comest forth, turn thy face towards the Sacred
Mosque; and wherever you may be, turn your faces towards it, that the
people may not have any argument against you __ except the worng-doers
among them; but do not fear them and fear Me ___ and that I may complete My
blessing on you, and that you may be guided;(150)
as also We have sent among you a Messenger out of you, who recites Our
signs to you, and purifies you, and teaches you the Book and the Wisdom,
and teaches you what you did not know.(151)
So remember Me, and I will remember you; and be thankful to Me and do not
disbelieve Me.(152)
O Believers, seek help through patience and the Prayer; surely God is with
the patient.(153)
And do not say of those who are killed in the way of God, `they are dead';
no, they are living, but you do not perceive.(154)
And We will certainly try you with something of fear and hunger, and losses
in wealth, lives and fruits; yet give thou good news to the patient,(155)
who, when an affliction befalls them, say `we belong to God and to Him we
are returning.'(156)
Those are the ones on whom rest greetings and mercy of their Lord, and
those are the guided ones.(157)
(The hillocks of) Safa and Marwa are among the waymarks of God; so whoso
makes the Pilgrimage or the Visitation to the House, it is no fault in him
to go about them; and whoso volunteers any good, God is Thankful,
Knowing.(158)
Those who conceal the clear signs, and the guidance that We have sent down,
after We have made it clear in the Book for men, those __ God curses them
and the cursers curse them,(159)
except those who repent and amend and make clear; their repentance I will
accept, and I am the All-returning, the Merciful.(160)
Those who disbelieve and die as unbelievers, upon them shall rest the curse
of God, the angels and men, altogether,(161)
dwelling therein forever; the punishment shall not be lightened for them,
nor shall they be given respite.(162)
And your God is One God; there is no god but He, the Merciful, the All-
merciful.(163)
In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night
and day, and the ship that sails in the sea with that which profits men,
and the water that God sends down from the heaven wherewith He revives the
earth after it is dead, and scatters therein all types of animals, and the
turning about of winds, and the clouds controlled between heaven and earth,
there are signs for a people who understand.(164)
Yet some men there are who take to themselves compeers besides God, loving
them as God should be loved; and the Believers love God most ardently. O if
the wrong-doers might see, when they see the punishment that the power
belongs to God altogether, and that God is terrible in punishment.(165)
When those who were followed disown the followers, and they see the
punishment, and their cords are cut.(166)
And the followers say, `if we could only return, we would disown them as
they have disowned us.' Thus shall God show them their works as regrets to
them; and they shall never come out of the Fire.(167)
O mankind, eat of what is lawful and clean in the earth, and do not follow
the steps of the Devil; he is an open enemy to you.(168)
He bids you only to evil and indecency, and that you say about God what you
do not know.(169)
And when it is said to them, `follow what God has sent down', they say,
`no, we will follow what we found our fathers on.' What! even if their
fathers did not understand anything, nor were they guided. (170)
And the likeness of the unbelievers is as the likeness of one who shouts to
that which does not hear except a call and a cry; deaf, dumb and blind,
they do not understand.(171)
O Believers, eat of the clean things that We have provided for you, and be
thankful to God, if Him only you serve.(172)
He has forbidden you only carrion, blood, the flesh of swine, and that over
which name of other than God is invoked; yet whoso is constrained, not
revolting nor exceeding limits, no sin is upon him; God is Forgiving,
Merciful.(173)
Those who conceal what God has sent down of the Book, and get a small price
for it, they eat in their bellies nothing but the Fire, and God will not
speak to them on the Day of Resurrection, nor will He purify them; and for
them shall be a painful punishment.(174)
Those are the ones who have bought error in place of guidance, and
punishment in place of forgiveness; so how patient are they regarding the
Fire!(175)
That is because God has sent down the Book with the truth; and those who
differ regarding the Book are in far opposition.(176)
It is no virtue that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but
the virtue is that any believes in God, the Last Day, the angels, the Book
and the Prophets; and he gives his wealth, for the love of Him, to kinsmen,
orphans, the needy, the traveller, the beggars, and for (ransoming) the
enslaved; and he establishes the Prayer and pays the Due-alms; and they
fulfil their covenant when they make it; and they are patient in adversity,
hardship and in time of peril; those are the ones who have spoken the
truth, and those are the godfearing.(177)
O Believers, prescribed for you is retaliation concerning the slain;
freeman for freeman, slave for slave, and female for female. Then if any is
pardoned something by his brother, let it be pursued desirably, and payment
made to him with gratitude. That is a lightening and a mercy granted by
your Lord; and if any exceeds limits thereafter, for him shall be a painful
punishment.(178)
And (remember), in retaliation there is life for you, O men of
understanding, that you may become godfearing.(179)
Prescribed for you, when death approaches any of you, if he leaves behind
some goods, is to make testament for the parents and kinsmen in a desirable
way; it is an obligation on the godfearing.(180)
Then, if anyone changes it, after he has heard it, its sin shall rest only
upon those who change it; God is Hearing, Knowing.(181)
But if any fears partiality or sin from the testator, and he puts things
right between them, then no sin shall rest upon him; God is Forgiving,
Merciful.(182)
O Believers, prescribed for you is Fasting, as it was prescribed for those
that were before you, that you may be godfearing __ (183)
for days numbered. And if any of you is sick or on a journey, then that
number on other days; and for those who can afford it, a redemption by
feeding a needy; and whoso volunteers good, it is good for him; that you
fast is good for you, if you know.(184)
The month of Ramadhan is that in which the Quran was sent down, to be a
guidance for mankind, and Clear Signs of Guidance and Criterion. So whoso
among you witnesses the month, let him fast it; and if any is sick or is on
journey, then that number in other days; God desires ease for you, and does
not desire hardship for you, and that you complete the number, and that you
glorify God as He has guided you, and you may be thankful.(185)
And when My servants question thee about Me, I am near; I answer the call
of the caller when he calls to Me, so let them respond to Me, and let them
have faith in Me, that they may go aright.(186)
Lawful to you, on the night of fasting, is to go in to your wives; they are
a garment for you and you are a garment for them; God knows that you have
been betraying yourselves; so He has turned to you and pardoned you; now
you may go in to them and seek what God has prescribed for you; and eat and
drink until the white thread of the dawn shows clearly to you from the
black thread; then complete the fast upto the night; but do not go in to
them while you are cleaving in the mosques; those are God's bounds, so do
not go near them; thus God makes clear His signs to men that they may
become godfearing. (187)
And do not eat up your properties between you by false means and do not
offer it to the judges that you may eat up a part of the properties of
(other) men, committing sin and that knowingly.(188)
They ask thee regarding the new moons. Say, `they are time-marks for the
people and the Pilgrimage. And it is no virtue that you come to the houses
from their backs, but the virtue is that any fears God; so come to the
houses by their doors and fear God that you may prosper.(189)
And fight in the way of God with those who fight with you, but do not
aggress; God does not love the aggressors.(190)
And kill them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they
expelled you, for turmoil is more grievous than killing; but do not fight
them by the Sacred Mosque until they fight you there; and if they fight
you, kill them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.(191)
And if they give over, then God is Forgiving, Merciful.(192)
And fight them until there is no turmoil left and Submission to God
prevails; then if they give over, there shall be no hostility except
against the wrong-doers.(193)
The sacred month for the sacred month, and all sacred things demand
retaliation. If any aggresses against you, you aggress against him, as he
aggressess against you; but fear God and know that God is with the
godfearing.(194)
And expend in the way of God, and do not cast yourselves to destruction by
your own hands, and do good; surely God loves the good-doers.(195)
And perform the Pilgrimage (Hajj) and Visitation (Umra) for God; but if you
are prevented, then whatever offering is easy; and do not shave your heads
till the offering reaches its place of sacrifice; and if any of you is sick
or has a hurt in his head, then there will be redemption by fasting or alms-
giving or ritual sacrifice. And when you are secure, then he who combines
Visitation until the Pilgrimage, let him whatever offering is easy for him;
and if he does not find any, then a fast for three days during Pilgrimage,
and seven when you return; that is ten complete; that is for him whose
family is not present at the Sacred Mosque; and fear God and know that God
is terrible in retribution.(196)
The Pilgrimage is in months known; so if any undertakes the Pilgrimage in
them, there will be no going in to his women, nor transgression, nor
quarrelling during the Pilgrimage; and whatever good you do, God knows it.
And take provision, and the best provision is godfearing; and fear Me, O
men of understanding!(197)
It is no fault in you that you seek bounty from your Lord. And when you
press on from Arafat, remember God at the Sacred Monument (Mash'ar-al-
Haram), and remember Him as He has guided you; and, before that, you were
among the astray.(198)
Then press on from where the people press on, and pray for God's
forgiveness; God is Forgiving, Merciful.(199)
And when you have completed your rites, remember God as you remember your
fathers or yet more vehemently. Now, among men is he who says, `our Lord,
give us in this world', and he will have no share in the Hereafter.(200)
And among them is he who says, `Our Lord, give us in this world good, and
in the Hereafter good, and save us from the punishment of the Fire.'(201)
They will have a share of what they have earned; and God is swift at the
reckoning.(202)
And remember God during the days numbered; then he who hastens in two days
bears no sin, and he who delays bears no sin __ it is for him who is
godfearing; and fear God and know that unto Him you shall be mustered.
(203)
And among men is he whose talk on the present world makes thee wonder, and
he calls on God to witness for that which is in his heart, yet he is most
stubborn in altercation.(204)
And when he turns away, he labours in the earth to create disorder and
destroy the tillage and the stock; but God does not love disorder.(205)
And when it is said to him, `fear God', pride holds him in sin; Hell shall
suffice him; and it is the evil cradle!(206)
And among men is he who sells himself to seek God's pleasure; and God is
Kind to His servants.(207)
O Believers, enter Submission totally, and do not follow the steps of the
Devil; he is an open enemy to you.(208)
But if you slip after the clear signs have come to you, then know that God
is Mighty, Wise.(209)
What are they looking for except that God and the angels should come to
them in the cloud-shadows, and the matter be decided? But unto God are all
matters returned.(210)
Ask the Children of Israel how many a clear sign We gave them! But if any
changes God's blessing after it has come to him, then God is terrible in
retribution.(211)
The present life is adorned for the unbelievers, and they scoff at the
Believers; but the godfearing shall be above them on the Day of
Resurrection; and God provides whomso He will without reckoning.(212)
Mankind are one community; so God raised up the Prophets as bearers of good
news and as warners, and sent down with them the Book with truth, that it
might judge between men wherein they differed; and none differed in it but
those to whom it was given, after the clear signs had come to them, due to
envy between them; then God guided the Believers, by His leave, to the
truth in which they differed; and God guides whom He will to a straight
path.(213)
Or do you think that you shall enter Paradise, when the like of those who
passed away before you has not yet come upon you? Adversity and hardship
afflicted them and they were so shaken that the Messenger and the Believers
with him, said, `when comes God's help?' ___ `Behold, God's help is
nearby!' (214)
They ask thee as to what they should expend. Say, `whatever good you expend
that is for parents, kinsmen, orphans, the needy, and the traveller; and
whatever good you may do, God knows it.'(215)
Prescribed for you is fighting, and it is hateful to you; yet it is
possible that you hate a thing and it is good for you; and it is possible
that you love a thing and it is bad for you; and God knows but you do not
know.(216)
They ask thee concerning fighting in the Sacred Month. Say, `fighting in it
is a grievous thing, but barring from God's way and from the Sacred Mosque,
and disbelieving in Him, and expelling its people from it, is more grievous
in the sight of God; and state of turmoil is more grievous than killing.
And they will not cease fighting with you, until they turn you from your
religion, if they can; but any of you who turns from his religion and dies
as unbeliever, their works have failed in this world and the Hereafter; and
those are the people of the Fire; they will dwell therein forever.(217)
Those who believed and those who emigrated and struggled in the way of God,
those have hope for God's mercy; and God is Forgiving, Merciful.(218)
They ask thee concerning wine and gambling. Say, `in them is a great sin,
and also uses for men, but their sin is greater than their usefulness!' And
they ask thee as to what they should expend. Say, `the surplus'; thus God
makes clear His signs to you that you may ponder,(219)
over this world and Hereafter. And they ask thee concerning the orphans.
Say, `to set their affairs right is good; and if you intermix with them,
they are your brothers.' And God knows him who causes disorder from him who
sets things right; and had God willed, He would have put you to hardship;
God is Mighty, Wise.'( 220)
And do not marry idolatresses, until they accept the faith; for a Believing
slave-girl is better than an idolatress, how marvellous she may appear to
you. And do not give in marriage to idolaters until they accept the faith,
for a Believing slave is better than an idolater, how marvellous he may
appear to you. Those call to the Fire, and God calls to Paradise and
forgiveness, by His leave; and He makes clear His signs to the people that
they may pay heed(221)
And they ask thee concerning the monthly course; say, `it is a hurt; so go
apart from women during the monthly course, and do not approach them until
they are clean; and when they have cleansed themselves, go to them as God
has bid you; God loves those who turn to Him, and He loves those who
cleanse themselves.(222)
Your women are a tillage for you; so go to your tillage as you will, and
forward for yourselves; and fear God and know that you shall be meeting
Him; and give thou good news to the Believers. (223)
And do not make God a hindrance, through your oaths, to being virtuous and
godfearing and putting things right between men; and God is Hearing,
Knowing.(224)
God will not take you to task for nonsense in your oaths, but He will take
you to task for what your hearts have earned; and God is Forgiving,
Clement.(225)
For those who forswear their women is a wait of four months; then if they
revert, God is Forgiving, Merciful.(226)
And if they resolve on divorce, God is Hearing, Knowing.(227)
And divorced women shall wait by themselves for three periods; and it is
not lawful for them to hide what God has created in their wombs, if they
believe in God and the Last Day; and during that time their mates have
better right to take them back, if they desire to put things right; and
women have (rights) similar to what (obligations) are upon them, in the
desirable way, but men have a rank above them; and God is Mighty,
Wise.(228)
Divorce is twice, then retention in a desirable way or letting off with
kindness; and it is not lawful for you to take anything you have given
them, except that the two fear that they may not maintain God's bounds;
then if you fear that the two may not maintain God's bounds, it is no fault
in the two how she redeems herself; those are God's bounds, so do not
exceed them, and whoso exceeds God's bounds, those are the wrong-
doers.(229)
Then if he divorces her (finally), she shall not be lawful to him
afterwards till she marries a mate other than he; then if he also divorces
her, it is no fault in the two that they return to each other, if they
think that they will maintain God's bounds; and these are God's bounds
which He makes clear to people who have knowledge.(230)
And when you divorce women and they reach their term, then retain them in a
desirable way, or let them off in a desirable way; but do not retain them
to harm (them) that you exceed limits; and whoso does that, he has wronged
himself; and do not take God's signs in mockery; and remember God's
blessing on you and what He has sent down upon you of the Book and the
Wisdom, by which He admonishes you; and fear God and know that God has
knowledge of everything.(231)
And when you divorce women and they have reached their term, do not debar
them from marrying their mates, when they have agreed together in the
desirable way; with that is admonished whoso out of you believes in God and
the Last Day; that is purer and cleaner for you; and God knows and you do
not know.(232)
And the mothers shall suckle their children for two whole years, for him
who desires to complete the suckling; and upon his father rests their
provisioning and clothing in the desirable way. No soul is charged but to
its capacity; a mother shall not be troubled for her child, nor a father
for his child, and for the heir is (a duty) similar to that. And if they
desire to wean by mutual consent and consultation, there is no blame on
them. And if you desire to seek a suckling nurse for your children, there
is no blame on you, when you hand over what you give in the desirable way;
and fear God and know that God sees the things you do.(233)
And those of you who die leaving wives, they shall wait by themselves for
four months and ten (days); then when they have reached their term, there
is no blame on you for what they may do with themselves in the desirable
way; and God is aware of the things you do.(234)
And there is no blame on you in that you indirectly propose to women, or
keep it in your hearts; God knows that you will remember them, but do not
make a pledge with them secretly except that you speak desirable words; and
do not resolve on marriage-knot until the prescribed term reaches its end;
and know that God knows what is in your hearts, so beware of Him; and also
know that God is Forgiving, Clement.(235)
There is no blame on you if you divorce women you have as yet not touched
them, nor appointed for them a marriage-portion, but make some provision
for them, the affluent according to his means and the hard-pressed
according to his means, a provision in the desirable way; it is an
obligation on the good-doers.(236)
And if you divorce them before you have touched them, but you have
appointed a marriage- portion for them, then one half of what you have
appointed, unless they forgo, or he in whose hand is the marriage-knot
forgoes it; and that you forgo is nearer to godfearing; and do not forget
to be bountiful to one another; surely God sees the things you do.(237)
Guard the prayers and the Mid-prayer, and stand obedient to God.(238)
And if you have fear, then (pray) afoot or mounted; and when you are
secure, remember God as He has taught you what you knew not.(239)
And those of you who die leaving wives should make a testament for their
wives ___ provision for a year without expulsion; then if they go forth,
there is no blame on you in what they do with themselves in some desirable
way; and God is Mighty, Wise.(240)
And for the divorced women also, there shall be provision in the desirable
way; it is an obligation on the godfearing.(241)
Thus God makes clear His signs to you that you may understand.(242)
Hast thou not considered those who went forth from their homes fearful of
death, though they were in thousands? Then God said to them, `die', then He
gave them life; God is surely bounteous to men, but most men do not give
thanks.(243)
And (He said) `fight in the way of God and know that God is Hearing,
Knowing.(244)
Who is it that will lend God a good loan and He will multiply it for him
manifold; and it is God who grasps and out-spreads; and to Him you shall be
returned.'(245)
Hast thou not considered the chiefs of the Children of Israel, after Moses?
When they said to a Prophet of theirs, `raise up for us a king, and we will
fight in the way of God;' he said, `may it be that, if fighting is
prescribed for you, you will not fight?' They said, `why should we not
fight in the way of God, when we have been expelled from our homes and our
children?' Yet when fighting was prescribed for them, they turned their
backs except a few of them; and God knows the wrong-doers.(246)
And their Prophet said to them, `God has raised up Saul as a king for you';
they said, `how should he have kingship over us, when we have a greater
right than he to kingship, for he has not been given abundance of wealth?'
He said, `God has chosen him over you, for He has increased him broadly in
knowledge and body; and God gives His kingship to whom He will; and God is
All-embracing, Knowing.'(247)
And their Prophet said to them, `the sign of his kingship is that the Ark
will come to you, in which will be tranquility from your Lord and a remnant
of what the House of Moses and the House of Aaron left behind, the angels
bearing it; in that will surely be a sign for you, if you are
believers.'(248)
So when Saul went forth with the hosts, he said, `God will try you at a
river; then whoso drinks out of it is not of me, and whoso does not take it
is of me, except that any takes a handful with his hand'; but they drank
out of it, except a few of them; and when he crossed it, he and those who
believed with him, they said, `we have no power today against Goliath and
his hosts'; those, who reckoned that they would be meeting God, said, `how
often a small company has overcome a large company by the leave of God, and
God is with the steadfast.'(249)
And when they went out against Goliath and his hosts, they said, `our Lord,
pour out upon us patience, and make firm our feet, and help us against the
unbelieving people.'(250)
And they routed them by the leave of God, and David killed Goliath; and God
gave him the Kingship and Wisdom, and taught him such as He willed. And if
God had not repelled people, some of them by others, the earth would have
been in disorder; but God is bounteous to the people. (251)
These are the signs of God that We recite to thee with truth; and thou art
surely of the Envoys. (252)
Those Messengers, We have exalted some of them above others; among them was
he to whom God spoke, and some of them He raised in rank; and We gave
Jesus, son of Mary, the Clear Signs and strengthened him with the Holy
Spirit. And had God willed, those who came after them would not have fought
against one another, after the Clear Signs had come to them; but they fell
into variance, so that some of them believed and some disbelieved; and had
God willed, they would not have fought against one another; but God does
what He desires. (253)
O Believers, expend of that We have provided you, before there comes a Day
wherein shall be no trading, nor friendship, nor intercession; and the
unbelievers, they are the wrong-doers.(254)
God, there is no god but He, the Living, the Everlasting; slumber does not
seize him nor does sleep; to Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and
whatever is in the earth. Who is there that shall intercede with Him,
except by His permission? He knows what is before them and what is after
them, but they do not comprehend anything of His knowledge, except what He
will. His Throne extends over the heavens and earth, and their guarding
does not strain Him; and He is the High, the Great.(255)
There is no compulsion in the religion; rectitude has become clear from
perversion; so whoso disbelieves in idols and believes in God, has laid
hold of the most firm handle, which cannot break; and God is Hearing,
Knowing.(256)
God is the friend of those who believe; He brings them forth from darkness
to light. And those who disbelieve, their friends are idols who bring them
forth from light to darkness; those are the people of the Fire; they shall
dwell therein forever.(257)
Hast thou not considered him who disputed with Abraham concerning his Lord,
because God had given him the kingship? When Abraham said, `my Lord is He
who gives life and makes to die', he said `I also give life and make to
die.' Abraham said, `God brings the sun from the East, bring it thou from
the West', and the unbeliever was dumb-founded; but God does not guide the
wrong-doing people.(258)
Or like him who passed by a town that was fallen down on its roofs; he
said, `how shall God give life to it now that it is dead?' So God made him
to die a hundred years, then raised him up, and said, `how long hast thou
remained so?' He said, `I have remained so a day or part of a day.' He
said, `no, thou hast remained so a hundred years; now look at thy food and
thy drink; it is not spoiled. And that We may make thee a sign for men,
look at thy ass and look at the bones how We set them up and clothe them
with flesh'. So when it became clear to him, he said, `I know now that God
is powerful over everything.'(259)
And when Abraham said, `my Lord, show me how Thou wilt give life to the
dead?' He said, `dost thou not believe?' He said, `but that my heart may be
at rest.' He said, `take four birds and tame them to thee, then put on
every hill a part of them, then call them; they will come to thee running;
and know that God is Mighty, Wise.'(260)
The likeness of those who expend their wealth in the way of God is as the
likeness of a grain that grows seven ears, in every ear a hundred grains;
and God multiplies for whom He will; and God is All-embracing,
Knowing.(261)
Those who expend their wealth in the way of God, then do not follow up what
they have expended with reproach or injury, their wage is with their Lord,
and there shall be no fear on them, nor shall they grieve.(262)
A desirable word and forgiveness are better than alms followed by injury;
and God is All- sufficient, Clement.(263)
O Believers, do not void your alms with reproach or injury, like him who
expends his wealth to show off to men but does not believe in God and the
Last Day; his likeness is as the likeness of a smooth rock with earth on
it, then a heavy rain strikes it and leaves it barren; they have no power
over anything that they have earned; but God does not guide the
disbelieving people.(264)
And the likeness of those who expend their wealth to seek God's pleasure
and to strengthen their souls, is as the likeness of a garden upon a hill
on which a heavy rain falls, and it brings its produce twofold; and if a
heavy rain does not fall, then dew is there; and God sees the things you
do.(265)
Would any of you wish to have a garden of palms and vines underneath which
rivers flow, and wherein are all manner of fruit for him, and old age hits
him, and he has weak off-spring, then a whirlwind with fire in it strikes
it, and it is burnt; thus God makes clear to you the signs that you may
ponder.(266)
O Believers, expend of the clean things that you earn and of that We have
produced for you from the earth, but do not intend to expend the unclean
out of it, for you would not take it except that you close an eye on it;
and know that God is All-sufficient, Praise-worthy.(267)
The Devil promises you poverty and bids you to indecency, while God
promises you His forgiveness and bounty; and God is All-embracing,
Knowing;(268)
He gives the Wisdom to whom He will; and whoso is given the Wisdom is given
abundant good; yet none takes heed except men of understanding.(269)
And whatever expenditure you make and whatever vow you vow, God knows it;
and the wrong-doers have no helpers.(270)
If you make the alms public, it is all right; and if you hide them and give
them to the poor, it is better for you; and He will acquit you of your
evils; and God is aware of the things you do.(271)
Their guidance is not thy responsibility, but God guides whom He will; and
whatever good you expend is for yourselves; and you expend not but to seek
God's attention; and whatever good you expend shall be repaid to you in
full, and you will not be wronged.(272)
(Alms are) for the poor who are restrained in the way of God, being unable
to journey in the land; the ignorant man thinks them rich because of
abstinence; thou shalt recognize them by their mark; they do not beg of
people importunately; and whatever good you expend God surely knows
it.(273)
Those who expend their wealth, night and day , secretly and openly, shall
have their wage with their Lord, and no fear shall be on them, nor shall
they grieve.(274)
Those who devour usury stand not but as stands one whom Devil has
confounded with touch; that is because they say, `trading is only like
usury'; but God has permitted trading and forbidden usury. Now to whom an
admonition from his Lord reaches and he gives over, he may have what is
past, and his affair is committed to God. But those who revert, they are
the people of the Fire; they shall dwell therein forever.(275)
God blots out usury but adds to alms; and God does not love any thankless
sinner.(276)
Those who believe and do righteous deeds and establish the Prayer and pay
the Due-alms, they shall have their wage with their Lord, and no fear shall
be on them, nor shall they grieve.(277)
O Believers, fear God and give up what remains of usury, if you are
Believers.(278)
But if you do not, then take notice of war from God and His Messenger; and
if you repent, then the principal of your wealth is yours; you wrong not,
nor be wronged.(279)
And if he be in hardship, let him have respite till ease; and that you
should give it away as alms shall be better for you, if you only knew.(280)
And fear a Day wherein you shall be returned to God, then every soul shall
be paid in full what it earned, and they will not be wronged.(281)
O Believers, when you contract a debt for a stated term, write it down; and
let a writer write down between you justly; and let not a writer refuse to
write down as God has taught him, so let him write. And let him on whom is
the obligation dictate, and he should fear God, his Lord, and not diminish
anything of it. And if he, on whom is the obligation, be a fool or weak or
unable to dictate himself, let his guardian dictate justly. And call to
witness two witnesses out of your men; and if two men are not there, then
one man and two women, such witnesses as you are pleased to have, so that
if one of the two (women) errs, one of them reminds the other. And the
witnesses shall not refuse when they are called upon. And be not loth to
write it down, be it small or big, with its term. This is most equitable in
the sight of God and most upright for testimony and more likely that you
will not be in doubt, except that it be a ready merchandise that you give
and take between you, then it is no fault in you if you do not write it
down. And take witnesses when you trade with each other; and let not a
writer or a witness be harmed; if you do that, it will be a wickedness of
yours. And fear God; and God teaches you; and God knows everything.(282)
And if you are on a journey, and you do not find a writer, then a pledge in
hand. And if one of you trusts the other, let him who is trusted deliver
his trust, and let him fear God, his Lord. And do not conceal the
testimony, for whoso conceals it, his heart is sinful; and God knows the
things you do.(283)
To God belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth; and
whether you make public what is in your hearts or hide it, God will make
you to account for it; then He will forgive whom He will and punish whom He
will; and God is powerful over everything. (284)
The Messenger believes in what has been sent down to him from his Lord, and
so do the Believers; everyone believes in God, His angels, His Books and
His Messengers: `we do not make division between any of His Messengers';
and they say, `we hear and we obey; forgive us, our Lord, and to Thee is
the destination.'(285)
God does not charge a soul but to its capacity; it shall have what it
earns, and upon it shall be what it merits. `Our Lord, take us not to task
if we forget or make mistake; and Our Lord, do not lay on us a load as Thou
laidest on those before us; and our Lord, do not burden us with that we
have no strength to bear; and pardon us, and forgive us, and have mercy
upon us; Thou art our Protector; help us against the unbelieving
people.'(286)
AL-IMRAN (3)
"The House of Imran"
(Revealed at Medina, Verses 200)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulAlif Lam Mim (A.L.M.);(1)
God, there is no god but He, the Living, the Everlasting; (2)
He has sent down upon thee the Book with the truth, confirming what was
before it, and He sent down the Torah and the Gospel,(3)
afore-time, as a guidance to mankind, and He sent down the Criterion. As
for those who disbelieve in the signs of God, they shall have a terrible
punishment; and God is Mighty, Vengeful.(4)
From God nothing is hidden in the earth, nor in the heaven.(5)
It is He who shapes you in the wombs as He will; there is no god but He,
the Mighty, the Wise. (6)
It is He who has sent down on thee the Book, in which are signs firmly
established that are the basis of the Book, and others ambiguous. As for
those in whose hearts is swerving, they follow such thereof as is
ambiguous, seeking dissention and seeking its interpretation; but none
knows its interpretation except God. And those firmly rooted in knowledge
say, `We believe in it; all is from our Lord'; yet only the men of
understanding take heed. (7)
`Our Lord, make not our hearts to swerve after Thou hast guided us, and
bestow on us mercy from Thee; surely Thou art the All-bestower.(8)
Our Lord, Thou shalt gather mankind on a Day whereon is no doubt; surely
God does not fail the assignment.'(9)
As for the unbelievers, their wealth shall not avail them, nor their
children, against God, at all; and those shall be the fuel of the Fire,(10)
like Pharaoh's folk and those before them; they gave lies to Our signs, so
God seized them for their sins; and God is terrible in retribution.(11)
Say to the unbelievers, `you shall be overcome and mustered to Hell; and it
is the evil cradle.(12)
Surely there was a sign for you in the two companies that encountered; a
company fought in the way of God, and the other unbelieving, who saw them
twice their number, as the eye sees; and God strengthens with His help whom
He will; in that is surely a lesson for men possessing eyes.(13)
Adorned for men is the love of lusts ___ women, sons, heaped-up heaps of
gold and silver, branded horses, cattle and tillage; those are the goods of
the present life; and with God is the handsome resort.(14)
Say, `shall I tell you better than that? For the godfearing shall be, with
their Lord, gardens underneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein forever,
and pure spouses and God's pleasure; and God sees His servants __ (15)
who say, `our Lord, we have believed, so forgive us our sins and save us
from the punishment of the Fire;' __ (16)
who are patient, truthful, obedient, expenders, and seekers of forgiveness
in the early morning hours.(17)
God bears witness, and also the angels and the men of knowledge, that there
is no god but He, who upholds justice; there is no god but He, the Mighty,
the Wise.(18)
The Religion with God is Submission to Him (Islam), and those who were
given the Book differed not but after the knowledge had come to them,
revolting against one another. But if any disbelieves in the signs of God,
then God is swift at the reckoning.(19)
Now, if they dispute with thee, say, `I have submitted myself to God, and
so have those who follow me .' And say to those who were given the Book and
to unlettered folk, `have you submited?' If they have submited, they are
guided; but if they turn back, then thine is only to deliver the Message;
and God sees His servants.(20)
Those who disbelieve in the signs of God and kill the Prophets without
right, and kill those among men who bid to justice, give them good news of
a painful punishment.(21)
Those are the ones whose works have failed in this world and the Hereafter,
and they have no helpers.(22)
Hast thou not seen those who were given a portion of the Book, being called
to the Book of God, that it might judge between them, and then a party of
them turns away, swerving aside?(23)
That is because they say, `the Fire shall not touch us but for days
numbered'; and what they have forged has deluded them in their
religion.(24)
But how will it be when We gather them on a Day, whereon is no doubt, and
every soul is paid in full what it earned, and they are not wronged?(25)
Say, `O God, the Master of the kingdom, Thou givest the kingdom to whom
Thou wilt, and Thou takest away the kingdom from whom Thou wilt; and Thou
exaltest whom Thou wilt, and Thou abasest whom Thou wilt; in Thy hand is
the good; Thou art powerful over everything.(26)
Thou makest the night to enter into the day, and Thou makest the day to
enter into the night, and Thou bringest forth the living from the dead, and
Thou bringest forth the dead from the living, and Thou providest whom Thou
wilt without reckoning.'(27)
Let not the Believers take the unbelievers for friends, rather than the
Believers; and whoso does that has no concern with God in anything, unless
you have a fear of them; and God cautions you to beware of Him; and to God
is the destination.(28)
Say, `whether you hide what is in your breasts or disclose it, God knows
it; and He knows whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth;
and God is powerful over everything.'(29)
The Day every soul shall find before it whatever good it did, and whatever
evil it did; it will wish if there were a far distance between it and that
(evil); and God cautions you to beware of Him; and God is Kind with His
servants.(30)
Say, `if you love God, follow me, God will love you, and forgive you your
sins; and God is Forgiving, Merciful.'(31)
Say, `obey God and the Messenger; but if they turn away, God does not love
the unbelievers.(32)
God chose Adam and Noah and the House of Abraham and the House of Imran
above the people;(33)
they were offspring of one another; and God is Hearing, Knowing.(34)
When Imran's wife said, `my Lord, I vow to Thee in dedication what is in my
womb, so accept from me; Thou art the Hearing, the Knowing.'(35)
And when she gave birth to her, she said, `my Lord, I have given birth to a
female'; ___ and God knew better what she had given birth to ___ `and the
male is not as the female, and I have named her Mary, and I commend her and
her offspring to Thy protection from the accursed Devil.'(36)
So her Lord accepted her with a handsome acceptance and made her to grow
handsomely, and made Zachariah her guardian. Whenever Zachariah went to her
in the Chamber, he found some provision with her; he said, `O Mary, how
comes this to thee?' `From God', she said, `God provides whom He will
without reckoning.'(37)
There Zachariah prayed to his Lord; he said, `my Lord, grant me from
Thyself a goodly offspring; surely Thou hearest the prayer.'(38)
And the angels called to him, while he stood praying in the Chamber, `God
gives thee good news of John, who will confirm a Word from God, and be a
chief and chaste and a Prophet among the good-doers.'(39)
He said, `my Lord, how shall I have a son when old age has come upon me,
and my wife is barren?' He said, `even so God does what He will.'(40)
He said,' my Lord, appoint for me a sign.' He said, `thy sign is that thou
shalt not speak to men for three days except by tokens; and mention thy
Lord much, and glorify Him at evening and dawn.'(41)
And when the angels said, `O Mary, God has chosen thee and made thee pure,
and chosen thee above the women of the world.(42)
O Mary, be obedient to thy Lord, prostrate thyself, and bow with those who
bow.'(43)
This is of the news of the unseen that We reveal to thee; and thou wast not
with them when they were casting their pens, as to which of them should
have charge of Mary, and thou wast not with them when they were
contending.(44)
When the angels said, `O Mary, God gives thee good news of a Word from Him,
whose name shall be Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, and who shall be high-
honoured in this world and the Hereafter, and of those near-stationed (to
God);(45)
and he shall speak to men in the cradle and of age, and shall be among the
righteous.'(46)
She said, `my Lord, how shall I have a son when no mortal has touched me?'
He said,' even so God creates what He will; when He decrees a thing, He
only says to it, `be', and it is.(47)
And He will teach him the Book and the Wisdom, and the Torah and the
Gospel;(48)
and he shall be a Messenger to the Children of Israel' (to say) `I have
come to you with a Sign from your Lord; I will make for you, out of clay,
as the likeness of a bird, then breathe into it, and it will be a bird, by
the leave of God; and I will heal the blind and the leper, and I will bring
to life the dead, by the leave of God; and I will tell you what you eat and
what you store up in your houses; in this is surely a sign for you, if you
are believers;(49)
and I confirm what is before me out of the Torah, and I will make lawful to
you some of the things that were forbidden to you; and I have come to you
with a Sign from your Lord; so fear God and obey me.(50)
Surely God is my Lord and your Lord, so serve Him; this is a straight
path.'(51)
Then, when Jesus perceived unbelief in them, he said, `who will be my
helpers unto God?' The disciples said, `we are the helpers of God; we have
believed in God, and be thou a witness that we have submitted.'___ (52)
'Our Lord, we have believed in that Thou hast sent down, and we have
followed the Messenger; so write us down with the witnesses.'(53)
And they (people) devised and God devised; and God is the best of
devisers.(54)
When God said, `Jesus, I am ending thy term and raising thee to Me and
purifying thee of the unbelievers, and making those who follow thee above
the unbelievers till the Day of Resurrection. Then unto Me shall you
return, and I will decide between you wherein you differed.(55)
And, as for the unbelievers, I will punish them with a terrible punishment
in this world and the Hereafter, and they shall have no helpers.(56)
And as for those who believe and do righteous deeds, God will pay them
their wages in full; and God does not love the wrong-doers.'(57)
This We recite to thee of the Signs and the Wise Remembrance. (58)
The likeness of Jesus in God's sight is as the likeness of Adam; He created
him of dust, then said, `be `, and he was.(59)
The truth is from thy Lord, so be not among the doubters.(60)
Yet if any disputes with thee about it, after the knowledge that has come
to thee, say, `come, let us call our sons and your sons, our women and your
women, our people and your people, then humbly pray and lay God's curse on
the liars.'(61)
This is the true story, and there is no god but God; and surely God __ He
is the Mighty, the Wise.(62)
Yet if they turn away, God knows the workers of disorder.(63)
Say, `O People of the Book! come to a word common between us and you, that
we serve not any but God, nor do we associate anything with Him, nor do
some of us take others as lords, besides God.' Then if they turn away, say,
`bear witness that we have submitted to God.'(64)
O People of the Book! why do you dispute about Abraham, seeing that the
Torah and the Gospel were not sent down but after him? Do you not
understand?(65)
Ha, you are the ones who disputed on that you had some knowledge of, but
why do you dispute on that you have no knowledge of? God knows but you do
not know.(66)
Abraham was not a Jew, nor a Christian, but one devout and obedient; and he
was not of the idolaters.(67)
The people closest to Abraham are those who follow him, and this Prophet,
and the Believers; and God is the Protector of the Believers.(68)
A group of the People of the Book wish if they could send you astray; but
they send none astray except themselves and do not perceive.(69)
O People of the Book! why do you disbelieve in the Signs of God when you
witness (them).(70)
O People of the Book! why do you confound the truth with falsehood, and
conceal the truth knowingly? (71)
And a group of the People of the Book says, `believe in what has been sent
down upon the Believers at the beginning of the day, and disbelieve at the
end of it; may be they return.(72)
And believe not any but him who follows your religion.' Say, `the Guidance
is God's Guidance, that anyone may be given the like of what you have been
given, or they dispute with you before your Lord.' Say, `the bounty is in
God's hand and He gives it to whom He will; and God is All-embracing,
Knowing.(73)
He singles out for His mercy whomso He will; and God is Highly
Bounteous.'(74)
And among the People of the Book is he whom, if thou trust him with a
Qintar (heap of gold), he will restore it to thee; and among them is he
whom, if thou trust him with a Dinar (piece of gold), he will not restore
it to thee, unless thou keepest standing over him; that is because they
say, `there is no way over us regarding the unlettered folk'; and they
speak a lie against God knowingly.(75)
No, if any fulfill his covenant and fears God, then God loves the
godfearing.(76)
As for those who take a small price for the covenant of God and their
oaths, they shall have no share in the Hereafter, nor will God speak to
them, nor will He look upon them on the Day of Resurrection, nor will He
purify them; and for them shall be a painful punishment.(77)
And among them is a party that twists their tongues with the Book, that you
may think it to be from the Book, yet it is not from the Book; and they
say, `it is from God', yet it is not from God; and they speak a lie against
God, knowingly.(78)
It belongs not to a mortal that God should give him the Book, the Judgement
and the Prophethood, and he should say to men, `be you my servants, apart
from God'; but (he will say) `be you men of the Lord, because you teach the
Book and because you study it.'(79)
And he will not bid you to take the angels and the Prophets as lords. Will
he bid you to unbelief, after you have submitted.(80)
And when God took covenant with the Prophets: `as I have given you of the
Book and the Wisdom, then there comes to you a Messenger confirming what is
with you, you shall believe in him, and you shall help him;' He said, `do
you agree and take My load on this?' They said, `we agree;' He said, `bear
you witness, and I am with you among the witnesses.'(81)
Now, if any turns back after that, those shall be the transgressors.(82)
What! do they seek other than God's religion, while to Him has submitted
whoso is in the heavens and the earth, willingly and unwillingly, and to
Him they shall be returned.(83)
Say, `we believe in God and that which has been sent down upon us, and that
which was sent down on Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and
that which was given to Moses, Jesus and the Prophets from their Lord; We
do not make division between any of them, and to Him we have
submitted.'(84)
And if any seeks a religion other than Submission to God (Islam), it shall
not be accepted of him and, in the Hereafter, he shall be among the
losers.(85)
How shall God guide a people who disbelieved after they believed, and bore
witness that the Messenger is true, and clear sign came to them? And God
does not guide the wrong-doing people.(86)
Those __ their recompense is that there shall rest on them the curse of
God, the angels and men, altogether;(87)
they shall dwell therein forever; the punishment shall not be lightened for
them, nor shall they be respited.(88)
But those who repent after that and reform, then God is Forgiving,
Merciful.(89)
Surely those who disbelieved after they had believed, then increased in
unbelief, their repentance shall not be accepted; and those are the ones
astray.(90)
Those who disbelieved and died as unbelievers, there shall not be accepted
from any of them earthful of gold, though he should offer it as ransom; for
them shall be a painful punishment, and they shall have no helpers.( 91)
You will not attain virtue until you expend of what you love; and whatever
thing you expend God knows it. (92)
All food was lawful to the Children of Israel, except what Israel forbade
for himself, before the Torah was sent down; say, `bring the Torah and
recite it, if you are truthful.'(93)
And whoso forges falsehood against God after this, those are the wrong-
doers.(94)
Say, `God has spoken the truth, so follow the creed of Abraham, the devout;
and he was not of the idolaters.'(95)
The first House founded for men is that at Bekka, blessed and a guidance
for all people.(96)
In it are Clear Signs __ the Station of Abraham; and whoso enters it is
secured. And, for the sake of God, pilgrimage to the House is an obligation
on men, whoso can make his way to it; and if any refuses, then God is All-
sufficient, in no need of the people.(97)
Say, `O People of the Book, why do you disbelieve in the Signs of God, when
God is witness of the things you do?'(98)
Say, `O People of the Book, why do you bar the Believers from God's way,
seeking to make it crooked, yourselves being witnesses? And God is not
heedless of the things you do.'(99)
O Believers, if you obey a section of those who were given the Book, they
will turn you back, after you have believed, into unbelievers.(100)
But how can you disbelieve, when God's signs are being recited to you, and
His Messenger is amidst you? And whoso holds fast to God, he is guided to a
straight path.(101)
O Believers, fear God as He should be feared, and die not but in
Submission.(102)
And hold fast to God's bond altogether, and be not divided; and remember
God's blessing upon you when you were enemies, and He brought your hearts
together, so that you became brothers by His blessing; and you were on the
brink of a pit of Fire, and He delivered you from it; thus God makes clear
to you His signs that you may be guided.(103)
And let there be among you an organization that calls to the good, bids to
the desirable, and forbids the disgusting; and those are the ones who shall
prosper.(104)
And be not like those who were divided and differed after the clear signs
had come to them; and those, for them shall be a big punishment __ (105)
on the day when some faces are bright and some faces dark; then as for
those whose faces are dark: `did you disbelieve after you believed? Now
taste the punishment for that you disbelieved.'(106)
And as for those whose faces are bright, they shall be in God's mercy,
therein dwelling forever.(107)
These are the signs of God that We recite to thee with truth; and God does
not desire any injustice to the people.(108)
And to God belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth;
and to God are all matters returned.(109)
You are a beneficent community, brought forth for mankind __ you bid to the
desirable, forbid the disgusting, and believe in God. And had the People of
the Book believed, it would have been beneficial for them; some of them are
believers, but most of them are transgressors.(110)
They cannot harm you except some hurt; and if they fight with you, they
will turn their backs on you, and then will find no help.(111)
Abasement is pitched on them wherever they are come upon, except by the
bond of God and the bond of men, and they are laden with God's wrath, and
misery is pitched on them; that is because they disbelieved in the signs of
God and killed the Prophets without right; that is because they disobeyed
and exceeded the limits.(112)
They are not all alike; among the People of the Book is an upstanding
community that recite the signs of God in the hours of the night
prostrating themselves.(113)
They believe in God and the Last Day, and bid the desirable, forbid the
disgusting, and rush forward in good works; and those are among the
righteous.(114)
And whatever good they do, its reward shall not be denied to them; and God
knows the godfearing.(115)
As for those who disbelieve, their wealth shall not avail them, nor their
children, against God in the least; and those are the people of the Fire,
therein dwelling forever.(116)
The likeness of that they expend in this present life is as the likeness of
a biting cold wind that hit the tillage of a people who wronged themselves
and destroyed it; and God did not wrong them, but themselves they
wronged.(117)
O Believers, do not take for intimates any other than your people; they
spare nothing to ruin you; they wish that you fall in trouble; hatred has
shown itself of their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is yet
greater; We have made clear the signs for you, if you will understand.(118)
Behold, you are those who love them but they love you not, and you believe
in all the Books; and when they meet you, they say, `we believe', but when
they go apart, they bite the fingers at you in rage. Say, `die in your
rage; God knows the thoughts in the breasts.'(119)
If good touches you, it grieves them; and if evil befalls you, they rejoice
at it; yet if you are patient and godfearing, their guile will not harm you
in the least; God encompasses the things they do.(120)
And when thou wentest forth at dawn from thy family to lodge the Believers
in their battle-posts; and God was Listening, Knowing,(121)
when two groups of you almost lost heart, though God was their protector;
and in God should the Believers put their trust.(122)
And indeed God helped you at Badr, when you were utterly abject; so fear
God that you may be thankful.(123)
When thou wert saying to the Believers, `will it not suffice you if your
Lord should help you with three thousand angels sent down?(124)
No, if you are patient and godfearing and they come upon you suddenly, your
Lord will help you with five thousand swooping angels.' __ (125)
and God made it only as a good news to you, and that your hearts might
thereby be at rest; and help comes not but from God, the Mighty, the Wise,
__ (126)
that He might cut off a flank of the unbelievers, or overwhelm them, so
that they turn about frustrated.(127)
Nothing in the matter is thine, whether He turns towards them or punishes
them, for they are wrong-doers.(128)
And to God belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth;
He forgives whom He will and He punishes whom He will; and God is
Forgiving, Merciful.(129)
O Believers, do not devour usury, doubled and redoubled, and fear God that
you may prosper.(130)
And fear the Fire prepared for the unbelievers.(131)
And obey God and the Messenger that you may receive mercy.(132)
And hasten to forgiveness of your Lord and to a garden that is as wide as
the heavens and earth, prepared for the godfearing,(133)
those who expend in prosperity and adversity, and restrain rage and pardon
men; __ and God loves the good-doers; __(134)
who, when they commit an indecency or wrong themselves, remember God and
pray forgiveness for their sins __ and who forgives the sins but God __ and
they do not persist in what they did knowingly.(135)
Those, __ their recompense is forgiveness from their Lord and gardens
underneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein forever; and how excellent
is the wage of the workers!(136)
There have passed many civilizations before you; journey in the earth and
see how was the end of those who cried lies.(137)
This is an exposition for mankind, and a guidance and an admonition for the
godfearing.(138)
And do not lose heart nor grieve, for you shall be the most high if you are
Believers.(139)
If a wound afflicts you, a like wound has already afflicted those people.
And these days We bring in turn among men; and it was so that God may know
those who believe, and He may take witnesses from among you __ and God does
not love the wrong-doers __ (140)
and that God may purify the Believers, and blot out the unbelievers.(141)
Or did you think that you would enter Paradise when God has not yet known
those of you who struggled, nor has He known the patient?(142)
And you in fact were longing for death before you met it; now that you have
seen it, and you are waiting.(143)
And Muhammad is naught but a Messenger; Messengers have passed away before
him; if he dies or is killed, will you turn about on your heels? But if any
turns about on his heels, he shall not harm God in the least; and God will
recompense the thankful.(144)
And it is not given to any soul to die, except by God's permission __ a
decree of a fixed time. And whoso desires the reward of this world, We
shall give him thereof; and whoso desires the reward of the Hereafter, We
shall give him thereof; and We shall recompense the thankful.(145)
And many a Prophet there has been with whom many men of God fought, and
they did not lose heart on what afflicted them in God's way, nor did they
show weakness, nor did they humble themselves; and God loves the
steadfast.(146)
And they said nothing but this, `our Lord, forgive us our sins and our
excesses in our affair, and make firm our feet, and help us against the
disbelieving people.'(147)
Then God gave them the reward of this world and a handsome reward of the
Hereafter; and God loves the good-doers.(148)
O Believers, if you obey the unbelievers, they will turn you back on your
heels, and you will turn about losers.(149)
No, but God is your protector, and He is the best of helpers.(150)
We will cast terror into the unbelievers' hearts, for they have associated
with God that for which He has not sent down any authority; and their abode
is the Fire; and how evil is the resort of the wrong- doers! (151)
And God proved true to His promise to you when, by His permission, you were
blasting them, until you lost courage, and quarrelled about the matter, and
disobeyed, after He had shown you that which you loved; __ among you some
desire this world, and among you some desire the Hereafter; __ then He
turned you from them that He might try you; now He has pardoned you; and
God is bounteous to the Believers.(152)
When you were going up, and were not twisting about for anyone, and the
Messenger was calling you in your rear, He rewarded you with sorrow upon
sorrow, that you might not grieve for what escaped you, nor for what befell
you ; and God is aware of the things you do.(153)
Then after sorrow, He sent down upon you, security __ a slumber overcoming
a group of you; and a group was anxious on their own account, thinking of
God other than the truth, the thoughts of (days of) ignorance, saying,
`have we any part in the affair?' Say, `the affair belongs entirely to
God.' They were concealing in their hearts that they were not showing to
thee. They were saying, `if we had any part in the affair, we would not
have been killed here.' Say , `even if you had been in your houses, those
for whom killing was prescribed, would have gone forth to their last
couches; and it was so, that God might try what was in your breasts, and
that He might purify what was in your hearts; and God knows the thoughts in
the breasts.'(154)
Those of you who turned away on the day the two hosts encountered, only the
Devil made them slip because of something they had earned; now God has
pardoned them; God is Forgiving, Clement.(155)
O Believers, be not like those who disbelieve and say of their brothers,
when they journey in the land, or are out in battles, `had they been with
us, they would not have died or been killed,' that God may make this an
anguish in their hearts; but it is God who gives life and makes to die; and
God sees the things you do.(156)
And if you are killed or die in the way of God, forgiveness and mercy from
God are surely better than what people amass.(157)
And if you die or are killed, unto God shall you be mustered.(158)
And it is by some mercy of God that thou art gentle to them; hadst thou
been harsh and hard of heart, they would have dispersed from about thee; so
pardon them, and pray forgiveness for them, and take counsel with them in
the affair; and when thou art resolved, put thy trust in God; surely God
loves those who put their trust in Him.(159)
If God helps you, none can overcome you; and if He forsakes you, then who
it is that can help you after Him? So in God let the Believers put their
trust.(160)
And it is not for a Prophet to defraud. And whoso defrauds shall bring the
fraud he made on the Day of Resurrection, then every soul shall be paid in
full what it earned, and they shall not be wronged.(161)
What! Is he who follows God's pleasure like him who is laden with God's
wrath, and his abode is Hell __ and it is the evil destination!(162)
They are in ranks before God; and God sees what they do.(163)
God has been gracious to the Believers when He raised up among them a
Messenger out of themselves, who recites to them His signs, purifies them,
and teaches them the Book and the Wisdom, and, of course, before that, they
were clearly astray.(164)
What! when an affliction befell you, twice the like of which you had
inflicted on them, you said, `wherefrom is this?' Say, `it is from
yourselves;' surely God is powerful over everything.(165)
And that which afflicted you on the day the two hosts encountered was by
God's permission and so that He might know the Believers;(166)
and it was so that He might know the hypocrites __ and it was said to them,
`come, fight in the Way of God or repell'; they said, `if we only knew
fighting, we would have followed you.' That day they were nearer to
unbelief than belief; they were saying with their mouths what was not in
their hearts __ and God knew very well what they were hiding. __ (167)
who said of their brothers, while themselves sitting back, `had they obeyed
us, they would not have been killed.' Say, `then avert death from
yourselves, if you are truthful.'(168)
And do not reckon those who were killed in God's way as dead. No, they are
living with their Lord, and are provided by Him,(169)
rejoicing in what God has given them of His bounty, and joyful for those
behind them who have not yet joined them, that no fear shall be upon them
nor shall they grieve.(170)
They are joyful for blessing and bounty from God, and that God does not
waste the wage of the Believers; (171)
those who answered God and the Messenger, after the wound had afflicted
them; for those who did good among them and feared God shall be a big
wage;(172)
those to whom people said, `people have gathered against you, so fear them'
but it increased their faith and they said, `God is sufficient for us, and
how excellent a caretaker is He!'(173)
So they returned with blessing and bounty from God, no evil touching them;
and they followed God's pleasure; and God is Highly Bounteous.(174)
That is the Devil who frightens only his friends; but fear them not and
fear Me, if you are Believers.(175)
And let not those who hasten towards unbelief grieve thee; they shall not
harm God in the least; God only desires that He should not assign for them
a share in the Hereafter, and they shall have a big punishment.(176)
Surely those who have bought unbelief in place of belief, shall not harm
God in the least, and they shall have a painful punishment.(177)
And let not the unbelievers think that the respite We give them is good for
them; We give them respite only that they may increase in sin; and they
shall have a humiliating punishment.(178)
God is not such as would leave the Believers in the state in which you are,
till He shall distinguish the unclean from the clean; and God is not such
as would inform you of the Unseen, but God chooses out of His Messengers
whom he will; so believe in God and His Messengers; and if you believe and
fear God, then you shall have a big wage.(179)
And let not those who are niggardly with the bounty that God has given
them, think that it is good for them; no, it is bad for them; the things
they are niggardly with shall be made a collar of their necks on the Day of
Resurrection. And to God belongs the heritage of the heavens and earth; and
God is aware of the things you do.(180)
God has heard the saying of those who said, "God is poor and we are rich.'
We shall write down what they have said, and their killing the Prophets
without right, and We shall say, `taste the punishment of the burning.(181)
That is for what your hands have forwarded, and that God is no tyrant to
His servants.'(182)
Those who said, `God has made a covenant with us that we believe not any
Messenger until he brings to us a sacrifice which fire eats away.' Say,
`Messengers came to you before me, with Clear Signs and with that you asked
for ; why then did you kill them if you are truthful?'(183)
And if they give lies to thee, lies have also been given before thee to the
Messengers who came with Clear Signs and the Psalms and the Illuminating
Book.(184)
Every soul shall taste of death; and you shall surely be paid in full your
wages on the Day of Resurrection; then whoso is removed from the Fire and
admitted into Paradise shall triumph; and the present life is nothing but
the stuff of delusion.(185)
You shall surely be tried in your possessions and your selves, and you
shall surely hear much hurt from those who were given the Book before you
and from the idolaters; but If you are patient and godfearing, that is
surely a matter of firm resolution.(186)
And When God made a covenant with those who were given the Book: `you shall
make it clear to the people and not conceal it'; but they cast it behind
their backs and took a small price for it; how evil was their buying!(187)
Do not think that those who rejoice in what they have brought and love to
be praised for what they have not done __ do not think them secure from
punishment; for them shall be a painful punishment.(188)
And to God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and earth; and God is
powerful over everything. (189)
In the creation of the heavens and earth, and in the alternation of night
and day, there are Signs for men of understanding,(190)
those who remember God, standing, sitting and on their sides, and ponder
over the creation of the heavens and earth: `Our Lord, Thou hast not
created this in vain; glory be to Thee; save us from the punishment of the
Fire.(191)
Our Lord, whomso Thou admittest into the Fire, Thou wilt have disgraced
him; and the wrong-doers shall have no helpers.(192)
Our Lord, we have heard a caller calling to belief: `believe in your Lord,'
and we have believed; our Lord, forgive us our sins and acquit us of our
evils, and take us to Thee with the virtuous.(193)
And our Lord, give us what Thou hast promised us by Thy Messengers, and do
not disgrace us on the Day of Resurrection; surely Thou wilt not fail the
appointment.'(194)
Then their Lord answered them, `I do not waste the work of a worker among
you, be it a male or a female; you are from one another. So those who
emigrated, and were expelled from their homes, and were given hurt in My
way and who fought and were killed, I will acquit them of their evils, and
admit them to gardens underneath which rivers flow __ a reward from God;
and with God is the most handsome reward.(195)
Let not moving about of the unbelievers in the land delude thee; (196)
it is a little enjoyment, then their abode shall be Hell; and how evil is
the cradle.(197)
But those who fear their Lord, for them shall be gardens underneath which
rivers flow, to dwell therein forever __ a hospitality from God; and that
which is with God is good for the virtuous.(198)
And among the People of the Book are also some who believe in God and what
has been sent down to you, and what has been sent down to them, men humble
to God not taking a small price for the signs of God; those shall have
their wage with their Lord; surely God is swift at the reckoning.(199)
O Believers, be steadfast and keep firm, and remain bound together; and
fear God that you may prosper.(200)
ANNISA (4)
"Women"
(Revealed at Medina,Verses 176)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulMankind, fear your Lord, who created you from a single soul, and from it
created its mate, and from them (two) spread abroad many men and women; and
fear God, in whose name you demand one another, and (fear) blood relations;
surely God watches over you.(1)
And give the orphans their property, and do not exchange the bad for the
good, nor devour their property along with your property; it is surely a
great crime.(2)
And if you fear that you will not act justly towards the orphans, marry
such women as seem pleasing to you, two, three, four; but if you fear that
you will not be equitable, then only one, or what your right hands own; so
it is likelier that you will not be partial.(3)
And give the women their dowries as a free gift; then if they, of their
own, are pleased to offer you some of it, consume it with a wholesome
appetite.(4)
But do not give to fools your property which God has made a means of
support for you, but feed them and clothe them out of it, and speak to them
desirable words.(5)
And test the orphans until they reach the marriage-age; then if you
perceive in them right judgement, deliver to them their property; and do
not consume it wastefully and hastily, that they will grow; and he who is
rich should abstain, and he who is poor may consume desirably. And when you
deliver to them their property, take witnesses for them; and God suffices
for a reckoner.(6)
For men is a share of what parents and kinsmen leave, and for women is a
share of what parents and kinsmen leave, be it little or much, a share
apportioned.(7)
And when kinsmen, orphans and the needy attend the division, provide them
out of it, and speak to them desirable words.(8)
And let those fear who, if they left behind them weak offspring, would be
afraid on their account; so let them fear God, and let them speak
appropriate words.(9)
Surely those who devour the property of the orphans wrongfully, devour only
Fire in their bellies; and they shall enter a Blaze.(10)
God charges you concerning your children: for the male the like of the
portion of two females; and if they be women above two, then for them two
thirds of what he leaves; and if she be one then for her a half. And for
his parents, to each one of them a sixth of what he leaves, if he has a
child; but if he has no child, and his heirs are his parents, then a third
for his mother; and if he has brothers, then for his mother a sixth __
after any bequest he may have made or any debt. Your fathers and your sons,
you do not know which out of them is nearer in profit to you; so God
apportions; God is surely Knowing, Wise.(11)
And for you a half of what your wives leave, if they have no child; but if
they have a child, then for you a fourth of what they leave after any
bequest they may have made or any debt; and for them a fourth of what you
leave, if you have no child; but if you have a child, then for them an
eighth of what you leave, after any bequest you may have made or any debt.
And if a man or a woman have no direct heir but have a brother or a sister,
then for each of them a sixth; but if they are more than that, they share a
third, after a bequest that has been made, or a debt not injurious; it is a
charge from God; and God is Knowing, Clement.(12)
These are God's bounds; and whoso obeys God and His Messenger, He will
admit him to gardens underneath which rivers flow, dwelling therein
forever; and that is the great triumph.(13)
And whoso disobeys God and His Messenger and exceeds His bounds, He will
admit him to the Fire, dwelling therein forever; and for him shall be a
humiliating punishment.(14)
And such of your women who commit indecency, call four of you to witness
against them; then if they bear witness, detain them in the houses until
death ends them, or God opens a way for them.(15)
And the two of you who commit it, give them hurt; then if they repent and
make amends, turn aside from them; God is All-returning, Merciful.(16)
God accepts repentance from only those who do evil in ignorance, then
repent early; they are the ones whose repentance God will accept; and God
is Knowing, Wise.(17)
But there is no repentance for those who do evil deeds until death
approaches any of them and he says, `now I repent' nor it is for those who
die as unbelievers; for them We have prepared a painful punishment.(18)
O Believers, it is not lawful for you to inherit women against their will;
and do not debar them (from marrying) so that you may go off with part of
what you have given them, except that they commit a flagrant indecency; and
consort with them desirably, for if you hate them, it is possible that you
hate a thing and God has kept much good in it.(19)
And if you desire to exchange a wife in place of another, and you have
given to any of them a heap of gold, do not take anything of it; will you
take it by calumny and a manifest sin?(20)
And how can you take it, when one of you has gone in to the other and they
have taken from you a solemn covenant?( 21)
And do not marry such women as your fathers married, except what has
already passed; it is surely indecent and hateful; and it is an evil
way.(22)
Forbidden to you are your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, your aunts
paternal, your aunts maternal, brother's daughters, sister's daughters,
your mothers that have given suck to you, your suckling sisters, your
wives' mothers, your step- daughters who are in your care, being of your
wives you have gone in to; but if you have not gone in to, it is no fault
in you; and the spouses of your sons who are of your loins, and that you
take to you two sisters together, except what has already passed; God is
surely Forgiving, Merciful___(23)
__ And (forbidden to you are) married women, except what your right hands
own; so God prescribes for you; and all beyond that is lawful to you, if
you seek, with your wealth, in marriage and not for lust. Then for the
benefit you draw from them, give them their dowries as apportioned; and it
is no fault in you in what you agree upon after the due apportionate; God
is surely Knowing, Wise. (24)
And any of you who has not the affluence to marry Believing free women, let
him (marry) such of your Believing handmaids that your right hands own; and
God very well knows your faith; you are from one another; so marry them,
with their people's permission and give them their dowries in the desirable
way, as women in marriage, not as women for lust, nor as women taking
lovers. And when they have been taken in marriage, then, if they commit
indecency, they shall be liable to half the punishment of free women; this
provision is for him who among you fears falling in trouble; yet if you
show patience, it is good for you; and God is Forgiving, Merciful.(25)
God desires to make clear to you, and to guide you to the traditions of
those before you, and turn towards you; and God is Knowing, Wise.(26)
And God desires to turn towards you, but those who follow lusts desire you
to incline far away.(27)
God desires to lighten things for you, for man is created weak.(28)
O Believers, do not consume your wealth between you without right except
that it be trading by your mutual consent; and do not kill your people; God
is surely Merciful to you.(29)
And whoso does that in enmity and to wrong (others), We shall soon cast him
into a Fire; and that is easy for God.(30)
If you avoid the grave things from which you are forbidden, We shall acquit
you of your evils and admit you by an honourable entrance.(31)
And do not covet that whereby God has exalted some of you above others; for
men is a share of what they earn, and for women is a share of what they
earn; and ask God of His bounty; God surely knows everything.(32)
And to everyone We have appointed heirs of what parents and kinsmen leave;
and those with whom you have sworn an agreement, give them their share too;
God is surely witness over everything.(33)
Men have authority over women, for that God has exalted one over the other,
and for that they expend of their wealth; so the righteous women are
obedient and guard the unseen as God has guarded. And those whose rebellion
you fear, admonish them and leave them alone in the beds, and beat them;
then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; God is surely High,
Great.(34)
And if you fear a breach between them (two), appoint an arbiter from his
people and an arbiter from her people; if they (two) desire to reform, God
will bring reconciliation between them; God is surely Knowing, Aware.(35)
And serve God and do not associate anything with Him; and be good to
parents, and to the near kin, orphans, the needy, the neighbour who is of
kin, the neighbour who is a stranger, the companion by the side, the
wayfarer, and that your right hands own; surely God does not love those(36)
who are proud and boastful, such as are niggardly, and bid other men to be
niggardly, and conceal what God has given them out of His bounty; __ and We
have prepared for such unbelievers a humiliating punishment, __ (37)
and such as expend their wealth to show off to men, and do not believe in
God nor in the Last Day. And he whose comrade is the Devil, how evil a
comrade is he!(38)
And what harm would it do them, if they believed in God and the Last Day,
and expended of what God has provided them? Surely God knows them.(39)
Surely God does not wrong as the weight of an ant; and if there be a good
deed, He multiplies it, and gives from Himself a big wage.(40)
And how shall it be, when We bring forward from every community a witness,
and bring thee as a witness over these?(41)
On that day those who have disbelieved and disobeyed the Messenger will
wish that the earth were levelled with them; and they will not conceal from
God a thing.(42)
O Believers, do not draw near to the Prayer when you are drunken, until you
know what you are saying, nor when polluted __ except that you are
traversing a way __ until you have washed yourselves; and if you are sick,
or on journey, or any of you comes from the privy, or you have touched
women and you find no water, then have recourse to clean dust and wipe your
faces and your hands; God is surely Pardoning, Forgiving. (43)
Hast thou not seen those who were given a share of the Book taking stray
paths and desiring that you should also go astray from the Way?(44)
And God very well knows your enemies; and God suffices as a protector, and
God suffices as a helper.(45)
Some of the Jews pervert words out of their context and say, `we have heard
and we disobey', and `hear, and be thou not given to hear,' and `have
regard for us', twisting with their tongues and speaking ill of religion.
But if they had said, `we have heard and we obey' and `hear' and `look at
us', it would have been better and more upright for them; but God has
cursed them for their unbelief, so they do not believe except a few.(46)
O you, who were given the Book, believe in what We have sent down,
confirming what is with you, before We obliterate faces and turn them on
their backs, or curse them as We cursed the men of Sabbath; and God's
decree is surely done.(47)
God does not forgive that any is associated with Him, but, apart from that,
He will forgive whomso He will. And whoso associates any with God, has
indeed forged a great sin.(48)
Hast thou not seen those who show themselves to be pure? No, only God
purifies whom He will, and they shall not be wronged a date-thread.(49)
Look how they forge falsehood about God; and that suffices for a manifest
sin.(50)
Hast thou not seen those who were given a share of the Book believing in
demons and idols (taghut) and speaking of the unbelievers, `these are more
guided on the Way than the Believers?'(51)
Those are the ones whom God has cursed; and he whom God curses, thou wilt
not find any helper for him.(52)
Or have they a share in the kingdom? But then, they would not give the
people a date-spot.(53)
Or are they jealous of the people for what God has given them of His
bounty? But We gave the people of Abraham the Book and the Wisdom, and We
gave them a grand kingdom.(54)
Now, among them is he who believes in it, and among them is he who bars
from it; and Hell suffices for a Blaze!(55)
Those who disbelieve in Our signs, We shall soon admit them to a Fire; as
often as their skins are roasted, We shall give them in exchange other
skins, that they may taste the punishment; God is Mighty, Wise.(56)
And those who believe and do righteous deeds, We shall admit them to
gardens underneath which rivers flow, dwelling therein forever and ever;
therein for them shall be pure spouses, and We shall admit them to deep and
plenteous shades.(57)
God commands you to make over trusts to those entitled to them; and when
you judge between men, judge equitably; how excellent God admonishes you;
God is Hearing, Seeing. (58)
O Believers, obey God, and obey the Messenger and those in command among
you; then if you should quarrel on anything, refer it to God and the
Messenger, if you believe in God and the Last Day; that is better and
fairer in result.(59)
Hast thou not seen those who assert that they believe in what has been sent
down to thee and what was sent down before thee, desiring to take the
dispute for judgement to the idol (taghut) though they were commanded to
disbelieve in him? But the Devil desires to lead them astray, far away.(60)
And when it is said to them, `come to what God has sent down and to the
Messenger, thou seest the hypocrites turning far away from thee.(61)
But how shall it be, when an affliction befalls them for what their hands
have forwarded, and they come to thee swearing by God, `we only desired
good and conciliation.'(62)
Those __ God knows what is in their hearts; so turn thou aside from them
and admonish them, and say to them effective words concerning them.(63)
And We did not send any Messenger but that he should be obeyed, by God's
permission; and if they, when they wronged themselves, had come to thee and
prayed forgiveness of God, and the Messenger had also prayed forgiveness
for them, they would have found God All-returning, Merciful.(64)
But no, by thy Lord, they have no faith, till they make thee the judge in
the disagreement between them, then do not find in themselves any
impediment in that thou decreest, and submit in all submission.(65)
And had We prescribed for them, `kill your people or go forth from your
habitations', they would not have done it, except a few of them; yet if
they had done what they are admonished to do, it would have been good for
them and strongly confirming; (66)
and in that case We would have surely given them from Ourselves a big
wage,(67)
and guided them to a straight path.(68)
And whoso obeys God and the Messenger, they are with those whom God has
blessed, the Prophets, the Truthful, the Martyrs and the Righteous; and
excellent companions are they!(69)
That is the bounty from God; and God suffices as One who knows. (70)
O Believers, take your precautions, then move forward in detachments or
move forward all together.(71)
And among you is also he who lags behind; then if an affliction visits you,
he says, `God has blessed me, in that I was not present with them.'(72)
And if a bounty from God visits you, he will surely say, as if there had
been no affection between you and him, `would that I had been with them, I
should have achieved a great triumph!'(73)
So let those, who sell the present life for the Hereafter, fight in the way
of God; and whoso fights in the way of God and is killed or conquers, We
shall give him a big wage.(74)
And how is it with you that you do not fight in the way of God and for the
abased men, women and children, who say, `our Lord, take us out of this
town whose people are wrong-doers, and appoint for us from Thee a
protector, and appoint for us from Thee a helper.(75)
The Believers fight in the way of God, and the unbelievers fight in the way
of idols (Taghut); so fight you against the friends of the Devil; the guile
of the Devil is surely weak.(76)
Hast thou not considered those to whom it was said, `restrain your hands,
and establish the Prayer, and pay the Due-alms?' Then when fighting was
prescribed for them, a party of them feared people as God is feared or with
a greater fear; and they said, `our Lord, why hast Thou prescribed fighting
for us? Couldst Thou not defer us to a near term?' Say, `the comforts of
this world are a few, and the Hereafter is better for him who fears God;
and you shall not be wronged a date-thread.(77)
Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, even though you were in
strong towers.' And if good visits them, they say, `this is from God'; and
if evil visits them, they say, `this is from thee.' Say, `all is from God;'
but how is it with this people that they scarcely understand anything?(78)
Whatever good visits thee, it is from God; and whatever evil visits thee,
it is from thyself; and We have sent thee to men a Messenger; and God
suffices for a witness.(79)
He who obeys the Messenger has indeed obeyed God; and whoso turns back __
We have not sent thee a keeper over them.(80)
And they say `obedience'; but when they go forth from thee, a group of them
meditate all night on things other than thou sayest. But God writes down
what they meditate by night; so turn aside from them and trust in God; and
God suffices for a caretaker.(81)
What! Do they not ponder over the Quran? If it had been from other than
God, they would have found in it many contradictions. (82)
And when there comes to them a matter, be it of security or of fear, they
broadcast it; but had they referred it to the Messenger and to the
commanders among them, then those of them who could deduce would have known
it (the reality). And were it not for God's bounty and His mercy on you,
you would have followed the Devil, except a few.(83)
So fight thou in the way of God; thou art charged only with thyself; and
urge on the Believers. God may restrain the might of the unbelievers; and
God is stronger in might and more terrible in punishing.(84)
Whoso makes a good intercession shall have a share of it; and whoso makes
an evil intercession shall have a portion of it; and God is powerful over
everything.(85)
And when you are greeted with a greeting for life, greet with one better
than it, or return it; God surely keeps account of all things.(86)
God __ there is no god but He; He will surely gather you to the Day of
Resurrection, wherein is no doubt; and who is truer in giving a news than
God?(87)
But how is it with you that you are two parties concerning the hypocrites,
when God has overturned them for what they have earned? Do you desire to
guide him whom God has sent astray? But whomso God sends astray, thou wilt
not find a way for him.(88)
They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, so that you become
equal; so do not take friends from among them, until they emigrate in the
way of God; and if they turn back, seize them and kill them wherever you
find them, and do not take anyone of them as friend or helper __(89)
except those who join a people between whom and you there is a covenant, or
they come to you with their breasts constricted from fighting you or
fighting their people. And if God had willed, He would have given them
power over you, and then they would have surely fought you. So if they
withdraw from you, and do not fight you, and offer you peace, then God has
not assigned to you a way against them.(90)
You will find others who desire to be secure from you and secure from their
people; whenever they are returned to temptation, they are overturned into
it. So if they do not withdraw from you and offer you peace and restrain
their hands, seize them and kill them, wherever you come upon them; and
against them We have assigned to you a clear authority.(91)
It belongs not to a Believer to kill a Believer except by mistake; and if
any kills a Believer by mistake, then a Believing slave will be freed and
blood-money paid to his family, unless they forgo it as alms. And if he is
from a people that is your enemy, while he is a Believer, then a Believing
slave will be freed. And if he is from a people between whom and you is a
covenant, then blood- money will be paid to his family and a Believing
slave freed. And whoso does not find the means, let him fast for two
successive months for a repentance from God; and God is Knowing, Wise.(92)
And whoso kills a Believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, dwelling
therein forever, and God is wroth upon him, and curses him, and has
prepared for him a big punishment.(93)
O Believers, when you go forth in the way of God, make clear and do not say
to any who offers you greeting of peace, `thou art not a Believer;' you
seek the chance goods of the present life, but with God are abundant
spoils. Such you were before, then God was gracious to you, hence make
clear; God is surely aware of the things you do.(94)
Such Believers that sit back, other than those having a hurt, are not the
equals of those who struggle in the way of God with their wealth and their
selves; God has exalted in rank those who struggle in the way of God with
their wealth and their selves over those who sit back; yet to each God has
promised a fair reward; and God has exalted those who struggle over those
who sit back, by a big wage from Him __ (95)
ranks, and forgiveness, and mercy from Him; and God is surely Forgiving,
Merciful.(96)
Those whom the angels take, while they are doing wrong to themselves, the
angels say, `in what state were you?' They say, `we were abased in the
earth.' The angels say, `was not God's earth spacious that you might have
emigrated in it?' Then those __ their abode shall be Hell, an evil
destination __(97)
except the abased men, women and children, who cannot find means nor do
they find a way;(98)
it may be that God pardons them,; God is surely Pardoning, Forgiving.(99)
And he who emigrates in the way of God will find in the earth many a refuge
and plenty; and he who goes forth from his home an emigrant to God and His
Messenger, then death overtakes him, his wage shall have fallen on God; and
God is surely Forgiving, Merciful.(100)
And when you go forth in the land, it is no fault in you that you shorten
the Prayer, if you fear that the unbelievers will put you to trouble; the
unbelievers are surely an open enemy to you.(101)
And when thou art amongst them, and thou conductest the Prayer for them,
let a group of them stand with thee, and let them take their weapons; then,
when they have prostrated themselves, let them be behind you, and let the
other group, who have not prayed, come and pray with thee, and let them
take their precautions and their weapons. The unbelievers wish that you
should be heedless of your weapons and your baggage, then they would wheal
on you all at once. But there is no fault in you if you are hurt with rain,
or you are sick, that you lay aside your weapons, but take your
precautions; God has surely prepared a humiliating punishment for the
unbelievers.(102)
Then, when you have performed the Prayer, remember God, standing, sitting
and on your sides; and when you are secure, establish the Prayer (as
prescribed); surely the Prayer is a timed prescription for the
Believers.(103)
And do not show weakness in seeking those people; if you suffer, they also
suffer as you suffer, but you hope from God what they do not hope; and God
is Knowing, Wise.(104)
We have sent down to thee the Book with the truth, that thou mayest judge
between men by that God has shown thee; but be not an advocate for the
traitors;(105)
and pray forgiveness of God; surely God is Forgiving, Merciful.(106)
And do not dispute on behalf of those who betray themselves; God does not
love any sinful traitor,(107)
who seek to hide themselves from men but cannot hide themselves from God,
for He is with them when they meditate at night the discourse which does
not please Him; and God encompasses the things they do.(108)
Ha, you are the ones who have disputed on their behalf in the present life,
but who will dispute with God on their behalf on the Day of Resurrection,
or who will be a caretaker for them?(109)
And any who does evil or wrongs himself, then prays forgiveness of God,
shall find God Forgiving, Merciful.(110)
And any who earns a sin, earns it only against himself; and God is
Knowing,(111)
Wise. And any who earns a fault or a sin, then casts it on the innocent,
has borne on him a calumny and a manifest sin.(112)
And if it had not been God's bounty and His mercy upon thee, a group of
them had purposed to lead thee astray; but they lead none astray except
themselves, and they do not hurt thee in anything; and God has sent down on
thee the Book and the Wisdom, and He has taught thee what thou didst not
know; and surely God's bounty upon thee is great.(113)
There is no good in much of their secret counsels except for him who
enjoins alms or desirable things or setting of things right between the
people; and whoso does that, seeking God's pleasure, We shall soon give him
a big wage.(114)
And any who makes a breach with the Messenger after the guidance has become
clear to him, and follows other than the Believers' way, We shall turn him
over to what he has turned to, and We shall cast him into Hell; and it is
an evil destination!(115)
God shall not forgive that anything is associated with Him, but, apart from
that, He shall forgive whom He will; and whoso associates with God anything
has surely gone astray, far away.(116)
They do not call on any, apart from Him, but to females, and they do not
call on any but a rebel Devil; __(117)
God has cursed him. And he said, `I will take portion appointed out of Thy
servants,(118)
and I will lead them astray, and I will fill them with fancies, and I will
command them so that they will cut off the cattle's ears, and I will
command them so that they will alter God's creation. And whoso takes the
Devil as a friend, besides God, has surely suffered a clear loss.(119)
He gives them promises and fills them with fancies; but the Devil's
promises are only a delusion.(120)
Their abode is Hell, and they shall not find any place to escape from
it.(121)
And those who believe and do righteous deeds, We shall admit them to
gardens underneath which rivers flow, dwelling therein forever and ever; it
is God's promise in truth ; and who is truer in speech than God? (122)
It is not your fancies, nor the fancies of the People of the Book; whoso
does evil will be recompensed for it and will not find for him, apart from
God, any friend or helper.(123)
And whoso does righteous deeds, be it male or female, and he is a Believer,
__ they shall enter Paradise, and will not be wronged a date-spot.(124)
And who has fairer religion than he who submits himself to God and is a
good-doer, and follows the creed of Abraham, the devout; and God took
Abraham for a friend.(125)
And to God belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth;
and God encompasses everything.(126)
And they ask thee for a pronouncement concerning women. Say; `God
pronounces to you concerning them and what is recited to you in the Book
concerning the orphan women, to whom you do not give what is prescribed for
them, and yet desire to marry them, and concerning the oppressed children,
and that you should secure justice for the orphans. Whatever good you do,
God knows it.'(127)
And if a woman fears hostility or aversion in her husband, there is no
fault in them (two), that they set things right between them; and right
settlement is good; and souls are prone to avarice; and if you do good and
be godfearing, God is aware of the things you do.(128)
And you will not be able to be equitable between the wives, how eager you
may be; yet do not incline altogether, that you leave her as it were
suspended; and if you set things right and be godfearing, then God is
Forgiving, Merciful.(129)
And if they separate, God will make each self-sufficient out of His plenty;
and God is All-embracing, Wise.(130)
And to God belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth.
And We have charged those who were given the Book before you, and also you,
to fear God; and if you disbelieve, then surely to God belongs all that is
in the heavens and all that is in the earth; and God is All-sufficient,
Praiseworthy.(131)
And to God belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth;
and God suffices for a caretaker.(132)
If He will, He will take you away, O men, and bring others; and God is
powerful over that.(133)
If any desires the reward of this world, then with God is the reward of
this world and of Hereafter; and God is Hearing, Seeing. (134)
O Believers, be you securers of justice, witnesses for God, though it be
against yourselves or your parents and kinsmen; whether he be rich or poor,
God stands closest to either; so do not follow caprice lest you deviate
from justice; and if you twist or turn aside, God is aware of the things
you do.(135)
O Believers, have faith in God and His Messenger and the Book that He has
sent down on His Messenger, and the Book that He sent down before. And he
who disbelieves in God, His angels, His Books, His Messengers and the Last
Day, has gone astray, far away.(136)
Those who believe, then disbelieve, then believe, then disbelieve, then
increase in unbelief, God is not likely to forgive them, nor show them a
way.(137)
Give thou good news to the hypocrites that there shall be a painful
punishment for them __ (138)
those who take unbelievers for friends, apart from the Believers. Do they
seek glory with them? But glory altogether belongs to God.(139)
And He has sent down upon you in the Book that when you hear God's signs
being disbelieved and mocked at, do not sit with them until they are
engaged in some other discourse, for then you will also be like them. God
will gather the hypocrites and the unbelievers in Hell altogether.(140)
Those who wait upon you so that if there be a victory for you from God,
they say, `were we not with you?' And if there be a share for the
unbelievers, they say, `did we not gain mastery over you, and did we not
defend you from the Believers?' Now God will judge between you on the Day
of Resurrection; and God will never give the unbelievers a way over the
Believers.(141)
The hypocrites seek to deceive God and God is deceiving them; and when they
stand up for the Prayer, they stand up lazily, showing off to men, and not
remembering God but a little __ (142)
wavering in between, neither to these, nor to those; and whomso God sends
astray, thou wilt not find a way for him.(143)
O Believers, do not take the unbelievers as friends, apart from Believers;
do you desire to give God a clear authority over you? (144)
Surely the hypocrites shall be in the lowest reach of the Fire; and thou
wilt not find any helper for them;(145)
except those who repent and make amends and hold fast to God and make their
obedience sincerely God's; those are with the Believers; and God will soon
give the Believers a big wage.(146)
What would God do with punishing you, if you are thankful and have faith?
And God is Thankful, Knowing.(147)
God does not like talking of evil words in public, except by him who has
been wronged; and God is Hearing, Knowing.(148)
Whether you do good openly or hide it, or pardon an evil, God is surely
Pardoning, Powerful.(149)
Those who disbelieve in God and His Messengers and desire to make division
between God and His Messengers, and say, `we believe in some and disbelieve
in others', and desire to take a way in between,(150)
those in truth are the unbelievers; and We have prepared for the
unbelievers a humiliating punishment.(151)
And those who believe in God and His Messengers, and do not make division
between any of them, to them He shall soon give their wages; and God is
Forgiving, Merciful.(152)
The People of the Book ask thee to bring down upon them a Book from the
heaven, but they asked Moses greater than that, for they said, `show us God
openly'; then the thunderbolt took them for their wrong-doing. Then they
took the Calf (for a god) after the clear signs had come to them, yet We
pardoned them that, and We gave Moses a clear authority.(153)
And We raised above them the Mount, taking covenant with them; and We said
to them, `enter the gate prostrating'; and We said to them `do not
transgress the Sabbath'; and We took from them a solemn covenant.(154)
Then for their breaking their covenant, and their disbelieving in the signs
of God, and their killing the Prophets without right, and their saying,
`our hearts are wrapped' __ no, but God sealed them for their unbelief,
hence they believe not except a few __(155)
and for their unbelief, and their uttering against Mary a grievous
calumny,(156)
and their saying, `we killed Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the Messenger of
God', __ yet they did not kill him nor crucified him, but a likeness was
shown to them; and those who differ in it are in doubt about it; they have
no knowledge of it except the following of conjecture; and of a certainty
they killed him not,(157)
but God raised him up to Him; and God is Mighty, Wise.(158)
And there is not one among the People of the Book but he will surely
believe in him before his death, and, on the Day of Resurrection, he will
be a witness against them.(159)
So for the wrong-doing of the Jews, We forbade them clean things that were
lawful to them, and for their barring many from the way of God,(160)
and their taking usury, though they were forbidden it, and their devouring
people's wealth falsely; and We have prepared for the unbelievers among
them a painful punishment.(161)
But those of them who are firmly rooted in knowledge and the Believers, and
those who establish the Prayer and pay the Due-alms and, those who believe
in God and the Last Day, they believe in what has been sent down to thee
and what was sent down before thee; to them We shall give a big wage.(162)
We have revealed to thee as We revealed to Noah and the Prophets after him;
and We revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, and
Jesus, Job, Jonah, Aaron and Solomon; and We gave to David Psalms;(163)
and Messengers We have told thee of before, and Messengers We have not told
thee of; and to Moses God spoke directly;(164)
Messengers, bearers of good news and warners, so that mankind might have no
argument against God after the Messengers; and God is Mighty, Wise.(165)
But God bears witness to that which He has sent down to thee, that He has
sent it down with His knowledge; and the angels also bear witness;and God
suffices for a witness.(166)
Those who disbelieve and bar from the way of God have gone astray far
away.(167)
Those who disbelieve and do wrong, God would not forgive them, nor guide
them to any road,(168)
except the road to Hell, to dwell therein forever and ever; and that is
easy for God.(169)
O mankind, the Messenger has come to you with the truth from your Lord, so
believe; it will be good for you; and if you disbelieve, then to God
belongs whatever is in the heavens and earth; and God is Knowing,
Wise.(170)
O People of the Book, do not go beyond the bounds in your religion, and do
not speak of God but the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was only a
Messenger of God and His Word, that He cast to Mary, and a Spirit from Him;
so believe in God and His Messengers, but say not, `Three'; refrain, it
will be good for you. God is only one God; He is Holy, beyond to have a
son; to Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the
earth; and God suffices for a care-taker.(171)
Messiah will not disdain to be a servant of God, nor will the near-
stationed angels; and whoso disdains to serve Him and shows arrogance, He
will muster them to Him all together.(172)
As for those who believe and do righteous deeds, He will pay them in full
their wages, and give them more out of His bounty. And as for those who
disdain and show arrogance, He will give them a painful punishment, and
they will not find for them, apart from God, any friend or helper.(173)
O mankind, a clear proof has come to you from your Lord, and We have sent
down to you a Manifest Light.(174)
Now as for those who believe in God and hold fast to Him, He will admit
them to His mercy and bounty, and will guide them to Him on a straight
path.(175)
They ask thee for a pronouncement. Say, `God pronounces to you regarding
indirect heirs. If a man dies and he has no child but has a sister, she
shall have half of what he leaves, and he shall be her heir if she has no
child; and if there be two (sisters), they shall have two thirds of what he
leaves; and if there be (both) brothers and sisters, the male shall have
the portion of two females. God makes clear to you lest you go astray; and
God knows everything.(176)
AL-MAIDA (5)
"The Table"
(Revealed at Medina, Verses 120)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulO Believers, fulfil the bonds. Lawful to you is the beast of cattle, except
that which is recited to you, without making game lawful when you are in
pilgrim sanctity; God decrees what He desires.(1)
O Believers, do not profane God's symbols, nor the sacred month, nor the
offering, nor the necklaces, nor those repairing to the Sacred House,
seeking bounty and pleasure from their Lord. But when you are out of
pilgrim sanctity, you may hunt the game. And let not hatred for a people,
because they barred you from the Sacred Mosque, move you to commit
aggression; and help one another to virtue and godfearing, but do not help
one another to sin and enmity; and fear God; surely God is terrible in
retribution.(2)
Forbidden to you are carrion, blood, the flesh of swine, that over which
name of other than God is invoked, the strangled, the beaten down, that
fallen to death, the gored, and that devoured by beasts of prey __
excepting that which you have duly slaughtered __ and that sacrificed on
altars, and that you seek to divide by the divining arrows; that is
transgression __ Today the unbelievers have despaired of your religion, so
do not fear them but fear Me; today I have perfected your religion for you,
and I have completed My blessing on you, and I am pleased to make
Submission (Islam) your religion. __ However, if any is constrained by
hunger, without wilfully inclining to sin, then God is Forgiving,
Merciful.(3)
They ask thee what is lawful to them. Say, `the clean things are lawful to
you; and hunting creatures which you train as hounds, teaching them as God
has taught you __ eat of that they hold for you, and mention God's name
over it, and fear God; surely God is Swift at the reckoning.(4)
Today, the clean things are made lawful to you; and the food of those who
were given the Book is lawful to you, and your food is lawful to them, and
so are free women from among the Believing women and free women from among
those who were given the Book before you, when you give them their dowries,
taking them in wedlock, not taking them for lust, nor as lovers. And whoso
disregards the Faith, his work is vain, and, in the Hereafter, he shall be
among the losers.(5)
O Believers, when you stand up for the Prayer, wash your faces and your
hands up to the elbows, and wipe your heads, and (wash) your feet up to the
ankles. And if you are polluted, cleanse yourselves; but if you are sick or
on a journey, or if any of you comes from the privy, or you have touched
women, and you find no water, then have recourse to clean dust, and wipe
your faces and your hands with it; God does not desire to put you to any
hardship, but He desires to cleanse you and to complete His blessing upon
you, that you may be thankful.(6)
And remember God's blessing on you and His covenant by which He bound you,
when you said, `we have heard and we obey'; and fear God; God knows the
thoughts in the breasts.(7)
O Believers, be you securers of justice, witnesses for God; and let not
hatred for a people move you not to be equitable; be equitable; it is
nearer to godfearing; and fear God; God is aware of the things you do.(8)
God promises those who believe and do righteous deeds forgiveness and a big
wage for them.(9)
And those who disbelieve and give lies to Our signs, those are the people
of Hell.(10)
O Believers, remember God's blessing on you, when a people purposed to
stretch their hands against you, and He restrained their hands from you,
and fear God; and in God should the Believers put their trust.(11)
And God made a covenant with the Children of Israel; and We raised up
twelve chieftains among them; and God said, `I am with you; if you
establish the Prayer and pay the Due-alms, and believe in My Messengers and
assist them and lend to God a good loan, I will acquit you of your evils,
and I will admit you to gardens underneath which rivers flow; but if any of
you thereafter refused (to act), he will surely be astray from the even
way.(12)
Then, for their breaking their covenant, We cursed them and made their
hearts hard; they pervert the Words from their places, and have forgotten a
portion of that whereby they were admonished; and thou wilt not cease to
find some treachery from them, except a few of them; yet pardon them and
overlook; surely God loves the good-doers.(13)
And with those who say, `we are Christians', We made a covenant, but they
forgot a portion of that whereby they were admonished, so We stirred up
among them enmity and hatred till the Day of Resurrection; and God will
soon tell them of the things they have been doing. (14)
O People of the Book, there has come to you Our Messenger, making clear to
you much of what you have been hiding of the Book, and passes over much.
There has come to you from God a Light and a clear Book,(15)
whereby God guides those who follow His pleasure in the ways of peace, and
brings them forth from darkness to light by His leave, and guides them to a
straight path.(16)
They are indeed unbelievers who say, ` God is the Messiah, son of Mary.'
Say, `who shall then overrule God in any way, if He desired to destroy
Messiah, son of Mary, and his mother, and all those who are on earth?' And
to God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and whatever is
between them; He creates what He will; and God is powerful over
everything.(17)
And the Jews and the Christians say, `we are the sons of God and His
beloved ones.' Say, `why then does He punish you for your sins? No, you are
mortals from among those He has created; He forgives whom He will, and He
punishes whom He will; and to God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and
the earth and whatever is between them, and unto Him is the
destination.'(18)
O People of the Book, there has come to you, after an interval between the
Messengers, Our Messenger who makes things clear to you, lest you should
say, `there has not come to us any bearer of good news nor any warner';
indeed there has come to you a bearer of good news and a warner; and God is
powerful over everything.(19)
And (remember) when Moses said to his people, `O my people, remember God's
blessing on you, when He appointed among you Prophets, and appointed you
kings, and He gave you what He had not given to any in the world.(20)
O my people, enter the Holy Land which God has prescribed for you, and do
not turn on your backs, for then you will turn about losers.'(21)
They said, `O Moses, therein are a strong people, and we will never enter
it until they go out of it; and if they go out of it, we will surely
enter.'(22)
Two men, out of those who feared God and whom God had blessed, said, `enter
the gate against them; and as you enter it, you will be victors; and in God
put your trust, if you are believers.'(23)
They said, `O Moses, we will never enter it so long as they are in it; so
go forth, thou and thy Lord and fight, we are sitting here.'(24)
He said, `my Lord, I have no control except on myself and my brother, so
put a barrier between us and the transgressing people.'(25)
He said, `now it shall be forbidden to them for forty years, while they
will be wandering in the land; so sorrow not for the transgressing
people.'(26)
And recite to them the tale of the two sons of Adam with truth. When they
offered an offering, it was accepted of one of them, and was not accepted
of the other. He said, `I shall surely kill thee.' (The other) said, `God
accepts only from the godfearing.(27)
If thou stretchest out thy hand against me to kill me, I will not stretch
out my hand to kill thee; I fear God, the Lord of the world.(28)
I desire that thou shouldst bear my sin and thy sin, and be among the
people of the Fire; and that is the recompense of the wrong-doers.'(29)
Then his soul prompted him to kill his brother, and he killed him, and
became one of the losers.(30)
Then God sent forth a raven, that scratched into the earth to show him how
he might cover the vile body of his brother. He said, `woe is me; am I
unable to be as this raven and so cover the vile body of my brother?' And
he became of the remorseful.(31)
On that account, We prescribed for the Children of Israel, that he who
kills a soul without (retaliating for) a soul or for disorder in the land,
it is as if he had killed whole of mankind. And he who saved it, it is as
if he had saved whole of mankind. And Our Messengers certainly came to them
with the clear signs, but many of them, despite that, commit excesses in
the land. (32)
The recompense of those who wage war against God and His Messenger, and run
about in the land causing disorder, is only this __ that they should be
slaughtered or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on
opposite sides, or they should be banished from the land. That is a
disgrace for them in this world; and they shall receive a big punishment in
the Hereafter,(33)
except those who repent before you overpower them; and know that God is
Forgiving, Merciful.(34)
O Believers, fear God and seek the means of nearness to Him, and struggle
in His way, that you may prosper.(35)
The unbelievers, though they had all that is in the earth and the like of
it along with it, to ransom themselves from the punishment of the Day of
Resurrection, it would not be accepted of them; and for them shall be a
painful punishment.(36)
They will desire to come forth from the Fire, but they will not come forth
from it, and for them shall be a lasting punishment.(37)
And the thief, man and woman, cut off their hands as a recompense exemplary
from God for what they earned; and God is Mighty, Wise.(38)
But if any repents after his wrong-doing and reforms, then God will surely
accept his repentance; God is Forgiving, Merciful.(39)
Dost thou not know that to God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the
earth; He punishes whom He will and forgives whom He will; and God is
powerful over everything.(40)
O Messenger, let those who hasten to unbelief not grieve thee, out of those
who say with their mouths, `we believe', but their hearts have not
believed; and out of the Jews who listen to falsehood, and listen to other
people who have not come to thee. Perverting Words from their places, they
say, `if you are given this, take it, and if you are not given it beware.'
But whomso God desires to put to trial, thou canst not avail him with God
anything; those are the ones whose hearts God has desired not to purify;
for them shall be disgrace in this world, and for them shall be a big
punishment in the Hereafter.(41)
Listeners of falsehood and devourers of the unlawful, if they come to thee,
judge between them, or turn aside from them; and if thou turnst aside from
them, they will not hurt thee in the least; and if thou judgest, judge
justly between them; surely God loves the just.(42)
But how will they make thee a judge when they have the Torah wherein is
God's judgement; yet, despite that, they turn away; and they are no
believers.(43)
We sent down the Torah wherein is guidance and light, by which the
Prophets, who had submitted themselves judged for the Jews, and so did the
rabbis and the priests, for they were required to guard the Book of God,
and they were witnesses to it; so do not fear men but fear Me; and do not
sell My signs for a small price. And whoso does not judge according to what
God has sent down, those are the unbelievers.(44)
And We therein prescribed for them __ life for life, eye for eye, nose for
nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, and for injuries retaliation; and if
any forgoes it, it shall be an expiation for him. And whoso does not judge
according to what God has sent down, those are the wrong-doers. (45)
And We sent, following in their footsteps, Jesus, son of Mary, confirming
what was before him of the Torah; and We gave him the Gospel, wherein was
guidance and light, and it confirmed what was before it of the Torah, and
it was a guidance and an admonition to the godfearing.(46)
And let the People of the Gospel judge according to what God sent down
therein. And whoso does not judge according to what God has sent down,
those are the transgressors. (47)
And We have sent down to thee the Book with the truth, confirming what is
before it of the Book, and a guardian over it; so judge between them
according to what God has sent down, and do not follow their caprices,
forsaking what has come to thee of the truth. For everyone of you We have
made a law and an open road; and if God had willed, He would have made you
(all) one community, but it is so that He may try you in what He has given
you, so be you forward in good works; unto God shall you all return, then
He will tell you that wherein you differed;(48)
and that thou judgest between them according to what God has sent down, but
follow not their caprices and beware of them, lest they tempt thee away
from some of what God has sent down to thee. But if they turn away, know
that God desires only to afflict them for some of their sins; and surely
many men are transgressors.(49)
What! Do they seek the judgement of the days of ignorance? But who can be
fairer in judgement than God for a people having sure faith?(50)
O Believers, take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of
one another; and whoso out of you makes them his friends is one of them;
surely God does not guide the wrong-doing people.(51)
Yet thou seest those, in whose hearts is sickness, hastening towards them,
saying, `we fear lest a turn of time should afflict us.' But it may be that
God brings the victory or some event from Him, and then they will be
regretful, for what they kept secret within them.(52)
And the Believers will say, `are these the ones who swore by God their
earnest oaths that they were with you?' Their works have failed and they
have become losers.(53)
O Believers, if any of you turns from his religion, God will soon bring a
people He loves, and who love Him, humble towards the Believers, stern
towards the unbelievers, who struggle in the way of God, and fear not the
reproach of any reproacher; that is God's bounty, He gives it to whom He
will; and God is All-embracing, Knowing.(54)
Your friend is only God, and His Messenger and the Believers who establish
the Prayer and pay the Due-alms, and have bowed down.(55)
And whoso makes God, His Messenger and the Believers his friend, surely
God's group shall be the victors.(56)
O Believers, do not take as friends those who take your religion in mockery
and as a sport, from among those who were given the Book before you and the
unbelievers; and fear God, if you are Believers.(57)
And when you call to the Prayer, they take it in mockery and as a sport;
that is because they are a people who understand not. (58)
Say, `O People of the Book, do you blame us only because we believe in God
and what has been sent down to us, and what was sent down before, and
because most of you are transgressors?'(59)
Say, `shall I tell you of a recompense with God worse than that? __ Whom
God cursed, and on whom He was wroth, and whom He made apes and swine, and
who served the idols (Taghut)? Those are the ones worst-placed and furthest
astray from the even way.'(60)
And when they come to you, they say, `we believe'; but they entered in
unbelief and went forth in it; and God knows very well what they were
hiding.(61)
And thou seest many of them hastening to sin and enmity, and consuming the
unlawful; evil indeed is that they have been doing.(62)
Why do not the rabbis and the priests forbid them from uttering sin and
consuming the unlawful? Evil indeed is that they have been working.(63)
And the Jews say, `God's hand is tied up.' Tied are their hands, and cursed
are they for what they said! No, His hands are out-spread, and He expends
how He will; yet that which has been sent down to thee from thy Lord will
surely increase many of them in insolence and unbelief; and We have cast
between them enmity and hatred till the Day of Resurrection; whenever they
kindle a fire for war, God extinguishes it, yet they hasten about the earth
causing disorder; and God does not love those who cause disorder.(64)
And had the People of the Book believed and been godfearing, We would have
acquitted them of their evils and admitted them to gardens of bliss.(65)
And had they observed the Torah and the Gospel and what was sent down to
them from their Lord, they would have eaten from above them and from
beneath their feet; among them is a moderate community, but many of them __
how evil they do!(66)
O Messenger, deliver what has been sent down to thee from thy Lord; and if
thou dost not, thou wilt not have delivered His Message; and God will
protect thee from men; surely God does not guide the disbelieving
people.(67)
Say, `O People of the Book, you are not on anything until you observe the
Torah and the Gospel, and what was sent down to you from your Lord'. And
that which has been sent down to thee from thy Lord will surely increase
many of them in insolence and unbelief; but do not sorrow for the
disbelieving people.(68)
Surely the Believers, the Jews, the Sabaeans and the Christians, whoso
believes in God and the Last Day and acts right, no fear shall be on them
nor shall they grieve.(69)
We made a covenant with the Children of Israel and sent Messengers to them;
whenever there came to them a Messenger with that their souls did not
desire, some they gave lies to and some they killed.(70)
And they thought there would not be any trial, so they were blind and deaf,
yet God turned towards them, but again many of them were blind and deaf;
and God sees the things they do.(71)
They have disbelieved who say, `God is the Messiah, son of Mary;' whereas
the Messiah said, `O Children of Israel, serve God, my Lord and your Lord;
surely whoso associates any with God, God has forbidden Paradise to him,
and his abode will be the Fire; and the wrong-doers shall have no
helpers.'(72)
Surely they have disbelieved who say, `God is the Third of the Three;' but
there is no god except One God; if they do not refrain from what they say,
there shall afflict the unbelievers among them a painful punishment.(73)
Now will they not turn to God and pray His forgiveness; and God is
Forgiving, Merciful.(74)
The Messiah, son of Mary, was only a Messenger; Messengers had passed away
before him; and his mother was a truthful woman; they used to eat food;
see, how We make clear the signs to them; then see how they are
perverted!(75)
Say, `do you serve, apart from God, that which has no power of hurt or
profit for you, and God is the Hearing, the Knowing?'(76)
Say, `O People of the Book, do not exceed the bounds in your religion
against the truth, and do not follow the caprices of a people who went
astray before, and led astray many, and have strayed from the even
way.'(77)
The unbelievers among the Children of Israel were cursed by the tongue of
David and Jesus, son of Mary; that is because they disobeyed and used to
exceed the limits.(78)
They never forbade one another from the disgusting things they committed;
evil indeed was that they were doing.(79)
Thou seest many of them making friendship with the unbelievers; evil is
that they have forwarded for themselves, that God be angered with them, and
they should dwell in the punishment forever.(80)
And had they believed in God and the Prophet and what has been sent down to
him, they would not have taken them as friends; but many of them are
transgressors.(81)
Thou shalt certainly find the most hostile of men to the Believers are the
Jews and the idolaters; and thou shalt surely find the nearest of them in
affection to the Believers are those who say, `we are Christians'; that is
because among them are priests and monks, and because they are not
arrogant.(82)
PART VII
And when they hear what has been sent down to the Messenger, thou seest
their eyes overflow with tears because of the truth they have recognised;
they say, `our Lord, we believe, so write us down among the witnesses.(83)
And why should we not believe in God and in the truth that has come to us,
when we earnestly desire that our Lord should admit us with the righteous
people?'(84)
So God shall reward them for what they said __ gardens underneath which
rivers flow, dwelling therein forever; and that is the recompense of the
good-doers.(85)
But those who disbelieve and give lies to Our signs, those are the people
of Hell.( 86)
O Believers, do not make unlawful the clean things that God has made lawful
to you, and do not transgress ; God does not love the transgressors.(87)
And eat of what God has provided you, lawful and clean, and fear God in
whom you are believers.(88)
God will not take you to task for the vain in your oaths, but He will take
you to task for oaths that you solemnly swear; and its expiation is feeding
of ten needy, with the average of what you feed your families, or their
clothings, or freeing of a slave; and if any does not find it, let him fast
for three days; that is the expiation of your oaths when you have sworn;
and guard your oaths; thus God explains to you His signs, that you may give
thanks. (89)
O Believers, wine, gambling, altars and divining arrows are only an
abomination of Devil's work, so avoid it that you may prosper.(90)
Devil desires only to precipitate enmity and hatred between you through
wine and gambling, and to bar you from remembrance of God and from the
Prayer; will you then desist?(91)
And obey God and obey the Messenger and beware; but if you turn back, then
know that for Our Messenger is only the deliverance of the Manifest
Message.(92)
It is no fault of theirs who believe and do righteous deeds for what they
have eaten, when they are godfearing and believe and do righteous deeds;
then they are godfearing and believe; then they are godfearing and do good;
and God loves the good-doers.(93)
O Believers, God will surely try you with something of the game which your
hands and lances reach, that God may know who fears Him unseen; then whoso
transgresses after that, for him shall be a painful punishment.(94)
O Believers, do not kill the game while you are in pilgrim sanctity; and if
any of you kills it intentionally, the recompense will be the like of what
he killed out of flocks, as two just men of yours judge __ an offering to
reach the Ka'ba; or for expiation, food for the needy, or equivalent of
that in fasting, so that he may taste the penalty of his deed ; God has
pardoned what is past; but if any does again, God will take vengeance on
him; and God is Mighty, Vengeful.(95)
Permitted to you is game of the sea and its food, a provision for you and
for the traveller; but forbidden to you is game of the land, as long a you
remain in pilgrim sanctity; and fear God unto whom you shall be
mustered.(96)
God has appointed the Ka'ba, the Sacred House, the sacred month, the
offering and the necklaces as establishment for men; that is so that you
may know that God knows whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the
earth, and that God has knowledge of everything.(97)
Know that God is terrible in retribution, and that God is also Forgiving,
Merciful.(98)
For the Messenger is only deliverance of the Message; and God knows what
you show and what you hide.(99)
Say, `the unclean and the clean are not equal, even though the abundance of
the unclean may make thee wonder; so fear God, O men of understanding, that
you may prosper.'(100)
O Believers, do not question concerning things which, if they were
disclosed to you, would hurt you; yet if you question concerning them at
the time the Quran is being sent down, they will be disclosed to you; God
has overlooked them; and God is Forgiving, Clement.(101)
A people before you questioned about them, but then disbelieved in
them.(102)
God has not appointed such things as Baheera, Saiba, Waseela or Ham, but
the unbelievers forge falsehood against God; and most of them do not
understand.(103)
And when it is said to them, `come to what God has sent down and to the
Messenger,' they say,'enough for us is what we found our fathers on.' What!
Even if their fathers knew nothing, nor were they guided?(104)
O Believers, you are responsible for your own selves; he who is astray
shall not hurt you when you are guided; to God shall you return all
together, and He will tell you what you have been doing. (105)
O Believers, the testimony between you, when death approaches any of you,
at the time of making a bequest, shall be two just men out of you; or two
others out of those other than you, if you are journeying in the land and
affliction of death befalls you; you shall detain them (two) after the
Prayer, and they shall, if you are in doubt, swear by God, `we will not
take any price for it, even though it were a near kinsman, nor will we hide
the testimony of God, for then we would surely be among the sinners.'(106)
Then, if it is discovered that they have merited sin, two others shall
stand in their place, being the nearest of those concerned, and they shall
swear by God, `our testimony is truer than their testimony and we have not
transgressed, for then we would surely be among the wrong-doers.'(107)
Thus it is likelier that people will bear testimony in its proper form, or
else they will be afraid that, after their oaths, oaths may be rebutted;
and fear God and listen; but God does not guide the transgressing
people.(108)
The day God will gather the Messengers, He will say, `what response were
you given?' They will say, `we have no knowledge; surely Thou art the All-
Knowing of the unseen things.'(109)
When God will say,'O Jesus, son of Mary, remember My blessing upon thee and
upon thy mother, when I strengthened thee with the Holy Spirit, that thou
spokest to men in the cradle and of age; and when I taught thee the Book,
the Wisdom, the Torah and the Gospel; and when thou madest, out of clay, a
form like a bird, by My leave, and breathedest into it, and it became a
bird, by My leave; and thou healedest the blind and the leper by My leave;
and when thou broughtest the dead forth, by My leave; and when I restrained
the Children of Israel from thee, when thou broughtest to them the Clear
Signs, yet the unbelievers among them said, `it is nothing but plain
sorcery.'(110)
And when I revealed to the disciples to believe in Me and in My Messenger,
they said, `we believe, and Thou bear witness that we have submitted.'(111)
When the disciples said, `O Jesus, son of Mary, is thy Lord able to send
down on us a Table from the heaven', he said, `fear God, if you are
Believers.'(112)
They said, `we desire that we should eat of it, and our hearts may be at
rest, and we may know that thou hast spoken truth to us, and we may be
among its witnesses.'(113)
Jesus, son of Mary, said, `O God, our Lord, send down on us a Table from
the heaven, that may be a festival for us, for the first of us and the last
of us, and provide for us, and Thou art the best of providers.'(114)
God said, `I am sending it down on you; but if any of you disbelieves
afterwards, I shall punish him with a punishment that I punish none in the
whole world.'(115)
And when God will say, `Jesus, son of Mary, didst thou say to men, `take me
and my mother as gods, apart from God?' He will say, `Holy be Thou, it is
not mine to say what I have no right to ; if I had said it, Thou wouldst
have known it; Thou knowest what is in my mind, but I do not know what is
in Thy mind; Thou art surely the All-knowing of the unseen things.(116)
I did not say to them except what Thou didst command me: __ `serve God, my
Lord and your Lord,' and I was a witness over them, so long as I remained
among them; but when Thou didst take me, Thou Thyself wast the watcher over
them; and Thou art a witness over all things. (117)
If Thou punishest them, they are Thy servants, and if Thou forgivest them,
Thou art the Mighty, the Wise.'(118)
God will say, `this is a day when their truth will profit the truthful;for
them shall be gardens underneath which rivers flow, dwelling therein
forever and ever; God is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him;
that is the great triumph.'(119)
To God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and earth and whatever is in
them; and He is powerful over everything.(120)
AL-ANAM (6)
"Cattle"
(Revealed at Mecca,Verses 166)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulPraise be to God who created the heavens and the earth, and made darkness
and light; yet the unbelievers ascribe equals to their Lord.(1)
It is He who created you from clay, then decreed a term; and the term is
stated with Him, yet you doubt.(2)
And He is the God in the heavens and in the earth; He knows your secrets
and your open affairs, and He knows what you earn. (3)
And not a sign of the signs of their Lord comes to them but they turn away
from it.(4)
And they have given lies to the truth when it has come to them; but there
shall soon come to them the news of that they were mocking.(5)
Have they not considered how many a generation We destroyed before them
whom We had established on the earth as We never established you, and We
had loosed the heaven upon them in torrents, and made the rivers to flow
beneath them? Then We destroyed them because of their sins, and raised up
another generation after them.(6)
And had We sent down on thee a writing on paper and had they touched it
with their hands, yet the unbelievers would have said, `this is not but
clear sorcery.'(7)
And they say, `why has not an angel been sent down on him?' But had We sent
down an angel, the matter would have been decided, and then they would not
be respited.(8)
And had We made him an angel, We would have made him a man and confused for
them the thing they are confusing.(9)
And surely the Messengers have been mocked at before thee, but then those
that scoffed at them were overtaken by that they mocked at.(10)
Say, `journey in the land, and see how was the end of those who cried
lies.'(11)
Say, `to whom belongs what is in the heavens and earth?' Say, `to God. He
has prescribed for Himself mercy; He will surely gather you to the Day of
Resurrection, wherein is no doubt; but those who give loss to themselves,
they do not believe.(12)
And to Him belongs all that inhabits at night and day; and He is the
Hearing, the Knowing.'(13)
Say, `shall I take a protector other than God, the Originator of the
heavens and the earth, and it is He who feeds and is not fed?' Say, `I have
been commanded to be the first of those who surrender,' and: `be not thou
of the idolaters.'(14)
Say `I fear, if I disobey my Lord, the punishment of a Mighty Day.(15)
From whom it is averted on that day, on him He will have mercy; and that is
the manifest triumph.'(16)
And if God touches thee with harm, none can remove it but He; and if He
touches thee with good, He is powerful over everything.(17)
And He is Omnipotent over His servants; and He is the Wise, the Aware.(18)
Say, `What thing is greatest in testimony?' Say, `God is a witness between
me and you, and this Quran has been revealed to me, so that I may thereby
warn you and whomsoever it reaches. Do you testify that there are other
gods with God?' Say, `I do not testify.' Say, `He is only One God, and I am
quit of that you associate with Him.'(19)
Those to whom We have given the Book recognise it, as they recognise their
sons; but those who give loss to themselves, they do not believe.(20)
And who does greater wrong than he who forges a lie against God or cries
lies to His signs? Surely the wrong-doers shall not prosper.(21)
And on the Day We shall muster them all together, then shall say to those
who set up associate-gods, `where are your associate-gods whom you were
asserting?'(22)
Then they shall have no excuse but to say, `by God, our Lord, We were not
associaters.'(23)
See, how they lie against themselves, and that which they were forging is
lost to them!(24)
And some of them there are who give ear to thee, but We have put veils on
their hearts and heaviness in their ears, lest they understand it; and even
if they see every sign, they will not believe in it; so much so that when
they come to thee they dispute with thee; the unbelievers say, `it is
naught but the fables of the ancients.'(25)
And they forbid it and keep away from it, and they destroy none but
themselves and do not appreciate.(26)
And if thou couldst see when they are stationed before the Fire, and they
say, `would that we were returned, and did not give lies to the signs of
our Lord, and were among the Believers.'(27)
No, that they were concealing before has appeared before them; and even if
they were returned, they would again do what they were forbidden, and they
are surely liars.(28)
And they say, `it is only our present life, and we shall not be
raised.'(29)
But, if thou couldst see when they are stationed before their Lord, He will
say, `is this not the truth?' They will say, `yes indeed, by our Lord.' He
will say `taste the punishment because you disbelieved.'(30)
They indeed are losers who give lies to the meeting with God; until when
the Hour comes upon them suddenly, they will say, `alas for us, that we
neglected it', and they will be bearing their loads on their backs. Behold,
how evil is the load that they bear!(31)
And (remember) the present life is naught but a sport and a diversion, and
the Last House is better for the godfearing; will you not understand?(32)
We know indeed that what they say grieves thee, yet it is not thee that
they give lies to, but the wrong-doers deny the signs of God.(33)
And Messengers were indeed given lies to before thee, yet they patiently
endured that they were given lies to, and were hurt, untill Our help
reached them; and there is none to change the words of God; and surely
there have already come to thee some news of the Envoys.(34)
And if their turning away is hard on thee, why, if thou canst seek out a
hole into the earth or a ladder in the heaven to bring them a sign __ but
had God willed, He would have gathered them to the guidance; so be thou not
among the ignorant.(35)
Only those respond who listen; and the dead, God will raise them up, then
unto Him they will be returned. (36)
And they say, `why has not a sign been sent down to him from his Lord? `
Say, `God is able to send down a sign, but most of them do not know.'(37)
And there is no creature on the earth, nor a bird flying with its two
wings, but they are communities like you; We have not neglected anything in
the Book; then to their Lord they shall be mustered.(38)
And those who give lies to Our signs are deaf and dumb, dwelling in
darkness; whomso God will, He sends astray; and whomso He will, He puts on
a straight path.(39)
Say, `have you considered, if God's punishment comes upon you or the Hour
comes upon you, will you call upon any other than God, if you speak
truly?(40)
No, upon Him you will call, then He will remove that for which you call
upon Him if He will, and you will forget that you associate (with
Him).'(41)
And We indeed sent Messengers to communities before thee, then We seized
them with misery and hardship, that they might be humble.(42)
But why, when Our might came upon them, were they not humble? In stead,
their hearts became hard, and the Devil adorned for them what they were
doing.(43)
So when they forgot what they were admonished with, We opened to them the
gates of all things, until, when they rejoiced in what they were given, We
seized them suddenly; then, lo, they were left in despair.(44)
Then the last remnant of the wrong-doing people was cut off; and praise be
to God, the Lord of the world. (45)
Say,'have you considered, if God seizes your ears and your eyes and seals
your hearts, who is a god other than God that will bring them to you?' See,
how We turn about the signs, yet they are turning away.(46)
Say, `have you considered, if God's punishment comes upon you suddenly or
openly, shall any be destroyed except the wrong-doing people?'(47)
And We send not the Envoys, but as bearers of good news and warners; then
whoso believes and makes amends, there shall be no fear on them, nor shall
they grieve.(48)
But those who give lies to Our signs, the punishment will afflict them for
that they transgressed.(49)
Say, `I do not say to you, `I hold the treasures of God, nor I know the
unseen, nor I say to you, `I am an angel'; I only follow what is revealed
to me.' `Say, `are the blind and the seeing man equal? Will you not then
ponder?'(50)
And warn thou with it, those who fear that they shall be mustered to their
Lord, when there will be no protecter for them nor any intercessor apart
from Him, that they be godfearing.(51)
And do not drive away those who call upon their Lord, morning and evening,
desiring His attention; nothing of their account falls upon thee, and
nothing of thy account falls upon them, that thou shouldst drive them away,
and be among the wrong-doers.(52)
And even so We have tried some of them by others, that they may say, `are
these the ones whom God has been gracious among us?' Does not God know best
the thankful?(53)
And when those who believe in Our signs come to thee, say, `peace be upon
you; your Lord has prescribed for Himself mercy; so that any of you who
does evil in ignorance, then repents after that, and makes amends, He is
Forgiving, Merciful.'(54)
And thus We explain the signs and so that the sinners' way may be
clear.(55)
Say, `I am forbidden to serve those you call upon, apart from God.' Say, `I
do not follow your caprices, for, then, I shall be astray, and I shall not
be of the guided.'(56)
Say,` I stand on a clear sign from my Lord, and you have given lies to it.
Not with me is that you seek to hasten. The judgement is God's alone. He
relates the truth, and He is the Best of Deciders.'(57)
Say `if what you seek to hasten were with me, the matter would have been
decided between me and you; and God knows best the wrong-doers.'(58)
And with Him are the keys of the unseen, which none knows but He; and He
knows what is in the land and the sea; and not a leaf falls but He knows
it; and not a grain is there in the darkness of the earth, nor anything
fresh or dry, but it is in a clear Book.(59)
And it is He who takes your souls by night, and knows what you worked by
day, then He raises you up therein that a stated term be completed; then
unto Him shall you return, then He will tell you what you have been
doing.'(60)
And He is the Omnipotent over His servants, and sends guards over you;
until, when death approaches any of you, Our messengers take his soul, and
they neglect not.(61)
Then they are returned to God, their True Protector. Behold, the judgement
belongs to Him, and He is the Swiftest of Reckoners.(62)
Say,` who delivers you from the darkness of land and sea, when you call
upon Him humbly and secretly: `If He delivers us from this, we shall surely
be among the thankful.'(63)
Say, `God delivers you from it and from every distress; yet you assign Him
associates.'(64)
Say `He is able to send forth on you punishment from above you or from
under your feet, or to confuse you in sects and make you taste the violence
of one another;' see, how We turn about the Signs that they may
understand.(65)
But thy people have given lies to it, though it is the truth. Say, ` I am
no care-taker for you.(66)
Every news has a destination, and you will soon know.'(67)
And when thou seest them engaged in discussing Our signs, turn away from
them until they are engaged in a discourse other than it; and if the Devil
makes thee forget, do not sit, after the reminding, with the wrong-doing
people.(68)
And nothing of their account falls upon the godfearing except a reminding,
that they may become godfearing.(69)
And leave alone those who take their religion as a sport and a diversion,
and whom the present life has deluded; and admonish thereby lest a soul
should be delivered to destruction for what it earned, when it shall have
no protector and no intercessor, apart form God; and if it offers any
counterpoise, it shall not be taken from it; those are they who shall be
delivered to destruction for what they earned; for them shall be a draught
of hot water and a painful punishment for that they disbelieved. (70)
Say, `shall we call, apart from God, on that which neither profits us nor
harms us, and turn back on our heels after God has guided us __ like him
whom the devils have lured to bewilderment in the earth, though he has
companions who call him to guidance: `come to us.' Say `God's guidance is
the guidance, and we are commanded to surrender to the Lord of the
world;(71)
and: `establish the Prayer and fear Him; and it is He to whom you shall be
mustered.'(72)
And it is He who created the heavens and the earth on truth; and the day,
He says, `be', it will be.(73)
His word is the truth; and His shall be the kingdom the Day the Trumpet is
blown; the Knower of the unseen and the visible; and He is the Wise, the
Aware.'(74)
And when Abraham said to his father Azar, ` dost thou take idols for gods?
I see thee and thy people clearly astray.'(75)
And so We show Abraham the governance of the heavens and the earth, and
that he might be among those who have sure faith.(76)
And when the night overshadowed him, he saw a star; he said, `this is my
Lord;' but when it set, he said, `I do not love the setters.'(77)
Then when he saw the moon shining, he said, `this is my Lord;' but when it
also set, he said, `if my Lord does not guide me, I shall surely be among
the astray people.'(78)
Then when he saw the sun shining, he said, `this is my Lord, this is the
biggest;' but when it also set, he said, `O my people, I am quit of that
you associate.(79)
I turn my face all-devoted to Him who originated the heavens and the earth,
and I am not of the idolaters.'(80)
And his people disputed with him. He said, ` do you dispute with me
concerning God, when He has indeed guided me? I fear not those you
associate with Him, except that my Lord will anything; my Lord embraces
everything in knowledge; will you not pay heed?(81)
And how should I fear those that you associate, when you are not afraid to
associate with God that for which God has not sent down any authority on
you? So which of the two parties has a greater right to security, if you
know?(82)
Those who believe and do not confound their belief with wrong-doing, for
them alone is the security, and they are rightly guided.' (83)
And that was Our argument that We gave to Abraham against his people; We
raise in ranks whom We will; thy Lord is Wise, Knowing.(84)
And We bestowed upon him Isaac and Jacob; everyone We guided; and Noah We
guided aforetime, and out of his offspring, David, Solomon, Job, Joseph,
Moses and Aaron __ and so We recompense the good-doers; __(85)
and Zachariah, John, Jesus and Elias __ all were among the righteous;(86)
and Ishmael, Elisha, Jonah and Lot __ and everyone We exalted above the
people;(87)
and also, of their fathers, and their offspring and their brothers; and We
elected them and guided them to a straight path.(88)
That is God`s guidance whereby He guides whomso He will of His servants;
and if they had taken associate-gods, all their work would have
perished.(89)
Those were they whom We gave the Book, the Judgement and the Prophethood;
now, if these people disbelieve, We have entrusted it to a people who are
not its unbelievers.(90)
Those were the ones whom God guided; so follow their guidance. Say, `I ask
of you no wage for it; it is not but a Reminder for all people.(91)
But they measured not God with His true measure, when they said, `God has
not sent down anything on a mortal.' Say, `who sent down the Book that
Moses brought, as a light and a guidance to men, which you put into
parchments that you show, and you hide much; and you were taught what you
and your fathers did not know.' Say, `God.' Then leave them playing in
their vain discourse.(92)
And this is a Book that We have sent down, blessed and confirming what was
before it, and that thou mayest warn the mother-city and those living
around it; and those who believe in the Hereafter, believe in it, and they
guard their Prayer. (93)
And who does greater wrong than he who forges a lie against God, or says,
`revelations have come to me', when nothing has been revealed to him, and
who says, `I will send down the like of what God has sent down?' But if
thou couldst see when the wrong-doers are in the agonies of death, and the
angels are stretching out their hands: `give up your souls; today you shall
be recompensed with the punishment of humiliation for what you have been
saying against God without right, and for showing arrogance against His
signs.' __(94)
‘And you have come to Us one by one as We created you first time, and
you have left behind your backs what We bestowed on you. And We do not see
with you your intercessors, those whom you asserted were associate-gods in
your case; the ties between you are cut off and that which you asserted has
been lost to you.'(95)
It is God who splits the grain and the date-stone; He brings forth the
living from the dead, and He is the one who brings forth the dead from the
living; that is God; then how are you perverted?(96)
He is the one who breaks the dawn, and He has made the night for rest, and
the sun and the moon for a reckoning; that is the measuring of the Mighty,
the Knowing.(97)
And it is He who has made for you the stars, that you may thereby find the
way in the darkness of land and sea; We have explained the signs for a
people who know.(98)
And it is He who has produced you from one soul, then there is a lodging
and a repository; We have explained the signs for a people who
understand.(99)
And it is He who has sent down from heaven water, and thereby We have
brought forth vegetation of everything, then We brought forth from it
foliage, bringing forth from it closely-packed grain; and of the palm
trees, from its spathes, low-hanging clusters, and gardens of vines, olive,
and pomegranates, alike and unlike. Look upon fruit (of each) when it
fructifies and its ripening; surely in that are signs for a people who
believe.(100)
Yet they ascribe the jinn as associates to God, though He created them, and
they impute to Him sons and daughters without knowledge; Holy be He, and
Exalted, above that they describe.(101)
The Originator of the heavens and the earth __ how should He have a son
when He has no consort; and He created everything, and He has the knowledge
of everything.(102)
That is God, your Lord; there is no god but He, creator of every thing, so
serve Him; and He is the caretaker of everything.(103)
Eyes do not comprehend Him, but He comprehends the eyes; and He is the
Subtle, the Aware.(104)
Visible signs have come to you from your Lord; so whoso sees, it is for
himself, and whoso is blind, it is against him; and I am no guardian over
you.(105)
And thus do We turn about the signs and that they may say, ` thou hast
studied;' and that We may make it clear for a people who have
knowledge.(106)
Follow thou what is revealed to thee from thy Lord; there is no god but He
and turn thou away from the idolaters.(107)
And had God willed, they would not have been idolaters; and We have not
appointed thee a guardian over them; and thou art not any caretaker for
them.(108)
And do not abuse those whom they call upon, apart from God, for then they
will abuse God out of spite in ignorance. Thus We have adorned to every
community their deed, then to their Lord shall they return, and He will
tell them what they have been doing.(109)
And they swear by God their most earnest oaths that if a Sign comes to
them, they will surely believe in it. Say, `the Signs are only with God.'
And what will make you realize that, when it comes, they will not
believe.(110)
And We will turn about their hearts and their eyes, even as they did not
believe in it the first time; and We will leave them in their insolence,
blindly wandering.(111)
And though We had sent down the angels to them, and the dead had spoken
with them, and We had mustered before them everything face to face, they
were not the ones as would believe, unless God so willed; but most of them
are ignorant.(112)
And so We have assigned for every Prophet an enemy __ devils of men and
jinn, inspiring to each other gilded speech, as a delusion; yet had thy
Lord willed, they would have not done it; so leave them and what they
forge.(113)
And it is so, that the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter
may incline to it, and they may be pleased with it, and they may earn what
they are earning.(114)
What! shall I seek after a judge other than God, when it is He who has sent
down to you the Book, well-explained; and those whom We have given the Book
know that it is sent down from thy Lord with the truth, so be thou not
among the doubters.(115)
And the Word of thy Lord is perfect in truth and justice; none can change
His Words; and He is the Hearing, the Knowing.(116)
And if thou obeyest most of those on earth, they will lead thee astray from
God's way; they follow not but surmise and they only conjecture.(117)
Thy Lord very well knows as to who goes astray from His way; and He very
well knows the guided.(118)
Now eat of that over which God's Name has been mentioned, if you believe in
His signs.(119)
And why should you not eat of that over which God's Name has been
mentioned, when He has explained to you what He has made unlawful for you,
unless you are constrained to it? But surely many lead astray by their
caprices without any knowledge; surely thy Lord very well knows the
transgressors.(120)
And forsake the sin, whether open or secret; those who earn sin shall be
recompensed for what they were earning.(121)
And do not eat of that over which God's Name has not been mentioned, for it
is indeed a transgression; and the devils inspire their friends to dispute
with you; but if you obey them, you shall be idolaters.(122)
And is he who was dead and We gave him life and appointed for him a light
by which he walks among men, as one whose likeness is in the darkness,
wherefrom he cannot come forth? So are adorned for the unbelievers the
things they are doing.(123)
And even so We have appointed in every city its big sinners to scheme
there; but they scheme not except against themselves and perceive not.(124)
And when a sign comes to them, they say, `we will not believe until we are
given the like of what God's Messengers are given'; God very well knows
where to place His Message; humiliation before God and severe punishment
shall befall the sinners for their scheming.(125)
Now, whomso God desires to guide, He opens his breast to Submission
(Islam), and whomso He desires to send astray, He makes his breast narrow
and tight, as if he were going up in the heaven; thus God lays abomination
on those who believe not.(126)
And this is the straight path of thy Lord; We have explained the signs for
a people who pay heed.(127)
For them is the House of Peace with their Lord, and He is their helper in
that they are doing.(128)
And on the day He musters them all together __ `O assembly of Jinn, you
took much of mankind'. And their friends among mankind will say, `our Lord,
we benefited one another and have now reached our term that Thou didst
appoint for us.' He will say, `the Fire is your resort to dwell therein
forever, except as God will'; surely thy Lord is Wise, Knowing.(129)
And so We make the wrongdoers companions of one another for what they
earned.(130)
`O assembly of Jinn and men, did not the Messengers come to you from among
you, relating to you My signs, and warning you of the meeting of this your
day?' They shall say, `We bear witness against ourselves'. And the worldly
life deluded them, and they testified against themselves that they were
unbelievers.(131)
That is because thy Lord would never destroy the cities unjustly, while
their people were unaware.(132)
And all have ranks according to what they do; and thy Lord is not unaware
of what they do.(133)
And thy Lord is All-sufficient, Merciful. If He will, He may take you away
and cause to succeed after you what He will, as He raised you from the
offspring of another people.(134)
That which you are promised shall surely come, and you cannot frustrate
it.(135)
Say, `O my people, you may act at your place, I am also acting; you will
soon know who gets the end-result of the House; surely the wrong-doers
shall not prosper'.(136)
And they assign to God, a part of what He has produced of the tillage and
cattle, saying, `this is for God', __ they assert __ `and this is for our
associate-gods.' Then what is for their associate-gods, does not reach God,
but what is for God reaches their associate-gods; how evil do they
judge!(137)
And like that, for many of the idolaters their associate-gods have made
killing of their children seem fair so as to annihilate them, and to
confuse their religion for them; and had God willed, they would not have
done it; so leave them and what they forge.(138)
And they say, `these are forbidden cattle and tillage, which none shall
eat, except those whom we will', so they assert, and there are cattle whose
backs are forbidden, and cattle over which they mention not the Name of
God, forging against Him; He will recompense them for their forging.(139)
And they say, `what is in the bellies of these cattle is purely for our
males and is forbidden to our spouses'; but if it be dead, they are
partners in it; He will recompense them for their so describing; He is
surely Wise, Knowing.(140)
They are indeed losers who kill their children foolishly, without
knowledge, and, forging against God, forbid what God has provided them;
they have gone astray, and are not guided. (141)
And it is He who has produced gardens, trellised and untrellised, and palm-
trees and crops, diverse in foods, and olives and pomegranates, like and
unlike. Eat of their fruits when they fructify, and pay their due on the
day of their harvest, and be not prodigal; God does not love the
prodigal.(142)
And of the cattle, some are for carrying burden and some are for slaughter;
eat of what God has provided you, and do not follow the steps of the Devil;
he is an open enemy to you.(143)
There are eight kinds __ of sheep two and of goats two. Say, `is it the two
males He has forbidden or the two females, or that which the wombs of the
two females contain? Tell me with knowledge if you are truthful'.(144)
And of camels two and of oxen two. Say, `is it the two males He has
forbidden or the two females, or that which the wombs of the two females
contain? Or were you witnesses when God charged you with this? Then who is
more unjust than he who forges against God a lie to lead men astray without
knowledge? Surely God does not guide the wrong-doing people'.(145)
Say, `I do not find in what is revealed to me anything forbidden to one who
eats thereof, except that it be carrion, or blood poured forth, or the
flesh of swine for it is an abomination, or a transgression that name of
other than God be invoked on it; yet if any is constrained, not revolting
nor exceeding limits, then thy Lord is Forgiving, Merciful'.(146)
And to the Jews, We forbade every animal with undivided hoofs; and of oxen
and goats, We forbade them the fat of them except what their backs or
intestines carry, or what is mingled with bone; that We recompensed them
for their rebellion, and We are surely truthful.(147)
Now, if they gives lies to thee, say `your Lord is of all-embracing mercy,
yet His might is not turned back from the sinner people'. (148)
The idolaters will say, `had God willed, we would not have been idolaters,
nor our fathers, nor would have we forbidden anything;' so cried lies those
before them until they tasted Our might. Say, `do you have any knowledge to
bring it forth for us? You follow only surmise and you only
conjecture.'(149)
Say, `to God belongs the conclusive argument; had He willed, He would have
guided you all.'(150)
Say, `produce your witnesses who testify that God has forbidden this and
this.' Then if they testify, do not testify with them; and do not thou
follow the caprices of those who gave lies to Our signs and those who do
not believe in the Hereafter and ascribe equals to their Lord.(151)
Say, `come, I shall recite what your Lord has forbidden to you; that you
associate not anything with Him, and be good to your parents; and do not
kill your children because of poverty __ We provide you and them; and do
not approach indecencies, whether open or hidden; and do not kill the soul
God has forbidden except by right; with that He has charged you that you
may understand.(152)
And do not approach the property of the orphan except in the fairest
manner, until he reaches maturity; and fill up the measure and the balance
with justice __ We charge not a soul but to its capacity. And when you
speak, be just though it be a near kinsman; and fulfill God's covenant.
With that He has charged you that you might pay heed.(153)
And (say) that this is My straight path, so follow it and follow not other
ways, lest they part you from His way. With that He has charged you that
you might be careful.(154)
Moreover, We gave Moses the Book, complete for him who does good, and an
explanation of everything, and a guidance and a mercy, that they might
believe in the meeting with their Lord.(155)
And this is a blessed Book, that We have sent down, so follow it and be
godfearing, that you may receive mercy;(156)
lest you should say, `the Book was sent down only on two groups before us,
and we were indeed unaware of what they studied;(157)
or you say, `if the Book had been sent down on us, we would have been more
guided than they'. Now there has come to you from your Lord a clear proof,
and a guidance and a mercy; who then is more unjust than he who gives lies
to God's signs and turns away from them? We will recompense those who turn
away from Our signs with evil punishment for their turning away.(158)
Are they only looking for the angels to come to them, or for thy Lord to
come, or for some of the Signs of thy Lord to come? On the day some of the
Signs of thy Lord come, it shall not profit a soul to believe, if it did
not believe before, or earned some good in its belief. Say, `wait, we are
also waiting'.(159)
Those who have made divisions in their religion and have become sects, thou
art not of them in anything; their affair is only unto God, and He will
tell them what they have been doing.(160)
Whoso brings a good deed shall have ten the like of it; and whoso brings an
evil deed shall not be recompensed but the like of it, and they shall not
be wronged.(161)
Say, `as for me, my Lord has guided me to a straight path __ an upright
religion, the creed of Abraham, the devoted, and he was not of the
idolaters'.(162)
Say, `my Prayer and my ritual sacrifice, and my living and my dying, all
are for God, the Lord of the world,(163)
who has no associate; and even so I have been commanded, and I am the first
of those who have surrendered (Muslim)'.(164)
Say, `shall I seek after a lord other than God, while He is the Lord of all
things?' And no soul earns but against itself; and no bearer of load bears
load of another; then to your Lord shall you return, and He will tell you
wherein you differed.(165)
And it is He who has appointed you viceroys in the earth, and raised in
rank some of you above others, that He may try you in what He has given
you; Surely thy Lord is swift in retribution, and surely He is Forgiving,
Merciful.(166)
AL-A’RAF (7)
"The Battlements"
(Revealed at Mecca,Verses 206)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulAlif Lam Mim Sad (A.L.M.S.);(1)
a Book is sent down to thee __ and let there be no tightness in thy breast
because of it __ that thou mayest warn by it, and as a reminder to the
Believers.(2)
Follow what has been sent down to you from your Lord, and do not follow
friends other than He; but little heed you pay.(3)
And how many a city We have destroyed, and Our might came upon it at night,
or while they were resting at noon.(4)
Then their cry, when Our might came upon them, was not but that they said,
`we were surely wrong-doers'.(5)
So We shall question those to whom the Message was sent(6)
and We shall question the Messengers, and We shall relate to them with
knowledge, and We were not absent.(7)
The weighing that day will be true; then those whose scales are heavy, they
shall prosper.(8)
And those whose scales are light, they shall have given loss to themselves,
for they wronged Our signs.(9)
And We have established you in the earth, and made your livelihood in it;
little thanks you show.(10)
And We created you, then shaped you, then said to the angels, `prostrate
yourselves before Adam', so they prostrated themselves except Iblis; he
would not be among those who prostrated themselves.(11)
God said, `what prevented thee from prostrating thyself, when I commanded
thee?' Said he, `I am better than he; Thou createdst me of fire and
createdst him of clay'.(12)
God said, `get thou down from here; it is not for thee to show arrogance
here; so go forth; thou art among the degraded'.(13)
Said he, `respite me till the Day they shall be raised'.(14)
God said, `thou art among the respited'.(15)
Said he, `now that Thou hast perverted me, I shall surely sit for them on
Thy straight path,(16)
then I shall come on them from before them and from behind them, from their
right and from their left, and Thou wilt not find most of them
thankful'.(17)
God said, `go forth from here, despised and banished; those of them who
follow thee, I shall surely fill the Hell with all of you'.(18)
`And O Adam, stay thou and thy wife in the garden and eat of where you
will, but do not go near this tree, lest you be among the wrong-doers'.(19)
Then the Devil whispered to them to show to them what was hidden from them
of their shameful parts, and said, `your Lord has only prohibited you from
this tree, lest you become angels, or be among the immortals'.(20)
And he swore to them, `I am indeed a sincere adviser for you'.(21)
So he let them fall down by delusion; and when they tasted the tree, their
shameful parts became apparent to them, and they took to stitching leaves
of the garden on them. And their Lord called to them, `did I not prohibit
you from this tree and say to you that the Devil is an open enemy to
you?'(22)
They said, `our Lord, we have wronged ourselves, and if Thou dost not
forgive us and have mercy on us, we shall surely be among the losers'.(23)
He said, `get you down as enemies to one another; for you there shall be on
the earth an abode and goods for a time'.(24)
He said, `there you shall live, there you shall die, and therefrom you
shall be brought forth'.(25)
O Children of Adam, We have sent down on you a garment to cover your
shameful parts, and for adornment __ and the garment of piety that is the
best __ that is of the Signs of God, that they may pay heed.(26)
O Children of Adam, let not the Devil put you to trial, as he brought your
parents out of the garden, stripping them of their garments to reveal to
them their shameful parts; he sees you __ he and his tribe __ from where
you do not see them. We have made the devils the friends of those who do
not believe.(27)
And when they commit an indecency, they say, `we found our fathers doing
it, and God has commanded us to do it'. Say, `God does not command
indecencies; do you say regarding God what you do not know?'(28)
Say, `my Lord has commanded justice; and you keep your attention to every
place of worship and call on Him, making obedience purely His. As He
originated you so shall you return'.(29)
A part He has guided, and a part has deserved to go astray; they have taken
devils as friends, apart from God, and they think that they are guided.(30)
O Children of Adam, adorn yourselves at every place of worship, and eat and
drink but be not prodigal; He does not love the prodigal.(31)
Say, `who has forbidden God's adornment and clean provisions, that He has
brought forth for His servants?' Say, `they are for the Believers in the
present life, and shall be exclusively theirs on the Day of Resurrection'.
Thus We explain the signs to a people who have knowledge.(32)
Say, `my Lord has forbidden only indecencies, open and hidden, and sin and
revolting without right, and that you associate with God that for which He
has not sent down any authority, and that you say against God what you know
not'.(33)
And for every community there is a term; then, when their term comes, they
do not put it back by a moment, nor put it forward.(34)
O Children of Adam, there shall, however, come to you Messengers from among
you, relating to you My signs, then those who feared God and reformed no
fear shall be on them, nor shall they grieve.(35)
And those who gave lies to Our signs and showed arrogance against them,
they shall be the inhabitants of the Fire, dwelling therein forever.(36)
Now who does greater wrong than he who forges a lie against God or gives
lies to His signs? Their portion as written shall reach them; till when Our
messengers come to them to take them, they will say, `where are those you
were calling on, apart from God?' They will say, `they are lost to us'; and
they will testify against themselves that they were unbelievers.(37)
He will say, `enter among the communities of jinn and men, that have passed
away before you, into the Fire'. Whenever a community enters, it curses its
sister; until, when they have all reached there, the last of them shall say
regarding the earlier of them, `Our Lord, these led us astray, so give them
a double punishment of the Fire'. He will say, `for everyone is a double,
but you do not know'.(38)
And the earlier of them shall say to the last of them, `you have no
preference over us, now taste the punishment for what you have earned'.(39)
Surely those who give lies to Our signs and show arrogance against them,
the gates of the heaven shall not be opened to them, nor shall they enter
Paradise, until the camel passes through the eye of the needle; and so
shall We recompense the sinners.(40)
Hell shall be their cradle and over them (its) coverings; and so shall We
recompense the wrong-doers.(41)
And those who believe and do righteous deeds __ and We do not charge a soul
but to its capacity __ they shall be the inhabitants of Paradise; therein
they shall live forever.(42)
And We shall draw out all rancour that is in their breasts; rivers will be
flowing underneath them; and they shall say, `praise be to God who has
guided us to this; and we could not find the way, if God had not guided us;
surely the Messengers of Our Lord came with the truth'. And it will be
proclaimed to them: `this is the Paradise you have been given to inherit
for that you have been doing.(43)
And the inhabitants of Paradise shall call to the inhabitants of the Fire,
`we have found true what our Lord promised us; have you also found true
what your Lord promised you?' They will say, `yes'. And then a herald shall
proclaim between them: `God's curse be on the wrong-doers,(44)
who barred from God's way and sought crookedness in it, and they
disbelieved in the Hereafter'.(45)
And between them shall be a veil; and on the battlements shall be men who
will recognise all by their mark; and they will call to the inhabitants of
Paradise, `peace be upon you' __ they have not entered it and they are
eager.(46)
And when their eyes are turned towards the inhabitants of the Fire, they
will say, `our Lord, do not place us with the wrong-doing people'.(47)
And the men of the battlements shall call certain men whom they will
recognise by their mark, saying, `your multitude has not availed you, nor
your arrogance.(48)
Are these the ones you swore, `God would not grant them mercy?' __ `Enter
Paradise, no fear on you, nor shall you grieve'.(49)
And the inhabitants of the Fire will call to the inhabitants of Paradise,
`pour on us some water or some of the provision God has given you'. They
will say, `God has forbidden them to the unbelievers,(50)
those who took their religion as a diversion and a sport, and whom the
wordly life had deluded'. __ `So today, We forget them as they forgot the
meeting of this day of theirs, and for that they denied Our signs'.(51)
And We have brought them a Book, which We have explained on the basis of
knowledge, for guidance and a mercy to a people who believe.(52)
Are they looking only for its interpretation? The day its interpretation
comes, those who forgot it before, shall say, `the Messengers of our Lord
came with the truth; now are there any intercessors to intercede for us, or
shall we be returned to do other than that we have been doing?' They have
indeed given loss to themselves and that they were forging is lost to
them.(53)
Surely your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days,
then He sat Himself upon the Throne; He covers the day with the night that
seeks it urgently, and the sun and the moon and the stars are subservient
by His command. Behold, His are the creation and the command; blessed be
God, the Lord of the world.(54)
Call on your Lord humbly and secretly; surely He does not love the
trangressors.(55)
And do not create disorder in the land after its reformation, and call on
Him fearfully and eagerly; surely God's mercy is near the good-doers.(56)
And it is He who sends forth the winds bearing good news before His mercy;
till, when they bear a heavy cloud, We drive it to a dead land, and send
down water with it, and thereby bring forth all the fruits. So do We bring
forth the dead, perhaps you will pay heed.(57)
And the good land __ its vegetation comes forth by the leave of its Lord;
and that which is corrupt __ it comes forth but scantily; so We turn about
the signs for a people who are thankful.(58)
We sent Noah to his people and he said, `O my people, serve God, you have
no god other than He; I fear for you the punishment of a mighty day.(59)
The chiefs of his people said, `we see thee clearly astray'.(60)
He said, `O my people, I am not astray, but I am a Messenger from the Lord
of the world.(61)
I deliver to you the Messages of my Lord and advise you sincerely, for I
know from God what you know not.(62)
And do you wonder that an exhortation from your Lord should come to you
through a man from among you, that he should warn you, and that you be
godfearing, and that you may find mercy?'(63)
But they gave lies to him, then We saved him and those with him in the Ark,
and drowned those who gave lies to Our signs; surely they were a blind
people.(64)
And to Ad, (We sent) their brother Hood; he said, `O my people, serve God,
you have no god other than He; will you not guard yourselves?(65)
The chiefs of his people, who disbelieved, said, `we see thee in folly, and
we guess thee one of the liars'.(66)
He said `O my people, there is no folly in me, but I am a Messenger from
the Lord of the world.(67)
I deliver to you the Messages of my Lord, and I am a trustworthy, sincere
adviser to you.(68)
And do you wonder that an exhortation from your Lord should come to you
through a man from among you, that he should warn you? But remember when He
made you viceroys after the people of Noah, and increased you in stature
broadly; so remember God's bounties that you may prosper'.(69)
They said, `hast thou come to us that we may serve God alone, and forsake
what our fathers used to serve? Now bring us that thou promisest us, if
thou art of the truthful'.(70)
He said, `scourge and wrath from your Lord have fallen on you: do you
dispute with me regarding names you have given them, you and your fathers,
for which God has not sent down any authority? Now wait, I am waiting with
you'.(71)
Then We saved him and those with him as a mercy from Us, and cut off the
last remnant of those who gave lies to Our signs, and were not
believers.(72)
And to Thamood (We sent) their brother Salih; he said, `my people, serve
God, you have no god other than He; there has come to you a Clear Sign from
your Lord; this She-camel of God is a Sign for you, so leave her to eat on
God's earth, and do not touch her with evil, lest a painful punishment
should seize you.(73)
And remember when He made you viceroys after Ad, and settled you in the
land, you making palaces in its plains, and carving mountains into houses;
so remember God's bounty and do not mischief in the land, causing
disorder'.(74)
The arrogant chiefs of his people said to the oppressed, to those of them
who believed, `do you know that Salih is an Envoy from his Lord?' They
said, `surely we are believers in the Message that he has been sent
with'.(75)
The arrogant ones said, `we are unbelievers of that you believe in'.(76)
Then they hamstrung the She-camel, and defied the commandment of their
Lord, and said, `O Salih, bring us what thou promisest us, if thou art of
the Envoys'.(77)
So the earthquake seized them, and they lay prone in their dwellings.(78)
And he turned away from them and said, `O my people. I delivered to you the
Message of my Lord, and advised you sincerely, but you do not like the
sincere advisers'.(79)
And (We sent) Lot __ when he said to his people, `do you commit the
indecency that never any in the world committed before you?(80)
You lustfully approach men, apart from women; no, you are an extravagant
people'.(81)
And the only answer of his people was that they said, `expel them from your
city; they are a people that keep themselves clean'.(82)
Then We saved him and his family except his wife who was among those who
stayed behind.(83)
And We rained down upon them a heavy rain; now see, how was the end of the
sinners!(84)
And to Midian (We sent) their brother Shuaib; he said, `my people, serve
God, you have no god other than He; there has come to you a clear Sign from
your Lord, so fill up the measure and the balance, and do not diminish the
goods of the people, and do not create disorder in the land, after its
reformation; that is better for you, if you are believers.(85)
And do not sit on every path, threatening and barring from God's way those
who believe in Him, seeking crookedness in it; and remember when you were
few and He multiplied you; and see how was the end of those who create
disorder.(86)
And if a group among you believes in the Message I have been sent with, and
a group does not believe, then be patient, till God judges between us; and
He is the best of judges'.(87)
The arrogant chiefs of his people said, `we shall surely expel thee, O
Shuaib, and those who believe with thee, from our city, unless you return
into our creed'. He said, `even though we hate it.(88)
We should have forged a lie against God if we returned into your creed,
after God has delivered us from it; and it is not for us to return into it,
except that God, our Lord, so will; our Lord embraces all things in
knowledge; in God we put our trust.' __ `Our Lord, decide between us and
our people with truth; for Thou art the best of deciders'. (89)
And the disbelieving chiefs of his people said, `if you follow Shuaib, you
will surely be losers.'(90)
Then the earthquake seized them and they lay prone in their dwellings. (91)
Those who gave lies to Shuaib, it was as if they never dwelt there; those
who gave lies to Shuaib, only they were the losers. (92)
Then he turned away from his people and said, `O my people, I delivered to
you the Messages of my Lord, and advised you sincerely; now how should I
sorrow for a disbelieving people?' (93)
And We did not send any Prophet to a city but We seized its people with
misery and hardship that they might humble themselves. (94)
Then We changed, in place of evil, good, till they became affluent and
said, `hardship and happiness touched our fathers too.' Then We seized them
suddenly, when they perceived not.(95)
And had the people of the cities believed and been godfathering, We would
have opened upon them blessings from heaven and earth; but they cried lies
and We seized them for what they earned. (96)
Now do the people of the cities feel secure that Our might shall not come
upon them at night while they are asleep?(97)
And do the people of the cities feel secure that Our might shall not come
upon them in daylight while they are playing?(98)
Do they feel secure against Gods' devising? But none feels secure against
Gods' devising except the losing people.(99)
And is it not a guidance to those who inherit the earth after its (earlier)
people, that if We will, We would afflict them for their sins? But We seal
their hearts, so they do not listen.(100)
Those were the cities whose news We relate to thee; and their Messengers
came to them with clear signs, but they were not the ones to believe in
that they had given lies to before; so God seals the hearts of the
unbelievers. (101)
And we did not find most of them keeping the covenant; and We surely found
most of them transgressors.(102)
Then, after them, We sent Moses with Our signs to Pharaoh and his chiefs,
but they did wrong to them; then see how was the end of the workers of
disorder!(103)
And Moses said, `O Pharaoh, I am a Messenger from the Lord of the
world,(104)
incumbent in that I should not speak regarding God anything except the
truth. I have brought to you a clear proof from your Lord, so send forth
with me the Children of Israel'.(105)
He said, `if thou hast brought a proof, produce it, if thou art of the
truthful'. (106)
So he cast his staff; then lo, it was a serpent manifest.(107)
And he drew forth his hand; then lo, it was white to the beholders. (108)
The chiefs of the people of Pharaoh said, `this is surely a learned
sorcerer,(109)
who desires to expel you from your land; now what do you enjoin? (110)
They said, `put him and his brother off a while, and send musterers around
the cities,(111)
to bring to thee all the learned sorcerers. (112)
And the sorcerers came to Pharaoh; they said, `we shall surely have a wage,
if we should be the victors.'(113)
He said, `yes, and you shall be among the near-stationed.'(114)
They said, `Moses, wilt thou cast, or shall we be casting?' (115)
He said, `you cast'; so when they cast they put a spell on the peopl's eyes
and terrified them, and they produced a mighty sorcery.(116)
And We revealed to Moses, `cast thy staff'; then lo, it swallowed up what
they had forged. (117)
So the truth appeared, and what they had done vanished.(118)
So they were vanquished and turned about degraded.(119)
And the sorcerers fell down prostrating. (120)
They said, `we believe in the Lord of the world,(121)
the Lord of Moses and Aaron'. (122)
Pharaoh said, `you have believed in Him before I gave you leave. This was
surely a device you devised in the city that you expel its people from it,
but you shall soon know.(123)
I shall cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, then I shall
curcify you all together'.(124)
They said, `we are turning to our Lord.(125)
And thou takest vengeance upon us only because we have believed in the
signs of our Lord, when they have come to us' __ ``Our Lord, pour out upon
us patience, and take us to Thee surrendering (Muslims)'.(126)
And chiefs of the people of Pharaoh said, `wilt thou leave Moses and his
people to create disorder in the land, and to forsake thee and thy gods?'
He said, `we shall slaughter their sons and keep alive their women, and we
hold power over them'.(127)
Moses said to his people, `seek help with God and be patient; the earth
belongs to God, and He bequeaths it to whom He will among His servants; and
the end-result is for the godfearing'.(128)
They said, `we were hurt before thou camest to us, and after thou camest to
us'. He said, `it may be that your Lord destroys your enemy, and makes you
viceroys in the land, then He may see how you work'.(129)
And We seized Pharaoh's people with barren years and scarcity of fruits,
that they may pay heed.(130)
But whenever good came to them, they said `this is our due'; and if any
evil afflicted them, they would attribute ill luck to Moses and those with
him. Why! surely their ill luck was with God but most of them knew
not.(131)
And they said, `whatever Sign thou bringest to us to cast, with it, a spell
upon us, we will not believe thee'.(132)
Then We let loose upon them the flood, the locusts, the lice, the frogs and
the blood, as distinct Signs, but they showed arrogance and were a sinful
people.(133)
And when the scourge fell upon them, they said, `O Moses, pray to thy Lord
for us, for He has made a covenant with thee; if thou removest from us the
scourge, we will believe thee, and send the Children of Israel with
thee'.(134)
But when We removed from them the scourge to a term which they were to
reach, lo, they broke it. (135)
So We took vengeance on them, and drowned them in overflowing water, for
that they gave lies to Our signs and were heedless of them.(136)
And We made the people that were oppressed to inherit the east and the west
of the land We had blessed; and the most fair word of thy Lord was
fulfilled upon the Children of Israel for that they showed patience; and We
utterly destroyed what Pharaoh and his people made and what they
built.(137)
And We brought the Children of Israel across the sea and they came upon a
people adhering to their idols. They said, `O Moses, make for us a god,
like they have gods for them. He said, `you are an ignorant people.(138)
These, in which they are engaged, shall be shattered, and what they are
doing shall vanish'.(139)
He said, `shall I seek for you a god other than God and He has exalted you
above the whole world?'(140)
And when We delivered you from the people of Pharaoh who afflicted you with
evil punishment, slaughtering your sons and letting you women live, and in
that was a big trial from your Lord.(141)
And We appointed with Moses thirty nights and completed them with ten, so
the appointed time of His Lord was completed to forty nights; and Moses
said to his brother Aaron, `take my place among my people, act right, and
follow not the way of those that create disorder'. (142)
And when Moses came to Our appointed time, and his Lord spoke with him, he
said `my Lord, show me that I may look upon Thee'. He said, `thou shall not
see Me, but look upon the mountain, and if it stays at its place, thou
shalt see Me'. But when his Lord appeared in His glory on the mountain, He
made it crumbled to dust, and Moses fell down fainted. When he recovered,
he said, `Thou art Holy, I repent to Thee, and I am the first of the
believers'.(143)
God said, `O Moses, I have chosen thee above men for My Messages and My
speech, so take what I give thee and be among the thankful'.(144)
And We wrote for him on the Tablets an admonition everything and an
explanation of everything: `take it firmly and bid thy people to take the
fairest of it; I shall soon show you the house of the transgressors.(145)
I shall turn from My signs those who show arrogance in the earth without
right; for if they see every sign, they will not believe in it; and if they
see the way of rectitude, they will not take it for a way, and if they see
the way of perversion, they will take it for a way; that is because they
give lies to Our signs and are heedless of them. (146)
And those who gave lies to Our signs and to the meeting of the Hereafter,
their works have gone waste; could they be recompensed except according to
what they have done.(147)
And the people of Moses took after him (for god) of their ornaments a Calf
that lowed. Did they not see that it would not speak to them nor would
guide them to any way? They took it (for god), and were wrong-doers.(148)
And when they repented and saw that they had gone astray, they said, `if
our Lord does not have mercy on us and forgive us, we shall surely be among
the losers'.(149)
And when Moses returned to his people angry and sorrowful, he said, `how
evil you did in my place after me; were you in haste against the command of
your Lord?' And he cast down the Tablets, and he held his brother's head,
dragging him to him. He said, `son of my mother, the people oppressed me
and had almost killed me; so do not make enemies laugh at me, and do not
put me with the wrong-doing people'.(150)
He said, `my Lord, forgive me and my brother, and admit us into Thy mercy,
for Thou art the most merciful of the merciful'.(151)
Those who took the Calf (for god), the wrath from their Lord and abasement
shall overtake them in this world; and so We recompense the forgers.(152)
And those who do evil deeds, then repent after that and have faith __ thy
Lord is thereafter Forgiving, Merciful.(153)
And when Moses' anger calmed down, he took up the Tablets, for in their
inscription was guidance and mercy for those who hold their Lord in
awe.(154)
And Moses chose of his people seventy men for Our appointed time; and when
the earth-quake seized them, he said, `my Lord, hadst Thou willed, Thou
wouldst have destroyed them and me before; wilt Thou destroy us for what
the fools among us have done; it is not but thy trial whereby Thou sendest
astray whom Thou wilt, and guidest whom Thou wilt; Thou art our Protector,
so forgive us and have mercy on us, and Thou art the best of
forgivers.(155)
And prescribe good for us in this world and in the Hereafter; we have
turned to Thee.' He said, `I shall afflict My punishment on whom I will;
and My mercy embraces all things; and I shall prescribe it for those who
are godfearing, and pay the Alms and believe in Our Signs'.(156)
Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered Prophet whom they find
written down with them in the Torah and the Gospel, who bid them the
desirable and forbid them the disgusting, makes lawful for them the good
things and makes unlawful for them the dirty things, and relieves them of
their burden and the shackles that are upon them; so those who believe in
him and succour him and help him and follow the light that has been sent
down with him __ those shall be the prosperous.'(157)
Say, `O mankind, I am the Messenger of God to you all __ of Him to whom
belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. There is no god but He;
He gives life and makes to die; so believe in God and His Messenger, the
unlettered Prophet, who believes in God and His Words, and follow him that
you may be guided'.(158)
And among the people of Moses is a community who guide by the truth and do
justice by it.(159)
And We cut them up into twelve tribes as communities. And We revealed to
Moses, when his people asked him for water: `strike the rock with thy
staff;' and there gushed forth from it twelve springs; all men learnt their
drinking place. And We overshadowed them with the cloud, and sent down on
them manna and quails: `eat of the clean things We have provided you'. And
they did Us no wrong but themselves they wronged.(160)
And when it was said to them, `dwell in this town and eat therefrom
wherever you will, and say, `forgiveness,' and enter the gate prostrating,
We will forgive you your mistakes, and We will add for the good-
doers'.(161)
Then the wrong-doers among them substituted a saying other than that which
was said to them, and We sent down on them scourge from heaven for their
wrongdoing. (162)
And ask them concerning the town that lay by the side of the sea; when they
transgressed the Sabbath, when their fish came to them on the day of their
Sabbath swimming, and on the day they did not keep Sabbath, they did not
come to them; thus We tried them for their transgression.(163)
And when a community of them said. `why do you admonish a people whom God
is about to destroy, or punish with a terrible punishment', they said, `an
excuse to your Lord, or that they may become godfearing'.(164)
And when they forgot that they were admonished with, We delivered those who
forbade the evil, and We seized the wrong-doers with evil punishment, for
their transgressions.(165)
And when they turned in disdain from what they were forbidden, We said to
them, `be you apes driven away'.(166)
And behold, thy Lord proclaimed that He would raise up against them, till
the Day of Resurrection, those who would afflict them with evil punishment;
surely thy Lord is swift in retribution, and surely He is Forgiving,
Merciful. (167)
And We cut them up in communities all over the earth; some of them are
righteous and some of them are otherwise,; and We tried them with good and
bad things, that they may return. (168)
Then there succeeded after them a succession who inherited the Book, taking
the goods of this world and saying, `it will be forgiven us'; ; but if
goods the like of them come to them again they take them. Has not the
covenant of the Book been taken from them that they shall not say
concerning God anything except the truth, and they have studied what is in
it? And the Last House is better for the godfearing; so will you not
understand? (169)
And those who hold fast to the Book and establish the Prayer __ surely We
do not waste the wage of those who put things right. (170)
And when We shook the mountain above them, as if it were a canopy, and they
thought it was about to fall on them: `take what We have given you firmly,
and remember what is in it, that you may be godfearing'.(171)
And behold, thy Lord took from the Children of Adam, from their loins,
their offspring, and made them testify about themselves, `am I not your
Lord?' They said, `yes, we testify'; __ lest you should say on the Day of
Resurrection, `we were unaware of this'(172)
or lest you say, `our fathers were idolaters aforetime, and we were only
offspring after them; wilt Thou destroy us for what the vain-doers
did?'(173)
And so We explain the signs, and so that they may return.(174)
And recite to them the news of him whom We gave Our sings but he cast them
off, and the Devil followed after him, and he was among the perverts. (175)
And had We willed, We would have raised him up thereby, but he stuck to the
earth and followed his caprice. So his likeness is as the likeness of a
dog; if thou attackest it, it lolls the tongue out, or if thou leavest it,
it lolls the tongue out. That is the likeness of the people who give lies
to Our signs; so relate the story that they may ponder.(176)
How evil is the likeness of the people who gave lies to Our signs and
themselves they wronged.(177)
Whom God guides, he is guided; and whom He sends astray, they are the
losers.(178)
And We have created for Hell many of the jinn and men; they have hearts but
do not understand with them; and they have eyes but do not see with them;
and they have ears but do not hear with them; they are like cattle; no,
they are further astray; they are the heedless.(179)
And to God belong the most beautiful names; so call Him with them, and
leave those who blaspheme His names; they shall be recompensed for the
things they did.(180)
And of those We have created, there is a community who guide by the truth
and do justice by it.(181)
And those who give lies to Our signs, We shall lead them on, step by step,
whence they do not know.(182)
And I respite them; surely my guile is sure.(183)
And have they not pondered? __ No madness is in their companion; he is only
a clear warner.(184)
And have they not looked into the governance of the heavens and the earth
and all the things that God has created, and that it may be that their term
has drawn near? In what discourse, after this, shall they believe?(185)
Whomso God sends astray, has no guide; and He leaves them in their
insolence, blindly wandering. (186)
They ask thee of the Hour, when it shall arrive? Say, `its knowledge is
only with my Lord; none can show it at its time but He; it will be heavy in
the heavens and the earth; it shall not come on you but suddenly'. They ask
thee as if thou art well-informed of it. Say,`its knowledge is only with
God, but most men do not know'.(187)
Say, `I have no power to profit or hurt for myself, but as God will; and
had I the knowledge of the unseen, I would have amassed enough good, and
harm would have not touched me; I am not but a warner and a bearer of good
news for a people who believe'. (188)
It is He who created you out of one soul, and made thereof its mate, that
he might have comfort in her. So when he covers her, she bears a light
burden and passes by with it; then when it becomes heavy, they pray to God,
their Lord, `if Thou givest us a goodly (child), we shall surely be among
the thankful'.(189)
But when He gives them a goodly (child), they assign to Him associates in
what He gave them; but High is God, above that they associate (with
Him).(190)
Do they associate that which creates nothing and themselves are created?
(191)
And they have no power to help them, nor do they help themselves.(192)
And if you call them to guidance, they will not follow you; equal it is to
you, whether you call them or you remain silent.(193)
Those on whom you call, apart from God, are servants like you; now call
them and let them answer you, if you speak truly.(194)
Have they feet with which they walk, or have they hands with which they
hold, or have they eyes with which they see, or have they ears with which
they hear? Say, `call your associates, then try your guile on me and give
me no respite.(195)
My Protector is God who has sent down the Book, and it is He who protects
the righteous. (196)
And those on whom you call, apart from God, have no power to help you, nor
do they help themselves'.(197)
And if you call them to the guidance, they do not hear; and thou regardest
them looking at thee, but they do not see.(198)
Be pardoning, and bid the desirable, and turn away from the ignorant.(199)
And if a provocation from the devil provokes thee, seek refuge in God; He
is Hearing, Knowing. (200)
The godfearing, when any thought from the Devil visits them, pay heed and
then see clearly.(201)
And their brothers draw them on to perversion, then do not stop short.(202)
And when thou dost not bring them a sign, they say,`why has not thou chosen
it?' Say,`I follow only what is revealed to me from my Lord; here are
evidences from your Lord and a guidance and a mercy for a people who
believe'.(203)
And when the Quran is read, listen to it and keep silent, that you may
receive mercy.(204)
And remember thy Lord in thy soul, humbly and fearfully, and without being
loud in voice, at the mornings and evenings, and be not among the
heedless.(205)
Surely those who are near thy Lord do not show arrogance to serve Him, and
they celebrate His Holiness, and unto Him they prostrate themselves.(206)
AL-ANFAL (8)
"The Spoils"
(Revealed at Medina, Verses 75)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulThey ask thee concerning the spoils. Say, `the spoils belong to God and the
Messenger; so fear God and set things right between you; and obey God and
His Messenger, if you are Believers'.(1)
The Believers are only those who, when God is mentioned, their hearts
quake, and when His signs are recited to them, it increases them in belief,
and in their Lord they put their trust;(2)
those who establish the Prayer, and expend of that We have provided
them;(3)
those in truth are the Believers; they have ranks with their Lord, and
forgiveness and generous provision. (4)
As thy Lord brought thee forth from thy house with the truth, though a
party of the Believers were surely averse to it,(5)
disputing with thee concerning the truth, after it had become clear, as if
they were being driven to death and they were seeing it.(6)
And when God promised you one of the two groups that it should be yours,
and you wished that the one unarmed should be yours, but God desired to
establish the truth by His words, and cut off the last remnant of the
unbelievers;(7)
that He may establish the truth and make the falsehood vanish, though the
sinners be averse to it. (8)
When you were calling upon your Lord for help, and He answered you, `I
shall reinforce you with a thousand angels coming in succession'.(9)
And God made it only a good news and that your hearts might thereby be at
rest; otherwise help comes only from God; God is Mighty, Wise.(10)
When He was causing slumber to cover you as a security from Him, and was
sending down on you water from heaven to thereby cleanse you and take away
from you the defilement of the Devil, and to strengthen your hearts, and
thereby confirm the feet.(11)
When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, `I am with you, so confirm the
Believers. I will cast terror in the hearts of the unbelievers, so strike
above the necks and strike every finger of theirs.'(12)
That, because they opposed God and His Messenger; and if any opposes God
and His Messenger, then God is terrible in retribution. (13)
That is for you, so taste it; and that for the unbelievers shall be
punishment of the Fire.(14)
O Believers, when you encounter the unbelievers marching to battle, do not
turn your backs to them. (15)
And any who turns his back that day to them, unless he is changing position
for the battle or is moving to join a band, he is laden with God's wrath,
and his abode shall be Hell __ and it is an evil destination.(16)
And you did not kill them, but God killed them; and thou didst not throw,
when thou threwest but God threw; and it was so that He might put the
Believers through a handsome trial from Him; surely God is Hearing,
Knowing.(17)
That for you, and that God will weaken the guile of the unbelievers.(18)
If you sought decision, then decision has come to you; now if you give
over, it will be better for you, but if you repeat, We shall also repeat,
and your host will not avail you at all, how numerous it may be, for God is
with the Believers.(19)
O Believers, obey God and His Messenger, and do not turn away from him, as
you are listening.(20)
And be not like those who say, `we hear;' but they do not hear. (21)
The worst of beasts in God's sight are those that are deaf and dumb and do
not understand.(22)
And if God had known any good in them, He would have made them hear; but
even if He had made them hear, they would have turned away, swerving aside.
(23)
O Believers, respond to God and the Messenger when he calls you to that
which will give you life; and know that God stands between a man and his
heart, and that to Him you shall be mustered.(24)
And fear the turmoil that will not specially afflict the wrong-doers among
you; and know that God is terrible in retribution. (25)
And remember when you were few and oppressed in the land, and you feared
lest the people should snatch you away, then He gave you shelter, and
strenghened you with His help, and provided you with the good things, that
you may give thanks.(26)
O Believers, do not betray God and the Messenger, and do not betray your
trusts knowingly.(27)
And know that your wealth and your children are but a trial, and that with
God is a mighty wage.(28)
O Believers, if you fear God, He will give you a distinction and acquit you
of your evils, and forgive you; and God is Highly Bounteous. (29)
And when the unbelievers devised against thee to confine thee, or kill
thee, or expel thee; and they devised and God devised; and God is the best
of devisers.(30)
And when Our signs were recited to them, they said, `we have heard; if we
wished, we could say the like of this; they are only fables of the
ancients'.(31)
And when they said, `O God, if this indeed is truth from Thee, rain down
upon us stones from the heaven, or bring us a painful punishment'.(32)
But God would never punish them, with thee among them; and Gd would never
punish them when they prayed forgiveness.(33)
But what have they now that God should not punish them, when they are
barring from the Sacred Mosque, though they are not its custodians. Its
custodians are only the godfearing, but most of them have no knowledge.(34)
And their prayer at the House is nothing but whistling and hand-clapping __
`so taste you the punihsment for you have disbelieved.'(35)
The unbelievers expend their wealth to bar from God's way; but they will
expend it, then it will be a regret for them, then they will be
overwhelmed; and the unbelievers will be mustered to the Hell, (36)
that God may distinguish the corrupt from the clean, and place the corrupt,
one over the other, then heap them up all together, and put them in Hell;
those are the losers.(37)
Say to the unbelievers, if they give over, they will be forgiven what is
past, but if they repeat then there has already passed the tradition of the
earlier people.(38)
And fight them till no turmoil is left, and the Religion is God's entirely;
then if they give over, God surely sees the things they do. (39)
But if they turn away, then know that God is your Protector __ how
excellent a Protector, and how excellent a Helper!(40)
And know that whatever booty you take, the fifth of it is for God, and for
the Messenger, and for the near kinsman, the orphan, the needy, and the
traveller, if you believe in God and in that We sent down on Our Servant on
the Day of Distinction, the day the two hosts encountered; and God is
powerful over everything.(41)
When you were on the nearer bank and they were on the farther bank, and the
caravan was below you; and had you made mutual appointment, you would have
surely failed the appointment; but it was so that God might decree a matter
that was done, that he who perished should perish by a clear sign, and he
who lived should live by a clear sign; and God was surely Hearing and
Knowing,(42)
when God showed them to thee few in thy dream; and had He shown them to
thee many, you would have lost heart and quarrelled over the matter, but
God saved; He knows the thoughts in the breasts.(43)
And when He showed them to you few in your eyes, when you encountered them,
and made you few in their eyes, that God might decree a matter that was
done; and unto God all matters are returned.(44)
O Believers, when you encounter a host, stand firm and remember God much,
that you may succeed.(45)
And obey God and His Messenger, and do not quarrel together, lest you lose
heart and your power depart; and be steadfast; surely God is with the
steadfast.(46)
And be not like those who came forth from their homes boasting and showing
off to men, and hindering from the way of God; and God encompasses the
things they do.(47)
And when the Devil showed their works fair to them, and said, `no man shall
overcome you today, and I shall be your neighbor.' But when the two hosts
sighted each other, he retreated on his heels, and said, `I am quit of you,
I see what you do not see; I fear God; and God is terrible in
retribution'.(48)
When the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was sickness said, `their
religion has deluded these (people)'; but whoso puts trust in God, surely
God is Mighty, Wise.(49)
And if thou couldst see, when the angels take souls of the unbelievers,
striking on their faces and their backs, and (say), `taste the punishment
of burning;(50)
that is for what your hands have forwarded, and that God is no tyrant over
His servants'.(51)
Like Pharaoh's people and those before them; they disbelieved in the signs
of God, then God seized them for their sins; surely God is Strong and
Terrible in retribution.(52)
That is because God would never change a blessing that He has bestowed on a
people until they changed that which was within themselves, and that God is
Hearing, Knowing,(53)
like Pharaoh's people and those before them; they gave lies to the signs of
their Lord, so We destroyed them for their sins, and We drowned Pharaoh's
people; and all were wrong-doers.(54)
The worst of beasts in God's sight are the unbelievers who will not
believe; (55)
those of them with whom thou hast made a covenant, they break their
covenant every time(56)
and are not godfearing. So, if thou comest upon them in war, disperse,
along with them, those behind them, that they may pay heed.(57)
And if thou fearest treachery from any people, throw it back on them, on
equal basis; surely God does not love the treacherous.(58)
And let not the unbelievers think that they have outstripped Us; they
cannot frustrate Us.(59)
And make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to
terrify thereby God's enemy and your enemy, and others besides them; you do
not know them, God knows them; and whatever you will expend in the way of
God, it shall be repaid to you in full, and you will not be wronged.(60)
And if they incline to peace, incline thou also to it, and trust in God; He
is the Hearing, the Knowing.(61)
And if they desire to deceive thee, then surely God is sufficient for thee;
He it is who has strengthened thee with His help and with the
Believers;(62)
and He has brought their hearts together. Hadst thou expended all that is
in the earth, thou wouldst not have brought their hearts together, but God
brought them together; He is Mighty, Wise.(63)
O Prophet, God is sufficient for thee and the believers who follow
thee.(64)
O Prophet, urge on the Believers to fight. If there be among you twenty
patient men they should overcome two hundreds, and if there be among you a
hundred, they should overcome a thousand of unbelievers, for they are a
people who do not understand.(65)
Now, knowing that there is weakness in you, God has lightened it for you;
so if there be among you a hundred patient men, they should overcome two
hundred, and if there be among you a thousand, they should overcome two
thousand, by the leave of God; and God is with the patient.(66)
It is not for any Prophet to have prisoners until he makes a good killing
in the land; you desire goods of this world and God desires the Hereafter;
and God is Mighty, Wise.(67)
Had not a prescription from God gone forth, there would have afflicted you,
for what you took, a big punishment.(68)
Now eat of that you have taken as booty, such as is lawful and good, and
fear God; God is Forgiving, Merciful.(69)
O Prophet, say to the prisoners in your hands, `if God knows of any good in
your hearts, He will give you better than what has been taken from you, and
forgive you; and God is Forgiving, Merciful.(70)
And if they desire to betray thee, they have betrayed God before, but He
made them powerless; and God is Knowing Wise. (71)
Those who believed and emigrated and struggled with their wealth and their
selves in the way of God, and those who gave shelter and helped, those are
friends of one another. And those who believed but did not emigrate, you
have no duty of friendship towards them at all until they emigrate; yet if
they ask you for help in the matter of religion, help is (obligatory) upon
you, except against a people between whom and you there is a treaty; and
God sees the things you do.(72)
And the unbelievers are friends of one another. Unless you do that, there
will be turmoil and a great disorder in the land.(73)
And those who believed and emigrated and struggled in the way of God, and
those who gave shelter and helped, they are the Believers in truth; for
them shall be forgiveness and generous provision.(74)
And those who believed afterwards and emigrated and struggled along with
you, they too belong to you; and those related by blood are nearer to one
another in the Book of God; surely God knows everything.(75)
AL-TAUBA (9)
"Repentance"
(Revealed at Medina, Verses 129)An acquittal from God and His Messenger unto those of the idolaters with
whom you made covenant: (1)
`go about in the land for four months and know that you cannot frustrate
God, and that God will humiliate the unbelievers'.(2)
And it is a Proclamation from God and His Messenger unto mankind, on the
day of the Great Pilgrimage: `God is quit and His Messenger of the
idolaters. So if you repent, it will be good for you; but if you turn away,
then know that you cannot frustrate God'. And give thou good news of a
painful punishment to the unbelievers;(3)
but those of the idolaters with whom you made covenant, then they did not
fail you at all, and did not support any against you, fulfil their covenant
with them till their term; surely God loves the godfearing.(4)
Then, when the sacred months have passed away, kill the idolaters wherever
you find them, and take them, and confine them, and sit for them at every
place of ambush. Then, if they repent, and establish the Prayer, and pay
the Due-Alms, leave alone their way; God is Forgiving, Merciful.(5)
And if anyone of the idolaters asks thee for protection, give him
protection till he hears the Word of God, then convey him to his place of
security; that is because they are a people who have no knowledge.(6)
How can the idolaters have covenant with God and with His Messenger,
excepting those with whom you made covenant at the Sacred Mosque; then as
they kept it with you, you also keep with them; surely God loves the
godfearing.(7)
How can it be __for if they overwhelm you, they will not observe towards
you any kinship or treaty; they please you with their mouths but their
hearts refuse; and most of them are transgressors.(8)
They have sold the signs of God for a small price, and barred His way; evil
is that they have done.(9)
They do not observe any kinship or treaty towards a Believer; and they are
the transgressors.(10)
Now, if they repent and establish the Prayer and pay the Due-Alms, they are
your brothers in religion; and We explain the signs for a people who have
knowledge.(11)
And if they break their oaths after their covenant, and taunt you in your
religion, then fight the leaders of unbelief, for they have no oaths; may
be they give over.(12)
Will you not fight a people who broke their oaths and purposed to expel the
Messenger, and it is they who made the beginning against you first time?
Are you afraid of them? But God has a greater right to be afraid of, if you
are Believers.(13)
Fight them, God will punish them at your hands, and humiliate them, and
help you against them, and heal the breasts of a believing people,(14)
and remove the rage in their hearts; and God will accept the repentance of
whomsoever He will; and God is Knowing, Wise.(15)
Or do you think that you would be left alone, when God has not yet known
those of you who have struggled and have not taken any intimate apart from
God, His Messenger and the Believers; and God is aware of what you do.(16)
It is not for the idolaters to inhabit God's mosques testifying unbelief
against themselves; their works have gone vain, and in the Fire they shall
dwell forever.(17)
Only he may inhabit God's mosques who believes in God and the Last Day, and
establishes the Prayer and pays the Due-Alms, and fears none except God; it
may be that those will be among the guided.(18)
Have you made the giving of water to the pilgrims and the inhabiting of the
Sacred Mosque as one who believes in God and the Last Day and struggles in
the way of God? They are not equal in God's sight; and God does not guide
the wrong-doing people.(19)
Those who have believed and emigrated and struggled in the way of God with
their wealth and their selves, they are greatest in rank with God; and they
alone shall triumph.(20)
Their Lord gives them good news of His mercy and pleasure and such gardens,
wherein shall be a lasting delight for them,(21)
to dwell therein forever and ever; surely with God is a mighty wage.(22)
O Believers, do not take your fathers and your brothers as your friends, if
they seek to love unbelief against belief; and whoso of you takes them as
friends, they are the wrong-doers.(23)
Say, `if your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your clan,
your wealth that you have acquired, commerce whose decline you fear, and
dwellings you are pleased to have __ if they are dearer to you than God and
His Messenger and to struggle in His way, then wait till God brings His
command; and God does not guide the transgressing people'. (24)
God has already helped you on many fields; and, on the day of Hunain, when
your multitude appeared marvellous to you, but it did not avail you at all,
and the earth, with all its vastness, was narrowed on you, and you turned
back retreating.(25)
Then God sent down His tranquility on His Messenger and on the Believers,
and He sent down hosts you did not see, and He punished the unbelievers;
and that is the recompense of the unbelievers.(26)
Then God, thereafter, will turn to whom He will; and God is Forgiving,
Merciful.(27)
O Believers, the idolaters are simply unclean, so let them not come near
the Sacred Mosque after this year of theirs. And if you fear poverty, God
will soon enrich you of His bounty if He will; God is Knowing, Wise.(28)
Fight those who do not believe in God, nor in the Last Day, nor do they
forbid what God and His Messenger have forbidden, nor do they practise the
religion of truth, from among those who were given the Book, until they pay
tribute out of hand, duly humbled.(29)
And the Jews say, `Ezra is the son of God', and the Christians say,
`Messiah is the son of God'; that is their utterance with their mouths;
they imitate the utterance of the unbelievers before them; God destroy
them; how perverted they are!(30)
They have taken their priests and their monks and the Messiah, son of Mary,
as lords, apart from God, while they were commanded to serve only One God;
there is no god but He; He is Holy, above that they associate.(31)
They desire to extinguish the light of God with their mouths, but God
refuses except that He will perfect His light, though the unbelievers be
averse.(32)
It is He who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth
that He may make it prevail over all religions, though the idolaters be
averse.(33)
O Believers, many of the priests and the monks eat the goods of the people
falsely and bar from God's way. And those who treasure up gold and silver
and do not expend them in the way of God, give them the good news of a
painful punishment,(34)
on the day it shall be heated in the Fire of Hell, and their foreheads and
their sides and their backs shall be branded with it: `this is what you
treasured up for yourselves; now taste what you were treasuring.'(35)
The number of the months with God, the day He created the heavens and the
earth, is twelve in the Book of God __ of them four are sacred. That is the
standing religion; so do not wrong yourselves during them. And fight the
idolaters totally as they fight you totally, and know that God is with the
godfearing.(36)
The postponement of a?month is only an addition to unbelief, whereby the
unbelievers are led astray, by making it lawful one year and unlawful
another year, that they may make up the number which God has forbidden, and
thus make lawful what God has made unlawful. Their evil deeds seem fair to
them; and God does not guide the disbelieving people. (37)
O Believers, how is it with you that when it is said to you, `go forth in
the way of God', you sink down heavily to the earth? Are you contented with
the present life against the Hereafter? But the goods of the present life
against the Hereafter are only little things.(38)
If you do no go forth, He will punish you with a painful punishment, and
will substitute a people instead of you, and you will not hurt Him in the
least; and God is powerful over everything.(39)
If you do not help him, then God has already helped him, when the
unbelievers expelled him, (he was) the second of the two, when they were in
the cave, when he said to his companion, `do not grieve, God is with us'.
Then God sent down on him tranquility from Him, and aided him with forces
that you did not see, and made the word of the unbelievers the lowest. And
God's word, that is the most high; and God is Mighty, Wise.(40)
Go forth light and heavy, and struggle with your wealth and yourselves in
the way of God; that is good for you, if you knew.(41)
Were it a gain nearby and a journey easy, they would have surely followed
thee, but the hard journey seemed too far to them. And they will swear by
God, `had we been able, we would have gone forth with you'; they are
destroying themselves; and God knows that they are surely liars.(42)
God pardon thee! Why didst thou give them leave, before it became clear to
thee as to who spoke the truth and thou knewest the liars?(43)
Those who believe in God and the Last Day do not ask thee for leave that
they may struggle with their wealth and their selves; and God knows the
godfearing.(44)
They only ask thee for leave who do not believe in God and the Last Day,
and their hearts are in doubt, so they waiver in their doubt.(45)
And had they desired to go forth, they would have made some preparation for
it; but God was averse to their rising up, so He made them pause, and it
was said, `sit back with those who sit back'.(46)
Had they gone forth along with you, they would have only increased you in
trouble, and run to and fro in your midst seeking to stir up sedition
between you. And among you are their listeners; and God knows the wrong-
doers.(47)
They sought to stir up sedition before too, and they turned the affairs
upside down for thee, till the truth came and God's command prevailed,
though they were averse. (48)
And some of them say, `give me leave and do not put me to trial'. Behold,
they have already fallen to trial; and surely the Hell encompasses the
unbelievers.(49)
If good befalls thee it makes them ill; and if an affliction befalls thee,
they say, `we took hold of our affair before hand', and they turn away
rejoicing.(50)
Say, `nothing shall befall us except what God has prescribed for us; He is
our protector; and in God should the Believers put their trust'.(51)
Say, `are you awaiting for us for anything except one of the two fairest
things? But we are awaiting for you, for God to afflict you with punishment
from Himself or at our hands; so await, we are awaiting with you'.(52)
Say, `expend willingly or unwillingly, it shall not be accepted of you; you
are a transgressing people'.(53)
And nothing prevented their expendings to be accepted from them, except
that they disbelieved in God and in His Messenger, and they do not attend
the Prayer but lazily, and they do not expend but that they are averse.(54)
So let not their wealth or their children make thee wonder; God desires
only to punish them thereby in the present life, and that their souls
should depart and they are unbelievers.(55)
And they swear by God that they are of you; but they are not of you; but
they are a coward people.(56)
If they could find a shelter or caves or a place to enter, they would
surely turn thereto in frantic haste.(57)
And some of them find fault with thee regarding the offerings; then if they
are given something of it, they are pleased, and if they are not given
anything of it, they get enraged.(58)
But were they pleased with what God and His Messenger gave them and said,
`God is enough for us; God will give us out of His bounty and His
Messenger; to God we turn in hope.(59)
The offerings are only for the poor, the needy, those who work on them,
those whose hearts are to be conciliated, those in bondage, those under
debt, in the way of God, and the traveller; an ordinance from God; and God
is Knowing, Wise.(60)
And some of them hurt the Prophet, and say, `he is an ear'. Say, `an ear of
good for you, who believes in God and has faith in the Believers, and He is
a mercy to those of you who have faith. But those who hurt the Messenger
shall have a painful punishment.(61)
They swear by God to you to please you, but God and His Messenger have more
right that they should please Him, if they are indeed Believers.(62)
Do they not know that whoso opposes God and His Messenger, for them shall
be the Fire of Hell to dwell therein forever; that is the great
humiliation.(63)
The hypocrites fear lest a chapter should be sent down upon them, telling
them what is in their hearts: Say, `mock on; God will bring forth what you
fear'.(64)
And if thou questionest them, they will say, `we were only discussing and
making merry'. Say, `is it God and His Signs and His Messenger that you
mock?'(65)
Make no excuses; you have disbelieved after you believed; if We pardon a
group of yours, We shall punish another group, for they were sinners.(66)
The hypocrites, men and women, are as one another; they bid the disgusting
and forbid the desirable, and keep their hands shut; they have forgotten
God, and He has forgotten them; surely the hypocrites are the
transgressors.(67)
God promises the hypocrites, men and women, and the unbelievers the Fire of
Hell, to dwell therein forever; it will suffice them; and God has cursed
them; and for them shall be a lasting punishment __ (68)
like those before you, who were stronger in power and more abundant in
wealth and children than you are; they drew benefit of their share; now you
draw benefit of your share, as those before you drew benefit of their
share, and you discuss the way they discussed; their works have gone vain
in this world and Hereafter, and they are the losers.(69)
Has there not come to them the news of those before them __ the people of
Noah, Ad and Thamood, the people of Abraham, the men of Midian and the
overturned cities? Their Messengers came to them with clear signs; and God
would not wrong them, but themselves they wronged.(70)
And the Believers, men and women, are friends of one another; they bid the
desirable, forbid the disgusting, establish the Prayer, pay the Due-alms,
and obey God and His Messenger; upon them God will have mercy; God is
Mighty, Wise.(71)
God promises the Believers, men and women, gardens underneath which rivers
flow, to dwell therein forever, and gracious houses in the gardens of
eternity; and God's pleasure shall be the greatest; that is the mighty
triumph.(72)
O Prophet, struggle against the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and be
harsh with them; and their abode is Hell; and it is evil a destination!(73)
They swear by God that they said nothing; but they did say the word of
unbelief, and disbelieved after their surrender (Islam), and they purposed
what they did not attain. And they showed enmity only because God and His
Messenger enriched them of His bounty. Now, if they repent, it will be
better for them, and if they turn away, God will punish them with a painful
punishment in this world and Hereafter; and there will be no friend or
helper for them on the earth.(74)
And some of them made covenant with God: `if He gives us of His bounty, we
will surely make offerings and be among the righteous'.(75)
Then, when He gave them of His bounty, they were niggardly of it, and
turned away swerving aside.(76)
So He caused hypocrisy to enter their hearts till the Day they will meet
Him, because they failed God in the promise they had made with Him, and
because they were telling lies.(77)
Did they not know that God knows their secret and their conspiracy, and
that God knows all about the unseen things.(78)
Those who taunt the Believers who volunteer the offerings freely, and scoff
at those who find nothing except their efforts; God scoffs at them, and for
them shall be a painful punishment.(79)
Ask forgiveness for them or ask not forgiveness for them; even if thou
askest forgiveness for them seventy times, God will not forgive them; that
is because they disbelieved in God and His Messenger; and God does not
guide the transgressing people.(80)
Those who remained behind rejoiced in their sitting behind the Messenger of
God, and they were averse to struggling with their wealth and their selves
in the way of God, and they said, `do not go forth in the heat'. Say, `the
Fire of Hell will be fiercer in heat'. Would that they understood.(81)
So let them laugh little and weep much as a recompense of what they have
earned.(82)
Now, if God returns thee to a group of them, and they ask of thee leave to
go forth, say, `you shall not go forth with me ever, nor shall you fight
with me an enemy; you were pleased to sit back the first time, now sit with
those who remain behind'.(83)
And thou pray never over any of them who dies, nor stand by his grave; they
disbelieved in God and His Messenger and died and they were
transgressors.(84)
And let not their wealth and their children make thee wonder. God only
desires to punish them thereby in this world, and that their souls should
depart as unbelievers.(85)
And when a sura is sent down: `believe in God, and struggle along with His
Messenger', the affluent among them ask leave of thee and say `leave us
with those that sit back'.(86)
They are pleased to be with those who stay behind, for their hearts are
sealed, so they do not understand.(87)
But the Messenger, and the Believers with him, struggle with their wealth
and their selves; and for them shall be the good things, and only they
shall prosper.(88)
God has prepared for them gardens underneath which rivers flow, to dwell
therein forever; that is the mighty triumph.(89)
And some Bedouins that made excuses came that they may be given leave; and
those who lied to God and His Messenger sat back; there shall befall the
unbelievers among them a painful punishment.(90)
There is no blame on the weak, nor on the sick, nor on those who do not
find anything to expend, when they are sincere to God and His Messenger.
There is no way against the good-doers; and God is Forgiving, Merciful.(91)
Nor (there is a way) against those who, when they came to thee, for thee to
mount them, thou saidst to them, `I do not find whereon I should mount
you'; they turned away, their eyes overflowing with tears out of grief,
that they do not find anything to expend.(92)
The way is only against those who ask leave of thee, though they are rich;
they are pleased to be with those who stay behind, and God has set a seal
on their hearts, so they do not know.(93)
They will make excuses to you, when you return to them. Say, `do not make
excuses; we will not believe you; God has told us your news; and God and
his Messenger will see your work, then you will be returned to Him who
knows the unseen and the visible, and He will tell you what you were
doing.'(94)
They will swear to you by God, when you turn back to them, that you may
turn aside from them. So turn aside from them; they are an abomination, and
their abode is Hell __ a recompense for what they have been earning.(95)
They will swear to you that you may be pleased with them, but even if you
are pleased with them, God will not be pleased with the transgressing
people.(96)
The Bedouins are hardest in unbelief and hypocrisy and more apt not to know
the bounds of what God has sent down on His Messenger; and God is Knowing,
Wise.(97)
And among the Bedouins are those who take what they expend for fine and
wait for turn of time against you; theirs shall be the evil turn; and God
is Hearing, Knowing.(98)
And among the Bedouins are those who believe in God and the Last Day, and
take what they expend as means of bringing them near to God, and of prayers
of the Messenger. Surely it is a means of bringing them near. God will
admit them to His mercy; God is Forgiving, Merciful.(99)
And the Foremost, the First among the Emigrants and the Helpers, and those
who followed them in a good way, God is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him, and He has prepared for them gardens underneath which
rivers flow, to dwell therein forever and ever; that is the mighty
triumph.(100)
And among the Bedouins living around you some are hypocrites, and also
among the people of the City (Medina); they persist in hypocrisy; thou dost
not know them; We know them; We will punish them twice, then they will be
returned to a mighty punishment.(101)
And the others, who have confessed their sins, have mixed a right deed with
another evil; it may be that God will turn to them; God is Forgiving,
Merciful.(102)
Take of their wealth the offerings, to purify them and to cleanse them
thereby, and pray for them; thy prayers are a comfort for them; and God is
Hearing, Knowing.(103)
Do they not know that it is God who accepts repentance from His servants,
and takes the offering, and that it is God who is All-returning,
Merciful.(104)
And say, `work, and God and His Messenger and Believers will see your work;
and you will be returned to Him who knows the unseen and the visible, then
He will tell you what you have been doing.'(105)
And the others have been deferred to God's commandment, whether He punishes
them or turns to them; and God is Knowing, Wise.(106)
And those who have taken a mosque for harm and unbelief and for disunity
among the Believers and a place of ambush for him who made war against God
and His Messenger before; but they will surely swear, `we desired nothing
but good'; and God testifies that they are liars.(107)
Stand in it never. A mosque that was founded on godfearing from the first
day has greater right that thou shouldst stand in it; in it are men who
love to purify them; and God loves those who purify themselves.(108)
Is he, then, better who founded his building on the fear and the pleasure
of God, or he who founded his building on the brink of a crumbling bank,
and it crumbled with him into the Fire of Hell? But God does not guide the
wrong-doing people.(109)
The building they have built will not cease to be a point of doubt in their
hearts, unless their hearts are cut into pieces; and God is Knowing,
Wise.(110)
God has bought from the Believers their selves and their wealth that the
Paradise should be theirs; they fight in the way of God, and they kill and
are killed; it is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, the Gospel and the
Qur'an; and who is more true in fulfilling his covenant than God? So
rejoice in the bargain that you have made with Him, and that is the mighty
triumph.(111)
They are those who repent, who serve, who praise, who journey, who bow, who
prostrate themselves, who bid the desirable, who forbid the disgusting, and
who guard God's bounds; and give thou good news to the Believers.(112)
It is not for the Prophet and the Believers to ask forgiveness for the
idolaters, even though they be near kinsmen, after it has become clear to
them that they are the people of Hell.(113)
And Abraham's prayer for pardon of his father was only due to his promise
he had made to him; but when it became clear to him that he was an enemy of
God he quit him; Abraham was surely compassionate and clement.(114)
And God would not send a people astray after He has guided them, until He
makes clear to them what they should guard against; God knows
everything.(115)
It is God to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; He
gives life and makes to die; and you have, apart from God, no friend and no
helper.(116)
God has turned to the Prophet and the Emigrants and the Helpers, those who
followed him in the hour of hardship, after the hearts of a party of them
had almost swerved, yet He turned to them; He is surely Kind and Merciful
to them;(117)
and (He turned) also to the three who remained behind, until, when the
earth, despite its vastness, narrowed on them, and their selves also
narrowed on them, and they thought that there was no refuge from God except
in Him, then He turned towards them, that they may also turn; surely it is
God who is the All - turning, the Merciful.(118)
O Believers, fear God and be with the truthful.(119)
It is not for the people of the City (Medina) and the bedouins, that dwell
around them, to stay behind God's Messenger or prefer their selves to his;
that is because there does not afflict them thirst, fatigue or hunger in
the way of God, nor do they tread any tread that enrages the unbelievers,
nor do they make any gain from enemy, but thereby a righteous deed is
written for them; surely God does not waste the wage of the good-
doers.(120)
Nor do they expend a sum, small or big, nor traverse a valley, but it is
written down for them, so that God may recompense them for the best of what
they were doing.(121)
And it is not required of the believers to go forth totally. But, why
should not a group from every section of them go forth to get understanding
of the religion, and to warn their people when they return to them, that
they may beware?(122)
O Believers, fight those unbelievers who live near to you, and let them
find harshness in you; and know that God is with the godfearing.(123)
And whenever a sura is sent down, some of them say, `which of you has this
increased in faith?' Then as for the Believers, their faith it increases,
and they rejoice.(124)
And as for those in whose heart is sickness, it increases abomination to
their abomination, and they die and they are unbelievers.(125)
But do they not see that they are put to trial once or twice every year,
yet still they do not repent nor do they pay heed? (126)
And whenever a sura is sent down, they look at one another: `does anyone
see you?' Then they turn away. God has turned away their hearts, for they
are a people who understand not.(127)
There has surely come to you a Messenger from among yourselves; grievous to
him is your suffering, and he is anxious over you, and kind and merciful to
the Believers.(128)
Now, if they turn away, say, `God is enough for me; there is no god but He;
in Him I put my trust, and He is the Lord of the Mighty Throne'.(129)
YUNUS (10)
"Jonah"
(Revealed at Mecca, Verses 109)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulAlif Lam Ra (A.L.R.); these are the signs of the Wise Book. (1)
Was it a wonder to the people that We revealed to a man among them: `warn
the people, and give good news to the Believers that they shall have a
footing of truth with their Lord?' The unbelievers say, `this is surely a
manifest sorcerer'.(2)
Your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then
took over the Throne, and He directs the Affair. There is no intercessor,
but after His leave. That is God, your Lord, so serve Him. Will you not pay
heed?(3)
To Him shall you be returned, all together; it is God's promise in truth.
He begins the creation, then shall repeat it, that He may justly recompense
those who believe and do righteous deeds. And the unbelievers, for them
shall be a draught of hot water and a painful punishment for that they
disbelieved.(4)
It is He who made the sun a radiance, and the moon a light, and determined
it by stations that you might know the number of years and the reckoning.
God has not created that but with the truth. He explains the signs to a
people who have knowledge.(5)
Surely in the alternation of night and day, and what God has created in the
heavens and the earth, there are Signs for a godfearing people.(6)
Those who do not look to the meeting with Us and are pleased with the
present life and are satisfied with it, and those who are heedless of Our
Signs,(7)
their abode is the Fire, for that they were earning.(8)
Those who believe and do righteous deeds, their Lord will guide them by
their belief; rivers will flow beneath them in the gardens of bliss.(9)
Their prayer therein will be `Holy be thee, O God', and their greeting
therein will be, `peace'; and their last prayer will be, `praise be to God,
the Lord of the world'.(10)
And if God should hasten to men evil, like their asking for hastening good,
their term would have been decided for them. So We leave those, who do not
look to the meeting with Us, in their insolence blindly wandering.(11)
And when affliction touches a man he calls Us on his side, or sitting, or
standing; then, when We have removed his affliction from him, he passes on,
as if he had not called Us to an affliction that touched him. So are shown
fair to the extravagant the things they have been doing. (12)
And We destroyed the generations before you when they did wrong; and their
Messengers came to them with clear Signs, but they would not believe. Thus
We recompense the sinful people.(13)
Then We appointed you viceroys on the earth after them, that We might
observe how you would act.(14)
And when Our clear signs are recited to them, those who do not look to the
meeting with Us, say, `bring a Reading (Qur'an) other than this or change
it'. Say, `it is not for me to change it of my own accord; I only follow
what is revealed to me; I fear, if I disobey my Lord, the punishment of a
mighty day'.(15)
Say, `had God willed, I would not have recited it to you, nor would He have
made it known to you. I have stayed among you a lifetime before it; so will
you not understand?'(16)
Now, who does greater wrong than he who forges a lie against God or cries
lies to His signs? Surely the sinners shall not prosper.(17)
And they serve, apart from God, that which neither hurts them nor profits
them, and they say, `these are our intercessors with God'. Say, `will you
tell God what He does not know in the heavens nor in the earth'; Holy is
He, and exalted above that they associate!(18)
And mankind was not but one community, then they differed; and if a word
had not preceded from thy Lord, things in which they differ would have been
decided between them. (19)
And they say, `why has not a Sign been sent down upon him from his Lord?'
Say, `the Unseen belongs only to God; so wait, I am waiting with you'.(20)
And when We let the people taste mercy after hardship has touched them, lo,
they devise against Our Signs. Say, `God is swifter in devising'; surely
Our messengers are writing down what you devise.(21)
It is He who carries you by land and sea. Until when you are in the ships
and they sail with the people with a goodly wind, and the people rejoice in
it, there comes upon them a violent wind, and the waves come on them from
every place, and they think they are encompassed; they call upon God,
making obedience purely His: `if Thou deliverest us from this, we will
surely be among the thankful'.(22)
Then, when He delivers them, they rebel in the earth without right. O
mankind, your rebellion is only against yourselves; enjoyment of the preset
life; then to Us shall you be returned, and We will tell you what you have
been doing'.(23)
The likeness of the present life is only as water that We send down from
the heaven, with which mingle the plants of the earth, whereof men and
cattle eat; till, when the earth takes its glitter and adorns itself, and
its people think that they have power over it, Our command comes upon it by
night or by day, and We make it stubble, as if nothing was there yesterday.
So We explain the Signs for a people who ponder.(24)
And God calls to the House of Peace; and He guides whom He will to a
straight path.(25)
For those, who do good, shall be the most fair reward and more; and dust
shall not cover their faces nor abasement; they are the people of Paradise,
wherein they shall dwell forever.(26)
And those who earn evil deeds, the recompense of evil shall be the like of
it, and abasement shall cover them; they shall not have anyone to protect
them from God; their faces will be as if they were covered with strips of a
darkening night; they are the people of the Fire, wherein they shall dwell
forever.(27)
And the day We shall muster them all together, then We shall say to the
idolaters, `at your place, you and your associate--gods'. Then We shall
separate them widely; and their associate-gods will say, `us you never
served.(28)
God is a sufficient witness between us and you; surely we are unaware of
your service'.(29)
There every soul shall realize what it did before, and they shall be
returned to God, their True Protector, and all that they had forged shall
be lost to them.(30)
Say, `who provides you from the heaven and the earth, or who has power over
hearing and sight, and who brings forth the dead from the living, and who
plans the Affair?' They will say, `God'; then say, `will you not be
godfearing?' (31)
That then is God, your True Lord; and what is there after the truth except
error? Then how are you turned away?(32)
Thus the word of thy Lord has proved true against the transgressors that
they will not believe.(33)
Say, `is there any of your associate-gods who begins creation, then repeats
it?' Say, `God begins creation, then repeats it; so how are you
perverted?'(34)
Say, `is there any of your associate-gods who guides to the truth'? Say,
`God guides to the truth. Then who has a greater right to be followed __ He
who guides to the truth or he who himself does not find the way unless he
is guided? What ails you; how do you judge?'(35)
But most of them follow only surmise; surely surmise does not avail against
the truth in the least; surely God knows what they do.(36)
And this Qur'an is not such as could be forged by anyone other than God; in
stead, it is a confirmation of what was before it, and, no doubt, an
explanation of the Book from the Lord of the world.(37)
Or do they say, `he has forged it?' Say, `then produce a chapter like it
and call on whom you can, if you are truthful!'(38)
No, but they have given lies to that whose knowledge they did not
comprehend and whose interpretation has not yet come to them. So also cried
lies those that were before them, now see how was the end of the wrong-
doers.(39)
And some of them believe in it, and some of them do not believe in it; and
thy Lord very well knows those who create disorder.(40)
And if they give lies to thee, then say, `my work is mine and your work is
yours; you are quit of what I do, and I am quit of what you do'.(41)
And some of them give ear to thee; but wilt thou make the deaf to hear,
though they do not understand?(42)
And some of them look towards thee; but wilt thou guide the blind, though
they do not see? (43)
Surely God does not wrong men in the least, but themselves men wrong.(44)
And the day He shall muster them, it will be as if they did not stay (in
the world) but an hour of the day, and they will recognise one another;
They are indeed losers who give lies to the meeting with God and were not
guided.(45)
And whether We show thee something of what We promise them, or We take thee
to Us, to Us shall they be returned, then God is witness of the things they
do.(46)
And for every Community there is a Messenger, and when their Messenger
comes, it is decided between them justly, and they are not wronged.(47)
And they say, `when will this promise be, if you are truthful?'(48)
Say, `I hold no power of hurt or profit even for myself, but as God will.
For every community is a term; when their term comes they will not put it
back nor put it forward by a moment'.(49)
Say, `have you considered if His punishment comes upon you by night or by
day, what part of it will the sinners seek to hasten?'(50)
Is it that when it comes to pass that you will believe in it? `Now __ but
you sought to hasten it?'(51)
Then it will be said to the wrong-doers, `taste the punishment of eternity;
could you be recompensed for anything but what you have been earning?'(52)
And they ask thee to tell them, if it is true? Say, `yes, by my Lord, it is
surely true, and you cannot frustrate Him'.( 53)
And if every soul that does wrong possessed all that is in the earth, he
would offer it for his ransom; and they will hide the remorse when they see
the punishment, but it will be decided between them justly, and they will
not be wronged.(54)
Behold, to God belongs all that is in the heavens and earth. Behold, God's
promise is true, but most of them do not know. (55)
It is He who gives life and makes to die, and to Him you shall be
returned.(56)
O mankind, there has come to you from your Lord an admonition and a healing
for what is in the breasts, and a guidance and a mercy for the
Believers.(57)
Say, `it is by the bounty of God and His mercy; so let them rejoice in
that; it is better than what they gather'.(58)
Say, `have you considered the provision that God has sent down for you,
some of which you have made unlawful and some lawful?' Say, `has God
permitted you so, or do you forge against God?'(59)
And what think those, who forge falsehood against God, of the Day of
Resurrection? God is bountiful to men, but most of them do not give
thanks.(60)
And thou art not on any occupation, nor dost thou recite any Qur'an from
Him, nor you people do any work, but We are witnesses over you when you
press on it. And there does not escape even weight of an ant in the earth
or in the heaven from thy Lord, nor a thing smaller or bigger than that,
but it is (written) in a clear Book.(61)
Surely God's friends shall have no fear on them nor shall they grieve
__(62)
those who believe and are godfearing;(63)
for them is a good news in the present life and in the Hereafter. There is
no changing the Words of God; that is the mighty triumph. (64)
And let not their saying grieve thee; the glory altogether belongs to God;
He is the Hearing, the Knowing.(65)
Behold, to God belongs whoso is in the heavens and whoso is in the earth.
And what do they follow: those who call upon associate-gods, apart from God
__ they follow only surmise, and they only conjecture.(66)
He it is who made for you the night that you might rest in it, and the day
to show things; in that are surely Signs for a people who listen.(67)
They say, `God has taken to Him a son'; Holy be He; He is the All-
sufficient; to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in
the earth; you have no authority for this; do you say about God what you
know not?(68)
Say, `those who forge falsehood against God shall not prosper;(69)
it is enjoyment of this world, then to Us shall they be returned, then We
shall let them taste the terrible punishment for that they disbelieved.(70)
And recite to them the story of Noah. When he said to his people, `O my
people, if my standing and my admonishing with the signs of God is hard on
you, then in God have I put my trust; gather your affair and your
associates, then let not your affair be doubtful to you, then decide about
me, and respite me not.(71)
And if you turn away, I have not asked you for any wage; my wage rests only
with God, and I have been commanded, to be one of those who have
surrendered.(72)
But they gave lies to him, and We delivered him and those with him in the
Ark and made them viceroys, and We drowned those who gave lies to Our
signs; then see how was the end of those that were warned!(73)
Then We sent forth, after him, Messengers to their people, and they brought
them the clear Signs, but they were not such as would believe in that they
had given lies to before. So We seal the hearts of the transgressors.(74)
Then We sent forth, after them, Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh and his chiefs
with Our Signs, but they showed arrogance and became a sinful people.(75)
So when the truth came to them from Us, they said, `this is surely a clear
sorcery'.(76)
Moses said, `do you say so regarding the truth, when it has come to you? Is
this a sorcery? But sorcerers do not succeed!'(77)
They said, `hast thou come to us to turn us form that we found our fathers
on, and that the domination in the land should be yours; but we do not
believe you at all'.(78)
And Pharaoh said, `bring me every learned sorcerer'.(79)
So when the sorcerers came, Moses said to them, `cast down what you will
cast'.(80)
Then, when they had cast, Moses said, `what you have brought is sorcery;
God will bring it to naught; surely God does not set right the work of
those who cause disorder.(81)
And God verifies the truth by His Words though the sinners be averse'.(82)
And none believed Moses, except a generation of his people, for fear of
Pharaoh and their chiefs, lest they should persecute them; and Pharaoh was
surely high in the land, and he was surely of the extravagant.(83)
Moses said, `O my people, if you believe in God, then in Him put your
trust, if you have surrendered'.(84)
So they said, `in God we put our trust; our Lord, do not make us a
temptation for the worg-doing people;(85)
and deliver us, by Thy mercy, from the disbelieving people'.(86)
And We revealed to Moses and his brother, `take some houses in Egypt for
your people, duly directed, and establish the Prayer. And give thou good
news to the Believers?' (87)
And Moses said, `our Lord, Thou hast given to Pharaoh and his chiefs
adornment and wealth in the present life, our Lord, that they may lead
people astray from Thy way; our Lord, obliterate their wealth and harden
their hearts, for they will not believe, till they see the painful
punishment.'(88)
He said, `your prayer is answered, so go straight, and do not follow the
way of those who have no knowledge.(89)
And We led the Children of Israel over the sea, and Pharaoh and his hosts
followed them in aggression and spite. Till, when the drowning overtook
him, he said, `I believe that there is no god but He in whom the Children
of Israel believe, and I am of those who surrender'.(90)
`Now! but thou disobeyedst before, and wast of those who create
disorder.(91)
So, today, We shall deliver thee with thy body, that thou be a Sign to
those after thee. And many men are surely unaware of Our Signs.(92)
And We settled the Children of Israel in a rightful abode and provided them
with good things. And they did not differ till the knowledge came to them.
Thy Lord will decide between them on the Day of Resurrection in what they
differ. (93)
So, if thou art in doubt concerning what We have sent down to thee, ask
those who read the Book before thee. The truth has come to thee from thy
Lord, so be not of the doubters;(94)
and be not among those who give lies to God's Signs or thou wilt be among
the losers.(95)
Those against whom thy Lord's Word is realized will not believe,(96)
though every Sign come to them, till they see the terrible punishment.(97)
And why was there not a city that believed and its belief profited it,
except the people of Jonah? When they believed, We removed from them the
punishment of humiliation in the present life, and gave them comforts for a
time.(98)
Had thy Lord willed, all those on the earth would have believed, all
together! Wouldst thou then constrain the people, until they are
believers?(99)
And it is not for any soul to believe except by the leave of God; and He
lays abomination on those who understand not.(100)
Say, `look to what is in the heavens and the earth'. But the Signs and the
warnings do not avail a people who do not believe.(101)
And what are they waiting for except the like of the days of those who
passed away before them? Say, `wait, I am with you among those who are
waiting.'(102)
Then We shall deliver Our Messengers and the Believers __ like that; it is
incumbent upon Us to deliver the Believers.(103)
Say, `O men if you are in doubt regarding my religion, then I do not serve
any apart from God; in stead, I serve God who takes your souls, and I have
been commanded to be one of the Believers;(104)
and: `set thy face to the religion, all--devoted, and be not among the
idolaters.(105)
And do not call, apart from God, on that which neither profits thee, nor
hurts thee. If thou dost so, thou shalt be among the worng-doers.(106)
And if God touches thee with harm, none can remove it but He; and if He
desires any good for thee, none can repel His bounty; He bestows it on whom
He will of His servants; and He is the Forgiving, the Merciful'.(107)
Say, `O men, the truth has come to you from your Lord; so whoso is guided
is
guided only for himself; and whoso goes astray goes astray only against
himself; and I am no care-taker over you'.(108)
`And follow thou what is revealed to thee and be patient, till God judges;
and He is the best of judges'. (109)
HUD (11)
"Hood"
(Revealed at Mecca, Verses 123)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulAlif Lam Ra (A.L.R.); a Book whose signs are perfected, then explained from
One Wise and Aware: (1)
that you serve none but God; surely I am to you from Him a warner and a
bearer of good news;(2)
and that you ask forgiveness of your Lord, then turn to Him; He will give
you handsome goods till a stated term, and He will give of His bounty to
every man of grace; but if you turn away, I fear for you punishment of a
big day.(3)
Unto God shall you be returned, and He is powerful over everything.(4)
Behold, they fold their breasts to hide them from Him; behold, when they
wrap themselves in their garments, He knows what they keep secret and what
they display; surely He knows the thoughts in the breasts.(5)
And no creature is there on the earth, but its provision depends on God,
and He knows its resting place and its repository; all is in a clear
Book.(6)
And it is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days, and His
Throne is on water that He may try you which one of you is better in works.
And if thou sayest, `you shall be raised up after death', the unbelievers
say, `this is not but a clear sorcery'.(7)
And if We defer the punishment from them till a reckoned term, they will
say, `what detains it?' Behold, the day it comes on them, it will not be
turned away from them, and what they mock at shall overtake them.(8)
And if We let man taste mercy from Us, then withdraw it from him, he is
desperate, ungrateful.(9)
And if We let him taste prosperity after hardship has touched him, he will
say, `the evils have gone away from me'; he is joyous, boastful __(10)
except those who are patient and do righteous deeds; for them shall be
forgiveness and a big wage.(11)
Perchance thou wilt leave part of what is revealed to thee, and thy breast
will be straitened by it because they say, `why has not a treasure been
sent down on him, or an angel come with him?' Thou art only a warner; and
God is a caretaker of everything.(12)
Or they say, `he has forged it'. Say, `bring ten forged Surahs (chapters),
the like of it, and call upon whom you can, apart from God, if you are
truthful'.(13)
Then if they do not answer you, know that it has been sent down with God's
knowledge, and that there is no god but He; will you now surrender?(14)
Whoso desires the present life and its adornment, We will pay them in full
for their work in it, and they will suffer no loss in it.(15)
They are the ones for whom there will be nothing in the Hereafter except
the Fire, and what they worked will have failed there and what they did
will be vain.(16)
Is then he who is on a clear proof from his Lord, and a witness from Him
recites it, and before him was the Book of Moses for a guide and a mercy?
Those believe in it. But whoso out of the factions disbelieves in it, the
Fire is his promised place. So be thou not in doubt about it; it is the
truth from thy Lord, but most men believe not.(17)
And who does greater wrong than he who forges a lie against God? Those
shall be presented before their Lord, and the witnesses will say, `these
are the ones who lied against their Lord'; surely the curse of God rests on
the wrong-doers __ (18)
those who bar from God's way, and seek crookedness in it; and they
disbelieve in the Hereafter.(19)
They could not frustrate Him in the earth, and they had no protector, apart
from God; their punishment will be doubled; they were not able to hear nor
could see.(20)
They are the ones who have given loss to themselves, and what they forged
is lost to them?(21)
No doubt, they will be the biggest losers in the Hereafter.(22)
Those who believe and do righteous deeds and humble themselves to their
Lord, they are the people of Paradise, wherein they shall dwell
forever.(23)
The likeness of the two parties is as the one blind and deaf, and the other
seeing and hearing; are they equal in likeness? Will you not then pay heed?
(24)
And We sent Noah to his people (to say) __ `I am a clear warner to you,(25)
that you serve none but God; I fear for you the punishment of a painful
day'.(26)
The unbelieving chiefs of his people said, `we see thee only a mortal like
us, and we see that only those who are apparently the vilest of us follow
thee. And we do not see you having any superiority over us; no, we rather
think you are liars'.(27)
He said, `O my people, have you considered if I stand on a clear Sign from
my Lord, and He has given me mercy from Him, and it has been made obscure
to you, shall we force it on you, while you are averse to it?(28)
O my people, I do not ask you any wealth for it; my wage rests only on God;
and I will not drive away the Believers. They shall surely be meeting their
Lord, but I see you a people showing ignorance.(29)
O my people, who would help me against God, if I drive them away? Will you
not then pay heed?(30)
And I do not say to you, `I possess the treasures of God', nor do I know
the unseen, nor I say, `I am an angel', nor I say regarding those whom your
eyes despise, `God will not give them any good'; God knows best what is in
their souls; surely in that case, I shall be among the wrong-doers'.(31)
They said, `O `Noah, thou hast disputed with us, and hast made much
disputation with us, now bring us what thou promisest us, if thou art of
the truthful'.(32)
He said, `only God will bring it to you, if He will, and you cannot
frustrate Him.(33)
And my sincere advice will not profit you, even if I desired to advise you
sincerely, if God desired to pervert you; He is your Lord, and to Him you
shall be returned'.(34)
Or do they say, `he has forged it?' Say, `if I have forged it, then on me
will fall my sin, and I am quit of the sins you do'.(35)
And it was revealed to Noah, `none of thy people will believe except those
who have already believed, so be not distressed by what they were
doing.(36)
And make the Ark under Our eyes and by Our revelation, and do not address
Me concerning the wrong-doers; they shall be drowned'.(37)
And he makes the Ark; and whenever some chiefs of his people passed by him,
they scoffed at him. He said, `if you scoff at us, we will also scoff at
you as you scoff.(38)
And you shall soon know on whom comes a punishment that shall humiliate him
and on whom shall alight a lasting punishment'.(39)
Until when Our command came, and the Oven boiled, We said, `load in it a
pair of every kind, and thy family __ except those against whom the word
has gone forth __ and those who have believed'. And there believed not with
him but a few.(40)
And he said, `embark in it; in the Name of God be its sailing and its
berthing; my Lord is surely Forgiving, Merciful'.(41)
And it moved with them amid waves like mountains. And Noah called to his
son who was standing apart, `my son, embark with us and be not with the
unbelievers'.(42)
He said, `I will take refuge in some mountain that will save me from the
water'. He said, `today, none is there to save from God's command, except
for him on whom He has mercy'. And the waves came between them, and he was
among the drowned.(43)
And it was said, `O earth, swallow thy water, and O heaven, cease'. And the
water subsided, and the matter was decided, and the Ark rested on Judi, and
it was said, `away with the wrong-doing people!' (44)
And Noah called to his Lord and said, `my Lord, my son is of my family, and
Thy promise is true, and Thou art the biggest judge of all the judges'.(45)
He said, `O Noah, he is not of thy family; it was a deed non-righteous; so
do not ask of Me that of which thou hast no knowledge; I admonish thee lest
thou shouldst be among the ignorant'.(46)
He said, `my Lord, I take refuge with Thee from asking Thee that of which I
have no knowledge. And if Thou dost not forgive me, and dost not have mercy
on me, I shall be among the losers'.(47)
It was said, `O Noah, get down with peace and blessings from Us on thee and
on the communities of those that are with thee. And there will be
communities whom We shall provide necessary goods, then from Us shall
afflict them a painful punishment'.(48)
This is of the news of the unseen that We reveal to thee; thou didst not
know it, nor thy people before this; so be thou patient; the end-result is
for the godfearing. (49)
And to Ad, (We sent) their brother Hood. He said, `O my people, serve God,
you have no god other than He; you are not but forgers.(50)
O my people, I do not ask of you any wage for it; my wage is upon Him who
created me. Will you not understand?(51)
And O my people, ask forgiveness of your Lord, then turn to Him, He will
loose heaven in torrents upon you, and add strength to your strength, and
do not turn away as sinners'.(52)
They said, `O Hood, thou hast not brought us any clear Sign and we will not
leave our gods on thy saying, and we are no believers of thee.(53)
We only say that some of our gods has afflicted thee with evil'. He said,
`I call God to witness, and you also bear witness that I am quit of what
you associate,(54)
apart from Him; so try your guile on me all together, then give me no
respite.(55)
I put my trust in God, my Lord and your Lord; there is no creature, but He
holds it by its forelock; surely my Lord is on a straight path.(56)
And if you turn away, then I have delivered to you the Message with which I
have been sent to you. And my Lord will make successors a people other than
you; and you will not harm Him in the least; surely my Lord is guardian
over everything'.(57)
And when Our command came , We saved Hood and those who believed with him,
by a mercy from Us, and We saved them from a severe punishment.(58)
And those were Ad; they denied the Signs of their Lord and disobeyed His
Messengers and followed the command of every obstinate potentate.(59)
And they were followed by a curse in this world and on the Day of
Resurrection. Behold, Ad disbelieved in their Lord! Behold, away with Ad,
the people of Hood!(60)
And to Thamood (we sent) their brother Salih. He said, `O my people, serve
God, you have no god other than He. It is He who has produced you out of
the earth and inhabited you in it, so ask His forgiveness, then turn to
Him; surely my Lord is near and answers'.(61)
They said, `O Salih, thou hast been a center of hope for us before this;
dost thou forbid us to serve what our fathers have been serving? But we are
in a disquieting doubt concerning what thou callest us to?'(62)
He said, `O my people, what think you if I am on a clear Sign from my Lord
and He has given me mercy from Him, then who shall help me against God, if
I disobey Him? And you would not add to me anything except loss.(63)
And O my people, this is the She-camel of God which is a Sign for you; so
leave her to graze on God's earth, and do not touch her with evil, lest a
near punishment should seize you'.(64)
And they hamstrung her, and he said, `enjoy in your homes for three days;
that is a promise not to be belied'.(65)
Then when Our command came, We saved Salih and those who believed with him
by a mercy from Us, and from the humiliation of that day. Surely thy Lord
is the Strong, the Mighty.(66)
And the Cry seized the wrong-doers, and they lay crouching in their
homes,(67)
as if they were never there. Behold, Thamood disbelieved in their Lord.
Behold, away with Thamood!(68)
And our messengers came to Abraham with the good news; they said, `peace';
he said, `peace' and delayed not in bringing a roasted calf.(69)
Then when he saw their hands not reaching to it, he became suspicious of
them and conceived a fear of them. They said, `fear not; we have been sent
to the people of Lot'.(70)
And his wife was standing by; she laughed and We gave her the good news of
Issac and, after him, of Jacob.(71)
She said, `woe is me! Shall I bear when I am an old woman, and this my
husband is an old man? This is surely a wonderful thing!'(72)
They said, `dost thou wonder at the command of God? Mercy of God and His
blessings are upon you, O People of the House; surely He is Praise-worthy,
Glorious'.(73)
So when the awe departed from Abraham and the good news also came to him,
he started disputing with Us for the people of Lot.(74)
Abraham was surely clement, compassionate and penitent.(75)
`O Abraham, turn away from this; the command of thy Lord has surely come;
and there shall be coming upon them a punishment, not to be averted'.(76)
And when Our messengers came to Lot, he was distressed due to them, and
felt himself helpless against them, and he said, `this is a fierce
day'.(77)
And his people came rushing to him; and they have been committing evil
deeds before. He said, `O my people, here are my daughters who are purer
for you; so fear God and do not disgrace me in my guests. Is there not
among you any right-mended man?'(78)
They said, `thou knowest we have no right to thy daughters, and thou surely
knowest what we desire'.(79)
He said, `O would that I had power against you, or that I could take
shelter in a strong support!'(80)
They said, `O Lot, we are messengers of thy Lord; they shall not reach
thee; so set forth with thy family during a part of the night, and let none
of you turn round, excepting thy wife; that which befalls them shall befall
her also; their promised time is the morning; is not the morning near?'(81)
So when Our command came, We turned it (the town) upside down, and We
rained on it stones of baked clay, layer after layer,(82)
marked with thy Lord; and it is not far off from the wrong-doers.(83)
And to Midian (we sent) their brother Shuaib; he said, `O my people, serve
God, you have no god other than He; and do not diminish the measure and the
balance; I see you prosperous, but I fear for you the punishment of an
encompassing day.(84)
And O my people, fill up the measure and the balance justly, and do not
diminish the goods of the people, and do not move about in the land causing
disorder.(85)
God's remainder is better for you if you are believers; and I am no
guardian over you'.(86)
They said, `O Shuaib, does thy Prayer bid thee that we should leave what
our fathers served, or do as we will with our goods? Thou art surely
clement and right-minded'.(87)
He said, `O my people, have you considered if I stand on a clear evidence
from my Lord, and He has bestowed on me a handsome provision from Him? And
I do not desire to come behind you in that I forbid you; I desire only to
reform as much as I can; and my success depends only on God; in Him I
trust, and to Him I turn penitent.(88)
And O my people, let not the breach with me be a cause to afflict you with
the like of what afflicted the people of Noah, the people of Hood or the
people of Salih; and the people of Lot are not far off from you!(89)
And ask forgiveness of your Lord, then turn to Him; my Lord is Merciful,
Loving'.(90)
They said, `O Shuaib, we do not understand much of what thou sayest, and we
see thee weak among us; and if it were not for thy clan, we would have
stoned thee; for thou art not strong enough against us'.(91)
He said, `O my people, is my clan stronger than God against you? And you
have held Him on your backs, away from you; surely my Lord encompasses the
things you do.(92)
And O my people, act at your place, I am acting too; you will soon know on
whom comes the punishment that shall disgrace him, and who is a liar; and
watch, I shall be watching with you'.(93)
And when Our command came, We saved Shuaib and those who believed with him
by a mercy from Us; and the Cry seized the wrong-doers, and they lay
crouching in their homes,(94)
as if they were never there. Behold, away with Midian, as Thamood were
away!(95)
And We sent Moses with Our Signs and a clear authority(96)
to Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they followed Pharaoh's command; and
Pharaoh's command was not right.(97)
He shall walk ahead of his people on the Day of Resurrection, then take
them to the Fire; and how evil is the place taken to.(98)
And they were followed by a curse in this (world) and on the Day of
Resurrection; how evil is the gift granted!(99)
That is of the news of the cities that We relate to thee; some of them are
standing and some are mown down.(100)
And We did not wrong them but themselves they wronged, and their gods whom
they called upon, apart from God, did not avail them in the least, when thy
Lord's command came; and they did not add to them except ruin.(101)
And such is the seizing of thy Lord, when He seizes the cities that are
wrong-doing; surely His seizing is painful and terrible.(102)
In that is surely a Sign for him who fears the punishment of the Hereafter.
That is a day on which mankind shall be gathered, and that is a day to be
witnessed.(103)
And We do not defer it but for a reckoned term.(104)
The day it comes, no soul shall speak except by His permission; and some of
them will be wretched and some blessed.(105)
Then, as for the wretched, they shall be in the Fire, wherein shall be
moaning and sighing for them,(106)
dwelling therein forever, so long as the heavens and the earth abide,
except as thy Lord will; surely thy Lord accomplishes what He desires.(107)
And as for the blessed, they shall be in Paradise, dwelling therein
forever, so long as the heavens and the earth abide, except as thy Lord
will -- for a gift unbroken.(108)
So be thou not in doubt concerning what these people serve. They serve only
as their fathers served before. And We will surely pay them in full their
share, undiminished.(109)
PART XII
And We had given Moses the Book, but differences were made in it. And had
not a Word gone forth from thy Lord, it would have been decided between
them. And they are in a disquieting doubt about it.(110)
And surely to everyone thy Lord will pay for their works in full; He is
surely aware of what they do.(111)
So stand thou firm as thou art commanded, and should also those who have
turned to God with thee, and exceed you not the bounds; He sees what you
do.(112)
And do not incline to the wrong-doers, or the Fire shall touch you, and you
have no protectors apart from God, then you shall not be helped.(113)
And perform the Prayer at the two ends of the day and early hours of the
night; surely the good deeds drive away the evil deeds; that is a reminder
for those who remember.(114)
And be thou patient, for God does not waste the wage of the good-
doers.(115)
But why were not there among the generations before you, men of prudence,
forbidding disorder in the land, except a few of them, whom We delivered;
and the worng-doers followed the ease they were placed in, and became
sinners.(116)
And thy Lord would not destroy the cities unjustly, when their people put
things right. (117)
And if thy Lord willed, He would have made mankind a single community; but
they cease not differing,(118)
except those on whom thy Lord has mercy; and for that He created them; and
the Word of thy Lord is fulfilled: `I shall certainly fill the Hell with
jinn and men all together.'(119)
And all that We relate to thee of the news of the Messengers is that
thereby We strengthen thy heart; and in these there has come to thee the
truth and an admonition and a reminder for the Believers.(120)
And say to the unbelievers, `act at your place, we are also acting;(121)
and wait, we are also waiting'.(122)
And to God belongs the unseen of the heavens and the earth, and to Him is
returned the whole affair; so serve Him and trust in Him; thy Lord is not
heedless of the things you do.(123)
YUSUF (12)
"Joseph"
(Revealed at Mecca, Verses 111)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulAlif Lam Ra (A.L.R.); these are the Signs of the Manifest Book.(1)
We have sent it down as an Arabic Reading (Qur'an) that you may have
understanding.(2)
We narrate to thee the fairest of the narratives in that We have revealed
to thee this Reading (Qur'an), though thou wast, before it, among the
unaware.(3)
When Joseph said to his father, `O my father, I saw eleven stars and the
sun and the moon __ I saw them prostrating themselves before me'.(4)
He said, `O my son, do not narrate thy vision to thy brothers, lest they
devise against thee some guile; surely the Devil is an open enemy to
man.(5)
And so will thy Lord choose thee, and teach thee the interpretation of
tales, and perfect His blessing upon thee and upon the House of Jacob, as
He perfected it before on thy fathers, Abraham and Isaac; surely thy Lord
is Knowing, Wise'.(6)
Surely in Joseph and his brothers are Signs for the inquirers.(7)
When they said, `surely Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father
than we, though we are a band; our father is surely in a clear error.(8)
Kill Joseph or cast him to some land, then your father's attention shall be
exclusively yours, and, after him, you will be a righteous people.(9)
Said one of them, `do not kill Joseph, but, if you have to do, cast him
into the bottom of the well; some caravan will pick him up'.(10)
They said, `O our father, what ails thee that thou dost not trust us with
Joseph, when we are surely his well-wishers.(11)
Send him with us tomorrow, that he may eat and drink and play, and we shall
surely be guarding him'.(12)
He said, `it grieves me that you should take him, and I fear that the wolf
may not eat him, while you are heedless of him'.(13)
They said, `if the wolf eats him when we are a band, then we are surely
losers!'(14)
So when they took him with them they agreed to put him in the bottom of the
well; and We revealed to him `thou shalt tell them of this affair of theirs
when they do not perceive'.(15)
And in the evening they came to their father weeping.(16)
They said, `O our father, we went racing, and left Joseph with our goods,
and the wolf ate him; but thou wouldst never believe us, even though we
were truthful'.(17)
And they came with false blood on his shirt. He said, `no, your souls have
contrived a thing for you; but sweet patience; and it is God whose aid is
to be sought against what you describe'.(18)
And there came a caravan, and they sent their waterman, and he let down his
bucket. He said, `good news! Here is a youth'. And they hid him as
merchandise; and God knew what they were doing.(19)
And they sold him for a petty price __ some counted dirhams; and they were
indifferent in his case.(20)
And he who bought him in Egypt said to his wife, `give him a respectable
lodging; it may be that he profits us or we take him for a son'. And thus
We established Joseph in the land, and that We might teach him the
interpretation of tales. And God prevails in His Affair, though most men
know not.(21)
And when he reached his mature age, We gave him judgement and knowledge;
and so We recompense the good-doers.(22)
And she, in whose house he was, solicited him and closed the doors, and
said, `come on'. He said, `God be my refuge; my Lord has given me a
handsome lodging; surely the wrong-doers do not prosper'.(23)
And she besought him, and he would have besought her, if he had not seen a
proof of his Lord; so it was, that We might turn away from him evil and
lewdness; surely he was one of Our exclusive servants.(24)
And they raced to the door, and she tore his shirt from behind, and they
found her husband at the door. She said, `what is the recompense of him who
intended evil with thy family, except that he should be given imprisonment
or a painful punishment'.(25)
Said he, `it was she who besought me'. And a witness from her family bore
witness, `if his shirt has been torn from before, she has spoken the truth,
and he is of the liars.(26)
But if his shirt has been torn from behind, then she has told a lie, and he
is of the truthful'.(27)
So when he saw his shirt torn from behind, he said, `that is a device of
you women; surely your device is great'__(28)
`O Joseph, turn away from this' __ `and thou, (O woman), ask forgiveness
for thy sin; thou wast the one at fault'.(29)
And women of the city said, `the governor's wife solicits her page; he has
captured her heart with love; we surely see her in a clear error'.(30)
So when she heard their sly whispers, she sent for them and made ready for
them a banquet, and gave to each one of them a knife, and said, `come out
before them'. When they saw him, they were impressed by him and cut their
hands and said, `God save us, this is no mortal, this is but a noble
angel'.(31)
She said, `this is the one for whom you blamed me; and of course I did
solicit him, and he abstained. Yet if he will not do what I bid him, he
shall be imprisoned and be one of the humbled'.(32)
He said, `my Lord, prison is dearer to me than that they call me to; and if
Thou dost not turn away their guile from me, I shall yearn towards them,
and be among the ignorant'.(33)
So his Lord answered him, and turned away their guile from him; surely He
is the Hearing the Knowing'.(34)
Then it occurred to them, after they had seen the Signs, that they must
imprison him for a time.(35)
And two youths entered the prison with him. One of them said, `I saw myself
pressing the wine'. And the other said, `I saw myself carrying on my head
bread which the birds were eating of; tell us the interpretation thereof;
we see thee among the good-doers'.(36)
He said, `the food that you are provided shall not come to you, but I shall
tell you its interpretation before it comes to you; that is of the
knowledge that God has given me; I have forsaken the creed of a people who
do not believe in God and who disbelieve in the Hereafter.(37)
And I follow the creed of my fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; it is not
ours to associate anything with God; that is of God's bounty to us and to
mankind, but most men do not give thanks.(38)
O my two companions of the prison, are many lords at variance better or One
Omnipotent God?(39)
That you serve apart from Him are nothing but names that you and your
fathers have named, for which God has not sent down any authority;
Judgement belongs only to God; He has commanded that you will serve none
but Him; that is the standing religion but most men do not know.(40)
O my two companions of the prison, as for one of you, he shall pour wine
for his lord; and as for the other, he shall be crucified and birds will
eat of his head; the matter about which you enquire has been decided'.(41)
And he said to one of them, whom he thought would be saved, `mention me to
thy lord!' But the Devil made him to forget to mention to his lord. So he
remained in the prison for certain years.(42)
And the king said, `I saw seven fat cows, which seven lean ones were
eating, and seven green ears of corn and others dry. O chiefs, pronounce to
me on my dream, if you can expound the dream'.(43)
They said, `hotchpotch of nightmares and we are not the ones to know the
interpretation of nightmares'.(44)
And one of them who was saved, and now remembered after all that time,
said, `I will tell you its interpretation; send me'. __(45)
`Joseph, O truthful man, pronounce to us regarding seven fat cows whom
seven lean ones were eating, and seven green ears of corn and others dry,
that I return to people and they may know'.(46)
He said, `you shall sow for seven years as usual; then what you reap, leave
it in its ear except a little, whereof you eat.(47)
Then there will come after that, seven hard years which will eat away what
you have advanced for them, except a little of that you stored.(48)
Then, after that, there shall come a year in which it will rain for men,
and in which they will press (grapes)'.(49)
And the King said, `bring him to me.' So when the messenger came to him, he
said, `return to thy lord, and ask him, how are the women who cut their
hands? My Lord knows their guile'.(50)
He said, `what was your business, (O women), when you solicited Joseph?'
They said, `God save us, we know no evil on his part'. The Governmor's wife
said, `now the reality is discovered; I solicited him, and he is surely of
the truthful'.(51)
(Joseph said) `That (I did), so that he may know that I did not betray him
in his absence, and that God does not guide the guile of the
treacherous'.(52)
Yet I do not acquit myself; surely the soul incites to evil, except in as
much as my Lord has mercy; my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful'(53)
The king said, `bring him to me; I would exclusively have him for myself.'
Then when he had spoken with him, he said, `today thou art established with
us and in our trust.'(54)
He said, `appoint me over the treasures of the land; I am a guardian,
possessed with knowledge.'(55)
And so We established Joseph in the land to dwell in it wherever he would.
We bestow Our mercy on whom We will, and We do not waste the wage of the
good-doers.(56)
And surely the wage of the Hereafter is better for those who believe and
guard against evil.(57)
And Joseph's brothers came and entered to him, and he recognised them but
they remained unaware of him.(58)
And when he had equipped them with their goods, he said, `bring me your
brother from your father; do you not see that I fill up the measure, and I
am the best of hosts.(59)
But if you do not bring him, then you shall have no measure with me, nor
shall you come near me'.(60)
They said, `we will solicit his father to get him, and we will surely be
doing it'.(61)
And he said to his pages, `put their money in their packs, that they may
recognise it, when they go back to their family; may be they return'.(62)
So when they went back to their father, they said, `father, the measure has
been denied to us, so send our brother with us that we may have the
measure, and we will surely be guarding him.'(63)
He said, `shall I entrust him to you as I entrusted his brother before? But
God is the best guardian, and He is the most merciful of the merciful.'(64)
And when they opened up their goods they found their money returned to
them. They said, `father, what else do we seek? Here is our money returned
to us. Now we shall get provision for our family, and guard our brother,
and have an extra measure of a camel-load'.(65)
He said, `I will never send him with you, until you give me a solemn pledge
by God that you will surely bring him to me, unless you are surrounded'. So
when they had given him their solemn pledge, he said, `God shall take care
of what we say'.(66)
And he said, `O my sons, do not enter by the same gate, but enter by
different gates; yet I cannot avail you against God in the least; judgement
belongs only to God; in Him I put my trust and in Him let the trustful put
their trust.'(67)
And when they entered wherefrom their father had enjoined them, it availed
them not against Cod in the least, except that it was a craving in Jacob's
soul which he satisfied And he was surely a man of knowledge as We had
taught him, but most men have no knowledge.(68)
And when they entered to Joseph, he gave his brother a seat with him and
said, `I am thy brother; so do not feel sorrow on what they have been
doing'.(69)
Then when he had equipped them with their goods he put the drinking cup in
his brother's pack; and then a herald called out, `O caravan, you are
surely thieves'.(70)
They said, turning to them, `what are you looking for?'(71)
They said, `we are looking for the king's cup, and whoso brings it shall
have a camel's load and I guarantee it.'(72)
They said, `by God, you know we did not come to cause disorder in the land,
and we are not thieves'.(73)
They said, `then what shall be his recompense, if you were liars?'(74)
They said, `the recompense of him in whose pack it is found, shall be that
he himself shall be the recompense; thus we recompense the wrong-
doers.'(75)
Then he made beginning with their packs, before his brother's pack, and
then brought it out of his brother's pack. Thus We contrived for Joseph. He
could not have taken his brother according to King's law, unless God so
willed. We raise in rank whom We will; and over every man of knowledge is
one knowing more.(76)
They said, `if he steals, his brother also stole before.' And Joseph hid it
to himself, and did not disclose it to them; he said, `you are the worst-
placed, and God knows best what you describe.'(77)
They said, `Governor, he has an aged old father, so take one of us in his
place; we see thee of the good-doers.'(78)
He said, `God forbid that we should take any except the one with whom we
found our goods; we shall then be wrong-doers'.(79)
So when they despaired of him, they conferred in private. The eldest of
them said, `do you not know that your father has taken a solemn pledge by
God from you, and how you failed regarding Joseph before. Now I will not
leave the land until my father gives me leave, or God judges for me; and He
is the Best of judges.(80)
Return to your father and say, `father, thy son stole, and we only
testified what we knew, and we were no guardians of the unseen.(81)
And enquire of the city where we were, and the caravan in which we
approached, and we are surely truthful.'(82)
He said, `no, but your souls have contrived a thing for you; but sweet
patience. May be God will bring them all to me; He is the Knowing, the
Wise.'(83)
And he turned away from them, and said, `alas for Joseph'. And his eyes
turned white because of grief, and he was choked.(84)
They said, `by God, thou wilt not cease remembering Joseph, until thou art
consumed, or among the perished.'(85)
He said, `I make complaint of my anguish and grief only to God, and I know
better from God what you know not.(86)
O my sons, go and search for Joseph and his brother, and do not despair of
God's comfort; None despairs of God's comfort excepting the disbelieving
people.' (87)
So when they entered to him, they said, `Governor, distress has afflicted
us and our family, and We have come with a little money, yet fill up the
measure for us, and be charitable to us; surely God recompenses the
charitable'.(88)
He said, `do you know what you did with Joseph and his brother when you
were ignorant?'(89)
They said, `art thou in fact Joseph?' He said, `I am Joseph, and this is my
brother; God has shown favour to us; and whoso fears God and shows
patience, surely God does not waste the wage of the good-doers.'(90)
They said, `by God, God has preferred thee over us, and we were indeed at
fault.'(91)
He said, `no reproach shall be on you this day; may God forgive you, and He
is the Most merciful of the merciful.(92)
Go with this shirt of mine, and cast it on my father's face, he will be one
seeing; and bring me your family all together.'(93)
And when the caravan departed, their father said, `surely I perceive
Joseph's scent, unless you think me doting.'(94)
They said, `by God, thou art certainly in thy old error'.(95)
And when the bearer of the good news came and cast it on his face, he was
seeing once again. He said, `did I not say to you that I know from God what
you know not?'(96)
They said, `father, pray forgiveness of our sins, for indeed we were at
fault'.(97)
He said, `I will pray to my Lord to forgive you; surely He is the
Forgiving, the Merciful'.( 98)
So when they entered to Joseph, he made his parents to sit with him, and
said, `enter Egypt, if God will, in security'.(99)
And he raised his parents to the throne, and they fell down prostrate
before him. And he said, `father, this is the interpretation of my dream of
old; my Lord has made it true; and He was good to me when he took me out of
the prison, and brought you from the desert, after the Devil had set strife
between me and my brothers; my Lord is gracious to what He will; surely He
is the Knowing, the Wise'. __ (100)
`My Lord Thou hast given me a share in the kingdom and taught me
interpretation of the events; O Originator of the heavens and the earth,
Thou art my protector in this world and Hereafter; take me to Thee in a
state of Submission, and join me with the righteous'.(101)
This is of the news of the unseen that We reveal to thee, and thou wast not
with them when they, while devising (plan), agreed on their affair'.(102)
Yet, however eager thou mayest be, most of the men will not believe.(103)
And thou dost not ask of them any wage. It is naught but a Reminder for all
people.(104)
And how many a Sign there is in the heavens and the earth that they pass
by, turning away from it.(105)
And most of them do not believe in God without making associates to
Him.(106)
But do they feel secure that an enveloping punishment of God shall not come
upon them, or the Hour shall not come upon them suddenly, when they
perceive not?(107)
Say, `this is my way: I call to God on evidence __I and those who follow me
__ and God is Holy, and I am not of the idolaters'.(108)
And We did not send before thee any but men from the people of the cities,
to whom We revealed (our Message). Have they not journeyed in the land and
seen how was the end of those before them? And surely the House of the
Hereafter shall be better for the godfearing; will you not understand;(109)
Till, when the Messengers despair and think that they are taken liars, Our
help comes to them, and whomso We will is saved. But Our violence is not
averted from the people of the sinners.(110)
Surely, in their narratives is a lesson to men of understanding. It is not
a forged story, but a confirmation of what was before it, and an exposition
of all things, and a guidance and a mercy to a people who believe.(111)
AL-RAD (13)
"Thunder"
(Revealed at Medina,Verses 43)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulAlif Lam Mim Ra (A.L.M.R.); those are the Signs of the Book; and that which
is sent down to thee from thy Lord is the truth, but most men believe not.
(1)
God is He who raised up the heavens without pillars that you can see, then
took over the Throne, and He subjected the sun and the moon, each running
to a stated term; He directs the Affair, distinguishing the Signs that you
may have faith in the meeting with your Lord.(2)
And it is He who spread the earth, and set in it firm mountains and rivers;
and of every fruit He made therein two kinds, covers the day with the
night; surely in that are Signs for a people who ponder.(3)
And in the earth are adjoining tracts and gardens of vines and sown fields
and palm trees __ in clusters and otherwise __ all watered with one water;
__ yet We make some of them to excel others in food; surely in that are
Signs for a people who understand. (4)
And if thou wouldst wonder, then wonderful is their saying: `what, when we
have become dust, shall we be in a new creation?' Those are they who
disbelieve in their Lord, and those __ on their necks are fetters; and
those are the people of the Fire, wherein they shall dwell forever.(5)
And they ask thee to hasten the evil before the good, yet examples have
passed away before them; and thy Lord is surely forgiving to men despite
their wrong-doing, and thy Lord is surely terrible in retribution.(6)
And the unbelievers say, `why has not a Sign been sent down on him from his
Lord?' Thou art only a warner; and for every people there is a guide!(7)
God knows what every female bears, and shrinking and swelling of the wombs
and everything with Him has its measure.(8)
The knower of the unseen and the visible, the Great, the Exalted.(9)
Alike among you is he who conceals the saying and he who talks it aloud,
and he who hides himself in the night and he who walks about during
day.(10)
He has attendant angels, before him and behind him, that watch over him by
God's command; surely God does not change the state of a people, unless
they change their selves; and when God desires evil for a people, there is
no turning back of it, and they have no protector, apart from Him.(11)
It is He who shows you the lightning for fear and hope, and produces the
heavy clouds.(12)
And the thunder and the angels proclaim His praise in awe of Him; and He
looses the thunderbolts, then afflicts with them whom He will, while they
are disputing about God; and He is mighty in power.(13)
To Him is due the true calling; and those upon whom they call, apart from
Him, do not answer them a thing, except that it is like a man who stretches
out his palms to water that it may reach his mouth, but it does not reach
it; and the call of the unbelievers goes only astray.(14)
And to God prostrates whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly
or unwillingly, and also their shadows in the mornings and the
evenings.(15)
Say, `who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?' Say, `God'. Say, `have
you then taken protectors apart from Him, those who have no power to profit
or hurt even themselves?' Say, `are the blind and the seeing man equal, or
are the darkness and the light equal?' Or have they assigned to God
associates, who have created the like of His creation, and the creation
looks alike to them?' Say, `God is the creator of everything, and He is the
One, the Omnipotent'.(16)
He sends down water from the heaven, so that the valleys flow in their
measure, and the torrent carries a swelling scum. And out of that over
which they kindle fire, seeking ornament or ware, arises a similar scum.
Thus God describes the true and the false. Then as for the scum, it
disappears like froth; and as for that which profits men, it stays in the
earth; so God describes the similitudes.(17)
For those who answer their Lord is a reward most fair; and those who do not
answer Him, if they had all that is in the earth, and also the like of it
with it; they would surely offer it for their ransom; those __ theirs shall
be the evil reckoning, and their abode shall be Hell; an evil cradling.(18)
Is then he who knows what is sent down to thee from thy Lord is the truth,
like him who is blind? But only men of understanding pay heed,(19)
those who fulfil God's covenant, and do not break the compact,(20)
and those who join what God has commanded should be joined, and fear their
Lord, and dread the evil reckoning.(21)
And those who are patient in seeking their Lords' attention, and establish
the Prayer, and expend of that We have provided them, secretly and openly,
and repel evil with good, theirs shall be the Ultimate Home __ (22)
Gardens of Eternity which they shall enter, and those of their fathers,
their wives, and their offspring who acted right; and the angels shall
enter to them from every gate: (23)
`Peace be upon you, for that you were patient'; so how excellent is the
Ultimate Home!'(24)
And those who break the covenant of God after ratifying it, and cut what
God has commanded should be joined, and create disorder in the earth, on
them shall rest the curse and for them shall be the Evil Home.(25)
God outspreads and straitens the provision for whom He will; and they
rejoice in the present life; but the present life is nothing against the
Hereafter but some enjoyment.(26)
And the unbelievers say, `why has a Sign not been sent down upon him from
his Lord?' Say, `God sends astray whom He will, and guides to Himself those
who turn to Him,(27)
those who believe, and their hearts find contentment in the remembrance of
God. Behold, in God's remembrance do the hearts find contentment.(28)
Those who believe and do righteous deeds, for them is blessedness and a
handsome resort!(29)
Thus We have sent thee in a community, before which (many) communities have
passed away, that thou mayest recite to them what We have revealed to thee,
while they disbelieve in the All-merciful. Say, `He is my Lord, there is no
god but He; in Him I put my trust, and to Him I turn'.(30)
And If there were a Reading (Qur'an) whereby the mountains were moved, or
the earth were torn asunder, or the dead were spoken to, but to God belongs
the Affair altogether. Have not the Believers yet known that if God willed,
He would have guided men all together? But unbelievers -- the shattering
disaster shall not cease to afflict them or alight near their homes, for
what they have worked, until God's promise comes; surely God fails not the
appointed time.(31)
And indeed the Messengers were mocked at before thee, and I respited the
unbelievers, then I seized them __ so how was My retribution!(32)
Is then He who stands over every soul for what it has earnsed?__?but they
have assigned associates to God. Say, `name them, or do you tell Him what
He does not know in the earth, or in apparent words?' No, but to the
unbelievers, their devising seems fair and they are barred from the way;
and whomso God sends astray, no guide has he.(33)
For them shall be punishment in the present life, and the punishment of the
Hereafter shall be more crushing; and there shall be none to defend them
from God.(34)
The likeness of Paradise promised to the godfearing: rivers flow underneath
it; its food and its shade are everlasting; that is the end-reward of the
godfearing, while the end-reward of the unbelievers is the Fire.(35)
And those to whom We have given the Book rejoice in what is sent down to
thee, and among the factions are those who deny some of it. Say, `I have
been commanded to serve God only and not to associate any with Him; to Him
I call, and to HIm is my resort'.(36)
And even so We have sent it down as a Judgement in Arabic. And if thou
followest their caprices after the knowledge that has come to thee, thou
shalt have no protector and no defender against God.(37)
And We indeed sent Messengers before thee, and assigned wives and offspring
to them; and it was not for any Messenger to bring a Sign but by God's
leave. Every term has a Book.(38)
God blots out and establishes what He will, and with Him is the Mother-
Book.(39)
And whether we show thee some of that We promise them or call thee to Us,
thine is only to deliver the Message, and Ours the reckoning.(40)
And have they not seen that We are diminishig the land from its sides? And
God judges; there is none to repel His judgement; and He is swift at the
reckoning.(41)
And those that were before them also devised, but God's is the devising
altogether; He knows what every soul earns; and the unbelievers shall know
for whom shall be the Final Abode.(42)
And the unbelievers say, `thou art not an Envoy'. Say, `God suffices as a
witness between me and you, and he who has the knowledge of the Book'.(43)
IBRAHIM (14)
"Abraham"
(Revealed at Mecca,Verses 52)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulAlif Lam Ra (A.L.R.); a Book We have sent down to thee that thou mayest
bring forth mankind from darkness to light, by their Lord's leave, to the
path of the Mighty, the Praiseworthy,(1)
God, to whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the
earth. And woe to the unbelievers for a terrible punishment,(2)
those who prefer the present life over the Hereafter, and bar from God's
way and seek to make it crooked; those are astray far way.(3)
And We have sent no Messenger but in the language of his people, that he
may make all clear to them; then God sends astray whom He will, and guides
whom He will; and He is the Mighty, the Wise.(4)
And We sent Moses with Our Signs: `bring forth thy people from darkness to
light, and remind them of the Days of God'. In that are surely Signs for
every steadfast, thankful person.(5)
And when Moses said to his people, `remember God's blessing upon you, when
He delivered you from Pharaoh's folk who were afflicting you with evil
punishment, slaughtering your sons and leaving your women alive __ and in
that was a big trial from your Lord'.(6)
And when your Lord proclaimed, `if you give thanks, I will increase for
you, and if you are thankless, My punishment is surely terrible'.(7)
And Moses said, `if you are thankless, you and whoso is on earth, God is
All-sufficient, Praiseworthy.'(8)
Has there not come to you the news of those before you __ the people of
Noah, Ad, Thamood, and those after them, whom none knows now but God? Their
Messengers came to them with clear Signs, but they thrust their hands in
their mouths, and said, `we disbelieve in the Message you have been sent
with, and we are surely in a disquieting doubt concerning that you call us
to'.(9)
Their Messengers said, `is there a doubt regarding God, the Originator of
the heavens and the earth? He calls you to forgive you your sins, and defer
you to a stated term.' They said, `you are nothing but mortals like us; you
desire to bar us from that our fathers used to serve; now bring us a clear
authority'.(10)
Their Messengers said to them, `we are only mortals like you, but God
bestows favours on whom He will of His servants; and it is not ours to
bring you an authority, except by the leave of God; and in God let the
Believers put their trust.(11)
And why should we not trust in God when He has shown us our ways? And we
will surely bear patiently the hurt you give us; and in God let the
trustful put their trust.'(12)
And the unbelievers said to their Messengers, `we will certainly expel you
from our land, or you will return into our creed'. Then their Lord revealed
to them: `We will surely destroy the wrong-doers;(13)
and We will surely settle you in the land after them; that is for him who
fears My station and fears My threat'.(14)
And they sought decision, and every obstinate potentate was disappointed
__(15)
beyond him is Hell, and he will be given to drink stinking water,(16)
which he will gulp little by little and will hardly swallow, and death will
come upon him from every quarter and he will not die; and still beyond him
will be a harsh punishment.(17)
The likeness of those who disbelieve in their Lord __ their works are as
ashes on which, on a stormy day, the wind blows violently; they hold no
power over what they have earned; that indeed is the straying far away.(18)
Hast thou not seen that God has created the heavens and the earth with
truth? If He will, He will take you away and bring a new creation;(19)
and that is no difficult matter for God.(20)
And they shall appear before God all together, and the weak will say to
those who showed arrogance, `we were your followers; now will you somewhat
avail us against God's punishment?' They will say, `had God guided us, we
would have guided you too; it is equal for us now whether we be impatient
or endure it; we have no place to escape'.(21)
And the Devil, when the matter is decided, will say, `God gave you the true
promise, and I promised you, then I failed you; and I had no authority over
you, but that I called you and you responded to me; now do not blame me but
blame yourselves; I cannot come to your help, nor can you come to my help;
I deny that you associated me (with God) before.' Surely the wrong-doers
will receive a painful punishment.(22)
And those who believed and did righteous deeds shall be admitted, by their
Lord's leave, to gardens underneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein
forever; their greeting therein will be: `peace'. (23)
Hast thou not seen how God has struck a similitude? A good word is like a
good tree whose roots are firm and branches are in the heaven;(24)
it gives its fruit every season, by the leave of its Lord; and God strikes
similitudes for mankind that they may pay heed.(25)
And the likeness of a corrupt word is like a corrupt tree, uprooted from
the earth, having no stability.(26)
God confirms the Believers with the firm word in this life and in the
Hereafter; and God sends the wrong-doers astray; and God does what He
will.(27)
Hast thou not seen those who changed the blessing of God by unbelief and
carried their people to the House of Ruin __ (28)
the Hell, in which they shall burn; and it is an evil resting place!(29)
And they have set up compeers to God, to lead (people) astray from His way.
Say, `enjoy, surely your destination is the Fire!'(30)
Say to My servants who have believed to establish the Prayer, and expend of
what We have provided them, secretly and publicly, before there comes the
Day wherein there shall be neither trading nor befriending. (31)
God is He who created the heavens and the earth, and sent down from the
heaven water, wherewith He brought forth fruits for your provision; and He
subjected to you the ships that run on the sea at His command, and He
subjected to you the rivers;(32)
and He subjected to you the sun and the moon, (going) constant on their
courses; and He subjected to you the night and the day;(33)
and He gave you everything that you asked of Him; and if you count God's
blessings, you cannot number them; surely man is a big wrong-doer, very
thankless.(34)
And when Abraham said, `my Lord, make this land secure, and save me and my
sons from serving idols;(35)
my Lord, they have led many men astray; now whoso follows me belongs to me;
and whoso disobeys me, then Thou art Forgiving, Merciful.(36)
Our Lord, I have settled some of my offspring in an uncultivatable valley
by Thy Sacred House, our Lord, that they may establish the Prayer; so make
hearts of men yearn towards them and provide them with fruits, that they
may give thanks.(37)
Our Lord, Thou knowest what we hide and what we make public; and nothing in
the earth, or in the heaven, is hidden from God.(38)
Praise be to God, who has given me, despite old age, Ishmael and Isaac;
surely my Lord hears the prayer.(39)
My Lord, make me and my offspring to establish the Prayer, and our Lord,
accept my prayer. (40)
Our Lord, forgive me and my parents and the Believers on the Day when the
reckoning shall be made'.(41)
And think not that God is heedless of what the wrong-doers do; He is only
deferring them to a Day when eyes shall stare,(42)
when they will be rushing with outstretched necks and uplifted heads, their
glances not returning to themselves, and their hearts empty.(43)
And warn mankind of the Day, when the punishment comes on them and the
wrong-doers say, `our Lord, defer us to a near term, and we will answer Thy
call, and follow the Messengers' __`But did you not swear before, that you
will suffer no decline:(44)
and you dwelt in the dwellings of those who wronged themselves, and it was
clear to you how We dealt with them; and We struck examples for you'.(45)
But they worked their plan, and their plan was before God; and their plan
was such as would move the mountains.(46)
So do not think that God will fail His promise given to His Messengers; God
is Mighty, Vengeful.(47)
On the Day, the earth will be changed to other than the earth, and also the
heavens, and people will appear before God, the One, the Omnipotent.(48)
And thou wilt see the sinners that day, bound together in chains;(49)
their shirts of pitch, and the Fire covering their faces;(50)
that God may recompense every soul for what it earned; surely God is swift
at the reckoning.(51)
This is a Message for mankind, that they may be warned by it, and that they
may know that He is only One God, and that the men of understanding may pay
heed.(52)
AL-HIJR (15)
"Al-Hijr"
(Revealed at Mecca, Verses 99)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulAlif Lam Ra (A.L.R.) __ these are the Signs of the Book and of a Clear
Reading (Qur'an).(1)
The unbelievers will sometime wish that they had surrendered.(2)
Leave them to eat and enjoy and let their hopes delude them, for they will
soon know!(3)
And whatever city We destroyed, there was a known decree for it.(4)
No community precedes its term, nor does it put it back.(5)
And they say, `thou, on whom the Admonition is sent down, thou art surely
mad.(6)
Why dost thou not bring us the angels, if thou art of the truthful?'(7)
We send not down the angels but with truth, and then they are not
respited.(8)
It is We who have sent down the Admonition, and We are surely its
guardians.(9)
And indeed We sent Messengers before thee among the ancient sects.(10)
And no Messenger came to them but they mocked at him.(11)
Even so We cause it to enter into the hearts of the sinners __ (12)
they do not believe in it, and the tradition of the ancients is already
gone.(13)
And even if We opened to them a gate in the heaven, and they kept ascending
through it,(14)
they would surely say, `only our eyes have been dazzled; no, we are a
bewitched people'.(15)
And We have set constellations in the heaven and adorned them for the
beholders,(16)
and We have guarded it from every outcast devil,(17)
except him who listens by stealth then a visible flame follows him.(18)
And the earth, We have spread it out, and cast therein firm mountains, and
caused to grow therein everything duly weighed.(19)
And We have made therein livelihood for you and for those you provide
not.(20)
There is not a thing but We have its treasures, yet We send it down only in
a known measure.(21)
And We loose fertilising winds, then send down water from heaven, then give
it to you to drink; and you are no treasurers of it.(22)
And it is We who give life and make to die, and We are the inheritors.(23)
And We know those of you who have gone before, and We know those who lag
behind.(24)
And it is thy Lord who shall muster them; surely He is Wise, Knowing.(25)
And surely We created man from dried clay of moulded mud;(26)
and the jinn, we created before, of flaming fire.(27)
And when thy Lord said to the angels, `I am making a mortal from dried clay
of moulded mud,(28)
so when I have shaped him and breathed in him of My Spirit, fall you down
to him prostrating.'(29)
And the angels prostrated themselves, all of them, all together,(30)
except Iblis; he refused to be with those prostrating.(31)
God said, `O Iblis, what ails thee that thou art not among those
prostrating?'(32)
He said, `I would never prostrate myself before a mortal whom Thou hast
created from dried clay of moulded mud.'(33)
God said, `get thou out from here; thou art an outcast,(34)
and upon thee shall rest the curse till the Day of Recompense'.(35)
He said, `my Lord, respite me till the Day they will be raised.'(36)
God said, `thou art among those that are respited,(37)
till the Day of the Known Time!'(38)
He said, `my Lord, as Thou hast perverted me, I will make for them
adornments in the earth, and will pervert them all together,(39)
excepting Thy sincere servants among them.'(40)
God said, `this is a straight path leading to me.(41)
Over My servants, thou shalt have no authority, excepting such perverts as
follow thee.(42)
And Hell is the promised land of all of them. (43)
It has seven gates; for every gate shall be a set portion of them.'(44)
Surely the godfearing shall be amidst gardens and fountains: (45)
`enter them in peace and security'.(46)
And We shall draw out whatever rancour is there in their breasts; as
brothers they will be sitting face to face on couches.(47)
Fatigue shall not touch them there, nor shall they be expelled from
there.(48)
Tell My servants that I am the Forgiving, the Merciful,(49)
and that My punishment is the painful punishment.(50)
And tell them of the guests of Abraham.(51)
When they entered to him, they said, `Peace'. He said, `we are afraid of
you.'(52)
They said, `be not afraid; we give thee good news of a boy possessing
knowledge!'(53)
He said, `do you give me good news when old age has come upon me? Of what
do you give me good news?' (54)
They said, `We give thee good news with truth, so be not among those that
despair'.(55)
He said, `and who despairs of his Lord's mercy excepting the astray?'(56)
He said, `and what is your business, O envoys?'(57)
They said, `we have been sent to a people of sinners,(58)
except the people of Lot. We shall deliver them all,(59)
except his wife; we have estimated that she shall be among those who stay
behind'. (60)
So when the Envoys came to the people of Lot,(61)
he said, `you are a people unknown.'(62)
They said, `no, we have brought thee what they were doubting;(63)
and we have come to thee with the truth, and we are surely truthful.(64)
So set thou forth with thy family during a part of the night, and follow in
their rear, and let none of you turn round, and proceed wither you are
commanded'.(65)
And We informed him of that task __ that the root of these people shall be
cut off by morning.(66)
And the people of the city came rejoicing.(67)
He said, `these are my guests, so do not put me to shame,(68)
and fear God, and do not disgrace me'.(69)
They said, `did we not forbid thee of people?'(70)
He said, `here are my daughters, if you must do'.(71)
By thy life, they wandered blindly in their intoxication.(72)
And the Cry seized them by sunrise,(73)
and We turned it (the town) upside down, and rained on them stones of baked
clay.(74)
Surely in that are Signs for the observant.(75)
And surely it lies on an existing way.(76)
In that is surely a Sign for the Believers.(77)
And surely the people of the Wood were wrong-doers;(78)
so We took vengeance upon them; and the two (towns) are on an open
road.(79)
And the people of Al-Hijr gave lies to the Envoys;(80)
and We brought them Our Signs, but they turned away from them.(81)
And they used to hew out houses from the mountains, dwelling there, in
security.(82)
Then the Cry seized them by morning,(83)
and what they had earned did not avail them.(84)
And We created not the heavens and the earth and what is between them but
with truth; and the Hour is sure to come; so overlook thou with grace.(85)
Surely thy Lord, He is the All-creator, the Knowing.(86)
And We have given thee seven of the oft-repeated Verses and the Grand
Qur'an.(87)
Stretch not thy eyes to that We have given to some groups of theirs to
enjoy, and grieve not for them; and keep thy wing low to the Believers.(88)
And say, `surely I am the clear warner.'(89)
As We have sent down to those who have divided,(90)
those who have broken the Qur'an into segments.(91)
So, by thy Lord, We will surely question them all,(92)
concerning that they were doing.(93)
So declare openly what thou art commanded, and turn thou away from the
idolaters.(94)
We shall suffice thee against the mockers,(95)
those who set up with God another god; they will soon know'.(96)
And We know indeed that thy breast is straitened by what they say;(97)
but celebrate thy Lord's praise, and be among those who prostrate;(98)
and serve thy Lord, until the Certain comes to thee.(99)
AL-NAHAL (16)
"The Bee"
(Revealed At Mecca,Verses 128)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulGod's command comes, so seek not to hasten it; Holy is He and Exalted above
that they associate with Him!(1)
He sends down angels with the Spirit of His command on whomsoever of His
servants He will: `Give you warning that there is no god but I, so fear
Me'.(2)
He created the heavens and the earth with truth; Exalted is He above that
they associate with Him!(3)
He created man of a sperm-drop, then lo, he is an open disputant!(4)
And the cattle __ He created them; in them is warmth and other benefits for
you, and of them you eat;(5)
and in them is beauty for you, when you bring them home to rest and when
you take them out to pasture;(6)
and they carry your loads to a land that you would never reach except with
distress of souls; your Lord is surely Kind and Merciful.(7)
And horses, mules and asses, (He created) that you may ride on them, and as
an adornment; and He creates what you know not.(8)
And it is God's to show the mean way, yet some turn away from it; and if He
willed, He would have guided you all.(9)
It is He who sends down from heaven water, of which you have your drink,
and of which are trees on which you pasture herds.(10)
With it He grows for you crops, olives, palms, grapes and all kinds of
fruits. In that is surely a Sign for a people who ponder.(11)
And He has subjected for you the night and the day, and the sun and the
moon; and the stars are also subjected by His command; in that are surely
Signs for a people who understand.(12)
And the things He has scattered for you in the earth have different
colours; in that is surely a Sign for a people who pay heed.(13)
And it is He who has subjected the sea, that you may eat out of it fresh
flesh, and bring forth out of it ornaments that you wear; and thou seest
the ships ploughing through it; and that you may seek of His bounty, and
that you may be thankful.(14)
And He has cast firm mountains in the earth, lest it should shake with you,
and rivers and paths, that you may find the way,(15)
and also way-marks; and by the stars they find the way.(16)
Is then He who creates as he who does not create? Will you not pay
heed?(17)
And if you count God's blessings, you will not number them; God is surely
Forgiving, Merciful.(18)
And God knows what you hide and what you make public.(19)
And those they call upon, apart from God, create nothing, and themselves
are created;(20)
they are dead without life, and cannot know when they shall be raised.(21)
Your God is One God, but those who do not believe in the Hereafter, their
hearts deny and they show arrogance.(22)
Without a doubt, God knows what they hide and what they make public; surely
He does not love those who show arrogance.(23)
And when it is said to them, `what thing has your Lord sent down', they
say, `fables of the ancients',(24)
that they may bear their loads complete on the Day of Resurrection, and
also some of the loads of those whom they lead astray without knowldge.
Behold, how evil a load they bear!(25)
Those that were before them contrived; then God came upon their building
from the foundations, and the roof fell down upon them from above them; and
the punishment came upon them whence they perceived not.(26)
Then, on the Day of Resurrection, He will humiliate them and say, `where
are My associates for whom you made a breach?' Those who were given the
knowledge will say, `today, humiliation and evil are on the
unbelievers,(27)
those whom the angels take while doing wrong to themselves;' then they will
offer submission: `we were not doing any evil' __ `No, God knows what you
were doing.(28)
Now enter the gates of Hell to dwell therein forever; evil indeed is the
resort of the arrogant.' (29)
And it is said to the godfearing, `what has your Lord sent down?' They say,
`good'. For those who do good is good in this world; and the House of the
Hereafter will be better; excellent indeed is the House of the godfearing
__(30)
gardens of eternity they shall enter, rivers flowing underneath them,
wherein they shall have what they will; so does God recompense the
godfearing __(31)
those whom the angels take while they are pure, saying, `peace be on you;
enter Paradise for what you have been doing.(32)
Do they only look for angels to come to them, or that thy Lord's command
should come? So did those before them: and God wronged them not, but
themselves they wronged.(33)
Then the evil of what they did afflicted them, and what they mocked at
encompassed them.(34)
And Those who make associates (to God) say, `had God willed, we would not
have served anything apart from Him, neither we nor our fathers, and we
would not have made anything, apart from Him, sacred. So did those that
were before them. But is there any obligation on the Messengers except to
deliver the manifest Message.(35)
And We indeed raised a Messenger in every community, (saying) `Serve God
and avoid the idol'; then some of them God guided and some of them were
bound to go astray. Journey in the land and see how was the end of those
who cried lies.(36)
If thou art eager for their guidance, yet God does not guide him whom He
sends astray, and there are no helpers for them.(37)
And they swear by God their earnest oaths: `God will not raise him up who
dies'. No, it is a promise binding upon Him, but most men know not.(38)
It is so, that He may make clear to them in what they differed, and the
unbelievers may know that they were surely liars.(39)
Our word for a thing, when We desire it, is only this that We say to it,
`Be', and it is.(40)
And those who emigrated for God's sake after they were wronged, We shall
surely lodge them in this world in a good way; and the wage of the
Hereafter shall be greater, if they but knew;(41)
those showed patience and put their trust in their Lord.(42)
And We did not send before thee any but men to whom We revealed (Our
Message); ask the People of the Remembrance, if you do not know;(43)
(We sent them) with clear Signs and Psalms; and We have sent down to thee
the Remembrance that thou mayest make clear to mankind what has been sent
down to them, and that they may ponder.(44)
Do those who devise evil things feel secure that God will not make the
earth to swallow them, or punishment will not come upon them from whence
they do not perceive;(45)
or He will not seize them in their moving about, and they will not be able
to frustrate Him;(46)
or He will not seize them slowly and gradually? But your Lord is surely
Kind and Merciful.(47)
Have they not seen the things God has created, their shadows inclining to
the right and to the left, prostrating themselves to God in all
lowliness?(48)
And to God prostrate all the creatures which are in the heavens and which
are in the earth, and also the angels, and they do not show arrogance.(49)
They fear their Lord above them, and they do what they are commanded.(50)
And God says, `do not take two gods; He is only One God; so have awe of Me
only.'(51)
And to Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth and to Him is
Submission due forever. Will you then fear other than God?(52)
And whatever blessing you have, it is from God; then when harm touches you,
it is unto Him that you groan.(53)
Then, when He removes the harm from you, lo, a party of yours assigns
associates to their Lord,(54)
that they may show unthankfulness to what We have given them; so enjoy, but
you will soon know.(55)
And they appoint a share of what We have provided them to what they do not
know. By God, you shall be questioned about what you forge.(56)
And they assign daughters to God __ Holy be He __ and to themselves what
they desire!(57)
And when any of them is given good news of a girl, his face gets darkened
and he is choked.(58)
He hides himself from the people for the evil of the good news given to
him. Shall he retain it in humiliation or bury it into the dust? Ah, how
evil is that they judge!(59)
Those who do not believe in the Hereafter, theirs is the evil likeness, and
God's is the most high likeness; and He is the Mighty, the Wise.(60)
And if God were to take men to task for their wrong-doing, He would not
leave any creature therein, but He is deferring them to a stated term; and
when their term comes they shall not put it back nor put it forward by a
moment.(61)
And they assign to God what they hate, and their tongues utter the lie that
theirs shall be the best reward. No doubt for them shall be the Fire, and
they shall be hastened into it.(62)
By God, We sent Messengers to the communities before thee, but the Devil
showed their deeds fair to them; so today he is their friend, and for them
shall be a painful punishment.(63)
And We have not sent down on thee the Book except that thou mayest make
clear to them the things they differ in, and as a guidance and a mercy for
a people who believe.(64)
And God sends down from the heaven water with which He quickens the earth
after it is deed. In that is surely a Sign for a people who listen.(65)
And for you in the cattle is a lesson. We give you to drink of that which
is in their bellies between the dung and the blood, pure milk, pleasant to
the drinkers.(66)
And of the fruits of the palms and the grapes, you take therefrom
intoxicant and good provision. In that is surely a Sign for a people who
understand.(67)
And thy Lord revealed to the bee: `make houses in the mountains, in the
trees and in what people build;(68)
then eat of all the fruits, and follow the set ways of thy Lord'. There
comes forth out of their bellies a beverage of different hues having
healing power for mankind. In that is surely a Sign for a people who
ponder.(69)
And God has created you, then He takes you to Him; and some of you are
turned to the abject age, so that they may not know anything in spite of
knowledge; God is Knowing, Powerful.(70)
And God has made some of you to excel others in provision; then those who
are made to excel, do not give over their provision to those whom their
right hands own, so that they may become equal in it; will they then deny
the blessing of God?(71)
And God has made for you wives out of yourselves, and has made, out of your
wives, sons and grandsons for you, and has provided you with good things;
will they then believe in falsehood and disbelieve in the blessing of
God,(72)
and serve, apart from God, that which has no power to provide them anything
from the heavens and the earth, nor can they ever do?(73)
So, do not strike similitudes for God; God knows, and you know not.(74)
God strikes a similitude: there is a slave possessed (by his master), who
has no power on anything, and there is one whom We have provided from
Ourselves with a good provision, and he expends of it secretly and openly.
Are they equal? Praise be to God; but most of them know not.(75)
And God strikes a similitude: there are two men; one of them is dumb who
has no power over anything and is a burden on his master; wherever he
directs him, he brings no good. Is he equal to him who enjoins justice and
is on a straight path?(76)
And to God belongs the unseen in the heavens and the earth. And the matter
of the Hour is as a twinkling of the eye or nearer. God is powerful over
everything.(77)
And God brings you forth from the wombs of your mothers, you not knowing
anything, and makes for you ears, eyes and hearts, that you may give
thanks.(78)
Have they not seen the birds held in the atmosphere? Naught holds them
except God? In that are surely Signs for a people who believe.(79)
And God has made for you of your houses a place of rest, and has made for
you, of the skins of the cattle, houses which you find light on the day you
march and on the day you halt, and (he has made) of their wool and their
fur and their hair, household stuff and other goods for a time.(80)
And God has made, for you, out of what He has created, shades; and he has
made, for you, in mountains shelters; and He has made for you shirts that
guard you against heat, and shirts that guard you during your violence Thus
He perfects His blessing on you that you may submit to Him.(81)
But if they turn away, then thine is only to deliver the Manifest
Message.(82)
They recognise God's blessing yet deny it, and most of them are
unthankful.(83)
And the day We shall raise up a witness from every community, no leave
shall be given to the unbelievers, nor shall they be allowed to make
amends.(84)
And when the wrong--doers see the punishment, it shall not be lightened for
them, nor shall they be given respite.(85)
And when the idolaters see their associate-gods, they shall say, `our Lord,
these are our associate-gods, on whom we called, apart from Thee'; but they
will throw back the saying on them, `you are surely liars.'(86)
And that day they will offer surrender to God, and what they had forged
will forsake them.(87)
Those who disbelieve and bar from God's way, We shall increase on them
punishment over punishment, for they were causing disorder.(88)
And the day We shall raise up from every community a witness over them from
amongst them, We shall bring thee as a witness over these people. And We
have sent down on thee the Book as an exposition of everything, and as a
guidance, and a mercy and as a good news for those who surrender.(89)
God enjoins justice, good-doing, and giving to kinsmen, and He forbids
indecency, disgusting things and rebellion; He admonishes you so that you
may pay heed.(90)
And fulfil God's covenant, when you make a covenant, and do not break the
oaths after their confirmation, when you have made God your surety; God
knows the things you do.(91)
And be not like her who broke her thread, after it was firmly spun, into
bits. You take your oaths as a deceit between you, lest a community may
become more powerful than another community. God only tries you thereby;
and He will surely make clear to you, on the Day of Resurrection, in what
you differed.(92)
And had God willed, He would have made you one community; but He sends
astray whom He will and guides whom He will, and you will surely be
questioned about the things you were doing.(93)
And do not take your oaths as a deceit between you, lest a foot should slip
after it is firmly planted, and you taste evil for that you barred from
God's way, and lest you have a big punishment.(94)
And do not sell God's covenant for a small price; surely that which is with
God is good for you, if you but knew.(95)
That which is with you shall exhaust, but that which is with God shall
abide; and We will surely recompense those who are patient their wage, for
the best of their deeds.(96)
Whoso does a righteous deed, be it male or female, and he is a Believer, We
will surely give him a good life; and We will recompense them their wage,
for the best of their deeds.(97)
Now, when thou readest the Qur'an, seek refuge in God from the outcast
Devil.(98)
He has no authority over those who believe and trust in their Lord.(99)
His authority is only over those who befriend him and those who make him an
associate to God.(100)
And when We exchange a verse in place of another verse, and God knows best
what He sends down, they say, `thou art only a forger!' No, but most of
them have no knowledge.(101)
Say, `the Holy Spirit has brought it down from thy Lord with truth, that it
may confirm the Believers, and be a guidance and a good news to those who
surrender.'(102)
And We do know that they say, `only a mortal teaches him', his language, to
whom they refer, is foreign, while this is clear Arabic language.(103)
Surely those who do not believe in the Signs of God, God will not guide
them, and for them shall be a painful punishment.(104)
They only forge falsehood who do not believe in the Signs of God, and they
are the liars.(105)
Whoso disbelieves in God, after he believed--excepting him who has been
compelled but his heart is contented with belief __ but whoso opens his
breast with unbelief, upon them shall fall wrath from God, and for them
shall be a big punishment.(106)
That is because they prefer the present life against the Hereafter, and
because God does not guide the disbelieving people.(107)
Those are the ones on whose hearts, ears and eyes, God has set a seal, and
those are the heedless.(108)
No doubt, it is they who shall be the losers in the Hereafter.(109)
Then, thy Lord __ to those who emigrated, after they were persecuted, then
struggled and were patient __ surely thy Lord thereafter is Forgiving,
Merciful.(110)
That day every soul shall come pleading for itself, and every soul shall be
paid in full for what it did, and they shall not be wronged.(111)
And God strikes a similitude: a city that was secure and content, its
provision coming to it easefully from every place; then it became
unthankful to the blessings of God; so God let it taste overwhelming hunger
and fear for the things that they were working.(112)
And indeed there came to them a Messenger from among them, but they gave
lies to him; so the punishment seized them, for they were wrong-doers.(113)
Now, eat of the lawful and good things that God has provided you; and give
thanks for God's blessings, if Him only you serve.(114)
He has forbidden you only the carrion, the blood, the flesh of swine, and
that over which name of other than God is invoked; yet if any is
constrained, when not revolting nor transgressing, then God is Forgiving,
Merciful.(115)
And do not utter the falsehood as to what your tongues describe, `this is
lawful and this is forbidden', so that you forge falsehood against God.
Surely those who forge falsehood against God shall not prosper.(116)
A little enjoyment, and they shall have a painful punishment.(117)
And to the Jews, We forbade what We have related to thee before; and We did
not wrong them, but themselves they wronged.(118)
Then thy Lord __ to those who did evil in ignorance, then repented after
that, and put things right __ surely thy Lord, thereafter, is Forgiving,
Merciful.(119)
Surely Abraham was a complete model, obedient to God, and all-devoted; and
he was not of the idolators;(120)
he was thankful for His blessings; He chose him and guided him to a
straight path.(121)
And We gave him good in this world, and he will surely be among the
righteous in the Hereafter.(122)
Then We have revealed to thee, `follow the creed of Abraham, who was all-
devoted; and he was not of the idolators.'(123)
The Sabbath was appointed only for those who differed in it; and thy Lord
will surely judge between them on the Day of Resurrection in what they
differed.(124)
Call thou to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and good admonition, and plead
with them in a way that is most handsome. It is thy Lord who knows best
those who have gone astray from His way, and He knows best the guided
ones.(125)
And if you punish, then punish like you were punished; but if you are
patient, it is good for the patient.(126)
And be patient, yet thy patience is only with the help of God; and do not
grieve over them, nor be distressed for what they devise.(127)
God is with those who are godfearing, and those who are good-doers.(128)
AL-ASRA (17)
"The Night Journey"
(Revealed at Mecca,Verses 111)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulGlory be to Him who carried His servant by night, from the Sacred Mosque to
the Distant Mosque, the surroundings of which We have blessed, that We
might show him some of Our Signs; surely He is the Hearing, the Knowing.(1)
And We gave Moses the Book and made it a guidance for the Children of
Israel: `Do not take any caretaker apart from Me'.(2)
The progeny of those We bore with Noah; surely he was a thankful
servant.(3)
And We decreed for the Children of Israel in the Book: `You shall cause
disorder in the earth twice, and act in high arrogance'.(4)
So, when the promise of the first of the two came to pass, We sent against
you Our servants, men of terrible might, and they went through the inmost
of the houses; and it was a promise fulfilled.(5)
Then We gave you back the turn to prevail over them, and We aided you with
wealth and sons and made you a greater host.(6)
`If you do good, you do good for your own souls, and if you do evil, it is
for the same.' Then, when the other promise came to pass that they may
disgrace you and enter the Mosque as they entered it the first time, and
utterly destroy whatever they overpowered.(7)
It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you; but if you repeat, We
shall also repeat; and We have made Hell a prison for the unbelievers.(8)
Surely this Qur'an guides to the way that is most upright and gives good
news to the Believers who do righteous deeds, that for them shall be a big
wage;(9)
and that for those who do not believe in the Hereafter, We have prepared a
painful punishment.(10)
And man calls for evil as he calls for good; and man is surely hasty.(11)
And We have made the night and the day as two Signs, then We blotted out
the Sign of the night and made the Sign of the day to show things, that you
may seek bounty from your Lord, and that you may know the number of the
years and the reckoning; and everything We have distinguished
distinctly.(12)
And every man __We have fastened to him his bird of omen on his neck, and,
on the Day of Resurrection, We shall bring forth a book for him, which he
shall find spread wide open: (13)
`Read thy book; today thyself suffices thee as a reckoner against
thee.'(14)
Whoso takes the right way takes it only for himself, and whoso goes astray,
goes only against himself; and no bearer of load bears the load of another;
and We never punish until We send forth a Messenger.(15)
And when We intend to destroy a city, We make its men who live at ease to
transgress therein, then the Word is justified against it, and We destroy
it utterly.(16)
And how many a generation We have destroyed after Noah! And thy Lord
suffices as one who is aware of and sees the sins of His servants.(17)
Whoso desires this hasty world, We hasten for him therein what We will, for
whomso We desire; then We appoint for him Hell; there he shall burn
condemned and rejected.(18)
And whoso desires the Hereafter and strives for it as he should, and he is
a Believer, those __ their striving shall be thankfully accepted.(19)
Everyone We help __ these as well as those __ from thy Lord's gift; and thy
Lord's gift is not confined.(20)
See, how We have made some of them to excel others; and the Hereafter shall
be greater in ranks and greater in excellence.(21)
Do not set up with God another god, or thou wilt sit condemned and
forsaken.(22)
And thy Lord has decreed that you shall not serve any but Him, and to be
good to parents; if one of them or both of them attain old age with thee,
do not say to them, `fie', nor scold them; but speak to them kind
words.(23)
And lower to them the wings of humbleness out of mercy, and say, `my Lord,
have mercy on them, as they brought me up when I was little'.(24)
Your Lord knows very well what is in your souls; if you are righteous, then
surely He is Forgiving to those who turn to Him.(25)
And give the kinsman his right and also to the needy and the traveller, and
do not squander so utterly.(26)
Surely the squanderers are the brothers of the Devil, and the Devil is
unthankful to his Lord.(27)
And if thou turnest from them, seeking mercy from thy Lord that thou hopest
for, then speak to them gentle words.(28)
And keep not thy hand chained to thy neck, nor spread it out all-wide, for
then thou wilt sit reproached and denuded.(29)
It is thy Lord who outspreads and straitens the provision for whom He will;
He is surely aware of and sees His servants.(30)
And do not kill your children for fear of poverty; We provide for them and
you; surely the killing of them is a grievous sin.(31)
And do not approach fornication; it is surely an indecency, and evil as a
way!(32)
And do not kill the soul God has forbidden, except by right: and if any is
killed unjustly, We have given authority to his heir; but let him not
exceed in killing; he is surely helped.(33)
And do not approach the property of the orphan, except in a manner most
fair till he attains maturity. And fulfil the covenant; the covenant shall
surely be questioned.(34)
And fill up the measure when you measure, and weigh with the straight
balance; that is best and fairest in result.(35)
And do not pursue that which thou hast no knowledge of; surely the ears,
the eyes and the hearts, all those shall be questioned about it.(36)
And do not walk in the earth proudly; thou wilt never tear the earth, nor
reach the mountains in height.(37)
All these, the evil thereof is hateful in the sight of thy Lord.(38)
This is of the wisdom that thy Lord has revealed to thee; and do not set up
another god with God, or thou wilt be cast into Hell reproached and
rejected.(39)
What! has your Lord favoured you with sons and taken to Himself out of the
angels females? Surely you say a monstrous thing!(40)
And We have turned about (signs) in this (Qur'an), that they may pay heed;
but it increases them not except in aversion.(41)
Say, `if there had been other gods with Him', as they say, `then certainly
they would have sought a way to the Lord of the Throne'.(42)
He is Holy, High, Exalted, above that they say!(43)
The seven heavens and the earth and whoso is in them extol Him; nothing is
there but it celebrates His praise, though you do not understand their
extolling; surely He is Forbearing Forgiving.(44)
And when thou readest the Qur'an, We place between thee and those who do
not believe in the Hereafter a hidden veil;(45)
and We lay coverings on their hearts and heaviness in their ears, lest they
understand it. And when thou mentionest thy Only Lord in the Qur'an, they
turn their backs in aversion.(46)
We know very well how they listen when they listen to thee and when they
conspire, when the wrongdoers say, `you follow only a bewitched man!'(47)
Look, how they strike similitudes for thee, and have gone astray, and
cannot find the way.(48)
And they say, `what ! when we are bones and broken bits, shall we be raised
up in a new creation?'(49)
Say, `let you be stones or iron,(50)
or a creation harder in your thoughts.' Then they will say, `who will bring
us back?' Say, `He who originated you the first time.' Then they will shake
their heads at thee and say, `when will it be?' Say, `may be it is
near.(51)
On the day when He will call you, you will answer praising Him, and you
will think that you stayed but a little.''(52)
And say to My servants that they speak what is very handsome; the Devil
provokes strife between them; surely the Devil is an open enemy to man.(53)
Your Lord knows you very well; if He will, He will have mercy on you, or if
He will, He will punish you; and We have not sent thee to be a
caretaker.(54)
And thy Lord knows very well whoso is in the heavens and the earth; and We
have exalted some Prophets over others, and We gave to David Psalms.(55)
Say, `call on those you assert. apart from Him, but they have no power to
remove distress from you, or to transfer it.'(56)
Those they call upon, themselves seek the means of access to their Lord,
which of them shall be nearer, and they hope for His mercy and fear His
punishment; surely thy Lord's punishment is a thing to beware of.(57)
And no city is there, but We shall destroy it before the Day of
Resurrection, or punish it with a terrible punishment; that is written in
the Book.(58)
And nothing has prevented Us from sending the Signs except that the
ancients gave lies to them; and We gave Thamood the She-camel as a visible
Sign, but they did her wrong; and We send the Signs only to frighten.(59)
And when We said to thee, `thy Lord encompasses men', and We made the
vision that We showed thee, and the tree cursed in the Qur'an, to be only a
trial for men; and We frighten them but it increases them only in gross
insolence.(60)
And when We said to the angels, `prostrate yourselves before Adam', so they
prostrated themselves, except Ibils; he said, `shall I prostrate myself
before one whom Thou hast created of clay?'(61)
He also said, `hast Thou considered that this one whom Thou hast honoured
above me, if Thou deferest me to the Day of Resurrection, I shall surely
subdue his offspring except a few'.(62)
God said, `begone! surely those of them who follow thee, Hell shall be your
recompense, an ample recompense!(63)
And startle with thy voice whom thou canst and assault them with thy
horsemen and thy foot-soldiers, and share with them in wealth and children,
and give them promises. But the Devil promises them naught except
delusion.(64)
Indeed over My servants thou shalt have no authority; for thy Lord suffices
as a caretaker'.(65)
Your Lord is He who drives for you the ships in the sea, that you may seek
of His bounty; He is surely Merciful to you.(66)
And when harm visits you at sea, those whom you call upon are lost, except
Him; then when He delivers you to the land, you turn aside, for man is
surely thankless.(67)
But do you feel secure that He will not cause you to be swallowed up at the
land, or send upon you a violent sand-storm, then you will not find any
caretaker for you?(68)
Or do you feel secure that He will not take you back into it a second time,
and send against you a hurricane of wind, and drown you for your
thanklessness; then you will not find for you any prosecutor against
Us.(69)
And We have surely honoured the Children of Adam, and carried them on land
and sea, and provided them with good things, and exalted them greatly above
many of those that We have created.(70)
On the day when We shall call every people with their leader then whoso is
given his Book in his right hand, they shall read their Book, and they
shall not be wronged a date-thread.(71)
And whoso is blind in this (world) shall be blind in the Hereafter and
further astray from the way.(72)
And they almost seduced thee away from that We have revealed to thee, that
thou mightest forge against Us other than it; and then they would have
surely taken thee as a friend.(73)
And had We not made thee firm, thou wert almost inclined to them a
little.(74)
And then, We would have surely let thee taste double in life and double on
death, and then, thou wouldst not have found any helper against Us.(75)
And they almost startled thee from the land to expel thee from it, but then
they would have also not stayed after thee but a little.(76)
It is a tradition of those We sent before thee of Our Messengers, and thou
shalt not find Our tradition turning.(77)
Establish the Prayer at the decline of the sun to the darkening of the
night, and the reading of the Qur'an at dawn; surely the reading of the
Qur'an at dawn is witnessed.(78)
And keep awake with it at night,it is additional for thee; it may be that
thy Lord will raise thee up to a laudable status.(79)
And say, `my Lord, lead me in with a firm ingoing, and lead me out with a
firm outgoing, and give me from Thee a helping authority.'(80)
And say, `the truth has come, and falsehood has vanished; surely falsehood
is a thing to vanish!(81)
And We send down of the Qur'an that which is a healing and a mercy for the
Believers, yet it increases the wrong-doers nothing but loss.(82)
And when We bless man, he turns away and withdraws aside; and when evil
afflicts him he is in despair.(83)
Say, `everyone works in his own manner, and it is your Lord who know best
as to who is best guided on the way'.(84)
And they ask thee concerning the Spirit. Say, `the Spirit is of the command
of my Lord, and you have not been given of the knowledge but a little'.
(85)
And if We will, We would take away what We have revealed to thee, then thou
wouldst not find any concerning it to plead for thee against Us,(86)
except by some mercy of thy Lord; surely His bounty to thee is great.(87)
Say, `if men and jinn combined to produce the like of this Qur'an, they
would not produce the like of it, even if they backed one another'.(88)
And We have turned about in this Qur'an every kind of similitude for men;
yet most men refuse but unbelief.(89)
And they say, `we will not believe thee, till thou makest for us a spring
to gush forth from the earth;(90)
or thou hast a garden of palms and vines, and thou makest streams to gush
forth abundantly all through it;(91)
or as thou assertest, thou makest heaven to fall on us in fragments; or
thou bringest God and the angels face to face;(92)
or thou hast a house of gold; or thou goest up in heaven; but we will not
believe even thy going np till thou sendest down on us a Book that we
read.' Say, `Holy be my Lord; am I anything but a mortal, a Messenger?'(93)
And nothing prevented men from believing, when the guidance came to them,
but that they said, `has God sent forth a mortal as Messenger?'(94)
Say, `had there been on the earth angels walking at peace, We would have
sent down upon them from the heaven an angel as Messenger'.(95)
Say, `God suffices as a witness between me and you; He is surely aware of
and sees His servants'.(96)
And he whom God guides is the one guided, and whom He sends astray, for
them thou wilt not find any protectors, apart from Him. And We shall muster
them on the Day of Resurrection, with their faces down, blind, dumb, and
deaf. Their abode shall be Hell; whenever it abates, We shall increase the
Blaze for them.(97)
That shall be their recompense for they disbelieved in Our Signs, and said,
`what! when we are bones and broken bits, shall we be raised up in a new
creation?'(98)
Have they not considered that God, who created the heavens and the earth
and has, no doubt, appointed a term for them, is powerful enough to create
the like of them? But the wrong-doers refuse except unbelief.(99)
Say, `if you possessed the treasures of My Lord's mercy, you would have
held them back for fear of spending out; and man is surely niggardly.'(100)
And We gave Moses nine clear Signs; ask Children of Israel. When he came to
them and Pharaoh said to him, `I surely think thee, O Moses,
bewitched!'(101)
He said, `thou indeed knowest that none has sent these down, except the
Lord of the heavens and the earth, as clear proofs; and I do think that
thou, O Pharaoh, art doomed to perish'.(102)
And he desired to startle them from the land, but We drowned him and those
with him, all together.(103)
And, after him, We said to the Children of Israel, `dwell in the land; and
when the promise of the Hereafter comes We shall bring you together rolled
up'.(104
And, with the truth, We have sent it down, and, with the truth, it has come
down; and We have sent not thee but as a bearer of good news and as a
warner.(105)
And a Qur'an (reading) We have divided and sent it down successively, that
thou mayest read it to men at intervals.(106)
Say, `believe you in it or believe you not. Srely those who were given the
knowledge before it, when it is recited to them, they fall down on their
faces prostrating;(107)
and they say, `Holy be our Lord; our Lord's promise shall surely be
fulfilled.'(108)
And they fall down on their faces weeping, and it increases them in
humility.'(109)
Say, `call upon God or call upon the All-merciful; by whichever name you
call upon, His are the names most beautiful.' And be thou not loud in thy
prayer nor be in low tones, but seek for a way in between.(110)
And say, `Praise be to God who has not taken to Him a son, and who has no
associate in sovreignty, and who has no protector out of humbleness'; and
magnify Him magnificently. (111)
AL-KAHF (18)
"The Cave"
(Revealed at Mecca, Verses 110)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulPraise be to God who has sent down on His servant the Book, and has not
made any crookedness in it;(1)
standing to warn of a terrible scourge from Him, and to give good news to
the Believers, who do righteous deeds, that for them shall be a handsome
wage,(2)
therein to abide forever;(3)
and it may warn those who say, `God has taken to Himself a son';(4)
they have no knowledge of it, nor their fathers had; grievous is the word
that comes out of their mouths; they speak not but a lie.(5)
Yet, perhaps following after them, thou wilt consume thyself of sorrow if
they do no believe in this discourse.(6)
We have made all that is on the earth for its adornment, that we may try
them which of them is best in works.(7)
And We shall be surely making all that is on it barren dust.(8)
Dost thou think that Men of the Cave and Al-Raqim were a wonder among Our
signs?(9)
When the youths took refuge in the Cave, they said `our Lord, give us mercy
from Thee, and dispose us aright in our affair'.(10)
So We shut their ears in the Cave for a number of years;(11)
then We raised them up that We might know which of the two parties had
better accounted for the period they had stayed there.(12)
We will relate to thee their story with truth. They were some youths who
believed in their Lord, and We increased them in guidance.(13)
And We strengthened their hearts when they stood up, and said, `our Lord is
the Lord of the heavens and the earth; we will not call upon any god, apart
from Him, for then we would be speaking outrage.(14)
These our people have taken to them gods, apart from Him. Why do they not
bring a clear authority about them? Who then does greater wrong than he who
forges a lie against God?(15)
And now that you have gone apart from them and from what they serve except
God, take refuge in the Cave, your Lord will unfold to you of his mercy,
and make your affair easy for you'.(16)
And thou wouldst see the sun, when it rises, inclining away from their cave
to the right, and when it sets, passing them by on the left, while they lie
in a broad fissure of it. That was of the Signs of God; whomso God guides,
he finds the way, and whomso He sends astray, thou wilt not find any
directing friend for him.(17)
And thou wouldst deem them awake while they were asleep, and We turned them
over to the right and to the left; and their dog was stretching its paws on
the threshold. Hadst thou looked at them, thou wouldst have turned away
from them in flight, and have been filled with terror of them.(18)
And like that We raised them up, that they might question one another. One
of them said, `how long have you stayed?' They said, `we have stayed a day
or part of a day'. They said, `only your Lord knows best how long you have
stayed; send one of you with this coin of yours to the city, and let him
look for which of them has purest food, and bring you some provision
thereof; and let him be courteous and let him not make any to perceive of
you.(19)
For if they should come to know of you, they will stone you or restore you
to their creed, and then you will never succeed.'(20)
And, like that, We made them known to people, that they might know that
God's promise is true and that there is no doubt regarding the Hour. When
they were contending among them their affair they said, `build over them a
building.' Their Lord knew them best. Those who prevailed over their affair
said, `We will raise a place of worship over them'.(21)
They will say, `they were three and their dog was the fourth of them'; and,
guessing at the unseen, they will say, `they were five and their dog was
the sixth of them'; and they will say, `they were seven and their dog was
the eighth of them'. Say, `my Lord best knows their number, and none knows
them but a few'. So do not dispute concerning them except what is apparent,
nor ask any of them about them.(22)
And never say regarding a thing, `I shall do this tomorrow',(23)
but (say) `if God will'; and remember thy Lord when thou forgetest, and
say, `it may be that my Lord guides me to a thing more correct than this.'
__(24)
And `they stayed in their Cave three hundred years' and they add nine?(25)
Say, `God knows best how long they stayed. To Him belongs the unseen of the
heavens and the earth; how well He sees and how well He hears; they have no
protector apart from Him; and He does not associate anyone in His
sovereignty.(26)
And recite what has been revealed to thee of the Book of thy Lord; none can
change His Words; and thou wilt not find any refuge apart from Him.(27)
And restrain thyself with those who, desiring His attention, call upon
their Lord morning and evening; and desiring the adornment of the present
life, turn not thy eyes away from them; and do not obey him whose heart We
have made neglectful of Our Remembrance and who follows his caprice, and
his affair has exceeded limits.(28)
And say, `the Truth is from your Lord, so whoso will, let him believe, and
whoso will, let him disbelieve;' We have prepared for the wrong-doers a
Fire, whose enclosures will encompass them; and if they ask for help, they
will be helped with water like molten copper that will scald their faces __
how evil a drink, and how evil a resting place!(29)
Those who believe and do righteous deeds __ and We do not waste the wage of
those who do good works __(30)
for them shall be gardens of eternity, and rivers shall flow beneath them;
therein they shall be adorned with bracelets of gold, and they will be
dressed in green garments of silk and brocade, reclining therein upon
couches, __ how excellent a reward, and how fine a resting place!(31)
And describe to them a similitude of two men. To one of them We assigned
two gardens of vines, and surrounded them with palm trees, and between the
two We set a sown field.(32)
Both the gardens produced their fruit and did not fail in any way, and We
made a stream to gush forth amidst them.(33)
And he had his fruit. So he said to his companion, while conversing with
him, `I have more abundance of wealth and am stronger in manpower than
thou'.(34)
And he entered his garden wronging himself; he said, `I do not guess that
this will ever perish;(35)
and I do not guess that the Hour will come; and if I am, at all, returned
to my Lord, I shall surely find a resort better than this'.(36)
His companion said to him, while conversing with him, `dost thou disbelieve
in Him who created thee of dust, then of a sperm drop, then shaped thee as
a man?(37)
But He is God, my Lord, and I do not associate anyone with my Lord.(38)
And why, when thou enteredest thy garden, didst thou not say, `as God will;
there is no power except in God?' If thou seest me that I am less than thou
in wealth and children,(39)
then it may be, that my Lord gives me better than thy garden, and looses on
it appropriate due from the heaven, so that it becomes a slope of dust;(40)
or its water goes deep, so that thou canst not seek it out.'(41)
And his fruit was encompassed, and he began wringing his hands for what he
had spent on it; and it was fallen down on its trellises, and he was
saying, `would that I had not associated anyone with my Lord'.(42)
And he had no troop to help him, apart from God, nor could he help
himself.(43)
There the protection belongs only to God, the True; He is best in rewarding
and best in the end-result.(44)
And describle to them the similitude of the present life: it is like water
that We send down from heaven with which the plants of the earth mingled,
then it became straw which the winds scattered; and God is fully powerful
over everything.(45)
Wealth and sons are the adornment of this world; but the lasting things,
the deeds of righteousness, are better in reward and better in hope with
thy Lord.(46)
And on the day We shall move the mountains, and thou wilt see the earth
coming forth, and that We have mustered them and have not left anyone of
them behind;(47)
and they are presented before thy Lord in ranks: `you have come to Us as We
created you the first time; no, but you asserted that We shall not make an
appointment with you!'(48)
And the Book will be placed, and thou wilt see the sinners fearful of what
is in it and saying, `alas for us; how is it with this Book that it leaves
out nothing behind, small or big, but it has counted it.' And they shall
find whatever they did present; and thy Lord shall not wrong anyone.(49)
And when We said to the angels, `prostrate yourselves before Adam', they
prostrated themselves, except Iblis; he was of the jinn, so he transgressed
his Lord's command. Now, do you take him and his offspring as friends,
apart from Me, while they are an enemy to you; how evil is that exchange
for the wrong-doers!(50)
I did not call them to witness the creation of the heavens and the earth,
nor their own creation, nor would I take those who lead others astray as
supporters.(51)
And on the day He shall say: `call on those whom you asserted to be My
associates'; and they shall call on them, but they will not answer them,
and We will set a gulf between them.(52)
And the sinners will see the Fire, and think that they are about to fall
into it, but will not find any escape from it.(53)
And We have turned about in this Qur'an every type of similitude for
mankind; but man is most disputatious of things.(54)
And nothing prevented men, when the guidance came to them, from believing
and seeking forgiveness of their Lord, except that the tradition of the
ancients should come upon them, or the punishment should come upon them
face to face.(55)
And We do not send the Envoys but as bearers of good news and warners, yet
the unbelievers dispute with falsehood to rebut the truth thereby, and they
have taken My sings and what they are warned of in mockery.(56)
And who does greater wrong than he who was admonished with his Lord's
signs, yet he turned away from them and forgot what his hands had
forwarded? We have put veils on their hearts and heaviness in their ears,
lest they understand it; and if thou callest them to the guidance, even
then they will not find the way ever.(57)
But thy Lord is Forgiving and Merciful; if He should seize them for what
they have earned, He would hasten for them the punishment; but for them is
an appointed time when they will not find, apart from Him, any place of
escape,.(58)
And those are the cities that We destroyed when they did wrong, and We had
assigned for their destruction an appointed time.(59)
And (remember) when Moses said to his page, `I will not give up until I
reach the meeting-point of the two seas, or I shall go on for ages'.(60)
So when they reached the meeting-point of them, they forgot their fish and
it burrowed its way into the sea.(61)
And when they had passed over, he said to his page, `bring us our
breakfast; we have developed fatigue from this journey of ours'.(62)
He said, `hast thou seen, when we took rest by the rock, I forgot the fish,
and none but the Devil made me forget to mention it; and, strangely, it
took its way into the sea'.(63)
He said, `that is what we were seeking!' So they returned retracing their
footsteps;(64)
and they found a servant from among Our servants, whom We had granted mercy
from Us, and had taught him knowledge from Ourselves.(65)
Moses said to him, `shall I follow thee so that thou teachest me of the
right understanding taught to thee?'(66)
He said, `thou canst not have patience with me.(67)
And how shouldst thou be patient on that whose basic knowledge thou dost
not comprehend'.(68)
He said, `thou shalt find me, if God will, patient, and I shall not disobey
thee in anything'.(69)
He said, `if thou followest me, then do not question me on anything until I
myself relate it to thee'.(70)
So they departed, until when they embarked upon the ship, he made a hole in
it. He said, `hast thou made a hole in it to drown its people? Thou hast
surely done a strange thing'.(71)
He said, `did I not say that thou canst not have patience with me?'(72)
He said, `do not take me to task for what I forgot, and be not hard in my
doing'.(73)
And they departed; until when they met a boy, he killed him; he said, `hast
thou killed a soul without retaliating for a soul; thou hast indeed done a
horrible thing.'(74)
He said, `did I not say to thee that thou couldst not bear with me
patiently?'(75)
He said, `if I question thee on anything after this, do not keep me
company; thou hast already had a sufficient excuse from my side'.( 76)
And they departed; until when they reached the people of a city, they asked
its people for food, but they refused to receive them as guests. Then they
found a wall there that was about to tumble down and he set it up. He said,
`if thou hadst wished, thou couldst have taken a wage for it!'(77)
He said, `this is the parting between me and thee. Now I will tell thee the
interpretation of that which thou couldst not bear patiently.'(78)
`As for the ship, it belonged to some poor men who worked at the sea and I
desired to make it faulty, for there was a king ahead of them who seized
every ship by brutal force.(79)
And as for the boy, his parents were believers and we feared lest he should
impose on them insolence and ingratitude.(80)
So we desired that their Lord should give them in exchange one better in
purity and nearer in tenderness than he.(81)
And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and
beneath it was a treasure for them, and their father was a righteous man.
So thy Lord desired that they should reach their maturity and then take out
their treasure as a mercy from thy Lord; and I did not do it of my own
bidding. That is the interpretation of that with which thou couldst not
have patience.' (82)
And they ask thee about Zul-Qarnain. Say, `I shall recite to you a mention
of him.'(83)
We established him in the land, and We gave him a way to everything.(84)
So he followed a way.(85)
Until when he reached the setting place of the sun, he found it setting in
a muddy spring and he found near it a people. We said, `O Zul-Qarnain, thou
mayest punish them or thou mayest show them goodness.'(86)
He said, `as for him who does wrong we shall punish him, then he shall be
returned to his Lord, and He shall punish him with a horrible
punishment.(87)
And as for him who believes and does righteousness, he shall have the most
handsome reward, and we shall tell him easiness in our affair'.(88)
Then he followed a way.(89)
Until when he reached the rising place of the sun he found it rising on a
people for whom We had not made any covering other than it.(90)
So it was; and We encompassed full knowledge of the things about him.(91)
Then he followed a way.(92)
Until when he reached between the two barriers, he found besides them a
people who could scarcely understand speech.(93)
They said, `O Zul-Qarnain, Gog and Magog are causing disorder in the land;
so shall we assign a tribute to thee on the condition that thou makest a
barrier between us and them?'(94)
He said, `that wherein my Lord has established me is better; so aid me with
labour force and I will set up a fortified barrier between you and
them.(95)
Bring me ingots of iron'. Until when he had levelled up between the two
cliffs, he said, `blow'. Until when he had made it a fire, he said, `bring
me so that I may pour molten brass on it.'(96)
So they were unable to surmount it, nor could they dig through it.(97)
He said, `this is a mercy from my Lord, but when the promise of my Lord
will come to pass, He will make it into powder and my Lord's promise is
surely true'.(98)
And on that day We shall leave them, some surging on others, and the
Trumpet shall be blown, so that We shall gather them all together;(99)
and on that day We shall present Hell to the unbelievers,(100)
those whose eyes were under cover against My Remembrance and they were not
able to hear.(101)
Do then the unbelievers think that they may take My servants as protectors,
apart from Me? We have prepared Hell for the unbelievers' hospitality.(102)
Say, `shall we tell you who are the greatest losers in their works?(103)
Those whose effort in the present life went astray, and they think that
they are doing good works.(104)
Those are the ones who disbelieved in the Signs of their Lord and the
meeting with Him, so their works failed and We shall not assign any weight
to them on the Day of Resurrection.(105)
That shall be their recompense--Hell, for that they disbelieved and took My
Signs and My Messengers in mockery.(106)
As for those who believed and did righteous deeds, the gardens of Paradise
shall be their hospitality,(107)
to dwell therein forever, not seeking to be removed from there.'(108)
Say, `if the sea were ink for the Words of my Lord, the sea would be spent
before the Words of my Lord were spent, even though We brought in aid the
like of it'.(109)
Say, `I am only a mortal like you to whom is revealed that your god is only
One God; so let him who hopes for the meeting with his Lord, do righteous
deeds, and not associate anyone in the service of his Lord.'(110)
MARYAM (19)
"Mary"
(Revealed at Mecca, Verses 98)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulKaf Ha Ya Ain Sad (K.H.Y.A.S.);(1)
the mention of thy Lord's mercy to His servant Zachariah;(2)
when he called upon his Lord in low tones.(3)
He said, `my Lord, my bones are enfeebled, and my head is aflame with age,
yet in calling on Thee, my Lord, I have never been unlucky.(4)
And I fear my kinsmen after I am gone, and my wife is barren, so grant me
from Thee a heir,(5)
who shall inherit me and inherit the House of Jacob; and, my Lord, make him
pleasing.'(6)
`O Zachariah, We give thee good news of a boy whose name shall be John. We
have not made any worthy of his name before.'(7)
He said, `my Lord, how shall I have a son when my wife is barren, and I
have reached extreme of old age.'(8)
He said, `so it will be; thy Lord says, `it is easy for Me, for I created
thee before, when thou wast nothing'.(9)
He said, `my Lord, appoint for me a Sign?' He said, `thy sign is that thou,
though normal, shalt not speak to men for three nights.'(10)
So he came out to his people from the chamber, and made signal to them,
`extol God at dawn and at night'.(11)
`O John, take the Book with strength'. And We gave him Judgement, while yet
a child,(12)
and a tenderness and purity from us; and he was godfearing(13)
and kind to his parents, and he was not arrogant or defiant.(14)
And `peace be upon him, the day he was born, the day he dies, and the day
he shall be raised to life.'(15)
And mention in the Book Mary, when she withdrew from her people to an
eastern place,(16)
and she took a veil apart from them; then We sent to her Our Spirit and he
appeared to her a normal man.(17)
She said, ``I take refuge in the All-merciful from thee, if thou indeed art
godfearing.' (18)
He said, `I am but a messenger of thy Lord that I may bestow on thee a pure
boy'.(19)
She said, `how shall I have a boy when no man has touched me, and I am not
unchaste'.(20)
He said, `so it shall be; thy Lord says, `it is easy for Me and that We may
make him a Sign for men and a mercy from Us, and it is a matter
decreed.'(21)
So she conceived him and withdrew with him to a distant place.(22)
Then the birthpangs drove her to the trunk of the palm tree. She said,
`would that I had died before this, and become a thing forgotten'.(23)
And one called her from below her, `do not grieve; thy Lord has set a
rivulet below thee.(24)
And shake to thee the trunk of the palm tree, and it will drop on thee
fresh ripe dates.(25)
So eat and drink and cool the eyes. And if thou seest any mortal, say, `I
have vowed a fast to the All-merciful, so today, I shall not speak to any
man.'(26)
Then, carrying him, she brought him to her people. They said, `Mary, thou
hast surely committed a monstrous thing.(27)
O sister of Aaron, thy father was not a wicked man, and thy mother was not
unchaste.'(28)
So she pointed to him. They said, `how shall we speak to one who is an
infant in the cradle?'(29)
He spoke, `I am God's servant; He has given me the Book and made me a
Prophet,(30)
and He has made me blessed wherever I may be, and He has enjoined on me the
Prayer and the Alms-giving as long as I live,(31)
and to be kind to my mother; and He has not made me arrogant and
unlucky.(32)
And peace be upon me, the day I was born, the day I die and the day I shall
be raised alive.'(33)
That is Jesus, son of Mary, in word of truth in which they doubt.(34)
It is not for God that He should take to Him a son __ He is Holy. When He
decrees a thing, He only says to it, `be', and it is.(35)
And (he said) `God is my Lord and your Lord, so serve Him __ this is a
straight path.'(36)
But the sects have differed among them; so woe to those who disbelieve for
the witnessing of a Mighty Day.(37)
How well they will hear and see on the day they come to Us! But, today the
wrong-doers are clearly astray.(38)
And warn them of the Day of Regret, when the matter shall be decided; but
they are heedless and they do not believe.(39)
We ourselves shall inherit the earth and all those that are upon it, and to
Us they shall be returned.(40)
And mention in the Book Abraham; he was surely a truthful man, a
Prophet.(41)
When he said to his father, `father, why dost thou serve that which neither
hears nor sees, nor avails thee anything.(42)
Father, there has come to me such knowledge as has not come to thee, so
follow me and I shall guide thee to an even path.(43)
Father, do not serve the Devil; the Devil is surely a rebel to the All-
merciful.(44)
Father, I fear that a punishment from the All-merciful shall afflict thee
so that thou shalt become a comrade of the Devil.'(45)
He said, `art thou averse to my gods, Abraham? If thou dost not give over,
I will stone thee; so leave me for some time.'(46)
He said, `peace be upon thee! I shall pray my Lord for thy forgiveness; He
is surely gracious to me.(47)
And I go apart from you and what you call upon, apart from God, and I will
call upon my Lord; perhaps I shall not be unlucky in calling upon my
Lord.'(48)
So when he went apart from them and what they were serving, apart from God,
We bestowed upon him Isaac and Jacob; and each We made a Prophet.(49)
And We bestowed upon them Our mercy, and We made for them a renowned tongue
of truth.(50)
And mention in the Book Moses; he was specially chosen, and he was a
Messenger, a Prophet.(51)
And We called to him from the right side of the Mount, and We drew him near
in communion.(52)
And, out of Our mercy, We bestowed on him his brother Aaron, a Prophet.(53)
And mention in the Book Ishmael; he was true to his promises, and he was a
Messenger, a Prophet.(54)
And he used to bid his people the Prayer and the Alms-giving, and he was
pleasing to his Lord.(55)
And mention in the book Idris; he was a true man, a Prophet;(56)
and We raised him up to a high place.(57)
Those are the ones whom God blessed, among the Prophets of the off-spring
of Adam, and of those We bore with Noah, and of the offspring of Abraham
and Israel, and of those We guided and chose. When the signs of the All-
merciful were recited to them they fell down prostrate, weeping.(58)
Then there succeeded after them successions that wasted the Prayer and
followed lusts; they shall soon meet perversion,(59)
except those who repent and believe and do righteous deeds; they shall
enter Paradise and shall not be wronged in the least;(60)
Gardens of Eternity that the All-merciful has promised His servants in the
unseen; His promise is surely fulfilled.(61)
They will not hear any non-sense there, but only greetings of peace; and
they shall have their provision there at dawn and evening.(62)
That is Paradise which We shall give in inheritance to such of Our servants
who are godfearing.(63)
And we do not come down but at the command of thy Lord; to Him belongs what
is before us, what is behind us and what is between that; and thy Lord is
never forgetful;(64)
Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, so serve Him,
and be steadfast in His service; dost thou know anyone worthy of His
Name?(65)
And Man says, `when I am dead, shall I be brought forth alive?'(66)
But does man not remember that We created him before, when he was
nothing?(67)
So, by thy Lord, We will surely muster them and the devils, then We shall
bring them about the Hell on their knees;(68)
then We shall draw forth from every party such of them as were most
hardened in disdain of the All-merciful.(69)
Then, We surely know very well those most deserving to burn in it.(70)
And there is none among you, but he shall arrive at it; that is definite
and decreed with thy Lord.(71)
Then, We shall deliver those who fear God, and leave the wrongdoers there
on their knees.(72)
And when Our clear signs are recited to them, the unbelievers say to the
Believers, `which of the two parties is better in position and fairer in
company?'(73)
But how many a generation have We destroyed before them, who were better in
gear and outward show?(74)
Say, `whoso is astray, let the All-merciful prolong his term long; till
when they see what they are threatened with, whether the punishment or the
Hour, they will know who is worse in position and weaker in hosts.'(75)
And those who are guided, God increases them in guidance; and the abiding
things, the deeds of righteousness, are better in reward with thy Lord and
better in return.(76)
And hast thou seen him who disbelieves in Our signs and says, `I shall
surely be given wealth and children?'(77)
Has he observed the unseen or taken a covenant with the All-merciful?(78)
No indeed! We shall write down what he says, and We shall prolong for him
the punishment,(79)
and We shall inherit from him what he says, and he shall come to Us
alone.(80)
And they have taken to them gods, apart from God, that they might be for
them a might(81)
No indeed! they will deny their service, and shall be pitted against
them.(82)
Hast thou not seen how We have sent the devils over the unbelievers to
incite them?(83)
So be not in haste against them; We are only numbering them.(84)
On the day that We muster the godfearing to the All-merciful as guests,
(85)
and drive the sinners to Hell in a herd;(86)
they will not have any power of intercession, except him who has made a
covenant with the All-merciful.(87)
And they say, `the All-merciful has taken to Himself a son.'(88)
You have indeed advanced a hideous thing!(89)
The heavens may be rent of it, and the earth split asunder, and the
mountains fall down crashing,(90)
for that they have attributed to the All-merciful a son.(91)
It behoves not the All-merciful that He should take a son.(92)
None is there in the heavens and the earth but he comes to the All-merciful
as a servant.(93)
He has counted them and He has numbered them exactly;(94)
and, on the Day of Resurrection, everyone of them shall come to Him all
alone.(95)
Those who believe and do righteous deeds, the All-merciful shall assign to
them love.(96)
So We have made it easy by thy tongue, that, thereby thou mayest give good
news to the godfearing, and warn a stubborn people.(97)
And how many a generation We have destroyed before them! Dost thou perceive
anyone of them, or hear of them a wispier?(98)
TA HA (20)
"Ta Ha"
(Revealed at Mecca,Verses 135)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulTa Ha (T. H.);(1)
We have not sent down the Qur'an on thee that thou be in distress;(2)
but as a reminder for him who fears;(3)
a sending down from Him who created the earth and the high heavens;(4)
the All-merciful who sits on the Throne.(5)
To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens, whatever is in the earth,
whatever is between them, and whatever is underneath the soil.(6)
And if thou speakest aloud, yet He knows the secret, and what is yet more
hidden.(7)
He is God, there is no god but He; His are the most beautiful names.(8)
And has the story of Moses come to thee?(9)
When he saw a fire, he said to his family, `stop, I observe a fire; may be
I bring you a brand from it, or I find some guidance at the fire.'(10)
So when he came to it, he received a call,(11)
`I am thy Lord, put off thy shoes; thou art in the sacred valley of
Towa.(12)
And I have chosen thee, so listen to what is revealed.(13)
Surely I am God, there is no god but I, so serve Me, and establish the
Prayer for My remembrance.(14)
Surely the Hour shall come, I would keep it hidden that every soul may be
recompensed for what it strives.(15)
So let not him who does not believe in it and follows his caprice keep thee
away from it, for then thou wilt perish.' (16)
`And what is that in thy right hand, Moses?'(17)
`It is my staff', he said, `I lean upon it, and I beat down leaves for my
sheep with it, and I have in it other uses also for me'.(18)
He said, `cast it down, Moses.'(19)
So he cast it down, then lo, it was a serpent sliding.(20)
He said, `take it and do not fear; We shall restore it to its first
state.(21)
And put thy hand under thy armpit; it shall come forth white without fault;
it is another Sign;(22)
it is so, that We may show thee some of Our greatest Signs.(23)
Go to Pharaoh, for he has transgressed bounds.'(24)
He said, `my Lord, open my breast for me,(25)
and ease my affair for me,(26)
and unloose the knot on my tongue,(27)
that they may understand my word''.(28)
And appoint for me a minister from my family,(29)
Aaron, my brother;(30)
strengthen my back with him,(31)
and associate him with me in my task,(32)
that we extol Thee much,(33)
and remember Thee much;(34)
Thou surely seest us.'(35)
He said, `thou art granted thy request, Moses'.(36)
`And of course We favoured thee another time,(37)
when We revealed to thy mother what was revealed: (38)
`Put him in the ark, then cast it into the river, and the river will cast
it on the shore; an enemy of Mine and an enemy of his shall take him up.'
And I lavished on thee love from Me, and that thou mayest be prepared
before my eyes.(39)
When thy sister walked along, saying, `shall I point out to you one who
will take charge of him?' So We returned thee to thy mother that her eyes
cool, and she does not grieve. And thou killedest a person, yet We
delivered thee from grief, and We tried thee with many trials. And thou
stayedest among the people of Midian for years, and then, O Moses, thou
camest on a standard.(40)
And I have prepared thee for My own sake.(41)
Go thou and thy brother with My Signs, and slacken not in My
remembrance.(42)
Go you (two) to Pharaoh, for he has transgressed,(43)
yet speak to him in gentle words, that he may perhaps pay heed or
fear.'(44)
They said, `our Lord, we fear lest he exceeds against us, or
transgresses'.(45)
He said, `do not fear, I am with you, hearing and seeing.'(46)
Go to him and say, `we are Messengers of thy Lord, so send forth the
Children of Israel with us, and do not punish them; we have brought thee a
Sign from thy Lord; and peace be upon him who follows the guidance.(47)
It has been revealed to us that punishment overtakes him who cries lies and
turns his back.'(48)
Pharaoh said, `who is your Lord, Moses?' Moses said(49)
`our Lord is He who gave everything its form then guided'(50)
Pharaoh said, `and how is it with the former generations?'(51)
Moses said, `the knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a Book; my Lord does
not go astray, nor forgets,(52)
He who has made the earth a cradle for you and opened in it routes for you,
and sent down water from heaven. And with it, (says He), We have brought
forth diverse kinds of plants: (53)
`eat and pasture your cattle;' in that are surely Signs for men of
reasoning.(54)
Out of it We have created you, and into it We shall return you, and out of
it We shall bring you forth a second time.'(55)
And indeed We showed him all Our signs, but he cried lies and refused.(56)
He said, `hast thou come, O Moses, to us to expel us out of our land by thy
sorcery?(57)
We shall bring thee similar sorcery; so make an appointment between us and
thee, which neither we nor thou shalt fail, at a convenient place.'(58)
He said, `appointment with you shall be the Feast Day, and that men shall
be mustered at forenoon.'(59)
So Pharaoh withdrew and gathered his guile, then came.(60)
Moses said to them, `woe to you; do not forge falsehood against God, or He
shall extirpate you with a punishment; and whoso forges surely fails.'(61)
And they disputed among them on their plan, and conspired secretly.(62)
They said, `these two are sorcerers who, by their sorcery, intend to expel
you out of your land and do away with your distinguished culture.(63)
So gather your guile, then come compact; today he who gains upper hand
surely succeeds.(64)
They said, `O Moses, shalt thou cast, or shall we be the first to
cast?'(65)
He said, `no, you cast'. Then lo, their ropes and their staffs, by their
sorcery, seemed to him as if they were sliding.(66)
And Moses conceived fear within him.(67)
We said, `do not fear; surely thou art the uppermost.(68)
And cast down what is in thy right hand; it shall swallow what they have
worked; they have worked only the guile of a sorcerer; and the sorcerer
does not succeed whereever he goes.'(69)
And the sorcerers fell down prostrate. They said, `we believe in the Lord
of Aaron and Moses.'(70)
Pharaoh said, `have you believed him before I permitted you? Surely he is
your chief who has taught you sorcery. Now I shall cut off your hands and
your feet from opposite sides, and I shall crucify you on the trunks of the
palm trees, and you shall know which of us is more terrible in punishment
and more abiding?'(71)
They said, `we shall not prefer thee over the clear Signs, that have come
to us, and over Him who has originated us; so decide what thou wouldst
decide; thou canst only decide about this present life.(72)
We have believed in Our Lord, that He may forgive us our faults and the
sorcery that thou hast constrained us to practise; and God is better and
more abiding.'(73)
Surely whoso comes to his Lord a sinner, for him shall be Hell; he will
neither die in it nor live.(74)
And whoso comes to Him a believer, having done righteous deeds, for them
shall be high ranks __ (75)
gardens of eternity underneath which rivers flow, to dwell there forever;
and that is the recompense of him who purifies him.(76)
And We revealed to Moses, `take My servants by night, and strike for them a
dry path in the sea, not fearing to be overtaken, nor afraid.'(77)
Then Pharaoh followed them with his hosts, but there covered them of the
flood what covered them.(78)
And Pharaoh led his people astray, and guided them not.(79)
O Children of Israel, We delivered you from your enemy, and We made a
covenant with you on the right side of the Mount, and We sent down upon you
manna and quails: (80)
`eat of the good things wherewith We have provided you, but do not exceed
in it, or My wrath shall alight upon you; and on whom My wrath alights, he
perishes.(81)
Yet I am All-forgiving to him who repents, believes, does righteous deeds,
then follows guidance.'(82)
`And what has made thee to leave thy people, in haste, O Moses?'(83)
`They are on my track', he said, `and I have hastened to Thee, my Lord,
that Thou mayest be pleased.' __(84)
`But We have put thy people on trial after thee,' He said, `and the Samiri
has led them astray.'(85)
So Moses returned to his people, angry and sorrowful; he said, `O my
people, did your Lord not make a fair promise to you? Did the time of the
covenant become too long for you, or did you desire that wrath from your
Lord should alight on you that you failed in the promise you had made with
me?'(86)
They said, `we did not fail in the promise that we made with thee of our
own accord, but we were loaded with the ornaments of the people and we cast
them,' and so did Samiri suggest'.(87)
And he brought forth for them a calf, a mere body that lowed, and they
said, `this is your god and the god of Moses, but he has forgotten'.(88)
Did they not see that it did not return any word to them nor had he any
power to hurt or profit them?(89)
And Aaron had also said to them before, `O my people, you have only been
put to trial by this, and indeed your Lord is the All-merciful, so follow
me and obey my command'.(90)
They said, `we shall not cease to sit by it, until Moses returns to
us.'(91)
He (Moses) said, `Aaron, what prevented thee, when thou sawest them
astray,(92)
that thou didst not follow after me? Didst thou disobey my command?'(93)
He said, `O son of my mother, do not take me by my beard or my head; I
feared that thou woulds say, `thou caused division among the Children of
Israel, and thou didst not wait for my word.'(94)
He (Moses) said, `what was thy business, O Samiri?'(95)
He said, `I saw what they did not see, and I took a handful of dust from
the track of the messenger and cast it, and thus my soul prompted me.'(96)
`Depart', said he, `thine in life shall be to say, `no touching;' and for
thee is an appointed time which shalt not fail. And look towards thy god,
by which thou wast sitting; we will burn it, then scatter it away in the
sea.'(97)
`Your god is only One God, there is no god but He; He embraces everything
in knowledge.'(98)
Thus We relate to thee some news of what has gone before, and We have
indeed given thee from Us an Admonition.(99)
Any who turns away from it, he shall bear a burden on the Day of
Resurrection,(100)
abiding with it forever; and how evil shall be their burden on the Day of
Resurrection;(101)
on the Day, when the Trumpet is blown and, on that day, We muster the
sinners, turned blue;(102)
whispering among them, `you stayed for only ten (days).'(103)
We very well know what they will say, when the most cultured of them says,
`you stayed not but a day.'(104)
And they ask thee concerning the mountains; say, `my Lord shall scatter
them as ashes,(105)
and leave them a plain level,(106)
wherein thou wilt not see any curve, nor a dune.'(107)
On that day they will follow the Summoner, who has no crookedness in him,
and the voices will be hushed before the All-merciful, so that thou shalt
not hear but a murmuring.(108)
On that day intercession will not profit except for him whom the All-
merciful gives leave, and whose speech He approves.(109)
He knows what is before them and what is behind them, but they do not
comprehend Him in know-ledge.(110)
And faces shall be humbled before the One Living, the Everlasting; and he
will have failed who carries wrong deeds.(111)
But whoso does deeds of righteousness and is a believer, shall not fear any
wrong or withholding of dues.(112)
And even so We have sent it down as an Arabic Reading (Qur'an) and have
turned about some threats in it, that they may become godfearing, or that
it may renew admonition to them.(113)
So Exalted be God, the True King! And do not hasten with the Reading
(Qur'an) before its revelation is accomplished to thee, and say, `my Lord,
increase me in knowledge.'(114)
And of course We made covenant with Adam before, but he forgot, and We did
not find any constancy in him.(115)
And when We said to the angels, `prostrate yourselves before Adam,' they
prostrated themselves except Iblis; he refused.(116)
Then We said, `O Adam, this is an enemy to thee and thy wife, so let him
not expel you from the garden, for then thou shalt be in distress.(117)
Here it is given to thee neither to go hungry nor naked,(118)
and here thou neither goest thirsty nor sufferest sun.'(119)
Then the Devil whispered to him; he said, `O Adam, shall I point thee to
the Tree of Eternity and a Kingdom that shall not decay?'(120)
So they ate of it, and their shameful parts were apparent to them, and they
took to stitching on them the leaves of the garden. And Adam disobeyed his
Lord and was perverse.(121)
Yet his Lord chose him, and turned to him and guided him.(122)
He said, `get you both down from here together, as enemy to one another;
and guidance will come to you from Me, then whoso follows My guidance will
not go astray, nor will he be in distress.(123)
And whoso turns away from My Admonition, his shall be a straitened life,
and We shall raise him blind on the Day of Resurrection.'(124)
He will say, `my Lord, why hast thou raised me blind, when I was a seeing
man?'(125)
He will say. `even so Our signs came to thee but thou didst forget them,
and today, thou art also forgotten.'(126)
And so We recompense him who exceeds limits and does not believe in the
signs of his Lord; and surely the Punishment of the Hereafter is more
terrible and more lasting.(127)
Does it not guide them, how many generations we destroyed before them in
whose dwelling places they walk? Surely in that are Signs for men
possessing reason.(128)
And had not a Word gone forth from thy Lord and a term stated, it had been
materialised.(129)
So be thou paient on what they say, and celebrate the praise of thy Lord
before the rising of the sun and before its setting; and celebrate it
during hours of the night and at the ends of the day, that thou mayest be
pleased.(130)
And stretch not thy eyes to the flowers of the present life that We have
given to some groups among them, that We may thereby try them, for the
provision of thy Lord is better and more lasting.(131)
And enjoin Prayer on thy people and be thou steadfast on it; We do not ask
of thee any provision; We Ourselves provide thee; and the ultimate end is
for the godfearing.(132)
And they say, `why does he not bring us a Sign from his Lord?' But has
there not come to them a clear evidence of what is in the former
Scrolls?(133)
And if We had destroyed them with a punishment aforetime, they would have
said, `our Lord, why hast Thou not sent us a Messenger so that we might
have followed Thy signs before we were humiliated and disgraced?'(134)
Say, `everyone is waiting, so wait; and you shall soon know as to who are
the people of the even path, and who is guided.'(135)
AL-ANBIYA (21)
"The Prophets"
(Revealed at Mecca, Verses 112)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulNear to men has drawn their reckoning, but they, in heedlessness, are
turning away.(1)
No Remembrance comes to them renewed from their Lord, but they listen to it
playing,(2)
their hearts diverted. And the wrongdoers conferred in secret, `is this any
but a mortal like you? Will you take to sorcery while you see?'(3)
He said `my Lord knows what is said in the heaven and the earth, and He is
the Hearing, the Knowing.(4)
' No, but they said, `a hotchpotch of nightmares; no, he has forged it; no,
he is a poet; or let him bring us a Sign as the earlier Messengers were
sent with.'(5)
No city, that We destroyed before them, believed; will they then
believe?(6)
And We sent none before thee, but men to whom We made Revelation; ask the
People of the Remembrance, if you do not know.(7)
And We did not make their bodies such that would not eat food, nor were
they ever-abiding.(8)
Then We made true the promise made to them, and We delivered them and
whomsoever We would; and We destroyed the extravagant.(9)
Now We have sent down to you a Book in which is a Remembrance for you; will
you not understand? (10)
And how many a city, that was wrong-doing, We have shattered, and raised
after it another people?(11)
When they perceived Our might coming, then lo, they were fleeing from
it__(12)
`do not flee, but return to the comforts given to you and to your dwelling-
places, that you may be questioned.'(13)
They said, `alas for us, we were surely wrongdoers.'(14)
And this cry of theirs did not cease, till We made them stubble, dead and
extinguished.(15)
And We created not the heaven and the earth and what between them is as
playing.(16)
Had We desired to take a pastime, We would have surely taken it from
Ourselves, if We were to do anything.(17)
No, but We hurl the truth at falsehood and it breaks its head, then lo, it
vanishes. And woe to you for that you describe!(18)
And to Him belongs whoso is in the heavens and the earth; and those who are
in His presence do not show arrogance to serve Him, nor do they grow
weary.(19)
They extol Him night and day, unfailing.(20)
Or have they taken gods from the earth who raise the dead?(21)
Had there been in them gods, other than God, they would have been in
disorder; Holy be God, the Lord of the Throne, above that they
describe!(22)
He shall not be questioned as to what He does, but they shall be
questioned.(23)
Or have they taken gods, apart from Him? Say, `bring your proof. This is a
Remembrance for those who are with me, and a Remembrance for those who were
before me.' No, but most of them do not know the truth, so they are turning
away from it.(24)
And We did not send any Messenger before thee but We revealed to him:
`there is no god but I, so serve Me.'(25)
And they say, `the All-merciful has taken to Him a son;' Holy be He. No,
they are honoured servants,(26)
who do not precede Him in speech and they act on His command.(27)
He knows what is before them, and what is behind them, and they do not
intercede except for him with whom He is pleased, and they tremble in awe
of Him.(28)
And if any of them says, `I am a god, apart from Him', that one We will
recompense with Hell; even so We recompense the wrong-doers.(29)
And have the unbelievers not considered that the heavens and the earth were
a mass joined together, then We split them? And We made every living thing
of water. Will they not then believe?(30)
And We set firm mountains in the earth, lest it should shake with people,
and We made in it ravines to serve as paths that they may find the way.(31)
And We made the heaven as a guarded roof, yet they are turning away from
its Signs.(32)
And it is He who made the night and the day, and the sun and the moon; all
float in an orbit.(33)
And We did not assign eternal living to any mortal before thee; so if thou
diest, will they live forever?(34)
Every soul shall taste of death; and We try you with evil and good for a
testing; and to Us you shall be returned.(35)
And when the unbelievers see thee, they take thee only for mockery: `Is
this the one who makes mention of your gods?' And they refuse to make
mention of the All-merciful.(36)
Man is created of haste; I shall show you My Signs, so do not ask Me to
make haste.(37)
And they say, `when shall this promise come to pass, if you are
truthful?'(38)
If the unbelievers only knew that, at that time, they shall not ward off
the Fire from their faces, nor from their backs, nor will they be
helped!(39)
No, it shall come upon them suddenly and make them dumbfounded, then they
shall not be able to repel it, nor will they be respited.(40)
And surely the Messengers were mocked at before thee, but what they mocked
at befell those who scoffed at them.(41)
Say, `who guards you by night and by day other than the All-merciful?' No,
but they are turning away from the Remembrance of their Lord.(42)
Or have they any gods that protect them, apart from Us? They cannot help
themselves, nor are they supported by Us.(43)
No, but We gave these and their fathers enjoyment, until life lasted long
enough on them. Now do they not see how We come to the land diminishing it
from its borders? Will then they be the victors?(44)
Say, `I simply warn you by the Revelation; but the deaf will not hear the
call however they are warned.(45)
And if a breath of thy Lord's punishment touched them, they would surely
say, `alas for us; indeed we were wrong-doers.'(46)
And We shall set up just balances for the Day of Resurrection, so that no
soul shall be wronged anything; and if it were the weight of a grain of
mustard-seed, We shall produce it; and We suffice as reckoners.(47)
And We gave Moses and Aaron the Criterion and a Radiance and a Remembrance
for the godfearing,(48)
those who fear their Lord without seeing, and who dread the Hour.(49)
And this is a blessed Remembrance that We have sent down; now will you be
denying it?(50)
And We gave Abraham right judgement aforetime, and We knew him.(51)
When he said to his father and his people, `what are these statues by which
you keep sitting?'(52)
They said, `we found our fathers serving them'.(53)
He said, `surely you and your fathers were clearly astray.'(54)
They said, `hast thou brought us the truth, or art thou one of those that
play?'(55)
He said, `no, but your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, who
originated them, and I am of those that bear witness to it.(56)
And by God, I shall plot against your idols, after you have turned on your
backs.'(57)
Then he reduced them to pieces, except the great one of them, that they
might return to it.(58)
They said, `who did this with our gods? Surely he is of the
wrongdoers'.(59)
They said, `we heard a young man, called Abraham, making mention of
them'.(60)
They said, `bring him before the people's eyes, that they may bear
witness.'(61)
They said, `art thou the one who has done this to our gods, O Abraham?'(62)
He said, `no, but this great one of them did it; ask them if they
speak.'(63)
Then they turned to themselves, and said, `indeed you yourselves are the
wrongdoers.'(64)
But again they turned upside down on their heads, `thou indeed knowest that
these do not speak.'(65)
He said, `do you then serve, apart from God, that which does not profit you
anything nor hurts you?(66)
Fie upon you and upon what you serve, apart from God; will you not
understand?'(67)
They said, `burn him, and help your gods, if you would do anything.'(68)
We said, `O fire, be coolness and safety for Abraham';(69)
and they desired to plot against him, but We made them the worst
losers.(70)
And We delivered him and Lot to the land in which We had placed blessings
for the people.(71)
And We gave him Isaac, and, for a grandson, Jacob; and everyone We made
righteous.(72)
And We made them leaders, guiding (people) by Our command, and We revealed
to them the doing of good deeds, and the establishing of the Prayer, and
the paying of the Alms, and Us they served.(73)
And lot __ We gave him judgement and knowledge and delivered him from the
city that was doing dirty things __ they were surely an evil people,
transgressors __(74)
and We admitted him in Our mercy; surely he was of the righteous.(75)
And Noah, when he called aforetime, so We answered him and delivered him
and his family from the great distress;(76)
and We helped him against the people who gave lies to Our Signs; they were
surely an evil people, so We drowned them all together.(77)
And David and Solomon, when they gave judgement concerning the tillage,
when the sheep of the people strayed there, and We were witness to their
judgement.(78)
Then We gave Solomon insight into it; and to each We gave judgement and
knowledge; and with David We subjected the mountains and birds that extol
God; and We were the doers.(79)
And We taught him the making of coats of mail for you, to protect you
during your violent acts; will you then be thankful?(80)
And to Solomon, (We subjected) strongly blowing wind that ran at his
command to the land in which We had placed Our blessings; and We had
knowledge of everything;(81)
and (We subjected) some devils who dived for him and did other works
besides; and We were Guardians over them.(82)
And Job, when he called to his Lord: `harm has afflicted me, and Thou art
the Most Merciful of the merciful.'(83)
So We answered him, and removed the harm that was upon him and gave him his
family, and the like of them along with them, as a mercy from Us, and as an
admonition to those who serve.(84)
And Ishmael, Idris and Zul-Kifl; all were among the patient;(85)
and We admitted them to Our mercy; surely they were among the
righteous.(86)
And Zun-Nun, when he went off enraged, and he thought that We would not
overpower him; then he called out in the darkness: `there is no god but
Thou, Holy art Thou; indeed I was among the wrongdoers'.(87)
So We answered him, and delivered him out of grief; and thus do We deliver
the Believers.(88)
And Zachariah, when he called to his Lord, `my Lord, do not leave me
solitary, and Thou art the best of inheritors.'(89)
So We answered him, and bestowed on him John, and We set his wife right for
him; surely they used to hasten to good works, and call on Us in hope and
fear; and they were humble before Us.(90)
And she who guarded her chastity, We breathed into her of Our Spirit, and
We made her and her son a Sign for all people.(91)
`Surely this community of yours is one community, and I am your Lord, so
serve Me.'(92)
But people split up their affair between them; all shall be returning to
Us.(93)
And whoso does deeds of righteousness and he is a Believer, no
unthankfulness shall be shown to his endeavor, and We are writing it down
for him.(94)
And there is a ban on any city that We have destroyed, that they shall not
return.(95)
Until, when Gog and Magog are let loose, and they slide down from every
mound.(96)
And the true promise draws near, and then, behold, the eyes of the
unbelievers staring; `woe to us; we were surely heedless of this; no, we
were wrong-doers.'(97)
`Surely you and what you served, apart from God, are fuel for Hell; you
shall go down to it.(98)
If these had been gods, they would not have gone down to it; and everyone
shall dwell therein forever.(99)
Therein shall be sighing for them and therein they shall hear
nothing.'(100)
Those for whom fairest reward has already gone forth from Us, they shall be
kept far from it,(101)
not hearing any whisper of it; and they shall dwell forever in that their
souls desire.(102)
The Great Terror shall not grieve them, and the angels shall meet them:
`this is your day that you were promised'.(103)
On the day when We shall roll up the heaven like rolling of a scroll for
the writings; as We began the first creation, so shall We bring it back; it
is a promise binding on Us; We shall be doing it.(104)
And We have written in the Psalms, after the Remembrance, that the earth,
My righteous servants shall inherit.(105)
In this is surely a Message for a people who serve.(106)
And We have not sent thee but as a mercy for all people. (107)
Say, `it is revealed to me only that your god is only One God; will you
then surrender?'(108)
Yet if they turn back, say `I have proclaimed to you equally; and I do not
know whether that which you are promised is near or far.(109)
He knows what is spoken aloud and knows what you hide.(110)
And I do not know if it may be a trial for you and an enjoyment for a
time'.(111)
He said, `my Lord, judge with truth; and our Lord is the All-merciful, the
One whose help is ever sought against what you describe.'(112)
AL-HAJJ (22)
"The Pilgrimage"
(Revealed at Medina,Verses 78)
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-mercifulO mankind, fear your Lord; surely the jolting of the Hour is a mighty
thing.(1)
On the day when you see it, every suckling female shall forget what she
suckles, and every pregnant female shall deliver her burden, and thou shalt
see men drunk, though they will not be drunk, but God's punishment is
terrible. (2)
And among men is he who disputes about God without any knowledge and
follows every obstinate devil,(3)
concerning whom it is written down that whoso takes him for a friend, he
shall lead him astray and guide him to the punishment of the Blaze.(4)
O mankind, if you are in doubt concerning the Uprising, then surely We
created you of dust, then of a sperm-drop, then of a blood clot, then of
soft tissue, formed and unformed __ this way We make the point clear to
you. And We keep in the wombs what We will till a stated term, then We
bring you forth as infants, then that you may attain your full strength;
and some of you die and some of you are turned to the vilest age that, in
spite of knowledge, they may know nothing. And thou seest the earth barren,
then, when We send down water upon it, it quivers, and swells, and produces
herbs of every joyous kind.(5)
That is because God is the Truth, and that He brings the dead to life, and
that He is powerful over everything,(6)
and that the Hour is coming, no doubt in it, and that God shall raise up
those that are in the graves.(7)
And among men is he who disputes concerning God without any knowledge, or
guidance, or an illuminating Book,(8)
turning his side to lead astray from God's way; for him shall be disgrace
in this world, and, on the Day of Resurrection, We shall let him taste
punishment of the burning.(9)
`That is for what thy hands have forwarded, and that God is not tyrant to
His servants.'(10)
And among men is he who serves God on the very edge, so that if good
befalls him he is contented with it, and if a trial befalls him he turns
about on his face; he loses this world and the Hereafter; and that is the
manifest loss.(11)
He calls, apart from God, on that which neither harms him nor profits him;
that is the straying far away.(12)
He calls on him whose harm is nearer than his profit; how evil is the
friend, and how evil is the companion!(13)
God shall admit those who believe and do righteous deeds into gardens
underneath which rivers flow; God does what He desires.(14)
If any thinks that God will not help him in this world and the Hereafter,
let him stretch up a rope to heaven, then let him cut it off and observe
whether his guile does away what enrages him.(15)
And like that We have sent it down as Clear Signs, and for that God guides
whomso He desires.(16)
The Believers, the Jews, the Sabaeans, the Christians, the Magians and the
idolaters __ God will decide between them on the Day of Resurrection; God
is witness over everything.(17)
Hast thou not seen that to God prostrates whoso is in the heavens ad whoso
is in the earth, and the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the
trees, the animals, and many of mankind; and many merit punishment; and
whomso God humiliates there is none to honour him; God does what He
will.(18)
These are two adversaries who dispute concerning their Lord; as for the
unbelievers, for them garments of Fire shall be cut; boiling water shall be
poured over their heads,(19)
whereby that which is in their bellies, and the skins shall melt;(20)
and for them shall also be hooked rods of iron.(21)
Whenever, in their anguish, they desire to go forth from it, they shall be
returned to it, and: `Taste the punishment of the burring:'(22)
Surely God will admit those who believe and do righteous deeds to gardens
underneath which rivers flow, wherein they shall be adorned with bracelets
of gold and pearls, and their dress there shall be of silk.(23)
For they are guided to goodly speech, and they are guided to the path of
the Praise-worthy.(24)
Surely those who disbelieve, and bar from God's way and the Sacred Mosque,
which We have appointed equal for all men, be he a dweller therein or the
countryman; and whoso desires to violate it wrongfully, We shall let him
taste a painful punishment.(25)
And when We settled for Abraham the site of the House: `do not associate
anything with Me, and purify My House for those that go about it, and those
that stand (in submission), and those that bow and prostrate
themselves.(26)
And proclaim among men the Pilgrimage, they shall come to thee on foot and
upon every lean mount, coming from every deep ravine,(27)
that they may witness their profits and mention God's Name during the known
days over the beasts of cattle that He has provided them: `so eat thereof
and feed the wretched poor.'(28)
Then let them finish with their dirt, and fulfil their vows, and go about
the Ancient House.(29)
All that; and whoso venerates the sacred things of God, it is good for him
with his Lord. And cattle are made lawful to you except those which have
been recited to you, so avoid the abomination of the idols and avoid
speaking of falsehood,(30)
being all-devoted to God, not associating anything with Him; and whoso
associates anything with God, it is as if he has fallen from heaven, and
the birds snatch him away, or the wind carries him to a far away place.(31)
All that; and whoso venerates God's waymarks, it is surely an act of piety
of the hearts.(32)
In them are profits for you till a stated term, then their place of
sacrifice is by the Ancient House.(33)
And We have appointed for every community a ritual, that they may mention
Gods' Name over the beasts of cattle that He has provided them; and your
God is One God, so to Him you surrender; and give thou good news to the
humble,(34)
those whose hearts, when God is mentioned, quake and who show patience at
what befalls them, and who establish the Prayer and expend of what We have
provided them.(35)
And the camels of sacrifice, We have appointed them for you as God's way-
marks; therein is good for you, so putting them in rows, mention God's Name
over them, and when they fall down on flanks, eat of them, and feed the
contented and the beggar; like that We have subjected them to you that you
may give thanks.(36)
Their flesh shall not reach God, nor their blood, but your piety reaches
Him; thus He has subjected them to you that you may glorify God for that He
has guided you; and give thou good news to the good-doers.(37)
Surely God will defend the Believers; surely God does not like any
ungrateful traitor. (38)
Permission is given to those who are being fought, for they have been
wronged; and surely God is powerful to help them;(39)
who have been expelled from their homes, without right, except that they
say, `our Lord is God.' And had God not repelled people some by others,
there had been demolished monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques,
wherein God's Name is mentioned much; and God will surely help him who
helps Him; God is Surely Strong and Mighty.(40)
Those, who, if We give them authority in the land, will establish the
Prayer, and pay the Due-alms, and bid the desirable and forbid the
dejected; and with God rests the end-result of the affairs.(41)
And if they give lies to thee, then surely, before them, cried lies the
people of Noah, and Ad and Thamood,(42)
and the people of Abraham and the people of Lot,(43)
and the men of Midian; and Moses was also given lies to; yet I respited the
unbelievers, then I seized them; then how was My denial!(44)
And how many a city We have destroyed, and it was wrong-doer, and now it is
fallen down on its roofs; and how many a deserted well and a tall
palace!(45)
Have they not journeyed in the land that they could have hearts to
understand with, or ears to hear with? Yet it is not the eyes that are
blind, but blind are the hearts that are in the breasts.(46)
And they ask thee to hasten the punishment, but God will not fail His
promise. However, a day with thy Lord is as a thousand years of your
counting.(47)
And how many a city that was wrong-doing I respited; then I seized it, and
to Me is the destination.(48)
Say, `O men, I am only a plain warner to you;(49)
so those who believe and do righteous deeds, for them shall be forgiveness
and a generous provision(50)
And those who strive against Our Signs to frustrate Us, they shall be the
people of Hell.'(51)
And We did not send any Messenger or Prophet before thee, but when he
longed for something, the Devil cast into his longings; but God annuls what
the Devil casts, then God confirms His Signs __ and God is Knowing, Wise
__(52)
that He may make what the Devil casts a trial for those who have sickness
in their hearts and their hearts are hardened; and surely the wrong-doers
are far away in opposition;(53)
and that those who have been given knowledge may know that it is the truth
from thy Lord and believe in it, and their hearts be humbled to Him; and
God is surely a guide of the Believers to a staight path.(54)
But the unbelievers will not cease to doubt it, until the Hour comes on
them suddenly, or the punishment of a barren day comes upon them.(55)
The sovereignty on that day will belong to God; He will judge between them;
then those who believe and do righteous deeds shall be in the gardens of
bliss.(56)
And those who disbelieve and give lies to Our signs, they shall get a
humiliating punishment.(57)
And those who emigrated in the way of God, then were killed or died, God
will surely provide them with a good provision; and God is surely the best
of providers.(58)
He shall make them enter by an entrance with which they will be pleased;
and God is surely Knowing, Clement.(59)
All that; and whoso punishes in the manner he was punished, then he is
oppressed, God will surely help him; God is surely Pardoning,
Forgiving.(60)
That is because God makes the night to enter into the day, and makes the
day to enter into the night, and because God is Hearing, Seeing.(61)
That is because God is the Truth, and because what they call upon, apart
from Him, is the false, and because God is the High, the Great.(62)
Hast thou not seen that God sends down water from the heaven, and the earth
becomes green? Surely God is Gracious, Aware.(63)
To Him belongs whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth;
and surely God is the All-sufficient, the Praiseworthy.(64)
Hast thou not seen that God has subjected to you all that is in the earth,
and the ships sail in the sea by His command; and He holds the heaven lest
it should fall on the earth except by His permission; surely God is Kind